It wasn't hot at all, and it was morning again, but he was sweating.

Don't get me wrong, although Master Gao is middle-aged and his figure is inevitably a little fat, he is still a very strong man. It's not that the kind of dough rich man who is so weak that he has to take tonic to deal with his concubine.

He may not have run a horse on his arm, but he has also faced dozens of swords and muskets without changing his face, but such a figure is in a cold sweat on a not hot late spring afternoon.

A month earlier, he received a letter from Yang Gonggong, saying that he had sent his righteous son, Yang Tianliang, to Guangzhou to discuss important matters with him. Gao Ju really couldn't tell what this important thing was, and his heart was beating a drum.

Stripping this eunuch of half of his life in vain made him feel painful, but over the years, he has also relied on the protection of Gonggong Yang, and he has come all the way without danger. Therefore, every year the interest dividends, he sent a lot of money to the capital or deposited in a pawnshop in Guangzhou according to his instructions.

Every year, he sends lychees in summer and treasures in winter, and he never dares to snub this big eunuch for a day, why did he suddenly send a little Yang Gonggong to discuss something important with him?

Event? Holding up and smiling bitterly, he is just a businessman, what is the big thing that can be discussed with this kind of palace master. It is nothing more than asking him to come up with a large sum of money to "use temporarily" and "repay the effect". And the amount is very huge, otherwise it is just a matter of letters, and Baba sent a "righteous son" over - it seems that Yang Gonggong is in a hurry! He sighed, the foreign wealth that fell from the sky a few months ago had to be spit out again.

Breaking some money is not the thing he fears the most. Since the Apocalypse Year was nine thousand years old, things in the palace have become more and more unfathomable. His backer Yang Gonggong came from Gao Shiming's disciple, and this high eunuch resigned voluntarily in the first year of the Apocalypse in order to protect himself. Yang Gonggong is also a character standing aside in the palace at the moment.

If the 9,000-year-old looks at Yang Gonggong unpleasantly? Gao Ju couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, he didn't like Yang Gonggong at all - but the use of each other for so many years had tied them together - like two grasshoppers on a rope. Gonggong Yang is finished today, and tomorrow the fans of Dongchang will come to knock on the door of his house, and the disaster of breaking the house and destroying the door will come.

This time, don't do it for that, right? Gao Gao began to sweat again, and couldn't help but roar:

"Fan!"

The maid who was waiting in the study hurriedly shook the Luo fan beside her, the breeze was gentle, and it was mixed with a wisp of the fragrance of the fat powder woman's body, if it was usual, how irritable the mood could be calmed down, but this would not work, I only felt that my whole body was hot, and I was so fierce that I stood up from the couch and scolded:

"Get out of here!"

The maids in the house were startled, and quickly shrunk their necks and bent down.

I was patient for a while, but I heard someone report:

"Steward Yan is here."

"Call him in."

Steward Yan came to report when he came to talk about Gao Qing, and the Australian maritime merchants had arrived.

"It's already there?" Raise your eyes and roll your eyes, this is good news. Somewhat gave him some euphoria. After all, you will see that it is always pleasant to give money. Recently, they no longer want porcelain, but all kinds of precious medicinal materials and spices, and some buy all kinds of hardwood and sandalwood. It is very confusing: things are not difficult to buy, and there are many in the city of Guangzhou -- the problem is that nine out of ten of these goods are produced by the West (Zheng He's Western Ocean under the West, not the later meaning), but all foreign maritime merchants have trafficked, and Weishenme Baba wants him to buy it on his behalf? This made him feel more and more strange about the origin of this group of maritime merchants.

This Gao Qing is also a waste, and he has been serving for more than two months in the past, and nothing has been detected. But he didn't expect this dumb man to find out.

I didn't care about it now, so I snorted and asked:

"How's the delivery going, is there anything new?"

"Back to the master, there are no new goods, and the small ones are looking at the numbers."

"Okay, let's ask them to come over and talk."

"The Australian gentleman also brought a ...... Well, the merchant came here," Steward Yan didn't know what to call the extra people this time, and he didn't know whether he was a man or a businessman on an equal footing.

"Please do it all together."

"The little one understands," Steward Yan stepped forward and whispered, "The newcomer this time seems to be a Lian family. Is it a master? ”

"Hmm." Gao Ju groaned for a while, and felt that there was no need for this, but Steward Yan's thoughts were also loyal to the Lord, so he ordered, "You send a message and ask Sect Leader Zhao to take a few guards to serve in the courtyard." Do not show your face. ”

"Yes, the little one understands." When Steward Yan saw that he had no other instructions, he was about to withdraw.

"Wait, the people who went to Shaozhou haven't sent back the news yet?"

