Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 878
Liu Mu gave Cui Yiyan an authorization from the general secretary, and also helped Cui Yiyan ask Zhang Chuchen for an authorization.This is indeed a very big support for Cui Yiyan.

A few days later, a letter arrived from Chang'an.

After Niu Jinda got the official document allowing him to go on the expedition, he couldn't close his mouth with a smile. He personally ran to Juqishan City to pick up the willow wood on the boat, and then sent it to Izumo.

On Tsushima Island, Baoqin finds Willow.

"Mr. Lang, I want to go to Xinjin Port first. There are some properties of our sisters there. They can't leave in Juqishan on business. I will go and see for them."

Liu Mu smiled and asked, "You didn't invest any money?"

"I voted for a little bit, but this time the big shopkeeper is not from someone else, but openly recruited. I learned this method from Mr. Lang. The shopkeeper had his own shop before, but at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the rebel army gave it to him. It was ruined, and the family property was basically destroyed in sevens and eighties, and it hasn't recovered in these years."

After listening to Baoqin's explanation, Liu Mu could probably understand that the property must be a joint stock company.

There are even some high-profile households involved.

It is relatively fair to choose a recruited shopkeeper, and Liu Mu didn't care too much.

When Liu Mu arrived in Izumo, his eldest grandson Wugou and Dugu Lanruo were not there.

The rest of the princesses and ladies were also absent.

Liu Mu went to Shi Jianshan to ask, and Li Xiaocha told Liu Mu that Li Xiaocha pointed in the direction of his home: "What about people, my wife ran away, and two of the three concubines ran away. One is still drawn by lottery."

"What?" Liu Mu couldn't close his mouth in surprise.

Li Xiaocha sighed heavily: "You don't know what you're busy with these days, some time ago someone around you sent a letter to Chang Ping, and then Chang Ping didn't seem to like the news in that letter, and gave the letter to Princess Changsha."

Liu Mu asked: "What is the content of the letter?"

"I don't know!" Li Xiaocha said these three words heavily and then added: "Before my wife left, she planned to secretly move some silver ingots from the warehouse, so that I could find out. He moved away, I guess I..."

Li Xiaocha did not say what would happen, the result was terrible.

Taking money from Yinshan privately, if Li Shimin turned his face against this crime, let alone Li Xiaocha is a clan, even Li Shimin's own younger brother would also be regarded as a typical example.

Liu Mu also knew that this matter was very troublesome, so he asked in a low voice: "How much did you take?"

"The one who plans to move two stacks, let me find out..." Li Xiaocha sighed heavily, and still told Liu Mu: "I quietly asked her to move four stacks."

"what!"

Liu Mu was even more astonished, normally Li Xiaocha should not have been allowed to move when he found out about this, why did he double it.

Li Xiaocha explained: "There is a pledge in the warehouse. The jewelry alone is worth eight stacks, and there are more than 400 gold coins. The first name on the IOU is Princess Changsha."

"Why move these impure silver?" Liu Mu just couldn't understand.

Li Xiaocha shook his head: "I don't know. Several princesses spoke up, and the pledges they left behind were written in documents. I can't refuse. I have already sent someone to report this matter to Shengqian. It is estimated that there will be another The results will come back in a month."

"why?"

Willow didn't understand at all.

The purity of the silver ingots on Mount Iwami is very low, and no high-standard refinery has been built here.What's more, silver has to be refined once before it is minted, so it is necessary to build a refining workshop here.

"I don't want to, I'm going to Xinjin Port. Since the princess of Changsha has guaranteed the money, there will be no problem. I don't know if the queen knows about it."

"The queen will pretend not to know if she knows." Li Xiaocha is better than Liu Mu in this matter.

A stack of silver is a pile of silver ingots placed on a wooden frame that is square and square, and four stacks weigh at least one ton based on the weight of later generations.

Two tons of silver, even if it is impure, is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Li Xiaocha served wine and Liu Mu until midnight, and left Shi Jianshan early the next morning, heading for Xinjin Port.

When approaching Xinjin Port, Liu Mu saw a mixed fleet of ships queuing up to enter the port.

Why is it complicated, because the fleet controlled by Liumu is almost all full-sail type, and there are only a dozen old-style pot-bellied tank ships that are not full-sail type.

And more than [-]% of the ships entering the port here are large hard-sailed ships.

It is impossible for these big ships with hard sails to be far away from the coastline, unable to withstand strong winds and waves, and the slow speed makes Liu Mu crazy, but the loading capacity is huge. As long as you are not afraid of sinking, just load it on the ship. The more you load on the ship, On the contrary, the ship is more and more stable at sea.

Liu Mu disembarked at the berth of the official ship, but watched Lu Chengqing standing on a high ground at the pier holding a thick account book from a distance, flipping through the account book and looking at the ships on the pier.

Liu Mu walked there, and immediately a small official ran to Lu Chengqing and told Lu Chengqing that Liu Mu had arrived.

Lu Chengqing greeted Liu Mu with a new hug: "Liu Concubine."

"Business is heavy?" Liu Mu asked with a smile.

"Liu Concubine has been busy recently, and there have been some changes in the Maoshan mining area. I was ordered to be in charge of the logistics, but found that the number of manpower increased, but the work became more and more. The Goguryeo slave workers are illiterate, and some clever errands are fine. Things always go wrong, and I was just thinking about how to train them to be qualified officials as soon as possible."

After listening to Lu Chengqing's words, Liu Mu said a few words of comfort: "There is no rush, take your time."

"Yes."

Lu Chengqing pointed to the wharf: "These ships belong to 49 merchant gangs with a total of more than 1000 stores, and their total numbers are distributed in five provinces, 23 states, and hundreds of counties."

"Oh." Liu Mu also looked at the pier with great interest.

"It's okay for Goguryeo slave workers to be stupid, and it took almost a sentence for the officials. They still can't tell the difference between Sichuan pickled vegetables, Lingnan pickled vegetables, and Jiangnan Dongdao pickled vegetables. Every time the ship arrives, they will change their carriages to the mining area. Luck, mistakes happen every time." Lu Chengqing complained.

Liu Muxin said that she couldn't tell the difference between these three types of pickles.

Lu Chengqing motioned to the little official beside him to get him a list, and then handed the list to Liu Mu.

When Liu Mu saw this list, his scalp went numb.

pickles!

Datang alone transports tens of thousands of jars of pickled vegetables to the Maoshan mining area every month, with countless varieties.The dishes that can be thought of are basically made into pickles.

The largest number of them is Frost Ageless.That is, Xue Lihong of later generations.

"Liu Concubine, some time ago Princess Changsha sent a steward to build a village [-] miles north of the wharf, and also built a small wharf, which cannot accommodate large ships, but can dock [-] small boats and fishing boats."

Hearing about Princess Changsha, Liu Mu thought about the silver ingot, and immediately asked, "Do you know what's going on over there?"

(End of this chapter)