Red Mansion Soldiers

Chapter 70

"My lord, shopkeeper Shi is here!"

Water transport yamen, in the courtyard where King Zhongxin lived temporarily.

The loyal king's relatives came in.

"Let him in!"

King Faithful, who was looking carefully at the vase in his hand, said casually.

In response, soon, a fat middle-aged man in a uniform walked in.

"My little one pays homage to the lord!" Shopkeeper Shi paid his respects when he came up, and kowtowed a few times firmly.

"Well, excuse me, sit down..." King Zhongxin put down the vase, sat cross-legged on the couch, and looked lazily at shopkeeper Shi.

"My lord, this is the offering these days!" Even the shopkeeper Shi, who is loyal to the king, quickly took out an account book from the box he carried with him, and handed it to the loyal king.

King Zhongxin took the ledger with his long-nailed hands, flipped through it casually, frowned, and turned directly to the final summary, and only smiled when he saw that the offering reached 30 taels.

"Well, not bad, not bad, 30 taels in one quarter, not bad, and it's not in vain that Gu and the Zhen family have worked so hard to cover you in the court..."

Zhongxin Wang closed the ledger with his orchid fingers, and casually handed it to his followers.

Shopkeeper Shi showed his loyalty even more, King Zhongxin was delighted and nodded non-stop.

"By the way, I have to come to Jiangnan for a lonely trip, why don't you come to see me?"

Shopkeeper Shi naturally knew who "Your wait" was referring to.

"Hui, lord Hui, we have too many people, and all the kings in the yamen are here, besides, we and this Jiangnan camp...hehe, the little ones talk too much, the little ones talk too much, just in case someone sees it, but We must not let them get involved with the prince!"

Shopkeeper Shi smiled sarcastically.

Seeing this ugly face, King Zhongxin lost interest in talking.

"Okay, work hard, one day, Gu will definitely not treat you badly, well, I'm tired, let's go down..."

King Zhongxin yawned, waved his hand at Shopkeeper Shi, and told him to go out.

"Okay, my lord, I'll take my leave..." Shopkeeper Shi respectfully bowed to King Zhongxin and left the main hall with his head bowed.

"Huh..." Shopkeeper Shi stretched out his sleeve, as if wiping the sweat from his forehead.

The follower who came out to see him out sneered.

"Shopkeeper Shi, is the prince so scary? The shopkeeper is sweating!"

"No, no, the lord is suave, how can he be scary? I'm respectful, I respect the lord, that's why I'm sweating so much!"

Shopkeeper Shi quickly retorted.

"Haha, it's good that you know. Relax, work hard, if one day..." The attendant raised an eyebrow at shopkeeper Shi, "Why would the prince treat you badly? Right! Hahaha!"

Qin Sui patted Shopkeeper Shi on the shoulder proudly, until he slapped him sideways to beg for mercy, and then returned to the yard.

Seeing his attendants close the courtyard door, shopkeeper Shi, who had been bent over in a low voice, straightened up all of a sudden, took a deep look at the courtyard, turned and left.

. . . . . .

"If there is anything to do, just send someone to deliver a letter. Anyway, the family members of the palace and your family's soldiers know each other, so I will take care of it for you as soon as possible!"

Chen Si patted his chest and said to Jia Hun.

At the south gate of Huai'an, Chen Jingyuan came to bid farewell to Jia Hui and his party.

"Success, I won't be polite! You should also be careful in the court. If you are unsure about something, go to your palace chief, Shi Shenqian. That's a talent. Let's see how a certain family breaks their loyalty! Drive! "

Jia Hun turned his horse's head and headed towards the convoy in the distance, and the three thousand households who had been waiting at the side also hurriedly followed. For a while, the dust was flying up, and Chen Si coughed uncontrollably.

"Jinyu, I think King Yiyong has a good relationship with you?" Lin Hai asked.

"That's a fateful friendship!" Jia Hun grinned.

Da Qi called the prince the Great King, and the county king the Prince, but as time went by, people close to him also began to call the Prince the Prince.

Jia Hun turned his head and looked at Jia Zhu who was in a trance.

"Hey, wake up! You are going to fall off the horse!"

"Ah? Ah..." Jia Zhu shuddered, and took a few mouthfuls of cold water before waking up.

"It's too bad, Brother Zhu, if you continue like this, how can I entrust important matters to you?"

He took the horsewhip and patted Jia Zhu's back lightly.

"This is the end of the matter, and we are brave enough to move forward!"

After finishing speaking, Jia Hun whipped his horsewhip, and while the horse neighed, he rushed towards the four teenagers who had already rode to the front.

