As a general family, the Dingguo Hou Mansion had the emperor's permission to run its industry and was considered a member of the imperial merchants.
A large number of retired veterans changed careers and joined various escort bureaus under the name of Dingguo Hou Mansion to serve as bodyguards and guards.
The fleet of Dingguohou Mansion is backed by the signature of Dingguohou Mansion. It has a reliable reputation and is the best choice for merchants and wealthy people from all over the country to entrust escorts.
The content of Liang Xiao's discussion with Dingguohou's Mansion was that Dingguohou's Mansion provided a part of the fleet to escort his sugar and newspapers to various parts of the country.
Because Liang Xiao does not have enough cronies now, it is too risky to open newspapers and sugar shops in other places.
For example, movable type printing and sugar-making technology were leaked, or newspaper offices and sugar mills were seized by local powerful people.
Mu Ping looked at the plan provided by Liang Xiao, nodded slightly, and looked at Liang Xiao with admiration, but was a little confused.
"You can think so thoughtfully, which shows that you do have business talent. Why have you been doing loss-making business in the past two years?"
Liang Xiao replied: "Shibo should also know that I was powerless at that time, and the Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion was secretly targeting me. How could I get a chance to do a profitable business in the capital? I didn't wake up until later, but even if I woke up, It would also be inseparable from the kindness of His Majesty and Her Royal Highness the Princess, as well as sugar, Canghai Yueming, and newspapers, to successfully break the situation."
Mu Ping was stunned.
Mu Qinxue on the side looked at Liang Xiao with emotion.
Her grandfather was originally in the border area. He accidentally heard that Liang Xiao had appeared in the capital and was not well received by the Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion. He specifically told the family to take proper care of Liang Xiao and even arranged a marriage: if Nangong Ning refused to marry Liang Xiao, betrothed her to Liang Xiao.
For this reason, her father was very angry for a time, but due to his father's fate, he still provided some help to Liang Xiao.
Unfortunately, Liang Xiao lost all his money in the end and became an alcoholic for a while, which made Mu Ping even more convinced that this son had no ambition and was not worthy of his daughter.
After being a guilty minister, it didn't matter. After all, Liang Xiao could be an unknown son-in-law.
But she originally just figured out that marrying Liang Xiao was a way of repaying a favor, so she didn't object to the arrangement of Marquis Lao Ding.
Now Mu Qinxue is just glad that she does not dislike Liang Xiao like Nangong Ning and makes things difficult for him in every possible way.
Now, with the help of my sworn friend Jiang Fuxue, I have a great chance of abducting him...
The young girl with a spring heart put her chin in one hand and watched Liang Xiao chatting away. The more she watched, the happier she became.
"These industries are still just in their infancy. In the future, I will enter the book industry and basic wine industry, which are also extremely profitable industries. I will not be incompatible with these political opponents of my father. At the same time, I will not compete with the original industries of Dingguo Hou Mansion. But I I hope that Dingguohou’s Mansion can resell all the paper mills to me. In return, sugar will be provided to Dingguohou’s Mansion in priority in the future, and a small amount will be provided to Gongsun’s family.”
Mu Ping nodded with satisfaction: "The paper mill can be resold to you. As for sugar, do you want to open the sugar mill to other sugar cane producing areas in the country?"
Liang Xiao said: "That's right! The sugar produced can still be sold by the Gongsun family as it is now."
Hearing this, Mu Ping glanced at Bai Qin next to Liang Xiao. Seeing Bai Qin nodding, he said: "Liang Xiao, the Dingguo Marquis Mansion has always regarded itself as the reserve treasury of our emperor. After all, the emperor's grace is so great. Year, without the protection of the king, my family is nothing. From now on, as long as it is a transaction approved by His Majesty, the Dingguo Marquis Mansion will not refuse you, even if you lose a small amount of money, it doesn't matter."
Liang Xiao thanked him immediately, while Bai Qin on the side looked confused.
His master seemed not to have mentioned this.
Mu Qinxue's beautiful eyes lit up, and the image of her biological father suddenly became extremely tall and majestic.
In fact, her father's words were just an excuse. He decided to cooperate with Liang Xiao without any reservation simply because of his daughter.
The ability and determination shown by Liang Xiao have convinced Mu Ping that he can take charge alone.
However, her father would express his position so straightforwardly, Liang Xiao...
As expected, Liang Xiao looked at Mu Qinxue.
Mu Qinxue blushed, pretending to be calm, but her heart was in chaos.
Sure enough, he vaguely guessed the reason?
Liang Xiao looked firm and said: "Shibo will not be disappointed, and I, Liang Xiao, will not let a truly reliable business partner suffer."
Mu Ping nodded happily and immediately made the decision to allow Liang Xiao to fully cooperate with the bodyguard bureau under the name of Dingguo Hou Mansion and recruit bodyguards and guards at will.
Before his own industrial chain takes shape, Liang Xiao still needs a large number of escorts and fleets to help transport goods to other places.
After the two parties signed a cooperation contract for sugar and fine wine, Mu Pingcai and Bai Qin left the lobby, leaving only Mu Qinxue and Liang Xiao alone.
Mu Qinxue sat aside, not daring to say anything. Her feet were tightly together under the table, and her hands on her knees were trembling slightly.
She discovered that the "secrets" her grandma taught her suddenly no longer worked.
He might really not need her silent protection.
It was obvious that he was her "prey", but his spring-like smile and the deep gaze that seemed to see through everything always made her panic, fearing that she would be exposed, be disgusted by him, or scare him away.
But when she thought about the story of her grandma and grandpa, she couldn't help but get excited and wanted to try it too!
After Liang Xiao took a sip of tea, he looked at Mu Qinxue with a half-smile.
"Qin Xue, your tea is good."
"Really? I think so too~" Mu Qinxue responded softly after calming down.
Liang Xiao smiled and said: "I may move out in the future. At that time, if it is not convenient for Xue'er to go with me, I will ask you to take care of her."
Mu Qinxue nodded obediently and asked, "Will you do business locally when you move out?"
Seeing Liang Xiao nodding, Mu Qinxue mustered up her courage and said, "If you really move out, I will represent the Dingguo Marquis Mansion and occasionally go to you to discuss cooperation..."
Liang Xiao was thoughtful.
Mu Qinxue knew that the excuse she made was a bit lame, so she didn't dare to say any more.
"Is it just occasionally?" Liang Xiao suddenly laughed.
"Eh?" Mu Qinxue was stunned.
"You can come and see more, I like to hear you play the piano." Liang Xiao said seriously.
"Okay~"
Mu Qinxue agreed without hesitation, trying hard to maintain her reserve, feeling secretly happy in her heart: Liang Xiao really didn't seem to realize her true identity?
Liang Xiao silently looked at Mu Qinxue, who looked shy and gentle.
This girl...
It wasn't until Mu Ping came back with Bai Qin that the ambiguous atmosphere in the lobby was broken.
After Mu Ping handed Liang Xiao part of the token, he reminded: "I have already met with the Beijing Escort Bureau, but the caravan guards are only veterans, and they are far behind the regular army. We still cannot take them lightly."
Liang Xiao understood the idea, took the token to the escort agency, hired 300 guards, took them back to the Lanling Marquis Mansion, and handed them over to Bai Qin for placement, and then went to find Lei Hong.
At this time, Lei Hong and other eighteen people were competing in pairs at the racecourse. Each of them was wearing fine leather armor and holding a long knife, looking majestic.
Liang Xiao summoned Lei Hong and asked, "Can you estimate how many bandit troops you eighteen can handle with your current armaments and spare horses?"
