Huainan West Road, Huangfu.

In the flower hall surrounded by green trees, although in the hot season, it is also very cool and comfortable, Huang Wenhu is wearing a short coat, holding a baby in his arms, lying on the chair, shaking around, humming and chirping in his mouth, holding the baby's left hand from time to time stretched out a few fingers, gently and softly patting the baby's back.

The baby was one or two months old, white and fat, lying peacefully in Huang Wenhu's arms, sleeping very sweetly, the corners of his mouth curled from time to time, as if he was laughing.

Huang Wenhu, the leader of the grain gang on Weizhen Huainan West Road, never left the child's face with his eyes, his eyes were full of thick and soft love, and his eyebrows were full of joy, as if even the wrinkles and folds were full of joy.

The housekeeper walked in gently, walking very slowly, with soft steps as if he was afraid of stepping on the ants on the ground, and finally walked to Huang Wenhu's side like walking on thin ice, and shouted in a suppressed voice: "Helper." ”

Huang Wenhu's eyes widened, revealing a look of displeasure, and he took out a free hand and pointed to the baby in his arms.

The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, and finally plucked up his courage again, and said in a low voice, "Young Lady Zhao asks to see you." ”

Huang Wenhu looked stunned, but he heard the official add softly: "The young lady of Jiangning Zhao Mansion is waiting in the front hall. ”

When Huang Wenhu heard this, he suddenly got up, but the movement was a little louder, and the baby in his arms cried loudly, he hurriedly comforted the anxious sound, handed the baby to the nurse who was waiting next to him, and said to the housekeeper: "Good hospitality, I went to change clothes." ”

In the front hall of the Huang Mansion, Wang Xin was dressed in an agarwood-colored Shu brocade shirt, a light green long skirt, and a gold embroidered cloud peacock pattern xia veil, sitting on the Taishi chair in the middle of the hall, surrounded by two brocade guards and two maidservants.

In the Song Dynasty, the woman's Xia curtain is a symbol of status, civilian women can only approve the Xia curtain when they get married, otherwise it is considered a trespass, only the women inside and outside the court can use the Xia curtain as a regular dress, and there are strict regulations: the first and second grade of the life of the woman Xia curtain for the gold embroidery Yunxia Zhai pattern, the third and fourth grades for the gold embroidery Yunxia peacock pattern, the fifth grade embroidered Yunxia mandarin duck pattern, the sixth and seventh grades embroidered Yunxia practice magpie pattern, the eighth and ninth grades embroidered with the school pattern. Zhao Hao is now an official of the third grade, and Wang Xin was named the lady of the third grade, but she can wear a golden embroidered cloud and peacock pattern.

Although Wang Xin was plain and elegant and had a low-key demeanor, this piece of Xia was enough to shake the entire Huang Mansion. In the entire Huang Mansion, only the housekeeper and a few henchmen followed Huang Wenhu to meet the transfer envoys, the Cang Division, the Criminal Division, and the Cao Division, and when they saw the golden embroidered clouds and peacock patterns, it was the first time they had seen it in their own mansion.

Although he had a good personal relationship with Huang Wenhu, 500,000 stone rice grains was not a small number, so Zhao Hao thought twice and specially sent Wang Xin to go to Huaixi in person. First, it shows grandeur, secondly, Huang Wenhu knows Wang Xin, so he will not suspect fraud, and thirdly, although Wang Xin seems to be weak in appearance, she is a strong woman in a shopping mall like Xie Yun, and many of the Wang family's businesses were well organized in her hands before she got married, which is more reliable than Wang Jue and Xie Yu. Before Zhu Xi, it was not too unusual for a woman to show up to talk about business.

After a while, Huang Wenhu, Huang Jin, Huang Wenhu's wife and Huang Jin's wife hurriedly entered, and when they saw Wang Xin coming forward to salute, Wang Xin also hurriedly got up and returned the salute, and her posture was generous, which made Huang Wen and others feel broken.

The two sides exchanged pleasantries, and Wang Xin smiled slightly: "Today's visit is on the order of my family's officials, and I ask Huang Lao Gang Leader for something." ”

Huang Wenhu's expression was awe-inspiring, and he said urgently: "Since it is the order of the son, please also ask the county lady to say that it is okay." ”

As soon as Wang Xin gestured to the brocade guard beside him, the brocade guard took a brocade box and respectfully handed it to the Huang Mansion housekeeper, who opened the brocade box, took out a fire paint secret letter, and handed it to Huang Wenhu.

