The general who defended the city was named Li Zheng, who had been with Zhang Shicheng for some years, and had been following him since he was still the head of a smuggler of salt. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Even if some of the brothers in the same group of him have become big officials, and among those with dim starlight, Li Zheng has no regrets, and from time to time he calls a few complaining brothers and buddies to drink and say something to defend Boss Zhang, this person is Zhang Shicheng's "hardcore fan".

Li Zheng knew that Su Zedong was doing something for Zhang Shicheng, and Lao Su also followed, so after letting his soldiers go, he insisted on pulling the two of them to a nearby restaurant for a few drinks.

As soon as the people sat down, the wine was placed on the table, and everyone first briefly exchanged a few words, and when the dish was served, they ate and drank together.

Waiting for the five flavors of the dish to pass, Li Zheng's conversation box opened, and he told the two that now the world knows that it was the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty who came to attack Gaoyou City, and claimed to have attacked with a million troops, so the people in the city were panicked.

In the city, it is becoming more and more difficult to not only sell ironware, open restaurants, and open clothing shops, but even the business of street vendors is very deserted, and now everyone wants to keep money and grain, but it is far from enough to meet the needs of the people in the city in terms of grain storage and production in Gaoyou City itself.

In addition, the work of land reclamation in the north of the city is difficult, and the blood has been spent for two months, and the results received are still very average, and there are no less than ten people who have been punished and beaten in place of Xiang Feng, and some of the weak ones died under the whip on the spot, but despite this, the effect is still very little!

People gradually lost patience with the agriculture of Gaoyou City, but the people who came to Gaoyou from outside to farm the land were able to stay and quickly replenish the people in the city who could afford to leave, and the consumption of this grain decreased instead of decreasing.

Moreover, now the rebel army is like bamboo shoots after spring, swarming, and the people who rebelled in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are better mixed with Zhang Shicheng, and the others have been suppressed, which directly leads to the fact that the people of Gaoyou City want to get help in the food-rich Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

Regarding the grain in Gaoyou City will be in short supply before and during the war, and there will be a shortage in the later period, Su Zedong, as a later generation, is absolutely expected, after all, no matter how stupid people are, they can understand the current situation recorded in the history books, and combined with the actual situation, people who are not fools know that they have to transport grain from outside!

Therefore, when Su Zedong learned about the current situation of Gaoyou City from Li Zheng's mouth, he nodded with a smile, saying that he would of course take into account food when he was doing business with He Zhen recently, although Huguang was not a major food province in the traditional sense, and was generally under the control of the Yuan Dynasty, but as long as he sold dog meat on the head of a sheep, he could still get some of it.

The silver mine is a natural introduction, Huguang Province is not without silver mines, but the location is steep and the number is small, not as large as the copper mines, although the excavation requires certain skills, but for the local perennial to sell copper ore for a living for the strong years, after giving enough silver two wages, it is not a big deal.

So don't look at the front and back of the wagons full of silver and copper, in fact this is the middle part of 70 percent of the whole carain, which is divided into copper ore and full of grain.

Although Su Zedong can use this grain to sit on the ground and raise the price at this critical time when there is a shortage of food, so that the grain can be tripled as a bulk product and some people will rob it, but businessmen should also be concerned about public welfare in addition to obtaining benefits, which is the principle that the big businessmen from ancient times have followed, not to mention that Su Zedong still wears the soul from the later generations to the end of the Yuan Dynasty, but he has great righteousness in his heart!

So this little money can still be made if it is gone, but this people's voice is terrifying, if it is gone, it is gone, so Su Zedong is worried that there is no way to sell it to the government at a parity price, and whether the price of the grain after the change of hands rises or not, it is not something he can control, at least he will not be this bad guy.

Knowing that Su Zedong intended to transfer the grain transported from Huguang Province to himself, Li Zheng laughed excitedly and threw himself into Su Zedong's arms, and said with tears in his eyes: "Brother Su, you are really a generous person of great benevolence and righteousness, and you are exactly the same as your father who does business in Dadu!" ”

Su Zedong was suspicious of this, and looked at Li Zhengshao who was fifty years old, and his weather-beaten face was full of old age, but in ancient times when transportation was inconvenient, people were all peasants who were stuck on the land, let alone at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, where the Han people had no status!

Therefore, although he knew that Li Zheng might have gotten rid of the constraints of the land and started business, it was still quite difficult to say that Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhongshu Province had met in the north and south, so he asked suspiciously: "Oh, you always know my father?" ”

Li Zheng nodded, and said that it was a long time ago, when the north-south trade of Juyitang was in the Ruyi Zhongtian period, and almost monopolized all the roads for transporting grain and private salt in the north and south.

Li Zheng learned from the mouths of the northerners that Su Xingdong and Su Dashan were famous, and his feat of opening a position to alleviate poverty and benefit the people was praised by the public.

In the end, Li Zheng also grabbed Su Zedong's hand tightly and said: "Dong Zhenguan, you must not know that Xiang Feng has no ability, he can't open wasteland and can't grow grain, and after being blamed many times by General Zhang Shixin, he actually pushed the responsibility to you!" Say it's because the iron tools you make are not good. ”

"In order to make his credible, this villain also soaked your well-made iron tools in water mixed with sour vinegar for seven days, and when they were rusty or dull, they took them to King Cheng's mansion to complain."

