Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "The rich man is not going to raise the price just because he knows my identity!"
"Don't dare! Don't dare! If His Highness likes this tea set, I will dedicate it to His Highness."
Chen Qing's face sank, and he said with some displeasure: "Can't I just buy something, and I have to have others donate it for free?"
The woman hurriedly came out and said: "Your Highness King Yong, that's not what my husband meant. How many people came to buy his tea set. He didn't want to sell it at all. He just knew that more and more people were buying this tea set. We knew we couldn't keep it.
As the saying goes, a man is not guilty, but he is guilty of having a jade in his possession. What if a murderer comes to the door?
That’s why we want to change it to fields, but this is the most beloved thing of our ancestors in the past, and ordinary businessmen are not worthy of it. If we can offer it to His Highness King Yong, our ancestors will not blame us. His Highness King Yong will reward us for our hard work.
We have a few acres of land and we have enough to eat."
Chen Qing and Zhang Xiao looked at each other. This woman was powerful and well-spoken. She was obviously just a business, but she spoke of her in such a smooth manner, as if she owed a huge favor.
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said, "May I ask your surname, madam?"
Whether this woman calls her smart or scheming, they are all compliments and criticisms with the same meaning. She just made her voice louder on purpose, waiting for Chen Qing to take the initiative to ask her, otherwise it would be difficult for her to speak.
Missed this opportunity.
The woman blushed and whispered: "I take my husband's surname, and my maiden name is Lu."
Chen Qing was startled. Who in the Lu family is in Bianliang? He suddenly thought of someone and asked with a smile: "Could you be Lu Qi?"
The woman was overjoyed and said, "Did my little sister tell you?"
Chen Qing indeed heard his wife Lu Xiu mention that she had a clan sister in Bianliang named Lu Qi. Her father Lu Changsong once served as an official in Kaifeng Prefecture and was Lu Yihao's cousin. In the first year of Jingkang, the Lu family fled.
Arriving at Yingtian Mansion, in the second year of Jianyan, the Lu family went south to Lin'an.
However, Lu Changsong stayed in Yingtian Mansion because of illness, and later lost contact. It was not until the seventh year in Shaoxing that the news was received. After Lu Changsong recovered from the illness, he returned to Bianliang. Finally, he died of illness in Shaoxing three years later. His only daughter
Lu Qi also got married the year before.
There is such a coincidence in this world. Perhaps it was God's will. When I bought a tea set, I met the person my wife asked me to find.
Chen Qing asked the couple to sit down and asked, "Why did the rich young master live in such a miserable state?"
"It's hard to describe this in one sentence. Let's talk about it more slowly when we have the opportunity in the future!" Fuhong obviously didn't want to say more.
Lu Qi suddenly became anxious. If her husband didn't seize this opportunity, what would he do in the future?
No! She had to say, otherwise it would be too unfair to her husband.
"Your Highness, my husband was a Jinshi in the sixth year of Xuanhe, and he served as an assistant teacher at Taixue. After Jingkang, he resigned and stayed at home. The Puppet Qi State invited him several times to serve as an official, but he refused to agree. Five years ago, he finally annoyed the Puppet Qi State.
In the country, they kicked our family out of our house and confiscated all our property. Fortunately, we saved some money in the store, so we bought this small courtyard.
After the fall of the Puppet Qi, Wanyan Wushu sent someone to ask my husband to be the Prime Minister of Bianliang County, but he still refused. Among those who took refuge in the Puppet Qi, who didn't live in a high-rise house and be extremely rich? My husband is willing to do so.
Keeping your innocence is what makes you so miserable."
"Madam is right, people who don't want to be thieves will not do well, but it won't always be like this. There will always be a day when the clouds clear."
Chen Qing pushed the wooden box over and said, "This is an heirloom left by your ancestors. Please pass it on to your descendants!"
Chen Qing winked at Zhang Xiao again. Zhang Xiao understood and said with a smile: "Young master, write a few words for me to see!"
Although Fuhong was a Jinshi, he had to show his true ability to pass Zhang Xiao's level. But for Chen Qing's sake, Zhang Xiao had already used the lowest standard.
Fuhong took out a copy of the book from his arms and handed it to Zhang Xiao, "This is the Analects of Confucius that I copied last night, and I plan to use it as a teaching material for my son."
Zhang Xiao took the copy and looked at it, secretly approving that the handwriting was really beautiful. He happily took out one of his posts and put it on the table and said: "The rich man will come to the government office to see me tomorrow morning. I need help here. My position is
The treatment and treatment will not disappoint you!”
At night, Chen Qing was reading a book in the camp. This was given to him by Fuhong. It was a notebook written by his father Lu Changsong between the third and fourth years of Jianyan.
The content is about the future way out of Bianliang. Lu Changsong mentioned four ways out for Bianliang. One is to maintain the abnormal prosperity of the Puppet Qi State for a long time, but one day it will collapse with the collapse of the Puppet Qi State.
The second way out is that due to the long-term occupation of the Jurchens, Bianliang lost its status as a capital and will slowly decline.
The third way out is for the Song army to take back Bianliang and restore it to the capital city. Then Bianliang will gradually return to its prosperity during the Xuanhe period.
