The greater your ability, the greater your responsibility.
I listened to you and bought the idle fields in the northwest. Now I need your policies so that I can make a big profit. Otherwise, no one will take over the land I bought, and I will lose everything.
Zhu Hao asked roughly.
Su Xigui's investment in the northwest amounted to about one hundred thousand taels... Although it was a lot, it was far from going bankrupt.
If this deal is completed, Li Lan will probably have two hundred thousand taels.
This seems like Su Xigui is very greedy.
"Dr. Su, in fact, from what I understand, Huizhou merchants intend to enter the land market in the northwest. Even if it doesn't work out, you can sell it to them and make a fortune, so don't cry poor in front of me."
Zhu Hao is not a fool.
When you run such a big business, you use the diversified investment method, thinking you can hide it from others, but can you hide it from me?
Su Xigui smiled ashamedly and continued to pour tea for Zhu Hao. The tea overflowed and he was still pouring it there, which showed how guilty he was.
"Don't be nervous, Mr. Su. I'm not blaming you. In the current situation, changing the salt law is not feasible for the time being. We must either wait for Mr. Huang to come to the capital and serve as minister, whether it is the Ministry of Revenue or the Ministry of War, or directly become the minister of the Ministry of Personnel...
But no matter what, we won’t have a good life until that Yang Ge gets old and he doesn’t retreat.”
Zhu Hao also expressed the current dilemma he is facing.
If you want to make money, you have to correct your mentality and push Huang Zan to the top. Before that, you have to bring down Yang Tinghe.
"understand."
Su Xigui gritted his teeth and persisted.
Are the acres of land sold to Hui merchants at this time?
That is impossible!
Others come to make a big profit while I can only make a small profit?
There are no doors!
The most profitable business in the world must naturally be done by me, Su.
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Before leaving, Su Xigui gave Zhu Hao something else.
It's actually a list.
"What is this?"
Zhu Hao asked puzzledly.
Su Xigui said: "In the past few years, I have raised a group of pretty little girls in the south of the Yangtze River. I have raised them since they were eleven or twelve years old. Now in the past few years, they have become slim and graceful. I know that the young master does not care so much about beauty.
, but if used in certain places, it may have miraculous effects."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Hao narrowed his eyes and looked at Su Xigui.
In the past, Zhu Hao thought that Su Xigui would not do such a shameless thing like blatantly buying and selling people.
unexpectedly……
"Dongzhu Su, you are quite thoughtful."
Zhu Hao looked at Su Xigui deeply and asked, "This... doesn't seem to be prepared for me or to deal with the current situation, right?"
"This...hehe."
Su Xigui's old face turned red and he lowered his head in shame.
How smart is Su Xigui?
There is no such thing as a thin horse in Yangzhou these days, but Su Xigui has long known that this kind of business is simply paying less and getting more rewards. After all, beauty is one of the most effective keys to open the door to power in any era. Without such preparation, he would dare to call himself
Officials and businessmen?
Zhu Hao knew very well that these beauties Su Xigui must have been prepared for Emperor Zhengde. But now that Zhu Houzhao is dead, the new emperor seems not to like this. Su Xigui simply gave them to Zhu Hao and let Zhu Hao arrange them by himself, just like last year.
Give Zhu Hao one hundred thousand taels of silver to look at and use.
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"The person can stay, but I'm afraid I can't do what you want. The person is not sent to the place where he should be sent, so I have to stay and enjoy it by myself."
Zhu Hao joked with a smile.
Su Xigui smiled and said, "That's a good relationship. I'm just afraid that the young master won't accept it."
Zhu Hao said: "You are so direct in what you say. I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it."
"If you can't do it, others can't do it either."
Su Xigui's face was full of cunning, "The young master is full of blood and will definitely do something in the future. It is meaningful to give you something now. When you become more powerful in the future, you will want to give it again... I'm afraid what will happen to you?
I won’t accept anything.”
Zhu Hao sighed: "Dongzhu Su, you don't feel bad, do you?"
Su Xigui showed a free and easy attitude that I would not take out if I felt distressed. He straightened his back and said: "How can there be any reason to feel distressed about the things you give away? The young master can enjoy it... or should I say, control it... so these few days
Just send them to a house, would you bother to take the time to go and have a look?"
"Um."
Zhu Hao nodded.
He knew that the beauties Su Xigui sent to the capital this time were definitely the kind of beauties in the world. They were not on the same level as when Su Xigui had prepared a few female actors or sent a few maids in the past.
This was a gift that Su Xigui had carefully cultivated for many years and prepared to give to the emperor.
Su Xigui said: "By the way, little master, I have something... I don't know whether I should talk about it or not?"
"Old Su, are you trying to play a riddle with me? You've already said this, so you might as well say it out loud. It's easy to suffocate a living person to death by trying to pass it off. I don't feel comfortable when I didn't hear it." Zhu Hao said.
Su Xigui stepped forward and whispered: "That's it. After the death of the late emperor, there was a... nobleman who used to be the emperor, and he came to me to beg for shelter... But this person has a special status. If something goes wrong, he will
It would cause a lot of trouble, so I just sent people to settle her down..."
Zhu Hao heard a clue.
It seems to be talking about...Zhu Houzhao's beloved concubine Liu Meiren?
