Early Spring in Jiangnan (XIII) (Part I)

"Then why do you want to give the third son of the Tang family a copy? He's just a businessman. Although it is said that there is a staff member in the prince's mansion, even if it is to see the face of the queen's family, it is convenient for the people in the prince's mansion, but there is no need to take too much care of him, right? And what is he doing with all this stuff? Go to the crown prince to make a head? Zhou Qi continued to ask.

Old Man Shi is now sitting back in his rocking chair, smoking a hookah, very comfortable: "Although he has had a holiday with the Dahe Gang, this person has a very wide vision, and he cares not only about his own little abacus, but also about people who do big things." We know that he has a holiday with the Big River Gang, and he sold him a favor, maybe it will be useful in the future. Although Old Man Yu did not associate with the third prince on the surface, he was his only descendant, and it was difficult to guarantee that they did not have private contacts. Since I have given all the favors to Yumen, I will give him another one, and it will not cost anything, but let him owe me a favor. Although he is young, his ability is not comparable to anyone here, whether it is martial arts, brain or experience, not only you and Yongxing are not half as good as him, looking at the rivers and lakes, I don't see anyone who can catch up. After all these years of superficial business, haven't you realized that his Aoki Society is a very special existence? ”

"To say that the Aoki Society has a lot of subordinates and capable people with strong martial arts, in the past few years, the Aoki Society and Yuehuaxuan have also done a prosperous business, which has made many peers blush. But the Tang Sect was originally one of the best in the rivers and lakes, and the subordinates of the Baicaotang and Ping'an Inn were like clouds, and the Tang family was also very important in the army. Tang Sanshao's own business cultivation power competed with his mother-in-law in the family, and it was normal for him to be a master of containment. ”

"You have been by my side for so many years, and you are also very outstanding, but you like to read people with the heart of ordinary people. That man must not be seen as a young man in his twenties. ”

"That Tang San Shao has excellent martial arts and outstanding business acumen, I admit it, but his subordinates really don't think he has anything special." Zhou Qi felt very aggrieved, and he had been by the side of the old hall master Shi for a long time, and the old hall master Shi treated him like a nephew, so he dared to complain honestly.

Old Hall Master Shi also understands that this subordinate usually has enough brains, but whenever it is mentioned that there is someone stronger than him, it is easy to blow up his hair, after all, he is old, After all, the affairs of the gang will be handed over to him when Yongxing comes back from traveling and studying outside, and Zhou Qi, as a master, also needs to assist his son, he can help them for a day, but he is also old, He still needs to beat Zhou Qi further, and can only hope that he can help his son more shrewdly in the future: "You are also thirty now, If you are thirteen now, Can you open a restaurant like Yuehuaxuan? Now that he is less than twenty and follows the prince, can he be just an ordinary staff? Although this Aoki Society hasn't done anything in a high-profile manner over the years, haven't we never figured out what is going on with them?

Not to mention far, there are four Aoki Tea Houses in Hangzhou, how many guards do they have in total? How many good hands? What else do you have besides this ostensible tea house business? Each tea house is in the best scenic spot in Hangzhou, covering a very wide area, although every time someone charters a venue to hold a tea party and banquet and the like, it costs a lot of money, but to support such a big place, even if you don't raise guards, even the guys are a lot of money, just that little tea money? Yuehuaxuan is one of the top ten restaurants in Hangzhou, and we also have a large restaurant of the same scale, with an annual interest of less than one million taels, even if Yuehuaxuan's business is twice as good as it is twice as good, it would be good to have three million taels. However, the income of our Appreciation Pavilion and Oil Mill is only enough for the daily expenses of the brothers in the gang, and if there is something special, we have to move the collection of accounts from the rice store. Even so, there are no more than five masters we can raise, and there are less than five people who can be ranked on the rivers and lakes, and less than 500 people who can come in handy when there is something. The Aoki Tea House alone, there are more than 500 people up and down the Aoki Villa in Hangzhou, and among these people, we have all seen it, More or less have some kung fu, and there are guards in each field who are deeper than their kung fu, and we don't know if there are still secret guards who are clever and we can't detect.

And our sphere of influence is only in Liangjiang. However, Wolhwaken and Aokisha are located in Liangjiang, Gyeonggi-do, Gannam-do, Xishu and Kansai. When a person is less than twenty years old, he creates this family business on his own, but he is never high-profile or unassuming. Since childhood, I have a grudge against the Dahe Gang, and when I grow up, I earned this family business but I am not in a hurry to clean up the Dahe Gang. In the future, the Aoki Society is only afraid that it will surpass the Tang Sect and other sects in the rivers and lakes. ”

"Your old man said they wouldn't have any shady business. There are so many businesses that make money on the surface, if they really have so many masters to raise, and they are so low-key, I am afraid that they are really making unclean money. Look at the Big River Gang, which has made a lot of money in the past two years in flower buildings and secret prostitution. really responded to that sentence, selling anything is not as fast as selling people and meat. ”