Huang Wenhu opened the envelope, unfolded the letterhead, read it carefully, his expression became more and more serious, after reading it, he groaned slightly, and immediately said: "Son's order, how dare Huang disobey, within seven days, 500,000 stone rice grain will be transported to Jingnan Road, and please rest assured that Gongzi and Mrs. Jun." ”

Wang Xin saw that Huang Wenhu agreed so happily, and a trace of astonishment flashed in her eyes.

Zhao Hao borrowed 500,000 stones, if it is returned in the coming year, the price of rice will fall back to at least 500 yuan, and Huang Wenhu will lose more than 200,000 yuan. Even if it is a rich land in Huaixi, rich businessmen are like clouds, there will never be many people who can come up with 200,000 yuan, if it is not for the lives of millions of living beings, Zhao Hao is embarrassed to make such a request.

Wang Xin said with a smile: "Old Gang Leader Huang, my family officials borrowed grain, and returned it with the same rice grain after a year. ”

Hahaha~

Huang Wenhu let out a burst of hearty laughter: "Mrs. Jun is too worried, the son's statement in the book is very clear, how can Huang not know?" Just Huang's leg is more than 200,000 guan, not to mention that now thanks to the son's gift, my old Huang family finally has a queen, don't say 200,000 guan, it is tens of millions of guan, and it is not enough to pay for the kindness of the son. ”

Wang Xin slapped the case and said with a smile: "Old Huang Gang Leader is really refreshing, as my family officials expected!" I heard that the young gang master was happy with his noble son, and the officials of my family prepared a little light courtesy...... Present! ”

She waved her hand at the brocade guard beside her, and the brocade guard took out another brocade box and handed it over.

Huang Wenhu opened the brocade box suspiciously, but found that there was only a beautifully carved silver medal inside, and looked at Wang Xin with a puzzled face.

Wang Xin said with a smile: "My family officials are humane, and with the talent of Huang Lao's gang leader, he should not be trapped in the land of Huaixi for a long time, and the land of Jingxi is not impossible to walk." This is the seal letter of the deputy commander of the Jinyi Guard Battalion, although it is only from the rank of the nine grades, but the Jinyi Guard in the western part of Beijing is dispatched by the old gang leader of Huang, if anyone dares to embarrass the old gang leader, it is difficult to be embarrassed by the entire Jinyi Guard! ”

When Huang Wenhu heard this, his expression suddenly became slightly excited: "Thanks to Gongzi for being so affordable, Huang Mou...... Huang ......"

Although Jinyiwei has only been established for more than half a year, its prestige has already spread throughout the Jiangbei region, even in the Huaixi region, and the Jingxi region is adjacent to Gyeonggi, and the power of Jinyiwei has already penetrated here.

Huang Wenhu started at the end of the Wei, and he is considered an old knife in the land of Huaixi, but it is only limited to the land of Huaixi, and even in the land of Huaixi, he has to rely on the snort of senior officials such as the transfer envoy, Cao Si, and Cangsi, and now he has the help of Jinyi Wei, not to mention whether he can expand his influence to Jingxi, at least there is one more talisman in Huaixi.

200,000 yuan, buy such a talisman, it's worth it!

……

After that night's farce, Du Gongcai dared to leave Zhao Hao to continue to live in the house, and the next day he arranged another gorgeous courtyard as Zhao Hao's line.

Although the courtyard here is not as magnificent as the Du Mansion, it is also lined up one after another, with cornices and walls, pavilions and water pavilions, garden attics, all available, as a temporary residence, it is also a good place.

In the front hall, Zhao Haozheng and Xu Churen were sitting on the two Taishi chairs in the middle, one left and one right, flipping through the secret letter presented by Jin Yiwei, frowning, and his face was gloomy.

