Go back to ancient times to be a royal merchant

From Wang Xiujin's point of view, the things brought back from overseas are naturally worthless, not even good stuff, but from the point of view of people of this era, these things are definitely rare, and they want to have them very much.Although the style is not very good, the level of craftsmanship is not high, but it can't stand overseas products. Although there is no psychology of overseas moons being rounder, but there is always a curiosity for new things, and all these things are sold. Earning a full pot of profit, excluding those for the yamen and the court, the remaining net profit is ten thousand taels.

After counting the money, Wang Xiujin felt that the people of Daliang were really rich. They bought things without any hesitation, and they still "buy, buy, buy" like grabbing goods. They were quick-witted. After buying, they sold them nearby. Of course, the price It is twice as expensive.Listening to the man's report, Wang Xiujin twitched his mouth and was speechless for a while. Why is this different from what he thought?

Shopkeeper Wang felt that it was not necessary to go with the royal family when it came to sailing the ship. The left and right shipyards belonged to the owner, so it didn't matter if they kept two ships for their own use.You can bring your own goods to and from Daliang and overseas. This way of running the ship, you can go back and forth once a year, and at the very least, you can have a round trip every two years. It's not as good as a year's profit.

After listening to the shopkeeper Wang, Wang Xiujin was delighted, "The cost of the ship, the money for repairing the ship, and the cost of the personnel working on the ship, and other odds and ends are calculated, and the possibility of accidents at sea must also be considered. Sex, the risk of this business is too great, once something happens, the investment will not be recovered.” Wang Xiujin shook his head, it is not that he has no ambitions, but so far, his limelight is too great, and he needs to shrink in due course. "Money can never be earned. If you stretch out your claws everywhere, you will cut off other people's money, and it will not be beautiful."

Shopkeeper Wang understood a little bit.

"However, we can't just do nothing. If we withdraw immediately, people who are watching will think that we haven't made any money, and they won't dare to do anything." Wang Xiujin nodded the table, "Next time we go to sea, we will still go to sea." It is to bring some goods out, but not too much, if someone asks, just say that we still have a large number of orders that have not been completed, and we don’t have enough manpower to do sea trade.”

Mr. Wang, who had been free for a few days just now, was invited into the palace by the emperor. There were also several civil servants who entered the palace together. They looked at the scrolls placed by the emperor on the table, glanced at each other, and then collectively looked at Mr. Wang. The lord shook his head, he didn't quite understand what the emperor meant, the other ministers glanced at each other again, they felt that the things in this scroll were a bit too that, didn't this mean that they invaded the other party's territory in a disguised form, but it didn't cost a single soldier pawn, but let them like it.In recent years, they found that the emperor was unwilling to get close to civil servants. Except for a few people who fell into the emperor's eyes, the emperor mostly got close to military generals. They also rebelled.Now that they have their strengths, they want to show their strength and prove to the emperor that they are useful ministers, loyal and have no second thoughts.

Leaving the imperial study room, several ministers tacitly followed Mr. Wang, and they wanted to discuss it with Mr. Wang.Mr. Wang explained several times that he would not participate. He had already expressed his opinion to the emperor that it was okay to ask him to investigate corrupt officials. He was not capable enough to express his opinions on other matters, so he withdrew from participating in the formulation of how to colonize with culture. plan.But he didn't want to, if he didn't participate, he still couldn't hide from these people, and it was hard to drive them out, and it was hard to even say harsh words.

The other civil servants guessed whether the person who was summoned into the palace had received some secret order from the emperor, or why he chased Mr. Wang to the Wang family. Everyone knew what Mr. Wang was doing. For the case of rebellion, the faces of civil servants turned green. Could it be that the emperor wants to thoroughly investigate the officials ordered by the court, and Mr. Wang will be in charge, and those officials will assist?They followed Mr. Wang to Wang's house to discuss how to investigate?Or show your innocence?After this kind of statement came out, other people actually agreed with it, thinking in their hearts how to express their innocence.

In the next few days, the gate of the Wang family was almost trampled down, and many people even brought the general's mansion to visit, but Wang Xiujin was busy and did not meet them. An official's wife happened to stop at the tailor shop. Hearing the official's wife's inexplicable words, Wang Xiujin didn't respond, but the more he listened, the more confused he became. How to confess his innocence to him? Whether their family's innocence has something to do with him, so be patient. After listening for a while, Wang Xiujin was really confused. He tried to find an excuse to leave several times but failed to get away. He felt a little impatient, but he couldn't show it.

It happened that the shopkeeper came out, Wang Xiujin was busy with something to talk to the shopkeeper, so he dragged the shopkeeper into the backyard again, why use it again?It's very simple, Wang Xiujin was about to leave when he met that chatty official's wife, and after listening to her talk for a long time, he didn't know which lady it was.

