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

Chapter 763 Goodbye Zhu Ping

"When I got back to Your Highness, I found out that Ouyang's consort had already started organizing a caravan. However, the purchases were all ordinary items, such as tea bricks, cloth, etc. There were no strange objects."

"Your Majesty, my consort went to the Qinhuai River this morning to compose poems with a few friends. They didn't talk about any special topics. However, my consort seems to be in a very good mood today."

"Your Highness, I have secretly investigated the area around the Prince Consort's Mansion and found nothing suspicious..."

In Prince Yan's Mansion, Zhu Su and Zhu Di were sitting in the palace early in the morning, listening to reports on Ouyang Lun's investigations. Zhu Di had previously been in charge of the Jinyiwei Zhenfusi, and among his personal guards of King Yan there were many experts transferred from the Jinyiwei. Although they no longer worked as spies, their old skills had not been lost. In addition, they had been from the Jinyiwei. There are more or less some connections from back then. It's perfect to use them to investigate Ouyang Lun.

After all, if they mobilize the Jin Yiwei who are loyal to Lao Zhu, they will directly tell Lao Zhu that they suspect Ouyang Lun has something wrong.

"Fifth brother, you are too impatient." Zhu Di sat on the chair, casually took a piece of osmanthus cake from the hands of the princess of the Alitaz Sultanate, and then said to Zhu Su. "What's the problem with this? He's only focused on doing business, so the caravan must be deceitful. When his caravan returns, we'll find some people to kidnap them halfway, and everything will come to light, right?"

"Or maybe you and I should go right now and tie up Ouyang Lun from the Qinhuai River, torture him, and get the secrets out of him, and then we'll end it?"

"You think I haven't done it?" There was no concubine in Prince Yan's palace to serve him, so Zhu Su could only twist a piece of osmanthus cake by himself, and then threw the osmanthus cake into his mouth after drawing a parabola. "After that day, I sent people to the Prince Consort's Mansion and summoned Ouyang Lun for questioning... But Ouyang Lun insisted that he just wanted to do business properly, and even cried and said that our brothers did not regard him as a relative... …Anqing is our sister after all. If you don’t look at the monk’s face and the Buddha’s face, can you really beat this guy up?”

"There's nothing wrong with giving him a beating. It's better than losing his head." Zhu Di pursed his lips, and his concubine, who was once a princess, fed him another piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake in an extremely docile manner. Enjoying the tenderness of this Central Asian woman, Zhu Di now felt that it would be good to have a concubine.

"That ignorant thing, our brothers are trying to save him by beating him... If dad really takes action, it won't be as simple as beating him up."

"Even if he is beaten...with his body, can he withstand dad's dragon belt? He will definitely be beaten to death." When it comes to Lao Zhu's dragon belt, although he has not been beaten for many years, Zhu Di still Instinctively, there was a hint of fear.

Among the Zhu family members, he was the only one who was whipped the most. It is indeed Zhu Di who has the most say in how ferociously Lao Zhu beats people.

"Eldest brother doesn't want to cause trouble in the family because of Ouyang Lun. Since we, the younger brothers, have been entrusted by our elder brother, we have no choice but to do our best, right?" Zhu Su said. Thinking back to the history of later generations, the man named Ouyang Lun seemed to have been killed by Lao Zhu for seeking death. This seemed to have become a grudge between Lao Zhu, Zhu Biao and Queen Ma.

This matter is too detailed, I don’t remember the details.

Now that this matter has not happened yet, it doesn't hurt to find a way to make things right.

"It's strange, how come Ouyang Lun, a scholar, wants to do business so much. Don't they, the scholars, hate competing with the people for profit?" Zhu Di said boredly while eating sweet-scented osmanthus cake. He was extremely unwilling to get involved in these family affairs, so there was a hint of disgust in his tone.

"If you say it's Fengmingzhou's business, that's a bit excusable. After all, profit is so important that people's hearts are moved. Forget those pedantic words, it's reasonable to want to make a conspiracy."

"It's just the business in the north... most of the money and money belongs to the wealthy businessmen who enclose the land. How much money and money can he get from the Prince Consort's House?" Zhu Di said disdainfully. He has been in the north longer than Zhu Su, and he naturally knows more about things in the north. Although the northern grasslands are rich in furs and livestock, they are quite profitable. But in today's commercial markets, the most profitable business is to raise cattle and sheep in enclosures. Just being a businessman, unless you become a large-scale business, there won't be much profit.

Although Ouyang Lun is a prince-in-law, his family's financial background is far from enough to buy land on the grassland.

"By the way, families such as the Marquis of Ji'an and the Marquis of Yan'an have already raised sheep on the grasslands?" Zhu Su suddenly thought of something and asked Zhu Di. According to this, all of these nobles are successful in business?

Otherwise, how could Ouyang Lun feel envious?

"Huh? Not really." Zhu Di's answer was beyond Zhu Su's expectation.

"As far as I know, the Marquis of Ji'an's Lu family mostly takes the northwest route. Many of the guards in the northwest gates such as Yangguan and Yumen are old friends of his Lu family. With this relationship, It is safe for the Lu family to travel to the northwest. As for the Hou Tang family of Yan'an, most of their connections are in Liaodong. They usually resell some Korean products, which can be regarded as some profit..."

Zhu Di said. As for the distribution and origin of military generals in the surrounding areas, he, who had been obsessed with military affairs since his childhood, knew all about them. Zhu Su became more and more confused: "If you are just doing business, you wouldn't be able to make a lot of money... Could it be that Tang Shengzong and Lu Zhongheng are really so poor that they even want to bite the legs of mosquitoes that don't have much meat?" One bite?"

"Xu Zhen is at the end of his rope?" Zhu Di asked. "Or maybe we have found some source of wealth that we don't know about, we don't know."

Zhu Su felt more and more strange the more he thought about it, but that was all. The Marquis of Ji'an and the Marquis of Yan'an are already in dire straits now. If they had to investigate aggressively, it would seem that the Zhu family treated their meritorious officials a little too harshly. Just when he put his thoughts away, he saw someone striding in from outside as if entering his own home. When he saw Zhu Di and Zhu Su, he laughed boldly and said: "Haha, fourth child, fifth child!"

"Why do you sit still when you see your brother? Don't you know that you can go out to greet me?"

"Second brother?" Zhu Su took a closer look and was pleasantly surprised.

The person who came was none other than his second brother, King Qin Zhu Xi, whom he had not seen for a long time.

"...Qin, His Highness King Qin, please slow down..." At this time, the gatekeeper of Prince Yan's Mansion ran in out of breath. Seeing that Zhu Xi had already met Zhu Su and Zhu Di, the gatekeeper hurriedly knelt down and said: "Second, Your Highnesses... Your Highnesses, please forgive me. Your Highness, the King of Qin, did not wait for the villain to tell you, but just walked away..."

"The villain really can't catch up..."

This second brother had been unconventional in his early years, but over the past few years, he has become more bold and unruly.

(End of this chapter)