Looking at the team that walked away, with more than 100 carts and dozens of captives, leaving himself with more than 200 neatly stacked heads, the corpses that were still bubbling with blood that had not yet coagulated in the cavity on the bank of the moat, and the dozens of corpses still floating on the water in the moat, Xin'an County ordered Lord Wu Wenming to sit on the ground, not knowing whether to cry or celebrate.

The people under the city directly told him that today's incident was only a slight punishment, and if this kind of thing happens in the future, it will be killed into the city, and no one of the gentry will be left!

"My lord! My lord? The garrison next to him was very flattering to help Wu Wenming up, "This group of people and horses went to Huizhou through the Yantian and Longgang lines. ”

"No matter where you go, as long as you don't make trouble in my Xin'an!" Master Wu let out a long breath.

After seeing from afar that the last group of men and horses was out of his sight, and sure that there would be no ambush, Lord Wu ordered the city gate to be opened and let those sufferers and family members who had their families killed go out of the city to collect their corpses.

In order to prevent someone from ambushing outside the city, Lord Wu was very cautious, opening the city gate first, letting those people who were crying and screaming out of the city, and after everyone had gone out, he closed the city gate and lowered the drawbridge.

The hundreds of sufferers swarmed across the drawbridge, and immediately there was a mess under the city, recognizing corpses, crying, cursing, tearing and beating each other, and the noise was a headache.

"Gentlemen, please!"

After taking a sip of hot tea, Wu Wenming made a circle towards the group of gentlemen around him. Most of these people are squires who live in the county, and there are also many shops in the city.

"Everybody saw it, too. Today, the bandits are attacking the city, if my Xin'an County leads the team out of the city to fight, I'm afraid that the gentlemen won't be able to sit here and enjoy tea, right? ”

"However, the thieves and bandits are very powerful, and most of the people who go out of the county to resist the enemy are killed or wounded, so I invite you to come here today to discuss how to deal with this aftermath?"

After everyone heard this, their hearts settled down, and it turned out that they were talking to all of us about how to apportion! In the past, there were officials crossing the border, or when the expenses of non-governmental public welfare were not easy to settle. The officials will discuss with the gentry. This fee is allocated to Shengdou Xiaomin, of course, the gentlemen with merit do not have to pay a penny. On the contrary, because you adults and gentlemen have to worry about laborious organization. Instead, you need some money to pass over the allowance. It is used as a brush. Otherwise. Who's going to give you the opportunity to organize such a thing?!

Mr. Deng, the shopkeeper of the auspicious pawnshop in the city and also engaged in foreign exchange business, is also famous for his talent and is old. Moreover, he is the grandson of the eldest family of the most powerful and powerful Deng family in the county, and he is the head of this group of gentlemen. At that moment, he stood up and saluted Master Wu.

"The adults are so kind, and the students are so sympathetic. But I don't know how to finance it? ”

After some deliberation and bargaining, Lord Wu finally agreed with the adults and gentlemen that according to the standard of charging three yuan of silver for each ordinary shop, eight yuan of silver for each medium shop, and ten yuan for silver for the high-class shop, the reason why the high-class shop received less was for no other reason, the owners of the high-class shops were here to discuss the price, and the people who made the rules could make themselves pay more?! As for the ordinary people in the city, it is levied according to the standard of 500 Wennan Zhong Yuan for each man and 200 Yuan for each old and weak woman and child.

After sending away a group of gentlemen, Master Wu and Master Gao Chang calculated the account expenses together, each deceased was given a bereavement pension of five yuan, three yuan for burning and burying, and the head of the team and the general and other characters were paid twice, which was only more than 2,000 yuan, and the income apportioned in the city alone was deducted from the interception of the gentry, at least around 10,000 taels. simply took out another 2,000 yuan and went to the provincial capital to make a point or two, turning the funeral into a happy event. Perhaps, this promotion of his will be completed!

