"This is Yangzhou City!"

The convoy at the west gate of Yangzhou City was the two brothers Lu Zongtai and Lu Zongbao who came all the way from Yuzhang.

"'Fireworks go down to Yangzhou in March' Li Taibai's poem really doesn't insult this Yangzhou City!" Lu Zongtai stood at the front of the car and looked at Yangzhou City not far away, and couldn't help but praise.

"Big brother, it's only one month now, and it's still early in March!" Lu Zongbao, who was still in the car, was pulling up the brocade quilt covering his body with his hand at the moment, with a tired look on his face, and a hint of complaint in his tone about his brother opening the curtain of the car and causing the cold wind to pour in.

"You, you, you just don't understand customs!" Lu Zongtai smiled and pointed to his younger brother who was curled up in the corner of the carriage and said.

"I just feel the wind now, I really haven't seen where this is!" Lu Zongbao tightened the brocade quilt on his body, yawned, and said lazily.

Seeing this, Lu Zongtai shook his head helplessly, but he also walked in and tied the curtain tightly.

Yuzhang to Yangzhou about 1,300 miles, the two brothers all the way by boat to change cars, in a hurry to catch up with the slow also took nearly three days to arrive in Yangzhou. At this time, the official document of the imperial court on the establishment of the city of Yangzhou had spread throughout the Tang Dynasty.

After receiving the news, the northwest, southwest and other places, which had no light in maritime trade, only thought about it for a moment and put the official document away.

As for these places in the south that are closely related to maritime trade, although there have been relevant remarks circulating in the past half a month, there is no conclusion after all, and there are people who say anything.

At this time, the official document was issued, and it was conclusive, and for a while, many maritime merchants couldn't sit still, and there was some obvious confusion about the future, so they began to go out of the door, looking around for some news.

Among them, a large mansion in the southeast of Yangzhou City near the Shenzuo Gate is the Jiangdong Qian family's compound in Yangzhou City, and at this moment, the Qian family's compound is surrounded by a thick crowd of people, these people are dressed differently but all of them are extravagant, but now they have some sorrow on their faces.

And the door of the Qian Mansion has not been opened in the past few days.

"Dad, the door has been blocked for two days!"

In the courtyard of the Qian Mansion, a young man recklessly rushed into Qian Xiaojing's study, and as soon as he entered, he opened his throat and muttered.

Qian Xiaojing was writing something on the desk at the moment, the young man's actions interrupted his thoughts, Qian Xiaojing frowned, slapped the brush in his hand on the desk hard, and scolded in a low voice: "How many times have I told you, don't act so frizzy! You are so big, or such a fierce wave, how can I rest assured that I will hand over this huge family business to you?"

"Oh! Dad, you're here again! You're still so young, you can live for at least a few decades! With you in our Qian family, what are you afraid of?" The young man looked for a place to sit down, picked up the melons and fruits on the table and ate them.

"Then what if I die?" Qian Xiaojing looked at his son's lazy appearance and said angrily.

The young man was stunned when he heard this, looked at his father's stern expression, and then said: "If you are really gone, don't you still have so many uncles and uncles!

"You, you're going to be angry with me!" Qian Xiaojing pointed at the young man with a trembling right hand and scolded angrily.

The young man still looked at him with a smile, chewing melons and fruits in his mouth and said vaguely: "Dad, don't be angry, you will be angry! The group of people outside are still waiting for you to pass on the word!"

Qian Xiaojing looked at his son deeply, and a deep sense of powerlessness came to his heart, and sighed: "Jingwen......!

"Poof!" When the young man heard that the chewed melon and fruit in his mouth spit on the ground, he hurriedly waved his hand to stop Qian Xiaojing, wiped his mouth with his hand, and said: "Hey, Dad, don't be so polite to me, I can't stand my head if you are polite, you are busy, I will go out for a walk!"

After speaking, he ignored Qian Xiaojing's already blue face, and ran out with a smoke.

The young man named Qian Jingwen is the eldest son of the Qian family in Jiangdong, and he is also the only son of Qian Xiaojing, a lone seedling!

At this moment, after Qian Jingwen left his father's study, he wandered around in the labyrinthine courtyard of the Qian family.

Suddenly, he saw a figure not far away, so he hurriedly ran over.

"Xiao Hongzi!"

It was still a few feet away, and Qian Jingwen waved his hand and shouted at the person in front of him.

The man heard the shout and turned around, but it was the Jiangdong Qian clan who had rushed back from a study tour in Yuzhang not long ago, Qian Hong!

"Uncle Jingwen!" After Qian Hong saw the person coming clearly, he hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Qian Jingwen is not very old, even a few years younger than Qian Hong, but the lineage of their head of the family has not been very prosperous since a hundred years ago, and even many generations are in a single line, for example, Qian Xiaojing, the head of the family of this generation, is an only child, and he has only given birth to a son of Qian Jingwen in his fifties, so the generation of their lineage is generally higher.

