Although Li Shifu sent a fleet to meet Lin Yu, but he himself was not in this fleet, the fleet soon arrived at Daiyu, and an official in his thirties on the port came to greet him personally, and when he was far away, Lin Yu saw that the man was wearing a civilian official costume, and knew that he was not Li Shifu. In addition to the special commissioners of the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Households, only the prefect can wear the official uniform of this level, and his clothes are not officials directly under the center, is it actually the prefect of Liuqiu? Also, his face is a little familiar. ”

got off the boat, and the previous sailor general introduced: "Young Master Lin, this is Lord Yu Yunwenyu, the prefect we are seeking." ”

When Yang Yingqi was in power, there were portraits of Danqing of major ministers in the prime minister's mansion, Lin Yu had helped Yang Yingqi sort out these portraits two years ago, Yu Yunwen was a rising star that Yang Yingqi valued very much, and occasionally mentioned that the evaluation was very high, so Lin Yu was also more attentive to his Danqing, at this time he was introduced to the official who said, and then looked closely at the young official in front of him, and felt that his eyebrows and facial features were consistent with the Danqing he had seen two years ago, but he had a beard, and his demeanor was more calm, and the twenty-something in the portrait, The image of a young scholar with a high spirits has changed a lot.

The internal faction of the Han Dynasty is complicated, and Lin Yu has only experienced a few changes, and at this time, he didn't dare to believe that this was Daiyu when he stepped on the land, and he didn't dare to trust all the people who came, until he saw Yu Yunwen, he was relieved, he knew that Yu Yunwen was the person personally promoted by Yang Yingqi, and he was the protégé of Prime Minister Qilin.

Yu Yunwen was also very happy to see Lin Yu, the two were ten years apart, they were the best of their respective age groups, Lin Yu was employed by the Hu Anguo faction, Yu Yunwen came to Liuqiu for many years, although Liuqiu belonged to the Han Dynasty administratively, but academically it gradually integrated into Jiangnan and Fujian, and Yu Yunwen was also affected by this and favored the southern faction. However, unlike Hu Anguo and Yang Shi, Lin Yu and Yu Yunwen were both people in the world for a long time in Liluchang, and the academic differences between the north and the south had little impact on their relationship.

It has been 20 years since the large-scale development of Liuqiu, and the economic, political and cultural development of the two major ports in the north and south has developed to a considerable scale, although it is far less than Tanggu and Bianliang in its heyday, but it is enough to compete with local metropolises such as Dengzhou and Taiyuan.

Lin Ling has been operating in Daliuqiu for many years, although the Lin family's business in Tanggu is larger, but because it is too close to the political center and is easily affected by the political tide, Lin Ling has planned to use Liuqiu as the rear of the Lin family for a long time, so that the Lin family can advance and retreat freely between Liuqiu and Tanggu.

Lin Yu came out of the military port wharf and two big shopkeepers who had seen him came to meet, several of these two big shopkeepers were called Lin Xian, and one was named Cai Shirong, both of whom were Lin Yu's elders. Lin Yu smiled: "Uncle Lin, Uncle Cai, haven't I come back with nothing?" ”

Lin Xian paused: "Now it's back!" But that's just a shot in the air! If it hadn't been for your uncle's letter, you wouldn't know whose hands it would have fallen to! ”

Lin Yu sighed and asked, "Is it uncle?" What else did he say? Do you know who is in ambush at sea? ”

Cai Shirong said: "Your uncle didn't say it in the letter to me, but most of his letters to Governor Yu and General Li said it. ”

Lin Yuxin said: "Although my uncle has been a big official in the northwest, how can he transfer Lord Yu and General Li now?" Well, yes, my uncle is probably just 'asking for help' rather than 'transferring'. Then he asked Yu Yunwen: "Lord Yu, do you know where the gang of bandits who want to kidnap me come from?" ”

Yu Yunwen just said: "I haven't investigated it yet, and when I find out, I will go to the Prime Minister's Mansion." ”

Lin Yu sighed, knowing that there was a secret in it that Yu Yunwen refused to tell him, so he didn't ask. That night, a banquet was held to entertain Yu Yunwen and other officials, as well as a general of a dry water division who had a share of the rescue of him, and while he was drinking, a high-ranking officer broke in and asked, "Lin Gongzi has come back safely?" When those sailor generals saw him, they hurriedly stood up and said in unison: "General Li! The leader of the generals stepped forward to report the results of the rescue operation.

