The departure of Hu County Magistrate was miserable and tragic. All his lovely wives and beautiful family members were slaves. The floors were pried open in search of hidden property. Almost none of the conditions promised by the prefect were fulfilled. In the end, it was Zhao Guanren who spent the money.
When he was buried, no relatives or friends dared to come to pay their respects.
"The young master is back!"
Jade Lady stood at the gate to greet her, curiously looking 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 in my study."
, she can move around anywhere else she wants!"
"Oh! Hello Sister Luo, I am the eldest girl of the slave family..."
Yu Niang laughed unsuspectingly. Luo Tan was also a woman with high emotional intelligence. She immediately took out a silver bracelet as a greeting gift. The status of concubines in wealthy families was not high. A single bachelor like Zhao Guanren would naturally live in the house.
It is the eldest girl who has the highest status.
"Master! Zhang Tiansheng has sent people to look for him..."
Yu Niang caught up with her and said: "The slave family paid off his debt according to your instructions and gave him the house in the east gate. Zhang Tiansheng had already picked up the old lady in the afternoon, and the three girls followed him to wait on him. He explained
Come back tomorrow and thank you!"
"You let the third girl watch. If Zhang Tiansheng dares to gamble again, I will break his legs..."
Zhao Guanren walked into the pavilion expressionlessly. He was a little unhappy about the death of Hu County Cheng, but a table of sumptuous dishes had been prepared, and two fat girls were standing among them, ready to serve.
"Oops~"
Luo Tan sat on the stone bench and said with a smile: "After five years of working as a servant, I either served others or took care of myself. I can finally be a young mistress and be taken care of by others!"
"Stand up! You sit down before I even sit down. Do you understand the rules..."
Zhao Guanren scolded him angrily, and Luo Tan quickly jumped up in embarrassment, walked up behind him and rubbed his shoulders, and Zhao Guanren said again: "Yu Niang! You all go to the door and wait, and tell the owner of 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 have been wandering around all day, except for treating the poison and not investigating the source of the poison. What will you say if Chen Qianhu asks?
ah?"
"You don't need to say anything about this. There is a guard in white behind the wall of the east courtyard. Go and break his legs..."
Zhao Guanren pursed his lips slightly. Luo Tan was startled at first. After a slight hesitation, he took the wine bottle and lowered his head to the east courtyard. After a while, he heard screams and a black shadow jumped out of the courtyard wall in embarrassment.
, and even sprinkled a trail of blood in the air.
"Master Zhao! The villain is here..."
Han Dongsheng was suddenly led over by Yu Niang, and just as Luo Tan was walking back carrying a severed arm, his expression suddenly changed, but Zhao Guanren waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid! A thief just broke in. I
The female guard went to take care of it!"
"This thief is also blind, and he dares to sneak into the Lord's house..."
Han Dongsheng walked into the pavilion with some fear. Seeing this, Luo Tan stopped coming and walked to the toilet with his broken arm.
"Shopkeeper Han, please take a seat. Let's chat while eating, be more 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 be very profitable, right? Do you know how they operate?
"
"Ningzhou does not produce salt, so naturally there are no big salt merchants. The big salt merchants are all in the Huaiyang area..."
Han Dongsheng replied: "They stationed officials in our county and distributed the coarse and fine salt to various shops, so we are just distributing and can't make a lot of money, but the big salt merchants have to be responsible for transporting the grain to the border.
The Salt Bureau has obtained the salt quota, but ordinary merchants don’t have such ability!"
"Come! Let's have a drink first and eat a few more bites of food..."
Zhao Guanren picked up his wine glass and drank with him. After eating a few peanuts, he asked: "If I want to buy all the salt in Ningzhou Prefecture, how much money will it cost to buy it regardless of the thickness?"
"this……"
Han Dongsheng hesitated and said: "The current purchase price is 45 yuan for a pound of coarse salt, and 120 yuan for a pound of fine fine salt. The whole county must have 200,000 pounds."
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Well, just to cover the salt in our county would cost more than 10,000 taels of silver, and the entire state capital really can’t figure it out!”
