After handing over the door and then handing over the court, the Ningguo Mansion is easy not to follow the rules, and Grandpa Qin is also a kind and informal, good lord of the Ming Dynasty, not only easy-going, but also casual, but when Grandpa Qin is not casual, it is simply outrageous.

Xu Pengju's face was already ugly, but as the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person when he reaches out his hand, seeing the smiling face of the housekeeper of the Qin Mansion, Xu Pengju feels that it would be too rude to stretch out his hand to fan him at this moment.

Gritting his teeth fiercely, the little grandfather is not short of money.

took out another twenty taels in his arms, and said with a proud "Wow, come and eat!" Xu Pengju threw the silver to the housekeeper.

The butler's smile was bright, and in this cold winter, his smile was as amiable as spring breeze and snow.

"Thank you, please enter the front hall, please ......take a seat," the housekeeper hunched his waist and smiled like an old ghost who had been bought by money, and invited Xu Pengju into the front hall as if he had invited the ancestral tablet.

Xu Pengju snorted angrily, sat unceremoniously on the official hat chair in the front hall, shook the dust on the hem of his clothes as if angry, and then lifted Erlang's legs.

"Little grandfather, please wait a moment, my master will come out immediately, immediately!" When the housekeeper spoke, his waist was arched, like an old shrimp, and his attitude was very at home, seeing his courteous appearance, Xu Peng was happy, and suddenly felt that the forty taels of silver he had just spent was actually not too wrong, and he enjoyed it for the first time in the Qin Mansion What is the guest is God.

Knocking on the table proudly, Xu Pengju said dissatisfiedly: "I don't care when your master comes out, you should always serve a cup of tea when the guest enters the door, right?" Are you so hospitable? ”

The housekeeper suddenly showed a look of embarrassment, and Ai Ai didn't say anything for a long time.

Xu Pengju is not stupid. Not only is it not stupid, but it is also very smart, and it can be penetrated at one point, and when it is in a good state, it is not necessary to click at all.

Looking at the appearance of the housekeeper, Xu Pengju was stunned for a moment, and then anger appeared on his face.

"When you enter the door, you have to pay respect, and when you enter the front hall, I won't have to pay tribute to tea when I drink a cup of tea, right?"

The housekeeper immediately floated a comfortable expression after unobstructed, and couldn't help but praise: "The little grandfather finally realized ......"

Xu Pengju was furious, and shouted at the screen behind the hall: "The surname is Qin." Don't deceive people too much! Enough fun, right? Hurry up and get out of here! ”

Behind the screen, a figure flickered. Qin Kan walked out wearing a mink robe Shi Shiran, with a gentle smile on his face, and raised his hand towards Xu Peng as he walked: "It turned out to be a visit from the little grandfather, no wonder I found the statue of the God of Wealth in the inner courtyard faintly shining this morning......"

Xu Pengju's face also glowed faintly. It glows green. Staring at Qin Kan, he gritted his teeth and said, "Other people's kind words are that they heard magpies cry in the morning. You shameless man actually saw the God of Wealth shine...... The rules of your Ningguo Mansion are bigger than the rules of my Nanjing Wei Mansion, and if you want to see you, the master, you have to pay three times for silver, and you have to pay out of pocket for even a cup of tea. Qin Kan, your shameless skills have become more and more sophisticated. ”

Qin Kan was stunned, turned his head and scolded the housekeeper: "You are in the eyes of money? The little grandfather has been my friend for many years, and I am so happy to visit my friends, people just want to have a cup of tea,...... Can't you just be cheaper? ”

"Qin Kan!" Xu Peng trembled with anger.

Qin Kan looked at Xu Pengju's expression that was about to collapse, thought about it, and had to change his words gloomily: "That's it, give him a cup of tea for free, it seems that the glow of the God of Wealth statue in the inner courtyard may be my delusion, I'm afraid I'm going to lose money today......"

Xu Pengju's face softened slightly, sat down and said hatefully: "You are also a dignified countryman, don't you think it looks too ugly?" ”

Qin Kan said with a smile: "Nanjing's No. 1 gentleman, Little Grandpa Xu, actually told me about the rules, and the prince of my country was flattered and had to accept some silver from you, and I was shocked......"

Winking at Xu Pengju, Qin Kan smiled and said, "There are still many rules in the mansion of my country, do you want to try them one by one?" Guaranteed to scare you to death. ”

"No need, let's be honest and straightforward."

Soon the next person served tea, Qin Kan crossed his legs and took a sip gently, squinted at him, and said, "Say, today's visit to the door is to hand over the name card and put on the honor guard, which one of you are crazy?" ”

Xu Pengju smiled and said: "Didn't you say that when the Taimiao offered prisoners, you said that the ship was built and went to sea, and you wanted me to discuss it with you after the court meeting?" This is a big deal, so it is natural to take it seriously. Today, I am here to pay a formal visit to you on behalf of the Wei Mansion in Nanjing. ”

Sighing, Qin Kan muttered: "Seeing that the New Year is approaching, I thought you were here to give me a New Year's gift, but I didn't expect you to come to the door with only one mouth......"

Unrelentingly, he straightened up and looked at the courtyard outside the front hall, the courtyard was snow-white and clean, empty, and there were no suspicious objects such as gift boxes and gifts, Qin Kan was finally completely disappointed.

"Young people nowadays are really too rude......" Qin Kan sighed in disappointment.

