Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 526 Li Dingguo

In the autumn of the 19th year of the Apocalypse, the ginkgo trees on Zhongshan Mountain in Nanjing were already falling all over the city, and even the inner court of the eunuch's mansion guarding Nanjing was paved with broken gold, like the morning glow at the time of dawn, shining brilliantly.

The guarding eunuch Wei Zhongxian woke up early today, although he is already in his old age, he is still in good health, with a little black hair left on his temples, now he has been promoted to be the supervisor of rituals and supervise the internal factory, which makes him even more energetic.

"That group of scholars may never have imagined that I, Wei Zhongxian, would make a comeback one day." Wei Zhongxian said this, and after his maid dressed him, he shook his sleeves and walked steadily. Outside the door: "Pass down the order of the governor, all the people in the factory must gather immediately, the governor will arrive later, since you want to do your best to ban smoking for His Majesty, you must do your best, and the few businessmen who refuse to hand over the cigarettes will take money." Are you staying?"

"If you go back to the factory, you'll take everything you need, and you're locked in a big prison." In Nanjing these days, Wei Zhongxian not only runs the "Da Ming Daily" to manipulate Jiangnan public opinion, but also does some shady business for His Majesty Zhu Youxiao. In addition to making a fortune, he will also do some charitable things. The elderly and children alone have adopted more than a hundred people, and the person who is answering the question in front of him is a Confucian boy he adopted ten years ago, named Li Dingguo. This person is the most capable among his many adopted children. outstanding ones.

This Li Dingguo was introduced by Yazi when he was a child. He fled from Shaanxi to work in a silk reeling workshop under the Nanjing Royal Weaving Bureau. However, because he was too young to be exploited by the workshop owner, he lived on the streets of Nanjing.

Because of his calmness and wisdom, Wei Zhongxian regarded him as his own and taught him to read and write. His Majesty also showed great interest after hearing about it, and let him enter the Royal Military Academy. Now he is the commander of a military police battalion in the Nanjing Military Region. Now because of the establishment of the inner factory, Wei Zhongxian desperately needs capable cronies, so he asked Li Dingguo to be transferred to the inner factory to serve as the commander of the capital, which can be regarded as a promotion.

Along with Li Dingguo, his gendarmerie battalion was also transferred to the inner factory. These people will form the backbone of the inner factory together with the people transferred from the eastern factory.

"I have taken everything that should be taken. You are someone who is valued by His Majesty, and you will be His Majesty's person from now on. In addition to His Majesty, no matter who else, including our family, once you offend His Majesty The ban cannot be tolerated, understand?"

Wei Zhongxian habitually pretended to be his father's money in front of his raised children. Although Li Dingguo was a person whom His Majesty valued, he was not easy to adopt as a son, but he was still used to teaching as an elder, and Li Dingguo It is also not good to disrespect this outstanding old eunuch, after all, he was also raised by him, so he replied truthfully: "The main reason is that there is a businessman surnamed Shu who is the successor of Shu Fen, the number one scholar in the previous dynasty, and the king of the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing. He is the son-in-law of King Duo Shangshu, so it is not easy for me to be an official."

Due to the recent promotion of the status of generals, before civil servants and ministers, military officials will no longer humbly call themselves the last general or junior. Therefore, Li Dingguo called himself an official, and he would not kneel down, bow his hands and bow because of Wei Zhongxian. After all, he was adopted.

"Absurd, why don't you move, don't say he is the son-in-law of Nanjing Shangshu, he is the real Jingcheng Shangshu, as long as he sells tobacco and soil privately, he has to get it! The governor has never been afraid of these powerless literati, immediately Capture this person, if he disobeys, he will be killed!"

When Wei Zhongxian said this, Li Dingguo had no choice but to obey, and rushed to the mansion of the merchant surnamed Shu with two hundred veterans of the former Imperial Guard who had actual combat experience.

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Ever since he was broken by His Majesty Zhu Youxiao in Fusang that day, Gu Hengbo seemed to be a different person, his skin became more moist and radiant, and his gestures became more coquettish.

However, behind the smiling face full of spring breeze, there is also a trace of melancholy that cannot be watered for a long time, and the vagabonds are even more distressed when they see it, but Gu Hengbo refuses them one by one, and still only makes friends with dignitaries by playing the piano and composing poems, not by sex Entertaining people, there are local tyrants who spend a lot of money to get their bodies but they are like nothing, and there are frivolous people who come forward to slander but suddenly disappear mysteriously that night, and their corpses are left in the wilderness the next day.

From then on, no one dared to have any unreasonable thoughts about Gu Hengbo after returning to Nanjing, but no one could guess who Gu Hengbo was secretly possessed by, otherwise there would not be such a mysterious power, After the death, both Yingtianfu, Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dongchang kept silent.

But because of this, there are more dignitaries who are willing to befriend Gu Hengbo. If it is said that they admired his beauty before, but now they are friends with the mysterious backer (godfather) behind him.

Wang Duo, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites of Nanjing, also spent a lot of money to meet Gu Hengbo in the name of drinking flowers and wine. He did not come to see Gu Hengbo to listen to music and explore his views on the poetry and articles of today's literary world. Ask Gu Hengbo about Yantu.

No one knows why Gu Hengbo, a famous celebrity today, suddenly started the tobacco business, and even established a relationship with China Shipping Merchants. Almost every month, there are regular cargo ships loaded with "Meisheng tobacco" (the special tobacco sold by Gu Hengbo, Named because of its character Meishan) going to sea, even the Shibo Ti Jusi dared not stop it.

In today's situation where His Majesty strictly prohibits private operation of cigarettes, Wang Duo doesn't know how powerful the people behind Gu Hengbo are that they can sell cigarettes so blatantly when the inner factory rampantly arrests private cigarette sellers.

But Wang Duo is interested in cooperating with the people behind her through Gu Hengbo's relationship. After all, the purchase price of the imperial household department is too low, almost equal to the cost price, and he is unwilling to sell the smoke and soil he hoarded so cheaply.

Of course, others don't know that he, Minister of Rites, is also a big drug dealer, because his son-in-law Shu Danian is doing it on the surface.

"It's not impossible for Grand Master to cooperate with us, but there is only one thing that must be made clear, that is, once you sign a contract with us, all your tobacco soil must be handed over to us for management, and you have no right to intervene. Of course, we will pay more than the imperial court's purchase price." Three times the purchase of your smoke soil."

Gu Hengbo personally toasted Wang Duo with a glass of wine, but Wang Duo was also polite, he did not use the position of minister to overwhelm others, and sat very well, he did not dare to moles the beauty in front of him, and he could see it in his heart , this Hu Meizi is also a master who eats people without spit out bones, or the person behind her is a master who eats people without spit out bones.

But even so, it is still more cost-effective than handing it over to the court, so Wang Duo still took the wine glass, sighed and said, "Forget it, I will cooperate with you and prepare pen and ink."

"You are so refreshing." Gu Hengbo could not help but smile, and began to write the pen himself, and asked, "May I ask how much smoke you have, and what is its quality?"

"For 15 catties, [-]% are new whole boxes from Yunnan, and [-]% are loose boxes collected from various places." After Wang Duo said, Gu Hengbo couldn't help but thumped. At the current price of tobacco, it is no less than [-] Wan Yinyuan, this Wang Shangshu looks plainly dressed, but unexpectedly he is also a big greedy man.

Thinking about it this way, Gu Hengbo's guilt for trying to cheat the old official disappeared, and he signed the contract with Wang Duo seriously, and even played a song for the old official on his own initiative.

(End of this chapter)