Chapter 344

This is Liu Bu's principle of employment. Since he decided to use a person, he promised what he wanted, and then let him go all out to strive for it.

Liu Bu now maintains such a big business of the Liu family, which is actually very difficult. To know that so many people rely on them for food, they must ensure that these people have food and do something. If they can't maintain this situation, the current good situation of the Liu family will collapse.

It can be said that their current situation is that if they don't advance, they will retreat, so they can only do everything they can to make themselves further.

In fact, people like Liu Bu who try their best to steal money are not just him. Basically, everyone who is an official is like this. That's not the case with a senior member of the imperial court.

Perhaps they were from a poor family. After ten years of hard study, they became officials of the imperial court and successfully received all kinds of benefits. It can be said that in the Ming Dynasty, which of the officials at the central level is not worth millions?

However, these people get money and use their personal enjoyment to build houses at home, buy beautiful concubines or hide at home, while the Liu family only uses the money they embezzle and get to expand their practical strength.

When others get money, they may buy some luxury houses, beautiful women, antiques, calligraphy and painting, etc., but Liu Bu doesn't pursue these things, but takes the initiative to sell some antique calligraphy and painting in his hand. Even the Chen beauty around him is directly robbed by him. Although he has money, he thinks it's too wrong to spend so, So he directly ordered his hand to rob.

Chen Yuanyuan, once a famous beauty in Suzhou, was robbed and abducted by people. At that time, it was a big case that caused a sensation in Suzhou. Her boss Li laoguai also reported the case, but it was not settled in the end, and no one could find it.

Even if the government forces can find out from Shandong and the Liu family, can they tolerate him? Why not Liu Bu?

Today's Liu Bu has an extremely high status. His status is second. He has real power that many court ministers can't have. What's real power? That's because he has an army. For example, even if the emperor is unhappy with all the Shangshu in the court, he can be directly removed, but if the emperor wants to remove Liu Bu from his position, It's not easy.

You should know that the consequences of his dismissal of Liu Bu's position are extremely serious. Liu Jiajun is not an army whose military power can be lifted by a decree.

So Liu Bu was very confident when he did this. Even if he robbed Chen Yuanyuan, he didn't mean to keep a low profile. He knew that the other party would come to the door sooner or later, and he would find out sooner or later, but what's the harm? What else can he do to Liu Bu as the boss of a pear garden?

What's strange about him robbing civilian women? Where are officers who don't rob civilian women? This is in line with the standard of officers in the eyes of scholar bureaucrats. You know, in the eyes of scholar bureaucrats, officers are Qiu Ba, who are the people for them to drive and use. They don't need a good reputation, they just need to be obedient.

Draw inferences from one instance, that is, Liu Bu can do this in this respect, so he can do it when he sets up this trap. Unless he is caught on the spot, even if there is evidence pointing at him afterwards, there is no way to take him. Therefore, Liu Bu will say that even if you know this method, not everyone can play it, It's not warning or intimidating Wu Xiuwen, but it's true.

Because they planned that the plate would be too big. They didn't have enough appetite and manpower. They couldn't eat so much money. It was because they were rich and powerful that they dared to do this. Although it wasn't robbery, they were no different from robbery.

In many cases, the essence of taking and robbing is the same. They dare to do so because they have full confidence. As long as they raise troops to rebel secretly, the imperial court knows that they violate laws and regulations, but there is no way to take them.

The court will certainly be intolerable and choose to suppress the Liu family's rebellion, but the court will never arrest and accuse them because the Liu family robbed a woman or cheated some people's money.

Of course, the great gods and officials in the court will certainly send a document or use their power to oppress the Liu family, hoping that they can turn themselves in, but if the Liu family bird them, they can only end up.

It was also after the Liu family had such a great confidence that they dared to operate such a plate and rob it in another way.

Liu Bu and his wife are greedy people. Their desire for money is very eager. They urgently need to get a sum of money to make their army stronger and keep their strength stable. Therefore, in addition to daring to raise troops to rebel, they do other things that can make money. For them, this practice is more conservative and restrained.

Fan Ruoshui, a salt merchant in Yangzhou, was born in Huizhou. They first made a fortune by selling wood in Huizhou, and then gradually transferred to the salt industry. As a result, they successfully squeezed into this industry and made a fortune from it, becoming one of the very famous salt merchants.

