The conversation between Lu Xu and Lu Yao and his son finally came to an end.
Lu Yao understood the advice Lu Xu gave him very well. After all, his father had worked hard in the officialdom for so many years, and now he had reached the important position of Minister of Household Affairs. Even though he was a time traveler, Lu Yao had no regard for the officialdom.
The Tao is also much more familiar to him. It is said that the authorities are obsessed, but the onlookers are clear. When Lu Yao was in modern times, when talking about ancient dynasties, he still liked the Song Dynasty very much. The culture was open and the atmosphere of literati was relatively strong, especially during the Renzong period, it reached
It reached its peak, with great talents such as Fan Zhongyan, Su Shi, and Wang Anshi everywhere. It was not much worse than during the heyday of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.
I thought everything was wonderful, and Lu Yao planned to live his whole life in the Northern Song Dynasty like this. However, it turned out that even in such an era, intrigues and cliques were inevitable. The Cao family and the Han family around him,
To be honest, the political opinions of both of them are correct. Based on Lu Yao's interactions with Cao Yi and Han Yonghe, he felt that these two people should not take the initiative to make friends with party members. Instead, they are those who follow the trend and want to advance in their official career.
Someone who went further took the initiative to find them, which caused a very serious problem. Sometimes, it's not that you don't want to form a clique, this matter will not happen. Now, the Cao family and the Han family are in the court
The status above was also very important, even just below Yan Shu. Fortunately, Fan Zhongyan returned to Bianliang at this time, but why was Fan Zhongyan demoted before? Or was it because someone joined him to form a party for personal gain. Thinking of this, Lu Yao had to admire him a little
Zhao Zhen, the emperor, used the ancient emperor's trade-off skills to the fullest. He suffered from the fact that he had no confidants in the court. The ministers were either from this faction or that faction, and there were important ministers like Han Qi who held military power.
When his soldiers came to the palace to pay their respects, they actually listened to Han Qi's words more than his own, which made Zhao Zhen feel a full sense of crisis. If the Cao family and the Han family were still within his control,
, but Han Qi has always been a hidden danger. In order to divide the forces in the DPRK, the Xixia incident became an opportunity for Zhao Zhen. He simply recalled the fearless Fan Zhongyan to Bianliang. On the one hand, Fan Zhongyan could indeed solve it.
The problem of Xixia, on the other hand, can also divide the different forces in the DPRK.
Zhao Zhen knew in his heart that Fan Zhongyan was no ordinary person. Even if he did not take the initiative to form a party when he came back, those bureaucrats who had a good relationship with him before would move closer and eventually form a faction. However, although Fan Zhongyan said that he
Han Qi is a good friend, but if Xixia affairs are left to the two of them, there will definitely be friction and problems. If Zhao Zhen asks them to go to Xixia together at that time, it is also to alienate the relationship between the two. Even if
There is no way to make them equally powerful, but they must also ensure that after they return to Bianliang after handling the Xixia matter, they cannot be in the same faction. The arrival of Fan Zhongyan will also be a heavy blow to the Han family and the Cao family.
, most of these ministers who take refuge under these people are seeking a future. To put it bluntly, they are driven by interests. For these people, once there is a larger interest group, they will decisively turn to that side.
, so Zhao Zhen’s move is tantamount to weakening the power of the Cao and Han families.
Of course, Zhao Zhen also knew that once Fan Zhongyan became more powerful, troubles would follow, as was the case before. Fan Zhongyan was smart and capable, on the one hand to weaken his influence in the court, and on the other hand to be able to do more
Reuse him to prevent him from being slandered. Zhao Zhen knew that he had to cultivate his own power, and the imperial examination that was already being held was an excellent opportunity. Zhao Zhen could pass the performance of all the candidates in the imperial examination and choose from them.
He can find some who can be absolutely loyal to him, even if they have their own ideas, such as Lu Yao, but as long as they do not join any faction. In this way, Zhao Zhen can slowly divide the various forces, and finally give the greatest power to
It remains in his own hands. And Lu Yao is the focus of Zhao Zhen's observation among these students.
Lu Yao had actually thought about these things for a long time, but his father said that Zhao Zhen was actually wary of Lu Yao, and he had not analyzed it carefully before. Now it seems that there are various signs that Zhao Zhen is actually worried about this.
