The Liu family is known as Liu Bancheng, not only that half of the wealth in Shanshui County belongs to the Liu family, but also that the most profitable wharf in Shanshui County and half of the prosperous shops in the city are in the hands of the Liu family.

The rise of Shanshui County originated from the North-South Grand Canal, and the wharf is naturally the most prosperous place in Shanshui County.

The North-South Grand Canal connects the north and the south, and as the absolute first important transportation route of the Great Shang Dynasty, the North-South Grand Canal naturally has to be firmly in the hands of those in power.

The North-South Grand Canal is more than 2,000 kilometers long, originally because it was too remote, except for the occasional small mountain village, there was no decent town, and after the canal was opened, military towns emerged one after another.

The military town was a town directly under the emperor's jurisdiction set up at a key location on the canal. A military town is equivalent to a small military camp, a concentration camp for martial artists.

In order to ensure the 'purity' of these military towns to the greatest extent and prevent the officials in the military towns from being bribed, the Great Shang Dynasty decreed that the military towns should only collect the road taxes that needed to be paid and inspect the goods carried by the ships, and that no ships or private persons should stay in the military towns without reason.

The North-South Grand Canal has to pass through a long mountainous area all the way in the area at the junction of the north and south, and the two banks are mostly barren mountains and mountains, and the large ports that can stay are limited.

Shanshui County's position on the North-South Grand Canal is not good, and then a person who goes north for an hour is a husband and a man, and the Zhushan Military Town is not opened, and the Zhushan Military Town then sails north for less than three hours.

As a backing mountain city at the junction of the northern plains and mountains of the North-South Grand Canal, it was originally a small county town with big mountains and a big river rolling all year round, and has developed from a small poor county to the second largest city in addition to Qingchuan City, the capital of Qingzhou Prefecture, by virtue of its position at the northern gateway of the North-South Grand Canal.

It is too close to the big city of the backing mountain, and most of the passenger ships will sail to the backing city to rest and recuperate, and the bulk of the goods are mostly unloaded in the backing city and distributed to various places. In this way, the passenger ships that can stay in Shanshui County are far inferior to the mountain cities.

Shanshui County has been able to develop the most thanks to the Zhushan Military Town, which prohibits boats from passing Guò every sunset. The Zhushan Military Town did not allow ships to stop at will, and the intercepted ships could only reluctantly spend the night in Shanshui County. Of course, those who were intercepted were ordinary passenger ships, and the real powerful families naturally had a way to get through Guò Zhushan Military Town.

However, month after year, relying on these overnight passenger boats, Shanshui County has also become an inconspicuous millet grain on the ribbon of the North-South Grand Canal.

The Liu family only moved to Shanshui County at the beginning of the canal's navigation, and the prescient old lady of the Liu family raised most of the family wealth to build a wharf for ships to stay with the Shanshui County government, which was still poor at that time, and only the threshold was left, and the Liu family also took advantage of the situation to get the ownership of most of the shops in the wharf.

Mrs. Liu's father-in-law, that is, Second Master Liu's father, is incompetent. If you don't read well, you can lose money in business. In the more than ten years that Mr. Liu was in charge of the family, most of the shops owned by the Liu family were taken away. It wasn't until Second Master Liu took over that the Liu family became the real 'Liu Bancheng' again.

Shanshui County was originally a grain of millet, and it was nothing for the Liu family to dominate this unimportant county.

But now it's different!

Once the mountain waterway is completed, the millet grain in Shanshui County will become a peerless pearl.

Good things are that everyone wants to come up and touch them.

Although the Liu family is a real local tyrant, but the focus of the local tyrant is 'soil', there is no one in the court, although the family has the ability, but it is hundreds of miles away, and the family of the five suits is early, and the second master of Liu has no confidence to hold the big fat meat of Shanshui County.

To be precise, Second Master Liu didn't have the courage to defend it.

As a Shanshui County that communicates the north and south plus the plains in the mountains, Liu Erye can be sure that Shanshui County will definitely be the back garden of the emperor in the future, and the possibility of the emperor letting it go is very small for the strange head of the Liu family.

Liu Erye didn't know if the emperor would drive away himself, the head of the garden, or even the entire Shanshui County, and turn Shanshui County into a military town and make himself the mayor.

Even if the emperor doesn't want to be the head of the garden, those powerful families will rush to get a piece of the pie.

Anyway, no matter what, the Liu family, a local tyrant who now controls a small half of the land in Shanshui County, has a very tortuous road ahead.

Since the construction of the mountain waterway for more than a year, Liu Erye has not had a good night's sleep, from time to time some powerful families come to talk, want to rent a few shops to do business, the family even wants to come over and intervene, Liu Erye originally wanted to sell most of the land for self-protection, distressed to distressed, at least it will not be over for no reason.

When Master Xile asked his family to propose marriage to his newly accepted apprentice, Master Liu Er ran directly to his father's tablet and kowtowed a few times, holding the tablet and calling his useless father finally did a good thing.

The Liu family has such a bad relationship with Master Xile.

This relationship comes from Second Master Liu's dead father, Old Lady Liu.

It is said that more than 20 years ago, there was a major flood in Qingzhou, and hundreds of people were displaced. That year, not only did Du Xiaoxi's Niangjiang flee to Shanshui County, but Master Xile, who had just been reborn to starve to death, also fled to Shanshui County with the displaced people.

Shanshui County, which is close to the mountains and rivers, was limited by the drought, and the old man Liu, who was not productive and kind-hearted, gave porridge directly at the door of his house for two months, until his own food was not enough to eat.

Although Master Xile is mixed with the homeless people, he will give more to the monks, especially the little monks who are still children, every time they receive food, the old women who send them will give more.

The most important thing is that the working environment is good, there are no fake monks in the same industry, and all the true monks who are dedicated to the Buddha Master Xile is simply indescribable for the kindness of Old Man Liu's life, and immediately said that the little monk will repay the donor's family.

After more than ten years, Master Xile traveled all over the world to seek Buddha, and during this period, he also stayed in Shanshui County several times and talked with Mr. Liu, a kind and cheerful old man, and the two can be called New Year's friends. However, since the death of Old Man Liu, Master Xile has not been to Liu's house again. After that, Master Xile's reputation gradually rose, and Liu Erye didn't think of taking the initiative to ask for a meeting.

The construction of the mountain waterway began, the master of joy lived in the Shanshui Temple, Mrs. Liu suddenly found that the down-and-out little monk who had come to her house many times was developed, so she ran to the Shanshui Temple to see the master of joy, and said a big call, the central idea was one, "I heard that the monk you can be effective, find a good daughter-in-law for my small soil." ’

Regarding Mrs. Liu's request, Master Xile nodded with a smile and said: This can be had!

So, when Master Xile found out about Du Xiaoxi, he happily accepted the apprentice, and by the way, he introduced the newly baked apprentice to Mrs. Liu as his granddaughter-in-law.