Luo Xin understood as soon as he heard it, it was Shen Ling who came back and brought back Lu Bing's letter, and it seemed that Lu Bing had agreed to join forces with him. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, and the two of them were relaxed in their hearts, and the atmosphere was naturally more harmonious. Luo Xin said with an affectionate smile on his face:

"Please, sir!"

"Lord Luo, please!"

The two of them walked into the city with a smile on their faces, but a few people left in a hurry outside. Now that Luo Xin has copied and killed the Lu family, and the four great families have sent a letter to the capital to impeach Luo Xin, how can they not leave spies at the door of the city's boss?

When these spies saw that Lu Ding had come to visit Luo Xin, and they were talking and laughing with Luo Xin, they were a little confused and a little flustered.

Lu Ding: What is this going to do?

Could it be that Lu Ding got a letter from the capital, and His Majesty is going to punish Luo Xin, come here to ridicule Luo Xin, and watch Luo Xin's jokes?

But don't you want to look at Lu Ding's appearance? Instead, I thought I was here to make friends with Luo Xin.

No way! I have to go back and inform the master!

These people hurried back to their mansions and reported to their masters. Their master was stupid when he heard it, and they didn't understand what Lu Ding was doing. These four people pondered in the mansion for a while, and almost unanimously prepared a sedan chair and came to the Lu Mansion, and when they inquired, Lu Ding had not returned from Luo Xin, and the hearts of these four people were uneasy, so they simply did not leave, and went directly into the lobby of the Lu Mansion, and sat there and waited.

These four people are all old friends of Lu Ding, and their status in Hangzhou is not much different from Lu Ding's, so the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion naturally didn't dare to blast them out, and they had to serve tea to entertain them.

City Division.

Inside the second hall.

Luo Xin and Lu Ding sat down separately, Lu Daqing retreated after serving tea, and only Luo Xin and Lu Ding were left in the second hall. Outside the door of the second hall, He Nian and Wang Ziren stood there with their hands crossed, secretly looking at Lu Ding from time to time, and a relaxed and relieved smile appeared on their faces.

Recalling the predicament that Luo Xin encountered before, in the eyes of the two of them, it was already a desperate situation. At that time, the two of them were in a panic, they didn't know where to go, they couldn't even sleep well at night, and their hair turned a lot gray.

However, he didn't expect that Luo Xin had already made a decision, and now that Lu Ding has come to visit, this is the overall situation. How are they so angry in their hearts?

Inside the second hall.

Luo Xin just smiled and drank tea without speaking, and Lu Ding had an embarrassed smile on his face, but he didn't know what to say. And at this time, Lu Daqing walked in and whispered a few words in Luo Xin's ear, and Luo Xin said to Lu Ding with a smile:

"My lord will be back soon."

Lu Ding also hurriedly stood up and said, "My lord, please, I'll wait for my lord here." ”

Luo Xin walked outside the gate of the city and saw Shen Ling, a thousand households of Jinyi Wei, standing there. A smile appeared on Luo Xin's face and said:

"Shen Qianhu, I'm back."

Shen Ling's gloomy face squeezed out a smile and said, "Lord Luo, the Metropolitan Governor asked me to bring you a message." ”

"Oh? Shen Qianhu please! ”

"Lord Luo, please!"

Luo Xin invited Shen Ling to the side hall to take a seat, and Lu Daqing withdrew after serving tea. Luo Xin looked at Shen Ling with a smile, and didn't ask Lu Bingtuo what he said, as if Lu Bing didn't give him a word, he didn't care at all. Shen Ling originally wanted to take a pinch of it, but waited for Luo Xin to ask before he spoke. But seeing Luo Xin's appearance, he not only sighed in his heart, but secretly said in his heart, he was worthy of being the person who dared to kick the door of the Jinyi guard. Forget it, most of the governors asked me to befriend Luo Xin, I better stop pretending to be an old man, let's pretend to be a grandson.

The look on his face became humble, and he arched his hand towards Luo Xin and said, "Lord Luo, the Metropolitan Governor asked me to tell you that Lu Ding will come to visit you." ”

Luo Xin nodded and said, "Well, Lu Ding has already come, and he is in the second hall at this time." ”

"Oh......" Shen Ling's expression froze for a moment, and a look of embarrassment appeared on his face and said, "Since that's the case, I'll leave first." ”

"I'll send you!"

"Don't dare!"

Luo Xin smiled: "You must send it." ”

Luo Xin sent Shen Ling outside the gate, Shen Ling suddenly stopped, turned back to Luo Xin and said:

"Lord Luo, if you can get my place in the future, please don't be polite."

