Chapter 20 There is no good feast
Touching the bronzing material on the invitation, Jiang Kun couldn't help but secretly sigh, this Lin family is really pretending to be a good beep.
The content of the invitation is very simple, it is just to ask him to come to the house tonight, and the rest of the content is not even half a word, as if it is quite rude, but he is sure that he will come, which makes Jiang Kun feel a little unhappy, for the sake of this gilded invitation, endure it.
Jiang Kun handed the invitation to Su Goudan and asked him to scrape off the gold dust on it, and secretly calculated it in his heart.
What do you want to say when you see him at night? If Jiang Weidong talked about it in person, how would Jiang Weidong talk about this business? Sending troops to the Ryukyus, can you find a way to get a piece of the pie? Jiang Kun, who was in a thousand heads, couldn't figure it out for a while, and his mind was a mess.
"Go, call that shopkeeper for me."
Lao Wang went downstairs when he heard this, Jiang Kun asked Su Goudan to give him a basin of cold water, moistened it with a towel and wiped it on his face, his face was like a knife, but it really made his mind sober a lot.
Steady, the king of grass, after all, he is a figure from a thousand years ago, even if he is famous in history, how many ways can he do? I'm also a master's degree in 985, how can I still not handle a mere native, isn't it just to meet and chat, it's hard to say whether it's an enemy or a friend.
Jiang Kun secretly cheered himself up.
After a while, Xiao Er came up, and as soon as they met, he grovelled to Jiang Kun, saying beautiful auspicious words in his mouth, but Jiang Kun hurriedly stopped him, threw over a handful of copper coins and asked: "There is a Lin Shihong in the Lin family, do you know this person, tell me about this person." ”
The shopkeeper happily put the money in his pocket and said with a smile: "Master, you can really ask the right person, if you want to say the news of the size of every household in Quanzhou City, there are really few who know better than me, if you have needs in the future, just come to ask the villain, the villain guarantees to know everything." ”
Jiang Kun hurriedly stretched out his hand again and interrupted: "Okay, okay, I know, you hurry up and get down to business, talk about Lin Shihong." ”
Xiao Er said: "Yes, if you go back to the master, the deeds of the sixth master in this Quanzhou City actually do not need to be specially inquired, his affairs, most of the people in Quanzhou City are clear, although the sixth master was born in the Lin family, but he is very capable, the three religions and nine streams in the city, the bandits and thieves outside the city, all call him brothers, there is a timely rain, and he also earns a good hand, the rich businessmen in the city, the officials of the Yamen, anyone has to sell him three points of thin noodles, and there is even news that he is a concubine now, To a certain extent, he can be the master of the Lin family! ”
"Oh?" Jiang Kun thought for a moment, then grasped the crux of the problem and said, "You said he made a good amount of money?" How to earn it, it is said that he is a concubine ......"
"If you go back to the master, the sixth master's money has little to do with the Lin family, this person earns silver by printing money, by lawsuits, by monopolizing the foot shop in the city, and by four...... Many people said that he also had a good relationship with overseas countries, and at least sixty percent of the spices that entered the port from Quanzhou had to pass through his hands. ”
Jiang Kun said to himself: "I see, this is a big Song Jiang, no wonder he can do such a big foundation." Then he smiled and asked the little er: "What am I doing, I think you already know, I don't hide it, I just received a letter from Lin Shihong, ask me to apply for a while today, you come to help me guess what he is looking for me?" ”
Xiao Er said confidently: "Back to Jiang Ye, the villain thinks that he wants to take the Knock Sugar Gang for his own use, even the villain knows that the Knock Sugar Gang is now nearly a thousand people, and everyone has the ability to make money, go all directions, pass through four doors, you have just done a lot of business with the Shanyue people in this Quanzhou City, with the villain's judgment of the sixth master, he must have been moved." ”
Jiang Kun raised his eyebrows slightly, and he couldn't see emotions such as joy, anger, and fear on his face, but a look of playfulness and curiosity, and asked with a smile: "You dare to guess, but haven't you inquired, are we from the Sugar Knocking Gang who hurt the Wu family?" He, Lin Shihong, still dares to take advantage of the Wu family? ”
Xiao Er said with a smile: "If the Wu family is in the square inch of Wushu County, naturally no one can do anything about it, but since you want to go south to do business, especially if you want to enter Quanzhou City to do big business, it is really not possible to do it without the help of the sixth master, as long as the sixth master does not step on the line, does not share the profits near the Wusheng, and only peels the skin and pumps water to the master near Quanzhou, then the Wu family can't help him." ”
Su Goudan and Lao Wang and the others were worried when they heard this, especially when Lao Wang wanted to scold the shopkeeper, Jiang Kun smiled even more happily, with a more interested look on his face, and said with a smile: "Do you know that recently, the big officials in Quanzhou City have come to pass through the customs?" ”
Hearing this, the shopkeeper pondered for a while, shook his head and said, "No." ”
"Really? Are you not mistaken? ”
"No" Xiao Er was unusually firm.
Jiang Kun thought about it, smiled and took out half a piece of silk cloth from his goods, and said with a smile: "That is, in the near future, there will be a big official in Guanzhong to come to Quanzhou to do business in the near future, you know, this kind of thing will definitely receive the wind in advance, if you can find out to me before I meet Lin Shihong tonight, this half of the silk cloth is yours." ”
The little second glanced at the water leak in the corner of the wall, it was not a quarter of a second, and it was estimated that there was less than an hour before Shen Shi. After thinking for a long time, he said, "Time is too rushed." ”
"You can't do it?"
"Gotta add money."
“…………”
Sent the shopkeeper to do things, Jiang Kun naturally couldn't be idle, and ordered Lao Wang to go to the bazaar to buy gifts, so he spread out the pen and ink on the table to write and paint, but saw that the paper first drew a circle, wrote Quanzhou Lin, and drew a small circle outside the circle, wrote Lin Shihong, and wrote the word Ryukyu not far away, also drew a circle, after thinking about it, drew a circle below and wrote Wu's, did not write the sugar gang, and then wrote the imperial court envoy with a stroke of genius, and then, it was a dense arrow, The calculations were racing in my head.
Su Goudan came over to take a look, and found that he couldn't understand anything, and seeing Jiang Kun's serious expression, he didn't dare to ask for a while.
After a long time, Jiang Kun threw down his pen and ink and sighed: "No wonder my father has been suppressing and not allowing him to enter the city, it is better to be a society under the rule of law." ”
After closing his eyes for a while, he repeatedly considered what he wanted to say and the attitude he wanted to put when he met for a while, and before he knew it, the sun was setting, and the copper leak in the corner of the wall was ticking, reminding him that time was flying.
An hour later, the shopkeeper returned.
Jiang Kun was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "Is there any news?" ”
"Fortunately, the yamen has received an order more than a month ago, and the adults in the Guanzhong are coming, and Chen Ling, the general of Wu Benzhonglang, will inspect the places along the way, and prepare the military system, and there will be about two months to get here."
"Can you bring guards and horses?"
Xiao Er said: "I don't know, but I think I should have brought it." ”
Jiang Kun thought secretly: "Two months, time is enough......"