The day after Zhang Yanling was kidnapped, the Shen family began to prepare to send the woman who was in the mansion away. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

But externally, the Shen family still pretended that nothing had happened, and it seemed to be calm, but secretly let people go out and grab a few pairs of wound medicine, as long as someone with a heart checked, they would know that someone in the Shen Mansion was injured.

"Even Jian Changbo can let a woman be arrested under his nose, how difficult can it be for the queen mother to come to my champion mansion to get someone?"

Shen Xi's plan was very thorough, and everything was pushed to Empress Zhang.

Shen Xi was not afraid that the Zhang brothers would go to the palace to confess to Empress Zhang, because it was not Empress Zhang, it was possible that Emperor Hongzhi sent someone to do it, or it was done by the internal officials in the palace who were interested in the emperor and the empress.

The Zhang brothers may dare to confess to Empress Zhang because they are a family, but Empress Zhang has the courage to question why Emperor Hongzhi has other women?

Judging from the subsequent feedback, the Zhang brothers did not dare to publicize the matter, and even Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling did not enter the palace at all in the next few days.

As for the woman sent to Shen Xi Mansion, no one asked, because Zhang Yanling only needed a little investigation to know that Shen Xi Mansion had been robbed, which meant that Empress Zhang did not let Shen Xi go, and that woman should have suffered an accident.

Zhang Yanling did not send someone to threaten Shen Xi to let him sell himself to take refuge, and he didn't even mention the matter of inviting Shen Xi to come over to the mansion.

The woman who had a spring breeze with Emperor Hongzhi was found in Shen Xi's mansion, even if she had been crushed and ashes, Empress Zhang would not have a good impression of Shen Xi...... The Zhang brothers were afraid of revenge from their sister, and knew that Shen Xi had annoyed Queen Zhang, what was the use of wooing them at this juncture?

In Zhang Yanling's view, it is only a matter of time before Shen Xi is retaliated against by Empress Zhang, and if he becomes his own person, if Shen Xi has an accident, he has to try to rescue him, which is really worth the loss, so it is better to let it go.

After this incident, Shen Xi finally got rid of the clutches of the Zhang brothers, allowing him to be an idler with ease.

In the next few days, Shen Xi was in a good mood, and without the entanglement of the Zhang brothers, he finally didn't have to be a false wrongdoer between his relatives and loyal ministers, and he could be his East Palace lecturer with peace of mind, give lessons to the prince, talk to Xie Duo about learning, and even go to Xie Qian's mansion to teach Xie Hengnu to learn from women, or go home to accompany his wife and children.

As the main examiner of this year's Shuntianfu Township Examination, Shen Xi is very relaxed, his position comes from the direct appointment of Emperor Hongzhi, and his authority is beyond doubt.

But the people still have some doubts about Shen Xi's knowledge, especially those old scholars who have been in the pile of old papers for many years, they have prejudices against young people, thinking that even if Shen Xi is good at learning, he is at best a "geek" who adapts to the scientific field, but his Confucian attainments must be miserable, and he is not qualified to preside over the Shuntianfu Township Examination at all.

Time passed quickly, and five days passed in a blink of an eye, and Song Xiaocheng asked Shen Xi to inquire about the situation.

“…… My lord, the city is calm, and there are no rumors of Jian Changbo's disappearance on the part of the government, so the villain is surprised. ”

Song Xiaocheng's face was full of doubts, as if he felt that things shouldn't be like this.

Shen Xi didn't intend to explain, and said casually: "The matter involves the royal family, it's not good that you know too much." This matter is over, but you have to be careful, let the big guy keep his mouth shut, and can't leak the matter by his own people, if that happens, Da Luo Jinxian can't save us. ”

"The villain knows the seriousness of the matter, and he will definitely keep his mouth shut, and the brothers below don't know who that person is, and no one dares to reveal this matter."

After Song Xiaocheng finished speaking, he immediately mentioned another thing, "My lord, have you been ...... recently." The big shopkeeper has done something, I'm afraid...... There will be trouble. ”

Shen Xi didn't put the suppression of the Fujian Association on the agenda because of the Zhang brothers, and when he heard Song Xiaocheng say this, he asked, "What did the big shopkeeper do?" ”

"The big shopkeeper has a few shops, all of which are used to buy and sell medicinal materials, the villain wanted to help one or two, but she said that I am a member of the Che Ma Gang, as long as I take care of my own affairs, the big shopkeeper even invites outsiders, it seems that he doesn't trust us!"

Shen Xi frowned and said, "How many families did she have?" ”

"Five or six, all near Chongwenmen, the scale of the shop is not small, I don't know what the shopkeeper is going to do...... If you are in the medicinal herb business, isn't it okay to have a family? There are five or six at a time, and they are all time-honored brands, so you can't squander it like this if you have money. ”

Song Xiaocheng is measured, but he is limited to dealing with disputes between the rivers and lakes and the Chamber of Commerce, and he is not qualified to carry Hui Niang's shoes in business.

Shen Xi was speechless for a while.

Hui Niang did this clearly to have a monopoly operation, this is in Tingzhou through the Chamber of Commerce monopoly of medicinal materials after tasting the sweetness, knowing that the scale is large to negotiate the price with the wholesaler, buy low and sell high to form a huge profit, so Hui Niang chose to take down a number of stores at a time. Perhaps the next step is to implement the medicine in the capital.

