In the courtyard of the Liang family at night, quietly, like this riverside courtyard, most of them are the rich gentry and wealthy families outside the city, often symbolizing the prosperity of their family business, in previous years, every summer, those wealthy gentry in the city will come to their own courtyard located outside the city, enjoy the rare refreshing, enjoy the leisurely life under the east fence of picking chrysanthemums.

Of course, with the decline of the family business, the first to be sold was the other industry outside the city and the land around the other industry, which was also a kind of hedging investment for many wealthy gentry in the city. Although the Liang family has long since declined, this courtyard is still quite neat, but not many people know that before the end of last year, this riverside courtyard changed owners.

"Second brother, when I return to my hometown, when the time comes, I will leave it all to you."

In the study, Fan Sanba looked at his second brother and admonished.

"The eldest brother can rest assured, the younger brother knows what to do."

Although he is the second young master of the Fan family, Fan Sanlun has always listened to the orders of the eldest brother like a sound worm, there is no way, after all, the eldest brother is like a father, not to mention, when his father is not there these years, the eldest brother is in charge of the family's business, and he only has to obey.

"It's not that I don't know, but I can't go out of any way, these millions of stone grain may not be worth much money when we buy it, but after the beginning of spring, these grains are the life-saving of the people in the capital, this time Prince Rui entered the customs, burned all the way along the canal, dozens of granaries along the river were mostly affected by the military disaster, and there was little grain left in the warehouse, at least before today's Jiangnan Cao grain entered Beijing, the millions of soldiers and civilians in the capital wanted to live, they had to have food, and at that time, these grains were expensive......

Sighing, Fan Sanba walked to the window, pushed open the window, looked at the mountains of grain in the courtyard, and couldn't help but sigh.

"This is grain, and it is clearly a silver mountain!"

As a businessman, for Fan Sanba, he has always only had interests in his eyes, and it is precisely because of this that he will make a plan with his father, by providing the Qing army with information on the emptiness of defense in the Guannei, and the official army are suppressing the Kou in Jingxiang and other places, leading the Qing army into the Kou, burning and looting along the way, it seems that the Fan family has not received much return, but in fact, Fan Sanba knows very well that with this transaction alone, the Fan family can make a profit of at least tens of millions of taels of silver.

Since Yongle moved north, in order to ensure the supply of grain to the capital and millions of soldiers and civilians in the north, dozens of large and small granaries have been built along the capital and around the canal, and the millions of Shijiang Nancao grain in the warehouses are related to the livelihood of millions of people. When the Qing army entered the Kou, it naturally did not let go of those granaries, although because the granaries were guarded by warehouse soldiers, but they could not withstand the fires caused by rockets.

Those fires may not burn all the food, but they can burn about the same. For the Fan family, the opportunity naturally came.

"Big brother, I know, didn't the third uncle write from the capital yesterday to say that the price of grain in the capital has risen by more than fifty percent, and those grain merchants have noses that are smarter than dog noses, so many granaries have suffered from military disasters, and millions of mouths in the capital are waiting for food, as long as they wait for another month, our grain here will definitely be sold at a high price at that time!"

Fan Sanlun said and laughed, when he looked at the mountains of grain piled up in the yard, like his eldest brother, he didn't think about how the grain was obtained at all, and for him, what he saw was also the huge profit behind it. This is a return of tens of millions of taels, and this business alone can make the Fan family a huge rich man who rivals the country, this single deal...... It's worth it!

"Big brother, your trick is absolutely amazing, Prince Rui enters the customs, no matter what, he can't take everything away, especially things like food, if you can't take it away, you can only burn or discard it in vain, sell it to us, how much can you sell it for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and when you don't take it, our handover, but it is dozens of times the profit, if you toss it a few more times, our Fan family is really rich and rival the country......"

The words of the second brother made Fan Sanba shake his head and say.

"Second brother, this kind of business is also a transaction, you also see, "soldiers are like combs, bandits are like grates" This trip is a robbery, hundreds of miles along the river are uninhabited, next time they will come ......"

Shaking his head, Fan Sanba sighed.

"I'm afraid that even if we have the heart, we won't be able to get so many things, after all, ......"

After all, everyone is almost killed, and there is no one left, so naturally you won't be able to grab anything next time.

"Hey, that's a shame......"

"yes...... It's a pity! ”

After sighing, Fan Sanba commanded again.

"Oh, by the way, there are those things, they have to be hidden, those things are not ours, those things are Prince Rui, they are things of the Qing Kingdom, they are just temporarily stored in us, maybe they will be shipped out of the customs in the future, this time Prince Rui did not bring them back, because there are too many things, so they are left to us, if the things are lost, when the time comes, the emperor and Prince Rui will blame it, maybe we will have to let our family pay the silver, this loss of silver does not matter, and more importantly, if the emperor no longer believes in our Fan family, it will be all over." Do you understand? ”

The eldest brother's command made Fan Sanlun smile.

"Big brother, look at what you said, those things are well hidden there, who can know except us, what they know is those Zhuang Ding, those things are useless to them, as long as they give enough silver, they will not talk nonsense."

"It's always right to be careful, the business that our Fan family does is not an ordinary business, although there are fellow villagers in the capital, but you have to be careful, after all, ......"

Pursing his lips, Fan Sanba sighed in his heart, this business may be rewarding, but once something goes wrong, he has to lose his head, and he can't take it lightly.

"After all, our business is not a fair business, be careful, these years, if it weren't for my father and his old man who have been careful, maybe something would have happened to this business a long time ago, those people in the capital, when nothing happened, they would give us a carry, but once something happened, they skimmed one by one clearer than anyone else, those people only have silver in their eyes, and when it comes to the critical time, they are more ruthless than anyone else, so, in the final analysis, we still have to be careful, understand?"

"Little brother understands."

Glancing at his little brother again, he naturally believed in his own brother, but it was inevitable that he would say a few more words.

"Okay, you go back and rest first, don't send me tomorrow......"

After the second child went to rest, just when Fan Sanba wanted to sleep, he heard a knock on the door, and then heard the shouts of the scholar.

"The eldest young master, the eldest young master, the urgent letter of the lord ......"

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A recommended novel by a friend "The Last Ruthless Man of the Ming Dynasty", a very good novel, the absolute first handsome.