Chapter 118: Cui's courtesy
Zhuang Yi is a preemptive warning, your people provoke me first, I will spare his life, that is to give you Cui's face, don't know what to do!
"Haha...... A deacon, since it is not suitable, he should be replaced, this is all in the past, don't mention it! Looking at Zhuang Jun's posture, are you going out? It's not the right time for Cui to come, it's okay to come back another day......" Cui Zan didn't care at all, but said with a smile.
"If you have nothing to do, you will go to the Three Treasures Palace, please come with me!" Zhuang Yi's heart suddenly moved, this Cui Zan came to the door, it should not be to ask for guilt, but to have something else. That's fine, of course, it's more fun to have one more friend than one more enemy.
Cui Zan took two entourages and followed Zhuang Yi through the side door into the house, and sat down in the side hall. Zhuang Yi asked the guards to finish the tea and wait for Cui Zan to speak.
"Years of hard work, Zhuang Jun's envoy from a tooth soldier is positive, to now a town in a state, this is to say, it is really unbelievable, it can be seen that Zhuang Jun's envoy has extraordinary ability, very accessible! Such a character, Cui Ba is fortunate to see it, since it is the icing on the cake, a little goods, it is just a thousand dollars, and the gold will come back! Don't mention it, but ...... The manor outside the city, can the envoy return me? Cui Chan said with a smile.
Zhuang Yi listened with a smile, and the other party seemed to be a big sycophant, but in fact said: I know your details and origin, look at your new official taking office, don't care about you, money! I'm going to earn it back!
immediately replied with a smile: "The shopkeeper Cui is kind to others, as long as he doesn't bully Zhuang Mou's humble background and bully my soldiers, how can Zhuang take people's wealth?" Your manor, the coming year will naturally return to you, now Yingzhou is in ruins, there is a lack of everything, it can be described as unlimited business opportunities! Welcome to the shopkeeper Cui, I don't know what way to make money? ”
No matter how good Cui Zhan's cultivation is, he will blow up his lungs, this Zhuang military envoy is so young but so difficult, he actually beat him up, but Zhuang Yi's last sentence made him interested again, so he had to suppress the anger in his chest, and said with a wry smile: "Zhuang Jun's envoy takes Yingzhou, which is a good thing for the country and the people, but for my Cui family's business bank, it really cuts off my financial route!" ”
"Oh...... What do you mean by that? Zhuang Yi couldn't help but move in his heart, and asked pretending to be curious.
"When the original Liucheng guard Wu Chongli was there, the various families in Youzhou were free to do business, my Cui family relied on meager family assets, and had a reputation in the court, and the business in Liaodong had both land and water, which can be said to account for the largest share, and now the Zhuang army is returned to Lulong, and my Cui's war horse and leather goods business are afraid to be removed half."
"Waterways? Do you do sea trade? Zhuang Yi asked in surprise.
"Exactly! For the business of the Xi people and the Khitans, we need to transit from Yingzhou, and we can go south from Youzhou by land; The sea route is from the mouth of the Liaohe River, transported to Duli Town in Liaodong by sea boat, and crosses the sea to Dengzhou. For the future development of Yingzhou, does Zhuang Junenvoy have any plans? Cui Zan did not mince words, and briskly said Cui's business network in Liaodong.
"Haha...... Today's Yingzhou is what it looks like, and there is no plan for the time being. Shopkeeper Cui might as well spend more time here, business? As long as the shopkeeper Cui is sincere, there must be something to do. ”
"Good...... Zhuang Jun makes people talk fast! I also heard that Zhuang Junenvoy will marry Princess Xi Wang in the near future, Cui came here to bring some small gifts, and I hope to smile! Cui Zhan smiled and took out a folded congratulatory gift list with a red cover from his bosom and handed it over.
"Then Zhuang is disrespectful! The business matter is long in the future, and I will invite the shopkeeper Cui to come and talk about it another day! Zhuang Yi took the congratulatory gift list and held it in his arms.
"A certain envoy is summoned at any time!" Cui Zan came here to ask for directions, and the purpose had been achieved, so he naturally gave a big gift and left.
Zhuang Yi opened the gift list, quickly browsed it, and was suddenly a little dumbfounded, feeling that this gift list was extremely hot.
It was first politely congratulated, followed by a list of gifts, which read: a pair of precious white walls; Five sets of exquisite blue and white porcelain tableware, 100 silk horses from Jiangnan, 100 Shu brocade horses; five sets of precious pearl and jade jewelry, two rhino horn leather belts; Ruixiang leather paper, bamboo paper a total of 100 catties; 100 high-grade Zihao Xuan pens; Duanzhou inkstone and Shezhou inkstone each have five pairs; 100 pieces of pine smoke ink.
"Fuck it...... What a big deal! These families are really rich, and they are human debts! It's money and debts, how can I pay it back? Zhuang Yi muttered to himself, thought about it and turned around and went to the back house, Cui's situation, Zhao Qiuling may know something.
For Zhuang Yi's wedding, Zhao Qiuling is also busy, her own wedding was not handled well, and now she has to worry about her husband marrying another woman. Every time she thought of this, she inexplicably felt some jealousy and hatred in her heart, but soon disappeared with a soft sigh. She found that in the face of the man who was going to accompany her for the rest of her life. In other words, the man she wants to accompany for a lifetime, she can't hate it anymore.
After going around the back house, he didn't see Zhao Qiuling, so Zhuang Yi had to ask the maid to find it.
"Isn't the husband out of the house? How did you come back? Zhao Qiuling appeared in front of the railing on the second floor and asked with a smile.
"I have something to ask you! You come down for a moment...... Never mind! I'll come up! ”
Zhuang Yi went upstairs to the corridor, smiled and took out the list of congratulatory gifts from Cui Zan from his arms and gave it to Zhao Qiuling: "This is a generous gift from the Boling Cui Firm, look at ......"
Zhao Qiuling looked at it carefully, and smiled with some surprise: "It's indeed a bit weird, although the Cui family has a large amount of cattle and horse business in Liaodong, it will not give you such a generous gift to the new Pingliao military envoy, this must be something else, didn't the husband ask the Cui shopkeeper?" ”
"Didn't ask carefully...... How much do you know about this Bolingtri? ”
"The concubine doesn't know much, and the business matters are not clear, but her family has been Hebei Wang for generations, there are two branches of Boling and Qinghe, Boling Fang from the front door of the servant, and after Cui Yanzhao, the secretary of the criminal department, went to office, there are no prominent people in the court; And Qinghefang has Cui Zhaowei and the three-year champion and the first, and any position is not clear. Fu Lang might as well go to Mr. Duan and Mr. Zhu to ask clearly, otherwise it will not be good to receive heavy gifts like this! Zhao Qiuling said with a smile.
"Hmm...... The lady is busy first, I'll go find them......"
Zhuang Yi turned around and quickly went downstairs, and suddenly thought of Lei Niang, she is a shrewd and capable woman who is good at managing business, it would be good if she was willing to come to Yingzhou, but now at this time, it is obviously not suitable for business.
went to the front office to find Duan Zhongzhong and Zhu Yongji to tell them what happened, but their knowledge was limited. Duan Zhongzhong was originally just a small official, and he had lived in the capital for many years, and although Zhu Yongji had a lot of knowledge and extensive travel, he had not been out of office, he had not reached that level, and he did not know much about Cui's affairs, let alone business.