Chapter 962: Helping relatives doesn't help
Fame is important to anyone.
A bad reputation can make it difficult to move an inch, but a good reputation can make you smooth sailing for a lifetime.
Just like doing business now, if a store doesn't have a good reputation, it is inevitable that the store will go out of business, and if the store has a good reputation, customers from far away will come to visit the store.
I believe that there will be more or less some stores like this in every city.
Especially in the feudal era, a good reputation was even more important, because having a good reputation can make you get twice the result with half the effort.
Lin Ze, as the deputy governor and the general of the Western Regions, if he is said to be a person who dislikes the poor and loves the rich, then many talents who originally wanted to invest in Lin Ze will not come back, which will hurt Lin Ze's future development too much.
Lin Renquan understands this, and Lin Ze also understands this.
"Thank you, grandpa!" Lin Ze thanked sincerely, he knew that Lin Renquan was indeed for his good, although there were some selfish motives mixed in the middle.
"Xuan'er, it's good that you can understand. Lin Renquan smiled and nodded.
"Grandpa, so you called me here this time just to discuss the marriage with the He family?" Lin Ze asked.
"Hehe, it's not. Lin Renquan replied.
"What's the matter?" Lin Ze's face was full of doubt.
"Xuan'er, the sixth lady of the He family wants to invite you to play in the purple bamboo forest outside the city, I don't know if you are so interested?" Lin Renquan looked at Lin Ze with an unserious face and said.
"This ......." Lin Ze was really a little dumbfounded, he really didn't expect such a thing.
"What do you say to go to the purple bamboo forest to play, Lin Ze knew that this was a date when he heard it, a date between men and women.
Doesn't it mean that women in the feudal era were very feudal, and they generally didn't leave the house, how did they come to me, and this He Wanting still invited me to go on a date? This is really in the Chu State, not on the earth?" At this moment, Lin Ze's heart was full of doubts.
"Grandpa, is this appropriate?" Lin Ze asked cautiously.
"What's inappropriate, it's just to go to someone's house and take Wanting to play, what else do you want. Lin Renquan said angrily.
In fact, Lin Ze misunderstood here, in the feudal era on the earth, because Confucianism flourished, so the daughters everywhere did not go out of the gate, and the second door did not step, and under normal circumstances, they would not go out at all.
However, this is in the Shenzhou Continent, this is not the world of Confucianism, here, it is the world of warriors.
The warrior itself is very open, and it is even more common for girls to go out, so it is really not uncommon for girls to ask boys to go out to play here.
"Hehe, grandpa, I can't believe it!" Lin Ze said with a smile.
"You....... , hahahaha......." Lin Renquan pointed at Lin Ze and laughed, while Lin Ze showed a shy face on the side.
After a while, after Lin Renquan stopped laughing, Lin Ze continued: "However, grandpa, this He family is from Yan Yucheng, the seventh prince, and our Lin family is from the emperor's side, is it really okay for us to contact us like this now?"
After speaking, Lin Ze's face showed a worried look.
"Silly boy, have you forgotten what I told you earlier, the emperor has always wanted to regain control of the entire household, and He Wenquan is the secretary of the household. Lin Renquan said with a smile.
If it was an ordinary minister, Lin Renquan really didn't dare to provoke him, but it was different if it was He Wenquan, Emperor Yan Hao had told Lin Renquan more than once, asking him to find a way to get He Wenquan to their side.
"Uh........ , that's really the case!" Lin Ze shook his head, feeling a lot more relaxed in his heart.
However, soon, Lin Ze's brows furrowed again.
"Grandpa, I only won 10 million gold coins from the Seventh Prince yesterday, and today the He family came to invite me to go to the Purple Bamboo Forest, do you think there will be a problem here?
"This ......." Lin Renquan also frowned after hearing this.
"This is indeed possible, it is 10 million gold coins, for the Seven Princes, it is not a small amount, the Yellow Dragon Legion in the hands of the Seven Princes is a big consumer of money, so it is also possible for him to let the He family be a peacemaker. β
Lin Renquan was also embarrassed at this time, because if the He family really came for the ten million gold coins this time, then it would be really difficult for him to do it.
First of all, this 10 million gold coins was obtained by his grandson who risked his life to compete in martial arts, so Lin Renquan would definitely not give up this 10 million gold coins.
Secondly, before leaving, the emperor deliberately explained that the seven princes would pay the 10 million gold coins with all their might, but now you have made peace directly in private, this is not a bully, what is it, as the emperor's die-hard loyalty, Lin Renquan is unwilling to do such a thing.
