Seeing off Shen Shou's staff who came to visit, Fang Tianding's butler returned to the hall.

"Mr. Zhu is gone?" Fang Tianding asked casually and continued to wipe his Fang Tian's painting halberd. He was almost shot in the arm by Han Shizhong, and could only stay in the Hangzhou mansion to recuperate, and he was very blind to the chaos of the struggle for power and profit that was rising again in Hangzhou.

The butler replied respectfully, "Yes, General." Seeing Fang Tianding raise his hand, he retreated.

Shen Shou's staff came mainly to ask Fang Tianding to come forward and interfere in the conflict of interests in Hangzhou. Fang Tianding was very puzzled to see that some people completely ignored the old friendship and the overall situation of the Yongle Dynasty, and their methods were becoming more and more out of line, and they were about to agree, but they were stopped by their wife, and they were very puzzled.

Seeing his wife come in, Fang Tianding put down Fang Tian's halberd and sat there sulking without speaking.

Mrs. Fang pursed the corners of her mouth and made tea by herself. After pouring tea for Fang Tianding, she said softly: "Husband is blaming the concubine for not knowing the general situation?" ”

Fang Tianding said helplessly: "What's the matter." I just don't understand, why don't you let me go out and socialize? Few of the old brothers blamed me, but the women were gossiping about the lady. ”

"Since it's the root of the tongue, let them be." Mrs. Fang didn't think about it on her face, and she didn't know what she thought in her heart, "The concubine is blocking her husband, not letting her husband participate in the big and small affairs of Hangzhou City, and the palace also letting her husband go less, doesn't the husband blame the concubine for being domineering?" ”

Da Zhou has not yet formed a systematic saying such as three obedience and four virtues, but the restrictions on women in popular morality have long been strict. Mrs. Fang interfered too much with her husband, and in most of the big families, the reputation of a "fierce woman" could not be avoided.

Fang Tianding took a sip of tea and shook his head, "I've always been tired of things outside the battlefield. Although I don't know very well, my husband knows that you are a good heart, but you have been wronged. ”

Mrs. Fang's ears blushed when she heard this, and she asked the two girls around her to check the vicinity of the hall, and only after confirming that there was no one did she whisper: "Husband knows." After the news that you, Wu Fu and Shi Bao, two generals, joined forces to defeat Han Shizhong's Chinese army and leave nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers young and strong, what happened to Hangzhou City? ”

"What?" Fang Tianding raised his sword eyebrows and asked puzzledly.

"At first, of course, the whole city was celebrating, and many people came to the palace to congratulate ......" Seeing her husband's spirits, Mrs. Fang sighed in her heart, and her tone changed, "However, soon there were rumors that the two generals Wu Fu and Shi Bao were defeated by a single blow, and only Fang Tianding took a thousand people and bit off a piece of Han Shizhong's army. There are rumors in the city, saying that the Yongle Dynasty is the most capable of fighting, and only Fang Tianding is alone. ”

At that time, in the eastern battlefield, most of the armor-clad elites of Wu Fu and Shibao were transferred by Lord Shenggong, and they could not resist the breakthrough of Han Shizhong's army.

Fang Tianding led nearly 1,000 elites to block the front, and Wu Fu and Shi Bao continued to gather the scattered Fang La army, using official roads, estuaries and bridges to constantly reconstruct their positions. After the exact news of the Holy Father's capture of Tangqi Ancient Town reached the eastern battlefield, Han Shizhong was forced to go into battle in person, shot and wounded Fang Tianding, broke out of the encirclement, and left behind 4,000 officers and soldiers and all the young and strong.

The nearly 1,000 elites led by Fang Tianding are undoubtedly the mainstay, and half of the exploits of defeating Han Shizhong in the Eastern Battlefield have to fall on him.

It's just that he's not good at some flies, but Fang Tianding is not stupid. Chewing carefully on the meaning of Madame's words, he slapped the case, "Someone is trying to harm me?!" "The movement is too violent, and the wound is pulled.

Mrs. Fang pressed her husband down, "It's not for you, it's just that someone with a heart will take advantage of the situation." Can't the husband see that the current Yongle Dynasty has been divided into two factions? ”

"The old brothers at the time of the army were almost all on the side of the left minister. Most of the young talents promoted by the Holy Father, as well as the big and small leaders and heroes who have successively returned to my Yongle Dynasty, stand with Shen Shou, the right minister. ”

"The previous rumors against the husband should be that some old brothers are angry and complain when they see that the husband has made great contributions. The right minister sees the opportunity and wants to pull you over as a breakthrough......"

