Zhang Jiucheng's words are about to talk about a well-known figure in Lianghuai, Dong Changning. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

This person is almost unknown to everyone in Lianghuai and Zhejiang, and his family has a lot of money, and he is not doing such a good business.

Needless to say, the ticket number inn restaurant, even the maritime area is also touched, there is a huge shipyard, from these businesses, it can be seen that this person has some sources, and what others don't know is that he made a fortune at first, not by these, but by luck.

The grain of the Great Song Dynasty was transported to Bianjing, Kyoto by four routes, among which the millet of Huai Bian from the southeast six roads was the main position. Huai Bian's millet from the south of the Yangtze River into Huaishui, through Bianshui into Beijing, it is conceivable how big a piece of fat these two Huai Shui roads are, and the people who dare to go to the imperial court to eat this piece of fat are by no means good, this Dong Changning is such a person who dares to fight.

When it comes to the imperial court's measures on the matter of Cao Yun, the three divisions are the commander-in-chief Cao Zheng, and each road is responsible for collecting Cao grain every year, and then the shipping department is responsible for transporting it into Beijing. There is a shipment to make a member stationed in Zhenzhou, supervising the grain transportation in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other roads, where the granary is called the general warehouse, the abundance is increased, the hunger is striked, the amount of grain will be paid to the money, and the other is shipped from the local warehouse. If the voyage period is delayed, the shipping department will take a million of the "this book", take advantage of the low price of grain and buy grain to ship, but it is said to be one million, but the imperial court can not control this quota, so the place where the fuss can be made is big, and the ships of the south of the Yangtze River on schedule to Zhenzhou and other warehouses, can also be loaded with official salt to return, increase efficiency, the shipping department is in charge of about 6,000 boats, but it is far from enough, every year will recruit passenger boats and official boats to transport, recruit a group of merchant ships to be transported directly to Beijing. The number of rice in the southeast six roads is uncertain, Taizong began to set the year to transport the Jianghuai tax rice three million stones, and now it has reached five million stones, but for this fertile land of two Huai and Zhejiang, it is really more than enough, this time and again, there are more places to make money.

But if you are involved in this business of grain and official salt, you will naturally be able to move to your home.

And such a treasure, the shipping department is a good place to make money everywhere, this Zhenzhou shipping envoy is really a fat shortage that everyone has to fight for, and naturally it is not a close confidant of the emperor.

Yes, when Dong Changning was churning on the Huaishui Canal, the Zhenzhou shipping envoy at that time happened to be Zhou Yubai's grandfather Shu Wenqian.

Those merchants who wanted to do Caoyun business naturally followed Shu Wenqian's path side by side, but they were all rejected by him.

Dong Changning was still a bastard with no background and no confidence at that time, specializing in those unsightly Caokou businesses, that is, running wild boats, and occasionally swallowing the grain of the government, he knew that he was incapable, and he didn't bother to go to the road of shipping envoys if he couldn't get through.

That year was a famine year, Lianghuai's grain was made a fake account by the local government, and he wanted to find a scapegoat, and the big merchants who got some news were all monkey spirits, and they all stopped, and they didn't dare to cooperate with the government as in previous years, for fear that there would be a cat in it. As a result, when the shipping department received the grain, hundreds of ships sank in the river, and the last check showed that the batch of grain was all contracted to a person named Dong Changning.

This is not only a problem of losing the family wealth, I am afraid that even the head is not guaranteed, Shu Wenqian naturally knows that this is a common pickling method in officialdom, calling ordinary merchants to compensate for losses, such things are not without in previous years, shipping to make this position, not seeking merit but seeking no fault, he should not be involved in the slightest right and wrong, but he kept Dong Changning, transferred the surplus grain from Zhen and Si Ercang to save the emergency, and personally wrote an excerpt to ask the third division to allocate funds, fortunately, in the famine year, the treasury is still rich, and this matter can be regarded as covering up the past. But the emperor was slightly dissatisfied with Shu Wenqian's move, and refused to sit down for him in such a position to make money.

Shu Wenqian also felt that it was okay, he was not greedy for those unclean money.

Dong Changning personally went to kneel down and kowtow to Shu Wenqian to thank him for saving his life for the second time.

Shu Wenqian suddenly realized that his fate with this future life had already begun.

When Shu Wenqian was sentenced to Kaifeng Mansion, he tried a case, a young man killed a thief who had defected for many years, this thief ** kidnapped, and made mistakes in his hometown, but after arriving in Kaifeng, he became a flat-headed common man incognito.

The young man went north alone for a righteous word, and cut off the other party's hands and feet to avenge his brother, but he was unlucky and scared the other party's wife to death, which was considered a life lawsuit.

The other party's family has money and people, and this young man has nothing on his body except for a knife and a bachelor, Shu Wenqian saw that he was high-spirited, so upright, and he was also extraordinarily gracious, sentenced him to two years, and when he returned to his hometown, he personally sent the young man off, the name "Changning" was given by him, I hope he will be peaceful for a long time, and he will not be trapped in such rivers and lakes again.

It was also because of this encounter that Dong Changning was determined to go out to the ground, but who knew that he had received the great favor of Duke Shu. The grace of saving lives twice, Dong Changning wants to say that for Shu Wenqian's liver and brain, he will not hesitate at all.

He is also a capable person, after solving the dilemma of grain, he returned to his hometown to have revenge and revenge, and acted more and more spicy, in a few years, he almost swallowed the entire line of Huaishui Caoyun, and sat firmly on the first big merchant of Huaihuai.

Shu Wenqian was a direct minister back then, so naturally he couldn't have much to do with such a person, and it wasn't until he returned to his hometown Tongzhou that Dong Changning dared to visit again.

Zhou Yubai knew that his grandfather and he were the same kind of people, even if others thought that they were about to become saints, they were actually just laymen. Maybe the first time he saved Dong Changning, it was just a moment of compassion, and the second time he saved him, it was probably not a coincidence.

At that time, Shu Wenqian may have realized that his daughter may not be able to escape.

For the sake of his daughter and grandson, he had to find security for them.

Dong Changning is the most suitable person.

Zhou Yubai knew that Dong Changning grew so quickly later, and his grandfather would inevitably mention him a few words.

But the relationship between Dong Changning and Shu Wenqian is different from Hu Guangyuan's people behind the scenes.

That Hu Guangyuan is a servant, and the person behind the scenes is the master, and between Shu Wenqian and Dong Changning, it is just a bond of kindness and human affection.

Therefore, Dong Changning is the last hole card that Zhou Yubai can use, and it is impossible for him to use it indefinitely.

Zhang Jiucheng asked him to think clearly, is it worth folding such an opportunity to Hu Guangyuan.

But Zhou Yubai never looks too far ahead and backward in doing things, and if he wants to abolish the other party's arm, he must also pay something.