Lu Yao has already started to observe Lu Yao. Even the previous lottery station business was on the one hand because Zhao Zhen was indeed short of money, but on the other hand, could this also be an observation and consideration of Lu Yao? Lu Yao originally
I thought that since I was doing my own business and the money I earned was not corrupt or underpaid in taxes, then the emperor would not care about how many things I had done. But my father said that how to convict the so-called collusion between officials and businessmen is
A word from the emperor. When he enters the official career with so much property, he will definitely leave a clue for those lemon spirits. Just like Cao Yi and Han Yonghe cannot control their disciples and ministers to defect to others, Lu
Yao had no way to guarantee that workers with little cultural quality would not betray themselves or even frame themselves because of profit. Lu Yao himself was not afraid and could explain clearly, but sometimes the emperor would not listen to his own excuses. Once Zhao Zhen
If you think Lu Yao is ambitious, it will be very troublesome. If he abandons himself then, maybe all his business will be in vain. This is something Lu Yao really doesn't want to see happen.
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Therefore, under his father's suggestion, Lu Yao immediately made a decision. Since everyone felt that these industries belonged to them, it would be better to transfer these factories directly to the operators now and let them become the true owners.
.In this way, no one will say that there is collusion between the government and businessmen, or that there is something wrong with the industries under Lu Yao's name. Now, basically all industries are operating on a stable track, and Lu Yao only needs to get rid of them
Tell them the technology and the problems they may encounter in the future, and then you can completely return the management rights to them. And if you have clear accounts, you only need to extract 30% to 40% of the profits.
In this way, others will think that Lu Yao is only interested in money now and does not really care about the development of the industry. Moreover, Lu Yao is no longer responsible for all practical matters. This will not be true. Others
There is no way to slander and slander yourself because of industry matters.
However, the lottery industry is more troublesome, so Lu Yao planned to write a memorial to the emperor. At the same time, he also wrote a letter and handed it in when the time came.
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To his relatives, the person in charge of the lottery station, the lottery station was completely owned by the royal family, and Lu Geng became a royal civil servant. He had only one task, to take care of the lottery station, and then wait.
The emperor just needs to pay him. In this way, the rights and responsibilities are clear. Working under Zhao Zhen is not easier than working under himself. Lu Geng can't do any tricks even if he thinks about it. Of course, Lu Yao is writing
The memorial to the emperor also stated that he hoped the emperor could give Lu Geng more remuneration.
Finally, there was the matter of the hot pot restaurant and the food street. Lu Yao still planned to complete these two matters himself. By the way, there was also the bank that he was about to open. The bank could be said to be a business that was about to be launched and had to be launched.
Lu Yao had to do it, and in Lu Yao's view, if Zhao Zhen knew his purpose of starting a bank, he would not stop himself. After all, at this stage, the opening of a bank is nothing more than an obstacle to the new Cuju competition.
The biggest help. Moreover, it can also solve the great difficulties of students taking the imperial examination. However, Lu Yao must not hand over the hot pot restaurant and food court. These are the businesses that affect Lu Yao's most important goals at the moment. These two
This industry is a key industry that can open up breakthroughs between inner and outer cities. For this reason, Lu Yao will not trust this thing to others. As for partners, hot pot restaurant Lu Yao has decided to find Zhang Maocai, and as for the form of cooperation
Lu Yao has already thought about it. Based on Lu Yao's understanding of Zhang Maocai, he shouldn't refuse. As for the food court, it depends on Chen Chen's performance.
Lu Yao and Lu Xu continued to chat for a while in the study. Lu Yao directly borrowed Lu Xu's pen, ink, paper and inkstone. With a stroke of his pen, a memorial to His Majesty was completed. On the other side, a memorial was written to Lu Xu.
Geng's letters have also been completed. These two letters can completely solve the lottery problem, because among all Lu Yao's industries, only the lottery industry is related to the royal family, and this lottery industry is actually the least likely to become someone else's.
After all, Zhao Zhen is nominally responsible for the handle industry.
"I think the sooner the better, these industries and factories below you need to be resolved as soon as possible." Lu Xu put away the memorial that Lu Yao gave to Zhao Zhen, saying that he would hand it over to Zhao Zhen tomorrow, and then
He gave Lu Yao a few words about other industries.
Lu Yao nodded and said, "Well, I'll do it right away. Let them gather at our house in the evening. Dad, please stay out of the way."
Lu Xu said: "Well, informing so many people is not an easy task. You can make arrangements for the servants in the mansion."
Lu Yao took the letter to Lu Geng, stood up, bowed, and left the study.
This important conversation between father and son has come to an end.
When Lu Yao came out of the study and returned to his room, he saw Tang Xi waiting at the door with an anxious look on his face. Even Tang Xi could see that the master looked very serious when he asked Lu Yao to go to the study just now, as if something had happened.
What a big deal.
