Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

Li Leyong pondered for a while, and said: "The courteous people must ask for something. Of course, the five great nobles gave you such a big benefit, of course it is not for nothing, and there is a small request. But, don't worry. We ask you There is absolutely no danger in what you are doing, and it is not even considered a small effort."

"What's the matter?"

"Actually...we are not asking you to do something, but to ask you not to do anything. At the right time...as long as Qin Guogong follows the trend. You can do whatever others do. There is no risk, but you can I got the friendship of the five great noble families, and even an astonishing fortune. I hope Duke Qin will carefully consider what to do."

"When is the right time? When is the right time?"

"At that time, someone will inform you. As long as you turn a blind eye, our five noble families will be grateful!"

Guo Ye sneered and said: "This condition sounds good. I accept everyone's wishes, but... I cannot agree to your condition!"

Zheng Qingshan said: "It's not just these two tenth stakes, Duke Qin has any other requirements, although speaking, as long as our five noble families can do it, we will never refuse!"

"No need to say any more!" Guo Ye waved his hand and said, "In terms of power, I, Guo Ye, became the Minister of Rites at a young age, Qin Guogong. In terms of money, I have a big bank in Changlefang. A beautiful wife and concubine are not weaker than others. Thinking about it carefully, I really don’t lack anything. If that’s the case, why should I wrong myself for a little profit?”

Li Leyong sucked his teeth and thought to himself, Guo Ye's words are justified!Before coming, it's not that I didn't think of this possibility. Therefore, the initial plan was to use rare things to frighten Guo Ye, a country bumpkin, and finally throw out huge profits to make Guo Ye succumb!

Unexpectedly, the teacher was unfavorable, and the rare things that were brought out were left over from Guo Ye's play.The huge profits promised in the end can't impress others.

He has a high position and authority, is rich enough to rival a country, has beautiful wives and beautiful concubines, and has sons and daughters. After careful consideration, Guo Ye's life is simply too perfect, even compared to what he is today!At least in today's world, killing brothers and brothers, and taking sister-in-law by force, has bad personal morality, and has a long history, which will always leave infamy.But Guo Ye's Qin Guogong got it with real credit. From the point of view of reputation, he can be called pure and flawless!

How can this be done?

If you can't lure, then you can only... intimidate!

Thinking of this, Li Leyong said: "Mr. Qin, what you said is wrong. In the officialdom, some gifts must be accepted. It's not that the officials are greedy for money, but they will offend people if they don't accept them. They dare not refuse to accept them. "Qin Guogong, do you understand what I mean when I say that?"

"Do you threaten me?"

"This is not to threaten you, but to let you understand a fact. Let's put it this way, in the current officialdom, [-] to [-]% of the people in the officialdom are related to our five great gentry families. If you accept our gift, you will be as good as the light, no harm If you don’t accept it, I’m afraid...hehe, the rafters that are in the early stages rot first, you must have heard this saying, right?”

"Humph, the rafters in the early years?" Guo Ye said: "Just before I was named the Duke of Qin, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty attacked me, saying that I had the intention of treason. According to your statement, I, Guo Ye, had to The accusations of thousands of people ended without a problem. But, in the end, I, Guo Ye, got promoted and made a fortune! Is it more serious to offend your five noble families than to offend the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty?"

Li Leyong said: "Even if you are not afraid of being isolated in the officialdom, what about the folks? Our five great gentry clans are well-known among the folks. If you spread some news about you, no matter whether it is true or not, the villagers will believe it. You are not afraid... ..."

This Guo Ye was really not afraid, and he uttered a famous saying later, saying: "It is up to others to laugh and scold, and I am a good official myself!"

He sighed, and then said: "Old Mr. Li, you people who have never been officials are too naive! What do the common people say when they scold you? Whether they are good officials or not, what the common people say does not count, and His Majesty has the final say. In other words, as long as His Majesty thinks that I, Guo Ye, is a good official, let alone the common people scold me, even if all the officials scold me, I am also a good official. On the contrary, if His Majesty wants to kill me if I lose my holy family, the common people will say that I am a good official. Officer, what's the use? Can someone save me?"

Li Leyong was dumbfounded by Guo Ye's contempt for the working people. After a long time, he said, "Even so, you don't worry about your reputation? After a hundred years..."

