Entertainment of Spring and Autumn

Chapter 135: Family

In the middle of the night, Zhang Botao, who had given the ring that day, quietly appeared in a black cloak in the side hall of the City Lord's Mansion.

His feelings were almost exactly the same as Yingyi's during the day, it was all about being surrounded by beautiful goblins serving tea and water, this Xue Mu still smelled like a woman, and he didn't know which goblin just got up after having sex with him.

If he knew that the goblin in his heart was Xue Qingqiu, he didn't know how he would feel.

But his thinking is different from Yingyi's. He doesn't reject this kind of life at all, on the contrary, he is very used to it. Their Zhang family is betting on both sides of Xinyizong and Zonghengdao, not to mention the profiteers of Zonghengdao. Just talk about Xinyizong, and look at the pomp of Pan Kouzhi's six sword servants. Li's kind of swordsmanship is two different things, and it has a bit of flashy air.

And in this chapter, Bo Tao himself is not the type to study martial arts intensively. As a local rich clan in Lingzhou, there are many talents in various directions in the clan. Zhang Botao's research direction is formation, and he has another identity: he is a scholar.

Scholars in this world have a different concept of the world from Xue Mu. The selection of scholars by the imperial court is not an imperial examination system, but similar to the examination system, which is evaluated and recommended by local officials. The basis for recommendation also ignores poetry and literature. In addition to moral character, it is mainly based on people's livelihood skills, persuading agriculture, mulberry and water conservancy relief, and other aspects. As a handed down family, it will obviously pay more attention to this kind of aspect, which is directly consistent with the attributes of the imperial court.

In other words, in addition to the layout of Jianghu, these families naturally correspond to Xue Mu's job as City Lord. This Zhang Botao is directly the kind who can be elected into an official by Xue Mu, so Xue Qingqiu once said, If Xue Mu is a qualified city lord, he should meet these aristocratic families on the first day in Lingzhou.

It's a pity that our irresponsible city lord Xue has been in Lingzhou for so long, and this is the first time he has received a family member. He didn't even ask a word about the responsibilities of the city lord, and even threw the seal to the subordinate officials for fun.

Zhang Botao took off his cloak, thanked the girl serving tea gracefully, and then smiled at Xue Mu: "The city lord lives in seclusion and doesn't see outsiders, but he used to live such a fairy life. It's Zhang Mou instead. I'm afraid I'm too lazy to go out and meet people."

Xue Mu sipped his tea and said with a chuckle, "Xue is a newcomer, how can he be as rich as Zhang's family for 800 years?"

These words sounded like flattery, but Zhang Botao sounded a bit stinging no matter what he heard, so he replied cautiously: "The Zhang family still needs the support of City Lord Xue."

Speaking of which, he is also extremely painful. The previous city lords did not say to curry favor with their aristocratic families, but at least they were very dependent. But this one in front of him is really different. He just treats the role of the city lord as a fart, and doesn't care about the power of the city lord. He treats himself like a quack at all. And if you look at him from the point of view of Jianghu, it’s even worse, he is the chief executive of Xingyuezong, no matter which backstage you move out of, he will not love you... All the ways of treating previous city lords in the past will be thrown into stinky water In the ditch, you can't put it on this strange city lord at all, so that he even has to go through how to talk to Xue Mu in his head first.

He is not bad, because of a trade fair, he accidentally got in touch with Xue Mu. The eggs of the other aristocratic families are almost broken, and they haven't even seen the city lord so far.

"I don't dare to be a leader." Xue Mu replied very kindly: "Xue is still very new to Lingzhou, and needs the help of Mr. Zhang and other local snakes."

Zhang Botao hurriedly said: "If there is anything City Lord Xue needs the Zhang family to do, just ask."

"Just talking about business with Mr. Zhang." Xue Mu smiled and said, "The fate between Xue and Mr. Zhang is still fresh in my memory. Thank you Mr. Zhang for the ring. Xue likes it very much."

