Chapter 58 Solicitation
After being happy for a while, Zhu Shencone continued to ask Kang Youfu what he thought, since he was already planning to give his ancestral business to his younger brother Kang Youlu to take over, then how was he going to do it himself?
Kang Youfu shook his head and said that he hadn't completely thought about it yet, this is what has only happened these days, and it is the end of the year, and the New Year will be celebrated soon, and my brother-in-law will probably be born in a few days. There are a lot of things at home, don't think about these for the time being, when my brother-in-law's child is born, the family is busy, and it's not too late to think about it.
Hearing him say this, Zhu Shencone nodded in understanding, but after hesitating, he asked Kang Youfu a word, which surprised Kang Youfu.
"Sixth Master, what did you just say...... Did I hear me right? ”
Zhu Shencone picked up the teapot and refilled the tea, picked up the teacup and drank the tea slowly: "You heard it right, you also have something to do with this matter, this time for the Liu family, I found some connections, and the government gave me a low price of a store that the Liu family confiscated, which can be regarded as taking advantage of it." ”
"Since this shop came about like this, it has a little bit to do with you. Since you didn't ask for the compensation just now, how about using this as compensation? I'm not good at how to buy and sell, and my identity is really not suitable for showing up, your own business has been well managed over the years, and now you have the idea of doing things yourself, instead of working hard to start from scratch, why don't you help me take over this store? ”
Speaking of this, Zhu Shencone laughed: "If you agree, I will be the owner, and you will be the big treasurer, and you will take care of the business affairs, and leave you a component in addition, what do you think?" ”
After listening to Kang Youfu, he didn't want to think about it, so he said: "The sixth master has to hold it naturally for the small face, the small one should be done, the sixth master has been sent, not to mention letting the small one be the big shopkeeper and add another component, even if there is no part, just be a small guy!" ”
"Good!"
Even if Zhu Shencone was very sure of this before, when Kang Youfu agreed without hesitation, it still made Zhu Shencone extremely happy.
These days, Zhu Shencone has been in contact with Kang Youfu and knows Kang Youfu very well.
Kang Youfu is not only smart, but also a natural businessman, with a lot of ideas and courage in business. What's more, Kang Youfu is not the kind of villain who forgets his righteousness, which is especially not easy.
Zhu Shencone has been secretly preparing for salt since he took the people of Wangjia Village to take salt, although the profit of taking salt is large, it is illegal after all, and the risk is also great.
Even if he now recruits Li Hu and others from Sheep's Head Mountain to disperse the risk of salt removal in this way, who can guarantee that there will be unpredictable problems in the future?
Take one step and look at three steps, take precautions, Zhu Shencone has never been a person who does things on impulse. He had a long-term plan, and he couldn't have done it alone.
What he lacks most now is people who can really help him, although the people in Wangjia Village are reliable, they may not be able to really use them. Even if it is his cousin Wang Jinwu, he is just a martial artist, and it is absolutely no problem for him to do some fighting, killing, and charging into battle, but it is not that material at all to let Wang Jinwu help him in this regard.
Even if it is Xia Dong, which Zhu Shencone has always valued, it is nothing more than reading a few books and doing things carefully and carefully. It may be okay to leave the small things to him, but the big things can't be done either.
Not to mention the Yangtou Mountain, the Li Hu brothers are about the same as Wang Jinwu, and their abilities are reflected in force, not in their minds.
Zhang Xijun and Zhang Fuzi are quite a smart person, but there are too many secrets in this person, and Zhang Xijun's refuge is completely coincidental, Zhu Shencone can't really trust him yet, and his intention to put Zhang Xijun in Wangjia Village is the same now, at least in the short term, it is impossible to reuse it.
Compared to these people, Kang Youfu sitting in front of him is different.
Kang Youfu is the most suitable person in that regard, Zhu Shencone is the benefactor of the Kang family, and Kang Youfu can definitely be trusted in order to repay his kindness. In addition, Zhu Shencone, as a member of the clan, if he wants to gradually normalize the private salt in his hand, he must have such an agent in front of the stage.
In the words of later generations, Kang Youfu is also Zhu Shencone's white gloves. The Liu family collapsed suddenly this time, Liu Shancheng has died in prison, and the Liu family's property has been divided up by everyone, and it is also an excellent opportunity for the current Zhu Shencheng.
Others don't know that in fact, the Liu family's shop has been one of the conditions for Zhu Shencone and Zhu Minfan to cooperate from the beginning.
Don't look at the fact that the Liu family is strong on the surface, has a lot of wealth and has many relationships in officialdom, but these may be unattainable in the eyes of ordinary people, but in Zhu Shencone's view, the Liu family is like a high-rise building built on a pile of sand, without the slightest foundation, as long as you stretch out a finger and push it gently, the seemingly powerful Liu family will inevitably fall into the abyss.
Wealth is the source of the Liu family's strength, and it is also the original sin of the Liu family. Not to mention now, even in the 21st century, classes still exist.
