The Jeju Prefecture is located in Juye County, close to the Great Lake and Linji Water, with convenient transportation and a large number of merchants, making it one of the most prosperous state capitals on the East and West Roads of Daejo. Among them, the east of the city is close to the confluence of the lake and the river, the water transportation is developed, the business is prosperous, it is a prosperous business district, and the north of the city is close to the big lake with beautiful scenery, but it is the residence of the dignitaries.

Located in the middle of Jeju Seongbuk-roe, Jihyeonbang is a wealthy area in the wealthy area, and the streets are lined with large households in the short distance. In addition to the luxury sedan cars that pass by from time to time, there is no idler, only the green trees and wisteria in the high walls of each house, unwilling to be lonely and come out of the wall, disturbing the silence of the street.

There is a large courtyard in the middle of the street, and the tall gatehouse hangs the conspicuous word Zhao Fu. The owner of the Zhao Mansion is called Zhao Bowen, a well-known wealthy merchant in Jeju Prefecture, and he has a brother named Zhao Zhongwu, who is the head of the stable under the Privy Council in the capital. The brothers took advantage of the convenience at hand and often made some transactions that were not embarrassing or embarrassing, and made a lot of windfalls.

At this moment, Zhao Dayuanwai was sitting in the study and was annoyed by a letter, which was the third letter sent by his younger brother Zhao Zhongwu, who was an official in the capital, recently, with only one content, that is, asking him to prepare a batch of "immortal drunk" to send to the capital as soon as possible.

It turned out that at the end of last year, Zhao Bowen got a few bottles of "fairy drunk", and after tasting it, he greatly appreciated it, so he sent a few bottles to his brother who was an official in Beijing, and Zhao Zhongwu was also poured by it, so he took it to his boss, and the boss took it out at the gathering of colleagues to show off, which caused everyone to scramble for it, and finally even alarmed the prefect of the Privy Council.

But "fairy drunk" is also a sought-after item in Jeju, and after Zhao Bowen spent a high price to collect a few bottles in the local area and the surrounding area, there was no longer a source. He found an agent, but the agent had a tight supply of goods, and each batch of goods could not be divided into a few bottles to no avail, and he sent people to Yuncheng to find Shilixiang Restaurant, but the reply was no, even if there is, it can only be supplied to agents. Zhao Bowen didn't want to be a figure with a head and a face, but he was subject to a few bottles of wine, and he was annoyed and had evil thoughts. Since the righteous way can't buy it, he goes astray, and he doesn't believe that there is anything that can't be done with money. Winemaking is not a big difficulty, if you can dig up a few talents, and start a new stove yourself, why do you need to ask others to be angry with that bird.

A month ago, he handed over the matter to his butler Zhao Jie, and soon Zhao Jie replied, saying that he had found the right manpower and took a bottle of residual wine from him. But in the blink of an eye, it was almost a month, but there was no progress at all, just now he scolded Zhao Jie and blasted him out.

Just when Zhao Bowen was annoyed in the study, Shi Qian also explained to Gu Haotian and Wen Huanzhang the reason for coming to Liangshan on Liangshan. It turned out that Zhao Jie found Shi Qian, and he promised a reward of five hundred taels of silver, asking Shi Qian to find the key person who brewed the "Immortal Drunk", and if he could control it, the reward would be doubled.

Shi Qian is worthy of being a person who eats this bowl of rice, and when he arrived in Yuncheng County, he found out that the real origin of "fairy drunk" is in Gujiazhuang. That night, he visited Gujiazhuang at night, but was noticed by Zhou Dong who was sitting in the village, and could not escape after several moves. After that, he never dared to enter the ancient mansion again, only visited the periphery, and traced to the Lijia Road crossing with the clues of the migration of displaced people.

"If the petty official Zhao Jie can't get a reply from the next letter, he will definitely find someone else to come over, and he needs to be careful to take precautions."

"That Zhao Jie doesn't seem to be a person who can call the shots, do you know who is behind it." Gu Haotian knew these shady things, and the parties generally did not come forward in person.

"Hehe, that old boy thinks he can deceive me, and he just used a little trick to find out that he is the housekeeper of the Zhao Mansion in the north of the city."

"You know where this Zhao Mansion comes from."

"I only found out that the head of the family is called Zhao Bowen, but I don't know anything else."

"Isn't Xiao Rang from Jeju, if he is inquired, it may be clear." Wen Huanzhang reminded on the side.

Gu Haotian also thought about it at this time, so he ordered Xiao Rang to come over. Xiao Rang arrived after a while, listened to the reason, thought for a while and said: "This Zhao Bowen is a wealthy businessman in Jeju, everyone in Jeju knows it, he has a brother named Zhao Zhongwu, who is the head of the stable in the Privy Council, and he also has some power at hand, and the local government in Jeju also sells the Zhao family brothers a little face." ”

"What kind of yamen is this stable?"

"The stable is the place where the Privy Council manages the war horses," Wen Huanzhang was clear.

"War horses." What is missing on Liangshan is not the war horse, Gu Haotian seems to have grasped something.

"Is this Zhao Yuanwai doing horse trading?" At present, the officialdom is dark, and Gu Haotian concluded that the Zhao brothers must not be clean, otherwise they are so eager to dry the wine, it is nothing more than a gift.

"This Zhao Bowen doesn't buy and sell horses, but it is rumored that their brothers secretly do some non-embarrassing business." Xiao Rang listened to the song and was elegant, and then replied.

Knowing this, Gu Haotian's heart jumped again. Zheng Jiaji's windfall made him taste the sweetness, and now that the Zhao family has come to the door, he might as well play with him, maybe there will be an unexpected gain.

On this day, a merchant ship docked at the pier of Jeju City, and a group of people came down from the ship, and the handsome young man who led the way was Gu Haotian.

