As the old saying goes, you don't hit people in the face, but Mu Jing's slap hit Xu Lin's face hard enough.

In front of Xu Lin, he simply and rudely uncovered the scars of the Xu family.

This is undoubtedly a knife to Xu Lin in public.

Xu Lin himself is a blacksmith who was born in blacksmithing, has been dealing with the stove for many years, his skin is dark, but his temper is a little rough, at this time he is already a little unbearable, he holds the hilt of the sword with both hands, the killing intent in his eyes is like electricity, and the hand qi knife falls: "Huangkou Xiaoer, the honor and disgrace of my Xu family cannot be sarcastic by you, don't think that a certain family is afraid of your father, just let you humiliate, the husband is still angry, blood splashed three feet, I will kill you today!" ”

"Brother Xu, no!"

"Keep people under the sword!"

When Sun Hao and Zhang Heng saw it, their faces suddenly changed a little, and they hurriedly stopped it and drank it.

You must know that this Mujing Gongzi is Mushan's only son, the only son, if Mushan's only son dies here, don't wait for Mushan to lead the troops back at all, just rely on the current county government Zhao Ping's control of the troops are enough to kill a few of them.

"Kill!"

But they didn't have time to stop it, Xu Lin was already furious, his eyes were blood-red, the sword was raised, and the sword flickered and was about to be cut down.

However, Mu Jing's face did not change, holding the wine cup in his hand, the knife and axe were not afraid, and he sat firmly on Mount Tai.

"Bell!"

Suddenly, a crisp sound of gold and iron colliding sounded, constantly reverberating.

Between the lightning and flint, behind Mu Jing, behind the bead curtain on the left side that was closest to him, a red light like fire flashed out, fast as the wind, like a wall, steadily blocking Xu Lin's sword.

"Your sword is not as fast as mine!"

Lei Hu held the crimson long sword in his hand, the sword blocked Xu Lin, he looked at Xu Lin, and said indifferently: "If your sword dares to score another point, I can make your head fall to the ground now!" ”

"Red Fire Sword?"

Xu Lin's pupils suddenly changed color, and he didn't seem to care about anything, just stared at the sword in Lei Hu's hand, and spit out three words blankly.

Red Fire Sword, this is the pride of the Xu clan.

The reason why it has become the treasure of the Xu family's inheritance is that there are two reasons, first, this is a sword, which is undoubted, the red fire sword is forged with special metal ore, it is extremely sharp and indestructible, and it can cut off ten grass armors if you cut it.

As for the second reason, the Red Fire Sword is an improvement of the Xu family's forging technique, because of the forging of the Red Fire Sword, the Xu family changed the original forging method and adopted the method of frying steel, and the forging of the sword is a standard in this era.

"Brother Huzi, don't be rude!"

Mu Jing waved his hand lightly, asking Lei Hu to put away his sword.

He smiled indifferently at the three of them, his smile was like the sunshine melting ice and snow, and suddenly the frozen atmosphere in the side room was enlivened: "Actually, I was just joking with Shopkeeper Xu, I am young and frivolous, and my words are inappropriate, Shopkeeper Xu should not be angry!" ”

"Brother Xu, put away your sword first!"

When Sun Hao heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly stepped forward, and broke Xu Lin's hand hard, asking him to take the sword back.

But Xu Lin was indifferent at this moment, his eyes were always staring at Lei Hu, he was looking at the sword in Lei Hu's hand, he couldn't be mistaken, this was the heirloom that his Xu clan dreamed of.

I didn't think about it for so many years, this sword appeared again, he thought that it would be impossible to see him again in his life, this is the heirloom of their Xu clan.

"This joke of the shepherd boy is a bit big!"

Zhang Heng's face couldn't help twitching, and his gloomy eyes squinted at Mu Jing.

I don't know why, he felt a little afraid of this young man who had been sitting firmly on Mount Tai, even if he didn't feel like this when he saw those county commanders, this was a feeling that couldn't help but feel a chill rising from his back.

"It's really a bit big, then I'll make amends to you!"

Mu Jing shrugged his shoulders and said, "Brother Huzi, hand over your sword!" ”

"Do you really want to pay it?"

"Will you pay it?"

"No!"

Lei Hu is also a martial artist, and he naturally loves swords, so he is naturally a little reluctant, but he still strictly obeys Mu Jing's orders, and uses the red fire sword in his hand to insert it directly into the case.

