Ping An promised and stepped forward, took out three pieces of paper from his body, and shook them open.
Three portraits of people.
Xiao Yu said: "I am a more open-minded person than you. Come on, choose one. Who will you want to be your father?"
Xu Guogong almost knelt down to Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu looked sincere, "When you chose a father for me, you did it behind my back. I respect your wishes. You can choose the three of them by yourself. Choose the one who suits your eyes."
As for your biological father...
For the sake of fairness, my real father is dead, and there is no need for your father to live. I will send someone to kill him soon, and then let this fake one go and make peace with your mother, Qin Se.
Oh, yes, of course, you have to pick one of your grandmother's maids to take on the identity of Xiao Yunqian, marry your father and make him a child. Then let the two of them conspire to kill your mother, and then kill you.
.
At that time, I only need to discuss the price reduction of drinks with your fake father, and you will have nothing to worry about.
Hurry up and choose, don’t leave any ink, I can’t wait!”
Xu Guogong's eyes turned black with anger.
"Your Majesty, you have gone too far." Xu Guogong gritted his teeth, "The subordinate respects the prince and treats the prince politely, so the prince humiliates the subordinate like this? Or does the prince think that the prince has great power and can bully the subordinate at will?
Your Majesty, please don’t forget that today, everything from firewood, rice, oil and salt to cloth and herbs is controlled by aristocratic families!”
Xiao Yu smiled but said, "Why else do you think I tried my best to control the water transportation? If you have the ability, don't put your things on my boat! Let me take the dry road. Oh, by the way, I forgot.
Let me tell you, the dry road has been controlled by Zhenninghou Mansion before, but now it is controlled by Gu Yao. I will put my words here today.
I have no control over collecting beans, wheat and bran from the local area for your wine, but you want to transport it from other places?
dream!
As long as I am here, I can guarantee that all the shops in your home will not be able to buy anything from other places.
If you don’t believe me, try it.”
"Aren't you afraid that all the aristocratic families will unite?" Xu Guogong said: "As long as we put pressure on the emperor and don't send anything to Kyoto for a month, you can see what His Majesty's attitude will be then."
"Then you might as well give it a try and see if you don't send things to Kyoto for a month. Will there be any shortage in Kyoto? Maybe Xu Guogong is busy looking for my father, and there is one thing I haven't heard about, so I will tell you.
You know that my princess used to sell brine, right?"
Xu Guogong looked doubtful about life.
Where did this come from!
and!
Is this something to be proud of?
Xiao Yu looked proud, "You know that our small braised sesame water shops are now open all over the country, right? You know that the princess also has a winery, right?
When the time comes, the wine we brew will be delivered to our own Lu Xiashui shop, and the price will be lowered. Do you think your wineries can still operate?"
Xu Guogong suddenly sneered, "Your Majesty is dreaming. Strong dragons have always been unable to suppress local snakes. It is better for the county magistrate to take charge now. Your small brine shop dares to break the market rules like this. Do you really think their shop can still operate?"
"
Xiao Yu looked at Duke Xu and smiled without saying a word.
Pingan stood aside, took out a document, and shook it open.
“Currently, 12 wineries in Jinshui County have no choice but to close down because they cannot match the price and quality advantages of their peers. Fifteen wineries in Ningzhou have no choice but to close down because they cannot match the price and quality advantages of their peers.
As for these two places, our prince just randomly selected two places for experiments, just to see whether the county magistrate's current management is more powerful? Or the people's will is more powerful.
Maybe the world is so far away that the Duke is not well-informed..."
Before Ping An could finish speaking, a servant's voice suddenly came from outside.
"My lord, the general manager of Jinshui County Winery and the general manager of Ningzhou Winery would like to see you!"
Xiao Yu had a smug smile on his lips, looked at Xu Guogong mockingly, and then said: "This king is so clever that he mentioned these two things, and the chief stewards of these two places came.
Your Majesty, why don't you go and meet them?"
When Ping An said that, Xu Guogong had already begun to feel suspicious. Now that these two stewards suddenly arrived at such a timely manner, Xu Guogong's eyelids jumped heavily, and a bad premonition suddenly came over him.
He glanced at Xiao Yu and turned around to go out.
Xiao Yu took off a langhaohu pen from the pen holder and played with it by grabbing the wolf hair.
Outside the study room.
Xu Guogong looked at the two dusty stewards who had come from other places with a gloomy face.
"Why are you here?"
The two stewards knelt down in unison.
"We have failed to live up to the cultivation of the Grand Duke. All the wineries in Ningzhou and Jinshui County have gone bankrupt!"
Xu Guogong only felt a ringing in his ears and dizziness.
"How...how could it go bankrupt! I've always said hello to the local government!" Xu Guogong said.
The steward of Jinshui County said: "A while ago, many small brine shops suddenly popped up. The braised food in that shop is unparalleled. They also sell rice wine and rice wine. The quality of these two wines is comparable to what we sell for ten taels of silver a jar.
Yes, but they only charge three taels of silver for a jar. In addition, they can also sell drinks. A colander only costs three yuan. If you buy wine, you will get some braised food as a token gift.
The common people flocked to it, and we tried to do something with their brine or wine, but we never got the chance.
I wanted the government to find an excuse to punish them severely, but the government didn't care at all.
In just one month, all our shops in Jinshui County were closed."
The Ningzhou steward next to him nodded, "Our situation is similar. I'm afraid of losing more, and I'm not sure what the government means. I don't dare to delay, so I can only close the shop temporarily and then go to Beijing to report.
It was only on the way to Beijing that I was detained by the Jinnan magistrate for several days and was released today.
We were both detained by the Jinnan Prefect."
Xu Guogong remembered that Xiao Yu was in Jinnan when he first handled the dock matters.
Coupled with Xiao Yu's calm attitude just now...why couldn't he guess that these two stewards were imprisoned, which was what Xiao Yu meant,
mean!
Shameless!
"Your local prefect and county magistrate don't care at all? But you mentioned my name?"
Manager Ningzhou said: "I mentioned it, but just ignored it. Maybe he was bribed by others. Mr. Guo, will our wine shop... continue to open?"
Xu Guogong felt a surge of anger flying into the sky.
He quickly opened his skull.
This Xiaoyu!
No wonder I came to negotiate with him so arrogantly today.
With an angry look on his face, Xu Guogong returned to his study.
Xiao Yu took out a bald Langhaohu pen and threw the pen holder on the table, "How is it? How have you considered it, the Duke of the State?"
"Did you bribe the county magistrates and magistrates of Ningzhou and Jinshui counties?"
"Are you questioning me? Are you worthy? The world is as dark as crows, you can bribe me but you can't? Just a quick word, will you surrender or not? If you don't surrender, I will change your father, that's it...
..I will let your wine shop operate normally."
Xiao Yu didn't give him a choice at all.
But the wine tax involves the remaining six aristocratic families, and he alone cannot have the final say.
"I need to think about it," Xu Guogong said.
"No, right now, either change my father or agree!" Xiao Yu said firmly.