Chapter 150: Appetite is not small
Thinking of this, a reserved smile appeared on Wu Shaohai's face. But he didn't know that anyone who despised Chen Sheng would not have good fruits to eat. Under the face of this teenage boy, there is a heart that is nearly thirty years old......
Chen Sheng changed into an off-white kudzu robe with wide sleeves. When he was changing clothes, he was already thinking about the intention and purpose of the young master of the Wu family, and he was also thinking about how to deal with it. For the Wu family, all he knows is from the teacher and Ling Suyun. Especially the latter, Ling Suyun, who is also a businessman, has a clearer understanding of the details of the Wu family.
Wu Shaohai, the young head of the Ling family, is twenty-seven years old this year and is the only son of Wu Luo, the head of the Wu family. Since childhood, he was talented and intelligent, and he was good at doing business with the kings of the Western Regions, exchanging cattle and sheep for gold and jade, and then using these goods to exchange for high-value silk and tea with the Central Plains countries, and selling them to various parts of the Western Regions to earn a huge amount of wealth. Wu Shaohai was also very good at speculation, and when he was a teenager, he had already judged the general trend of the world, hoarded a large number of war horses, and then sold them to the Qin army at a price close to the cost. With such a stable supplier of horses, the Qin army swept the world, so the Wu family also won the favor of the emperor and the ministers in the army, and gained huge political capital. In the environment of heavy agriculture and suppression of business, the Wu family is still like a fish in water and is not affected in the slightest. The business grew bigger and bigger, and the more support he received in the imperial court.
It didn't take long for Chen Sheng to walk into the living room with a spring breeze on his face.
When he saw Wu Shaohai at a glance, Chen Sheng's smile was inconvenient, but he was surprised in his heart. He originally thought that this son of the Wu family, who had lived in the border for a long time, must be a burly man with a beard. Maybe on this hot day, he is still wearing a stinky leather robe.
But Wu Shaohai is slender, wearing a six-inch crown of hair, although his face is a little rough but not rough, and he even looks a little bookish. Dressed in a green shirt and wearing a treasure jade at his waist, he looks like a son of a family.
"Grass people Wu Shaohai, meet the county guard." Although he had a slight contempt for Chen Sheng in his heart. But the position of the feudal official of the imperial court is not something that he Wu Shaohai can ignore. When Wu Shaohai saw Chen Sheng for the first time, he was also secretly shocked. It is said that Chen Sheng has only been crowned for a short time, but the calm demeanor on his face and the mature aura between his eyebrows cannot be hidden. "It's a character!" Wu Shaohai also positioned Chen Sheng in his heart.
"You're welcome." Chen Sheng motioned to Wu Shaohai that there was no need to be polite, and sat down as the guest and host. Chen Sheng got straight to the point and said: "Mr. Wu came to visit this official, what happened?" The tone was very flat.
Wu Shaohai smiled indifferently and said, "You don't need to be polite, just call the grass people Shaohai." Wu Shaohai is good at getting close to people, and began to unfold his ability to set relationships in front of Chen Sheng: "Adults are heroic and heroic, and grass people are familiar at first sight, if adults don't dislike it, how about you and I be brothers?" It's just that Wu is a few years older...... If adults feel abrupt, don't be surprised. When Wu Shaohai said this, his tone was affectionate, if Chen Sheng was an ignorant boy, he had really been deceived. If ordinary people say that they want to make friends with the Shoupan brothers of a county, this is really a bit ignorant. But Wu Shaohai knew that he was willing to treat Chen Sheng with his brother's friend, and it was Chen Sheng's honor. You must know that his father Wu Lu is a prince who was personally appointed by the emperor, although he is not Shiqing Shilu, but he can also think that he, the young master, is naturally the son of the prince, equal to the son of the county king, and the same rank of twenty, it is Chen Sheng This title is a big man who is difficult for the five doctors to climb.
Chen Sheng smiled happily and said, "Brother Wu sees the outside, sees the outside!" Seeing Wu Shaohai pull down his face to make friends, Chen Sheng naturally would not turn him away. In his eyes, Wu Shaohai is a big treasury of activities, as long as he can send a huge amount of wealth to himself and Minzhong County, why not call him brother! A few more screams will do. "Serve the snacks, I want to have a few drinks with Brother Wu!" Chen Sheng said behind him.
"Yes." Hiding in the shadow behind Chen Sheng, a crisp response suddenly sounded, startling the two young strong men beside Wu Shaohai. None of them saw the spirit bead that had been hidden by Chen Sheng's side.
Wu Shaohai also had a look of surprise in his eyes. From then on to the end, after Chen Sheng came in, he didn't see that there was anyone else around Chen Sheng, and the appearance of Lingzhu'er at this time surprised him, and added another layer to Chen Sheng's assessment.
"I went to Fujian this time for two things." Wu Shaohai took advantage of the "brother" relationship that had just been confirmed with Chen Sheng and expressed his purpose. "Brother, I heard that the Ling family has invested hundreds of thousands of gold in Minzhong County, owns several tea mountains and salt farms, and has obtained salt and iron tea monopolies from several counties at the same time." Speaking of this, Wu Shaohai's tone suddenly became a little heavier: "My Wu family is willing to take 200,000 gold to operate specialties from all over Minzhong County!" ”
Hearing this, Chen Sheng showed a smile on his face, 200,000 gold, it is indeed a lot. If it was the old Ouyue Dynasty, it could be used to buy 50,000 strong slaves, which was equivalent to almost one-tenth of the population of Fujian. But this huge wealth is not too tempting for Chen Sheng. Thinking about Ling Suyun's investment and support in Fujian, Wu Shaohai's 200,000 gold is simply not the same thing.
The main thing is the input position of both sides. The biggest reason for Ling Suyun's investment in Fujian is because of her support for Chen Sheng's operation in Fujian. Hundreds of thousands of gold and organized a large number of people to enter Fujian. The funds are for Chen Sheng to spend by himself, and the Ling family has no conditions for intervention. This gave Chen Sheng the ability to drastically implement various changes in central Fujian and consolidate the imperial court's control over all parts of central Fujian. The benefits obtained by the Ling family were completely Chen Sheng's spontaneous feedback and the emperor's additional compensation. And Wu Shaohai's proposed business is not to Chen Sheng's appetite.
Businessmen are mercenary. The pursuit is profit and profit. What Wu Shaohai wants is nothing more than to let Chen Sheng open up favorable conditions to the Wu family, so that the Wu family can make business in Fujian profitable. With appropriate and reasonable conditions, Chen Sheng naturally has no problem. But Wu Shaohai wants to pursue the treatment and status of the Ling family in Fujian, and it is absolutely impossible to rely on this alone.
Seeing Chen Sheng smiling and silent, Wu Shaohai was slightly stunned. 200,000 gold is the tax of a rich county for three years, and it is also the tax income of a broken place like Minzhong County for one or two decades, but Chen Sheng only has this attitude, which makes Wu Shaohai a little difficult to accept. Is Chen Sheng too young to know how much the 200,000 gold is, or is the money proposed too small, and Chen Sheng is too lazy to pay attention to him?
After thinking about it, from Chen Sheng's playful and reserved smile, Wu Shaohai already knew that the answer was definitely biased towards the latter. The kid has a lot of appetite! Wu Shaohai said secretly.