Guo Qing gently stroked the woman's bulging belly and said with a smile: "It's boring, I'll let my little sister accompany you more." ”

The woman hurriedly said: "Forget it, she is too noisy, as soon as she comes, the little guy can't stop." ”

Guo Qing said: "Then I will accompany you for these three months, waiting for my son to be born." ”

The woman smiled: "I'm fine, you don't have to guard me, he will make trouble for a while, and when he is tired, he will not make trouble, and when he is not troublesome, I will go out for a walk." ”

The two of them were lying on the bed, the other was sitting on the edge of the bed, three hands caressing their stomachs, quietly feeling the beating of the little life, slowly soothing in the soft words, and the child in the belly gradually quieted down.

"He's asleep." The woman chuckled softly.

Guo Qing smiled: "It's been a long time, it's time to sleep." ”

Suddenly, he heard someone shouting outside the house, Guo Qing smiled on his face, and he was about to get up and go out.

The woman took his hand and said softly, "Don't be angry, it must be an urgent matter, otherwise I won't call you over and over again." Go ahead, I'll sleep for a while. With that, he closed his eyes.

Guo Qing covered her with the quilt in unison, put down the bed curtain, and then went out.

Seeing that the young master's face was not good, the servant hurriedly said, "Young master, the person outside the door said that his surname was Yang." ”

"How old?" Guo Qing's face was not good-looking.

The servant said, "The young man, in his twenties, speaks very kindly. ”

I have seen a lot of people over the years, and I can't guess who it will be, and I don't bother to guess, so I just went out to have a look.

When he got out of the door, Guo Qing saw the two of them standing with their backs to the door, so he said loudly: "I don't know what the two of you are looking for Guo?" ”

The two turned around and didn't reply, and one of them looked at Guo Qing just laughing and didn't say anything.

Guo Qing looked at that face and suddenly shouted: "Brother Yang!" "Hurried down the steps.

These two people are Yang Congyi and Jiang Kai.

Yang Congyi smiled: "Brother Guo, seeing that your face is ruddy, there have been good things recently." ”

Guo Qing grabbed Yang Congyi's shoulder and looked excited: "Brother Yang, where have you been in the past two years, I have been to Huaining to look for you several times, but I have never found you." ”

Yang Congyi said with a smile: "I went to Lin'an two years ago, and I came to you today as soon as I returned to Taihu County." ”

Guo Qing smiled: "Brother Yang, are you going to leave when you come back this time?" ”

Yang Congyi said: "Come back and do something, stay for ten days and half a month." ”

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting so long, let's go in and talk about it." Guo Qing suddenly remembered that the door was not a place to chat, so he hurriedly invited them into the house.

When he came to the living room, Yang Congyi introduced Jiang Kai, briefly talked about his experience in the past two years, and told Guo Qing the purpose of their trip, and now they came to him to borrow money to recruit troops.

Guo Qing listened to Yang Congyi's current identity, and was a little nervous at first, but under Yang Congyi's persuasion, he was relieved, and the two were still brothers. When he heard that he was going to sea and returning to Yi, he was actually very interested, but he was not easy to speak. I also heard that Yang Congyi wanted to borrow money to recruit troops, and immediately told him about his experience in business in the past two years.

Through Guo Qing's narration, Yang Congyi knew that Guo Qing had also made some money now, with six or seven thousand yuan in cash, plus the materials that were not sold, and the assets that belonged to him were around 12,300 yuan.

Guo Qing borrowed a lot of money from him at the beginning, and according to Guo Qing, fifty percent of the more than 10,000 yuan of money belonged to Yang Congyi, and the remaining fifty percent was his. Since money is needed for recruitment, he can withdraw the money now.

Of course, Yang Congyi will not ask for this money in vain, nor will he ask for so much, recruiting the army is a public matter, public money cannot be used privately, and private money is certainly not suitable for public use, at his insistence, he set up an IOU on the spot and temporarily borrowed 2,000 yuan. As for the issue of sharing, it should all be a joke, the money is all earned by Guo Qing, and he sits back and enjoys it, which is obviously not appropriate, just return the capital to him.

Guo Qing is a businessman, when Yang Congyi was still a head-catcher before, he could think of borrowing money to give Yang Congyi a share, and now Yang Congyi is an official, responsible for the imperial court to return to Yi to supervise the creation, and is also the new army supervisor, he took on this great responsibility at a young age, and the future is limitless, for a person who wants to engage in business, there is nothing more tempting than an official next to him, not to mention the official who is still responsible for returning to Yi and supervising the creation and making money. The imperial court makes a lot of money, and if it leaks a little, it is a huge wealth for him, how could he let Yang Congyi get out?

Immediately, the materials were not sold, and the family happened to have something to leave some money for urgent use, and the capital was afraid that it would not be able to be taken out now, so when the materials were sold, the money would be sent to Lin'an.

Yang Congyi heard him say this, put down the matter of sharing, and did not mention it, and stopped talking about returning the capital.

The three of them chatted and chatted, and it was dark.

Guo Qing's house is spacious, although he is not the head of the house, the master who stays with a few guests can still do it.

That night, Yang Congyi and Jiang Kai stayed at Guo Qing's house, and they were full of wine and food that night, and they had a deep conversation, if it weren't for Yang Congyi bluntly saying that there was something important the next day, Guo Qing would have to chat with them all night.

