Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 235 The Night Banquet
"Hush, keep quiet." Zhao Yunyan pulled Boss Lafang. "People come and go, but don't hold back your mouth!"

"And from my point of view, the prince is such a noble person, why bother to use his reputation to lie to us?"

"Going to sea to do business must be something real."

Zhao Yunyan looked serious.

"...Boss Zhao trusts His Highness King Wu so much." Boss Fang teased. "Your family runs the rice shop. His Royal Highness Wu Wang's hand in the past few days should have made a lot of money, right?"

"If His Highness comes here again, won't your Zhao family's rice shop go bankrupt and be dismissed?"

"..." Zhao Yunyan's eyes darkened.What Boss Fang said was not bad.Previously, "contributing" rice grains to "doing business" with His Royal Highness King Wu really made Zhao's Mipu hurt.

Merchants from other houses hoarded grain, but they saw that the price of rice was going to rise, intending to stock up and buy low and sell high.Although so much food has been hoarded, the family mainly relies on other businesses.For example, the salt merchant Ma's family, which was confiscated to store grain, suffered heavy losses, but it did not hurt the root cause.

But their Zhao family is different.The main business of the Zhao family is the rice shop business. The lack of rice in the grain depot will inevitably affect the overall business operation of the Zhao family rice shop.How can the rice shop open for business when there is not enough food in the rice shop?

"... Boss Zhao, why don't you talk to the prince?" Seeing Zhao Yunyan's gloomy expression, Boss Fang felt that he was teasing a little too much. "Then, since the lord is still talking about the tiger skin of the shipping business, it means that he doesn't want to make things too serious."

"After all, he is still a young prince. How can His Majesty in the capital ignore it?"

"As long as you cry and beg in the Shen Garden, you will return your rice grains. After all, your family is different from ours, so you can't really ruin your family, can you?"

"No need..." Zhao Yunyan looked up at Boss Fang, but still shook his head.The so-called don't worry about scarcity but inequality, if he is the only one who wants to return the food, what will other colleagues think of him?

He must be against himself, so why would he care about what kind of rice merchant he is?
The most important thing for a businessman to do business is contacts.If there is no connection, even if the grain is returned, his rice shop will not be able to operate for a long time under the rejection of many Suzhou merchants.

Besides, in Zhao Yunyan's heart, there is also an unknown ambition... That His Royal Highness made glass and made tens of millions of profits at the auction just by selling the glass in the Shen family. How could he, Zhao Yunyan, not know?
How could such a person be so short-sighted that he gave up his integrity, as long as the grain and grass of tens of thousands of shi... Your majesty, if you want to raise food for disaster relief, what can you do?
Although the rest of the people didn't believe it, but he, Zhao Yunyan, believed that the "maritime business" that Prince Wu said was true.

And if it's true, it's worth it to board this big ship of the palace with a mere tens of thousands of stone grain!
This is a huge gamble, if it succeeds, his Zhao family will flourish from now on.

Failure is nothing more than starting all over again.

Zhao Yunyan has confidence in the prince who made the glass and auctioned it off.

"Hey, isn't that Mr. Chaxuan? Why did he come here?" Boss Fang interrupted Zhao Yunyan's thinking. With a calm face, it is Su Song's very famous celebrity Gao Qi.

I saw Gao Qi not taking his eyes off, leading a group of Confucian scholars straight up the stairs.

"Did Mr. Gao come to the banquet?" Zhao Yunyan was also surprised.Gao Qi is indifferent to fame and fortune, he doesn't admire glory, and ordinary people can't invite him.Even the post of Minister of the Household Department bestowed by His Majesty was reluctant to resign.

How could he come to this banquet?

"With Mr. Chaxuan here, there will be a good show tonight." Boss Fang touched his chin with a hey sound.

"Mr. Chaxuan is upright, if Prince Wu still wants to be a white wolf, he will definitely be admonished by Yan Zhi."

"Besides, Mr. has brought so many scholars. With these scholars here, even if he is a prince, he would not dare to mess around."

"If these scholars are annoyed, they will be stigmatized in the annals of history!"

Zhao Yunyan didn't speak, but raised his head quietly, watching the guests upstairs from the patio.As Gao Qi went upstairs, many people got up to greet Gao Qi: Wei Guan, Magistrate of Wu County, Zhang Cai, Magistrate of Wu County, Yang Lu, Commander of Suzhou Guards... Almost all the big names and surnames in Suzhou City arrived.

"Hiss... His Highness King Wu is going to make a big move after hosting such a big banquet..." Zhao Yunyan thought to himself.

As the night deepened, the atmosphere in this three-story restaurant gradually became noisy.Zhao Yunyan was listening to Boss Fang's complaints, and a high-pitched eunuch's voice suddenly pulled his attention back:

"His Royal Highness King Wu is here!"

People didn't dare to neglect, they all stood up, only to see Wu Wang Zhu Su wearing a prince's python robe, surrounded by soldiers, appearing at the gate with a smile on his face.

"See Your Highness King Wu..."

Everyone bowed to Zhu Su to salute, and there was a faint smile on the face of the still small King Wu.Lifting the sleeves of his robe, he said, "You don't need to be too polite."

"Tonight is the night of the New Year's Eve. My king congratulates you all in advance on the new year."

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

"His Royal Highness congratulates the New Year!"

"Caomin pays New Year greetings to His Highness!"...

Remembering that tonight is the New Year's Eve, the faces of the group of people suddenly became a little more happy.Responding to Zhu Su in a mess.Zhu Su nodded, passed through the crowd on the first floor, and stepped up the stairs.

This building is said to be a restaurant, but the internal structure is more like a large theater. Except for the lobby on the first floor, the second and third floors are all surrounded by the courtyard.On the third floor today, there is only one main seat in the middle, and those who occupy the main seat can overlook the whole situation, and can also be seen by the whole building.

Zhu Su went straight up to the third floor, and stopped in front of the main seat on the third floor.

"Everyone sit down, I suddenly called you here tonight, because I thought that after I arrived in Suzhou, I have not yet had fun with you." The echo structure was also adopted in the building. Everyone can hear clearly.

"Tonight, I will have a banquet with all of you for the New Year's Eve. My king is here alone. During this festive season, I am really lonely. I will trouble everyone, and let me have a lively time here with me!"

"Don't dare to thank you, don't dare to thank you, thank you His Highness for the banquet..." It turned out that we were asked to accompany him to have fun, and suddenly there was another voice of thanks.As for how many people have slandered in their hearts, it is not known.

"Okay, with the companions of all the virtuous men of the Suzhou Mansion, I don't feel lonely anymore."

"Today's festive season, let's not talk about official business, no matter how high or low, and let's drink and sing!"

"Come on, play music for this king!"

Following Zhu Su's order, the band, who had already been in place at some point, immediately began to play, play and sing.The atmosphere was immediately joyful, and then many waiters filed out and delivered delicacies to everyone's tables.

The sentence "Don't talk about business, regardless of dignity", immediately relieved the hearts of all the trembling businessmen.After all of them thanked Zhu Su, who was the leader, they saw that Zhu Su had started to tear the chicken legs in front of them, so they also picked up their chopsticks and concentrated on enjoying the delicious food in front of them.

"Your Highness, you really just want to have a banquet?" Zhao Yunyan couldn't believe it!

　There is something at home, so Qianqian will start with another chapter.Will make up for it tomorrow morning.

I'm really sorry!Pine cones kowtow!

　
(End of this chapter)