Xu Peng raised his forehead and jumped violently: "Grandpa Qin, it's still early for the New Year!" Can we get down to business? ”

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"Tianjin Donggang has built four big fortune ships, two thousand materials, the ship has been launched, everything is going well, these four fortune ships are just the beginning, Donggang is still continuing to build ships day and night, but the four fortune ships are not big or small can also do a big deal, so I want to invite a few nobles in Beijing to get together and choose the day to go to sea and cross to Japan." Qin Kan said unhurriedly while sipping tea.

Xu Peng raised his brows and frowned, and said, "It's not that you Ning Guogong can't eat the goods of the four lucky ships alone, why do you invite us nobles to do it together?" What do you think about the silver that should have been obtained by you alone, but for no reason it will be divided into four or five parts? ”

Qin Kan smiled bitterly: "The ancients said that 'those who are content are always happy', and the ancients said that 'I only take ...... of three thousand weak water'"

Without speaking, Xu Pengju suddenly understood, so he glanced at Qin Kan with great disdain, and said: "Don't put gold on your face, it's just that eating alone alone is too conspicuous, and when the time comes, your treasury is full of silver, but it provokes the impeachment of civil officials, and the nobles are red-eyed, and they are not treated well by the world, so they are not people inside and out, so you pull us nobles to your thief ship, right?" ”

Qin Kan sighed: "The little grandfather is simply my confidant, I really shouldn't have accepted your money when I entered the door just now." ”

Xu Pengju sneered: "Master is not just a foodie, even if he is a foodie, he also has a wise side, I only ask you, four lucky ships crossed to Japan, how do you ensure that there is nothing wrong on the way?" How rampant the Japanese in the East China Sea are now, you should know better than me, if the four ships of goods are lost, will you pay me money? ”

Qin Kan said with a smile: "I am not the first person to go to sea, in fact, in the past hundred years, there have been countless civil officials who have colluded with businessmen and magnates to quietly go to sea to trade with the vassal countries and divide huge profits, including your Xu family, you tell me, how do you ensure that nothing goes wrong when you go to sea with goods?" ”

"The risk of going to sea is extremely high, and the profits and losses are often five to five, and there are countless natural and man-made disasters in the huge East China Sea, who can guarantee that nothing goes wrong? My Xu family is a saint, naturally it is not convenient to participate directly, but I have changed several layers of relationships and made up a part with Jiangnan and Zhejiang businessmen, not only me, but also civil officials, in this position, the appearance can not be too ugly, and it is those businessmen who really do things. ”

"How do merchants keep their ships and cargo safe?"

"It's very simple, the merchant goes to sea to take a fixed channel, there is a fixed force on the channel, whether the Japanese are real or fake, they don't necessarily have to kill people and grab goods, the farmer knows that if you want to eat meat, you have to fatten the pigs first, and the Japanese will naturally not really strangle the merchant's channel, so it is not good for them, every year they only need to sit on the island, and naturally there are merchants who will send the silver to the door for buying the road in vain......"

Qin Kan thought thoughtfully: "In other words, businessmen can protect themselves by paying protection fees? ”

"Protection money? This is a new word, the meaning is quite appropriate, to put it bluntly, it is the same as your factory guards to collect the safe silver of the restaurant restaurant Qinglou, and the money will naturally not be taken by the merchants, of course, occasionally there will be some unparticular Japanese robbers, who collect the silver but kill all the people on the ship, and then swallow the goods alone, and have to consider themselves unlucky when they encounter this kind of Japanese robbers, so the risk of going to sea is too great, and no one dares to pat their chests and say that they are foolproof. ”

Xu Pengju said a little dryly, took the teacup and moistened his throat, and said: "If we want to earn money from the feudal kingdom, we can only follow the example of civil officials and merchants, first determine the shipping route, and then send someone to say hello to the pirates on the islands near the shipping channel, and then send a generous gift, and there will probably not be too many problems in the future navigation......

Qin Kan sneered: "How many groups of pirates who are not in the climate want me to offer them as ancestors to the Duke of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Zhilu Dao is the prince of the country, but as the saying goes, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, no matter how powerful we are, will the widows on the lonely island be afraid of you? Once at sea, the names of our princes will not work at all. ”

The chill on Qin Kan's face deepened: "Since I entered the court, I have fought with civil officials, military generals, vassal kings, and eunuchs, but they have not been able to make me lower my head, will I give in to a few pirates?" ”

"What are you going to do?"

Qin Kan's eyes burst out with a long-lost killing opportunity: "Whoever stands in my way, I will kill him, the same is true for civil officials, and the same is true for pirates." ”

"How do you kill pirates?"

"Mobilize the Dengzhou and Quanzhou naval divisions, and the naval division's battleships are all equipped with the newly made Francophone artillery, bird guns and crossbows, starting from Tianjin Port and fighting all the way to Japan! Like ploughing the ground, we first plowed the waterway from Tianjin to Japan several times, and then concentrated our forces to break through the islands where the Japanese were entrenched one by one. ”

Xu Pengju was taken aback, and his eyes widened in disbelief: "Mobilize the two sailors to take the initiative to attack the island?" This...... The Ming Dynasty has never done this for more than 100 years. ”

Qin Kan sighed: "The civilian officials are restrained because of their own interests, the guards are corrupt, and the generals are incompetent, if no one stands up and takes the initiative to give the enemy a head-on blow, our Ming Dynasty will really have no hope." (To be continued......)