"Childe, I didn't expect that the Jinmen of the Acropolis of the capital city was so colorful, it really opened my eyes!"

Walking down the street, Gao Lin said as he looked around. Tianjin Gate is not big, but the small city also has the liveliness of the small city, and can even be described as prosperous, with high-rise buildings, countless small businesses and shops, stretching the whole street, busy with traffic, people coming and going.

Mo Qian nodded, "Yes, if I wasn't in a hurry to take office, I would really want to stay here for a few more days." ”

Maybe Gao Lin Gao Lin can't imagine the prosperity of Jinmen in the future, Mo Qian knows it, but looking at the lively scene with a local flavor now, it still feels a little bit like the world has changed.

"That's right, but the prosperity of Yangcheng is famous all over the world, and I heard that it is several times better than here, Your Majesty is really important to you, and I will hand over such an errand as the prefect of Yangcheng to you." Gao Lin said enviously.

Mo Qian narrowed his eyes, "Do you think Yangcheng is really better than here?" ”

"This, for ordinary people, is naturally like this, but for the prefect of Yangcheng, ......"

Gao Lin smiled bitterly and didn't speak, the prefect of Yangcheng is generally short-lived, there is no need to question anything, either when he arrives in Yangcheng and wants to bring down the snake on the ground, he will be killed directly, or he will succumb to the forces of all parties, and then be escorted back to the capital for the autumn decision, especially in the past few years, I have not seen any Yangcheng prefect who can work until the end of his three-year term.

Similarly, Gao Lin still had great doubts about whether Mo Qian could hold his foot. Mo Qian nodded, everyone knows these things, and it is indeed a difficult problem, "Then do you have any good suggestions?" How can we gain a foothold in Yangcheng first? ”

"Hehe, Childe, you're asking the right person, we don't have any great skills, but there are still a lot of tricks to settle down."

Gao Lin shook his head and said, "As the so-called people in the court are easy to do, and the local area is no exception, if you want to gain a foothold, you must mingle with them, do what they like, and let them know that Gongzi is the same person as them."

Don't save the money that should be used, don't shirk the money that should be collected, it's best to be able to contact a few more powerful salt merchants in Yangcheng, with their support, others naturally don't dare to do it easily, and then other things will be slowly figured out. ”

"Not bad, yes, worthy of being an old driver from Dragon Guardian Villa." Mo Qian stretched out his thumb and praised.

Gao Lin smiled, he didn't know what this "old driver" meant, probably saying that his carriage was driving well? "By the way, how much financial support did we give when we came out of the villa this time?" Mo Qian suddenly asked.

Gao Lin paused for a moment, "Does the villa have any financial support?" Recently, the villa has been expanding, where is the money to help us? ”

"What? Is our mountain village so poor? Mo Qian was also stupid, "I thought that the villa would give funds, so I only brought a few dozen taels of silver with me......"

"So we ......," Gao Lin glanced at Mo Qian suspiciously.

"Hmm." Mo Qian nodded, "We have no money......"

“……”

Childe, don't you really think you're a little unreliable?

Lack of money is a big problem, originally looked at Yangcheng to do a little bit of maybe it will be able to keep safe, but now it is estimated that it will be unloaded and put in the city gate to dry, Gao Lin thought sadly.

"Childe, why don't we go to the branch of the villa first after we arrive in Yangcheng, Yangcheng is prosperous, it seems that they are also mixing well there, and it shouldn't be a problem to take out a few thousand taels of silver."

Mo Qian thought for a while, waved his hand and said, "No need, I have a way, don't they want a Yangcheng prefect who mingles with them?" I'll give them such a prefect. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Then you will understand, let's find a place to rest, my son is tired." Mo Qian casually pointed to the restaurant not far away, about four stories high, but in the small city of Jinmen, it can already be regarded as outstanding, except for the city gate, this restaurant is the highest.

Standing on the top floor, you can have a panoramic view of the mountains and rivers of Jinmen, which can be said to be a unique place. But when Mo Qian and the others arrived at the door of the restaurant, they found that this building didn't seem to be so good.

There were a lot of people gathered at the door, but most of them were watching, but they didn't mean to go up.

When I got closer to the crowd, I found that there were several groups of people standing inside, and in the middle stood a woman with a still charming charm, who was holding a piece of paper in her hand and studying it carefully. And the combination of other people is a little strange, all of them are people dressed as literati and rich people standing together, in twos and threes.

Everyone's faces were smiling, but there was a faint sense of tension in the air. Mo Qian took a closer look and found that the rich businesswoman he met today was also among them, just standing on the edge, her face looked a little embarrassed.

"Yes, this poem is very neat, overall in the middle and upper, Boss Hao, please go up to the second floor."

The woman stared at the paper for a long time, and finally nodded with a smile, and the person who was called Boss Hao heard it, his face was full of smiles, and he patted the scribe beside him, "Mr. Ouyang is really extraordinary, and he deserves to be a famous talent in Jiangnan." ”

When Ouyang Duan heard this, there was some joy between his eyebrows, but he quickly changed to a self-contained expression, "The poems made in a hurry are really not on the stage, and everyone laughs." ”

But he turned to look at Yan Jinxin on the side, "But I'm curious, what good sentences can Boss Yan have on his side?" ”

"Yes, I also want to listen to Boss Yan's poems." "I just don't know where Xi Yue, the number one talent in Yangcheng, next to Boss Yan, has gone?"

"Don't expose other people's backgrounds, don't you know about the fall of other people's backers? Someone else came to the capital to get through the relationship, how could they bring Xi Yue? The people around him couldn't help but laugh.

"Little brother, what's going on?" Mo Qian asked as he tugged at a person beside him. The man also looked like a warm-hearted person, or rather a talker, and when he saw Mo Qian asking, his mouth couldn't stop.

"Hey, I can't see it, it's just that the salt merchants in Yangcheng are crowding out each other, this is already a common thing, but this time it's Yan Jinxin of Yan Ji Salt Company, as the saying goes, the wall pushes everyone down, and now their backers have fallen, and it is expected to be the same."

"And what do they mean here?" Mo Qian then asked.

The man smiled, "These salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River have money, but the biggest weakness is that they are afraid that others will say that they are philistines, especially the salt merchants in Yangcheng, in order to be vassals and elegant, not only collect many objects at home, but even many people have to bring a scholar wherever they go, for fear of losing their identity."

Isn't it because of this incident that we made a fuss today? This Lanyue Building is a famous building in Jinmen, ordinary people are not qualified to eat, and the people who come and go are high-ranking officials and nobles, this can only be on the first floor, if you want to go to the second floor or even other floors, the only way is to write a poem and article that satisfies the landlord, isn't this a fight? ”