Chapter Thirty-ninth
Chapter 39: Life is helpless and will never die
Wang Juan didn't understand for a moment, and didn't know what Zhang Xiaobao meant. She stared at Zhang Xiaobao blankly, waiting for Zhang Xiaobao's explanation.
Zhang Xiaobao sighed and said, "Juanjuan, you know that I have never been worried about money. What I really worry about is the hearts of the people. Look at the farmers, they also have selfish intentions, but they signed a death contract and the master is kind to them, which makes them grateful and respectful.
What really makes them afraid to do something wrong is not these two points. It is my father's official position. Especially now, my father is a fourth-rank official and the merchants of the Zhang and Wang families. Most of them are actually very good, but you can't let everyone do this. That small part is honest with this fear and gratitude."
"What you said is true? Is there really someone who has other thoughts when living a good life?" Wang Juan asked afterwards.
"You don't know what I did before. In such a big deal, will everyone listen to me honestly? I don't want to mention it. I just want to keep that kind of affection and warmth, but I can't be careful. I told you today, and I don't want you to participate.
It's enough for me to be alone. It's easy to get rid of those unstable people. Not to mention that they don't have much ability. At that time, there were many people under my command, so who dared to betray, interests and fears, was enough. Just leave this kind of small thing to me, and it's not old enough for others to worry about.
What I want to say is that some people who are so simple in the merchant household will have other thoughts. Will these businessmen be so patriotic? When others say that they will not affect national interests, they will comfort themselves. As long as they take a small step, there will be few who can turn back.
I just let them be bought, and such people can be controlled after being bought. They are better than those dandy people. You forget that kind of person. How much effort did the two of us take to let him tell the truth? It was when he was injured, had drunk wine, and had the weakest will."
Zhang Xiaobao finally said something that many people don’t know. Wang Juan exhaled, "You have been controlling yourself in the past few years? You still have to think about making money, thinking about your family’s food, clothing, housing and transportation, and fighting each conspiracy? Xiaobao, I won’t get along with you, you are too selfish."
"You see so many things, but in fact, things are very simple. How can you kill a chicken? If you are a magnificent person like you, it is a waste to participate in such a small matter. Teach me and you will clean up while playing. Otherwise, if you leave the conspiracy to you in the future, you will have only a few methods and will never be separated from them. If you feel bored, you will refuse directly and have energy, so just use the trick."
Zhang Xiaobao really didn't feel tired. In the past, he led such a large fraud group and had to take care of some secret investments in China and avoided pursuit. He could do it well. Now what is this matter?
Wang Juan thought about it and finally agreed with Zhang Xiaobao's statement, "Tell me the difficulties in the future, I will share the burden with you, this family is not yours alone."
"Okay, but this is not a difficult situation. I'll leave the spy here to you. The second department should have such ability." Zhang Xiaobao agreed.
"You mean we sent someone to invade? The one who reassured us the most was the people in the inner courtyard." Wang Juan thought for a while and said.
Zhang Xiaobao shook his head, a little helpless, "You are so poor in the second place? You have to put your own people in a dangerous place? Just spend money. If you bribe the subordinates of these merchants, one of them may take money to send false information. With more people, there will always be real information in front of you."
"Then I'll make arrangements now, let those businessmen come first, and then give them some benefits. I will make your father be very tough, and only in this way can he not be suspected."
Wang Juan understood and said happily.
With such a good moonlight, many people don’t intend to sleep, some are working hard, and some are telling their children about the past and current things.
Some people gathered together to think of bad ideas.
In a renovated house, Cao Herui placed a bowl of tea made from some unknown leaves in front of him. He put salt, sugar, vinegar, chopped green onion and ginger foam in it, and even a few cloves of garlic were cut into slices and placed in it and cooked together.
After the cooking was almost done, Cao Herui poured a bowl for the other three people sitting next to him. He picked up a little coriander and put it in the bowl. He took a sip of enjoyment, and said to the other three: "In this case, it will take at least ten years for us to pay off the debt.
The broken seeds given by Zhang Zhong grew so slowly, and there were still people who listened to him and planted a lot of white buns. Could it be that they wanted to sell flowers? Thanks to our carefulness and not planting those flowers, otherwise they would not be able to pay them back in twenty years. I have already thought about it. After planting rice this time, I will plant this place next year. Then I will say that I have planted a wrong plant. Zhang Zhong can't let me pull it, right?"
