Chapter 41 Lao Tzu is back
Ma Cheng almost sprayed his blood when he heard Ma Shun say this. A pound of sugar costs less than a cent of silver, but you have to sell it for three taels. It’s not as fast as you robbing money!
"Ma Shun, can you sell so expensively? "Ma Cheng is very optimistic about the price Ma Shun said.
"Second Master, the villain is probably a bit low. After all, we are wholesale. If the buy is too expensive, we will not leave a living room for the retail end! So the villain can order a three-liang!"
Ma Cheng looked at Ma Shun's promise that there was no problem, and he frowned and asked, "Can you really sell it so expensive in Nanjing?"
"Second Master, of course, ordinary people don't need so much to use for daily use. The villain plans to deliver goods to major snack shops in Nanjing. Second Master, our sugar has no impurities at all. All kinds of snacks made by those snack shops will definitely be as white as jade, and there will definitely be no worries about sales. There are also major families in Nanjing and Suzhou and Hangzhou, as well as big salt merchants in Yangzhou. They will never ask about the price of sugar. They only recognize whether it is good or not!"
Ma Cheng was right to hear Ma Shun say this. His imagination was limited by poverty. Later, a rich second-generation dog stained the Ferrari's seat. He thought of changing cars directly. Thinking of Ma Cheng, he felt that he was a loser and could not imagine the life of a rich man, so Ma Cheng no longer asked about pricing. Just leave this kind of sales to professionals.
Ma Cheng nodded and patted Ma Shun on the shoulder and said, "Ma Shun, you have done a good job. In the future, after the Second Master gets married, you come over and be a housekeeper for the Second Master!"
Ma Shun was overjoyed when he heard Ma Cheng say this, and quickly bowed to ensure that the sugar factory was run well so that the second master would not disappoint him.
"Okay, how much did my mother use the 1,000 taels of silver that my mother gave you?"
Ma Shun thought Ma Cheng wanted to check the accounts, so he quickly took out the account book and said, "Second Master, I have spent a total of 260 taels of silver on renting a factory, hiring workers, selling tools and raw materials these days, and there are still 740 taels left. Please check the account book here!"
Ma Cheng didn't look at the account book at all, so he didn't look through it and said directly: "Okay, Ma Shun, you are asking for two hundred taels of silver now. Second Master is urgent to use it!"
Ma Shun was stunned when he heard Ma Cheng say this. The money was given by the old lady. The second master said this and it was not passed by the old lady. What should I do?
Ma Cheng saw Ma Shun hesitation and stepped forward and patted Ma Shun on the shoulder: "Ma Shun, you are the second master now. You must know that my father and my mother will be away one day. My elder brother and I will separate. I don't want this sugar factory to become my elder brother's industry, you know!"
Ma Shun immediately understood his status when he heard Ma Cheng say this and quickly promised: "Don't worry, Er Ye, villain knows what to do! The monthly profit will also be guaranteed to be used by Er Ye!"
Ma Cheng laughed when he heard Ma Shun say this, "Don't worry, Ma Shun, this sugar factory is given to me by my mother, and the money is also controlled by me. You just need to get the money!"
Ma Shun was so decisive that Ma Cheng had no sense of control, so he quickly took 200 taels of silver and handed it to Ma Cheng.
In the Ming Dynasty, one pound was sixteen taels, and two hundred taels of silver was twelve and a half pounds. In the Ming Dynasty, one pound was heavier than one pound in the later generations, so two hundred taels of silver were about fifteen pounds in the later generations. Ma Cheng asked Gu Changwei to find a bag and put it in it and carry it.
Ma Cheng took Gu Changwei and he was about to go back when he saw a panicked family member running in. The family happily shouted when they saw Ma Cheng: "Second Master, it turns out you are here! The master is back, let you go back soon!"
Ma Cheng felt nervous when he heard that his cheap man Ma Shiying came back. He had done too many things in the past ten days. Not to mention anything else, he raped his sister-in-law Zhang and played with his concubine, Aunt Zheng. One of these two things was missing, and it was enough for Ma Cheng to drink a pot of food.
But there was nothing we could do. Ma Cheng could run away? Ma Cheng sighed and said to Gu Changwei: "Gu San, you take the money back to the military camp first. Second Master, I'll go back to see my father!"
Gu Changwei was curious when he saw Ma Cheng's expression of pride. He didn't want you to go to the court to see your father, so why did he look like this? However, Gu Changwei knew that this second master was very naughty and would be punished by the master every time. Perhaps this is what the second master was afraid of.
Gu Changwei didn't think much about it, and took the money and left first. Ma Cheng had no choice but to go home to see Ma Shiying.
When Ma Cheng returned home, he passed by the main gate of the Governor's yamen and saw five or six thousand soldiers packing his luggage. Ma Cheng was shocked when he saw so many soldiers. Unexpectedly, the governor of Fengyang had such a big show. What about the assistant going out? Don't want tens of thousands of people to follow him! Ma Cheng's estimate is right. Although the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty basically did not leave Beijing for no reason, there was also a case, that is, Zhang Juzheng, the first minister of the Ming Dynasty, left Beijing.
Zhang Juzheng's country has been around for more than ten years, and is basically the same as the emperor. When he went out, he naturally surrounded him. There were tens of thousands of soldiers on his escort. At the same time, Zhang Juzheng's sedan was not ordinary. It was specially made by the Zhending local government. There were 32 people carrying the sedan. The sedan was divided into bedrooms and guest rooms, and two children were waiting.
