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Chapter 13 Some people are happy and some are sad

In a delicately decorated room, six pots of red-hot charcoal fires were placed in the corner of the room, baking the whole room warms as spring and firmly blocking the cold winter outside the house.

The shopkeeper Shi of Donglai Yinlou was sitting at the round table in the room, respectfully handing a book to the eunuch who was sitting at the other end wearing a blue and blue patch suit and a black hat, who was in his thirties, with a white face and no need to look leisurely. The three gold threads embroidered on his sleeves showed that this person was a eunuch of the sixth-rank deputy commander level.

I saw the shopkeeper Shi said respectfully: "Eunuch Cao, this is the account book of Donglai Yinlou for the past month. Please check it out."

If others see it, they will inevitably be shocked. The shopkeeper of Donglai Yinlou, the largest in Nanjing, can treat people with such a respectful attitude, and there will be no more than two slaps in the entire Nanjing city. Who is this eunuch? He can actually make Shopkeeper Shi so cautious.

In fact, if there were officials from Nanjing present, you would know that the eunuch sitting in front of the shopkeeper Shi was Cao Dazhong, the famous eunuch in Nanjing.

Cao Dazhong picked up the account book, raised his "orchid finger" and slowly looked through it. Although this posture was very sissy to ordinary people, Manager Shi had no intention of laughing at all. He knew very well that this sissy guy in front of him could crush himself into powder by just moving his fingers.

After a while, Cao Dazhong put down the account book and nodded with satisfaction and said in a sharp voice unique to the eunuch: "Shopkeeper Shi, our Donglaishun Yinlou business has obviously improved a lot this month. Shopkeeper Shi, you have made great contributions. Our family will report your contributions to Jiu Qiansui truthfully. Just wait and receive the reward."

Manager Shi said in a panic: "Thank you for the praise of Eunuch Cao. In fact, business has improved so much this month, so it will be thanks to the glass mirror sold to us by Mr. Yang from Nanyang. Otherwise, even if the villain has three heads and six arms, he will not be able to make the business so good."

"Well, this Young Master Yang is indeed a talented person. There are so many high-quality glass mirrors in his hand." Cao Dazhong's eyes flashed with a gleam, and he looked at the Shopkeeper Shi and asked tentatively: "Shopkeeper Shi, see if we can get this glass path from that Young Master Yang... that is, Yang Feng's hand. In this way, we don't have to wait for Yang Feng to deliver the goods every time, and we will earn more money."

Shopkeeper Shi smiled bitterly and said, "Eunuch Cao, do you think the villain doesn't want it? In fact, in the past half month when those glass mirrors appeared, the people of Jubaozhai had long been eyeing our business, and the Young Master Yang did not hide it from us. The glass was brought from Obarrow in the west. Obarrow is tens of thousands of miles away from our Ming Dynasty, and it takes a year to go back and forth. The sea is windy and dangerous. If the ten boats go back and forth, five boats will be returned. Even if God has mercy, who has the ability to go to such a far place to buy things? If it was so easy to get the goods, the people of Jubaozhai had gone long ago, because the journey was too difficult and we could only stare at them."

"What happened?" Cao Dazhong widened his eyes in surprise, "It turns out that our family is strange. The guy named Yang has such a way to make money. No one in Nanjing who is jealous of money is jealous. That boy can still sway in Nanjing. Feelings are this way. Everyone knows this way, but no one has that ability!"

"Who said no?" said Shopkeeper Shi helplessly: "Who is willing to spend a year on the risk of the ship being destroyed and the people being killed? Why can't you make money if you have that time and motivation? Why make such money for life?"

"So that Young Master Yang is a very interesting person." Cao Dazhong suddenly laughed, and his sharp voice echoed in the room, "Let's do this, next time Mr. Yang comes again, you bring him to our family for a look. Our family really wants to see this young hero, gaga..." As the words fell, a night-like laughter rang out in the room...

Cao Dazhong was naturally happy because the glass mirrors brought by Yang Feng had triggered a wave of buying in Nanjing. Especially the ladies and ladies in Nanjing liked this kind of exquisitely made and clear mirror. In just half a month, these mirrors brought him nearly 20,000 taels of silver. For eunuchs who could no longer be close to women or glorious in their ancestors, money was naturally particularly important in their hearts.

Cao Dazhong was happy, so he was naturally unhappy, especially the life of Jubaozhai, the rival of Dongshun Yinlou, was not so easy. Originally, Jubaozhai was an old store that had been entrenched in Nanjing for hundreds of years, Jubaozhai was far superior to Dongshun Yinlou in terms of scale and strength. He could also press Dongshun Yinlou firmly under his body on weekdays. However, this time Dongshun Yinlou made a beautiful turnaround, which made Jubaozhai very dirty, especially when many noble ladies sent people to buy mirrors, Jubaozhai people only felt their faces were hot. After many years, Jubaozhai had lost such a big person.

Almost when Cao Dazhong met with Shopkeeper Shi, in a beautiful courtyard, there were still white snowflakes floating in the sky. In a small pavilion in the courtyard, there were several young men in brocade robes sitting. Next to these young men were more than a dozen girls dressed in maids. There was a stone table in the center of the pavilion, and a few pairs of hot copper hot pot and a few pairs of bowls and chopsticks were placed on the stone table. The water in the hot pot had already boiled, the rolling soup kept rolling, and the tumbling steam continued to rise, and a smell of meat continued to emerge from the hot pot.

One of the young men in crimson brocade clothes asked the maid next to him with a gloomy expression: "Have the shopkeeper Liang from Jubaozhai arrived?"

The maid quickly lowered her head and replied, "When the prince returns, Mr. Liang has arrived two quarters of an hour ago, and is kneeling outside at this moment."

The young man snorted coldly: "Is this idiot afraid that he will break his legs if he dares to come?"

A young man with a round face smiled and said, "Brother Xu Shi, why bother to be angry? I already know the story of the matter. This shopkeeper Liang is actually quite unfair. It is all the people below who are too rude to let him push the tank for the people below."

It turned out that this young man led the way was Xu Hongji, Duke of Wei, known as the No. 1 nobleman of the Ming Dynasty. Xu Hongji, 31 years old this year, was in his prime. When he heard that Dongshun Silver House launched a new glass mirror that was popular all over Nanjing, attracting countless ladies and ladies from Nanjing to rush to buy it. He was extremely sensitive to business and quickly sent someone to inquire, but after inquiring, he almost didn't breathe. He almost died of breath. The business of love was actually pushed into the arms of his opponent by his own shop. Xu Hongji, who was so angry that he immediately sent someone to call the shopkeeper of Jubaozhai.
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