Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1234 The Spring Breeze Blows

The sound of firecrackers could be heard faintly in the distance. The first day of the fifth year of Yongzheng brought Cao Song an unbearable hangover.

"Aiyo, aiyo..." Cao Song sat on the edge of the kang, rubbing his temples, and moaned in a low voice.

Jinghui glanced at him angrily and amusedly, and said: "Okay, if you don't keep watch at night, you force your elder brother to drink wine twice. Isn't this self-inflicted or self-inflicted?"

Cao Song raised his eyelids, glanced at his wife with dissatisfaction, and said, "It's not because I'm afraid that my brother's face will be tender, so I thought it would be logical to let him have some wine. Who would have thought that after all these years, my brother's alcohol capacity is still so good. Drinking and drinking, it made my elder brother get me drunk."

Jing Hui snorted softly, and said: "Drunken sex is just an excuse for men. If you are really drunk, there is no way to play tricks. If the elder brother really has that kind of thought, he would have lifted him up a long time ago. How about waiting until now? "

Cao Song said with a bit of unwillingness: "Then let's forget it?"

Jing Hui was holding up the hangover soup, she paused when she heard the words, and said: "I have to let the elder brother scold me, so I will be honest? If it was a few years ago, it might still be possible. Now that my nephew and niece are all grown up, Now that we are going to talk about marriage, the eldest brother will not embarrass the sister-in-law because of his greed for beauty. The eldest brother is the most disciplined person."

Cao Song took the hangover soup in his wife's hand, leaned back and drank it, and said weakly: "Forget it, just forget it, it's a pity that this Qin'e, although not a lowly family, is also a woman from a good family. Seeing that she is honest, I wanted to help her , but met a hairpin phoenix like Big Brother."

Hearing pity in her husband's words, Jinghui lowered her eyes, feeling her chest was congested...

From the second day of junior high school, there were many banquets in the officialdom of Jiangning City.

Cao Song has a bold personality and has a good cousin as a backer. In the Jiangning officialdom, everyone sells him a little bit of face.

Now that Cao Yong, the righteous master, has arrived, all kinds of banquets are indispensable.

In addition, the Lianghuai salt merchants came to Jiangning one after another after the fifth day of the lunar new year, and Cao Yong's life became a bit busy.

Jiangnan needs to raise 300 million yuan, which is not a big number for Jiangnan, which is full of wealthy people.

But Cao Yong didn't have much time to go to the south of the Yangtze River, and the time for Jiangning's bidding was tight, so Cao Yong was also a little worried.

Because there are many big families in the south of the Yangtze River who have children in the capital and will participate in the bidding in the capital.It is also because of the years of exploitation by Jiangnan officials that everyone is wary of the government.

They have two official characters, and they don't believe that one day they can take advantage of the government.The so-called bidding and so on, in their view, is just a means for the court to collect money.

Li Wei is here.

The way he dealt with Wan Fu and others surprised Cao Yong: "Let Wan Fu participate in the sea trade bidding?!"

Li Wei nodded and said: "He is also a big salt merchant, so he should serve the court."

Such loud thunder and light rain did not seem like Li Wei's style.

"The emperor over there..." Cao Yong said with some hesitation.

"Your majesty has a big heart, how can he take a few thieves seriously? Besides, the young and strong of the Hong family are hiding in the mountains, and the only ones caught are the old and weak, women and children. Does anyone care to take them down in exchange for merit?" Li Weidao .

Cao Yong was a little confused, since Li Wei had the idea of ​​making big things small, why did he still make a big fuss, and even got the title of "Prime Minister Jiangnan Robbers" and the right to deploy troops.

In Li Wei's view, Cao Yong is also one of his own, so he didn't hide it from him, saying: "The emperor is afraid that Jiangnan will not be stable, but he is not afraid of a few bandits, but afraid of those gentry masters. To carry out the new policy in the south of the Yangtze River. Just in case, I was given the title of "bandit arrest". I forced Pangjia Village to help. Instead of going to a critical moment, I begged my grandpa to tell my grandma. It's better to gather some soldiers yourself than others' soldiers."

Li Wei's conditions seem to be loose, but they are actually not easy.

First of all, the silver to participate in the bidding must not be less than 50 taels; in fact, Wan Fu must personally come forward to participate in the bidding on the eighteenth day of the first month.

It is definitely a big test for Wan Fu before he is willing to discuss the next step if he needs money and money.

Cao Yong was not worried that Wan Fu would choose not to come, since the disciples of the Hongmen pride themselves on "loyalty", they would not really ignore the villagers who are still in prison.

In addition, the young man's initial method was just to imitate the Huang family and join the government. Now that Li Wei gave him a chance, how could he be willing to let it go?
In a blink of an eye, on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, the day for bidding for Jiangning Maritime Trade has arrived.

In addition to Cao Yong and Li Wei, the presiding bidders also include the governor of Jiangsu and the new governor who just came from the capital.

Due to the high threshold of maritime trade, there are not many gentry and merchants who are ranked to participate, only about forty people.

Wanfu is here.

In order to guard against losing his tongue, Wan Fu did not come with Cao Jia, but dressed up like a rich man and brought a few handsome attendants.

Wan Fu is in his 20s, tall and tall, with a long face, full of righteousness, with a bit of self-admiration between his eyebrows and eyes.

If he had known his details earlier, no one would have guessed that he was the current "door master" of the Hongmen, a bandit and the like wanted by the government.