In the Ming Dynasty, in the division of the four peoples, no matter how rich the merchants were, they just didn't enter the stream, and the Liu family's relationship network in the officialdom was completely dependent on the money that came and went from interests, and this relationship was not so reliable. Unless someone in the Liu family is an official in the imperial court, from an ordinary merchant to a member of the official business, and completes the complete transformation of identity, then this relationship network will be reliable.
Since this is the case, then the Liu family, which has no foundation of its own in the officialdom, is equivalent to a rootless Ping. The class gap is huge, and the Liu family itself is not clean under the buttocks, but no one has done it before, plus the Liu family seems to be strong, and the collusion of some interests, under the protection of his relationship network, these hidden dangers have not been exposed.
But when Zhu Shencone decided to make a move, this nature completely changed.
Although the clan has lost the privileges of the early dynasty, the status of the clan is still high, and the attitude of the dynasty towards the clan involves the royal face, others may have to weigh their careers against the Liu family, but the clan has no concerns in this regard.
According to Zhu Shencone's plan, coupled with Zhu Minfan's weighty clan, whether it is a magistrate or a court, it is impossible to protect the Liu family too much, plus Zhu Shenchong's plan is linked one by one, and the internal and external forces are used at the same time, the Liu family is in a mess, how can those officials who are only in collusion with the Liu family speak for the Liu family in this situation?
At the same time that Zhu Shencone and Zhu Minfan agreed, they also pulled in other people through their respective relationships, including Yu Zhida, the prefect of Pingyang.
Yu Zhida is incorruptible on the surface, but in fact he is not a good bird.
But anyone who looks at his officialdom experience can guess that if Yu Zhida is really a Qing official, he will not be in the 38th year of Wanli after the 229th Jinshi of the top three not only did not go to the local post as a petty official from the seventh grade, but stayed in the Beijing Metropolitan Procuratorate to observe the government, Wanli 42 years promoted to Dali Temple left commentator, and later promoted to the deputy of the temple, until the beginning of this year transferred to the prefect of Pingyang.
In just ten years, from a top three ranked Tongjinshi to the prefect of the fourth grade, this official fortune cannot but be said to be prosperous.
If you can be promoted like this just by relying on your own talents, or if you can be promoted like this, then Yu Zhida is simply a god.
You must know that in his same year, there were many petty officials who were still six or seven grades, and the higher ones had only climbed to the fifth grade, but he was already in the fourth grade.
The reason why Yu Zhida was promoted so quickly is that in addition to his good management and standing in line, he also has the support of a strong political group behind him, which is the current famous Donglin Party.
Some time ago, Liaodong was defeated, and Yang Hao, as the boss, did not execute Wanli, but was only imprisoned, including the Donglin Party operating behind the scenes. The power of the Donglin Party in the DPRK is not small, and as a member of the Donglin Party, it is naturally normal for Yu Zhi to become the prefect of Pingyang.
Pulling up Yu Zhida is equivalent to pulling the entire Donglin Party behind it in, which is a double win. In addition, Zhu Shencone and Zhu Minfan are both smart people, and they know that it is absolutely impossible for them to swallow the fat of the Liu family, and this thing can only be done by pulling most of the people in to form an alliance, and everyone sits in a row to share the fruits.
According to the distribution of interests, Zhu Shencheng did not actually get much, most of the Liu family's property was taken away from all aspects of the benefits, and what he finally got was less than 2,000 taels of cash plus 30 acres of irrigated land and a shop.
These things are simply a drop in the bucket for the entire industry of the Liu family, and these are not all Zhu Shencone's, and they are also given to Zhu Minfeng, Zhu Minqi and Zhu Qiuqi, after all, the three of them have also made a lot of efforts in this matter, and they have promised them before, whether in terms of friendship between clans or integrity, Zhu Shencone has never had the idea of not speaking.
It's nothing more than some money, compared to his reputation and long-term planning, this money is nothing at all, and Zhu Shencone is very generous in this regard.
It's not a lot of cash, but that shop is different. Although this store is only one of the many industries of the Liu family, and after the collapse of the Liu family, the original floating wealth of the Liu family has almost been completely divided, and there is not much inventory left in the store, and now even the store is closed.
But what others don't know is that this shop is a salt shop, which means that it is a shop with official salt quotes. The storefront of the shop is not worth much, but this qualification to obtain salt introduction cannot be bought with money. If it weren't for Zhu Shenchong's early focus on this store at the beginning of the plan, and he discussed it with Zhu Minfan in advance, he wouldn't have been able to get it.
Now that this shop has been obtained, it is impossible for Zhu Shencon, as a member of the clan, to run it by himself, so he needs to find a person with a bright face to take care of this industry.
Kang Youfu is the most suitable candidate, with this shop, his private salt business can be gradually whitewashed, relying on the store to obtain the qualification of salt introduction, and in the future, with other large merchants in the general open and bright sale of "private salt", so as to complete the upgrading of the industry.