Han Xiufeng and the local gentry's words, Du San heard it clearly, thinking of a civil official like Zhang Yiguo and Wu Wenxi, the governor of Huguang, and Wu Wenming, the younger brother of Wu Wenrong of the Sichuan Salt Tea Ceremony, all put life and death out of the way, but he, a military attache from the fifth grade who was born in martial arts, was so greedy for life and afraid of death, his cheeks were really hot.

But I'm sorry, I'm sorry, he doesn't want to die in a foreign country. just drooped his head and followed Han Xiufeng back to the small courtyard stupidly.

Looking at the way he wanted to speak and stopped, Han Xiufeng knew what he wanted to say, and then looked at the six Ba County fellow villagers who had just followed up, and couldn't help but look up and ask, "Big brother, what are your plans next?" ”

"Second brother, I'm not afraid of your jokes, my brother always wanted to come out when I was in the camp, and now that I have come out thanks to you, I am like a lost soul of the six gods without a master, how can I have any plans."

"You don't want to go back to your sister-in-law sooner?"

"Why don't you want to, but how can you go back empty-handed." Du San scratched his neck and said with an embarrassed face: "Thousands of miles for officials only to make money, and I came out at that time to make money as an official." Now although the official has done it, the silver has not been earned, what is the use of just one from the top of the five grades? ”

Think about it, what can he do when he goes back to his hometown like this, the mother-in-law and the baby still have to eat bran vegetables as before.

Han Xiufeng sighed secretly, then raised his head and asked, "Ding Er, what about how many of you?" ”

Ding Eryi hurriedly knelt down and said: "Master Han, everything is up to you, you let the little one go back to his hometown, and the little one will go back." You let the little one stay on an errand, and the little one is begging for food here Master Han. ”

"Master Han, the same goes for the small ones, and the little ones listen to you."

Liu Bengui was so bold that he couldn't help but say: "Master Han, you are already the deputy master of Yun, there is a battalion under your command, but there are few family members around, the little one doesn't want to go back to his hometown, and the little one wants to be an errand with you." ”

"So, you don't want to go back to your hometown?"

"Second brother, why did we go back to our hometown without making any money?" Du San said with a bitter face.

Han Xiufeng nodded, pondered for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "It's not difficult to make money, and you don't even need to be an errand with me." But this money is hard money, I don't know if you can endure that hardship. ”

"Second brother, as long as I can make money, brother, I am not afraid of hardship!"

"Aren't you afraid?"

"I'm not afraid!" Du San patted his chest and said.

Han Xiufeng weighed it again, looked at them with a smile and said, "You are all from Xiang Shuai, you must know that there are many fellow villagers in the Jiangnan camp, and you even have some friendship with those fellow villagers. Now they are all in military affairs, and they can't go back to their hometown for a while, and they can't even find anyone to carry their letters to their hometown. If you are not afraid of hard work, you can go back to the camp in Jiangnan and ask those fellow villagers if they want to send letters home. ”

Du San was stunned, and asked with a smile: "Second brother, how much money can you earn by helping to deliver letters." Besides, Jiangsu is so far away from Sichuan, and the road is not very smooth, how long does it take to make a round trip, and the little money is not enough to entangle! ”

"You can't make a lot of money by carrying letters, but what about helping so many fellow villagers to exchange money in their hometowns?" Han Xiufeng asked rhetorically, and explained with a smile: "There are not five thousand but three thousand Sichuan villagers in the Jiangnan camp, you tell me, which of them doesn't want to bring a letter to their families, and who doesn't want to bring money home." This is a big deal, as long as you are not afraid of hardship or tiredness, you can earn three or five thousand taels a year! ”

"But they don't necessarily believe me!"

"What about me, do you think those fellow villagers will believe me?"

"Master Liu must believe you, and it will be difficult for others to say."