"Then today, my son will use this sword as a price to make amends, and make amends to the shopkeeper Xu, I hope that the shopkeeper Xu will not care about what I said just now, I don't know that the shopkeeper Xu can accept it?" Mu Jing smiled like a little fox, and the corners of his mouth slightly outlined a trace of arc.

"You're going to give it to me?"

When Xu Lin heard this, he finally came back to his senses at this moment, his pupils widened, he looked at Mu Jing, and then at the red fire sword on the table, he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, a little hard to believe: "Mu Gongzi, do you know what kind of sword this is?" ”

"This is a trophy I found from the arsenal of the Zhu Mansion!"

Mu Jing's face was straight, and he said in a deep voice: "I naturally know that it is the Red Fire Sword, the heirloom of the Xu family, since it is the heirloom of the Xu shopkeeper, I will return to Zhao after I finish it!" ”

"What's the idea of this Mujing?"

"He's a little too arrogant!"

Zhang Heng and Sun Hao couldn't help but glance at each other, and there was a slight suspicion in their hearts.

"Thirty years ago, my father was in charge, my father got a piece of ore with a difference, and it took a whole year with my grandfather and a dozen uncles to constantly transform the forging that my Xu clan has begun to pass down from the Warring States Period, and only then did he melt this ore and forge the Red Fire Sword!"

Xu Lin sat down, poured himself a bowl of wine, and spoke, as if talking to himself, with a sense of pride in his words: "On the day this sword was baked, a person from the Jingzhou family who knew the sword wanted to buy this sword at a price of 5,000 gold, but my father refused!" ”

"Father's meaning is that I want my Xu family to inherit this sword, and don't forget the skills inherited by the Mo family, which is the dependence of my Xu family, but Zhu Fu, the son of the Zhu family, the younger brother of Zhu Zhan, the former head of the Zhu family, went to collect the world's famous swords, he fell in love with our red fire sword, and asked my father to buy a sword, but my father did not allow it, but he led someone to forcibly break in, I, as well as my brother, my two younger brothers, would rather lose their lives, but also protect the sword, protect the sword, brother, brother, were all killed by him with a sword!"

"I was lucky, my brother blocked a sword for me and escaped with my life, but Zhu Fu's second sword pierced our leg bones, and I ended up lame!"

"Even so, because we are a family of merchants and a family of scholars, even if the county government knows what is right and wrong, in the end it still judged the fault of my Xu family, and my father spent a whole thousand gold to let the Zhu family let us go, but from then on, the Red Fire Sword has nothing to do with our Xu family!"

"This sword is a disaster for my Xu family, and it is also a supreme glory, but its own value is worth at least five thousand gold, Mu Gongzi, don't you feel a little lost when you are handed it over to me like this?"

Xu Lin glared at Mu Jing with his eyes: "You know, even if my Xu family goes bankrupt, I will welcome back this sword!" ”

"Every thing has its value, but in the eyes of different people, it has different value, this sword is the supreme treasure for the shopkeeper Xu, but in my eyes, it is worth making the shopkeeper Xu angry!"

Mu Jing said calmly.

Merchants are businessmen, and they pay attention to buying and selling.

The price positioned between buying and selling is relative.

"Hahaha, what a shepherd!"

Xu Lin held the hilt of the sword with both hands, directly pulled out the red fire sword, looked at the red sword body of the red fire sword, turned his head, his expression was rigorous, his words were heavy, and every word was like Mount Tai, he said: "I blame you, your shepherd is by no means a person who looks down on the family of Shangjia, your respect for me Xu someone, I remember this sword, I accepted this sword, but the Xu family owes you a favor from now on, but in the future, I will ask for something, no matter what it is, even if my Xu family is bankrupt, I will not hesitate, I Xu Lin said, although I am a businessman's family, But it is also a promise, and it will never be violated! ”

"Shopkeeper Xu is serious, and when we meet, I just made a favor, don't worry about it!"

Mu Jing breathed a sigh of relief.

Regained one.

It was a great start for him.

"What do you want, Young Lady?" Zhang Heng came back a little, and his eyes were quite puzzled: "You despise my businessmen in your words, but you attach so much importance to it and befriend us, I can't figure it out!" ”

Zhang Heng is older than Sun Hao and younger than Xu Lin, about forty years old, but his mind is the deepest.

He is also one of the most difficult fortresses to conquer in Mujing.

But Zhang's net worth is the thickest, and his connections are also the widest, he must enter his own formation, otherwise the plan to rule the Wuyin business world will be flawed, so no matter what, Mu Jing will take him down.

