Xiaoguangong

Chapter 57
Someone in later generations made a very incisive conclusion.

With a profit of more than 300%, capital dares to commit any crime, even risking hanging.

Food in this era represents wealth, power and stability, and [-] shi good rice is not too much, but Cai Mao believes that this is just the beginning.

"Thank you Uncle Cai for today's matter. This rice grain is considered as a gift to Uncle Cai. If our friends in Jiangdong still have food, we will have to rely on Uncle Cai to find a way to sell it."

Cai Mao had already guessed the ins and outs of the whole matter.

It turned out that Guan Ping somehow sneaked into Le Jin's fleet, and took advantage of the weak characteristics of Cao Jun's navy to get the task of transporting food.

Assuming that a soldier consumes 2 catties of rice a day, these two thousand seven hundred shi rice can only supply 6 people for a day at most, which is not enough for the supply of Cao Jun headquarters, let alone salt and other non-staple food.

But for individuals, it is quite an astonishing figure.

Guan Ping has a good relationship with Ma Liang. In the future, no matter whether Cao Jun takes water or land, there will be reasonable "loss" in the army transporting grain. Cai Mao's contacts, relationships and the navy in his hands are all his participation in this "business". important reliance.

Guan Ping paid the protection fee first, and their business scale will continue to expand in the future.

For example, Jingzhou has always been short of salt, so it can only buy it from nearby places.Guan Ping was able to transfer Wu Jun to act in a play, so Cai Mao could naturally confiscate this huge profit into his own home in a reasonable way!
"Nephew." Cai Mao pondered for a while, "Uncle did the math, or you made a mistake. My life-and-death friendship with your father, can I still take advantage of you?"

Guan Ping smiled and said:
"It's true, my nephew knew it was wrong. My nephew hasn't come to Jiangling for a long time, and I feel a little panic in my heart, please don't blame my uncle."

Cai Mao gently stroked his long beard, unable to suppress the greedy look in his eyes.

He leaned down and said slowly: "I have always regarded you as my nephew, even if there is any disaster in Jiangling, for the sake of uncle, no one will make things difficult for you.

Just do your business, in Jiangling City, even if Haotian God comes, he has to call me God! "

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Sure enough, in addition to fighting and killing in this world, what is more important is the way of the world.

Cai Mao's feud with Liu Bei was due to interests, and it was because of interests that he betrayed his niece and son-in-law Liu Cong, and now he regards Guan Ping as his own nephew because of interests.

With Cai Mao's support, Guan Ping has more confidence in this trip to Jiangling.

According to the plan he had discussed with Ma Liang, he was going to meet another uncle next.

In a small but quite elegant wooden house in Jiangling City, a Confucian scholar with frosty temples and half of his beard was sitting on a plain futon, concentrating on reading, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him .

This person was Kuai Yue from Zhonglu, Xiangyang, who was Liu Biao's great help in occupying Jingzhou.

Kuaiyue's character is different, and his reputation in Jingzhou is very prominent, and his power is second only to Cai Mao.

After Cao Cao occupied Jiangling, Kuai Yue came to Jiangling to help Cao Cao pacify the people in Jingzhou. With his own reputation, he tried his best to suppress the dissatisfaction of the Jingzhou people in Cao's army, which ensured that the Northern Army and Jingzhou Army can temporarily maintain stability.

These days Cai Mao showed arrogance, which made Kuai Yue's identity extremely embarrassing. He was ashamed to participate in the dispute between Cao Cao and Cai Mao, so he could only hide in a different courtyard to study, and was prepared to show his glory when the situation stabilized.

It is impossible for Kuai Yue not to regret what happened in the past few days.

He originally thought that Cao Jun was invincible in the world and could show the posture of overwhelming Mount Tai, so he picked Liu Bei and Sun Quan together.

But he never expected that Cao Jun's navy would be so incompetent that he would even have to start training from scratch, and now all battles would basically be handed over to the original Jingzhou navy.

This is also impossible.