Bang~

Zhao Hao slapped the table, his face turned red, and he said angrily: "Profiteers, profiteers who bring disaster to the country and the people, all of them deserve to die!" The grain merchants on the North Jingxi Road actually had more than 3.2 million stone of grain in their hands, but they raised the price of rice to more than five guan, how can this be reasonable! ”

At this moment, Zhao Hao was completely angry, on the one hand, the grain in the hands of the grain merchants was piling up, and on the other hand, the common people could not afford to buy grain and were starving all over the place, how ridiculous, how shameless!

Xu Churen sighed slightly: "Childe, please look at this secret report, in which Cheng Jie has hoarded 1.5 million stone rice grain in his hands, accounting for half of the grain stored in the hands of grain merchants, but the rise in rice prices is all from him, what does Childe know?" ”

Zhao Hao's face was still angry, and he asked, "Why?" ”

Xu Churen said hatefully: "Cheng Jie's daughter married Cai Jing's third son Cai Zhen as his wife, and he himself is Bai Shizhong's brother-in-law, with these two Xianggong as backers, that is, Du Gongcai has to give three points, and Kaifeng Mansion opened a warehouse to put 3 million stones, but in fact, there are only 1.5 million stones in the hands of the officials of the two roads in Beijing, where is the rest of the rice and grain transported, it can't be sold in the land of Gyeonggi and at the feet of the Son of Heaven, I'm afraid that it won't all fall into the hands of Cheng Jie." After all, the three million stone rice grains were indeed all pulled into the western part of Beijing, the second is to facilitate the sale of stolen goods, and the third is to sell them at a good price, killing three birds with one stone......"

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the richest country in the world, a drought was not enough to be so famine, but the bad was that the government had been eroded to the bone marrow, and countless bloodsuckers possessed the people.

The more Zhao Hao listened, the more angry he became, he suddenly drew his sword and said angrily: "This sword is not satisfied with drinking the blood of corrupt officials and profiteers, and will never return to the dynasty!" ”

At this moment, Aoki Dao Chang hurriedly rushed in and said urgently: "Wang Gongzi has returned from Jiangnan." ”

When Zhao Hao heard this, he hurriedly put his sword back into its sheath: "Please come in quickly!" ”

Before the words fell, the dusty Wang Jue had already rushed in, his skin was obviously much darker than before, and his expression was a little haggard.

Zhao Hao hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Wang Jue's hand: "Brother has worked hard all the way!" ”

Wang Jue laughed and said, "Fortunately, I don't disgrace my life." ”

The two sat down after greetings, Wang Jue unpacked his bags, unpacked a dense package, took out a locked brocade box, and took out a stack of money.

With the strength of Zhao, Wang, and Xie, it is enough to make 1.5 million 500 yuan!

One and a half million guan, even for the four major prefectures of Jiangning in the south of the Yangtze River, it is a huge amount of money, if it is not the power of family affection, how can it be so?

Xu Churen on the side saw that Zhao Hao had really raised 1.5 million yuan, his eyes couldn't help but brighten, and his admiration for Zhao Hao became stronger and stronger.

"Your family is 700,000, my family and the Xie family are 400,000 each, and the elders fully support the righteous deeds of the virtuous brother, but it's just ......"

"Just what?" Zhao Hao asked suspiciously.

Wang Jue looked at Xu Churen, and stopped talking.

Zhao Hao said: "Mr. Xu is not an outsider, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

Wang Jue said in a low voice: "It's just that the prince is the identity of the clan after all, and my dynasty has always been extremely strict against the clan, and the big officials and their wives are worried that the virtuous brother is too strong and will be taken advantage of by the villain, and they are quite uneasy." Mrs. Xie asked me to pass on a message to my virtuous brother, 'It is strong and easy to break, and the good is like water'. ”

Zhao Hao's expression was solemn, he nodded, but asked again: "Why is there a mantissa of five hundred?" ”

Wang Jue said: "This is a little bit of Mr. Merlin's heart. ”

Zhao Hao's face suddenly moved.

Ten miles of peach blossoms, white clothes like snow, long time no see......

It's just that this is not the time for children to grow up.

He gathered his thoughts, turned back to Aoki Michicho and said, "The deputy commander of the herald battalion is above, and he will assemble here immediately." ”

"Whoa!"

Choking~

The Longquan sword in Zhao Hao's waist came out of its sheath again, and said in a cold voice: "This sword is already hungry and thirsty, and it should be filled with the blood of profiteers and dog officials!" ”