Go back to ancient times to be a royal merchant

What is the fourth prince busy with?Located in the center of the storm, the fourth prince has grown a lot in just half a year.Witnessed the bloody storm that the concubine and brothers fought for that position, how many people were involved in this incident.For the sake of the position, he can do anything and everything, he can understand, but for the sake of that position, he puts the country and the country at risk, colludes with barbarians and witches, even if he wins the country, can he really hold the country by colluding with wolves, tigers and leopards?

When Wang Xiujin saw the fourth prince, he was taken aback. Compared to the last time he saw someone, he lost a few circles of weight and was about to lose his appearance. What happened to him?I haven't heard that anyone in the palace is sick, and the fourth prince's mother is long gone. Could it be that there is something wrong with the wife or the child?Not right!If there was anything, Li Sushan would have said it earlier. "Brother Zhao, what's the matter?"

"I can't eat well and sleep well," and worry about the country.Zhao Si didn't say the second half of the sentence, and it was useless to talk to Wang Xiujin. "I'm looking for you to say goodbye. I'm going to the border. I still have some things to deal with. I don't know when I'll be back."

Wang Xiujin didn't care too much about the fourth prince's words. The fourth prince was not appointed as a king to guard the border. It is unlikely that he would stay at the border for a lifetime and not be allowed to return to Beijing. rebel.The fourth prince went to the border to govern, not to fight at the border. Basically, he can come back if he has achieved political achievements there. As for political achievements, it is even easier. For decades, if you change to a person with a background, you can be promoted after a year or two, just like an elder brother.Previously, the emperor intended to promote his elder brother to be a magistrate, but he was rejected by his elder brother on the grounds that he hadn't really made any achievements.When he heard about it, he gave his thumbs up for his elder brother's courage, and at that time his father also thought that his elder brother was not suitable for promotion.While the prince is at the border, the emperor will definitely let him stay at the border. He is also afraid that his son will rebel if he stays there for a long time.

It's not that the fourth prince doesn't want to go to the border, but he feels that he shouldn't go at this time, because the capital is not peaceful yet.And when he went to the border this time, the fourth prince felt that his father was telling him to avoid the vortex. His father-in-law, who had always looked down upon him, was also involved in this incident. Two of his students had been executed.The Fourth Prince couldn't tell Wang Xiujin that the source of the matter was Wang Xiujin, but if Wang Xiujin's food hadn't been cut off, no one would have thought how serious the consequences would be.

The three of them had a meal together. The fourth prince felt that everything he ate was tasteless. Wang Xiujin was used to eating the food made by Sister Liu, and when he ate outside food suddenly, he always felt that it lacked taste. After the meal, the three of them After sitting down for a while, Wang Xiujin talked about building an oil factory in the border. In addition to planting crab fields and rice, he also planted some peanuts. The fourth prince nodded in agreement, and then asked Wang Xiujin some ways to make money. Wang Xiujin smiled bitterly, I only said that after a while, if I have time, I will go to the border.

Li Sushan didn't agree with Wang Xiujin's idea of ​​going to the border, but he didn't stop him. At worst, he just went with him.The fourth prince was very moved. Wang Xiujin was a good friend, he had never been to the border, and his understanding of the border was limited to rumors, but he went to the border for him.After more than half a year, the fourth prince lost his trust in the brothers in the palace. Didn't the brother who was sent to guard the emperor's mausoleum be killed? Seeing him, who was being valued by his father, go to hell together, he sent someone to bury him on the way back to Beijing.

After the three parted, Li Sushan began to talk about the matter of the border, and said that going to the border would at least wait for his grandfather to return before making plans. Wang Xiujin responded with a smile. He knew that Li Sushan said this out of good intentions, and the two walked together Walking back to the grain shop, before he could sit down, a clerk in the shop came over and whispered, someone came to beg for grain today, shopkeeper Wang was chatting with those who refused to leave, the boss Do you want to meet them?

"Didn't the shopkeeper tell you the conditions?" Wang Xiujin poured two cups of tea and brought one cup to Li Sushan. Today's dishes are a bit salty.

"Tell me, they think it's too high, and think that shopkeeper Wang raised the price from it."

"Oh." The corner of Wang Xiujin's mouth curled into a sneer, "Go and spread a message, saying that the matter is entirely up to the shopkeeper Wang. If you agree, you will sign a contract. If you don't agree, you will find another place." Against the times set by them?Some of the prices he gave were more profitable, and the worse ones were how much they earned.These people are used to the huge price difference in the past and made a lot of money.

The guy backed out, and Wang Xiujin didn't want to sit here. He wasn't afraid of those people, but thought they were annoying.He and Li Sushan went to the restaurant and asked the waiter to pack a pot of good food. The two sat in a secluded place and chatted about gossip.The guys are busy cleaning up the private rooms. At this moment, the fourth table of guests has been sent away, and their busy day is over. The guys are very concerned about the easy and profitable work, cleaning the private rooms Be very careful, afraid that if you are a step too late, the contract will be terminated, and you will never find such a good plan again.

