Su Ping put a gold ingot in the wardrobe drawer, took out the account book, and made a note. After calculation, Su Ping now had 378 taels of silver, but this photo was 122 taels lower than Qiao Dongcheng's asking price.
Thinking about it carefully, if he had beaten Qiao Dongcheng a little more before doing things, maybe Qiao Dongcheng could have released the more than one hundred taels. But Su Ping had his own problems. Seeing Qiao Dongcheng's embarrassed look, he softened his heart. He thought
Yes, they didn't want to sell it at all, but now they agree to sell it at a reasonable price. This is already a huge concession. You can't be too pushy.
Maybe Su Ping did something wrong and didn't maximize his interests, but that was his temper. And a night girl in Chengfeng Teahouse admired Su Ping's shortcomings. In other words, she didn't think it was a shortcoming, but
It's a charm.
Of course, some people like it, and some don't. For example, Lu Sanniang felt that Su Ping's business was a loss. If the head of her family did things like this, she would be unhappy and complain.
Life is a chaotic system. Sometimes, I feel that I understand a lot of great principles and grasp many laws of life and nature, but after decades, I find that my life is still in a mess.
Gradually I came to know that "understanding" and "doing" are actually two different things. There are many people who understand, but very few people who do it. If he can do it, he can be regarded as a person who has achieved the "unity of knowledge and action".
But even if you achieve enlightenment, it is only in one aspect and cannot be comprehensive. Look at those great people who have achieved great results. Maybe they have also done very poorly in some aspects. For example, the son of a great general with great military exploits turned against him.
.Another example is a great man who can change the face of the times, but his wife lacks respect for him.
Emotions are something that cannot be explained clearly. When Ye Hanshuang fell in love with Su Ping, even she herself didn't know.
Liking someone is actually happiness. Because having a crush is also love. But for some reason, Miss Ye often sheds tears recently, but never tells others her true feelings.
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Supervisory Office, Mei Pavilion.
The gold ingot was snatched away by Su Ping. Later, Zhen Ping'er said that Su Ping robbed the ingot to buy a gift for the princess. Tang Mei sat on the couch and suddenly lost her consciousness, thinking about what gift Su Ping could buy her.
In fact, for a well-connected lady, some external things are unlikely to arouse her interest.
And now the second-grade princess of Dacheng has a higher vision. Even if the whole gold ingot is given to her, she will not be happy. But she is somewhat looking forward to seeing Su Ping give her something. But when Su
When the bottle came back, it was empty-handed. Princess Loulan's face was elongated.
Before Tang Mei could cause trouble, Su Ping was summoned away by the Fourth Young Master Tang Kuan. He was made mysterious and no one knew what was going on.
"Baoyu, I need your help with something."
"Oh, if you have any orders, Fourth Young Master, just tell me."
"Haha, good Baoyu, this matter may be a bit risky. But let's put it at the front, if you can help me do it, I won't belittle you. And I promise, even if I fail, I can protect you.
Because there will be someone who can take full responsibility."
Su Ping frowned and said seriously: "I would like to hear the details."
Not long ago, the fourth son Tang Kuan wanted to kill Li Xiang's mother through "ginseng murder" so that Li Xiang could return to work as soon as possible. But when Li Xiang saw the prescription prescribed by the imperial doctor, he understood Tang Kuan's intention.
In fact, Li Xiang's mother was not sick at all. Li Xiang felt that working with Tang Kuan would always involve risks, and he didn't want to live like that. So he asked his mother to pretend to be sick and he hid at home. But now it seems,
The Fourth Young Master is going to be cruel.
Before the fourth son fell out, Li Xiang decided to return to Tang Kuan, and Tang Kuan naturally let his mother go. Then Li Xiang went to Huainan, contacted the local gang, and continued the thin horse business.
I have to say that Li Xiang is a capable man, and it’s no wonder that Tang Kuan valued him so much. Li Xiang’s method was different from that of the previous group of traffickers. In the past, those guys would rob other people’s daughters at every turn. That was the method of bandits, and they couldn’t do it.
.If you want your business to last long, you should still use money to do things.
Of course, there is also some deception.
For example, we post an announcement saying that Kyoto Qinraku Academy is recruiting students. As long as your girl passes our assessment, your girl will be out of poverty. We provide free food and clothing, and also invite the best teachers to teach them piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing, dancing, etc.
They educate you into outstanding talents. However, you have to sign a contract of sale for at least fifteen years. Otherwise, if we train you and you run away in the end, wouldn't we suffer a big loss?
There were many poor people in the Liang Dynasty, and they favored sons over daughters. It was not uncommon for some extremely poor families to drown their girls immediately after giving birth. But even so, the population ratio of the Liang Dynasty was not out of balance, because there were many wars in the Liang Dynasty, and men
If you join the army, some of it will be consumed.
For example, the Longyou War this time, although the war took place on the Tang clan's territory, the royal family's Xuanjia Army, Ximen's Tiger Ben Army, and Meng's Flying Tiger General all had to mobilize troops to support it.
