When Guo Dan came to the door, he saw a man in his early thirties but a little hunched back standing in front of the door. He had seen Guo Dan come and said, "The prince has already reported it, so we can go there now."

This person's name is Gao Shang, and he is an eunuch from the Silijian.

Because Guo Dan's identity is very special, he has a close relationship with the eunuch. Because Wanli can only arrange for the eunuch to help him, it is impossible for officials to be willing to assist him as a businessman.

In fact, the eunuch's identity is much higher than his, but eunuchs are also a special group, and they are just extensions of the emperor's power.

It can be seen from this that although the contractor is Guo Dan, his power is still controlled by Wanli. Guo Dan has no power in his hands. Whether it is military or administrative, the controller is not Guo Dan, and Guo Dan is responsible for the economy.

Guo Dan bowed and smiled, "I'm sorry, father-in-law!"

Gao Shang waved his hand and said, "I'm nothing, you're just a little too anxious. We've just arrived here, so you can take a rest for a night before going there."

Guo Dan smiled bitterly and said, "There is no way, I'm more rushing because I promised my wife to go back early."

Gao Shang was stunned for a moment and said, "I can't tell that you are still a passionate businessman."

"What a passionate thing?" Guo Dan laughed and said, "Did you forget that my father-in-law, I'm just a son-in-law."

"I have never heard of you, a son-in-law like you." Gao Shang waved his hand.

While talking, the two left the government office, got on the carriage, and rushed east along the street.

After a stick of incense, Gao Shang suddenly lifted the curtain and pointed at the window and said, "Guo Dan, have you seen this street?"

Guo Dan nodded and looked at Gao Shang in confusion.

Gao Shang said: "The streets are full of Zhou's family business."

Guo Dan gestured with his hands: "All of them?"

"All of them are. Nearly half of the industries in the entire city are closely related to King Zhou."

“…!”

Guo Dan was speechless for a moment and said, "Didn't it mean that the vassal kings are not allowed to participate in scholars, farmers, industry and commerce?"

Gao Shang said: "How could the prince go out to do business? But when he got the salt tax here, the house tax was all given to him. You are a businessman, so you should know that there are profits and losses in this business. When the market is not good, what should the merchants do if they can't pay the rent? They can only mortgage it to the royal palace. Over time, they become his family, and those merchants also become those who help him with their work."

Guo Dan asked again: "How many acres of land does the Zhou royal palace have?"

Gao Shang said: "I really don't know this. I guess even the former prefect is not clear about it. Because in name, the vassal kings cannot own land. They only take taxes on land, but they actually have land.

There are so many lands in their houses that cannot be counted. There is a piece of land in the Daming Mansion next to it from the Zhou Palace. This is fifty years ago. At that time, Kaifeng Mansion could not make any land available, so he could only make a piece of land from the Daming Mansion to the Zhou Palace. However, at that time, it was the tax of that piece of land for him. However, in the past few decades, people have not been able to pay taxes, so they can only mortgage the land to the Zhou Palace, and the land becomes his."

Guo Tan nodded with a smile and said, "It should be, it should be."

After another meal, they finally arrived at the Zhou Palace.

I once thought that the Lu Wang Mansion was the most vassal king, and once again realized how naive he was. Compared to the Zhou Mansion, the Lu Wang Mansion was a scumbag.

Before entering the door, I saw many hundred-year-old trees, which covered the sky and the sun. The entire Zhou Palace was hidden in it, as if I had discovered a paradise, and there were two worlds outside. From the stone statues at the door to the vermilion beams and pillars, the entire Zhou Palace exuded an ancient atmosphere.

When you enter the gate, it is not like the Lu Wang Mansion, where rockery is lined with carved beams and painted buildings. The Zhou Mansion is filled with big trees, strange flowers and plants. When you occasionally see some rockery, you can see the traces left by the years on it.

Put all art aside first. Compared with value, the Zhou Palace must kill the Lu Palace in seconds. No matter how luxurious it is, it can be piled up with money. The ancient trees, strange flowers and plants of the Zhou Palace are all precipitated by time.

The first Zhou king of the Ming Dynasty was named Zhu Su, who was the fifth son of Zhu Yuanzhang. He came to Kaifeng in 1381 and was passed down from generation to generation. Now two hundred years have passed. At that time, a small tree was planted, and now it is already a towering tree.

At this glance, you can't see a room, you can see many servants taking care of flowers, plants, pruning branches and leaves, and the picture is very harmonious.

After walking for a while, they saw a very old house where some people were drying herbs on the roof.

Guo Dan couldn't help but say in surprise: "Is such a good house actually used to dry herbs?"

Gao Shang said hi: "You don't know this."

Guo Dan hurriedly asked, "What do you know?"

Gao Shang whispered: "This Zhou royal palace can also be called a medical family. In terms of medicine, no one can match the world. Sometimes Your Majesty has to send people to ask about medicine. Therefore, many people rumored that any servant of the Zhou royal palace could go to the palace to be an imperial physician. Why among so many vassal kings, the incense in the Zhou royal palace is particularly popular and most of them are long-lived, but this is because of this."

Guo Danwen was shocked because, no matter whether he knew or the vassal kings he heard were mostly trash and had no use at all. Suddenly, a great god appeared. How could he not be surprised?

