Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 349 Zhang Sanqi's Business
Picking up a pen and drawing a stroke under "Lianyang County", Zhang Zhe handed over a list to Gu Shuyi with peace of mind.

"In this way, the counties are already well-managed?" Gu Shuyi has followed Zhang Philosophy's many ideas in government affairs these days, and holding this list in her hand feels extremely heavy.

"Except for the two county magistrates who are destined to take office in other counties, the rest of the counties have already surrendered their sincerity to the Wangfu. Even in these two counties, the chief secretary and county lieutenant can also be replaced. You can just send this list to the younger brother. , use or not, you don’t make any suggestions.”

"My little sister knows." Gu Shuyi put away the list, and couldn't help but glance at the inside of her cousin's study room. There seemed to be a very mysterious guest there. "My cousin is busy on his own. My sister is going to write a letter now."

It was a thunderstorm on the last day of May, and the flickering thunder light illuminated the face of a man in the study.

This man is seven points similar to Chen Shanyao, the No. 1 general of the former Wu Kingdom. He is about 36 seven years old. He is sitting calmly opposite the desk, thinking about something.

Little Zhao Ping, who hadn't seen him for many days, was standing by.

After seeing off Gu Shuyi, Zhang Zhe entered the study again.

Seeing the master's return, the guest turned his attention to Xiao Zhaoping who had not left. What he and Zhang Xinzhi wanted to talk about was extremely confidential. How could a servant stay in the room without knowing how to advance or retreat?
Seeing him staring at little Zhao Ping, Zhang Zhe knew the other party's scruples.

"This is Zhao Ping, my family's servant. He is doing the thing we want to talk about."

Little Zhao Ping was a little sensitive to the gazes of the guests, and was also hesitating whether he should back down.When Zhang Zhe said that he was a servant of the servants, he who lowered his head felt a sudden heat in his heart.He, Zhao Ping, finally got the approval of his master at this moment, and stepped into the ranks of the servants of the Zhang family.

"That's all right," the guest looked at Zhang Xinzhi who was sitting down again, "Master Zhang sent someone to the south to find his brother and said that he had something to discuss about the lifeline of Wu. If it weren't for the fact that the person who went was a soldier of a certain uncle , My Chen family thought the lord was joking."

"If General Chen thought that Zhang was joking, why would he send General Shanhu to take the risk to Zhaoyang to meet with a certain person? As General Chen's younger brother, the reward offered in Wu State is not low. It won't be peaceful."

Chen Shanhu stared at Zhang Zhe and suddenly asked: "Everyone says that a grown man is extremely talented, but seeing him now, I don't expect him to be so young! But my brother found out that the battle on the river bank was defeated twice a day by the master?! I don’t know if this news is true or false?”

Zhang Zhe laughed when he heard the words: "Probably someone spread rumors."

In his heart, he complained lightly: If your Chen family knew, the bad idea about framing your Chen family's altered letter would most likely be dedicated to the emperor himself.I don't know if Chen Shanhu on the opposite side can maintain his current calm.

That night, many people in the Chen family died!

"If you don't confirm the authenticity of this matter, how can my brother be sure that Mr. Zhang must have a way to touch the root of Wu?" Chen Shanhu sneered, obviously because he was scared away by Zhang Xinzhi's bluff in the battle back then, and then fell into the night attack again. The other party's calculations and brooding.His elder brothers almost fell in that battle, and half of the soldiers around his eldest brother were lost in the battle.

"Don't mention those things, how about we talk about the business?" Zhang Zhe waved to Zhao Ping with a smile.

Zhao Ping took out a bag from his side and put it respectfully in Chen Shanhu's hand.

"This is?"

Chen Shanhu looked at this small pocket hesitantly, as if he couldn't believe that this was the thing Zhang Xinzhi talked about involving the root of the Wu Kingdom.

"Master Zhang is really joking with the Chen family?"

