Seeing that Mr. Liu's face was red and he couldn't speak, Tang Youde became even more shameless. He pointed at the blue velvet sedan beside him and said in surprise, "Is this the sedan of Zhou Jijiu? You came together, are you asking for a remarriage?"

"No, I didn't, it wasn't me!" Mr. Liu's face turned red with embarrassment. He didn't care about his dignity anymore. He bent down and got back into the sedan chair.

"The master's sedan chair is over there." Zhou Jijiu's sedan bearer hurriedly reminded in a low voice.

Only then did Mr. Liu realize that in his panic he had gotten into Zhou Jijiu's sedan chair. He quickly got off with a red face and sat back in his own sedan chair.

He didn't even wait for Zhou Jijiu to come out. He pointed at Tang Youde and said coldly, "There's a lot of time ahead. You'll see what happens!"

"Oh, I'm so scared." Tang Youde had already completely offended Mr. Liu, so he was naturally not afraid of him. He pointed at the gate of the Zhao Mansion and laughed, "Zhou Jijiu came out, and he doesn't look very good."

"Lift the sedan, lift the sedan!" Mr. Liu slapped the sedan hard and ordered the bearers to leave this shameful place that had brought him so much shame.

Tang Youde did not provoke Zhou Jijiu again. After the two passed each other, he went straight into the door.

~~

Tang Youde has come to help quite often recently, and everyone in the mansion knows that he is the second young master's confidant.

Without reporting, he went straight into the inner house and saw Zhao Hao who was about to go back after admiring his "masterpiece".

"Sir..." Tang Youde approached with a smile and said, "Guess who I ran into?"

"Zhou Jijiu." Zhao Hao looked at the empty space in his home, wondering where the poem 'The most difficult thing to keep in the world' would be most appropriately placed.

"Besides him, there is another person outside." Tang Youde blinked and said, "It's Mr. Liu."

"Why didn't he come in?" Zhao Hao said with great regret: "Let me give him a good slap in the face."

"Maybe it's because he was beaten so hard that he doesn't dare to come in." Tang Youde said with a smile. He walked to a place where there was no one, took out thirty thousand taels of bills from his sleeve and stuffed them into Zhao Hao's hand.

"I made 63,000 taels from buying silk before, and I spent a total of 23,000 taels this time, making a net profit of 40,000 taels. It's so exciting to make money with you, young master..."

"Why did you give me an extra ten thousand?" Zhao Hao looked at Tang Youde in confusion. They had agreed to split the profits in half.

"Didn't we agree last time that both thank-you gifts would be given to you in cash?" Tang Youde said with a smile, "This ten thousand taels will be used as a gift for your visit to the capital."

"That's generous. I won't be polite to you then." Zhao Hao said this, but he handed all the tickets back to Tang Youde and said, "Take this money back and invest it in Xiaocangshan. You can invest another 10,000 yuan, and as for the shares...how about you take 20%?"

But Zhao Hao's share is less than 80%. He also plans to take out 20% to 30% for the purpose of managing the upper and lower levels and for equity incentives.

Only by tying more people to the chariot can he become more and more powerful.

"Okay, we'll do whatever you say, sir." Tang Youde smiled and nodded, "Anyway, this money came from the wind."

After a pause, Tang Youde said in surprise, "But with this much money, it's enough to tear down Lao Fang's hotel and rebuild it into the tallest building in Jinling. Why did you invest in a piece of wasteland?"

"Good question." Zhao Hao smiled and nodded, waved his hand, and called Gao Wu over, "Take the drawings that Mr. Wenshui sent yesterday, and prepare the car for us to go to Xiaocangshan."

Gao Wu nodded and ran over to make arrangements.

"Let's go to the scene and talk while watching." Zhao Hao said to Tang Youde with a smile.

~~

The two of them rode through the streets and arrived at Xiaocang Mountain in less than half an hour.

"Huh, I didn't expect it to be so close?" Tang Youde couldn't help but marvel at it. It was his first time coming from the Confucius Temple area, and he originally thought it would take at least an hour or two.

"Of course it's close. It's just that there are so few people here that it feels like it's far away."

Zhao Hao jumped out of the car and walked with Tang Youde up a small hill. He pointed to the west and said excitedly, "From here, less than a mile to the southwest is the Shicheng Gate, and less than two miles to the west is the Qingliang Gate. This place is right between the two major city gates, so it has the innate conditions of convenient transportation."

Tang Youde looked at the young man pointing out the mountains and rivers in the autumn wind. He didn't want to spoil his interest, but he still felt that he had to remind him: "Young Master is right, but Qingliang Gate is located in a remote area and has been sparsely populated since it was built. Shicheng Gate is connected to Jiangdong Gate, and that area is very prosperous, but there is no road through Xiaocang Mountain."

"Then build a road!" Zhao Hao waved his hand and asked Gao Wu to unfold the blueprint in the bamboo tube. Then he pointed to the red line from Xiaocang Mountain to Shichengmen on the blueprint and said, "This is the route planned by Mr. Wenshui. I have already obtained the consent of Shangyuan County. Your top priority this winter is to build this road from Shichengmen all the way to Furong Pond. Then, dig Furong Pond twice as big and rename it Furong Lake. Then connect the waterway to Jinchuan River."

"Ah!" Tang Youde looked at the water and land routes on the map and finally understood Zhao Hao's layout. He was shocked and said, "In this way, our Xiaocang Mountain can not only connect to the prosperous area of ​​Jiangdongmen, but also connect to the Yangtze River through the Jinchuan River. In this way, both land and water routes are very convenient."

"That's right. In this way, Xiaocangshan will become a hub for people traveling from the south to the north. It will be hard not to be prosperous if you do business here." Zhao Hao thought to himself, Brother Yuan Mei has a good vision. He chose such a Feng Shui treasure land. No wonder he made a lot of money.

Moreover, when Yuan Mei built Suiyuan, Nanjing was already in decline, how could it be compared with the current prosperity of the southern capital? The prospect of Zhao Hao building a garden here is naturally far better than Suiyuan.

As they chatted, they became more interested and started to imagine what the project would look like after completion based on the blueprints. How to create the scenery here, how to build a building there, what kind of trees to plant here, what kind of bridge to build there.

When the excitement wore off, Tang Youde couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "I'm afraid that twenty thousand taels is not enough..."

"It doesn't matter. We can support the war by fighting." Zhao Hao shook his head and said with a nonchalant smile, "I calculated with Mr. Wenshui that it would probably cost about ten thousand taels of silver to build roads, dig lakes and connect waterways. For the rest of the money, you should prioritize improving the lakescape and then build supporting facilities. That should be enough."

"Then you can put the vacant land on the map up for bidding." He smiled and patted Tang Youde on the shoulder, saying, "I only have one request, that the best location by the lake be reserved for Wei Ji Xian."

Tang Youde was overjoyed when he heard this, and slapped his thigh and said, "If Wei Ji Xian can be moved here, this matter will be halfway to success!"

He saw with his own eyes that driven by Wei Ji Xian, the business in the entire Caijia Lane had prospered a lot.

Zhao Hao smiled and said, "I have talked to Manager Fang, and he will come here to manage this place personally. At least build a six-story restaurant with all private rooms. Of course, the price will also be doubled..."

"Haha, how much money would that require..." Tang Youde couldn't help but drool.

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