"It's good that the city lord likes it." Zhang Botao felt a little relieved, and said with a smile: "In fact, during the test that day, everyone seemed not interested in the storage ring, and Zhang was a little disappointed. Since the city lord likes it, it can be regarded as finding a destined person. .”

Xue Mu asked curiously, "Young Master Zhang, don't you plan to start the ring business?"

Zhang Botao shook his head and said, "To tell you the truth, my Zhang family has been dealing in all kinds of special accessories for generations, such as pure heart pendants, jade hairpins and so on. If you promote this ring, it will only expand a small product, and it is not particularly important. Things. Since everyone is not interested, this business is probably impossible to do, and it is meaningless, so if you don’t do it, you don’t do it.”

Xue Mu thought for a while: "Because people in the world are not used to wearing ornaments on their hands, will it affect the battle?"

"Yes, even if people know that this ring doesn't affect the battle, but people haven't formed the habit of wearing things on their hands, naturally they can't replace the Qiankun bag, and the effort to promote it may not be of any benefit."

Xue Mu lightly tapped on the armrest of the chair and pondered.

Zhang Botao probed, "Could the city lord have intentions?"

I secretly thought in my heart that if you are really interested, then we will also do a loss-making business.

Xue Mu came to his senses, smiled and said, "I have a story, I wonder if Mr. Zhang wants to hear it?"

Zhang Botao said with a smile: "The story of the city lord is famous all over the world, why doesn't Botao want to hear it?"

"This is not that kind of story." Xue Mu laughed at himself, and said: "It is said that two shoe merchants went to a new land where humans lived together, so the two shoe merchants inspected the business. The result They found that the local people do not wear shoes. The first shoe dealer thought that in this case, the shoes had no market here, so they went back. The second shoe dealer spent a lot of time trying to let the local people find the comfort of wearing shoes. , Since then, it has become popular and dumped, and the wealth can rival the country."

Zhang Botao was silent for a while, then smiled wryly: "It's reasonable, but it's difficult. After all, wearing shoes is indeed more beneficial than not wearing them, but wearing a ring does not necessarily have any advantage over using a universe bag, and the cost is much higher."

"Of course there are advantages. Isn't it an advantage to bring less bags that are easy to drop? Although this advantage is not too big..." Xue Mu smiled slightly: "The key is that sometimes there is no need for a real advantage to form a trend. "

Zhang Botao said solemnly: "Please give advice to the city lord."

"If Mr. Zhang is really interested in cooperating with Xue, then Mr. Zhang will get the answer in tomorrow's ceremony of Yanyang's return to the clan." Xue Mu said lightly, "Mr. Zhang, have you thought it through?"

Xue Mu's words obviously meant something else, Zhang Botao shuddered in his heart: "What does the city lord mean by this?"

Xue Mu's voice was cold: "I will make special arrangements for my partners, otherwise there is no need to make extra troubles. Mr. Zhang needs to determine whether the Zhang family is Xue Mu's collaborators, or some undercurrents."

Zhang Botao's pupils shrank slightly, and he remained silent for a while.

Xue Mu didn't urge him, but just leaned on the back of the chair and sipped tea leisurely.

After a long time, Zhang Botao suddenly laughed and said with a sigh: "To be honest...the Zhang family never cared about Lingzhou's surname, or even Da Zhou's surname. If the city lord's arrangement really benefits the Zhang family, those people The Zhang family will let them die?"

Xue Mu also laughed, this is very vertical, this is very Xinyizong, this is very... aristocratic family.

The first time Xue Mu heard the concept of aristocratic family, he matched up with the aristocratic family he knew. The two worlds still have some things in common to a certain extent.

Why didn't the head of the Zhang family come to see the city lord, but only a son? And Xue Mu was not surprised, he didn't feel slighted at all?

Because everyone tacitly knew that he, Xue Mu, was just one of the bets made by these aristocratic families.

Expanding further, what Zhang Botao represents is not just the Zhang family, but the common mentality of many similar families in Lingzhou. They will only stand on the side of the winner, and they only value the interests and inheritance of their own family. As for anything else , never matters.