Zhu Quan didn't notice anything strange about Li Jinglong. He was still talking about the bright blueprint for the future.
It means it will be on the market in three years, chain nationwide in five years, and spread all over the world in ten years.
Li Jinglong sighed secretly: Stop it, Xiao Qi, there are factory guards outside.
After a while, the servants came to serve tea, and Zhu Quan stopped talking.
However, as soon as the servants left, he quickly started talking again, and became more and more enthusiastic. When he thought about the ships of gold and silver, he burst out laughing.
"That's enough, stop talking." Li Jinglong couldn't listen anymore and stopped him.
Zhu Quan was stunned, and looked at Li Jinglong in surprise. Seeing his ugly face, his heart suddenly tightened, "Did you...sell me?"
This is too possible, this guy has a criminal record!
Moreover, his relationship with Li Qing is not an ordinary one.
The more Zhu Quan thought about it, the angrier he became, and he cursed: "You Li Jinglong, I trust you so much, you fucking stabbed me in the back, I..."
"Keep your voice down."
"Why do you want me to whisper...um..."
Li Jinglong covered his mouth and cursed: "Are you stupid? I have joined the gang, what good will it do me to stab you?
Besides, don’t I want to make money?”
Zhu Quan thought the same thing, and his excitement slowly calmed down. He pushed away Li Jinglong's hand and said suspiciously: "You kid really didn't betray me?"
"Am I the kind of person who betrays my mates?"
"No...isn't it?"
"I..." Li Jinglong couldn't argue and broke his defense: "If that's the case, then I won't do it."
Seeing him like this, Zhu Quan felt relieved and said sarcastically: "I'm just kidding, you and I can still trust each other. Who among us is following the other?"
I'm sorry, you trusted the wrong person. I'm a good person... Li Jinglong frowned and said: "The prince brought many factory guards with him this time. It's too reckless for you to come to my house. It can easily arouse his suspicion. He even knows about it."
."
No matter what, he had to kick the ball out, "Think about it, the prince has invited five feudal princes to worship his ancestors, four of them are his brothers, and you are the only elder. Doesn't this explain the problem?
"
"Ah? This..." Zhu Quan's face tightened and his heart became excited. Then he frowned and said, "That's not right. How did you know about this?"
"I..." Li Jinglong responded very quickly, "Li Qing came to my house for a drink a few days ago. He drank too much and let the news slip."
After a pause, he shook off the blame and said, "Hearing what he meant, I still don't trust you!"
"What a fool." Zhu Quan was furious, "I didn't eat his rice, why is he having trouble with me!?"
Li Jinglong advised: "It's useless to say this. He is also doing his job. After all, it is the emperor's wish. You should listen to my advice and stop doing business at sea. You will not be able to spend all your money."
"Then do you know how much profit there is in the sea?" Zhu Quan snorted, "Every day makes money, aren't you greedy?"
"I'm greedy, but..." Li Jinglong asked, "But compared to what you have now, which one is more important?"
Zhu Quan was startled, then smiled and said, "You are overthinking. Even if it is true as you said, is it possible to cut off my vassal just because of this?"
Li Jinglong smiled bitterly and shook his head: "That's not true, but... forget it, I won't do it after this time anyway. I've calculated that it's a total of ten thousand taels including principal and interest. Don't forget to pay me back later."
"You are stupid, why don't you do such a profitable business?" Zhu Quan said earnestly, "Don't even think about it. You invested a total of five thousand taels and got back your money this time. What if you do it again?
Oh, I see, you think the split is too small, right?" Zhu Quan pondered for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Let's do this, I won't give you the five thousand taels, and I'll give you 10% directly."
After a pause, "But you have to find some capable people to join me, so we can expand the business..."
"That's enough!" Li Jinglong suddenly stood up and said, "Prince Ning, Prince Ning, why can't you figure it out?
Why did Prince Ning, who was so scheming in the past, lose his sight of money now?"
Zhu Quan was also a little angry: "Li Jinglong, I have good intentions to help you get rich, but you are so good at being so cheap!"
"Don't do this." Li Jinglong sneered: "You are smart, but don't make fools of others. Don't you just want to drag me into the water and form a bundle of interests?"
Zhu Quan hesitated and snorted coldly: "If you don't do it, someone else will do it."
He glanced at Li Jinglong and said meaningfully: "I will give you the money later, but you'd better not go back to your old business."
"What did you say?"
"It's nothing, you know."
"You..." Li Jinglong was so angry that he wanted to scold his mother. Then he thought about it and realized that he had indeed betrayed her. It would not be wrong to express his anger, nor would it be wrong not to express his anger. Finally, he had to say:
"I'll say this for the last time. You've made so much money anyway, so stop it as soon as possible, otherwise everyone will look bad."
"I have good intentions." Zhu Quan said something negative, got up and left.
Li Qing also said similar things, but he just obeyed at that time. Once Li Qing left, he continued to go his own way, so naturally he didn't take Li Jinglong's words seriously.
…
After leaving Cao Guogong's mansion, Zhu Quan still felt uneasy after thinking about it, so he decided to go to the palace again to explore Zhu Zhanji's tone.
Zhu Quan could see clearly that Li Jinglong could even sell Jianwen, so selling him to Prince Ning would probably not cause any psychological burden at all.
In fact, he had wronged Li Jinglong, and he still felt a psychological burden, although it was not big.
Zhu Quan arrived at the palace and after some testing, he didn't get a single hair, but his doubts were gradually dispelled.
