"Master, if the money is gone, you can save it again, it doesn't matter."

"The Holy One doesn't talk about credit, he only needs us to eat 10 million stones, how can he transfer another 20 million stones, how can he not be trustworthy? There is no faith in the Holy One! ”

Qian Qianyi was already immersed in his emotions and couldn't extricate himself.

Liu Ru's pretty face changed: "Master, how did the saint speak?" ”

Qian Qianyi told Liu Ru about the conversation with Chongzhen at Yanziji Wharf at that time.

After hearing this, Liu Ru sighed: "Master, the saint has never given you a clear promise. ”

"He didn't make a clear promise, but he hinted at it." Qian Qianyi said, "He hinted that as long as we eat 10 million stone at a high price and give 40 million taels to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he will not transfer grain to suppress the grain price in Nanzhi." ”

"But the Holy One has also told you clearly that the price of grain can only be maintained at six taels, and it cannot rise again." Liu Ru sighed and said helplessly, "But have you fulfilled your promise?" ”

"This ......" Qian Qianyi was speechless, and they didn't fulfill their promise.

Just after the end of the annual leave, the price of grain in Nanzhi ushered in another wave of skyrocketing, from six taels to ten taels.

At that time, they just felt that it was too ruthless for the saint to take away 40 million taels, and they were too losing, so they wanted to find more to make up for it.

After being silent for a moment, Qian Qianyi said again: "But the Holy Lord can't be so ruthless, he directly beats the price of Nanzhi's grain from ten taels to five yuan, and he has to take the opportunity to force us to repay our debts, and all the grain in our hands is offset at the price of five cents per stone. ”

"What a saint, what a Mingjun, bullshit, it's all bullshit."

Qian Qianyi's mentality completely collapsed, and he dared to go out for anything.

Liu Ru sighed again and said, "Master, you still can't understand the saint. ”

"Why can't I read it? Today's saint is hypocritical and righteous, kills without seeing blood, eats people without spitting out bones. ”

"It's not what you said, the Holy One is the real thunderbolt method, the Bodhisattva's heart, the thunderbolt method is aimed at the clan's gentry and merchants, and the Bodhisattva's heart is given to all the people."

"You treat such an emperor as a business partner, aren't you seeking the skin of a tiger?"

"Also, if you exploit and oppress the people of Jiangnan like this in front of the saint, how can the saint spare you? Master, be content, it's just a ruin. ”

However, when Liu Ru talked about this word of wealth, Qian Qianyi was sad again.

"My silver, my one million taels." Qian Qianyi broke free from Liu Ruye's embrace and stumbled down the mountain.

Under the rockery is a pond dug a year ago, and the deepest part is more than a zhang deep, enough to drown people.

Qian Qianyi went down the mountain, jumped into the pond without hesitation, and then struggled from the shallow water to the deep water.

"Master, why can't you think about it?" Seeing this, Liu Ru was anxious, "Isn't it just one million taels of silver, the concubine still has more than 200,000 taels of money left here, and some jewelry can also be sold for some money. ”

Hearing this, Qian Qianyi immediately stopped.

"The water is too cold." Qian Qianyi turned around and walked out of the pond.

After climbing onto the shore, Qian Qianyi said to Liu Ru again: "Madam, how can a manly husband use a woman's money, your own money and jewelry, as a husband, you will not touch a penny." ”

Liu Ru is still worried: "Master, don't look for a short time anymore." ”

"Madame, don't worry, your husband won't look for a short time anymore." Qian Qianyi said angrily.

"You're right, if you don't have any money, you can make it again, isn't it just a million taels?"

Seeing Qian Qianyi's figure slowly walking away, Liu Ru shed tears of emotion, this is the husband she chose, how could Qian Muzhai, the leader of Jiangzuo's literary circle, be knocked down by a few taels of silver?

……

In Yilun Hall.

At dinner, Zhu Cijiong asked Chongzhen again.

"Father, the son still can't figure it out, how did you do it?"

"How, exactly?" Chongzhen smiled and said, "It's very simple, because your father and I have far more silver in my hands than the Huguang grain merchants, and at the same time, my father also has far more grain in my hands than the Nanzhi grain merchants, so they want to go against your father, that is, to find death!" ”

The power of big capital is so terrifying.

That's why it is said that big capital is a flood beast.

That's why we can't let capital get out of control.

After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "There is another reason, when I was in Beijing before, there was no one available in the hands of my father, and the princes of the court were either greedy and despicable, or mediocre people who only knew how to talk about it, I just wanted to send someone to the Huangzhuang to collect rent, and it would be good to take back a bucket of rent with one stone." ”

"Huangzhuang is still like this, and Jingshi is still like this."

