Three Kingdoms Summoning: Peak Resurgence

Chapter 33 Zhang Rang Wants to Meet Wang Yu
Wang Yu understood it instantly. He guessed that this guy had realized the benefit and was ready to make money by taking kickbacks.

So Wang Yu immediately followed Zhang Jie's words and replied, "Of course, the emperor is the one chosen by heaven. How can ordinary people like us compare with him?"

When Wang Yu said this, he suddenly paused for a moment, and after a while he said to Zhang Jie: "To be honest with you, I have white sugar here that is even more refined than the fine white sugar sold in the shops outside."

"I call it tribute white sugar, and the price is two hundred strings of cash. It is being boiled now."

"As long as you buy it, I will send someone to deliver the 100 strings of five-zhu coins to your mansion. Just think of it as calling a friend." Wang Yu signaled with his eyes, giving Zhang Jiemian enough face.

"In that case, thank you very much, sir. If you need my help in the future, I will be at your service." Zhang Jie understood what Wang Yu meant and quickly agreed!
With the young master of the Wang family of Qi County as his strong backer, what else does he have to worry about?

After some deception, Wang Yu sent the eunuch Zhang Jie away. At this time, Wang Yu's face was extremely strange. Just after Zhang Jie left for a while, he rushed back to the room and washed his hands with soap to wash away the bad luck.

"My lord, it's hard for you!" Seeing Wang Yu's expression, Zhou Min thought that he had suffered a great loss this time, so he spoke to comfort him!
"It's just a temporary difficulty. It's not that easy to make money from me. Sooner or later, you will have to spit it out to me." Wang Yu said coldly, with a hint of murderous intent in his eyes.

"My lord, if we really have to do this, what if the emperor finds out? That would be..." Zhou Min said worriedly.

In this era, ordinary people always have a sense of fear towards the emperor, and this is also the influence of Dong Zhongshu's theory of divine right of kings.

"Zhou Min, I want to teach you a lesson today. You should be more tactful when doing business in the future. The world is bustling with people for profit. The money in the hands of the current emperor was also plundered from ordinary people."

"We take it from the people and use it for the people!" After Wang Yu handed over some theories of commercial kickbacks in later generations to Zhou Min, he walked into the big house with his hands behind his back.

Wang Yu did not do this on a whim just now, but had planned it for a long time. He believed that Zhang Jie would report to Zhang Rang after returning. Wang Yu also wanted to meet Qin Hao, his miserable fifth uncle.

After all, this is a werewolf. He is not a good man. In order to restore the Qin Dynasty, he cut off two taels of flesh from his body just to serve as an insider in the palace.

But in the end, the Qin Dynasty was restored, but he died at the hands of his own nephew. Even his elder brother Qin Wen was angered to death by his own son Qin Ritian.

Although Zhang Rang's actions deserved death from the emperor's perspective, Qin Ritian himself was not without problems. He did not handle the feud between Princess Wannian and the Qin family's Han faction properly from the beginning, which led to the subsequent events.

I really don't know what to do with his intelligence that is as good as gold. It can't be any more useless.

On the other hand, after hearing Wang Yu's earnest teachings, Zhou Min suddenly had a sense of enlightenment in his heart, and he was even more in awe of Wang Yu. Following such an imaginative and unconventional lord, his future achievements will be extraordinary!
Moreover, my lord is the first one who dares to bribe the eunuchs in this way.

Wang Yu originally thought that Zhang Rang would wait for a few days before sending the eunuch to his shop, but he did not expect that in the afternoon, the eunuch sent by Zhang Rang arrived at Wang's shop.

"My lord, my lord, a young eunuch just came over and said that Lord Zhang, one of the Tenth Attendants, wants you to visit his house and have a few cups of hot tea before leaving!" Zhou Min reported in a hurry.

At this time, Wang Yu was using the abacus he made to calculate the income generated by white sugar and soap in the past few days.

In fact, there was no such thing as abacus at that time, because the earliest abacus in the world, the floating bead abacus, was developed by the famous mathematician and astronomer Xu Yue around the Battle of Guandu.

Of course, Wang Yu had to invent it in advance, and a few days ago, he and Cai Yong perfected the abacus formula and turned it into a book to sell in Luoyang. It can be said that being a businessman has never been Wang Yu's way out. He just used this method to temporarily make more money for himself.

However, professions like writer and mathematician, which seemed noble and could better spread one's fame in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, were what he really wanted to develop temporarily.

In the future, when famous writers compile a list of literati, Wang Yu will naturally want to be included in it and attract more literati to join.

"I know about this." Wang Yu put down the account book and said lightly.

.........

On the North Street of Luoyang City, outside a huge manor.

Wang Yu looked at the manor in front of him and sneered in his heart, because the owner of this manor was the eunuch Zhang Rang in name only, but actually the fifth son of the Qin family, Qin Rang.

"The Son of Heaven cannot ascend to high places; if he does, he will suffer great disaster."

Wang Yu couldn't help laughing when he thought of this sentence. If this sentence came from the mouth of a wise minister, it would be fine, after all, his starting point was to serve the country and the people.

Unfortunately, this sentence came from the mouth of a eunuch.

Once, Emperor Ling of Han, Liu Hong, suddenly had an idea to go to the roof of the imperial palace to see the scenery of the capital Luoyang. This was a very normal idea. Climbing high to see the distance and composing poems are also our Chinese traditions.

What was unexpected was that as soon as Emperor Lingdi said this, all the eunuchs knelt down and advised him not to go up to a high place, as it would lead to rebellion.

Does this make sense?
Apparently, there is. There is a saying in ancient Chinese books: "If the emperor likes to climb high, he will constantly ask for the construction of tall buildings. In this way, the buildings will become taller and taller, which will easily cause labor and waste of money!"

"This will easily lead to a situation where the people lose their will and become dissatisfied, and eventually the people will easily rebel."

Does what you said make sense?

Naturally there is.

Because this is the continued cultural tradition of the Chinese nation, it advises emperors of all dynasties to cherish human and material resources and not to engage in large-scale projects that increase the burden on the people.

In fact, these eunuchs were not so kind. As men without eggs, they could not marry and have children, and naturally it was impossible for them to have offspring.

So, they do it entirely for themselves.

These eunuchs had long made a fortune by accepting bribes and invested the money they amassed in their personal mansions.

(End of this chapter)