Chapter 200: Reconciliation

After sending off Lu Chengxiang's caravan, Zhang Zhimu returned to his office from the cave, and Yang Yulin said, "You just came back." The old Qiu family of Yuncheng is here. ”

This made Zhang Zhimu feel a little strange, Qiu Laodong's family came again so soon. Zhang Zhimu hurriedly entered the house and said, "Old Uncle Qiu has been waiting for a long time, forgive your sins." ”

Old Uncle Qiu also got up and arched his hand and said: "Where, where, I know that you are sending the shopkeeper Lu, I originally wanted to send it too, but Miss Yang said, it will be too late to go now, and I will leave long ago when I arrive." I'll have to wait for you here. ”

Zhang Zhimu joked: "Why do you miss the children after such a little time, the ladies and wives of Yuncheng just left crying and wiping their tears, you can't rest assured." ”

Old Uncle Qiu laughed and said, "I'll feel happy to come to you." Those little bunnies, I don't want them. Our women went back and said, none of them are homesick, what do you think I want them to do? ”

Zhang Zhimu also laughed and said, "Don't say that the children like it here, I heard Yukun say that those ladies and wives also like it here, if they don't worry about their family, they will stay." ”

Qiu Laodong said: "You also want to take me to thank Yukun, she is very inconvenient now, and the women who are still with us." It's amazing for these women to return to Yuncheng, every day it's good to be in the Zhikua Kiln Gang of the East or the West, and it's good for the people of Yukun. ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that Huang Yukun had spent some effort in receiving these women, and he had received this woman very well. In fact, the women of those big families do not have a very high status in the family, and the reception they receive here is something they did not expect. They are even happier to see that their children are better off than they are at home. They finally have such an opportunity to come out, and they will definitely go back and talk around well.

Zhang Zhimu also knew that Qiu Laodong's family would definitely not come to Yaogang for this matter.

Old Dong Qiu knew that it was time to get down to business, took a sip of tea and said, "Dong Zhang, the old man came this time to be entrusted by someone to save face." Zhang Dongjia must have a face! ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "The old club, where did you say. If you have something to say, just give me an order. Why bother to come on a cold day. ”

Obviously, the old boss wanted to say something, but he didn't think about how to say it, "It's much easier for me to come to Yaogang now, take your bus, and I will be comfortable and not offended." I'm going to bring two of them with me this time. It's not like the one that used to stir up the crowd as soon as it came out. ”

"Yes, it's much more convenient for the bus to go back and forth, and it saves money. Because you can save a few days and spend a lot less on the road. Zhang Zhimu was gossiping, waiting for what the old club was going to say.

Qiu Laodong felt that it was better to say it directly: "Virtuous nephew, as the saying goes, it is better to settle grievances than to settle them, do you say yes?" ”

Zhang Zhimu immediately understood that the old club came for Qinshui's business, and said: "What the old boss said is very true. ”

"Then I'll say it bluntly, several owners in the area of Qinshui Douzhuang are friends of our salt gang. They asked me to come out and make peace for them. I think it's a good thing for both parties that you can reconcile. I also know that if they have killed your people, you will not be able to get over it. But if the grievances continue, when will it be one? So I came out to sell face, and asked the Zhang Dongjia to put aside their hatred, and the two families reconciled. The old club said.

In fact, Zhang Zhimu wants to reconcile with them more than them, this is really what he wants. As Ouyang He said, if they offend us, they are more worried.

Zhang Zhimu thought so, but the words were like this: "It seems that the old owner must have heard that we had a battle with Hewan Village in Qinshui, which is really helpless." Our caravan was bullied by them for no reason, and we put up with it, even so. Li Mao still sent a gift to Jiang's old club when he passed by, and when our team returned, in order not to be rude, he also brought a letter to his old club to express his greetings and thanks. Unexpectedly, in exchange for a burst of bow and arrow shooting, our men were killed and wounded by more than a dozen people. You say it's tolerable, it's intolerable. If we don't avenge this revenge, will the dead brother be able to close his eyes underground? ”

Qiu Laodong knew that Zhang Zhimu was not a casual person, but he didn't know the real reason for the hair, and when he heard Zhang Zhimu say this, he was also stunned, and said: "When they asked me to come out, they didn't say too much, I thought there was a little misunderstanding." ”

Zhang Zhimu told him how Chen Yufeng took revenge, and said: "We had a war with Hewan Village, in fact, it has nothing to do with other families, when our caravan passed, they were also very happy to let them go." But since they were all allied, saying that everyone would help if the family was in trouble, we had no choice but to fight with those who came to support. When we returned, we all sent letters to their Zhuangzi explaining what had happened. ”

