"* Y !fo Ϣ 5 k~ o tMS 7ǚ D) sv- When the soldiers chased the empty boat, Zhang Sheng had already run away from the capital twenty miles with his men. When the caravan got the news, they all changed their appearances, pulled dozens of truckloads of goods, and went all the way north.

"Brother Sheng, Brother Sheng!" There was a person chasing from afar behind the team, this person was a doll between a child and a young man at the age of twelve or thirteen, and when he caught up with Zhang Sheng, he said: "You told me to release the empty boat, I secretly let it go, and the officers and soldiers really chased the boat!"

Zhang Sheng used a few boats of jujubes to buy a lot of eyes and ears and spies, and these spies are very easy to use, because they are all children, not only taught them to spread the children's rhymes, but also heard a lot of court fiction and reality as he wished, although many of them are rumors in the market, but there is no wind and no waves, and the rumors are also traceable.

Speaking of this spread of children's prophecy, Zhang Sheng is also like seeing flowers in the fog, he originally went south in March of the first year of Jianwen, went to Qiantang to do business, and in a few months, he has been wandering in the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, because his business is big, he is busy every day, and he ignores Zhang Qi and Wang's letters, the reason is that his parents are always urging him to go back to start a family, and he is impatient. But in this way, he missed the letter sent to him by Zhang Zhaohua, and Zhang Zhaohua asked the guys in Zhang's shop to look for him, and the three groups of people all had accidents, and the two groups of people encountered the displaced people of the locust plague in Shandong, and they actually stripped their whole body of clothes;

After that, I finally got through the letter, and it was the end of June, Zhang Sheng almost knew that the Yan Wangfu seemed to be going to fight against the imperial court, and settled the business in his hand and was about to go north, but was intercepted by a few monks, these monks were actually sent by Daoyan, saying that there was something else to let him do.

The thing that Dao Yan gave him was to spread the children's prophecy, and he did it quickly, transported the banjube from Jishan County, and went all the way to Yingtian, spreading the children's prophecy all the way. When he came to the port outside Yingtian City, he rented a local cargo ship, saying that he was buying and selling goods, but in fact, he taught children, and it really worked. In and outside Yingtian City, there are almost no children who can't sing "Don't be light, don't be light, Yan enters the world and is peaceful".

It's just that he didn't expect that when the nursery rhyme he composed himself was sung, there was also a fairy rhyme that was also very popular, and the lyrics were "Mo chases the swallow, chases the swallow and will fly high, fly high and fly God!"

Now Zhang Sheng was confused, could it be that Master Daoyan instructed the two of them with one thing, and sent others when he ordered him? He also felt strange when he thought of this, but the monks in the team denied it again, and he didn't know why.

"Okay," Zhang Sheng took out a tael of silver from his bag and said, "We're leaving, go to your house!"

The kid took the silver, but he didn't look back, just looked at Zhang Sheng's team of dozens of people: "Brother Sheng, where are you going?"

Zhang Sheng naturally wants to go back to Beiping, he rushed the goods as long as he went to Linqing, Shandong, where there were his own ships to respond, and the canal happened to be sent from Linqing to Tongzhou, although now the king of Yan and the court broke up, but Zhang Sheng knew that the court only got the report from the north today, and there is still a lot of time from the court to the decision, and the edict was sent to Shandong, it will take a few days.

In the past few days, the canal will not be interrupted for the time being, even if it is the political envoy of Shandong, he has no right to stop the transportation without authorization before the arrival of the imperial edict, and at most he can only stop the exchange of civilian ships, but it is okay, because Zhang Sheng has a few ships, which are called the Jin Wangfu, which is when he and the Shanxi Jin Wangfu are selling salt, and several merchants under the palace sent him. There is also a ship, three months ago, by the way to send a three-grade official of the imperial court home, at this time, under the pretense of fame, it is not impossible to hide from the world.

Zhang Sheng couldn't say that he went to Beiping, so he could only say half-truthfully: "When we go to Shandong, we still have to do business! Ban'er, you melon baby, if you don't go back, you won't be able to enter the city!"

The boy named Ban'er looked at the goods on the carriage with great envy and said, "Brother Sheng, I also want to join your caravan!

