"Good guy, Xiao Qin, you really dare to say it!"

Before Qin Shouhua's voice fell, someone around him laughed, and the loud voice also scared the bold Qin Shouhua.

When he turned his head to look, his face was also surprised, and he only said, "I've seen Brother Liu!" ”

"You kid!"

The person who came was a thick Huai'an accent, tall and strong, with a dark face, and the Wufu shirt he was wearing was mentioned at the calf, looking at the twist, like a round black bear.

At this time, he strode forward and slammed Qin Shouhua on the shoulder...... When I used up my strength, I made a painful oops, and I grinned at the moment.

Qin Shouhua has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and the area around Xu Huai, although it is not as good as Cangzhou, Hebei, but it is also a place where martial arts are quite victorious, and people are brave and ruthless.

The one who beat him, surnamed Liu Mingyan, is a big salt merchant in Huai'an, and Qin Shouhua doesn't know each other, but there is a huge difference in their identities, and Qin Shouhua doesn't change to others as a companion, so he has kept his distance, but the more this is the case, the more Liu Yan appreciates him, and gradually, there is also a bit of a taste of waiting.

"It hurts, it hurts," Liu Yan shook his hand a few more times, he was short-tempered, but he wouldn't be angry with his own people, and after a few shakes, he turned his face and said to Qin Shouhua: "Xiao Qin, kung fu is getting better and better." ”

Qin Shouhua smiled bitterly: "What's the use of that? Anyway, you can take a few beatings. ”

Liu Yan sank his face and said, "I heard that you suffered something again today, and there is always a time when you can't get along with you, how about it, the river is dry and the sea is falling again, right?" ”

"Yes, I don't dare to run rampant without copper in my waist, isn't this just wandering around here?"

"I'll give you the silver, and you don't shirk it, a little silver, with my family assets, I probably don't care. However, I advise you not to stay in Yangzhou, there are still a few ways to go, I advise you to think about it. Or go to Nanjing to join the guards, I heard that the recruitment is very strict, of course, the salary is very generous. Or, there have been more and more southern officials going north recently, and Shandong from Linqing to Tai'an and Jining is not very peaceful, and it is better to be a dart master than to sell smuggled salt, so as to earn him a few sums first. ”

Qin Shouhua is not a reckless man, on the contrary, he is very fine. Listening to Liu Yan's words, he didn't talk about his own affairs first, but asked softly: "What's the matter, there is something wrong here in Yangzhou?" ”

"Alas, it's hard to put into words."

Liu Yan sighed is also a very rare thing, this time he sighed before speaking, and then said: "After all, it is a matter of our salt class, and it is a mess, so it is not good to talk to you deeply." Speaking of which, the rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband, but it is always unreasonable to ask for other people's net worth to help the country? My Liu family has been operating a salt farm for more than 100 years, and has always been honest with others, there is no way to deal with it, and there is no way to be generous to the bottom. In short, this time the fish is dead and the net is broken! ”

In the end, this Huai'an salt merchant was also hideous and vicious.

It was the first time Qin Shouhua saw him like this, so he immediately pulled aside and inquired carefully, and finally knew that the prince wanted to sort out the salt administration, take back all the salt farms of everyone, send officials and soldiers to take care of them, and return all the salt taxes to the state, and at the same time, there was also a plan to forcibly persuade donations.

As soon as the salt farm is harvested, the grain is stuck again, and the Jiangbei area is not as good as the sea trade silk weaving in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are more ways to get money, so it is really a dead way to live.

"Is the prince acting like this?" Qin Shouhua also looked regretful.

Although he sighed, but the recent news of the crown prince's military training in Qingjiang is also widely rumored, the soldiers' salaries are high, and the promotion opportunities are high, because the prince does not have many generals, and every new army may have a great opportunity.

And the method of training the army, although it sounds very terrifying, but Qin Shouhua is very confident in his own ability, and now when he is cornered, he also wanted to go over to join the army, but when Liu Yan said this, he also felt at a loss.

Behind him, there was a person who had worked as a salt merchant, and at this time he also shook his head, and only said: "Each family in the salt field has its own practice, and it is not necessarily profitable. People who are not experts only know that the salt workers are driven by dogs, and the more this happens, the less salt is produced, and the salt is not good, and it cannot be sold. And with so many large and small fields, how many troops should be sent to see it? This is really something that can only be thought of by a sour show, right? ”

"Don't worry about him." Liu Yan shook his head and said: "Anyway, we are tough this time, Yangzhou is going to have a big turmoil, you are all people with embarrassing identities, you were pardoned by that big official, I don't know how many people are unhappy." This time it's also against him, so you'd better hurry up. I said, "If you have a way to go, let's go quickly." ”

"I want to ask," Qin Shouhua said, "That Lord Chen, how dare you do it to him?" ”

"How dare you." Liu Yan shook his head: "It's not to rebel, it's specific, you don't have to ask." ”

At this time, he couldn't say any more, Liu Yan ordered the cangtou who followed behind him to take out a bag of silver, and wanted to give it to Qin Shouhua, but he didn't expect the other party to be killed, even if Liu Yan jumped like thunder, in the end, Qin Shouhua still shirked, took a few brothers, flashed a few times in the crowd, and disappeared.