"The enemy will stop leaving! Haven't fought a certain family for [-] rounds!"

The four teenagers in front exclaimed and hurriedly fled towards the distance.

The dust raised by the horse's hooves covered Jia Zhu's face.

"Oh, childish!"

. . . . . .

From Huai'an to the south, bypassing Gaoyou Lake, after walking slowly for four days, I finally arrived at Yangzhou, where the Yamen of Xunyan Yushi is located.

"Quick, quick, this lantern is hanging a little crookedly, a little bit to the left, a little bit more, okay!

The master master who is full of flowers has arrived?What?Can't come?

Didn't you tell him that he was hosting a banquet for the governor of the left army?Don't ask me any more! "

Jia Min, who had received a letter from her husband early on, swept away the depression of the past, and became radiant again, returning to the proud young lady of the old days.

Mother Lin embraced Daiyu, looked at her daughter-in-law commanding the family servants like a general with a smile, lowered her head to look at the little grandson lying in the car beside her, and was extremely satisfied with the current life.

"Madam, ma'am! Master and nephew are almost entering the city!"

A young servant ran over panting heavily.

"Really? Quick, Daiyu, quick! Your cousins ​​are coming!"

Jia Min quickly walked up to Daiyu, carefully sizing up the little person, her daughter is so pretty, there should be no flaws in her attire!
"Oh, okay, it's been less than an hour, you've watched it [-] times, I'm tired of watching the old lady..." Mother Lin saw her granddaughter being played back and forth by her old mother, so she quickly stopped Jia Min's behavior.

"Old lady..." Jia Min was still a little reconciled and wanted to check Daiyu again, but Mother Lin hugged Daiyu tightly in her arms and refused to let Jia Min move again.

It caused Daiyu to shrink back into her grandmother's arms, and looked at her old mother with a smile.

Jia Min glared at Daiyu angrily, had no choice but to give up, turned around and picked up the chubby little son, looked at the drooling little boy and laughed.

After trying to see if the diaper was wet, he hurriedly helped his youngest son take some piss to make sure that it was safe and that he would not get all his cousins ​​wet. Then he nodded and rewrapped the diaper.

"Ma'am, we are here, we are almost at the door!"

Jia Min quickly stood up holding her son and walked towards the gate of the yamen.

Today, the censor's house has a distinguished guest, and the whole yamen has a day off!
The officials in the yamen had long known that the governor of the left army was Mrs. Lin Yushi's nephew, so naturally they would not make mistakes.

If you want to go to the top of the mountain, you have to have good eyesight. When such a relative is reunited, you, an outsider, suddenly come to spoil the atmosphere, and you only wear small shoes for yourself, which is considered a general's generosity!
Therefore, even Futai and others from the prefect's yamen in Yangzhou just greeted them outside the city gate, and went back after making an appointment to have dinner at another day.

In the territory of Yangzhou, apart from the magistrate’s yamen and the inspecting salt censor’s yamen, the salt merchants are the most arrogant, but the salt merchants talk about luxury at most, but due to the etiquette system, the luxury is limited, and it’s crazy Let's talk about pomp with such nobles!

Just like a carriage!
Although the sedan chair is already very common, from the beginning to the end, the carriage is the symbol of strength, financial resources and status.

Although Daqi allowed merchants to take carriages, they could only be small carriages drawn by one horse.No matter how good the horse pulling the cart is, it can only be overshadowed by the four-wheeled carriage.

Before Xu Wusu's inheritance, because he had no heirs and expelled the nobility, everything should be owned by the state.

However, in accordance with Duke Wusu's last wish, the emperor left 18 taels of property in the Cao Guild, and the rest of the nobility property, except for the land being nationalized, distributed the movable property to the guests of the corresponding title.

All the kings rode in five-horse carriages, so the four-horse carriage that Duke Xu Wusu had before his death was assigned to the only duke present, Jia Hun.

After the brand-new Suzaku flag was planted, this ancient chariot, which was at least one Jiazi, carried Jia Hun into Yangzhou City.

Soon, a team with the big Qi black tiger battle flag and the red red Suzaku flag appeared on the streets of Yangzhou. Between the black flag and the red flag, there were faintly a few teeth with the word "Jia" embroidered on them. The flag fluttered in the wind.

"Who is this? Why is there a bird flag?"

"What kind of bird flag! Didn't you know it? It's called Suzaku!"

"Suzaku? Does Da Qi still have the Suzaku flag?"

"We didn't have it before, but now we have it! That's the battle flag bestowed by the emperor on our Great Qi's famous general, Great General Sima, Grand Commander of the Left Army, Mr. Jia Hunjia! Our Great Qi is a scorpion shit—the only honor! "

"Amazing!"

