Chapter 605: The Scramble (5)
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When Li Shouhan sowed thousands of descendants in Li Zhenli's heavy households, he finally hugged the beautiful woman and fell asleep with satisfaction.
When a round of red sun rose on the Qinhuai River through the glass window of Tianxianglou, the entire city of Nanjing gradually woke up from sleep.
Li Zhenli's face flushed, and she gently spat at the guy who was sleeping on the bed, this guy! As long as he is happy, he doesn't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, just climb the thing to the depths of the stamen, and don't care whether the delicate flower and tender stamen can afford it.
She gently stroked her lower abdomen, her grandfather had been resting in Tianxianglou for the past few days, and it happened to be a good day for her family. I think there will be good news.
Ao Lei Yilan had already told her privately that she didn't know how many times, asking her to find a way to give birth to a boy and a half girl to Xianggong, so that no matter what, her status would be as stable as Humar Woji Mountain.
Li Zhenli got up in her clothes and prepared to order someone to prepare face water and tea and snacks for her grandfather. Unexpectedly, I pushed open the door, and my eyes were a little unable to open because of the beautiful weather outside. But it's already time.
was about to order his mother-in-law next to him to prepare something to be used for his grandfather, but he vaguely heard some people talking in a low voice outside the door.
"Mother An, what's the matter?"
Hearing Li Zhenli's call, her confidant mother-in-law An's mother immediately ran upstairs.
"The girl is up? The girl is very nice. Looking at the spring on Li Zhenli's face, this mother-in-law was also secretly happy. Since ancient times, the master is as big as the slave is, otherwise there would be no such thing as the prime minister's family of seven officials. Now the grandfather of the country is in the city of Nanjing, which is the white jade pillar of the Ming court, and the purple and gold beam of the sea. The relationship between Li Shouhan and Li Zhenli, who in the city doesn't know? Therefore, the maids and cooks who followed Li Zhenli were also arrogant in Nanjing.
Now they hope more than anyone else that Li Zhenli can give birth to a son and a half daughter for Grandpa Guo, so that Miss Li is a dignified and upright wife of Grandpa Guo, and she can ask Lord Hongguang to give a reward.
"Who is it out there? So noisy? Li Zhenli instructed An's mother to boil water to make tea, but she frowned again and asked with some annoyance.
The girl didn't know that it was Sima Shao's gang leader of the Cao Gang who brought someone to give the New Year's gift, there were many people and cars, no matter how light she was, it was inevitable that there would be some noise to the girl. If the girl is noisy, then the old woman will go down and let them rest first. We'll talk about that later. ”
"Forget it! It's also their heart. Naturally, it is not good to chill their hearts. Li Zhenli has been rolling on the Qinhuai River for many years, so she naturally knows why the Cao Gang came to give her a New Year's gift. When I didn't get acquainted with Li Shouhan back then, why didn't I see such a scene? It's her, but she has to send some New Year's Day gifts to the Cao Gang. It can be regarded as breaking wealth and seeking peace.
An Pozi is also a person who is full of information agencies, and seeing that Li Zhenli was in a good mood, she immediately took out the New Year's gift list handed over by Sima Shao from her waist like a trick. Fortunately, I didn't bring out the five hundred silver dollar ticket.
The cover of the red ayako mud gold lettering, a thick fold.
"Thirty deer, fifty roe deer, fifty roe deer, twenty Siamese pigs, twenty soup pigs, twenty dragon pigs, twenty wild boars, twenty domestic pigs, twenty wild sheep, twenty green sheep, twenty soup sheep, twenty family style sheep, twenty sturgeon fish, 200 catties of miscellaneous fish, 200 live chickens, ducks, and geese, 200 wind chickens, ducks, geese, 200 pheasants, rabbits, 200 pairs of bear's paws, 20 catties of deer tendons, 50 catties of sea cucumbers, 50 deer tongues, 50 cow tongues, 20 catties of dried sea elders, 200 catties of dried razor clams, Hazel, pine, peach, apricot, two pockets each, 50 pairs of large prawns, 200 catties of dried shrimp, 1,000 catties of silver frost charcoal, 2,000 catties of medium, 10,000 catties of charcoal, 20 stones of Gannan Wannian tribute rice, 50 stones of binuo, 50 white glutinous 50 hundreds, 50 pieces of flour japonica, 50 pairs of variegated sorghum grains, 1,000 stones of common rice, a car of dried vegetables of all colors, and the small people under the outer door of Mu Enxiao are filial to the girl and the young lady: a pair of peacocks, a pair of Nanyang orangutans, five pairs of macaws, two pairs of live deer, four pairs of live white rabbits, four pairs of black rabbits, two pairs of live golden pheasants, Two pairs of ducks. ”
There are many varieties of things, but at first glance they are not very valuable.
