"Ren Quan, organize the family and tenants, according to the map I gave you yesterday, go dig the pit! Then let Steward Cui buy 20,000 catties of peat and 20,000 catties of charcoal back. On the afternoon of Wang Yuanbao's release from prison, Zhang Qian stood on the bank of the small river in front of Zhuangzi, listened to Ren Cong's description, and sighed and ordered.

"Yes, owner!" After experiencing the shelling of the altar on the day of the eclipse, Ren Quan has now completely regarded Zhang Qian as an immortal, agreed, and trotted to carry out the task.

"Senior brother, aren't you optimistic that Wang Yuanbao can win the lawsuit? He asked Kui Guogong to stand up for him. Ren Cong's heart immediately shuddered. After hesitating for a moment, he cautiously asked for advice.

"What did your second senior brother say?" Zhang Qian sighed again and asked with a smile.

"Second Senior Brother, Second Senior Brother said that unless the arsonist was temporary, since people dared to touch him, they would have already counted the strength of Kui Guogong." Ren Cong was stunned, and the expression on his face was so disappointed, "But if it is a temporary intention, Xinfeng County Commander Wang Zude has no reason to shield the arsonist." ”

After that, he felt unwilling to be alive in his heart. stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Qian's sleeve and shook it gently, "What should Wang Yuanbao do?" You can't just admit it. He was really wronged. I've been to see his glazed workshop, and the fire must have started from the outside. And the other party obviously wanted to kill everyone in the workshop. ”

"What to do, I don't know. The problem now is that he sued Wang Zude, the commander of Xinfeng County, and lacked real evidence. As for detaining him for three days, the other party can fully assume that it was for the purpose of clarifying the facts of the case, and at the same time preventing him from running away and losing the pension that should be given to the victims. Zhang Qian looked at him and explained very patiently.

Similar cases are not uncommon on the network of another time and space. The onlookers are filled with righteous indignation and verbal criticism, but often in vain. Officials who pervert the law will skillfully control their own behavior within the limits of the rules and laws, and satisfy all procedural correctness. No matter who investigates, they will not find any problems, unless the complainant has the ability to find another way.

"Wang Zude must have received benefits from others!" Seeing the senior brother he admired the most, he was helpless. Ren Cong was so disappointed in his heart that he was so anxious that he stomped his feet again and again, "Wang Yuanbao said that seven or eight days ago, there was a man named Ma Toad who came to him and came up with a glass workshop and a glass shop for 20,000 yuan to sell him, but he refused. And the horse toad has always been in the business of eating glass. On the day when the Wang family's workshop was set on fire, some people also saw Ma Toad with his companions near Xinfeng County. ”

"Does he have any evidence of arson from the toad? Or evidence that Wang Zude accepted a bribe from Maha Toad? Zhang Qian glanced at Ren Cong again and shook his head slightly, "It's a good thing that you want to help your friends, but it's not this kind of help." You go and work with your second senior brother to change a safe place for Wang Yuanbao's family to live and solve his worries. Then take the coarse salt purification method I taught you and bring it back to your grandfather, and by the way, ask your grandfather, how to solve this kind of thing best. Your grandfather has been crisscrossing the mall for so many years, and he has encountered a lot of things, and he can give you a few tricks at will, which is better than what you are doing here. ”

"This ......, yes, senior brother!" Ren Cong was stunned, and then remembered that after he patronized Wang Yuanbao's affairs, he almost forgot to tell his family a shortcut to make a fortune. He hurriedly saluted, turned around and left.

"Also, remember to go to the ordnance prison every day, even if it's to pretend!" Zhang Qian chased a few steps and whispered behind him, "Although the Cane Department has you as the director, it will not delay the work." However, you're new to your job, so don't let anyone get caught. ”

"Yes, big brother, I remember!" Ren Cong's face turned red, he stopped, and bowed down. Then, he walked away quickly.

"Alas—" Looking at his panicked appearance, Zhang Qian sighed and shook his head.

His third junior brother is kind, simple, and warm-hearted. As a friend, it's a great choice. But as an official of the Tang Dynasty, he is a little unqualified at the moment.

