marquis of jingan

Chapter 921 Have a good year
Regardless of Zhao Lu's mentality, he did reduce too much pressure on Shen Yi, and also saved the Huai'an army from dying a lot.

The only thing that annoyed Shen Yi was that the Huaihe Navy was two or three days late.

These details will be discussed in the future.

But for now, for Shen Yi, the most important thing is to fight the battle in Huai'an well.

After he arranged things on the Eastern Front, he sent someone to the Lianshui camp to communicate with Ling Su about the battle situation.

In the next three or four days, the fighting between the two sides continued for a day, but because Shen Yi discovered that the Qi people would no longer increase troops to the south bank, the pressure of the Huai'an army to attack was not particularly high, and the intensity of the war suddenly dropped a lot.

On the fourth day, early in the morning, when Shen Yi was still asleep, he was woken up by Jiang Sheng. Master Shen put on thick clothes and reluctantly got up.

In the past few days, his mental pressure has also dropped a lot, and he can finally sleep peacefully, and he has regained a lot of energy that was consumed in the past few days.

But now it was about to enter winter, once it was winter, it was difficult for Shen Yi to get up, but fortunately he was in the army, he knew the priorities, after being woken up by Jiang Sheng, he put on his clothes quickly.

After he put on his clothes, a young man walked in short from outside the tent. After seeing Shen Yi, he bowed his head respectfully and said, "Master."

Master Shen yawned, pointed to the seat opposite him, and said with a smile, "Sit and talk."

It was Xu Fu who came.

After Xu Fu was seated, Shen Yi said with some embarrassment: "I made an agreement with you before that when you and my younger sister get married, I will personally marry you, but since this year, I have too many things to take care of. On Jiankang's side, it's a broken promise."

Now it's October and almost November, and Xu Fu has already married Xu Liuniang in September.

Xu Fu quickly lowered his head and said, "Young master is busy with state affairs, my marriage with my younger sister is a trivial matter, I dare not let you bother me, let alone..."

"Before and after the marriage, my wife also helped me a lot, otherwise the few of us would have no idea about the marriage process..."

When Shen Yi left Jiankang at the beginning of the year, he entrusted Lu Ruoxi to help Xu Fu and the others. After Xu Fu got married, Lu Ruoxi did worry a lot about it.

Master Shen poured a cup of hot tea for Xu Fu, and said softly: "After all, you still broke your promise, and replace the wine with tea, I will pay you for it."

Xu Fu quickly stood up, lowered his head and said, "My lord, you are too far-fetched."

After the two of them talked about the past, Shen Yi asked Xu Fu to sit down and talked about the serious business.

"Originally, you were newlyweds, so I shouldn't have called you to Huai'an, but now there are some things that need your help."

Xu Fu quickly bowed his head: "Young Master, please."

Master Shen nodded: "Then I won't talk nonsense."

"The Huai'an army is short of gunpowder, iron, and arrows."

Xu Fu heard this, and said with a wry smile: "My lord, salt, iron and copper are all exclusive to the imperial court. I can't get them for you. As for gunpowder, even the raw materials are forbidden to be bought and sold by the imperial court..."

"I'm not asking you to break the law."

Shen Yi said with a smile: "Gunpowder, ironware and other things are available in Jiankang's Bingzhang Bureau, but some old guys in Jiankang City have obstructed them, and they refuse to send them to me. I have already asked the imperial decree, please Send me the caravan to Huai'an."

"Of course there's no problem with that."

Xu Fu nodded quickly, and said with a smile: "Liulichang has raised several cavalry teams in the past two years, and I will send them to you later."

Shen Yi paused, and said, "Also, I need some cash."

After saying this, he looked up at Xu Fu's expression.

"If you have some there, send some to me and count it as a loan from you."

Xu Fu immediately lowered his head and said, "Master, how can we talk about it? The business of Dazhong tea shop and some weaving shops in the local area is done with the money of the imperial court. I didn't touch the money, but Liulichang I have always taken care of your business, my lord."

"According to the original agreement between you and His Majesty, Liulichang's profits will be divided into [-]-[-], and I will keep your half for you, and..."

"The inner court did not withdraw much money from Liulichang, and the money is still in the Liulichang treasury."

Xu Fu glanced at Shen Yi, and said, "I have met Eunuch Gao a few times these days, and Eunuch Gao seems to mean that there is no shortage of money in the palace for the time being, and all the money in Liulichang will be used by you."

Master Shen lowered his head and took a sip of tea, then said slowly: "The half of the money in the palace, don't touch them either."

"Yes."

Xu Fu bowed his head: "I never thought of touching them either."

He looked at Shen Yi again, and said, "How much does the young master want?"

"One million taels of cash, do you have it?"

