In April of the seventeenth year of the emperor's reign, on the West Street where Shangshu Province is located in Daxing City, the peach blossoms on the roadside and in the courtyard are blooming brilliantly, and the fragrant fragrance of flowers is mixed with the aroma of mutton soup in the street snack shop, so that the tourists who come and go linger.

During the opening period of the Sui Dynasty, Shangshu Province was located in the west of the city, unlike Menxia Province and Zhongshu Province located in the imperial city, it was an independent office here, due to the large number of officials and officials who came to work here, the long loess road in front of the door was much wider than the roads elsewhere in the city, and there was no problem at all with six carriages in a row.

Wang Shichong (Wang Huaqiang) was in the driving department of the military department, boredly flipping through a roll of drawings in his hand, he was the only one in the wing room on duty, and more than a year had already drowned out the enthusiasm he was full of when he first arrived, and he went to work on time every day and went home at the same time, and this kind of two-point and one-line life became all in his life.

After Wang Shichong accepted the official position given by Gao Xi a year ago, he went to Daizhou before taking office, and after the death of his old friend Wang Xuan, Han Hong, the younger brother of another deceased old friend Han Baohu, became the governor of Daizhou.

Under the banner of marrying a princess for the Khan's headquarters, more than 400,000 people of the entire tribe marched south in the winter of the fifteenth year of the emperor's reign, crossed the desert, and finally succeeded in occupying the pastures of three small tribes outside the Saiwai because these small tribes had just migrated. The grass in the pasture was seriously insufficient, and the dyed dry tribe at that time was at its weakest, and could not even survive the harsh winter.

Relying on Wang Shichong's emergency purchase of more than one million stone of rice and a large amount of silk cloth, and the permission given by Gao Xi to temporarily open the border trade of Daizhou, Wang Shichong helped Dye Gan to overcome this difficulty, and the reward was more than 800,000 cattle and sheep and more than 10,000 war horses.

Wang Shichong slaughtered more than 200,000 head of cattle and sheep in a secret base north of Daizhou, made the meat into marinated meat strips, and shipped them to the mainland for sale, while the pancreas was made into soap in the base. Various flavors and fragrances have been added to the ingredients that have been prepared for a long time. Nearly one million pieces of soap of various fragrances were made and shipped to Daxing, Luoyang, and Yecheng in batches. Jiankang is sold in these metropolises. More than half of them went to Daxing. Another 100,000 pieces were transported to the Turkic Khan's court at the foot of Yin Mountain.

This business made Wang Shichong make a lot of money, and one million pieces of soap were distributed to various places. There was no panic price crash caused by a large number of listings, so they were sold for 18 to 200 yuan in the end, and this alone made about 180 million dollars.

And the 10,000 war horses, as well as more than 600,000 cattle and sheep, also made about 300 million or 400 million in the cattle market and horse market in the mainland.

Buying 1.2 million stone rice, as well as silk cloth, plus freight and labor costs, added up to a total of about 170 million yuan, although Wang Shichong kept saying that it was for the country to contribute for free, but this trip still earned more than 300 million yuan, and the profit of one trip was higher than the profit of two years, and it also allowed him to be happy, and he calmly handed over the business to An Suiyu, and he came to this military department as an official.

More than a year ago, Pei Shiju's tea business has also been on the right track, relying on more than ten branches that have been opened in Jiangnan, as well as the Yu family, Pei family and other tea farms under the name of Jiangnan clans introduced by Pei Shiju, Wang Shichong has developed a stable trade route.

Tea is not produced in the north, and tea from the south is trafficked to Guanzhong, which can often make two to three times the profit, and this business has also replaced the wine business of the year, becoming a stable economic growth point of the Wang family's industry, and even the 200,000 yuan that Pei Shiju invested in a year ago has risen to more than 700,000 yuan in less than two years.

Wang Shichong can finally stay at home with peace of mind for more than a year, and finally have some time to be more intimate with An Suiyu, four months ago, An Suiyu gave birth to an eldest son for her, and Wang Shichong named him Wang Xuanying.

Since Gao Xi arranged for Wang Shichong to change his current name, and compiled it into the genealogy of Wang Shiji, the main family of the Wang family, he has also become a member of the Guanlong Military Meritorious Group, and the corresponding Wang Shichong's seniority has also been improved by one notch, and even his younger brother Hua Wei has changed his name to Shiwei.