Moreover, the consumption was huge. It would be too late for the Tang family to recruit their own troops, so they would recruit troops nationwide. In three years of fighting, more than 400,000 people were killed. However, the entire population of the Liang Dynasty was only more than 30 million.
Although the Huainan area is already a prosperous area, there are still many poor people. After a period of deception by Li Xiang and the local gang, many beautiful girls were attracted. They were very happy, thinking that they came to Beijing to enjoy blessings.
In fact, this issue needs to be viewed from different angles. Those little girls are often hungry when they are at home. Although they want to work in the entertainment industry in Beijing, they can still have enough to eat there.
And not all thin horses have a tragic fate. There are always some outstanding ones who make enough money to redeem themselves, achieve freedom, and escape poverty with their talents. There are also some noble people who redeem their lives for them, such as Little Cherry.
However, Little Cherry's temper was too violent. Just because of Tang Kuan's suspicion, she threw the child to the Red Flower Society, and then she left Luoyang alone.
In other words, Zhuque is Tang Kuan's daughter.
I remember that Tang Kuan asked Su Ping to contact the Red Flower Society to help find the mother and daughter, but Su Ping was looking at the infant and did not know the inside story. Of course, this cannot be blamed on Su Ping, because Ye Guhong is a tight-lipped person, and she agreed
Little Cherry wouldn't tell anyone about the child's origins, only that she found it on the roadside. She entrusted the child to a trustworthy person, Ji Kuchan.
"Although these children have household registration, the emperor has now strictly ordered that girls with Huainan household registration are not allowed to enter Luoyang, just to prevent the sale of thin horses from happening. But I thought of a way. Our family will go out in the car and pick up the children one by one. That's it.
They said this child is a maid, or a cousin, etc. I have already contacted Lao Wu, Lao Twelve, Lin Tong and the others, as well as Shi Maosheng, Zhen Xiuwei, Zhang Hu and the others. I can take care of these children with just one trip.
Bring them all in."
After saying that, Tang Kuan stared at Su Ping.
She thought it was a big deal, but Su Ping thought it would be easy to handle, so she agreed.
Su Ping did not use a car, but rode out of the city, arrived at the pre-arranged location, and took a little girl into the city.
The group of little girls had been dressed up by Li Xiang. He bought some cheap fabrics, made them into new clothes, and tied them into maid hair. The little girl Su Ping took away was about eight or nine years old. Su Ping held her in his arms and rode on the horse.
, walked into the city leisurely. Looking at the pitiful and pretty little girl, Su Ping felt unbearable for a while. He bought her candy on the way.
Ordinary people had to line up at the city gate, but Tang Kuan's chariot was running rampantly. Logically speaking, the fourth son of Tang Dynasty's chariot should also be opened for inspection, but the city guard did not do that. As soon as Tang Kuan passed by, Su Ping rode on his horse and raised his hand.
He walked over with his waist badge. Seeing that he was an official from the Ministry of Punishment, the city gate guard didn't check, so Su Ping took the child in.
Without further ado, under the leadership of the Fourth Young Master, more than thirty Huaiyang thin horses entered the city and were successfully sent to Wanhualou Qinwuyuan. Then the Fourth Young Master went to negotiate with the Han family and offered them 400,000 taels.
The price of silver won three shares of the main building of Wanhua Building.
The Fourth Young Master was overjoyed and took a group of people back to Qinghuafang and held a banquet in Zuixian Tower to celebrate.
"Hahahaha!" Tang Kuan laughed loudly and raised his glass: "Finally! Finally got it!"
"Congratulations, Fourth Young Master!" Everyone raised their glasses.
"Reward! Everyone here today is rewarded!"
I thought how much money Tang Kuan could reward, but it turned out that the reward was for a girl. He summoned some of the more beautiful red halls in Zuixian Tower to serve some uncles and eat and drink.
I don’t know how this news got known to the people in charge of the office. Not long after, Tang Mei sent someone to summon Su Ping away. Lin Tong was also summoned away by the eighth lady Tang Yun.
Before Su Ping left, he borrowed two hundred taels of silver from Tang Kuan.
Although Wang Jin'er is not as thoughtful as Zhen Ping'er, she is also a very interesting girl. She is stunned and outspoken: "The princess is a little unhappy. Because Mr. Su said that he wanted to buy a gift for the princess, but he came back empty-handed.
The princess will have to wait all day in vain."
Su Ping sighed and said, "Forget it, I originally planned to buy it, but the Fourth Young Master summoned me to do something and I had to do it. Why not, I will just go buy a gift for the princess now."
Wang Jin'er said: "It's getting dark, where will you go to buy something?"
Su Ping said: "Please Jin'er, please go back by yourself and tell the princess that I will see her later."
"Oh, then young master, go and come back quickly."
Wang Jin'er walked to the Duke's Mansion, but Su Ping did not buy a gift. Instead, he returned to the Governor's Mansion, put on a set of ordinary clothes, put a mask in his pocket, and hid a short knife in his arms, and slipped out through the back door.
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After several days of planning, as well as Mei Ran's experience of breaking into Prince Qi's Mansion, Su Ping has figured out the residence of Prince Qi's son, Zhao Lian, and will go there tonight to see if he can find an opportunity to take action.