However, it is no wonder that the little fat man Ren Cong is not qualified as an official. Before meeting him, the little fat man had been raised by his stepmother as a "waste", and the little fat man himself, in order to escape the conflict with his stepmother, was obsessed with finding a master to be a sword fairy. As a result, there is a serious lack of knowledge of worldly affairs, except for business. Not to mention any experience.

And the other junior brother Guo Nu's attitude towards the world is much more positive than that of the little fat man. is also not treated well by his family, Guo Nu put on a playful offensive posture, no matter who dares to provoke, he will disgust the other party first. Over time, he tossed a piece of the world for himself.

Therefore, when he is in trouble now, Zhang Qian would rather let the little fat man Ren Cong explore and solve it by himself than have any ideas for him. Even if he suffers a loss in the exploration, for the little fat man Ren Cong, he is accumulating blessings for the future. What's more, in the absence of sufficient information, Zhang Qian himself can't come up with too good ideas.

For Wang Yuanbao, his understanding is limited to the fact that this person is extremely discerning in business, and he saw the prospect of this thing long before the Liushen Flower Dew was put on sale, and resolutely invested a large amount of money to come in, and wanted to buy more shares as much as possible. Otherwise, nothing is known.

And the glass bottle provided by Wang Yuanbao, Zhang Qian has also studied it carefully. Compared with the crystal clear art glass of later generations, which directly chased the natural crystal, the current glass products are very far behind in terms of quality and technology. Not to mention that the thickness exceeds the bottom of the beer bottle, the color is also quite turbid, and its price is close to the relatively common Xiuyu, no wonder it has never been able to popularize it on a large scale among the people!

"Owner......" The housekeeper Ren Quan went around in circles, went around again, looked at Zhang Qian, and stopped.

"If you have something to say, don't hold back!" Knowing that this person had been the right-hand man under Ren Qiong before, and that he had more experience than himself and Ren Cong combined, Zhang Qian commanded with a smile.

"The pit you asked to dig has already arranged for Zhang Fu to take someone to dig it. peat and charcoal, and also arranged for Steward Cui to buy it. Ren Quan hurriedly walked closer, smiled and arched his hand, "Owner, don't be too talkative, the servant always thinks that the fire in Wang Liuli's workshop may not be just aimed at him." ”

"Huh?" Zhang Qian's brows furrowed slightly, noncommittal.

The glass bottle is only the packaging of Liushen flower dew, and the supply is not available for a while, which does not affect the production of flower dew. The reason why he arranged for people to dig pits and stock up on coal and charcoal was to take precautions, so that when the supply of glass bottles was not available, he could directly try to produce glass by local methods.

"The owner, you are a scholar and know how to make glass. But others don't know, but the owner understands. Ren Quan's words sounded very round, but every word was sobering, "If the servant is a rich and powerful bad person, he has been spying on the owner's workshop of the six gods. The servant must have prepared more than one move. Killing Wang Liuli and making the bottle unavailable is just a start. It's like a temptation before two armies go to war. If you don't know it, the next thing you can do is to fight with all your might! ”

"Are you saying that the other party is obviously robbing Wang Yuanbao's glazed workshop, but is actually preparing to rob the Six Gods Trading House?" Zhang Qian was shocked when he heard this, and for a while, he was a little reluctant to believe Ren Quan's speculation.

No matter how bad he is, he is now a fourth-grade person, and he is in another time and space, to say the least, he is also a hall-level. Although the scale of the Liushen Trading Bank is not large, it also unites three princes, a royal family and a number of powerful factions as shareholders. What's more, he just blew up the monk who blocked the door and caused trouble, and the corpse was all over the field, and if he came up to provoke him at this time, how much strength and appetite did the other party have?

"Don't be too long-winded, the servant used to follow the owner of the village to do things for the Baoguo Mansion, and he also encountered similar things." Knowing that his words were a little too alarmist, Ren Quan thought about it and continued to add, "We Datang, after all, officials are not allowed to do business. Therefore, no matter how big the property is, it must be recorded on the heads of the people below. And the other party, no matter how much they toss our Liushen firm, it can be inferred that the people below are messing around. As long as it is not aimed at you, you can't shoot directly at him, you can only talk to him in the official, and the business in business! ”

"Then it's in the official, in the business!" Zhang Qian was so heartbroken that he gritted his teeth and whispered fiercely.