For more than a year, Wang Shiji has taken the initiative to show favor to Wang Shichong several times, and Wang Shichong has always cherished his brother's great hatred in his heart, and he also knows that Wang Shiji's smile hides a knife, just to be able to take revenge completely, he still needs to wait for the opportunity now, so on the surface, he has been pretending to be friendly to Wang Shiji, and he is acting every day, but the two parties are well aware of the inevitable future general reckoning, and they are looking for each other's flaws and preparing to issue a fatal blow.

In addition, Wang Shichong's old friend Mai Tiezhu finally found an official to do, and often patronized the old patron of Bliss Villa, Chengyang Gong Li Wei received Wang Shichong's money, and saw with his own eyes the ability of Mai Tiecane to run back and forth for thirty miles in an hour, and also saw Mai Tiecane show a set of iron rod kung fu in front of him, and broke a big pine tree hugged by one person into two, deeply admired the ability of Mai Tiecane, turned around and raised Yang Jian, and gave Mai Tiecane a position as a Lingzhou chariot general on Longxi Road, and Mai Tiecane won the official, happily went to Longxi to take up his post.

And this more than a year in the court, is not peaceful, Gao Xi and Yang Su the two gods of the confrontation is more and more open, a year ago when the Jin King Yang Guang returned to Beijing, Yang Jian and Queen Dugu specially went to the Jin Dynasty Mansion to feast the ministers, during the banquet Yang Jian boasted that the former Shangshu right servant shot, had been an envoy to the Turks, and served as the governor of Liangzhou Yu Qing has made a lot of great contributions to the country, and Yu Qing is also full of pride.

This Yu Dazhuguo is Gao Xi's close friend for many years, and he is also an important minister recommended by Gao Xi, although he is also a nobleman with military merits in Guanlong, but he has never dealt with Yang Su, Yang Su saw Yu Qingze's appearance was not pleasing to the eye, so he said coldly: "Those are mainly the emperor's Hongfu." ”

Yu Qing slapped his face in public like this, and his face couldn't hold back, so he immediately ridiculed each other: "When the Duke of Yue Guo destroyed Nan Chen, he was able to go down to Jiangling for thousands of miles, and he entrusted the emperor's Hongfu." ”

At that time, the two important ministers were the same as He Ruobi and Han Baohu when the emperor was ten years old, and they made trouble in front of Yang Jian, exposing each other's shortcomings, causing the imperial Shi Liang Bi who was driving at that time to impeach the two, and Yang Jian said that today is a feast, and there is no need to be so serious, which can be regarded as a round for the two.

And Yu Qing was unforgiving, and also told Yang Jian that the imperial history was on the side, for fear of being impeached after drinking, so Yang Jian gave Liang Bi a glass of wine and let him go out, but a good banquet broke up unhappily, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that Yang Su seemed to be scolding Yu Qingze, but in fact, the spearhead was aimed at the left servant who was Yu Qingze's political close friend.

After that incident, Yu Qing received an official position in Shangzhuguo and went home to live idlely, Yang Su seemed to have won, such as Yu Wenshu, Yu Zhongwen, Guo Yan, Zhang Heng and a group of Guan Long generals began to take the initiative to befriend Yang Su.

As for Yang Guang, the king of Jin, relying on his tears and family offensive when he returned to Beijing every year, he finally moved Queen Dugu and won himself an index to stay in Beijing, and he never had to go to the distant Yangzhou again.

Since last year, the number of civil and military ministers who have come to make friends and defected to His Royal Highness the King of Jin, who has always been known as a corporal of courtesy, has been increasing day by day, although there has been no contact between King Jin and Yang Su, but according to Wang Shichong's view, it is only a matter of time before these two come together to fight against Gao Xi and the prince's group.

Wang Shichong has been with Pei Shiju for more than a year, strictly abiding by neutrality, and has not been involved in the infighting of these important ministers, Su Xiaoci, the secretary of the Ministry of War, although he is a hardcore prince's party, but for more than a year, neither he nor Gao Xi has any intention of directly pulling himself to join the prince's group, and even this is the most deserted driving department in the Ministry of War, Su Xiaoci has not been here a few times, Wang Shichong only feels his life and enthusiasm, and he is consumed in this narrow room day by day. (To be continued......)