Chapter 267: Gift-giving
Ren Xing is very clear about the strength of the two Huai salt merchants, Zhang Shicheng relied on selling smuggled salt to accumulate a lot of private money, and laid a large area in the south of the Yangtze River. For example, today, the most effective weapon is money, and the richest people in the dynasty are salt merchants. Even if he was one of the masters who were expected to compete for the world's first master, he did not dare to provoke the richest group in the world.
"What's in those boxes? The old man was trapped in prison, and he couldn't see or touch those things, and he didn't know what was on them, and he didn't know what was involved. ”
"Old man, those things are really big, and they are not ordinary. But right now, these are small things, and the first major thing is my marriage with Yingying. Your old man happens to be here, and we are marrying, so let's take advantage of this great opportunity to handle the happy event. ”.
When Ren Yingying heard this, she lowered her head in shame and whispered, "I don't want to marry you." ”
Let me do it, laughing, "That's good." It's just right, but the old man has a heart. Yingying, there is no wedding to talk about in your side room, Uncle Guo is willing to do it for you in Jiangnan, this is a big face, but you are not allowed to be ignorant and willful. ”
Ren Yingying said in her heart: How do you know that his side rooms have all held weddings in the local area. But I thought that what my father said made sense, if I didn't even have this ceremony, wouldn't I want to be like Zhang Furong in the future, a head lower than Biyun and Liu Jing? Therefore, he only said: "All the qiē is arranged by my father." ”
There is a ready-made place in Meizhuang, and there are people in the officialdom of Zhejiang. and among the hundreds of scribes, some of them have never gone away, so they simply invited them to be guests. Zheng Guobao sprinkled the wedding card again, looking like a big business, and the wedding supplies in Hangzhou were almost sold out.
Ren Xing took the time to say to Ren Yingying: "Yingying." For my father, I survived this death, thanks to my uncle's rescue. However, this escape is only the first step, and the next step is to regain the inheritance of the Holy Sect and whitewash it according to the instructions of the uncle. Those old brothers can also get a background in the future. It's better than fighting to the death. I can't take off the skin of the rivers and lakes. Originally, my father thought that he would borrow a large sum of money from a few people who put the seals, and rely on this silver. Go get a few of your men over. This time, thanks to Uncle Guo's help. He came out with a large gift. With this bride price, there is no need to borrow money. Although you are making a side room, this bride price money. Even if ordinary people marry a lady in the main house, they can't take it out. In comparison, the dowry that my father took was much shabby. Dad also wants to ask you to get married, but unfortunately it is not very convenient in his hands, and he can be regarded as wronging you. ”
"What did Daddy say? Your old man is as kind to his daughter as a mountain, what is this dowry or not, what is the matter? After my daughter gets married, I have to ask him to help her father with a large sum of money, otherwise I won't be able to spare him. Ren Yingying remembered that Zheng Guobao promised to give Blue Phoenix the salt introduction of artesian well salt, and co-organized Huamachi salt with the Bijia family, gritted her silver teeth, and said viciously.
"Girl, how old are you...... Alas. It's also your father who delayed your life, you are now at this age, but you can't be tempered anymore, you have to learn to invite pets. The Holy Religion is revived, and the wish of your predecessors is about to fall on you. Dad was in prison for ten years, and he only wanted to understand one thing. Today, those who have martial arts have no choice but to be a nurse, and those who are the first to strategize have to be a staff member. If you want to achieve great things, you need backers and money. And Uncle Guo is our best backer, if my father expects it to be true, after this is the case, we will no longer have to worry about silver. ”
This marriage, with Xu Xi and others, as well as the assistance of the local government, is powerful and high-grade. The famous chefs in Hangzhou were almost all caught in one go, and all of them were sent to Meizhuang. Even all kinds of high-quality ingredients and fine wine are also transported to Meizhuang.
The Meizhuang incident is said to the outside world that because there are demon demons who covet the treasures of the villa, they are fighting with open fire and come to loot. The four elders led the Zhuang Ke to a big battle with the demons, the big owner and the third owner were unfortunately killed, and the whereabouts of the second owner were unknown. Four more village owners came out as witnesses to prove that what the government said was true, and even if those literati had the intention to make trouble, they had no position to speak.
Uncle Zheng's statement is: Meizhuang is in disrepair, and the exterior wall has been loosened. This is the dereliction of duty of our local government, demolition is only a means, protection is the goal, we will definitely demolish the old as the old and actively repair.
Under this kind of slogan, no one knows what the sergeants who are actually soldiers of the Zhenwu Battalion under the banner of military guards are busy in Meizhuang. What can be seen with the naked eye is that there are a few more arrow towers in the village, and the village wall has been raised by one layer.
Since Meizhuang is not demolished, Yaji will do the same, and the benefits that should have been in the past will not be affected at all, so what is there to make a fuss? Teng Bolun, Ye Zhiyuan and others think this is a good thing. This Meizhuang has the shares of the four princes, and he is not afraid of the investigation of the imperial historian in the future.
