Chapter 511 Bad Premonition
When the four of them returned to the Yushi Mansion, it was already night.
As soon as Gu Chan entered the front yard and sat down in the lobby, Yan Xishan quickly ordered the servants in the house to prepare a table of delicious food and serve it, and also brought out a jar of old wine to entertain her.
Gu Chan sat at the table, looking at the large table of wine and food, and sneered, "Master Yan, your food is indeed not delicious! I have been here in Jiangnan City for so long , It’s really the first time I’m having dinner at your house tonight!”
“Didn’t we all say we should unite? Don’t hold on to what happened before!” Yan Xishan said awkwardly! .
At this time, Bai Xi walked in quickly from outside the door, sat down next to Gu Chan in a familiar manner, took the initiative to pick up the jug and poured wine for her, and said with an apologetic smile, "Seventeenth Prince, I have offended many people before. I hope you can forgive me. I will punish you with a glass of wine to apologize to you."
After saying that, she picked up the wine glass, raised her head and poured the wine in the glass into her mouth.
Guo Huai also quickly picked up his wine glass and toasted, fearing that Gu Chan would still be angry with him because of what happened before.
Anyway, among the four people sitting at this table, only Bai Jingtian seemed the calmest. After all, he had been very kind to Gu Chan from the beginning and had never offended her, so at this moment , he could sit there as steady as a mountain.
Gu Chan drank the wine in the glass silently without saying a word.
Putting down the wine glass in her hand, she stared at Guo Huai and said, "Say, old president, you drove my medicine shop out of Jiangnan City before, forcing me to run on the water, and instigated everyone to stock up on medicinal materials. If you don’t let me sell you, shouldn’t this rule be changed now?”
“As long as you become the leader of Jiangnan, you have the final say on what kind of rules you want to change. It's all about your words." Guo Huai said quickly.
Without any nonsense, Gu Chan reached into the bag on her waist, took out the golden lord dragon seal, and banged it on the table.
The four of them were stunned on the spot and couldn't believe their eyes.
Yan Xishan hurriedly reached out and picked up the Lord's Golden Seal, put it in front of his eyes and examined it carefully. After confirming that this was indeed the Lord's Dragon Seal that could only be owned by the royal family of Tiancang Kingdom, he carefully placed it in front of Gu Chan. On the table, he then stood up and knelt down to her, "My lord, Yan Xishan, the imperial censor of Jiangnan, pays homage to the lord."
"Okay, get up! I don't like what you do the most." Gu Chan waved her hand angrily.
Yan Xishan stood up from the ground without a smile and sat back down.
Guo Huai hurriedly showed his courtesy and said, "Lord, I will announce to the public tomorrow that they will not have to stock up on medicines, and will fully cooperate with you to implement a new business model of buying together in the Jiangnan area, and you will not have to Now that we are operating on the water, we should go back to the Yaoduoduo store on East Street to continue. It’s just business.”
“No need, my Da Hua Xia is now doing well on the Jiangnan River, and its reputation has also expanded. It’s just a lack of medicinal materials. You just need to let everyone use the medicinal materials they have hoarded. Sell it, just don't fight me anymore," Gu Chan said.
Guo Huai nodded in agreement and did not dare to neglect at all.
Gu Chan put away the Lord Dragon Seal, "Next, your first priority is to raise three billion taels of silver, then transport it to the border via waterway, and hand the money to the Ninth Prince, so that my mission can be completed Complete it in advance."
"Lord, if you take the waterway from the south of the Yangtze River to the border, you have to go a long way, and it is not as fast as taking the official road by land!" Yan Xishan reminded. "Then what can be done? Now that the general under the crown prince has led a hundred thousand soldiers to take over the Jiangnan area, he must have cut off the official route to the border. If such a large sum of money were to go through the official route, it would be intercepted halfway. They intercepted me, and when the stipulated time limit is reached and it is in the hands of the Ninth Prince at the border, he will have a reason to deal with me," Gu Chan said, spreading his hands.
In fact, she herself understood that it would definitely be faster to go by land than by water. But in this case, in order to avoid the prince intercepting her border rescue money, she could only Choose to take the water route for a detour.
Bai Jingtian said solemnly, "Lord, your idea is good, but if you can think of taking the waterway to avoid the prince, he will definitely be able to think of this. If he is assigned to come along the waterway again, he will The waterway is also blocked, what should you do?”
"Let's load the ship first. No matter what, taking the water route is the safest way now." Gu Chan said in a deep voice.
Bai Jingtian was speechless. The facts were indeed as Gu Chan said. There was no better way than this.
Gu Chan added, "The largest dock in the south of the Yangtze River is in the hands of the Chang family. When the time comes, you will transport all the silver coins you raised to the Chang's dock and use the Chang's cargo ships to load it. How many of the Chang's will do it? Ten cargo ships are enough to carry this much silver."
"Understood, then I will issue a secret order tomorrow to ask the officials, merchants and wealthy merchants from all over the country to transport all the silver collected to Changshi Wharf." Yan Xishan said.
"I will also go to Chang Wei's place to say hello to him. Just follow the plan." Gu Chan calmly ordered.
Yan Xishan and Guo Huai both nodded in agreement.
Gu Chan suddenly changed the topic and said, "By the way, why didn't you see Yanli? It seems that I haven't seen her during this time! She shouldn't be so quiet, right?"
"Hey! Lord, you don't know something. Our daughter ran away from home a long time ago. Until now, we don't know where she went. That is, last time, you asked Commander Bai to come back and break one of her hands. After that, she left in anger," Bai Xi said with a cry.
As a mother, she really missed her baby daughter very much during this period. However, the people she sent out to search for Yanli everywhere in the Jiangnan area could not find any trace of Yanli at all, and there was nothing she could do.
Gu Chan's heart trembled, and a bad premonition suddenly arose in her heart.
Yanli is not a light-saving lamp. The last time she asked Bai Jingtian to break one of Yanli's hands was to teach this arrogant young lady a lesson, but Yanli had such a vicious temper and left in anger, she would definitely not Give in easily.
At this juncture, she was worried that this woman would cause some trouble for her.
But she thought so in her heart, Gu Chan did not say it out loud, she just pretended not to care and said, "It's okay, let her go out and experience a little hardship, it will be good for her, so that she won't If you stay in Jiangnan City, you will only plot against me all day long. "
"Lord! It's really because we and our husband are so incompetent that she caused you so much trouble before, sir. There are a lot of them, don't argue with her," Bai Xi begged with a grimace.
"Okay, I'm not so stingy. Let's not talk about her anymore. Let's use chopsticks! After eating, go to bed early. You will be busy starting tomorrow." Gu Chan said with a smile.
Bai Xi gratefully saluted and thanked him quickly.
After that, the five people no longer mentioned the unhappy things in the past, but instead chatted while eating together, how to deal with the prince next.