"Isn't it enough to have Master Liu?" Han Xiufeng smiled and continued: "This is a business, doing business is about word of mouth, and word of mouth is word of mouth!" Liu Cunhou believes in me Han Xiufeng, and the old man Xue you mentioned last time will probably believe it, as long as Master Liu and Master Xue believe in us, other fellow villagers will naturally believe it. ”

"Second brother, according to what you say, I found that this is really a good deal, but it is not easy to help them bring back the silver!"

"You don't need to send it to Sichuan, just help them send the letter and silver to Taizhou. You know the Shanxi big ticket number 'Rishengchang', and now people have set up a branch in Taizhou. I'll help you say hello to the shopkeeper of the Taizhou branch, and he will send Mr. Fang to go to Jiangnan Daying with you, and how much silver you want to send to Sichuan to issue a bill of exchange on the spot, which is the safest. ”

"But after being sent to Sichuan, 'Rishengchang' seems to have set up branches in Chengdu and Ba County in our Sichuan."

"On our side, there are you from Jiangnan Daying to Taizhou. When the money is remitted to Ba County, there is my father-in-law over there in Ba County. You connect this end, my father-in-law connects the other end of the hometown, and the farthest journey in the middle has 'Rishengchang', how much silver can you tell me that can't be remitted? ”

"Oops, I almost forgot that your father-in-law was on an errand in the mansion! Second brother, this business is good, I'm not afraid of hardship, I'll do this! The more Du San thought about it, the more excited he became, and said with his eyebrows fluttering: "And this is not just a transaction, but also a favor for fellow villagers, maybe even Xiang Shuai will ask us to help his old man bring letters and money home." ”

"Big brother, the way to make money is given to you, but things must be done for others. It's not a big deal if the letter is lost, if something goes wrong with the money, not only will my reputation Han Xiufeng be ruined, but you people who handle it will not have a good time. ”

"Second brother, I know the severity!" Du San hurriedly said: "What we do is all the business of the villagers, and all the money we help to remit to our hometown is the silver that the villagers exchanged for their lives, not to mention that the hands and feet are not clean and greedy for other people's silver, even if we lose it due to natural disasters and man-made disasters, we can't explain it to others!" ”

"It's good to know."

"You know, this is no joke, our customers are not just fellow villagers. If you are greedy for other people's money, you will really have your life to make money and not to spend it. ”

"In this case, I will help you write a few letters, you take my letters to Taizhou first, what to do with the transaction of sending letters to families and remitting silver to Sichuan, the shopkeeper of the Taizhou branch of 'Rishengchang' will definitely come up with a charter, and you will listen to him in the future."

"Okay, this will bother the second brother."

……

Han Xiufeng said that he would write, and helped write a letter to Xiao Wuzi and Liu Cunhou, left them for a lunch, and asked Lu Daming to find a boat to send them to Taizhou.

Ren Yu'er didn't expect Du San and the others to leave, as soon as Han Xiufeng came back from Zhongbakou, she couldn't help but ask: "Fourth brother, I finally came to a few fellow villagers, why did you just send them away, why didn't you leave them on an errand?" ”

"It's not like you haven't heard, they want to earn silver, and you can earn a few taels of silver a year as an errand boy with me." Han Xiufeng sighed lightly and said with a smile: "Besides, I am different from other officials, not only do I not need so many family members around me, but I can't even keep too many family members. ”

"Why can't you stay?" Ren Yu'er asked with big eyes.

"Do you know what your brother and I can do today?"

"You have people in the court, there are adults in the capital to carry you, and in Jiangsu, you have the same people as Lord Guo."

"That's one reason, but I wouldn't be where I am today just because of the adults supporting your brother." Han Xiufeng raised his arm, pointed in the direction of the Baojia Bureau, and said, "At least in Taizhou, if I want to be stable and long, I can't do without the help of Dean Gu and other local gentry." I am not following the customs of the locals now, but I really regard myself as a Hai'an person, if I let Du San and them stay, even if Dean Gu and they don't have any ideas, the people below will also have ideas. ”

"Really!" I didn't feel anything before, Han Xiufeng said that Ren Yu'er suddenly found that Master Han was really different from other officials, especially the relationship with the local gentry, it was really good, even those who did business in the town didn't treat him as an outsider, even if he was no longer a local official, he still regarded him as the biggest official in Hai'an.

