Yangzhou City, the largest wharf on the canal.

At this moment, from Yangzhou Taishou Tong Yu below, other civil and military officials such as Beijia and Sima were all on the spot. It stands to reason that Cui Jianyu is just a small director of the sixth grade, and Yangzhou only needs to send an official at the same level to greet him. But who made Cui Jianyu extraordinary! The head of the Boling Cui family, who ranked first among the seven sects and five surnames, how could you let the officials of Yangzhou City slack off with such an identity?

However, after all, Cui Jianyu moved here because he angered the saint, and if the officials in Yangzhou greeted him with great fanfare, wouldn't this embarrass Li Longji!

So, the clever Tong Taishou came up with a good way to cover his ears and steal the bell, that is, to take off his official uniform and declare that he came to greet the "friends" who came from afar as a private person, so as to solve the problem of Yangzhou officials, not only will not offend Cui Jianyu, but also save the face of the saint, it is really a good way to get the best of both worlds!

As a result, before our Uncle Cui Jianyu arrived in Yangzhou, there were already many more "old friends" who had not seen him for many years! That posture, if everyone could squeeze out a few more tears, it would really be a touching scene!

"Elder Cui, you have worked hard all the way!" Tong Yu was the first to stand up in civilian clothes. Although it is a private meeting on the surface, everyone is an old fritter who has been in officialdom for many years, so naturally they will not take the words on this scene seriously, so the first one to stand up and speak must naturally be the highest official.

"Huh, everyone, this is ......" As soon as Cui Jianyu came ashore, he saw a large number of middle-aged people in civilian clothes surrounding him, and after walking in to see everyone's faces clearly, he asked in surprise.

It's just that Cui saw that the Yu people were old and refined, and after a while, he understood the intentions of these people, so he bowed his head slightly, and said with a smile: "You have a heart!"

"Where is it, Cui Lao has been in the dust all the way, and he has prepared a banquet in the house in Xia Te to catch the wind and wash the dust for Cui Lao. Tong Yu saw that Cui Jianyu understood, and his heart was even more happy, and he hurriedly invited.

"Then there will be work!" Cui Jianyu replied.

The wind was strong on the wharf, and Cui Jianyu, an old man in his sixties, couldn't stand it after blowing the cold wind outside for a while, and everyone saw this, and hurriedly called the carriage that had been prepared, and went all the way to Tong Yu's mansion.

This time, the gathering was not arranged in the official office behind the Taishou Yamen, but a set of houses that Tong Yu bought in Yangzhou City. At the banquet, it is not necessary to talk about pushing cups and changing lamps, singing and dancing.

Just when the Yangzhou officials were feasting Cui Jianyu and others, the big mansion of the Zhenhai Gang was already busy at this moment.

In an independent two-hall courtyard of the Zhenhai Gang, the sound of a dense and continuous abacus like firecrackers sounded at this time. Dozens of bookkeepers and hundreds of apprentices were busy in all corners of the courtyard, surrounded by piles of account books.

At all the entrances and exits of the courtyard, there are heavily armed men waiting for them.

Ye Kai is also an old man, and he knows that his big move today will definitely be passed on through the eyeliner planted by other forces in the Zhenhai Gang, so he simply used an excuse to check the accounts, anyway, the account office of the Zhenhai Gang will come to this once a month, but this time it was a little earlier, even if it was detected by others, it would be suspicious for a moment at most. As for his true purpose, he didn't mention it to anyone, even Ye Xuan just said it casually when he was too excited.

Ye Kai knew that this time the business was a one-shot deal, and he could only seize the opportunity as much as possible when others had not yet reacted, and after the first few days had passed, even the dullest person would be able to react.

So this time he didn't sue anyone!

The abacus crackled for nearly a morning, and the old account man from last night walked to a room where Ye Kai was alone with a few pieces of white paper full of words.

"Boss, it's already settled!" replied the old bookkeeper.

"Read!" Ye Kai said expressionlessly.

"Yes!" The old bookkeeper lowered his head, flipped through the white paper in his hand, and read: "We have counted all the cash that can be mobilized by helping various industries in Yangzhou, totaling 4,389,700 copper coins. The cash of the restaurant, the store, the silk village, the grain and oil shop, and the tooth shop has all been transported, totaling 2,175,600 copper coins, and the remaining more than 2 million yuan are all discounted by the goods brought back by the latest fleet. ”

Ye Kai thought quietly for a moment and said, "Drop the price by half again, and I'll see the cash tonight!"

"Ah, the big boss, that's more than 100,000 copper coins less!" The old accountant said urgently, the previous big boss gave half of the profit has made him very puzzled, and now let half of the money, this is ...... That's not how the money is spent!

"Do it!" Ye Kai ignored the anxious look of the old account room, and still commanded indifferently.

"Yes, big boss!" the old bookkeeper was helpless, so he had to nod his head.

The old account room, who thought that the matter was over, did not know that Ye Kai actually spoke again: "Send a message to Guangzhou, let them collect the rest of the fleet at sea as much as possible, dispose of the goods at a price of ninety percent, and transport the copper coins to Yangzhou." Remember! Be quick!"

