There is a recreation workshop in the center of Quanzhou city, which is quite similar to the Pingkang Fang in Chang'an, it is also a place to look for flowers and ask willows, drunk and golden, but it is relatively small, and inns, inns, and houses have everything, no one cares whether you stay overnight, in addition to famous prostitutes, there are secret prostitutes everywhere, the famous six masters Lin Shihong live here, and there are seven or eight of the ten shops here that are more or less involved in his shares.

Lin Shihong lazily lay on the wide chair and looked at the account book, and the warbler Yanyan was a circle of women in a red circle, or hammering her shoulders, or pinching her feet, or kneeling on the ground to pad her legs, and she was not attentive to her service.

Someone came to report: "Master, the person you invited is here." ”

Hearing this, Lin Shihong asked, "Did you come alone or with someone?" Can you bring weapons? ”

"He came alone, without weapons."

Lin Shihong sneered: "It's so daring, let the kitchen serve the food." ”

"Yes."

After a while, a half-grown child of about twelve or thirteen years old entered the door like a little adult, clasped his fists and saluted: "Jiang Kun of Sugar Village, I have seen the sixth master." ”

Lin Shihong didn't get up when he saw this, but there was a three-point smile on his face, he stretched out his hand to signal the person to sit down, and said with a smile: "The virtuous nephew is kind, come and taste it, this is the plum blossom cake newly made in the back kitchen, take the newly picked plum blossom, mash it and mix it with glutinous rice, honey, and sake lees, and steam it. ”

Jiang Kun said with a smile: "The sixth master is joking, what we knock on the candy gang is all the snacks of the countrymen, and the things that can't be climbed into the hall of elegance, how can they be compared with the pastries of the sixth master." ”

Lin Shihong laughed wildly when he heard this, then grabbed a handful with his big hand, swallowed it in two bites, and grabbed the residue on his hand and wiped it on the body of the maid on the side, and said: "Yes, yes, the virtuous nephew is very self-aware, my Lin family has a long history, poetry and books have been handed down for hundreds of years, and ordinary rural things naturally cannot be compared, hahahaha." ”

Jiang Kun knew what he meant, but he simply pretended not to understand, and ate the plum blossom cake with all his heart, slandering in his heart: This thing is so sweet that it smells very fragrant, but it tastes astringent, it's just nondescript, pitiful, the dignified family can only eat this kind of thing.

Lin Shihong saw that Jiang Kun didn't answer the call, and was slightly impatient, so he snorted coldly and said: "The virtuous nephew has done a lot of business recently, I heard that the barbarians of all sizes in Quanzhou City have made deals with you, and you have also contracted thousands of acres of sugarcane from them, and even promised to deliver them to your door, but is there such a thing?" ”

Jiang Kun replied: "The sixth master is well-informed, admire." ”

"Tut-tut, virtuous nephew Meng Lang, this business can't do this."

"Oh? Please also ask the sixth master to teach? ”

"Hehe, the virtuous nephew knows, out of this Quanzhou City, if you go south by land, it will be a miasma of poor mountains and bad waters, the more south, the more no one learns and educates, the people are rude, and a mountain is connected to a mountain, the mountain is either a barbarian or a mountain bandit, you do business with them, believe it or not, you can't go out of a hundred miles, how many goods will be robbed, and even your life will be put in."

"Oh?" Jiang Kun said with a playful face: "I do things under the banner of the Wu family, do they even dare to rob the Wu family?" ”

Lin Shihong sneered: "Don't say that the virtuous nephew is just a banner, it is really the descendant of the Wu family, and when he came to this Quanzhou boundary, I am afraid that it is nothing, and if he is robbed, he will be robbed." ”

Jiang Kun was not annoyed, and still asked with a smile: "Then, in the opinion of the sixth master, what should I do if I knock on the sugar gang?" ”

Lin Shihong laughed again, and said: "Don't hide it, I, Lin someone, still have three points of thin noodles among the green forest heroes in this Quanzhou area, if you play my banner, I guarantee that the business of the virtuous nephew will be smooth all the way." ”

"I see, then I don't know how much silver you need for your flag, Sixth Master?"