"First of all, a little famous, my Mujing has never despised businessmen, ancient and modern exchanges, Fan Li, Lü Buwei, that one is not a businessman, but can hold the prime minister's position, the merchant is not bad, the wrong is the ranking of Shinong industry and commerce, and the wrong is the contempt of those who think they think of Confucius and Mencius!"

When he said this, whether it was Zhang Heng, Sun Hao, or Xu Lin, they all felt a slight chill, and their eyes looked at Mu Jing as if they were looking at a monster.

Over the years, there have been people who have spoken for businessmen.

But no one has ever dared to insist on the study of Confucius and Mencius for the sake of businessmen, and Mujing is definitely the first.

Although these words were a little shocking, for them, it was like a warm current, which could somewhat warm their hearts of humiliation at that moment over the years, and made their eyes look at Mu Jing a lot softer.

"As for what I want, I might as well tell you!"

Mu Jing went straight to the point: "I am going to set up a trading house, focusing on merchants, gathering the power of businessmen, and fighting against the exploitation of the scholars. ”

"Forming a firm?"

"Against the Warriors?"

When the three of them heard this, their hearts trembled, their eyes looked at each other silently, and their expressions became silent.

The establishment of a trading house, they understand what it means, it is nothing more than an alliance between several of them businessmen to help each other.

But against the Warriors?

It was a bolt from the blue.

They couldn't even think about it.

This is the era of the scholars, and the scholars can pinch them to death one by one when they stretch out their fingers.

"Don't dare?"

Mu Jing squinted slightly, his eyes swept over, looking at the silent expressions of the three people, and opened his mouth gently, his voice was like a ghost.

"Mu Gongzi, do you know what the word "scholar" means?"

Zhang Heng took a deep breath and asked in a low voice.

"Something is clear!"

Mu Jing smiled coldly: "Only the scholars can raise filial piety and honesty, the officials of the world, ninety percent are recommended by the scholars, the land of the world, ninety percent belongs to the scholars, even if it is today, dare to say a word, without the children of the scholars as officials, the court will be chaotic, and the strength of the scholars is clear!" ”

"Since the shepherd boy knows, then the shepherd boy knows that hitting the stone with an egg is the final consequence!"

Zhang Heng's gaze fixed on Mu Jing, and asked again in a deep voice.

"Definitely!"

When Mu Jing heard this, he shook his head and said: "You are wrong, a certain is a trapped beast and fighting, not hitting a stone with an egg, we are businessmen, we are beasts, not eggs, we just don't know how to use the power of capital yet, even if we fight against their warriors in the future, we may not lose!" ”

"The power of capital?"

Zhang Heng's eyes lit up slightly, this is a very novel word, but it gives him a different feeling.

No one ever told him that capital also has power.

"Trapped beasts fighting?"

Sun Hao said coldly: "Mu Gongzi, even if we are trapped beasts and fighting, in the end it is a dead end, what is the difference between hitting a stone with an egg!" ”

"That's different, the beast is trapped, if you don't fight, you may not die, but you can only be a slave, when a master wants you to die, when you die slave, just wait for your children and grandchildren to be despised by the scholars?"

Mu Jing's words were like arrows, and he was fiercely inserted into the hearts of the three of them: "If it were me, I would be willing to fight, if I don't fight, I will never kneel!" ”

"We can't stand, and we don't want to kneel!"

When the three of them heard this, their faces suddenly turned blue and cloudy, but there was a reverberating voice in their hearts.

can stand and behave, and they don't want their children and grandchildren to only survive on their knees in front of the scholars.

But the price of standing up is perishing words.

They'll think about surviving on their knees.

"Mu Gongzi, your father is the Yellow Turban Army, you are born to be the enemy of the Shi clan, even if you don't deal with the Shi clan, the Shi clan will not let you go, so you have to deal with the Shi clan, but we are not, the Shi clan can't be provoked, I can't gamble with more than a hundred lives of the whole clan, you have to give me some trust!"

Zhang Heng said calmly: "Let me believe that with you, we can survive!" ”

He's got a resolution, but he's going to take a gamble.

In the name of dignity, block the lives of a people.

"Yes!"

Xu Lin also said in a deep voice: "Mu Gongzi, I believe in you, but you want me to believe that your father can rely on it, as long as I can make me believe that following your father, we can survive, and I can devote all the financial resources of the whole clan to support Mu Gongzi's business!" ”

"I also agree with Brother Zhang and Brother Xu!"

Sun Hao thought about it for a while, nodded his head, and said in a deep voice: "My Sun family doesn't want to be looked down upon for the rest of my life!" ”

"What do you want me to do?"