"Huh?" Hearing the big boss's anxious tone, the old bookkeeper also noticed something unusual, it seems that the big boss is really going to do a big thing!

After figuring this out, the old bookkeeper immediately took the order, turned around and went out.

Ye Kai closed his eyes, and after thinking for a moment again, he muttered, "I hope it's still too late!"

"Ye Xuan!" Ye Kai shouted outside the house after a moment.

Ye Xuan immediately walked into the house: "Big boss!"

"Go! Notify the tooth shops in all parts of the city, stop the land trade, and you can send some different people to buy all the land secretly, and then the tooth shop will receive the land sale order, and immediately buy it as soon as possible! In addition, send some people who have little to do with us to go to other tooth shops in the city to buy all the land in their hands! Remember! Move quickly! Don't care about the price!" Ye Kai said with a stern face.

"Ahh

Ye Xuan is also a person who knows the severity, once he understands it, he immediately takes action, and after rushing at Ye Kai, he turns around and leaves!

Inside the house, Ye Kai continued to be silent alone, Ye Kai thought about it for a long time and decided to disclose this secret to Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan was an orphan, he was raised by Ye Kai, and even his surname was with him, he was regarded as half of his own righteous son, if even he couldn't believe it, Ye Kai didn't know who else he could trust.

Almost when the Zhenhai Gang was settling accounts on a large scale, a very inconspicuous little man came to the Taishou Yamen with a depressed face, this person was the one who entertained the Lu family brothers in the tooth shop yesterday, but the final reward was the young man named Xiao Guizi who was greedy for ink in the shopkeeper.

Originally, according to the shopkeeper's request, he needed to come to the yamen yesterday afternoon to register, but the more Xiao Guizi thought about it yesterday, the more angry he became, and he was lazy all afternoon, wanting to express his anger and dissatisfaction with the shopkeeper. It's just that yesterday afternoon, the shopkeeper had already happily gone to the market to buy Silla maids, and he was not in Yaxing all afternoon, and he didn't come back until the evening when it was about to close, and he happened to meet Ye Xuan, who was ordered to come to ask for the file, and after being busy, he forgot to tell Xiao Guizi to do something. It wasn't until this morning that the shopkeeper who had been active all night was late, and after discovering this matter, he only scolded Xiao Guizi weakly for a few words, and then sent him to the yamen office to register!

It was under this coincidence that another observant in Yangzhou City noticed the undercurrent surging in the dark.

Xiao Guizi came to the side gate of the Taishou Yamen, and after greeting the officials guarding the door, he carried the sack of the deed to the place where the Yamen Branch was dedicated to the registration of land transactions.

Xiao Guizi came lightly in front of the green-robed little official, and sneered at the other party: "My lord, please register these deeds!"

The green-robed junior officer raised his head, looked at the sack full of deeds, and then asked Xiao Guizi with a smile, "Did you bring the handling fee?"

"Bring it, it's all here!" Xiao Guizi nodded hurriedly, took off another small purse around his waist, and handed it to the green-robed junior officer with both hands.

The green-robed petty officer poured all the silver cakes in his purse on the desk and counted them carefully a few times, then nodded with satisfaction, and said to Xiao Guizi: "Okay! You can send all the deeds to the back for registration!"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed back, and asked Xiao Guizi, "Do you know the way?"

"Recognize, recognize!" said Xiao Guizi.

After speaking, Xiao Guizi walked back with a sack of deeds on his back, but he didn't hear the green-robed little official whispering: "It's really a strange thing! Why have you come so many times to do land registration in the past few months?"

"Hehe, hey, whatever! The more people come, the more silver we can take!" said the green-robed petty officer, who took out two silver cakes from his purse and put them into his sleeve.

Xiao Guizi naturally didn't know about this, he walked through the front yard and came to a room in the backyard, where five white servants were lying on the desk and writing hard.

Xiao Guizi came to one of them with a familiar car and said, "Brother Hua, I'm going to trouble you again!"

When the man heard this, he raised his head, it was Hua Qing!

"Xiao Guizi, are you here again?" Hua Qing also knew the person who came, looked at the sack behind him, and asked with a smile, "You're here to register again?"

Xiao Guizi nodded silently.

"Okay, you, the business in the tooth shop is very hot, how many taps have you taken this time, you kid has to invite my eldest brother to drink!" Hua Qing joked.

"There's a fart tap!" Xiao Guizi now heard the word "tap", and his heart became angry.

"What's wrong?" Hua Qing asked.

"Alas, don't mention it!" Xiao Guizi shook his head and said helplessly: "Brother Hua, let's help me register first!"

Hua Qing saw that the other party didn't say anything, and he didn't say much, nodded and said, "Okay!"

Immediately, Hua Qing took the sack and began to register the deeds one by one. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration appeared, and the question that had puzzled him for more than a day was finally answered at this moment, and Hua Qing stayed there immediately.

After a long time, a sentence came out of his mouth: "I see!"