When Su Zedong heard the news, his eyes widened, and his nose went straight out and he asked urgently, "What about later?" Is King Cheng to blame? Did the villain's clumsy ploy succeed? ”

After Li Zheng drank a bowl of wine, he said with a smile: "Even Brother Su can be called a clumsy trick, how can King Cheng be easily fooled?" Moreover, everyone is a farmer, who doesn't know that this wasteland is about skills, and the tools used are almost on the line! But King Cheng doesn't want to be biased because Dongzhen officials are capable and collect the most taxes from you. ”

"So for the sake of fairness, I sent someone to the house to investigate. The person who received the person who went to investigate was Adjutant Liu Dongzhen of the house, and I heard that he took them to see the process of making ironware and introduced a new type of iron-making method, what is it called... The blast furnace makes iron, so it produces this good quality and relatively cheap iron. ”

After getting this result from the mouth of the investigators, Zhang Shicheng criticized Xiang Feng for nothing in front of his younger brother Zhang Shixin, knowing that Xiang Feng knelt in the hall like ashes, and was kicked to the ground by Zhang Shicheng, the matter was over.

Although he knew that Xiang Feng was taught a lesson by Zhang Shicheng, Su Zedong still had some opinions on Zhang's approach, as the saying goes, it depends on the owner to beat the dog, he is good, he beat the dog directly at the owner, and he has to lose his younger brother, if it is someone else or a minister, he will definitely have something in his heart.

However, thinking that Zhang Shicheng made his subordinates disobey orders, and all groups of party henchmen unanimously pointed the finger at their own people, he still lacked in dealing with people, at least in terms of dealing with his subordinates.

His younger brother may be over this matter, but Xiang Feng may not think so, he may have a grudge against Zhang Shicheng because of this, and now is the critical time to get rid of the pressure of the army, if this yarn suddenly rebels, the loss will naturally be great.

As a descendant, Su Zedong has the responsibility to avoid such a thing, so he decided to monitor Xiang Feng's every move throughout the process.

Although this may be scolded as a villain, after all, it violates the privacy of others, but in special times, special methods must be used to achieve things.

So as soon as he returned to the mansion, Su Zedong immediately asked Xiao Qi'er to go to the conference hall for ceremonies.

Su Zedong's trip to Huguang involved dealing with local ruffians and hooligans from all over the country, and He Zhen's attitude was not clear at that time, and he couldn't follow a large group of ghost soldiers with high martial arts, because they had their own tasks to do, and secondly, this trip was to negotiate as a businessman, so he brought a large group of burly men to go, which was definitely a little inappropriate.

simply didn't let the secretary follow him, just let the businessmen in the company who had dealt with He Zhen follow, of course, in order to prevent one in ten thousand accidents, Su Zhidong also arranged for someone in the church to follow him secretly.

But its purpose is not to help himself out of the siege, but to inform him of his death - Su Sanliang can't solve a problem that such anti-heaven martial arts can't solve, Su Zedong really can't think of anyone who can help solve the siege!

When Xiao Qi'er came to Su Zhidong, she first looked him up and down anxiously, for fear that he would be outnumbered and suffer, but after making sure that the master of Su Hall was intact, or asking how she was eating and whether she had gained weight, Xiao Qi'er's hanging heart was put down.

He replied with a smile: "Xiao Qi'er has not worried about food and clothing since she followed the master of the Su hall, she has learned a lot, her spirit is better, and her weight has also increased, but Xiao Qi'er also invited the hall master...... The manager pays more attention to the body, and drinking a lot of alcohol every day is not good for the spirit and body. ”

Su Zedong listened to Xiao Qi'er's tireless nagging, with a happy smile on his face, nodded again and again, and then said: "What Sister Xiaoqi said is very reasonable, I have drunk everything I should have drunk at present, and the people I should have met have also met, I will listen to Sister Xiaoqi's words, and I won't drink anymore!" ”

"By the way, when I returned to the city gate, I heard that Xiang Feng had been dishonest recently! He said bad things about Dongzhen Company in front of King Cheng, and then he stole chickens and rice, but is there such a thing? ”

Xiao Qi'er nodded with a smile and said, "Hall Master Su's ability is really not to be underestimated, this matter has been solved six days ago, I didn't expect that as soon as I arrived at the city gate, I actually received the news immediately!" Xiao Qi'er just wanted to talk about it, but since it was all settled, there was no need to mention it again. ”

"But what Xiao Qi'er wants to say now is that a man in the Qingzhu Gang who claims to be a vulture has come to you with a middle-aged man who is five big and three thick, saying that he has something important to discuss. When I told them that you weren't there, they said they would come back to see you. ”

Su Zedong knew that Chen Sanqiang would come to the door sooner or later, and as for the one next to him, it was estimated that Guan Sanye, who was beaten by Liu Zhenming.

This person, once he is rich and powerful, when he beats others to the point that his mother doesn't know him, he can't get compensation, not to mention, and it is possible to settle the matter by reversing the silver.

And as long as there is a request for a more powerful party, what if you are bullied, you still have to hold your breath, still hold your tail, and run to beg yourself.

Su Zedong is not very interested in the sense of honor brought to him by money and status and the feeling of trampling the wicked under his feet, but his goal is to change the history of China and leave his conscience to the world.

But the wicked have a chance to be punished, and it is not possible to grind their temperament, so Su Zedong plans to leave them aside, and deal with the "major affairs in the army" first.