On the way, Liu Hao said angrily: "Big brother, this Wang inn is too dark, and a meal costs ten taels of silver." ”

Liu Danshan immediately echoed: "Big brother, why did you give them silver?" We have always been the only one who slaughters others' share, and how can anyone else slaughter our share......"

Liu Chengye hurriedly interrupted Liu Danshan to speak, "Dog, you don't have to say a word." As the saying goes, a good strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, we are here for something important, not to cause trouble. You can cause less trouble, try to cause less trouble. Besides, when did I, Liu Chengye, let people slaughter? Today's Wang family eats, another day I will let the Wang family vomit out a hundred times. ”

After speaking, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and the Wang family didn't know that because of this trivial matter, their family was destined to perish.

"Okay, the top priority is to find a place to settle down first, and then plan the rest slowly."

Liu Danshan reminded: "This time, ask for the price first, don't be slaughtered again." ”

I walked all the way north for about half an hour, and came to a clean inn. Walking into the inn, Xiao Er held his head with one hand and closed his eyes, nodding his head again and again, like a chicken pecking rice, and the shopkeeper didn't even have a figure. The deserted inn, such as the Wang Inn, has a big gap.

"Tuk tuk tuk" Liu Chengye gently knocked on Xiao Er's table. Xiao Er woke up in a daze.

Xiao Er hurriedly got up and asked, "Guest officer, are you going to be a tip or staying in a hotel?" ”

"What's the price of staying in the hotel?"

"The average room is 50 wen a night, and the best room is 80 wen a night. Which one do you want? ”

"Bring me three good rooms."

"Okay, guest officer, wait for me to call the shopkeeper." After speaking, Xiao Er hurriedly ran in.

After a while, a middle-aged man came out, the middle-aged man was pale, with tired bags hanging from the corners of his eyes, and he could see haggard at a glance.

The shopkeeper asked, "How long do the three guest officers stay?" ”

Liu Chengye thought for a while and said, "Let's set it for half a month first!" Three excellent rooms. ”

The shopkeeper crackled and fiddled with the abacus, and after a while, he calculated the price and said, "A total of three taels and six coins of silver." ”

Liu Chengye paid the silver happily. Seeing that the shopkeeper was so haggard, Liu Chengye asked curiously: "The shopkeeper, why are you so haggard." ”

The shopkeeper sighed and said helplessly: "Hey, it's hard to explain this matter." The three of them don't look like locals, is there something wrong with coming to Shanxi? ”

Liu Chengye said lightly: "My brothers heard that there are business opportunities in Shanxi, so they came to Shanxi to do business. ”

As soon as I heard that I was here to do business, I met a fellow practitioner, and the shopkeeper suddenly came to the spirit and said: "I also came to Shanxi to do business, but there are a lot of business opportunities, and outsiders can't get into it at all." The three of us sat down and sat down and talked. After speaking, the three of them were welcomed to the table, and at the same time ordered Xiao Er to serve tea.

Seeing Liu Chengye and the three of them sitting down, the shopkeeper poured tea for the three of them, and then opened the topic.

Shopkeeper Liu said helplessly: "The contemptible surname is Liu, the ancestral home of Tai'an, Shandong, and he also came to Shanxi to do business, but I didn't expect that there was collusion between officials and businessmen here, and outsiders didn't have any mobile phone connections at all." ”

"The three brothers are also surnamed Liu, people from Beijing, because the business in the capital can no longer develop, so they plan to come to Shanxi to do business."

"Brother Liu, listen to my brother's advice, and leave this place as soon as possible. The government here and those profiteers are wearing a pair of pants. Outsiders doing business in Shanxi will lose their money at least and lose both people and money. ”

Liu Danshan asked suspiciously: "If someone is killed, doesn't the government care?" ”

Shopkeeper Liu shook his head helplessly, sighed and said: "This old brother, you are still too young, the seven major businessmen in the city are Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa. The seven of them completely monopolized the trading houses in Shanxi, and many foreign merchants were shut down by the run. As the saying goes, a strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, how can one family fight seven families. What's more, the yamen said that the ugly thing was that it was opened by merchants, and they would only favor local businessmen when it came to things. ”

Liu Hao asked puzzledly: "Isn't there a governor in the imperial court?" You didn't look for the governor? ”

Shopkeeper Liu said sadly and indignantly: "The governor has it, the governor has a trip, and each of the seven families has some silver, so the governor is dismissed." Just like the Wang's Inn opened earlier, that inn was originally bought by my brother for a thousand taels of silver. As a result, when it opened, the Wang family sent more than a dozen strong men to surround the inn, and there were no customers on the opening day. Then I bought and sold it by force, and used this inn to exchange my inn. ”

Liu Chengye asked, "Why did the elder brother agree to the replacement?" Even the government has no right to force the replacement! ”

Shopkeeper Liu said helplessly: "I don't want to, brother, the problem is that if you don't change it, your life will be gone." Each of the seven merchants has a private collection of tartars, and if the foreign merchants are disobedient, they will wait for both men and money at night! When the government investigated, it said that it was made by Tartars, and then pretended to search the whole city to make up for it, and then it was gone. ”

After listening to Shopkeeper Liu, the three of them fell silent. "I don't know, what is Brother Liu's plan in the future?"

"What else can I do, wait for the Wang family to turn around and buy back this inn at a low price, I can get a little money, and then go back to my hometown to do business, this Shanxi water is really too deep."

Liu Chengye got up and thanked the shopkeeper Liu: "Thank you Brother Liu for reminding me, it's getting late, and the three of my brothers went upstairs to rest first." ”

Shopkeeper Liu said embarrassedly: "The three of you go up to rest, but I'm bothering the three of you." ”

"No problem, no problem. Brother Liu, the three of my brothers lost their company first. With that, the three of them went upstairs.

"Big brother, as far as I can see, this Wang Inn's inn must have a connection with Tartar."

Liu Chengye's face was solemn, nodded and said, "Actually, I also guessed it." From the beginning, when we came by car and the old man reminded me, I suspected that the officials and businessmen here were in a mess, but I didn't expect it to be so serious. ”

"Why don't we visit the palace at night and see if we can get something?" Liu Danshan said.

"This can be had, but you have to be careful in everything, and this matter must not leak out."

When the child was young, the three of them wore night clothes and covered their faces, and they touched the palace.

The lights in all the courtyards of the palace were turned off, except for one room, which was brightly lit. Liu Chengye flipped over and jumped on the roof easily, and arrived at the roof after a while. Liu Chengye easily lifted the roof tiles, and heard the people below talking.

"Master, I don't know when to take back the inn of Shopkeeper Liu?"

"Don't worry, in two days, Hong Taizu will send someone to escort the grain in two days. When the time comes, the inn will be taken over at a low price, and if the surname Liu refuses to ......" sneered after speaking.

"It's still a wise man! It's just that the amount of food that Hong Taizu asked for this time has tripled compared to the last time, is it that Houjin is about to die. Sir, should we do more? ”

"With this batch of grain, Hong Taizu can go south to cut down Ming, and those soldiers at the border can't eat enough to compare with Hong Taizu's elite soldiers. Collect the correspondence between Hong Taizu and me, and we will be the founding heroes of Daikin at that time. ”

"Of course this old slave knows, the letters are hidden in the bedside secret compartment in the subordinate room, and it is absolutely foolproof."

"Okay, it's getting late, I'm sleepy, sir, you can rest too."

"Yes, the old slave is retired."