Zhu Hao had already expected that the palace was on high alert against him, but the other party did not drive him out of the palace, and even came to protect him in many matters, which showed that the palace still had the most basic trust in him.
Zhu San and Zhu Si said they should listen to their parents and be careful about Zhu Hao and Jinghong, but as soon as they started playing, they couldn't care less.
The world of children is relatively simple, with not so much intrigue. Although Zhu Hao feels that he is already the king of children by playing wildly with several children every day. His childishness is getting stronger and stronger, and he is almost completely integrated into this innocent and childish rhythm.
, but there is no denying that this carefree and carefree life is very comfortable.
Return to the dormitory in the evening.
Jinghong lit the tung oil lamp with a worried look on his face: "The palace is on guard against you and me. In this situation, what's the point of staying in the palace?"
Zhu Hao said: "What do you mean, don't you want to stay?"
"Um."
Jinghong answered very directly, "My father said that he will leave office in less than a year. He said that he would send me back to my hometown and hire a teacher for me, or he would teach me himself."
Sounds great!
Zhu Hao was a little envious. It was good to have a father who was a county magistrate who was a civil servant. However, he did not have this kind of treatment. If he wanted to learn, he could only find ways from outside, while other people's studies at home were enough to complete the necessary knowledge reserves before the imperial examination.
Zhu Hao smiled: "If you want to leave, I won't stop you. Anyway, I have nowhere to go if I leave the palace... It would be safer to stay in the palace to study."
Jinghong looked at Zhu Hao with firm eyes: "Originally I promised my family...but the palace has a wife, and I don't want to leave..."
This sounds reasonable, but what do you mean when you look at me with such resentful eyes? Our competition is competition, so don't look like a harem, okay?
Do you understand this is called abnormal love!?
"If I leave, your progress will be faster, and I may never catch up with you, so I told my father that even if he leaves office and returns to his hometown, I will stay in the palace and study with Mr. Lu."
Jinghong's eyes became determined, "But you, Zhu Hao, if the palace is on guard against you, why not leave early and stay in the palace, being watched every day like a thief, it is not a good thing for you.
"
Zhu Hao pursed his lips: "Thank you for reminding me."
It turns out it’s not that kind of feeling!
Zhu Hao breathed a sigh of relief, but then he realized something was wrong. If you don't leave by yourself, why would you let me leave?
"I can ask my father to find a husband for you outside. You have to believe me. I'm not doing this to win you. I'm doing this all for your own good..."
Jinghong doesn't know how to lie at first glance, his face turns red when he lies, and he looks like he is a thief with a guilty conscience.
Zhu Hao was too lazy to talk to him.
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A few days later.
Su Xigui's goods were finally supplied. Zhu Hao personally came forward and had the silver mirrors, myopia glasses, and far-sighted glasses wrapped in wooden boxes one by one, and the goods owed in the previous two months were replenished.
He came back with another six hundred taels of silver.
Shopkeeper Ma asked someone with myopia and presbyopia to verify it, and carefully checked each piece. After finding that there was no problem, he had someone carefully put it into a wooden box and prepare to be shipped on the road.
"Third Madam, you are really a good shopkeeper. You can't supply any goods even though Young Master Zhu is away. It's only been a few days since he came back... How can you make up for several months of goods at once? If your workshop can continue to
Shaft production, can we supply so many goods every day?"
Shopkeeper Ma found it very strange.
Zhu Hao stayed in the palace before, and Zhu Niang had no way to deal with the supply. After Zhu Hao came back, the problem was solved. Could it be that only Zhu Hao knew this technology?
Zhu Niang looked embarrassed and didn't know how to answer.
She was also very apologetic for not fulfilling the previous supply contract, feeling that she had made a mistake first.
Zhu Hao said with a smile: "There is no way, not everyone can do this work. Not only must they be skilled, but they must also be children... Only children who are clever and handy can complete so many delicate tasks, and it is necessary to cultivate a superb and highly skilled child."
Child, how long will it take? Isn’t this nurturing, am I the only one doing it myself now?”
Shopkeeper Ma thought about it carefully, and it sounded quite reasonable.
Looking at the size and purity of the silver mirror and the two types of eyeglass lenses, it does require extremely high processing technology. Does it really require skilled child labor to complete it?
"How about... I will find some children for you to be your apprentices?" Shopkeeper Ma started to be clever.
Zhu Hao smiled and waved his hand: "No, thank you to shopkeeper Ma for his kindness. It's better to leave this job to those close to you. Otherwise, if the technology is stolen by others, it will be equivalent to throwing away the gold and silver that only belongs to you! Su Dongzhu
You shouldn’t steal other people’s technology for your own benefit, right?”
"No, no, our boss has no intention of snatching technology. I take my leave..."
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Shopkeeper Ma left.
Zhu Hao and Zhu Niang took a carriage home.
Zhu Niang said: "Xiao Hao, there are so many craftsmen in the workshop, but no one can help you. Do you need to do it yourself? If that doesn't work, you can teach Xiaoting the technique, or we can find a child with good skills...
"
"Mom, I lied to him. In fact, all the children in the village I brought can do it... Only by showing my importance will Dongzhu Su do his best to help us when we are fighting with the Zhu family, right?"
Zhu Hao said with a smile.
Zhu Niang was speechless for a moment.
Zhu Hao quickly added: "Mom, don't think I'm lying. Intriguing is a basic skill in business. Besides, I'm not lying. It's true that I am the only one who fully understands this skill. The children I bring up are only engaged in a certain field."
played and could not complete the entire production.
