Gu Jiu lowered his head and smiled lightly.
"Of course you have a way to get me out of the capital. However, judging by the current situation, you need my cooperation to succeed. After all, this is the emperor's territory, not yours. You have limited manpower in the capital, so you will definitely not be able to exert your full power."
Playing away from home, yet you dare to be so arrogant? Do you really think that people in Beijing are all vegetarians?
Zhou Jin laughed heartily, "You know, you're really charming right now. I love you like this the most."
Gu Jiu coughed lightly, "Mr. Zhou, be careful with your words. Men and women should not touch each other."
Zhou Jin teased, "You will be my woman sooner or later, there is nothing you can't say."
Gu Jiu blinked, "I have to remind you, I am now Madam Zhao, the wife of the emperor's grandson. My husband is still alive, and I haven't remarried. How can I be considered your woman? Mr. Zhou, please don't joke."
"It's only a matter of time before your deceased husband remarries. Could it be that you're still thinking about Liu Zhao?"
Gu Jiu sighed softly, "As the saying goes, a husband and wife for a day are bound by a hundred days of grace. I am not a cruel woman, so how can I not miss him?"
Zhou Jin's face darkened and he was very unhappy.
Gu Jiu drank his tea and pretended not to see it.
"This young master wants you to forget Liu Zhao."
Gu Jiu laughed, "If he died, maybe I would really forget him."
"He will die, and he will die soon." Zhou Jin smiled mysteriously, with evil and murderous intent in his eyes.
Gu Jiu raised his eyebrows. "Which palace have you reached a cooperation agreement with to help them deal with Prince Ning's Palace?"
Zhou Jin laughed, "Are you trying to trick me?"
"Look at me now, I'm trapped here, completely unaware of what's happening outside. It's not unreasonable for me to be a little curious, right?"
Gu Jiu looked at him innocently.
Zhou Jin smiled knowingly, "I will tell you the truth after we leave the capital. For now, it's better for you to behave yourself. After all, you are not an ordinary woman. If you know too much, I'm afraid you will plot against me."
Gu Jiu raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you afraid of being plotted against by me? How could you, such a powerful person like you, be afraid of a woman?"
Zhou Jin leaned forward, approached Gu Jiu, and said in a low voice, "Are you trying to provoke me? Unfortunately, you miscalculated. I am not a fool like others out there. I will not look down on women. Especially you, I have to treat you very carefully."
Gu Jiu smiled slightly, "Thank you for your respect, Master Zhou. It seems that your cooperation with the other party is not solid. It is just a temporary alliance. It is possible to turn against each other and kill each other at any time."
Zhou Jin frowned, then laughed again, "As expected of the woman this young master has chosen, she is indeed intelligent. Now guess what the situation is outside now? How long can the emperor live?"
Gu Jiu's heart skipped a beat.
"Could it be that you have planted people in the palace, ready to force a rebellion at any time?"
Zhou Jin slowly shook his head, "I'm not interested in forcing a rebellion."
Gu Jiu chuckled softly, "Of course, your interests are all in the sea. Should we get to know each other formally? Should I call you Master Zhou, or should I call you the great pirate Li Hailong?"
There are countless pirates on the sea.
But the one with the greatest reputation and the strongest strength is none other than Li Hailong.
Li Hailong, also known as Master Li, is the biggest pirate leader.
I heard that everyone who saw his true face died.
Some people say that Li Hailong is in his thirties or forties, some say that Li Hailong is in his fifties, and some say that Li Hailong is a young man.
There is also a saying that Li Hailong does not refer to a specific person, but is a general term for identities.
No matter who becomes the pirate leader, he will die.
In the past, Gu Jiu was not sure whether Zhou Jin was Li Hailong because the information Liu Zhao sent was too little.
After all, everyone's roots are in the capital, Jiangnan, and especially they know too little about the situation at sea.
It's not like you can fully understand the situation at sea just by going out to sea once.
