My uncle is Zhu Di

Chapter 51 Buy It All
Li and the others sat together to check the land deeds and house deeds.

Everyone was shocked, but Xu Huizu felt touched. This guy bought these houses so that he could have enough space to move around.

"Why is it so expensive?" Li frowned after seeing the purchase price.

"If it's not so expensive, will people sell it? No matter, money is earned to be spent, as long as the goal is achieved. Mother, tomorrow, ask the masons to enclose all those alleys so that my father can go and have a look at those houses. Also, don't renovate those houses. Next year, I plan to rebuild them so that my father can see a different scenery in the mansion." Xu Qin said with a smile as he sat there.

Then he put another bag on the table and said, "The remaining money is all here, Mom, you can arrange it yourself, but don't spend the money at home carelessly. I'm going to use it to renovate the house next year."

"Okay, okay, my Baoer is the best!" Li couldn't stop crying at this moment, and came over to hug Xu Qin.

The same went for the other three concubines. They had not expected that Xu Qin could make so much money as they had been busy weaving before.

Everyone knew that the family was starting to have extra money, but no one expected that Xu Qin could make so much money from selling machines, and all of it was used to buy and renovate houses, with the goal of giving his father more space to move around.

Li and the three concubines were wiping their tears. Xu Qin smiled and said, "That's a good thing, mother. I'll leave those things to you."

"Don't worry, mother will surround those alleys in one day tomorrow, and your father can go and take a look then." Li said to Xu Qin with a smile.

Xu Huizu sat there without saying anything. As a father, he would not easily reveal his feelings for his son, but he was indeed very excited inside.

It's been five years, just in this small place. It would be a lie to say that I'm not bored.

Now that Shakyabao has bought such a large area, he has room to walk around. It would probably take him fifteen minutes to walk around it.

At night, Xu Qin sat in the study in the courtyard and read miscellaneous books. He would not read the Four Books and Five Classics, as they were meaningless and he was not going to take the imperial examination.

"Master." Just as Xu Qin was reading, Shiyue and Mu Feng stood up and said.

Xu Qin heard the voice and found it was his father, so he also stood up and shouted, "Dad!"

"Well, you two girls, go out first and don't let others hear us talking." Xu Huizu said to Shiyue and Mu Feng with a smile.

"Okay, Master!" Upon hearing this, the two knew that Xu Huizu and the young master must have something important to say.

Xu Qin came out immediately and made tea for Xu Huizu himself.

Xu Huizu sat there watching Xu Qin making tea, thinking about his son. But he was Xu Da's eldest son and grandson. If there hadn't been those mishaps, would his son have done such a thing? Whenever he went out, he would be surrounded by a bunch of young masters. Now, his son was actually making tea himself.

"Dad, please have some tea!" Xu Qin brought the teacup to Xu Huizu and stood there.

"You sit down too." Xu Huizu took the teacup and said to Xu Qin.

"Hey." Xu Qin sat down.

Xu Huizu thought for a moment and said, "You should know what will happen next. This time, I think His Majesty will be furious. After all, you fooled him. I know His Majesty's character. He will definitely bear a grudge. Of course, it is impossible to kill you. Your aunt will not allow it. It's just... I'm worried that your aunt will come forward at that time."

"Hey, Dad, anyone can come forward. The machine costs money. Didn't he not believe I could sell it at first? Now I have sold it, and many merchants have come to us to buy it, hoping that we can continue to sell the machine. So, this matter, either it is like this, we can make the money, or, well, I guess the weaving bureau will come to us to order the machine.

Of course, the price may need to be negotiated.

However, Dad, I am not worried about the price of the machine. You know how much it costs. Even if it is 20 taels of silver per machine, our family can still make money. What I am worried about is that His Majesty may continue to let me go to the Weaving Bureau. Dad, I don’t want to be an official! "Xu Qin sat there, looking at Xu Huizu and said.

"No, I won't go to the Weaving Bureau. Isn't that bullying?" Xu Huizu said immediately with dissatisfaction when he heard that he was going to the Weaving Bureau.

"Dad, it's not about bullying. I'm worried about my aunt. Do you know why His Majesty asked me to go to the Weaving Bureau to get 10 million taels this time? It's to relieve the prince's worries. My aunt likes the prince so much. Do you think she will persuade me?" Xu Qin continued to look at Xu Huizu and said.

When Xu Huizu heard this, he turned his head to look at Xu Qin, then stroked his beard and sat there in deep thought.

After a long while, he said, "You still have to give face to your aunt, but the Weaving Bureau is too humiliating! I think your aunt will also consider it."

"Dad, I will go to the Weaving Bureau, but I will not be the chief weaving director. I will just go there to assist. I don't want to be an official. Dad, if I become an official, those ministers will impeach me. If I don't become an official, they can't do anything to me. Besides, even if I become a first-rank official, how much money can I make? It's not even as much as what our family earns in one hour, right, Dad?" Xu Qin said to Xu Huizu with a smile.

