After walking for a while, Yang Yuan waved without looking back, and Yang Steward knew that he was calling himself, so he hurriedly sped up a few steps, came to Yang Yuanwai's side, and listened attentively.

Yang Yuanwai asked: "You said that the Bai family just came to the door, so Chen Er leaked out this covering and quenching method, did he do it on purpose?" ”

Steward Yang was stunned when he heard this, thought for a moment, and said, "Outside the staff is wise, I'm afraid that's it." ”

Yang Yuanwai seemed to be talking to Steward Yang, and seemed to be talking to himself: "The Bai family came to you, and he Chen Er naturally didn't dare to refuse, he wanted to hook up with the Bai family, and he was afraid of offending me, so he deliberately leaked this secret technique of covering soil and quenching to us...... He's probably like a two-sided flatterer, left and right. ”

Steward Yang listened quietly and did not interject.

Yang Yuanwai continued to mutter to himself: "What a joke, he is an outsider, a lonely person, why is there a left and right source between the two heroes of East Zhuangzi?" ”

"But it's okay, he wants to be left and right, and I'm happy to delay some time, as long as he doesn't shorten my thirty knives a month, drag it for a day, and my Yang family will be stronger for a day...... It's best to drag it out for a year and a half...... Hey! ”

In fact, Chen Xian still underestimated the significance of thirty katana swords per month to Dong Zhuangzi.

There are about 4,000 people in the whole Dongzhuangzi, with more than 20,000 acres of land, of which the two poplars each account for nearly 10,000 acres.

The Yang family has nearly 10,000 acres of land under their name, and most of these nearly 10,000 acres of land are rented out, and nearly 1,000 stones can be rented every year, and nearly 30,000 yuan can be discounted.

This 30,000 guan is really a lot of money, but it has to be used to raise soldiers, raise people, and supply a huge Yang family's brocade clothes and food, and the final balance is only four or five thousand.

Chen Xian sent thirty treasure knives every month, each of which can bring more than twenty yuan of profit to the Yang family, six or seven hundred yuan a month, seven or eight thousand yuan a year, maybe when there are more Tang knives in the market, the price will drop, but how can there be five or six thousand yuan a year.

Such a sum of money, even for local tyrants like the Bai and Yang families, is a considerable amount of money, and if it falls into one of them, it is enough to greatly increase its strength, thus breaking the balance of Zhuangzi.

If you only look at the East Zhuangzi, the two poplars are evenly matched, but on this Yiyuan Plain, there is more than one East Zhuangzi.

The shape of the Yiyuan Plain is like a gourd that lies horizontally in the depths of the Lu Mountain, the East Zhuangzi is located at the bottom of the gourd, and there is a Zhuangzi that is more in scale than the East Zhuangzi in the middle of the gourd, called West Zhuangzi, and there is a Zhuangzi in the upper abdomen of the gourd, called Tangjiazhuang.

The largest West Zhuangzi is jointly controlled by three powerful families, namely the Bai family, the Li family, and the Tang family.

There are also two Haoqiang in Tangjiazhuang, namely the Tang family and the Xu family.

In this small mountain plain, the Bai family and the Tang family are the top heroes, and the Li family, the Xu family, and the Yang family are all one level behind.

Therefore, if it weren't for the last resort, Yang Yuanwai would not be willing to really tear his face with the Bai family.

Chen Xian's value, Yang Yuanwai is clear, and the Bai family will not be unclear, if Yang Yuanwai takes Chen Xian away, the Bai family will definitely not give up, for the sake of the money-shaking Tang knife, the Bai Yang family does not want to tear their faces, they have to tear their faces.

If Chen Xian can delay for a while, relatively speaking, it will be more beneficial to the Yang family.

The only thing Yang Yuanwai was worried about was that the Bai family took the lead and captured Chen Xian, then everything would be over.

However, fortunately, the Chen family's blacksmith shop is on the territory of the Yang family, and it is not difficult for the Bai family to kidnap Chen Xian, but it is not easy not to alarm the Bai family.