But Shen Xi knew that monopoly operation worked in Tingzhou, but it didn't work in the capital.

The capital is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, there are many dignitaries, various forces are intertwined, and there are countless shops, even if you can monopolize the area around Chongwenmen, there are still a large number of medicine shops in other urban areas, and it is not enough to put pressure on the wholesalers of medicinal materials, and even the other party can go the opposite way and collude with the medicine shops to dump at a low price, so that Hui Niang will lose all her money.

In Tingzhou, the monopoly that can be completed with one hundred taels of silver may not be enough in the capital.

"My lord, do you think the big shopkeeper will make money by doing this?" Song Xiaocheng asked.

"Who knows? Maybe it's going to make money, but it's hard to predict the blessings and misfortunes. ”

Shen Xi did not criticize Hui Niang in front of Song Xiaocheng, because he wanted to ensure Hui Niang's absolute authority in the chamber of commerce system, "Sixth brother, you first clean up the hands and tails of the waterway, and withdraw all the things that can be withdrawn, don't make too much noise in the business for the time being, and if the boat company can't continue to operate, just run the carriage first." We can take down all the carriage shops in the capital and do it ourselves. ”

When Song Xiaocheng heard this, his eyes lit up: "There are so many carriage shops in the city, is it really possible?" ”

"Who's to say no?" Shen Xi smiled and cheered up Song Xiaocheng, "The shopkeeper's pharmacy, let's just shop for carriages, anyway, most of the carriages are the groom's own, and it is easier to put them away." If the money is not working, the grooms can be allowed to use the wagons as shares, and the profits from the operating income will be distributed to them. But we must not be unable to operate the real economy ......"

"My lord, what is the real economy?" Song Xiaocheng asked.

"To put it simply, it is production and trading, and we will not touch this for the time being. Also, we don't do anything that involves the livelihood of the imperial court. Shen Xi said, "Scatter the brothers, or go to the dock to carry the goods, or stay in the carriage shop as a buddy." This is the service industry, and the carriage shop is just an errand for people, and it can feed people, and it does not involve a power struggle. ”

Shen Xi hadn't thought about how to settle so many people in the Che Ma Gang before, but now that he thinks about it, he must give them a proper livelihood to do in order to make a comeback in the future.

If these people are disbanded, then if they want to have this force in the future, they can only recruit again, which is tantamount to completely breaking up the chariot and horse gang that has had roots for many years, which is very unwise.

Try to spend money to support these people, but you can't spend too much money, so you have to start from the original business of the chariot and horse gang, that is, the transportation of water and drought. Now the water transport is controlled by the imperial court, but the dry road can complete the rectification of the industry by monopolizing the carriage shop.

At this time, there was no dart game, and Shen Xi's idea was to open the first dart game in Daming and develop the dart into a business, which would be conducive to recruiting those capable people from the three mountains and five mountains.

"Sixth brother, about the matter of negotiating the acquisition with the carriage dealer in the city, it is up to you to do it, remember not to fight and kill, even if we have people, we can't be too strong, otherwise it will only attract the attention of the government." Shen Xi reminded.

Because the chariot and horse gang here in the capital was expanded from the original hands of Zhou Fatzi, and has a deep local background in the capital, so the chariot and horse gang is not a pure parked gang, and Song Xiaocheng has enough prestige to solve anything, after all, the chariot and horse gang is nominally "covered" by the imperial court.

The household department confiscated the official boats, but the chariot and horse gang did not object, and directly handed over the business of official ships and water transportation in exchange for the huan's accommodation to the chariot and horse gang.

Shen Xi wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Carriage and Horse Gang and the Household Yamen were in a state of "separation but not divorced", and quickly completed the integration of the Carriage Gang in the capital.

Song Xiaocheng is a little unclear about the positioning now, and even he, the big boss of the Carriage and Horse Gang, doesn't know what to do in the future, and the hearts of the brothers below will be even more sluggish, and now Shen Xi has given them a goal to work in this general direction.

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Hui Niang opened a pharmacy and did not discuss with Shen Xi, Shen Xi felt that this was also very good, as long as Hui Niang's industry did not form a big climate, it should not offend the government.

Shen Xi's original idea was that Hui Niang could do some small business with peace of mind.

It's just that this time Hui Niang wants to play monopoly management, I'm afraid that the final result will be to offend the powerful, with Hui Niang now just an ordinary businessman, she has no chance to fight against those powerful people, and even Shen Xi doesn't have that confidence now.

Shen Xi asked Song Xiaocheng to integrate the carriage shop in the city, but he himself did not plan to contact these business matters, after becoming a court official, he was powerless to do business, let him come up with ideas or can, but let him be distracted, it is inevitably difficult for some strongmen.

At this moment, Shen Xi suddenly received a letter from Quanzhou Mansion in Fujian.

Someone wants to talk to him about business!

The person who wrote the letter was an old acquaintance of Shen Xi, not those officials and businessmen with evil intentions in the Ming Dynasty, nor the mysterious Jade Niang, but the Admiral Almeida of the Francophone fleet who had been a prisoner of Shen Xi and was later released by the imperial court. (To be continued.) )