Fu Xiaoguan decided to skip work in the afternoon.

Compared to watching those boring twists and turns in the Chinese book, he has more important things to deal with.

Since Yanbeixi has said so, it is obviously inevitable to go to Northland. It seems that there are still five or six months before Wu Chaowen will come back, but this time is fleeting!

The bowl for lunch in Chenxuan has been removed, and Dong Shulan is making tea for her future father-in-law at the moment.

Fu Xiaoguan said to Fu Daguan at this time: "According to the current situation, the engagement matter will have to be postponed for at least a few months......" He turned his head to look at Dong Shulan, a little embarrassed, "Shulan, you know that I am in a hurry to marry you into the door, but I didn't expect this to happen suddenly......"

Dong Shulan smiled, of course she was very annoyed in her heart, but she understood that this was not Fu Xiaoguan's business, but involved Yu Wenyun, so it would only be another day.

"You don't have to think too much, it's like "Queqiao Immortal" you wrote, I can wait."

is that sentence If the love between the two is long, how can it be in the morning and twilight, because Fu Daguan is here, Dong Shulan is naturally embarrassed to say it, thinking that Fu Xiaoguan will definitely understand.

"Today in the official office, Yan Beixi gave me an errand, I have to tell you about it."

Fu Xiaoguan said Yan Beixi's words very seriously, Dong Shulan suddenly raised her head and looked at Fu Xiaoguan, her eyes were full of worry, but because Fu Daguan was here, she still didn't say anything.

When Fu Daguan heard this, he frowned.

"In the past, I heard merchants talk about Yongning Prefecture, and the bitter cold of that place was worse than that of Qiangzhai and Miaojiang Xirong. What does this old puppet in Yanbeixi want you to go to that broken place to investigate? There was nothing but the endless loess slopes and the weak red sorghum. By the way, there is still a Yellow River thief palace in that broken place. Don't go, don't push that, you can't go! ”

Fu Xiaoguan doesn't want to go, but what can he do?

He is the prime minister of the dynasty, and he is just a small fourth-grade official, and his arms can't twist his thighs, so he can only say again: "You don't have to worry about this, I think it's okay to go and see it." ”

"No, my son, did you bully his granddaughter Yan Xiaolou, that old man is taking revenge on you?" Fu Daguan suddenly remembered that Fu Xiaoguan had told him that he had an extra daughter-in-law, Yan Xiaolou, and thought to himself that Yan Shidao had failed to win Yunqing's heart, and now Yunqing's son was going to marry Yanvale's woman instead, did this father and son put Fu Xiaoguan together?

Fu Xiaoguan smiled awkwardly: "Don't think about it, there's nothing." ”

After a pause, he said again: "That's what I think about, Dad, you have to go back to Linjiang, let the heads of each workshop wait for me to come to Beijing, Feng Laosi must remember to call, and let Feng Laosi bring a few blacksmiths who know how to view the mountain, and the other is to give me a housekeeper, and I have to be stationed in the two counties of Pingling Quyi." Let them take the carriage of the Xishan Express to Beijing, and the person in charge of the Xishan Express also has to accompany them, which is roughly the case. ”

Fu Daguan's eyes widened, "What do you want to do?" ”

"I want to go to those two places and open a workshop."

Dong Shulan's eyes lit up, and she wondered if her small clothing workshop could also be opened?

According to Fu Xiaoguan's usual statement, if this business wants to become bigger, it must be distributed across the country, and if a workshop can be set up in those two places, it can supply the market in the north. I'll have to tell him about it later, and I'll go with him.

Fu Xiaoguan thought of his six mothers, and said: "Dad, after you go back, you will also tell the six mothers, just say that those two places will reduce taxes, and see if their mother's family is willing to go and see." Ask them to come with you if you wish. ”

The main ones are Wu Niang, Liu Niang and Qi Niang, Wu Niang's family is an iron dealer, if Pingling Quyi can mine iron ore, they can set up a workshop in that place.

And Liu Niang's family is a tailor, and there will always be someone to wear this dress.

Qi Niangqu Linglong's maiden family happens to be a cloth merchant again, and I think they are also interested in the market in the north.

But Fu Daguan shook his head, "What businessmen are most afraid of now is to buy and sell in other places, and it is difficult for a strong dragon to suppress the head snake of the ground, and there has long been a relationship of interest between local merchants and the government, and we, the merchants from the south, have gone to the north...... If you can't drink a mouthful of soup, you won't be able to lose the pot. ”

That's the state of business right now.

Because the imperial court had more restrictions on merchants, it became difficult to operate in other places, and the circulation channels of goods were blocked. But merchants are profit-seeking, and they will try their best to circulate their goods, so they cannot avoid using money to open up various relationships or combine with merchants in other places. As a result, the intangible costs have increased significantly, the prices of goods have remained high, and the direct consequence of this is that it is extremely difficult to increase the sales volume.

Laborious and thankless, so more merchants will live in a corner, begging for food in their own one-third of an acre, the circulation of goods has become more scarce, unless there are huge profits, or the back of the tree, otherwise ordinary merchants will not run out.