Sent the master to his small courtyard to rest, Master Wu returned to his study, changed into civilian clothes, drank the handsome little scholar sent rock sugar lily soup, looked at the scholar's snow-white and pink face, couldn't help but jump frogs under his crotch, and sang in his mouth: "It turns out that this is all over the place, and it seems to be like this." The beautiful scenery of the good day is what the day, and the courtyard is pleasing to the house! Morning and twilight rolls, clouds and clouds; The rain and the wind are sheets, and the smoke waves paint the boat. Jinping people look at this Shaoguang cheap! ”

While singing in his mouth, his hands were not idle, and he pulled the scholar over him, and then sent a pair of small hands of the scholar into his clothes, "Good boy, you see that Da Da has sweated so much today, can you bathe with Da Da in a while?" ”

The scholar took a sip, his face flushed with shame, and Lord Wu was even more in love when he saw this, and he was about to do it further, when the messenger at the door was very sad.

"Sir, a guest has come to visit."

Seeing that he was about to enter the port, but someone came to disturb him at this time, Lord Wu was a little angry no matter how self-contained.

"What people?! Can you have a famous post? ”

"I don't know who it is, and I don't have a name!"

"Bastard King Eight Lambs! I don't have a name post, and I don't know who it is, so you go to the master to get it? ”

After listening to Lord Wu's scolding, the messenger secretly pinched the two hard silver dollars in his hand from time to time, and for the sake of money, he took everything that Lord Wu said as a deaf ear.

When Lord Wu scolded him a little thirsty and tired, and drank lily soup there with a porcelain bowl, he replied to Lord Wu slowly.

"Someone said that he has a relationship with the adult, and he is the old man in the city today! Sue sù small, you must bring this to you, as for whether the adult is willing to see him, it depends on the adult's own blessings. This is his original words, the small ones dare not specialize. ”

The voice of the hearing messenger was still the same as just now, unhurried, neither high nor low, gentle and polite, but it exploded in Lord Wu's ears like a thunderbolt, and then, a series of explosions that seemed to be continuous sounded in his ears.

"Master, master!" The scholar on the side called him coquettishly, "The soup has been spilled on the robe!" ”

"Quick! Hurry! "Master Wu is a little in a hurry.

"Master, what's the hurry?" The scholar continued to slide ten spring onion-like fingers over Master Wu's body. In the past, Master Wu liked this tune the most.

However, today he was wrong.

"Get out of the way! You horny bitch! Why don't you take your clothes and change them for Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu has something big to do! A kick was about to pass, and it hit the scholar's crotch, so painful that the scholar squatted on the ground with a crotch of his pants.

"Get clothes for Lao Tzu!"

He hurriedly changed the clothes of the guest, and came to the second gate, he had already heard the messenger say that the guest came in through the back door, in order to avoid people's eyes.

"Seems to be an informed."

In the courtyard, three or five big men were waiting there with seven or eight horses, and behind one of the leaders stood two strong men. At a glance, it is a role such as a guard and a housekeeper.

Judging by the momentum alone. These people are not the identity of simple high-rollers, they are neatly dressed, and they don't have the slightest hint of wine-soaked bearing on their faces.

Several men leading the horses wore cuirasses without scruples. To know. According to the Great Ming Law. It is not within the scope of the regulations to collect artillery at home, but collecting armor is a crime against the Nine Clans, let alone such a blatant armor. One of the men in armor was gently stroking the mane of the horse. The very short, neatly trimmed horsehair is dyed a faint red in the setting sun.

In this small herd of horses, there were two horses that were clearly pack horses, carrying two heavy cloth bags on their backs, and it was not known what they contained.

"This gentleman has come to see you, I don't know what you are doing?"

After a little scrutiny, Lord Wu was a little relieved, these people were definitely not bandits and pirates who killed people and oversold goods, let alone the anti-grain mobs in nearby states and counties.

"This gentleman must be the old parents of Xin'an County, Wu Gong?"

Chen Tianhua faced Wu Wenming's question and responded with a smile.

"Exactly, sir?"

"Today, you and I have had a relationship in the city, and at that time, I rode a horse under the city to admire the demeanor of my old parents."

