In the black box opened by Xu Jin, there was a stack of yellow deed papers.

The confused Du Yaren looked up at Xu Jin, and with the other party smiling and nodding his head of encouragement, he picked up the deeds and looked at them one by one.

The deed is naturally fine. Du Yaren swept his eyes and knew that these were serious red deeds that had passed the tax in the Yamen.

However, there is a problem with the contents of the deed. Duya is a gold medal professional real estate agent, and the location of every piece of land in Jiading and the surrounding areas is in his mind, so when he reads these deeds, his mind suddenly presents a "C" shape.

If Lao Du is traversing, then he will definitely shout "First Island Chain!" at this time! ”

Yes, if the various granges, mulberry gardens, fish ponds, and cotton fields on these contracts are intermittently connected, they just surround the Shanghai port of Bear Road.

Duya, who has seen countless treacherous waves in his life, already has a faint bad premonition at this time.

Seeing Du Yaren's puzzled eyes, Xu Jin Xu first smiled, and then he snuffed out the cigarette butt in a glass ashtray, overlapped his ten fingers, and placed it firmly on his lower abdomen, and then said to Du Yaren, "Since it is a Zhuangzi, you can exchange it for a crystal mirror, so I have so many pieces of land, how many things can I exchange for Master Xiong?" ”

Dense beads of sweat oozed from Du Yaren's forehead, and a coolness rose from his heart—he immediately realized the other party's intentions, and then he felt a strong sense of malice.

"Speaking of these places, not all of them belong to my Xu family." Xu Jin was still smiling at this time, but there was a little more indescribable flavor in his smile, "There are still some family businesses of close friends here." Lao Du, to tell you the truth, everyone came out of these places, and they were going to talk to Master Xiong and make friends. ”

Du Yaren's heart is already clear at this moment. He understood the point of Xu Jin's words, this is some big thresholds at the same level as the Xu family, and these people quietly gathered the plots around the dock, and wanted to take advantage of Master Xiong accordingly.

Thinking about the difficulties of Master Xiong when he collected the land, and then looking at the stack of land deeds that the Xu family threw in front of him, Du Yaren suddenly felt the huge strength behind Xu Jinshen, as well as the heavy pressure that was transformed from this.

So he asked a little dryly, "I don't know what Master Xu wants?" ”

"Well said." Xu Jin didn't play haha at this time, and his long face also turned cold, "The Xu family took these shares that were deed into Master Xiong's private port." From now on, every time a shipload of southern goods arrives, the Xu family will sell half of it. In addition, the Xu family also has half of the shares in those inn wine shops and workshops. ”

After Xu Jin finished speaking, he returned to his light and breezy appearance, "Speaking of which, your lord still has a big advantage, and the land on these deeds is much larger than that private port." ”

Seeing that Du Yaren's face became green and white, Xu Jin said to him gently, "Old Du, this is a good thing. Your lord wants to do business in this Huahua Jiangnan, and someone must escort him behind him, right? Half the stock isn't much. Go back and tell your master, what about me, I will spend the winter in this house this year, and Master Xiong can come over at any time to teach. ”

When Xu Jin said this, he reached out and picked up the tea bowl, but he didn't drink it; And no matter what the interested Duya people think in their hearts, it is certain that they will stand up and say goodbye on the spot.

Looking at the back of Du Yaren, Xu Jin sneered and put down the tea bowl.

Now it is the year of Chongzhen, and it has been almost a year since Xu Jie's first assistant and the year of Jiajing, which was scorching and indispensable.

In this period of time, although the descendants of the Xu family have always been out of the ranks and kept the family door from falling, after all, there has never been a giant like Xu Jie, so the family business has shrunk significantly compared to that year.

Of course, this so-called "shrinkage" also depends on who you compare with. Compared with the hundreds of thousands of acres of land that made people in the world smack when Xu Jie was alive, it must be far less; But compared with the normal gentlemen's family, the Xu family is still the strength of the top family of the Chongzhen Dynasty at the moment.

So when Xiong Dao and his private port became famous in the past six months, they went to the Xu family, who had a detailed look, and turned around and found out the reason why Du Yaren came to post in the first place.

At this time, the Xu family began to pay attention Xiong Dao thought that he had died down for more than half a year, and he felt aggrieved about it, but the Xu family and other gentlemen who saw the fat were not idle.

Therefore, Xiong Dao, a dick from later generations, still has a little bit of a grasp of the mentality of the top-level people - he thought about win-win cooperation before, but the real meat eater thinks about how to kill pigs and sheep.

People who are used to being predators, in this barbaric 17th century, how can they talk about cooperation with you, a spokesperson from outside the country? Brother Tai, when and month did you get the emperor list? What's on the list?

The half-split plan proposed by Xu Jin today, which is no different from robbery, was called "dedication" in ancient times, and it was called protection money in later generations.

Probably the only fig leaf is the title deeds.

