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Chapter 250: Assassination (4)
It was already April at this time, spring was warm and flowers were blooming, and Xianglai's injury had healed.

Hearing that Lianxiu came back, Xianglai made a special trip to the Qianfu to ask Lianxiu about the businessmen in Korea.

Lian Xiu came back after earning money, and laughed happily, saying: "The effect is better than what my father expected. Although the price of the goods over there is twice as high as here, they are still sold out. I decided to do it for my father." Send additional caravans, go as much as you can, I believe that when I come back this time, I can easily repay the 400 million taels of silver borrowed by Yuan Dongqi."

Xianglai smiled secretly, and said: "Oh, then congratulations to father, this way, my daughter has an explanation to Yuan Dongqi, so I don't have to worry about it every day."

Lian Xiu also said: "Yes, yes, this time I went to Koryo for my father and found that the place is really good. Laier might as well consider it and marry the second prince."

Xianglai pretended to think and said: "Well, maybe it's also possible. In that case, we can also do business in Korea. He is the prince and I am the princess. No one dares to take care of our business. It will definitely make a lot of money."

Lian Xiu said: "Hey, if you marry in Koryo, you are a Koryo native. If you want to trade, you must sell from Koryo to Beiliao. There is no reason to use Beiliao things to earn money from your own people."

Xiang Lai curled her lips and said, "If that's the case, let's talk about it."

After finishing speaking, he left to take care of his own business.

After earning money, Lianxiu didn't care about Xianglai's attitude, and went to work on the caravan business in full swing.

Hearing that Lian Xiu came back to make money, Lian Zhao was jealous, so he ran to Lian Xiu alone without Yoo Lian Pu or Yoo Lian Ke, and when he saw Lian Xiu, he smiled and said, "Hehe, I heard that big brother is going to Korea. Not a lot of money."

As soon as Lian Xiu saw him coming, he knew what he was thinking, and said: "The first trip is just a test, no matter how much money you can make."

Lian Zhao said: "This trip won't be long, and the next trip will be more. I heard that big brother is going to place a big bet this time."

Lian Xiudao: "You are quite well informed. I have only been back for a few days, and you already know everything."

Lian Zhao said: "That's right, we are a family, can I not care about my eldest brother?"

Lian Xiudao: "Are you concerned about me or money? When I have something to do, I come to ask you. I didn't see you send a step to my door."

Lian Zhaodao: "Look at what elder brother said, didn't you know it in time? If you knew that I had come earlier, besides, even if I didn't come, Xianglai was the one I persuaded. She can help elder brother to work hard with Prince Gaoli. Me, otherwise Big Brother wouldn’t be able to make this money.”

Lian Xiu "borrowed money from Yuan Dongqi through Xianglai", except for Lian Xiu, Zhu Shi and Xianglai, no one else in the Lian family knew about it, so Lian Zhao always believed that Lian Xiu's win over Xianglai was to befriend Yu Zixi.

Lian Xiu thought about it too. After all, Lian Zhao had helped him so much, which was much better than the other two younger brothers, so he asked, "Speak directly, boy, what do you want to do when you come to me."

Lian Zhao smiled again: "Well, I told my elder brother earlier that if there is not enough manpower here, the fifth brother will wait here. Now that the eldest brother is so busy with business, why don't you call him fifth brother."

Lian Xiu smiled secretly: "Oh, I'm okay here, there are people to do the general things, and I don't need people for the time being."

Lian Zhao said cheekily: "Brother, look at you, you know what Fifth Brother means, but you still block me like this."

Lian Xiudao: "Oh, I really don't know what Fifth Brother means, and you didn't say it directly, you beat around the bush."

Lian Zhao curled his lips secretly, thinking that it wasn't the time when you begged me to intercede with Xianglai with a frowning face that day, and just now you just wanted to get some light from you, so you put on airs.

But he had no choice but to continue to say brazenly: "Say it straight, big brother now has a way of making money, do you have to take your fifth brother with you, I am your youngest brother, I am not a few years younger than Gongliang, as the saying goes Brother is like a father, big brother, you give me a hand now, so that when the big brother is old, the fifth brother will also take care of you, right!"

Lian Xiu thinks about what he said is definitely reasonable. If there is such a knot between himself and his son, he will probably hate him until he dies. Anyway, the fifth child is also his younger brother. When he is really old and has nowhere to rely on, he is still better than outsiders, so After thinking for a while, he said, "Forget it, it happens that I don't have my own family to lead the team next time, why don't you take care of it for me, and don't have to take care of too much, as long as there is something to report to me in time."

Lian Zhaozheng was eager to go to Korea, and if he got acquainted there, he might be able to bring some goods there himself under the banner of big brother.Seeing that Bian Xiu agreed, he nodded excitedly and said, "Yeah, thank you brother, I will definitely take good care of your business!"

Lian Xiu said: "Well, if you do well, I will definitely not lose you..."

After Lian Zhao and Lian Xiu agreed, they happily went home and prepared to go out.

In this way, Lian Xiu spent half of his family property this time and turned it into goods. He drove from several state capitals to Korea. Lian Xiu dispatched it by himself in the capital, while Lian Zhao was running errands for him in other places. Nearly a hundred caravans in the mansion met at the junction of the two countries, and finally headed towards Korea together.

But Lian Xiu never dreamed that this time, something that he thought would be foolproof, would go wrong as soon as he entered Korea.Because Lian Xiu didn't read the trade treaty carefully before, and didn't know that there was still a limit on the number of people entering each time, the caravan he sent was more than half of the people.

Lian Zhao, who was in charge of his affairs, felt that the goods had already been transported across the border, and it would not be worthwhile to bring the goods back with people, so he left the goods and the necessary manpower, and the others sent back to Beiliao.

When Lian Xiu got the news, he didn't pay much attention to it. He felt that Lian Zhao made a good decision. Even if the manpower is small and the sales are slow, as long as the goods are shipped to Korea, they can be turned into silver. Just wait.

According to his thinking, there will be news over a month after the caravan crosses the border. Maybe someone will send money back, but after waiting for more than a month, there is no news. As soon as they set off, the reporter from Koryo finally arrived, and brought back a very annoying news to Lianxiu, saying that something happened just after Lian Zhao and his team arrived at the destination. King Koryo was stabbed and injured. The assassin sneaked into the caravan of Lian's family at night. After the assassin was found out, the caravan was also implicated. Including Lian Zhao, all the owners and goods of the caravan were detained in the yamen.And the people who came back here to report the news were all sent back by the shopkeeper of the caravan who went there before, and none of Zhao's group escaped.

Lian Xiu's head buzzed when he heard the news, he never thought that such a thing would happen again, and after being dazed for a long time, he instinctively thought of looking for Xianglai.

Xianglai has been very quiet these days, and she seldom goes out to see the business in the capital. Most of them are helped by Huiling. Luo Jinxing was imprisoned in the mansion by the King of Beiliao, and he hasn’t been here for several months. Yu Zi For some reason, Xi seldom comes to the house, and Xianglai writes and draws at home when she has nothing to do, and occasionally learns to embroider or something, becoming more and more like a lady.

(End of this chapter)