In the end, this 10 million gold coins belonged to Lin Ze, and Lin Ze was a very assertive person, and he was still the future pillar of their Lin family, if it was because of this 10 million gold coins that caused him to turn his face, it would not be worth it, which is why Lin Renquan did not mention it to Lin Ze even after knowing that Lin Ze had won a huge sum of 10 million gold coins.
In fact, Lin Yizhi asked Lin Renquan several times whether to take some of Lin Ze's gambling money of 10 million gold coins to supplement the treasury of the Hou Mansion, but Lin Renquan still refused without thinking about it.
The reason is because Lin Renquan doesn't want to cause disharmony between father and son, grandfather and grandson because of this 10 million gold coins.
Anyway, no matter how much money there is, it is also in the hands of the Lin family, and looking at Lin Ze's ability to act before, he will definitely be able to make good use of this ten million gold coins.
In addition, Lin Renquan was very worried, if Lin Ze put the ten million gold coins into the Hou Mansion, the Hou Mansion would be unpeaceful in the future, like Lin Yizhi, but these people were not people who could take care of their families.
Once so many gold coins are put in the treasury of the Hou Mansion, they will immediately lose these gold coins, and similar things have appeared many times in the Hou Mansion.
"Grandpa, these 10 million gold coins are the necessary funds for me to develop Black Sand City and Wind City, so I am talking ugly ahead, and it is impossible for me to take out this 10 million gold coins. Lin Ze directly expressed his attitude, so as not to cause problems when Lin Renquan was thinking.
"Well, Xuan'er, don't worry, the 10 million gold coins are definitely yours, and his He family doesn't have such a big face to be able to offset the 10 million gold coins. Lin Renquan also immediately made his position clear.
Lin Renquan's position is so firm, it is because he believes that even if they reject the He family's peace, the marriage between the He family and the Hou Mansion will continue.
Lin Ze's previous performance in the martial arts square and the martial arts ring was really good, as long as he was a little far-sighted, he would not give up this opportunity to marry, and the person who could achieve the position of Hubu Shangshu would be a short-sighted person.
"Thank you, grandpa!" Lin Ze sincerely thanked him.
This time, there was nothing else mixed in with it.
"Thank you, we are grandchildren and a family, and we should be on this side of the family. Lin Renquan said with a smile.
The old man has always acted to help his relatives and not to help them.
His own children and grandchildren can teach him a lesson, but no one else can teach him.
It's like Lin Yizhi and they had disputes with other family members before, and the old man was on Lin Yizhi's side, and he didn't care about this matter at all, whether it was caused by Lin Yizhi or not.
Of course, although it is said that it is to help relatives and not to help, but after returning home afterwards, the old man will not ask about the details of the matter, if the reason is not on his side, then Lin Yizhi and they will not be beaten, but if the reason is because of Lin Yizhi and them, it is definitely a meal of fried meat with bamboo shoots, and Lin Yizhi is a butt flower.
It is precisely because of the old man's education method that although Lin Yizhi and these people are gentle, they are not bad people in essence, and they have not done anything evil outside, at most they are fighting with some children of the family or something.
"However, Xuan'er, you still have to be careful when you go to the appointment this time, you know, this is 10 million gold coins after all, be careful that others will jump off the wall in a hurry! Don't forget, last night's incident." Lin Renquan said with a worried face.
Ten million gold coins, this is definitely an astronomical amount, an astronomical amount that can make people lose their minds, and it is not impossible for the Seventh Prince to kill Lin Ze because of this.
Anyway, Lin Renquan thinks that if he were replaced, it would be possible to do so.
What's more, didn't there be a master who wanted to sneak into the Hou Mansion last night, and the target was the Xiyuan on Lin Ze's side, which can already explain something.
"Thank you grandpa for your concern. Lin Ze first thanked Lin Renquan, and then said with a smile: "Grandpa, don't worry, this time I will go to the appointment, I will bring enough personal guards, and I will not give them a chance to shoot." β
"Well, that's good. Lin Renquan nodded, feeling a little relieved.
"Anyway, you should be careful these days, and when you get the official seal and return to Black Sand City, everything will be a foregone conclusion. β
"Well, grandpa, Xuan'er knows. β
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"Your Highness, Lin Lixuan has already set off. A guard in his thirties knelt on the ground and reported to Yan Yucheng.
"Well, that's good, how many guards does he have with him, and what are the masters?" Yan Yucheng asked, putting down the book in his hand.
"Your Highness, Lin Lixuan has a full fifty personal guards by his side, all of whom are masters above the sixth level of the day after tomorrow, and Xiao Quan, the innate master that His Highness paid our attention to before, is also inside. β
"Oh, it seems that this Lin Lixuan is still very careful, just to meet his fiancΓ©e, and with so many guards and masters around him, it seems that he is also afraid of death. Yan Yucheng smiled and said.