Chapter 285 Can’t afford to offend (2)(1/2)
In this list, the least valuable thing is the 9,900 taels of silver and 999 taels of gold.
Whether it is a tea garden, a salt pond, a salt well, or even a manor, a hunting ground with 300 acres of paddy fields, they are all without any place to buy it. These things are all the military meritorious officials of the founding of the Ming Dynasty and rely on their family inheritance.
Li Jinglong's sincerity is truly sincere. Even though the Li family is known for its wealth, it has bleed a lot this time, which has damaged its vitality.
"Boss..." Zhu Gaosui's eyes rolled, "Come..."
Zhu Gaochi turned his head and frowned at the third brother, "Do you think you should take it?"
"I..." Zhu Gaosui looked at the booklet in his hand again, "This... is it a pleading thing, right?"
As he was talking, he felt a chill on his hands.
But it was the gift list that was snatched by Zhu Gaochi.
Then Zhu Gaochi didn't even look at it and threw it to the butler, and said, "Go to the warehouse and pick ten best sable furs, ten east beads, and ten best ginseng..."
Speaking of this, I dialed the gift list in my hand, "Take it to Duke Cao's mansion with this."
"Uncle..." The housekeeper didn't understand why.
"Hmm?" Zhu Gaochi looked straight.
"Young guy, go here!" said the housekeeper hurriedly.
"Remember!" Zhu Gaochi solemnly ordered, "If you leave at his door, you will say that you are alone in your favor. Don't say more about the next sentence!"
"The villain understands!"
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"No...Boss..."
Zhu Gaosui jumped up and asked anxiously, "Why? It's okay if you don't take his stuff, but you're going to pay him?"
"It's not that I pay you back, I'm rewarding him!" Zhu Gaochi snorted coldly.
"Is that different?"
"Different..." Zhu Gaochi's eyes twitched and he sneered, "I admired him!"
At this moment, the housekeeper hurried over again, "Uncle, Third Master, Twelve Princes are here?"
"What did he do so late?" Zhu Gaochi frowned.
The housekeeper bowed and whispered, "I guess he is here to ask for money again. He came to you a few days ago. Are you going to rebuild the sect for the men of the royal family?... He also said that there are several little princes and princesses who are at the age of getting married... and they need to prepare betrothal gifts and dowry!"
Upon hearing this, Zhu Gaochi sighed.
Zhu Gaosui on the side had his eyes circling around and had a bad idea in his heart.
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It was late at night, and Li Jinglong looked at the things Zhu Gaochi sent in the doorman, and his eyelids kept jumping.
Others don’t care about anything outside.
Not only is it not rare, but people also clearly told him that the things in your Li family are rewarded by my Zhu family. I have what you have, but there are not as many as you. But I have, you definitely don’t have them because you are not qualified enough.
Just like the winter pearl in Liaodong, it was a royal object dedicated to the Ming Dynasty royal family as a tribute. Only princes, princes and princesses can use it.
"Li Jiujiang, Li Jiujiang, your reputation for life has fallen into today!"
Li Jinglong secretly hated in his heart, "What are you angry with him? Let him hurt you a few words, can you lose a piece of meat or can you die?"
He knew in his heart that he had done this revenge with Zhu Gaochi.
In fact, just offending Zhu Gaochi, he is not afraid!
But today the emperor has not expressed his opinion on this matter, which makes him feel trembling.
Today's incident also made him see some signs. No matter how good Zhu Gaochi is, his surname is Zhu, and no matter how good he is, his surname is Li Jinglong, his surname is Li!
I'm afraid there's still some trouble!
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All night, Li Jinglong tossed and turned and couldn't sleep like a pancake.
The next morning, I changed into a python robe, carefully put the order that I apologized to Zhu Gaochi yesterday in my arms, and got on the carriage and drove towards the Forbidden City.
The carriage shook slightly, and Li Jinglong in the carriage closed his eyes and rested, taking advantage of the breaks of the road to drive away the tiredness of his body.
But as soon as I walked out for a stick of incense, the carriage suddenly stopped.
"Master!" Li Xiaowai, who followed outside the carriage, stood at the entrance of the carriage and whispered, "Someone blocked the road?"
"Who?" Li Jinglong lifted the curtain and was suddenly surprised.
Not far away, just on the road, a group of knights were wandering leisurely in the middle of the road, blocking Li Jinglong's carriage and horses tightly.
