Chapter 18: The Secret of the Drunken Immortal Tower
Only Wuji and Sun Shixu were left in the hall.
Sun Shixu couldn't hold back any longer, and asked, "Ziqing, what do you mean?" Even if you go to Padang, you don't need to sell the shares of the salt shop? ”
Wuji looked at Sun Shixu's face and said: "The prince of the world has been born, and now that Gao Baoxun has been demoted, his shares have entered the hands of the son, Gao Baozheng saw the wind and steered, so he naturally stood on the side of the son." In the future, the son will succeed to the throne, and this salt shop will be his sooner or later. It's better to let go now, and you can also settle your favor. By the way, your shares must also be transferred to him on the initiative in the next year or two, so as to keep a face and talk in the future. The son of the world has a wooden temperament, although he is affectionate, but he is easy to go to extremes, and it is not appropriate for you to keep the shares. ”
Sun Shixu thought for a while and nodded: "Ziqing's words are reasonable, I will give the shares to him next year, but what about your restaurant shares?" Do you want to transfer it too? ”
Wuji smiled: "I won't transfer the shares of the restaurant, and I'll give it all to you." ”
Sun Shixu was shocked and excused himself: "Ziqing can't, the profit of the restaurant is twice that of the salt shop, how can I take over such a large amount of money, I deserve it." What's more, the world has long coveted the restaurant, and the salt shop must be let go, isn't the restaurant even worse? ”
Wuji patted Sun Shixu's shoulder and motioned for him to sit down, and then said: "You don't have to worry about the restaurant, I know the character of the prince of the Dao Dynasty, although he has a bad heart now, but today I gave him the shares of the salt shop, and I have sold his personal favor, and before he succeeds to the throne of the king, he should not come to get involved." Ruzhang Restaurant should be fine. Besides, if you give up the shares to him next year, the entire salt shop will be in his hands, and within a few years, he should be satisfied with the income of the salt shop. ”
Sun Shixu said: "That's not good, I don't understand your wine-making method, even if I understand it, I'm not willing to take care of these things, or sell the restaurant together." ”
Wuji smiled: "You, it's this dog's temper, what's the hurry?" I have already arranged the personnel of this wine production, and in the future, you only need to collect money every month, and you don't have to take care of everything, so is it satisfying? ”
Sun Shixu smiled with relief when he heard this: "As long as you don't have to worry about me, but I still ask your caravan to send you to Padang every month, anyway, it's only a few days away to Padang." ”
Seeing that he was stubborn, Mowgli no longer insisted.
After the matter was finished, the two ordered a table of wine and food and drank each other.
After three cups, Sun Shixu blushed slightly and said: "Ziqing, if the son succeeds to the throne in the future, I will not be happy, so I will go to Padang to join you." ”
Wuji waved his left hand, drank the wine in the toast and said casually: "Don't talk nonsense, now you are going to join me as a seven-rank county commander, is your father willing?" ”
Sun Shixu said: "Although I don't accept you, I know that you will achieve great things in the future." ”
Wuji Ha Luha said: "You think too highly of me, I can still win the sky if I am a small county commander?" ”
Sun Shixu squinted at Wuji, pulled his lips and said, "Are you stupid to me?" You've got a thousand caravans, right? How much money does it cost to raise such a team, don't say that the caravan can make money and be self-sufficient. ”
Wuji turned the wine glass in his hand and said, "What, are you interested in the caravan?" I'll give it to you if you want it. ”
"Come less, don't say that the caravan is your lifeline, just say that it was really given to me, and I can't afford to raise it, and I can't control it, do you think I don't know that the tiger and wolf soldiers in the caravan are all drawn from the veterans in the army for you by your father?"
Wuji's face darkened, and he said: "Even you know the Dao, and the king must also know the Dao." No wonder I was in a hurry to attack my father's military power, it seems that my father was still killed by me. ”
Sun Shixu comforted: "Ziqing doesn't have to be sad, in fact, you just don't have this caravan protection, and it is impossible for the king to let your father be in charge of the Nanping army for too long, after all, Nanping has not fought for several years, and the king does not have the ambition of his youth, and it is not surprising that he will take back the military power to prepare for the smooth succession of the son." ”
Sun Shixu saw that Wuji didn't react and said: "Ziqing, don't talk about this boring topic, let's have a good drink." ”
Hearing this, Wuji shook his head and raised his glass accordingly.
The two drank strong liquor and talked nonsense until Sun Shixu got drunk and Bailiyi dragged him back to Sun's mansion.
Wuji took Bailiren to the most secret place of the Drunken Immortal Tower.
The two of them came to the backyard of the Drunken Immortal Building, asked for a rockery to open the mechanism, and after a long corridor, they came to a huge underground facility, which is really unique.
This is Baili Wuji's biggest move in the past few years - intelligence agencies and material warehouses, and in the past five years, most of the profits of the salt shop and the drunken immortal building have been spent here. Two years ago, Wuji originally wanted to hand over the intelligence agency to Bailiren to take care of, but thinking that Ah Ren lacked experience after all, he thought it would be better to wait.
And Wuji himself is not professional in intelligence, he just wants to know himself and his opponent, and he has not been able to find a capable person to preside, so he barely supports it. Mowgli sighed, hey...... Talent is the most important thing at all times.
Now, it's time to hand it over to Bailiren, on the one hand, to give Bailiren a chance to adapt and practice, and on the other hand, Wujizhi knows that he is indeed not suitable to lead this organization.
Although Bai Liren is young but steady and sophisticated, calm and decisive, has strong observation and analysis skills, quick response, and good memory, but most importantly, he is reliable. The leaders of intelligence agencies can be incompetent, but they must be reliable.
Relying on the Drunken Immortal Tower, merchants from all over the world brought all kinds of information from all over the world, including commercial, naturally military, and even the privacy of the princes and high-ranking officials.
What's more, with this intelligence agency, the caravan under the name of Baili Wuji will be safer and more powerful. And the caravan escort will also bring all kinds of information when they go south and north, so that the two complement each other, and it also makes the intelligence network a little interesting.
And it was with intelligence that Baili Wuji, after understanding the king's intentions, calmly used a trick to escape marriage and decompose the current crisis.
Wuji has now decided to move the organization to Padang and set up a subdivision here, and the specific matters will be handed over to Bailiren.
The caravan of hundreds of miles is very famous, and even the king Gao Congzhi knows the way. But except for Baili Wuji, even Baili Ren didn't have a chance to see the whole leopard.
Merchants from all over Jingzhou gathered, and too many caravans needed to be escorted, especially in these troubled times. The caravans were divided into many groups, ranging from a dozen to hundreds of people in each group, in order to make a profit by collecting the fees of the caravans they escorted. Most of its members are retired veterans from Baili Wuji's father's army, and the scale has been controlled at two battalions, about nine hundred people, and not long ago, when Baili Wuji ordered the expansion into three battalions, Liang Zhen warned him, Baili Wuji knew that this warning came from the king Gao Congzhi.
And now, he ordered that the caravans of the three battalions be gradually transferred to Padang, and the ordnance and grain in the material warehouse were quietly transported to Padang in batches, because he would not return to Gangneung in the near future. And the caravan will also be transferred to Padang after completing the transportation task, and Wuji plans to carve out a piece of his own territory in Padang.
As for whether the transfer of the caravan to Badong will arouse the suspicion of the king, Baili Wuji can't care about it, from Gao Congzhen and Liang Zhen, Wuji already knows the bottom line of the king of Ludao, that is, Baili Yuanwang will hand over the military power smoothly, Baili father and son have no intention of rebellion, and the rest, Gao Congzhi can turn a blind eye.