However, seeing Lu Yao's expression when he came back, Tangxi felt a lot more relieved. However, after thinking about it, Tangxi rarely saw a panic look on the young master's face. Except for the very lonely look before,
Tangxi saw Lu Yao who was in high spirits basically every day.
Lu Yao walked to the door of the room and saw Tang Xi's expression. He first smiled and said nothing happened, then waved and asked Tang Xi to follow him into the room.
As soon as Tangxi came in, Uncle Fu also followed behind. Tangxi knew that normally Lu Yao would not bother Uncle Fu, but now that they both called him over, it seemed that they had something important to discuss.
Lu Yao looked at Uncle Fu and said: "Uncle Fu, please go and tell all the servants in the mansion who have nothing to do now. You can arrange for them to go to all the factories and industries below me and tell their leaders that they will eat dinner tonight."
After dinner, come and meet at the Lu Mansion."
Uncle Fu nodded, and then said that he didn't know the specific location of the factory under Lu Yao. After all, Tangxi had been doing these things before.
So Lu Yao told him to ask Tangxi for a while and he would know where all the places are.
"There's no need to go to the lottery. You can wait outside the door first." Uncle Fu nodded and left Lu Yao's room.
"Sir, what are you going to do? Didn't I say before that all factories will be under the control of Chen Chen?" Tangxi waited for Uncle Fu to leave and closed the door, then looked at Lu Yao and said.
Lu Yao shrugged and said, "The plan has changed, but Chen Chen still wants to be my butler. I will explain it to you later." After saying this, Lu Yao took out the letter from his sleeve and handed it to him.
Tangxi said: "You can go to the lottery station and hand this letter over to Lu Geng in person later. Remember, no matter what he asks about, you just need to tell him that I wrote it in my own hand and gave it to him.
You said, I can't do anything about it. You don't know anything about other things, do you understand?"
Seeing Lu Yao's serious look, Tang Xi could only nod.
Lu Yao continued to explain: "As for your question just now, I think you will know what is going on tonight. You will come back after sending the letter."
Tangxi nodded and left the room.
Lu Yao breathed a long sigh of relief. Sure enough, even if he had traveled through time, there were still many things to consider when doing things.
Thinking of this, Lu Yao picked up the pen and paper again and started writing. Taking advantage of his short rest in the afternoon, Lu Yao planned to write a few more chapters of "The Story of the Stone" and the novel he wrote for Cao Han.
When writing the Story of the Stone, Lu Yao was in a very lazy state. After all, it was an excerpt with a few modifications. Lu Yao did not put any emotion into it at all, so the Story of the Stone was completed very quickly. Now Lu Yao only needs to write the Story of the Stone.
, he can think of the embarrassing meeting he had with Han Yunyu when he went to the Han Mansion before, and the seemingly plain but hurtful words she said to him. However, now Lu Yao has no way to refuse the Lu family and Han Yunyu.
The marriage contract of the Han family. What my father said just now is not unreasonable. When he enters the court in the future, if there is another problem with this marriage contract, the entire Han family will regard Lu Yao as their mortal enemy, and his career will definitely be affected.
Some unnecessary trouble.
But, what should Cao Han do? When Lu Yao was writing the chapter of the novel that he wanted to give to Cao Han, he didn’t realize that he himself
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There was always a smile on his face. What’s even more strange is that after all, The Story of the Stone is an excerpt, and this novel is Lu Yao’s original work. Logically speaking, the time it took to write The Story of the Stone should be much shorter than this novel.
However, even Lu Yao himself did not expect that when he was writing the novel he named "Wandering", he could be said to be in a state of flood of literary thoughts. It took him as long as Shitou to finish writing this chapter.
The memory is almost the same.
It seems that people still prefer to do what they want to do.
After writing these two novels, Lu Yao went back to bed and lay down for a while. There was a knock on the door and then he remembered that Tangxi was the one who came back first.
Lu Yao saw Tang Xi coming back, so he asked Lu Geng about his reaction after reading the letter.
Tangxi said that Lu Geng's expression was very complicated at first, but more of it was surprise. In the end, he repeatedly asked himself whether what was written in the letter was what Lu Yao meant. So, Tangxi followed what Lu Yao had just given him.
He replied to him. Finally, Lu Geng said that he understood what to do and let Tangxi come back.
"When you went out, did you ever see his last expression?" Lu Yao asked.
Tang Xi said: "I didn't see his expression, but I felt that he was very lonely, and he sighed at the end."
"This is normal. He knows what the content of this letter means to him," Lu Yao said.
In this lottery station, although the emperor took the big prize before, some of the income from small and small transactions was still in Lu Geng's own hands, and Lu Yao would naturally not ask Lu Geng for these incomes.
