The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 41 Butterfly Wings ([-])

In August of the first year of Jingyao, after three months of mourning for his father, Chen Can, the eldest son of Chen Yu, boarded the merchant ship of the Mi family firm in Niupi, and set off for his post: Fuling County, Fuling County.

Chen Yu's parents died when he was young, and he was not greedy after he took power.Therefore, the Chen family is not very rich. This time, Chen Can's trip did not have the battle of thousands of people like the few eldest sons did a year ago - but only ten entourages.Moreover, because Chen Yu did not form a party, Jiang Wei, who had the best relationship, was far away in Wudu County.So this time when Chen Can took office, only Huang Hao was entrusted by Liu Chan to see him off.

"County Chen is happy to do it. If you have any difficulties, just tell our family. If you tell our family, you will tell your majesty."

"Thank you Zhongchang Attendant, thank you Your Majesty."

"Well, I met Guan Zifeng in Fuling County. Please pay our respects to Guan Zifeng. Our family likes the various fruit wines he sent some time ago. He has a heart."

Yes, with the arrival of summer, wild fruits are everywhere in the mountains and plains of Fuling County. Following the order of the prefect Guan to exchange fifty stones of wild fruits for one stone of grain, there are more than 2 Han people in Fuling County and Wuxi, which is several times that number. The barbarians mobilized collectively to pick wild fruits everywhere.Then a large number of fruit wines of various flavors began to be listed on CD.

The fruit wine sold by Guan Yi's Fuxingshe to the Mi's shop is 200 qian per stone, and the fruit wine listed on CD's Mi's shop is 400 qian per stone.If it's just that, it's fine, the key is that in other shops inside Mi's shop, fruit wine is a gift.

For example, in the Xinfengyuan of the Mi family, following the reduction of the lamp oil fee, the Mi family also gave each guest who stayed overnight in the Xinfengyuan a bottle of fruit wine.These little gimmicks actually organically combined every product operated by the Mi family. The other major merchants of CD are resentful but helpless.

Fern root powder, Yanxi lacquer, soap, Jingyao wax, fruit wine... In addition to these special products of Fuling County, Mi's shop also sells various bacon, mountain products, and precious medicinal materials on a large scale.Those in the know know that the sources of these things are all in Fuling County.

After more than half a month of tossing around the Tuojiang River, Yangtze River, and Wujiang River, County Magistrate Chen Can finally arrived at his post.

Although he was already mentally prepared for the prosperity of Fuling County, Chen Can was still deeply shocked when his boat turned around a mountain ridge and the city of Fuling County suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

When his boat arrived, it was already close to Xushi, and the view on the river was already very bad.But when Fuling County appeared in front of his eyes, his eyes unexpectedly became blind for a short time.

"Brilliantly lit, full of voices." This was Chen Can's first impression of Fuling County.

"Major Chen, I'm apologizing."

"The boatman has worked hard all the way, what is the crime?"

"It's like this. The wharf in Fuling County has been too prosperous in recent years, and the river surface of Wujiang River is relatively narrow. In order to avoid congestion in the lanes, the prefect Guan made a rule. All incoming ships must be docked one by one. Our ship is now far away. Your county government is still about two or three miles away, but the fleet in front of you is too long... So if the county magistrate Chen doesn't want to wait, he has to stop at the shore first. The county magistrate Chen has to walk a certain distance."

"Oh, what should I do. It's okay, let's go to the shore. Just take a walk along the way to see the county's situation."

"No! Come on, let the county magistrate Chen disembark, and I will pay attention to it."

After getting off the boat, Chen Can and the others were still packing their luggage, and a group of men with blue handkerchiefs on their heads and shoulder poles rushed up.

"What are you going to do?!" Chen Can's guards were frightened when they saw the enthusiastic and jike expressions of this group of people.

"My lord, don't get me wrong, we are all Bangbang, oh, Bangbang is what Guan Taishou called us. We are Lifu. We specialize in carrying luggage for guests. Your lords seem to have a lot of luggage, do you want to hire us to carry it? ?”

Awesome?Lifu?Chen Can and his entourage, who have lived on the CD plain all their lives, can hardly understand the difficulty of climbing up and down hills in eastern Sichuan. When they got off the boat at the pier and looked up, their destination was in the sky.

"No need, we are... Patriarchs."

