In her last life, Gu Yuqi didn't pay too much attention to her scumbag father, so she didn't know his temperament.
In this life, when Liang Huaiyu taught her martial arts, Gu Huaizhong would also give her some pointers. It made Gu Yuqi feel that if he hadn't brought Liu Yue back to anger Liang Huaiyu, he might have been a pretty good father. At least he knew everything about Gu Yuqi in terms of martial arts and military tactics, as long as Gu Yuqi was willing to ask, he had no secrets.
It's just that this person was able to hide the matter of taking concubines before the frontier from his mother for ten years, which is considered deep enough in the city.
Most of the mothers in the previous life died under Liu Yue's hands. Gu Yuqi was not sure whether Liu Yue's actions were ordered by Gu Huaizhong. After his mother died, he dealt with Chun Xing, the maidservants and the guards brought by his mother, and after a few years he set Liu Yue upright again. Even if he didn't do it himself, at least he was very ruthless to his mother in his heart.
The last time in the capital, Gu Huaizhong was very shameless. Gu Yuqi knew that after that night, the whole capital would be talking about Dingyuan Houfu. The two of them, the mother and daughter, have already destroyed Gu Huaizhong's face, but Gu Huaizhong still came to Kuizhou to kneel down and beg for forgiveness, which really surprised Gu Yuqi.
He really regretted it? Impossible, he had to come only because of His Majesty's thoughts.
Liang Huaiyu's psychology is also very contradictory.
She was indeed very determined when she left, and she never thought about going back to Dingyuanhou's Mansion again.
But seeing Gu Huaizhong fainted in front of her door now, she was still very shocked in her heart.
Especially in front of so many Kuizhou officials, Liang Huaiyu knew that Gu Huaizhong was a person who valued face a lot.
He could do this for her, and it was impossible for him not to be moved by it at all.
Gu Huaizhong was sure that Liang Huaiyu was soft-hearted, so he used this bitter trick.
"Mother really wants me to follow him back to Beijing?" Gu Yuqi asked calmly in Liang Huaiyu's room three days later.
In fact, Gu Yuqi had already foreseen such a result when Gu Huaizhong entered the Liang Mansion by fainting. So she wasn't surprised. "What about you?" Gu Yuqi asked. "Mother, do you want to go back with us?"
"I..." Liang Huaiyu lowered her head, "Anan, I don't know either." Her mood was completely confused.
On the one hand, she hopes that Gu Yuqi has a strong support, on the other hand, she doesn't want to go back to the capital.
"Did mother ever think that the Dingyuanhou's Mansion will really become my reliance?" Gu Yuqi said slowly. "He had the idea of marrying me, a dignified young lady of the Hou family, to the royal family as a concubine before. How can my mother guarantee that he will not have such thoughts again? Once I am willing to return to Beijing, it will not be so simple to think about it. gone."
"This..." Liang Huaiyu was also entangled to death, her pretty face turned white and red, and she knew what her daughter said, but how to choose between this.
"Mother, you have to think clearly." Gu Yuqi could see her mother's hesitation, and she was not in a hurry, but just persuaded her.
"Let me think about it again, think about it again." Liang Huaiyu kept frowning and said.
Gu Yuqi got up to leave.
Liang Huaiyu thought about this for several days, Gu Huaizhong lived in the Liang Mansion. The only thing to do every day is to show courtesy to Liang Huaiyu. He knew better than anyone else that Gu Yuqi was following Liang Huaiyu's words, as long as she could coax Liang Huaiyu well, everything would be easy.
He seemed to be back in his youth, trying to please Liang Huaiyu in different ways every day. Gu Yuqi looked at him coldly, and didn't say anything, but asked Chun Xing and the others to keep an eye on him.
Every day, Gu Huaizhong found various reasons for Liang Huaiyu to accompany him to the vicinity of Kuizhou. Kuizhou is at the junction of the Three Kingdoms and is located in the north, but there are indeed several places with excellent scenery in the surrounding area. Ganquan Temple is one. Danxia Mountain is also one.
Liang Huaiyu was reluctant at first, but he couldn't stand Gu Huaizhong's soft-heartedness, so he could only temporarily show his kindness as a landlord and accompany him to Ganquan Temple once. How could I know that this time I came down, there would be a second and third time after that, Liang Huaiyu had to accompany him out again and again. Gu Huaizhong didn't seem to be in a hurry to take Gu Yuqi back, but rather stayed here waiting for Liang Huaiyu to change his mind. Beans are all rubbish.
Time passed by little by little, and it dragged on for another twenty days or so.
