Chapter 279: Private Request

In this era when people in their thirties and forties can call themselves old husbands and fourteen or fifteen years old, calling a young man in his twenties a son is indeed a bit insulting. However, everyone didn't mean to refute, but were curious about what the boy of the Yang family had done to provoke the proprietor of Zhang to lose his grace so much.

"Master Zhang, what happened to Yang Chengping?" Someone laughed, and his tone seemed to be a little provocative: "If you really do something that is not respectful, and you don't bother to speak, we will definitely not sit idly by." ”

Everyone is a human spirit, knowing that this person has a grudge against Yang Chengping in the business field, they all laughed and said a few polite words that were not salty or light, as if they had agreed, but in fact, they did not express their position at all.

Zhang Dongzhu is also an old fox who has been in the shopping mall for a long time, how can he not understand the meaning of provoking, the left ear in, the right ear out, the right ear did not hear, politely expressed his gratitude, and said lightly: "The matter also has something to do with you, just now the next person reported that the Yang family boy ignored the agreement of the group and opened a shop to sell grain privately, and the price is the same as that of the official shop." ”

In fact, they didn't have any agreement with them at all, and when Zhang Dongzhu said this, he just wanted to arouse everyone's hatred and hatred. You must know that Yang Chengping's family has a big business, although it is not mainly engaged in the rice grain business, but there are several large grain shops under it, and the inventory is abundant, and the rice grain is not so easy to sell. Originally, according to their plan, they wanted to wait for the official warehouse to consume about the same amount of rice and grain before opening the door to do business, so as to achieve the purpose of manipulating market prices, but now Yang Chengping suddenly intervened, which naturally had an impact on their plan.

"The kid really doesn't know what to do."

"The hairy boy is shallow and doesn't know how to do business at all, and sooner or later he will lose his family business."

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Businessmen make profits, some people block their way to get rich, of course, they have expressed indignation and condemnation, but they just scolded happily, but no one said what plan to formulate to deal with Yang Chengping, it's not that they don't want to, the main thing is that they are afraid of the other party's background, then Yang Chengping is from a famous family, and it is clear by looking at the name, it is the son of the famous Yang family.

In later generations, when mentioning the Yang family generals, people will immediately think of the heroic deeds of Qilang and Eight Tigers breaking into Youzhou, the bloody battle on the golden beach, Mu Guiying being in charge, the Yang Men female general, the twelve widows marching to the west, and She Taijun being in command at the age of 100, however, this is just folklore, not the real Yang family in history.

Of course, the legend is of course apocryphal, but there are also some historical shadows, the Yang family, like the Cao family and the Gao family, is also a famous family of generals, famous in the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and the real Yang family is carried forward is Yang Ye and Yang Invincible, who made a great name in the anti-Liao campaign.

Yang Ye was good at riding and archery since he was a child, he entered the Northern Han Dynasty at the age of 20, and then attached to the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Taizong knew Yang Ye's prestige, awarded him the post of general of the left leading army, guarding Yanmen Pass, once the Liao army attacked from Yanmen, Yang Ye led hundreds of cavalry from the path to the back of the Liao army, and the troops of the general Pan Mei flanked the Liao army before and after, killed the Liao army and retreated, captured countless Liao generals, captured a lot of armor and horses, since then the Liao ** team saw Yang Ye's banner, left without a fight, and had the name of invincible.

According to the routine of the romance, Yang Ye made great contributions, and the main general who guarded the border was jealous of Yang Ye's prestige, and repeatedly wrote to Song Taizong, slandering Yang Ye, and this person is the traitor Pan Renmei, that is, the incarnation of Pan Mei, the general in the early Northern Song Dynasty, Pan Mei should feel very wronged, in fact, people's credit to the Song Dynasty does exceed Yang Ye, which can be described as a battle achievement, where will be jealous of Yang Ye, it can be seen that the ancient family is actually similar to the current one, and there are often hard injuries in the book.

However, Yang Ye was indeed betrayed to death, and that villain is likely to be Wang Xi, but Pan Mei was the main general at that time, so he took the black disaster, after Yang Ye's death, there were also sons who inherited the family business, among which Yang Yanzhao was the most famous, guarding the border for more than 20 years, painstaking, brave and good at fighting, after the alliance of Lan Yuan, Yang Yanzhao was trusted by Song Zhenzong because of his meritorious service in guarding the border, and he was repeatedly promoted.

Now it is the period of Renzong, although Yang Yanzhao has passed away, and there is no particularly outstanding flag-carrying figure among the three generations of the Yang family, it can be said that the official movement generation is not as good as the generation, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and no one present dares to underestimate the Yang family, people have been operating in the army for many years, and the relationship is intertwined, and for the sake of the same Jiangmen family, it has more or less some relationship with other prominent families, and it is married to the northwest family from generation to generation, supporting each other, and the solid family is not obvious, and the residual power is still there.

