Chapter 14: Covering up the Chen family
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At this moment, Chen Gang, the other protagonist in the 'no way' incident, is still completely ignorant of what happened in Lushan, full of sadness and sadness, wandering on the road back to Lushan in Kaifeng. didn't know that his mother-in-law in the Sun family's mansion in Lushan County was already full of empty bubbles.
Gao's face was gloomy, and from time to time he found opportunities to embarrass Liu, so that Liu's longed to become a turtle and hide in the hut and not come out. In his heart, the Gao family was very happy, this was an open and honest trouble with the Liu family, and he would not be protected by Chen Hui. Because Gao's temper is like this, she has lost a big face, and she has to honestly not find half of Liu's trouble and embarrassment, which will make Chen Hui, a husband who has been a companion for half his life, puzzled and even suspicious.
Gao's is absolutely refreshed now, his waist doesn't hurt and his legs are not sore, and in fantasy novels, this is called thinking comprehension, and he can find Liu's trouble openly and logically, and take revenge on this woman who left her countless scars when she was young, if she wasn't happy and couldn't show it, she would have sung happily.
"My stone has really grown up, and my brain is so smart, but I can let my mother breathe a good sigh of relief." Chen Gang was passed out many years ago, and he was pushed by Chen Hui Tiexin on the road to the imperial examination. Chen Gang is very valued by Chen Hui, the mother is more expensive than the son, and the Liu family has also become noble in the Chen family. Although the Gao family is in charge, he can't find trouble with the Liu family for no reason, so as not to hurt the harmony between the husband and wife with Chen Hui. For many years, she dreamed of finding an opportunity to punish the Liu family openly, even Chen Hui couldn't say anything.
Now that the wish that has been buried in the deepest part of my heart for many years has been realized, Gao's whole spiritual outlook is different.
After Chen Ming walked out of the door, he touched a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, this woman, this spiritual victory method, I really can't be underestimated. Chen Ming felt that the spirit of his cheap old lady was ten years younger.
In the next few days, Chen Ming honestly lived in the courtyard, and the family affairs were still going on step by step, if nothing else, thirty years ago in Qianlong, Chen Ming, who had lived for almost 27 years in his previous life, was going to be a groom for the first time in his life.
"Young master, don't you really go to the west of the city to see the young lady?" Liu Wu was holding a portrait in his hand, which Liu Wen bought from the matchmaker Wang Pozi for one or two pieces of silver, saying that it was a portrait of Li Xiaomei. Chen Ming only glanced at it, and asked Liu Wu to take it and burn it. This kind of picture, which has the effect of Tang Bohu's beauty, can see a ball.
"Look at what to see. No matter whether you are handsome or ugly, you have to marry. Isn't it good-looking, and I can still let my family quit this family? "It's already about to be set, how can you say that you can withdraw from the marriage? What's more, Chen Ming has always been a realist, and the Li family has a small reputation in Lushan, which can not only be used to suppress himself from taking cheap big brothers, but also to use it as a cover and ornament when he really wants to do something in the future. has these two major effects, and I have long recognized it in my heart.
Marry a wife and marry a virtuous person, and take a concubine. In this society where you can lead the junior into the door openly, as long as you have money and power, it is not easy to find a beautiful woman?
But the wife is different, not only in the wife's position in the family, but also in the power behind the wife. It's called the Wife Clan!
Although the status of the Chen family is very low, the energy of the wife family is also undoubtedly revealed, not to mention the Huang family in Tumenji, it is said that the cheap old lady is behind the high family, which is one of the most reliable guarantees for Chen Ming to inherit the family business.
In mid-September, the Lushan students who participated in the imperial examination this year returned home one after another. At the same time, Chen Erbao led the Chen family's combat troops to return to Lushan safely, just after the beginning of September, Chen Erbao took all his men and horses, and gathered more than 20 mountain men, hundreds of people were divided into two batches to escort five times more than the previous days of iron, iron out of Lushan County, this is the first shipment after the success of Chen's new blast furnace and hydraulic forging hammer. Chen Erbao's responsibility is not only to go through the original road, but also to 'go out' to the new domain and open up the territory!
The southbound team was only twenty people, with the help of the Gao family, and they also showed no 'harmful tendencies', and this time they crossed Nanyang Mansion without any damage.
But when Chen Erbao and his party nailed their target to the east, a lot happened on the road. The Chen family, as a local snake in Lushan County, cannot reach the big fat meat of Zhoujiakou by its own 'extension'. It would be fine if this was a legitimate transaction on the surface, but Chen Erbao and his people were engaged in the shady illegal salt and iron business, and it was very likely that they would eat knives if they were caught.
When they take the dark road, they naturally touch the interests of gray forces in various places. However, the amount of this little thing of the Chen family is still a little smaller, and it can't have an impact on the general trend, so Chen Erbao only encountered a little trouble along the way, injuring two people, but no one died.
"Uncle Erbao, this is just our first time going to the goods, and the family along the way can't touch our bottom yet. Fifty or sixty men who dare to fight and dare to fight are not something that anyone can eat. But in the future, we will walk on this road all year round, at least once a month. When the amount of iron ore and coal mining in the mountains increases, it may take half a month, ten days, or even less, and you will have to take a trip to the goods, but there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days. Can you find one or two extravagant characters on the road......"
The Chen family's secret business is not necessarily unknown at all, but there are too many people who do this kind of business in Ruzhou, a place where there is no shortage of coal and iron. The difference is only in the small quantity, with the foundation and ability of the Chen family, the current shipment volume has far exceeded the normal value. If this changes from once a month to once every ten days and half a month, or even three or four times a month, people will definitely be 'deeply curious' if they know about it.
The strength of the Chen family's official face is too poor to stop the big man in the state from reaching out, once it is exposed, it will be 'guilty', and the best outcome is also technical disclosure, but it is more likely to be the whole game.
Chen Ming knows the harm, but how to solve this hazard is not something he can explain. His shallow understanding of the surrounding forces and society was not enough for him to understand the dangers involved, and the idea had to be decided by Chen Hui and other elders.
Moreover, the eastern part of Henan is a plain terrain, after Lushan went out of Xiangxian County to the west, there is no longer a big mountain and old forest that has been formed, and the middle and lower reaches of the entire Shahe River are endless large plains, and it is absolutely not easy to cover up the traces of the Chen family. Chen Erbao can't be registered in Lushan, but there are many people who know him, and if he goes to Zhoujiakou twice, he will immediately be exposed.
Chen Ming felt that the Chen family should hide behind the scenes, not appear on the front line of iron trafficking, even if they gave up some of their interests.
Of course, Zhoujiakou can't give up, as long as the monthly volume of goods is controlled, others can't see the end. Relying on the original 'route' to open up the road to the east little by little. The same is to sell iron, but now the goods sold are not the inferior iron of Ruzhou in the past, but the high-quality good iron, even good steel. As long as the Chen family makes arrangements in Zhoujiakou, puts on a vest, and dissociates the shipment from themselves. In this era when transportation is not well developed, it should be possible to keep secrets, right? At least in the short term, you don't have to worry about someone seeing through it.
In this way, although the monthly volume of goods is unchanged, the income can be greatly increased.
And the rest of the goods are best placed in Xiangxian County, which has mountains and forests, to give up some of the benefits, and to completely cover up the figure of the Chen family.