Chapter 144: What Did the Cult Make Its Fortune From?
Mu Yungong said: "Don't hide it from Lord Chu, there is really one thing in the bottom, and I want to discuss it with Lord Chu." ”
Chu Chengguan said with a smile: "Benefactor, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”
"Lord Chu doesn't have to call me a benefactor, just call me Muyun Gong. Actually, I came to Beijing from Nanzhong three years ago. Our family has tens of thousands of acres of notoginseng fields in the south, and we produce a large number of notoginseng fields with good quality every year. ”
Chu Chengguan probably knew what he meant, and asked with a smile, "Is Boss Mu going to talk about cooperation with our Chu family?" The land of Nanzhong is rich in notoginseng, we all know this. Our Chu family also has a business house in Nanzhong, and I will pass a letter to them tomorrow and ask them to contact your Mu family. ”
"No, no, no, what I'm going to say is not actually Sanqi." Mu Yungong hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Seriously, our Nanzhong and the Southern Barbarian Kingdom are very close, so people from the Southern Barbarian Kingdom often come over and exchange jade and jade for medicinal materials and other things with us, so what we really produce now is actually jade." ”
Chu Chengguan suddenly understood a little, nodded and said, "Yes, our Chu family's business in Nanzhong is mainly to earn jade and jade from the Southern Barbarian Country. So does Boss Mu want to talk to us about this cooperation? ”
"Yes, but it's not simply selling the goods to your Chu family." Mu Yungong raised his sleeves and said, "The people of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom exchanged jade and gold and silver for food and clothing with us, and we felt that we had earned it, and it is true, in our Li Country, these things are very valuable. But what if in the Southern Barbarian Kingdom, these jade, gold and silver are just cheap things like stones? What if they had something more valuable? ”
Qingdi also understood, he came to talk about cooperation with Chu Chengguan this time, and then went to Nanban to do business together. But he is a high priest of a cult, does he still have to do business to make money? As a cult, isn't it possible to make a fortune by abducting and deceiving people?
She turned her head to look at Chu Chengguan again, and saw a look of appreciation in Chu Chengguan's eyes, and seemed to agree very, very much with what Mu Yungong said.
"I understand what Boss Mu means, I also thought about it before, whether to send a caravan to the Southern Barbarian Country to have a look. But on the one hand, this road is not very safe, I heard that Gaoligong Mountain is full of miasma, when to walk and when not to walk, we still have to investigate for a while. On the other hand, it is a long way to go to Nanban, and there are no Nanzhong people in my team, so we dare not act rashly. ”
The corners of Mu Yungong's mouth showed a large arc, and said, "Isn't there now?" ”
When Chu Chengguan heard this, he was very excited, got up and walked to Mu Yungong's side, Mu Yungong also stood up, Chu Chengguan said: "Boss Mu, it's too late today, you may not be able to finish talking about this matter for a while, when are you free, let's make an appointment to talk in detail?" ”
"How's tomorrow?" Mu Yungong is also a cheerful person, so he asked without thinking about it.
"Come, do I have an appointment tomorrow?" Chu Chengguan looked at Yingkong and asked.
Yingkong replied to him: "The master has made an appointment with Han Shangshu tomorrow." ”
When Mu Yungong heard this, he hurriedly said, "Since Lord Chu already has an appointment, let's change the day." ”
"You don't have to ......" Chu Cheng waved his hand again and again, and said to Yingkong: "I can only reunite with Han Shangshu in the future, you can take the Lingzhi I brought back from outside last time to Lord Han tomorrow and apologize to him." ”
"Yes." The shadow sky came down.
Mu Yun Gong was a little embarrassed on his face, and said: "Lord Chu, there really doesn't have to be this, the things I said are not something that can be decided in a day and a half, and you can discuss it slowly in the future." But if you missed the opportunity to discuss important matters with the ministers of the DPRK and China, it would not be good, right? ”
"No, Boss Mu's proposal has always been something I want to do. Because I really couldn't spare to go to Nanzhong in person, I put it on hold for so long. So Boss Mu came over this time and told me about it, which is the most important thing. Chu Chengguan chuckled: "On the contrary, the gathering with these ministers of the DPRK and China is just a relationship between me and me for politeness." ”
Mu Yungong was very flattered, and hurriedly said, "Thank you, Lord Chu." ”
As soon as he finished thanking him, he heard Chu Yaocen's voice coming from afar: "Little fox, are you back?" ”
Qingdi heard his voice, quickly got up from the chair, and went to the door of the living room, as soon as he walked to the door, Chu Yaocen rushed over, hugged Qingdi and buried his head and cried: "Little fox, I'm so worried about you, I'm still afraid that those bad people will hurt you......"
