Of course, the people in the town don't know about the Hou Mansion Courtyard.

But what they know is that the letter and the commission have been delivered, and Xu Zixian, the general of the Sanpin Zhaowu and the training envoy of the Wupin Regiment of Fuzhou Prefecture, has been officially decided.

Of course, some people are dissatisfied, but in any case nothing can be said against it.

Xu Zixian did not disturb the people or the place every day, and after Li Cheng and his son were finished, the Hou Mansion withdrew the right to use the hidden household Dingkou of Guanzhuang with a rather restrained attitude, not only did not raise the price, but gave up a lot of benefits.

These things, including the result of facing Chen Yuyong and killing him, made Xu Zixian's prestige soar.

Including the battle of the river bridge, although few people saw the battle that night, but afterwards the mess in the forest, there were traces of axes and knives everywhere, which is always true.

In addition, the fire and arrows were fired, the broken throwing spears were everywhere, and the blood shed by the dead coagulated into black and purple, which made people feel panic when they saw it...... For many days after the battle, no one dared to pass by at night, and the people liked to spread this kind of thing the most, and the ghosts were crying at night, and these similar rumors were widely spread.

Now the unanimous opinion between several towns is the same, that is, there is Xu Zixian here, it can't be said that it is completely assured, at least it can be relieved to delay for a while, if Xu Zixian is also scared away, it means that the Qishan thieves may come to retaliate in the near future, and appease the envoy and the Dadu Governor's Mansion for the sake of face and keep the meritorious clan heroes, and they have to pick up Xu Zi first before the Qishan thieves come.

Therefore, in the midst of praise, in fact, the top business house principals did not pay attention to the level of force of the Houfu Courtyard, but to Xu Zixian's own movements.

If Xu Zixian really wants to leave, then it is a sign that the bigwigs of Fuzhou Mansion are going to give up here. Pirates come and go, and it is difficult to determine their whereabouts, and if they are deployed here for a long time, it is inevitable that they will lose sight of one or the other, so that there will be obvious defensive holes in more important places.

Therefore, it is best to get Xu Zi away first, and it is very likely that after the Qishan thieves know that Xu Zi leaves first, they will give up the idea of violating the Houfu Courtyard, and this place will be safe and sound.

It is a very shameful thing to say, and it will never happen before Emperor Chengzong. If there is really a "group of bandits" to threaten the place, the first thing that the civil and military officials of Fujian Road a few decades ago thought of was to send troops to take the initiative to attack and kill them, instead of the current situation, thinking about the quiet place and not provoking pirates to attack, then thank God.

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"Have you thought about the current situation?"

There are a lot of merchants in the town, some of them are the shopkeepers of the year, with top stocks, which are considered to be half of the proprietors, and some are purely the heads of the semicolons, ordinary things can be their own ideas, involving a large amount of money, then they can't be their own family, they have to be the patriarch of the family, or the proprietor of the business house to take the idea.

It was Pu Shouchen who spoke, he was Pu Shougao's brother, and he was also a more trusted one.

After all, in Nan'an, Shuikou, Gukou this line, the land official road is continuous, the ships on the Minjiang River are endless, in addition to the shore in Shuikou, most of them come ashore here in Nan'anze, this side is ten miles away from Fucheng, the official road is in good condition, from Xinghua Army, Shao Wujun, Jianzhou, Tingzhou, including Zhangzhou some to the mainland to sell goods to Fuzhou, unless along the Min River directly to Haikou, otherwise it is more appropriate to transfer here.

Originally, it was better to go directly to Fuzhou, but now most of the sea ships go to Quanzhou, because of the Qishan pirates, few merchant ships dare to go down the river directly by single ship, they all go to Fuzhou first to do goods, gathered more than a dozen ships, and the government sends sailors to escort them to the sea, several defense lines along the coast, the government also has sailors to escort them, but the sea is vast, there are too few places to guard, most of the merchant ships will be harassed by pirates when they reach the sea, most of them are to pay transit money, a few unlucky ghosts will be snatched away by ships, about one of the five ships will end like this, One of them may be fine for ten years, or it may be robbed or sunk for the first time.

