Hu Xiancheng's departure was miserable and sad, his lovely wife and beautiful family members were all slaves, the floor was pried open to find the hidden property, almost none of the conditions promised by the magistrate were fulfilled, and in the end it was Zhao Guanren who spent the money When he was buried, none of his relatives and friends dared to come to worship him.
"Master is back!"
Yu Niang stood in the gate to greet her prettyly, and looked curiously at Luo Tan who was dressed in black. Zhao Guanren stepped in and said, "This is my female guard Luo Tan, let the little fat girl serve her, except for my study. , she can walk around at will in other places!"
"Oh! Hello sister Luo, my family is the big girl Yu Niang..."
Yuniang laughed unsuspectingly. Luo Tan is also a woman with high emotional intelligence, so she immediately took out a silver bracelet as a meeting gift. The status of concubines from wealthy families is not high. Single kings like Zhao Guanren are naturally in the house. It is the eldest girl who has the highest status.
"Master! Zhang Tiansheng has sent someone to look for it..."
Yu Niang chased up and said: "The slave family paid off his debts according to your instructions, and gave him the house at the east gate. Zhang Tiansheng has already picked up the old lady in the afternoon, and the third girl has come to serve him. He explained I will come to the door again to thank you!"
"Let the third girl stare at me. If Zhang Tiansheng dares to gamble again, I'll break his legs..."
Zhao Guanren walked into the gazebo expressionlessly. He was a little unhappy about Hu Xiancheng's death, but a table of sumptuous dishes was ready, and two fat girls stood in it to serve.
"Oh~"
Luo Tan sat down on the stone bench and said with a smile: "I've been working as a job for five full years, either serving others or taking care of myself. I can finally be a young mistress and be served by others!"
"Stand up! You sit when I'm not sitting, do you understand the rules..."
Zhao Guanren scolded angrily, Luo Tan quickly jumped up in embarrassment, walked behind him obediently and kneaded his shoulders, and Zhao Guanren said again: "Yu Niang! You all go to the door and wait for the owner of the Han's shop Bring it here!"
"Why!"
Yuniang immediately took away the two fat girls, and Luo Tan asked in a low voice: "Master! You've been wandering around all day, and you didn't investigate the source of the poison except to cure the poison. If Chen Qianhu asks, how can you explain it?" ah?"
"You don't need to talk too much about this, there is a white-clothed guard behind the east courtyard wall, go and break his leg..."
Zhao Guanren pursed his lips lightly. Luo Tan was startled at first, and after a moment's hesitation, he took the jug and bowed his head to the east courtyard. After a while, he heard a scream, and a black shadow jumped out of the courtyard wall in embarrassment. , also sprinkled a bloodstain in the air.
"Master Zhao! The villain is here..."
Han Dongsheng was suddenly brought over by Yuniang, just as Luo Tan was walking back with a broken arm, his expression changed immediately, but Zhao Guanren waved his hands and smiled: "Don't be afraid! A thief just entered, I The female guard went to deal with it!"
"This thief is also blind, how dare he steal into the Lord's mansion..."
Han Dongsheng walked into the pavilion with some panic, Luo Tan didn't come over when he saw this, and walked towards the toilet with his broken arm.
"Shopkeeper Han, please sit down, let's chat while eating, be casual..."
Zhao Guanren poured him a glass of wine with his own hands, and said with a smile, "There are quite a few salt merchants in our county, but I haven't heard of any big salt merchants. Salt merchants should make a lot of money, do you know how they operate? "
"Ningzhou does not produce salt, so naturally there are no big salt merchants, all of which are located in the Huaiyang area..."
Han Dongsheng replied: "They stationed court officials in our county, and distributed the salt distribution to various shops, so we just distribute it, so we can't make a lot of money. The Salt Bureau got Yanyin, ordinary merchants don't have such skills!"
"Come on! Let's have a drink first and eat a few more dishes..."
Zhao Guanren picked up the wine glass to drink with him, and after eating a few peanuts, he asked, "If I want to buy all the salt in Ningzhou Prefecture, regardless of the size, how much will it cost?"
"this… "
Han Dongsheng hesitated and said, "Currently, the purchase price is 45 yuan for a catty of coarse salt, and 120 yuan for a catty of high-quality fine salt. How can the entire county have a supply of 200,000 catties?"
