It was just after noon at this time, and it was far from the business hours of the sensual industry, so the whole song was quiet.
The carriage stopped in front of a courtyard gate with no signboard and a slightly dilapidated appearance.
After King Jin took King Chu out of the car, he covered his face with a fan and went straight into the courtyard.
"Third brother, do you have any creditors here?" Zhu Zhen asked strangely.
"Yes, and there are many." Zhu sighed, pretending to be serious and said: "Oh, you don't understand. A man like Third Brother only owes one kind of debt, but it is also the most difficult to repay."
"Oh." Zhu Zhen nodded, thinking that it must be the third brother, who said "many acquaintances" in such a refined way.
"Hurry in, if we are discovered, we won't be able to do our business." Zhu said and pulled Lao Liu into the yard.
Zhu Zhen was complaining crazily in his heart, "How can you come to a place like this to do serious business? How can you come to a place like this to do serious business?"
When I walked in, I found that it was a mess inside, with broken tables and chairs piled up in the yard, and a group of people were clearing garbage from the building into the yard.
He was surprised to find that the people doing the work were actually members of the Hong family class.
The boys in the Hong family class also saw the two His Royal Highnesses, and quickly dropped what they were doing, kowtowed one after another, and said hello to His Highness the King of Chu.
"Okay, are you all here too?" Zhu Zhen greeted them with a smile. He had been working together in Hong's class for so long, so he still had some feelings for these guys.
"His Royal Highness Prince Jin called us here." Shen Liu Niang's slightly hoarse, yet strangely charming voice sounded.
"Yeah, Liu Niang is here too." Zhu Zhen smiled and greeted her.
"Meet your Highness." Liu Niang walked out of the building swayingly, smiling and saying a blessing to Lao Liufu.
"Your face is healed. Yes, your skin is much whiter and tenderer. The old doctor really didn't brag." Zhu Zhen looked at her with relief.
"Well, she is no longer a stewed egg." King Jin never knew what it meant to cherish a fragrant woman and cherish a jade, so he laughed at her happily and said, "She has turned into a peeled egg."
"Actually, some hair has grown." Liu Niang helplessly held up the gauze hat on her head. "But I still can't see it. I wear it all day now."
"The days are long, and they will always grow up." Zhu Zhen comforted her with a smile. He thought to himself, now it should be a kiwi fruit...
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After the greetings, Zhang Hu urged everyone to continue working, while Shen Liu Niang led the two highnesses to the backyard.
The backyard is very large, and there is a rockery pond, but it has been in disrepair and the vegetation has grown wildly. It is a mess and has no sense of beauty at all.
The three of them followed the only manicured path and entered a monastery surrounded by a bamboo fence.
The crooked fence looked like it had just been put up. The inside had only been cleaned up and a few tables and chairs put in.
"If your two highnesses had come yesterday, they would have had to drink water in the courtyard." Shen Liu Niang sat the two of them down and turned around to make tea.
"Third brother, what are you doing?" Zhu Zhen looked at the third brother in confusion. Ximen Qing opened a store for Pan Jinlian? It's not like the beauty is hidden in the golden house.
"What else can we do?" Zhu said: "Of course it is to complete the mission of father.
"Didn't my father ask me to collect private information?" He explained to Lao Liu:
"After I went back, I thought about it over and over. In fact, there are only two ways. One is to cast a wide net among the people, catch those local snakes and inquirers, and let them provide information to the king."
"Yeah, that makes sense." Zhu Zhen nodded. Not to mention, when the third brother wasn't being ridiculous, he still felt a bit like the boss.
"As for this, I will find a way. But there is a problem. Those local snakes and snoops can hardly serve only me. If they are used by others to do some counter-intuitive schemes, third brother, I will have a lot of fun.
?”
"Well, intelligence pollution is a big problem." Zhu Zhen nodded again.
"Intelligence pollution? This word is very accurate." Lao San agreed and accepted it. "So we have to walk on two legs to create our own intelligence source.
"But the cost of casting a wide net in that way is too high, and I can't afford to support so many idle people. So I have to change to casting bait for fishing." He continued:
"For example, if I open a teahouse or restaurant, and let others come to me, wouldn't it be much easier to collect information?"
"But what do ordinary people know? If you want to obtain useful information, you have to start from people who have a certain status, wealth and power. Therefore, ordinary teahouses and restaurants are not enough. You must choose the best prime location and build it.
We have to build the highest-grade restaurants and brothels!
"You have to invite the most famous courtesans and hire the best troupe! The decoration, service, food and wine, and the environment all have to be the best! In particular, you have to pay attention to privacy! Only in this way can you attract the rich and powerful
People who come here are willing to discuss things with us!"
"Oh." Zhu Zhen nodded. "But what does this have to do with my little kid?"
"Stop talking to Third Brother about 'narcissus not blooming - pretending to be garlic'." Zhu pulled the stool in front of Zhu Zhen and said with a smile, face to face:
"I am your third brother who is more beautiful than Pan An and has a sharper eye! I have long understood that you, the sixth brother, may look naive and silly, but in your heart you are actually a ghost. You are especially good at doing tricks.
Information!"
"I, engage in intelligence?" Zhu Zhen said speechlessly, where did he start with this?
"Then who heard about King Ming's plan to flood the Seventh Army?" Zhu put his arms around Zhu Zhen's neck and laughed softly:
"And who designed that toilet listening device?"
"Fourth brother..."
"Come on. I have been fighting with him for more than ten years. Do you know how much good stuff he has in his belly?" Zhu Zhen simply didn't give Zhu Zhen a chance to hide his clumsiness. He just asked:
"Brother, please help Third Brother and design this place for me so that I can eavesdrop on the conversations in all rooms."
"You are so perverted." Zhu Zhen said speechlessly for a while.
"Well, isn't it all to share the worries of the father?" Zhu said with a loyal and filial look on his face. Then he did not forget to draw the cake and said: "Besides, the third brother will go to the feudal lord in a few years to set up this stall.
, didn’t it give you an advantage in the end?”
"How can you take advantage of me?"
"Who do you think among our brothers can take over from me?" Zhu said calmly.
"Fourth brother."
"The fourth child is only one year younger than me. My father asked him to take over, and later he had to find someone to take over. How could he be asking for trouble?" Zhu said in a deep voice, "So it's just you."
"It's not necessarily the prince who has to take care of this matter." Zhu Zhen said.
"No, it will definitely happen. The situation will become more and more tense in the future. At this time, our ears and eyes must not be deceived. So my father has no choice but to rely on us." The frivolous look on Zhu's face disappeared, and his expression
Seriously:
"Do you know where such a big place came from?"
"Where did it come from?"
"Father gave it to me." Zhu Shen said in a deep voice: "At first, he didn't want me to start such a big thing from the beginning. I said that I was going to let you be my deputy. When I take over the throne, you will take over, and he agreed.
