Chapter VI The Three Prefectures of Fujia
Zheng Sanzhou closed his eyes and lay on a bamboo recliner, listening to a big shopkeeper next to him report last month's accounts to him, and he felt bored. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zheng Sanzhou is not his real name. His real name is too rustic, don't say it. Anyway, now the big guys call him Zheng Daguan in person, and most of them call him Zheng Sanzhou behind their backs.
The meaning of the name is simple. That is, the wealth of Zheng Sanzhou can buy three states and counties within a radius of hundreds of miles.
It may be an exaggeration to say that you can buy three states and counties, but with the wealth of Zheng Sanzhou, it is definitely the first place among these three states and counties.
Fujia Sanzhou is Zheng Sanzhou's assessment of himself.
Today's Zheng Sanzhou can be regarded as half an official businessman. His business covers a wide range of areas. Wine, tea, salt, raw silk, silk, ironware, pawnshops, granges, restaurants, green buildings, as long as you can tell the truth, Zheng Sanzhou almost all dabbled.
Zheng Sanzhou does business, there are three characteristics, which can also be said to be three rules.
First, don't break the law. The government does not allow the business to be done, and Zheng Sanzhou will never touch it. The tax money that should be paid to the government, Zheng Sanzhou will definitely not be a big son.
Second, don't buy and sell. Especially when it comes to the sale of land, pawns, and green buildings, Zheng Sanzhou's requirements for all the big shopkeepers under him are even more so.
Third, we should expand cautiously and develop steadily. This is not only reflected in Zheng Sanzhou's involvement in business, but also in his geographical expansion of the business under his name.
These three rules are not only clear to all the shopkeepers and associates under Zheng Sanzhou's name, but Zheng Sanzhou himself is also extremely scrupulous.
There is one exception. That's wine. In the wine industry, Zheng Sanzhou broke all the rules he had set.
Let's start with geographical expansion. Over the years, Zheng Sanzhou has been like crazy, desperately opening various liquor businesses such as restaurants, pubs, wine shops, and wine stalls under his name to various places. Even outside the Central Plains, there is a liquor industry under the name of Zheng Sanzhou.
Let's talk about strong buying and strong selling. Whenever Zheng Sanzhou's liquor business expanded to a location, his people prioritized the acquisition of the best restaurants, pubs and liquor stores in the area. If the other party is unwilling to sell, in addition to not killing people and setting fires, Zheng Sanzhou will use all means, soft grinding and hard entanglement, coercion and inducement, to buy these industries in the hands of the other party.
Finally, let's talk about breaking the law. Wine, at certain times, especially in those famine years, has a clear rule to limit the amount of trade in it, so as not to waste food. But Zheng Sanzhou doesn't care. Whether it is a harvest year or a famine year, all the wine industries in Zheng Sanzhou have never reduced the production of wine, let alone stopped business.
Zheng Sanzhou's liquor industry has another characteristic. That is, all the liquor sold under Zheng Sanzhou's name has a faint bitter taste. That's the smell of absinthe.
At first, many guests were not too accustomed to the bitter taste and were reluctant to drink the wine. For this reason, Zheng Sanzhou's liquor industry was once the most costly business under him.
I don't know how many people directly or tactfully persuaded Zheng Sanzhou to remove the absinthe from the wine, but Zheng Sanzhou still went his own way.
As time passed, the guests gradually began to enjoy the taste and began to like this bitter sake. After all, Zheng Sanzhou's success is obvious to all. Since he insisted on selling such wine, he naturally had a reason. Moreover, this kind of wine with the taste of absinthe, after drinking it, I always feel that something is missing when I drink other wines.
Today, not only Zheng Sanzhou's own liquor industry sells this kind of wine, but many other merchants who do wine business have also begun to order this kind of wine from Zheng Sanzhou. The wine industry has changed from the most cost-losing business at the beginning to the most profitable business under Zheng Sanzhou.
Many people have tried to figure out why Zheng Sanzhou added absinthe flavor to his wine, and some people have even set up a special institute to study this wine, and analyze the advantages of this wine from various aspects such as medical science, pharmacology, and taste. But the real reason will always be known only to Zheng Sanzhou.
This wine was specially made by Zheng Sanzhou for him. Because, he loves the taste of absinthe.
At that time, Zheng Sanzhou still used that rustic name. At that time, few people were willing to visit his wine shop. But he is Zheng Sanzhou's most loyal customer.
Every time he came, he just smiled and nodded at Zheng Sanzhou, and walked into the humble little wine shop without a sound, sat at the small table that was polished, and waited for Zheng Sanzhou to serve him wine. Even on the coldest winter days, he drank ice-cold wine. Cough while drinking.
His smile was always so gentle and polite. But there was a poignant pain in his eyes. His cough made people palpitate even more.
That time, when Zheng Sanzhou realized that he had accidentally spilled absinthe juice into the wine given to him, he hurriedly apologized, and wanted to change the wine for him, his eyes suddenly lit up slightly after taking a sip of wine. That bright look, like a prodigal son who has been adrift for many years, suddenly met his first love after a long absence.
He smiled and said, "This wine, good." ”
That was the only thing he said to Zheng Sanzhou. A three-word sentence.
Wind or shine, never a day apart, he drank wine in a small wine shop in Zheng Sanzhou for a whole year and three months. After that, Zheng Sanzhou never saw him again. Since then, Zheng Sanzhou has never made wine again. Because, the guests who know how to drink have already left.
