In August of the first year of Jing Yao, after three months of filial piety for his father, Chen Yuan's eldest son, Chen Can, boarded the merchant ship of the Mijia Merchant in Niu Pi and set off for his place: Fuling County, Fuling County.

Chen Yuan's parents died when he was young, and he was not greedy after taking power. Therefore, the Chen family is not too wealthy, and this time Chen Can traveled, but he did not have a battle of thousands of people like the eldest sons and brothers more than a year ago - but only ten followed. And because Chen Yuan does not form a party, Jiang Wei, who has the best relationship, is far away in Wudu County. So this time Chen Can took office, only Huang Hao was entrusted by Liu Chan to see him off.

"County Magistrate Chen is good to do, if there is anything difficult, just tell our family. If you tell our family, you tell Your Majesty. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Well, when I arrived in Fuling County, I saw Guan Zifeng, please greet Guan Zifeng on behalf of our family. The various fruit wines he sent some time ago, our family likes them very much. He has a heart. ”

Yes, with the arrival of summer, the wild fruits in the mountains and fields of Fuling County are everywhere, and with the order of Guan Taishou's fifty stone wild fruits for one stone of grain, more than 20,000 Han people in Fuling County and several times the number of Wuxi barbarians have collectively mobilized to pick wild fruits everywhere. Then came the arrival of a large number of fruit wines of various flavors on CD.

Guan Yi's Fuxing Society sells fruit wine to Mijia Firm for 200 yuan per stone, and the fruit wine listed on CD's Mijia firm is 400 yuan per stone. If that's all it takes, the key is that in other shops within the Mijia firm, fruit wine is a gift.

For example, in Mijia's Xinfengyuan, after reducing the lamp oil fee, Mijia also gave a bottle of fruit wine to each guest who stayed in Xinfengyuan overnight. These little gimmicks really make every product operated by Mijia organically combined. CD's other major merchants are resentful but helpless.

Fern root powder, Yanxi lacquer, soap, Jingyao wax, fruit wine...... In addition to these Fuling County specialties, Mijia shops also list all kinds of bacon, mountain goods, and precious medicinal materials on a large scale. Insiders know that the source of these things is all in Fuling County.

After traveling around the Tuojiang, Yangtze River, and Wujiang River for more than half a month, County Magistrate Chen Canchen finally arrived at his office.

Although he had a certain psychological preparation for the prosperity of Fuling County, when his boat turned around a mountain beam and Fuling County suddenly appeared in front of him, Chen Can still felt a deep shock.

When his boat arrived, it was already close to the hour, and the view of the river was already very poor. But when Fuling County appeared in front of him, his eyes were blind for a short time.

"The lights are shining brightly, and the voices are boiling." This is Chen Can's first impression of Fuling County.

"County Magistrate Chen, I'm guilty."

"The boatman has worked hard all the way, what is the crime?"

"That's the case, this Fuling County wharf has been too prosperous in the past year, and the river surface of the Wujiang River is relatively narrow, in order to avoid congestion in the lanes, Guan Taishou has set the rules. All incoming ships must dock in turn. Our ship is still about two or three miles away from your county office, but the queue ahead is too long...... Therefore, if County Magistrate Chen does not want to wait, he can only dock and stop the ship first. County Magistrate Chen will have to walk some distance. ”

"Oh, what am I supposed to do. It's okay, let's go to the shore. Just walk all the way to see the county. ”

"No! Come on, let County Magistrate Chen get off the boat, I'll be careful. ”

When they got off the boat, Chen Can and the others were still preparing their luggage, and a group of men wrapped in blue handkerchiefs and carrying flat burdens poured up.

"What are you going to do?!" Chen Can's guards were shocked when they saw the enthusiastic and jike expressions of this group of people.

"Don't get me wrong, we're all awesome, oh, awesome is what Guan Taishou called us. We are Lif. Specially for guests to carry luggage. Your lords seem to have a lot of luggage, do you want to hire us to carry it? ”

Awesome? Lifu? Chen Can, who has lived on the CD Plain all his life, and his entourage have a hard time understanding the difficulty of climbing the hill in the eastern Sichuan region - they got off the boat at the dock and looked up, but their destination was in the sky.

