One Step to The End

Hu Xiancheng's misery and sadness, his wife and family are all slaves and maids, the floor was pried open to find the hidden property, almost the same conditions promised by the prefect were not fulfilled, and in the end it was Zhao Guanren who spent the money. When he was buried, no relatives or friends dared to come and worship.

"Master is back!"

Yu Niang stood in front of the gate pretty to greet her, and curiously looked at Luo Tan in black, Zhao Guanren stepped in and said, "This is my female guard, Luo Tan. Let the little fat girl serve her, except for my study. , She can walk around anywhere else at will!"

"Oh! Sister Luo is good, the slave is the big girl Yuniang..."

Yu Niang laughed unsuspectingly. Luo Tan was also a woman with high emotional intelligence, and she immediately took out a silver bracelet as a meeting ceremony. The status of concubine in the big family is not high. Singles like Zhao Guanren, the fifth, naturally in the house. The big girl has the highest status.

"Master! Zhang Tiansheng has sent someone to look for it..."

Yu Niang rushed up and said: "The slave family paid him off the debt according to your instructions and gave him the house in the east gate. Zhang Tiansheng has already picked up the old lady in the afternoon, and the third girl has followed him to serve him. He explained Come here again and thank you!"

"You let Sanyao stare at him. If Zhang Tiansheng dares to bet any more, I will discount his legs..."

Zhao Guanren walked into the pavilion blankly. Hu Xiancheng's death made him a little unhappy, and a table of sumptuous dishes had been prepared, and two fat girls were standing there waiting to be served.

"Oh~"

Luo Tan sat on the stone bench and smiled: "I have been a errand for five years, either serving others or taking care of myself. I can finally be a young grandmother and be served by others!"

"Stand up! Just sit without me, know the rules..."

Zhao Guanren snorted, Luo Tan quickly jumped up in embarrassment, and obediently walked behind him to knead his shoulders, and Zhao Guanren said: "Yu Niang! You all go to the door and wait, and you will be the owner of the Han's shop. Bring it here!"

"Hey!"

Yu Niang immediately took the two fat girls away, and Luo Tan asked in a low voice, "Master! You have been swaying for a whole day. Except for the treatment of drugs, you do not investigate the source of the drug. If Chen Qianhu asks, how would you explain? what?"

"You don't need to talk about this, there is a white-clothed guard behind the wall of the east courtyard, going to break his leg..."

Zhao Guanren pressed his mouth softly. Luo Tan was surprised at first. After hesitating for a while, he took the wine flask and bowed his head to the east courtyard. After a while, he heard the screams, and a dark shadow jumped out of the courtyard wall embarrassingly. , And sprinkled a piece of blood in the air.

"Master Zhao! The villain is here..."

Han Dongsheng was suddenly led by Yu Niang, just as Luo Tan walked back with a broken arm, his face changed suddenly, but Zhao Guanren waved his hand and smiled: "Don't be afraid! I just entered a thief, I The female guard went to deal with it!"

"This thief is also blind, dare to steal into the adult's mansion..."

Han Dongsheng walked into the pavilion with some trepidation, Luo Tan didn't come over when he saw this, and walked to the latrine with his broken arm.

"Treasurer Han, please sit down, let's talk while eating, and feel free to..."

Zhao Guanren poured a glass of wine for him, and smiled: "There are quite a few salt merchants in our county, but I haven't heard of any big salt merchants. Salt merchants should be very profitable. Do you know how they work? "

"Ningzhou does not produce salt. Naturally, there are no big salt merchants. The big salt merchants are all in Huaiyang..."

Han Dongsheng replied: "They stationed the court in our county and distributed the salt to various shops. Therefore, I waited for distribution only and couldn't make a few eldest sons, but the big salt merchants were responsible for transporting the grain to the border. The Salt Bureau got the salt, and ordinary merchants don't have such skills!"

"Come on! Let's have a drink first and eat a few more bites..."

Zhao Guanren held up the wine glass and drank with him. After eating a few peanuts, he asked, "If I want to buy the entire salt of Ningzhou Prefecture, regardless of the thickness, how much money will it cost?"

