Chapter 30: The Spark of the Stars, the Momentum of the Prairie Fire (5)
On the banks of the Shuangyue River, on the blue and white dock. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In May, it is the season of flowers, and on the flower boats on the riverside, all kinds of bright colors bloom one after another, which confuses the eyes of many literati.
Among them, there are naturally exceptions, such as the small boat parked in the blue and white dock by the willow tree by the river, far less gorgeous and lively than other boats, but in the eyes of the world, especially those who are nostalgic for spring, it has a unique poetic rhyme and tranquility - it is Liang Shishi's boat, the name is Qinghuawu.
Since falling out with Duyu, Liang Shishi has lived here, which is a little far away from other flower boats, but it is much quieter.
It was still early, but the carriage had stopped in front of the dock, and people could be seen patrolling under the willows by the river......
In the cabin, two men sat opposite each other, both dressed as young scholars, both with smiles, just refreshing and the other frivolous.
Since Li Huai returned to Beijing, Hong Ji began to sell grain, and the Ying family sisters, this is also the first time the two have met, "When did Miss Shishi fall into Li Huai's hands?" I can't imagine that the rumors about the two of them in the flower are true, talented and beautiful, and they promise life with poetry, but it is also a romantic affair. Yan Fan shook his fan lightly and looked at the two opposite with a smile on his face.
Liang Shishi frowned slightly, the rumors about the two of them are nothing new, it's just that the other party's frivolous tone, coupled with his slightly sarcastic smile, is really disgusting, but she just glanced at each other, made a cup of tea for each of them, and turned to leave......
The door to the cabin was gently closed......
"The training is good, this girl is also good, but it is completely different from the fragrance of red sleeves. Good luck. ”
"Yan Gongzi's mouth is really ......" Li Huai picked up the tea, looked at Yan Fan who was smiling, and slowly spit out a word: "Stinky"
Yan Fan's face sank, and the fan in his hand closed, "Don't talk nonsense, since you asked me to come, what are the conditions, you just say it." ”
"Oh?" Li Huai looked at the other party, "It seems that the news from the south, Gongzi has received it, and it is rare for my Hua Dynasty to have such a great victory!" ”
Yan Fan smiled coldly, Zhang Jun defeated Fang La, and the good news of recovering the three prefectures and sixteen counties is in the hands of the military department Shangshu at this moment, and it is always pressed, which means Yan Fan.
The sudden reversal of the situation was naturally unexpected by many people, there were not many soldiers to fight in the south of the Hua Dynasty, and Zhang Jun was originally only relying on more than 300,000 soldiers and horses to confront Fang La, but he didn't expect that in less than a month, there would be such a variable, so that Yan Fan didn't have time to deal with it.
"As far as I know, although the recovered three prefectures and sixteen counties have been looted by Fang La, the few big households left have not much left except for grain, and I think they are also eager to get rid of the grain in their hands, so as to ease up, my Hong Ji is doing this kind of buying and selling business, and tens of thousands of loads of grain can be transported in a few days." Li Huai looked emotional, and added a cup of tea to himself.
"Are you crazy?" Yan Fan put the tea cup on the table heavily, and looked straight at the young man opposite with a pair of eyes, and he already had a bit of murder in his heart.
Once tens of thousands of quintals of grain are all transported to the north, it will be like a flood, just the news spreads, it is enough to make the price of grain collapse instantly, and several grain merchants under Yan Fan have been eating the grain on the market at a high price, and they have long been uncomfortable, once the grain from the south comes in, they can only sell it.
"I can't imagine that Hong Ji can have such human and financial resources, it seems that the Li family's life in the northwest is really free, but I don't know if the imperial history can talk about the past?" Yan Fan quickly thought of the key to this, just these tens of thousands of quintals of grain, transported from the south to the north, asking for money and people, not ordinary people can do it, even the imperial court may not be able to do it, let alone a businessman......
"Hehe, what the son is worried about is the key, when I entered the inside and outside, I had already handed over the Hongji coefficient to the saint, his old man cultivated immortals and alchemy, it was not good to go to the treasury to ask for it, what I could do was to share the worries of his old man." said a few words, but it made the other party dumbfounded, the old man in the imperial city, in the past, did not do less deviant things, and now he is the backer of Hong Ji, it is not impossible, but I am afraid that I will shock the world when I say it, not to mention this kind of thing, how can it fall into the hands of the young man in front of him?
"His old man's temper is really hard to fathom, and I am also flattered to be favored by his old man, and I think most of them think that what I am doing is quite reliable and can be used by his old man." Li Huai smiled, lowered his head and took a sip of the tea cup in his hand,
"What the hell are you going to do?" Yan Fan restrained his temper, he already remembered the dark city wall in his mind, and he really didn't have the courage to touch it at the moment, and then remembered what he had done in the past few months, hoarding Juqi, raising the price of grain, persecuting the prince, supporting the Prime Minister's Mansion, but in the end he was just making wedding clothes for others, and he couldn't help but laugh at himself a little in his heart, and the frivolity on his face suddenly became dark, "You can always leave me a way to live......"
