Being able to serve as a secretary in charge of ancient and modern scriptures, historical records, astronomical calendars, etc. may be an extremely noble job, but Zhu Zhi was miserable. He felt dizzy every day when he came back from working in the secretary's office.
Brain swelling, physical and mental exhaustion.
However, as he reaches his thirties, he needs to shoulder his due responsibilities and can no longer act willfully, and he still reaches out to the mansion to ask for family income from time to time.
Zhu Zhi returned to the house that day, and the maid brought a plate of watermelon that had been treated with well water. He sat on the porch, looking at some debris piled up in the narrow courtyard, and wanted to clean it up, but he heard someone shouting in the yard.
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"Brother, brother! Have you ever come back?"
Zhu Zhi looked up and saw her second brother Zhu Tong walking in swaggeringly dressed as a short player with his hand on the shoulder knife on his waist.
"My eldest brother really enjoyed the watermelon from Jingshui Town when he came back from the Yamen!"
Zhu Tong grabbed a piece of watermelon and took a few bites, letting the cold air flow into his heart and spleen, and he exclaimed that he was happy.
Only then did Zhu Zhi notice that the hem of Zhu Tong's clothes was stained with blood. He pointed and frowned and asked, "What's going on? Where did you go to stir up trouble?"
"That's what you said,"
Only then did Zhu Tong notice that there were still blood stains on his clothes that had not been washed off, and he smiled and said,
"Feng Yue Lou's business has been booming these days, but he doesn't want to be jealous of Yang Chengbiao. He thinks that Fengyue Lou is suppressing his family's business, and he also bullies the Zhu family to be different from the past. In recent days, he has encouraged dozens of young people to go to Feng Yue Lou.
There was trouble in the Yue Tower. I tolerated them for many days, but today I couldn't hold it in any longer. I took Lu Jing and others to Fengyue Tower to sit down, and I caught those green-skinned people and dealt with them severely..."
"You didn't suffer any loss, did you?"
Zhu Zhi sighed slightly and looked at Zhu Tong several times. She felt relieved when she saw that except for a few inconspicuous blood stains on his clothes, he didn't seem to be injured anywhere.
Zhu Zhi officially served in the DPRK very early, and was once sent to Hualing County as the county magistrate.
Although Zhu Zhi later obeyed the order of his father Zhu Hang and gave up his official position as magistrate of Hualing County and returned to Jianye in order to draw a clear line with Jingxiang, his official position was still there, and he successfully filled his vacancy in the Secretary's Supervision last year.
However, Zhu Tong stayed with Zhu Hang all the time, not because he was lazy, but mainly because Zhu Hang won the late emperor's trust in his early years, and the burden on his shoulders was very heavy, and he needed close relatives to handle official affairs.
Ordinarily, Zhu Tong had no merit but hard work. It was natural to directly fill the official vacancy when he reached a certain age. However, after Emperor Shaolong succeeded to the throne, the officials did not recognize this account and believed that Zhu Zhi had already taken advantage of Zhu Jia Enyin's selection of officials.
quota, Zhu Tong could not directly serve as an official without taking the imperial examination.
Zhu Hang was now appointed as the Minister of Honglu Temple, and his work was very free. He only needed Lu Wenhu and others to take care of him. Zhu Tong spent some time in the house and saw hundreds of mouths inside and outside Zhu's house. He only relied on Zhu Zhi and his father Zhu Hanger.
His salary was low and life was in embarrassment, so he scraped together some capital to buy Fengyue Real Estate, which had the right to sell liquor, and supplied liquor to 300 liquor stores in Yangjiaqiao and Shuijinqiao areas.
Dai Viet implements a sales quota system for brewing. In prefectures, counties and localities, the government-run liquor sales office mainly controls the sales of distiller’s yeast. All winemakers, restaurants and restaurants need to purchase distiller’s yeast from the government-run liquor sales office to make wine.
As a new capital city, Jianye had a huge consumption of alcoholic beverages, and the system for purchasing alcoholic beverages was different from that of other places.
