Chapter 392: Jin Merchants Betray the Country
Cai'er and Rumeng are now the first and second big stars in Daming's entertainment industry, and the new stars of the crew, such as White Peony, White Hibiscus, Lan Meimei, Mei'er, Yi'er, etc., are also in the limelight. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After all, it is too hard to perform on stage, but it is not a movie star like later generations, as long as the filming is finished, everything will be done, and in the Ming Dynasty, it needs to be performed one by one, Huang Sheng doesn't want his concubine to work so hard.
Bai Peony is getting older and older, and it's time to quit the entertainment industry, so it is imperative to cultivate new stars to dig up the red officials in the Jiangnan courtyard.
Lan Caier and Rumeng, the two most popular corners, will definitely be sought after when they go south together, and the star effect will definitely be extraordinary, they have a unique vision and appeal, and it should be easier to choose famous actors in Jiangnan to join.
Seeing that parting is imminent, in the red silk tent on the spring night, the cartilage beauty Cai'er is like an octopus pestering the old man for pleasure, and she is charming to the bones.......
"Master, the slave family knows that the talented and good-looking Jiangnan beauties are looking for our Huang family, and the slave family still wants to help the master find a few Jiangnan sisters, giggle......s."
The beauty almost laughed when she didn't finish speaking, it turned out that Huang Sheng saw Xiao Nizi testing herself with words, and directly tickled her bare body.
"Master, spare the slave family, giggle...... The slave family didn't dare anymore...... Cluck....... The cartilage beauty was afraid of itching, and tears came out of her eyes.
"Cai'er, the master is a righteous gentleman, and he has known Rumeng for so long without any outrageous behavior, and he was not innocent by you at the beginning."
"Giggle....... Master, where is the innocence of a man, the slave family does not dare to be it. When did you accept Sister Rumeng? ”
"Don't talk nonsense, you have to be a man in moderation, there are many good women, and you can't look at one and ask for one!"
"The master said that she can look down on Sister Rumeng, if she knows, she will be happy!"
"Cai'er, don't make extraneous branches, you go to Jiangnan to visit the famous yards, remember! Talent is the most important, and your team will naturally be popular all over the world. ”
"The slave family knows, the slave family will hold a party in the clubs of Suzhou and Hangzhou, invite the famous actors from the major courtyards to perform on stage, and invite them to our crew when they see it."
"You can do it boldly and boldly, if there is anything difficult for Yi Facai to negotiate, sometimes it is most effective to deal with black-hearted bustards and presumptuous turtle slaves."
"Don't worry, sir, the slave family has never been embarrassed by anyone in Nanzhili, and too many adults want the slave family to introduce you to it."
This is true, the coachmen and handymen in the crew are all village warriors, and the force value is not weak, and many crew members are equipped with double-barreled short guns, who dare to find fault for no reason may be shot by them.
The beauty was full of interest and talked with the master until he fell asleep after the third watch, and the next day Yang Fan set off, crossed the East China Sea and entered Taihu Lake through the Yangtze River to Suzhou.
Before Zhao Rui was transferred to "Huaxia Island" to manage property, he handed over the financial power of Huangjiawan Island to Chu'er, the Huang family has a large population, and Chu'er and Gu Ling'er have been taking care of many chores at home.
As soon as Huang Sheng went home, Chu'er didn't want to worry about anything, and most of them were thrown to Ling'er, and she hurried to accompany her husband. Huang Sheng's life is still the same, going to the barracks every day to attend classes, and going to the arsenal every other day to visit the workers.
At the end of February, Zuo Shouquan, who had been transferred to work in the Beizhili Military Intelligence Department, specially returned to Huangjiawan Island to meet the head of his family, and after more than a month of open investigation and covert visits, they obtained an important piece of information.
The 50,000 stone grain purchased by the Fan family in Shanxi has been transferred to Zhangjiakou, and it may be necessary to leave the customs.