His shoulders trembled, and Qingdi couldn't help but feel a little distressed, but now that there were so many people present, she couldn't say anything to comfort her, so she had to gently pat Chu Yaocen's shoulder and coax him softly: "Okay Yaocen, didn't I come back in a good way?" Hurry up and stand up, there's still a guest here! ”
Chu Chengguan also shook his head helplessly, but he still couldn't bear to scold Chu Yaocen, so he only said to Mu Yungong: "Boss Mu, I'm sorry, my youngest son is a little abnormal because he was sick. ”
"It's okay, I've also heard of Second Young Master Chu, people in the imperial city say that although Second Young Master Chu has a somewhat different mind from ordinary people, he is very kind-hearted, and often punishes the strong and helps the weak, and everyone likes Second Young Master Chu very much." Mu Yungong said with a smile.
Chu Yaocen heard someone praising him, so he turned his head to look at Mu Yungong and said, "Who are you?" ”
"He's the one who saved me just now." Qingdi saw Chu Yaocen get up, hurriedly tidied up his clothes, and said to Chu Yaocen: "If it weren't for this benefactor to save me, I would have been persecuted by those two bad guys." ”
"Thank you, benefactor." Chu Yaocen listened, and made a deep compilation of Mu Yungong with a sincere face.
"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." Mu Yungong hurriedly stretched out his hand to help Chu Yaocen, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the Chu family was simply too polite, from the young master of the family to the head of the family, they lined up to thank him one by one.
"I don't think it's too early, the second young lady has also been frightened a lot tonight, why don't you let the second young master and the second young lady go back to rest first, and then I will send Boss Mu to the guest room, and arrange to go out for a meal with the master tomorrow to discuss the cooperation, how about it?" Shadow Sky interrupted a few people at the right time and said so.
"It's fine." Chu Chengguan nodded, and said to Yingkong: "Then you will send Boss Mu to the guest house." ”
Shadow Sky responded, and took the Muyun Bow down. After the two of them left, Chu Chengguan turned his head and asked Qingdi with concern: "Qingdi, I didn't have a chance to ask you just now, you didn't hurt anything, right?" ”
Qingdi shook his head and said with a slight smile: "I'm sorry father-in-law, I'm worried about you, I have nothing to do, fortunately, the benefactor appeared in time." ”
"Something like this happened today, and I reflected on it, and I was also at fault." Chu Chengguan suddenly restrained his smile, with a look of guilt, and said: "You are too young to protect yourself, I shouldn't have sent you out so early, so you should not have left the matter of this shop in the past few years, first in the mansion, go to see the account books for two years, and then make other plans." ”
Qingdi was shocked, what does Chu Chengguan mean by this? Tell her to stay in the house every day and read the account books? What's the use of that? And looking at the two-year account book, she will definitely die in a hurry!
"Dad, I still want to go to the shop to learn, otherwise even if I look at the account books for two years, I will just be able to calculate the accounts, how to manage and operate the shop, I still don't understand." Qingdi didn't want to hide it, so he just said his thoughts.
"Reading the ledger is a learning process, not just a simple accounting." Chu Chengguan smiled and said, "You know what? I used to be just a bookkeeper in a small shop, and after reading the account books for seven or eight years, I knew the profits and losses of the shop, and began to think about why I lost money, why I made money, what we did when we made money, and what we did when we lost money. When my original shopkeeper couldn't support it because of losses, I bought his store, and it only took a year to revitalize the store, and then gradually expand my own business. ”
Oh my God, he probably wants her to see the account books for seven or eight years, right? Qingdi was speechless in surprise.
Chu Chengguan seemed to see that Qingdi was reluctant, and said: "Of course, if you want to go to the shop to study, I won't detain you and not let you go." It's just that you've only experienced such a thing tonight, so let's rest at home for two days first, and don't worry about the shop. ”
Qingdi breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, "Thank you, father-in-law." ”
"Yaocen, you too, you all have to study hard." Chu Chengguan said to Chu Yaocen, and then said, "You go back and rest." ”
Chu Yaocen and Qingdi answered, and after saying goodbye to Chu Chengguan, they went back.
After arriving at his room, Chu Yaocen really rubbed the green flute for a long time, telling how worried he was, and then he rubbed it again......
The next day, Qingdi didn't know when he would wake up from sleeping, and after grooming, he was just about to ask what time the apricot was, when he saw Chu Yaocen running in excitedly and said, "Little fox, the two villains who bullied you yesterday have been caught in the government, and the government is now trying them, do you want to go over and have a look?" ”
"A man and a woman, both caught?" Qingdi was interested and asked him.
Chu Yaocen nodded: "That man asked me to send him money yesterday, saying that if I didn't send money, he would kill you, so I took a lot of money and passed, and I didn't see you after I passed, so I knocked him out in a fit of anger, and then sent him to the government." ”
Qingdi patted him on the shoulder and praised: "It's really amazing, I'm going to do it in the future." ”
Chu Yaocen scratched embarrassedly and asked, "Then why don't you go and take a look?" ”
"Of course I want to go, I must try it together with Ji Citang's matter." Qingdi took a pair of plackets and put them on, and said to Chu Yaocen: "Let's go, just go and hear what is going on with Ji Citang, and whether Ji Citang's doctor will lose his reputation depends on how today's case is tried." ”
After that, the two left the Chu family and went to the yamen.