Fan Yongdou rushed out of the gate angrily and got into the carriage under the service of his entourage.

"Little four, go back to Puzhou."

"Huh? Childe, don't you live in Jiezhou? ”

"This crack state, there are warehouses everywhere, there is not even a place for recreation, there is a good place to live, it is better to go back to Puzhou."

Xiao Si nodded, stretched his head out of the carriage, and whispered to the coachman, with a shout and a whip, the carriage started slowly, and several knights scattered around also beat their horses to follow.

"Childe, this Pu Xie Chamber of Commerce still doesn't sell salt to us?" Xiao Si waited for the car to drive smoothly and asked.

"A few old stubborns," Fan Yongdou snorted, "Do they think that they can eat their goods with just a few Hui merchants they have befriended?" ”

"On the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, the eight families headed by my Fan family occupy the salt of the four towns of Xuanfu, Datong, Taiyuan, and Yansui, hum, if they don't sell it to us, their salt will only be moldy." Speaking of this, Fan Yongdou was quite proud.

"This salt can't be sold, so how have they survived all these years? Son. ”

"It's not the old man of the Zhou family yet." Fan Yongdou snorted.

"Zhou Gongzi and his father, didn't he pass away a long time ago? And so capable? ”

"Ten years ago, Old Man Zhou discovered that Yuncheng Salt Lake can produce miscanthus salt, and later donated the method of making nitrate to the Chamber of Commerce for free.

"This..., is there really such a selfless person as Zhou Gongzi and his father in the world?"

"Stupid," Fan Yongdou scolded, "The Zhou family was just a small salt merchant at that time, if they only thought about making a fortune and didn't give it away, the family would have died a long time ago, and he would still be able to sit as the president of the Chamber of Commerce for two generations of his Zhou family?" ”

"The two Zhang and Wang families are not good people." Fan Yongdou's voice was cold, and Xiao Si couldn't help but shiver when he heard it.

"During the period of Shenzong, Zhang Siwei was the prime minister, Wang Chonggu was Xuanda, the two joined forces to open border trade in Mongolia, creating a good situation for Jin merchants, and their descendants will be good together?" Speaking of this, Fan Yongdou suddenly became proud and laughed, "It's just that now the fruits have been picked by us, if the two of them know about it, I don't know if they will be angry again?" ”

As he was talking, someone outside the carriage asked: "Childe, it's snowing, are you still going to Puzhou?" ”

Fan Yongdou opened the curtain, only to see snowflakes floating in the dark and low sky, looking back at the city of Jiezhou, thinking about the boring inside, and then thinking about the colorfulness of Puzhou, gritted his teeth, "Go, rush to Puzhou as soon as possible." ”

At this time, there was a faint cry in Yuncheng, which was the salt workers cheering, the colder the day, the more salt, and their wages would naturally be more.

"Phew." Fan Yongdou took a sip of hatred, it was so cold so early this year, and it was cheap for these Jiezhou people.

"Childe, don't worry too much," Xiao Si thought that he was still annoyed with the nail he touched in the Chamber of Commerce, and explained him, "Over the years, haven't there been many small salt merchants in Pujie and Pujie, who are dissatisfied with the Chamber of Commerce's refusal to sell salt to us, and secretly lose their sincerity and sell us a lot of salt?" ”

"Small fights, never on the stage." After Fan Yongdou finished speaking, he closed his eyes and stopped talking.

......

Zhou Gongzi returned to Zhou's mansion and went straight into the inner room, where he was changing his clothes under the service of the maid.

The scholar Sicha suddenly came to wait outside the room.

"What's the matter? Let's talk about it. After the change of clothes was completed, he waved his hand to let the maid leave, and Zhou Gongzi asked.

"Childe, the group of refugees who came to report five days ago had already arrived outside Puzhou two days ago."

"Oh, why didn't you report it to me in time?" Zhou Gongzi's voice became stern.

"According to the sentinel, I didn't dare to confirm it at first, but I came back to report it after seeing that the other party not only had a scout, but also practiced every day with that iconic ash pole."

"Well," Zhou Gongzi nodded, "Do these people have any..., abnormal movements?" ”

"It is said that on the night of his first arrival in Puzhou, he used force to drive people away and occupy a hill."

Zhou Gongzi smiled when he heard this, it is not bad that he can be so strong among refugees when he first arrives in a place.

It's a pity that I have to go out tomorrow, otherwise I will definitely visit now.

"Prepare 300 sets of cotton clothes, 5,000 catties, no, 10,000 catties of grain, and arrange for someone to send them tomorrow." Zhou Gongzi pondered for a while, and then instructed Si Cha.

"Yes." The icing on the cake is like charcoal in the snow, Si Cha understands this truth.

Si Cha was adopted by the Zhou family since he was a child, and grew up with Zhou Gongzi, who was like a brother and sister, and regarded the Zhou family as his own home.

In the past ten years, the salt merchants of Pu and Xie Erzhou were subject to the salt introduction, and there was a large amount of salt in their hands, but they could not sell it smoothly.

But the Zhou family has been able to take advantage of the situation in the past ten years, in addition to the nitrate making method of Old Man Zhou, the greater credit is due to Zhou Gongzi, who is Zen and strategic, and has made friends with many people of three religions and nine streams, and is willing to serve him.

These people are squiring and passing on all kinds of information in various places, and there are naturally many business opportunities.

For example, if it weren't for Zhou Gongzi's well-informed information and matchmaking for various salt merchants, I don't know how many would not be able to sell out, including Wang and Zhang, after all, this thing is different from salt and is not a necessity.

It is precisely by virtue of this merit that Zhou Gongzi was able to firmly occupy the position of chairman at a young age, and the Wang and Zhang families also had to obey.

Today's cause, he is fruitful, these things sent are nothing to the Zhou family, but they may be life-saving things for refugees, maybe they can help one day.

What Zhou Gongzi and Si Cha didn't know was that this afternoon, the one, two, and three people who drank tea with them were the people of the refugees he was talking about.

Right now, Zhiwen and Dr. Sun are in the room of an inn in Jiezhou, discussing the results of a day's investigation, and Xiaojie was sent by them to guard at the door.

"Xiaozhi, at the end of this day, you have also seen that we are all fresh faces, and it is difficult to buy things in Jiezhou! Alas..."Doctor Sun still had nothing to say, he believed that Zhiwen had understood what he meant.

If you continue to buy in the east and west of Puzhou, and fall into the eyes of people with hearts, it will not be good, after all, a little inquiry can know that the sweater is from them.

"It doesn't matter." Zhiwen is confident, he plans to take advantage of the night tonight, enter Yuncheng in the dark, perform the stunt of the great shift, load the manganese into the warehouse, if there is still salt, you might as well take some.

It's just to talk to Dr. Sun, but he can't explain it like this, "It's really not good, let's just stay on the road that must be passed, and wait for the foreign businessman to buy the manganese, and when he goes out to pass by, uh, spend money to buy it from them." ”

"You!" Doctor Sun pointed to Zhiwen, knowing what the "buying" in his words meant, forcibly buying, but it was just a matter of the livelihood of more than 2,000 people, and he hung his hand helplessly, "Don't hurt people's lives." ”