June.

It's a summer season.

Tian He and tend to mature, both to prevent livestock from trampling on Tian He.

I also have to think about the errand of paying for food.

Just a few days after the weather became hotter, Caokou, who controlled Yancang Village, returned from the south of the glue.

He returned to the house with three shipowners and more than 100 shipwrights to celebrate the rich silver profits.

A Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal determines the profit and loss of the Ming Dynasty's treasury, and countless people rely on the canal that runs through the north and south of the Ming Dynasty to eat.

There are not only bureaucrats and gentry headed by the Donglin Party, but also ordinary people in all walks of life.

In order to ensure the transportation of grain, the government has formulated various rules.

The common people who begged for food in Caoyun were basically illiterate slender men, shipwrights, and coolies, and could not understand the various rules often promulgated by the government.

There was a Caokou that used to explain the laws and regulations of the government as a means of making a living, but most of them were composed of Xiucai who were poor and shoddy.

Every extra centimeter of revenue from the collection and transportation of grain will bring huge silver profits, and Caokou has the power to interpret the laws and regulations of the government.

These Caokou gradually formed a Cao Gang, which formed a set of rules around the collection and transportation of Cao grain.

Cao Gui.

The glue runs through the north and south of Laizhou Prefecture, involving a large number of grain transportation from official warehouses, and is related to the transportation of grain and salary at the northern border gates.

Caokou, who controls Yancang Village, is one of the many Caokou in a small Cao gang, and this time left Changyi County for Pingdu Prefecture, a subordinate prefecture in the south, to transport a sum of grain and grass.

Inside the Sun family's house.

More than a dozen tables were set up.

The table was quite sumptuous, with pork, chicken, and fish all on a large plate.

There is even a goose on each table, which is a luxury meat that can be sold for four dollars of silver, and the beef that the Changyi government allows to be slaughtered is only two cents of silver a catty.

A dozen geese alone cost four or five taels of silver.

However, compared to the silver earned from this trip, it is not worth mentioning.

This trip also earned two or three hundred taels of silver, and also took a line of Jin merchant shopkeepers.

Caokou has a total of three Pingsha boats, each of which has an owner, who is in charge of the cargo and shipwrights on the Pingsha ship.

The third shipowner glanced at the second shipowner and the big shipowner at the top, and saw that the second shipowner had the meaning of standing up and saying some flattering words, so he quickly got up and flattered: "This time it is still Caokou who has knowledge, otherwise how could we catch up with a shopkeeper of Jin Shang." ”

"Don't say anything else, this Pingdu Prefecture alone is scared enough, and I thought it was another state capital."

The middle-aged man sitting in the first place, wearing a Dongpo hat and a right shirt, looked very much like a talented man with a full stomach.

Hearing the compliment of the three shipowners, he couldn't help but smile, revealing a golden front tooth.

After seeing people, Caokou has a habit of always smiling and showing his teeth.

I also understand the meaning of the three shipowners, each Cao Gang has the territory of each Cao Gang, and the Cao Kou in each Cao Gang also has its own territory.

Usually, in order to compete for silver profits, there are often armed fights in various Cao Gang outlets, not to mention sudden intrusion into the territory of other Cao Gangs.

Cao Kou smiled and showed his golden teeth and said: "Zhili Prefecture is the big state of the Zhili Governor Division, which is equivalent to our Laizhou Mansion. ”

"The state is a small state that belongs to a prefecture like Laizhou or a large state, and there is a lot of knowledge in it, where will you know if you haven't read a book."

"It's not that you want to leave Laizhou Mansion, it's just a trip to Pingdu Prefecture in the south."

Speaking of this, Caokou suddenly remembered one thing, these shipowners have never left Yancang Village for half their lives, and they don't even know where the Yamen of Changyi County is, where do they know Pingdu Prefecture.

Caokou showed his gold teeth again, ready to show off a few more words of ink.

The second shipowner couldn't help but feel a little annoyed because he was preempted by the third shipowner, and quickly got up from the official hat chair and said: "If it weren't for Caokou's wisdom this time, where would I be able to sell grain for one or two or seven cents of silver and one stone." ”

"It's not like a certain shipowner who heard that it was a state, and was immediately so frightened that he couldn't even eat......"

Before he finished speaking, the third shipowner suddenly stood up from the official hat chair, glared at the second shipowner and scolded: "Sun Tzu, you are no better!" ”

The second shipowner, like the third shipowner, relied on good courage to become a shipowner, and they were not good at stubble, so they immediately scolded back.

The big shipowner looked at the two of them scolding back and forth, and sneered in his heart, knowing what the two of them were thinking.

It's just a fight for his place.

But how do they know that the big shipowner doesn't say that he can sit on it if he can fight, but he has to have a heart.

And he is one of the cronies who has been with him since he first joined the Cao Gang in Caokou.

Now there is no one left, only he is left, and the other cronies are all dead in the battle for turf.

No one knows the biggest reason why he became a big shipowner, and really thinks that his shipwrights are the most capable of fighting?

The big shipowner took a sip of the wine in the wine bowl, pretending not to see it, but he was watching the jokes of the second and third shipowners with his spare eyes.

There was only one thought in my heart.

The two of you know a fart, and this time you can sell it at such a high silver price, not because you have caught up with the Jin Shang shopkeeper.

The fundamental reason is that these grains were sold to the Eight Banners Lord, and only the Eight Banners Lord, who was short of grain, was willing to spend his blood to raise the grain from one or two cents of silver and one stone to one or two or seven cents of silver.

Is it really a Jin merchant who eats people and doesn't spit out bones?

Two unseen sausages.