Fu Xiaoguan sighed in his heart, and still persuaded: "Dad, if I can get Yan Zai's paperwork - I mean let Yan Zai endorse everyone to invest in Quyi and Pingling, will this solve their worries?" You tell them that there is only one chance, and if you miss this village, you won't have that shop. If you want to earn more silver, if you want to make your lintel taller and bigger, you have to be bolder, otherwise when all the conditions are met, I'm afraid there will be no more than one bite of soup! ”

Fu Daguan thought about this sentence for a long time, and then decided to leave Shangjing and return to Linjiang in the afternoon.

"Son, you must get the credentials of Yan Zai's endorsement, otherwise if my father-in-law listened to his father's words, he really ran to Pingling Quyi and smashed a lot of silver together, but it turned out to be like throwing it in water and soaking without a single ...... Daddy, I guess your mothers are going to strangle me! ”

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Fu Xiaoguan and Dong Shulan bid farewell to Fu Daguan, and it was getting late when they returned to Fu's mansion.

News came from the Drizzle Building that Fei An had been released from the Jinling Mansion Prison and returned to the Nanling Courtyard in a carriage. After freshening up, he rode out of Nanling County on his horse with the sharpened knife in his hand, heading east, for unknown purposes.

He wasn't surprised that Faan was able to come out, he was surprised that this guy didn't take a hoe and held a knife again...... What does he want to do?

"Closely monitor Fei An's movements, and report back as soon as there is news!"

On the twelfth floor, Ye Wusui bowed down and left, and Dong Shulan said what she thought to Fu Xiaoguan at this time.

Fu Daguan pondered for a long time and said: "I agree with your idea, but I don't approve of you going together, you can ask your second brother to do it." ”

"I don't feel comfortable doing things for him."

“…… That's right," Fu Xiaoguan pondered for a while and said the worry in his heart: "The palace is in the Pingling Mountains, Quyi and Pingling counties are not too far from the Pingling Mountains, and his father-in-law Liu Sanbian and his two King Kongs died because of me after all, so this trip is ...... I have one more thing to do. ”

Dong Shulan's eyes froze, and she stared at Fu Xiaoguan with a serious face: "Could it be that you still want to suppress bandits?" ”

"The bandits must be suppressed," Fu Xiaoguan held Dong Shulan's hand and said slowly: "Think about it, those two places are not peaceful, if you don't destroy the palace body, where will there be a good business environment?" As soon as our workshop was built and the goods were produced, he came to rob them - think about it, can this business still be done? ”

"If you want to earn money in that place, the first thing is to destroy the palace chief. Because the north is barren, the people are not intelligent, and the folk customs are simple but also strong. There are two major advantages to eliminating the palace body, one is of course to solve the worries, and the other is to deter some Diao people, this thing has to be done, and it must be done! ”

"There is no way for the northern border army to take the length of the palace."

Fu Xiaoguan laughed, "It's not that they have no choice, they just keep the palace body long, so that they can reach out to the court to ask for silver." ”

Dong Shulan looked at Fu Xiaoguan and was silent for a long time, she figured out the meaning of Fu Xiaoguan's words, but she became more and more worried.

"If you cut off their wealth, have you ever thought about the consequences?"

"In a few months, I'll be more scheming and won't be as stupid as last time. The reason why I asked your second brother to go is that the two places in Qingluan Lane will start construction after the cement is delivered, and only you can keep an eye on this matter......"

"Don't," Dong Shulan pursed her mouth, "I think it's good to let the second brother keep an eye on the construction of these two places, anyway, I'm going to go with you." ”

Well, Fu Xiaoguan didn't dissuade Dong Shulan anymore, Dong Shulan left the Fu Mansion happily, she had to go to the temple street of the City God Temple, and she planned to buy the shop she liked in the year.

Fu Xiaoguan sat alone in Tao Ran Pavilion and sorted out the next thing.

The Queen Mother will be funeral tomorrow, and his name will be on the accompanying list.

Take this opportunity to go to the Purple Mountain.

That Father-in-law Wei had never seen it before, his shot in Lan Tingji was extremely extraordinary, according to Su Jue, this old eunuch was at least a first-class master, because Su Su was actually unable to use the qin sword.

Could he be the big eunuch in the Purple Mountain?

Su Jue thought it was very likely, because although there were a lot of people in the rivers and lakes, the vast majority of them were third-rate masters like the Great God King Kong and the Poison King Kong.

Like Su Su and Jianlin Qijian, they are basically second-rate masters, which are already scarce in number.

As for people like Su Rou and Ximen Piaoxue, they belong to the first-class lower class, and like the senior brother Su Jue...... He said that he had not reached the half-step Saint Rank, and that he was only at the top of the first class.

Well, anyway, I'm still a nobody, so it's not worth mentioning.

As for whether he could find out something when he went to Purple Mountain, Fu Xiaoguan did not hold out any hope.

Then there is the second dragon in February, Nanshan Royal Garden Hunting, this is the proposal of the eldest prince years ago, and it has been approved by His Majesty, but I don't know if it will be changed because of the Queen Mother's return to heaven.

Then I'm going to go to the Wu Dynasty.

Yu Chao Shangjing is more than 3,800 miles away from Wu Dynasty Kyoto Guanyun City, and the time required for this journey is nearly forty days!

Then I went back to Shangjing, and I had to go to Quyi...... Lao Tzu stayed in Quyi to suppress the bandits and dragged it out until next year, so that he could avoid the drudgery of sending the third princess to the wasteland!

There is a Tuoba Autumn in the desert country, this guy wants my life, where is the away battle, or don't go!