"General Chen will know when you open it!" Zhang Zhe nodded the bag, "Just take a look, if you still use Zhang to carry half a word of gossip, it will be Zhang Menglang."

Chen Shanhu was not afraid that Zhang Xinzhi would use something to poison him, this was Zhang Xinzhi's territory, and he would not use that at all.

In fact, everyone in the Chen family, including Chen Shanhu's elder brother Chen Shanyao, attached great importance to the message that Zhang Xinzhi sent through his uncle Chen Zhengxian.

Although the opportunity for the change of the Chen family was Chen Zhengxian's anyway, but as the head of the family, Chen Shanyao knew very well that without Chen Zhengxian's Zheng Guo, the Chen family, which lost the Yangtze River defense line and many large ships, would inevitably become the abandoned son of the Zhao family.

The Chen family's biggest goal now is to continue to survive in the southern country, and secondly to seek revenge from the Wu royal family.Now with the truce between Zheng and Wu, the main forces of Wu began to move south one after another, and the situation of the Chen family became more and more critical.

From the news network of the Chen family, it is natural to know what Zhang Zhe is doing in Zhaoyang.They originally thought that Zhang Zhe had found them to talk about the joint attack on Wu, but in reality they only wanted him to take a look at this small bag.

"Xueyi?" Chen Shanhu's voice was not surprised, but contained a touch of anger and dissatisfaction.

The next moment, the thunder outside the room reappeared, and Chen Shanhu, who was about to look away from the bag, was stunned immediately, and grabbed a handful of snow crystal particles from the bag again.

"This is not Xueyi!"

As a child of the aristocratic family, Chen Shanhu is very familiar with Zhao's Xueyi's appearance.But these sugar crystals in his hands are completely different from Xueyi.

It turns out that Xueyi is actually slightly yellow?These sugar crystals in your hand are the real pure white.

Chen Shanhu squeezed some and put them in his mouth, after a while his eyes flashed.

"Master Zhang, what is the name of this candy? How much can you supply?"

Seeing Chen Shanhu's reaction, Zhang Zhe glanced at Zhao Ping with a smile.

"Zhao Ping!"

Little Zhao Ping immediately explained: "The name of this thing is white sugar or icing sugar, and now the county has 70 catties in stock."

"Impossible!" Chen Shanhu stood up abruptly, "70 catties, you have only bought more than 20 catties of sucrose these days, including the 70 catties traded in bills. Wait, cane sugar?! Can you get rid of the color~ ! These are brown sugar and brown sugar decolorized ~!?"

"The root of the Zhao family lies in the snow sweets in the southern country. The reputation of the official tickets issued by the royal family of the Wu state is entirely on the snow sweets, which are worth millions of coins every year. The snow sweets are only owned by the Zhao family in the Wu state, and the movement is priced at tens of coins every year. A few catties are sold to other countries. And this kind of icing sugar in this county is better than snow sugar, and the supply from this county to the Chen family only needs to be consistent per catty. I just don’t know the sales channels of the Chen family in various parts of Wu country. "

"No problem!" Chen Shanhu's eyes were full, "Although the Chen family suffered heavy losses, my brother has already transferred many of the family's properties secretly. The Chen family has been operating in the southern country for more than ten generations. It is known as one of the five powerful families in the southern country. It's a false name. Selling these candy goods is just a trivial matter for my Chen family. Zhao's power without Xueyi, let's see how he maintains the [-] pro-army!?"

In fact, Chen Shanhu thought of more, but he didn't say all of them.

For the status of the Zhao family, who has never coveted the status of the major families in the southern country?If he can frustrate Zhao's lifeline, with his Chen's strength, it's not impossible for him to think more.

"Today is May 27th, and on June [-]th, these icings will be prepared in the Chen family's secret sugar shop, and then sold together on the same day! The price must not exceed two sticks! I wonder if the Chen family can do it?"