Zhang Zhimu's words, Qiu Laodong nodded when he heard it, and said: "What Zhang Dongjia did is reasonable, good." It's not okay not to avenge this revenge, but it must be convincing after the revenge. That's what the big husband does. Just because you didn't enter Hewan Village, they can't pick out the slightest benefit. But the old boss didn't forget that he was here to persuade peace, and asked: "What do you think about the next thing?" ”

Zhang Zhimu smiled and said, "Then you have to listen to the old boss, and harmony is precious." ”

Old Uncle Qiu smiled and gave Zhang Zhimu a thumbs up, saying, "I didn't misread you, now I am too face-saving old man." To tell you the truth, there are more than 50 people from the Qinshui River who came this time, and they all live in Xiurong and didn't come. When they heard that I came forward to make peace, they all said that this thing would definitely be done, and they all wanted to come to the kiln gang to see after the peace. It worries me. You say, if you don't say it, where will my old face go? ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "How can it be, the face of the old club will always be useful to me." ”

Zhang Zhimu's words made Qiu Laodong feel very useful, and nodded to Zhang Zhimu and said, "I know that my old face can still have a little face here in the virtuous nephew." ”

"Of course." Zhang Zhimu said: "I see this matter like this, I personally took the carriage to Xiurong and brought the guests from Qinshui to the kiln gang." You always sit first, I'll ask Yulin to change some tea for you, you drink it first, I'll arrange it. ”

Zhang Zhimu came to Chen Yufeng's command center, at this time Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He had just returned from the cave, and after seeing off Lu Chengxiang, they stayed in the camp in the cave for a while and did not come back with Zhang Zhimu.

After Zhang Zhimu and the two of them finished talking to Qiu Laodong, Ouyang He said, "They are what we are waiting for." But there are fifty of them at once, and they may not be able to arrange accommodation. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "Many people who live in greenhouses have gone to various construction sites and poured out a lot of places, so it is better for us to pour out the original houses and let the guests live." There are heating, water supply, toilets, glass windows. For them, it is much stronger than Xiurong's inn. They live here, and it's easy for us to communicate with them in the morning and evening. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Let's arrange for Yukun and Sister-in-law Xu to prepare for this matter." The two of you also went over to meet Qiu's old boss. ”

There are not many guest rooms in Yaogang, and it is not good for Princess Anping to live here. Huang Yukun and Xu Xu's sister-in-law mobilized the women and children living in Souphouse and asked them to temporarily empty the shed for a few days and pour out the room for the guests. These people are very sensible and know that there are guests coming, and there is no way to do this. They all moved to the big shed very happily. Came back again to help clean up the room. Huang Yukun and Sister-in-law Xu organized people to replace the bedding in the room with new ones, and scrub them inside and outside the house. The room was quickly renewed.

Then, Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He accompanied Qiu Laodong's house and came to Xiurong to pick up the guests in Qinshui by car. When they came to the city gate, Qiu Laodong said, "I will go into the city to say hello to them, and you will go later." This will make them a little prepared. ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that Qiu Laodong's family was careful, because those people from Qinshui didn't know what the attitude of the Yaogang people was, and they went too suddenly, so it was not good for the family to react.

Zhang Zhimu and the others came with ten steel spring carriages at once, which made the front of Xiurong City suddenly lively.

After waiting for about a pillar of incense, Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng and others took the convoy to the inn where the guests stayed in Qinshui.

In front of the inn, Qiu's old owner was waiting there with a group of people.

The caravan of Yaogang has indeed brought a lot of waves to both sides of the Qinshui River, which is rich and beautiful and full of disasters after a long period of war and robbery. In order to protect themselves, they built castles, and in order to have more strength to resist foreign enemies, they formed an alliance and swore that one side would come to the aid of all sides in need. Things in the world are often like this, and there are often advantages and disadvantages.

By their layers of fortification on the Qinshui Ancient Road, some people inevitably had to collect money from passing merchants, and slowly began to get out of control. That is to say, this ancient trade route has lost its vitality, and the past business travel has gradually been cut off. The shops that relied on the merchants of the past to support themselves also closed down one by one. When the past business travels were cut off, they were cut off from their own way of life.

This time, the caravan of Yaogang was able to pass, so that those who knew the benefits and stakes felt that they saw hope, because if one person dared to go, many people would dare to go, and slowly this trade route would return to its former prosperity and bring life and wealth to the people here. But they never expected that the passage of the caravan would quickly turn into a disaster.