Seeing this, Lin Yu said in his heart: "Could this be Li Shifu, who was transferred from the army system to the navy system?" ”

Guo heard Yu Yunwen smile and said: "Brother Li, thanks to your quick action, I heard that the situation was critical at that time, if it was a moment late, Lin Gongzi was afraid that he would be taken away." ”

The general smiled: "It's too late! It's that the people I sent are late, and when I come back from Zhoushan, I will take them back! ”

Lin Yuxin said: "This person is really Li Shifu, they all know who wants to kidnap me, but they don't say anything." When I looked at Li Shifu again, I saw that his face was peeled and changed by the sea breeze, and his mouth was also speaking in a Shaanxi accent with a Fujian accent, which was very different from the rumored young general in northern Shaanxi who had repeatedly performed miraculous feats in the north.

Li Shifu came over to look at Lin Yu and said with a smile: "Lin Gongzi looks like the Seventh General." ”

Lin Yu raised his glass to thank him, Li Shifu didn't say a word, the wine was dry, Lin Yu said: "This time, for Lin Yu's private affairs, he actually bothered the general to dispatch a sailor, and Lin Yu was really uneasy. ”

"What are these words?" Li Shifu: "If you fall into the hands of bandits, it will be detrimental to state affairs, I dispatched the sailors for the public, not private, you don't have to thank me." After drinking two more glasses, he took a group of generals to leave.

Lin Yu was willing to stay, and Li Shifu said: "Lin Gongzi, you don't know, the hinterland is shallow, and now it is stable, relying on the water master to block most of the intrusions. Now that the war has not ended, I, as a Beiliu water seeker, have to stay in the military port either at sea or at sea, and it is a bit of an exception to go into the city to drink your two glasses of wine. ”

Lin Yu didn't dare to stay any longer, and sent out of the door, and soon Yu Yunwen also got up to say goodbye, and said to Lin Yu when he left: "If it is not necessary recently, try not to go to Dainan." Lin Yu asked why, Yu Yunwen smiled: "Regarding this, several big shopkeepers of the Lin family should know better than me. ”

Lin Yu didn't ask anymore, and after he left, Lin Yu found a few important ministers in the family, and after making some routine inquiries, he said: "Lord Fang Cai asked me not to go to the south if I don't have to, but why?" ”

Cai Shirong, the big shopkeeper, said: "Young master, although our Lin family is rooted in Daliuqiu, its forces are mainly concentrated in the north, and the southern side is the Chen family's sphere of influence. Recently, the Chen family has been quite hostile to us, so it is better for Lord Yu to say this for the sake of being less in charge. ”

Lin Yuqi said: "The Chen family is in the south, and our family is in the north, I also know this. However, although we and the Chen family are not closely related, we have been working very closely for many years, and even if there are some conflicts in the business field, with the status of our two families, they will not rashly provoke. ”

Cai Shirong sighed: "The young master only knows one thing, but he doesn't know the other. That's right, the Chen family and we have cooperation, but ...... However, the two have been at odds recently, but it is also due to business dealings. ”

Lin Yu said: "Oh? What kind of business is it? ”

Lin Xian, another big shopkeeper, said: "Do you still remember the construction of the capital?" ”

Lin Yu said: "Naturally remember." The Chen family is the general contractor of Jiandu, but they don't have enough funds, so we lend them two or three percent of the funds. How? Are they going to be able to pay their debts? ”

Lin Xian said: "Almost." ”

Lin Yu frowned and said, "No, not to mention that they have to worry about their reputation!" Even if they tear their cheeks and don't have credibility, the property on Spice Merchant Road is still in our hands as collateral at the beginning! If they don't pay back the money, aren't they afraid of losing the foundation of this Nanyang business? ”

Cai Shirong sighed and said: "Young masters, in fact, the Chen family is not discredited, they also have difficulties." Speaking of which, it was all caused by this southern expedition! It is said that in order to cope with the southern expedition, the household department suspended the money that was supposed to be allocated to the Chen family every year, although the household department promised to add 10% interest after three years - but what was the use of that? The money and silver in the world are linked to a chain, especially when the business is bigger, as long as the money and silver cannot be connected, it may go bankrupt! The money that should have arrived last year and this year was suddenly told that it would not be returned until three years later, and the silver of these two years was broken! Since the suspension of repayment of the money by the Ministry of Households, the Chen family has borrowed money from east to west in order to survive, but business matters have always been the icing on the cake when the wind is favorable, and the good feeling that falls into the well when the wind is headwind, and the Great War between the North and the South, all businesses from Shaanxi to Shandong have been affected, and the money and silver of the family are nervous. Therefore, the Chen family not only did not borrow much money, but even some creditors who had not yet matured came to the door. ”

Lin Yuxin said: "In this way, it is the imperial court that has broken its trust first!" Although the Chen family bore the brunt of this matter, it was the Han court that suffered in the end! Alas, if Daddy is the prime minister, such a thing is never allowed! Shen said: "The Chen and Lin families have been cooperating for a long time, since they have difficulties, it is better to try to forgive them." ”

