Chapter 168 The old fox takes the bait
This good will be rewarded with good deeds, and evil will be rewarded with evil. It is not that it is not that it is not rewarded, but that the time has not come.
In order to avoid causing trouble, Xu Mengchong proposed a strange plan to Wanli, a tooth merchant, to borrow the talent of a merchant to make money for Wanli, and also achieved miraculous results. He himself escaped unscathed.
But after only a long time, Zhang Cheng returned these words to Xu Mengchong intact.
Therefore, Xu Mengchong had no reason to refuse. After all, this was the solution he thought of and it was successful. So when he returned home, he immediately ordered someone to invite Guo Dan.
In the past, when Guo Dan came to the Earl's Mansion, especially when he was invited, he always felt that there was nothing good and was in a bad mood because he was all the time to make a living, but this time it was different. He came to the Earl's Mansion with great pleasure. He was very much looking forward to seeing Xu Mengshen.
When Guo Dan saw Xu Mengding's two national treasure eyes, he felt an indescribable pleasure in his heart. You old fox can be considered today.
"Boy Guo Dan has met Mr. Bo."
"No gift! No gift!"
Xu Mengchong quickly reached out and signaled, "For me, those red tape will be spared, just sit down."
He pointed his finger at the chair he was on.
"Thank you, Mr. Mr.."
After Guo Dan sat down, Xu Mengchong smiled kindly: "I heard that you are now in the North Town Fushi."
"Yes."
Guo Dan bowed and bowed: "Just Madam Quan Meng's support was the kid today. I will never forget the great kindness of my uncle to him."
But I thought to myself, now is the time to repay you. I believe you think so too. We all thought about it together. How can this happen?
Xu Meng smiled and said with relief: "You can still remember this, which proves that I did not misjudgment at the beginning! Haha."
"My uncle has been awarded."
Guo Dan nodded and said, "I wonder what is the order that my uncle has to come to see the boy today?"
"What? I can't come to you if I'm not right?"
"That's not."
Guo Dan hurriedly said, "It's just that the boy is afraid of implicating uncle."
Xu Mengchong was a little embarrassed and half-jokingly said, "It seems that you not only remember my kindness to you, but also remember that I didn't support you at the beginning."
“Absolutely not.”
Guo Dan immediately said: "I have always understood Mr. Lao very much about that matter. Even if Mr. Lao didn't say it at that time, I didn't want to bring him in, because if it was only me, no matter how much it was, it would be a small matter, and it would be easy to solve. But if Mr. Lao was rolled up, it might be a big deal, and it would be bad for me and Mr. Lao."
"It's rare that you can think of this!"
Xu Mengqiong sighed and said, "It's a pity that I was still dragged in."
He looked sad and hid from left to right, but still couldn't escape. He didn't expect that the culprit would sit here.
"What?"
Guo Dan said in shock: "What does Bo Ye mean?"
Xu Mengqiong sighed, "I don't know who spread the news that I recommended you to Your Majesty, and even added fuel to the fire, saying that you are my husband's person and are specializing in making money for me. Now I am really unaware of it!"
This old fox is so cunning. He actually wants to fool me and him on the same boat. I am so sorry. Now you can only get on my boat, not my boat. Guo Tan smiled and said, "Brother, this Qing Dynasty is the only way to be clear. At worst, Master and I will never interact with each other. Time can prove everything."
Xu Mengchong looked at Guo Dan and said, "Is this guy trying to separate himself from me now?" He said without saying a word: "It's not that simple. You don't know. At the beginning of the painting exhibition, you angered many ministers in the court, but they thought that I was secretly protecting you, so they thought that if I didn't eradicate me first, I would not be able to retaliate against you."
Guo Dan took a breath of air conditioning and said, "This is impossible. For me, a tooth merchant, I will offend you, Boye."
"You can't say that."
Xu Mengchong waved his hand and said, "Although you are just a tooth merchant, you are not in the court at the same time. As long as you abide by the law and with His Majesty protecting you, they can't do anything to you. But I am different. I am in the court, and they want to find excuses to deal with me, which is really simple."
Guo Dan said curiously: "Master, you often don't abide by the law?"
"Ahem!!"
Xu Mengchong almost choked to death by this sentence and said excitedly: "Of course I am law-abiding and have been an official for many years, but I have never taken a penny of money that I shouldn't have."
"Why is that? Guo Dan looked at Xu Mengchong with a ignorant look on his face."
Xu Mengchong sighed: "You don't understand the matter in the court. Even if you obey the law, you can't do it perfectly. If they want to make excuses, they can still find it."
Guo Dan nodded thoughtfully and asked hurriedly: "What should I do?"
Xu Mengshi coughed lightly and said, "No matter what happened before, we are on the same boat now, so we should work together!"
You think so beautifully. You are now just taking the blame, sheltering me and Your Majesty from the wind and rain. Guo Dan was flattered and said, "Mr. Bo, what kind of virtue is I, how can I be qualified to work with you, Bo."
Xu Mengchong waved his hand and said, "This is not a question of whether there is qualification, but we are already sitting on the same boat."
Guo Dan said: "My uncle is so arrogant. I am just a small tooth merchant. I have to rely on dog paddles to cross the river, so I have never taken a boat."
Xu Mengshi tsk: "Do you think if something happens to me, you can still be safe?"