Well, just contracting our county's salt costs more than ten thousand taels of silver, the villains in the entire state capital really can't figure it out! "
"Tsk tsk~"
Zhao Guanren was speechless and said, "This salt is really expensive. No wonder the salt merchants are rich and powerful. How long does it take to transport salt from Huaiyang? Are there many smugglers?"
"Does your lord want to check private salt?"
Han Dongsheng said: "Huaiyang is not too far from us, but the salt carts are big and slow, and it usually takes six or seven days to go all the way. Private salt is also available, but you don't dare to sell it blatantly in the city. They are all secretly sold in the village, and the yamen will strictly check them!"
"Go and do something for me, collect all the salt from Ningzhou Prefecture..."
Zhao Guanren smiled and said: "Go and tell the salt merchant Chaofeng tomorrow morning that I ordered a large amount of salt from you to treat corpse plague. I'll take it, and I must buy out Ningzhou Prefecture and Lantai County!"
"grown ups!"
As expected of a businessman, Han Dongsheng recalled it immediately, and said nervously, "You, are you trying to drive up the price of salt? This is a crime of beheading!"
"Nonsense! How can I drive up the price of salt? Salt is needed to deal with corpse plague..."
Zhao Guanren waved his hand and said: "If the government collects salt openly, the price of salt will definitely skyrocket. At that time, it will be the common people who will suffer. I asked you to collect salt to stabilize the price of salt. You must rent more warehouses to store salt. You must not let it go." Those profiteers succeed, understand?"
"Oh~"
Han Dongsheng stood up excitedly, bowed and said: "The villain has misunderstood the lord, the lord is really a good official who makes decisions for the people, please be respected by the villain!"
"Sit down! I think you are a real person, so I entrust you with this matter..."
Zhao Guanren squeezed his hands and said with a smile: "But I can't let you work for nothing, I will lend you five thousand taels of principal, and you can set up two workshops, one to make gas masks and gloves, the other to make rock sugar and alcohol. I'll give you the blueprint later!"
"Uh~"
Han Dongsheng said with a look of bewilderment: "Masks and gloves are known, but what are rock sugar and alcohol?"
"Just do it, I'll give you a lot of money..."
Zhao Guanren said: "I have written all these things in the booklet. There is also a kind of medical gauze and plaster. These are all good things for curing diseases and saving lives. By the way! Is gunpowder controlled? Is there a workshop that produces guns in the county? "
"The muskets are old antiques, and the craftsmanship has been lost..."
Han Dongsheng waved his hands and said, "Ever since Xuan Qi began to spread, muskets have lost their effect on the battlefield, only iron cannons can be used to defend the city, but gunpowder still cannot be made privately, otherwise it will blow up the fire and bring neighbors, and firecrackers are all government-run." workshop!"
"Is that so..."
Zhao Guanren nodded, and said: "Introduce me to a reliable blacksmith shop. The technology must be good and the people must be honest. Then you can hire a few more guys. If you do a big business, you must be willing to spend money. As long as you do it well , I guarantee that you will be the richest man in Lantai in the future!"
…
Zhao Guanren chatted with Han Dongsheng until after nine o'clock in the evening, and his blood was boiling with Han Dongsheng. He put the stack of blueprints close to his body, and rode away on a donkey like a thief, with tens of thousands of taels of silver notes in his pocket.
"Master! My concubine is waiting for you to wash..."
As soon as Zhao Guanren walked into the bedroom, Luo Tan greeted her coquettishly. She was wearing a pink gauze dress with only a big red bellyband and a pair of white underwear. The little bird looks like a person.
"Sister Luo just wash herself clean, you don't need to worry about the young master..."
Yu Niang rushed in from the outside, her eyes were fierce as if she wanted to eat people, the subtext was clearly that you can mess around as you like, but the young master's daily life can only be taken care of by this girl.
"Hehe~ OK! I won't fight with you, big girl..."
Luo Tan covered his mouth and smiled coquettishly, and shouted to the outside: "Fat girl! Come and wash me up, bring me a piece of high-quality soap, it smells good, and the master will feel comfortable after using it!"
"Got it! Aunt Luo..."