Fang Tianding listened to his wife's analysis, broke out in a cold sweat, and then became angry, "Don't they know how big Da Zhou is?" Yongle Dynasty has been fighting for so long, and it only occupies a small corner! ”

"Before the big thing was accomplished, the Yongle Dynasty was fighting everywhere, and the soldiers in front were bleeding every day, so they began to learn the way of the Great Zhou Dynasty?"

"Struggle for power?!"

Mrs. Fang waited for her husband to vent her anger before she stepped forward to appease. Although she is smart, her vision is also limited, and she doesn't understand why the current high-level Yongle Dynasty has a mutual dislike for each other, chooses sides, fights for each other, friction, and even indulges in pleasure.

Under the persuasion of his wife, in order to eliminate the suspicions that the Holy Father and the clan uncle might have, Fang Tianding arrived at the palace before noon and took the initiative to hand over most of the elites under his command. He also followed the plot in the play, and euphemistically asked the Holy Father for good land, beautiful houses, shops, and mines......

The largest inn in Jingzhou City, it is the most famous Sifang Guesthouse. There are many rooms, good service, good reputation, and the most important thing is to have the care of the state, the general judgment and the transfer of the adult.

Li Xiang and his entourage lived here.

After reading the detailed information before and after the defeat of the official army, and listening to the treatment of seasick people by old man Zhang and several doctors, Li Xiang called Fang Weiliang and Cheng Servant in.

The clerk ran all morning, and took the handwritten letter of Shiyan Zhizhou to visit the secretary, clerk and director of the Zhizhou Yamen, which was regarded as a greeting to facilitate the next action.

Fang Weiliang, who has been a business shopkeeper for more than ten years, quickly checked the big businesses with names and surnames in Jingzhou City, and had a basic understanding of the size of the businesses and the prices of goods in Jingzhou.

In the conflict a few years ago, Mingyuezhuang added a large number of wounded and consumed a lot of medicine. The casualties in Qinling Village, which obeyed Gongzhong's orders, were not small, and of course Li Xiang couldn't let it go, and a large number of finished medicines were sent down.

An embarrassing thing happened, in the Jiangnan strategy planned by Li Xiang, medicine was at the core, and it was far from enough to carry on board.

Several workshops in the village that specialize in finished powders, ointments, potions, and bandages will not be able to produce them in large quantities until at least the end of April or even later. In urgent need of medicine, and there were too many seasick people, Li Xiang had to stay in Jingzhou for two days to rest and think of a way at the same time.

Compared with yesterday, there are obviously many more gentlemen and businessmen in today's Quartet Guest House. Li Xiang was secretly surprised: Da Zhou's commercial activities were really active, and in just one day, Jingzhou had an influx of merchants.

Fang Weiliang was asked how to buy medicines, and said hesitantly: "My subordinates are bold, and I also ask the owner not to buy too many medicinal materials here at one time, it is best to leave someone here and buy them in batches." ”

"Why?" Li Xiang pretended not to know and asked in surprise.

Fang Weiliang is well-organized and well-founded, "Now that the two roads in the south of the Yangtze River are erosive, several local businesses in Jingzhou have nearly doubled the price of medicinal materials, and the supply of wound medicine is even limited. Merchants who want to come to Sichuan, Jinghu South Road, and Jingxiang will also hoard medicinal materials to make a lot of money in Jiangnan. ”

Profiteers, making a fortune, hoarding and ...... A few thoughts flashed through Li Xiang's mind, but he was not too resentful. Businessmen pursue profits, such things are inevitable, and in the face of doubling profits again and again, Li Xiang's own discipline is not high.

Turning his gaze to the official, Li Xiang asked, "What do you think?" ”

The clerk used the logical analysis method that Li Xiang repeatedly emphasized, and thought for a moment and said:

"The owner's goal is to spend less copper money and buy more medicinal herbs. The medicinal herb merchant had only one purpose, to get more copper coins from the owner. ”

"First of all, we must find out where the medicinal materials come from, so that we can judge how big the conflict between the buyer and seller is, and how I Mingyuezhuang should fight for profits."

The source of Jingzhou medicinal materials is well analyzed.