Thinking of this, Yang Yuanwai said to Steward Yang: "Don't move that Chen Er first, and let the people who were bought by us keep an eye on the Bai family's military village and the horse team." ”

As soon as he heard the order, Steward Yang understood what the staff meant, and lowered his hand and said, "Understood." ”

After figuring out the matter, Yang Yuanwai's footsteps suddenly became brisk, and after walking a few more steps, he remembered something again, and instructed Steward Yang: "Push the purchase price of Tang Dao to four times." ”

"Understood!" Yang Yuanwai's steps are brisk, and Steward Yang is also in a good mood, keeping Chen Xian is equivalent to keeping him for the benefit of thirty times a month, as for the price of Tang Dao being lowered, he doesn't care, does Chen Er dare to reduce his benefits.

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The head of the Bai family in Dongzhuangzi is named Bai Bingwen, and Yang Yuanwai likes to dance with guns and sticks, Bai Yuanwai is a scholar, and he still has the fame of the Jin Dynasty, in fact, the entire Yiyuan Bai family clan has a tradition of cultivating and reading heirlooms, and many of the children are officials in Laiwu County, Tai'an Prefecture and even Dongping Mansion.

However, in the Jin Dynasty, it was difficult for the Han people to enter the core of power as officials, so some Han clans, although they also let their children be officials in the imperial examination, but more importantly, they were operated locally, and the children of the officials were just a bridge between the clan and the Jin government.

This Bai Bingwen is the eldest son of the head of the Bai family in Dongzhuangzi, he was admitted to Laiwu County Xiucai when he was a teenager, and then studied in Dongping Mansion for three years.

When Yang Yuanwai came back from the military village, Bai Bingwen was drinking tea and talking with a person dressed as a scribe in an elegant study in the Baifu Test Hall.

Bai Bingwen is now in his fifties, but he is very well maintained, his face looks only in his early forties, his complexion is fair and delicate, his appearance is delicate, with three locks of long beard under his chin, a calm and elegant demeanor, and a silk robe with an elegant color, giving people a feeling of elegance and wealth.

The scribe who spoke to Bai Bingwen looked to be in his early fifties, dressed in a green robe, with a thin face and attentive eyes, which would give people a very shrewd first image.

This green-robed scribe is surnamed Zhao, named Zhao Qufei, and is Bai Bingwen's classmate when he was studying in Dongping Mansion.

After Bai Bingwen gave up school and returned home, Zhao Qufei participated in the imperial examination of the Jin Dynasty and won the promotion.

Zhao Qufei, who was born in a small household, entered the government with nine products in Dongping Mansion. After decades, he was only a petty official from the seventh grade, and after returning home, he was invited by Bai Bingwen to Dongzhuangzi, on the one hand, to teach the children of the Bai family to read, and on the other hand, this person was also Bai Bingwen's mastermind.

Bai Bingwen gently placed the delicate white porcelain tea bowl in his hand on the desk, with a trace of contempt on his face, and said: "This Chen Er is also a little clever, he used recruiting the Bai family's apprentices as bait, attracting Bai Anfu to say good things for him, and wanting to use this to meet the source between my Bai family and the Yang family, it is really a good calculation." ”

Zhao Qufei shook the fan with one hand, and gently knocked on a few cases around him with the other hand, and smashed his mouth lightly when he heard the words, and sighed: "This Chen Xian has so much talent, he came to this East Zhuangzi in vain, and in less than half a year, he has run a large family business, dozens of people's shops, well-organized, and the rules and regulations formulated, I am impressed when I hear it, the most strange thing is that the apprentices under his command have been trained in just half a year, and they can't inquire about the situation in the shop with money, if it weren't for those old mothers, This little shop is almost impossible to splash in. ”

Speaking of this, he shook his head and said, "It's a pity that this person is amazing in his small place, but he has no great talent, he doesn't know the general trend, and he is only worthy of being the shopkeeper of a store." ”

Bai Bingwen said: "Then Brother Zhao thinks that I will agree to this matter of recruiting apprentices, or will I not agree?" ”

Zhao Qufei smiled and said: "Brother Bai said that he laughed, whether he agreed or not, is there any difference?" ”