At the same time, they are much better informed than ordinary people, and they also know that the water in Meizhuang is very deep. I heard that it was Jinyiwei who killed that day, and it is said that he found a lot of terrible things from Meizhuang. The identity of the four friends of Meizhuang is also very suspicious. They have a very deep relationship with Meizhuang on weekdays, and if Meizhuang has a problem, their own body will not be too clean. Uncle Guo is not quiet now, and he does not go to track down others, but instead starts a marriage, isn't this just waiting for them to say? If you don't take the opportunity of the big wedding to open up the joints with your uncle and wash the mud off your body, when will you stay?
As for Bai Bohuan, the prefect of Suzhou, although he is a descendant of Shen Shixing, he is not very satisfied with Zheng Guobao's behavior of arranging the marriage for the concubine, and secretly complains about his benefactor's daughter. But he is an outsider after all, and he can't say anything. I can only learn from the same thing, and send all kinds of ingredients procured, as well as fifty tribute satin woven in Suzhou, in the name of local products, to Meizhuang as the actual support of Suzhou Prefecture for this uncle's wedding.
Now the Son of Heaven of Wanli issued an order to announce that Matteo Ricci of Xuanyi should enter Beijing, and ordered to receive people along the way, and not to stop them. There is also a special envoy sent by the palace to escort it, so as not to meet any official who wants to be famous and crazy, and then drive Matteo Ricci away. This reception expense happened to be on Ricci's head, and it was fully accounted for on the books.
The source and cost of these ingredients and wine are also not very easy to say, and the Matteo Ricci did not enter Beijing, and there were a few more black pots on their heads, which was also unpredictable by this honest and responsible foreign priest. Zheng Guobao is happy to accept all the orders, the only regret is that as the wedding date approaches, Ren Yingying's skin is getting thinner and thinner, and it is much more difficult to see her than in the past. Even the hand addiction of the past couldn't get by, and the Wang sisters were left in Jingshi again and never took them with them.
Zhang Furong is also only willing to serve orally, but she refuses to really kill her soul. asked her why, she gritted her teeth and didn't say anything, Zheng Guobao didn't force her, anyway, looking at this goddess who is usually high, cold as frost, and always light and breezy when encountering things, is now made red and red by herself, and she is panting for shortness, which is already a great satisfaction. I had to gossip with her, recuperate, and wait until the wedding day, so that the demon girl could see the means of Jinyiwei.
In Yangzhou City, in a villa next to Baoyang Lake, the eight merchants of Yangzhou gathered together. Sun Xiu, the living god of wealth in Yangzhou, was no longer as calm as he used to be at this time, and said anxiously: "Those things, the nurses reported that they had burned. But can you believe the words of those Jianghu people? I'm afraid it's all in the hands of Uncle Guo. These are terrible things. I'll say a few, it's not just my stuff here, but the seven of you are all involved, and if the ship capsizes, everyone won't be okay. ”
On the other side, Xu Wencheng, a native of Huizhou, looked calm, and cranked the folding fan in his hand, "Brother Sun, don't worry, this matter is not so strict, you just have to put your heart in your stomach, this God, it can't change." You don't want to think about it, who is in power in the court now, does he Zheng Guobao still want to lift the table? It's really that step, and a few people in the court are afraid that they won't be able to let him go first. Besides, if what those nursing homes say is true, and the things are really burned, aren't we worrying about the sky? ”
Xu Wencheng and today's Sanfu Xu Guo are members of the same clan, so they are particularly confident in speaking. "Isn't this the uncle of the country who is going to get married? I heard that it was a concubine. What are concubines doing with such a big show? Isn't that just waiting for us to say? At this time, we can't be too stingy, at this time, even if that thing really burns, we can't be happy, right? ”
Sun Xiu said: "I also understand this, and I don't care about money." Xiao'er had already borrowed a seal urgently from Hangzhou and scraped together 50,000 taels of silver to send over. I don't know if that's enough. ”
"Fifty thousand? Not enough, not enough. A Qincha who rectified the salt law plus the uncle of the country, and the son-in-law of Shen Ge, how could he buy it for 50,000 yuan? We are all here, except for Brother Sun, each of you will take 50,000 yuan and 400,000 silver before and after. I think Uncle Guo should stop when he sees the money. He also has the messenger of the salt method, and if we can buy his joints, it will also be of great benefit to us to practice salt in the future. ”
Sun Xiu nodded and said, "Since Brother Xu said it, the junior brother doesn't have to be exempted." Let's make up 450,000 before and after. It's not a problem with the money, but who's going to send it? I'm just afraid that I will send sheep into the mouth of the tiger, in case there is no return, how can this be good? ”
These salt merchants are as strong as they are afraid of death, and this question is also asked in the hearts of others. Wang Cang, the representative of Western businessmen, said: "I have a candidate for this money." Yang Gongzi, who came to buy salt in Banzhou, has an official body on his head, and he is a fine person, let him go, I want to make it. (To be continued!)
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