Father can be an enemy to the country

Who is Luo Guanzhong? How come Zhang Shicheng's military advisor, the target of the Ming Dynasty's dictatorship, has become a court eagle?

what does that mean? The Ming Dynasty has not yet entered its tenth year, and even the people around King Zhang no longer insist...

What made the wealthy people even more uneasy was that they found two old acquaintances standing next to Luo Guanzhong, Shen Rong and Gu Yuanchen.

Although the two of them are much older, the wealthy Jiangnan family will not admit their mistake.

The appearance of Luo Guanzhong only made everyone in the audience sigh. The appearance of these two people made many people restless.

Needless to say, Shen Rong, the Shen family's wealth was divided up by these people in the audience.

As for Gu Yuanchen, a large family in Suzhou is known as "Gu Lu". The Gu family and the Lu family are parallel. The two families have been married for generations and share weal and woe. Before the Gu family was moved to Fengyang, Gu Yuanchen asked Lu Zhonghe to help deal with his property.

He was originally worried that if he disposed of it hastily, he would be overpriced, so he asked the Lu family to sell it slowly on his behalf. As a result, the Lu family did not let others cheat them, because the Lu family took all the Gu family's property for nothing...

Lu Zhonghe's calculations were perfect. The Gu family was gone forever anyway... Even if they had a chance to come back, he was sure to mess with them... In this case, why waste money?

He didn't expect to meet Gu Yuanchen again on this occasion. When I think about what I was talking about just now, it was the first thing the Buddha said after he became enlightened. His face was on fire, and he wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in.

Zhu Zhen seemed to understand Lu Zhonghe's psychology, stared at him with a smile and asked: "Then what do you mean?"

"That's right." Lu Zhonghe didn't dare to raise his head and said with difficulty: "It means literally - all living beings have the wisdom and virtue of the Tathagata, but they cannot attain the Tathagata because of their persistent delusions. If you can get rid of your delusions, You can become a Buddha even without the guidance of a master..."

"Okay, well said." Zhu Zhen gave him a thumbs up, then glanced at the big players in the field and said: "I see that everyone here has the wisdom of the Tathagata, and all of them can become Buddhas!"

"Haha..." the big family members said in murmur, "Your Highness has given you the award."

"I just don't know," he unexpectedly changed the subject again: "Can you let go of your delusions and attachments and build a beautiful and harmonious Shibo Company with me?"

Seeing that His Royal Highness the King of Chu finally mentioned the topic, all the wealthy people looked at Lu Zhonghe and Xie Yunzhang.

The latter stood up unhurriedly and said: "So that Your Highness will know that we are all members of the family who have cultivated and studied. We have several acres of thin farmland in our family and have been farming and mulberry for generations. We know nothing about shipping, shipping, or maritime trade." .”

"Yes, His Highness telling us about the Shibo Division is tantamount to asking a blind question." All the bigwigs agreed.

"Whether the Shipping Department is open or closed is a matter decided by the imperial court. Ordinary people like us have no way of commenting." Lu Zhonghe also said slowly and calmly: "Whether His Highness is in charge of the Shipping Department or the Salt Transportation Department, we, the law-abiding citizens, Everyone will support it, please just rest assured, Your Highness."

"Haha, okay, what this old man said is really nice." Zhu Zhen raised his thick eyebrows, as if suppressing his anger, and smiled after a while:

"Actually, legend has it that this Laba porridge has an origin. It is said that it was invented by my father. As you know, my father is a great inventor. He invented many things such as moon cakes, peeling skin and grass, etc. I don’t know if it’s true or not.

"But about this Laba porridge, he actually said it himself. He said that one winter when he was a child, he lost one of the cattle of the landlord... yes, the Liu De family. Although he found it later, Liu De still took it back. He was locked up in a cowshed and not allowed to eat or drink.

"It was very cold at that time, and my father was cold and hungry, and was about to die. Suddenly he found a mouse hole in the corner of the cowshed, and he dug and dug. Guess what? He actually took out a lot of red beans and rice. , red dates... eight kinds of whole grains. My father made these into porridge. Because it was the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, it was named Laba porridge.

"My father said that Liu De cried about poverty all day long and only ate one kind of coarse grain in front of outsiders. But he didn't expect that all the grain he saved was stolen by rats. Of course, the rats didn't eat it, and in the end they got an advantage on me. My father." Zhu Zhen said calmly, his sharp eyes swept over the crowd and said:

"Tell me, what does that Liu De want, what does that nest of rats want?"

"..." Everyone in the audience looked at each other in confusion. Many people didn't know what Lao Liu meant by this.

Even if there are people who understand, they don't dare to answer the call, they can only pretend to be confused while pretending to understand.

"It seems that none of you are Liu De who doesn't tell the truth, nor are you rats who are prone to stealing." Zhu Zhen smiled teasingly and asked, "Is this king right?"

"Yes, yes, of course." Everyone nodded hurriedly.

"Let me ask you one last time," Zhu Zhen said again and again: "Are there any maritime merchants among you, or do you have business dealings with maritime merchants?"

"No, absolutely not." A group of big investors answered firmly.

Well. "Zhu Zhen waved his hand, and soldiers filed out carrying trays.

The wealthy people thought that the food was finally served, but what was put on the table was a set of pens, ink, paper and inkstones.

"Your Highness, this is..." They looked at Lao Liu in confusion.

"Because I hate others to deceive me the most. Since you say that you are not a sea merchant, then just say it with your words and prove it with your words." Zhu Zhen said lightly: "I say something, you write something -"

"I promise that my whole family is not a maritime merchant, and has no business dealings with maritime merchants, let alone any other collusion. If what I say is untrue, I am willing to be severely punished by the law of the country, and will be given a fair punishment without any complaints!"

As he spoke, his eyes became sharper and he said with a piercing heart: "Whoever dares not to write is openly deceiving me. I will throw him into this porridge pot and add another treasure to the eight-treasure porridge!"

"Write!" the sergeants carrying the trays shouted in unison.

"Your Highness, isn't this appropriate?" Lu Zhonghe protested: "We said it has nothing to do with maritime merchants, but it doesn't matter. The pure will become pure and the dirty will become dirty. Why do we need to write a guarantee letter? This is a humiliation to us! "

"You bastard!" Zhu Zhen said coldly: "You have said three times that you have nothing to do with maritime merchants, but you dare not write down a guarantee in black and white. This only shows that you are full of lies and have nothing to do with maritime merchants!"

"It doesn't matter to me, but I just won't write!" Lu Zhonghe threw away his pen in anger, stood up and left the table.

However, two sergeants held down his shoulders and kept him motionless.

Then Lao Liuyi waved his hand and said: "Throw him into the porridge pot."

"How dare you?!" Lu Zhonghe was lifted up and slipped away, and he screamed with a pale face: "The guilds of the government and the public... will make you pay with your life!"

"You alone are worthy of my king paying for it with your life?" Zhu Zhen picked his ears indifferently and said: "Even if I cook you, I will be scolded by my father and imprisoned for a few days at most. What's more, you have provoked me several times. , my royal brothers will testify for me."

"..." Seeing that Lu Zhonghe was about to plunge his head into the porridge pot, he quickly screamed: "No, no, I'll write, I can't write!"

ps. I posted it earlier today because I have a dinner party tonight~~~