The maritime trade is very profitable, because every time you go to sea, you may not be able to come back, and the popularity of goods is one thing, and the risks are indeed extremely high.

Nan'an Town is the land passage from the two armies and three states to Fuzhou and Quanzhou, it is relatively safer to go ashore from here to Fuzhou, of course, Shuikou Town, Gukou Town, as well as Minqing County, Nanping County, these places are also a lot of business travel, even the river is also a ship business travel is very dense, if the light Nan'an Town is important here, Fuzhou should send a military and water division to come over.

"Honestly." Seeing that everyone was silent for a while, Pu Shouchen smiled and continued: "My brother is actually very pleased that the government attaches importance to these nearby towns. However, after all, my Pu family is an outsider, and it is not a good thing to spend too much money on group training, and it is taboo to ......"

Lin Ding, the proprietor of the Lin family's boat company, said in a sullen voice: "Brother Pu's family is the best, when the money is paid, it is from outside, and when it makes money, it is in this dynasty for many years, and the heart is to my Huaxia, good ideas, good deals." It's a pity that my Lin family can't change their ancestors, and this loss is still settled. ”

Several big shopkeepers and proprietors laughed sullenly, the Pu family is indeed such a virtue, and it has long been annoying.

Pu Shouchen didn't feel embarrassed, the Pu family has always been like this, things that are in the limelight, such as the emperor's Qianqiu Festival, that is, it is necessary to spend a lot of money for the emperor's birthday, and the magnates have three festivals and two celebrations, and those who should be spent must be spent. Hire unscrupulous literati, write poems, biographies, and even novels to tout the Pu family, and the money is willing to be spent.

The Pu family, a person from heaven, can stand tall in Dawei for many years, which is one of the core of this one.

What should be spent, spent on the royal family, the powerful, touted by themselves, a penny is spent a lot.

What shouldn't be spent, where is the public welfare, apportionment, and miscellaneous taxes, that is not a penny.

"It's a good thing to have a group practice." Pu Shouchen smiled and said: "Now it seems that the upper authorities are going to make apportionments, otherwise the prince of Nan'an Hou will not be able to take out this huge amount of money." ”

Everyone present laughed, there was no lack of approval and contempt, Nan'an Hou is indeed a famous poor ghost, the marquis of the clan has a lot of poor people in Jiangling, and there are also many broken settlements in Jingshi, and Nan'an Hou Mansion here in Fuzhou is the representative.

In fact, Nan'an Hou Mansion is famous for being poor, mainly because its relationship with the imperial family is still very close, Xu Zixian and the current emperor are the same great-grandfather, and the bloodline is extremely close.

"I want to have something to say." Pu Shouchen restrained his smile and said solemnly: "If you want to apportion, unless there is an official letter from the envoy and the metropolitan governor's mansion to appease the envoy and the metropolitan governor, plus the official letter of the transfer envoy, the Pu family will not be able to obey the order." ”

Lin Dingyi said "hey" and said, "If your Pu family doesn't pay for it, my Lin family should be in charge?" If we want to finish everyone, we won't have a penny. ”

The Pu and Lin families have always been a bit-for-tat, and this time Lin Dingyi was angered by Pu Shouchen, and others wanted to persuade them, but they also had to consider whether their identity was enough.

Pu Shouchen smiled: "Brother Lin may not have this courage, right? And the prince of the Hou Mansion carried it hard, and missed the big event of the group training, I am afraid that I can't afford to bear the crime, why bother to bear this cow? ”

Lin Dingyi sneered: "This doesn't have to worry about Brother Pu, once the group training starts, the cost is at least 70,000 or 80,000 or even more than 100,000 yuan a year, and this money has to be coordinated by Fuzhou, and all towns have to pay to contribute." Let's jump out first, what's the matter? Don't you stir up here either, do you really think we're stupid? ”

Pu Shouchen felt a little embarrassed at this time, this meeting was convened by him, and he deliberately instigated and provoked the people in front of him.

