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"Father."
Mr. Zhao came to a middle-aged man with a very respectful expression.
"Has anyone seen it?"
The middle-aged man is none other than Zhao Zhilong, the Bo of the Ape City. At this moment, he is standing in front of a landscape painting.
Mr. Zhao nodded and said, "To tell you what my father is saying, I have met the other person."
"Have you brought the message to the other party?" Zhao Zhilong leaned his head towards the landscape painting on the wall and looked at the painting in front of him carefully.
Mr. Zhao said respectfully, "I've brought him here, but I don't know if the person on the other side can understand. I don't think that person is too smart."
"The other party can win the land of three provinces. It's not as stupid as you think." Zhao Zhilong looked back at his son and then said, "In the future, you should have less contact with those people. Don't forget that we are a distinguished family. As long as If the Ming Dynasty lasts forever, our family will be able to enjoy wealth from generation to generation."
Hearing this, Mr. Zhao asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Father, what's going on? We worked well together before, why did we suddenly fall out?"
Zhao Zhilong left the landscape painting, returned to the seat behind the table and sat down. He reached for the tureen on the table and took a sip of tea. He said, "After all, we are not the same people as them. It is a good thing to have less contact with them."
"Weren't we always cooperating before?" Mr. Zhao asked puzzledly.
Zhao Zhilong put down the tureen in his hand and said: "It used to be the past, but now the situation is different. Not only our family, but also several other companies in Nanjing have stopped cooperating with them. Otherwise, why do you think a good warehouse would be robbed? Above the warehouse There is no sign with the Chinese flag hanging on it, so how can a bunch of stupid geese who only know how to read know which warehouse is the warehouse with the Chinese flag?"
"What does father mean to say that the warehouse was robbed and those noble families were behind it?" Mr. Zhao asked.
Zhao Zhilong snorted softly after hearing this and said, "Only those civil servants can have such ugly eating habits. Even if a noble like us has to do something, we will not do it so rough."
"Civil officials?" Mr. Zhao frowned slightly and said, "What are these civil servants doing to offend the Tiger Flag? They have no grievances and no grudges. They can't really serve the Ming Dynasty!"
The gentry in Jiangnan are so powerful that even noble families like them are not willing to provoke them.
Although the Lord retired from the country, he was not as powerful as those civil servants, especially in Jiangnan, which was rich in officials.
The local gentry often relied on the power of the officialdom to compete with noble families like their Zhao family.
There are only so many profitable businesses. If you take one more bite, I will naturally take one less bite.
Those civil servants were obviously engaged in fighting for power and profit, but they relied on controlling the voice of the scholars to blame all the things that oppressed the common people and took advantage of them on the heads of the nobles, while they themselves pretended to be innocent. look.
As the son of the Earl's Mansion, he hated those scholars who were duplicitous.
Zhao Zhilong leaned back in his chair and said, "In the final analysis, Tiger Flag has made too much money overseas, which makes people jealous."
"Since the civil servants are going to do it, there is no need for nobles like us to get involved and help the civil servants offend the Tiger Flag. It is completely unworthy." Mr. Zhao said in confusion. ….
The noble families in Nanjing and the civil servants had always been at odds with each other. He didn't understand why they, the noble families, wanted to help the civil servants this time.
Zhao Zhilong glanced at his son and said, "Do you know how much profit sea trade can bring?"
Mr. Zhao shook his head.
His biggest role in the Zhao family is to carry on the family line, and the title is inherited by the eldest son. As long as he can remember, he knows that everything in the Zhao family belongs to his elder brother, so he cares little about the affairs of the Zhao family. To be precise, Almost don't care.
"Why did I raise a loser like you who is just waiting to die?" Zhao Zhilong couldn't help but cursed when he saw the other person's face that he didn't understand anything.
Mr. Zhao, who was scolded, just grinned and didn't say anything, let alone talk back.
Father's destiny is greater than heaven, he
He knew that if he dared to confront his father, he would still be able to live such a comfortable life in the future. He would not be able to lose a piece of flesh even if he was scolded a few times.
Zhao Zhilong, who was always scolding, also knew that if his son really had a hand in everything that happened to the Zhao family, it would be a real disaster for the Zhao family.
Except for the eldest son, there is nothing wrong with the other sons waiting to die. However, he must be scolded when he deserves it. How can he show the majesty of his father if he does not beat or scold him.
No matter what, he is his son, so he still needs to explain.
Zhao Zhilong said: "My father, Uncle Xingcheng's Earl's Mansion, derives nearly half of its annual income from sea trade. Otherwise, it would not be able to earn even a few taels of silver a year just from those acres of land."
Under the maritime ban, sea trade has always been hugely profitable.
The nobles in Nanjing rely on Linhai to do maritime trade, and the nobles in the northern capital rely on Tianjin Wei to do maritime trade, so no one is willing to impose a maritime ban.
How can they still make huge profits for themselves after the sea ban is lifted?
"There are so many! No wonder the civil servants are jealous, but the children are also jealous." Mr. Zhao, who knew for the first time that sea trade could bring such high profits to Count Zangcheng, was also very excited.
Zhao Zhilong added: "Obviously, the civil servants are taking action against the Tiger Flag's warehouse, but in fact they are trying to cut off the Tiger Flag's huge profits at sea."
"If we cut off the share of Tiger Flag's sea trade, will our family also get a share?" Mr. Zhao, who was born in a Lord's family, is naturally not a hopeless idiot.
The lords of Nanjing and the civil servants worked together to cut off the sea trade business of the Tiger Flag. No matter how greedy the civil servants were, they could not deny a share to the noble family.
Zhao Zhilong glanced at his son and said, "This is nothing for you to worry about. You just need to remember that you can no longer have contact with the people on the Tiger Flag. Even if I invite you to go to the flower boat on the Qinhuai River, Don’t go.”
"My child has taken note of it." Mr. Zhao nodded in agreement and said immediately, "Father, if our family does this, what if the tiger-character flag comes over one day? That is the king of thieves who has occupied the land of three provinces. The elite soldiers in the North are no match for me."
The fact that the Tiger Character Banner occupies three provinces in the north is not a secret at all to the Lord's children. On the contrary, the people at the bottom may not know this.
Zhao Zhilong said: "The south is different from the north. There are many waterways. People who can be kings and hegemons in the north may not be able to be kings and hegemons in the south. Otherwise, the Wanyan family hundreds of years ago would not have crossed the river with the Zhao family. And cure."
"Since my father has decided to side with the civil servants and deal with the tiger-character flag, why should he let his children meet the people of the tiger-character flag? Wouldn't this be a bit unnecessary!" Mr. Zhao began to get confused.
I don’t understand why he, the uncle of Xingcheng, is asked to meet the people of Tiger Flag after he has already decided to deal with Tiger Flag in sea trade. .
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