Chapter 105 Give them the hard ones to chew on
Zhu Houzhao was playing wildly in Jianchang Bo's Mansion, forcing the servants in the mansion to gamble with him. He was going to kill everyone at the gambling table and make a fortune before returning to the palace.
Then I want to beat Zhang Yanling.
But when Zhang Yanling walked into the main hall quickly, Zhu Houzhao was very excited and rushed up and said, "Second uncle, you..."
As soon as he spoke, Zhang Yanling suddenly grabbed his arm and was dragged out. This not only made Zhu Houzhao confused, but even Zhang Heling and Liu Jin who followed Zhang Yanling were stunned.
"Second uncle, what are you doing?" If Zhu Houzhao hadn't been thinking about winning Zhang Yanling's money, she would have been angry with Zhang Yanling long ago.
Prince Gu, how dare you be rude to Gu?
Zhang Yanling said anxiously, "Prince, I don't have time to explain. Get in the car quickly. Let's talk while walking on the road."
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Zhu Houzhao looked stupid.
Liu Jin rushed over, looking loyal to the Lord, but he didn't dare to go up and attack. He could only shout heartily: "Sir, you can't do this, let go of His Highness the Crown Prince."
Zhu Houzhao said sternly: "Second uncle, let go of the orphan, otherwise the orphan would punish you for being disrespectful. Why would you take the orphan with him?"
Zhang Yanling said: "Crown Prince knows that I am now doing a salt-induced business worth tens of thousands of taels of silver. I just need a partner. I originally planned to do this business with the prince. Don't the prince want to make a lot of money with me?"
"Make...make money?" Zhu Houzhao's eyes lit up when she heard this.
Although he didn't know how big a tens of thousands of taels was, he felt that there were many things.
"Second, what are you going to do?" Zhang Heling was also anxious.
"If the prince doesn't leave quickly, the money will fly away. I'll ask the prince to work with the ministers to make money first."
Zhang Yanling said as he continued to drag Zhu Houzhao out.
Zhu Houzhao said: "Be gentle, just go with you. I agreed to let you make a lot of money. If you can't make money, go to your father's lawsuit against you, so that you can't afford to take advantage of it!"
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Zhang Yanling left Kong Wenruo in the mansion.
He only took Zhu Houzhao and Zhang Heling in a carriage and drove from Nanlaise.
As for the plainclothes guards brought by Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao after leaving the palace, they all followed the carriage.
The whole line is also considered to be huge.
"Second uncle, I couldn't explain it clearly just now, right? Where are you going to take Orphan?" After the carriage started, Zhu Houzhao rubbed his hands, as if he was really going to make a lot of money.
Zhang Yanling said: "Can the prince understand the Yanyan business?"
Zhu Houzhao frowned. He didn't know what salt prickly he was at this age? But he was still the kind of person who was not willing to give in and liked to be clever. He sneered: "How can I not know salt prickly? Just tell me, what do you want to be alone?"
Zhang Yanling sighed: "Since I ask the prince to come out, I will naturally not go back on my word. Next, I will take the prince to a place. The prince must go in and buy salt first."
“Buy salt?”
Zhu Houzhao didn't understand Zhang Yanling's routine at all.
Even Zhang Heling was pulling his brother's clothes, which meant to remind Zhang Yanling not to do anything randomly.
Zhang Yanling said: "The salt merchants on the market bully the market. A pound of salt can be sold for more than 30 cents, which makes ordinary people unable to eat salt. Don't the prince feel angry?"
Zhu Houzhao curled her lips and said, "What does this have to do with orphans?"
Little guy, his father has no compassion at all.
"Of course it's a big deal. If the people can't eat salt, they will cause trouble and harm the Ming court, but this is all second-hand. The most important thing is to make us unable to make money." Zhang Yanling said in a sutra, "I am going to let the prince go in and buy salt in a place, twenty cents a pound, and one hundred pounds. If the prince can buy it, we will sell the salt elsewhere, and we will make money?"
Zhu Houzhao found that his little head was not enough.
What is the one who buys low and sells high? He has just figured out what money is. How can a five-year-old doll understand these?
Zhang Heling said: "Second brother, what are you having fun?"
Zhu Houzhao also seemed to have thought about some reason and said, "Second uncle, don't be a lord. They usually sell thirty cents per pound, how could they sell twenty cents per pound to the orphan?"
Zhang Yanling said with a serious look on his face: "Crown Prince, think about it. If they don't sell it, the prince can force them to sell it!"
"Ah?" Zhang Heling almost dropped his chin.
"How majestic is the prince when he usually comes to your and my mansion? Is the prince only acting arrogantly to his uncle and being ruthless to the salt merchants who bully the market? If the prince is really so cowardly, don't come to our two uncles' mansion in the future, we will not accept it at that time!" Zhang Yanling's words were obviously using provocation.
Don’t you always be able to see two uncles?
Being capable of your own family, but now you are unable to be able to be with outsiders?
Zhu Houzhao's face turned red and she said angrily: "Who said she dared not be alone?"
At this time, the carriage also stopped, just at the entrance of a salt shop. This salt shop is very large and can be said to be one of the main salt shops of Hui merchants in the capital. They are responsible for the wholesale of official salt to the outside world.
However, the salt shop is deserted at this time, because the salt price here is much higher than that of ordinary salt shops, and it is an inverted salt price, so naturally no one will do any wholesale business.