It was only many years later that Zheng Sanzhou knew by chance that he was him, the one who went to heaven and earth and was unique. He is Li Xunhuan. The one who ranked third on Bai Xiaosheng's weapon spectrum, Xiao, Li, Tan, and Hua!
At that time, he was being taken to the Shaolin Temple for trial. They said he was a plum thief.
How could a person with such a smile be a plum blossom thief? How could a person with such eyes be a plum blossom thief? How could a person like him who could drink his own hand-brewed wine in his humble tavern for more than 450 days, how dare they say that he was a plum blossom thief?!
At that moment, Zheng Sanzhou almost couldn't help but rush forward and theorize for him.
He also saw Zheng Sanzhou.
Just like every time he walked into that small wine shop, he smiled at Zheng Sanzhou. That smile, in Zheng Sanzhou's eyes, seemed to be saying to him that he missed his wine so much. That smile made Zheng Sanzhou stunned on the spot. By the time he came to his senses, they had escorted him away.
From that day on, Zheng Sanzhou, who was not a native of the rivers and lakes, began to pay attention to the news of the rivers and lakes. It was also from that day that Zheng Sanzhou, who had abandoned the wine industry, returned to his old business. He wanted him to drink the absinthe he had brewed again.
Finally one day, news came from the rivers and lakes that he cleared his grievances and broke the money gang.
On that day, Zheng Sanzhou, who only made wine and did not drink, locked himself in his room, drank bitterly for three days, and was so drunk that he died. Later, Zheng Sanzhou returned to the place where he was last seen, opened a wine shop that was exactly the same as the humble little wine shop back then, and waited for him to come back and drink the absinthe he brewed.
He's coming. He's really here! With his best brother and closest confidant, with two legends like him, he's coming!
That day, he said a few more words. He said that his wine, good. He said he wanted his brother and his confidant to drink his favorite absinthe.
That day, the three of them sat around the polished little table with him, and drank from afternoon until sunset.
That day, he coughed even more. Zheng Sanzhou wanted to persuade him to drink less, but his brother and his confidant just smiled and kept drinking with him.
When they got up to leave, Zheng Sanzhou wanted to follow, wander the rivers and lakes with him, and make wine for him. But he stopped him with another smile.
Zheng Sanzhou knew what he meant. That's his rivers and lakes. There's too much danger there.
That was the last time Zheng Sanzhou really saw him.
Since then, Zheng Sanzhou has begun his frenzied expansion in the wine industry. He couldn't go and find out about him. He is a dragon. The world of the dragon is not to be disturbed. But Zheng Sanzhou can sell wine to all the places where there are people, so that he can drink the absinthe he likes.
The voice of the big shopkeeper suddenly stopped.
Zheng Sanzhou closed his eyes, sighed, and said, "Go on." I'm listening. ”
Still unable to hear the sound, Zheng Sanzhou opened his eyes, but saw three masked people standing in front of him. The one in the middle is wearing a Maitreya mask with a lovely smile. The two on the left and right are wearing two fierce masks. The great treasurer stood aside, his face pale.
Zheng Sanzhou lay on the bamboo recliner and didn't move, and asked lazily, "Asking for money?"
The man wearing the Maitreya mask smiled, "Please." ”
Zheng Sanzhou's body stiffened slightly, and he asked, "Have a grudge?"
The man wearing the Maitreya mask said, "There is no enmity. ”
Zheng Sanzhou asked, "Resentment?"
The man wearing the Maitreya mask said, "No complaints. ”
Zheng Sanzhou's expression remained unchanged and asked, "What's the use?"
The man wearing the Maitreya mask praised: "Just after drinking with him once, do you have such courage?"
Zheng Sanzhou's eyes flashed with a strange brilliance, he sat up from the recliner and asked in a trembling voice, "For him?"
The man wearing the Maitreya mask asked rhetorically: "You are rich in three states, sitting on hundreds of millions of net worth, you can enjoy the prosperity of the world, are you really not afraid of death?"
Zheng Sanzhou's eyes were even more radiant, and he smiled: "I'm afraid." I'm scared to death. But the wine I have made for him in the world is enough for him to drink. I'm going to go to the Netherworld, make absinthe, and wait for him to drink it in a hundred years. ”
The man wearing the Maitreya mask smiled: "Don't worry. This time to Huangquan wine, you have to hurry. Don't wait for him to come and run out of wine to drink. ”
Zheng Sanzhou laughed and said, "You can rest assured." A person like him will definitely live a long life. It's you, haha, I'm waiting for you on the Nai Ho Bridge. But don't you want to drink the wine I brewed. With that, Zheng Sanzhoufu lay back again, closed his eyes, and hummed a small tune gently. Hmph, it's actually "Spring Breeze Drunk".
The man wearing the Maitreya mask sighed, and with a wave of his hand, Zheng Sanzhou's head rolled to the ground.
The man wearing the Maitreya mask turned around and said to the big shopkeeper whose legs were trembling: "Within seven days, all the properties under Zheng Sanzhou's name will be owned by him. If there's one thing I can't do, I'll come back to you. ”
With that, the three masked men slowly walked out.
In the field, only a big shopkeeper who was paralyzed on the ground and Zheng Sanzhou, who was in a different position, were left.
Next to Zheng Sanzhou's head, there was a flying knife three inches and seven minutes long.