Just three days ago, he had happily thought that from now on, no one would be spying on his Six Gods Trading House. You can let go of your hands and feet and put some ideas in your mind into practice! I didn't expect that so soon, someone would come to the door again.

If Ren Quan's prediction is correct, the opponent's attacks will follow one after another in the period after the year and the year. And myself, except for careful preparation and dismantling, I am afraid that there is no other choice.

Fortunately, at the moment, he is not without the strength to fight. And the Six Gods Commercial Bank is far more confident than when it was first established.

"Grind it out, grind it out, really grind it out!" Not far away, someone was shouting, as excited as digging the soil and suddenly digging up an ingot.

"What's going on?" Zhang Qian's train of thought was interrupted, and he asked with a frown.

"Go and take a look, owner, wait a minute!" Ren Quan dropped a sentence and rushed towards the source of the sound. After a while, he ran back with a smile on his face. While wiping the sweat on his face, he gestured excitedly, "Owner, God, God." The day before yesterday, you asked your subordinates to connect two wheel-like grinding stones to the windmill to see if they could bring them. The subordinates did as you instructed, and just now, when Wang Maobo was free, he helped to install the last part. Then Zhang Gui took a bag of wheat to grind, and sure enough, the white flour was grinded, fast and fine, which was much easier than using a donkey to pull and grind! ”

"It's already done, so fast?!" Zhang Qian was stunned, and then remembered the purpose of his coming to the riverside today, and in an instant, the dark clouds that had just emerged in his heart were swept away.

"The grinding disc and grinding stone are ready-made, and the drawings you gave the day before yesterday are detailed enough, so of course the installation will get twice the result with half the effort?" Ren Quan didn't dare to be greedy, so he just slapped the sycophants of his own owner.

"Let's take a look!" Zhang Qian listened, and his mood became more and more relaxed. Step out and stride towards the windmill. From afar, I saw a group of men and women, standing around the windmill like a market, dancing hand in hand.

And the windmill he built at great expense rotated rapidly under the blowing of the south wind. The nails on the edge of the paddle reflect the sunlight and roll up a circle of brilliant brilliance.

Spring is approaching, the weather is getting warmer, and the wind is gradually becoming less biting.

"Boom, boom, boom......" As if feeling the presence of the master, the grinding disc that had just been installed under the windmill suddenly began to accelerate, and two wheel-like grinding stones rotated on the grinding disc, crushing everything in front of them. (Note: The stone mill pushed by the windmill is different from the common mill in the countryside.) It is two wheel-shaped grinding stones that rotate and travel on the same grinding disc. ）

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"Boom, boom, boom......" The heat generated by the candle flame pushes the marquee to rotate, making a slight friction sound, which makes people upset to hear.

"Destroy it!" Cui Xiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was not in the slightest mood to appreciate the delicacy and magic of the lantern, frowned, and commanded in a deep voice. "In broad daylight, the house is so bright, what are you doing with the lights?"

"Yes!" The maid didn't dare to disobey, picked up the fan, and gently fanned it towards the lamp. The flame on the wax core was blown out by the wind, and the marquee immediately stopped turning. The glass was made of lampshade, and in the blink of an eye, it was full of green smoke.

Cui Xiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was in his heart, but his anger was hard to extinguish. frowned, and continued to complain in a low voice: "Just for such a broken lamp, you sent someone to burn Wang Liuli's workshop?" Do you know that most of the glass bottles fired by Wang Liuli were supplied to the Six Gods Trading House?! And Wang Yuanbao himself is still one of the major shareholders of the firm?! Cui was ordered to go to Shaojian Zhang's house that day to contact the matter of taking a stake in the Six Gods Trading Company, and you don't know it. He wasn't too keen on stock expansion in the first place......"

"Is Cui Shangshu going to teach the concubine how to do things?" A cold rhetorical question sounded on the opposite side, and Cui Xiang's complaint was instantly suffocated back into his stomach. Wrapped in a snow-white mink fur, but with her arms and chest exposed, the tanuki girl slowly walked in front of Cui Xiang with small steps, her eyes were full of water.

"Me?" The anger in Cui Xiang's heart suddenly dropped by half. Lowering his head, he gritted his teeth and explained, "I'm not teaching you how to do things, but I need you to say hello to me in advance, so that I have some time to adjust accordingly." The shareholders of Liushen Workshop, including Zhang Qiannei, were not too keen on the share expansion. You're ...... here."