However, after Li Zhenli finished reading this long gift list, she was also smacked for it.
Now that the north and the south are fighting each other, the way to come from the special things of the north, such as bear paws and deer tendons, has long been cut off. It is Nanjing, a place where gold is sold, and I have not heard for a long time that there are bear's paws, deer tendons, deer tongues and other things listed in large quantities.
This New Year's gift of the Cao Gang can be said to have been collected from north to south, from west to east.
However, it is not surprising to say. Now the two gangs of Yancao have long regarded Li Zhenli as their housewife. I know that as long as this Miss Li is served well, our food and clothing will be worry-free.
A few orangutans and parrots are nothing, as long as Miss Li speaks, they are living gall, and they are also a lot of them.
"It seems that this Sima gang leader is gradually going to retire to his home to take care of it, and the outside affairs are gradually handed over to his son to take care of." I don't know when, but Li Shouhan also appeared behind Li Zhenli.
"Why are you up! Quick, don't put on a single piece of clothing! What to do if you catch a cold! Ann Mom, go get the stove! Add a few more pieces of charcoal! Seeing Li Shouhan standing barefoot at the door, Li Zhenli couldn't help but lose her face.
Although it was a bit of a fuss, but with the hand stove in his hand and the big man draped over his shoulders, Li Shouhan was still happy to enjoy the grace of this beauty's care.
"Girl, Sima Gongzi heard that his grandfather is here, please come in and kowtow to his grandfather? It's a New Year's greeting to my grandfather in advance. "Mother An is very worthy of the five hundred silver dollars, and she is very good at looking at the style and asks Li Zhenli to meet Uncle Sima on behalf of him. It was not so much to say to Li Zhenli, but to ask Li Shouhan for instructions.
"Huh! People have sent so many rare things. The so-called cannibalistic mouth is short, and the hand of the taker is short. Why are you embarrassed not to say a few kind words in person? ”
Li Shouhan is not like Li Zhenli, he saw a clue from that gift list, the Liaodong route, which had been cut off for a long time due to the war between the north and the south, may have been restored on a small scale. Otherwise, those Liaodong specialties such as bear paws, deer tongues, and deer tendons will not be able to reach Jiangnan no matter what. If the Cao Gang opened up or opened up a new route to Liaodong in private, then this route could not be used to provide war materials to the Liao thieves in any case, but should be used to provide weapons assistance and personnel to various departments in Heilongjiang to launch an attack from the back road of the Liao thieves.
The next head of the Cao Gang, Sima Xinyuan, the third son of Sima Lao's gang leader, was born with a strong and introverted appearance, which made people think that this person was nothing more than Erer at first glance. However, if you look closely or deal with it, you will find that this person is an unfathomable deep pool.
"Shiyu's nephew Xinyuan has seen his grandfather and seen Miss Li."
If it is an ordinary official gentleman and doctor, when he sees Li Shouhan's current image, he is not dressed to greet him, and he can even be said to be untidy and naked. Just wearing a pajama and a big coat wrapped outside, sitting on the Luohan bed drinking tea and eating snacks. is typical of Liu Bang's old hooligan who washes his feet and meets guests. said that he brushed his sleeves away on the spot, leaving Li Shouhan with a reputation of disrespecting Confucian scholars and disrespecting sages.
However, Sima Xinyuan did not dare and would not take these things seriously. In his opinion, the more unruly Grandpa Guo behaved in front of me, the more he regarded the Cao Gang as his own people. On the contrary, the more polite he is, the more difficult things will be.
Now the Cao Gang and the Yan Gang have been completely tied to the chariots of the Nanyue Army and the Liang Guogong Mansion, which can be said to be both glory and loss. Not to mention anything else, the amount of inland river transportation alone every year is enough to make the Cao gang eat with a mouth full of oil.
The so-called bare feet are not afraid to wear shoes. Now the Cao Gang is wearing shoes, whether it is straw sandals or silk satin. If they are allowed to return to the days when they had a meal and a worry, and the autumn wind was blowing and the cotton clothes were not known where, I am afraid that the helper of the Sima family will not be able to continue.
