Hearing that Liu Yongan wanted to do a grain business, Liu Yongsheng was very happy, "If the fourth brother follows the ship, then we can go to Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Yangzhou, and it is best to bring your two entourages with you, and you have to prepare guys." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info "If the operation is done properly, go directly along the canal into Beijing, run down, and transport anything is enough for a group of people to eat.

Liu Yongan: "I'm leaving home, and your sister-in-law can't make it a person who doesn't have a, so I can only bring one." "He brought blank space, in fact, double happiness is more suitable, but unfortunately he has a flexible brain on the Jingli side, knows how to be flexible in case of trouble, and has kung fu, this person must stay by Wang Jing's side, otherwise he can't leave home with peace of mind.

"We don't want to think about Sichuan for the time being, we need horses to go there. But we have more than a dozen cargo ships, although they can't go to sea, but it's not a problem to run and ship. Before the fourth uncle was the prefect of Haozhou, I used his fame to be unimpeded all the way in our family, but at most I had been to Huai'an at that time. Since the fourth uncle had an accident with you, the gang has stopped buying it, and I have been robbed of a thousand catties of millet by them before. If the fourth brother comes out, it is estimated that there will be a play, and maybe we can get revenge on the last time. Liu Yongsheng said, "Let's start from Lintongguan Wharf and go directly to Yangzhou after Hongze Lake." ”

Liu Yongan saw his calculating face, and said with a smile: "Listen to you, I haven't been anywhere else except for Dadu." "Liu Yongsheng is not as good as him in terms of reading, and Liu Yongsheng is definitely better than him in business. In his opinion, it is better to know people and make good use of them than to pretend to understand them. Wang Jing had already told him, "Lao Qi is good, I only invested a few thousand taels of silver at the beginning, and now the scale has been dozens of times larger, and half of the kids in our area who don't like to study are following him."

Liu Yongan was very satisfied when he saw Liu Yongsheng's eager appearance.

But if you go to Yangzhou by water, it will definitely take more than two months to go back and forth, Liu Yongan is a little worried about Wang Jing, and he can't help but hesitate.

Liu Yongsheng looked at him like that, and he was very anxious: "It's just a drought here in most cities, but there is a locust plague in our house, and many people are starving to death." ”

"The third brother's errand is gone?" Liu Yongan asked Liu Yonghui.

"It's gone, as soon as the fourth uncle enters, the errands of the third, sixth, and fifth brothers are gone." Liu Yongsheng sighed.

"The third brother wants to break into the Cao Gang, and he is afraid that offending them will be detrimental to the fourth uncle, so he doesn't dare to move, and we don't dare to bother the fourth uncle. After the archway fell, the fourth uncle said in the clan, let's keep a low profile. ”

Liu Chengfang is now idle at home, and he is born with a serious image, and his nephews dare not enter the door of the fourth room at all. Besides, he is troubled by people everywhere, and he can't keep a low profile.

The newly appointed prefect surnamed Wu, the younger brother of Wu Dudu, has always believed that his brother's death is related to Liu Yongan, and began to retaliate against the Liu family.

Although there are also officials from the Liu family in the capital, the official position is not high in general, and the most outstanding of the new generation is Liu Yongan. Even if he didn't take the initiative to find Liu Yongsheng this time, Liu Yongsheng would come to him to discuss this matter.

People are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry.

It's easy to say anything else, but not having food is a big problem.

"Let's go back now, ride a horse and walk on a dry road, and when the time comes, just call the third brother, and then call a few more who can fight." Liu Yongan said.

Although they have been in Dadu for so long, the real foundation of the Liu family is still in Haozhou.

If you want to do it, you have to do it to the best of your ability. It is also an advantage to have many brothers, so Liu Yongan is unwilling to be a lonely hero and travel alone for thousands of miles. Brothers are together, drink wine in big bowls, eat meat, and fight enemies together to be happy.

Because he came back quietly, Liu Yongan didn't even enter the door, only glanced in the direction of Liu Zhangwan from a distance, and asked people to take him to the dock in Lintong Pass, and Liu Yongsheng brought Liu Yonghui and others over after a while.

"Many families can't open the pot now, the third brother and the fourth brother came out and took us to sell grain, and those who went to eat grain at home were taken according to the purchase price, and the wages were calculated separately, and if there was a surplus, there would be dividends. If you are willing to go, you can go directly to the boat, and if you are not willing to go, you can go home directly. ”

Many people can't open the pot at home, but there is a large pot of soy sauce beef and several jars of Fenjiu in the cabin. The few people who came after them swallowed hard.

"If it weren't for the fourth uncle/uncle's pressure, we would have gone to the Cao Gang to make trouble, and now with the third brother and the fourth brother, even if I am driven away, I won't leave." A thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy said.

