My uncle is Zhu Di

Chapter 32 Complaining about Zhu Di with Zhu Di

Zhu Di was very surprised when he heard Xu Qin's words, and asked quickly: "You mean...your father helped?"

"I don't know. Anyway, my father won't accept it! He said he was blind, and I don't know who to refer to, himself or Your Majesty. Never mind. Hey, Brother Wu, um, the princess has 300,000 taels?" Xu Qin looked at Zhu Di and asked.

"Yes, yes! Our princess does have this little bit of money!" Zhu Di nodded immediately, admitting this. After thinking about it, he asked, "Does Master Xu have any good business?"

"Yes, but let's get through this first. After that, I will help her make money. Then she can say a few good words for me in front of my aunt, and I will be scolded less, right?" Xu Qin nodded and said to Zhu Di.

"This level?" Zhu Di immediately grasped the key point.

"Well, that person is a bit too bullying. Tell me, my cloth business is legal, right? I didn't cheat the people, right? I didn't rob people, right?" Xu Qin sighed and said to Zhu Di.

"No, I haven't heard of it! Although there were fights before, I haven't heard of any plundering or robbery!" Zhu Di followed Xu Qin's words, hoping that Xu Qin could say more.

"Really? Do you believe it? He actually asked me to go to the Weaving Bureau and be the chief weaving officer? A fourth-rank official? Do you think he did it on purpose? No matter what, my father was also a duke before, right? No matter what, my grandfather was also the Duke of Wei, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, right?
"No matter how useless I am, I am still the eldest son and grandson of Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, who founded the Ming Dynasty, right? I go to the Weaving Bureau? A fourth-rank official? He might as well let me go to the cleansing room and cut off the lineage of Xu Da's eldest son and grandson!" Xu Qin said very depressed, thinking that it was too bullying!
"This, this, Your Majesty would not think so, right? I think I heard it wrongly?" Zhu Di sat there, thinking to himself, I really don't want you to go to the cleansing room, I want you to go to the weaving bureau to make money.

"Hmph, you're still talking about expanding my workshop. How are the livelihoods of millions of weavers going to be solved? I'm not an official in the court. I'm just a cloth merchant. Can't I make money? The livelihoods of those people are his and those officials' business, and he's putting it on me!" Xu Qin continued with a look of dissatisfaction.

"This, this!" Zhu Di sat there, not knowing how to persuade him for a moment.

"He also said that he wanted my Xu family workshop to be incorporated into the weaving bureau, saying that my Xu family and the Duke Dingguo's Mansion would take 10% of the profits, and that he wanted me to earn 10 million taels a year for him. 10 million taels, 10%, 1 million taels, and he also wanted to share it with my fourth uncle's family?

Even if I lie still now, I can earn more than 500,000 taels! He also said that he would reward the Duke of Wei's Mansion. My father is not the Duke of Wei anymore. Letting the Xu family return to the Duke of Wei's Mansion, isn't this deliberately disgusting? Look at the things he did, which one would a normal person do? "Xu Qin sat there, getting more and more excited as he spoke.

When Zhu Di heard this, he was so angry. What did he mean by "not something a normal person could do"? In order to prevent Xu Qin from noticing the look in his eyes that wanted to kill him, Zhu Di could only grit his teeth and lower his head.

"Forget it, why should I tell you so much?" Xu Qin noticed that Zhu Di lowered his head, and realized that what he had just said was a bit inappropriate. If these words got to Zhu Di's ears, he would probably be in big trouble!
"Eh!" Zhu Di found that Xu Qin stopped talking, which was not okay, so he sighed.

"What's wrong?" Xu Qin stared at Zhu Di, wondering why he sighed.

Zhu Di sighed again, his mind working rapidly, thinking about how he could empathize with Xu Qin. In this way, he might be able to gain Xu Qin's trust, and eventually find out who the master behind Xu Qin was!

"Don't sigh. Did he bully you too? No, what's the point of bullying you? You are just a small character. How could you bully your princess? That's impossible, right?" Xu Qin asked Zhu Di who lowered his head.

"Hey!" Zhu Di had an idea when he heard that their princess was being bullied. He continued, "Our princess had more than one million taels of property before, more than three million taels. You don't know that Emperor Jianwen gave our princess a lot of rewards before, including tens of thousands of acres of land, as well as some manors and mansions. He took them all back. What do you think? Hey!"

"He even attacked his own sister?" Xu Qin asked in surprise.

"Of course not. Emperor Taizu likes our princess very much and gave her many rewards, but they were all taken back later. Otherwise, why would our princess want to make money with you? Our princess wanted to buy back all the houses and lands that Emperor Taizu gave her when she had money. Do you understand?" Zhu Di looked up at Xu Qin and asked.

"I understand, I understand. After all, it was given to him by Princess Baoqing's father. The affection is there. Look at what he has done. How can a human being do that?" Xu Qin nodded immediately and said to Zhu Di.

"Yes, she is my own sister, and I took her back. How can a human being do this?" Zhu Di also nodded. He said that he was just making it up and he had never done it.