"Boss?" The shopkeeper looked at Wang Xiujin hesitantly. Didn't the boss already clear everything up just now, did he forget something?

Wang Xiujin rubbed his temples. He was really afraid of a woman nagging him. It wasn't his mother or his sister. He was chatting with him or pretending to be an acquaintance. In line with the principle of putting customers first, he couldn't offend anyone. He sounded like a duck Quack, quack, quack, it's really a headache, "What's going on outside recently?"

"I haven't heard of any major incidents." The shopkeeper's news is fairly well-informed. Usually, those who welcome and see off are dignitaries, and there are many gossips.There have been a lot of guests coming to his place recently, but they haven't heard anything. When asked by the owner, the shopkeeper wondered if he had missed some news.

Wang Xiujin shook his head, maybe he was thinking too much, maybe that lady was begging for something for her family, to show her innocence, maybe her husband had just been transferred to Beijing and was afraid of offending others?Was falsely accused?But there are still some explanations that don't make sense, forget it, don't want to.In order to prevent the lady from leaving, Wang Xiujin left through the side door in the backyard. After going out, Wang Xiujin felt in a daze that something was wrong.

When I got home at night and brought up this matter, the elders in the family were overjoyed. Wang Xiujin was taken aback. What's going on? Could it be that something happened that he didn't know about?Turning his head to look at Li Sushan, although Li Sushan had no expression on his face, his eyes were full of smiles, and he briefly explained the matter, "Now how will my father-in-law and those officials explain it? They are discussing other matters. , the officials still don't believe it, and the father-in-law didn't know what the matter was, so they decided to guess in their hearts and ran to the father-in-law's house."

"Then the house also suffered disaster?" Wang Xiujin took the words very smoothly. He said it with a bit of teasing, but he didn't want to meet the eyes of shopkeeper Mi. After shopkeeper Mi nodded, Wang Xiujin was stunned for a while , and then I didn't think it was strange, probably not only him, but even the elder sister would inevitably have someone come to the door, but the elder sister can put on the identity of the emperor's adopted daughter, she is also a princess, even if there is a former name The word "dry", but the identity is really there, even if you do something too extreme, no one dares to do anything.

Wang Xiujin is not worried about his sister, he is worried about his mother, whether the family will be tired and hurt if the family comes and goes.After returning to the courtyard, Wang Xiujin asked Li Sushan if the hot springs in the mountain had been cleaned up. He wanted to take his mother to the hot springs.

"It's a bit difficult to live in, but it's okay to soak in warm soup." After Li Sushan finished speaking, he couldn't help being happy. The Zhuangzi built there was originally intended to live in people who went to the mountains to grow medicinal materials. After finding the warm soup, Zhuangzi expanded. Further expansion, now there is a house in the deep mountains.

"Forget it. After finishing the steps and other things, I will invite my grandfather and mother to go over and recuperate for a while." After thinking about it, Wang Xiujin put it down and set off immediately, letting his mother avoid the crowd of people coming to the door. "What the hell is father doing? Why does it suddenly seem like an investigation? What is the investigation?"

"Probably there is a ghost in my heart, otherwise why would I come forward in such a hurry." Li Sushan didn't know either, but just analyzed the matter.

Wang Xiujin nodded. If there is no ghost in mind, what are you doing in such a hurry, and the father has said it, but they still don’t believe it if it’s not the investigation, they are not afraid of annoying their father. If they really make the decision to investigate, they are not just shooting themselves foot?

After another month, the tossing officials stopped, but two major events also happened in the court, one was the colonization, and the other was the investigation that the civil servants had tossed about before, how to colonize, after colonization Several ministers appointed by the emperor gave a very detailed plan, full of benevolence and righteousness, but the content of each article was quite harsh. In actual implementation, military commanders were still indispensable. From the occupation to the concession, When it comes to garrisoning and fortification, etc., it is not something that civil servants can do in the past.

As for the investigation, it was all caused by those fussy civil servants. Without their fuss, the emperor would never have been involved in the case. The emperor felt that all the officials under him thought so. If he didn't do it, he would be sorry for the officials, and decided to investigate All right.In fact, the emperor didn't have the idea of ​​punishing anyone, he just wanted to scare the officials who speculated about the emperor's heart.

When the civil servants didn't hear the second thing, they knew that they had guessed wrong. The emperor wanted to expand the territory, not to punish them. It was all the fault of the guesser, who caused them to go to Lord Wang when they had nothing to do. Selling well in front of them, I don't know if Mr. Wang will have any objections to them.Before they were relieved, they heard the emperor smash the second matter down, and immediately knocked out the civil servants.

In addition, there is another small matter. The emperor decided to send official envoys overseas, and went to sea after autumn.