Chapter 86: The Temperance of the Liehou
The huge project of the new Chang'an City has entered the stage of sweeping, most of the residents of the residential area in Jingshi have begun to move in, Cao Shi has also become a busy man to visit the liehous, who called him the designer and founder of the new Chang'an City, the name is so big, I don't know how many people inside and outside Chang'an City want to get to know him, Cao Shi's fame is also stained, and of course, the promise that everyone cares about is fulfilled.
Cao Shi promised the same benefits as if they were thrown out, the carriage business has become a chicken rib to the point where it is now, and the traction and steering technology of the carriage is difficult to defeat those high-skilled carpenters, but their hand-built traction device is not as fast as the standardized assembly line, the cost is high and the firmness of the parts is not enough, and many of the imitation four-horse carriages in Beijing are either axle breaks, or traction tripping leads to many traffic accidents, and in general, because the cost and quality are not good, they can't sell the genuine carriages of Pingyang Houfu.
But the wisdom of human beings is infinite, especially the degree of reverse deduction of the finished product is very fast, the craftsmen of the Hou Mansion looked at their inferior imitations and estimated slightly, within three or five years, the quality of the imitations will catch up, and the standards of making zuò will become more and more refined, and at that time the profits of the carriage business will become thinner and thinner until there is no money to be made.
Today, the profits of carriage retail have not been optimistic, only a few high-end luxury carriages still maintain strong demand, but there will always be a limit to this demand, when the princes and princes have similar luxury carriages, the high-end luxury market is infinitely close to saturation and it is over, fortunately, there is a Shaofu procurement can be temporarily supported, once the construction of the new Chang'an City is over, it is difficult to get enough sales, simply throw the carriage business out to exchange personal love is very cost-effective.
The iron-making technology was not transferred, but promised that several liehou would set up blast furnaces in the area near the big river, and the pig iron and waste residue produced would be purchased in a unified manner, and each workshop would purchase as much as it produced, and give preferential treatment in terms of good quality prices, which was equivalent to finding a long-term stable business for the liehou group, and no one had any doubts about this.
The Marquis of Qinghe arched his hand and said: "The Marquis of Pingyang has a lot of work to do, you are really embarrassed to come to my house." ”
"You're welcome, we're all princes who have something to say."
The two sides sat separately and said some inconsequential polite words, and Cao Shixian, the old liehou, was also very curious: "Qinghehou, what's wrong with you?" ”
"Oh, nothing! Where did we just go? ”
Cao Shi was speechless, he was also a forty-five or sixteen-year-old old guy, and he was still not reliable at all when he spoke.
His father-in-law, the Marquis of Qinghe, is very famous, and he started as Pei Gong Zhongjuan like Cao Shen, and belongs to the old qualifications of Feng Pei Yuan from the liehou.
At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the eighteenth marquis was ranked in the fourteenth, and the eighteenth marquis was different from the princes who were sealed at the beginning of the founding of the country, but before the death of Emperor Taizu Gao, who eliminated the king with a different surname, he swore an oath of life and death with the princes, and the one hundred and forty-three princes of the early Han Dynasty swore an oath with Taizu, and Wang Suck ranked fourteenth among the one hundred and forty-three people, which is already very remarkable.
Of course, it must not be compared to the Pingyang Hou Cao family, the Qinghe Hou Wang family was only 2,200 households when it was sealed, and the Pingyang Hou Cao family was 10,600 when it was sealed, Cao Shen and Wang Si were almost 4 generations old, Cao Shi was 30 years younger than Wang Buxiao, and the comparison between the two is really a comparison between the big winners and the tragedies in life.
"The Marquis of Qinghe and I are of the same generation, and we can be called brothers, if my brother has anything to say, just say it! If my brother can help you, he will definitely help. Cao Shi blacked him out not too kindly, and it was quite cool to call him a brother and a brother with an old man who was thirty years apart.
"Actually, it's my personal matter, and I want to ask you for help."
"Brother, please speak."
Wang Bu said in the period of Ai Ai: "I am ashamed to say that there are still a few younger brothers in this generation of brothers, but the next generation has not even left a son and a half daughter, now I am close to half a hundred years old, and I don't know how many years I can live, even if I am lucky enough to live to the age of seventy-eight like Chen Wu, the Marquis of Jianpu, but I still have to be expelled from the country if I have no heirs!" ”
"Huh? Brother is so old that he has no children under his knees? How can this work? Have you seen the body with a medical officer? ”
"I secretly found a few medical workers in Chang'an City to take a look, and after taking a lot of medicine, it still didn't work, and I wanted to invite the palace doctor but I was afraid that it would reach the ears of the Son of Heaven, so I hesitated and still haven't been cured."
Cao Shi suddenly said: "That's the problem of not finding the right medical worker." ”
"Yes! Didn't you just hear that there are disciples of Canggong in your Hou Mansion? I can rest assured that the people of the Pingyang Hou Mansion are at ease, and I can rest assured that the disciples of Canggong are also relieved, and the virtuous brother will take a hand for the sake of being a brother at such an old age! Wang Buxian looked at him secretly while wiping his tears, and when he caught a glimpse of his gaze, he wiped a few more handfuls of tears.
In fact, Cao Shi was quite sympathetic to him, and it was not easy for him to do it for the sake of the family business at a young age, so he smacked his lips and said: "Leave this matter to me, and I promise that it will be done beautifully for my brother." ”
"That's a good feeling, this thing has to be done, after being a brother, you will be your pawn, we will fight wherever you say, and I will never frown at all for my brother."
