In order to make the merchants feel that the money was well spent, Ying Zheng asked their names one by one.
Of course, whether the emperor can remember it afterwards is another question. But the merchants were extremely excited.
After a brief conversation, the feast began.
Although the merchants had not eaten for a day, due to the etiquette of monarchs and ministers, they all restrained themselves and tried to look as elegant as possible.
Halfway through the meal, Li Shui stood up again and toasted to them one by one.
The merchants were all excited and grateful. After all, if there were no immortals, how could lowly merchants like them have the chance to meet the emperor?
Many businessmen were so excited that they even shed tears.
When it was Zhou Gui's turn, Zhou Gui burst into tears. He was holding the wine glass with trembling hands.
Li Shui patted him on the shoulder: "I understand. I understand when you have seven medals hanging around your neck. Come on, come on, after a drink, we can let go of the past and let go of our grudges when we meet again."
Zhou Gui wiped his tears and thought: You know nothing.
But in this situation, what can he say? He can only drink the fairy wine one cup at a time with tears in his eyes. x
A quarter of an hour later, Ying Zheng left early. Before leaving, he asked the young eunuch to entertain these merchants well and make sure they returned home happily.
The young eunuch respectfully agreed.
However, after Ying Zheng left, the young eunuch put a serious face on his face and said to the merchants: "Everyone, you also need to know some good and bad things. Although His Majesty is kind and allows you to return home with a lot of fun, you really want to stay in the palace. Drinking wantonly is not acceptable.”
The merchants understood the implication and said one after another: "I have something to do, so I'm afraid I have to leave first."
"I still have some unsettled accounts at home and need to leave early."
"I'm going to sleep to prepare for going to sea."
For a time, all the merchants seemed to have something to do and had to leave the palace.
The little eunuch nodded with satisfaction, and then showed an enthusiastic look: "My lords, are you enjoying yourself to the fullest? Your Majesty has an edict in advance. If you are not enjoying yourself to the fullest, I will not let you go. Haha."
These merchants all bowed and said, "We've had our fill of fun."
Suddenly, Zhou Gui said with a big tongue: "It's not even close to having fun. Come on, let's continue drinking. Hey, a cup of fairy wine costs one hundred thousand dollars. Drinking a thousand cups will be enough for me. Drink up One thousand and a cup, I will make a profit."
As Zhou Gui spoke, he drank another cup for himself.
Li Shui watched from the side and was filled with emotion: This guy has a really good drinking capacity.
As soon as he finished sighing, Zhou Gui fell to the ground. He could no longer stand up and was still mumbling: "You guys count for me, I want to drink a thousand cups."
The young eunuch shook his head and said with disdain: "It's vulgar, rude and annoying. Someone take him out?"
The surrounding merchants immediately scrambled to lift Zhou Gui up.
Afterwards, the young eunuch led everyone out of the palace.
As for Li Shui, he slept directly in the alchemy room.
The merchants followed the young eunuch to the palace gate. The young eunuch bowed his hands slightly and went back.
The merchants hurriedly carried Zhou Gui outside the door, threw him in the corner, and left.
Zhou Gui was leaning against the wall, sound asleep, still talking in his sleep: "Thirty-five cups, thirty-six cups, thirty-seven cups. Well, you can't go to the toilet. If you go to the toilet, you will lose. Keep drinking, keep going."
When Zhou Gui woke up again, he found himself lying in the stable, covered with straw.
He got up in confusion and thought: Am I not having a banquet in the palace?
He patted his head and walked out of the stable. The more he looked at the surrounding scene, the more familiar it became. Suddenly he thought about it: "Isn't this the Prime Minister's Mansion?"
Zhou Gui suddenly felt cold in his heart and subconsciously wanted to run away, but he was soon stopped by the smiling butler.
The housekeeper said calmly: "Shopkeeper Zhou is so cool. He has a huge debt of tens of millions of dollars, but he actually wants to drink and have fun."
Zhou Gui smiled bitterly: "The villain is just drinking to drown his sorrows."
The housekeeper chuckled: "The Prime Minister couldn't worry about you last night and specifically ordered me to wait outside the palace. Humph, if I hadn't brought you back in time, you would have frozen to death outside."
Zhou Gui didn't say anything, but he was cursing secretly in his heart: It's already spring, it's freezing to death.
The butler patted his shoulder: "Come with me, the Prime Minister is waiting for you. You are so lucky to have made friends with the Prime Minister."
