Chapter 120: Bribery
You're not a careful-eyed person?
This time, it was changed to Lu Mengzheng's heart, Zhao Gu's baht and revenge are already famous among the court officials, everyone knows that he is not easy to provoke, as long as anyone provokes him, he will definitely do everything possible to retaliate back. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
But now Zhao Gu looks broad-minded, saying that he is not a cautious person, which makes it clear that he is talking nonsense with his eyes open!
Lu Mengzheng was silent, in fact, as he himself said, Li Hao wanted to kill Zhao Gu at the beginning because he felt that Zhao Gu's existence was a hidden danger, but he didn't tell the truth completely, that is, the reason why Li Hao did something to Zhao Gu was not because he heard any rumors, but because of Lu Mengzheng's secret signal.
In other words, the reason why Li Hao did something to Zhao Gu was simply at the instigation of Lu Mengzheng.
Besides, when Tiger Mountain suppressed bandits, it was indeed Lu Mengzheng who secretly instructed the Privy Council officials to embarrass Zhao Gu, and then killed him on the pretext that he had not completed the military order.
At that time, the reason why Lu Mengzheng did this was because Zhao Gu's existence was a hidden danger, and he didn't want to bring a war to the Great Song Dynasty because of the arrival of Zhao Gu's family, and secondly, because Zhao Gu's family was soft-spoken, and no one cared about their life or death.
But now it is different, Zhao Gu under Zhao Pu's behind-the-scenes arrangement, step by step spread his reputation among officials, two bandits made him famous, and the greenhouse technology made him get Zhao Guangyi's favor, and directly sealed Zhuozhou Guhou.
Now Lu Mengzheng can no longer ignore Zhao Gu, and even respect him as much as possible, which is the main reason why he invited Zhao Gu to the banquet.
And as Zhao Gu said, whether these two things are behind Lu Mengzheng's mastermind, everyone knows it, how Rao is Lu Mengzheng denies it, and he has to let others believe it.
Regarding this point, Lu Mengzheng, a person who has been in the officialdom all his life, naturally understands it in his heart.
After pondering for a long time, Lu Mengzheng personally poured a glass of wine for Zhao Gu, and then drank all the wine in his cup first, and said: "Master Hou, so far, the old man is no longer twisting, these two things are indeed the old man's secret signals, today the old man will make amends to the Hou Ye, I don't know how the Hou Ye can forgive the old man?" β
"Oh? Then it depends on Lu Xiang's sincerity. Zhao Gu said with a smile.
Lu Mengzheng caught a trace of greed in Zhao Gu's eyes, and immediately realized what he wanted, and with a wave of his hand, ten maids walked in with ten trays each.
Pointing to these trays, Lu Mengzheng said: "My Great Song Dynasty does not prohibit officials from doing business, and the old man's family has a little money, and there are three real estate and five stores in the first two trays, all of which are in the prosperous areas of Dongcheng and Nancheng, so it can be regarded as the old man apologizing to the Hou Ye." β
Zhao Gu asked, "What about the other eight?" β
Lu Mengzheng smiled: "This is a gift from my ten disciples to Hou Ye to make amends, which are some jewelry, title deed shops, etc. β
Zhao Gu nodded, swept it slightly, and found that the eight trays behind were either full of jewelry, or a thick layer of paper, which was supposed to be the title deed, and there were a large number of keys in a few trays, which were probably the keys to shops or residences.
This is a bribe from the Prime Minister of the Great Song Dynasty and the Ten Sons of Luoyang!
Although he had already slaughtered Lu Mengzheng once before, but suddenly faced with such a large number of assets, Zhao Gu was still a little excited in his heart, Lu Mengzheng's grade was so high, almost equivalent to the vice premier of the State Council in later generations, he was able to knock him again and again, this feeling was really wonderful.
Zhao Gu smiled, fully expressed his love for these things, and said with a light in his eyes: "Lu Xiang is too angry, everyone is an official in the same dynasty, and they should love each other, it really shouldn't be to send these things, don't do it next time." β
Lu Meng was nodding and smiling on the side, and the maids put these things down, and Lu Meng was in a good mood to drink, so he and Lu Meng were drinking, and the guests and hosts were happy.
During this period, the two had a detailed consultation on the Northern Expedition, and even discussed poetry and songs, Zhao Gu can often speak amazingly, and sometimes only one sentence can make Lu Mengzheng frown and think for a long time.
And every time Lu Mengzheng fully understood what Zhao Gu said, he took a little more fancy to him.
This meal was drunk directly from almost dark to late at night, Zhao Gu got up to say goodbye, Lu Meng was leaving him for the night, Zhao Gu smiled and excused himself, and then got on the sedan chair arranged by Lu Mengzheng, and went back to Baiwei Restaurant all the way.
asked the subordinates of the Lu Mansion to take the ten trays back to the backyard of the restaurant, Zhao Gu waved them away, and then fell asleep directly on the bed.
Although the degree of sweet wine is not high, it can't stand the pouring of cup by glass, and Zhao Gu is still a little drunk in the end.
Early the next morning, Zhao Gu woke up with a scream, patted his head that hurt a little after a hangover, Zhao Gu opened his eyes, but saw Liu Qiaoqiao coming over at some point, and was sitting at the table in the room in a daze.
Zhao Gu got up and said, "What's wrong?" β
Liu Qiaoqiao pointed to the ten trays placed on the table and said, "Have you made a fortune?" β
Zhao Gu couldn't help but feel a little surprised, and asked, "Didn't you drive a cloth imitation?" Surprised by even this little bit of money? β
Liu Qiaoqiao glanced at him: "Little money? Do you know how much these things are worth? β
"How much?"
"I won't talk about these jewels here, if you want to buy them anyway, you have to pay three or five hundred yuan, I will just say that the twenty shops and twelve residences here, if calculated according to the land price of Kaifeng in the Great Song Dynasty, these alone are estimated to be worth one hundred thousand yuan." Liu Qiaoqiao replied.
"So much?" Zhao Gu was also a little stunned for a while, wouldn't 100,000 yuan before it be equivalent to 100 million yuan on the earth in the future, Lu Mengzheng and his protΓ©gΓ©s were really willing to do it.
"In that case, if I find someone, I will have a small net worth in the future?" Zhao Gu stood up and wiped it on Liu Qiaoqiao's face, and laughed.
Liu Qiaoqiao glanced at him again: "You still open a restaurant, the value I am talking about is only the price after selling them, don't you know that these shops can earn a lot of copper plates every day?" Their actual value is definitely more than 100,000 copper plates. β
"That's right." Zhao Gu nodded, but he was not so surprised at this time, he was not very sensitive to money, money is not mainly to see how much, but to see if it can be used, if you can only put the copper plate at home to rust, then what's the use?
Liu Qiaoqiao asked again: "You haven't said where these things come from?" β
Zhao Gu told the origin of these things, Liu Qiaoqiao was surprised and couldn't speak for a long time, and when she came back to her senses, she stepped forward and hugged Zhao Gu.
"It's really worthy of the man I chose, and even the prime minister has to bribe you."