"Congratulations to Mr. Cheng, you got two railway shares in one fell swoop!"

After the auction, Su Baiyi was not busy walking, because Cheng Kaikai quietly walked over, his face was strangely red, and a hanging sleeve floated around on his side, although he looked very respectful standing next to Su Baiyi, he couldn't hide the excitement in his heart.

Others thought that he had obtained a share of the railway at auction, but who would have thought that before that, he had already bought another share at a very low price of 500,000 taels.

After these days of explanation, he has a general understanding of the railway, and he thinks that spending more than one million taels to buy two shares is already very profitable. Because according to Su Baiyi, when the railway is running, there are more than 30 trains running at the same time on the double line, carrying people and goods, even if you can't earn 10,000 taels of silver a day, there are still 5,000.

If calculated in this way, the annual profit is also between 2 million taels and 3 million taels, and it has the right to pay dividends of 1 percent of the railway shares, not to mention more, there are still 20,000 or 30,000 taels of silver a year.

Don't underestimate the twenty or thirty thousand taels per share!

What is it?

Pure profit!

Pure to the point that you can't make a pure profit in the pure!

The family that owns the shares of the railway, the descendants do not have to make any effort at all, and they can earn tens of thousands of taels of silver a year by sleeping at home.

In this way, a share of railway shares will return to its original cost in more than 20 years at most, and it will take more than ten years if it is fast, but this is a family business that is not easy to come, as long as the Ming Dynasty does not fall, this profit will not fall.

Therefore, compared with the previous apprehension, Cheng Kaikai was extremely happy at this moment.

But today, Su Baiyi is destined not to be happy.

Because Cheng Kaikai ran over and told him the latest news.

A few years ago, there was news on the night when the Cheng family caravan went to Chengdu to return to his hometown, which was bad news.

After inquiring for so long, I finally understood what happened. It turned out that the caravan took Qingye all the way to Chengdu Mansion, and it was smooth at the beginning of the period, most of the bandits and bandits encountered along the way were dealt with with the Cheng family before, and those who should be filial to each other were also filial, Qingye was dressed in ordinary clothes along the way, and he disguised himself into a middle-aged ugly woman, and he walked too peacefully.

But after passing Huguang and not entering the boundary of Sichuan, the mutation is steep!

Due to the impact of continuous drought, the harvest in most areas of Shaanxi cannot be guaranteed from the second year of Chongzhen, and there are many displaced people. Some unbearable oppression or speculative people have risen one after another, and there are no less than 100 people who stand on their own hills, and where these people pass, tens of thousands of displaced people can be swept away in an instant, and Lingzhou Prefectures and counties are as easy as a finger, and the people in Shaanxi, Sichuan, and western Henan are constantly changing and chaotic!

Since Su Baiyi came to the Ming Dynasty, he has been living in the passable Guide Mansion, and since last winter, he has been passing by one after another, but the number of these refugees is small and concentrated, and there is no one to lead, so he is a real sense of the homeless. But he had never seen a real rebel leader.

Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, Li Zicheng, the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong, the piercing of the sky, and the demon king of the mixed world have only heard of these characters, Su Baiyi always feels that these guys are far away from him, very far away!

But in fact, the scope of activities of these peasant armies has gradually infiltrated Henan, approaching Guide Province.

Su Baiyi suddenly thought of what Guan Jin said when he came back from Ruzhou a few days ago: Originally, the coal was transported from Luoyang into Guide Mansion, and the price agreed was 30 yuan a stone, and he bought it several times at this price. But just a few days ago, the price of this coal suddenly went up!

It's not that the price of coal in the Luoyang area has risen.

Instead, people began to collect protection money halfway through!

The coal stone, which used to cost 30 yuan a stone, now costs 50 yuan to transport it to Guide Mansion.

Guan Jin said that in Zheng County (Zhengzhou), a group of rogues suddenly appeared, killing and robbing all kinds of evil, if it weren't for the fact that Guan Jin was transporting coal and stone, they were useless to them, it is estimated that the ship would have been looted long ago.

Now the ships transporting coal have not looted, but when they pass through Zheng County, each ship has to add dozens of taels of silver, which makes Su Baiyi quite annoyed but helpless!

"You mean, they were robbed by a gang of homeless bandits?" Su Baiyi's face was instantly difficult to look at,

At first, there was not much connection between him and the woman in the Qinglou, and the two of them were vain and wronged, wandering on the edge of morality and desire; But all of a sudden, he did it on a snowy night.

If it's a pure Fengyue field woman, it's just that.

But what made him overjoyed was that Qingye was in the mud and dusty, and she was still an innocent daughter!

It's more embarrassing for your sister.

Now that she has to get out of the cage, she has become a good woman, and Su Baiyi may have the position of a flat wife, that is his wife, and now his wife has encountered bandits on the way home.

It's more serious.

"It's not clear!" Cheng Kaikai suppressed the joy of buying railway shares in his heart, took a deep breath and said: "It's too far away, we don't go much on the line in Sichuan, and the specific situation is not clear, but the caravan has encountered bandits, and the follow-up situation is unknown." ”

Su Baiyi's face was even darker.