He felt that if the prince really wanted to touch him, he would never be so calm.
Zhu Quan was relieved and returned to the palace to stay temporarily, waiting to worship his ancestors, and then go back to make a fortune.
~
"Did you tell him?"
"Said."
"What did he say?"
"Obsessed!"
Li Qing patted Li Jinglong on the shoulder: "You have done your best, so don't feel any psychological burden."
"But I've become a traitor again." Li Jinglong felt aggrieved.
Li Qing didn’t think so: “First, you are doing a good deed;
Second, even if you don’t tell us, we can still find out. There is no way to hide such a big deal, it just takes some time.”
Li Jinglong nodded, feeling much better after Li Qing said this.
"By the way, Prince Ning won't be stripped of his vassal status, right?"
Li Qing shook his head: "It will definitely not happen this time, but if he continues to persist in his obsession, it may not be possible."
Li Jinglong sighed and said nothing more.
…
More than ten days later, King Xiang, King Jing, King Huai, and King Liang arrived one after another.
Zhu Zhanji, who had been refusing to leave the house, finally showed up and summoned officials from the six ministries to discuss the ancestor worship ceremony.
Li Qing didn't show up this time. The ancestor worship last time gave him a hard time, and he didn't want to experience it again.
However, he was unable to escape after all, and blended in with the crowd to participate in the ancestor worship.
But this time it was much easier. After all, he didn't have to take the lead. He could do whatever others wanted. After eating half a piece of ginger, he returned to the Marquis Mansion to lie down.
~
The next day, early in the morning.
Outside the gate, Jin Yiwei's loud voice rang out.
"Hou Yongqing, the prince orders you to enter the palace!"
"I heard it." Li Qing shouted loudly, "I will come over right now."
The Jin Yiwei outside heard the response and left quickly.
Li Qing stayed in bed for a while, then slowly got up and washed up.
He knew that today was the day to "open the skylight and speak out", but he was not in a hurry because it was still early.
As expected, Li Qing kept writing for a while, and when he arrived at the palace, several feudal princes had not arrived yet.
Seeing Li Qing enter the palace, Zhu Zhanji waved away from the small yellow gate with a dark face, frowning and said: "Uncle Qing, you are just lazy at ordinary times, why are you so ink today!?"
"Isn't the person here yet?" Li Qing shrugged.
"..." Zhu Zhanji said angrily: "Don't I want to discuss the details with you?"
Li Qing shook his head: "No need, just follow the original plan, it is simple, crude and effective!"
After a pause, "By the way, you asked your father how to deal with the noble trade. Have you received a reply?"
"It's been there a long time ago." Zhu Zhanji rolled his eyes.
"How to say?"
Zhu Zhanji said in a muffled voice: "It's the same as what you said!"
Li Qing praised: "As expected of the little fat... uh... the emperor is wise!"
Zhu Zhanji was too lazy to vent his anger and frowned: "This is the first time in my life that I have seen my father so tough, but I always feel that this is a bit too tough."
"Huh?" Li Qing shook his head, "As you said at the beginning, it is better to contain the shipping in time when it first opens than to wait for them to become bigger and then take action. Don't worry, it won't turn the world upside down."
"From today on, I will live with you." Li Qing added.
Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "There's no need to make such a fuss. What I'm worried about is that the people in the army are unstable, but they still dare to rebel."
"It's better to be prepared for any trouble. You can never go wrong by taking more precautions." Li Qing said with a smile.
Zhu Zhanji felt warm in his heart, but he said indifferently: "You are already this old. If something unexpected happens, I will protect you."
Two years and two years passed, and he felt that this time Li Qing would definitely not be able to compete with him.
Li Qing smiled, picked up the hot tea on the table and took a sip, waiting for the protagonists to arrive.
Two quarters of an hour later.
The five vassal kings, King Ning, King Xiang, King Jing, King Huai, and King Liang, stepped into the main hall together.
"I will see His Highness the Crown Prince."
This time, Zhu Zhanji was not polite. He lowered his head and sipped tea, and accepted the courtesy calmly, showing his true style.
After several people finished saluting, he said calmly: "Pingshen!"
"Thank you, Your Highness." Zhu Quan felt a little unhappy and his voice was slightly louder than the others.
Zhu Zhanji put down his teacup, glanced at the five people, and finally looked at Prince Xiang with a smile:
"Zhan Zhen, come on, come on."
Zhu Zhanzhen looked at his smiling elder brother and trembled all over. He and Zhu Zhanji were brothers from the same mother, but that was why he was beaten by his elder brother all the time.
Every time his eldest brother beat him, he always had this smiling expression, which made him feel really scared.
"Big, big...ah no," Zhu Zhanzhen forced out an ugly smile and stammered, "His Royal Highness...yes, just tell me what you have to say."
"Come here!" Zhu Zhanji said calmly and stopped laughing.
Zhu Zhanchen became even more frightened and moved forward little by little.
"Hurry up."
"Yes." Zhu Zhanzhen heard that his elder brother was impatient, and he immediately became excited, trotted two steps, came to the elder brother, and said flatteringly: "Prince..."
As soon as the words came out of my mouth, I suddenly felt a blur in my eyes, and then my cheeks went numb.
"Pah——!"
Zhu Zhanzhen couldn't bear the big dick that he had been accumulating for a long time. He felt like the world was spinning, stars were appearing in his eyes, and his mind went blank.