"The reason why they are not enthusiastic is that the price of Rokami Flower Dew is too high. At this time, every time a new shareholder comes in, no matter how much money is taken into the shares, it is their future interests that are divided. The tanuki girl rolled her eyelids, her feet slowly circled around Cui Xiang, and the clogs under her feet fell to the floor, making an evenly rhythmic sound, "What if the Liushen Flower Dew suddenly becomes less valuable?" Do you say they're willing to expand their shares right away? At that time, Cui Shangshu's people went to talk again, who would dare to treat your people as beggars who came to ask for money! ”

"You, you put eyeliner in my house?" The marquee had long since stopped turning, but there was still a friction sound in Cui Xiang's head. With a cold sweat slowly oozing out from his head, he gritted his teeth and asked.

The atmosphere in the room took a turn for the worse. The maids were afraid of suffering from the pond fish, so they found excuses to retire. And the tanuki girl still circled around Cui Xiang, like a wild cat, looking for where to get off the body of the prey.

"You, you put eyeliner in my house?" didn't get a response from the other party for a long time, and Cui Xiang stomped his feet.

"No, I'm just speculating!" The tanuki suddenly stopped, raised her red lips provocatively, and said slowly, "You are sending someone to talk now, you are taking money from someone else, naturally like a beggar." And when the offensive on my side is launched, you will send people again, which will be a charcoal in the snow. ”

Cui Xiang's eyes were attracted by the red lips of the tanuki girl, however, he couldn't have the slightest desire to possess it in his heart. took a few steps back before he frowned and responded: "To put it lightly, behind the Six Gods Workshop, it's not that there is no expert like Ren Qiong. Even if there is no one except Wang Yuanbao, no one can provide glass bottles for the trading house. He changed to a jade bottle or a porcelain vase......"

"If the ceramic or jade bottle is used, it will have the same effect, the Six Gods Workshop, why did you choose expensive and useless glass at the beginning?" The tanuki girl took two steps forward on tiptoe, keeping her sight level with Cui Xiang, and her delicate red lips were like two blooming peonies.

"What if there happens to be a batch of authentic food flower dew that will be sold on the market in Chang'an after the Chinese New Year?"

"What if, the big flower dew is also used in a glass bottle, but it is ten times more crystal clear?"

"What if the same glass bottle of Dashi Authentic Flower Dew is only half the price of the Six Gods Flower Dew?"

"If, in the future, in Chang'an City, except for the big cannibal, there is no workshop that can make glass bottles for him?"

"What if, among the shareholders of the Liushen Commercial Bank, some people are no longer optimistic about the prospects of the trading bank, or are suddenly in a hurry to use the money and want to get rid of the equity?"

"If ......"

She said six or seven ifs in succession, and with each word, she took a step forward on her tiptoes like a tanuki predator. forced Cui Xiang to retreat one after another, until his back hit the wall, and finally there was no way to retreat. Wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, he muttered, "Big food flower dew?" The big food is not far away, how can it be possible to transport a lot of flower dew over? The flower dew of the big cannibal is also packed in a glass bottle, how can it be so coincidental? The flower dew of the Great Food Country has not appeared in Chang'an City for many years, why has the Flower Dew of the Six Gods only appeared for a few months, and the flower dew of the Great Food Country has also arrived? No matter how good the big cannibal glass is, after all, it is far away, and if the price is high, no one may buy it, and if the price is low, it will not be as low as the glass that is already on the market......"

"Therefore, within half a year, there will be no other glazes in the east and west cities of Chang'an City!" Finally teasing Cui Yu enough, the tanuki girl stretched out a Qianqian jade finger and poked his throat gently. Then he turned around and let out a silver bell-like laugh from his mouth, "As for the flower dew of the Great Food Country, why didn't it appear early or late, but it appeared at this time, you can't figure it out after reading so many books, how can I know as a female streamer?" However, I only understand one thing, this boat of glass and flower dew came at the right time! ”