Without immersing yourself in an industry for many years, you can’t really understand it, let alone understand the situation at the top level of the industry.
Zhou Jin narrowed his eyes, stared at Gu Jiu for a long time, and then burst into laughter.
"Hahaha... You're so smart that I almost want to kill you. This way you'll never be able to escape from my grasp."
Gu Jiu's palms were sweating.
Her exposure of Zhou Jin's identity was a test and also a risk.
She knew the risks, but she did it anyway.
At this moment, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Obviously, Zhou Jin did not intend to kill her.
Gu Jiu smiled softly, "Thank you, Mr. Zhou, for not killing me. I am the owner of Sihai Trading Company. Let's get to know each other better."
Zhou Jin sneered, "You are now a prisoner. You need to understand your own status. I can take your head at any time."
Gu Jiu smiled and pointed at his head, "See? My head is right here. You can take it away anytime."
silence!
The air was frozen by silence, making it hard to breathe.
The maids even knelt on the ground, trembling.
It is obvious that Zhou Jin has accumulated great power, which is why these maids are so afraid of him.
"Are you really not afraid of death?" Zhou Jin broke the silence.
Gu Jiu said calmly, "I'm scared, terrified to death. I'm more afraid of death than anyone else. But I don't think you'll kill me."
Zhou Jin smiled, "Just because I look at you differently, you're so sure I won't kill you? Who gave you that confidence?"
Gu Jiu smiled and said, "You may not be very old, but I believe you must have killed countless people. Killing is as common to you as drinking water and eating.
You want to kill me, it's easy, no need to go to great lengths. However, you have kept me until now, besides because you think differently about me, the more important reason is because I am useful, isn't it?
I'm not just a woman, I'm the owner of Sihai Trading Company, with millions and tens of millions of dollars in business, and I'm also a registered official with His Majesty. It would be a shame to kill someone like me. Only when I'm alive can I play my greatest role."
"Hahaha……"
Zhou Jin laughed heartily, and then said with a smug look on his face, "This young master has a very good eye. This young master can't wait to bring you back to Jiangnan."
Gu Jiu shook his head slightly. "Instead of letting me be your woman, it's better to be your partner. I can buy your goods, no matter if it's worth hundreds of thousands or millions."
Zhou Jin shook his head and said, "I have many business partners, and I don't need you. On the contrary, the position beside me is vacant, and you deserve it. I advise you to forget Liu Zhao as soon as possible and return to Jiangnan with me."
Gu Jiu smiled and said, "I checked you."
Zhou Jin's face turned cold and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Gu Jiu could feel the murderous intent so strong that it seemed tangible.
Yet she was not afraid at all.
She continued, "Through the Ministry of the Interior, I checked the scale of maritime trade over the past five years. Besides shipwrecks caused by storms, the value of merchant ships robbed by pirates is approximately five to six million per year."
You dare not sell all of this five or six million worth of goods in Jiangnan. The Jiangnan Maritime Customs are not pushovers. If you blatantly sell stolen goods under their noses, the Maritime Customs will send a navy to raid it next year.
So you have many channels to sell stolen goods. In addition to local merchants in Jiangnan, there are also merchants from Lingnan, Southwest, Northeast, and the capital area, and even Northwest merchants, who take the stolen goods out of the customs and into the grassland.
But stolen goods are just stolen goods. Goods worth five or six million taels, sold through various channels, only netted two or three million taels. You have so many men under your command, and all the hard work you put into robbing goods only nets two or three million taels. At the end of the year, there's not much left.
If there's a famine, you'll probably have to pay to support your subordinates. Otherwise, they'll overthrow you sooner or later and install a new Li Hailong."
Zhou Jin smiled coldly, "You know quite a bit. The more you know, the less likely I am to let you go."
Gu Jiu lowered his head and smiled, not caring about Zhou Jin's threat.
