Thirteen years of orthodoxy, Layue, Ansan Town.

Two Nanjing businessmen are drinking and eating in Zuixian Lou in Anshan Town, the table is full of good and hard dishes that Zuixian Lou is good at, and the two of them also opened a jar of aged Liu's second pot head, which is in the process of pushing the cup and changing the lamp.

These two people take the route from Nanjing to Jinan all the year round, one is called Cong Peixin, and the other is called Tao Yudi.

Every year, the two of them sell some silk and cloth from Nanjing to Jinan Mansion, and then buy some Shandong specialties from Jinan Mansion and ship them back to Nanjing, so that they can earn hundreds of taels of silver every year.

However, in the past, when they should return to Nanjing at the end of each year for the New Year, it was the most headache for Cong Peixin and Tao Yudi.

The few hundred taels of silver that the two of them earned a year of hard work had no way to bring back to Nanjing, so they could only hire a dart master to accompany them in Jinan Mansion, which was a large expense, and it would cost them one-third of their savings!

This is enough for Cong Peixin and Tao Yudi to have pain for more than half a year!

But this year is different, the Yushan ticket number of Yushan Town was established, and the whole Shandong is full of branches of the Yushan ticket number, and even Nanjing City opened a Nanzhili branch not long ago!

In this way, Cong Peixin and Tao Yudi can deposit the hundreds of taels of silver they have saved in a year into the Yushan ticket number in Jinan City, and then go home directly with a fluttering silver ticket, and then go to the Nanjing branch of the Yushan ticket number to take out the silver, and there is no need to hire a dart master to accompany them!

This was enough for Cong Peixin and Tao Yudi to have two or three hundred taels of silver left, and it also avoided the risk of exposing their money, which made the two of them really happy for a while.

On this day, Cong Peixin and Tao Yudi passed through Ansan Town, and when they saw that it was getting late, they stayed in the drunken fairy in the town.

At this time, Cong Peixin and Tao Yudi were already drunk, and their words began to increase.

"Brother Cong, how do you say that this Yushan Town can earn such a big family business? Not to mention the drunken immortal restaurant everywhere, not to mention the Liu's Erguotou that can be bought everywhere in the north and south of the river, just say that this Yushan ticket number, how much money should be exchanged every day! I'm afraid it's more than the silver of the imperial court! ”

Cong Peixin also had a little big tongue, and said indistinctly: "Who said it wasn't!" I heard that now the branch number of the Yushan ticket number has been opened to Beizhili, Henan and other places, it is estimated that it will not be long before our entire Ming Dynasty will open the Yushan ticket number, so how much silver should be gathered in Yushan Town? At that time, Liu Juntao, the general manager of Yushan Town, may be the richest man in our Ming Dynasty! ”

"Just like Shen Wansan back then?"

"That's right! Just like Shen Wansan! ”

Tao Yudi smiled and said, "That's a pity, what happened to Shen Wansan back then?" Exile! If this Liu Juntao also ends up like this, it is estimated that the imperial court will be able to eat it all at once! ”

"Shh

Hearing this, Cong Peixin hurriedly stretched out his finger and shushed, signaling Tao Yudi not to talk nonsense.

"Don't you dare to talk nonsense!

"What's wrong? Even the rights and wrongs of the Son of Heaven can be said, but Jin Yiwei doesn't care, what can Liu Juntao do? ”

"How?"

Looking at Tao Yudi's somewhat disdainful expression, Cong Peixin said with a little nervousness: "Haven't you heard? There is an exploration department under Liu Juntao, all of whom are good at the rivers and lakes, specializing in Jinyi Guard's errands! If it falls into the hands of the Investigation Department, it is really impossible to survive and die! ”

Tao Yudi was immediately frightened when he heard this, and asked in a low voice, "Is it so powerful?" ”

"Then there will be a fake!"

"Oh my God!"