Besides, to put it mildly, the military bandits have been a family since ancient times, who knows if they offend people, will these soldiers find an opportunity to come back with personal revenge, if it is not necessary, no one dares to offend easily, so everyone is also addicted to it in private, even if Yang Chengping clearly does not know the stage, they are helpless.

In the eyes of these people, when the boss behind the profiteers was indignant, among the state officials, the officials were not calm, although they had full opinions about Fan Zhongyan, they also knew the truth of superiority and inferiority, and they spoke very politely and politely.

"Taishou, Xia Guan thinks that your decision just now is a bit rash."

"Xianggong's order, the lower officials also agree, in today's situation, the price of rice and grain is inevitable, although Xianggong is out of good intentions, but there is no need to be in a hurry, just like the treatment of seriously ill people, you should take it step by step, you can't take drastic medicine, and you can't take too much of it."

These are more euphemistic persuasions, reminders, and there are also direct expressions of opposition.

"Fan Gong, with all due respect, you shouldn't have given this order, now that the drought in Hangzhou has not disappeared, and the people are in a hurry, how can you do such a thing that disturbs the people's hearts because of the main thing to appease."

"I think that for decades in Hangzhou, food prices have been orderly, and now they have risen suddenly, and the people can't adapt for a while, and they are afraid that the people's hearts will be unstable."

"You don't need to say much, the old man has his own plans for this matter." Compared with the crowd of his subordinates, Fan Zhongyan seemed much calmer, and only after everyone persuaded him to come to an end did he smile and say, deliberately ignoring the doubts of his subordinates.

In fact, these officials also know that in the current situation in Hangzhou, the price increase of rice and grain is inevitable, and no one can stop it, and the reason why they complain is mainly because they are dissatisfied with Fan Zhongyan for not saying hello to them before he gave the order, which makes them feel neglected.

Of course, in addition, there are also many officials who sincerely plan for the people, worried about the suffering of the people, just when they wanted to continue to persuade Fan Zhongyan, a servant hurriedly rushed in, didn't care about breathing, hurriedly saluted and shouted: "Taishou, the court is in a hurry." ”

Well, Fan Zhongyan's thick eyebrows raised slightly, he originally wanted to take advantage of the crowd to find out about the local disaster situation in various counties, but now it seems that it can only be postponed.

Seeing that Fan Zhongyan had something to deal with, the officials had no choice but to shut up one after another, and retreated, and Fan Zhongyan did not stay, but just told the county magistrates not to return to their jurisdictions in a hurry, and to stay at the post station to wait for the summons.

Out of the yamen, officials who sincerely considered the people shook their heads and sighed, ready to find another opportunity to persuade Fan Zhongyan, and some officials with evil intentions sighed on the surface, but in fact, they were secretly happy in their hearts, and even had a dirty psychology, thinking about whether they should hand over a fold to the imperial court.

After saying goodbye to a few colleagues, he wanted to get on the sedan chair and return to the county office, but he didn't want to hear Zhang Yuanshan's voice behind him.

"Chuzhi County, wait a minute."

"What advice does Master Zhang have?" Chu Zhen slowly turned around and said with a smile, after a few contacts, Chu Zhen also found that although this Zhang Yuanshan was cold and arrogant on the outside, he was not a difficult person to get along with, and his official reputation among the people was also good, and he was a person worth associating.

"It's almost noon, I've been busy for a long time, presumably Brother Chu is also hungry, why don't I be the east, please go to Qingyun Tower with Brother Chu, I don't know what Brother Chu wants?" Zhang Yuanshan said, although there was no smile on his face, his attitude was indeed very relaxed, which was different from usual.

Convinced that he had heard correctly, Chu Zhen couldn't help but feel a trace of curiosity in his heart, and naturally he would not refuse, and accepted it without thinking.

Qingyun Building, adjacent to the state government, only separated by half a street, the name is good, a metaphor for the meaning of the green clouds, plus the layout of the building, the dishes are also very distinctive, Hangzhou officialdom people often patronize one or two, so although Qingyun Building is not the top restaurant in Hangzhou, but the business is a little prosperous.

However, affected by the disaster, many people also consciously began to save expenses, and the impact of rising food prices also had some impact on the business of Qingyunlou, but the people take food as the sky, even if they are worried, but after all, they have to eat, when Chu Zhen and Zhang Yuanshan came to the restaurant in a sedan chair, there were many people in the building eating.

"Two officials, please upstairs."

The man was very clever, and when he saw the sedan chair falling in front of the door, he hurriedly greeted him, and when he found out that it was two officials, he greeted him with a sincere smile.

The wing room on the second floor is very elegant, the furnishings are simple, the wall hangs several elegant landscape calligraphy and paintings, the pen is OK, although it is not from the famous family, but it should also be specially invited to come to the book, and the layout of the room sets off each other, very appropriate.