"Hehehe, let them move it for us. We're going to the Fuling county government office, things, here, that's all, how do we calculate the cost?"

"Fuling county government office? That's five or six miles of land. We don't dare to ask for prices randomly. The masters have a lot of things, and at least five people are needed, so it's 150 yuan."

"Oh, you are dishonest. I know this is only two or three miles away from the Fuling County Government." Although the Chen family is not a wealthy family, 150 yuan is nothing to Chen Can—it is only a stone of rice. That's all.However, as the county magistrate of Fuling, Chen Can has already entered the role: Fuling County is prosperous in business, which is why there is such a business as Lifu, which is a good thing in the first place.But Lifu raised prices indiscriminately, deceived customers, and damaged the business reputation of Fuling County, which is not good.

"Maybe this is the first time this master has come to our Fuling, right? I heard the boatman say there are still two or three miles on the boat? Hehe, master, the two or three miles the boatman said refers to the distance from the second wharf which is the closest to the Fuling County Government to here. But The Fuling County Government Office is halfway up the mountain. Even if you disembark from the second wharf, you have to climb a slope of two or three miles to get there."

Seeing Chen Can's thoughtful expression, and seeing a pile of white handkerchiefs rushing over from the corner of his eyes, Lan Pazi couldn't help but panic: "Master, we dare not lie to the guests. If we violate this rule , the magistrate Li of the county government will not spare us. You may as well let us carry it for you, if the journey is less than five miles, we will not take any money."

"Good, so be it."

"Okay!" Lan Pazi cheered, and immediately called his brothers to come up and pack the luggage for Chen Can and his party.Needless to say, it is a professional after all, playing fast and well.

The white veils in the distance also rushed over, and the leader saw that the blue veils had already started packing, and couldn't help muttering: "Pan Dazhuang, you've got another order! It's a quick move! Well."

"Hehehe, old man Tian, ​​when you are old, you should pick wild fruits in the mountains to exchange for food. Why bother to earn this hard money with the boys."

"Hmph! Oh, another ship is coming, hurry up, brothers!"

The blue veils quickly packed the luggage of Chen Can and the others into ten big bags, and then hung two bags on each person's shoulder poles: "Master, are we leaving now?"

"Good, let's go."

A group of 16 people started to walk along the official road outside the city of Fuling County. Chen Can wanted to understand the situation of the county, so he took the initiative to start a conversation: "What is the name of this strong man? Where is he from?"

"Where am I a strong man? A strong man doesn't do this. My name is Pan Dazhuang. I'm from Panwangzhai three hundred miles away."

"According to this, three hundred miles?! So far? Why do you come here from such a far place?"

"There is a lot of work here. Master, it seems that you are from a big city like Jiangzhou and CD. In our place, there are high mountains and dense forests, and there are not many crops growing in the fields. After Guan Taishou came, he taught us to make Fern root powder, our village is better than before. In the past, when the prefect Guan was not in office, several old people and children would starve to death in our village every year."

"So that's the case, then what is your monthly income as a labor force here?"

"Maybe. The autumn harvest has happened recently. There are a lot of cargo ships coming and going, and our income is not bad. I got it from me last month. Well, let me think about it, there are probably more than 500. It is enough to buy more than three stones of food. .But it’s probably not going to work in another two months. At that time, the production of fruit wine and Yanxi lacquer will stop, and the water level of the Wujiang River will also drop, making it impossible for large ships to enter. At that time, we will have to go back to the village.”

"Oh, strong man Pan, the group of people wearing white scarves just now are as powerful as you?"

"That's right, but they are from Tianjiazhai. Tianjiazhai is the first village where we Bizika surrendered to Prefect Guan, so these guys are also the most arrogant. They used to rob us of business."

"Then the prefect doesn't care?"

"Don't worry! How can a good official like Guan Taishou ignore it? Guan Taishou has set the rules for us. No fighting with weapons is allowed, and all the villages that fight with weapons are not allowed to enter Fuling County in the future. Don't maliciously lower prices to snatch customers, pick two people like me. To walk a mile with a burden, the strength should not be less than five renminbi. It is not allowed to falsely report the mileage to newcomers, and if you find out, you will be disqualified...Here, sir, do you see that there are three words on the coat on my chest .Guan Taishou said that these three characters read Panwangzhai. Tell me, I dare to trick customers to make Zhaizi lose face."

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