The 230 cavalry brought by Jia Hun held their heads proudly. Even though they were sweating profusely, they were still wearing brand-new cotton armor and divided into carriages. They held spears, lances and all kinds of long weapons. They looked at the restaurants on both sides of the road defiantly. The ones who poked out showed apprehensive faces, as if they were the ones standing upstairs.

Shock Xiaoxiao!

On the second floor of Huamanlou, the president of Yangzhou Salt Chamber of Commerce, Bai Zhaoxing looked at Jia Hun's guard of honor downstairs with apprehension, snorted coldly, and turned his head.

"Hmph, who do you want to scare at this time? Jia Hun is nothing more than that, an arrogant and domineering young man, nothing to worry about!" President Bai said disdainfully to the owners of the salt merchants present.

But everyone on the opposite side could see the envy and jealousy overflowing from Chairman Bai's eyes.

"President, don't let your guard down!" said an old man with a gray beard.

"That's right, Jia Hun is a military general after all, a famous general who actually destroyed the two countries! He won't tell us about shopping mall rules. Didn't you see that he came with more than 3000 people?"

Although shopkeeper Shi of Zhongxin Wang's family said that Jia Hun came to rectify the Jiangnan camp, how far is Jinling from Yangzhou?His own uncle was in trouble, wouldn't he just stand by and watch?

"What's the use of talking about this? Although we are local snakes, what can we do to fight this fierce dragon crossing the river? It's better to play it safe, at least get Jia Hui away!"

"Why don't you just do business in a law-abiding manner and don't get involved in the court?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? When it's good, you rush to the forefront, but if it's not good, you want to surrender right away? Dreaming! Don't forget, there were also your dead soldiers who ambush Lin Ruhai!"

"What are you afraid of? Behind us are the Zhen family and the prince!"

"So what? Not only did Jia Hun come here on the orders of the Second Sage, but there is also a brave king behind him!"

The salt merchants quickly divided into three factions.

Surrender faction, the least number of people.

Radicals, there are not many people but the most courageous!
Then there is the dormant faction that accounts for the majority.

"stop fighting!"

President Bai slapped the table, and the audience looked at him and fell silent.

Everyone is waiting for him to give orders, so that there will be a scapegoat in the future.

A group of old foxes!
Chairman Bai looked gloomyly at the people present. He had no choice, because he was the one who contacted the treasurer Shi of Zhongxin Wangfu on behalf of the salt merchant. The Bai family is definitely over, and the East China Sea division is criss-crossing the sea, and they don't have to run if they want to!

After a long silence, Bai Hui let out a long sigh.

"Stay dormant for now, but if Jia Hun doesn't know how to flatter us, we won't be easy to provoke!"

The salt merchants were silent, as a tacit consent.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

"My lord, someone from the Lin family is here, and I want to invite the master master in the building to take the spoon at the Lin family, saying that he is going to entertain the governor of the left army..."

As soon as the words fell, the salt merchants became restless.

A Patriarch in his twenties scratched his head.

"She, Mrs. Lin, doesn't know that Huamanlou is the property of Third Uncle Bai? Are you not afraid that we will drug you?"

"She wants us to prescribe medicine! There must be a drug test in advance before serving. If the test really finds some poison, heh, won't the chance to attack us come back?"

"Then why didn't she do that?" The young Patriarch immediately realized that he was making a joke, and quickly shut his mouth.

"...

First of all, the integrity of the Lin family is much higher than yours.

Secondly, we have never sent the master to their home in the past few years.

Three times... Huamanlou has always been the leader of Yangzhou cuisine. It’s fine for us to refuse the invitation to patrol the Yanmen Yamen on weekdays.

But if you can't even invite the Great General Sima, then you should not be called not afraid of the powerful, but you should be called a big goose!

There is no need for him, Jia Hun, to curry favor with his officials, one or the other can kill us, don't use the prince as an excuse, the county magistrate should take care of it now!
So, not only must we send the best chef to cook the best Yangzhou dishes for Jia Hun, but we also have to bring out the best ingredients!
In this way, Mrs. Lin can still have some money left, hum! "

"What? This... Is this too aggrieved?"

"...So what, we are just merchants, and he is a duke, a governor!

Forget it, just treat it as our Yangzhou elders, filial piety, filial piety...respect...Grandpa Jia! "

The more President Bai thought about it, the more aggrieved he became, and the more he felt aggrieved, he finally couldn't help it anymore, grabbed the teacup on the table and threw it on the ground.

The crystal clear porcelain cup fell to the ground and shattered, smashing to pieces.

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