- The current royal family is surnamed Wang, this monarch has experienced the war of the previous dynasty, and has seen the starvation on the roadside in the famine, and after he came to power, the most important thing was the production of food. Hunger is not full, the people's hearts are uneasy, and the troubled times that have just stabilized are easy to start war again. However, changing the inherent industrial pattern in the past, cultivating fields and planting grain in large areas will inevitably reduce the share of cotton fields, and then squeeze the price of cotton weaving materials.

However, after the implementation of the new policy proposed by the new dynasty, the price of grain in the market did not decrease because of the increase in production, and the retail sales of cotton and silk did not increase because of the decrease in crop production in the first few years of crop adaptation. In the first few years of the new deal, the price of these two materials, which are closely related to cultivated land, only fluctuated slightly, but in recent years, the price has dropped together.

Because the new planting technology of mulberry cotton fields has matured and promoted, the crop yield of the same size of arable land has nearly doubled and the reserves are sufficient, and the price of these materials will naturally fall. People's clothes can cover the body for warmth, food can fill the stomach, work energetically, and the heart is also at ease. Only by building a solid foundation for people's livelihood can we have the spare energy to plan other affairs.

In recent days, Shi Yi took the opportunity to help Ruan Luo clean up his accounts, and intermittently read the written records in several account books, and roughly learned that when the imperial court had just implemented the new policy of mulberry and cotton Hetian, in order to stabilize the market price, he signed an agreement with the core figures of major commercial banks to make up for losses. To sum up, it is to use the profits from the increase in grain production to supplement the losses caused by the contraction of mulberry fields.

The first point of this agreement was in Kyoto, and it was succeeded later because of the Kyoto merchant system cultivated by the imperial court. At that time, it was all about those businessmen who started in Kyoto, and they were fighting against market price fluctuations with almost all their belongings. For this reason, the imperial court also issued a huge amount of hollow silver bills, which were not gradually paid off until recent years.

Merchants live on mutual benefit, and no matter how much the imperial court advocates them to make sacrifices to help the country prosper, it is impossible to really let them bleed and cut their flesh to do loss-making business every day, at most, let them temporarily "lend" the profits. But the promise made by the emperor with the weight of a country. and they shall be honoured, and the debts borrowed shall be repaid.

Anyway, though. These Beijing businessmen are credited with the implementation of the New Deal. Although the borrowed money has been repaid, don't forget the kindness that others were willing to borrow at the beginning.

You must know that although the change of dynasty of the Wang family has been a major event, but in this era of great emphasis on inheritance, strictly speaking, the Wang family belongs to the rebel usurpation, in the early years of the Zhao Kingdom, there are still many people who surrender on the surface, but they are suspicious in their hearts. In that environment, the emperor of the Wang family wanted to implement a new policy of his own design. A few merchants who had started in Kyoto made a verbal promise to borrow large profits temporarily, except for some merchants who had said they had withdrawn, but those who chose to stay in the end were willing to lend more than silver to the emperor. And there's a lot of trust.

So now although the emperor has paid off all the borrowed silver, he has not completely forgotten the kindness of these merchants back then. Nowadays, this piece of war-torn and clean country has regained its vitality, and its national strength has gradually become stronger. However, the emperor is accustomed to sticking to power. It also plays a role here. Those old people back then have now been tied up by the emperor with a chain of interests, which can be regarded as both glory and loss.

But Nguyen Luo seems to be the only exception.

Based on Ruan Luo's age, when the emperor verbally promised to borrow from several Beijing merchants, Ruan Luo was still studying at the Xiaoliangguo Business School in the northwest corner of Zhao Kingdom. But Ruan Luo is not completely unrelated to the Beijing business system. Now he inherited the estate of his late uncle, who was actually one of the people who lent the emperor the silver. However, despite this connection, Ruan Luo is not a member of the Beijing merchant system, but the imperial court has given various special preferential treatment to the Beijing merchant group. Ruan Luo actually didn't leave any behind.