In addition to allowing private households to purchase koji from the government-run liquor service and brew privately, the wine shops (especially small restaurants and small restaurants) in Jianye City and its surrounding areas are prohibited from brewing privately.
Two main stores buy and sell wine.
These twelve main stores, also known as the Twelfth Floor, in addition to operating dine-in restaurants in the main hall, are more like liquor wholesalers, but they need to pay a certain liquor tax to the liquor department every year, also known as buying money.
In order to make up for the shortage of military resources in recent years, the imperial court, like other taxes, levied extremely heavy wine taxes.
The 12th floor won the wine monopoly right in Jianye City and the Fujiao area, but it was not a sure profit. It was also common for some owners with poor management to sell their wine properties.
After Zhu Tong took over Fengyue Tower, he put a lot of thought into improving the brewing recipe and improving the restaurant's operation. In addition to the booming dine-in business, the wholesale wine business also gradually became prosperous.
Although the Liquor Service has designated areas for the wholesale and sales of alcohol in each official store, it cannot eliminate the private buying and selling of alcoholic beverages in private stores, not to mention that drinkers are more sensitive to the quality of wine and their choices.
Fengyuelou's increasingly prosperous business has naturally aroused the jealousy of its peers.
And behind the twelfth floor, who doesn’t have a profound background?
The Yang Chengbiao Zhu Tong was talking about not only had an elder brother who was a tong magistrate in Jianye Prefecture, but also had a younger sister who became a concubine in the palace. He was actually a new noble in Vietnam.
Yang Chengbiao himself was incompetent and did not seek a serious official position, but doing business in Dai Viet Dynasty was not a shameful thing. However, the Ying Chun Tower he ran was quite different from Fengyue Tower, and his business was severely suppressed by Fengyue Tower.
Yang Chengbiao tolerated it for a while at first, thinking that Zhu's family was a relative of the emperor after all, and Zhu Hang's prestige in the court was also deep. However, as the business became more and more dilapidated, the good cornucopia had to be poured in hundreds of dollars a day to barely maintain it.
Yang Chengbiao couldn't bear it anymore and started to have evil thoughts.
Of course, other people would not dare to take the initiative to provoke Fengyue Tower, who was standing behind Zhu Mansion, but Yang Chengbiao knew very well that Zhu Hang, who had an unclear relationship with Jingxiang, was always disliked by Emperor Shaolong, and was even taken advantage of by Shaolong at every turn.
Emperor looked for an opportunity to strike.
Zhu Zhi had previously advised Zhu Tong to temper his temper, but he didn't expect Yang Chengbiao to instigate people to come and make trouble. He couldn't help but frown deeply, worried that Zhu Tong and the others would suffer a loss.
"Those green skins are just looking at the strength of the people." Zhu Tong thought of how he beat dozens of green skins to pieces today, and couldn't help but burst into laughter and said, "Brother, you haven't seen my majesty today.
Thirty or forty green men came to the door and tried to bluff them, but Lu Jing and I beat them and fled!"
In the past, when they were in Bianliang, the Zhu Mansion had thousands of servants, and Zhu Zhi and Zhu Tong would always support them when they came in and out. Now, it seems that the Zhu Mansion still has fifty or sixty servants, but they need people to take care of them inside and outside the mansion.
, the old lady, Princess Rongle, Zhu Hang all need people to take care of them, Fengyue Tower also needs fixed manpower to manage, Zhu Tong usually only has two or three people, Lu Jing, following him.
However, Lu Jing was the son of Lu Wenhu. Although he had never led an army on the battlefield, he had traveled around with Zhu Hang, Zhu Zhi and the others over the years, and had close interactions with the masters in the army. His martial arts training had already advanced to a certain level.
When Zhu Hang was the Yin of Jianye Prefecture before Zhu Hang, the bodyguards around him were always Lu Wenhu. Lu Jing and his son were responsible for commanding them. Whether it was martial arts or group fights, how could the street green skins be as good as them?
