Blood from Daming

Chapter 278 View
Jiang Yang learned from Yan Sanniang that the Xue family army from Cangzhou would go south to Hangzhou Mansion soon after, and then the Xue family army from Datong Mansion in Shanxi Province would also enter Zhejiang in batches via Henan. Jiang Yang was grateful to Yan Sanniang for hearing such important news The trust also felt that he was under a lot of pressure, and immediately told Yan Sanniang to go back and hurry up to provide assistance to Changtu Island's sea ship supplies and General Xue Nanlai.

Accompanying the evening boat to Jiangjia Wharf in Haining, where Jiang Yang went ashore and left, while Yan Sanniang got off the sea boat and boarded the river boat that was picked up by Shopkeeper Chen's nephew, Shopkeeper Chen Xiao. Yan Sanniang's sea boat can go up the river. Yes, but that would be too eye-catching when you get to Hangzhou Mansion. Shopkeeper Chen Xiao told Yan Sanniang when she was boarding the river boat that the Ming army had won a great victory at Hongluo Mountain in Liaodong. The Tang newspaper arrived at Hangzhou Mansion the day before yesterday, and nearly 2 people were killed or injured. , brother-in-law is also on the list of first achievements, and the detailed battle report will be known in the next two days.

Yan Sanniang heard that shopkeeper Chen called Xue Yun's brother-in-law, and then she remembered that shopkeeper Chen's cousin is Miss Chen. It's just that shopkeeper Chen is several years older than Miss Chen, but he still calls Xue Yun her brother-in-law. Sanniang's impression of these southern merchants has changed a lot. Yan Sanniang entered the cabin and was about to sail. Chen Xiao shopkeeper came on the river boat again.

Shopkeeper Chen Xiao was really anxious. He brought a batch of small boats and waited here. All he saw were dried seafood, so he met Yan Sanniang and said, "My lord, there are too many dried seafood on this boat. Our Xue family I'm afraid this deal will be ruined."

Yan Sanniang was a little bit surprised by Shopkeeper Chen, but when he heard that he was talking about the Xue family's business affairs, she became patient and said, "Well, then tell me the situation in detail."

Shopkeeper Chen Xiao said: "My lord, the dried seafood of Changtu Island has a good reputation in the south of the Yangtze River, but the south of the Yangtze River is rich in aquatic products, and there is no shortage of fresh fish in the river. We buy so much and sell it at the market price in Zhejiang. , I don’t know how long it will take to sell them out. If a large number of dried seafood from Changtu Island is put on the market, it will inevitably cause a sharp drop in the price of dried seafood in the south of the Yangtze River. Fishermen are a big hit."

Yan Sanniang heard that Shopkeeper Chen was anxious about the Xue family's business, so she explained to Shopkeeper Chen: "I have no plans to put them on the market in the south of the Yangtze River. These dried seafood are going to be shipped to the north for sale."

Shopkeeper Chen Xiao hesitated and said, "My lord, the price of these dried seafood is extremely low. If you transfer the goods in Cangzhou to the capital, the transportation fee along the way is not a small amount. It is not as cost-effective as trafficking other low-quality and high-priced commodities."

Since Yan Sanniang didn't bring shopkeeper Chen and his family into the Xue family's core organization, but only let them do auxiliary work in the periphery, Xiao shopkeeper Chen naturally didn't understand Yan Sanniang's thankless job of selling dried seafood from Changtu Island. However, shopkeeper Chen Xiao is a middle-level management member of the Xue family, and Yan Sanniang had to explain this matter clearly to him.

Yan Sanniang said: "Shopkeeper Chen, Changtu Island is the window for the Xue family to conduct maritime trade in the future. The fishermen on Changtu Island are really poor. Our Xue family is a moral businessman. We must take care of the world while making money, and help Changtu The circulation of goods from fishermen on the island is a kind of rebate from our Xue family to the people of Ming Dynasty. Our Xue family can take economic gains and losses lightly. operating with ideas. "

Shopkeeper Chen was speechless after hearing this. This is Xue's management method. What else could he say, so he quickly apologized and got off the boat. As soon as Shopkeeper Chen left the river boat, he couldn't wait to leave the Jiangjia wharf. Yan Sanniang was lying in the cabin, thinking about the Tang newspaper about the Ming army's great victory in Liaodong mentioned by shopkeeper Chen Xiao, how could her husband bring the army to Liaodong?

When Yan Sanniang woke up, it was already daylight, and the boat was docked at the pier of Liuhe Pagoda in Hangzhou. Yan Sanniang tidied up and left with more than 50 men on the three small river boats. Uncle Min asked Yan Sanniang if she could go up to see Looking at the Liuhe Pagoda, Yan Sanniang shook her head and turned to walk towards the West Lake when she looked at the pagoda built by King Wu Yue in the Northern Song Dynasty to suppress the Qiantang tide.

The reason why Yan Sanniang docked her boat at Liuhe Pagoda was that she didn’t want the people in Hangzhou to control her own movements. However, there are many tourists from other places at the wharf of Liuhe Pagoda in Hangzhou, and the docking of boats is complicated and complicated. , You can also secretly inspect the guards who are training in the West Lake Hospital.

Yan Sanniang was not in the mood to have breakfast on the side of the road, so she ordered her men to go down and buy some breakfast nearby. Coincidentally, there were more than a dozen food stalls not far from where Yan Sanniang was standing. It comes with soup and water, and it is impossible to eat it on the road. Finally, I chose a stall that sells pastries and a stall that sells sesame seed cakes.