Old man Shi was a little congested for a while, and he suspected that others were not right compared to others, this is the person who wants to help his son keep Jishantang. He had to swallow the sigh he was about to sigh, who told him not to find a better person to help his son, so he could only be patient: "If you do too many things that lack virtue, the retribution will be fast!" Besides, isn't this glamorous business on the surface profitable? Look at Duobao Zhai in Hangzhou, Tianhe Silver Building, that is not a glamorous business? ”

"That day, Heyinlou belonged to the Chen family, you said that even if the third prince did not have the help of the Tang family, there might be the handiwork of the Chen family. The Chen family is the queen mother's family, and many times it is difficult for them to come forward, so it is more convenient to find someone to come out on the surface. Zhou Qi shook his head and thought that he had realized: "Aren't we here also a year of hard work, and one percent of the income goes to the queen's mother's pocket?" ”

Old Man Shi finally couldn't help but shake his head: "I told you about him, not to let you dig out who is behind him or who there is, but to let you think about it, this person, observe the Aoki Society, think carefully, maybe you can learn some means from it." Our Jishantang is handed down from our ancestors, and we have accumulated it from generation to generation. But who can guarantee that we will always be able to keep this ancestral business smoothly? Now we have chosen the ship of the queen and the crown prince, but what if something happens? Not to mention you, me and Yongxing, how can these thousands of brothers survive? ”

Zhou Qi looked up at Old Hall Master Shi, a little ashamed, he was very good-looking.

Old Hall Master Shi didn't stop, continued. Since Zhou Qi couldn't think of it, he simply pointed it out and asked him to think about it: "Look at this Aoki Tea House, not to mention the courtyards in Huanglongpo and Cuiming Mountain, just look at the two in the city, neither of them is on the street, but there is a wall adjacent to Yuehuaxuan behind it, and customers can go back and forth between Yuehuaxuan and Aoki Tea House, which everyone knows." In Yuehuaxuan in Hangzhou, there are Duobao Zhai and Juju Qianzhuang next door or across the street, and generally there are jade business people and Runlou not far away, and the same is true in the capital. If it's because these two businesses are in trouble, and it's normal to be near a restaurant, then think about Aoki Tea House. The main entrance of the tea house is on the quiet street adjacent to the downtown area, compared with the shops in the downtown area, these places not only have low rents, but more importantly, most of these places have the study Fushengtang that literati like to visit, and the famous Jinxin Academy in Hangzhou. The Aoki Tea House sells some snacks such as wonton buns in a remote place at the entrance of the tea house, and the ingredients are all selected, but the price is extremely fair. These scholars who read in the study and studied in the academy did not have to go far, nor did they have to spend more money to buy something to satisfy their stomachs. Aoki Tea House earns not only gold and silver, but also popularity. Even Yongxing and Yongdao said back then that the owner of this Aoki Tea House was very good at thinking about literati, especially those from poor families. With this reputation, the scholars of Hangzhou and Jiangnan want to find a place to drink tea and gather, and the first thing that comes to mind is the Aoki Tea House. A person who has the brains to make money, has the ability to make the literati happy, and has excellent martial arts that can impress the people on the rivers and lakes, not only to do business, but it will not be too difficult for him to do something else. With or without the Chen family or the Tang family behind him, he will succeed. Yongxing is about to come back, I hope you can help him in the future, not only to keep the family business of Jishantang, but also to go out, and create another piece of the sky, in case we make a mistake this time, Jishantang is not guaranteed, you and Yongxing Yongdao, and the brothers in this hall also have a way out. ”

"We won't make a mistake this time. Don't we also have our own people in the capital? The news sent back that the status of the queen's middle palace is stable, and the queen mother is deeply fond of the prince. With the power of the Empress Dowager in the imperial court and the Chen family and the Tang Sect under her control, as long as she makes a move, the prince and the queen will definitely be stable. ”

"It's hard to say, that throne is so attractive, the royal family is the most variable. If it hadn't been pushed too hard by the River Gang, we wouldn't have gotten on this boat. It's not easy to get safe on the shore now. Send a message to Yongdao, Tang San Gongzi may be going to Beijing recently, let him find more opportunities to get close to this person in the capital, if anything changes, maybe there is a way out. ”

"The third prince of Tang must be on the side of the Tang family and the queen mother, isn't that also on the side of the prince and the queen?"

"The Tang Sect has never been loyal to the harem, but to the imperial court. The Tang family army is the pillar of the Great Zhou, whether it is the crown prince ascending the throne or other circumstances, the Tang family will not be out easily. ”

"I understand, not only to learn the third son's business skills, but also to befriend him. He is still in Jiangnan these days, in addition to these news, should we think about other ways to approach him? Although the two sons are not there, it is inconvenient to entertain him and the like, but you can think of something else. Earlier, I heard that he likes women and often goes in and out of the flower building, or else..."

Old Man Shi came over with an angry eye, making Zhou Qi dumbfounded: "Who told me a few days ago, he has a cousin by his side, saying that he is engaged, and there is only this cousin in his eyes, and other women don't look at it?" If you send a woman over now, can you compare to the red cards in Hangzhou that followed him? ”