Seeing that Wang Buxian successfully changed his face in minutes, Cao Shi was speechless for a while, and the festivals of the princes had already been thrown into the Yellow River and washed away.
As soon as he left the Qinghe Marquis Mansion, he was stopped by Wu Yingqi, the prince of the Marquis of Liang Zou, who had been waiting for a long time: "Zishou! You're going to have to help me anyway, and my future depends on you. ”
"Wait a minute, what's going on?"
Wu Yingqi pulled him into the carriage in a hurry: "My father beat me out to discuss with you, I made some trouble in the palace at the beginning, and I heard that it was also known by the Son of Heaven later, my father locked me in the house and didn't let me go out to work, if I continue like this, my life will really be wasted!" ”
Cao Shi couldn't win Wu Yingqi's iron tongs, and secretly compared the size of the two of them to Wu Yingqi, he was very thin in addition to being taller, blinking and pretending to have just come back to his senses: "What are you doing?" Oh! I remember that you said that you ran to the palace and hooked up with the palace maid, it was the old yellow calendar twenty years ago, when you are still the prince today, what are you afraid of? ”
"Huh! I said don't pretend to be stupid, what kind of person is that today! The father and son of the earth are mean and unkind, it is a mold to create, the first emperor did not do it does not mean that the son of heaven did not do it, I hide in the dark and can't think of it, in case I send it to the list of positions in the army, maybe when I am seen will kill me! ”
Wu Yingqi also fought hard, anyway, he decided that only Cao Shi could help him get out of the sea of suffering, and life and death depended on him to give advice, and kept saying that as long as this matter was done well, let him mix with the position of a cavalry lieutenant of the Northern Army, and later he said that Dongwu Yingqi would never go west, but Cao Shima was Zhan.
Hearing the very similar rhetoric, Cao Shi also came back to his senses, and said in his heart that you guys were originally doing this ghost, let me help deal with some trivial things and then take the opportunity to hug my thighs and stand in line, this hand is really good!
"Brother! What you think has been seen through by me, isn't it just a mere captain, you can rest assured that the relationship between your family will fight for this position, the Son of Heaven and the prince have me blocking for you, just rest assured to do it, I got off the car in advance, and said hello to Liang Zou Hou on my behalf. ”
Cao Shi jumped out of the carriage without saying a word, Wu Yingqi hesitated, thanked him, and turned to leave.
On the way back to take his carriage, he was sniped by many liehous, and all kinds of bloody encounters and coincidental meetings appeared frequently, some of them could still ask him for something, and some of them really couldn't find a reason to simply say that they wanted to go to Pingyang Hou's Mansion for a big meal, as long as he was invited to a big meal, he would be Cao Shi's little brother after the big meal.
Chen He shook his head and blocked the middle of the road: "Hehe, Zishou, we're coming to you!" ”
"Zishou must have guessed what we were doing, right? I'm sorry to say that we're a step late. Guan Qiang smiled crookedly.
Zhou Zuoche frowned and said: "It's all to blame Chen Zishi for grinding and wasting the chance encounter opportunity we carefully rehearsed, now that there are so many people I meet, Zishou will definitely not believe it." ”
"Ahh Are you that stupid group of people when Zishou is? I guess he has already seen that the situation is wrong, Wu Yingqi didn't coax him to the Hou Mansion, can he have a fake? Chen He quarreled with Zhou Zuoche again.
Guan Qiang put his arm around Cao Shi's shoulders and said sneakily: "We are all our own brothers, it's better to be honest and play less of those tricks, Zishou must have been moved by our honesty, right?" Don't get excited, just know that the brothers are good to you, of course our own brothers must be sincere. ”
Cao Shi was completely speechless, and nodded silently with a few dry laughs, secretly thinking that his judgment was indeed not wrong, and the liehou relied on creatures without discipline.
Chen He grabbed his arm and grinned: "Zishou, you have to understand!" Our meritorious princes are different from others, except for the Son of Heaven, no one is a bird, regardless of whether he is a powerful prince and king, and the powerful relatives are not in our eyes, but our princes are too scattered, and we need someone to unify the princes, just like you said last time, a few old guys have been thinking about it for so long and finally made up their minds to let you carry the burden, and we, the idle princes who have not been appointed, will take refuge in you first, and then you will be led by everyone when you reach a high position, you understand, right? ”
"I know what you mean, brothers, you're going to drink, right? Hurry up and don't waste time, I'll invite you to the Hou Mansion for a drink when I have time. ”
"Hehe, I'll just say that my brother can understand a little, that's okay! Let's go first! The three of them walked away with their hands on their shoulders.
Cao Chang sighed, turned his head tired and continued to walk, a short road was met by dozens of liehous, probably also set a record for the most encounters by the liehou in Chang'an City.
Just a few steps away, he was suddenly stopped by two people, Cao Shi looked up and was stunned: "Why are you two?" ”
Xiahou lowered his head and said, "Brother Cong, I'm here to ......."
"My father said let me mess with you, you will be my eldest brother in the future, and I will serve you as a brother." Yu Yu walked to Cao Shi's side with a big grin: "Big brother, where you go in the future, where the two of us go with you, we will do whatever you let us do, and never frown." ”
Cao Shi covered his forehead and was completely helpless.
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