"this……"

Han Dongsheng hesitated: "At present, the purchase price is 45 yuan for a catty of coarse salt, and a catty of fine salt is 120 yuan. How can the whole county have 200,000 catties? The salt is worth more than ten thousand taels of silver, and the villain in the state capital really can't figure it out!"

"Tsk tut~"

Zhao Guanren said, "This salt is really expensive. No wonder the salt merchants are rich in wealth. How many days does it take to transport salt from Huaiyang, and how many people sell it?"

"Sir, do you want to investigate the illegal salt?"

Han Dongsheng said: "Huaiyang is not far from our place, but the salt cart is big and slow. It usually takes six or seven days to go for a trip. Private salt is also available, but you don’t dare to sell it blatantly in the city. They were all sold secretly in the village, and the yamen's investigations are very strict!"

"Go and help me with things and collect the salt from Ningzhou Mansion..."

Zhao Guanren smiled and said, "You go to the Yan Shang Chao Feng and tell me that I have ordered a large number of salt to cure the corpse plague from you. I'll get it, and I must buy Ningzhou Mansion and Lantai County!"

"grown ups!"

Han Dongsheng is worthy of being a businessman, he immediately recollected, and said nervously: "You, are you trying to drive up the salt price? This is the crime of beheading!"

"Bullshit! How could this official drive up the price of salt? Salt is needed to cure the corpse plague..."

Zhao Guanren waved his hand and said: "If the government collects salt publicly, the price of salt will definitely follow the skyrocketing. By then, it will be the common people. I ask you to collect salt to stabilize the salt price. If you rent more warehouses to store salt, you must not let it. Those profiteers succeeded, understand?"

"Oh~"

Han Dongsheng stood up excitedly, bowed and said, "The villain has misunderstood the adults, and the adults are really good officials who make decisions for the people, please be respected by the villains!"

"Sit! I think you are a real person, so I entrust you to handle this matter..."

Zhao Guanren pressed his hand and smiled: "But I can't let you work in vain. I borrowed you five thousand taels of principal. You go to run two workshops, one for working with gas masks and gloves, and the other for rock sugar and alcohol. I'll give you the drawing later!"

"Uh~"

Han Dongsheng said with a dazed expression: "The masks and gloves are known to the villain, but what are rock candy and alcohol?"

"You can do it, I will save you a lot of money..."

Zhao Guanren said: "I have written all these things in the booklet. There is also a kind of medical gauze and plaster. These are good things for healing and saving people. By the way! Is gunpowder regulated? Are there workshops that produce guns in the county? "

"The muskets are old antiques, and the craftsmanship is lost..."

Han Dongsheng waved his hand and said: "Since profound energy began to spread, the muskets have no effect on the battlefield. Only iron cannons can be used to defend the city, but the gunpowder is still not to be used privately, otherwise it will blow up the fire and bring neighbors. Workshop!"

"So..."

Zhao Guanren nodded and said, "You introduce me to a reliable blacksmith shop. The technology is good and the people are real. Then you go to hire a few more guys, and you must be willing to spend money on big business, as long as you do well. , I guarantee that the richest man in Lantai in the future will be you!"

...

Zhao Guanren chatted with Han Dongsheng until nine o'clock in the evening, and the blood boiled over for Han Dongsheng. He put away a pile of drawings and ran away on a little donkey like a thief. He even had tens of thousands of taels worth of cash in his pocket.

"Master! Concubine is waiting for you to wash..."

As soon as Zhao Guanren walked into the bedroom, Luo Tan coquettishly greeted her. She put on a pink gauze, with only a big red mandarin duck belly and a pair of white trousers. Her long hair was also scattered. The bird looks like a human.

"Sister Luo just wash herself clean, Master doesn't have to worry about you..."

Yu Niang rushed in from the outside, her eyes were fierce as if she wanted to eat people. The subtext is clearly that you can do whatever you want, but the young master can only take care of her daily life.

"Hehe~ OK! I won't grab it with you, big girl..."

Luo Tan smiled softly and yelled at the outside: "Fat girl! Come and wait for me to wash, take a good soap, and the fragrance is good, the master is only comfortable with it!"