After a while, shopkeeper Wang ran over sweating and presented several contracts.Wang Xiujin took it with a smile, flipping through it casually, what he wanted to see was not the content of the contract, but which grain shops had signed the contract.

"These people flicked their sleeves and left after the boy passed by, and then came back one after another, secretly signed the deed, and said that they should not tell the other companies." Thinking of what happened just now, the shopkeeper Wang felt secretly. The owners of the few shops that came back looked down upon him a little.

Wang Xiujin thought it was funny, "I want to save face, I will know everything when the goods are delivered." After accepting the contract, Wang Xiujin asked shopkeeper Wang to go downstairs, "This means that the benefits are not permanent."

Li Sushan nodded to show that he understood that he didn't like these people who used the knife behind their backs. After returning home yesterday, he relayed Wang Xiujin's words to his younger father. He didn't know much about the business, but younger father was different. In the 20 years of business, Wang Xiujin is always praised and praised, and it was even more so yesterday.

The next day, Wang Xiujin brought some things, accompanied by Li Sushan, to the gate of the city to see the fourth prince off.The emperor saw his son off at the gate of the palace, adjusted his son's clothes with his own hands, stroked the scarf again, and told him to pay attention to safety on the road. After the emperor finished speaking, the four princes knelt down and asked their father to take care of themselves, and then they got on their horses and set off. When the city gate saw Wang Xiujin and Li Sushan, he didn't get off his horse. At this time, he was not Zhao Si, but the fourth prince. His status was different, so his posture was naturally different.Seeing the two, the fourth prince was moved in his heart, accepted the gifts from the two, and rode away, followed by one carriage after another, but the carriage of the prince's wife was nowhere to be seen.

Wang Xiujin didn't know what was so special about the carriages of the female family members in the royal family, so that people could recognize them at a glance.But when I heard Li Sushan whispered, I felt strange, I didn't take my wife with me, but took my young son to the border, what was the fourth prince thinking, what happened all the way without the child going to the border with him? "Is the fourth prince's wife seriously ill, or has something caused trouble?"

Compared with serious illness, Wang Xiujin prefers the latter.If he was seriously ill, the fourth prince would not take him to the border. After all, the journey is far away, who can guarantee that the wife can reach the border alive?Leaving the child with a seriously ill mother is also not conducive to the child's growth, and if the wife really can't support it, will the child without parents have the ability to protect themselves in the palace? S might die prematurely, but since the emperor attaches great importance to the fourth prince now, he will not let this happen. The eunuchs and maids who serve the children will do their best.So what would make the fourth prince prefer to take his only child all the way, because there might be danger of unexpected situations instead of taking the child to the border?

Li Sushan didn't respond, and praised Wang Xiujin in his heart for being smart, but this time it was inconvenient for Wang Xiujin to know, and he couldn't open his mouth, for fear of causing unnecessary trouble to Wang Xiujin.However, Wang Xiujin came to a conclusion from Li Sushan's reaction, it should be the latter.

Not long after the fourth prince left, the emperor issued an order to demote the wife of the fourth prince to a concubine, his natal family was also demoted from official positions, his father was taken the title of bachelor, and all the students under his name were also punished. Involved, those with official positions were demoted again and again, and those without official positions were not allowed to take the imperial examination within ten years because they were his students. In addition, the fourth prince chose a virtuous and virtuous daughter as his wife.

Wang Xiujin didn't know about the emperor's repair of the fourth prince's father-in-law's family. He only knew that the fourth prince's father-in-law seemed to have many disciples. As for the name, no one asked.However, I heard some rumors recently, and vaguely guessed whether it might have something to do with the fourth prince's wife.I just thought about it in series, and felt that I was thinking too much.

As the weather got hotter and longer every day, the atmosphere in the capital became much more lively, so Wang Xiujin ordered someone to set up an oven at the door of the shop, skewered some meat skewers, sprinkled some seasonings, and the aroma of the meat spread. After going out, people who came out for a stroll at night came to look at them one after another. Wang Xiujin and Li Sushan sat in soft chairs, eating meat skewers while blowing the cool evening breeze, feeling very comfortable.

The aroma of kebabs really makes people salivate. Even if they just came out of the restaurant, they want to taste it, but no matter from the restaurant on the side or the shop behind the two eating kebabs, the kebabs are delicious. It doesn't seem to be for sale, if you don't sell it, you still roast it along the street, isn't it a bit too hateful.

Wang Xiujin doesn't think so. When he was in college, he often went to street stalls with his classmates to eat skewers. He felt that eating on the street would be less delicious.So Wang Xiujin put the stove outside. As for what other people think, does it have anything to do with him? "After baking this oven, take it in for everyone to taste. You have to eat it while it's hot." Wang Xiujin is not a stingy person, he won't lose money to his own people, and he is not short of meat money.

Hearing this, the guy became more motivated, and he roasted it carefully. Wang Xiujin added a marinated chicken wing on the stove, so that it would be easy to cook and the taste would not be bad.

"Young master, these are for sale." Finally someone couldn't help but stepped forward to ask.

Before Wang Xiujin could answer, Li Sushan, who was eating hard, said, "Not for sale."