After the ceremony, the three of them sat down.

Zhao Dan was naturally sitting at the top. In the Warring States Period, the right was the most respected, so Pingyang Jun Zhao Bao naturally sat on the right side of the lower head, while Lu Buwei sat on the left side of the lower head.

Zhao Dan looked at Lu Buwei curiously and found that he was a guy with a thin figure, a narrow face like a horse, a curved nose like an eagle, a mustache on his lips, a beard under his jaw, and a flashing light in his eyes.

Anyone who sees such a person will definitely equate him with the words "smart" as soon as possible. Of course, adjectives such as "crawl" and "despicable" may be added to it.

This is Lu Buwei, one of the most successful businessmen in the entire Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and even the entire China in the past five thousand years.

It's probably even none.

By the Warring States Period, the development of business had accelerated greatly, which led to the emergence of a large number of wealthy businessmen, such as Bai Gui of Wei, Guo Zong, Yidun of Zhao, and even Qin, Wu Shi and Widow Qing, who were all "wealthy with the king" and could be called wealthy.

These guys, either hoarding goods, mining iron, raising livestock, or selling salt, have their own characteristics and strengths, and their wealth is also jealous.

But the achievements of all these wealthy businessmen may not be as good as that of Lu Buwei's finger.

Why? Because Lu Buwei's investment vision directly killed these people until they were completely ruined.

Others use money to invest in profitable goods and then turn these goods into more money. However, Lu Buwei, a man, used money to invest in a future king of Qin, investing in his future glory and wealth.

Most importantly, he succeeded.

With a mere businessman, he successfully established the world's most powerful king. Looking at the five thousand years of China, Lu Buwei's achievements are really nothing but a single family!

The idiom "Strange goods are available" comes from the investment that Lu Buwei is still talked about by people two thousand years later.

What Lu Buwei invested was the proton sent to Handan of Zhao by Qin State, Zhao Yiren, the son of the current crown prince of Qin State, Zhao Yiren.

This Zhao Yiren is King Zhuangxiang of Qin in history.

The King Zhuangxiang of Qin was not the point. The key was that King Zhuangxiang of Qin gave birth to a son to inherit his throne, and the name of this heir was called Zhao Zheng.

Zhao Zheng is Qin Shihuang!

The guy Lu Buwei invested in is Qin Shihuang’s father!

More importantly, when Lu Buwei was preparing to invest in Qin Shihuang's father Zhao Yiren, Zhao Yiren was just a guy who couldn't rank at all.

At this time, the king of Qin was Zhao Yiren's grandfather, King Qin Ji, and then when King Qin Ji died, he was not allowed to succeed to Zhao Yiren's father, An Guojun, ascend to the throne. Then, after An Guojun's death, he could have hope for Zhao Yiren.

But the problem is that An Guojun has more than 20 sons, and Zhao Yiren is just one of them who cannot be ranked. Moreover, Zhao Yiren's mother Xia Ji is also a concubine with no strength. No matter how you see, the possibility of Zhao Yiren inheriting the throne of Qin is infinitely close to zero.

Before meeting Lu Buwei, Zhao Yiren was afraid that in his dream, he would never dare to think that he would become the king of Qin.

But under the help of Lu Buwei, this infinite possibility of being close to zero was realized by Lu Buwei!

Lu Buwei also made great achievements with this, and transformed from a businessman who was rich but had no social status to the point of becoming a prime minister of Qin, the most powerful country among the seven heroes.

It was with the assistance of Lu Buwei that the young Qin Shihuang was able to grow up step by step and eventually became the first ever emperor in China who could unify the world in the five thousand years.

Even in some unofficial history and rumors, Lu Buwei is likely to be Qin Shihuang's biological father...

Of course, Zhao Dan came to Lu Buwei today not to verify Qin Shihuang's life experience, nor were he those aunts who were having trouble every day, so why are they gossiping?