"Virtuous nephew, my Lin someone's banner, but not rented, not sold, only for my own brother, I see the virtuous nephew is a talent, Ling Zun's virtue and reputation, Lin is even more thunderous, I don't know if you father and son, can you be willing to be my Lin someone's brother?"

Jiang Kun's face remained unchanged, and he still said with a smile: "Thank you for the kindness of the sixth master, but I heard that General Chen Ling Chen is coming soon, with this Guanzhong Xiongshi, just a bandit, it's too late to hide, I shouldn't dare to be rampant, I knocked on the sugar gang to tie up the Wu family, and I am not a cat or a dog, at this time the bandit jumped out, I must have to complain to General Chen, didn't this bandit use his head in exchange for General Chen's exploits?" Sixth master, you said, is that the truth? ”

When Lin Shihong heard this, his smile gradually froze, and a pair of wolf-like eyes stared at Jiang Kun, who was calm, picked up another piece of plum blossom cake, and took a bite gently. Well, I'm used to eating it, but I can barely swallow it.

"I didn't expect that the virtuous nephew had just arrived, and there was such news."

"Knocking candy to help the Quartet rely on a well-informed person, is this also a basic skill?"

Lin Shihong grabbed a hand full of plum blossom cakes, devoured them in three or two bites, and then said viciously: "Far water does not quench the thirst of the near, General Chen will not arrive in two months, and anything can happen in two months, not to mention, General Chen will always leave when he comes." ”

Jiang Kun said: "Yes, General Chen is still two months away, two months, what a precious gold and agate time, if the bandits only know how to rob us and knock sugar to help these two melons and dates, and let go of this once-in-a-lifetime big business, how stupid." ”

Lin Shihong was stunned for a moment and asked, "Big business?" What is big business? ”

Jiang Kun said eloquently: "I heard that General Chen had contact with the indigenous barbarians of the Ryukyus before, and the indigenous barbarians seemed to be quite disrespectful to General Chen, and General Chen kindly persuaded the natives of the Ryukyus to submit to my Great Sui, and those natives did not know the height of the sky, so they refused. ”

Lin Shihong was surprised when he heard this: "You really just came to Quanzhou for a few days?" How did this information come about? We don't know much about these things within the Lin family. ”

Jiang Kun laughed and said: "If you want me to say, this state barbarian is stupid, it's just too stupid, what's wrong with surrendering to the Great Sui?" Our Supreme, just a good face, you see that Turkic people, just kneel, bow, say two good words, and the Supreme rewarded them with 400,000 pieces of silk! Where can I find such a good deal in this world? Don't say that you just say good things, just let me eat and give me 10,000 horses of silk, and I am especially willing to empty the treasury! You say, is that true? ”

Lin Shihong frowned slightly, he was still chewing plum blossom cake in his mouth.

"You say, those natives don't understand the language of our Great Sui, and it's very difficult to find an interpreter, if this operation is a little bit of operation, what does it matter if this indigenous envoy scolded the eighteenth generation ancestor of the Supreme on the Zichen Palace? I also heard that along the sea continue to the southeast, everywhere there are such small states and small barbarians, most of them can't find a translator at all, in fact, we can't tell who they are, if you just find a few barbarians to go to Guanzhong to worship the Supreme, even if it's nonsense, as long as the interpreter is your own person, this is not how to operate if you want to operate? It's a pity, what a good business, just because of arrogance, you will die and be wiped out~"

Lin Shihong's eyes widened: "What do you mean......"

"I heard that the Ryukyu barbarians, men, women, and children add a piece, a total of 20,000 people, you said that General Chen is here, he can still find an interpreter by himself? How to find the interpreter, how to translate it, or who is the Ryukyu Domain, and who decides? Sixth master, tell me, if an overseas state brings some local products to worship the Supreme, what reward will the Supreme give? If you make dozens of them, how much will this business make! ”

"You...... You're going to bully you!! ”