Gu Yuqi's wages are high, and Li Da is a practical person. After so many days, the street transformed by Gu Yuqi has begun to take shape, and it can be seen. The street designed by Gu Yuqi is so wide that four carriages can pass side by side. At first, Li Da didn't understand why so much open space was wasted on the road, but now he stood on the street and glanced at it, and he couldn't help secretly admiring Gu Yuqi's idea in his heart.
The momentum of this street is even grander than that in Jiangxia City.
The street is paved with yellow ashlar. This kind of ashlar is collected from Danxia Mountain. The cost is not high, but the effect looks good. Compared with other streets in Kuizhou City, it is simply taller. synonymous with.
Let alone Kuizhou, it is difficult to find such a road in the whole of the Northland. There are red flag light poles erected on the roadside, and a wind lantern hangs down every few steps. Even at night, this road will be illuminated Bright as day.
On both sides of the road are two rows of neat green brick buildings, all of which have two floors above and below. The buildings have not been completely renovated, but the overall prototype can already be seen.
Now Li Da doesn't need to be on the construction site all day long, but needs to run around in several cities. The streets are covered, so he has to rent them out to be considered a complete meritorious deed.
There are quite a few merchants from Rouran and Liang Chao, and they like it after seeing it, but not many people are willing to rent it.
Li Da became worried now, why couldn't he rent out? How nice this place is, the roads are wide enough, and the store fronts are good enough. He could only go to Gu Yuqi for advice.
Gu Yuqi told the truth with one word, there is no popularity here.
All you need to do business is to be popular. Regardless of the cleanliness of the streets here, what's the use of no one coming? The original square market in Kuizhou, which is three streets away, is different. Although the road is dilapidated, there are rows of shops facing the street, one by one, and merchants who come and go are used to going there.
This made Li Da very anxious. He also invested a lot of money in this street. What if the shop cannot be rented out
"If you can't rent it out, don't rent it." Gu Yuqi smiled slowly.
"No rent?" Li Day almost jumped up from the stool when he heard it, "No rent, then what are we building it for?"
"You can rest assured to listen to me." Gu Yuqi gave Li Da a reassuring look, and the old god said.
Li Da didn't know what medicine was sold in Gu Yuqi's gourd, but he still trusted Gu Yuqi, so he nodded firmly, looking at Li Da's unconditional trust in his eyes, Gu Yuqi hesitated a little, if it was her way No, wouldn't it be a disappointment to Li Da's trust
You must know that Li Da invested most of his property in order to build this street with her, otherwise the progress would not be so fast.
The next day, notices were posted all over the streets in Kuizhou City, that the street that was about to be newly built was for rent, and the rent of the three shops above was free for the first three months! The rent of the shops in the back is only one penny per month for the first three months. The only requirement is that the shop you open must be large enough, with enough products, and the rent is limited to one storefront per family, on a first-come, first-served basis. The rent after three months is set according to the average rent price in Kuizhou City.
As soon as this notice came out, the entire city of Kuizhou was in an uproar.
Everyone passing by there can see the changes of that street every day. From dilapidated to the current scale, everyone is amazed. Everyone is guessing that such a good shop street will be built, I am afraid that the rent is not Ordinary shops can afford it.
These are the concerns of the businessmen that Li Da is looking for. Everyone knows that the street is well built, but not popular. made. So Li Da was busy for so long, but he couldn't find anyone willing to rent it.
As soon as Gu Yuqi released this kind of notice, Li Da's door was immediately crowded by merchants flocking to him.
Isn't a penny a month equivalent to giving away for free
Autumn is the best season for business in Kuizhou City. Skins and spices from the north and grains and fruits from the south are all traded here. With such good conditions, who would want to squat in the original place
Li Da couldn't stop laughing from ear to ear. He is not a person who only cares about the profits under his nose, otherwise he would not invest most of his family wealth on Gu Yuqi. He could almost predict how popular this street would be in a year.
If there are too many renters, there will be competition. Li Da used to beg someone to rent out the store, but now he is begged to rent out the store, and his status immediately reversed.
He also prepared a copy of the information of all the merchants who came to ask for rent, and sent it to Gu Yuqi to choose.
Since it depends on the long-term plan, it is natural to find some merchants with a good reputation and a large shop. As for those who want to opportunistically, they must be eliminated from it.
So Gu Yuqi has been very busy these days. Apart from attending classes, she screens out tenants with Li Da.
After three days of screening, they selected businesses that they thought would have potential for future development, and asked someone to invite them to sign a contract.
All the houses on Gu Yuqi's side have been rented out, and the bosses who originally rented houses to merchants quit.
Gu Yuqi was robbing them of their jobs, so the day after the contract was signed, the construction site was blocked by these people, and the workers were blocked outside the street by the hooligans they brought and were not allowed to go in and start working.