At the height of their wealth, the fan family's mansion in the small East Gate covered an area of more than ten miles, with numerous buildings and thousands of servants. Although the fan family was only a white man, he lived a life of fine clothes and food, which was no different from the princes.

The fan family has been prosperous for nearly a hundred years. In theory, their inside information is not under the Liu family.

However, the leaders of the Liu family for several generations are smart, and their business is getting bigger and bigger, while the fan family is the offspring of weasels, and one nest is worse than another.

In fan Ruoshui's generation, there are only empty shelves left. As one of the eight famous salt merchants in the Jianghuai area, their business share is constantly oppressed and reduced. They can no longer be called salt merchants, but can barely maintain it.

In fan Ruoshui's generation, they have no real things except the empty shelf of a salt merchant. Their business share has been occupied by their competitors. Even their servants have gone and scattered, but there are only hundreds of people left. Fan Ruoshui can't help feeling very sad when he thinks of the prosperity and prosperity of his family when he was a teenager.

He is equivalent to a despondent grandson. He can't help feeling a lot when he thinks of the glory of his ancestors, the desolation now and the white eyes and humiliation he has suffered.

Fan Ruoshui has mediocre qualifications, no ability to do business, and no decision-making ability of his ancestors. He just eats, drinks and waits to die on the assets left by his ancestors. They have no advantages except eating, drinking, whoring, gambling and playing with women. Therefore, the family business is getting smaller and smaller, so that he is swept away by the servants at home. The business is getting smaller and smaller. In addition, the backstage of his officialdom is toppling, They were hit and squeezed by their competitors, and their business became worse and worse, and finally became no business to do.

When he came here, he had no other income except to collect rent from the fields and shops left by his ancestors, and he could no longer live a life of spending a lot of money.

Fan Ruoshui always thinks of his ancestral glory and his current depression. He always sighs and thinks that the times are bad and his servants are not good, so he can't fully help him. His business is getting worse and worse, which has become today's depressed situation.

Fan Ruoshui certainly has the idea of revitalizing his ancestral career and restoring his glory, but every effort has no other results except to make him lose more money, which makes him lose his fighting spirit and feel hesitant about the future. You know, they sell land and land every year. In this era, selling land and land is the most useless person. Fan Ruoshui thinks of these things, I knew I had no face to see my ancestors.

Whenever he thought of these things, he was even more sad and sighed, but he had nothing else to do except sad and sighed. What he thought day and night was how to revitalize his ancestral industry and make himself rich overnight.

He was sleeping that night. Suddenly, there was a golden light outside the window, and a white haired fairy came out in a golden light.

Seeing the momentum of the other party, fan Ruoshui was very shocked. He immediately knelt down and said, "I don't know if the immortal is coming. What can I do for you?"

The immortal, who was surrounded by a golden light, said: "I'm the Baiyun Shangxian from Penglai fairy mountain in the East China Sea. I've been practicing Taoism on Baiyun Mountain and preparing to become an immortal, but I haven't been able to understand the avenue. I pinched my fingers and found that my immortal has a relationship with the world. It's from the great kindness of your ancestor Cuiyun Gong 80 years ago. If I can't repay the great kindness of the fan family, it's difficult to climb the avenue after all, so I come to repay the kindness and help you develop the fan family."

Fan Ruoshui was greatly surprised. He pretended to worship Buddha Day and night, asking God to bless him. An immortal gave him countless gold, silver and jewelry, so that he could become rich overnight and restore the glory of his ancestors.

But he knew it was just a fantasy, but he could not imagine that his dream would come true one day, which made him very excited. He knelt down excitedly, kowtowed several times and said, "ancestors bless! Gods bless!"

The man of God, who was surrounded by a golden light, said, "do you have any wishes to say one by one? If the immortal can do it, he will help you achieve it."

Fan Ruoshui said without hesitation, "I want to be a senior official, the biggest official in the world and the most women. It's best to be an emperor."

Since the gods gave him wealth and hot water, he was not weak and spoke out his deepest desire. His hometown Zhu Yuanzhang, a beggar and a beggar, could be an emperor. He was the son of a salt merchant, and the aristocratic son of an aristocratic family could not be an emperor at ordinary times.

The white cloud immortal shook his head and said, "you don't have the order of the emperor or an official. The immortal can't do this."

Fan Ruoshui was very disappointed. He said, "you are an immortal. Are there any things that an immortal can't do?"

Baiyun Shangxian said, "even the original immortal should follow the heaven and not act against the heaven. You can't be an emperor without the emperor's life."