Therefore, he wants to continue on the Golden Strip left by his father!
"It's all my own family, polite or something." Li Shouhan ordered Sima Xinyuan, who was kneeling on the mat and preparing to kowtow, to help him up, resign from his seat, and serve tea. All kinds of etiquette are readily available, which made Sima Xinyuan very surprised.
originally thought that Grandpa Guo would be so polite and polite to his outer house, and then look at the Cao Gang's love for transporting military equipment, grain and grass for the Nanyue Army for many years, but he didn't expect that Grandpa was completely a feeling of gossip between elders and juniors.
First, he asked about the physical condition of the old gang leader Sima, and then asked about the situation of several old people he knew in the house. Ask Sima Xinyuan to greet these people one by one on his behalf. Then he ordered someone to take Liang Guogong's name post, wrote a greeting in his own handwriting, and asked Sima Xinyuan to bring it back and pay tribute to his father.
It's all about the love of the world!
Sima Xinyuan was able to establish his father as the head of a huge Cao Gang, so naturally his mind was not as simple as his eldest brother who could only fight and kill with grudges, nor was it as simple as his second brother who only wriddled in the pile of women all day long. He knows a saying, courtesy must be asked for by others. It depends on what Grandpa Guo plans to order!
Being able to have what Grandpa Guo wants in his hand is undoubtedly a great thing for him!
After a few words, Li Shouhan went straight to the point and asked Sima Xinyuan how these specialties from the north were obtained.
"It turns out that Grandpa is asking this. Actually, the grandfather didn't ask, and he also had to explain the matter to Yousi. "Although Li Shouhan is called a nephew, but Sima Xinyuan does not dare to make a mistake, and he arrogants in the name of etiquette, who knows when it will become a disaster to raid the family and destroy the door? !
"Grandpa, you know. In addition to the rated boats, the Cao Gang has added a lot of sand boats over the years, which are used to run the North and South Oceans, transport grain and rice to the north, all kinds of southern specialties, and transport back all kinds of fur, raw gold, beans and other things when they go south. ”
Li Shouhan naturally had an impression of this matter, since he told the first emperor Chongzhen that he would pay a certain amount of grain and rice every year, and the main carrier was the Cao Gang, who had the convenience of sailors and ships. To this end, the Cao Gang also set up a separate commercial bank, named "Tongda", to undertake the freight business of the Nanyue Army and the Guogong Mansion.
The company has hundreds of sand ships of all sizes, loaded with grain and rice goods to and from Tianjin, Liaodong, Denglai, Nanjing, Shanghai, Ningbo and other places.
The so-called sand boat is actually a flat-bottomed sea boat. Mao Yuanyi's "Wu Beizhi? Military Ride? Sand Boat": "The sand boat can regulate the wind, but it is only in the North Ocean, and it is not convenient for the South Ocean, and the North Ocean is shallow and the South Ocean is deep. The bottom of the sand boat is flat, and it cannot break the big waves of deep water. There are rolling waves in the Beiyang, the bottom of the Fu boat and the Cangshan boat are the most afraid of this wave, but the sand boat is not afraid of this. Qinglin Zexu's "Recital of Compliance with the Decree and the Overall Planning of the Situation of Cao Affairs": "If you are concerned about danger, the sand boats will go back and forth to Kanto, thousands of dollars per year, and the waterline and hyacinths are proficient. Qing Wei Yuan's "Shengwu Ji" volume 14: "Please speak the boat system...... Said sand ship, adjust the wind, three masts and five masts, a thousand miles a day, the sail is long, increase the porthole, the river and the sea are appropriate. ”
It was with these sand boats that the Cao Gang gradually evolved into a large group across inland shipping and sea transportation, and vaguely, river transportation gradually gave way to maritime transportation. However, the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes. During the war between the north and the south, the sand boats going north could only reach the Denglai area at most.
Unfortunately, however, a fleet of sand ships loaded with grain and rice encountered a strong wind off the coast of Denglai, and seven large ships were blown into the harbor, and four of them capsized with men and ships. The remaining three boats were lucky, but they were not much stronger, and they were blown through Liaodong Bay by a strong wind! When they anchored ashore in shock, they found that they had been blown to the Heilongjiang River basin by strong winds for several days.
