"So our goal is to become bigger and stronger, and create more glory!”During the Lunar New Year Festival, Zhu Su had sent out many hero invitations to gather the children of the wealthy and noble sons of the Nightless Club, who were supposed to be by the Qinhuai River, at their secret base, the Juxian Village, a garden outside the city.
Li Jinglong looked at the bowl of glutinous rice balls in front of him that did not even look appetizing. For the first time, he felt that his future prospects were bleak because he had made a bad friend like Zhu Su.
" I say, Xiaowu..." Xu Huizu also frowned and looked at Glutinous Ball on the table in front of him,""Kid, even if you're trying to trick our brothers into becoming your fools, you should at least put on a show and treat us to a decent meal.”
Deng Zhen also frowned and agreed,""I don't think you're being very kind.”
"I gave you face, didn't I? No money! All of them were floating, right? Wasn't the days of a dozen people gnawing on a single sugar cane over? Why are they shaking now?”Zhu Su rolled his eyes." We're in the early stages of the business. Don't you understand that?”
Chang Sheng knew that Zhu Su had given his sister a young ginseng. He could not afford to offend Zhu Su because of his sister and sister. At this moment, he had to stand up and support him."Fifth brother is right. We still have to continue to invest and earn more money, so everyone should not think about how to spend it.”
"Look at how enlightened he is!”Zhu Su slammed the table, pointed at Chang Sheng and said to the other brothers bitterly," Can't you guys learn from me?!"
"No, Little Five, I understand.”Li Jinglong could not help but interrupt Zhu Su's righteous speech. He pointed at the braised pork knuckle, steamed pork ribs, and barbecued lamb leg in front of Zhu Su and said,""Why are we all eating a bowl of glutinous rice balls, and you f * cking eat these?”
"I haven't eaten dinner yet!" Zhu Su's self-righteous manner easily made people overlook his shamelessness.""Don't tell me you didn't eat enough before you left.”
Tang Ding, who had always been quiet, finally couldn't help but tease Zhu Su's shameless behavior.""Little Wu's way of doing things, I feel that we might really be able to earn some money.”
" Hahaha…" Tang He's voice had just fallen when the hall burst into laughter. It was hard for the profligate sons to disagree with his opinion.
"Alright, alright." Zhu Su put the silver notes he had gotten from Zhu Biao and the silver notes that the sages had gathered to invest in the company together."It's a total of 164,300 taels. We'll take the shares according to everyone's contribution.”
"No objections." Li Jinglong still gave Zhu Su a lot of face at critical moments.
Zhu Su put down his chopsticks and his expression became serious.""Then let's talk about it. What kind of business should we do?”
"Open a brothel!" The one who spoke was Hua Yun's son, Hua Ming. His father had passed away early, and Zhu Yuanzhang had conferred the title of Marquis of Dongyue on his father. Now, the title was inherited by him.
" I want to earn money, but I don't want to be beaten to death by my father." Zhu Su rejected the idea.
Guo Zhen, the son of Marquis Wuding Guo Ying, had just raised his hand when he was pushed back by Zhu Su's words,""Not even the gambling den. Please use your brain!”
"Blacksmith's shop? Do you think it's a joke? No!"
"Restaurant? I'm afraid I'll be eaten by you guys. No!”
"Cloth shop? Do you have any other ideas?”
"…No!"
"…No!"
An entire hour had passed, and even with everyone's brainstorming, there weren't many reliable businesses in the end.
In the end, there were only three businesses in front of Zhu Su: Cloth village, water transport, horse trafficking.
Actually, he could do both, but Zhu Su felt that the money was not coming fast enough. Earning 100,000 taels of silver in half a year was probably not possible with just this.
"Do you have any better ideas?" Zhu Su continued to exploit the room full of stooges who had never combined their skills into one.
At this time, Li Jinglong gave Zhu Su an expected answer,""Xiaowu, the ways to earn money are all written in the laws of Ming Dynasty. If you're really not afraid of His Majesty beating you to death, then follow the above.”
"That's right! Why didn't I think of that!" Zhu Su clapped his hands." Salt and iron business!”
"No, Xiaowu, you have to think carefully. The Imperial Court must approve of the salt and iron business.”Xu Huizu could not help but remind him.
"It's fine. I'll look for my big brother later. I'll discuss it with him.”Zhu Su didn't care at all. He could use his Ghost Shadow Regiment, which was free labor.
"How about this, you guys go back and look for salt wells and salt mines first. Forget about the iron ore business for the time being. I'm afraid my father will kill me as a traitor.”Zhu Su clapped his hands. He was a man who would do anything he thought of. He tried his best to recall the refining method of refined salt. Later, he would do some experiments and build the production line as soon as possible after he succeeded.
"Li Jinglong, Chang Sheng, Xu Zengshou, the three of you go back and look for a site. I want to build a crude salt processing base. The rest of you go look for salt mines and salt wells. Think of a way to get more crude salt. I'll discuss it with my big brother later. In the future, we'll produce fine salt and sell it to the imperial court. That way, there won't be any problems.”
"Fifth Brother, this is a good idea, but do you know how to produce fine salt?”Hua Ming asked. His tone was clearly uncertain.
"If Fifth Brother says it's okay, then it's definitely okay.”Deng Zhen was a staunch supporter of Zhu Su, commonly known as a brainless fan.
"At most, you can just take it that you visit the brothel twice less and I go to the gambling den once less.”Guo Zhen's personality was like his father's, he was happy and knew his fate.
The others had the same opinion.
"Do as I say. I guarantee that you will have time to count the silver later.”
Now that Zhu Su had agreed, the others didn't say anything more. After expressing their support, they all went back to their homes and started to work on the salt mine.
Zhu Su went back to the Imperial Palace and found Zhu Biao immediately to discuss the matter of selling salt.
Zhu Biao's first reaction was that Zhu Su was here to cheat money again.
"First things first, big brother doesn't have extra money to support you.”Zhu Biao hugged Zhu Xiong Ying while the father and son looked at Zhu Su. The former understood, while the latter was confused.
"Sigh! Big brother, you're thinking wrong!" Zhu Su waved his hand." Isn't my meaning obvious? I buy coarse salt, process it into fine salt, and then sell it to the imperial court. After that, the imperial court will sell it to the people. I'm not breaking the law, nor am I breaking the rules. Everyone will earn, so why not?”
Zhu Biao shook his head. He didn't think that there was anything wrong with Zhu Su's idea, but there was a premise: Zhu Su could refine fine salt.
"Big Brother, say something. Is it okay or not?”Zhu Su took his eldest nephew from Zhu Biao's arms and played with him.
"You can make the fine salt first. We can talk about the rest later.”Zhu Biao was silent for a while and decided to see the results first.
"Alright. That's what I wanted you to say." Zhu Su was in a good mood after hearing this. He held Zhu Xiong Ying in his arms and was about to rush out of the study.
"Leave the child behind!" Zhu Biao looked at his energetic younger brother and hoped that his son would not be as crazy as him.
Zhu Su was filled with ambition as he placed his nephew back into Zhu Biao's arms.
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