Zhang Xing came down from the river embankment, and the sky was already hazy. Since the beginning of the flood season, she has insisted on visiting the river embankment every day. Most of the land under the name of the chapter has been planted with kapok, and if it encounters a year of great floods, these lands will be considered white seeds.

Not only these lands, but also other kapok farmers have to bear some of the losses. The subsidy of one penny per acre of land may not seem like much, but it all adds up to a staggering amount.

There is no shortage of money, but after such a year, the number of people planting kapok in the coming year will definitely drop sharply. Year or two, if kapok cultivation is no longer successful, it will be difficult to promote it in the future.

Therefore, she is very concerned about the water level of the Huai River.

But the truth has become farther and farther away from her expectations, since the beginning of the flood season, the water level of the Huai River has become higher and higher day by day, and many low-lying areas have begun to accumulate water.

This phenomenon has occurred in the vicinity of Yu County, and the situation is only likely to be worse than that in the low-lying area of Yu County, Yu'an Tang Town.

Li Dahe sent a letter, if they hadn't dug a ditch in advance last year, most of the land for planting kapok would have been flooded.

However, if the water level continues to rise like this, the ditches dug last year will be filled, and the fields will still not be saved.

After the beginning of the year, Zhang Jinbao got married, and Zhang Xing moved back to Wutong Lane.

Zhang Xing returned to the courtyard, Li Xi pounced, hugged her legs, and raised her head and shouted, "Mother, have you gone up the embankment again?"

Zhang Xing couldn't help but smile, scratched his son's nose, and picked him up, "It's the same as yesterday." Zhang Xing replied.

Li Xi frowned and looked at the sky, "Mother You said that it was going to rain." ”

Zhang Xing also raised her head and said with emotion: "Yes, it's going to rain." ”

"Is the water in the river still going to rise?" Li Xi asked again.

"It's going to go up. ”

Zhang Xing watched Li Xi become more and more worried, and asked with a smile, "What are you worried about?"

Li Xi pursed his mouth and said, "Grandpa Li's land is about to be flooded." ”

Zhang Xing often went up the river embankment, visited the nearby Zhuangzi, and talked to a few farmers who leased her land. Sometimes I will take Li Xi, Sun Nian and so on. Li Xi often listens to her talking to people, and the little person is also worried.

Zhang Xing breathed a long sigh of relief, "Yes, if it rains again, the land planted by Grandpa Li will be flooded." ”

Li Xi looked up at the sky, he knew a lot. Zhang Xing often took him to the countryside, and he also met a lot of friends.

"Is the dog going out to beg for food again?"

Zhang Xingliang didn't answer for a long time, the people on the side of the Huai River suffered a lot, and when they couldn't survive the disaster year, they would go out with their families to beg for food and drink, which was already a common thing.

Gu Yu hurriedly came in and replied, "Madam, the second master is here." ”

Mother You hurriedly smiled and stretched out her hand and said, "Brother Xi, let Mama hug me." ”

Li Xi kicked his legs, "Brother Xi wants to walk by himself." Zhang Xing put Li Xi down and instructed Mother You: "Just let him go by himself." ”

After Mother You answered, she hurriedly followed Li Xi, who ran away.

Li Xi broke free of her hand and said seriously: "Mama take Brother Xi to the dog's house!"

Mother You coaxed and said, "It's too late this day, Mama will take Brother Xi tomorrow." ”

"I also want to take Brother Nian with me. ”

"Okay, let's also take Brother Nian and Mother Sun with us. Mother You said with a smile.

Zhang Xing arrived at the main hall of the front yard, and Wei Minwu was walking back and forth in the hall.

Zhang Xing saw that Wei Minwu's expression was different, and after glancing at Gu Yu, Gu Yu understood and retreated to the door.

"Why are you here so late. Zhang Xing asked.

Wei Minwu looked at Zhang Xing and said, "The Shen family has already taken Anyang!"

"Really?" Zhang Xing also became excited.

Wei Minwu nodded. The Shen family took Anyang faster than they imagined, and after the Shen family took Anyang, their plans would have to keep up.

"Where's the stone, is there any news of him?" Zhang Xing asked again.

Wei Minwu shook his head, "But you don't have to worry too much, no news is not necessarily a bad thing." ”

The news brought by the horse gang, the Shen family took Anyang last night, and now Anyang City has become a mess, the cleaning of the battlefield, the inventory of personnel, the removal of the remnants of the Yan clan in Anyang City, etc. The Stone-led Forward Battalion was the most difficult to inquire about. Even the caravan couldn't hear from him.

Zhang Xing also knew that Anyang must be very chaotic now, the news of the stone was not easy to inquire about, and everything could only wait for a while before accurate news came.