Li Da got the news in the morning, so he rushed over to take a look, good guy, that posture startled him. Fortunately, he was originally from the rivers and lakes, so he is no stranger to such things like blocking people's doors and making troubles.
"What's the matter?" Li Da took Zhao Wu over and asked someone to move a chair to sit in front of those people. "This is going to cause trouble!" With Zhao Wu backing him, Li Da The courage is also big enough.
Zhao Wu brought out all the guards in the mansion today. Of course, Li Da has confidence. These people are the ones who he saw killed so many bandits and killers with his own eyes. It's not enough to watch.
"Your boss won't give us a way out!" Those bosses also knew that behind Li Da was the most popular Liang Mansion in Kuizhou. Even the Marquis of Dingyuan had to kneel in front of his Liang Mansion when he came, so they He didn't dare to speak too much, let alone tell people to smash other people's houses. It's just that the passages on both sides of the street are blocked, and the workers are not allowed to start work.
"It's all about business." Li Da laughed and said, "Everything is negotiable."
In fact, Gu Yuqi also came, standing in a small building on the side of the street, looking out through the flower window.
But she woke up this morning feeling a little restless, maybe she slept badly last night.
Gu Huaizhong pestered Liang Huaiyu to accompany him to go fishing the day before yesterday, and today he pestered Liang Huaiyu to accompany him to ride a horse. He left Liang's mansion early in the morning. Gu Yuqi didn't even see Liang Huaiyu's face. Chun Xing and Xia He followed, that's why she brought all the guards from the mansion here.
She had already expected this kind of situation to happen, after all, she had really robbed them of their jobs, and she rented it out at such a low price, and promised to rent it to these people at the average rent of shops in Kuizhou City three months later. People, anyone with a little brain will choose Gu Yuqi's side.
Of course, some leases that are about to expire will not be rented anymore, and many leases that have not expired are willing to return the shop in advance, because after two comparisons, it is still a good deal for Gu Yuqi. Therefore, the rent has been rising year after year, and the bosses are unwilling to sign long leases with the merchants in order to make money. They sign every year to facilitate price increases.
Gu Yuqi had investigated these situations in advance, so she issued the notice in a targeted manner.
When the notice was issued, she had already agreed with Li Da that if the bosses of Fangshi came to make trouble, he would come forward to talk.
After all, Gu Yuqi is just a young girl, and such words are light in this group of men.
Li Da was not in a hurry, according to Gu Yuqi's order beforehand, someone brought chairs, and the bosses on the opposite side all sat down.
Although those bosses were very angry, they couldn't stand the backstage of others, so they could only bite the bullet and sit down to negotiate with Li Da.
Gu Yuqi's solution is very simple, let those bosses invest in the plan to transform the city. As long as they are willing to take out the land in their hands to participate in the shares, Gu Yuqi will pay for the rest of the renovation costs. The original ownership of the transformed street is still theirs, but other things, such as how to use it, are up to Gu Yuqi.
When these bosses hear it, is there such a good thing? They all looked at each other in blank dismay, none of them believing their ears. You heard me right, what's the difference between this and a pie in the sky. They were looking at the streets behind them, imagining that their dilapidated houses and the dirty and narrow streets in front of them had become the momentum and appearance behind them, no matter how they thought about it, they felt like they were dreaming just now.
Seeing everyone's faces, Li Da knew that Gu Yuqi's next plan was basically going to succeed. He really convinced Gu Yuqi's mind. How come there are so many ghost ideas coming out, each of which is making a lot of money.
If Gu Yuqi's plan can be carried out successfully, there will probably be a copper coin falling in front of his eyes in the future, and he won't even bother to bend down to pick it up, because the time he bends over makes much more money than that copper coin.
What Gu Yuqi borrowed was only the modern commercial real estate operation model, which seemed to her a common thing, but in ancient times, it was unheard of.
General Li explained Gu Yuqi's plan in detail, and the bosses began counting with their fingers.
"Do you want to bring some abacus?" Li Da looked at them with a smile, and asked steadily.
"Okay." Someone really nodded.
Li Da had also prepared for it a long time ago, and really asked Zhao Wu to take a few abacus and hand it over to the bosses.
Some of the abacus masters did well, and Perak Bala kept fiddling with the abacus. After some calculations, they all had happy faces.
"Is what brother Li said true?" Someone asked tentatively.
"Of course it is true, even more true than pearls!" Li Da laughed.
Those few bosses got together and chatted for a while, and finally a leader came out and clasped Li Dayi's fists, "We brothers made a plan and followed Brother Li!"
Li Da was so forthright with the arrogance he said, he immediately stood up and clasped his fists at everyone, "Then let's find a place to talk about it in detail!"