For example, Qian Jingwen is the same generation as the forty-year-old middle-aged Qian Jingtong who is an official in Chang'an, and he is also the same generation as Qian Hong's father, so Qian Hong had to honestly perform a junior salute when he saw Qian Jingwen coming, after all, these are the most important etiquette in these thousand-year-old families.

"Well, good!" After Qian Jingwen ran over, he accepted Qian Hong's gift seriously, and even reached out and touched Qian Hong's head, looking like an elder caring for a junior.

It's just that before Qian Hong could straighten up, the slightly shorter Qian Jingwen hooked the other party's neck, put his mouth to Qian Hong's ear, and said softly: "How is it......? What's that...... Huh?"

After speaking, he looked at Qian Hong with an ambiguous look.

"Ahh

"Ahh Then he looked at Qian Hong with the kind of expression that a man understands, and said, "What are you pretending to be stupid! I'm asking if you have encountered any good goods!"

"Oh......" Qian Hong deliberately lengthened his voice and made a sudden expression.

For this uncle who is younger than himself, Qian Hong actually hates to understand each other, the Qian family is so big, and the grades of his peers are basically about to catch up with his father, even among the younger generation, Qian Hong is the only one who is the same age as Qian Jingwen, so the name between the two is uncle and nephew, in fact, it is more like a brother, so in addition to the necessary etiquette, the two usually talk very casually.

"I'm a scholar! I'm going out for a study tour!" Qian Hong said seriously.

Qian Jingwen looked at him with disdain: "Scholars, the people who visit the Qinglou the most are scholars, right?"

"That's an elegant thing!" Qian Hong said immediately.

"Oh! How many times have you gone out to do 'elegant things' this time?" Qian Jingwen deliberately pronounced the word "elegant affairs" very seriously.

"Ahem, I'm an adult with a crown gift after all! It's okay to visit this Fengyue place!" Qian Hong straightened his chest and said with a calm face.

"It's not like some people, who can only be crowned next year, and they haven't even touched a woman when they grow so big......!

"You! You fart! As the eldest young master of the Qian family, how could this son have never touched a woman? Joke! Haha! What a big joke!" Qian Jingwen suddenly jumped up like a kitten whose tail had been stepped on, and laughed.

saw Qian Hongzheng looking at Qian Jingwen with a smile but not a smile, and said, "Uncle, I didn't say anything about you!"

"You!" Qian Jingwen's face turned red for a moment, and he was speechless.

Seeing this, Qian Hong smiled, then took the initiative to lean over and said: "If you want to say that Yuzhang City, after all, it is an important town in the south of the Yangtze River, and if you want to say that the history of people is hundreds of years earlier than our Yangzhou......!

Qian Jingwen quickly forgot about it, and the uncle and nephew hid to the side to discuss the differences between Yuzhang and Yangzhou girls in detail......

And Qian Xiaojing, who had been angry in the study, had already recovered his composure at this moment, and loudly ordered the housekeeper to open the door of the mansion and invite the people outside to wait in the living room.

dragged these people for two days, and it can be regarded as a slight suppression of these unruly maritime merchants, and I think that in the subsequent negotiations, these people will settle down a lot.

In these years, there is no one who dares to go to the sea to eat the bowl of rice in the sea trade who is not bold and black-hearted and does not take his life seriously!

After all, the sea is vast, and the technical conditions cannot keep up, and if five out of ten ships come back, it will be a big profit! Generally, if you come back one, you can make a small profit, and if you come back two or three, you can get rich overnight.

And the people who can be qualified to wait outside the gate of Qianfu are all people who have been working for decades and have a very large scale, and there is not much difference between this kind of person and those heroes and powers on the rivers and lakes, which is also the reason why the Southeast Maritime Business Group will form a chaotic situation without a leader.

Although these maritime groups are dominated by the power of the family, they only have some economic advantages and can invest a lot, after all, the matter of navigation still depends on experienced sailors and captains.

Except for the real wealthy families like the Qian family, there are few families who have the ability to train their own sailors and fleets on their own! This also gives those outlaws a step into the world, they rely on the spirit of not being afraid of death to devote themselves to maritime trade, and gradually form their own forces, although relying on these families, but retain a great deal of independence, but more like a special transportation company in later generations.

Such some people naturally will not obey the discipline of others lightly, and because of the huge market share between these people, in the current Datang, no matter how many goods are shipped from outside, they can eat.

Since there is no conflict of interest, these people naturally will not have the idea of annexing others, after all, the mortality rate of maritime merchant ships is already very high! Today he is still a rich man with a lot of money, and tomorrow he may lose all his money because of a trip to sea!

In such a living environment, no one wants to spend energy on infighting!