"Tsk tsk~"
Zhao Guanren exclaimed: "This salt is really expensive. No wonder the salt merchants are all very wealthy. How many days does it take to transport salt from Huaiyang? Are there many smuggled salt dealers?"
"Sir, do you want to check the illegal salt?"
Han Dongsheng said: "Huaiyang is not far from us, but the salt truck is big and slow. It usually takes six or seven days to travel there. There are also private salt, but we don't dare to sell it blatantly in the city. Generally speaking,
They are all sold secretly in the countryside, and the yamen are very strict about checking them!"
"Go and help me do something, collect all the salt in Ningzhou Prefecture..."
Zhao Guanren smiled and said: "Go to the salt merchant Chaofeng tomorrow morning and tell me that I ordered a large amount of salt from you to treat corpse plague. If you think it is a good profit, you want to prepare more. I will give you 50,000 taels of silver first. If you don't have enough, I will find more."
I'll take it, and I must buy it out of Ningzhou Prefecture and Lantai County!"
"grown ups!"
Han Dongsheng was indeed a businessman. He immediately came to his senses and said nervously: "You, are you trying to drive up the price of salt? This is a crime of decapitation!"
"Nonsense! How can I raise the price of salt? Salt is needed to control the zombie plague..."
Zhao Guanren waved his hand and said: "If the government openly collects salt, the price of salt will definitely rise sharply, and it will be the common people who will suffer. I asked you to collect salt to stabilize the price of salt. You must not let more warehouses be rented to store salt.
Those profiteers succeeded, do you understand?"
"Oops~"
Han Dongsheng stood up excitedly, bowed and said, "I have misunderstood you. Your Majesty is really a good official who makes decisions for the people. Please accept my respect!"
"Sit down! I think you are a real person, so I entrust you with this matter..."
Zhao Guanren pressed his hands and smiled: "But I can't let you work in vain. I will lend you five thousand taels of principal and you can run two workshops. One will make gas masks and gloves, and the other will make rock sugar and alcohol.
I’ll give you the drawings later!”
"Uh~"
Han Dongsheng looked confused and said: "I know about masks and gloves, but what are rock sugar and alcohol?"
"Just do it and I'll guarantee you a huge profit..."
Zhao Guanren said: "I have written all these things in the booklet, as well as a kind of medical gauze and plaster. These are all good things for treating diseases and saving lives. By the way! Are things like gunpowder regulated? Are there any workshops that produce muskets in the county?
"
"The muskets are all old antiques, and the craftsmanship has been lost..."
Han Dongsheng waved his hands and said: "Since Xuan Qi began to spread, muskets have lost their effectiveness on the battlefield. Only iron cannons can be used to defend the city. However, gunpowder cannot be made privately, otherwise it will blow up the neighbors and cause fire. Firecrackers are all government-run
workshop!"
"That's it..."
Zhao Guanren nodded and said: "Introduce me to a reliable blacksmith shop with good technology and honest people. Then you can hire a few more guys. If you want to do big business, you must be willing to spend money. As long as you do a good job."
, I guarantee that you will be the richest man in Lantai in the future!"
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Zhao Guanren chatted with Han Dongsheng until around nine o'clock in the evening, and Han Dongsheng was so excited that he put a stack of drawings close to his body and ran away on a donkey like a thief, with tens of thousands of taels of banknotes in his pocket.
"Master! I am waiting for you to wash up..."
As soon as Zhao Guanren walked into the bedroom, Luo Tan greeted him charmingly. She was wearing a pink gauze dress, which only contained a bright red mandarin duck bellyband and a pair of white panties. Her long hair had been let down, and she had a pair of
The look of a little bird cuddling up to people.
"Sister Luo, just clean yourself. Master, you don't need to worry..."
Yu Niang rushed in from the outside with a fierce look as if she wanted to eat someone. The subtext is clearly that you can do whatever you want, but the young master's daily life can only be taken care of by this girl.
"Haha~ OK! I won't fight with you, big girl..."
Luo Tan covered her mouth and smiled sweetly, and shouted outside: "Fat girl! Come here and help me wash up. Bring me a piece of good soap. It smells great. I feel comfortable using it!"
"I know! Aunt Luo..."
