I am a prince in Zhutian Films

Chapter 346: Zhao Yanei, a Stupid and Rich Man

"Cousin, I will send you the ten thousand taels tomorrow."

Hearing the Prince of Anping's tactful words, Zhao Wei rolled his eyes.

"Do I need your ten thousand taels of silver?"

Although he is not in Tokyo, Zhao Huai'en has been managing the palace in Tokyo, and Zhao Huai'en is an expert in economics.

Almost all the new and novel gadgets appearing in Tokyo City nowadays are made by Zhao Huai'en. The royal palace and its businesses are spread across most of the Song Dynasty. He is not short of money at all.

To Zhao Wei, money is just a number.

Of course, not many people knew about these things, and the Prince of Anping naturally didn't know either. He smiled and said, "Since my cousin is not short of money, I will accept it shamelessly. I will host you tonight. Would you please do me the honor?"

"Just invite me alone?" Zhao Wei said happily.

Prince Anping glanced at the many military sons around Zhao Wei and said with a smile, "Please, everyone."

Under normal circumstances, he would definitely not be willing to spend money to hire so many people, but he already has a minimum of 12,000 taels of silver.

Moreover, being able to make friends with these sons of generals is also a good thing. At least you can get something to brag about.

You know, although the status of the children of generals is not as good as that of the children of literati, they are also very arrogant in their daily lives, and ordinary people can't invite them at all.

Anyway, these people will definitely not give him face.

After all, these people's surnames are Cao, Gao, Yang, Zhe, Zhong, Di, etc. Not to mention him, even the eight famous kings in Tokyo City may not be able to invite these people.

"Thank you, Lord."

"My Lord, we won't be polite."

"..."

Hearing these young generals' thanks, Prince Anping was extremely excited.

Even though he knew that these people were only doing this for Zhao Wei's sake, he was still very happy: "You are so polite, my brothers. We will not leave until we are drunk tonight."

After saying that, he suddenly remembered that the Jiaofangsi seemed a bit inappropriate. He was about to change to another place, but heard Zhao Wei say: "Then it's settled. You go and do your thing. We'll talk about something."

"Then you guys chat, cousin. I'm leaving first." Prince Anping left in a hurry.

He just counted the number of people, there were eleven, but there must be more than eleven people present in the evening, probably twenty.

Even if each person spends 100 taels, that would be 2,000 taels.

Now that he hasn't got the money yet, he doesn't dare go home to ask for it. He can only ask the playboys he is on good terms with, as well as his brothers and sisters for help.

After taking a walk around the Imperial Garden, Prince Anping entered the pavilion with a few of his younger brothers.

Just as he was about to see how much silver he had collected, a few girls around sixteen or seventeen years old came over.

"Brother Wang, why are you hiding here? I heard that you beat up Prime Minister Xiao and the son of the Minister of Rites in Qingzhu Garden. You are in trouble!"

"It's Xianping, you scared me." Prince Anping turned around and saw that it was Princess Xianping who spoke. He smiled nonchalantly and said, "It's okay, my cousin didn't say anything to me, and my father and mother won't say anything either. By the way, do you have any silver? Lend me some. I'll pay you back when Wang Yuanjin pays me back."

"I can lend you the money, but you have to tell me one thing. Where is Brother Han Wang?"

Although the Prince of Anping was a little dissolute, he still had some credibility. Princess Xianping was not afraid that he would not pay back the money. Even if he defaulted, she could ask Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang for it.

"What do you want to do with your cousin?"

Princess Xianping looked at the young ladies around her and said with a smile, "What do you think?"

Obviously, she was ordered to take these young ladies to go on a blind date with Zhao Wei.

"It's over at Yujing Pavilion, but I advise you not to go. If your cousin really wanted to go on a blind date, he wouldn't be hiding."

Princess Xianping naturally knew that if possible, she would not want to be the matchmaker, but now there is no other way.