Liu Meiren, also known as Liu Empress before the emperor, was the prototype of Sister Li Feng in various dramas of later generations. In the late Zhengde Dynasty, she was the most favored concubine around Zhu Houzhao, and her status was equivalent to the queen.
However, because she was the wife of the musician Yang Teng and a civilian girl captured by the emperor, she was not qualified to enter the palace and was officially canonized by the court. Zhu Houzhao did not care to title this beloved concubine, or felt that it did not matter.
But this kind of indifference caused trouble after Zhu Houzhao's death. Liu Meiren became a gangster because of her namelessness. After Jiang Bin, Qian Ning and other female gangsters were killed one after another, although Liu Meiren was not convicted, if she was convicted by the court,
If he is found, he will be executed secretly to protect Zhu Houzhao's reputation.
After all, Empress Dowager Zhang is still alive and cannot tolerate the existence of a woman like this who ruins her son's reputation.
Later generations knew how wild and unrestrained Zhu Houzhao was, but the authorities were obsessed with it. Not everyone knew who this emperor was, and the court did not want to make the royal family's reputation so bad. It was not until the Jiajing Dynasty that Zhu Houzhao was slowly established as an emperor.
Negative example.
At present, Zhu Houzhao just has a bad reputation among officials.
Zhu Hao said: "You dare to take in anyone. Why do you come to ask me? Can I help you deal with it?"
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Su Xigui raised his eyebrows and chuckled, his face was very serious, but his tone was extremely gloomy: "If she comes alone, without anyone else, I can make her disappear from the world. She knows that she needs to be supported in order to be taken in...
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"What do you rely on? Gold, silver and jewelry?"
Zhu Hao asked carefully.
Su Xigui shook his head: "This woman is very alert. She has deliberately kept some things for self-protection from the time she accompanied the emperor. When she was in front of the emperor, the emperor did not avoid her when he met with his subjects, or there were many officials in the court who had misdeeds. She
We all know something about it...This is just my guess. These things may not mean much to me, but to the young master...it may be a clever move."
Zhu Hao was a little surprised. Su Xigui was taking risks out of desperation.
But if you think about it carefully, it seems like it’s nothing. Does anyone really care about this woman’s life or death now?
Zhu Hao would like to know how this woman ended up living among the people after Zhu Houzhao's death? Was it Zhu Houzhao who arranged for her to escape, or was it Jiang Bin?
Or maybe he knew it would be difficult to return to the capital, so he didn't follow Zhu Houzhao back to the capital, but stayed elsewhere to wait for the summons, and then fled privately after hearing the news of the emperor's death?
There is no historical record of Liu Meiren after Zhu Houzhao's death. Historians believe that most of them were secretly killed by Empress Dowager Zhang or she committed suicide in love.
Zhu Hao probably knew by now that this woman knew she was going to die and ran away first.
"Are you trying to transfer someone to me?"
Zhu Hao asked.
Su Xigui said with a smile: "She ran away privately.
I didn't dare to set foot in Shuntian Mansion, but I didn't think about running too far. It's not easy for an ordinary woman to think of anywhere these days, let alone her kind of charming beauty? Besides, isn't it dark under the light? Others won't think of her.
He is hiding around Gyeonggi Province...I can introduce him to the young master."
"Let's find some time later. In fact, I also want to see how beautiful this noble man is that can make the late emperor so obsessed..."
Of course Zhu Hao was curious.
As the emperor, Zhu Houzhao had so many people searching for beauties from all over the world for him. How could he be so stunning that he could be so obsessed with a married man?
The key point is that Zhu Houzhao is not a romantic person like Emperor Ming of Tang Dynasty. Is Zhu Houzhao the kind of dedicated person? If a king who is amorous or even bisexual can be trapped by a woman, who doesn't want to see what this woman is capable of?
?
Su Xigui said: "Beauty is beautiful, but more importantly... this woman is considerate. The young master will know it after seeing her."
"You'll know it when you see it?"
Zhu Hao asked with a smile.
"hehe."
Su Xigui smiled awkwardly, "That's what I said, but if you really want to know, I'm afraid you have no chance. But this woman is extremely dangerous. If the young master can't handle it, I have many ways to make her not threaten anyone. Beauty is a disaster, in fact.
Her fate has long been predestined by God, and outsiders cannot force it."
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After finishing the matter, Zhu Hao went back.
On the way, I inevitably thought about Miss Liu.
I thought that this woman had been lost in the long river of history, but I didn’t expect that I would still have the chance to see her... I couldn’t see her in her original identity, I had to change her appearance, or say a few words through a screen, a wooden board, or something like that.
As for her appearance and charm, the rest... I can only guess based on Zhu Hao's knowledge of people.
A fallen phoenix is not as good as a chicken.
But this is not a woman that ordinary people can touch, and Zhu Hao has no intention of testing whether she has any special skills.
As Su Xigui said, Zhu Hao is only interested in the secrets hidden in her body, which may come in handy in the future, such as targeting Yang Tinghe or those from the old faction?
To sum it up.
He is a normal man, and he wants to see him, even though he knows he has thorns, it doesn't matter.
If it were anyone else, Su Xigui would not dare to mention it. This is probably the most special "gift" Su Xigui gave to Zhu Hao. He wanted to transfer the political resources of this woman to Zhu Hao.