In fact, the Zhou royal palace was far more awesome than he thought. Zhu Su, the King of Zhou of that generation, was a very awesome person. The "Saving the Scarlet Herb" he wrote was still being studied in the 21st century, and many Japanese prescriptions also come from this book.

After waiting outside the door for a while, they finally entered the house. The decoration of the house is very simple. It is said that everything will turn against you. It is so simple that it is luxurious.

Any painting on the wall is all original works of the famous masters, and any furniture is made of gold nanmu. However, it looks older in some eras, but as long as the Chinese style is well maintained, the older it becomes, the more it feels.

I saw a man sitting in the hall as old as Wanli, who looked twenty-five or six years old, wearing a jade-white robe, red lips and white teeth, a rosy complexion and elegant temperament.

This person is Zhu Suqin, who was granted the title of King of Zhou the year before.

Guo Dan and Gao Shang immediately stepped forward and bowed respectfully.

Zhu Su just glanced at Guo Dan, then turned his gaze to Gao Shang on the side, and said to Gao Shang with a smile: "Grandpa Gao, please sit down."

"More...thank you for giving the throne to your seat."

Gao Shang seemed a little surprised and walked to the side and sat down nervously.

This is because Guo Dan is still standing, and it is obvious that Zhu Suzhen is full of hostility towards Guo Dan.

That's good, so don't waste your time, just get to the point. Guo Dan put down his hand, stood up, looked at Zhu Suqian and smiled, "The prince seems to have some misunderstandings about the Caomin."

Zhu Suqian couldn't help but frown slightly at Guo Dan's rude eyes, looked down on his face, and sneered: "Do you think that in this world, which businessman is qualified to stand here?"

What I mean is that it is your honor to be able to stand here today.

Of course he was full of hostility towards Guo Dan. Under the original system, he was doing everything. You came here to break it. Moreover, they were not those foolish people. He knew that Guo Dan was here to collect taxes, so how could he give Guo Dan a good face?

"It doesn't matter whether you stand or sit." Guo Tan changed his tone and said, "But Cao Min hopes that the prince will not let the enemy and friends be inseparable."

"presumptuous!"

Zhu Suqian was furious and pointed at Guo Dan and said, "You can't wait for a humble businessman, and you dare to teach me a lesson."

Gao Shang was also anxious and rushed to speak, "Guo Dan, why are you talking? Apologize to the prince quickly."

Guo Danquan pretended not to hear it, and was not afraid at all. Instead, he opened his eyes wide and looked directly at Zhu Suzhen and said, "Does the prince think that the prince can hold such a big business today, which was given by those landlords or those officials? None of them, all of this is because of Your Majesty.

If His Majesty had not supported the prince in the court, could the prince still sit here leisurely today? I am afraid he would have been deprived of all his possessions by those ministers. However, the prince treated the gentry with courtesy, and the prince came from thousands of miles away with the emperor's orders. However, the prince treated the prince in this way. This was not a distinction between enemies and friends, and what was that."

"It's over!"

Gao Shang suddenly felt so angry that the ball collapsed on the chair. He originally thought that this was a beautiful woman. After all, the little Gui lived a very comfortable life in Weihui Mansion, but he didn't know that this was a fatal life.

Zhu Suzhen was young after all, so he was stunned by Guo Danxun. He really didn't expect that Guo Dan was so fierce and looked at Guo Dan blankly.

Guo Dan lowered his momentum and said, "Prince, Cao Min just wanted to remind the prince that in the entire Kaifeng Mansion, only Cao Min and Eunuch Gao are on the side of the prince, because we are His Majesty's people, and those outside are standing opposite the prince. Cao Min came here to support the prince, not to go against the prince."

Zhu Suqian came back to his senses, his face flushed, and he was very embarrassed, and he snorted: "You said yes, what certificate do you have?"

His momentum was obviously not as good as Guo Dan. Firstly, he was indeed shocked by Guo Dan; secondly, it was because Guo Dan brought out Wanli, and it was also true that the emperor was the biggest supporter of the royal family. Without the emperor, there would be no royal family.

Guo Dan looked at Gao Shang again and said, "Eunuch Gao."

Gao Shang suddenly woke up and hurriedly took out a secret letter, and respectfully handed it to Zhu Suzhen, "Prince, this is the letter from Your Majesty to you."

Zhu Suqiong took the letter, opened it and looked carefully, then took the fire from the table, lit the secret letter, threw it into the brazier under the table, and said to Guo Dan: "Sit down."

The tone is quite reluctant.

"Thank you, Prince."

Guo Dan sat down and said: "Actually, Caomin had expected that the prince must have misunderstood Caomin, but the facts were exactly the opposite."

Speaking of this, he paused and said, "Actually, Caomin should have been here for a long time, but Caomin still stayed in the capital for a few more days. The prince can tell the reason."

Zhu Suzhen shook his head.

Guo Tan smiled and said, "It's very simple. The reason why Caomin dragged it until today is actually giving the landlords the opportunity to transfer land. Caomin knew that those landlords and officials placed some land under the prince's name to avoid taxes."

The name of the vassal kings is to obtain land tax. If they do not own land, it will be very easy for them to collude with the landlords. When they register in the government, they will say that the tax on this land is allocated to the Zhou royal palace.

He said so directly that Zhu Suzhen couldn't hold on his face. Didn't you say that I was illegal? He said with a deep eyebrows: "What do you mean by this? Why can't I understand?"
Chapter completed!