Min Bo looked at the food of the two families and estimated that it was barely enough for more than 50 people to eat, so he bought all the ready-made biscuits, and also bought all the pastries such as snowflake cakes and shortbreads from the pastry stalls, making the pastry stalls very busy at eight o'clock in the morning. Chen's took the business. Although the baker sold seventy or eighty sesame seed cakes, he still regretted that he should make more sesame seed cakes today. These customers should still buy them. The most embarrassing thing is that they didn't make a deal. the stallholders.

Yan Sanniang and the others were on their way while eating sesame seed cakes and pastries. When the sun was hanging in the air, Yan Sanniang and her party came to the West Lake courtyard of Yan Mansion. Yan Sanniang saw more than 100 nominal servants of Shuntian Mansion In the lawn training later, Wan Jianxin and Wu Bing came to kowtow to Yan Sanniang after receiving the report from their subordinates.

After Yan Sanniang waited for Wan Jianxin and Wu Bing to salute, she said: "It seems that your training in the past ten days has been pretty good, and you are looking good. You are not disturbing the people here in the West Lake, and there is no trouble. things happen."

Wan Jianxin was brought out by Yan Sanniang. Wu Bing asked Wan Jianxin to speak up, and Wan Jianxin said to Yan Sanniang: "Chief arrester, there are no residents near the other courtyard, so it's not a nuisance. On the contrary, the people and small traders nearby are often bullied by these local hooligans. They come to ask us to protect them from being bullied by local hooligans and collect protection fees. We drove away those local hooligans. Very much."

Yan Sanniang asked a little sadly after hearing this: "Brother Wan, did those local hooligans react later?"

Wan Jianxin said, "No."

Wu Bing added: "Mistress, strangers often appear nearby these days, and they leave as soon as our people pass by. This is a tourist scenic spot and there are many foreigners coming and going. We want to catch but are afraid of catching the wrong one. Still trying to figure out how to deal with this.”

Yan Sanniang said: "Brother Wan, you have acted recklessly. These hooligans collect protection fees here, and they must be backed by gang bosses, and they may even implicate the local government. After all, our Shuntian Mansion is a dragon in the river, and we have offended these people." The local snakes will definitely cause trouble, but since we do it, we don’t have to be afraid of them, whoever dares to come out will let him taste the power of Shuntian Mansion.”

Wan Jianxin and Wu Bing promised, and Yan Sanniang added: "In the future, the number of patrolling personnel will be doubled, and all of them must carry weapons on their bodies. Self-defense is allowed if the situation is not right. As for the degree, the leader can flexibly control it. The guards on the outer perimeter of the hospital were doubled, and the scope was more than doubled, and all suspicious persons were taken down."

Wan Jianxin: "The chief arrester, but many of the people we interrogate are well-connected. Will the forcible detention cause any trouble?"

After hearing this, Yan Sanniang said to Wan Jianxin very speechlessly: "Brother Wan, this is Hangzhou Mansion, isn't it that there are so many big figures in Beijing City, or the official of Zhejiang Province's procuratorial envoy, Mr. Wu, who is the third grade official? We still want him in Shuntian Mansion. If you don’t listen, you’ll just hang around all the time, and you’ll be locked up as spies of the White Lotus Sect. I’d like to see what kind of people are messing things up.”

Accompanied by Wan Jianxin and Wu Bing, Yan Sanniang watched the basic training of the guards in the West Lake Hospital of Yan Mansion. Yan Sanniang was generally quite satisfied, and ordered Wu Bing General Banner to do a good job in the training of the troops and put them in the army. Hand over all the skills, try to bring out a group of good men, and want Wan Jianxin to pass on the box-pressing skills learned in Shuntian Mansion to everyone. Wan Jianxin and Wu Bing are a little hesitant. Master, but Wan Jianxin and Wu Bing really believed that Yan Sanniang still agreed to this matter.

When Yan Sanniang left, Wan Jianxin and Wu Bing ordered some horses to be implicated, but Yan Sanniang declined the kindness of Wan Jianxin and Wu Bing, and insisted on walking back to her mansion, which was more than a mile away from Yan's mansion. Well, the king of a hundred households, Defa, came to greet him when he got the news. Yan Sanniang now understands that once you are in a high position, your freedom will become less and less.

Yan Sanniang asked: "Is there anything going on in the mansion?"

Wang Defa replied: "There is nothing to do in the mansion, but Xue Wuge has a password letter. In addition, Mr. Pan Ruzhen, the governor of Zhejiang Province, has been suspended as the left servant of the Nanjing Ministry of War."

When Yan Sanniang heard that there was a coded letter, she couldn't help speeding up her pace. When she heard that Pan Ruzhen had been promoted because of the case of Wu Ni, the procuratorial envoy of Zhejiang Province, she was taken aback. Compared with the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War, he is still a well-known real-time official in the capital of Nanjing alone. Yan Sanniang subconsciously wondered whether her Changtu Island would have an affair with the Zuo Shilang of the Nanjing Ministry of War, Zhejiang Chengxuan, the political envoy Pan. communication.

After Yan Sanniang returned to Yan Mansion, she immediately went to the secret room in the backyard. Yan Sanniang saw that the date of receiving the letter was the day before yesterday. Yan Sanniang immediately translated the coded letter. The team has already arrived in Cangzhou, and after shopkeeper Chen completes the transaction, according to Young Madam's wishes, shopkeeper Chen will take the first batch of Xue family's martyrs to go south to Hangzhou with the ship, and the specific number of people will be determined according to the transportation capacity of shopkeeper Chen's grain ship."

Yan Sanniang knew that the first batch of immigrants would come after reading this letter, but these people cannot let them live in Hangzhou City, they must find a transfer station for them outside Hangzhou City, and if it is empty, call for help. Go down and see if there are any suitable transfer stations in the few yards that Xu Zhifu left for himself in the suburbs.

(End of this chapter)