Li Huai took out a few pieces of paper from his sleeve and pushed them in front of Yan Fan, "These contents, the son can take a look, don't rush to answer, the things written on it are all trivial matters for the Yan family." ”
"A trifle?" Yan Fan looked at the contents of the paper, "This is what his old man meant?" Or do you mean it? ”
"What's the difference? Does Yan Gongzi still have to dig into it? Li Huai's face was surprised, but the other party shook his head, "This black pot seems to be carried by my Yan family, his old man is the father of the family, for more than forty years, my Yan family can be regarded as doing their best for him." ”
"That's why it's just a trivial matter for the Yan family, no matter you and I enter this game, we are all chess pieces, and we must always do our own things, what does Yan Gongzi think?" Li Huai sighed and stretched out his hand to fill a cup for him, "Let's do it for yourself." ”
Yan Fan finished reading the manuscript in his hand before handing it to Li Huai, "What can I get?" ”
"Of course it's grain, could it be that Yan Gongzi really wants me to sell it all? Wouldn't it be better to sell it to you directly than to sell it to those poor people? Li Huai said with a look of reason, "When Tian Xiang went to look for you, didn't you say that you wanted me to hand over all the money I earned to Gongzi, and this grain is the same." ”
"You!" Yan Fan didn't expect the other party to come up with such a bad move, if he didn't buy it, he could only watch the price of food fall, but if he bought it all, he was afraid that he would lose a lot.
"Is Yan Gongzi very embarrassed? If this is the case, I can find another buyer, there are so many big families in the north, I will find a few more, there will always be someone who is willing, as for the Yan family's future, I want to see how it will end? ”
"Count you ruthless, I'm afraid, you and I end up just a joke, haha" Yan Fan shook his head, drank the tea in front of him, the tea was cold, but it made him drop his anger by three points, and Li Huai on the opposite side also drank a cup together, what the two then said was just some bargaining on interests, Hong Ji's backer, the lifeblood of the Yan family, in the end it was just a sentence from the old man in the imperial city, and the two young people were a pair of chess pieces of the old man.
On the third pole of the day, under the blue and white dock, the carriage in the green willow forest finally left with Yan Fan, and in the cabin, Liang Shishi had already returned, "The matter has come to an end, but the Yan family has suffered a big loss this time?" In her heart, the Yan family is naturally the biggest villain in the Hua Dynasty, and Li Huai's ability to be their enemy is enough to prove his 'innocence'.
"Miss Shishi, this tea is a little light." Li Huai smiled slightly, put down the tea cup in his hand, and the woman hurriedly took new tea and brewed it with warm water.
"He is also a poor man, and if he makes it clear today, he will know what he should do, as for the loss you said, it is not enough, it is nothing more than making less money." Li Huai looked at the woman's appearance of making tea, as if she was looking at a beautiful picture, which was pleasing to the eye.
Liang Shishi turned her head in some surprise, the tea was already brewing in the teapot, and she poured hot water for the first time, "What about those grain merchants, can't they be the same, they have done this kind of evil thing, and in the end they are still safe and sound?" ”
Li Huai motioned to the other party with his eyes, and changed the water for the second time, "They are a big family, they have a heritage, there is good land, and the granary is even full, but now like this, they can't move their family funds and lose money?" It can only be less earning, I estimate, it should only be more than 60% of the income of previous years, and if the operation is not good, you can also have 50% of the income. ”
"Vibration is uncomfortable!" The woman had already poured the water for the third time, the fragrance of tea overflowed, Li Huai looked intoxicated, looked at the woman's angry appearance, and couldn't help laughing, "Shishi, that's the case, what we do is to leave more respite for the people of the world, the kind of punishment you think about punishing evil and promoting good, I'm afraid it's not realistic, you have to know this, don't be demanding." ”
As he spoke, he subconsciously patted the other party's shoulder......
Liang Shishi didn't speak, and put the tea cup in front of Li Huai, "Even so, I also thank Gongzi for the world." ”
"Speaking of which, I'm under pressure, not to mention that in my opinion, what you do is more pure." Li Huai took the tea cup and drank it slowly, feeling the fragrance of tea spreading between his chest and lungs.
"I just gave me some porridge, and in the end they ...... Don't say it, but what Childe did, in Shishi's opinion, is the big thing. ”
"The poetry girl praised it falsely, now you are the Jade Bodhisattva, but I am a desperate scholar, who is good and who is bad?" Li Huai stared at the other party, but the woman sneered and laughed, "The name of the son is always ...... So offbeat. ”
In May in Beijing, Hong Ji's grain shop was still open, but the original porridge shed was removed within a few days, replaced by grain shops that were opened one after another, and the grain price was not much different from Hong Ji......
Several big clans have begun to sell grain in various state capitals, which is naturally a good thing for the people, but for those small merchants and small households who follow behind the big clans, it is an even more sad winter, and even some shops that eat at high prices halfway have been unable to make ends meet......