Mu Jing squinted.

"Now the world, I can see it, the court is unreliable, even if the official to the county guard is not beheaded, it is not the peace of the past, the only measure of strength, soldiers and horses are strength, and soldiers are kings, I heard a news, Ling Zun's expedition this time is a trap, the county soldiers will not converge with Ling Zun, and the soldiers and horses of the counties will not reinforce Ling Zun, he can only fight alone!"

Zhang Heng looked at Mu Jing and said, "If Ling Zun can lead the army back safely, I will promise you!" ”

The biggest advantage of the businessman is that he is very well-informed, he has already known this news, he didn't say it before, he was not sure, and he just bought Mujing a favor at this time.

In fact, when he came to the appointment today, he was actually moved, his original intention was to rely on Mushan and not be exploited by the scholars, and now Mujing put forward the statement of the trading house, and he also agreed.

He hated the warriors more than anyone else.

He just didn't say it in his heart.

In addition, he is the patriarch of the Zhang clan, he is responsible for the Zhang clan, he has to ask Mu Shan to give him a little confidence that he can rely on, so he has to gamble, bet that Mu Shan has the ability to lead the army back, and bet that Mu Jing will not let him down.

"Yes!"

When Mu Jing heard this, his heart trembled, but he quickly calmed down, his face was expressionless, indifferent, his eyes just looked at Xu Lin and Sun Hao, and said, "What do you two think?" ”

"Okay, let's bet on this!"

The two of them pondered for a while and nodded.

"If my father returns victorious, then you will join my business, and he will walk side by side, advancing and retreating together, with both glory and loss!" Mu Jing's voice is Lang Lang.

"Okay!"

The three of them nodded, their expressions serious.

"Then it's a deal!"

Mu Jing stretched out his hand.

Bang Bang Bang!

The three of them stretched out their hands one after another, palms facing each other, and high-fived as an oath.

Then the four of them relaxed and continued to drink and have fun.

After a banquet, Mu Jing's understanding of the three of them began to be intuitively impressed from the recorded information, Xu Lin is a big drunkard, hearty and easy to talk, as long as a few bowls of wine are in the stomach, let go all of a sudden, and almost didn't treat Mu Jing as a brother, Sun Hao is young but good at talking, he is good at enlivening the atmosphere and catering to one topic after another, and Zhang Heng just takes a sip when he drinks, can take a sip less, never take an extra sip, looks very quietly, and seems to control everything in his heart......

After noon, the banquet dispersed.

"Shepherd, I want to ask a question, I don't know if it's okay?" When he walked out of the restaurant, Zhang Heng suddenly stopped and suddenly asked.

"Shopkeeper Zhang, please speak!"

"If the sword of Shopkeeper Xu hadn't been cut down, would you still discuss such a big matter with us today?"

"No!"

Mu Jing said calmly: "If you are humiliated like this but you don't have a little anger, it means that their self-esteem has been numb, and even this bit of flesh is gone, you are destined to be slaves, no matter how I give you confidence, you will only submit to the prestige of the Shi clan, and will never resist, why should I do such a thankless thing!" ”

"Thank you for your calmness!"

Zhang Heng took a deep breath: "I really hope that Ling Zun can win!" ”

"He'll win!" Mu Jing said confidently.

When it comes to fighting, his father will never let him down, even if he is a little tired, Cheng Luo is by his father's side, Lei Gong is good at fighting, Cheng Luo is good at planning, and it should be no problem to retreat with his whole body.

"Tan Zong!"

On the way out of the city and back to Jingping Village, Mu Jing rode on horseback, looked at Tan Zong on the left riding a horse, and suddenly spoke.

"Less in charge, what do you command!"

"Find a courtyard in the East Market, buy it, and then find someone to build it, this will be the place where the business house will stay!"

Mu Jing thought for a while: "Just hang the plaque of Jingping Commercial Bank!" ”

"Young master, you are so sure, will they promise you?"

Lei Hu rode a tall horse, walking side by side with Mu Jing, looking a little depressed, the red fire sword was his favorite weapon, but Mu Jing gave it away, which was somewhat unhappy.

"They've already agreed!"

When Mu Jing heard this, a confident smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said: "If they don't agree, they won't come to the appointment today, going to the appointment already shows his attitude, I can choose them, because they are all hateful to the warriors in their bones, I give them a chance, they will definitely grasp it, their current attitude is just to convince them of themselves, after all, it takes courage for them to resist the mountain that has been pressing on their heads, so they chose this bet!" ”