This is Zhang Sheng's ability, when he was a child in Zhangjia Village, he was able to gather a group of little children, followed him upside down to respect him, and later did business, first in other people's shops to study, but he had the means to get close to the villagers, and even many people, followed him to engage in small groups, all listened to him, and later came to Beiping, and even a considerable number of people came from Shanxi to run him, and his business in Beiping developed rapidly, and it became bigger and bigger.

He smiled and said, "You're just so big, Ban'er, when you grow up, come to me again!"

Zhang Sheng stretched out his hand to compare the size of the board, and several sturdy men in the team laughed, Chen Shan, the subordinate who liked to joke the most, also joked: "You are so tall, I'm afraid you can't even move two bags of rice! After walking a few steps, you hold your feet and refuse to go any further!"

Ban'er was not convinced, reached for the cloth covered by the carriage, and said, "I can move 20 catties of rice!

It's a pity that his hand was choked, and Zhang Sheng didn't allow him to demonstrate on the spot, but just appeased him with a few kind words, and finally sent him away.

Zhang Sheng looked at Ban'er's back step by step, and couldn't help but say half-truthfully: "If I wasn't sure that he was a doll who didn't know anything, I really felt that he was like a person from the imperial court brocade guard, who came to investigate us!"

Zhang Ying and Chen Shan couldn't help but be shocked, and looked at each other: "Owner, what is this doll-"

"It's a doll," Zhang Sheng waved his hand and said, "I just want to tell you that we have to be extremely cautious and cautious now, and it would be good to work hard to get to Shandong." The people of this brocade guard are pervasive, and you should also hear that they are powerful, they are the characters who stop children crying at night, if they are targeted, it will be difficult to get out. ”

The Jinyi Guard Official Academy generally selects good citizens who are martial and powerful and have no bad records from the people, and then they are promoted step by step according to their ability and seniority. However, in the past two years, there have been few good people selected, but they have recruited a lot of people from the three religions and nine streams, especially those in the rivers and lakes, which has made Jinyiwei a little smoky, and Jinyiwei now has no major cases to deal with, and is in a window period, these people, especially the local ones, have begun to turn their attention to the rich.

Several commanders of the Jinyi Guard, although they are not good to die, but the emperor only punished one person, and did not sit on the others, so the command of the Jinyi Guard under the official guard, is very good to do, they are trusted by the emperor, can bypass the criminal department to handle the case independently, without any official restrictions or obstruction, although the previous is famous for the world for severe punishment and plunder, but the cases are all public cases, and the object of punishment is also the official who committed the crime, but in the past two years, the Jinyi Guard has gradually deteriorated, they are no longer as heavy as the Hongwu period, some Jinyi Wei will plunder the local big households and torture, slander the crime of collaborating with the enemy or rebellion, to obtain their property。

Zhang Sheng's businessmen have backers and will be dotted, so they often pass unimpeded, but in recent days, the situation has suddenly become tense, although he has hidden his identity, but who knows if he will encounter the attention of the Jinyi guards who are responsible for the investigation, if they are targeted by these Jinyi guards, it will not be good.

Moreover, this time he ordered thousands of pieces of cloth in Suzhou, Hangzhou and Yingtian, which were expensive. Not only Hangzhou silk, Jiangnan place with ramie, kudzu, hemp, plantain textile gauze, but also with bamboo bark, wood hibiscus silk weaving fine cloth, wear cool and light, like the yellow grass cloth produced in Suzhou, is with a kind of yellow grass stalk core analysis silk twist, weaving the finished product is almost as white and fine as silk. Since the Song Dynasty, yellow grass cloth has been produced in Jiangnan and has always been a popular summer fabric, not only for tailoring, but also for sewing mosquito nets, serving as window screens for gluing windows, and even as a veil for lanterns.

The silk weaving industry in the south of the Yangtze River is prosperous, Zhang raised the low price, and after seeing the condition, he specially ordered the weaving of gold satin, a horse embroidered gold silk can be traded at the price of half a tael of gold, and now he has these cloths in these carriages, which are to be transported to Beiping, but not to be sold in Beiping, but to prepare to do business with the Mongols.

