Chapter 74: Looking to the Future, Making It Big and Strong

The Jin family was stunned when they received sixteen hundred taels.

It was too much, far exceeding their expectations.

Originally, they thought that if they could have eight or nine hundred taels of silver, they would be satisfied. Who made their own family ask for help. Although they knew it was a cheap sale, they could only pinch their noses and admit it. Now the isolated copies are not useful, but the silver can be used for great purposes. Handling officials on the road, buying medicinal materials, clothes, and food. When arriving at the place of exile, they also need to handle local officials, and the whole family has to live, and money is needed everywhere.

Chen Tou is really a trustworthy person!

It's just a pity that Chen Tou didn't show up himself, and only sent a middle-aged man to give the money.

The Jin family's old servant sighed, their own master's judgment of people was accurate, confirming that Chen Tou was a person who kept his promises, acted with principles, and didn't reach out randomly. Unlike other prison guards, who were all drilling into the money pit, they dared to ask for eight-tenths of a thousand taels of silver.

The old servant also understood the situation. The money Chen Tou gave was definitely a high price that could be sold at the moment, and no higher price could be found. This is true trustworthiness, true honesty.

According to the agreement, Chen Guanlou took four hundred taels. He took out two hundred taels and gave them to Du Fuzi as Du Fuzi's intermediary fee.

Du Fuzi refused repeatedly, saying nothing would take it. "As long as you often come to accompany me to drink and eat meat, I will be satisfied."

But Chen Guanlou couldn't pass the hurdle in his heart.

Du Fuzi was living in the capital alone, and his wife and children were waiting for him to send money back to live in his hometown.

"Fuzi helped me a lot this time. If I don't take a penny, what kind of person would I become? In the future, I wouldn't dare to ask you for help. Besides, Fuzi shouldn't think for himself, but also think for the teacher's wife. The teacher's wife has worked hard for so many years, it's not too much to eat something delicious."

Chen Guanlou insisted on stuffing two hundred taels into Du Fuzi's hands.

Du Fuzi only felt that the silver note was hot in his hand, and refused again and again, and finally only took one hundred taels. With this one hundred taels, the family's life would be greatly improved.

Seeing that Du Fuzi insisted on not taking more, Chen Guanlou planned to bring more delicious food and drinks to Du Fuzi in the future.

Du Fuzi drank wine and talked a lot. He told Chen Guanlou: "The Eldest Master has an impression of you. Next time you have such good things, just go through the back door into the Hou Fu, and the Eldest Master wants to see you personally."

"See me for what? I am a small person, out of the five clothes, can I enter the Eldest Master's eyes?" Chen Guanlou had no excitement or honor, but doubted the Eldest Master's intentions.

He didn't believe that good things could fall on him. He was a person with self-knowledge; he knew what his identity was and what kind of evaluation he had in others' eyes.

"You don't have to be self-deprecating. The Eldest Master said it himself, you are stronger than your father. Your father didn't understand these things before, and didn't know how to be flexible in doing things, so that when he encountered things, no one helped."

Chen Guanlou didn't care at all and said: "My father was a marginal figure in the Heavenly Prison, managing documents and files, with no oil and water, and couldn't even think of him when distributing money. He had the title of prison clerk, but no matching income."

"You also look down on your father?" Du Fuzi smiled.

Chen Guanlou shook his head when he heard this: "I think my father chose the wrong line of work. He shouldn't have gone to the filthy place of the Heavenly Prison. Any yamen is better than the Heavenly Prison. I don't know how he chose it back then, and actually ran to the Heavenly Prison to serve."

Disliking it on his lips, but his heart had other thoughts: The Heavenly Prison is good! The Heavenly Prison's errand is an iron rice bowl, passed from father to son, son to grandson. The prison guards of the Heavenly Prison, no matter how many batches have been changed, are basically inherited, and the ancestors either had a father or a grandfather who did this line, and there is basically no complete newcomer.

The old one died, the second one tops it. The second one died, the third one tops it. If all died, let the next generation top it. Anyway, in one sentence, this bowl of rice is held firmly. Even if he knows there is a risk, he can't stop the enthusiasm of the prison guard professional household.

It's really giving too much.

You can't earn so much money in other industries, and you can still pretend to be a tiger.