"Second brother will stay at home for dinner tonight, right?" Zhang Xing said.

Wei Minwu nodded.

Zhang Xing called Gu Yu and asked him to inform the kitchen.

"Xing'er, how long do you think the Shen family will stay in Anyang?" Wei Minwu asked with a frown.

Zhang Xing thought about it and shook her head. The Shen family took Anyang, and it already accounted for nearly half of the original Great Xia. Now that the Yan family is cowering in Kyoto, few people admit that the little emperor they helped up. Needless to say, the Shen family has obvious ambitions, and everyone knows it. After the Zhao clan of the original Muenhou occupied the southwest, he established himself as the king, and was confronting Lin Jingtian in the area of Gunzhou. An Qingyuan, the former general of Fuyuan stationed in northern Xinjiang, suffered several defeats, lost several cities, and had retreated to the Heihe area. These forces have been separated for a long time, and it is not easy to get rid of them. She couldn't guess where the Shen family would go next.

Wei Minwu said in a low voice: "I'm afraid that the Shen family is going to take root in Anyang. ”

Zhang Xing looked at Wei Minwu. Wei Minwu's expression didn't seem like he said it casually.

"It was originally the new capital. Wei Minwu said again.

Zhang Xing thought about it and felt that this was the most likely. The Shen family has fought for so many years, and a lot of manpower and financial resources have been consumed, although there are also forces such as Gu Yongfeng and Luo Yong who have joined, but they are separated by the belly. It is estimated that they do not dare to use it boldly.

The Shen family has indeed reached the time to recuperate.

Anyang was originally planned as a new capital, but later there was Prince Huaide forcing the palace and the emperor died violently, and the move of the capital was forced to run aground. Anyang is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, accessible in all directions, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and prosperous as Kyoto. If she were the Shen family, she would also choose this place as a place of recuperation at this time.

Now that I think about it, I'm afraid that the Shen family has already planned to claim the title of emperor there after taking Anyang.

"If the stone takes you to Anyang, will you go?" Wei Minwu asked again.

Zhang Xing didn't know how to answer. She hadn't thought about it yet.

But if the Shen family is really the emperor in Anyang, the stone will definitely be rewarded, and it is impossible for her to stay in Yuxian.

Wei Minwu left after eating.

Zhang Xing hugged Li Xi for a while and let him go to bed.

Zhang Xing couldn't sleep for a while, so she sat aside and looked at the account books.

The money on the books is enough, and there is still food.

But how long can she stay with these?

Thinking of this, she couldn't read the account books anymore.

If the Shen family really became emperor in Anyang, she wouldn't be able to keep these things in her hand for long.

Do you wait for the Shen family to collect it, or do you take the initiative to send it yourself? Naturally, the latter choice is favorable.

But just send it like this, she was unwilling.

So, how do you deliver it? It's a question that needs to be considered now.

The moon has turned to the west, and there are more drums outside. Zhang Xing sighed, put down the account book in her hand, and went to bed.

Early the next morning, she came to Wei's house. Wei Minwen is away and hasn't come back yet.

Wei Minwu was taken aback when he heard Zhang Xing's thoughts, "What, you want to send Zhang Ji out?"

Zhang Xing nodded and said, "Second brother, be quiet." ”

"You, you're too careful!" Wei Minwu said, "Even if he Shen really sits on that chair, we don't have to rush to send our hard-earned things out, right? Besides, if we give them so much food for nothing, they must have some benefits, right? Not only is this not beneficial, but it also makes us bankrupt, what is the reason?"

Zhang Xing didn't know what to say for a while. Her situation with the stone doomed them to be different from ordinary merchants. The Shen family originally kept them as dogs, but now it's just because this dog is still useful, so they don't despise them, so they don't kill them without saying kill.

But if the Shen family was proclaimed emperor in Anyang, the situation would be different.

The Shen family had no kung fu before, and maybe they didn't have manpower for the time being, so they collected food on a large scale by Zhangji. But they are about to empty their hands, and they will definitely grasp the good things that are related to people's livelihood, food, which is related to people's livelihood.

For the Shen family, she and the stone are not enough to see.

So, it's better to be obedient.

Her experience with Shi could not be revealed to Wei Minwu. Zhang Xing had no choice but to pull the reason onto the stone, "Second brother, have you forgotten? The stone is no longer the Li Xiaoqi of the past." ”

Stone is now a guerrilla general of the forward battalion. If there is no accident, Shen Qian is the emperor, and his reward should not be small.

No matter how much the court officials grasp the economic lifeline, no one can rest assured.

Wei Minwu frowned and thought for a while, "Are you worried that the Shen family will not be able to tolerate us?" he asked.