Since Shi Qian explained Zhao Bowen's matter, Gu Haotian has been very interested in this brother who is the head of the horse house, who made Liangshan cold only five war horses. But Jeju City is not Zhengjiaji after all, and you have to make all plans, and this time you go to Jeju just to explore the bottom, and then you will see the opportunity to act.

Entering the city from the east gate is a prosperous business district, only to see a forest of shops along the street, pedestrians on the street, which is several grades higher than that Yuncheng County. Because Xiao let this local snake lead the way, everyone was not unfamiliar, turned a few streets, and entered a hotel called Kelaiju, and the group stayed.

This time, Gu Haotian only brought Xiao Rang, Bian Xiang, Zhu Fu, Zhou Yunqing, and Ruan Xiaoqi to Jeju, and Shi Qian came in the same boat but went ashore alone early. After a short break for lunch, the group went to the horse market. Luoma City is in the slum in the south of the city, under the leadership of Xiao Rang, it didn't take much effort to arrive, and from a distance, I saw a messy trading place surrounded by many bungalows, and there was a strong smell around.

Gu Haotian and a few people walked in, and the traders inside saw that these people were neatly dressed and had an extraordinary bearing, so they came around to ask, and Zhu Fu came forward to deal with it, only saying that he was buying a horse, and a few people took him to see it. After looking around, most of them were some horses, only a few horses in the last shop were slightly better and could be used as war horses, but Zhou Yunqing was also very dissatisfied with it.

Gu Haotian felt that if the Zhao family had a shop here, this family was the most likely, so he motioned to Zhu Fu to ask.

"Shopkeeper, my brother has opened a new dart shop in the south, and he urgently needs a batch of horses, and your store can have better horses, and the price can be negotiated when the price is down."

"Our shop is a small business, and there are only these horses recently, if the guest officer doesn't like it, he has to wait a while to see, and he can also find another place." The shopkeeper looked at a few people, but he was very alert, but he didn't say anything.

Seeing that they couldn't ask anything, and there were no favorite horses in the market, the group left first to make another plan. It was still early to come out of the horse market, and a few people walked back, admiring the market style of Jeju City along the way, but they did not feel tired. It was already evening when we returned to the guest house, and everyone went back to the room to freshen up a little, and then went down to the lobby to eat.

"This official is invited." As soon as I went down to the lobby, I saw a man walking straight to the front of Gu Haotian and saluting and greeting.

"I wonder what this brother has to say?" Gu Haotian looked at the man in front of him, and saw that he was tall but had no muscles, red hair and yellow beard, as if he had been lacking nutrition for a long time. In fact, when he came out of the horse market, he noticed that someone was watching, and at that time he thought that he had met Shi Qian's peers, but he was silent, but now it seems that he is the man in front of him.

"Can the official sit here with a face?" The man pointed in one direction by the window.

"It's better to be respectful than to obey." Gu Haotian was also curious about what kind of medicine was in the other party's gourd, so he followed.

The two sat down opposite each other, but Bian Xiang and the others sat on both sides, faintly protecting Gu Haotian's table in the middle.

"In the second section of Jingzhu, I was given a bandit by a friend who looked ugly in the rivers and lakes, called a golden retriever, and usually did some horse trading, and I saw the official and his party buying horses in the horse market, so they followed, which is really offensive."

It turned out to be him, Gu Haotian couldn't help but be a little surprised. This guy stole the jade lion horse ridden by the prince of Jin in the original trajectory, intending to dedicate it to Song Jiang, and was robbed of the BMW by Zengtou City's "black eats black", which later caused a series of major events such as Chao Gai's death, Liangshan's change of ownership, Lu Junyi's uphill, and the fall of Zengtou City.

"It turned out to be the shopkeeper Duan, but the shopkeeper has always been trading horses in Jeju City?" Gu Haotian remembered that Duan Jingzhu was a horse thief in the Northland.

"Not really, I often go to the north to do some business in Xiafan, and I received some good horses in the north a few days ago, and I also wanted to buy them at a good price here, so I arrived in Jeju."

Gu Haotian already knew in his heart that this guy must have stolen horses in the north and sent them to the south to buy them.

"But why don't you buy and sell in the horse market?" Gu Haotian has always wondered what kind of prosperous place Jeju is, and there is not a good horse in the horse market.

"When the officials first came here, they naturally didn't know that this Jeju horse market was actually the horse market of the Zhao family, but if there were some good horses, the Zhao family would eat them at a low price, and if there was no one from him, he would call the government to come and buy it. I also suffered a loss before I understood. ”

"In this case, there will be no good horses in Jeju City."

"That's not the case, everyone in the industry also has some good horses, and there are some in hand, but they don't put them in the market, they are all the same, and they all rely on chance to find buyers. Now there are three or five horses, and if you want to buy a large number of them, you can only find the Zhao family. ”

"That's the case, the Zhao family is also a little weird, I haven't heard that it has any business dealings with the north, how many good horses are there out of thin air?"

"Hmph, I don't have a good brother yet." Duan Jingzhu sneered.

"Then how can you do business with the Zhao family?"

"This ......" Duan Jingzhu seemed to hesitate.

"Although the shopkeeper Duan can rest assured, he is not an ungrateful person, you have a good horse in hand, I will buy it all according to the highest price on the market, and it will not be too late to discuss the Zhao family's business afterwards." Gu Haotian understood that Duan Jingzhu was afraid that he would cross the river and demolish the bridge, and he would fall into a bamboo basket to draw water when he arrived.

Duan Jingzhu saw the arrogance of the official, and his heart calmed down a little, and he was about to speak. But when he saw a man outside the door, he came straight to this side, and shouted from afar:

"Why is Brother Duan here?"