Guo Dan hurriedly said, "Brother, I never thought so. I always thought that even if you are safe and sound, they will still deal with me if they want to deal with me."
The implication is that there is no difference between you and me.
Xu Mengmeng suddenly looked embarrassed. This is the fact. They want to deal with Guo Dan, but they don’t care about Xu Mengmeng’s feelings. They said, “In this way, you don’t plan to work with me.”
Guo Dan said: "Brother, I can't help with such things. And if I join in, it won't be the addition of new and old hatreds, but it will drag down Boron."
"I don't care about so much now." Xu Mengqian suddenly said excitedly.
"ah?"
Guo Dan looked at Xu Mengchong in confusion and asked, "Your Madam doesn't want to pull some people on the back."
Xu Mengchong was stunned and hurriedly said, "Isn't I such a shameless person?"
“Not like.”
Guo Dan shook his head, but cursed in his heart, you shameless old thief, you still want to fool me on board the boat.
Xu Mengmeng glanced at Guo Dan, knowing that it was difficult to fool this guy. This guy didn't have any oil and salt, and didn't eat soft and hard. So he settled on the second best: "If you don't want to work with me and I won't force you, then are you willing to think of a solution for me?"
Guo Dan smiled bitterly and said, "Brother, I know very little about this matter in the court. No, I don't know at all. I really can't help."
Xu Mengqin said: "I know you can't help with the affairs in the court, but my Xu family is not a mess. If they want to deal with me, they have to find a good reason. This matter is also related to money. You can help me come up with ideas."
"That's how it works!"
Guo Dan hesitated for a while and said, "I don't know what it is?"
Xu Mengchong sighed and first informed Guo Dan about the stable.
After hearing this, Guo Dan said in surprise: "Why don't you build stables? Is it because you don't have money? This problem is easy to solve, just give money."
"It's not that simple, it's a long story."
Xu Mengchong roughly told Guo Dan about Ma Zheng.
Just to put it this way, two incense sticks passed inadvertently, and he didn't talk about the issue of the people's herdsmanship, so he had no shame to say that the people's herds could not continue to play because the people could not afford it, and it was just a waste of money.
The official and maids are actually similar, and they won’t say that the ranch was occupied. For example, the environment in the northwest horse farming area was harsh, and some exiled officials were in the past, so they were not in the mood to take care of this matter. Moreover, the power structure of the Ming Dynasty was focused on the inside and the outside was neglected. Even if local officials wanted to manage it, they had no power. In addition, there were several departments in the horse government, including the Tea Horse Department, the Yuanma Temple, the Taipu Temple, and the Imperial Horse Supervisor, which did not manage each other and had a very chaotic management.
"My uncle, wait."
Guo Dan interrupted Xu Mengchong: "If you continue talking, I can't remember it anymore. How to solve so many problems?"
"Isn't that true?"
Xu Mengchong said aggrievedly: "How to solve so many problems!"
When Guo Dan heard this, he felt that the demise of the Ming Dynasty was irreversible. It had reached a point where even the problem could not be solved, similar to cancer. He had to wait for a path to death and said, "My uncle has no idea at all, so I can't do anything about it!"
Xu Mengchong asked, "Don't think about these questions, just say, if it were your businessmen, what would you do?"
Guo Dan smiled and said, "If it were us businessmen, there would be no such problems."
Xu Mengfeng was stunned for a moment, stunned for a while, and suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "Yes! If it were your businessmen, then there would be no such problems."
Isn’t this just falling into the pit by himself? Guo Dan said: “No! This is Ma Zheng, it’s impossible to replace it with a businessman to manage it.”
Xu Mengchong pondered and said, "But it is impossible for merchants to participate in the imperial concubine's enthronement ceremony. Since it is OK to enthronement ceremony, why is Ma Zheng not?"
Guo Dan blinked and said, "What is Bo Ye's intention? Contract Ma Zheng to me?"
"contract?"
Xu Mengfeng blinked and asked hurriedly: "Guo Dan, be honest, if you really contract it to you, can you improve it?"
Guo Dan said: "Don't say contracting it to me, even if contracting it to any businessman, it will definitely be better than now. This is certain, because there will be no such problems."
"Don't talk about other businessmen, just talk about you." Xu Mengchong pointed at Guo Dan: "What would you do if you want you?"
Guo Dan said: "I don't have any specific methods yet, but first of all, I will definitely make raising horses profitable, make horse-raising people rich, and let the rich people in the world raise horses, and the problem will be solved."
Xu Mengchong nodded frequently when he heard this and said, "It's so simple, why can't the court do it?"
Guo Tan smiled and said, "This is different. My profit and loss in business is my personal money. Who does the money from the court belong to?"
Xu Mengmeng suddenly realized and said repeatedly: "That's right. You businessmen are trying their best to make money, and the officials in the court... are also trying to make money, but they all make money from the court, so the court naturally suffers losses."
Speaking of this, he suddenly said to Guo Dan: "If you contract it, would you dare to accept it?"
Guo Dan said: "If it is just a simple transaction and it is profitable, of course I am willing to accept it. I am a businessman, so I will naturally not refuse to make money if I have money."
"Money is not a problem." Xu Mengchong said bluntly.
"Then I'll be fine."
Chapter completed!