"Nope. Xiao Yang's father-in-law only came out of the capital on the second day of the first month of March, and it is estimated that he has not yet reached the boundary of Nan'an Mansion. Ten more days will come. ”

"Tell the masters of Shuqi to find out the way to read all the letters related to Gonggong Yang, and check the number of roads of Gonggong Yang, how old he is, when he recognized Yizi, and what hobbies he has, and find them all for me."

"Yes, sir."

"Is there a new newspaper?"

"The masters on the book didn't say it, it should be. There was only one rush election in April. It's all the news of the appointment of officials, so it didn't come in......"

"What a bastard, quickly pass someone to get it!" This urgent election newspaper is different from the general palace newspaper, it is a list of officials transferred by the ministry, although there are no big officials, but Ye Luo knows the autumn, and the changes in the positions of small officials may also be able to see some of the wind direction of the imperial court.

After instructing things, I took a few sips of tea and settled down. Then he got up and went to the outer study to meet the guests.

Bei Wei passed through the wormhole for the first time, and now in the house of this Ming Dynasty, it was like a dream.

Being a scout was a long time ago, and no matter what I did after I left the army, I still worked hard to maintain the skills I had learned in the past. This time, he participated in the Crossing Trade, and the focus was on a simple staff trip to the underground activities of the future Canton.

Mr. Gao is their collaborator, but he is only a collaborator. Since it was a simple profit-seeking cooperation, he could betray the crossing crowd at any time, and this matter must be guarded against.

If other shili intervene in it, they will endanger Master Gao for their own purposes, causing their cooperation to be unsustainable, and for the purpose of protecting the collaborators and protecting this channel, they must also prepare in advance.

From the time he left the back door of the Guangzhou branch to the time he walked into the mansion, Bei Wei walked with a peculiar stiff pace, each step being a standard eighty centimeters. He carries a portable video camera in his carry-on bag that automatically photographs the environment he walks through, and even more reliable than this is his eyes and brain: recording every portal he walks, every yard, where there is a turn, where there is a door......

The unrelated servants in the house were all sent away by Steward Yan, but the strange behavior of this new Australian still made a few of the family members who led the escort whisper. However, they were also very envious of the sturdy physique--I am afraid that the average family member will not be able to make three moves under him.

Both the guest and the host are polite at the moment. In order to avoid unnecessary entertainment, it was already set before departure: Beiwei was a guard brought by the Australian maritime businessmen, so he only sat behind Mr. Wen, with his hands on his knees, and did not move at all. But the eyes are looking in all directions.

Although it is called the outer study, it is actually a complete small courtyard, and this hall is not small. Bei Wei's eyes swept and he knew that there were eleven Ming people in the hall: the old man Gao, a steward who led the way, a guard, two waiting girls, two small servants, and four other family members in the four corners of the hall.

The four family members are well-proportioned, small and sturdy, and they can be known as the Gao family's nursing home without asking. Their shirts are a little too fat, and I'm afraid they are all guys with iron rulers inside.

And that's only part of the story. From the moment Bei Wei entered this courtyard, he found that behind the rockery and trees in the courtyard, there were four other guards standing inconspicuously.

The real master is probably the guard who stands behind Master Gao and controls the door leading to the side wing. Dressed in a cyan arrow sleeve shirt, he stood silently with his hands down, but there was a slight exposure of the aura on his body.

I don't know how powerful these martial arts masters of the Ming Dynasty are. Bei Wei's heart was itching, if he had the opportunity to fight with them, he would not miss it. He is very interested in traditional Chinese martial arts, and the martial arts he learned in the army are mainly modern fighting, and he does not dabble in traditional martial arts. He also went to watch some martial arts performances, and always felt that it was not enjoyable: there were too many ingredients in it that were embroidered with fists and legs, and the real combat jishu did not show it.

Mr. Gao and Mr. Wen continued their business, and both of them were a little absent-minded. One is thinking about Yang Gonggong's affairs, and the other is considering the expansion of the Guangzhou rudder.

The main purpose of Wen Desi's visit this time was to expand this Guangzhou rudder.

The current foundation is good, but it is still too closed. All of their foreign exchange is carried out through exaltation, which is not conducive to the future development of trade and intelligence work. One of the ideas of the Executive Committee is to "go out" as much as possible and recruit more agents -- not only businessmen like Mr. Gao, but also officials, scholars, and ordinary people.

Of course, they can't do it at this time, they look weird, their voices are peculiar, and they are the fate of being watched by people when they go out, but the family members who held them up and gave them another chance. As long as we can win the hearts of Gao Qing's family, the road in the future will be wider and wider.

The talks ended quickly, the bills of goods from both sides were delivered, and the deal was settled, and the goods were shipped in silver, and naturally someone would transport them, and they would not bother with it. Master Gao was anxious to go to the study to read the materials sorted out by the masters, and he had no intention of keeping a meal politely, so he ordered someone to send a table of banquets over.