Luo Xin looked at Shen Ling steadily, and Shen Ling, who was gloomy, was also a little furious when Luo Xin saw it, and grinned:

"Your Excellency, what are you?"

As soon as the momentum on Luo Xin's body was retracted, he said like a gentleman like jade: "Does Shen Qianhu's words just now represent himself, or does it represent Jinyiwei?" ”

Shen Ling's gaze shrank, and he understood Luo Xin's words, asking him whether he would serve him Luo Xin or Lu Bing in the future?

His heart was racing, even Lu Bing was showing favor to Luo Xin, and Lu Bing was already old, maybe he would die one day. And looking at Luo Xin's strategic strategy to win a thousand miles, it is obvious that the future is limitless. Immediately lowered his voice and said:

"On behalf of myself."

Luo Xin's face showed a kind smile, and he didn't call Shen Qianhu anymore.

"Brother Shen, you are Jinyiwei, you should have understood me."

Shen Ling smiled awkwardly, and then heard Luo Xin continue: "So you should understand my character, you don't live up to me, I will live up to you." ”

Shen Ling's spirit is a boost, he naturally understands Luo Xin's character, as Luo Xin said, Luo Xin's character is quite reliable. So when he heard this, his face showed joy and said:

"Shen Ling will live up to his lordship."

"Okay, if you have any news, you need to let me know in time." Luo Xin lowered his voice.

"Yes, Lord Luo, don't worry."

Luo Xin nodded and said, "Brother Shen, I won't keep you today, I'll invite you to drink another day." ”

"That's a humiliating honor. Humble resignation. ”

Luo Xin looked at Shen Ling's departing back, and a smile appeared on his face. Now that Hu Zongxian in the southeast has been leveled by himself, Jinyiwei has also let himself be leveled today, the prefect Song Danian has become his follower, and Lu Ding is still waiting for him in the second hall, presumably the four great families are also coming to take refuge. In this way, in the southeast, the military, the official, the secret service, and the family have all been settled by themselves, and they can finally start to run the city.

Luo Xin returned to the second hall with a happy mood, and Lu Ding couldn't help jumping when he saw Luo Xin walking back with a spring on his face. Could it be that the other four great families have also come to take refuge in Luo Xin?

It can't be delayed any longer.

Lu Ding immediately spoke: "Lord Luo, Lu has only one purpose for coming this time, that is, to fully assist the adults, and the adults want people to have people, rich and rich." ”

Luo Xin was silent for a moment and said: "Boss, since I came to the southeast, we have tried each other many times, and we have fought a few times, and we know each other very well, so I will tell the truth here, I hope the boss will not be surprised." ”

Lu Ding's face showed embarrassment, and he secretly said in his heart, I lost several times against you, are you trying to humiliate me?

He couldn't help but feel a wave of anger in his heart, do you really think that my Lu family will be slaughtered by you? But on the surface, he endured it and smiled awkwardly:

"Your Excellency, please speak!"

Luo Xin pondered for a moment and said, "First, the old man must have the mentality of suffering a loss to help him, right?" ”

"Isn't it?" Lu Ding said secretly in his heart. It's just that he didn't have words, since Luo Xin said the first, then there must be a second, you might as well listen to it.

Seeing that Lu Ding was calm, Luo Xin couldn't help nodding secretly, and he was a little happy in his heart, he also wanted to cooperate with someone who could calm down, and he didn't want to cooperate with an impulsive person. So he continued:

"Second, at this time, the boss didn't inform the four big families, I'm afraid that he is saving the business of the market to make his losses smaller, right?"

Lu Ding's face suddenly turned purple, he was as if he had been stripped naked by Luo Xin and sat naked in front of Luo Xin.

Seeing the look on Lu Ding's face, Luo Xin waved his hand and smiled: "Boss, don't worry. I don't mean anything else, I just want to tell you that you think of me Luo Xin as bad as I am, and I think of the city as bad. ”

Speaking of this, Luo Xin's face showed a look of pride and said: "If I Luo Xin came to the southeast to establish the city and let you earn less than before, then I, Luo Xin, will not agree to Your Majesty to come to the southeast." Moreover, if you can't make the southeasterners rich, even if you don't smuggle, there will be others who smuggle. I just want to let the people in the southeast understand that doing business with the city company in a dignified and honest manner does not make a lot of money, and secretly smuggling, but they have to lose their heads. ”

Lu Ding sat there stunned, and said half-loudly: "My lord, what you said is true?" ”

"Of course it's true." Luo Xin said firmly.

"Earn more than before?"

"Of course!"