After habitually observing calligraphy and painting for a while, Chu Zhen turned around, but saw Zhang Yuanshan dividing tea, the silver-white water injection was condescending, splashing in the rabbit cup, blending with the tea foam, forming various patterns of different forms, and the light white steam wisps curling, exuding a faint fragrance.

Chu Zhi sat down gently, carefully watching Zhang Yuanshan's swaying movements, but sighed in his heart, maybe it was because of his poor talent, the teacher He Shi was obviously a master of tea separation, and he also had the heart to learn this chic and handsome tea division technique, but unfortunately no matter how he practiced, how He Shi instructed him, he just couldn't achieve the expected effect.

After many times without results, this made He Shi, who felt that the famous teacher was a high apprentice, changed his usual attitude of appreciating Youjia, and scolded the rotten wood for not being carved, and finally could only helplessly comfort and sigh, no one is perfect, no talent, and it is really forced.

Gestured with both hands, Chu Zhi carefully picked up the tea cup, the milky white tea soup was clear and shiny, close to the nose and sniffed slightly, the fragrance was refreshing, the sleeves were raised to drink it all, the aftertaste was endless, and a warm current overflowed from the chest all over the body, the pores were dilated, and it was extremely refreshing.

Compared with He She, the technology is slightly inferior, but since leaving the capital, I have never tasted such a fragrant soup, and it seems that for the sake of the desire of the tongue in the future, it is indispensable to help.

When tasting tea, Zhang Yuanshan wanted to speak several times and stopped, Chu Zhen was not blind, of course he could detect it, thought for a moment, gently put down the teacup, Chu Zhen smiled and said: "Brother Zhang has been working hard for days, and he is really hard." ”

It's not that Chu Zhen deliberately flattered, things were like this, Zhang Yuanshan was ordered to drain and irrigate farmland, surveyed the terrain and rivers all day long, went out early and returned late, sometimes even didn't return at night, and after a few days, he was indeed thinner than before.

"For the sake of the people, I dare not say that I am tired." Zhang Yuanshan solemnly bowed his hand, followed by a few modest words, and after a while, he finally couldn't help but speak: "Brother Chu, there is an inquiry below, please give me advice." ”

"Don't dare, Brother Zhang has a word, although he is outspoken, he will never deceive him." Chu Zhen smiled, and his curiosity increased greatly.

A red tide faintly flashed on Qingjun's face, Zhang Yuanshan hesitated, and then Ai Ai said: "I heard that Chu Zhen has a very close personal relationship with Shen Wentong and Shen Ruida. ”

This is a positive tone, now in the city of Hangzhou, who doesn't know that Chu Zhixian and Shen Bangyan are the same list of Jinshi, when Chu Zhi went to office, Shen Yu greeted each other, and these days, Shen Ruida often visited Chu Zhen in Qiantang County, and there were rumors that Chu Zhi had hired Shen Liao as a guest, everyone knew that Qiantang Shen Ruida was a talented and high-minded person, if it wasn't for the deep friendship with Chu Zhen and the shallow relationship, how could he agree to this.

"That's nature." Chu Zhen said without hesitation, although this rumor was spread by him intentionally or unintentionally, since Shen Liao did not clarify, it was naturally a tacit acquiescence.

After letting go, he took a breath quietly, and Zhang Yuanshan said: "It's so good, I want to ask Brother Chu for a favor, I don't know if it's okay." ”

"Brother Zhang is too polite, you and I are colleagues, how do you say please, even if you are told, as long as you can do it, you will never dare to refuse." Chu Zhi said righteously, but he didn't say anything.

"Then thank you Brother Chu first." Zhang Yuanshan smiled gratefully and said softly: "In two days, I will hold a banquet here, and sincerely invite Ruida, of course, and Brother Chu, you must appreciate your face." ”

It is not that Zhang Yuanshan is passive and lazy, but after days of hard work, people have completed the survey of the river that can be drained, as long as they are instructed to go down, their own craftsmen are responsible for excavation, and they can't let the county officials do this kind of rough work, as long as they patrol, supervise, and check the progress of the project from time to time, it is relatively natural and leisurely.

"No problem." Chu Zhi readily agreed, and the knowledgeable did not inquire carefully, but said: "After I go back, I will immediately tell Ruida what Brother Zhang meant." "Before confirming Shen Liao's meaning, Chu Zhen didn't dare to take care of everything, lest he say it but couldn't do it, and if he didn't say anything about bad people, he would end up with a reputation of not being trustworthy.

"Then please Brother Chu." Zhang Yuanshan didn't seem to hear it, and his face showed a little joy.

At this time, the restaurant also brought up the dishes, and when the sacrifice was made, the two of them were also exposed to the sun from time to time, and the energy consumption was a lot, although they were not hungry and thirsty, but in the face of the delicious food full of aromas, they did have a big finger, and the matter was negotiated.