It's not a matter of a fisherman buying a fish! The opening is less, four thousand into it? Shut up, are you joking? Six thousand taels, one or two less. Looking at the seller whose clothes are all worn out and his hands are full of calluses, this look is all a bad old man who has not lived a good life for a day, and he talks about a big deal of thousands of taels when he opens his mouth?

Before the shock was over, I saw someone banging on the gong and shouting: "The ocean merchant has returned, and four ships of precious spices are sold, and they intend to go to the fifth district to participate in the auction as soon as possible, with a deposit of 30,000 taels of silver." ”

Li Chengqian and Li Jing looked at each other and only felt that their mouths were dry, because they saw hundreds of people running in the same direction with happy faces.

"This old man, there are too many rich people in your dock, right? I just heard that I wanted to deposit 30,000 taels, and I actually went to hundreds of people. ”

Li Jing walked to a stall on the side of the road and asked an old man with a smile, the old man fiddled with the things on the stall and asked proudly, "My brother and his party are all from other places, right?" ”

"That's right, please ask my brother to teach."

"Hey...... It's good to say, it's good to say, I'm afraid you don't know about the trade of Hailing Wharf, you look up, there are 3,160 trading houses on this wharf, and there are nearly 2,000 of them that can take out 30,000 taels of cash at any time, and the rest of the trading houses have no pressure to take 10,000 or 20,000. And the people who have just passed are all engaged in the spice business, if you want to see the big scene, you have to wait, and when the official of the expedition to Fuso returns, the scene will be huge, and the scene of seven or eight thousand people vying for bids will be magnificent! I heard that at that time, people will come to the palace to buy. ”

The old man said proudly, and the last sentence was said mysteriously. Li Jing and Li Chengqian only felt that their heads were buzzing, and they couldn't hear what the old man said later, and secretly calculated in their hearts, if they looted these merchants, how many years would the money they got can feed the Tang army, and this calculation scared their palms sweating.

The group followed the crowd towards the outside of the dock, and at the exit, there was an official who set up a table to register and collect taxes. The officials who were patrolling around the side suddenly saw Li Chengqian and Li Jing.

He hurriedly walked a few steps, then ran, and when he ran to Li Chengqian's approach, he gasped and bowed down and shouted: "Minister, Ma Zhou greets His Royal Highness the Prince, Chitose Chitose Chitose." ”

"Excuse me, Ma Zhou, aren't you being degraded? How did it end up here? ”

Li Chengqian said lightly, and the people on the field hurriedly knelt on the ground and called Chitose, Li Chengqian waved his hand to signal everyone to get up.

Ma Zhou then said: "Hailing suffered a military disaster, and the minister was transferred to Hailing by the Ministry of Officials, and it has been two months. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Li Guogong are here, and the ministers will send people to arrange food and lodging, what does His Royal Highness need to tell them to pay attention to? ”

"No need, Chang'an Hou is not here, right? Lone is passing by, and by the way, I went to Yangzhou to see him. ”

"Your Royal Highness is wise, the Hou Ye has returned to Yangzhou, and the young lady is about to give birth, I heard that the queen sent the best stable woman in the palace, and Mrs. Xiaojia has also rushed to Yangzhou, and now whether the lady is male or female in the belly is the hottest topic in Yangzhou City."

Ma Zhou said that he laughed first, now he is no longer the novice of officialdom, he is a little more sleek and sophisticated, fortunately, the righteousness between his eyebrows has not disappeared.

"So it's just the right time to be alone, what's going on with this wharf, such a huge amount of money to swagger through the market, aren't you afraid of causing trouble?"

Li Chengqian said happily, looked back at the lively dock market, and asked with a frown.

"Prince Mingjian, not far from the front is the garrison of the expeditionary force, and twenty miles behind is the garrison of the Yangzhou Navy, only those pirates dare to cause trouble here, and the fate of those pirates is unbearable."

Ma Zhou said triumphantly, the amount of money handled here in a day is simply appalling, but there has never been a problem.

"The pirates didn't dare to come, and the bandits and bandits near Yangzhou didn't dare to make trouble."

"Back to the prince, who wants to be a thief if there is a way to live, not to mention that Yangzhou needs a large number of workers to build roads and acropolis, just say that Yangzhou City is full of business opportunities, and selling fruits on the street to make more money than being a thief, who wants to be a bandit and water bandit?"

Ma Zhou said with a smile, in fact, this is a nice saying, the water bandits and bandits around here have either been exterminated, or they have been taken to handcuffs and ankles to build roads and build cities, and they can see the tragic situation of being thieves every day, who dares to be a traitor?

"That's very good, I saw that you were collecting taxes just now, how much tax can this dock receive?"

"Back to Your Highness, the one-year commercial tax at the wharf is equivalent to one and a half years of tax in the past Datang, each of which is recorded, and every month in addition to the necessary expenses, there will be a special fleet to escort the tax to Chang'an."

Ma Zhou said that every time an official came to inspect, he had to ask once, and he was tired of talking about it for a long time. Li Chengqian and Li Jing's bosses with their mouths wide open couldn't believe that a mere dock could withstand the efforts of Datang for a year and a half, so how could other officials live?

"I can't go to sea for a while, and when I come back, I'm a little unfamiliar with this world, this is really changing with each passing day?"

Li Chengqian said with emotion, Cai Cong deserves to be his best friend, and only Cai Cong can make such achievements, thinking of this, he can't wait to meet Cai Cong.

The prince was unwilling to stay in Hailing, so Ma Zhou arranged a guard of honor to send the prince out of the city, and Li Chengqian got on a merchant ship and sailed upstream towards Yangzhou.

When they were about to arrive in Yangzhou, Sister Cai was holding Zheng Rong's hand and saying words of gratitude, the old Cai family was in a single line, and now it was finally coming to the future, she was excited and couldn't sleep night after night!

Zheng Rong exuded the brilliance of motherhood, touched her stomach with a look of satisfaction, and when she heard Sister Cai'er's words, she pouted and pretended to be unhappy and said: "Mother-in-law~ You have said this I don't know how many times, it is natural for the daughter-in-law to be the husband of the Cai family!" If you say that again, you are treating your daughter-in-law as an outsider. ”

"Good, good...... Don't talk about it, what do you want to eat at noon, my mother will let the kitchen cook it for you alone. ”

"Press, I want to eat the sauce elbow made by my husband, and I want to eat a little sauerkraut fish."

Zheng Rong thought about it and said timidly, Sister Cai immediately glared at Cai Cong who was sitting on the side, and said angrily: "Did you hear the rabbit cub?" Why don't you go cook yet? ”

"The cook doesn't do it......"

"Didn't you hear my daughter-in-law say that she wanted to eat what you made? Hurry up, isn't it disobedient. ”

Sister Cai said viciously, Cai Cong stood up weakly, glared at Zheng Rong "viciously", and walked towards the kitchen with his feet jumping.

Zheng Rong raised his head proudly at Cai Cong, this villain always wants to do bad things to himself, and finally someone can cure him.

(End of chapter)