Moreover, there were many thugs standing outside the salt shop, all holding sticks, and they looked very majestic at first glance.
Zhang Yanling lifted the curtain of the car and pointed, "The prince also saw that they bully the market and dominate the market and do everything they want to do. Which of these guards is a good man? The prince went to buy their salt, but he just wanted to do his best for heaven. Prince!"
When Zhu Houzhao saw that there were quite a lot of people opposite him and had a momentum, she was really a little cowardly.
He said with a confused look on his face: "This... is really OK?"
Zhang Yanling said: "Crown Prince, don't forget that you came out with the palace guards. Who dares to deal with you?"
Zhu Houzhao thought it was right. He was brought with him and he was still the prince.
Can a group of unruly people still harm the orphans or what?
"Then Gu will go now. Buy 100 kilograms per pound, right? Let Liu Jin and Gu go in with him. Gu is afraid that he will not be able to explain clearly to these grass people..."
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Zhu Houzhao really got off the carriage and took Liu Jin to the salt shop of Hui merchants.
Zhu Houzhao took the carriage, and Zhang Heling immediately shouted angrily: "Second, are you crazy or are you desperate? Do you dare to instigate the prince and his life?"
Zhang Yanling continued to lift the curtain to watch the fun, and seemed careless: "The prince didn't act arrogantly to them, so he would be arrogant to our brothers. Why would he call people back and send them to your mansion?"
Zhang Heling's body shivered when he thought of Zhu Houzhao's unreasonable appearance before.
The two brothers are usually unreasonable, but in front of Zhu Houzhao...
A witch is a big witch.
"Even so, you can't let him come to such a place. What the hell is this?" Zhang Heling's aura was not as strong as before.
Zhang Yanling sneered: "This is the salt business of Hui merchants. A large amount of salt in the capital has been taken out from here. Now they monopolize the largest official salt in the capital at high prices. This is a place where water cannot be poured into it."
"You... are you really crazy! The prince is still beaten up when he goes in like this?" Zhang Heling was so scared that he hurriedly wanted to get off the carriage and call Zhu Houzhao.
But it was too late, and Zhu Houzhao had already entered the salt shop with Liu Jin and two plainclothes guards and went to discuss "business".
Zhang Yanling said: "Brother, don't be anxious. There have been many things in the capital recently. Our salt turbulence sales are still good. However, these salt merchants in the capital have also joined forces to suppress the small salt merchants who buy our salt to withdraw official salt. For those who sell salt at low prices, they will use thugs to shop for trouble, so that their business cannot continue."
Zhang Heling said in surprise: "What? Anyone dares to attack us? Just find someone to fight back by yourself, isn't it just a group of low-ranking merchants?"
Zhang Yanling sighed: "If it is really a group of low-ranking merchants, it will be easier to deal with. Now the Yan Yin and the official and salt business involves the interests of civil and military ministers in the court, and the same noble interests as us. Even the old man from the British Duke Zhang Mao in the court is doing this business, but they are buying the price!"
"Do you think if I use the government or the Jinyiwei to stop it, they will not be labeled as bullying the market and force His Majesty to stop our salt trading?"
Zhang Heling has been waiting at home to make a lot of money, but he doesn't know what trouble he can encounter in the business he does with his capital guarantee.
"How...how could this happen?" Zhang Heling looked confused.
Zhang Yanling continued to look at the door of the salt shop from the curtain and said in a gloating tone: "There is no way. I advise your Majesty to ask the Ministry of Revenue to lend salt to suppress the price of official salt. It has affected the interests of too many people. They will definitely unite to fight against me."
"In the past, they used to rely on the support of the Ministry of Revenue and the nobles to pinch other merchants in the capital as soft persimmons. Now I use these merchants and they treat me as cordyceps. Don't they like to gnaw on cordyceps? This time I will give them the hard ones to gnaw on!"
Zhang Heling found that his brain was not enough and stammered: "You...you...you...you...you...you...you're not suitable for you!"
It's not appropriate to say it's not appropriate, but it can't tell which is not appropriate.
Zhang Yanling concluded for him: "Do you think it is inappropriate for me to use the prince? Or the same sentence: If the prince doesn't act harshly against them, he will act harshly against us. Since the prince can't use up all his spare energy, then use him well, why not do it?"
"It's beginning!"
Zhang Yanling's voice also became excited, as if he was explaining a wonderful game.
The door of the salt shop.
Zhu Houzhao, Liu Jin and others were pushed out by people from the salt shop.
The wholesale price of official salt is more than 30 cents per kilogram, and Zhu Houzhao insists on buying it for 20 cents per kilogram. The other party just pushed them out and was considered polite.
But when did Zhu Houzhao suffer such a loss?
"I think you are doing business with you. Is it worthy of you? I dare to touch you? Someone came here and smashed the place!"
Zhu Houzhao is indeed not the one who suffers a loss.
The salt merchants are now trying to bully the market and keep stubbornly at the price of salt. When they encounter trouble, they are still a little brat. How could they give a good face?
Zhu Houzhao, a master who is not afraid of heaven and earth, immediately showed his unreasonable and arrogant character when he encountered this.
The guards were all confused and watched the fun, but when they saw the prince being pushed out of the Yanxing gate, the prince even ordered them to smash the shop. Who would retreat at this time?
"Brothers, scout the guys! smash them!"
Chapter completed!