Xu Fu suddenly smiled, and said, "My lord, you have underestimated the income of the Liuli Factory for more than a year. When the Liuli Factory first started, the colored glaze products were sent to the palace first, and then became popular in Jiankang. At that time, a set of transparent colored glaze The tea set can be sold for 500 taels of silver, and the ones with better quality can even be sold for thousands of taels."

"Even now, Liulichang's technology has not been spread to the outside world. A set of tea sets in Liulichang can still be sold for more than ten taels of silver, and the supply exceeds demand. If it flows outside, some people will raise the market price."

"Up to now, one or two years later, there are more than 300 million taels of cash in the basement of Liulichang."

"Including some land deeds, house deeds, and silver stored in other banks, there are probably five or six million taels."

Hearing this number, even Shen Yi couldn't help being a little speechless.

This is too much money!

He was not shocked by the money-making ability of the "glass" industry, but by Jiankang's spending power.

It seems that the rich people in Jiankang City.

There are many.

From this point of view, all the businesses that Shen Yi has run in these years, including Mrs. Ye's business in Fuzhou, the current or all businesses combined are not as rich as this Liulichang.

Xu Fu lowered his head slightly and said, "I'll hurry back to Jiankang and send 150 million taels of silver to you within ten days."

Shen Yi shook his head slightly: "One million taels is enough, the main thing is that the acting household department first distributes pensions and rewards to the brothers under him."

He looked at Xu Fu and said, "If it's convenient for you, buy some pigs, cattle and sheep from along the way, and rush to Lianshui County and Xiangshui County to give tooth-beating sacrifices to the brothers in the army."

"Yes."

Xu Fu lowered his head slightly, and said, "Then I'll rush back to Jiankang right now, and get things done for Young Master."

"Have a meal and go back."

Master Shen looked at Xu Fu, smiled and said: "In case I meet my little sister in the future, she will blame me for not even giving you a hot meal."

"Business matters."

Xu Fu bowed his head and said, "I'll hurry back to Jiankang now, and when the young master returns to Jiankang, I'll come to beg for a meal."

Shen Yi hesitated for a moment, then shook his head slightly: "Forget it, you can almost be said to be the richest man in Jiankang now, and you probably don't like the meals in the army, so I'll send you out."

This sentence was a joke, Xu Fu just smiled and didn't say much.

Shen Yi sent him all the way to the gate of Daying, and then watched him leave on horseback.

After sending off Xu Fu, Shen Yi didn't feel sleepy anymore, he left the Xiangshui camp on horseback and came to the front line military tent.

Right now, the front line is still fighting.

It's just that the Huai'an army harassed the Qi people's positions on the south bank most of the time, and there was no real large-scale conflict for the time being.

Because Shen Yi is not going to attack the Qi people's position by force.

And these Qi people, after stopping the increase in troops, had no intention of attacking Huai'an, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.

At this moment, Su Ding was having a "meeting" with the thousands of households under his command. When they saw Shen Yi coming, they all stood up and saluted with fists.

"Meet Mr. Shen!"

With his hands behind his back, Master Shen walked to the main seat and sat down, then looked at the crowd and said with a smile, "What are you discussing?"

Su Ding lowered his head slightly and said: "Back to Lord Shen, we are discussing how to cut off the waterway for the people of Qi."

"Last time, Mr. Shen said that we should stop them, and we can't let them come and leave as soon as they say."

"But they have too many ships. In our Xiangshui area, they probably have one or two hundred ships. If they don't plan to hit Huai'an at this moment and want to retreat to the north bank, it will be difficult for us to completely stop them. .”

Shen Yi nodded silently, and asked, "How is Qi people doing today?"

"The troop strength does not seem to have increased or decreased, but the ships on the Huaihe River kept coming and going..."

Shen Yi reached out and knocked on the table, after thinking for a while, he said slowly: "We can't let them be so comfortable."

"The number of attacks should be increased as appropriate, and these Qi people should feel the pressure."

"All warships are on standby, ready to stop the enemy from fleeing north."

"Even if you stop half of it, it's still a big victory."

The Qi people are now in the army on the north bank, and the east-west line and the Qi people along the coast together must have exceeded [-]. If half of them can be left behind, it will be an unprecedented victory for the Huai'an army!
Su Ding looked up at Shen Yi, and said with a wry smile: "Mr. Shen, we don't have enough gunpowder for our arrows."

"In a few days..."

Shen Yi rubbed his eyebrows.

"It will be delivered to you in a few days."

Shen Yi raised his head and looked around at the crowd with a calm voice.

"Everyone, it's already winter."

"Years ago, all these Qi people who stepped into the Dachen realm should be dealt with."

"Then, brothers together..."

"Have a good year."

(End of this chapter)