"Got it! Aunt Luo..." The fat girl ran in with her stuff. There is a large screen in the bedroom. It is convenient to wash and operate behind the screen. Indecent things will not be seen by Zhao Guanren.

"Tan'er! I asked you to break your leg, why did you chop someone's hand..."

Zhao Guanren sat on the chair and raised his leg. Yu Niang helped him take off his shoes and socks. Luo Tan squatted behind the screen and said, "The other party is good at it. How does the master know that he is a white guard?"

"Nonsense! Except for the white guard, who would dare to sneak into my house to eavesdrop..."

Zhao Guanren peeled off a litchi and fed it to Yu Niang, and asked, "Have you seen that mental method, how is it?"

"Oh~ you lighten it, and you brush the pigskin..."

Luo Tan cursed in anger, and then said: "Go back to the master! I saw it, that exercise is rare among the people, but Dashun can only be regarded as second-rate, not as good as Heiyiwei's library of books. Woolen cloth!"

"Have you ever heard of a practice called "Thunderbolt and Thunder Killing You"..."

Zhao Guanren suddenly remembered Zhao Ziqiang’s unique skills. When he got the jade tube of the exercises, he glanced at the title and the beginning. The opening part was bragging and pushing the vernacular. If it weren’t for Zhao Ziqiang’s need to lie to him, he must have thought That guy is pitting himself again.

"Of course I know, one of the four banned books in this dynasty..."

Luo Tan walked out carrying the trousers, and said with a smile: "That exercise is a joke. The first three stages are really different, but you can't practice it later. If one is not good, the dantian will burst and die, and it could be killed back then. A lot of people!"

"Where can I see it? I would like to see and know..."

Zhao Guanren was full of suspicions, and even if Zhao Ziqiang was hateful, he would not deliberately kill himself.

"Go to the yamen and ask, every year banned books are confiscated..."

Luo Tan got into the bed and pulled out a white gauze scarf. After laying it carefully in the center of the bed, Luo Tan climbed onto the bed and lay down a little shyly, posing a charming appearance that was picked by you.

Upon seeing this, Yu Niang also begged: "Master! The slave family wants to sleep in tonight, okay?"

‘Let’s find the exercise tomorrow and see what went wrong...’

As soon as Zhao Guanren's eyeballs turned, he became concerned. After washing his face casually, he got up and said: "Yu Niang! Go and wash up. I will give your Aunt Luo your pajamas first, and call you after you score twice!"

"Hey! Master Xie..."

Yu Niang stood up in surprise and stared, "Auntie Luo! We are a big family, you should understand the rules, what are you doing while lying down?"

"Understood! How can I not understand..."

Luo Tan jumped down and helped Zhao Guanren onto the bed, and knelt on the side of the bed, and shouted: "My wife Zhao Luo has seen his husband, and my wife is willing to serve the master for life, open branches and leaves for the Zhao family, extend the heirs, and hope for the master. Have a lot of affection!"

"Get up! From now on, you are a member of my Zhao family and death is the ghost of my Zhao family, understand..."

Zhao Guanren was leaning against the bed with a shelf. Luo Tan was in awe of him. He climbed onto the bed with a blushing face, and leaned down and kissed him twice before daring to crawl to his chest in shame.

‘Nima! Chen Dezhi...’

Zhao Guanren shuddered suddenly, he unexpectedly found that Chen Dezhi had jumped on the roof and was quietly lifting a tile to take a peek.

It seems that Chen Qianhu is not at ease with Luo Tan and comes over to supervise him personally, but the black clothes guard fooling around with his partner is a taboo.

"All right!"

Zhao Guanren hurriedly pushed Luo Tan away and said with a wink, "Don't act again when everyone is gone. You can go to Xiaota to sleep. Don't break the rules!"

"Oh, don't let the servants come in next time, it will be so troublesome to sleep..."

Luo Tan complained cleverly, and quickly climbed onto the small couch to turn off the lights and sleep. Chen Dezhi cat left secretly after a while. If it weren't for Zhao Guanren's soul-chasing eyes, this guy would not let anyone notice it.

"People are gone, come over and give the master a foot first..."

"Hee hee~ Coming..."