After chatting with Prince Anping for a while, she took several daughters of famous families to Yujing Pavilion.

The Imperial View Pavilion is a rockery from which you can see most of the scenery in the Imperial Garden. It is the best place to enjoy the scenery in the entire Imperial Garden. Naturally, many daughters of famous families and young men of aristocratic families come here.

However, there was only one way up, and there was a eunuch guarding the entrance, who blocked those people from going back. But Princess Xianping who came here was not an ordinary person, so they still had to give her some face.

"Meet Princess Xianping."

Princess Xianping stood in front of the eunuch and said, "Eunuch Shuangxi, please don't be polite. Please ask Brother Han Wang if I can take someone up to see the scenery. I won't disturb him for too long. This is also what the queen wants."

If it was just Princess Xianping, Shuangxi, who was given the order by Zhao Wei, might not give her face, but with the addition of a queen, he would have to give her face.

"Please wait for a moment, my lady. I will go up and ask."

After Shuangxi finished speaking, a man dressed as a guard walked down from above.

"Princess, His Highness invites you."

Zhao Wei was watching everything that happened below. He had a good relationship with his cousin Xian Ping. Although he did not hear Xian Ping say that it was his mother's idea to come here, he was still willing to give Xian Ping face.

At the moment, Zhao Wei had no plans to get married, and naturally had no interest in the famous ladies brought by Princess Xianping. He just chatted with Princess Xianping about the past, and then took the initiative to give the pavilion to them.

Only after Zhao Wei and his group left did the ladies from prominent families relax.

"Phew, I was scared to death."

"That's right. I didn't even breathe a breath just now. His Royal Highness the King of Han is too scary."

"Of course, Brother Han is a great general who has personally led troops to kill people." Princess Xianping said with a proud look on her face, "Do you know why the soldiers under Brother Han are called the Bloody Clothes Army?"

"Why?"

Princess Xianping smiled more and more proudly: "Because every time they return from the expedition, they look like bloody people, so the people at the border call them the Blood Clothes Army. I heard that Brother Han, just one person, beheaded thousands of people. After the blood solidified, even the armor could not be taken off. It had to be melted with hot water before the blood-stained armor could be taken off. In front of Brother Han, the living devil of the Imperial City Department is nothing at all."

"His Royal Highness Prince Han is different from Gu Qianfan of the Imperial City Department. Gu Qianfan is just ruthless, while His Royal Highness Prince Han is murderous."

Xianping turned to look at the woman who spoke and hummed in confusion.

"I don't know how to describe it. Anyway, every time my father came back from the battle, he made people feel scared. My mother said that it was because he killed too many people, so he was full of murderous aura. The feeling that His Royal Highness the King of Han gave me was much scarier than when my father came back from the battle."

The woman's surname was Du and her given name was Ruonan. She was the youngest daughter of Marquis Zhongyong. Although the Marquis Zhongyong's Mansion was not as good as the five major generals, it was also a long-established family of military generals. When Marquis Zhongyong was young, he was also a brave and fierce general. He participated in many wars. It was a pity that the emperor at that time was the God of Chariots of Gaoliang River, so he lost more than he won. Later, he also participated in the war of the Alliance of Chanyuan. It was during that time that he was seriously injured. He has now retired from the army.

Princess Xianping nodded as if she understood what was going on, and jokingly said, "Come to think of it, Ruonan, Brother Han Wang looked at you a few times just now. Do you think he is attracted to you?"

"No, His Royal Highness the King of Han was clearly looking at Gao Hui."

Du Ruonan was very self-aware and knew very well that compared to the other people who came to see her, she was just an ordinary one.

Although she also noticed that Zhao Wei looked at her a few extra times, she didn't think Zhao Wei thought highly of her.

The reason for this is probably because he comes from a family of generals. After all, everyone knows that His Royal Highness the King of Han has always been very friendly to people from generals' families.

But there is no need to elaborate on this. It would be better to push the blame on Gao Hui. Gao Hui is beside her anyway. Who knows whether His Royal Highness the King of Han is looking at her or Gao Hui.