What Gu Yuqi meant was that it was right for them to participate in the shares, but they were not allowed to participate in all subsequent operations, and instead distributed dividends according to the amount of land each family produced.
These bosses are renting houses to get the rent, so naturally they don't care how you run the business, as long as you have money to collect it at that time. But you can't talk like this when talking. Gu Yuqi wants to let Li Day tell the bosses what the transformed Fangshi looks like and what functions it does.
The bosses were all dumbfounded, and they didn't recover until Li Da finished speaking.
It turned out that according to the idea of taking care of Yuqi, the original square market would be changed into a food and entertainment street, and singing and dancing workshops would also be added.
This Kuizhou is the junction of the Three Kingdoms, and there are a lot of merchants. Now it is not prosperous because of the poor conditions. After Gu Yuqi's transformation, it will be different. If the city becomes clean and tidy, open a few more A good inn and a restaurant that combines delicious food from various countries, plus musicians and dancers from all over the world are invited in the singing and dancing workshop, so how can the business not be good
If the current street serves as a throwing brick to attract jade, then the street in Fangshi is the rope that binds merchants from all over the world to Kuizhou.
The current street ownership is all owned by Gu Yuqi, but she only rents out, collects rent, and does not participate in the operation of the store, and the new square city that is about to be built is owned by the original owner, and Gu Yuqi personally sends people to manage it. Two streets, two different models, will make Gu Yuqi a lot of money.
As long as these two streets can be successfully operated, Kuizhou will become the most prosperous commercial and trade center in this area, slowly attracting all the surrounding merchants, and then Gu Yuqi will gradually use other streets in different ways. After transformation, in the near future, Kuizhou will become the most important town in the Northland.
This is what Gu Yuqi first showed Li Da. Li Da is now running towards this goal.
Li Da was talking outside, and Gu Yuqi sat inside and listened quietly. Before he knew it, it was noon, and the conversation with Li Da went smoothly. Inviting Li Da to dinner, Li Da did not refuse, and followed, and Gu Yuqi walked out of the back room.
"Miss, shall we go back home?" Zhao Wu asked after him.
"Well, let's go back." Gu Yuqi nodded.
They had just walked down the stairs when they saw Bai Fu running over in a panic, "Miss, something is wrong!"
"What's wrong?" Gu Yuqi only felt a sudden depression in her heart, which made her feel a little dizzy. She supported the stairs with one hand, and a very ominous premonition hit her. What's wrong with her? I had this restless feeling early in the morning.
"Ma'am... something happened to Ma'am!" Bai Fu took a deep breath and said.
Gu Yuqi felt her body sway slightly, her eyes darkened, and she almost fell down the stairs, "What's the matter, madam?" She tried her best to stabilize her mind, and asked quickly.
"Madam and Master Hou went to ride horses in the suburbs, and just now I saw Master Hou's guards running back in a panic, saying that something happened to Master Hou and Madam," Bai Fu said urgently.
"What the hell happened!" Gu Yuqi felt that her liver and gallbladder were splitting, and even her breathing became short of breath. She walked down the stairs quickly, grabbed Bai Fu's arm, and wished she could bury her fingers into her flesh. middle.
"Master Hou fell off his horse and broke his leg." Bai Fu said, "Ma'am..." Her words kept flickering, and she didn't dare to look at Gu Yuqi.
"Say!" Gu Yuqi was about to die of panic!
"Madam's horse was startled and threw Madam to the ground. Madam is now unconscious." After Bai Fu finished speaking, he found that his arm was loosened, and Gu Yuqi's men had already rushed far away.
"Where is Madam now?" Gu Yuqi asked while running outside.
"The madam has been carried back to the mansion." Bai Fu immediately chased after her and said.
Gu Yuqi didn't know what was going on in her mind anymore, she just felt that her mind was blank, only five big characters were flying impressively, something happened to her mother.
She has no time to think about why the accident happened, but she can't wait to go back to the mansion immediately. She is really afraid. She stole her mother's life. No wonder she is always restless these days and will be haunted every night. , especially today, she has been feeling her heart beating faster than usual.
She only left for one morning, how could such a big thing happen
Why is the horse startled? Could it be Gu Huaizhong's trick
She no longer has the heart to take care of these, she just wants to see Liang Huaiyu the first time.
When Gu Yuqi returned to Liang Mansion, several sedan chairs had already parked at the gate of Liang Mansion.
The officials of Kuizhou also got the news that Dingyuanhou fell off his horse and injured himself, and rushed to Liang Mansion one after another.
"Where's my mother?" Gu Yuqi grabbed a servant from the mansion and asked anxiously.