She said, "I only know a little bit. The rest is inferred based on the information from the Shaofu. Judging from your expression, my inference should be correct. You have been struggling to find channels to sell stolen goods, and those merchants are unreliable and may betray you at any time. You travel to the capital to find new channels, right?"
How about we work together and I'll sell the stolen goods for you? You should know that the project I'm working on outside the South City Gate requires a huge amount of capital and requires a lot of cash flow. If we work together, I can help you find the channel and solve the funding problem at the same time. And since I'm a special person, if I sell the stolen goods, you don't have to worry about the government investigating you.
Zhou Jin narrowed her eyes. "You're really bold. Is there any woman in the world who dares to think like you?"
Gu Jiu frowned slightly. "Since we're discussing business, you shouldn't emphasize my gender over and over again. Do you think you'll refuse to cooperate with me just because I'm a woman?"
Zhou Jin straightened up. "How do I know you're not setting a trap to arrest me in collusion with the authorities?"
Gu Jiu smiled softly, "Will it be good for me to arrest you? I need goods, a lot of goods. And you have the goods I need."
"My goods are not from legitimate sources."
"I don't care where the goods come from."
Zhou Jin smiled, "My goods are stained with human blood, are you sure you want them?"
Gu Jiu took off the red gold hairpin on her head.
The guards hiding around seemed a little nervous.
Zhou Jin waved his hand and everyone quieted down again.
Gu Jiu placed the gold hairpin on the table. "This is a gold hairpin. From mining gold to making the hairpin, do you think it is stained with human blood? Yet I still wear it on my head. Do you think I am someone who cares about these things?"
Oh, I have another business under my name, which you may not know. I buy a large number of people from the Shaofu to be mine slaves and farm slaves. Isn't that a heinous crime?"
Zhou Jin looked at her for a long time before bursting into laughter, "Haha...it seems we are really a perfect match."
Gu Jiu shook his head. "We can be partners. Like before, we have always cooperated well. Following the previous model, we will directly expand the scale of our business. As for a relationship other than a partner, it is obviously inappropriate."
Zhou Jin shook his head slightly. "I think differently than you do. Partners are everywhere, but it's rare to find a lover by my side. I still think you are more suitable to be my lover."
"As long as you become my woman, I will give you endless wealth and luxury, and all the best delicacies from land and sea. I will pamper you for the rest of your life. If you are willing to bear a child for me, everything I have will be passed on to our child."
Gu Jiu sneered, "I don't need you to give it to me. I already have wealth and splendor, and I eat delicacies from land and sea every day. My child will eventually inherit the palace. I don't think being a pirate is better than being the wife of an emperor's grandson."
"Really?" Zhou Jin's face darkened.
Gu Jiu raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Who thinks that being a pirate is better than being the wife of an emperor's grandson? Find such a person for me, and I'll ask him why he is so depressed."
Zhou Jin smiled, a smile as warm as spring.
Gu Jiu felt something was wrong.
Zhou Jin asked her, "So, you refuse to go to Jiangnan with me?"
Gu Jiu hugged himself tightly, "The weather is cold, it's more suitable for me to stay in the palace."
"Do you think you can get back?"
"If you let me go, I can go back."
Zhou Jin chuckled, "This young master has been thinking about you wholeheartedly, but you refuse to appreciate it. In that case, forget it."
As soon as he finished speaking, he tore off the tablecloth and overturned the tea and snacks on the table.
The cups and plates fell to the ground, making a mess.
Gu Jiu didn't expect Zhou Jin to suddenly attack and was stunned for a moment.
Zhou Jin stood up and stared at Gu Jiu with a cold gaze. "I'll give you some time to think it over. I hope you can change your mind next time and not make me angry again."
"Are you planning to threaten me?"
"Of course not." Zhou Jin smiled in an instant, with a look of deep affection on his face.
This man's expression changes in a second, it's obvious that he is a schizophrenic.
He leaned over and looked at her. "I like you so much, how could I bear to threaten you. You will follow me willingly."
He smiled confidently, everything was under control.
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