Zhang Xing nodded, "If we only have one or two families, it will naturally be fine." Even if Zhangji's main business is not to buy and sell rice and grain, maybe it's fine, but ......"

Zhang Xing's words were not finished, but Wei Minwu quickly understood. Although the three of them are now listed separately, Zhangji is mainly engaged in rice and grain trading, and Yun's is a horse gang, and its subordinate commercial banks are diversified in business, Wei Ji is mainly rice and grain, and others are supplemented. But as long as anyone with a discerning eye knows that the three of them are united. In particular, Zhangji has developed very rapidly in recent years, and it can be regarded as the leader of the entire Jianghuai rice grain industry.

Although Anyang is prosperous, it is not rich in fish and rice, and its department stores are mostly from their respective places, and the rice grain is still from Jianghuai at most. In this way, the chapter is indeed too eye-catching.

If Shi Shi is not in the Shen family's army, they can only be regarded as a red-top businessman at most, and they have a good relationship with the royal family, and they may be able to mix with the imperial businessman in the future.

But after holding an important position in the army, and then becoming a big emperor businessman, this is clearly the rhythm of looking for death.

Wei Minwu also sighed, hung his head and asked, "Then what do you want to do?"

Zhang Xing said: "Zhangji Grain Store was originally built on the foundation of Zhao Ji, and now there are 72 shops in all sizes, all over Jianghuai, Heyuan, Anyang and other places. If you want to pay it, I'm afraid you won't be able to keep any of them. But there are more than that, there are 12 firms, and I think we should be able to stay. ”

Hand over the Zhangji grain store, don't say that Wei Minwu is reluctant, she is also unwilling. But even if you are unwilling and can't keep something, you still can't keep it.

Zhang Xing thought about it for a night yesterday, Zhang Ji Grain Bank can be handed over, but if the business bank wants to stay, at least the money and goods in it, she can transfer it to Wei Yun's two business houses in advance. As for the seventy-two grain stores, the shop surface cannot be kept - the things on the face will be known by people as soon as they check it. But not many people know how much is in it. If she had planned in advance, she could have converted most of the rice and grain into other money and goods in her hands. In this way, losses can be minimized.

Half of the staff of Zhangji Grain Bank comes from Zhao Ji's original team, these are also old guys in the rice and grain industry, and they have a very clear understanding of the doors.

The chapter is going to be handed over, and Zhao Zixing, the big shopkeeper of the chapter book, will definitely not follow the Shen family. Over the years, the two brothers Zhao Zi'an and Zhao Zixing have long understood the root cause of the original decline of the Zhao family.

Zhao Zixing didn't follow the Shen family, and most of the people on his hands wouldn't follow the Shen family.

In this way, even if Zhang Ji sent the rice and grain, most of the manpower and money were still in his own hands, and it would not be difficult to get up in the future.

Wei Minwu listened to Zhang Xing's plan, and his face looked much better.

"Let me discuss this matter with Mr. Zhao. He said.

Zhang Ji has plans to hand it over, so the Wei Yun family must also prepare, not only can not make people suspicious, but also get things done, which is not an easy thing.

"Then the big brother ...... over there" Wei Minwu thought of Wei Minwen who took the boat out again.

Wei Minwen led the boat to southern Fujian, originally planning to collect more grain there. Although grain prices in Jianghuai have dropped a lot after the Chinese New Year, they are still higher than in previous years. This year's water doesn't look small. They had planned that Wei Minwen's grain would come back, replace the grain left over from last year, give half of it away, and sell half of it through the shop.

But in this case, the original plan naturally failed.

"I'll talk about it when the big brother comes back. Zhang Xing replied.

If Wei Minwen had come back early, they would have been able to replace last year's grain stock with new grain as originally planned, hand over all the grain stored and mixed with new grain, and speed up the sale of the other part of the new grain left behind and exchange it for money.

But it was not a coincidence that Wei Minwu wanted to come back, the meaning of the Shen family had already been passed down, and they had no choice but to send them all out.

After discussing this matter, Wei Minwu went to Zhao Zixing. At noon, Zhao Zixing and Zhao Zi'an came together.

"Madam, in my opinion, I'd better go to sea. Zhao Zi'an said.

After Wei Minwu transferred Zhang Xing's meaning to Zhao Zixing and Zhao Zi'an, although these two people were also surprised and unwilling, they accepted it faster than Wei Minwu. They have a broken enmity with the Shen family, and from the first day they followed Zhang Xing, they knew that making rice and grain was only an expedient measure.

What's more, according to Zhang Xing's approach, even if the Shen family gets the Zhang Ji Grain Store, it is almost an empty shell, and it is still unknown whether they can do it. 10