"My mistake was that I should have always held grudges and had trouble with Mr. Zhao." Liu Yuanwai finally understood the situation and behaved like a little quail.
"I shouldn't have ordered a ban on transporting grain to Kunshan, delaying your county's disaster relief."
"I shouldn't have let the water bandits intercept Wu Ji's grain ship, but ended up kidnapping Miss Jiang."
"I shouldn't deny it when things are about to happen"
"Well, that sums it up quite well." Mr. Zhao took a sip of tea, crossed his legs and asked, "Then what are you going to do?"
"As long as Young Master and Wu Ji can give Xiao Ke a chance to start over, I'm willing to pay fifty thousand taels each!" Liu Yuanwai gritted his teeth.
"Bah!" Zhao Hao spit out the tea leaves in his mouth and scolded with a smile: "You Liu Zhengqi, you are still pretending to me now."
As he spoke, he glared and said, "How dare you ask me for one hundred thousand taels of silver if you rob five of my grain ships! Are your entire net worth and your whole family combined together worth five grain ships?"
"That's because the lion opened its mouth deliberately to embarrass Wu Ji." Liu Yuanwai said with a shrinking neck.
"I am also a lion, what should I do?" Zhao Hao smiled coldly.
"Then, that family will be increased to 80,000a hundred thousand taels at most." Liu Yuanwai said with a sad face: "Master, you should know that Xiao Ke lost hundreds of thousands of taels on raw silk last year. Later, in order to stabilize the situation, he gave it away More than 100,000 taels. These 200,000 taels are already all the money in the account, and we have to close down many businesses to get it out."
"Where's my eldest brother's share?" Zhao Hao snorted without comment: "You want him to make this trip in vain?"
"Then, I'll borrow another fifty thousand taels. Is this done?" Liu Yuanwai said with a tearful voice, and finally couldn't help but burst into tears. It seemed that he really couldn't afford the compensation now.
"Okay, okay, don't mourn." Seeing that the heat was almost over, Zhao Hao waved his hand and said: "The thing I don't care about the most is money. I think you feel pitiful, so let's try another way."
"Ah? Master, please make it clear." Liu Zhengqi quickly licked his nose and looked at Zhao Hao eagerly.
"Let's do this." Zhao Hao rolled his eyes at him, thinking that I had just wasted my saliva. "As you just heard, I want to build a big tea garden in Xishan."
"Yes." Liu Zhengqi nodded quickly and said, "It's simple. Just tell Xiao Ke which piece of land you like, and I will definitely help you get it."
"What I'm interested in is" Zhao Hao stretched out his finger to make a circle and said, "All of them."
"All?" Liu Zhengqi blinked in confusion. "What's the meaning?"
¡°It all means the entire Xishan Island.¡± Mr. Zhao said word by word.
"All, all Xishan Island?" Liu Zhengqi heard the sound of his jaw hitting the ground.
¡®Pfft¡¡¯ Hua Boxhen sprayed a sip of tea onto Liu Yuanwai¡¯s face.
Liu Zhengqi wiped his face, reset his chin, and stammered:
¡°My lord, my lord, do you know how big Xishan is?¡±
"It's about as big as five Suzhou cities." Zhao Hao thought about it.
"Then, you still want them all?" Liu Yuanwai asked dumbfounded.
"Yes, I want them all." Zhao Hao smiled lightly and said matter-of-factly: "The first project our Jiangnan Company invests in must be big and impressive."
"The whole Xishan" Hua Boxhen had to admit as she took out her handkerchief and wiped the water drops on her beard. "It's really big and impressive."
"And I took a boat around the island yesterday, but I didn't find any people there." Zhao Hao said again with a look of "I've made you a profit": "Two hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver and Xishan Island, which one do you want to keep? ?¡±
"Of course Xiao Ke chose money." Liu Yuanwai said with a bitter face: "But this Xishan Island is not owned by Xiao Ke alone, it belongs to dozens or hundreds of families."
"So you take care of it." Zhao Hao said in a deep voice: "I will give you three days. After three days, this island must belong to Jiangnan Company!"
After a pause, he stood up and said with a cold smile: "Otherwise, you can either pay us five hundred thousand taels of silver or wait to die."
"This" Liu Yuanwai almost dropped his jaw again. "Why did it double?"
"This is a punishment that cannot be accomplished." Zhao Hao looked at the tree shadows on the ground and drew a line with the toe of his shoe. "The timer has started. The shadow will arrive at this location in three days. If you still can't figure it out, just wait for death."
"Ah" Liu Yuanwai stared blankly at the tree shadows on the ground, thinking that I haven't agreed yet.
"Don't waste your time, member." Hua Bozhen kindly advised from the side: "You have time to spend time here, why not save your time and go back to persuade those people."?
"Uh" Liu Zhengqi's expression changed several times, and he finally understood that talking nonsense was useless. He bowed hastily to Zhao Hao, turned around and ran away. Even my son couldn¡¯t care less about watching it.
"Hahaha!" Zhao Hao and Hua Boxhen laughed loudly when they saw him rolling and crawling in such a mess.
"It's really good to lose weight. It turns out that he couldn't run so fast."
"Brother, please tell me the truth." Hua Boxhen stopped laughing and asked Zhao Hao in a low voice. "Why do we need this Xishan Island? It can't be just for growing tea."
"Hahaha, brother, what do you think?" Zhao Hao blinked.
"Brother Fool can't guess." Hua Boxhen shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Brother Xian is unpredictable in his work, how can Brother Fool be able to guess."
"The elder brother said this, and the younger brother is a little embarrassed." Zhao Hao looked a little embarrassed on his face. "Eat first, then I'll take you to see something good after dinner."
"You kid, you deliberately prevented me from eating well." Hua Boxhen pointed at Zhao Hao with a look of helplessness.
¡°Then I¡¯ll just eat more.¡± Zhao Hao smiled and took the wet wipe to wipe his hands.
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After a while, the food was served.
Taihu three whites, water shield soup and a braised silver carp, served with white rice from the Wuji boat. Except for the rice, everything is made from local ingredients.
Although the condiments are not complete, it is naturally delicious. Both of them were hungry, but they ate with relish.
"I didn't expect that these common ingredients can have a unique flavor after being simply cooked." Hua Boxhen scooped up a spoonful of water shield soup and praised it while gently blowing the hot air.
"Although my brother grew up by the Taihu Lake, he never gets tired of fine food and fine braise. Who has ever tasted this kind of fisherman's method?" Zhao Hao twirled a Taihu saury fish and carefully picked out the fine hairy spines on it.
This kind of fish meat is delicious, fat but not greasy. Zhao Hao likes it very much but it has too many thorns.