039 Night Discussion

Lai Shunzhi, who returned to the small courtyard at the back, saw Aike sitting in the garden, she was holding her cheeks in her hand alone, looking into the distance and not knowing what to think about. He coughed lightly, and Eco came to her senses from deep thought.

"The Great Ming Kingdom is really big." Echo stretched, and both of them were a little tired after a day's carriage.

A year ago, Aike came to visit him with a letter from Mr. Xu Guangqi.

Mr. said that she was the daughter of his little Franco's good friend, and wanted to travel to Daming. She was not as squirming as the domestic girl, so she integrated into her team with four guards.

Along the way, the two of them had a common topic by virtue of their familiarity with Nanyang, and they slowly became familiar with each other, but they became good friends who talked about everything. From the daily life and supplies, it can be seen that Aike's family should be good.

"Girl, rest early, tomorrow I will take the girl to Beijing for a tour, visit a few good friends, and say that there is also Mr. Xu's letterhead and the letterhead in the girl's house to transfer to the girl." By the way, I also talked about tomorrow's arrangements.

"Okay!" When the girl, who was still a little sad just now, heard that there was a letter from home, her somewhat melancholy face suddenly became radiant.

Lai Shunzhi returned to his room, washed his face under the service of the maid, and called for a cup of strong tea. No matter how late it was, he sat at his desk every day as usual to review the day's gains and losses.

"Blessing," he said, writing down the name of his unreliable big brother on the first page of his booklet. After thinking about it, he asked the maid to call his master Wu Shidan over.

Master Wu obviously didn't sleep either.

"Master Wu already knows what happened today, right?" Lai Shunzhi poured him a cup of strong tea with his own hands.

"The old man heard about it." Master Wu is a villager who came to the house, a talent in the early years, and failed to take three scientific examinations, so he came to Shunzhi to be a master. "It's a good thing to say that's okay too. The eldest young master has caused trouble several times, and the old man already knows it in his heart. If it weren't for the protection of the eldest grandmother, this home should have been a big thing for the young master. Taking this opportunity to repel the eldest young master at one time can only be said to be a good thing for the family and for you. What's more, when the master came back from Nanyang this time, his health was sometimes good and sometimes bad, so you have to prepare more, young master. ”

Lai Shunzhi sighed, a little sad

"Everyone in the family wants the old man to die early, only I hope that the old man can live a long life. But the elders in the family said that I was the one who was not filial. ”

"It's all people who don't have their hands in the spring water, I wish my eldest brother was in charge, let go of eating, drinking and having fun, and even divided the family. There was a letter from the previous one, saying that the third uncle, fourth uncle, and fifth uncle did not have suitable children to go to Nanyang this time? ”

Master Wu nodded and said, "They all said that their children are still waiting for next year's new imperial examination." ”

"Hey," Lai Shunzhi smiled wryly. It can't be said that it's wrong, the ancestors have suffered enough in Nanyang, how can they be willing to put the children raised by their own brocade clothes and jade food to Nanyang. "The family's business can't be delayed, can we take the orphans in the class this year?"

Master Wu replied: "No problem. Of the more than 300 orphans in various provinces this year, it is estimated that more than 70 are 16 years old, and according to the third child, there are more than 30 who can fight, and more than 20 who can write and fight. Now there is no letter, it is estimated that the seventh child should have already set off. The third child followed your instructions and brought four children to Beijing. ”

"That's what I'm confident about. I also understand my father's approach now, Nanyang is actually the confidence to come home, but the capital is too small. When I met Franco, I still had to dodge. Alright, let's talk about my brother's business. What are our charters? As he spoke, he came to Shun and got up.

"Fighting, retreating, dividing."

Master Wu quickly said his strategy.

"The eldest young master is a scoundrel, even if he wins, it is too difficult to make the eldest young master admit defeat. What's more, young master, your mother left early, and you have to worry about the opinions of the master and grandmother. Therefore, this battle is won beautifully, and then we retreat to the second, but we will retreat, as long as the Nanyang industry forces the eldest young master to break up. "What Master Wu said is very affirmative.

"At this point, young master, you can no longer have the kindness of a woman, those uncles and uncles in the family are unwilling to do it, and you can live a lifetime by lying in the shipping store in Guangzhou Mansion, young master, why do you have to carry them on your back? What's more, now Governor Xiong heard that he was already preparing to recruit Zheng Zhilong. If it goes well, the Zheng family is bound to become bigger, how can we be tolerated. It's better to simply split it, and let's do the work of licking the blood with the knife head and opening up the mountain and opening the way, and it will end up loose. ”

"Fighting, retreating, dividing."

Lai Shunzhi wrote these words in the notebook. "Then what if this time goes well and eats the firearms of the imperial court of one million taels?"

"My young master, don't you know all the way?"

Clear, how not clear. To say that for the changes in a country, these maritime merchants who are in the door and outside the door are the clearest.

Wuchang City has almost become the city of the King of Chu's family, and inside the city is the palace. The fishermen who used to beg for a living on the lake are now half of the fish's for the king of Chu.

There is no way for the poor to live in this country. Last year, a child could buy 50 catties of rice, and this year, you can give 30 catties to a child, stuff it in your arms and run away. But he is a person who has been to the Naturalization Mansion, that kind of remote and barbaric place, where the rice is rotten to the ground and no one picks it up.

Scholars should not be ashamed, and along the way, they have forcibly occupied land by means of scholars not paying taxes. At first, it was still four or six points, but then as the years grew, it simply became two or eight points. Those talents in green shirts and robes, people drink and write poems for friends every day, and write lyrics for the people's livelihood, but what they eat and drink, which point does not come from hard work?

"Done." Lai Shunzhi felt that he had been pondering for a long time, and said to Master Wu embarrassedly.

"That's it, the business in Jingshi has a single order, and it can be done once and again, and the goods will be settled at the dock." He thought about it. "Don't go to the shop for these hundreds of self-propelled clocks and the imitation of the Australian moat, and give them all away at one time, and negotiate a good price."

"By the way, it seems that we can see and look at ours, leave a way back in Nanyang, and see if there are any children who are willing to go over. Tell them that there is suffering in it, but that the suffering comes out of it. ”

Speaking of which, the opposite of Master Wu is a wry smile.

When Lai Shunzhi discussed, Lai Fuzhi did not stop.

Gonggong Wu sent the two women in.

"This is the concubine sent by Jiading Bo and the Chengguo Mansion." Gonggong Wu leaned over and prepared to withdraw.

"Don't go, you old dog." Laifu pushed away the maid who was medicating his forehead. With two hands, he put the two women around and sat down. "Doesn't it mean that all of you father-in-laws in the Forbidden City are serving like you? Now you will stand by and serve me. ”

Gonggong Wu is not angry. "That's what our family does, whatever you say. But there's one thing, you see? ”

Laifu's hands were restless, and while he was happy, his mouth kept talking:

"Or Jiadingbo knows my preferences, you say."

"Tomorrow, it's said that Gong Yonggu wants to have a drink with you."

"What kind of wine did a colt tell me, and I said you old dog, don't you see me happy?"

Gonggong Wu replied with a smile: "Our King of Chu's Wuchang, as well as Tianfu's Guangyuan and Chengdu, the salt nests here are all managed by Gong Yonggu's horses. Coincidental or not, you say? This is a business of three million taels a year, isn't the old slave also worried about your bets? ”

"Good! Then it's time to have a drink and see each other. After that, he pushed the maid in the house to Gonggong Wu, "It's pitiful to look at you, and I'll reward you for this." ”