When he arrived at the border of Yunzhou, Wen Qingzhu completely felt the desolation of Yunzhou.

At this time, it was time to prepare winter wheat, but due to the sparse population, large areas of land were wasted.

Don't Wen Qingzhu looked very distressed.

They had been walking for half a day, and when they saw a roadside tea shed in front of them, they stopped to rest.

Called the boss to come over and asked for three bowls of Yangchun noodles and a hand-cut donkey meat.

Wen Qingzhu glanced at the shed, there were a lot of guests, most of them were merchants from the southeast, and they were talking about business.

There are accents from all over the place, and there happens to be a merchant from Yangzhou.

The main thing is that his voice is very loud, and it is really difficult for Wen Qingzhu not to notice.

"Lao Chen, this business is definitely profitable, you follow me to invest, and I guarantee that you will turn over the capital in three months!"

The middle-aged man sitting opposite the Yangzhou merchant had some thinning hair and wore a hat, but unlike ordinary merchants, his hat was very shabby.

Wen Qingzhu has been in contact with the Jia family and the Shen family, and knows that the most important thing for those of them who do business is to dress up.

At least you can't give outsiders a feeling of poverty, otherwise business will not be good.

But the merchant who has not spoken, on the contrary, has a poor sour smell all over his body, but has a quiet temperament of a scholar.

The Yangzhou merchant said that he had dried his mouth, and the tea was drunk cup after cup, and the middle-aged man was unmoved.

In the end, the Yangzhou merchant finally couldn't go on, and the showdown came: "Lao Chen! You and I have also known each other for many years, although I am not very good, but I am still very reputable in business, as long as you nod and agree, I can not invest a penny, and when the time comes, I will share half of the money I make! ”

The man who had been silent suddenly raised his head and looked at the person opposite: "Old Wu, I know you are kind, but this thing is not a good thing, I advise you not to get involved." ”

When Wen Qingzhu heard his voice, it turned out to be a Yangzhou accent.

The merchant called Lao Wu stood up angrily, pointed at Lao Chen's nose and scolded: "Look at you, what you look like now!" People can teach and teach after taking the exam, you are good, follow us to do business, but you can't let go of buying face! Why did my sister-in-law run! Don't you know? ”

These words seemed to touch the sore spot in Lao Chen's heart, and his face turned two points whiter.

Lao Wu was about to speak, but Lao Chen suddenly picked up the burden, turned around and left.

This scene made Lao Wu extremely embarrassed.

The people who have been watching the play around have obviously several people who know them.

Soon, two people from the adjacent table came over and comforted Lao Wu: "Boss Wu, don't care, Boss Chen is different from us, he turned out to be a young master of the official family, just put down his body, how can the silver be so easy to earn, you relax, and then think of other ways." I don't know if the Chen family is this way, isn't it? ”

Being persuaded by his friend like this, Lao Wu's face was much better and he sat down again.

Soon, they talked about other things.

Wen Qingzhu began to bow his head and eat noodles, while thinking, no matter how bad a talent is, he shouldn't be reduced to doing business, right?

Even if you are in business, you shouldn't break up your wife.

After eating quickly, Wen Qingzhu and Jasmine continued to rush to Yunzhou.

In less than an hour, they came to the gate of Yunzhou City.

When he arrived here, Wen Qingzhu felt a little bit of fireworks.

When entering the city, Jasmine took out the entrance fee as usual.

I don't want the official to frown and say, "Didn't you come to Yunzhou?" This money is all counted last month, and the price has increased this year, and three people need three taels of silver to get in! ”

It's not that Jasmine hasn't seen a black heart, but she hasn't seen such a black heart!

She hadn't had any special emotions, so she couldn't help but ask, "Does everyone have to hand over a tael of silver when they enter the city?" ”

"Not really! If you don't have money, you can live outside the city! The servant pointed impatiently behind them.

Wen Qingzhu looked back, there were two small inns outside the city.

It is said to be an inn, but in fact it is more like a temporary board house.

