"With such a fortune, why don't you find an inn and have to travel in the middle of the night?"
Hu Yunqing felt strange in her heart, but didn't think much about it. When she met that person again, she would return the things to her.
Thinking of this, he put away his things and started making breakfast.
"If that guy Hong Shijie makes trouble again, don't blame him for being rude."
He had already made up his mind, waiting for brother Xian to come again, establishing a relationship with Wei Zhongxian through brother Xian, and then uprooting the entire Shanxi merchants!
Since he also wants to do business, he cannot avoid business competition.
Rather than being suppressed by the powerful group of Shanxi merchants, it is better to take advantage of this opportunity and kill several big families of Shanxi merchants in one fell swoop!
After all, he had laid a solid foundation for the great victory of Zunhua and Datong. No matter how stupid that idiot Chongzhen was, he should still believe what he said.
Even so, there's not much to say.
While he was eating, there was a knock on the door.
"Master Hu, are you at home?"
Unexpectedly, it was Wang Chengen's voice that said Cao Cao had arrived.
"The door is open, just come in."
Hu Yunqing said nonchalantly.
Immediately, he saw the master and servant Chongzhen walking in.
"Cousin, you are having breakfast."
Looking at Hu Yunqing who was drinking porridge, Chongzhen smiled, and then looked at Wang Chengen beside him.
The latter quickly placed a box of pastries on the table.
"Come whenever you come from now on, and don't bring so many things with you."
Hu Yunqing still has a certain knowledge of these pastries and knows that they are not cheap. "Didn't you say that you still owe a lot of money? There is no need to be too extravagant and wasteful on this."
"My cousin taught me a lesson."
Chongzhen felt moved in his heart. Compared with those civil servants who only know about party struggle, cousin, what kind of magnanimity does that have? It's really admirable.
"Why do you have time to come here today? I still plan to find you."
Hu Yunqing said this, but still took a piece of pastry and ate it. It tasted very good.
"It's mainly because I haven't been here for a long time, so I came here to see my cousin."
Chongzhen originally thought about telling him about the reward and sealing, but then he thought that if he knew too much, he might arouse his cousin's suspicion.
It is better to wait for Xu Guangqi to come over and share the joy together.
"By the way, last time you, the butler, came to me to ask for a way to make a fortune, did you go and get it? Did it go well?"
Hu Yunqing suddenly remembered that when Wang Chengen came here last time, he also asked him for a way to sell short ammunition, and he didn't know if the two of them had done it.
If Wei Zhongxian really helped, this matter should be easy. !
After all, if even Eunuch Wei can't do it, it will be difficult for others.
"Cousin, this is pretty much what you expected!"
Chongzhen was overjoyed and immediately said, "We are planning to organize it! I just want to ask again, where is the best place to trade? It won't attract too much attention!"
Yuan Chonghuan sent a letter this morning, saying that Jiannu had arranged a lot of spies, and they seemed to be here for the cannonballs of the red cannon.
He was preparing to arrange for people from the Bai family and the Qiao family to come over and help him. If this happened, he would sell some of the empty shells.
It not only solves the emptiness of the national treasury, but also makes a small profit. It is simply killing two birds with one stone!
My cousin has a clever plan and a foresight.
"This matter cannot be left within the Ming Dynasty. We can arrange for them to go to Horqin Mongolia!"
Hu Yunqing took a sip of porridge, pondered for a moment and said, "And ask Wei Zhongxian to write a letter and tell Yuan Chonghuan to just keep an eye on those spies, and don't alert the enemy! Otherwise, the news will leak out!"
"Then I'll try my best to tell Eunuch Wei."
Chongzhen nodded, but felt a little uncomfortable.
Everything made Wei Zhongxian the limelight, but the emperor became less important.
"By the way, do you think there is a way to get Wei Gong to come out?"
Hu Yunqing put down his chopsticks, picked up another piece of pastry and ate it.
"Is it possible that my cousin wants to see him?"
After hearing this, Chongzhen said with some doubts.
"I want to send a big gift to the emperor through him."
Hu Yunqing looked at the patterns on the cakes and said slowly, "It can be considered as my contribution."
Chongzhen was overjoyed and wished he could reveal his identity immediately.
Where else do we need to go through Wei Zhongxian?
But he still suppressed his inner excitement.
After all, being exposed too early would appear to be dishonest and could easily cause necessary trouble.
"Master Hu, I don't know what kind of gift this is!"
Not to mention how disgusted Wang Chengen was, he didn't know why his master mentioned Wei Zhongxian's name in the first place.
If his name is mentioned, wouldn't all the credit belong to him?
Alas, what a pity.
"What do you think the emperor lacks most now?"
Hu Yunqing said with a calm expression, "Guess."
"silver."
Chongzhen spoke without hesitation without thinking.
No one understands the emperor better than him. Nowadays, there is a war in the northeast, people are in peace in the northwest, internal and external troubles, and the treasury is empty.
Even during the plague, I could only spend two hundred taels to buy rat poison!
Although I am making some money now with my cousin’s guidance, I still cannot make ends meet!
I wish I could break a tael of silver into two taels and use it!
"You know that idiot Chongzhen quite well."
Hu Yunqing stuffed the cake into his mouth, clapped his hands, poured another cup of tea and handed it to Chongzhen, "Yes, it's silver!"
Chongzhen took the tea cup with some embarrassment, feeling helpless in his heart. Is he really that stupid?
“And it’s still tens of millions of taels of silver!”
Hu Yunqing sneered, picked up the tea cup and drank.
"Wha...what!"
Hearing this number, Chongzhen's hands trembled and he almost spilled the tea.
Tens of millions of taels, which is equivalent to a year's income of the national treasury.
If he could get that many, it would be tantamount to saving his life.
"Hu, Mr. Hu..."
Wang Chengen's face turned red with excitement, and he couldn't help but ask, "What is the method? Can you tell me?"
"This matter is easy to say. Just like the last time I mentioned Zunhua Datong..."
"Brother Yunqing! Brother Yunqing!"
Hu Yunqing was about to speak, but Niu Wazi ran in at this moment, looking a little panicked.
"What's wrong?"
Chongzhen originally wanted to hear a plan to make money, but was suddenly interrupted by a child, and he felt somewhat unconvinced.
"Brother Yunqing, it's not good!"
Niu Wazi ignored them at all, and still looked at Hu Yunqing out of breath, and said, "No, no, that guy Han Long suddenly came with a few government servants. It looked like he was arresting You're here! Run quickly! Old Hantou and his men are dragging them, you and I should go out and hide first!"
He didn't want Hu Yunqing to be caught!