Cao Cao has been beating and beating for so many years, constantly beating.The troops under him didn't have time to practice water warfare at all, and they didn't even have time to rest. They complained all the way, how could they compete with the Jiangdong navy who had just killed Huang Zu and had a high morale.

I knew... I knew why we didn't connect with Sun Quan, why should we rely on others.

Kuai Yue was absent-minded and didn't read anything written in the book.He was about to go out for a walk when his servants suddenly reported that Ma Liang and Yun Shan had arrived.

Ma Liang does know him, but who is Yunshan?

Kuai Yue looked suspicious, so he had no choice but to invite the two of them into the house.

As soon as he entered the door, Ma Liang greeted him enthusiastically, bowed down and bowed down, calling him "Uncle Shi". Kuai Yue was completely unprepared, dismissed the servant with a smile, and cast his eyes on the man next to Ma Liang.

The young man kept his head down, looking a little weird, Kuai Yue asked inexplicably:
"One step is..."

"Junior Guan Ping, I wonder if Mr. Kuai has ever heard of this junior's humble name?"

Kuai Yue raised his eyebrows, and his face immediately turned pale.

Guan Ping... Guan Ping...

Just as he was about to shout, Guan Ping's sharp long knife was out of its sheath, and it rested on Kuai Yue's neck like lightning.

"you you!"

Kuai Yue is very powerful and famous, but the problem is that he is old, and the riding and archery he learned when he was young has long been abandoned. Guan Ping's attempt to kill him is just a matter of effort.

"Liu Shijun entrusted Jingzhou with his youngest son. Before Liu Gong's bed, he promised something compared to Kuai Gong. The younger generation is less educated, and I really want to hear the words of Gao Shi. Please tell me what Kuai Gong said." Guan Ping His voice was very calm, but Kuai Yue could feel the flames burning in the young man's eyes, obviously boiling with murderous intent.

At that time, Kuai Yue and others persuaded Liu Cong to surrender, and secretly contacted Cao Cao. It was not until Cao Cao approached Liu Bei that he got the news. Liu Bei's army was almost wiped out in Changbanpo.

Kuai Yue groaned in his heart, secretly thinking that Guan Ping had sneaked back and killed himself for revenge.

"Hugh, don't kill me! Liu Xuande's reputation for benevolence and righteousness spreads all over the world, if..."

"Answer! Answer! Me!" Guan Ping raised the steel knife in his hand, the sharp blade shone with a silver light, and the cold back of the knife pressed against Kuai Yue's face, causing Kuai Yue to break out in a cold sweat.

A scribe cannot fight a martial artist, this is a wise saying.

He looked at Ma Liang with eyes asking for help, seeing Ma Liang looking at himself with a silly smile on his face, knowing that today's matter could not be let go, he could only tremble and say:

"I, when, at that time, Liu Jingsheng entrusted me to assist the second son to take over Jingzhou. But Prime Minister Cao embraced the army..."

"Don't talk about this first." Guan Pinghan said, "How did you do it? Where is Jingzhou?"

"I'm because..."

"Answer me, where is Jingzhou!"

Kuai Yue's whole body was like sifting chaff, his usual composure was completely gone, the saint's subtle words and righteousness kept flashing in his mind, and he wanted to put on a fearless posture and severely reprimand Guan Ping, a lowly criminal.

But looking at Guan Ping's fierce eyes, all his words of justice turned into pleas for forgiveness, so he could only stammer:

"Liu, Liu Cong surrendered, I, I can't stop it. I'm sorry for Jing Sheng..."

As soon as this remark came out, Ma Liang immediately laughed.

Standing between the two, he separated Guan Ping and Kuai Yue, and complained to Guan Ping:

"A Ping, you promised me to be more polite to Duke Kuai before you came here. You still don't believe me when I said that Duke Kuai is not this kind of person."

He looked at Kuai Yue with a grin:

"Mr. Kuai, please tell my nephew, who is it that tricked Liu Cong to surrender? There are rumors outside that it was Duke Kuai, and my nephew is the first to not believe it."

"We can't come here in vain this time. After the discussion is clear, my nephew will definitely bring someone to strip his family's skins and restore my uncle's innocence!"

(End of this chapter)