In the past few days, Shi Yi has helped Ruan Luo clean up his accounts, involving some old account books, among which Shi Yi is most impressed by the purchase price of grain. It turned out that the Jingzheng Grain Store under Ruan Luo's name ranked third in terms of grain storage in Kyoto, which was comparable to a small granary store, and actually had two purchase channels. In addition to the purchase channel that conforms to the law of market prices, the purchase price of grains and grains in the other channel fluctuates from time to time, but generally the price is extremely low.

This can be regarded as a special benefit under the intervention of money.

It's just that Shi Yi didn't have enough time to have the opportunity to look through all the accounts of Ruan Luo's shop, so he still had a bit of a conservative idea in his mind. Perhaps the extremely low purchase channel is indeed a preferential treatment given by the emperor, but it cannot be ruled out that for this preferential treatment, Ruan Luo must also give some kind of feedback upward.

Although Shi Yi didn't know what the specific nature of the cooperative relationship between Ruan Luo and the emperor was that was different from that between merchants inside and outside Beijing, but seeing the big shopkeeper of the rice shop and the cloth village, and watching Ruan Luo's attitude towards it, it was not difficult to guess that it would probably have something to do with the royal family, right?

The three of them were only a few steps behind Ruan Luo, and when they entered the living room, they saw that among the four people who had been seated in the hall, the eyes of the two shopkeepers and butlers were cast together. Ruan Luo sat opposite them, his eyes slightly lowered, and he didn't interrupt what he was thinking about because of the person who came in from outside the door.

The butler and the other two big shopkeepers were already familiar with Mo Ye. When Mo Ye first arrived at the Song Mansion, he often followed Ruan Luo around as a scholar. Later, because of the obvious growth and changes in her body, Mo Ye restored her women's clothes, and everyone was a little surprised by this, but they were all polite, because Ruan Luo had a friendship with her.

As for Ye Nuonuo, more than a month ago, the scene in Dongfeng Tower was not enough for her to announce to the whole of Kyoto that she was Ruan Luoding's fiancée? The three middle-aged men in the house were all working in the shop under Ruan Luo's name, so how could they not know each other.

But in the face of Shi Yi, who walked in with the two daughters, the expressions on the faces of the three of them seemed a little detached. The only time they have crossed paths with each other is the last few days of accounting in this living room, and the two shopkeepers are very busy people, and every time they come, they are in a hurry, like passers-by. Mo said that they were not familiar with Shi Yi, and just now, Shi Yi himself had not been able to remember their faces.

Seeing the three people who walked in later, the three middle-aged men in the hall stood up and waved their hands to say a few words. Although he had heard that the owner had hired a deputy a few days ago, today was the first time that the butler had seen the main master, although he didn't ask much, but when his gaze stayed on Shi Yi's face for a few more moments, there were some slight waves in his eyes. Vaguely already explaining something.

Different from the calm temperament of the butler, the other two big shopkeepers are more straightforward. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they are still busy with chores and have a tight spare time. As soon as they met and said hello, the two big shopkeepers had the intention of saying goodbye, but pay close attention to what they said. Some faintly pointed to Shi Yi.

These three seniors in the business world who helped Ruan Luo take care of the industry and had very high qualifications still had a certain degree of caution against Shi Yi, a person who was halfway involved. However, they will have this kind of distinguishing attitude, and if you think about it, it is actually common sense.

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"The snake king's gall or good medicine is left to you."

As soon as he opened his mouth to speak, the man in white endured the churning sensation in his throat for a long time, and suddenly it was like a levee bursting, and a large mouthful of blood rushed out of his throat. The figure also staggered to its feet. He didn't have Mo Ye's special physique, and even if he carried emergency medicine with him, he wouldn't be able to last long.

Coughing twice, he struggled to adjust the rhythm of his breathing, and the man in white no longer hesitated. There was a roar at the high rock he had stood on, and soon a horse came out of it. He mounted his horse, carried the reins and drove the horse to the corpse of the insect and snake woman, and then took out a few fire folds from his bosom and threw them down, and after waiting for a while, he took out a handful of particles and sprinkled them.

As soon as the particles touched the open flame, there was a slight explosion sound. The sparks splashed everywhere, and then the fire instantly rose, devouring the body of the insect snake girl.