"Grace?" Cai Shirong smiled bitterly: "You are less in charge, you are light!" Such a large sum of money, we also had to get it together! If the Chen family doesn't repay the money that should be repaid this year, our silver will have to be broken! At the beginning, the Chen family mortgaged the property on the Nanyang Spice Trade Road in order to make huge profits, and gave it to us between Ma Yi and Liuqiu, and Ma Yi gave it to another big creditor in the south. Earlier there was news that the other big creditor was ready to take over the spice road south of Mayi, so we can't help but hurry! Do you wait until the Chen family scum is left before you do it? ”

Lin Yu said: "It is precisely because we are pressing, so there is a gap between the two families, Lord Yu just persuaded me not to go to the south, is this also the reason?" ”

The two big shopkeepers said in unison: "Exactly! ”

Lin Yu frowned and said, "But it's not a way to do this." Our family is not familiar with the spice business, and the value of this business route will shrink when it comes to us. The Chen family will certainly decline without this spice business, but it is not necessarily a good thing for us to spread the stall too wide. In the end, I'm afraid that both sides will lose. ”

"Not really." Lin Xian said: "Actually, we don't have to manage it ourselves, we just need to sell it." The spices of the South Seas, I don't know how many people in the world are staring at it, the Chen family is relying on the power of the four generals to forcibly monopolize seventy or eighty percent of the business, if it weren't for the four generals, with the Chen family's domineering business methods, I am afraid that it will not be able to keep the position of the largest family in the spice business for a long time, let alone occupy seventy or eighty percent of the share. Therefore, if we sell this spice business, the Chen family will certainly decline, but the spice business will probably develop better. Moreover, the new merchants got this business from us, and they will inevitably support our money bank in the future, so this matter is not only harmful, but also beneficial to our family. ”

Lin Yu still shook his head and said, "That's what I said, but don't forget that there is a fourth uncle behind the Chen family!" If you offend him, I'm afraid our family won't have a good life. ”

Lin Xian said: "Don't be in charge, we have considered it in terms of the four generals, but unless he comes up with a method that we can accept, we can't make the family sit in trouble for fear of offending him!" Several of our big shopkeepers have discussed this matter, and even consulted your uncle, and he has no objection. Also, judging from the various arrangements before the death of the head of the family, she most likely supports this trend. ”

Lin Yu was secretly shocked when he heard this, and suddenly remembered his mother's instructions before she died, and said in her heart: "My mother said that I should not interfere too much in the family's affairs in three or two years, could it be that she had foreseen this matter?" Or does she have some tacit understanding with some people in this matter? After thinking about it, I felt that I hadn't been able to figure out the ins and outs of the whole thing for a while, and even the parties involved in the game hadn't figured it out.

When the last gust of north wind blew to Daiyu, a letter came from the north, but it was the head of the Chen family who invited Lin Yu to go north to discuss major matters. Chen Fengshan has become invincible since he climbed up to Ouyang Shi, and he didn't even pay attention to Lin Ling when he was alive, and only regarded her as a junior between words, as for Lin Yu in his eyes, he was just a little kid who had not dried up. Therefore, after Lin Yu received Chen Fengshan's letter, he knew that this old man was probably crazy this time, otherwise he would not have been so condescending and invited himself to go north to "discuss big things". The two big shopkeepers persuaded Lin Yu to ignore him, but Lin Yu finally decided to go north, but his main purpose of going north was not to go to Chen Fengshan's appointment, but for another person.

"My mother said on her deathbed that he should be about to make a move. Now that so much time has passed, has he already made a move? Lin Yu felt that many things he had encountered in the past year or so were strange, and many people and things that were unrelated to reason now seemed to be involved by some inexplicable and unclear relationships, Lin Yu felt that the person in the center of the whirlpool must be facing a lot of pressure at the moment, and he wanted to help him share something by that person's side, but he remembered his promise to his mother: "I promised my mother not to enter Beijing again before the situation stabilized, but my mother also said that I could stay in Tanggu." ”

So when the monsoon was blowing from south to north, Lin Yu drove the boat north into Tanggu. Now that the war between the Han and Song dynasties has entered a stalemate, the edge of the Han army is becoming more and more dull, and the pressure on the merchants of the two countries has reached the brink of unbearable. When Lin Yu entered Tanggu, the city was obviously a little more tired than when he left. However, Lin Yu did not see Chen Fengshan here, because Old Man Chen was in Gyeonggi at the moment, although he wrote to invite Lin Yu to go north, but when Lin Yu really came, he refused to completely put down his body, but ran to the capital and asked Lin Yu to meet him in the capital.

"Hey! This old man Chen! When are you still putting up a shelf! I don't want to think about who is asking for whom now! ”

First, Lin Yu felt that there was no need to show weakness to Chen Fengshan at this time, and secondly, he also promised Lin Ling that he would "not cross Tanggu in the north" before the world was settled.

Di Yu, the former general speaker of the National Assembly of the Han and Yuan Dynasty, died.

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