"Just in time?" Cui Xiang muttered and repeated, and then, it suddenly dawned on him, "So, you sent someone to burn down King Liuli's workshop, and also forbade the Xinfeng County Yamen to track down the arsonist." Not only have you killed a glass king, but you have to cut off all the glass supplies on the market in Chang'an. From the very beginning, you weren't ready to take a stake in the Six Gods Trading Company! You sent Cui to contact Young Eunuch Zhang, it's just a pretense! You're ready to crush it and take it all into your own hands. ”

"You're wrong, Cui Shangshu! It's not me, it's the princess of the town! The tanuki girl shook her head with a smile as she whirled around the room, "You think too highly of me, I'm just a personal maid of the eldest princess, and I'm just an outer chamber of yours." Where did the Lord of the Eldest Princess do? I once told you that if the eldest princess takes a fancy to anything, the other party will send it to the eldest princess with both hands sooner or later, begging her to accept it. Don't you remember? ”

"You, you ......" The room was very warm, Cui Xiang leaned against the wall, but his body trembled slightly with cold, "You're not afraid of getting into trouble?" That young eunuch is not an ordinary person, if you force him to be anxious. He took out the same trick against the monk......"

"Deal with me as a slave, he is the secretary and eunuch of the imperial court? Spread it out, he is not afraid of being laughed at and lose his big teeth? The tanuki girl smiled, her beautiful face full of pride, "As for forcing him, when have I forced him?" There was a conflict with him in business, but it was a big cannibal. The maha toad who set fire to Wang Yuanbao's glazed workshop is also a descendant of the Great Cannibal. I haven't been involved in this from beginning to end, so why should he wronged me? Beat the dog, he also has to see who the owner behind me is, right? As for the final acquisition of the Six Gods Workshop, it is also you Cui Xiang, and you don't need me to show your head. Even if he finds out that it's me in the end, I'm just sending charcoal in the snow, and it's too late for him to thank me, how can I not even distinguish between good and bad?! ”

"You, you, you, alas—" Cui Xiang couldn't accept the other party's statement, however, he couldn't find anything wrong. muttered for a long time, and finally could only give a long sigh!

"Do you know how many of the same boats and how many people will die when a shipload of glass products and perfumes is transported to Guangzhou by the merchants of the Great Food Country?" The tanuki girl, but she didn't feel that there was anything wrong with her behavior, and continued to smile and dance, gestures, all light and dexterous, like a tanuki playing with mice, "Do you know that a boatload of glass products and perfumes is transported from Guangzhou to Chang'an, and how many percent of it has to be broken on the way?" The eldest princess just wanted to take the Liushen Trading House under her banner, but the perfume and glass of the big cannibal were all shipped to Chang'an, do you say it's a coincidence? Cui Shangshu, the Great Sage Empress once said that the princess of the town is like her, what does it mean, don't you understand it now? All saints in the world have great luck. Cui Shangshu, you are the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, you should know more than me. When the Great Holy Empress was in power, the wind and rain were smooth for many years. Since the Holy Lord's accession to the throne, there have been floods and double solar eclipses for a year! Why? ”

Cui Xiang didn't have the courage to pick up the stubble, leaning against the wall, sweating like pulp.

It is true that he was raised by Princess Taiping, and it is not wrong that he once had a skin-to-skin relationship with the princess, but he never thought of supporting Princess Tianping to be the next Wu Zetian.

The success rate of this matter is too low. Even if he was lucky, he ended up changing from a Shangshu to a right servant and adding "Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi". and did not support the eldest princess to become the empress, he continued to work on his qualifications under Li Xian, and sooner or later he also shot the left servant and added "three products under the same book"!

"Cui Shangshu, are you scared?" The voice of the tanuki girl continued to come, and every sound was ecstatic in people's ears, "Don't be afraid, the saint is in the world, and he has his own luck to push forward." This Tang Dynasty is destined to be the emperor by a woman, so that the wind and rain can be smooth, and the country and the people will be safe. You and I are just two ants attached to the saint's boots. As long as you hold the saint's boots tightly, one day, you will be Lingyun! And if you fall halfway, the end will be hard to say, at least you will be trampled on to pieces, or heavy, maybe it will be a disaster for the three clans!! ”

"I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid. When did I retreat?! Cui Xiang's eyes quickly turned red. He ripped off his clothes and walked towards the tanuki girl, eager to immediately crush this person under him and ravage him!