"Why is he here?"
Li Jinglong said in his heart.
The leader immediately came over there, but was the idle twelve princes in Beijing, the Hunan King Zhu Bai.
"Take a detour!"
Li Jinglong frowned and waved.
It’s no good for Night Owl to enter the house. Besides, the twelfth prince has never had a good temper. He is almost crazy when he stays in the capital. If you don’t mess with him, he will find a way to mess with you.
It is said that last month, he blocked his son-in-law Hu Guan in Guanglu Temple and did not dare to come out.
He is the emperor's uncle. As long as he does not involve disputes in the court or struggles with power, even if he deliberately relies on his identity to make trouble, the emperor can only pretend that he has closed his eyes and has not seen it.
Besides, no one is idle, so I took these things to the emperor and talked about them.
The Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty, there are not many princes who need to install a storefront now! How many more deaths will the emperor still have a reputation?
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However, Li Jinglong had the intention to give in, but Zhu Bo deliberately made more and more demanding.
"Whose car driver?"
Zhu Bo's big horse rushed over with a group of personal soldiers.
In the sun, the prince was wearing a red embroidered gold dragon robe, looking majestic and full of royal power.
Li Jinglong couldn't see it, so he could only smile and bow, "Secretary Li Jinglong, I have met the twelve princes..."
"It's you!" Zhu Bai smiled casually immediately, and then his face suddenly became cold the next second, "Duke Cao is so majestic! I haven't gotten off the car after seeing this king. Do you remember the Ming Dynasty's rule?"
Li Jinglong's heart skipped a beat.
When the Ming Dynasty saw the prince, the civil servants got out of the sedan chair and the military officers got off the horse and kowtowed, otherwise they would be disrespectful.
Li Jinglong felt helpless, tidied up his robe, came out of the carriage, saluted respectfully, "Secretary Li Jinglong, see King Xiang Qiansui!"
Zhu Bo raised his chin and squinted his eyes as he was on the horse, "Where is your hat?"
"Hmm?" Li Jinglong was stunned.
Then he quickly got up, returned to the carriage and brought the crown belt, and saluted again.
"Have you got up?" Zhu Bai said angrily again.
"This..." Li Jinglong was also angry and said loudly, "The official is anxious to meet the saint and loses his etiquette for a moment..."
"Oh, you can block the lonely road by going to meet the saint?" Zhu Bai sneered, "If you don't walk so many roads, do you have to block the lonely road? Do you think that a lonely prince is easy to bully?"
"Your Majesty is such a bad word!" Li Jinglong said, "It's not that the official blocks your way, who blocks your way..."
As he was talking, a cold light flashed.
A snap!
Zhu Bai whipped it directly from a high point, and fell on Li Jinglong's crown belt without any bias.
He felt a chill on his head, and then he saw the crown belt scattered all over the ground.
"Prince, what do you mean?" Li Jinglong laughed furiously.
"What do you mean?" Zhu Bai sneered, "Even if Gu is a idle prince, he is also the biological son of Emperor Taizu Gao. Although you, Duke Cao, have inherited your inheritance, you are just relying on your father and grandfather to have the playboy today!"
"I have beaten you, so what about you?" As he said that, Zhu Bo leaned over immediately, "You go to the emperor to sue me?" Then, Zhu Bo laughed again, "Say I bullied you for no reason, beat you and scold you! Let the emperor punish Gu, and Gu wants to see if the surname Zhu or Li in the world is?"
Li Jinglong clenched his fists, his face slightly ferocious.
"Oh, I feel wronged! I feel wronged!" Zhu Bai continued to laugh, "I have never suffered such grievances since I was a child, right? Is it a bad feeling to be bullied?" As he said, he immediately smiled, "Oh, it's because I am not good. I apologize to you, how about it?"
Now that things have come to this point, Li Jinglong can't even know the intention of King Xiang.
He came to vent his anger on his eldest nephew Zhu Gaochi!
"Qiansui is joking!" Li Jinglong was also able to bend and stretch out, and said with a smile, "The official also wants to meet the saint..."
"Have you got up?" Zhu Bai looked at Li Jinglong coldly at the sidelines, "The ceremony of the Ming Dynasty was originally decided by the emperor. Don't you want to abide by it?"
"I dare not!" Li Jinglong said with his head down.
"Tell me, what should I do if you block the lonely road?" Zhu Bai asked again.
To be continued...