"Your Majesty, you must also know that this time the Qing army entered the customs, the lineage of King Lu has been almost cut off! Although the Qing army took away most of the property in Prince Lu's palace, the land and properties were left behind.
Come down! Your Majesty, my nephew wanted to intervene secretly in this matter and share the property equally with you, Your Majesty, but I couldn't bear it. Duke Yan Sheng actually wanted to get involved as well. This..."
Liu Ruyi followed the temptation and turned her attention to Yan Shenggong's lineage.
When King De heard this, he was immediately furious, "Humph! Those people named Kong! They are so bullying! The amount of money in their houses is several times higher than that of Gu! They actually want to occupy my Zhu family's land!"
Ruyi, you can rest assured that Gu Jian will not ignore this matter! Gu will report it to the imperial court and ask the emperor to comment on it!"
But Liu Ruyi hurriedly said: "My lord, yes, but after all, the Yanshenggong's house has a great family and a great business. It is also the holy place for scholars in the world. Even the emperor must show courtesy to them! In my nephew's opinion, if we can
It is wise to resolve grudges privately! If not, the emperor will entrust another King of Lu to come down. Aren't these things all made into wedding clothes for others? "
King De was stunned, and after thinking about it, it made sense. According to the practice of the Zhu Ming royal family, the King Lu clan that had been wiped out would have to be replaced by the new King Lu sooner or later. If he reported it to the court now, it would definitely
Speeding up Emperor Chongzhen's canonization of the new King of Lu is obviously inconsistent with his own interests!
The most important thing is that the lineage of King Lu is closer to Emperor Chongzhen. The land owned by his name is far beyond the comparison of King De!
"Ruyi, what is this? Do you have any good ideas?" King De now regarded Liu Ruyi as his backbone and asked hurriedly.
Liu Ruyi smiled, what he was waiting for was King De's words, "Your Majesty, actually we can't make any announcement about this matter! We can talk to Yan Shenggong first. If we can continue the discussion, everything will be fine and everyone will benefit.
!If we can’t reach an agreement, it’s not too late for us to think of other ways!”
King De nodded hurriedly, "Ruyi, what you said is true! Gu and Nayan Shenggong can barely be considered to have some friendship! Gu sent someone to negotiate with them!"
Liu Ruyi stayed comfortably in Prince De's Mansion for a few days, and Zhu Qingxu also came from Caishi Town to serve him. This made Liu Ruyi truly experience the courtesy of being a "guest in the royal palace".
Treating the princess as a maid is a treatment that not many people in the Ming Dynasty can enjoy!
But after all, Zhu Qingxu is Liu Ruyi's equal wife and has not yet gotten married, so Liu Ruyi doesn't want to offend the beauty rashly!
However, Zhu Qingxu had already had this awareness. When she saw that both Qing'er and Chunyunu were pregnant with babies, she was filled with envy. Overtly and secretly, she was teasing Liu Ruyi's nerves!
After resting comfortably for three or four days, Liu Ruyi met many wealthy businessmen from all over Shandong in Prince De's Mansion. Even the famous Gao family in Jiaozhou and the Zhang family in Dingtao, all wealthy families outside Liu Ruyi's influence,
They also sent people to visit.
Liu Ruyi personally received them one by one, showing great sincerity, which also made these aristocratic families extremely excited!
After all, Liu Ruyi's identity has changed from what it used to be!
That night, Liu Ruyi was drinking wine with Prince De in the Nuan Pavilion. A guard from the palace came to report that there was already a reply from Qufu!
The one who went to Qufu was Lao Song, King De's confidant butler. After he entered the door, he hurriedly saluted King De and Liu Ruyi, and then reported to the two of them: "Your Majesty, my aunt, and this old slave have gone to Yanshenggong's house to explain to us.
I mean! Yan Shenggong immediately expressed his stance and expressed his willingness to cooperate with us! But, just..."
Lao Song looked at King De, but then turned his attention to Liu Ruyi.
Liu Ruyi glanced at King De, who nodded hurriedly, indicating that Liu Ruyi would make the decision in everything. Then Liu Ruyi said: "If you have anything to say, just say it directly, Butler Song!"
"Yes! Yes!" Lao Song hurriedly bowed to Liu Ruyi, and then said: "Uncle, what the old slave Guanyan Shenggong means is that he wants to exchange land for your membership in the Great China Development Bank! This
This old slave doesn’t dare to make the decision! I’ll rush back and report to you!”
Liu Ruyi frowned. Unexpectedly, Duke Yansheng had a big appetite!
This Great China Development Bank is the foundation of Liu Ruyi's career, and it must be firmly in hand!
This is like those giant families of later generations. The banking and financial industry will be the cornerstone of a family and all businesses!
This is the core basic interest!
In this era, the financial industry is not transparent, nor does it need to be listed or disclose financial statements like in later generations. This kind of vague mystery is what attracts many wealthy businessmen.
If Yan Shenggong's lineage were to get involved, it would probably seriously harm Liu Ruyi's own core interests!
