At noon, Yuwenhu came again, bringing the share of the order of three hundred winning knives and a winning knife, this time excluding the cost of materials, labor and other costs, each knife earned fifty yuan, a total of 15,000 yuan, Yuwenkai had already written a letter to Yang Chong five thousand yuan. Yuwenhu showed Yuwenkai's letter to Yang Chong, and said another thing: "The interest rate of Louguan's general loan to Chang'an City is 100% per year, did they seem to have lost a lot of money in the transaction I talked to you about yesterday, what did Qi Qi say later?" ”

Yuwenhu is reminding Yang Chong that pies will not fall from the sky, Louguan will not make profits for no reason, and characters like Qihui will not sell Feng Qi's face. Yang Chong said respectfully: "What Uncle Tiger said is right, the second senior brother said when he was leaving, the apprentice of the ghost nun is coming to live in my house. Uncle Tiger, have you ever heard of ghost nuns? ”

Yuwen Hu laughed and said: "There is no older Chang'an people who don't know the ghost nun, more than thirty years ago, the ghost nun is the first beauty in Chang'an, she has been a disciple of Fu Daochong since she was a child, from the Yuan family, and the name of the common family is Yuan Hui." coincided with the arrival of the master of Luofu Mountain in the south of the Yangtze River, Qin Jue Gong Yi Zhuo, and the two fell in love, but Gong Yi was loyal to Nan Chen, and came to Chang'an to assassinate the powerful people of the Great Zhou; After the incident, Gong Yizhuo broke through all the way, and was finally injured and was beaten into the Yellow River, not knowing life and death, the Yuan family was ready to dedicate Yuan Hui to Yu Wenyun in order to eliminate the disaster. Unexpectedly, Yuan Hui swore to die, and in the end, Fu Daochong played a beautiful hand and gave him the name Yuan Hui Ghost Ni, which made Yu Wenyun disgusted when he heard it, so that there was no more turmoil. ”

Yang Chong can understand that a beautiful woman with unique skills is not looking down on the world, and she must have a desire to take risks in her heart, or a determination to be unwilling to be ordinary. Yang Chong didn't know why, and suddenly thought that Zhen Xueqing's body was also a beautiful woman with unique skills, and Zhen Xueqing would definitely not be so simple when she came to Chang'an. Yang Chong asked, "Uncle Hu, are there any mysterious sects on the rivers and lakes now?" ”

Yu Wenhu looked at Yang Chong unexpectedly and said: "These things, you have to ask Meng Kunpeng, he has returned to Chang'an, in a few days, I will ask him to come over, and you just want to talk to him about the protection of the workshop." ”

Yang Chong thought of the group of martial arts masters that Feng Qicheng said last night, and suddenly realized that he was careless, or too optimistic, whether Feng Qicheng or Yuwenhu actually had a guess in their hearts, Qihui might let people peep into the workshop, Feng Qicheng asked the apprentice of the ghost nun to come over, in fact, to protect the workshop. Daomen is also a human world, and under the temptation of money and interests, it is not only the capitalists of later generations who will kill people and set fires.

Yang Chong nodded and said, "I know, is Meng Kunpeng's work going well in the Western Regions?" ”

A trace of anger flashed on Yu Wenhu's face and said: "The Zhao family and his son deceived people too much, how many old brothers' family members and children were sold by them as slaves to the forty-four countries and Turks in Dunhuang Tuntian, the reason why Kunpeng was delayed for so long was because he was looking for people in various parts of the Western Regions. Fortunately, more than 50 people were found, and Kunpeng spent money to turn them all into free bodies, and now he is looking for a place to settle outside the city, there is no way, and now none of these people believe in them except Kunpeng. ”

Yang Chong asked carefully to know that in the third year of the emperor's reign, the Turkic prisoners were invaded, and Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of Sui, took into account the inconvenience of material transfer, and ordered Zhao Zhongqing, the governor of Shuofang, to move 40,000 criminals and prisoners' families in Dunhuang and the north north of the Great Wall. Therefore, Shuo Fang and this Tuntian camp have been operated by the Zhao family for two generations, and outsiders can't intervene at all, and the Zhao family took the opportunity to start a slave trade in the Western Regions, specializing in selling Han people to countries in the Western Regions.