Zhou Gui wanted to cry a little: This is also called making friends.
Wang Wan was eating and had absolutely no intention of letting Zhou Gui take a bite.
After a long time, Wang Wan finally seemed to remember that Zhou Gui was waiting next to him. He raised his head, glanced at Zhou Gui, and then said lightly: "What are your plans?"
Zhou Guigong said respectfully: "The villain plans to leave Xianyang and go to the land of Qi to look for opportunities."
Wang Wan glanced at him and said coldly: "The deficit of 80 million yuan has not been made up, and you want to run away."
Zhou Gui didn't say anything, but he was very unconvinced: Why should I make up for this money?
Wang Wan asked again: "What are you going to do with that money?"
Zhou Gui said with a grimace: "Eighty million yuan, even if you give me thirty to fifty years, I still can't get it together."
Wang Wan sighed: "I am the prime minister of the dynasty, and you actually want to rely on my money. You are very courageous."
Zhou Gui felt that Wang Wan was gradually becoming murderous.
At the critical moment of life and death, Zhou Gui's potential was stimulated. He said in a hurry: "Master Prime Minister, I just thought of a way."
Wang Wan asked: "What is the solution?"
Zhou Gui said: "Although we don't have 80 million yuan, we still have more than 80 medals. Each of these medals is worth one million yuan. So, in fact, the 80 million yuan is still there, but it has been replaced. It’s just a look.”
Wang Wan was furious: "Are you trying to amuse me? How much fertile land can I buy with 80 million dollars? If you bring a medal to buy fertile land, can you buy it?"
Zhou Gui was so frightened that his whole body trembled, but he still said tremblingly: "As long as the Prime Minister comes forward, I can turn these more than eighty medals into Qin Banliang." x
Wang Wan asked doubtfully: "What is the method?"
Zhou Gui said cautiously: "Your Majesty's banquet with merchants yesterday was Huaiguzi's suggestion. And the Prime Minister has a much higher status than Huaiguzi. If the Prime Minister also proposed it, Your Majesty would agree."
"When the time comes, those merchants who want to see His Majesty will naturally be very enthusiastic and come to us to buy medals."
Wang Wan frowned upon hearing this.
What Zhou Gui said sounds reasonable, but it is difficult to operate.
On the surface, as a prime minister, he has a high position and is indeed much more powerful than Huai Guzi. But Wang Wan himself knew that the emperor obviously favored Huaiguzi more.
Huai Guzi did something out of line, and His Majesty just laughed it off and let it go.
If you do something out of the ordinary, Your Majesty will probably have to think about it for a few days, and may even wonder if you have any plans to rebel.
Secondly, how do you propose and for what reason? Can't you also find some people and award them medals for the Great Qin Warriors?
More importantly, what will your Majesty do if he knows the truth of the matter in the future?
Today, His Majesty is the hero and is decisive in killing. If he were to find out, the dignified emperor would become a tool for the prime minister to make money. Until then
Wang Wan shuddered and thought about all the tortures he could think of.
Zhou Gui looked at Wang Wan nervously: "Prime Minister, is my plan feasible?"
Wang Wan stood up, walked slowly to him, and slapped him hard: "Do you want to kill me?"
Zhou Gui fell to the ground dizzy, thinking aggrievedly: This strategy is okay, why did it kill people?
Wang Wan left angrily. He returned to the study and paced back and forth.
He secretly thought in his heart: If he wants to make up for the deficit of 80 million, he still has to rely on these compasses.
Although Zhou Gui's strategy is not feasible, if it is modified, it is not useless at all.
All in all, all in all, this matter cannot be rushed, it must be done slowly.
Thinking of this, Wang Wan said to the housekeeper: "Go, you immediately send people to spread some news on the streets. Just say that His Majesty intends to meet some merchants again. When spreading the news, you must be careful not to let anyone know the news. It was spread from the Prime Minister’s Mansion.”
"In addition, any merchant who wants to enter the palace must meet two conditions. First, he has bought a compass with a medal. Second, he has not been received last time."
The housekeeper was stunned for a moment and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, does he really have such a plan?"
Wang Wan shook his head: "It doesn't matter whether your Majesty has any plans. Just make those merchants believe it is true. In addition, you send someone to follow Zhou Gui and let him go to the street to sell medals every day."
"If it doesn't sell in one day, sell it for two days. If it doesn't sell in two days, sell it in ten days. If it still can't be sold, he won't have to do anything else. I can let him sleep in the stable for the rest of his life."
