"You may talk to him, please him, after all, you are his own niece, doesn't he still care?" Lin Feng proposed.

"It's useless. Zhou Jinxuan was already indifferent to the matter of our second room. He wasn't a man of affection in the first place. Zhou Yunluo sighed.

"But if you tell him that if you become the queen, the Duke of Wu will be the queen's uncle, and it will be more honorable?"

Zhou Yunluo said: "Zhou Jinxuan is not a person who can be coerced and lured. The Duke of Wu has also reached the peak of power, and these can't impress him. ”

Lin Feng said: "Then there is only one way. ”

"What?"

"Zhou Jinxuan's son Zhou Yuheng."

"You want me to catch Zhou Yuheng?" Zhou Yunluo smiled bitterly, "Now that I'm in the palace, I'm afraid it's inconvenient." Even outside the palace, I don't have the ability to arrest Zhou Yuheng. ”

"You can seduce Zhou Yuheng, in fact, the slave jade next to you looks very good." Lin Feng said.

Zhou Yunluo was shocked, "Do you want me to let Jade seduce Zhou Yuheng?" But Zhou Yuheng is only ten years old. ”

"As far as I know, Zhou Yuheng admires his sister very much, if Jade can dress up as Zhou Zheng, and then seduce Zhou Yuheng, and then use Zhou Yuheng to force Zhou Jinxuan to comply. This is the only way. ”

"Then I'll think about it. This matter still needs Jade's consent. Zhou Yunluo thought that she had been playing jade a lot recently, and she regretted it a little.

Jade is not as gorgeous as the red moon, but it is dignified and has positive facial features, although her status is low, isn't Zhou Yuheng only ten years old?

If a young lady like Jade takes the initiative to approach Zhou Yuheng, Zhou Yuheng will definitely like it.

Lin Feng said: "You always beat people, but I'm afraid that Jade won't listen to you, unless, you give her enough silver." I know Jade very well, she is a very practical person, as long as there is enough silver, she can use it to help her family, she is not afraid to do anything dangerous. ”

Although Jade is young, there are many younger brothers and sisters at home, all waiting for her to send home for dinner every month.

"I don't have any money left." Zhou Yunluo sighed, in order to be the queen, she recently rewarded the palace maid and eunuch and used up her savings.

"I'll lend it to you." Lin Feng said.

Just two or three months after Zhou Zheng took over, the treasury of Wu Guogong's Mansion quickly increased by 1,000 taels, and when Zhou Jinxuan learned of this situation, he was also full of praise for Zhou Zheng, and bought a hosta to give to Zhou Zheng.

It's just that this is just the beginning of Zhou Zhengzheng's small show, with the opening of a new store and the withdrawal of a small store slowly stabilized, Zhou Zhengzheng has a new open source method, Zhou Zhengzheng set his sights on the hundreds of thousands of silver taels in the warehouse.

In the past, although Lin Yu knew how to run the house, he didn't use these silver taels, and let them lie in the warehouse and sleep in vain.

And with the opening of Zhou Zheng and the reduction of expenditure, the number of silver dollars in the warehouse has also risen rapidly, and it is almost impossible to put it down.

"Take it out and lend money?" Lin Yu didn't believe her ears, she didn't even think about lending money, it was a little incompatible with her identity, but her father Zhou Jinxuan was quite enlightened and supported Zhou Zheng's idea.

In this way, Zhou Zhengzheng tried to start with a small amount and lend the excess silver taels to those who needed money urgently.

Some are traders with poor capital turnover, some are talented people who have just arrived in the capital, and some are in urgent need of money but can't raise them all at once.

Of course, the previous experience made Zhou Zheng pay attention to risks, for the first time borrowers, Zhou Zheng requires a physical mortgage, or a bracelet, or a gold ring, if there is really nothing, you can also mortgage your own luggage.

As soon as this model of pawning was launched, it attracted a lot of attention.

While receiving support and applause from many people, there are also a lot of gossips that slander Zhou Zhengzheng and Wu Guogong Mansion behind their backs. Because of the great influence, the imperial court also specially sent people from the household department and the official department to check, but in the end, Zhou Zhengzheng still withstood the pressure and made the pawn shop bigger and bigger.

Soon, the things used for pawning filled the entire two rooms, and as a last resort, Zhou Zhengzheng bought another acre of land and built a warehouse to store all kinds of pawn items.

Seeing that Zhou Zhengzheng's pawn business was so hot, some people also imitated it and opened a pawn shop.

After Zhou Zhengzheng knew, he took it down in a two-pronged manner.

For some with little ability, Zhou Zhengzheng forced them to close down by lowering the borrowing interest rate and extending the loan cycle, while some people with background and resources, Zhou Zhengzheng bought the other party's pawn shop through negotiation and turned it into one of his own branches.

In this way, Zhou Zhengzheng's pawn business became bigger and bigger, so that all the pawn shops in the entire capital were controlled by Zhou Zhengzheng, and any newly opened one would close down in less than two months.

With the platform of pawn shop, Zhou Zheng's talents can be further released.

Zhou Zhengzheng set the rules for pawn shops that the loan period is three months for those within ten taels of silver, six months for those within fifty taels of silver, and one year for those within one hundred taels.

More than 100 taels, all need to be passed by Zhou Zheng in person, and then decided.

Although the vast majority of people can repay the money and get back the collateral as promised, there are still some people who eventually disappear, and the mortgaged items have become Zhou Zheng's.

These items were originally valuable, and they were all more valuable than loans.

For example, a bracelet that was originally worth ten taels of silver can only be borrowed for six taels of silver, and even if the condition is good, it is at most eight taels of silver.

These collaterals, which have accumulated in the warehouse, have become another channel for Zhou Zheng to accumulate wealth.

Because there are various stores themselves, Zhou Zhengzheng sent these unredeemed collaterals to each store in different categories.

The jade bracelets were sent to the jade shop, the swords were sent to the sword shop, the calligraphy and paintings were sent to the calligraphy and painting shops, and the clothes, Zhou Zheng and Zheng were also sent to the clothing store.

Outdated jade bracelets are reprocessed and transformed into gold inlaid jade, which can be sold at a higher price, and some swords with an outdated surface, after careful polishing, with delicate scabbards, can be completely doubled, as for those clothes, even relatively outdated and obsolete, Zhou Zheng asked the tailors to redesign, sew some broken jade or small pearls and other things to the clothes, and then hang them up and sell, so that the clothes that were originally only loaned one or two silver can be sold for five or six taels of silver.

These collaterals have been transformed into another wealth of Zhou Zhengzheng. This also makes the pawn shop's business better and better, no matter what the case, it is only profitable and not losing.