Sure enough, it was! Looking at the person in front of him who looked like a scholar turned out to be the person who sent hundreds of people to the king of Hades to clean up in the city today, he couldn't help but make Wu Wenming take a step back, "You, you are?!" ”

"Yes, it's down there. Tianhualai's recklessness bothered Mr. today. This time, I came not for anything else, but to talk to my old parents about a great fortune. ”

After saying this, Chen Tianhua bowed slightly to the two guards standing behind him, and the two guards walked up to the pack horses, pulled out the long knives they wore at their waists, and slashed at the two pack horses!

The blade slashed through the cloth bag on the horse's back, and a long hole opened in it, and the contents rolled out of the bag. The paper wrapped in red paper was smashed to pieces on the ground paved with green bricks, and the contents of the paper bag jumped everywhere on the ground, and the green bricks collided with each other, bursting into a crisp and pleasant sound.

As if to create a more powerful visual impact, the man wielding the long knife in his hand pulled the two pack horses forward a few steps, and the silver dollars wrapped in red paper in the cloth bag were like rainfall, tinkling all over the passing road.

"What he did during the day was really a helpless act of self-preservation, which disturbed the old parents. A little thing, two thousand silver dollars, for the old parents to suppress the shock. ”

"Two thousand silver dollars?!" Lord Wu Wenming almost believed that he was definitely valued by Marshal Zhao Gong, the God of Wealth, today! You can get money inside and outside the city! In the apportionment in the city, he can at least share about 1,000 yuan, and a group of people outside the city sent another 2,000 silver dollars, today is definitely a good day!

"I don't know what Brother Tianhua has to teach?"

Master Wu tried hard to remove a pair of eyes from the road paved with white silver dollars, and reluctantly glanced at the road that seemed to have increased its brightness a few times.

"Tianhua is a businessman, so naturally he wants to negotiate a business with his old parents."

Merchant? Wu Xian Ling smiled bitterly in his heart, and then sneered again, "When have you ever seen a businessman like you?" The caravan is not carrying a fellow, it is simply much more fierce than the soldiers of the towns! ”

Although the pastor is on the side, he is also quite interested in the matter of goods and colonization, and plans to resign one day and not follow Tao Zhugong's actions. Please! We will talk in detail in the next study! ”

Hand in hand, as if he and Chen Tianhua had been friends for many years, they walked into the study. Standing at the door of the study, Master Wu reprimanded the messenger who was standing there like a mud-tired puppet.

"Foolish thing! Why don't you go and tell your wife and arrange a good wine and dinner for my Tianhua brother's entourage? Also, tell Mrs. Sù to clean up the yard! ”

The messenger looked at the pile of silver dollars in the yard, and then looked at the pitiful two silver dollars in his hand, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, fate is so unfair! Fang was still so excited when he got the bribe of two silver dollars, and in the blink of an eye, he was knocked to the ground from the clouds.

Press the messenger to the inner house to find Mrs. Wu to arrange wine and dinner for the group of guards, and clean up the ground (oh, does that mean it is more straightforward to put away the money?). Don't mention it. Just talk about Wu Wenming, Master Wu and Chen Tianhua in the study at this time.

"What? You want to buy land on the south bank of the Shenzhen River?! ”

looked at Lord Wu who was a little surprised. Chen Tianhua put down the teacup in his hand, "My lord," he specially used this title that was not commensurate with the identity of Wu Wenming's county, and even a little arrogant. "Is there anything wrong?"

"Brother Tianhua. It's rare for you and me to hit it off at first sight. I will not be able to deceive you. ”

("Bullshit at first sight.") It's true that you hit it off with silver at first sight! If it weren't for the money, Lao Tzu wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to you! ”）

"South of the Shenzhen River, there are many famous families. Some families have been here since the Northern Song Dynasty and have lived here for hundreds of years. There are the so-called Kam Tin Tang, San Tin Man, Sheung Shui Liu, Sheung Shui Hou and Fanling Peng. In addition to these five surnames, there are also many relatively small clans scattered in various places, such as the Au surname and Yu surname in Sheung Shui, the Su and Lee surnames in Sha Tau Kok, the Seng and Wen surnames in Sai Kung, and the Lin surname scattered throughout Sai Kung, Kowloon and outlying islands. ”

"These five families have their own regions, and each of them has built villages, ancestral halls, and academies in the region, and set up bazaars on the main transportation routes, and the young and strong children of the clan are organized into group exercises, patrolling back and forth, and often fighting with foreign surnames and neighboring villages for water, land and other affairs, even the county does not dare to criticize them too harshly."