"It's time to get down to business." Han Xiufeng didn't want to delay his efforts any longer, and looked through the books that Zhang Guangcheng and Pan Er sent from Taizhou two days ago.

The west wing room is no longer full, and the hall is piled up everywhere, this is only a small part of it, and the Mingdao Academy is as piled up as the Fengshan Academy.

Ren Yu'er sat opposite him, and snickered while helping to check it: "Fourth brother, if you knew that you had collected so many books in just a few days, many of which were precious and solitary, those who couldn't afford to read would be envious." ”

"Don't talk about those who read, if it was three or five years ago, even I would be envious." At the mention of this, Han Xiufeng looked up at the room full of books, and couldn't help but smile: "It's all sent over, don't expect me to send them back again." After two years, I have to bring all these books back to Ba County, there are so many books, my Han family is not a scholarly family but also a scholarly family! ”

"How big is it to put so many books?"

"Really, but there is a way. People told the old people to return to their hometowns to repair bridges and pave roads, and do a good deed every day. I won't build bridges and pave roads, I'm going back to my hometown to build a academy and donate money to support education! ”

……

Talking and laughing, time flies, and the sun sets in a blink of an eye.

Han Xiufeng asked Ren Yu'er to go back earlier as usual, and after Ren Yu'er went back, she couldn't help but quarrel with Yu Sangu, and she dragged it out until dark. Unexpectedly, as soon as she left, Chu Chenggui and Guan Renhai, who were supposed to be on an errand in the Yunsi and the state government, not only came back, but also brought two uninvited guests.

"Rich man, why are you here!"

"Didn't I miss you?" Fugui was busy picking up the letter entrusted to him by Huang Zhongyin and others, and said excitedly: "Fourth master, I heard that you have been promoted to two Huaiyun vice-presidents, Master Huang, Master Ji and Master Ao, they don't know how happy they are, not only set off guns to celebrate, but also set up several tables of banquets, please the old men in Beijing, the director of the provincial pavilion Zhang, and even the neighbors of the guild hall have been invited!" ”

"Really?"

"What are you lying about, I ran to the hall as soon as I received the invitation, and I was drunk high that night."

Han Xiufeng nodded, beckoned him to sit down, and asked, "Rich man, aren't you on an errand in Chongwenmen, and you are no longer doing your errand in Chongwenmen?" ”

"That errand is unknown to others, but you know, Fourth Master, how can you do it for too long. I thought that I wouldn't be able to do it for a few more days, so I asked some money to ask the old men of the Internal Affairs Office to help me find another errand. As a result, people said that there was a vacancy in Yangzhou Guan, and no one was willing to come, so they asked me if I was willing. ”

"Rich man, I think you have been fooled."

"What did you do?"

Han Xiufeng couldn't help but smile and said: "Yangzhou has been occupied by bandits, the canal has long been blocked, now how can there be commercial goods from Yangzhou, I heard that the grain has to be transported by sea, Yangzhou Pass is either occupied by bandits or suspended, you have come all the way to collect whose taxes?" ”

"I know all of that."

"Why do you know why you're here?"

"If you don't come to Beijing, you will be idle," Fugui took the freshly brewed tea from Chu Chenggui's hand, and said with a smile: "Yangzhou Pass is now suspended, and now it can't collect taxes, but sooner or later it will be reinstated." Others don't know, you know, Fourth Master, I have been waiting for the errand in Chongwenmen for eight years, and waiting for a year and a half for the errand in Yangzhou is really nothing. ”

Han Xiufeng reacted, and couldn't help but point at him and smiled: "I remembered, I remembered, I almost forgot that you didn't open your errand, rich man, and it was not for three years to eat, but for ten years!" ”

"Let the fourth master smile, there is a big family to raise, I can't help it, and you naturally can't compare with the fourth master." Seeing that Jing Hua who came with him wanted to stop talking, Fugui hurriedly put down the teacup, turned around and introduced: "Fourth master, I almost forgot, this is my brother-in-law Jing Hua, who helped you go to those criminal officials' houses to pull things when renovating the guild hall, do you remember?" ”

"I said why is it so familiar, it turns out to be your brother-in-law."

