Chapter 40: The Grand Duke of Dream Island
From then on, Wan Jiu was alone, with the gang of loan sharks here, Changning City could not go, so he could only go outside, where he went, and became a homeless person, almost reduced to the point of asking for food. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
At that time, there was a major flood in the area around Changning City, and Wan Jiu followed the crowd fleeing the famine, step by step, and fled to Anhaiguan.
In Anhaiguan, I was unfamiliar with the place, and my livelihood was very difficult, so I went out to look for work during the day and slept in the bridge cave at night. After half a year of hardship, the hard work paid off, and finally a boss gave him a share of chores to do, so that he had a meager salary, chatted to make ends meet, and survived, so as not to sleep in the bridge hole.
After two years of miscellaneous work in the owner's shop, his livelihood gradually stabilized, but with that meager salary, life was quite tight and difficult.
Every day when he goes to sleep, Wan Jiu will cry bitterly and cry, and often ask himself: "Wan Jiu, Wan Jiu, I think that I used to rely on my own efforts, started from scratch, and earned a million family wealth, and now I am younger than then, even if I can't earn a million family wealth, I can live a better life, right?" "
But how to earn it? The previous business ability and experience are of little use now, because the times, the environment, the population, everything is different from then.
The simplest is that at that time, the Ming Dynasty was unified under the world, the country was stable, and the world was peaceful, and now it is almost equivalent to the Warring States Period, where there were wars every day, floods and droughts occurred at every turn, and the business environment was very difficult.
"I have come from 500 years later, and I know 500 years more than the average person, or I can say that I know some things before the average person, doesn't it help me in business at all? Isn't the most important thing in doing business to seize the opportunity and drink saliva? Wan Jiu thought with his head down.
Either way, remember the history first, write down the important things, and then compare it with what is happening in reality to see if it is consistent. Fortunately, he was familiar with history and remembered the excerpts from the books he had read before.
So he pondered and racked his brains to write down in a notebook the major events that had happened in the past 500 years, such as the year in which country there was a war, the year where there was a flood, the year where there was a drought, the year where there was an earthquake, and so on.
Later, there were several droughts, several floods, and several wars, and the time was roughly the same as what Wan Jiu recorded on his notebook...
After a few years of verification like this, he began to act. According to the timing of these big events, he responded in advance, prepared goods in advance, and then quickly transported them to the disaster site, and made great gains.
One year, according to his notebook, Wan Jiu knew one year in advance that there would be a nationwide drought in Weiguo the next year, so he bought enough rice and grain in Chen in advance and shipped it to Weiguo in advance. When the drought struck, he sold on the spot, earning enough money to make a fortune in a single business.
In this way, his business is getting bigger and bigger, every vote is very successful, and he has won every battle, and in the eyes of his peers, he has become half a prophet, and everyone regards him as the first to look forward. When other businessmen saw that he was making so much money, they stared at him, and what goods he bought, they followed him!
Since then, everyone has rumored that he has a book from heaven, and he relied on the guidance of the book of heaven to win many battles and make a fortune.
Some merchants sent spies into his shop to steal the Book of Heaven, some merchants spent a lot of money to buy his guys to obtain the Book of Heaven, and some unscrupulous merchants used intimidation to make him hand over the Book of Heaven by himself, and even some merchants who had lost their conscience actually teamed up with robbers to block the road and rob him, directly robbing his goods, intending to rob the Book of Heaven.
Wan Jiu had no choice, for the safety of the road and at home, he could only spend a lot of money to hire many people with strong martial arts as guards and family members. Rao is like this, but it still can't stop the ambition of those wolves.
Wanjiu has been robbed many times, but he can always escape death.
Later, with the increase of wealth, Wan Jiu interacted with dignitaries and nobles from various countries, and sought their protection of his business by conveying some benefits. In this way, his business was on the right track, and he gradually became a well-known monopoly in various countries.
The days passed quickly, like a white horse passing by, in a blink of an eye, it has been twenty years since Wanjiu started a new life, the age of Wanyou is already thirty-nine, and the age of Shen Wanzhang is fifty-nine.
He has never married, and he is still inseparable, alone, and alone. Wanjiu is richer than a prince, but he is still single, which makes many parents who have daughters to be in the boudoir worry. Many wealthy gentry, dignitaries and nobles competed to ask matchmakers to come to the door to propose marriage, but they were all rejected by Wan Jiuyi. Even some princes were willing to marry the county lord to him and recruit him as a county horse, but Wan Jiu was unmoved.
He was frightened by the fierce wife in his previous life, and he didn't want to get married again in this life, preferring to be single for the rest of his life.
However, Wan Jiu did not remain celibate, and at the age of forty-one, he married Yumeng, the daughter of a mountain village husband.
After the news of Wan Jiu's marriage spread, many people were disappointed and many people were shocked. They thought that Wan Jiu must have a bigger goal when he rejected the marriage proposal of the princes and dignitaries, thinking that he wanted to marry the daughter of the emperor of which country, and thought about being a concubine. I never thought that the fifth diamond king of this Fubi prince would finally marry the daughter of a mountain villager.
However, when people learned about the twists and turns of the Wanjiu couple, everyone woke up like a dream, and instead of laughing at them, they sent blessings to them.
After getting married, Wan Jiu saw that Yumeng didn't like costumes, jewelry, cars, horses, and light fur, and even less liked the complicated entertainment of the world, but longed for a secluded life like a paradise. So he bought a remote island in the sea from the Emperor Wei for two million taels of silver.
This deserted island is useless and worthless for the vast land of the country, and now it has two million taels of silver in vain, and the emperor is overjoyed, extremely happy, and with a stroke of the pen, the property rights, sovereignty, and sea power of this island are all allocated to Wan Jiu. And generously, he made Wanjiu a duke.
When Wan Jiu got married, after careful consideration, he changed his name and name to show his break with his past life, because he couldn't live with the heavy burden of the past.
In the past life, because he was killed by the greedy Silian clan, he became wary of all women, and even hated all women, and planned to live celibate.
In this life, he married Yumeng, and the husband and wife sincerely love each other, he can't continue to impose Shen Wanzhang's hatred of the Xilian clan on all women, especially on a kind woman like Yumeng.
After Wan Jiu changed his name, everyone respectfully called him Ming Zhu Gong. And that island is also named Dream Island after Yumeng...