Therefore, Lu Geng still has some motivation to run the lottery station. But now, the royal family wants to completely turn the lottery station into its own property. In this way, Lu Geng will work for Zhao Zhen, and naturally there will be no problems with the accounts.
, although the difference was not much in the end, what Lu Geng cared about more was that he had transformed from a free businessman to a civil servant working under the royal family. What he cared about more was this.
However, Lu Yao felt that this was just a temporary emotion. Lu Geng's IQ would not have thought that he had been running the lottery station for so long and made Zhao Zhen a lot of money. Although the royal family bought the lottery station back,
But there is a high probability, or absolutely, that it is impossible for Zhao Zhen to change the management staff of the lottery station. Not only that, in order to show the royal authority and its generosity, the royal family acquired the lottery station, and Lu Geng might be able to get some
Helper, he can free himself a lot from busy things. Not only that, the reward Zhao Zhen gives to Lu Geng will definitely exceed that of Lu Yao, because he doesn’t know what the reward Lu Yao gave to Lu Geng before.
He will ask Lu Geng what he means. At this time, as long as Lu Geng is not a lion, Zhao Zhen should agree. Even if he later asks Lu Yao to prove it, because of the relationship between relatives, Lu Yao will naturally have the same mind as Lu Geng. These things, Lu Yao
I told Lu Geng everything in the letter, so the day when the royal family actually acquires the lottery station is actually the beginning of good things for Lu Geng. It depends on how he can adapt to the change in status.
Lu Yao then handed the manuscript he had just written to Tang Xi and said, "Send them to the Han family and the Cao family respectively. You should know which copy is for whom."
Tangxi looked at the title of the manuscript and said, "Of course I know that "The Story of the Stone" is for the eldest lady of the Han family, and "The Wandering" is for Cao Han."
After saying that, Tangxi turned around and left Lu Yao's room.
After going out, Tangxi planned to go to Han's house, which is relatively close to Lu Mansion, to deliver manuscripts. Unexpectedly, he encountered people being robbed at a street corner not far from Han Mansion. Tangxi took action to help the people resolve the crisis. However, the problem also emerged.
Followed by.
That is, the two manuscripts hidden in Tangxi's clothes were scattered on the ground. Although the total number of pages did not change after confirmation, because Tangxi did not know the specific contents of "The Story of the Stone" and "The Wandering", he wanted to
It was quite difficult to piece it together. Because time was tight and it was almost dark, Tangxi could only rely on his own ability to distinguish the two manuscripts. Then he sorted them out and sent them to Han Mansion first, and then went to
The Cao Mansion sent a second manuscript.
Considering Tangxi's level of education, it is of course impossible to completely understand the specific contents of the two manuscripts without making mistakes. The order of the two manuscripts has been completely disrupted, and it is even said that Tangxi directly copied "The Story of the Stone"
It was sent to the Cao Mansion, and "Wandering" was sent to the Han Mansion. Except for the first page, the rest of the content was basically wrong.
At this time, Tangxi still didn't know what consequences his unintentional mistake would have.
When Tangxi returned to Lu Mansion, she originally wanted to tell Lu Yao about this matter as soon as possible, but she didn't expect that at this time, the heads of the factory had already come to the main hall of Lu Mansion one after another, waiting for the meeting.
At that time, Tangxi failed to talk to Lu Yao and started busy greeting the guests who came to the Lu Mansion with Uncle Fu in the main hall. After all, there were relatives of the Lu family among them, so the whole Lu family naturally did not dare to neglect them.
But Tangxi looked and looked again and again, but did not find Lu Geng. It seems that this lottery station is indeed different from other businesses. Lu Yao must have mentioned in the letter to Lu Geng that Lu Geng does not need to be present in person tonight.
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At this time, Lu Yao was having dinner in a restaurant with his family members. According to Lu Yao's request, in order to prevent relatives from getting involved if his family members were present, Lu Yao hoped that everyone, including Lu Yao, would
Everyone, Xu included, went back to their rooms after eating and did not come out. They waited until Lu Yao's meeting was over before making plans.
Lu Xu took the lead in expressing his agreement. Li Shi, Xu Shi, Lu Hao and others also knew that Lu Yao's decision to hold this meeting must have something to do with Lu Xu calling Lu Yao to the study. Since this
It was a matter decided jointly by the father and son, and these people naturally wanted to support it, so after dinner, the family members hurried back to their rooms and did not go to the main hall to entertain those in charge.
Lu Yao also went directly to the main hall after finishing his meal.
When the heads of the subordinate factories and industries saw Lu Yao coming, their eyes were all focused on Lu Yao. They knew that there must be something big to announce today.