Wen Qingzhu turned around and asked Jasmine to pay.

The official smiled and let them in.

After entering the city, Jasmine couldn't help but ask: "Yunzhou has such a small population, and they still don't let people into the city, so isn't there no one in Yunzhou?" ”

Wen Qingzhu looked up at the cold street, nodded and said, "It seems that there are indeed no people." ”

Jasmine carefully observed the surroundings and went all the way to the largest inn in Yunzhou, Yunzhou Inn.

When I came here, there were more people.

Most of them are still merchants, but they are more luxuriously dressed than the merchants in the tea shed just now.

In front of him and behind him, there are either small servants or servants, and they follow.

Wen Qingzhu and the three of them stepped forward, and Xiao Er, who greeted them at the door, couldn't tell who they were.

"Stay in the hotel." Jasmine took out the silver and handed it directly to Xiao Er, who was looking in front of her.

Seeing that the silver was not ordinarily rich, Xiao Er immediately welcomed them in and gave them the best upper room, which was still a suite.

When they entered the house, they didn't have much to offer.

Just clean it up and you're done.

Jasmine went out to get a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone back, Wen Qingzhu thought about it for a while, and wrote a letter for Jasmine to send out.

Wen Qingzhu himself took Beidou out for a walk.

There are not many shops on the streets, but the people who enter and leave the shops are either merchants or descendants of wealthy families.

Wen Qingzhu thought about it, the people who could stay in Yunzhou were all wealthy families.

So now Yunzhou City can still operate.

Tao Xin said that Tao Million has a pharmacy in Yunzhou, which can be regarded as a blatant sale of tobacco leaves.

After searching all the way, she finally saw an unusually popular pharmacy in the south of the city.

Unlike other pharmacies, the people who came in and out of this pharmacy shop looked excited and a little haggard.

Wen Qingzhu stood on the corner of the street, looked at this pharmacy, and muttered, "It seems that this is the headquarters of Tao Million's stronghold." ”

After observing the meeting, Wen Qingzhu turned around and left, going back to the inn.

It was dark before Jasmine returned.

She came back with a letter from Green Pottery.

Wen Qingzhu looked at it and frowned slightly: "Is this someone who has seen through his identity?" ”

Thinking that the situation on the side of green pottery is not optimistic, but the promotion of Tao's millions of tobacco leaves has been blocked, and Texas has not spread on a large scale for the time being.

Maybe things can be slowed down here.

After thinking about it for a long time, Wen Qingzhu decided to contact the people of the Jia family.

About half an hour, Jasmine brought the general manager in charge of the Jia family business house in Yunzhou.

The person who came was an old man who looked to be forty or fifty years old.

The hair is a little gray, but the spirit looks good.

He saluted, and Wen Qingzhu didn't talk nonsense, and asked him directly: "Do you know the problem of Tao Million Pharmacy?" ”

Shopkeeper Jia thought for a moment, nodded slowly, and said, "Knowing is knowing, what do adults want to do?" ”

"I don't plan to do anything for the time being, I just want to know that there are those people who have fixed the Taojia pharmacy to buy tobacco leaves on time."

Shopkeeper Jia thought for a while and said: "In Yunzhou City, half of the families have already ordered his tobacco, but recently they seem to have limited quantities, so they don't cover everyone." Among them, Mr. Yan's family was the first to become their customer. ”

"Is it Yan Yongzhang, or is it his son?" Wen Qingzhu asked again.

Shopkeeper Jia's breath stagnated, and he said more and more respectfully: "It's his son Yan Hui." ”

"Then Yan Yongzhang did he get contaminated with this tobacco leaf?"

Shopkeeper Jia shook his head uncertainly: "According to the news from my side, there shouldn't be, and Yan Hui has never appeared since Yan Hui was contaminated with tobacco leaves." ”

Wen Qingzhu asked in detail, and the rest of the people who were addicted to smoking.

Seeing that she was so sad, Shopkeeper Jia simply wrote it down.