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The fat girl ran in with her things in hand. There was a large screen in the bedroom. You could wash and wash your hands behind the screen, and Zhao Guanren would not be able to see any indecent things.
"Tan'er! I asked you to break his leg, but why did you chop off his hand..."
Zhao Guanren sat on the chair and raised his legs. Yu Niang helped him take off his shoes and socks thoughtfully. Luo Tan squatted behind the screen and said: "The other party is very skilled. I succeeded in sneak attack, but the man was dressed in black and masked."
, how did the master know that he was the white-clothed guard?"
"Nonsense! Who else but the guards in white would dare to sneak into my house and eavesdrop..."
Zhao Guanren peeled off a lychee and fed it to Yu Niang, and asked: "Have you read the inner method? How is it?"
"Oh, please be gentler, you are brushing the pig skin..."
Luo Tan cursed angrily, and then said: "Go back to the master! I have seen it and found that the technique is rare among the people, but from a general perspective, Dashun can only be regarded as a second-rate thing, not as good as the black-clothed guard's library
Woolen cloth!"
"Have you ever heard of a technique 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. The opening chapter was full of bragging and vernacular. If Zhao Ziqiang had no need to lie to him, he would definitely think that
That guy is tricking himself again.
"Of course I know, it's one of the four banned books in this dynasty..."
Luo Tan walked out with his trousers lifted, and said with a smile: "That Kung Fu is a joke. The first three stages are really different, but you can't practice it at all later. If you don't do it right, your Dantian will burst and die. It could have killed you back then."
There are quite a few people here!”
"Where can I see it? I would like to see it..."
Zhao Guanren was filled with doubts. No matter how hateful Zhao Ziqiang was, he would not intentionally kill him.
"Go to the yamen and ask, banned books are confiscated every year..."
Luo Tan got into the bed and took out a white gauze scarf, placed it in the center of the bed and spread it out carefully. Then she climbed onto the bed and lay down on her back a little shyly, showing a charming look that was ready for anyone to pick it up.
Seeing this, Yu Niang also begged: "Master! I also want to sleep with you tonight, is that okay?"
'I'll go find the exercises tomorrow and find out what's wrong...'
Zhao Guanren's eyes rolled and he started to think twice. After casually washing his face, he stood up and said, "Yu Niang! You go and wash up. I'll put your Aunt Luo into sleeping clothes first. I'll call you after she scores twice!"
"Hey! Thank you, Master..."
Yu Niang stood up with the basin in surprise, and said with a glare: "Aunt Luo! We are a wealthy family, you should know the rules, why are you still lying down?"
"Understood! How can I not understand this..."
Luo Tan jumped down and helped Zhao Guanren onto the bed. He knelt down beside the bed and kowtowed and shouted: "My wife, Zhao Luoshi, is here to greet her husband. I wish to serve you for the rest of my life, to spread the branches of the Zhao family and to have heirs. I wish you the best." Much love!"
"Get up! From now on, you are a member of my Zhao family in life, and a ghost of my Zhao family in death. Do you understand..."
Zhao Guanren leaned against the bedside with a shelf. Luo Tan was in awe of him. She climbed onto the bed with a blushing face, leaned down and kissed his feet twice, and then she dared to crawl onto his chest shyly.
'Nima! Chen Dezhi...'
Zhao Guanren suddenly trembled with fright. He unexpectedly found Chen Dezhi jumping on the roof and quietly lifting up a tile to take a peek.
It seemed that Chen Qianhu was worried about Luo Tan and came to supervise him personally, but it was taboo for the guards in black to fool around with their partners.
"alright!"
Zhao Guanren quickly pushed Luo Tan away and winked before saying: "Don't perform any more after everyone has left. You can go to sleep in the small cave. Don't break the rules!"
"Oh~ don't let the servants come in next time, it will be so troublesome to sleep..."
Luo Tan complained cleverly, and quickly climbed onto the couch and turned off the lights to fall asleep. Chen Dezhi waited for a while and then secretly left. If Zhao Guanren hadn't possessed the soul-chasing eye, no one would have discovered it with this guy's skills.
"He's gone, come here and lick your feet first..."