"Really?" Princess Xianping was a little suspicious and turned to look at Gao Hui: "Gao Hui, what do you think of my brother, the King of Han?" "Princess, you know, I already have someone I like."

Gao Hui, the daughter of Gao Guancha, is not qualified to attend the flower-viewing banquet because of her father's status.

There are two reasons why I was able to come in.

Firstly, her aunt was one of the concubines in the harem and had a good relationship with Princess Xianping.

Next, her mother’s surname was Cao, and she was born into the Cao family, a general’s family.

Although she was only a daughter of the Cao family's side branch and did not have a high status in the Cao family, she had a close relationship with Concubine Cao, and Concubine Cao also liked Gao Hui very much.

It just so happened that Concubine Cao also hoped that the relationship between the Cao family and Zhao Wei could be further improved, so she let her enter the palace.

It was because the Cao family really couldn't find a suitable woman, otherwise Gao Hui wouldn't have been on this mission.

Princess Xianping sighed, somewhat annoyed that he didn't fight back, and said, "Ouyang Xu is just a poor scholar. I don't know what's so good about him that you can't forget him so much. Forget it, let's leave it at that today. I have to go back and report to the queen."

On the other side, Cao Jiajia Liulang was also asking Zhao Wei what he thought.

Of course, he didn't dare to ask Zhao Wei directly whether he liked Gao Hui, he could only ask from the side.

"Your Highness, didn't you like any of those young ladies before?"

Zhao Wei turned his head and looked at him, somewhat puzzled, "When Xianping introduced them just now, I didn't seem to hear anyone from your Cao family?"

"That Gao Hui is from the Cao family." Yang Wenguang said with a smile.

"I want you to talk more."

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Zhao Wei hurriedly said, "Alright, I won't consider marriage for the time being. But you are all not young anymore, aren't your families urging you to get married?"

"Why don't you hurry me up? I'm getting annoyed."

Zhao Wei smiled and said, "That's great. Let's go see each other quickly. We'll meet again at the Jiaofangsi in the evening. I'll be leaving first."

"Your Highness, don't you want to see me?"

Zhao Wei shook his head and left without even showing any intention of attending the banquet at Shengping Tower.

Because he knew very well that his mother could let Xianping bring the women he had brought before, and could also let others bring other women.

It’s too annoying. I’d better leave first.

Although this royal blind date banquet did not solve Zhao Wei's problem, it brought together several couples.

For example: Du Ruonan from the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's Mansion and Cao Liulang fell in love with each other, and the Cao family requested an imperial decree to grant their marriage the next day.

However, what Zhao Heng was more concerned about was Zhao Wei's marriage. After hearing from Liu Wan that Zhao Wei not only did not like the daughter of a prominent family, but instead went to the Music Bureau to hang out all night, he was so angry that he almost issued an imperial decree to grant him a marriage. However, taking various factors into consideration, mainly that Zhao Wei still had the medicine he needed, Zhao Heng finally put this idea on hold and let Zhao Wei go to the six ministries to train in turn.

The first one is the Ministry of War.

To everyone's surprise, Zhao Wei went to the Ministry of War in person on the first day and got to know all the officials there. He never went there again. He either asked Shuangxi to go or asked the commander of the personal guards Liu Sheng to go to prove his presence.

The Minister of War was very satisfied with this.

After all, a prince like this does not have a specific official position when he goes to the six ministries for training, which means he can be in charge of everything, and there are many sensitive things in the Ministry of War, which can cost lives if discovered.

Of course, the same goes for the other five parts.

Zhao Wei's approach was the same as when he was in the Ministry of War. He reported for duty on the first day and then asked someone to do the job for him. He used the pseudonym Zhao Chengzong and either wandered around Tokyo City or listened to music in the Jiaofangsi or brothels.