Liu Yongan glanced at him, "This is Lao Qi's brother, speak in a tone." ”

Liu Yongsheng hurriedly said: "The fourth brother still has eyesight, it is my third brother, he said that he wanted to see the world with his brothers, and he had no other skills, but he could stay in the water without breath for half an hour, if the fourth brother felt that he could make do with it, I would leave him ......"

Liu Yongan said: "Then you still don't come in and sit?" ”

Everyone sat down in order of eldest and youngest, and when the wine jar was empty, the lights were faintly visible nearby.

Liu Yongsheng said: "They don't stop empty ships, only those that carry goods." ”

Liu Yongan: "Then don't worry about it, go to sleep, go directly to learn Huai'an, and see the situation." ”

In the Zhou Dynasty, grain was not allowed to be traded in the market without permission, and if it was to be sold, it could only be sold to a specialized rice store, which then sold it out. In this way, the grain is controlled in the hands of a small number of people, and the price is simply sky-high in a disaster year.

However, Huai'an has the governor of Caoyun and the governor of Jiangnan River, and Liu Yongan only hopes that these people still have some conscience and will not raise the price too high.

When I asked the price, I was shocked, a liter of rice costs two taels of silver, and each person can only buy one liter at a time.

"Last year's grain price was only 100 wen a liter, the year before was only 50, and the year before was only 15. That's going up too fast, isn't it? Liu Yonghui said.

The grain seller straightened his stomach, crossed his hands on his waist and said: "If you don't buy it, get out of the way, don't stop the people behind." ”

Liu Yongan: "Come on a liter." ”

Seeing him buy it, the people behind him took out silver tickets one after another, and those who didn't bring silver tickets, Liu Yongsheng sent them one by one.

But there were only six of them, plus the boatmen behind them, a total of thirty people, and one liter of rice per family, they couldn't manage it for a day at all.

Liu Yongan didn't say a word, gave him a silver ticket, and pointed to the children watching the excitement nearby.

Liu Yongsheng scattered the money and said to the child: "Help buy it once and give ten cents." ”

The children are probably used to doing this, so they happily agreed.

After the group of children finished buying, they received the reward money, and brought another group of children over, but they bought more than a dozen bags of rice in half a day.

Liu Yonghui said: "These rice are enough for a family to share a small half bag, which can support us until we go back, why don't Lao Qi take the boat to Yangzhou first, we will send the grain back first, and then go to Yangzhou to find you." ”

Liu Yongsheng: "Then brothers, be careful. ”

Liu Yonghui said: "If you go, I promise to go back no less than one rice." ”

Liu Yongsheng reluctantly left.

Liu Yonghui said to the rest of the people: "This ship's grain is not enough for two thousand taels of silver, but our face, when something happens, you just need to act according to the eyes of the fourth child." This time, we will transport 800 catties, and next time we will be able to transport 8,000 catties. ”

Everyone talked and laughed all the way, and time passed easily.

Unconsciously arrived at the shallow place of the beach, and the reeds were overgrown on both sides, Liu Yongan said: "Everyone cheered up, and they have already walked halfway." When something happens, you just hold the boat and don't let anyone come up. ”

Before he finished speaking, countless torches were already lit up all around, "Those who know each other should keep half of the food, otherwise, they will bear the consequences." As they spoke, numerous ships had surrounded them.

Liu Yongan said: "What if I give half and you rob the other half?" ”

The man said: "Who doesn't know that our Ma Ye has always been the same, and he can rely on you for this little thing?" It's really verbose like a. ”

Liu Yongan said: "Master Ma? Big Brother Ma Xiangrong? The person he respects the most in his life is him, if Ma Ye personally agrees, my boat of food will be regarded as worshipping the mountain, and all will be given to the brothers. ”

He was dressed in brocade clothes, shining silver in the moonlight, giving the impression that he was a rich man who did not know the sufferings of the world, and the man couldn't help but look over like a short and fat man next to him.

Although there is not much food, looking at the water marks that have been pressed, it is estimated that it is enough for dozens of people to eat until autumn, and it will be the same next time.

The man glanced at Liu Yonghui, "Sneered, as long as there are people from the Liu family, this boat will be held by Lao Tzu!" All the people cut me down. ”

Before he finished speaking, Liu Yongan had already jumped up, jumped on the other party's boat, grabbed the short and fat man's neck, Liu Yonghui drew a scoop with a gourd, restrained the person who spoke, and the brothers of the Liu family all drew their big knives.

"Brother Ma is so hard to speak, my brother has to be sorry." As he spoke, he only heard a "click", and he had already turned his face behind his back and threw his head into the water. (To be continued.) )