The Yudai River presents a different kind of scenery at night. There are no more bustling crowds, the tired birds have returned to their nests, and the Jade River River has become extremely quiet.
Su Shi walked along the river. Although he smelled of alcohol, his eyes were extremely sober. When he came to a stone table, Su Shi stopped, then brushed the dust on the stone bench with his sleeves, and sat down.
Lin Mo felt very strange, because after coming out of the restaurant, the young master did not go in and out of the brothel to continue drinking with those people as usual, nor did he go back home, but ordered him to go directly to the Qin Mansion.
However, when he arrived near the Qin Mansion, Su Shi ordered him to walk along the river embankment and got off the car in the backyard of the Qin Mansion.
At this time, the gate to the backyard of the Qin Mansion was closed, and Su Shi did not come forward to knock on the door. Instead, he came to the Yudai River.
Although Lin Mo felt strange, he still stood beside him without saying a word, staring around with vigilant eyes.
Su Shi took a deep breath, suppressed the alcohol in his heart, and asked, "What time is it now?"
"It should be almost Xu time."
Su Shi nodded, then straightened up, stretched his hands over his head, tried his best to stretch upward, and said to himself: "It should be coming soon."
"Master, are you waiting for someone?"
"Um."
Lin Mo hesitated for a moment: "Master, are you waiting for Miss Qin Nan?"
Su Shi was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but look up at him: "Why do you have such strange thoughts?"
Then he seemed to feel very regretful: "Although meeting a beautiful woman under the moon is a very romantic thing, it is always against etiquette. How can Miss Qin Nan be willing to keep the appointment?"
Lin Mo was relieved when he heard that the young master was not dating Qin Nan, but at the same time he became more curious.
Who would come to the young master’s appointment so late? What's the matter with the young master's appointment with this person?
When Lin Mo was confused, a tall figure appeared on the river embankment. When he saw Su Shi, he walked straight towards them.
By the moonlight, Lin Mo saw clearly that the person coming was none other than Mr. Qin Zhidao, and his first question was solved.
But since the young master made an appointment with Mr. Qin, why didn't he enter the Qin Mansion instead of asking Mr. Qin out?
Qin Zhidao also seemed to feel strange, and his eyes were full of questions when he looked at Su Shi.
At this time, Su Shi had already stood up. After Qin Zhidao went down the stone steps, he smiled and said, "Please don't blame me for disturbing my uncle's rest so late."
Qin Zhidao walked to the stone table and gently pressed his right hand, indicating that he should sit down and talk. As soon as Su Shi sat down, Qin Zhidao smelled the smell of alcohol on his body and couldn't help frowning: "It seems that my nephew drank a lot today."
Su Shi looked a little helpless: "When doing business or entertaining, it's inevitable that we have to exchange cups and drinks, but those people are much worse off than me."
Qin Zhidao said: "I know you have a good drinking capacity, but drinking and having fun every night is very harmful to your health."
Su Shi's face showed a rare hint of embarrassment: "It seems that uncle already knows what happened in the past few days."
Qin Zhidao sighed: "These days, the General's Mansion is crowded with people. It's hard for me not to know. What's more, when Liu Yan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, saw me, he couldn't help praising me for finding a good son-in-law."
Su Shi smiled and said: "With a profit of hundreds of thousands taels a year, it's not a loss to get a few good sons-in-law."
Qin Zhidao looked at him with some suspicion: "Are you really willing to just hand over such a huge profit to others?"
"What is honey to him is arsenic to me." Su Shi said lightly: "These people only see huge benefits, and naturally they cannot see the risks involved."
Then he turned to Lin Mo and said, "Master Qin and I need to discuss some serious matters. You go and guard outside."
Lin Mo immediately took the order and left.
After Lin Mo left, Qin Zhidao looked even more puzzled: "Since we have important matters to discuss, why don't you go to the house to discuss it in detail? Instead, you sent a letter to me to meet here?"
Su Shi smiled and said, "I know that my uncle has a taste for swimming in the Yudai River at night, so he is arty."
Qin Zhidao naturally didn't believe his nonsense, but he didn't want to go into details, so he continued the previous topic and asked: "You just said that those people can't see the risks involved. So, the glass business is not as good as Are they making as much money as they think?”
"Of course we have to give them a little sweetness first." Su Shi's smile looked a little cunning no matter how you looked at it under the moonlight: "But it's not up to them whether or how much money they can make."
"It seems that my good nephew has already planned it."
Su Shi nodded: "The King of Qi and the King of Zhao gathered with these wealthy families, princes and ministers for profit. If you want to divide them, it is natural to let them use up their profits and disperse. And the reason why I promised these noble families great benefits is, We also want them to follow us for profit, so that even if Pei Xuan’s people want to cause chaos, it will be difficult to cause a big wave.”
Qin Zhidao sighed: "These ministers from aristocratic families are all shrewd people. Can't they see that you are trying to lure them with benefits?"
"A mirror worth ten taels can be sold for three thousand taels. With such a huge profit, even if those people see my plan, how can they give up the meat they got, and it is such a big piece of meat."
Qin Zhidao's face changed drastically, and he looked at Su Shi in disbelief: "The fitting mirror costs only ten taels of silver?"
Su Shi thought for a while and said, "It should be less than ten taels, and I didn't calculate it carefully."
"No wonder those people are flocking to it. Even I am a little tempted by such huge benefits."
In Qin Zhidao's view, a profit of ten times is considered high. He never expected that the profit of glass products would be an astonishing three hundred times.
Speaking of this, Qin Zhidao sighed: "I heard that the Cui family and the Lin family are planning to give up the rice business and ask their nephew for the distribution rights of glass products in Yizhou."
Su Shi said: "The rice business has high capital and low profits, and now we have driven down the price so low. Not only are there no profits, but they have to lose money. Now that they have such a profitable business, they are naturally unwilling to continue it. .”
Qin Zhidao sighed: "Is this obviously part of your plan?"
Su Shi did not deny it: "Although I want to attack their industry, I also want to give them a way out, but their way out needs to be in our hands."
Qin Zhidao couldn't help but look Su Shi up and down, because he really couldn't figure out why such a handsome and talented young man could be so scheming.
But then Su Shi's expression suddenly became serious, and he said slowly: "I asked my uncle to come out today to discuss an important matter, and this matter must not be known to anyone else."
Qin Zhidao saw Su Shi's solemn expression and knew that this matter was not trivial, and felt a little nervous in his heart.
"What's up?"
Su Shi looked directly into Qin Zhidao's eyes and said solemnly, "I want Uncle Qin to ask to see His Majesty in private."