According to Zhang Zhaohua's vague meaning in the letter, King Yan raised troops, lacked iron armor and bows and arrows, and these things were destroyed by the guards in the armory bureaus of many local guards, even if Zhang Sheng spent a lot of money in Yingtian, it was impossible to buy them, so the way out was to go north and exchange with the Mongols. It's a bad trip.

is different from the time when he was planning to transport grain and grass into Zhigu, Zhang Sheng obviously realized that he went to Beidi, not only to clarify his identity, but also to retain his intentions, to exchange for what he needed, and to retreat with his whole body, it was really difficult and dangerous to die, but he really made it happen, that is, the title of the book is in the history books, and it can be compared with Tao Zhu Yidun.

The profit from driving cattle and sheep from the north to sell them to Beijing is only three or four times; from the prosperous places south of the Yangtze River to sell pearl and jade cloth and silk to the north, the profit is not more than ten times; and how many times the profit can be obtained by smuggling goods to Mongolia and Tatar?

Zhang Sheng has always believed in his sister-in-law, and when he saw that she said in her letter that King Yan had a promising future, although he felt a little untrue, he still gritted his teeth and believed it. First, he is a sister, resourceful and decisive, but all the things he has planned, there is nothing unsuccessful, Zhang Sheng went into business by himself, three or four times out of ten, he could not make a profit, but had to lose money, but his sister could get what he wanted every time, which is also the reason why Zhang Sheng believed in her;

Moreover, when King Yan raised his troops, everyone saw that he was a corner of the enemy of the whole country, and he was defeated and invincible, but Zhang Sheng was a businessman, so in essence, he could not help but evaluate and judge, did King Yan not have a day when he turned defeat into victory? He knew that some people were watching and speculating, and speculation and speculation were often two-sided investment, but the benefits obtained by two-sided investment were actually not as good as one-sided investment. He now supports King Yan, in fact, he is also speculating, he will put his net worth on King Yan, for King Yan to go to the soup once, if King Yan really turns over in the future (Zhang Sheng thinks that he turned over, in fact, he didn't dare to think that King Yan could get the throne, he thought at most that King Yan could build his own banner, such as the story of King Xiao of Han Liang, and the court to rule the river), this is amazing.

Now in the Yan Wangfu, there is only one grandson, or his own nephew, everything in the future Yan Wangfu, but also fall on his nephew, he is now a relative, and has made great contributions, as his sister said in the letter, after the fact, the Yan King promised to open up a special route for him in Caoyun, and the border trade is also fully owned by him, so calculated, the profit he can obtain, is even more long.

Mongolian nobles, in silk, tea and salt, urgently need to trade with the Middle Earth, at this time because of the deterrence of the war against the Northern Yuan Dynasty during the Hongwu period, the Mongolian people did not dare to look south, but sooner or later they could not get these things, they were going to start a war, and now Zhang Sheng decided to go to Mongolia to do business, although it was a dangerous road, but after thinking about it, there were fifty or sixty percent sure that he could return with profits.

"I heard that the Mongolians are very dirty," Chen Shan smacked his mouth and said, "I like embroidery on silk - in our Daming's opinion, it is earthy and ugly, but when I arrive at the Khan Court, I feel rich." The kudzu yarn and banana cloth that were shipped in the same batch were not as good as this embroidered satin. ”

Zhang Sheng was already secretly doing business with the Mongols, but he made it possible to sell things in Ulanqab, a place where the Mongols and Han lived in a mixed place of public trade, and found that the Mongols liked complicated and luxurious things, and the more embroidered things on a satin, the more miscellaneous they were, and the more they were sold, which was completely different from the aesthetics of Middle-earth. That's why he made gold satin on order.

"Have you ever seen the Mongolian dome, that is, the felt tent?" Zhang Ying laughed at him: "The more patterns his mother has, the more noble her identity is." Their Great Khan's felt tent is called the Golden Tent, and it is said that it is paved with gold in it, and if the soil is returned like this, let us follow the soil!"

The group quickly went north, and waited until Linqing got on the boat and arrived at the Tongzhou branch, before they put their minds at ease, and Zhang Sheng sat in his shop, transporting goods, and did not know that his business name "Qingyuan" quickly collected money stores in the north and even the whole country, and even ran his own money bank, and in the future, he also had a huge and even irreparable rift with his relatives because of this Qingyuan.