Lu Ding hesitated for a moment and said, "My lord, since you just said that we know each other very well, then I will also tell the truth." ”

"Boss, please general, after all, you are a real southeaster, and you can't afford to know the southeast."

Lu Ding nodded, his expression became serious, and he said, "The old man doesn't believe it very much. My lord, how much tax are you going to collect after the city opens the sea? ”

"Sancheng!" Luo Xin cocked up his fingers.

Lu Ding's face turned dark, and he took a breath and said, "When we smuggled, we didn't collect a penny of tax. How do you think we can make more than we did before? ”

Luo Xin smiled: "Have you ever thought that the price you give to those so-called maritime merchants is too low? ”

Lu Ding looked stunned, and then said with a smile: "What if it's not low?" We want to raise the price slightly, and they won't accept us. This will also be the case when your market company opens the sea. ”

"Then I won't sell it!" Luo Xin said categorically.

Lu Ding smiled bitterly: "Lord Luo, you are mistaken, in fact, it's not that we don't sell, it's that people don't buy it." ”

Luo Xin showed a wry smile on his face, it seems that the Ming Dynasty sealed the sea and did not let the pieces go to the sea, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty had no vision and could not see the outside world.

"Boss, let me ask you, when you smuggled, how much did a porcelain plate cost? It's just an ordinary porcelain plate. ”

"How much can you buy? It's just a few copper coins. ”

"Boss, are you just shipping these porcelain coins of a few copper coins to Franky, will Arabia and other places sell for hundreds of copper coins? Although it won't be so expensive for us to sell to a vassal country, it's still no problem to double or triple it. ”

"How so?" Lu Ding asked in surprise.

Luo Xin said with a smile: "Not only do they earn a huge difference in the price of our Ming Dynasty, but they will also ship glass and other things that we don't have in the Ming Dynasty from them and sell them to us at a high price." So, they just bullied us and didn't know that Daming's stuff was worth a lot of money outside. As long as we hold our breath, this is at our own doorstep, they have come from afar, if we don't buy goods, do we have to go back empty? ”

"But ......" Lu Ding said: "Lord Luo, you may not know that in this maritime trade, we are not directly doing business with those vassal countries, but are all monopolized by Xu Hai, Wang Zhi, Ye Ma and Xin Wulang and other Japanese robbers, they don't buy our goods, even if the merchants of those vassal countries want to buy it, they can't buy it." Even if they buy it, they will be robbed by Wang Zhi and Xu Hai at sea, and only by passing a hand from them can they be safe. ”

Luo Xin nodded and said: "Whether it's Wang Zhi or Xu Hai, they also want to make money, as long as we calm down, they still have to buy it in the end." Of course, this also requires our Ming navy to be able to severely crack down on the Japanese invaders, so that the Japanese know that they can honestly do business with us, although they will earn less, but they will not lose their heads. ”

Speaking of this, Luo Xin said solemnly: "At the beginning, it will definitely be more difficult and earn less. But as the city is on the right track, more and more merchants from the vassal kingdom will come, and by that time, I guarantee that you will earn several times or even more than ten times as much as you do now. ”

"How much time will it take?" Lu Ding asked expectantly.

"If the boss is willing to cooperate, two years at most, at least half a year."

Lu Ding's spirit perked up and said, "You mean that Hu Zongxian will purge the Japanese in half a year to two years?" ”

Luo Xin nodded and said: "Hu Zongxian already knows that His Majesty will not give him more time, within two years, either he exterminates the Japanese Invaders, or he is beheaded by His Majesty." I have seen Hu Zongxian's current troops, and it is not very difficult to exterminate the Japanese invaders. ”

And Luo Xin still has something to say, he has now made tens of thousands of thunderbolts, and thousands of veterans have come to the north, all living in the manor at this time, just waiting for the next time Luo Sheng comes back, take these people away, with these veterans, these craftsmen and scholars, Taiwan will soon be able to be established. And these people are good at fighting, and with thunderbolts, they can completely cross the sea. When the time comes, what Wang Zhi, what Xu Hai, Ye Ma, Xin Wulang, and Luo Sheng can annex them one by one and strengthen themselves. Even if Hu Zongxian didn't achieve anything in two years, it was Luo Sheng who monopolized the sea at that time, not Wang Zhi.

"Great!"

Lu Ding's expression was excited, although he didn't know how valuable Daming's things would be when they arrived in the domain, but he also knew that he would definitely lose money, but with Wang Zhi and them, they had no choice. If there is no Wang Zhi and them, let the vassal country directly do business with the city ship, although the city ship division takes 30% of the tax, but the things are expensive, then 30% is nothing.

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