"It can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, and soon after I went ashore, I met the lords sent by my grandfather in the Suolon Department of Heilongjiang. They were short of grain, rice, salt, cloth, pots, stoves, etc., so they bought the contents of these boats at market prices. ”
Sima Xinyuan's words, Li Zhenli, who was listening to it on the side, could only caress her chest with a pair of softness, "My God, it is really more surprising than the legendary unlucky man who happened to meet Dongting Hong!" ”
"Grandpa, this matter, I have ordered someone to sort out and map the route of the island along the way, and it will be sent to the mansion to report to Yousi in a few days." Sima Xinyuan is really smart, seeing that Li Shouhan listened very carefully, after talking about this matter, he immediately said, I will report this route to you immediately!
"Nephew of the new Yuanshi, you and your men have made a contribution to opening up new routes. You go back and report the list of relevant personnel, and my father will naturally have some rewards. In addition, this route also requires you and your men to work. ”
"Whatever the grandfather says, being able to contribute to the grandfather is the blessing of Xinyuan!" Speaking of this, Sima Xinyuan suddenly thought of something. But I don't know how to say it.
"Virtuous nephew, what is there left unfinished? Just say, it's okay! Li Shouhan thought that Sima Xinyuan planned to seek some benefits for the Cao Gang from the business aspect, and immediately made a very bold statement.
"Grandpa, if there is something in Nanjing City that requires the Cao Gang to contribute, our gang will go up and down the water and the fire. As long as the grandfather calls. After thinking for a while, Sima Xinyuan said his words in a way that showed his loyalty.
Because, he couldn't figure out whether the current situation in Nanjing City was whether there were officials and gentry who wanted to support the move of Liang Guogong in front of him to ascend the throne as emperor. If that's the case, there must be a tacit approval or even a hint from the grandfather, as the manager of the Cao Gang, he came out to expose the first accusation, wouldn't it be a big deal for others?
"Xinyuan, do you make it clear?" Li Shouhan hadn't heard it for a while, but Li Zhenli smelled the hidden smell in his words. She frowned slightly, it was the so-called eyebrow lock Chunshan, which couldn't help but make Sima Xinyuan, a person who has been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, also moved. Hurriedly chanted in his heart: "Nan no Guanyin Bodhisattva! Nan no Guanyin Bodhisattva! ”
"The children below have reported in the past few days that there are people in Nanjing who have taken a lot of silver dollars and copper coins to recruit and hire those idle men in and out of the city, local ruffians, and green-skinned gangsters. Each batch of recruits will be gathered in the temple Taoist temple to rest and provide food. In addition, the teahouses and restaurants everywhere, the singing and dancing pavilions, and the officials and gentry often charter the venue all day and night, but they are not high-minded, according to the small ones, they are all whispered and secret, quite sneaky. ”
Hire hooligans? A secret gathering of the gentry? These key words immediately blew the haze in Li Shouhan's mind clean like a cold snap from Siberia! This group of guys is clearly going to make trouble!
"Xinyuan is here to ask grandpa to show me, if it is not grandpa's intention, then, there is a place where Xinyuan needs to contribute, if grandpa is not good to come forward to speak, then Xinyuan will order someone to ask for an order from Miss Li." Seeing Li Shouhan's color change, Sima Xinyuan knew that it was not what he was worried about, and it was not those officials and gentry who wanted to do things to support the establishment and make contributions to the dragon. Instead, he has to embarrass Li Shouhan, the Duke of Liang in front of him! If you don't take a stand at this time, when will you take a stand?
And his attitude is very clear, if you don't want to make a move because of your face and identity, then we will listen to Miss Li's words!
Listen to the strings and know the elegant meaning. Since the Cao Gang, a dynamic social organization that controls countless underground forces in Nanjing City and controls more than 100,000 disciples, has this attitude, Li Shouhan naturally will not accept it.
"It's good! Virtuous nephew, you have to work hard, go to the Salt Gang, tell them the Tian Gang Master, and ask him to restrain his subordinates and not wade into this troubled water. If he thinks the same as you, he will come to this Tianxianglou to listen to the news. ”
"Xinyuan knows. The new dollar retired. ”
The front foot Sima Xinyuan came out of Tianxiang Building, and the back foot Li Shouhan kicked the small few in front of him away!
"Damn! It's all a bunch of bastards! ”
Seeing the murderous aura on his face, the green tendons collapsed, and the maids present were frightened like quails, and they didn't dare to take a mouthful.
"Someone! Go, call Ye Qi's guy to Lao Tzu! ”
Li Shouhan is going to go berserk! (To be continued.) )