"No!" Chen Shanhu smiled, "Your Excellency, it is already not profitable to give me the Chen family. Why do my Chen family still care about the profit of that little property? Naturally, our priority is the most important thing. My Chen family also sells the Chen family. !June 27th, a certain Xueyi who wants to call Zhao Shi is like an avalanche~!"

A closed carriage took Chen Shanhu to the farm and returned. After seeing the white sugar, Chen Shanhu completely let go of his worries, and then began to discuss transportation with Zhang Zhe.

"In fact, a small half of the boats transporting grain to Zhaoyang are secretly controlled by my Chen family. In order to hurry, these icing sugars may have to be transported to various places by water. It's just that there are more than ten miles between Zhaoyang County and the waterway. Master Zhang needs to figure out a way to help my Chen family's cargo convoy cover up a little while on the road."

"General Chen, don't worry, the Zhaoyang Army is newly built. These days, they will go out to the south gate for a drill or two from time to time."

Chen Shanhu nodded, with the cover of the army, he was not afraid that Wu's spies would dare to get too close, at most it was just someone who was smuggling.

"So, happy cooperation!"

"Happy cooperation!" Zhang Sanqi bowed his hands to the leaving guest with a smile, and turned to look at another guest.

Ever since he was despised by Geng Liang and the others, Zhang Sanqi was not willing to stay in Zhaoyang. He was sent by Zhang Zhe to Jinling, the capital of Wu, in early April.

With the help of many Wu imperial merchants, Zhang Sanqi opened a semi-official shop in Jinling in the name of the princess of Wuling and the future father-in-law of the prince of Wu, named "Darunfa".It is responsible for the purchase of sugar products, and of course it also does some "special" transactions that Zhang Zhe has specially ordered.

"Shopkeeper Liao, I've been waiting for a long time!"

The person Zhang Sanqi became Liao's shopkeeper was a big fat man with a smile like Maitreya Buddha, and he grabbed Zhang Sanqi's hand immediately.

"What is Qiye talking about, my [-] catties of sugar, Qiye should give me a letter today! This rainy day continues day after day, and my brother is so worried that I can't sleep every day~ This way, this way, choose Cuilou tonight, I invite, I invite! Seventh Master must also honor it."

Zhang Sanqi showed a look of embarrassment.

"Boss Liao is embarrassing my brother. We traveled hundreds of miles to Jinling to open a shop to collect sugar. Isn't it just to make the price cheaper? 550 renminbi per catty is already higher than the sugar on the market."

"Hey, do you think we don't even know about it?" Boss Liao smiled, "Who doesn't know that behind your name is Zhaoyang Junwang and the old noble concubine. The news in our industry has spread all over the place. You Zhaoyang The sugar collected is what the imperial court of your country wants to collect into the national treasury. The price that the imperial court of your country offers to the prince of Zhaoyang County is not low, so if you earn less from me, and take more sugar goods back, you will make a lot of money, right?"

"How do you know everything?!" Zhang Sanqi slapped his head in frustration.

Boss Liao grabbed Zhang Sanqi, and said in a low voice: "650 Wen! Miss Xuancuilou Zhaozhu, I will settle accounts for my brother tonight, how about it?"

Zhang Sanqi smiled and said, "Okay, brother, this is the last time, and you earned another five thousand guan!"

Boss Liao left happily, Zhang Sanqi rubbed his face, smiling every day these days, two pieces of flesh on his face almost froze from laughing.

But after only two sips of a cup of tea, the guy in front came to report again, saying that it was someone from the Jinling Qi family who had come.

For this Jinling Qi family, Zhang Sanqi did not dare to neglect, and hastily welcomed the guests to the back hall.

The five great clans of the Southern Kingdom, Zhao, Qian, Chen, Qi, and Shi, the Qi family is the fourth-ranked super family in the South.

There are two stewards from the Qi family, and they seem to be familiar with Zhang Sanqi. When they met, they chatted for a while, as if they were some kind of iron man.