The other three nodded one after another. They were forced to pay debts and were almost unable to bear it. The family went out to do business. They had to copy books or write some simple annotations of the Analects of Confucius. The family was not idle and were all working.
This kind of thing has never been thought of before, but now it has fallen on me.
Especially Liu Shaoqing, he finally found a way to make cakes in the book, thinking that he could get more money with this, so he paid back the account first. Who knew that after selling it in one day, he only earned a hundred or ten quotations, everyone would bargain. The people sent out were used to bullying people and bullying them, so they would not talk about the price. As long as they felt that they had no loss, they would agree to sell it.
Such income was beyond Liu Shaoqing's imagination. He thought that what he had just released would make a few cents of money in a day and would make more money in the future. After all, this thing was not what should be found here, so he searched a lot of books before finding it.
Thinking of this, Liu Shaoqing said in a depressed voice: "We have to go to the governor named Ning and tell him the situation here."
Fan Jianxi, who was also drinking tea next to him, said: "It's okay to look for it, but there is no need to mention the things here. I think everyone around me knows about things here, especially Zhang Zhong's original place. They must know more than us. It's useless to say it. It's better to just surrender directly.
There is another thing I want to talk about. Brother Liu’s family has a new thing, making cakes. I later checked it and found that it was something made from the sea. Since there is such a thing, why not discuss it with the three of us and only set up a stall. How much can it be sold in this way?
Look at what Zhang Zhong’s family does, there have always been many stalls set up together. Brother Liu should not hide them. Tell us the detailed method of the three of us. Each of them will set up ten stalls tomorrow. In this way, as long as the price is set up, you don’t have to worry about the small amount of money you collect.”
As soon as Fan Jianxi said, the other two people also thought of Liu Shaoqing and were waiting for his reply. Liu Shaoqing actually didn't want to hand over this prescription. He thought it was very difficult to find this prescription. If he gave it to others like this, he would be compensated. But looking at the posture of the three people, if he didn't give it out, he would be isolated in the future, so he had to nod and said:
"This is actually simple. It is to use steamed or cooked glutinous rice, use a wooden hammer to beat it back and forth, and finally sprinkle some beans and save face. Since all three of you want to make it, tomorrow morning, the four of us will separate our staff and occupy four places."
The other three people were satisfied and smiled and started drinking tea. But as they drank, Jiang Huanshi was dissatisfied and said to the three people: "Do you know how Zhang Zhong got the money these days? I have sent someone to inquire about it, it is just selling tea. His tea leaves are different from what we drink.
The people I sent out to taste it, and said that the taste was lighter than what we drank, and it was thicker than what we drank. The lighter ones were some salt and ginger, and the stronger ones were the taste of tea. We ate this tea once and there was no more. His tea was not just drinking tea, but was constantly soaked in water. The best ones could be soaked seven or eight times but still had a taste. The worst ones could only be soaked three or four times.
Do you know how much it costs to buy? It's not calculated by pounds, nor by two, it's calculated by money. One chunk of money costs two chunks. Only half a pound is sold every day, and people are snatching it crazy. It can be said that there is a price but no market."
The three of them really didn't know about this. When they heard Jiang Huanshi say it, they were all excited. They usually drank a lot of tea. If they said it was expensive, they would definitely not be able to sell it at such a price. What kind of tea is that can be sold so expensive?
Even if they didn't want to believe it, they looked at Jiang Huanshi curiously. Jiang Huanshi liked this feeling very much. She smiled there, took another sip of tea, deliberately vomited out, and said to the three people:
"That's what I'm going to say. Their tea is also picked in Kaifeng, Chuzhou and Zhejiang and Hangzhou, but the method is different. We just make it into tea balls here. The quality of tea depends on the timing of tea balls and picking tea.
But they directly asked someone to buy tender tea. After they came back, they didn't know how it was made. On the contrary, it was better than the one we drank, and the taste was different, light and rich.
You said, what would happen if you told this matter to Governor Ning? Governor Ning must be very angry about this flood. It would be fine if everyone was the same, but Zhang Zhong did what he shouldn't have done, which made the people of Luzhou escape the difficulties. We just need to talk about this matter and help plan it in it..."
At the end of his speech, Jiang Huanshi laughed happily, and the other three were a little stunned and laughed.
Chapter completed!