While wiping his tears, he sobbed and said: "The villain wants to ask the lord for grace, so that the villain can collect the bones of my son-in-law, and after a few months, let the villain send the bones back to his hometown, and report to his wife by the way-"

As he spoke, he knelt on the ground again, slammed his head on the stone slab, and said with his face up, "Please be gracious, master." ”

Dong Ce took a deep look at Bai Mo, and the latter couldn't help but look down.

A flash of appreciation flashed in Dong Ce's eyes, there is no doubt that Bai Mo is a smart person, and he is very good at looking at eyes. He just proposed to accept him as a scholar, he did not hesitate, without the slightest delay, and immediately agreed, which gave people the impression that he knew him very well and was very elevated, and he would be very satisfied with him. Then after the matter is settled, he will make a request with a weak attitude, so that it will naturally be easier for him to agree, and he has just accepted someone, so he has to give some benefits, right?

It is conceivable that if Dong Ce immediately made this request as soon as he proposed to accept him as a scholar, then Dong Ce must have a bad feeling for him in his heart, thinking that he was taking the opportunity to blackmail, then this little scholar Bai Mo would immediately be offended.

No wonder this little scholar has no food and clothing after the death of his master, and he can still struggle in the beggar's nest of Yanghe City until now.

If it was an ordinary person, leaving such an elf by his side would inevitably give birth to some ideas, but Dong Ce didn't care at all - the people who followed him, how could he be clever? If you don't have some skills, you don't have some means, how can you do it? Anyway, Dong Ce is confident that they won't be able to turn over the palm of their hand no matter what.

"Why go months from now, and not now?" Dong Ce asked.

"Villain, villain is worried about ......" Bai Mo Nene said: "I'm worried that the lord thinks that the villain is running away with money, if you wait for a while, the lord must also know the villain's personality, and he should be relieved." ”

"Oh, I see." Dong Ce's face was expressionless, and he said in a cold tone: "You are about to be a scholar for this official, but you are still attached to the old master, you say, can the new master of this official be happy?" ”

Bai Mo is most worried about this, otherwise he would not have put it forward so tortuously, he could only reach this point with all his efforts, he was a little anxious, but he didn't know how to say it, so he had to kowtow again and again: "Ask the master to be fulfilled, ask the master to be fulfilled." ”

A smile flashed at the corner of Dong Ce's mouth, but he feigned anger and said, "What if I don't do it?" ”

Bai Mo is an eleven or twelve-year-old boy after all, although he is eccentric and very good at looking at eyes, but after all, he is young and has little experience, thinking that Dong Ce is really angry, he was immediately frightened, and his heart was flustered. He knelt on the ground in a daze, but he sniffled, as if he had finally made up his mind, touched the tears on his face, looked at Dong Ce, and solemnly kowtowed three times on the ground. He tilted his head, and although his voice was hoarse, it was as firm as a rock: "The villain is going to live up to the love of the master, the villain swore that day, that is, to beg for a living, and to make up enough money to go back, and transport the bones of my son-in-law back to Sangzi." ”

He stood up and was about to leave, Dong Ce said lightly: "Where are you going?" ”

Bai Mo turned his head, pursed his lips, and said, "Doesn't the master want me......

I wanted to make a decisive appearance, but I felt aggrieved in my heart when I said it, and tears fell again...... It's still a kid after all.

Dong Ce laughed: "Who said I don't want you anymore?" ”

Bai Mo was stunned for a moment, then burst into tears and smiled, and said happily: "Master, you agreed?" ”

"I didn't expect that you are young, but you also value love and righteousness, which is rare." Dong Ce nodded at him, laughed, stretched out his hand and threw out a small ingot of silver and threw it to him: "This is a reward for you, take it to your son-in-law to collect the bones!" Buy a good coffin, and go to Yizhuang to put it, don't be shabby as an ancient. ”

Bai Mo bit his lip and began to shed tears again.

Dong Ce quipped: "If you are born like a daughter, how can you be like a daughter's family, crying at every turn?" ”

Bai Mo suddenly knelt down and kowtowed: "Master, your great kindness, Bai Mo will always remember it, and he will only die in this life!" Sir, don't worry, after sending the coffin back, the villain will have nothing to do with my son-in-law, and serve the master with peace of mind. ”

"Why is that so awkward?" Dong Ce, the future generations, really can't listen to men in this era say things like serving in this life at men, and smiled: "This official knows, go quickly." How many heads have you kowtowed, and you will break your head at the moment. ”

When Bai Mo raised his head to take a look, sure enough, his forehead was really blue, and it was not far from breaking.

Bai Mo opened his mouth and was about to say something, but Dong Ce waved his hand: "There's no need for that, if you have a heart, you can do it, you just have a good name first." ”

After the family left with Bai Mo, Dong Ce led everyone into the store. He naturally knew what Bai Mo wanted to say, and the reason was really what he said-he thought Bai Mo's name was very good. If it is changed to something else, such as Wang Mo and Li Mo, then Dong Ce will be changed.

