After a while, the two saw the Hu family's boat slowly sailing into the ferry, the boat was actually faster, but because it was hit by Lin Mo's boat, it had to slow down.

Lin Mo saw that the Hu family's boat was smoothly approaching the ferry, and the people in the boat began to get busy, Lin Mo glanced at Zhou Fu when he saw this, and then came to the Hu family's boat.

Lin Mo took out the money bag, poured out all the broken silver inside, and then threw it on the ground while people were not paying attention, and then shouted: "Whose money is this?" I scattered all over the ground, and no one picked me up, but I picked them all up. When the people saw the money falling from the ground, they all bent down and grabbed it. Two of the Hu family also ran down from the boat to grab the silver on the ground.

Seeing this, Lin Mo hurriedly took advantage of the chaos to throw all the remaining money on the Hu family's boat, and then hid aside and shouted: "Don't rob it, at this time, my money is scattered on the boat." Then, when everyone was at a loss, Lin Mo tightened his throat and roared: "It doesn't matter who he is, whoever picks it up is whoever's." When they heard this, they immediately ran aboard the boat to collect the silver.

Hu Lu came out of the cabin at this time, and when he saw people rushing up, he immediately said urgently: "What are you doing in a daze?" Get them off the boat. Only then did the subordinates react, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop everyone, but there were too many people, but they really couldn't stop them. At this time, Zhou Fu mixed in the crowd, took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the cabin, and then took out the fire fold and directly ignited the covered raw silk. The raw silk was already flammable, and the weather was dry, so the fire spread all at once.

Zhou Fu hid behind the cabin, and at this time, Hu Lu, who was busy blocking everyone, found that there were many green smoke coming out of the cabin, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a raging flame and erupted from the cabin. Hu Lu was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted to the fire, and Hu Lu screamed sadly: "It's out of the water, you guys hurry up and put out the fire." The servant and the boatman hurriedly took the bucket and drew water from the river and threw it into the fire.

When Hu Lu saw it, he quickly stopped: "Don't use water to put out the fire." Hu Lu knew that the things in this cabin would be all gone as soon as they were put out with water, but who would care about this fire, the water was the most direct, and everyone used all kinds of utensils to pounce on the cabin, Hu Lu tried his best to stop it, but he still couldn't stop everyone's behavior.

At this time, Lin Mo looked at the people who came on the boat to pick up the silver and shouted: "Hurry up and help, the cabin is full of valuable goods, it is very valuable, it would be a pity if it burned down." Lin Mo deliberately accentuated the tone of the word "precious", and when everyone heard this, their eyes lit up, and they rolled up their sleeves to join the ranks of firefighting, of course, it is unknown whether it was really for firefighting or for something else.

Zhou Fu took advantage of the chaos and pretended to be a helper and took the opportunity to leave the Hu family's ship. Although the fire on the ship was fierce, the fire was extinguished by the concerted efforts of everyone, and half of the ship's cargo was burned, and the remaining half of the ship was also drenched in water.

Seeing this, Hu Lu's heart was like a knife, his eyes were distracted, and he muttered: "It's over, it's over, it's all over." "This ship's stuff is completely ruined, this raw silk is fine, but this other thing is really useless when it is poured with water. And the initiators of this incident, Lin Mo and Zhou Fu, as well as Ma Ruoya, saw it very well in Far EasTone telecommunications.

Zhou Fu was very angry when he saw that the fire was extinguished: "Alas, it's a pity that half of the boat was burned." Lin Mo looked at Zhou Fu with a regretful expression and smiled

"It's okay, this half boat is enough, my purpose has been achieved." Ma Ruoyan looked at Lin Mo and stopped, and Zhou Fu said goodbye and went to work on the new shop first, and Zhou Fu didn't ask a word about this matter.

Ma Ruoyan saw Zhou Fu leave and asked, "Can you tell me why this is now?" Lin Mo smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that I won't tell you, it's that I can't say it, you still don't know about it." "Lin Mo really can't tell Ma Ruoyan about this, this matter is too important, and it will kill someone.

The raw silk on the Hu family's boat is normal, but the salt makes Lin Mo's heart jump, in this life, the most profitable thing is the four kinds of salt, iron, tea and wine, of course, this silk luck is also profitable, but the importance is not worth mentioning compared with these four. The four things are the most profitable with "salt", this salt is closely related to the lives of the people, if people don't eat it, they will really die, no matter how poor the average person must have two spoonfuls of salt at home, this salt is a life-threatening matter.

And these four most profitable industries are all firmly controlled by the government, and special institutions are responsible for managing sales, and these four things alone bring millions of taels of tax revenue to the imperial court every year.

Because of this, the imperial court naturally does not allow others to get involved, tea and wine are fine, as long as they pay enough taxes and silver, ordinary people can still produce and sell, but salt and iron are only operated and sold by the government, and all the salt fields and salt wells and minerals in the world are owned by the government.

This salt can control the livelihood of the people, and this iron can prevent the people from rebelling, unless you are an imperial merchant licensed by the imperial power, otherwise how dare ordinary businessmen be contaminated with these two things, if they are stained with that heavy responsibility, it is a big crime to rob their homes and destroy their homes. However, the huge benefits of these things have made many people want to move, and many people have not hesitated to risk their lives to engage in smuggling for the sake of huge benefits.