With Xiangyang as the dividing line, the medicinal materials of Qinling, Funiu Mountain and Tongbai Mountain in the north are mainly supplied to Hedong, Jingdong, Jingdong East Road, Gyeonggi Road and Jianghuai Road, which are very profitable. South of Xiangyang and north of the Yangtze River, that is, on the east and west sides of the Jianghan Plain, only a small number of medicinal materials in Bashan and Qianli Huaishan were taken away by local firms, mainly for their own use in the Jianghan Plain, and there was no traditional advantageous market.

Merchants who trade large quantities of medicinal materials in Jingzhou are divided into three categories. The most powerful are the Sichuan wealthy merchants, who occupy the Jiangnan market; Then there are the Jinghu merchants who are numerous and convenient, and they firmly control the medicinal herb market on Jinghu Lianglu and Jianghuai South Road; In the end, there are Lingnan medicine merchants and southwest merchants, these people are more miserable, especially southwest merchants, who have a lot of good medicine in their hands, but they can only eat leftovers.

After talking about the source of the medicinal materials, the official cleared his throat and concluded:

"The two roads in the south of the Yangtze River are still eroding, the war in the south of the Yangtze River has been prolonged for a long time, and the medicinal materials needed by the owner are incalculable. In this way, the owner might as well try to disrupt the situation in Jingzhou, and should be able to save a lot of expenses. ”

The clerk arched his hand and sat aside to drink tea.

Fang Weiliang on the side was dumbfounded, and his heart was already overturned: Can things be analyzed like this? Rationale and morality aside, first take care of the "because, so" things clearly, and then prescribe the right medicine? Those people who have learned something new have come up with something new?

Basic logical thinking and verification thinking are not new, but Fang Weiliang hardly stays in the village and has not heard of it.

Li Xiang nodded at the officials, and was a little slanderous: It took hundreds of years and a lot of effort for people to form today's interest pattern, how can it be easily disrupted? However, the money and food in the public are tight, and the expenditure in Jiangnan must be controlled as much as possible, and a warehouse should be established here in Jingzhou, and a few people should be left to do this.

"If the price of medicinal materials continues to rise, the public will not be able to bear it." Li Xiang rubbed his fingers and racked his brains to think of countermeasures, "The medicinal herb merchants near Jingzhou have always been weak, and the southwest merchants and Lingnan merchants are even worse, so we might as well win over these people first, and hide it for a while." ”

"It's spring soon. The hometown can raise the purchase price of medicinal materials, encourage the villages and displaced people in the Qinling Mountains to go deeper into the Qinling Mountains to find medicine, and pay close attention to making more finished medicines. ”

"When I get to Jiangnan, I have to go through the path of Han Zhao's envoys. We also act as a medicinal herb merchant and participate in the supply of medicinal herbs to the army of the country......"

After deciding on a three-pronged preliminary strategy, Li Xiang was about to continue discussing the location of the warehouse outside the city when he heard a slight knock on the door.

The honest voice of the big cow sounded, "The owner of the village." There was a fat businessman named Qian Jin'an, who was holding a letter from Aunt Wu and wanted to ask to see the owner. Well...... He also said that he was from Sichuan. ”

Sichuan businessman, or fat businessman? Holding Wu Xiaoling's token? Li Xiang didn't know how to feel it, and looked at Cheng Yuan and Fang Weiliang.

Fang Weiliang has not been in Mingyuezhuang for a long time, and his status is not high, so he does not understand the situation.

The clerk coughed twice, "I once heard Aunt Lei say that there is a person named Qian Jin'an, and she showed favor to my Mingyuezhuang early, and secretly cooperated a lot." Aunt Lei has a very high opinion of this person. ”

Li Xiang hummed lightly and sat upright. Cheng Yuan and Fang Weiliang stood on Li Xiang's left and right, like two dog-headed military advisors.

Liu Decheng and Ding Shihang came in first, nodded slightly, signaled to search around, and stood on the left and right sides of the room, ready to shoot at any time. Da Niu obviously received someone's guidance, and followed Qian Jin'an into the room, not daring to leave lightly for half a step.

Qian Jin'an, who had a big round face and was so fat that he was about to drip oil, and his small round eyes were so bright that he was about to shine, and he walked in, and the officials and Fang Weiliang's eyes narrowed: Sure enough, it was a fat businessman!

Li Xiang's heart was cold: thief's eyebrows and rat eyes. Why don't you get close to yourself and have few good things?