When the horses saw the raging fire, they shook their heads and neighed, and took a few steps backwards. The man in white on horseback also tilted his head, and took one last look at the three people lying still on the shallow grass. Then he swung his sword and slapped it on the horse's buttocks, and rushed down the mountain.

The mountain wind is common, the mountain grass is deep and dry, and when the man in white gallops down the mountain, thick smoke is already billowing from the mountainside. It won't be long before there will be a sea of fire.

However, the man in white did not have time to look back to see if the fireworks would cause a disaster, in fact, his act of setting the fire was considered a violation of the norm, he could have not done it, and he even delayed the treatment of his own poison for this matter.

After driving his horse down a rugged path covered with weeds for some distance, he finally saw the carriage hidden behind a tall bush. Lifting the reins and approaching the horse, he almost fell directly from the horse as he dismounted, but only stumbled on his knees, and he immediately used the narrow sword in his hand as a crutch to stand up again and walk briskly towards the carriage.

If he fell, he was afraid that he would not be able to stand up again.

The swarthy face sat idly on the wheel, and the young coachman, who seemed to be sleeping, was dressed a little shabby and sloppy, but it was in line with his weathered status. But when he heard the sound of grass trampling in one direction around him, his half-closed eyes suddenly opened, and a sharp edge slid through his eyes.

The sloppy coachman soon saw the man in white approaching with a sword in his hand, and the sharpness in his eyes was quickly replaced by a hint of joy. However, when he saw the bloodshot lips of the man in white and a pool of undried blood on his chest, the joy in his eyes was suddenly covered with surprise.

"Are you badly hurt?" The sloppy coachman, who was only slightly stunned, walked quickly and approached, seeing that the man in white seemed to be a little unable to walk at this time, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to support him, but was unexpectedly stopped by his elbow.

"Don't touch it, it's poisonous."

The man in white had already condensed his words as much as possible, and the blood in his chest was churning so badly that he was afraid that he would rush out of his throat at any time, so it was really not appropriate to speak more. But even though he only said four words, he couldn't help but cover his mouth and cough.

As soon as he raised his hand, revealing the back of his hand, the sloppy coachman could see it clearly, stared at the blue and black circle on the back of his hand, and said in surprise: "Snake venom? Who was the guy you fought on the mountain? ”

The man in white leaned over and approached the car door, mustering up the last strength in his body and stepping in. After a heavy breath for a moment, he did not directly answer the sloppy coachman's question, but only said, "Uncle Swordbreaker, I only have ...... Half...... Hour ......"

Later in the day, his voice began to be choppy, and some words were already difficult to form.

"Got it!" The sloppy coachman had also jumped into the car at this time, and although he knew that the man in the car should not talk much at this time, before rushing to the car, he still tilted his head and asked, "What snake, do you recognize it?" ”

"Green worm snake, yellow spotted head, black snake king." As soon as the words fell, the man in white sitting crookedly in the carriage coughed up a mouthful of blood, and the blood was no longer bright red. And there are also some dark spots.

The sloppy coachman frowned at this, but of course, he could hear the nine words clearly, and soon came to a conclusion in his mind. immediately advised: "I'll take you to find someone surnamed Xiao, it won't take half an hour to arrive, but during this period, you must stay awake and hold on!" ”

The person in the car frowned slightly, did not speak, just nodded.

The sloppy coachman said no more, shook off his whip, drove his horse wildly, and walked away.

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A small town in northern Xinjiang.

When the female spy sent by Lin Shan to house arrest was determined to die and hunger strike until the fourth day, there was no need to ask Lin Shan for orders. Du and Wu, who had been dealing with the female spy for nearly two years, already knew what to do, and immediately set off to find Liao Shi.

As Lin Shan said, no matter where Liao Shi hid, he couldn't get away from the tracking of these two people. In addition to the fact that Liao Shi's own hiding location is not too far from the town, but also because Du and Wu are both experienced border army scouts. Searching and tracing is what they do best.

However, after they left two days ago, they never returned, and the other two guards who stayed in the guard room thought that they were still searching, but no one knew that these two people had already found Liao Shi, and then they were put down by this rickety old man who was concentrating on dealing with various medicines, and lay on a hard bed in the middle of the house and collapsed for two days.