The fourth way out is that the Song army regains Bianliang, but Bianliang is no longer the capital. This is the most likely way. Lu Changsong believes that the Song Dynasty will not give up Lin'an, and will definitely indulge in the gentle countryside of Lin'an.
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If the fourth situation occurs, if we want to revitalize Bianliang, we must first change the positioning of Bianliang.
The biggest advantage of Bianliang is its convenient transportation. It can completely build Bianliang into a material transfer center in the Central Plains. This idea is completely consistent with Chen Qing's idea, but there is one thing that Chen Qing did not expect. Lu Changsong proposed that Bianliang could be recruited.
The men went to dredge the Bian River to give them a chance to make money.
In this way, the shipping of the Bianhe River can be brought into play again, and then Chenliu's warehouse group will be moved to Bianliang, and the material transfer center will be successful.
Chen Qing expanded his ideas, learned from Chengdu's experience, and further developed the material transfer center into a Central Plains material distribution center. Large markets for grain, cloth, oil, livestock, etc. were established. Businessmen from the entire Central Plains region had to go to Bianliang.
Come here, Bianliang's business will be revitalized and revived, and the dead Bianliang will regain its glory.
Of course, these all require funds and require large investments. Where will the large amounts of funds come from?
Chen Qing finally thought of Qian Sanhuang. The high-ranking officials of the Puppet Qi Dynasty had accumulated a lot of wealth. They were not liquidated by the Jin Kingdom. Of course, they did not have time to escape. As the saying goes, if you do not receive a gift from God, you will be punished by God. At this time, Chen Qing
There is no such thing as mercy.
Chen Qing thought for a moment and then ordered: "Go to Tang Zongzhi to see me!"
There is a small house covering an area of about three acres outside the old Song gate in Bianliang. This is the home of Qian Huang, the head of the puppet state of Qi. Before Qian Huang became rich, he was just a low-level official in Jinan Mansion. His daughter was originally a palace maid.
After staying in the palace for more than ten years, she also worked as a palace maid or something like a foreman. After leaving the palace, she was married as a concubine by Liu Yu, who was the prefect of Jinan at the time.
Unexpectedly, Liu Yu's fortune turned, and he was favored by the Kingdom of Jin, who established the Pseudo Qi Kingdom. Liu Yu became the emperor, and his concubine Qian was made a queen because she understood the rules of the palace. One person became enlightened, and chickens and dogs ascended to heaven. Her father Qian
Akira suddenly became the head of the state.
Everything was so logical. There were so many luxury houses in Bianliang City for Qian Huang to choose from. Qian Huang was spoiled for choice. In the end, he chose Cai Jing's huge mansion of hundreds of acres. But he still only had one wife. It's not that he didn't.
Erotic, he was a frequent visitor to several famous brothels in Bianliang, and even opened several brothels of his own, where he could enjoy the beautiful prostitutes at his disposal.
The reason why he refused to take a concubine was really out of stinginess. Taking a concubine would cost a lot of money, a concubine would cost a lot of expenses, and their family would have to take care of themselves during the holidays, and the money could only go out but not come in. Unlike prostitutes, not only
Let him play for free and make money for him.
Qian Huang was notoriously stingy. Cai Jing's mansion was too big and he thought it was too wasteful, so he divided it and rented it out. He felt that dozens of domestic servants and maids were too expensive, so he tried every means to get a prince.
With the title of prince, the wages of his dozens of domestic servants and maids were borne by the court. Not only that, the court also provided him with grain, rice, meat and vegetables every month. Anyway, he did not spend a penny on various expenses in his house.
It is the burden of the imperial court.
On the contrary, he brought home a lot of wealth. He was responsible for the transportation of grain and grass for the puppet Qi army. As long as he increased the normal loss a little, he would have hundreds of thousands of tons of so-called "rotten" grain at his disposal every year.
This alone earned him millions of dollars in five years, not to mention other incomes and various rewards from the emperor.
The whole Bianliang knew that he was the second richest man in the Puppet Qi Kingdom after the emperor Liu Yu. He was nicknamed Qian Sanhuang, which means that the house will fall down in one flash, the city will fall in two flashes, and the world will fall in three flashes. Huang refers to him.
The mountain of money piled up at home fell down.
However, after the Puppet Qi was overthrown, Qian Huang immediately moved to this small house of three acres. He claimed to the outside world that all his wealth had been confiscated, and he himself became a poor old man, and he often went to Xiangguo Temple.
Selling gadgets on the black market to make ends meet.
However, Chen Qing did not find any records of Wanyan Wushu's house being confiscated. Even the emperor Liu Yu and his brothers and nephews were not confiscated. Liu Yu's family was moved to Linhuang Mansion in Beijing and renamed King Cao. They took away three hundred people when they went north.
A large car's worth of property.
Li Ji also confirmed to Chen Qing that Wanyan Wushu did not confiscate his family. The Puppet Qi was a puppet regime supported by the Jin State. They had no merit but hard work. From political considerations, the Jin State adopted a tolerant policy towards them.
If Qian Huang's wealth was not confiscated, where did he hide it?
At one watch at night, Tang Qian led two thousand troops to surround Qian Huang's old and new houses.