This is actually a display of power and a threat to the Xu family's old craftsmanship of skillfully grabbing the land, and it was useless before, because the family road is gradually declining, and they dare not arouse public anger on a large scale. And now with the support of other gentlemen, Xu Jin has easily completed the stack of land deeds in the past six months, and it is quiet.

This is power, this is the naked threat of the title deed is just the first soup, if you don't accept it, there are many more means behind it.

Walking out of the door of Xu's house and looking up at the dazzling sun at noon, Rao is Duya people are used to seeing all kinds of tricks and robberies, and they still can't help but feel helpless about Xu Jin's lion mouth wide open.

Fortunately, Duya is just a rumor from beginning to end, and the matter of the title deed has little to do with him, at most it is just a little less commission.

So Duya sighed, and returned the same way with his servants, got on the ferry at the east gate of the county seat, and crossed the river to resume his life.

The Duya people did not need to rush back to the port thirty miles to the north, because there were people waiting for him in Yangjiadu.

Even in later generations, Yangjiadu, a transportation hub facing Shanghai's Dadongmen, still has customs and ferries, and in addition, the Jiangdi Tunnel passes through here.

After Du Yaren got off the boat at Yangjiadu, he connected with the two people waiting there. One of the two people, the younger Duya, is very familiar, and everyone has worked with a young man named Liu Qingyun.

After the two parties converged, they came to an inn at the ferry. In an upper room of the inn, Du Yaren told everything he had said in the Xu family.

Then under Liu Qingyun's repeated questioning, Du Yaren later also expressed some of his views and judgments on this matter.

During this time, Duyaren spoke with a dry mouth and kept drinking water, but he never noticed a blue handkerchief on the table.

After the two sides finished talking, the young man Liu Qingyun offered a piece of silver in both hands as a reward for Du Yaren, and then sent someone to send Lao Du out of the inn.

Lao Du went out with his front foot, and Liu Wang, who was alias Liu Qingyun, lifted the hand towel, picked up a small Sony tape recorder below, and handed it to his subordinates on the side, "Hurry up and send it back to the master." ”

"Yes!"

After that, Liu Wang went out again and turned into the side room of the small courtyard, and as soon as he entered the door, he said, "Send a report, I have important information." ”

The message quickly reached the Port Authority building, dozens of miles away.

Naturally, it is impossible to say in detail by telegram, but even so, the content of the message is enough for Xiong Dao to understand everything that happened in the Xu Mansion just now.

"Okay, good, people are harmful to the tiger, and the tiger hurts people's hearts, I can be regarded as leading the tiger out of the hole." Sitting in the office on the second floor of the Port Authority, Xiong Dao read the telegram with his front foot, and sneered with his back foot: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, these old men actually took over the surrounding land without humming or haha, good ability, good ability, it's really a shame that I didn't go to work in the demolition company." ”

After sighing, Xiong Dao's face sank, and he said to a few subordinates standing in the office, "Since this is the case, let's launch it, follow the plan, and master the rhythm." ”

"Yes!"

In the afternoon of the same day, the commercial area outside the port first ushered in a wave of climax, and the port authority released a large amount of inventory, and merchants from all walks of life immediately flocked to it.

Some of these goods are in the local general agent, after the manifest is released, the general agent stationed in the commercial area of the shopkeeper, only need to pay the payment can go to the warehouse area to pick up the goods.

For others who have not yet negotiated an agent, a public auction has begun.

At this time, it is the carnival of small and medium-sized businessmen. These dick silk merchants, who are usually not qualified to act as agents for certain goods, began to form temporary groups at this moment, and quoted loudly to the bills released with red eyes, and began to compete with the big businessmen viciously.

At the same time as the sales began, the subordinates of the big agents were already skillfully pulling cash boxes full of gold and silver to the port authority to settle the bill. At this time, the scene was spectacular, and the front of the second floor of the port authority was full of silver boxes brought by various households, a realistic version of the gold and silver sea.

And today, the mountain of silver piled up in front of the door of the building is extraordinarily wide - all the stocks in the warehouse have been taken out, and none of them have been left behind, and all of them have been sold.

By the end of the evening, the hustle and bustle had finally calmed down. In the afternoon, the merchants swept away all the goods that had been released by horse-drawn carts and boats. At this moment, the commercial area is finally empty, and a large number of merchants and guards are leaving with their goods.

The empty warehouse area also made it easier for the guards to reduce the number of people used for patrols in the future. Of course, the reduction in manpower does not mean that everyone will have nothing to do - although there is no need to prevent thieves from setting fire to the empty warehouse tonight, you can still go to someone else's house and set a fire, right?

So, late that night, located in the north of the port, there was a raging fire in the Xujia Zhuangzi, which is called "Old Mulberry Garden" by the locals, because there are several mulberry gardens in the Zhuangzi.

Then these mulberry gardens were poured with expensive "fire oil" in the middle of the night and burned down. It was a night fire that could be seen by anyone twenty miles away.