As the Governor of Fengyang, Ma Shiying is in charge of hundreds of thousands of troops north of the Yangtze River. It is normal for him to take five or six thousand soldiers out.
The main entrance was full of people. Ma Cheng looked at the detour of the back door from the alley and entered his home through the back door.
When Ma Shiying returned, the whole Ma Mansion seemed to have changed. I don’t know where so many people came out. It turned out that there were family members walking around in the very secluded alley.
Ma Cheng came to the backyard and saw Ma Gui calling his servants to clean the dust in the house. Ma Gui saw Ma Cheng coming back and hurried forward and said, "Second Young Master, you are finally back! The master asked you to go to the third hall of the Governor's Office when you come back, and said you have something to come to you!"
Ma Cheng originally wanted to go back to the inner house to find his mother to find out, but now his father asked him to go directly to the third hall of the yamen. There was no way Ma Cheng had to turn around and go to the Governor's yamen again in the front yard.
There was a red painted gate between the back house and the yamen. It was already opened at this time. Six soldiers standing guard were standing at the door. These six people probably recognized Ma Cheng, and they didn't say anything when they saw Ma Cheng passing by.
The Santang was the last time the Governor's yamen entered the yard, and it was also the place where the Governor rested, changed his clothes, and talked about some private matters with his staff. Ma Cheng passed the corner gate and entered the Santang. There were more than a dozen people standing at the door of the main room. In addition to the soldiers standing guard, there was also a middle-aged man.
This middle-aged man wore the clothes of a servant and looked very similar to Ma Shun. Perhaps this is Ma Shun's elder brother Ma Zhong.
The middle-aged man saw Ma Cheng coming in and met him, and whispered: "Second Master, why did you come? The master has been waiting for half an hour!"
At this time, what else can Ma Cheng explain? Ma Cheng whispered: "Who is in the house?"
"Master, uncle, Mr. Yue and Mr. Yang! Second Master, please don't ask, go in!"
Ma Zhong took Ma Cheng to the door of the main room and said loudly: "Sir Zongxian, the second master is here!"
At this time, a majestic voice in the room said, "Let this rebellious son come in!"
Ma Zhong lifted the curtain and signaled Ma Cheng to go in. Ma Cheng had no choice but to take a deep breath and walk into the main hall.
The furnishings of the three halls are very simple. In the middle is the main hall, there are two Grand Master Chairs in the middle, and four chairs are placed on both sides. Behind the Grand Master Chair is a incense table with a yellow cloth scroll on it. Ma Cheng didn't know that this was an imperial edict and a legal certificate of Ma Shiying's power. On the wall behind the incense table is a sunrise and the sun rises. There are two ear rooms on the left and right of the main hall. Ma Cheng has never been in and I don't know what it is. It is probably a place for the Governor to rest.
Ma Cheng saw three people sitting in the room, standing one person. In the middle was an old man of medium shape, with a chest-length beard, wearing a big red official uniform, and a black hat from the TV series. This man was probably his cheap father Ma Shiying. Behind the old man stood a middle-aged man with a very tall figure. The middle-aged man looked very similar to Ma Cheng, probably his eldest brother Ma Luan.
At the bottom of Ma Shiying, two middle-aged scholars in casual clothes were sitting. On the left was Yue Qijie, and opposite was a literati in his forties with a half-foot-long goatee. It should be Yang Wencong, another strategist in Ma Shiying.
Ma Shiying, who was sitting in the middle, saw Ma Cheng enter the room, slammed the table and asked sternly: "You rebellious son, what good things have you done in the past ten days since I was not at home?"
When Ma Cheng heard Ma Shiying say this, he knelt there. It was not that Ma Cheng had no backbone and insisted on kneeling down, but that Ma Cheng merged some of the memories of the Dead Ma Cheng. Although Ma Cheng had no respect for Ma Shiying, Ma Cheng was not like this. Ma Cheng's fear of Ma Shiying has been deeply engraved into his bones. When he heard the words Ma Shiying, his legs were trembling. Now that he kneeled on both knees, his instinct was on the offense.
Ma Cheng knelt down and shouted: "Dad, what did my son do these days? He is just studying at home!"
Ma Cheng has been upsetting the family these days, but Ma Cheng is not going to say now that Ma Cheng’s idea is to fool him first and wait a while before he goes back to the backyard to ask for help from me.
I knew that Ma Shiying, as Ma Cheng, knew the character of this rebellious son so much that he did not go back to the backyard to interrogate his son today. Because Ma Shiying knew that his Hedong Lion would definitely intervene, he wanted to teach his son a lesson in the third hall today. After all, the court stipulated that the family of officials should not enter the yamen.
When Ma Shiying heard that Ma Cheng was still stubborn, he cursed: "You rebellious son are still lying to me? Look, this is the book you read?"
After Ma Shiying said that, he threw some books and papers on the table in front of Ma Cheng. The books were written randomly by Ma Cheng. The papers were made of various sketches by Ma Cheng, including weapons and cannons, iron tubes for making candy, and several pictures of Ma Cheng's erotic flowers. These were all learned by Ma Cheng in a Japanese movie in later generations. Ma Cheng painted them because he was afraid that he would forget it in the future. After all, there was no computer here that could be relived.
When Ma Cheng saw that it was the thing in his house, it seemed that this cheap guy was prepared and went to his study to read things first.
Chapter completed!