"For example, Huguang, Nanzhi and other provinces need not be mentioned."

"The decree does not leave the Forbidden City, and this is what it says."

As he spoke, the aggrieved memory of the original Chongzhen came to mind.

I have to say that the original Chongzhen has been on the throne for seventeen years.

Nominally, it is the Ninety-Five Supreme, and it seems that it can also kill the ministers, the first assistant of the cabinet will kill when he says he will kill, and the officials of the six ministries will also kill when he says he will kill, but in fact?

Nothing can actually be done.

Zhu Cihong already has a vague memory of these.

At that moment, Zhu Cihong said abruptly: "But now it is completely different. ”

"That's nature." Chongzhen smiled, and continued, "Now that my father has more than 6,000 capable and honest scholars in his hands, any decree of my father can be conveyed to the provinces in a short period of time and resolutely implemented. ”

"But now, with the will of my father, I can make hundreds of grain merchants in Huguang and Nanzhi who hoarded the common people of strange fish and meat bankrupt within two months, and the bones will be squeezed out of oil."

As he spoke, he stepped in with small steps.

"Long live Lord, the old slave heard that the old Qian Ge had hanged himself."

"Hanged?" Chongzhen smiled and asked, "It shouldn't have been dead, right?" ”

"I really can't hide anything, long live the lord." Gao Qiqian said with a smile, "Qian Ge Lao found a fist-thick willow tree on the rockery in his backyard and hanged it, but he couldn't bear his weight, bent it, and ran to the pond under the rockery to throw himself into the lake, and when he walked waist-deep, he said that the water was too cold, and finally climbed up again." ”

"The water is too cold?" Chongzhen burst out laughing.

This thing is a bit paradoxical, has it happened again?

Gao Qi suddenly said: "It's just pity for Liu Rushi." ”

"Liu Rushi? You're talking about Liu Ru, what's wrong with her? Chongzhen asked.

Gao Qiqian said with a look of disdain: "Qian Ge Lao is quite good at coaxing women to be happy, while telling Liu Ru that he will not use women's money to repay debts, but at the same time he ran to the old courtyard to find Li Zhenli. ”

By the way, Li Zhenli had already returned to the old courtyard half a year ago.

Yangyuan is not a courtyard, but a whole row of houses on the south bank of the Qinhuai River, facing Wuding Bridge in the north and Zhaoku Street in the south of the old courtyard.

After the reopening, Meixiang Building has a more magnificent scenery than before.

Because of Li Xiangjun's relationship, there are not too many girls who take the initiative to come to contribute.

So in less than half a year, half of the courtyard of the old courtyard has become the industry of Meixianglou, and now there are thousands of girls under Li Zhenli's command, and there are dozens of red people.

Among them, the most famous are Kou Baimen and Dong Xiaowan, Kou Baimen was the concubine of Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo, and Dong Xiaowan was also the concubine of Mao Xiang, Kou Baimen was sold back to the old courtyard after Zhu Guobi's family fell in the middle of the road, and Dong Xiaowan was expelled from the house by the Mao family shortly after Mao Xiang sacrificed his life for the Ming Dynasty.

The two daughters are all charming and charming, and they have had such an experience, and the Wuling teenagers in the entire Jiangnan are eager for them.

It's just that the second daughter's vision is very high.

They don't accept ordinary guests.

"What do you mean?" Zhu Cijiong said, "Qian Qianyi is going to sell Liu Rushi?" ”

"No, the price has been negotiated." Gao Qiqian shook his head and sighed, "The price is 200,000 taels of silver." ”

Chongzhen frowned slightly when he heard this, turned his head and asked Xia Yunyi, who happened to be present: "Xia Yunyi, did Liu Ru have a period with Chen Zilong before marrying Qian Qianyi as a concubine?" ”

"Back to the saint, Liu Ru is really good with people, and he has a very good relationship." Xia Yunyi replied honestly, "It's just that the Chen family obstructed it in every way, and Liu Ru was so humiliated that she married Qian Qianyi angrily." ”

Chongzhen hummed lightly and asked, "Then you write a letter to Chen Zilong and ask him if he wants to continue the front edge......

"Holy Lord, don't ask." Xia Yunyi said categorically, "Renzhong has never let go of Liu Ru, and Renzhong's wife Zhang died of illness three years ago, and she has not renewed the strings. ”

"In this way, then you can ask Liu Ru yes what she means, if she is also interested, you can gather a group of colleagues to raise money to redeem Liu Ru yes, this silver will let Chen Zilong take his dividends to repay slowly, the dividends are not enough, just wait for him to repay the Zhishi gold after he comes to Zhishi, and the interest will also be calculated."

"Commandment." Xia Yunyi took the order and left.