Wen Qingzhu on the side looked at it and found that he wrote extremely smoothly, and it seemed that Shopkeeper Jia was familiar with these people.

After writing, Shopkeeper Jia briefly introduced several special families.

One of the Tang families caught Wen Qingzhu's attention.

"Wait! You said that this eldest young master of the Tang family also became addicted to smoking at first, but later quit? ”

Shopkeeper Jia nodded and said, "That's right, Master Tang, I was addicted to smoking at the same time as Gongzi Yan, and in the middle of last month, Master Tang completely quit smoking. ”

Wen Qingzhu asked, "Are you sure you really quit?" Isn't this addiction so easy to quit? ”

Shopkeeper Jia said with certainty: "I'm sure!" The Tang family is the second largest landlord in Yunzhou, with a lot of industries, and Master Tang has been unwell in recent years, and he has always been managed by Young Master Tang.

They have a lot of dealings with our trading house, and the people who are addicted to smoking are very different from ordinary people, so I can be sure that Young Master Tang has quit. ”

Wen Qingzhu was silent for a while, nodded and said, "Understood, you go down first, if you need anything, I will send someone to find you." ”

"The villain is gone." Shopkeeper Jia respectfully stepped back.

When I left the inn, I met the innkeeper Boss Yi.

He and the shopkeeper Jia are old acquaintances, so he knows that ordinary things will not let the big shopkeeper of the Jia family come forward.

"Brother Jia, why did you come to me? Why didn't you tell me? ”

Shopkeeper Jia said with a smile: "It's just a trivial matter, how can you be embarrassed to disturb Brother Yi." ”

Boss Yi knew that he must have something to do, and he had to come in person.

Now on the Yunzhou side, the situation is getting worse and worse.

On the Yamen side, there is serious collusion between officials and businessmen, and his industry depends on the population.

If it weren't for the peace in Dingyuan, I was afraid that at the beginning of the year and the end of the year, even the merchants would not come.

Therefore, Boss Yi has always paid attention to the big shopkeepers of major commercial houses in Yunzhou.

He is a small local boss with limited connections and vision.

He was smart enough to follow the big bosses above.

Now that Shopkeeper Jia suddenly appeared here, Boss Yi was willing to let him go easily.

He even pushed and pulled to invite the shopkeeper Jia to sit in the private room.

"Brother Jia, look at you, although it is a trivial matter, but you finally came here, my small shop, there is nothing else, there is still good wine and good food, why don't you go up and have a drink before leaving?"

There are few people here in Yunzhou, so the business is very average, and the small merchants have fallen a lot.

Only these big merchants, who rely on chain commercial houses, can barely support themselves.

In normal times, Shopkeeper Jia is really idle.

Originally, he didn't want to stay, but when he thought of that noble man living here, he felt the need to remind this Boss Yi.

On the Yunzhou side, Boss Yi is one of the few people he can barely pass.

When he arrived in the private room, Boss Yi continued to persuade him to drink, all kinds of delicious food and drink, and good words were served, and he also invited the best Qingqi from Feiyun Building to come over and play and sing a small song for Shopkeeper Jia.

After three rounds of drinking, Shopkeeper Jia himself was also comfortable, knowing that he couldn't drink anymore, so he blocked Boss Yi's wine glass.

"Brother Yi, I've finished listening to this little song, so let Mi'er go down."

Boss Yi smiled and waved his hand, asked his subordinates to give the reward, and led the honey of Feiyun Building down.

There was no one else in the house, and the shopkeeper Jia said: "Brother, the relationship between you and me has always been very good, and it has not been easy for us to survive in the past two years, so I will give you a reminder, in your inn, there is a nobleman, and he is entertained, and when this Yunzhou changes the world one day, maybe it will be the time for you to turn over." ”

"Really?" Boss Yi was very excited, but he was really about to be unable to hold on.

In the middle of the year, he was thinking about selling the inn and going to Dingyuan or Linzhou, Texas to develop.

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