Tao Yudi exclaimed: "This Liu Juntao not only has a sky-high industry, but also carries gold and silver to his home every day, and has the Yanzhou Mansion Militia and Yushan Town Guards under his hands, and there is even a Jinyi guard-like man, it's really incredible!" ”

Cong Peixin saw Tao Yu's shocked look on his face, and he was also a little complacent in his heart, as if the two were talking about himself, and continued: "That's! It is said that in just a few years, Liu Juntao took Yushan Town to sweep the entire Shandong Province, and he was invincible! Ye Zongliu, who made a big fuss in Zhejiang before, has you heard of it? ”

"I've heard of it! Didn't you say that you were defeated by the official army and disappeared? ”

"Cut! What's missing? ”

Cong Peixin said: "I heard that Ye Zongliu somehow ran to this Shandong, and took his thieves to make trouble in Yanzhou Mansion, but when I met Liu Juntao, I was cleaned up by Liu Juntao three times and five divided by two, and I seemed to have to run to Xuzhou to escape, I heard that he was also attached to a big man in Xuzhou, and he never dared to step into Shandong half a step again!" ”

Hearing this, Tao Yudi was even more shocked, leaned over to Cong Peixin, and whispered; "Then this Liu Juntao can be called the emperor of Shandong, and today's Song Gongming!"

"Needless to say!"

Then, Cong Peixin said some things he knew about Yushan Town, which made Tao Yudi want to listen to it, as if listening to a book, it can be said that he was too addicted.

The two chatted for a while, and then went back to their rooms late at night to sleep.

Early the next morning, Cong Peixin and Tao Yudi finished washing up early, packed up and left the Zuizhongxian Restaurant, hired a carriage in Anshan Town, and prepared to go south from Anshan Town to Dongpingzhou.

The carriage shop where the two hired carriages was also an industry in Yushan Town, which was newly built by the Ministry of Commerce, and the carriage was also designed by Liu Juntao himself, referring to the advantages of the carriage in later generations and the growth of the carriage in the Ming Dynasty.

This new type of carriage not only uses the iron spring developed by Yushan Ordnance, which will not be too bumpy even if it passes through the rugged mountain road, but also the carriage is also equipped with transparent "glass" on both sides, which not only has good lighting but also keeps warm and cold.

Such a new carriage was hired once, which was only three taels of silver, and was deeply loved by merchants who came and went from the south to the north.

Moreover, such carriages were also sold to all parts of Shandong and even several surrounding provinces through the Ministry of Commerce, bringing a huge amount of income to Yushan Town.

It didn't take long for Cong Peixin and Tao Yudi to hit the road as a new carriage driven by a coachman.

Along the way, the two of them continued to marvel at this new type of carriage, and their hearts were full of yearning for Yushan Town, and even sighed about moving from Nanjing City to Yushan Town.

Originally, it took at least three days to get from Anshan Town to Dongpingzhou, but Cong Peixin and Tao Yudi took a new-style carriage and arrived in just over a day, which greatly saved the time of the two of them, and made the two shout that the three taels of silver were worth spent!

When Cong Peixin and Tao Yudi finished paying the fare, said goodbye to the coachman, and just walked on the street of Dongpingzhou, they saw a team of Yanzhou Mansion militia members coming over.

I saw that these more than 30 young and strong individuals were tall and strong, each of them was wearing double-layer armor, and they were carrying orthodox nine-year-old bird guns on their shoulders, and they looked very powerful from a distance, even more powerful than the soldiers of the Beijing camp that the two had seen in Nanjing.

"Tsk! Look, look! This is called a soldier, this is called a warrior! ”

Seeing Cong Peixin's continuous exclamations, Tao Yudi said: "This militia in Yanzhou Mansion is more elite than the official army of the imperial court!" Moreover, these young men actually have a fire gun in their hands, and the court doesn't care about it? ”

"The Imperial Court?"

Cong Peixin sneered and said; "These young and strong people of the Yanzhou Mansion People's League are all subordinates of Liu Juntao in Yushan Town, then Liu Juntao is the general manager of the Yanzhou Mansion People's League, he is the right-hand man who is the commander of the city guard, and he is the person of the imperial court! Who dares to embarrass Liu Juntao? I'm going to die! ”

The two muttered quietly, passed through the city, hired another carriage in the south of Dongpingzhou, and embarked on a journey to continue south.

And there are countless businessmen and travelers like Peixin and Tao Yudi, who came and went from south to north, and when everyone passed through Yanzhou Mansion and Shandong, they all brought the strength of Yushan Town and Liu Juntao's prestige back to his hometown and brought it to various places.

For a time, the name of Yushan Town and the prestige of Liu Juntao spread all over the country, and their reputation was famous!