"No, we're ...... Head of house. ”

"Hehehe, let them move for us. We're going to Fuling County, what's the matter, that's it, that's it, how do you calculate this strength? ”

"Fuling County Ya? That's five or six miles away. We don't dare to make random bids. There are a lot of things for you, and you need at least five people, so it's one hundred and fifty dollars. ”

"Oh, you are not honest, but I know that this place is only two or three miles away from Fuling County." Although the Chen family is not a wealthy family, one hundred and fifty yuan is nothing to Chen Can - just one stone of rice. But as the magistrate of Fuling County, Chen Can has already entered the role: Fuling County is prosperous in business, and there will be a business like Lifu, which is a good thing. However, Lifu indiscriminately offered prices, deceived and coaxed guests, and damaged the business reputation of Fuling County, which is not good.

"This old man may be the first time to come to our Fuling, right? Two or three miles to listen to the boatman's talk on the boat? Hehe, sir, the two or three miles that the boatman said refers to the distance from the nearest second pier of Fuling County Ya to here. But Fuling County is in the middle of the mountain. Even if you get off the boat from the second pier, you have to climb two or three miles of slope to get there. ”

Lan Pazi saw Chen Can's thoughtful look, and saw a bunch of white handkerchiefs in the distance rushing over, and couldn't help but be anxious: "This lord, we don't dare to coax the guests." If this is committed, the county magistrate's Li County Order will not spare us. You may as well let us carry it for you, if it is less than five miles down the road, we will not take a penny. ”

"Good, so be it."

"Okay!" Lan Pazi cheered, and immediately beckoned his brothers to come up and pack the luggage of Chen Can and his party. Not to mention, after all, it is professional, and it is fast and good to fight.

The white cloths in the distance also rushed over, and the leader saw that the blue cloths had begun to pack, and couldn't help muttering: "Pan Dazhuang, you have grabbed another order!" It's a quick move. ”

"Hey, hey, old man Tian, you're old, it's better to pick wild fruits in the mountains for food, why bother to earn this hard-earned money with the boys."

"Humph! Oops, another ship is coming, brothers! ”

The blue handkerchiefs quickly broke the luggage of Chen Can and the others into ten big bags, and then hung two bags on each person's flat shoulder: "Master, let's leave now?" ”

"Good, let's go."

A group of sixteen people began to move along the official road outside Fuling County, Chen Can was interested in understanding the county situation, so he took the initiative to start talking: "What is this strong man called?" Where are the people? ”

"Where am I a strong man, a strong man will not do this. My name is Pan Dazhuang. It is the people of Panwang Village, which is 300 miles away. ”

"Three hundred miles according to this?! So far? Why did you come here from so far away? ”

"There's a lot of work here. This lord, at first glance, you are from a big city like Jiangzhou and CD. In our place, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and there are not many crops growing in the fields. After Guan Taishou came, he taught us how to make fern root powder, and our village is better than before. In the past, when Guan Taishou was not in office, several elderly people and children would starve to death every year in our village. ”

"I see, then you are working here as a husband, how much do you earn in a month?"

"This one maybe. Recently, the autumn harvest has arrived, and there are a lot of cargo ships coming and going, and our income is also good. I got it last month, well, I think about it, it's probably more than five hundred. That's enough to buy more than three stones. But in another two months, it is estimated that it will not work. At that time, the production of fruit wine and Yanxi lacquer will stop, and the water level of the Wujiang River will also be lowered, and the big ships will not be able to enter, so we will have to go back to the village at that time. ”

"Oh, Pan Zhuangshi, the group of people wearing white scarves just now are also like you?"

"Yes, but they're from Tianjiazhai. Tianjiazhai was the first of our Bizka to show their submission to Guan Taishou, so these guys are also the most arrogant. I used to rob us of our business. ”

"Then Guan Taishou doesn't care?"

"Whatever! How could a good official like Guan Taishou not care. Guan Taishou set the rules for us. No armed fighting is allowed, and all the stockades of armed fighting are not allowed to enter Fuling County in the future. It is not allowed to maliciously reduce prices and grab customers, like me, pick two burdens and walk a mile, and the strength must not be less than five yuan. It is not allowed to falsely report the mileage to new guests, and the disqualification of Lifu will be cancelled...... Oh, sir, do you see that there are three words on the gown on my chest. Guan Taishou said these three words, reading Panwang Village. You say, I dare to coax the guests to make the village shameless. ”