After the incident was over, these big owners on both sides of the Qinshui River only found out when they got together. When the Yaogang team returned, they were attacked by Hewan Village for no reason, and they killed and wounded many people in the Yaogang, but Zhuang Ding, who came to support the drums around them, was killed by the Yaogang horse team who was in a hurry to retreat. The second time Yaogang came to take revenge, he not only forced Hewan Village out to surrender, but also killed the perpetrators, and most of the houses in Zhuangzi were burned down. The strange thing is that the kiln gang people did not touch a penny of Zhuangzi's silver, nor did they enter the castle of Hewan Village. There were many casualties among Zhuang Ding who rushed to support this time. Not only are there many dead and wounded, but the people on both sides of the entire Qinshui River are now changing color when they hear the word kiln. I've been scared by the kiln people. This made these big owners who got together very worried. If the kiln people don't give up on this matter and come to seek revenge again, they know that they are not the opponents of the kiln gang people, the castle of Hewan Village, twice repelled the siege of tens of thousands of people, in front of the kiln gang people, they have not resisted for a morning. Especially the long-distance raid of the kiln gang people, taking the castle lightly, and easily passing through the tens of thousands of people in the interception team as if they were in a no-man's land, that kind of domineering makes me scared when I think about it. Thinking about what would happen to his castle in the future if it were attacked like this, his back scolded.

This incident made them feel that they had lost both face and lining. People in the kiln are in charge.

These big proprietors know in their hearts that if they have formed the evil family of Yaogang, they will live in fear forever. If the kiln people want to deal with any of them, it will be difficult for them to fight. What's more, they took the initiative to support Hewan Village in attacking other people's kilns when the kiln gang did not violate them. The character of the Yaogang people who have revenge has been vividly expressed in Hewan Village this time. Their final opinion was to sue for peace with the kiln, because the two sides had no previous grudges. However, they were also worried that the kiln gang would put forward some conditions that would not be easy to agree to. There was no way, they thought that the Yuncheng Salt Gang had a good relationship with Yaogang, so they came forward to ask Qiu's old owner to come forward to make peace. Qiu Laodong told them about Zhang Zhimu's personality carefully, and these people knew that there was a great possibility of reconciliation with Yaogang. Therefore, those who have a little bit of face have to come to participate in the peace talks with Yaogang, because they have heard a lot about Yaogang before, and they all want to come to Yaogang to see.

made an appointment with Qiu's old owner to gather in Xiurong, and they came to Xiurong one after another. When Qiu's old boss arrived, the old boss told them to wait in Xiurong, and he came over to talk to Zhang Zhimu first. Those who are waiting in Xiurong are uncomfortable waiting, although most of them are very optimistic about the outcome of the peace talks, but they are always uneasy before they know the results of the talks.

These people should be said to be rich, but they don't feel good at what they eat at the inn.

When Qiu Laodong's family sat in the glass carriage of Yaogang, he returned to the inn and told them to prepare quickly, and Zhang Dongjia of Yaogang immediately personally brought the carriage to pick everyone up as guests, and they set up the guest room and banquet. At this time, these people in Qinshui almost jumped up with joy, they packed up their things one after another, settled the store money, and waited in front of the inn with Qiu's old owner.

This time, Qinshui led the team by the big housekeeper of Douzhuang, whose surname was Zhang. After greeting Zhang Zhimu and others, he wanted to introduce the people behind him to Zhang Zhimu one by one. Zhang Zhimu saw that it would take a long time for the more than 50 people to get on the car after the introduction, so he said: "Steward Zhang, I think so, don't freeze here if there are many people this time, introduce one and we will get in the car, and then we will go to the kiln and drink while chatting slowly, what do you think?" ”

"That's great, let's do what Zhang Dongjia said, and get in the car to warm up after the introduction. None of us have ever been in this carriage, and this time we opened our eyes. "Steward Zhang is also very refreshing.

After the introduction of these more than 50 people, everyone got into the car and sat down, Zhang Zhimu waved his hand, and ten glass carriages ran towards the kiln.

On the way back to Yaogang, Zhang Zhimu and Steward Zhang, Qiu Laodong sat in the same car, Steward Zhang said: "On behalf of all Zhuangzi on both sides of the Qinshui River, I apologize to the kiln gang people, we are sorry for the kiln gang people, the kiln gang people come far to our door, we should be happy to become talents." We feel sorry to have done such a ridiculous thing. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Don't be polite, Steward Zhang, what we do is not calm enough, but if our brother is killed, we can't help but give them an explanation." Thank you for your understanding. Today, we will talk about it, and we will turn this matter over, and we will all be friends in the future, and we must often discuss and communicate when we encounter things, so as not to have such misunderstandings again. "Along the way, I didn't talk much, but I already told the story.

When they arrived at the kiln gang and arranged the accommodation of these people, they invited the guests to the canteen. The dining hall has already set up a banquet. As soon as these people arrived at the cafeteria, the atmosphere was very warm.