"Jinghua has seen Master Han."

Seeing that his brother-in-law got up and wanted to kneel down, Han Xiufeng hurriedly got up and held up: "I can't help it, Brother Jinghua, if I remember correctly, you seem to be a royal noble, I, Han Xiufeng, don't dare to accept your gift." ”

Without waiting for Jinghua to speak, Fugui said angrily: "What kind of royal nobles are just an idle clan that is so poor that they clang. If I hadn't helped him over the years, he wouldn't even be able to eat, and he wouldn't even be able to support his mother-in-law and children! ”

"Brother-in-law, why don't you open any pot and mention which pot......" Jinghua said with a bitter face.

"What are you embarrassed to say to the fourth master, if you don't tell the fourth master the truth, the fourth master won't know?" Fugui asked rhetorically, then turned around and said, "Fourth master, if it weren't for your sister-in-law nagging in her ear every day, I wouldn't have brought him here." In order to help him get out of Beijing, I not only had to stick to the plate, but also had to help him go to the masters of the Zongren Mansion, which cost fifty taels of silver! ”

Thinking that the idle clan is the same as the clan, and the same surname as the saint Aixin Jueluo, under normal circumstances, he is not allowed to leave Beijing for forty miles, Han Xiufeng asked curiously: "Rich master, what is the reason why Brother Jinghua went to Beijing this time?" ”

"What other reason can there be besides going to Jiangbei to serve."

"Then did you go to Qishan's Qin Mission?"

"Didn't go," without waiting for Fugui to speak, Jinghua said eagerly: "Fourth Master, do you think I look like I can fight?" Besides, I am old and young, I dare not die and cannot die, and I dare not go to borrow a few guts. ”

"Don't go to Jiangbei Camp to report, what if the Zongren Mansion investigates."

"So I want to ask the fourth master for a favor and see if I can help him find an errand." Fugui said expectantly.

Han Xiufeng was ridiculed, and said with a bitter face: "Rich man, Brother Jinghua has a noble status, and he was born to be the fourth grade!" Either you don't want to be an official, you can only do the four grades or more. Isn't it a joke that you asked me to help the Jinghua brothers correct the shortage of the fourth grade? ”

"There are too many things to do, and Jinghua doesn't have to be a civil official, so he can't do it if he wants to. Fourth master, you can help, see if you can help him find a fourth-grade military attache who doesn't have to go into battle to do it. ”

"Yes, Fourth Master, if I really can't get by, I won't come all the way to beg you."

Thinking that the salt fishing camp happened to lack a capital division, and the capital division could not always be empty, and there was no suitable candidate for a while, even if there was a suitable candidate, it was not easy to ask Lord Guo to protect it, after all, it was the fourth product after all, Han Xiufeng's eyes suddenly lit up: "I can help with the way, but this matter is not urgent." ”

Fugui thought that Han Xiufeng wanted money, so he leaned into Han Xiufeng's ear and said: "Fourth master, I know, I know, how easy it is to find an errand." I understand those rules, but Jinghua even helped me to wrap up the entanglement all the way to Taizhou, and I really can't take out the money to do the activities. But don't worry, when he earns money as a Shangguan, let him take as much as he wants, if he can't get it, you come to me! ”

"Rich man, you misunderstood, what kind of friendship do you have with me, your business is my business, isn't talking about money a slap in my face?"

"Fourth master, friendship is friendship, and rules are rules."

"Since there are any rules to talk about friendship, but when it comes to rules, there is really one, but it is not how much money it costs to seek a shortage, but how much money cannot be earned after this shortage."

"If you have an errand, you can eat with a mouthful, and it doesn't count!"

"Yes, Fourth Master, I just want to eat with a mouthful of food."

"Okay, I'll help you settle down first, and I'll help you figure out a way to deal with the shortage early tomorrow morning."