In the autumn of the nineteenth year of the Apocalypse, the ginkgo biloba on Zhongshan Mountain in Nanjing has fallen all over the city, and even the inner courtyard with the eunuch's mansion in Nanjing is also paved with broken gold, like the morning glow in the morning, and the light is shining.

Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch guarding the town, got up early in the morning today, although he was already over the age of old, but he was also old and strong, and there was still a little green silk left on his temples.

"That group of scholars may never have imagined that I, Wei Zhongxian, would also make a comeback one day", Wei Zhongxian said this, and after his maid dressed him, he shook his sleeves and walked out of the door with a steady gait: "Pass this governor's order, everyone in the inner factory will gather immediately, and this governor will arrive later, since he wants to do a smoking ban for His Majesty, he must do his best, and a few businessmen who refuse to hand over tobacco have taken it?" ”

In addition to opening the "Daming Daily" to manipulate public opinion in Jiangnan and making a windfall for His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, Wei Zhongxian will also do some charitable deeds, and the elderly and children have adopted no less than 100 people, and the person who is talking back in front of him is a Confucian boy he adopted ten years ago, named Li Dingguo, who is the most capable of many adopted children among him.

This Li Dingguo was introduced by Yazi in his childhood, and was exiled from Shaanxi to work in a silk reeling workshop under the Nanjing Royal Weaving Bureau, but because he was too young to be exploited by the workshop owner, he lived on the streets of Nanjing, but was adopted by Wei Zhongxian by luck.

Because of his calm and wisdom, he was regarded by Wei Zhongxian as his own and taught to read and write, and His Majesty also showed great interest after hearing about it, and let him enter the Royal Military Academy, and now he is the commander of a military police battalion of the Nanjing Military Region, but now because of the establishment of the inner factory, Wei Zhongxian urgently needs a powerful cronies, so he asked for an order to transfer Li Dingguo to the inner factory as the commander of the capital, which can be regarded as an official promotion.

Along with Li Dingguo, he was transferred to the inner factory with his military police battalion, and these people will form the backbone of the inner factory together with the people transferred from the east factory.

"What do you mean to take everything, you are a person that Your Majesty values, and you will also be Your Majesty's person from now on, in addition to only Your Majesty, no matter who other people are, including our family, once they violate Your Majesty's ban, they can't be tolerated, understand?"

Wei Zhongxian habitually pretends to pretend to be his father's money in front of his raised children, although Li Dingguo is a person valued by His Majesty, he is not easy to accept as a righteous son, but he is still used to teaching as an elder, and Li Dingguo is not good at disrespecting this meritorious old eunuch, after all, he was also raised by him, so he replied truthfully: "The main reason is that there is a businessman surnamed Shu who is the son of Shu Fen, the champion of the previous dynasty, and the son-in-law of Wang Duo Wang Shangshu, the Shangshu of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, so it is not easy for the lower officials to act rashly." ”

Because the status of military generals has been improved recently, before civil officials and ministers, military attaches will no longer grovel and call themselves the last general or a small one, so Li Dingguo will call himself a subordinate official, and he will not kneel, and he will bow down because Wei Zhongxian has adopted him after all.

"Ridiculous, what's not to move, don't say what kind of Nanjing Shangshu's son-in-law is, it's the real Beijing Shangshu, as long as he sells tobacco and soil privately, he has to take it! How could this governor have ever been afraid of these powerless literati, so he immediately arrested this person, and if he disobeyed, he would be killed! ”

As soon as Wei Zhongxian said this, Li Dingguo had no choice but to listen, and hurriedly rushed to the mansion of a merchant surnamed Shu with two hundred veterans of the former Praetorian Guard who had actual combat experience.

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Since that day when he was broken by His Majesty Zhu Youxiao in Fusang, Gu Hengbo has been like a different person, his skin has become more and more moisturized, and his gestures have become more charming.

However, behind the smile of the spring breeze, there is also a trace of sorrow that cannot be watered for a long time, and the wanderers are even more distressed when they see it, but Gu Hengbo refuses them one by one, and still only plays the piano and writes poems to make friends with the nobles, but does not entertain people with sex, there are local tyrants who spend a lot of money to seek their bodies but they also sink into the sea, and some light and crazy people come forward to slander but suddenly disappear mysteriously that night, and the next day they will be in the wilderness.

From then on, no one dared to have any thoughts about Gu Hengbo after returning to Nanjing, but no one guessed who Gu Hengbo had secretly owned, otherwise there would not be such a mysterious power.

But it is precisely because of this that there are more dignitaries and dignitaries who are willing to befriend Gu Hengbo, if it is said that they admired his beauty before, but now they are friends with the mysterious backer (godfather) behind him.

Wang Duo, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, also spent a lot of money to meet Gu Hengbo in the name of drinking flower wine, and he did not come to see Gu Hengbo to listen to music and explore his views on poetry and articles in today's literary world, but to inquire about tobacco and soil from Gu Hengbo.

No one knows why today's celebrity Gu Hengbo suddenly started a tobacco business, and he also got into a relationship with the steamship China Merchants Bureau, and almost every month there are fixed cargo ships loaded with "Meisheng tobacco" (Gu Hengbo sells special tobacco, which is named after its word Meishan) to go to sea, and even the city ship lifting company does not dare to stop it.

In the current situation where His Majesty strictly prohibits private tobacco sales, Wang Duo doesn't know how powerful the people behind Gu Hengbo are to be so blatantly selling tobacco when they are rampant in the streets of the inner factory to arrest private tobacco sellers.

But Wang Duo was interested in cooperating with the people behind her through Gu Hengbo's relationship, after all, the purchase price of the imperial court household was too low, almost equal to the cost price, and he was unwilling to sell the tobacco he had hoarded so cheaply.

Of course, others don't know that he, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is also a big drug dealer, because on the surface, his son-in-law Shu Danian is doing it.

"It is not impossible for the Grand Master to cooperate with us, but there is only one thing that must be clear, that is, once you sign a contract with us, all your tobacco must be handed over to us to operate, and you have no right to intervene, of course, we will buy your tobacco soil at three times higher than the purchase price of the imperial court."

Gu Hengbo personally toasted Wang Duo with a glass of wine, and Wang Duo was also polite, did not take the position of Shangshu to oppress people, and sat very well, not daring to molest the beauty in front of him, and he could also see in his heart that this fox girl was also a master who eats people and does not spit out bones, or that the person behind her is the master of eating people and not spitting out bones.

But even so, it is still more cost-effective than handing it over to the imperial court, so Wang Duo still took the wine glass, sighed and said, "Okay, this official will cooperate with you and prepare pen and ink." ”

"You are so happy", Gu Hengbo couldn't help but smile, so he started to write it himself, and asked: "Dare to ask how much tobacco and soil you are old, and what is the quality?" ”

"20,000 catties, seventy percent is the whole box that comes in from Yunnan, and thirty percent is the bulk box collected from all over the place", after Wang Duo said, Gu Hengbo couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, with the current price of tobacco, no less than 150,000 silver dollars, this Wang Shangshu looks plainly dressed, but he didn't expect that he is also a huge greed.

Thinking about it like this, Gu Hengbo's guilt for wanting to pit this old official disappeared, and he signed a contract with Wang Duo very seriously, and took the initiative to play a tune for this old official.