"Confucius said, if you don't know life, how can you know death?"

Guo Ye answered fluently, and he didn't care about the threats from the five noble families. Li Leyong gritted his teeth, and threw out the last ruthless move, saying: "Qin Guogong, you are not afraid of being isolated in the officialdom, and you don't care about your reputation. What about money?"

"It's a joke, as long as the big bank of Changlefang is in hand, I, Guo Ye, will be as rich as an enemy. Do your five noble families still have the ability to threaten the big bank of Changlefang?"

Li Leyong smiled slightly, and said, "Qin Guogong, I have a question for you, little old man."

"Speaking!"

"The little old man's question is, if, just if, another bank is opened next to each bank branch in Changlefang, will it pose a threat to the big bank in Changlefang?"

Guo Ye sneered and said, "If it's so easy to get a piece of the pie from our Changlefang Bank, why is there only one Changlefang Bank in the world? It's not easy to open a bank. The most important thing is reputation. A newly opened bank If you want to compete with our Changlefang Big Bank, it's just a dream!"

"Then what if... I announce that every new bank is also in the business of selling glazed utensils. As long as you deposit money in our bank, you can buy our glazed utensils at a low price. What will happen? What if customers only need to deposit money in our bank If you save money in it, you can take back glazed vessels of equivalent value, so what? With colored glazed vessels in hand, will customers still worry about the reputation of our bank?"

This Li Leyong is really economical!

The first method is equivalent to profit promotion, and the second method is equivalent to giving customers collateral.Since the five noble families have mastered the method of making cheap colored glaze, no matter how they do it, they will not suffer!In this case, small profits but quick turnover opened up the market for Liuli.Secondly, it has guaranteed the reputation of the new bank, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone, the best of both worlds!

In this way... Changlefang Big Bank is dangerous!

As a time traveler, he didn't make glass himself, yet he was forced into a dilemma by his enemy using the method of making glass!Guo Ye can be called the shame of the time traveler!

He said: "What's the matter? Don't you just master the firing method of cheap colored glaze? Do you want to scare me, Guo Ye, with this? No way!"

"Qin Guogong, don't be angry. It's not that you can't figure it out, but that the situation is better than others. As the saying goes, one trick can be eaten all over the world. Our five noble families have mastered the method of making cheap colored glaze. If you don't want to If money is lost, there is only one way, and that is to join us!"

"I don't think so!" Guo Ye shook his head and said, "What is colored glaze?" He pointed at the Ruyi Cup and said, "See if you see it? I, Guo Ye, came back from an envoy and made this! No matter how good your glazed vessels are." , can it compare to this thing?"

Chapter 1562

As if listening to a joke, Li Leyong asked in surprise, "You want to make a wishful cup?"

Guo Ye said: "It's not just cups, just like your glassware, you can make dishes, vases, teapots... you can make them all! You say, if these things are made of the same material as Ruyi cups, you Can the glazed utensils be sold?"

"Oh, your idea is quite good. The question is, can you do it? The wishful cup is a gift from the gods. You, a mortal, can get a wishful cup, which is already a blessing! You still want to know how to make the wishful cup. The technology of the cup is simply wishful thinking, not enough greed!"

Zheng Qingshan also said: "Duke Qin, you are so successful at a young age, it is inevitable that you are a little impetuous and arrogant. As someone who has experienced it, I would like to remind you that it is not difficult to bear the burden. Our five noble families can research the method of making cheap colored glaze. See The idea is simple, but the money, time, and painstaking effort spent are all incalculable. As soon as your lips touch your lips, you say that you want to make a wishful cup. At best, you have high aspirations. To put it bluntly, you are bragging!"

Guo Ye said: "Thank you, Patriarch Zheng, for your advice. However, I don't understand one thing. Why do you think I can't do things that you think can't be done? Why do you think that I can't do things that you have spent so much effort on? Do you think I have to spend so much effort? Not to mention anything else, I, Guo Ye, have been promoted from a yamen servant to a minister of the Ministry of Rites in three to five years. Can the five of you do it? Not to mention the five of you, members of the five great gentry clans , one counts as one, who can do it?"

Hit people without slapping them in the face, and expose people without revealing their shortcomings!With all the strength of the five great gentry clans, none of them produced a second-rank official, which has always been the biggest pain in the hearts of the five great gentry clans!Now being brought up by Guo Ye in a timely manner, the five old men all have bad looks!

