Ouyang Lun gritted his teeth and asked, "What should we do? I don't want to lose money either."
Zhu Bai said: "You can either wait until summer is over and the price of brocade satin increases before selling it. But you will have to pay for the warehouse expenses for the past six months, or take the things away. Or you can see if you can wait for the right one in the next few days. Guest, sell it for five hundred taels. For the sake of you becoming my fourth brother-in-law, I can waive the money for your teeth so that you don’t lose money."
Ouyang Lun thought for a while. The former option would have to wait half a year. He only had so much cash on hand, so how could he prepare for the wedding? Moreover, you will have to pay more costs, and you may not be able to make any profit by then.
That can only be the latter.
Zhu Bai added: "If anything happens next time, please tell Lord Ouyang in a gentle manner. Chief Ya is the head of the General Administration of Ya. He was personally appointed by the king. You are humiliating Chief Ya in front of so many businessmen, let us Where is the prestige of the Guan Ya Bureau? For the sake of you being my future brother-in-law, as long as you properly apologize to the tooth leader, I will not care about you. Next time this happens, I will serve you according to the rules. ”
Ou Yanshen's face was full of shame and he could only say to Ya Zhang: "Sorry, I'm offended."
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Ouyang Lun spent several days in Guanya Bureau before finally selling what he had in hand for five hundred taels.
It's like so many days of work in vain.
Ouyang Lun was a little frustrated. As soon as he left the Guanya Bureau, a eunuch came to ask him to enter the palace, saying that Lao Zhu wanted to see him.
Ouyang Lun was a little worried: just because of the delay in the matter of Jing Duan, he had only one month to get married, but he had not prepared anything yet.
If Lao Zhu knew about it, he would definitely be angry.
Ouyang Lun went in and saw that Lao Zhu's face was really bad, so he knelt down.
Lao Zhu said coldly: "You are now our son-in-law. Why do you still imitate that profiteer's business of buying low and selling high?!"
Ouyang Lun: "I am confused, but I am aware of my sin."
Lao Zhu gritted his teeth: "What you are losing now is not your people, but our people. The Guanya Bureau is our business, and you are going to make trouble. Have you forgotten where you are? We can promote you to do it." Consort, I can also remove you as my consort!"
Upon hearing this, Ouyang Lun hurriedly kowtowed: "Your Majesty, forgive me, I will never dare to do it again."
Princess Anqing over there didn't know where she got the news, so she ran in and knelt beside Ouyang Lun: "I beg Father to have mercy and spare him this time."
Lao Zhu frowned and looked at his daughter: "There is no need to plead for him. Kill him, and we will naturally help you find a better one."
Princess Anqing said with tears: "If the father thought he was not good, he should not have pointed out his daughter to be the consort in the first place. Now that the daughter has met with him, the news of the marriage has been released, and she is preparing for the wedding, and she wants to Replace someone. Aren’t they saying that my daughter is erratic and unruly and unruly? How will my daughter behave in the future? "
Lao Zhu pursed his lips and said nothing: Princess Anqing is right. Although she is a princess, doing this over and over again is too damaging to her reputation. If you marry someone else in the future, you will inevitably be talked about behind your back.
Princess Anqing said: "My daughter must give him a good warning in the future and never make such a mistake again. Please forgive him once for the sake of my daughter's face."
Having said all that, it wasn't because she liked Ouyang Lun that she came to plead for mercy.
What can the old father do if his daughter is like this?
Moreover, although Ouyang Lun made a mistake, it was not a big one.
Lao Zhu sighed: "Okay. Ouyang Lun, please listen carefully. This is our daughter's plea to us, so I won't argue with you. This is the only answer I'll give you once and for all."
Ouyang Lun's back was soaked with cold sweat, and he kowtowed hurriedly: "Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty."
Coming out of the Imperial Study Room, Ouyang Lun hurriedly saluted Princess Anqing: "Thank you, Princess."
Only now did he fully understand what Zhu Bai meant when he said, "Just coax my sister well."
Princess Anqing is his talisman and money tree.
Everything else is fleeting.
Princess Anqing bit her lip, and her tone was three parts blame, three parts helplessness, and three parts coquettishness: "Please be calm!!"
Then he turned around and left.
Ouyang Lun was ashamed and angry, his face flushed: It's obviously Zhu Bai who is stingy, why are you scolding me?
I originally thought that there was no hope for an official career, but I could still use this status to do business and make a fortune. Unexpectedly, this road was also blocked.
What's the difference between me and the canary in the cage?
Think about the farmhouse that Princess Anqing will get after her marriage and the annual salary of 1,500 dan plus 2,000 guan.
Ouyang Lun tried his best to suppress his anger.
Forget it, don't be angry.
With these farm salaries, I can gradually save more capital.
There is no need to look at Zhu Bai's face.
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The sky outside was overcast and very hot.
Faint thunder rolled in the distance.
Today Xu Huizu returned to Yingtian after his inspection and reported back to Lao Zhu and Zhu Biao in the morning.
At this moment, he was talking eloquently: "I inspected a total of twenty military granaries and ten official granaries this time. Among them, there is a shabby room in Guangfu Zang, the military granary in Changzhou, and germinated soybeans cost two tons of germinated soybeans. The official granary in Suzhou, the accounts and The storage does not match the requirements, and three stones of sorghum are missing..."
He read for a full quarter of an hour.
Zhu Bai dozed off after hearing this: Sure enough, he found some trivial and innocuous things. What a waste of time and money.
To put it bluntly, this is too easy to fake. When they checked warehouse A, they wanted to transfer all the grain from Wujigeng to fill A, B, and C. When they went to check Wujigeng, they wanted to transfer the grain from Xin Rengui to fill it. If that doesn't work, you can still use the official granary to fill the army granary. Anyway, they are very close, so there is a time difference and we can do it quietly at night.
Lao Zhu was actually impatient, but in order to save Zhu Biao's face, he could only listen patiently and then asked: "What do you think?"
Someone jumped out and said, "Master Xu, I'm afraid he hasn't found out the problem. I beg the emperor to send someone down again."
Hey, who is so stubborn!
At the same time, he offended Hu Dang and Zhu Biao, as well as Xu Da.
Zhu Bai woke up immediately from his nap and looked back.
Oh, it's Enron.
That's okay.
An Ran was from the Ministry of Industry anyway, so he had some ideas and skills.
No matter how angry Hu Weiyong was, he couldn't move him.
Xu Da and Zhu Biao would not argue with him.
Even though I often discuss weapon making with him, he still scolds me in the court.
There's nothing I can do against him.
Zhu Bai quietly covered his mouth and yawned.
An Ran added: "I beg your Majesty to let King Xiang go on inspection."
Zhu Bai took a breath: Huh? What's going on with this bastard today?
Usually he jumps up and scolds me. Now ask me to patrol the granary.
Did you take the wrong medicine?
Zhu Bai was about to protest, but then he heard someone say "I object", so he choked the voice in his throat and turned around in surprise.
Haha, it’s Li Cunyi.
It's over, because of Lao Zhu's rebelliousness, they wouldn't let me go, so Lao Zhu insisted on asking me to check.
Li Cunyi looked upright and said: "How can inspections be like child's play? They keep changing people. Just after checking, check again."