Cao Yong just looked at him more, and did not meet in private.

It was Li Wei who sent people to call Wan Fu to the side.

For some reason, when Wan Fu appeared in front of people again, his expression remained the same, but his whole body was full of joy.

Cao Yong thought for a while and guessed the reason.

For an ambitious young man who wants to make his mark, all he can be tempted by is power and money.

Li Wei squeezed his money, it would only make him feel distressed, how could he be so happy now; the rest is power, but he doesn't know how many grades he promised.

The bidding went on for less than an hour, and most of the time ahead was quiet.

Except for the Cheng family who spent 30 yuan to invest in three-point shares, everyone else began to wait and see.

Everyone knew that the Cheng family had an old relationship with the Cao family, and they wanted Li Wei, so it was not surprising that they were willing to bid so happily.

In the eyes of the Cheng family, the 30 taels of silver was nothing; the wealth of the Cheng family was unspeakable.

But for other gentry and merchants, this 10 taels is indeed not a small amount.

In recent years, land prices in the south of the Yangtze River have risen.Even so, ten taels of silver can buy one mu of paddy fields, and 10 taels of silver is ten thousand mu of fertile land.

Tens of thousands of mu of fertile land can earn several thousand yuan a year.

Haimao sounds tempting, but with the government involved, who knows if the imperial court will "kill the donkey".After all, for merchants and the like, they did not receive any favor from the court, but had to endure all kinds of exploitation.

The scene was a bit deserted, Li Wei couldn't help frowning when he saw this, called a servant, and gave some instructions in a low voice.

Before his servant left, he saw someone screaming and bidding.

Li Wei turned his head, glanced at Cao Yong, and admired him more and more.

In less than a cup of tea, five families were settled.

These five families are names that have never been heard before, making everyone quiet and wondering who these are.

Before everyone could figure out something, Wanfu, who had been quiet for a long time, became a blockbuster, bidding five cents at a price of 50 yuan.

Those old guys who usually boast that their family is similar to Cheng's family almost got mad.

Cheng Jiazhuyu is fine in the front, but how can everyone be convinced if he is a young boy with a face.

Annoyance is anger, those who can be the head of the family or the elite children of the clan are not fools, and a few of them will really keep their anger in their hearts.

They were angry on their faces, but they were full of turmoil in their hearts.

There are so many people robbing, if you miss it, will you lose too much...

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The capital, the official warehouse of the household department.

Tianyou and Hang Seng followed Shisan Ye and witnessed the bidding of the Ministry of Households Maritime Trade.

Compared with the jam on Jiangning's side, the bidding on the capital's side was smoother than people imagined.

Forty shares, 400 million taels of silver, that's all.

It took less than a cup of tea, and the forty shares were divided up.

The preparations made by Tianyou and Hang Seng were useless at all.

"It's too easy, what's going on?" Both brothers were puzzled.

Brother Sixteen was in a good mood, and said: "I don't know about the other places, but the dignitaries in the capital all have a pair of rich eyes. Over the years, your father has repeatedly innovated. The good name of the rich boy is revived."

The two younger brothers could tell that it wasn't that the Ministry of Household Affairs had a strong brand name, but that Cao Yong's method of accumulating money over the years made these people feel frustrated.

Hang Seng breathed a sigh of relief, since so many people are optimistic about Haimao, maybe his father doesn't have to worry so much.

Tianyou looked dazed, but he didn't feel relaxed.The capital is here to buy the father's account, but what about Jiangning?

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Jiangning, Bidding Office.

Seeing the list in his hand, Cao Yong could not help frowning.

Thirty shares, only [-] cents for the ones already bought.

In addition to the Cheng family and another family that is old with the Cao family, which accounted for four shares, the rest of the eleven shares included five shares from that boy Wan Fu and three shares from Wei Ren.

Other retail investors collected only 30 taels of silver, which was too little for Cao Yong, a dignified household secretary.

Cao Yong is somewhat depressed.

After a few words of persuasion, Li Wei took Wan Fu back to the station.

The two brothers Cao Yong and Cao Song returned to the General Army Mansion.

The matter of Cao Yong's return to Beijing was finally put on stage.

"Now is the time when the spring is cold, and the elder brother is too hasty to go home at this time, and he will suffer again along the way. Should we wait for the dragon to raise his head before setting off?" Cao Song said.

Cao Yong shook his head and said: "Grandmother's funeral at the end of the month, as a grandson, I'd better go back."

Because of the elder's funeral, Cao Song couldn't say anything more.

Before leaving Jiangning, Cao Yong hesitated, whether to dig out the ring from Zhizao Mansion and give it to Cao Jia for placement.

After thinking about it, he still gave up on this dismissal.

Not only because of the entrusted loyalty, but also because the relationship between the ring and the Cao family is still a secret.

On the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, Cao Yong sent someone to pick up Wei Wenying.

When Wenying heard that Cao Yong was going back to Beijing, she was very embarrassed to ask if she could ask him to help him bring some things to the north.

This is naturally no problem, Jinghui also prepared a lot of gifts, let Cao Yong bring them back to Beijing, and put Wei Wenying's gifts together with those prepared by Jinghui...

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There was a thunderstorm in the middle of the night, and I was afraid that the computer would not work, so I turned off the phone, and fell asleep in the end, and it has been delayed until now.Start updating early today.

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