In his words, I have been fighting on the border for four years, can't I enjoy myself?
Of course he could enjoy it, and the six ministers were even happy to see him enjoy it.

But Zhao Heng could not accept his son's continued degeneration, so he transferred Ke Zheng back.

There was no way, he couldn't control Zhao Wei. Whenever he mentioned something, Zhao Wei would threaten him with medicine, or else he would clamor to go back to the border. Then Liu Wan would make trouble with him, making him very troubled.

In Zhao Heng's opinion, Ke Zheng, who even dared to criticize him, was able to control his son.

But the result was not entirely as expected, Zhao Wei continued to do as he pleased.

So after Ke Zheng returned to the capital, he reflected on himself for not being able to teach students, and at the same time criticized Zhao Heng for his poor parenting skills in the court, which made Zhao Heng even more annoyed.

He often scolded Zhao Wei for not being a human being, and he would curse him regardless of the occasion.

But only God knows how relieved Zhao Heng was.

Because he felt that he still had a long time to live, he naturally did not want a son who could pose a threat to him.

In addition, Zhao Wei also knew when to stop. Apart from listening to music at the Jiaofang Bureau and occasionally beating up the playboys, he never caused any major trouble.

Not only have they never done anything to anger anyone, but they have also made appropriate constructive suggestions and occasionally done things to uphold justice.

This gave Zhao Heng an illusion that his son was not corrupt, but had suffered too much on the border and simply wanted to enjoy himself.

As a result, the court officials discovered a strange thing: the emperor often scolded the King of Han, but his favor for the King of Han became stronger and stronger, and he would hardly tolerate anyone saying a word against him.

Simply put, he can just curse, but others... let alone curse, they can't even say anything.

Not only was he not allowed to say anything, but he also asked court officials to protect Zhao Wei's reputation.

So even though Zhao Wei often hung out in the Jiaofangsi, most people had no idea that he was the Prince of Han, the contemporary Huo Qubing. They only knew that he was Zhao Yanei, a generous, stupid and rich man.

Well, he is even more stupid and richer than Chi Pan, the boss of the twelve guilds in Tokyo, and more romantic than Chi Yanei.

After all, Chi Yanei only pursues Zhang Haohao, while Zhao Yanei pursues the girls from the Jiaofangsi and major brothels.

There are people who specialize in statistics. In just one year, this Zhao Yanei redeemed the freedom of hundreds of girls.

The value of these girls varied, and adding on the daily expenses in the Music Bureau and brothels, the sum was at least a million strings of cash.

This statistic also raised a question among the people, that is, why didn't Zhao Yanei redeem Zhang Haohao, who was famous in Tokyo?
Some people speculated that Zhao Yanei had just arrived in Tokyo and could not afford to offend Chi Yanei, the local tyrant.

However, this speculation was quickly rejected by everyone.

Because if Zhao Yanei couldn't even afford to offend Chi Yanei, it would be impossible for him to redeem so many brothel girls in Tokyo City and still be safe and sound now.

So other versions came out later, saying that Zhang Haohao did not like Zhao Yanei's romantic style and was unwilling to commit herself to him; others said that Zhao Yanei looked down on Zhang Haohao. Although Zhang Haohao was a famous courtesan in Tokyo, everyone has their own preferences, and Zhang Haohao might not have met Zhao Yanei's aesthetic standards.

Compared with the latter, the former has gradually become the mainstream.

In fact, the reason why Zhao Wei did not redeem Zhang Haohao was not because of anything else, but because of Zhao Huai'en.

After taking Zhao Huai'en to Shuangxi Tower of the Jiaofangsi several times, which was Zhang Haohao's embroidery tower, Zhao Huai'en fell in love with her.

Zhao Huai'en was the chief steward of the palace. It only took him a word to redeem Zhang Haohao. There was no need for Zhao Wei to take any action.

As for why Zhao Huai'en didn't redeem Zhang Haohao?
Zhao Wei didn't know and didn't ask any more questions.

(End of this chapter)