The butler responded and hurried away.
Soon, these rumors had spread throughout Xianyang City. The merchants didn't know who was the first to spread the rumor, but they were all willing to believe that the rumor was true.
Unfortunately, Shangjun Villa no longer sells compasses with medals.
Some people even want to find merchants who have been interviewed last time and collect their compasses at a high price so that they can be used again to enter the palace.
But no matter how high the price they offered, the businessmen firmly disagreed.
This north needle is no longer just a north needle. But the highest honor. Their medals were touched by His Majesty himself.
Whoever is willing to sell to others dares to sell to others.
Just when the merchants who wanted to enter the palace were at their wits' end. Zhou Gui appeared.
Zhou Gui carried more than 80 medals and sold them in the streets.
Soon, he sold more than twenty yuan. But the remaining sixty yuan is a bit difficult.
Near Xianyang, how many merchants could come up with one million dollars without blinking an eye? How many merchants could come up with one million dollars without even blinking? When the authenticity of the news is difficult to tell, there are even fewer merchants who would come up with one million dollars.
Therefore, it is very rare for Zhou Gui to be able to sell more than 20 yuan.
Now that Wang Wan has recovered 40 million yuan, the results seem to be good, but he understands that it will become more difficult as he goes to the back. Because those who are willing to buy medals have already bought almost all of them.
Wang Wan spent the whole day at home with a sad face. When I heard that Mr. Ma and Mr. Liu came to visit me, I closed the door to avoid them coming to ask for an account.
In the Shangjun Courtyard, Wujiao said to Li Shui: "Sir, I have already inquired clearly. Your Majesty has absolutely no intention of meeting the merchant again."
"Deep in his heart, His Majesty has always felt that merchants and residents are at the bottom of the list, and he looks down upon them. Although merchants have contributed a lot of taxes, Your Majesty still treats them as silverfish."
"The last time His Majesty was willing to meet with merchants, it was to get an explanation for selling compasses to the banished immortals. Now that the matter of the Compass has come to an end, His Majesty will definitely not do such a thing again."
Li Shui nodded: "In this case, the rumors on the street are actually rumors."
Wu Jiao nodded vigorously: "It must be a rumor."
Xianglizhu next to him said curiously: "However, who is so boring that he would spread such rumors?"
Li Shui laughed and said: "If there are so many clues about a matter and the murderer can't be found, then let's see who has the biggest profit. The one who has the biggest profit is the real murderer."
Wu Jiao was in admiration and said: "The words for banishing immortals are exquisite and brilliant. They are so insightful."
Li Shui asked: "Who will benefit the most after this rumor comes out?"
Wu Jiao said: "Of course it's Zhou Gui. Taking advantage of the rumors, Zhou Gui was selling medals everywhere and already pocketed 20 million yuan."
Li Shui chuckled: "This Zhou Gui has been very adventurous recently. I always hear his name. But where did he get so many medals?"
Wu Jiao said: "Last time, someone spent 10 million yuan to buy 107 fast medals. This person was Zhou Gui."
Li Shui snorted: "I thought he only had seven medals hanging around his neck, but I didn't expect there were more than a hundred medals at home."
Wu Jiao said: "However, what is puzzling to me is that when Zhou Gui sold the medals, he priced them at one million yuan. He did not make any money."
Li Shui was stunned: "If he spreads such rumors without making money, once His Majesty finds out, he will definitely be shattered to pieces. Taking such a big risk, what is he trying to do if he doesn't make a cent by selling the medals at the original price?"
"Since you don't want to make money, why did you have to buy one hundred and seventy medals in a row? Don't you think it's tiring?"
Wu Jiao also shook his head and said helplessly: "My slave, I can't understand Zhou Gui's thoughts."
"This man can be regarded as a strange person in Xianyang City. For example, last time, he spent 10 million yuan to buy the Liu brothers. In the end, he transferred it to Damai."
"Because of the endorsement, Zhou Gui went through a lot of trouble. Not only did he not make any money, but he offended our Shangjun Courtyard."
Li Shui snorted: "When you say that, I have found some patterns. Isn't his behavior exactly the same this time regarding the medal? He spent ten million yuan, and then resold it to other merchants without making any profit. And he did not hesitate to offend His Majesty."
"This Zhou Gui, the routine hasn't changed, but the fun is getting bigger and bigger."
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