Wang Zicheng suppressed his anger, and said: "There is a priority in hearing the truth, and there is a specialization in art! I admit that we are not as good as you when it comes to being an official. But when it comes to the technology of firing colored glaze, I don't believe it. Who else in the world can compare with you?" Can beat our five great gentry clans! Don’t say anything else, just say where do the raw materials for firing colored glaze come from? It took decades for our five great gentry clans to find a suitable mine to make cheap colored glaze. Qin Guogong, no matter how big you are With the ability, can you travel all over the country in a short time?"

Guo Ye said: "Do you still need to find ore for firing colored glaze?"

"How fresh. If you want to make colored glaze, you have to find colored glaze ore first. The colored glaze produced by good colored glaze ore is crystal clear, and ordinary colored glaze ore..."

Speaking of this, Wang Zicheng suddenly turned his face to a smile and said: "Qin Guogong, I understand, you are trying to trick me! Let me tell you, it is useless! Now the good colored glaze mine has been bought by our five great gentry, If you dare to overwhelm others and seize our glazed mine, we dare to bring the lawsuit to His Majesty!"

Guo Ye smiled, and said: "Stupid words? You underestimate me too much! I want to see how different your skills are from my Guo Ye! Let me tell you. I don't use glass ore to make wishful cups, but Sand! It doesn't matter to me that you occupy the glazed mine!"

"Sand? Qin Guogong, the more you say, the more outrageous you are! Based on your words, I can conclude that you know nothing about firing colored glaze!"

Guo Ye said: "I, Guo Ye, was born in a farming family. I haven't studied much, but I have been in a high position in just a few years. Don't you think it's strange? Didn't you do any investigation on me?"

Li Leyong murmured: "Could it be that... the fact that the Taishang Laojun taught the Dharma is true?"

"That's right!" Guo Ye said solemnly: "The Taishang Laojun is the ancestor of our Datang royal family. He specially passed on my literary strategy and martial arts, and asked me to assist Datang. Think about it, the wishful cup is a gift from heaven, and The Taishang Laojun is also a fairy, so does the wishful cup have something to do with his old man? How can he not know how to make a wishful cup? Since he knows, will he pass it on to me?"

During the Tang Dynasty, the theory of ghosts and gods was quite capable of bluffing people.Li Leyong was skeptical after hearing this, and said: "Since you know how to make Ruyi cups, why haven't you fired them for so many years? We took out cheap colored glass vessels, and you said that you can make Ruyi cups?"

"Hey! This is because of your short-sightedness. What is the wishful cup? It's just a plaything. Like pearls and jade, you can't eat when you're hungry, and you can't wear clothes when you're cold. What good is it for our Tang Dynasty? Fighting east and west, which thing do you do is not as important as burning the wishful cup?"

Sighing, Guo Ye said again: "If you just want to make a little money, I don't bother to argue with you if you are single. On the contrary, if you think that Guo Ye is going to eat me, you plan to rely on this to rob me." The idea of ​​Changlefang Daqianzhuang, then don’t blame me, Guo Ye, for making the Ruyi cup! Let me tell you clearly, the material of the Ruyi cup is not called glass, but glass! The difference between one letter and the world is different!”

Guo Ye said it with a nose and an eye, and the five old men looked at each other and tried to delay the attack.Li Leyong said: "Mr. Qin will be angry, no matter what you want to fire is glass or colored glaze, you have to come back from a mission to do it, right? Or we can talk about our business when you come back?"

Guo Ye snorted coldly and said: "I don't care, it depends on whether you, the five nobles, know the current affairs!" Then he stood up and said: "Whenever you want to trouble me, Guo Ye, I will accompany you at any time. ! Farewell!"

The words were not speculative, and the five old men barely kept a few words, so they gave up.

When he returned to Xinxin Inn, Guo Ye also let out a sigh of relief.The five great gentry used the strategy of slowing down the troops, but they didn't know that what our little brother Guo said just now was also a strategy of slowing down the troops!

Make glass?Although it is a necessary item for time travel, but... Guo Ye really can't!I just vaguely remember that quartz sand and soda ash are used to make glass, but what is quartz sand and whether quartz sand is sand is not very clear.As for whether Datang had soda ash, his eyes were even darkened.