Zhao Dan’s real purpose is actually very simple, that is, to get in touch with this future famous prime minister of Qin and see what kind of person Lu Buwei was.

So Zhao Dan coughed and spoke to Lu Buwei: "I heard that you are Taigong Wang, don't know if this matter is true?"

Taigong Wang is one of the many titles of Lu Shang (Jiang Ziya), a founding hero of the Zhou Dynasty.

The reason why Zhao Dan asked this is because Lu Shang and Lu Buwei both belonged to the Lü clan of Jiang.

I saw Lu Buwei's face turned slightly red and he said, "Go back to the king, Taigong Wang is the ancestor of Buwei."

The reason why Lu Buwei blushed was actually very simple. After all, his ancestor was a hero of the founding father of the Zhou Dynasty and was named the Grand Tutor of the Zhou Dynasty. He was also the founder of the old overlord of Qi among the seven heroes of the Warring States Period. He belonged to the top class among the nobles. As a result, when Lu Buwei came, he had become the last-ranked businessman among the "scholars, farmers, industry and commerce". No one could raise his head.

But Zhao Dan would not give up asking because Lu Buwei blushed. Zhao Dan smiled and said, "Since he has this family background, why did he hold this business of merchants and bring shame to his ancestors?"

Lu Buwei took a deep breath and knew that it was Zhao Dan deliberately making things difficult for him.

Although Lu Buwei didn't know why Zhao Dan made things difficult for him so specially, Lu Buwei was very clear, that is, he had been forced to the edge of the cliff.

Once you can't pass this level, as long as today's incident spreads (which is almost certain), Lu Buwei's reputation will be over.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were too many people who were disgraced because of a small matter, let alone being questioned by the king.

So Lu Buwei kept his body, first bowed to Zhao Dan, and then said in a deep voice: "Bowei dare not agree with this statement of the king."

"Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are the four peoples of the country. Scholars govern the country, farmers attack li, workers attack weapons, and enterprises attack goods, and the four people each perform their duties. Then the country can prosper. If one is missing, the country will not prosper. Taigong hopes to enthrone Yingqiu, and the land is blessed with few people, so Taigong advises his female workers to be very skilled and proficient in fish and salt, and then the people will return to them, and Qi can be strong and powerful. This is the way of merchants to benefit the country. Since Fuwei, Taigong hopes to twelve generation grandson, and follows the way of ancestors to make a living, how can he shame the ancestors?"

What this means is that the four classes of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are all part of the country. If any one is missing, it is like three missing one on the mahjong table, and the game (country) cannot continue.

When Jiang Ziya was sealed in Yingqiu, it was a sparsely populated saline-alkali land. Therefore, Jiang Ziya encouraged women in Qi to weave and embroidery, and asked men in Qi to fish and dry salt to sell them in other countries. Therefore, Qi developed and grew into a powerful country due to the commercial transactions of embroidery and fishing salt. This is exactly where the way of merchants is beneficial to the country.

As the twelfth generation grandson of Jiang Ziya, I, Lu Buwei, now I am actually using the principles governed by my ancestor Jiang Ziya to do business. Since my ancestor's things have been carried forward by me, how can I be considered as embarrassing my ancestors?

As soon as this statement was made, not only Zhao Dan nodded secretly, but also praised Lu Buwei as a great man in his heart. Even the Pingyang Jun Zhao Bao, who had originally scoffed at Lu Buwei, looked surprised. He obviously did not expect that in his eyes, such a guy who was just a "pretending businessman's lowly business" could make such incisive remarks.

Zhao Dan smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Lu is indeed a high-profile argument. If Mr. Lu said, can the way of merchants also govern the country?"

If the previous small question was a foreplay, then from this question, Zhao Dan's "inspection" of Lu Buwei began to officially enter the answering part.

Whether Lu Buwei is such a talented person as later generations said should be judged from the following answers.

And this judgment will determine Zhao Dan's attitude towards Lu Buwei, for example-
Chapter completed!