"Right, Brother Wu, let's go to Cuiyueju for dinner. I'll treat you!" Xu Qin was very happy. He finally met someone with whom he could complain about Zhu Di. He never dreamed that this was a trap!
How could he have imagined that Princess Baoqing would set a trap for him, and how could he have imagined that Zhu Di would have nothing better to do and dig a trap to bury him!

"I have something to do at noon. I have to inspect the farm and go to Fengyang. There's no need to eat. Come, Mr. Xu, have some tea instead of wine!" Zhu Di immediately picked up the teacup and said to Xu Qin, thinking that Cuiyueju had not been arranged yet. It would be bad if he ran into an acquaintance and was exposed.

"So busy?" Xu Qin looked at Zhu Di suspiciously and asked. "Of course! The princess has so many properties, don't I have to take care of them? Our princess is so pitiful! Without parents, the people in the palace are snobbish. Although His Majesty and the Empress dote on her now, she can't always go back to His Majesty and the Empress for everything after she gets married, right? If our princess has money, then she won't care. There are plenty of ways to deal with those ignorant people!" Zhu Di said to Xu Qin seriously.

"Loyal servant, what a loyal servant. Oh, if I had a servant like you, I would wake up laughing in my dreams!" Xu Qin gave Zhu Di a thumbs up again and said.

"Mr. Xu, you're joking. Your father actually has many subordinates like this!" Zhu Di immediately turned the topic to Xu Huizu.

After hearing this, Xu Qin waved his hand and said, "It's outdated, understand? My father was confined at home for five years and never allowed his subordinates to visit him. This was to avoid suspicion and to avoid causing trouble for himself and his subordinates. You know that our emperor is suspicious!"

"Yes, yes, yes, I've heard of it!" Zhu Di nodded immediately.

"Yeah, so, look at me, I just lie here with nothing to do. To be honest, I don't even have a friend!" Xu Qin sighed and said, it was a real sigh, he really had no friends.

"Ah, not really?" Zhu Di asked Xu Qin in surprise.

"My father told me not to make friends with others. Making friends with others will harm them. When His Majesty finds out, he will deal with them again!" Xu Qin leaned back on the recliner and said with a wry smile.

After hearing this, Zhu Di thought to himself, I am not that stingy!
Xu Qin turned his head and said to Zhu Di: "Brother Wu, don't act too close to me when you are outside, otherwise, if His Majesty finds out, you will suffer the consequences. The King of Zhao is not a good person. He reports all my news to His Majesty!"

Zhu Di smiled at this moment and said, "I am just a servant, and a servant of Her Royal Highness the Princess. What should I be afraid of? If His Majesty wants to investigate, he probably won't embarrass me for the sake of the Princess. However, what we said cannot be spread outside!"

"Hehe!" Xu Qin smiled and nodded to Zhu Di, saying, "Brother, be steady!"

"That's right!" Zhu Di also nodded with a smile, and then asked: "Then how do you solve the problem you just mentioned? If you don't agree, will His Majesty punish you then?"

"What's there to be afraid of? I will continue to expand. I must let him know that I, Xu Qin, am also good at making money. He looks down on people, so I must do something to show him. Let him see how my family makes a fortune!" Xu Qin said to Zhu Di with arrogance.

"This, Mr. Xu, is inappropriate. Don't be impulsive. Think about it, if you go against His Majesty, nothing good will happen to you!" Zhu Di advised Xu Qin sincerely.

"What are you afraid of? It's just that he takes over those workshops. I don't care. I can start another business by then. Hehe! There are many ways to make money!

He even threatened me with the livelihoods of millions of weavers. I don't know what he was thinking. Can't he settle millions of weavers? Can he have nothing to do? Anyone with a bit of brains can settle them!" Xu Qin said with great contempt while lying there.

"Ah?" Zhu Di looked at Xu Qin in surprise. Anyone with a little bit of brains could have thought of this? Why didn't he think of this? Did he have no brains?
"Okay, I won't tell you now. Let me tell you, our Majesty doesn't know how to make money, but only knows how to spend it recklessly! He even asked me to go to the Weaving Bureau to earn 10 million taels. If I go to the Weaving Bureau, I can earn more than 10 million taels. He really looks down on me!" Xu Qin continued with emotion.

"Mr. Xu, ten million taels, not one million taels!" Zhu Di looked at Xu Qin and reminded him.

"I know, ten million taels! If he doesn't care about me, I can make more than ten million taels a year in my dyeing workshop! Okay, I'll take you with me then, and we'll make money together!" Xu Qin waved his hand and said to Zhu Di.

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Xu, but how will this matter be resolved when the time comes?" Zhu Di continued to ask.

He also wanted to hear how Xu Qin was going to deal with his pressure.

"Solve nothing, I'm just going to bear it. I just want him to take over my workshop. Hehe, I want to let the world see what reason he has to take over my workshop! Besides, if he takes over my workshop, will the problem of those weavers be solved? Hehe, there will be a time when he will beg me for help!" Xu Qin was very proud and was not afraid at all.

But Zhu Di didn't understand. How could Xu Qin have the confidence to say that he could solve the livelihood problem of millions of weavers?

(End of this chapter)