After the guests and hosts sat down, Zhang Zhimu stood up, cleared his throat, and waited for everyone to calm down, and said, "Friends from Qinshui, old Qiu Dong!" On behalf of all the staff of Yaogang, I would like to welcome everyone. A few days ago, there was a little undeserved misunderstanding between us, which brought painful loss of life and property to both sides. We were born in troubled times, and we were already living very difficult, and we should have helped each other and helped each other in troubled times, but we didn't expect that we were fratricidal, which is really sad. In the car, Steward Zhang and I have already agreed that from now on we will forget all the unpleasant things in the past, and we will be good brothers in the future. If everyone agrees with me and Steward Zhang, everyone will put up the wine cup and dry the wine together. ”

Zhang Zhimu's words received a unanimous response from everyone, and everyone stood up and wiped out the wine in the wine cup.

After Zhang Zhimu finished speaking, Steward Zhang also stood up and said, "There are a lot of adults in the Zhang Dong family, which makes us very impressed. His words also represent the hearts of all of us. But I feel a little dissatisfied. ”

When he said this, many people were startled, at this time, they should all say that it sounds good, if there is any dissatisfaction, it should be said later. This housekeeper is definitely not an ordinary person, he had already thought of everyone's reaction, and continued with a smile: "We haven't had time to understand the kiln gang yet, but from Qiu Laodong's evaluation of the kiln gang people, we have some understanding of the kiln gang people, and we have also heard a lot about the kiln gang. In particular, Yaogang is now doing passenger and freight transportation and ticket number business, which is a matter for the benefit of many people, and I am not satisfied that Zhang Dongjia has neglected the merchants on both sides of the Qinshui River. What I can tell Zhang Dongjia is that we have neither silver nor people there, and there is a shortage of people like Zhang Dongjia to bring us all together. ”

Speaking of this, the guests who came from Qinshui said, "Well said. Steward Zhang waved his hand, and continued: "Everyone knows that the Qinshui Ancient Road has raised countless villages and enriched countless merchants, but the wealth left by our ancestors has been blocked by ourselves. We hope that Zhang Dongjia will also drive the transportation company to us, and also open the ticket number to us, and I believe that our people there will treat you like their own benefactors. In this way, not only will you earn money, but you will also help countless people in our place. Otherwise, we will let this Qinshui trade road die like this, and we will be sorry for our ancestors and our descendants. ”

Steward Zhang's words won the unanimous approval of the guests in Qinshui. Zhang Zhimu didn't expect that the good thing would come so quickly, so he stood up again and said: "I understand what Steward Zhang said, let's talk about it here, I fully agree with the transportation company and the ticket number to the two banks of Qinshui, so that we will be more closely linked like brothers." Please give us a moment, though. We need to prepare well. Wait for us in the future, and when we get there, I will ask for your help. I see the details of the cooperation between us in the future, and I will talk about it tomorrow, don't let down the wine and food today, I propose that from now on we will talk about wine and talk about nothing else, how about it? ”

Zhang Zhimu's proposal was of course approved by everyone. Then he started drinking, and that was the battlefield of Chen Yufeng and others.

The guests from Qinshui stayed in the kiln for three days, which opened their eyes. These people are usually from large local families, and they can be regarded as having seen the world, but when they arrive at Yaogang, they are like children, and they have to inquire about many things. What makes them happy the most is that they have to ask for clarification when they go to the toilet. The heating glass room, the sofa are all new things. Those zippers and locks are the goods they are fighting for.

In the end, Zhang Zhimu and Steward Zhang agreed that when the weather was warm, Lu Chengxiang and Yang Jing would come back from Zhangjiakou and take a trip to Qinshui River to inspect the situation of Qinshui River and how to set up branches and stations there. And they want to buy ***, Zhang Zhimu said: "It's not okay to love you, it's very troublesome for the court to know." However, you can send some people to the kiln for training, and if something happens, the kiln will support some muskets. Don't use it when the time comes. ”

This made Steward Zhang very moved.

Talking to Steward Zhang, Zhang Zhimu has another gain. Steward Zhang said: "You outsiders know that the Qinshui River is a waterway that can enter the Yellow River, but in fact, you all ignore that this Qinshui is also connected to dozens of surrounding rivers, and there are many people living on both sides of these rivers. That's the opportunity. ”

When Zhang Zhimu talked about the fact that the river can be used as a trade route in winter, Steward Zhang said: "Some people walk through goods in winter, but no one regards this as a fixed business route. If along the way

It's definitely a good idea to work well with the store. ”

The matter of Qinshui River was resolved very smoothly.

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