Zhu Tong was also fond of martial arts and disliked literature since childhood. In his early years, he
(This chapter is not finished yet, please turn the page) Lanzhou was dealt with a lot by Xu Huai, and he had to work hard over the years to survive.
There were three or five people on the side, and Shan Zhutong and Lu Jing joined forces to beat thirty or forty green-skinned bastards to a pulp. Zhu Zhi was not surprised, and was even worried that their attacks were too heavy, and that it would be difficult to end the matter for fear of injuring people's lives.
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"It's nothing serious. Lu Jing took a whistle stick when he took action, and my sword was not unsheathed," Zhu Tong said, patting the sword on his waist. "It's not like killing enemies on the battlefield. How can these green-skinned bastards be worth it?"
Is this knife out of its sheath? Brother, you don’t have to worry about anything happening!"
Seeing that Zhu Tong understood his worries, Zhu Zhi also looked dark and said in a low voice: "Now is no different than before. His Majesty is very afraid of his father. We can't make it difficult for him..."
"We have been so restrained in the past few years and have no contact with Beijing and Xiangxiang. What should we be afraid of?" Thinking of this, Zhu Tong was also filled with depression.
Although he was just a dandy in Bianliang City in his early years, and did a lot of bullying of men and women, but after traveling around these years and seeing too much suffering after the fall of Hehuai, his ambition has long been dissatisfied with running a wealthy business.
Moon Tower.
However, the Zhu family was deeply feared by the new emperor. Not only was he unable to become an official, his father Zhu Hang was kicked out to preside over Honglu Temple, and Zhu Zhi was also kicked out to the secretarial prison where a group of sour scholars gathered, dealing with a vast sea of laws and historical records all day long.
The day is miserable.
Even though they were like this, they still had to be cautious in everything, for fear of breaking a taboo. With Zhu Tong's temper, how could he feel happy?
Zhu Zhi knew what Zhu Tong wanted to say, waved her hand, interrupted his complaint and said: "Father has his own difficulties. There are some chains that we cannot break free of if we want to..."
"Is there any chain that can't be broken off?" Today's fight made the blood in his heart that had been suppressed for a long time boil. Zhu Tong said, "Facts have long proved that if it weren't for Jingxiang and Xiang, they would have become a group of their own. With the person in the palace,
With a big heart, last autumn and winter, could Ru Cai withstand the attack of 300,000 Japanese soldiers?"
"..." Zhu Zhi shook his head and sighed bitterly, and said to Zhu Tong, "I have a rest tomorrow. I just have to go to Fengyue Tower to see how your business is going."
"There's no need to wait until tomorrow. Let's go to Fengyue Tower for a drink now - we will beat thirty or forty green skins away today, and we need to hold a celebration banquet to boost morale!" Zhu Tong stood up and pulled Zhu Zhi to stand up, and walked to Fengyue Tower together.
go.
But he didn't want the Qingpi who was making trouble in the afternoon to be beaten away. Yang Chengbiao, who was hiding behind the scenes, refused to give up. At night, he asked the steward to take a few gangsters bribed by the government to go out, together with the dozens of Qingpi who usually helped in Yingchun Tower.
The bastard came to the door again with a knife and a stick to kill him.
Zhu Tong pulled Zhu Zhi, Lu Jing and a group of others to drink in Fengyue Tower, which really annoyed the gang. After drinking too much wine, he became even more merciless. He gave away the hands and feet of dozens of green skins on the street.
Call someone to report it to the official.
A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Even though Yang Debiao's brother is the general magistrate of Jianye Mansion and his sister is a concubine, Zhu Hang is the minister of Honglu Temple and Princess Ronngle is the only remaining royal relative. As long as no key figures are injured
, the government office was also indifferent when receiving the case.
The government office would neither show Zhu Tong who hurt others with his hands, nor arrest Qingpi who caused trouble. Zhu Tong thought that the matter would be over, but he didn't want to send a memorial impeaching the Zhu brothers for running a cheap business and bullying the market, and many other letters.
A secret report that was unfavorable to the Zhu family was quietly delivered to Emperor Shaolong's desk...