After Guo Qing left, Jiang Kai said: "Lord Yang, Guo Qing seems to be very interested in returning to Yi. ”

Yang Congyi said with a smile: "He has been operating with less than 1,000 yuan so far, and he can have 10,000 yuan in two years and make a profit of ten times, which shows that he should be more familiar with this way of doing business." If you understand the way of doing business and have a wide horizon, you can naturally see that this ocean-going return is very profitable, and it should be something that businessmen can't ask for if they can catch the imperial court's return fleet. But it's a pity that this return is dominated by the imperial court, and no private merchant or private goods can go to sea with the fleet. He wants to go to sea to get a piece of the easy soup, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to achieve. Follow the sea to have a look, familiarize yourself with the sea route, and go to sea by yourself in the future, but you can do it. ”

Jiang Kai said: "He is so enthusiastic about us, are you ready to point it out to him?" ”

Yang Congyi said: "No, wait for him to bring it up himself, after all, the matter of returning to Yi is very expensive, and the court is staring at it, and someone is holding a little handle, and if he can't say it, he will be planted." When you first enter the official career, you should be ambitious, think and do, focus on the great cause of the imperial court, and make small profits, otherwise you will be stumped by mundane things, and it will be difficult to go further in your career. ”

Jiang Kai said: "My lord's words are reasonable, I have just entered the official career, and my foundation is still shallow, and I am afraid that I will find a dead end when I am entangled in interests at this time." ”

Yang Congyi nodded and said, "Not bad." Everything is done by the public heart, and will not be disturbed by selfish interests, so as to be fearless of any conspiracy and obstruction. After speaking, he suddenly said: "I have reminded you many times, call me brother in private, don't call me an adult." We are the same age, we do things together, and of course our status is equal, there is no distinction between adults and villains. ”

"What Brother Yang taught me is that I remembered it." Jiang Kai hurriedly admitted his mistake.

"Alright, let's rest, we'll go out to the city tomorrow morning."

Jiang Kai answered and went back to his room to rest.

Yang Congyi closed his eyes and lay down but couldn't sleep, and the matter of recruiting the army weighed on his heart, making him toss and turn and couldn't sleep.

Taihu County has a large population, and under normal circumstances, there should be no problem in recruiting a few hundred people, but now that the war has subsided and the people are living in peace, I don't know how many people are willing to come out and enlist in the army. Although life in the mountains is difficult, you can rely on the mountains, and there should be no problem in surviving. But as long as they can live, few want to risk their lives to join the army, who knows how long Song Jin can be peaceful.

If no one is drafted into the army, the forbidden army will not be able to recruit so many people, and it will be a big problem.

On the second day, Yang Congyi got up before dawn, practiced luck, and after half an hour, the sky was bright.

After a simple breakfast, Yang Congyi and Jiang Kai left Guo's mansion and went straight out of the west of the city.

Before the hour passed, when they came to the outside of the city, they saw that many people had gathered on the official road outside the city, some were brightly dressed, some were wearing cloth clothes, some were empty-handed, some were carrying tools, and the crowded crowd completely occupied the official road to the west.

Everyone scrambled to sign up, and Zhang Biao and others were surrounded by the crowd, scrambling.

One hundred people, this is what Zhang Biao and they shouted in the streets and alleys yesterday, and they naturally came to look for them today, regardless of whether they were recruited or not.

With so many people coming, it seems that the propaganda of Zhang Biao and others was in place yesterday afternoon, and there are not only 100 people in front of them, but also two or three hundred.

"If you bring tools, come here to sign up, and one person will pay a lot for a day!" Yang Congyi raised his hand and shouted.

Everyone suddenly heard the words behind them, and turned around one after another, and saw a young man in blue clothes standing in the middle of the road, looking at them with a smile, as if he was in charge, and the crowd involuntarily quieted down.

"The number of places is limited, those who have tools come to sign up, and those who don't bring tools should hurry home to get them, maybe they can catch up." Yang Congyi shouted again.

Yesterday, I only said that I signed up, but I didn't say that I would start work today, how many people will bring the tools?

Hearing this, how could everyone hesitate, and those who didn't take the tools ran to the city, running fast, and still having places, and if they were slow, they would come in vain.

In an instant, there were not many people left on the official road.

"Let's sign up quickly, register your name, you can start work, everyone will be paid, and you will come early tomorrow morning to receive it." Looking at the remaining twenty or thirty people, Yang Congyi was suddenly full of confidence.

Zhang Biao and others didn't bring pen and ink, how to register? They looked at Yang Congyi with blank eyes, at a loss.

Yang Congyi was also suddenly embarrassed, he really forgot to explain the matter of pen and ink, and there were few literate officials, where would it have anything to do with pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

There is no choice but to let them work first and register later.

Yang Congyi called Zhang Biao and asked him to arrange for everyone to start work first, on the left side of the official road, next to the official road to open up a vacant land 100 zhang long and 15 zhang wide.

Zhang Biao used to convey the information in place, where would they still think about the matter of registration, anyway, they were working for the government, the government couldn't run, and the wages couldn't run, although the money was not a small amount, but there was nothing to worry about.

The official road is full of trees and grass, and the terrain is uneven, so everyone doesn't say much, just asks where to start, and starts immediately.

Yang Congyi motioned to Zhang Biao and let him call the shots.

Zhang Biao has been in the Yamen of Taihu County for many years, and he is a local, so he is of course very clear about the terrain outside the city.

In a short time, he chose a place and ordered the people to start work.