After entering the store and turning around, Dong Ce was a little worried.

The store was very big, but at this time it was empty, there was nothing but dust. This store has a good location, a large flow of people, and a spacious inside, which is really the most suitable place to do business, plus there is a background - my own size is now a background. coincided with the era of the great prosperity of the commodity economy at the end of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the people who operated were not stupid to the extreme, basically any business was a sure profit.

It's just that Dong Ce's idea is a little special.

His fortune is very interesting, and basically all he makes is war money. The first time was to fight Jiannu, and I got the first pot of gold, and it was an extremely rich first pot of gold, with silver, merit, war horses, armor and weapons, and there was no shortage of face. The second time was a horse thief, and he got a big silver war horse, and he also killed stumbling blocks and won a lot of households. The third time was to intercept the bandits of Liuling Mountain halfway, and this time it goes without saying, gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin, countless, plus a bunch of strong and strong laborers, and they are full of money.

Every time it is accompanied by killing, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as bloody gold, but at the same time, it is also accompanied by huge profits!

Huge profits!

Money comes in abundance and fast, opening in a few months, and opening for three years.

Dong Ce is used to this kind of profiteering, and now let him settle down and do some small business that is long-term but profitable Weibo, he has no such temperament. Not to mention the meager profits, even if it is a considerable profit, Dong Ce can't look down on it now. If you want to do it, you will do it profiteering!

Dong Ce didn't realize that as he came to this era for a longer and longer time, as the officials became bigger and bigger, and killed more and more people, his current way of thinking has changed very much compared with before.

More greedy, more direct, more brutal, more aware of how to use the power in their hands, more ...... Likes to use swords to solve problems.

Of course, what contributed to this was nothing else, it was the obsession in Dong Ce's heart - since he came to this era, he had to do something, even if he couldn't save the day, at least he had no regrets.

And if you want to achieve this obsession, you must continue to be promoted and expand your power. There are soldiers, knives and guns, the more the merrier!

Although most areas of the Ming Dynasty are still singing and dancing, in fact, now, the eight years of Chongzhen can be regarded as a troubled time. In troubled times, nothing else is useful, and only when a soldier speaks can he be tough!

He also had some bitterness in his heart.

Now the rock castle looks like a brocade of flowers, in full swing, but behind all this, it is supported by the silver spent like flowing water. Not to mention anything else, let's just say that the meat, poultry, eggs, grain, and beans consumed by those soldiers every day are a very large number. As for the workshop, it is a bottomless pit, and I don't know how much silver is needed for the refined iron consumed in a day. Now there is not much silver for the frog beetle, but what about the heavy armor in the future? What about large-scale fire-making guns?

And it is foreseeable that the daily expenses will be larger and larger in the future. Because Dong Ce is bound to expand the size of the army, and it is a large-scale expansion!

Raising soldiers has become the most intuitive and headache problem.

Now the silver in the treasury seems to be a lot, but to be honest, it can't last too long, and Dong Ce has to open up another source of money.

However, the opportunity to make a windfall is not very common, and there are many incidents such as the bandits in Liuleng Mountain, and it is easy for people to think of themselves - I am afraid that the first person who will kill himself will be Liu Ruozai.

Since you can't make the most direct windfall on the battlefield, let's twist a little bit and make a windfall in the shopping mall.

Just making a windfall in the mall, where is it so easy?

Farming is certainly the safest and most old-fashioned way to invest, but it is not something that can make money immediately. As for the other profiteering industries, they were basically monopolized by the royal family and local officials.

The Ming Dynasty wants to say that there are two most profitable industries, but they are all related to the sea, and Dong Ce is thousands of miles away from the sea, so naturally it has nothing to do with him.

Haimao and Haiyan, these two industries, can no longer be described as huge profits, it is simply like turning stones into gold!

To take the simplest example: the seafaring trade with Japan at this time. In Japan, a pound of silk, the price is five pounds, a pack of copper is two hundred and seventy pounds, ten runs, a pack of copper can be exchanged for two pounds of silk. However, a load of copper can be exchanged for eight to ten catties of silk in the Ming Dynasty, and it can be sold for forty to fifty pounds according to the Japanese silk price, that is, four to five times the profit. If you buy it with gold, you will also make a profit; Japanese gold ten taels are worth 30 catties, only buy six catties of silk, in the Ming can be exchanged for 24 catties to 30 catties of silk, according to the Japanese price conversion, can be sold 120 to 150 catties, the same is four to five times the huge profit. Not to mention anything else, just copper, Japan is a copper-producing land, and the price of copper is very low. The market price in Japan is 270 catties of copper per pack, which is about 19 wen per catty. But in the Ming Dynasty, the price of red copper was 300 wen per catty. From 19 to 300 wen, this is a windfall profit of 1,578 percent -- as for other costs such as transportation, they are simply negligible, because the merchant ships going to Japan do not specialize in pure copper business at all, and basically use copper as ballast.

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