The news that can be captured from Cheng Kai's words is that the caravan has encountered bandits, and there has been no news since then. As for whether Qingye was killed by the bandits, escaped, lost his way, or was carried around by the homeless.

I don't know!

"What about the outcasts?" Su Baiyi frowned and asked, "Do you know whose deployment it is?" ”

No one knows the whereabouts of Qingye now, and the only ones who know are probably only those displaced people, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong or Gao Yingxiang, these famous giants in history, can Lao Tzu still deal with them?

"I don't know!"

Cheng Kaikai shook his head and said: "I sent people to ask about dozens of mountains in the west of Jingzhou Mansion, when those homeless people came, these mountain kings were afraid that they would not be able to protect themselves, and they all shrank up, so I don't know who those homeless people are." Speaking of this, he sighed and said: "It's all the villain's fault, the villain didn't take this layer into account, and Miss Yao was affected, if the adult is punished, the villain is willing to be punished!" ”

"Hello ......" Su Baiyi waved his hand: "You are not my deployment, it is convenient for Qingye to follow your team, you are not wrong, it's just bad luck." Although he was depressed, he was not in the habit of being angry with others.

said some words that were not salty or light, and Su Baiyi, who was full of sorrow, drove Cheng Kaikai away. After handing over the affairs of the riverside to Wang Zheng, he also rushed back with a sad face.

The green night must be saved!

Can?

What to do, how to save it?

Let Cheng Kai Kai continue to investigate? I'm afraid it's not realistic, it's been so long, Cheng Kaikai's relationship in the local area is limited, if you can find out it a long time ago, can you wait until now?

Let your disciples come over?

Not at all!

Su Baiyi shook his head: Not to mention that the mountains are high and the roads are far away, the time has been a long time, and although his disciples have grown a little more than the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, they are still scholars at the root. Moreover, the disciples are very young, and now let them travel thousands of miles, I am afraid that the effect will not be beyond Cheng Kai.

Besides, this is his own private matter, and before the green night, he was the dusty woman of the Spring Moon Building, and the disciples were not happy.

Sitting on the horse, he walked back leisurely, and the brocade guards followed all the way behind him. Su Baiyi's face turned pale, and he held the horsewhip a little stiffly, and a sense of powerlessness suddenly arose from his heart.

The second rank official, the governor of the railway, the auction is only one step away from success, in the eyes of everyone, he is the favorite of today's son, the upstart of the imperial court. But in the face of the fact that his woman is lost and has nowhere to look for this situation, he is still powerless.

Very, very powerless.

If only I could have the power to myself!

Su Baiyi shook his hand.

Suddenly, a glimmer of light flashed through my mind.

Speaking of strength, didn't the emperor already allow me to build the three guards of the railway? If the Three Guards Army and Horse are fully organized, although there are only a few thousand people, it is also a force to be reckoned with, isn't it?

Moreover, he has silver in his hands and generals under him, and it seems that he is a little short of being in charge of the army.

"Let Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde, and Mao Chenglu come to see me, immediately, immediately!" As soon as he got home, Su Baiyi sat in the living room of the third courtyard and his buttocks were not hot, so he asked He Shan to invite the three of them.

It's been almost two months since I came back from Shandong, and although these three guys have no worries with Su Baiyi, they also have nothing to do all day long, except for hanging out every day, they go to the kiln with Shidian's old miscellaneous hair. Suddenly hearing Su Baiyi's call today, Geng Zhongming's eyes were about to turn green.

Finally, is it time to reuse?

"I've seen an adult!"

The three of them came to the third courtyard of the Su family and saluted Su Baiyi in the living room.

Su Baiyi looked at it, nodded casually, and said, "Sit!" The left hand waved and did not get up, the right hand held the teapot, the hanging cup was like silk, and a clear line of water was poured into the teacup from the mouth of the pot, without any chaos.

"Drink tea!" Su Baiyi handed the teapot to Kong Youde, and the three of them thanked each other, and then carefully poured the tea.

"Two things!" Su Baiyi took a sip of tea and glanced at the three of them lightly.

The three of them all felt great pressure in front of Su Baiyi, and when they heard his orders, they involuntarily stood up and bowed.

Su Baiyi didn't refuse, and said lightly: "Kong Youde and Mao Chenglu!" ”

"The subordinates are here!"

"Yes!" Su Baiyi said: "This official has asked His Majesty to order the construction of three railway guards, with 2,000 people each, and first order the two of you to recruit railway guards around Guide Mansion!" ”

"Huh?" The eyes of the two lit up, and they were quite excited.

"Don't be too happy!" Su Baiyi said: "It's not easy for me to do this errand. He smiled and said: "There is a request, we need to recruit six thousand soldiers, all of them are young and strong men, remember one thing, the age must be between fifteen and twenty years old, I don't want it when it's older, and I don't want it when it's young." It's a little harsh, if there is not enough troops around, you can also radiate to the surroundings, the conditions, it's a little harsh, but we treat it well! ”

"Treatment?" Kong Youde wondered!

"Well, it's money!" Su Baiyi said: "Our railway is not short of money, each soldier has one tael of silver per month, no arrears of salary, and once selected, two taels of silver will be paid first!" ”