This matter is also Pu Shougao's order, originally this side of the matter has nothing to do with the Pu family, but the powerful man instructed Pu Shougao to make some trouble for Xu Zixian first, it was just a trivial matter, and Pu Shougao agreed to it. Who would have thought that Lin Dingyi was really shrewd, and these big shopkeepers in front of him obviously saw his intentions.

However, since the goal has been achieved, it doesn't matter whether it is recognized or not, Pu Shouchen smiled slightly and did not refute Lin Dingyi's words.

The atmosphere was not good, everyone got up to say goodbye, Pu Shouchen sent these big men of the town all the way to the door, and when they were greeting and saying goodbye, a man from a trading house rushed over.

"Fourth master, something is wrong." The one who came to report the news was a Han person, and the people in charge of the Pujia trading house were all people from the Tianfang Kingdom, and of course the guys were mainly Han people.

"What's the matter, what's the panic?" Pu Shouchen was very dissatisfied, this guy was simply embarrassed.

"Nearly 100 people came out of the Nan'an Hou Mansion, and set up clips in the official road, the Minjiang River ferry, and the Nan'an River estuary. From today onwards, all the passing caravans, according to the value of the goods carried, estimate the transit fee, do not pay the money, have been a lot of people, our caravan, also stopped. ”

"What?" Pu Shouchen's face also changed at this time, and his heart was extremely angry and frightened.

"It's called the Eye." Lin Dingyi couldn't help laughing.

Others are not so relaxed, the Lin family is a shipping company, and it is convenient to open a branch here to receive business, in addition to transportation, it is shipbuilding, but there are very few caravans with goods, of course, you can stay out of the matter and see jokes, other trading houses, caravans are also a lot.

"I'm afraid the prince is dizzy." Yang Shizhi, the proprietor of Yang's Silk Shop, showed a thin anger on his face and said: "He wants to offend the merchants of the entire Fujian Road? ”

"That's a way to do it." Zhang Mingming, the chief shopkeeper of Tiexing, shook his head and smiled, and said, "Everyone apportions, who doesn't jump their feet?" Now taking the opportunity of holding a group exercise, setting up a card to collect donations, even if he reports to Fuzhou, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the marshal ministers, and the patrol history, no one can find fault with him. I've heard that he is allowed to act cheaply, maybe he apportions, since apportionment is okay, but it is not possible to set up a card to collect donations? ”

"This is a stable source of income." Lin Dingyi heard it on the side, and suddenly woke up, how shrewd a businessman like him was, he figured it out immediately, his face showed a look of shock, and he said: "If the prince of the world is apportioned, it is very likely that the apportionment will not be successful, and it will even cause chaos." After all, the amount is uneven and cannot be measured, and it is unbearable to come back and forth every year. It's different to knock money on the head of the merchant, and you can always take it, wonderful, wonderful, he had better not do business, otherwise our job will be robbed of him. ”

Several shopkeepers and proprietors all smiled wryly when they heard this, and Lin Dingyi stayed out of the matter and spoke too easily.

In fact, everyone also realized that the prince did not apportionment in various towns, mainly because all the trading houses were local snakes, and the prince did not want to mess up his own territory, ruin his reputation, and provoke public anger.

And foreign businessmen are different, even if they call Qu, they will go to Fuzhou Mansion at most, which will give the yamen over there a headache.

This can be regarded as a stumbling block set up by the Fuzhou side, but the prince is the anti-general army and pushes the contradiction back.

To say that setting up a card to collect taxes is quite normal in Dawei, and of course the only people who can do this are the government.

If Xu Zixian did not have an official document allowing him to persuade donations and act cheaply, then the matter of setting up a card to collect donations would never be done, and on the first day, the second day to appease the envoy would send someone to come, and on the third day, the impeachment of the envoy would go to Beijing, and what was waiting for him would be reprimanded, and if it was serious, he would be cut off.