"Even if we are threatened by the Zhu family, as long as I don't come up with complete technology, why should they make money from this thing? Maybe we can use this in exchange for our family's freedom."
Zhu Niang probably understood that her son regarded the technology of making silver mirrors and glasses as his last resort, which could come in handy at critical moments.
"Little Third Brother, how is the search for the nursing home going?"
Zhu Hao opened the car curtain and asked Yu San, who was driving the car in front.
Yu Sandao: "I couldn't find that many people at that time. I only found more than seventy for the time being. Didn't more than thirty people come with us today?"
Zhu Hao nodded: "Seventy people can make do with it... By the way, mother, we should buy a big house, right? Otherwise, let's find someone to be our representative and go to Zhu's house to discuss the redemption of dad's house.
, spend him a thousand taels, what do you think?"
Zhu Niang originally did not support finding so many nursing homes, but after hearing Zhu Hao's words, she became even more nervous for no reason.
"Xiao Hao, are you doing this... to go against the Zhu family?" Zhu Niang asked in fear.
Zhu Hao persuaded: "Mom, if we don't fight back and wait for others to attack every day, when will the initiative come back to us? Now that Prince Xing's Mansion and Dongzhu Su are helping us, now we have to let Zhu
My family knows that we are not lambs to be slaughtered."
"Mom, don't go there yourself. Why don't you let Yu San and Uncle Zhong go together? If one thousand taels doesn't work, just spend him one thousand two hundred taels. By the way, let the wind out and let the neighbors know that we made a profit from doing business with Su Dongzhu.
Money, prepare to take back the house that dad left to us."
Zhu Niang looked heavy and did not answer directly.
"Mom, if the house is successfully redeemed this time, it will not only fulfill the oath you asked me to make in front of my father's body, but also be worthy of the Zhu family's cultivation of my father... We have used the money we earned to repay the Zhu family, you
It can be regarded as fulfilling your filial piety for your father, why not?"
Zhu Hao said, "Now our business is getting bigger and bigger, and we may get involved in other businesses in the future. If we still hide it, when the Zhu family comes to kill them, they may swallow everything we get. At that time, do you think
We don’t have the capital to talk to them by showing off our cavalry and cannons.”
Zhu Niang sighed: "Rong Niang should think about this matter carefully after she goes back."
"Don't think about it. Hesitation will bring disaster. Now we are going to counterattack the Zhu family as the third brother of the Zhu family. The worst result is that the Zhu family will use all their connections to take back our glass workshop where bottles and jars are made.
, so that we ended up in vain... But we have made back our capital long ago, and we didn’t lose much, right?"
Zhu Hao knew the Zhu family's routine very well.
Do you, the third house, want to go up to the house and unveil the tiles?
Swallow it together with your workshop!
Since Zhu Hao has long understood what the Zhu family is going to do next, he will take advantage of the plan and invest a lot of money, which will also require a lot of investment in the follow-up. The glass workshop that seems to have good prospects but actually has no market will be used as bait... The Zhu family doesn't like to force others.
Do you want to take plunder? I'll dig a big pit, wait for you to jump, and sit back and watch you pour money into it.
Zhu Niang thought about it and felt that what her son said made sense.
She has already seen the consequences of forbearance. The Zhu family is not a scholarly family, and there is not much benevolence and morality to talk about. To fight against evil people, one must be firm-minded and use unconventional means.
"Um."
Zhu Niang finally gritted her teeth and nodded.
Zhu Hao said with a smile: "As long as mother agrees, I will arrange for Yu San and Uncle Zhong to go to the Zhu family to buy a house together. Recently, mother has not been going anywhere. She just stays at home. If the Zhu family comes to steal money, she will try her best to make things happen."
Damn, they don’t know where our money is anyway, they’re so anxious!”
"Little Third Brother, take me back to the palace, and then take my mother home. I'll leave the matter to you!"
Yu San just listened with his ears straightened up, and smiled when he heard the words: "Brother Hao, just take a look."
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Zhu Niang's counterattack began.
When I had money before, I didn't dare to show it to anyone in Jin Yi Ye Xing for fear of being robbed by the Zhu family.
Now he changed his strategy, acted in a high-profile manner, and began to deliberately confront the Zhu family.
When Yu San and Uncle Zhong arrived at Zhu's house and conveyed Zhu Niang's wishes, Zhu Jia was about to send someone to call Zhu Niang back for a lecture, but was told that Zhu Niang had not seen anyone recently, and there were even more people around Zhu Niang's courtyard.
They gathered hundreds of strong men and protected them closely, as if they wanted to fight the Zhu family to the end.
"Did I hear you correctly? That woman actually said she wanted to buy her third brother's house for one thousand two hundred taels of silver? Is she... crazy? Where did she get so much money?"
At a family meeting.
Mrs. Zhu Jia called over the eldest daughter-in-law Jiang Yonghe, the second eldest son Zhu Wanjian and the fourth eldest son Zhu Wanquan, as well as housekeeper Liu.
Zhu Wanjian first said that this matter was not credible.
Liu Guanjia said: "Second Master, it is said that the Third Madam found someone to open a workshop outside the city... to make glassware, mainly bottles and jars, and then sell them to the big salt merchant, Huang Fantai, the governor of Huguang Zuo.
His brother-in-law Su Xi Guisu headed the family and earned huge wealth in a short period of time."
Hearing this, Zhu Wanjian's eyes almost burst into flames... While he was angry that his sister-in-law was making a comeback, her eyes were also full of covetousness and greed, wanting to take other people's things as her own.