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

Chapter 769 Human Trafficking

"It turns out to be Prince Zhou's Mansion...That's it." Zhu Su said coldly, lowering his head slightly and taking a sip of tea to hide his gloomy expression.

This is really... eating melons at your own home, actually risking your own name to cheat.

He put down the tea cup, gently shook the "Yushu Linfeng" folding fan in his hand, and covered his thoughtful face calmly. Although he has rarely returned to the capital in recent years, he has faked the name of the royal family and deceived him. If someone exposes him, it will be a capital crime. Who can have such courage? After thinking about it, Zhu Su decided to ask directly.

"May I ask your last name?"

"Haha, you are so polite, Young Master, so my surname is Shen, and my name is only the word 'Yan'. I, the Shen family, have been friends with His Highness the Fifth Highness for five years since Hongwu. Among the many merchants who work for His Highness, my Shen family is the first one..." Is this villain qualified to do business with the Hou Mansion this time?"

"The Shen family...haha." Zhu Su chuckled, that's it. The Shen family is the descendant of Shen Wansan. When he first established his business, he did cooperate with the Shen family. At that time, he was short of silver and there was no one in the Shen family. It can be said that the two hit it off.

However, later on, he discovered that the nephew of the Shen family was hoarding food in Suzhou, and his relationship with the Shen family became much estranged. Coupled with the participation of many more loyal businessmen such as the rice merchant Zhao and the "Ten Thousand Households" Tao, the Shen family was gradually forgotten by himself.

Although he now strongly supports Ming Dynasty in developing commerce and trade, such merchants who regard the common people as useless and dare to hoard food for profit during disaster years are also the targets of his spared no effort to attack. If it hadn't been for the fact that during the battle with Naha in Jizhen, the Shen family brought a grain ship all the way to help when they were buying military rations from merchants in order to seek forgiveness, they would have almost terminated their cooperation with the Shen family.

By the way, it is said that this market was jointly run by businessmen from Suzhou and Hangzhou? The Shen family's business is located in Suzhou.

"Since it is an estate in the name of His Royal Highness King Zhou...then my Marquis Mansion has no problem with it."

"Given the relationship between my uncle and His Highness, if we bargain, I should be scolded... Let's put it bluntly, how much can you give to our house, how much we need to pay?"

There is no need to have an attack at this time, and it may even be enough to scare the real big fish behind. So Zhu Su deliberately acted like he was talking about business, wanting to find out what the third person was doing when he entered the hospital.

Sure enough, after the previous conversation, Shen Yan of the Shen family had completely believed that Zhu Su was an ordinary disciple sent by the Pingliang Hou Mansion to discuss business. Shen Yan said proudly: "My Highness and the Marquis are in the west. Because of the relationship, we will not take advantage of the Hou Mansion..."

"In this case, the Marquis of Pingliang won a great victory in the west, and I think we also took a lot of thieves as prisoners... We want five thousand men, and each person is considered to be twenty taels of silver. How about a total of one hundred thousand taels?"

"Five thousand people, one hundred thousand taels?" Zhu Su said in surprise.

"Isn't it too little for the young master?" Shen Yan raised his eyebrows and continued: "This is a lot of money. There are not many Han people in the west. The Han people are ignorant and untamable. Twenty taels of silver per person is already an extremely high price. …”

"But this way, if the Marquis can send some elite Xifan warriors, we can buy each one for thirty taels of silver... This is a lot. In the disaster years of the BC Yuan Dynasty, even a good young man only needed twenty taels of silver. You can take away the broken silver."

"Of course, we also want the weapons and armor of the Western captives..."

"You still want weapons and armor?" Zhu Su's eyebrows were already wrinkled into the character "Sichuan".

"Of course." Shen Yan looked very surprised, as if the question Zhu Su asked was so unbelievable. "If they want to go to sea, how can they do it without weapons?" Zhu Su keenly caught the word "going to sea", and he vaguely guessed that the business of this third hospital was for those merchants and nobles who went to sea. Although the imperial ban did not explicitly prohibit the buying and selling of foreign slaves, they were still very wary of accumulating a large number of young men.

Not to mention that Shen Yan would buy five thousand people as soon as he opened his mouth. We even want elite soldiers with blades and armor.

And the sentence "there are not many Han people" also made Zhu Su very concerned. Do they still dare to buy and sell Han people?

"Ahem, I don't know whether this price is fair or not. I don't know about other princes..." Zhu Su coughed a few times and said deliberately.

I wanted to continue to get some information, but unexpectedly the door opened suddenly, and a person suddenly came in. He first glanced at Zhu Su with great fear, and then quickly reached into Shen Yan's ear and spoke very fast. Something.

Shen Yan consciously controlled the rhythm of the discussion. Fang held up the tea as if he was an old man. Seeing this man intruding, he just frowned with ease and showed displeasure.

But after listening to these whispers, the calm look on his face disappeared in an instant, and his expression quickly became as golden as paper.

With a "pop" sound, the fine Song Dynasty Ru kiln azure glaze porcelain cup fell to the ground.

"Your Majesty... Your Highness?" He no longer cared about the tea cup, but stood up with a trembling look, then his legs softened and he knelt directly on the ground.

Xu Shi accidentally knelt on the porcelain piece. The moment he knelt down, Shen Yan grimaced in pain, but he did not dare to get up in front of Zhu Su, and his whole body was shaking like chaff.

Zhu Su's expression turned cold for a moment. The fact that the Shen family was able to learn his identity so quickly meant that it was very likely that someone around him or in his family would tip off his family at any time... This matter was even bigger for Zhu Su than the human market or Ouyang Lun. Too much is definitely a level that Zhu Su cannot tolerate.

"If anyone else knows about my whereabouts, I will kill your entire family!" Zhu Su threatened them fiercely. The two of them trembled suddenly and almost fell to the ground. Then Zhu Su said to Shen Yan: "Go and ask Shen Sen to come to the palace to see me!"

"It's a moment late, you're the only one asking!"

Shen Sen is the current head of the Shen family. The two old family heads, Shen Rong and Shen Wang, who had interacted with Zhu Su in the past, passed away a few years ago. Now, it is the younger generation Shen Sen who heads the family.

"Yes, yes..." Shen Yan was already sweating profusely and became a kowtowing bug like Nono. In any case, he never expected that the person in front of him was actually the famous Zhou King Zhu Su. He can't even think of anything else now. There is only one thought in his mind: It's over. He just wanted to humiliate His Highness, and he was using His Highness's own power...

"Your Highness." When he saw someone hurriedly running inside, the dog had already started to rush in. When he broke away from a large group of guards in the courtyard and rushed into the house, what he saw was that everyone else in the house was kneeling. This is the scene where only Zhu Su is standing. Knowing that Zhu Su's identity had been exposed, he no longer hid it, but openly took out the thunderbolt from his waist and protected him in front of Zhu Su.

"Let's go back to the house." Zhu Su said. Since this market is the so-called "own property", if you want to know the inside story, you can just directly interrogate the Shen family.

He wanted to see what earth-shattering things these merchants had done in their name!

(End of this chapter)