Although the Hu family is solid, they definitely don't have the ability to be an imperial businessman, so there is only one possibility, that is, the Hu family is smuggling. This smuggling is such a big crime, and the Hu family naturally knows it, so they are very careful, so after being hit, they chose to settle the matter and were unwilling to do it.

Lin Mo didn't care much about this smuggling, what made Lin Mo angry was that his Hu family shouldn't use the Ma family as a cover, on the surface, he helped the Ma family transport raw silk, but secretly trafficked illicit salt in the name of the Ma family, if it was found out, the Ma family would not escape its responsibility, and it would definitely be implicated, and the two families were still related to each other, so it made Lin Mo very angry. It's better not to let Ma Ruoya know about this matter for the time being, otherwise he will only be more worried, the key now is to help the Ma family break off the relationship with the Hu family, but he can't be blatant, so he can only make dangerous moves.

Lin Mo instructed Ma Ruoyan and said: "Today, the ship of goods was destroyed, and the ship of the Hu family was also destroyed, after you go back, wait until your uncle and aunt mention this matter to you, you will take the opportunity to say that the goods need to be transported quickly, this weaving workshop is out of materials, the Hu family will definitely not be able to help you, you just say that you know the He family in Hexian County, the Yunzhou Caoyun leader of the He family, can naturally help you, and the goods will be transported by the He family in the future, even if they have opinions, they will not put it forward, after all, this matter is their own breakthrough, Anyway, don't let the Hu family transport the goods in the future, but you shouldn't be too strong and don't stiffen the relationship with the Hu family. ”

Ma Ruoyan listened and pondered for a while and nodded, and then said: "I know how to deal with this matter, if it is really very."

You should leave the troublesome things alone, so as not to get into trouble. Lin Mo shook his head and said: "Since I promised your father to take care of you, I will be responsible for it to the end, I have a sense of proportion in your affairs, and I won't let you get into trouble, just do what I ask." ”

Lin Mo was worried that Ma Ruoyan couldn't help but have a conflict with the Hu family for a while, although the Hu family was okay in Yunzhou, but this smuggling matter was obviously not something that his little Hu family could grasp, there must be others behind him, if the news leaked and annoyed those people, Ma Ruoyan would be dangerous. Ma Ruoya nodded, glanced at Lin Mo gratefully, and left.

After Lin Mo saw Ma Ruoyan leave, he sighed, what he could do now was to separate the Ma family from the Hu family as soon as possible, and try his best to get the Ma family out of this smuggling matter, but Lin Mo was not very sure about this, so he could only take one step at a time.

On the other hand, after Ma Ruoya returned to Luo's house, she changed back into women's clothes and waited patiently for the person to come and tell her about today's events. After a while, there were several knocks outside the door, and after Cui'er opened the door, it was indeed Zhang Xian. As soon as Zhang Xian saw Ma Ruoya, he hurriedly said: "Miss, it's not good, the cargo ship is on fire, and most of our Ma family's raw silk has been destroyed." ”

Ma Ruoya pretended not to know, and asked in surprise: "Did you arrive at the boat today?" Zhang Xian nodded, and then said: "This workshop in Yunzhou is short of raw silk, and this boat has an accident, if you don't deal with it in time, the workshop will be cut off from raw materials, and you can't continue to weave." ”

Ma Ruoya sighed, and Zhang Xian hurriedly comforted: "Miss, don't worry, we can transfer a batch of emergency from the neighboring state capitals first, and then transfer another boat of raw silk from Suzhou, Huzhou and other places, as long as we arrange it, it will have no impact on our family's voice." Ma Ruoyan shook her head when she heard this and said, "Don't make a noise about this matter for the time being, I have my own opinions." ”

When Zhang Xian heard this, he had to sigh and retire. At this time, in the side hall of the Ma Mansion, Hu Lu was talking about this matter with his sister Mrs. Luo, "What? The ship is on fire? Running out of goods? Mrs. Luo's eyes widened, and she looked at her eldest brother Hu Lu in disbelief.

Hu Lu sighed again and again: "This thing is really sudden, I didn't expect this incident to happen today, our goods are all ruined, and there is still half a boat of raw silk left." ”

Mrs. Luo shook her head and said: "What's the use of raw silk, it's not ours, our goods are the most important, now it's gone, we have lost at least thousands of taels this time, and if it is not handled well, it is not easy to explain to those people, if it annoys them, our financial road is broken." Hu Lu sighed again and again when he heard this.

Mrs. Luo asked, "Was this an accident or was someone deliberately designed to harm us?" Hu Lu thought for a while and said: "It should be an accident, after all, we also have some prestige in Yunzhou, and besides, our business is taken care of, and generally no one dares to target us like this, and if we really want to go against us, it is better to report us directly to the Caoyun Yamen, and go to the county government to sue us, this is more direct, why bother so much, just destroy our boat and a shipload of goods." Mrs. Luo listened and nodded.

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