"Even if the two elder brothers don't come, I'm going to invite them here. It just so happens that today is the day for our settlement. My younger brother has already prepared the interest here."

Zhang Sanqi took out a box, and when he opened it, there were two stacks of Wu State official tickets in the box.

"Our brothers' friendship is friendship, but this business belongs to the masters. Is the amount enough? Brother, I won't count!" One of them smiled and picked up the stack of official tickets that belonged to him.

"That's right!" Zhang Sanqi spread out his fingers and calculated, "Qi's Sanfang purchased our Zhaoyang Sugar Bonds, with a total principal of 10 taels, paying five cents of interest every ten days, and paying five thousand guan; Jiawufang bought 7 taels of bonds and paid [-] taels of interest every ten days."

They said not to count, but the two of them still counted quickly.After counting, the smiles of the two became more sincere, because what Zhang Sanqi actually gave was [-] guan and [-] guan.The extra is naturally the benefit of the two of them.

"Brother Sanqi, the sugar business in Zhaoyang is really hot! In previous years, you were the ones who wanted to buy it, and we didn't sell it. Who would use the little sugar on the market? But now is a good time. The market It is about the face of our country, the share of sugar goods will not increase at all. But you are fighting in the north, and we are also fighting the rebellion in the south. The money you want is gone. Both of them are turning a blind eye now. Eyes, let you use the name of the princess to do business." After the man finished speaking, he winked at the other man.

The man would agree, and then he said: "So, this opportunity is too rare, but your adults are too timid. How long will it take to collect these sweets? If they are not in order, your court will make up for them, but you Zheng Guo’s whole Jiangbei is still waiting to be fed! Besides, there are noble concubines taking care of you, who are you afraid of?”

Zhang Sanqi smiled wryly: "Brothers, to tell you the truth, we have already had trouble with the two county kings behind the Lu family and the Situ family. It is true that the court wants to buy sugar goods, but the money has to be divided The concubine was on the side of our prince and promised to sell our sugar to Jiangbei and even Hebei. But we are small, and even bought the sugar with the money borrowed from the bond. In the past few days, many people gave It’s not that I don’t want to accept the sugar goods that I have stockpiled, it’s that I don’t have any official tickets to use.”

The two looked at each other, and sure enough, the way the masters wanted the king of Zhaoyang County to turn against the kings of Jiangbei was really interesting!If the King of Zhaoyang County can be controlled by controlling the supply of goods and debts, and make him a pawn of Wu State, Zhaoyang will become the bridgehead for Wu State's power to extend to Jiangbei, which is justifiable.This business is worth it no matter what.

"Brother Sanqi, I'm not talking about you." One of them patted Sanqi on the shoulder, "You're in the sea of ​​money and don't know how to put it in a bag! Where is our Jinling? It's still a matter of borrowing some money ? It’s like your short-term bond, with the princess’s snow paper business as a guarantee, how do you issue such a small amount? Who will share it!”

Another person said quietly again.

"Brother, you have nothing to say, but you are too conservative in handling things. The day before yesterday, you deposited those good things at Zhaojiabao's shop, and used them as a guarantee. How much money can't you borrow?"

Zhang Sanqi deliberately pretended to be surprised.

"No, no, those are the wealth that the imperial concubine and empress have saved for the prince for decades. In order to avoid the other county kings knowing, they secretly stored it in Jinling, and the princess will help take care of it in the future. This is the treasure of the Zhao family royal family. It turned out that the shop couldn't keep news, it's really hateful!"

"Hey! Don't blame people," one person advised him, "thousands of glazed orbs, everyone in Jinling City knows about this matter, and everyone who shouldn't know about it, just don't worry, you will never know!"

Zhang Sanqi was "difficult" for a long time, and in the end he could only say that he had to think again.The two didn't urge him any more, they each collected their money and left.

As soon as the people here left, Zhang Sanqi secretly laughed, and the affairs arranged by Mr. Lang were almost finished.

(End of this chapter)