"And the land in this area is not particularly suitable for farming, and often a strong wind can wipe out a year's hard work. This is one of them. ”

Chen Tianhua took a sip of the teacup of lily porcelain, and praised the exquisite tea skills, "My lord, please continue to speak for Tianhua." ”

"The second is what Fang Cai said, the people are strong, once outsiders enter, please forgive the officials for their blunt words. With Brother Ren's temper, it is rare to have a quarrel with these families, and at that time, I am afraid that it will be too late for Brother Ren to regret it! ”

"Thank you for your advice, but Tianhua is entrusted by my lord to choose a place to build a house in this area, and to run a business. Be sure to ask the boss to take care of you. ”

Seeing what Chen Tianhua said decisively, Wu Wenming naturally didn't want to say anything, but after thinking about it again, I don't know how much anger I have suffered from the five major families over the years.

"Sir, I don't know where the land is in the eyes of the law?"

"This is it!"

On the map of Xin'an County taken by Wu Wenming, Chen Tianhua's finger pointed to a seaside location without hesitation.

"Tai Po?!" Looking at the location of this river, located on the north bank of the Lincun River, adjacent to the Tianhou Temple, and facing the big sea, Wu Wenming couldn't help but praise Chen Tianhua softly in his heart, "Sure enough, good eyesight!" ”

Tai Po is an important transportation artery between Kowloon City and Shenzhen Market, and with a fishing port facing Tai Bu Hai (now known as Tolo Harbour), it is easy to get by water and land, so it is bound to be an excellent place to do business.

"I wonder what business Mr. plans to do here?"

"There is nothing else to do, but to buy the tea produced in Xin'an County, transport it to Nanyang for sale, and then sell the goods from Nanyang here to all parts of Guangdong."

After listening to what Chen Tianhua said, Wu Wenming's eyes immediately lit up, and he confirmed that Marshal Zhao Gong must have held down the clouds above his mansion today and threw the cornucopia in front of him!

"Export locally produced tea and sell what is produced in South Central to the mainland? Brother Ren is really a good means! Ha ha! Ha ha! While provoking his thumb and praising Chen Tianhua, Wu Da laughed dryly.

"If you are interested, you may wish to participate in the shares, make some money, and collect some rare books, antiques, calligraphy and paintings for adults."

"What's so embarrassing about this? But it's a shame! ”

didn't even make a half-push, and Master Wu calmly accepted Chen Tianhua's invitation to join him, and immediately took a pen and paper and wrote a name.

"This is the name of my brother-in-law. At this time, he was still serving Lord Taishan in his hometown in Zhejiang, and Brother Ren might as well use this name to enter the account. ”

"Well said!" Chen Tianhua didn't even look at it, so he folded the paper printed with the note of the Xin'an County Yamen and put it in his sleeve.

"Since it is a partnership business, there is one thing I have to ask Brother Ren, about the matter of this land price, I don't know what Brother Tai plans to do? Do you need to take a spin on you? ”

Wu Wenming began to touch Chen Tianhua's bottom, if people have nothing to do with you, why should they give you a share for no reason?

"Five thousand silver dollars, I don't know if you can help you get this piece of land in Tai Po?"

Chen Tianhua threw out the price of the land.

"Five thousand?" Wu Wenming was a little smacked when he heard it, but it didn't seem to mention his benefits? How about that? Although it is said that they are doing business together, it is better to calculate them one by one.

"Another 10,000 silver dollars are for the adults to transfer and dot everywhere on their behalf." Chen Tianhua threw out another bombshell, and this time, Master Wu had nothing to say!

10,000 silver dollars, I don't care if you are building weapons on this land, training soldiers and horses, and preparing for rebellion? (To be continued......)