"You mean, you will go to the Weaving Bureau to assist them? Will you agree to Zhu Di's conditions?" Xu Huizu asked Xu Qin worriedly.

"Hey, Dad, I didn't take any benefits, so why should he put forward conditions? Right? I can assist them and help them earn 10 million taels, but whether they can earn it or not has nothing to do with me. Besides, Dad, I have to go. If my aunt asks, I must agree. If the prince and His Majesty ask, I won't go at all and won't pay any attention to them!" Xu Qin sat there and said with a smile. "Well, is this the follow-up of this matter? But I heard that many people are worried about the livelihood of weavers now. If you don't solve this problem, how can the weaving bureau dare to buy those machines?" Xu Huizu frowned and looked at Xu Qin and asked.

"Don't worry, there is a solution already, and it will bring great benefits to Ming Dynasty. To be honest, Dad, when I see His Majesty treating our family like this, I don't want to tell him, but then I think about it, we make money and the people suffer. I guess if grandpa knew about it, he would scold me. Forget it, it's a good deal for them!" Xu Qin sat there, smiled and said.

"Do you have a solution?" Xu Huizu looked at Xu Qin in surprise and asked.

"There is a way already, it just depends on whether I am willing to say it. If His Majesty comes to me, I will be too lazy to say it. If my aunt comes to me, I will say that this credit will go to my aunt if not our family!" Xu Qin said confidently to Xu Huizu.

"Okay, since you have a solution, Dad won't ask anymore. Okay, Dad doesn't have anything to do, you go about your business." Seeing Xu Qin so confident, Xu Huizu immediately stood up, holding the teacup and left.

Xu Qin also stood up and saw Xu Huizu off.

When they reached the door, Xu Huizu stopped and said to Xu Qin, "Thank you, Dad, for buying those houses."

After saying this, Xu Huizu left.

The next day, Xu Qin was still sleeping, and Li had already directed the masons to start blocking the alleys. From then on, people could not walk in these alleys. This area belonged to the Xu family, and no one would walk in these alleys anymore.

When the Jinyiwei saw this situation, they immediately went to report to Zhu Gaosui.

When Zhu Gaosui heard that the Xu family had sealed off the alley, what did that mean? So he brought his people over in person.

After asking the masons, Zhu Gaosui learned that all the houses were bought by the Xu family. He was very surprised and went to knock on the Xu family's door. When the doorman opened the door and saw that it was Zhu Gaosui, he immediately closed the door and went to report. Zhu Gaosui could only wait helplessly.

However, he didn't have to wait long. Zhu Gaosui was brought in and taken directly to the living room.

Xu Huizu is still assembling machines, and his family needs some more looms.

"Greetings, uncle!" Zhu Gaosui came over and bowed to Xu Huizu.

Xu Huizu nodded, without any intention of returning the greeting.

"Uncle, I heard that your family has bought all the houses around here?" Zhu Gaosui didn't care about Xu Huizu's attitude towards him. It had been like this for the past few years, and Zhu Gaosui was used to it.

"Well, we've bought it. Now we're blocking off those alleys. What's wrong? We can't buy it?" Xu Huizu nodded and said.

"This... can be bought, of course it can be bought, but how much can be bought?" Zhu Gaosui asked again.

"Well, I've bought all the land between the two streets and two roads. This area is all mine. What's wrong?" Xu Huizu sat there and asked Zhu Gaosui.

"What, so big? Nearly four hundred acres?" Zhu Gaosui said to Xu Huizu in shock.

Xu Huizu nodded, thought for a moment, and said, "You should arrange more Jinyiwei. My mansion is big, so I think we need to increase the number by seven or eight times, otherwise we won't be able to guard it."

"No, uncle, you, eh, I, that's enough, uncle, I'll take my leave first." Zhu Gaosui was very depressed when he heard this. Such a big thing happened right under his nose, but he was completely unaware of it.

I don’t know how my dad will deal with me after he finds out about this news. I’ll probably get scolded again.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaosui became angry, thinking that this must have been done by Sakyabao, who was only trying to trick him day by day.

Zhu Gaosui did not dare to be careless this time. He immediately went to the palace and found Zhu Di who was processing memorials.

"Dad!" Zhu Gaosui came over and saluted Zhu Di.

"Is there anything wrong?" Zhu Di asked without raising his head.

"Dad, my uncle bought the entire area of ​​Yangpi Lane, which is almost 400 acres! However, I guess it was done by Sakya Bao. Now the Xu family is enclosing those alleys." Zhu Gaosui said with his head down, not daring to look up at Zhu Di.

When Zhu Di heard the news, he looked at Zhu Gaosui in disbelief and said after a while, "Can you tell me again?"

Zhu Gaochi next to him also looked at Zhu Gaosui in shock. He did not expect that the Xu family actually bought up this entire area.

(End of this chapter)