Seeing Xia Yunyi leave, Chongzhen turned around and said to Gao Qiqian with a smile: "Gao companion, don't be so careful in the future, I don't have a prejudice against Fengchen women, after all, this is not what they want, but it is enough for me to have Li Xiangjun alone, and I have no intention of getting to know more Fengchen women." ”

is still the same thing, Chongzhen is not a good woman.

Chongzhen's good thing is Cao Mengde's fetish.

Li Xiangjun was an accident.

……

On the other side, Liu Ru returned home with a lonely face.

Liu Ru originally thought that the jewelry she had saved could be worth four or five hundred thousand taels of silver, so that she could make up enough for eight hundred thousand, and then it would be almost the same to find the sisters in the old courtyard to make up.

But I never thought that the price of jewelry in Nanjing has plummeted recently.

The pearl and emerald head noodles that were originally worth 50,000 taels are now only worth 5,000 taels.

In the end, all the treasures were emptied and only sold for a mere 100,000 taels, plus the money accumulated over the years, the total was only 400,000 taels, and the silver had been returned to the household silver.

But there were still 600,000 taels of silver in arrears.

It seems that he can only go back to the old courtyard to resume his cheap business.

Liu Ru was a little gloomy, and he didn't know when he would be able to pay it off?

However, before returning to the old courtyard, you have to let Qian Qianyi take a leave of absence from her, otherwise how can she be a court assistant?

Just as Liu Ru was thinking about how to talk to Qian Qianyi about this, Xiao Yahuan came in to report that Li Zhenli, the grandmother of Meixianglou, had come to visit.

"Mama Li?" Seeing Li Zhenli, Liu Ru was a little stunned.

Li Zhenli sighed lightly, and said a little gloomily: "This is really a flower without a hundred days of red, and a person without a thousand days, I hope that our family's fragrant girl will never return to Meixianglou." ”

"Mama Li, what are you talking about?" Liu Ru suddenly felt inexplicably flustered.

"If it's a sister, don't blame grandma." Li Zhenli sighed, "It's good for you to go to Meixianglou, because Mama won't force you to do what you don't want to do, if you want to sell your body, you can sell yourself, if you don't want to sell yourself, then only sing, Mama respects your wishes, but if you fall into the hands of other bustards, you can't help it." ”

Liu Ruye's pretty face suddenly turned pale.

"Mama Li, did my lord sell me Meixianglou?"

"Well, together with this house, it will cost a total of 200,000 taels."

After finishing speaking, Li Zhenli looked at the courtyard and said: "That is, if you are your sister, if you are replaced by someone else, such an old mansion will add people, and Mama will pay a maximum of 150,000 taels of silver." ”

Liu Ru only felt a blackness in front of him, and he didn't hear what Li Zhenli was saying clearly.

Liu Ruyi's love road is quite bumpy, at the age of fourteen, he was young and ignorant and was accepted as a concubine by Zhou Daodeng, and soon Zhou Daodeng died of illness, so he was expelled from the house by the Zhou family, and he didn't feel so sad.

But Songjiang genius Chen Zilong really hurt her.

Because of sadness, Liu Ru married Qian Qianyi, who was over half a hundred years old, in a fit of anger.

Although she doesn't love Qian Qianyi in her heart, because Qian Qianyi loves her very much, Liu Ru also plans to wash her hands and make soup from now on, and be the wife of the Qian family wholeheartedly.

never expected that Qian Qianyi would sell her.

It turned out that the sweet words Qian Qianyi said were all fake, and in Qian Qianyi's eyes, she Liu Ru was still just a concubine who could be given away or bought and sold.

Just as he was feeling sad, a figure walked in.

"Xia Gongzi?" Li Zhenli was surprised, "Oh yes, it's time to call Lord Xia now." ”

"Mama can call it whatever she wants." Xia Yunyi is also a frequent visitor to the old courtyard, and he is also very familiar with Li Zhenli.

After saying hello, Xia Yunyi took out another manuscript and handed it to Liu Rushi: "Liu Rushi, look at this poem." ”

"It turned out to be Lord Xia." Liu Ru came back to his senses at this time, bowed to Xia Yunyi, and reached out to take the manuscript.

"Double tone looking at Jiangnan. Feeling old. ”

"Thinking about the past, the flower moon is hazy."

"On the temples of the jade swallow wind, the embers of the golden lion are embroidered on the screen, and the half-drunk leans on the light red."

"No limit to hate, the news is more leisurely."

"The weak willow sleeps in the spring, and the corner of the distant mountain is sorrowful, and there is no plan to ask the east."

Repeating two sentences in a low voice, a familiar taste came to my heart, and an incomparably familiar face seemed to be in front of me, and then I felt a sharp pain that pierced my heart.

(End of chapter)