Three years ago. Liao Shi followed Lin Shan to the Northland, and halfway through he went back to his long-dusty pharmacy to get medicine, but he met Yan Xingzhi and was entangled without any suspense, so he came to the Northland with him.

At that time, Liao Shi was often thinking about how the old man Yan Guang was suddenly so relieved. Putting his only grandchild out of the house? And because of the tight time at that time, Liao Shi was in a hurry to return to save Lin Shan, so he didn't deal much with Yan Xing. Yan Guang's accumulated prestige, whether in his hometown or in the court, was extremely high, and the location where Lin Shan recuperated in seclusion should have been kept extremely secret. But seeing that the outsider who was brought by Liao Shi halfway was Yan Guang's only grandson, he nodded.

After staying in the north for more than a year, seeing that the main task of this trip was about to be completed, Lin Shan's injuries were generally fine, and Liao Shi was ready to leave, but at this moment, he suddenly discovered Yan Xingzhi's heresy, and after careful observation and diagnosis, he was extremely frightened and finally understood the reason why Yan Guang let his grandson Yan Xingzhi leave home back then.

The Yan family's family disease with a strange cause caused the death of the Yan family's grandson a few years ago, and finally did not let go of the Yan family's only seedling now.

For this result, Liao Shi only felt extremely headache.

Liao Shi felt that Yan Guang had dug another pit to bury him, and if he had known about this problem in advance three years ago, he would definitely not agree to bring Yan Xing to the Northland. But it's too late to say anything now, if Yan Xingzhi can't be treated, Liao Shi doesn't know if Yan Guang will spend money to hire killers all over the world to kill him in the future.

But didn't Yan Guang know that he was not sure that he could cure this strange disease? Indeed, more than 20 years ago, he and Yan Guang tried to cooperate on this disease for half a year, and it was also during that half a year that Yan Guang formed a deep friendship with him. But...... He is not sure that this disease will be cured, but he is not sure. Even if in the past 20 years, his medicine refining techniques have indeed improved a lot, it does not mean that he has found a way to treat this strange disease.

When Du and Wu found Liao Shi, it happened that Yan Xingzhi had symptoms of high fever again, Liao Shi gave him a pulse, while thinking about the problem that he was extremely upset about, and heard the familiar footsteps outside the house, he was annoyed when he just opened the door, and directly sprinkled the medicine out.

Two days have passed, Du and Wu are still paralyzed in bed, Yan Xingzhi's fever symptoms have finally subsided slightly, and when he woke up in a daze, he saw Liao Shi sitting at the table in the corner of the room, seemingly in a daze, and seven small porcelain vases were placed on the table.

Yan Xingzhi didn't know if Liao Shi was thinking about something, so he didn't make a sound to disturb him. The room was so quiet for a long time, and Liao Shi suddenly let out a long sigh. Seeing this scene, Yan Xingzhi hesitated and asked, "Pharmacist, are these bottles ...... Is it all my medicine? ”

"Three bottles of yours, three bottles of those two." Liao Shi stretched out his hand to divide the seven bottles on the table into two parts, three on the left and four on the right, and then reached out to pick up the bottle at the end of his right hand, stretched out his fingers and rubbed the bottle, and said, "I am still thinking about who to give this bottle to." ”

Yan Xingzhi asked curiously: "What kind of medicine is this bottle?" ”

"Highly poisonous, three times more poisonous than Heding Red Poison, but I only have this bottle." Liao Shi stared at the bottle in his hand and scratched his head, frowned a little distressedly, and then said: "If a person takes this medicine, he can die quickly, so there will be no pain." It's just that this medicine is only one bottle, and if I give it to anyone, it won't be enough for me to eat. ”

Just hearing Liao Shi say this, Yan Xingzhi didn't react a little, but after a while, he understood, and immediately jumped off the bed with the quilt, and said in surprise: "Pharmacist, why are you like this!" ”

He had been sick for a few days, and his limbs were weak, and he suddenly stood up only supported by a shocked will in his heart, but when he just took a step, his body was crooked, and he fell directly to the ground-