Du Fuzi nodded repeatedly: "Your father's temper is indeed not suitable for the Heavenly Prison. On the contrary, you, at a young age, are slick in handling things, know how to adapt to circumstances, and are like a fish in water in the Heavenly Prison."

"Does Fuzi know my father?"

When his father died, Du Fuzi hadn't come to the Hou Fu to teach. Teaching was a matter after he died.

"I didn't know him, and I haven't seen him, I just heard a few things about your father, and analyzed his character from it. Your father is actually more suitable to go to some clear water yamen, with few things, not stained with filth, and alone."

"Fuzi has insight. I toast you a glass. In the future, we will cooperate often. I lack vision, you help me look at it, and then the Eldest Master helps us dispose of stolen goods... pfft pfft pfft, the Eldest Master takes care of our business."

Chen Guanlou's mouth slipped, his mouth was faster than his brain. Fortunately, he realized the problem and quickly changed his words.

He doesn't understand gold, stone, and antiques; he is a layman. But the scholars of this era, especially the old scholars like Du Fuzi who are teachers in luxurious families, basically know a little. Even if they can't compare with professional pawnshop clerks, they are countless times stronger than ordinary people.

Compared to extorting money from prisoners, he feels that buying and selling goods for prisoners is more righteous. This is a new way of making money, and he decided to do it. Selling goods to the Eldest Master, don't worry about who will check.

If the Emperor doesn't speak, the political situation doesn't change, which yamen dares to check the study of a first-class Marquis of the dynasty? Don't want your head?

If one day, there is a yamen coming to investigate the Hou Fu, it is definitely not because of disposing of stolen goods, but because of standing in the wrong team, or annoying the old Emperor, there will be no third reason. Since ancient times, for thousands of years, top-tier noble families, falling into decline overnight, can't escape these two reasons.

What kind of killing people like grass, forcing good people into prostitution, forcibly occupying people's fields, private transfer, corruption and bribery, are not enough to make these top-tier noble families decline overnight. Only offending the Emperor and standing in the wrong team is the fatal thing.

The bad things Jiang Tu has done over the years can be described as countless, and no yamen has dared to raid the Jiang family. The old Emperor protects him for one day, and Jiang Tu is safe and sound.

However, when the new Emperor succeeds, he will definitely be the first to take Jiang Tu to the knife.

No wonder Jiang Tu and the Crown Prince are not in harmony, one side wants to kill the other, and the other side wants to pull the Crown Prince off the horse. Fight, fight. Since the old Emperor got old, the political situation has become more and more turbulent. Jiang Tu is just a small pawn in the center of the turmoil.

Du Fuzi really admires Chen Guanlou's spirit of daring to think and do, this execution ability is stronger than many people's words. Most people in the world talk a lot, do little, or even don't do it, and only know how to complain all day long.

However, he was still a bit hesitant. "Can this work? The Heavenly Prison doesn't have so many opportunities for you. If others see you making money, can they not be jealous?"

Chen Guanlou sneered: "What's the use of being jealous? Who made them not members of the Chen family, and can't find a generous and knowledgeable buyer like the Eldest Master. That group of people in the Heavenly Prison, from top to bottom, are all people without foundation. I am inside, even if I am out of the five clothes from the Hou Fu, I am already considered the one with the hardest background. Wan Yucheng dare not be hard on me, although there is Fan Yucheng's warning, isn't it also worried about the Chen family behind me. The Chen family has thousands of people, and my errand was spoken by Liu Guanshi, Wan Yucheng also has to worry about the Hou Fu."

"This is called pulling the tiger skin to make a big flag. If Wan Yucheng knew the inside story of the Chen clan, he wouldn't have to worry about the Hou Fu."

"Where can he go to inquire about the inside story of the Chen clan? Which member of the Chen family will talk nonsense outside. It doesn't matter if you talk nonsense in front of the same clan. If you talk nonsense outside, just wait to be beaten!"

The clan also has the benefits of the clan, and the family ugliness cannot be spread. Everyone hugs together to the outside, and then divides the high and low internally.

As long as the Hou Fu has not declined for one day, the members of the Chen clan must be careful when doing things and pay attention to the rules.

When the Hou Fu declines one day, there are no rules, and it will be like the Dream of the Red Chamber, the clan members are embarrassing outside, and the inside story of the Hou Fu is known to everyone and spread throughout the capital, and the face is lost to the imperial palace. The government catches the pain, and it is a catch. ===== CHAPTER 75 =====