In the past, it was easier for the Fan family to ship, and it was the best way to buy the Denglai Navy Division to transport Gaizhou, and the loss was small and the cost was saved, or it was a generous way to buy the Shanhaiguan garrison, and transport grain before the army to pass the customs and deliver the goods to the Sancha River through the Liaoning West Corridor.
The cost of grain transportation on this route is still high, and I don't know how many obstacles need to be solved.
Now that the Huang family is rising, these two lines can't go through, the Fan family is very shrewd, Huang Sheng's story is well known to his family, they know that the Huang family and Jiannu are as deep as the sea, and they didn't try to follow the path of the Huang family.
The Denglai Navy Master knew that Liaohai had been effectively controlled by the Huang family, and the speed of the sailor on Juehua Island was extremely fast, and the fleet could not do it if they wanted to avoid their patrol.
The Ming army on the cruising sentry ship was completely different from the other teams of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the procedures were legal, they did not eat and take cards, and if a large amount of grain smuggling was discovered, no matter how much silver they bribed, they could not let these Ming troops open the net.
Therefore, the Denglai sailor did not dare to help the Fan family send grain to Liaodong, they actually knew that the grain was sold to Jiannu, in case of being caught by the iron-faced and selfless Juehua Island sailor, the silver would definitely not be earned, and it was difficult to say whether the head would move, so no one dared to take risks.
Seeing that it could not be transported, the Fan family was ready to give up such a deal, but who knew that Houjin was short of grain, so he sent more than a dozen people to Mongolia to Zhangjiakou to find the Fan family and send a deposit, and the price was six taels of silver and one stone of wheat.
Profit-seeking is the nature of the Jin merchants in the late Ming Dynasty, they don't want to sell the country for silver, they can also sell their wives, and the Fan family decided to go from Zhangjiakou to the border wall to traffic grain to Liaodong for a long time.
To transport 50,000 stone of grain for more than 2,000 miles, the movement is too big, and it is necessary to hire too many carts, and if a mule and horse cart is loaded with 20 stone of grain, they need more than 2,500 carts and 3 to 5,000 large livestock.
Because it takes nearly two months to go back and forth on the road, so many people and livestock have to eat more than 5,000 stone of grain, so if you want to send 50,000 stone of grain to Liaodong, you must bring at least one more percent when you set off.
In this era, the cost of transporting grain for thousands of miles can be seen, so water transportation is the lifeblood of the imperial court, if the main channel of north-south transportation is destroyed, the north does not know how many people will starve to death.
Huang Sheng's development of shipping, the volume of transportation doubled, the speed increased, compared with the inland river grain transportation to save a lot of costs, reduce too much loss, the future of the imperial court transport work can be had.
The scale of the Fan family's caravan is not small, but it cannot meet such a transportation volume, and it is not enough to hire mules and horses from familiar merchants, so they can only choose to hire a large number of social vehicles to make up the transportation capacity.
The reason why the Ming Dynasty repeatedly banned it was not that it could not be done, but that the officials and businessmen colluded and no one was serious.
The newly established Beizhili Military Intelligence Department easily obtained the news that the Fan family firm had purchased a large amount of grain to prepare carriages and horses, and Qian Meng sent Wuyi and Zuo Shouquan to Zhangjiakou with intelligence officers to find out the situation.
Wu Yi and Zuo Shouquan decided to break into the Fan family to find out, and they were anxious for the Fan family to give them what they wanted.
They are Cangzhou people, they used to make a living by driving big cars, often transporting and selling grain in Yongping Mansion, and now they go to Yongping Mansion to pull up more than a dozen brothers to start their old business, and they drive ten big cars to Zhangjiakou to sell grain.
These people are either Wuyi and their fellow brothers, or poor brothers who live together, and the men who have been running long distances in the north to make a little bit of money have not been given in vain, and they all behave fiercely with their guys.
These men who run the rivers and lakes know that the old man Wuyi and Zuo Shouquan are now terrible, and they are actually military attaches to the imperial court.
The two of them are now bringing their brothers to do things for the imperial court, and they are offering a high price of two taels of silver and four buckets of refined grain for a month.