The fat girl ran in with her things in her hands. There was a large screen in the bedroom. You could use it behind the screen for washing and washing, and Zhao Guanren wouldn't see any indecent things.
"Tan'er! I asked you to break the leg, why did you chop off his hand..."
Zhao Guanren sat on the chair and raised his legs. Yuniang helped him take off his shoes and socks, while Luo Tan squatted behind the screen and said, "The other party is very skilled. , how does the master know that he is a white-clothed guard?"
"Nonsense! Besides Bai Yiwei, who would dare to sneak into my house to eavesdrop..."
Zhao Guanren peeled a lychee and fed it to Yuniang, and asked, "Have you read that mind method, how is it?"
"Alas~ You should be gentle, brush the pigskin, you..."
Luo Tan scolded angrily, and then said: "Go back to the master! I saw it in person, that skill is considered rare among the people, but looking at Dashun, it can only be regarded as a second-rate goods, and it is not as good as the Black Clothes Guard's Library Pavilion." Woolen cloth!"
"Have you ever heard of a book called "Thunderbolt and Lightning Will Kill You"..."
Zhao Guanren suddenly remembered Zhao Ziqiang's unique skill. When he got the jade tube of the exercise, he glanced at the title and the beginning. That guy is cheating himself again.
"Of course I know, one of the four forbidden books in this dynasty..."
Luo Tan came out with his obscene trousers, and said with a smile: "That exercise is a joke. The first three stages really have a different way, but you can't continue to practice it at all. If you don't do it well, your dantian will burst and you will die. Back then it would have killed you." There are a lot of people!"
"Where is there something to look at? I want to see and see..."
Zhao Guanren was full of doubts. No matter how hateful Zhao Ziqiang was, he would not intentionally kill him.
"Go to the yamen and ask. Every year, banned books are confiscated..."
Luo Tan got into the bed and took out a white gauze towel, placed it in the center of the bed and spread it carefully, then climbed up on the bed shyly and lay down, putting on a charming appearance that you can pick and choose.
Seeing this, Yu Niang also begged: "Master! I want to sleep with you tonight, okay?"
'I'll go find the exercises tomorrow and see what's wrong...'
Zhao Guanren's eyes rolled and he became hesitant. After washing his face casually, he got up and said, "Yu Niang! You go wash up, I will put your Aunt Luo into pajamas first, and I will call you after scoring twice!"
"Hey! Master Xie..."
Yu Niang stood up in Duanpen in surprise, staring and said: "Aunt Luo! We are a rich family, you should understand the rules, why are you still lying down?"
"Understand! How can you not understand this..."
Luo Tan jumped down and helped Zhao Guanren onto the bed, knelt down on the side of the bed and kowtowed respectfully, and shouted: "My little wife, Zhao Luo, kowtows to my husband and lord, my little wife is willing to serve the lord for the rest of my life, to spread branches and leaves for the Zhao family, and extend the descendants. So much love!"
"Get up! From now on, you are a member of my Zhao family when you are born, and you are a ghost of my Zhao family when you die. Do you understand..."
Zhao Guanren leaned against the head of the bed with his airs up. Luo Tan was in awe of him, and crawled onto the bed with a pretty face flushed, leaned down and kissed his feet twice, and then dared to shyly climb up to his chest.
'Nimma! Chen Dezhi...'
Zhao Guanren suddenly shuddered, he found that Chen Dezhi had jumped onto the roof and was quietly lifting a tile to take a peek.
It seemed that Chen Qianhu was worried about Luo Tan and came over to supervise him personally, but it was taboo for the black guard to fool around with his partner.
"alright!"
Zhao Guanren hurriedly pushed Luo Tan away, and said with a wink: "Stop acting when everyone is gone, you can go to sleep in Xiaota, don't break the rules!"
"Oh~ Don't let the servants in next time, it's so troublesome to sleep..."
Luo Tan complained cleverly, and hurriedly climbed to the small couch, turned off the lights and fell asleep. Chen Dezhi waited for a while before sneaking away. If Zhao Guanren hadn't possessed the soul-chasing eye, no one would have noticed with this guy's skills.
"He's gone, come here and lick the master's feet first..."
"Hee hee~ here we come..."