Regarding the Great China Development Bank, Liu Ruyi is indeed planning to take out a small part of the shares to reward outstanding generals in the army and buy some family properties for them, but after all, they are his cronies and can be controlled by him.
!
For someone like Yan Shenggong, who is rich and powerful, Liu Ruyi will definitely not "lead the wolf into the house"!
"Your Majesty, this issue is absolutely out of the question! The Great China Development Bank is the foundation of the Colored Stone Army! It is the life of our Colored Stone Army! I must make this clear in advance! Even if an ocean trading company is established in the future
, at most, I can only give 5% of it to the Kong family in Qufu, and you, the prince, will give 10%. Please think about this clearly!" Liu Ruyi said to the side.
The virtuous king Zhu Youshu said.
Zhu Youshu did not expect that Liu Ruyi would think so highly of him. He would actually be able to account for 10% of the future ocean trading company that would be called a 'Big Mac', and Liu Ruyi's other father-in-law, the Xiao family
Even! This is definitely an unexpected surprise!
You know, although Prince De's family has a big business, it will be difficult for him to raise two million taels of silver even if he sells off all his property. But the Xiao family is different. After these few years, under the protection of Liu Ruyi, the Xiao family's business has improved.
It is becoming more and more prosperous, and it is not too difficult for the Xiao family to directly spend three million in cash!
With his two million taels of net worth exchanged for three million, or even four million taels, of the same amount as the Xiao family, how could King De not be so happy?
You know, the current vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, except for the direct brother of Emperor Chongzhen, King Fu of Luoyang, the lives of other vassal kings are not easy!
In fact, many clans with distant bloodline live worse than ordinary people!
After all, after three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the Zhu Ming royal family can no longer afford such huge family expenses!
"Ruyi, don't worry about this! What do you need me to do! Just give me your orders!" King De also figured it out. The one who gets closer to the water first gets the moon. For this plan, he firmly tied up Liu Ruyi, the 'money tree' in front of him.
', is the most important thing to him!
Liu Ruyi was very satisfied with King De's attitude. The famous old fox in later generations was indeed right, 'Capital is what drives the world forward!'
"Your Majesty, when it comes to this, this matter is actually very simple! How much money does it need to be converted into the land of Yan Shenggong? You and I will jointly finance the purchase! Of course, Your Majesty, if you don't want the land, I will
I can give it to you and convert it into cash! But I have to get the land in Linqing and Yanzhou!" Liu Ruyi said.
King De nodded solemnly, "Ruyi, don't worry! At worst, I can just go to Qufu alone!"
During the Ming Dynasty, the vassal kings were strictly prohibited from entering and exiting their own territories. King De said this with great sincerity!
"In that case, it's all down to the prince!" Liu Ruyi did not refuse and nodded hurriedly.
Because, in the world of Shandong, I am afraid that only the face of King De can make Duke Yansheng sit down and have a good talk!
King De personally went out and had a secret discussion with Duke Yan Sheng at the private estate of the Xiao family on the banks of Machang Lake in Jining!
Duke Yansheng also knew that Liu Ruyi had already made the biggest concession. If he continued to argue like this, he would probably lose more than he gained!
You must know that although he is a spiritual leader, he does not have much real power. He wants to do many things in Shandong. Without Liu Ruyi's nod, it will be difficult to do anything!
Soon, Duke Yan nodded. He did not increase the price of the land in Linqing City, but sold it to Liu Ruyi's Caishi Army at the originally negotiated price!
However, he proposed that his second biological son should serve as director of the ocean trading company to be established in the future!
This request was quite legitimate, and Liu Ruyi did not refuse!
As a result, the two families happily reached an agreement and officially became business allies!
Even Yan Shenggong proposed that Liu Ruyi marry his youngest daughter as an equal wife, but Liu Ruyi and King De rejected it at the same time. After all, Liu Ruyi's harem was already quite large, and it seemed that Liu Ruyi still had a daughter.
With this intuition, I may add a giant Buddha to my harem in the future, and I don’t dare to cause more trouble now!
But King De's meaning was very simple. How could he allow a woman from the Kong family, whose status was similar to his, to enter the Liu family's house to compete with his precious daughter?
So far, Liu Ruyi has finally overcome the biggest stumbling block in Shandong!
At the end of May in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, various industries under Liu Ruyi were developing rapidly!
The specifications of Linqing City have basically been finalized!
In Liu Ruyi's vision, Linqing City is to be built into the brightest commercial pearl from the Yangtze River to the canal port!
As for the more than two hundred thousand refugees, they all set up forts, like a network, radiating towards the fertile land in Linqing City, and in the direction of Jinan City!
However, due to the current limitations of strength and population, Liu Ruyi did not have the strength to swallow Qingzhou, the most fertile piece of land on the Central Shandong Plain, so he had to give it up temporarily!
But as long as the current template of Linqing City is built, it can provide Liu Ruyi with at least 50,000 soldiers and countless grain and grass, which is enough to ensure Liu Ruyi's foundation in Shandong!
But~~, there is one most critical thing at the moment that stumps Liu Ruyi!