"Brother Qin," ran to a secluded place, everyone gasped, and some people complained: "Liu Daguan has always been generous, we haven't received his relief, now like this, why don't you want his silver?" ”

"I used to be able to ask for it because I had secretly helped him." Qin Shouhua said peacefully: "Today, people saved our lives, so let's just take Brother Liu's money and leave, it's not very authentic, right?" ”

Only then did everyone present know in their hearts that Qin Shouhua was also a character with the same surname, and they all smiled at the moment: "I understand this time." However, there are guards around the big official, and Liu Daguan said that he won't make a big fuss, so I'm afraid there is no need for a few of our smuggler salt dealers to help, right? ”

"It's hard to talk about such things." Qin Shouhua's face was gloomy, several of them were highly skilled, this time they were arrested after losing wind in the city, and in the city, there was no way to kill the officials and escape, if they were outside, what would a few officials count?

At the moment, he just bent his hand and said: "If something big happens, it will not be good for Brother Liu, let's see, we are familiar with the ground, and if you can help, you can help, you don't need us, that's the best." ”

………… While several smugglers were worried, two scholars and officials had already arrived at the prince's residence in the camp built on a high hill.

After such a short period of time, the miscellaneous bureau has finally decorated the prince's residence like a little bit. The main hall of three bright and two dark, the north faces south, just overlooking the entire military camp, there are several heavy matching halls, other courtyards, also have their own usefulness, what mountains, stones, flowers and trees, but I didn't look at it at all.

This residence, in addition to being solemn, also has a slight adjustment in the comfortable surname, and other places are not like the palace of the crown prince, even ordinary salt merchants are far inferior.

Zhu Cihong is not without enjoyment, but at this moment, he also knows that he leads by example, and this Spartan style of simplicity will add a lot of points to himself.

As a king, sometimes there is no way to do what you want.

"Where is Chen Wozi?" Stepping on the uneven road, even Gong Dingxiao, who was worried about his belly, couldn't help but complain.

The road in front of the prince's palace is uneven, and the miscellaneous work bureau under the generalissimo's palace is in charge of everything, including road leveling, house repair, etc., of course, the most important thing is to replenish the military uniforms for the soldiers now, repair the equipment used for practice, and mend the shoes and pots. In the future, it will be to repair armor and weapons, and I will really care about everything except firearms. Because of the heavy responsibility, the number of people is increasing every day, and the blacksmiths, leathermen, and carpenters in the vicinity, as long as they have some skills, are generally collected. Speaking of manpower, it is very sufficient. However, Zhu Cihong did not send more people over on the grounds that the army needed more manpower, so he only had two or three kittens on his side, and he just repaired them slowly, so to this day, there are still unfinished places.

"Wozi," Zheng Yuanxun thought for a long time, and his brain hurt when he thought about it, so he remembered what Chen Zilong was doing: "I heard that he was searching for good seeds everywhere, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also allocated a sum of money to ask people to go to the territory of the Wa Kingdom, and all kinds of novel seeds were asked to be bought." By the way, there are also many people smoking in the south now, and His Royal Highness has already asked people to choose a sunny slope and start planting value. ”

"It's weird." Gong Dingxiao smiled and said: "Such a matter of urgency, what is Your Highness doing with it?" ”

"Hehe, I have followed His Highness for a longer time than my feet, as far as I can see, His Highness has nothing urgent in his hands, only what he has to do first or what he has to do later, anyway, you wait and see."

Gong Dingyu's confidence in Zhu Cihong is really not as good as Zheng Yuanxun's, and he impulsively followed, Nanjing is deep, but he is well-informed and really knows a lot of inside information, but when he arrives here, as soon as the momentum passes, he has been playing a small drum in his heart.

He was saved by Qian Qianyi, and there was enough involved. On the Nanjing side, now Shi Kefa, Zhang Shenyan and others have agreed to inspect the officials who have surrendered, and Ma Shiying and others in the Military Affairs Department do not seem to object.

The emperor's surname, he understands better, as long as the ministers propose, can the emperor disagree?

Now that the buttocks are not clean, and if you offend people again, is it really a birthday boy who hanged himself, is it a long life?

Zheng Yuanxun didn't have so many concerns, after the report, because he was a close minister who met every day, he could go in directly, and before he arrived at the dormitory, he saw that the lights were bright, so he knelt down at the front of the door, and said loudly: "Minister Zheng Yuanxun, knock on His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" ”

(To be continued)