Yang Chong's heart was full of anger when he heard this, what is the difference between Zhao Hongsi's behavior and that of a traitor; Yuwenhu saw Yang Chong's anger, but instead persuaded Yang Chong: "Actually, not only the Zhao family, but also the wealthy families in power are not like this. Yang Chong, if you want to do great things, you must first make yourself stronger, I know that a workshop is for sale, why don't we go and have a look together in the afternoon. ”

The workshop mentioned by Yuwenhu is in Quchifang, and Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty moved 3,000 workshops from all over Yangzhou, and some of them are placed in Quchifang. Except for the truly powerful workshops, most of the workshops are crumbling under the collusion and suppression of the government and the scholars; This workshop was originally used to do dyeing, but after arriving in Chang'an, the cost of raw materials rose sharply, and the craftsmen were also poached, so they had to close.

Dongfang Bai, the young boss of the workshop, was a down-to-earth person at first glance, and when he learned that Yang Chong was willing to pay a thousand yuan to buy the workshop, he agreed on the spot, after all, Yang Chong's bid was much higher than others, and the highest price of others was seven hundred. However, Dongfang Bai was still ready to tell the truth: "Lord Yang, our Dongqiao Dyeing Workshop has an imperial mission, and after you buy it, this errand will definitely fall on your head." ”

Yang Chong said with a smile: "Your Dongqiao Dyeing Workshop should still have a workshop in Yangzhou, I will leave you two shops and a warehouse in the workshop, specializing in selling the cloth of your dyeing workshop, how much cloth you need to provide to the imperial court every year, I will buy yours." ”

This is a plan that is beneficial to everyone, especially Yang Chong did not ask to pass on the imperial difference, but paid for the cloth of the Dongqiao Dyeing Workshop, which is a long-term business that will make sure that it will not lose money; Dongfang Bai himself is unwilling to withdraw from Chang'an, how can he be unwilling to hear Yang Chong say this? Dongfang Bai immediately handed over 300 guan to Yang Chong as a year's rent, except for the craftsmen sent back to Yangzhou, all the other business guys and apprentices stayed and opened as usual.

Yang Chong looked at the completion of the workshop and decided to divide the workshop into three parts, in addition to making cloth for Dongfang Bai, the other two parts were the soap workshop and the carpentry workshop, Yang Lei was in charge of everything, Yang Yi, Yang Wu, and Yang Ba were in the soap workshop, and Yang Er was in charge of the carpentry workshop. Yang Chong thought about it and asked Yuwenhu: "Uncle Tiger, are there any craftsmen or people who can work among the people Meng Kunpeng brought back?" If Meng Kunpeng can't arrange it, I can help. ”

Yuwenhu is very pleased, Yang Chong's advantage is that he is thoughtful, the more than fifty people brought back by Meng Kunpeng are nothing to the Yuwen family, but the problem is that these people are already free and have their own resistance to being slaves, so Yuwenkai can't arrange it forcibly, which is the reason why Meng Kunpeng needs to bother to settle it. Yuwenhu never said it, he just didn't know Yang Chong's attitude, and now Yang Chong took the initiative to mention it, which shows that Yang Chong not only guessed the reason, but was willing to take the initiative to reach out, which made Yuwenhu a lot less embarrassed.

Yuwenhu groaned: "Among the more than fifty people, half of them are women, I don't know if they are craftsmen, but they can work for sure." ”

Yang Chong nodded and said, "Then please trouble Uncle Tiger to inform Meng Kunpeng, first bring ten men and four young women, the disciples of the ghost nun are here, and I also need to put up a façade." ”