Su You didn't expect that Lu Zhongsu had already arrived behind him at some point, and he didn't expect him to relieve himself, so he hurriedly stood up and turned around and said, "Senior, I was about to discuss something with you." ”

Lu Zhongsu was noncommittal, and asked with a smile, "Are you full?" ”

Su You looked at his smile and heard him ask about this, his heart suddenly sank, but he still nodded stubbornly; But in my heart, I thought helplessly, "That's it, is this going to drive us away?" ”

How do you know that Lu Zhongsu patted Su You's shoulder and said in a deep voice, "It just so happens that I also have something to do with you, since everyone is full, why don't you chat while drinking tea?" ”

Su You nodded blankly, and the two walked back to Lu Zhongsu's captain's room.

After the guest sat down, Lu Zhongsu spoke first, "After listening to Mr.'s ideals, I yearn for them, and I can also hear Mr.'s intention to recruit me, but I can't let go of this fleet after all, and I feel that I am getting old, and I am more and more afraid of those unknown mysteries, but my son Lu Sheng is different, he is full of curiosity about everything."

Su You nodded, and said, "Curiosity is good, it is precisely because human beings have curiosity about mysterious things that human beings can develop and progress, and eventually become the master of this world." ”

"Maybe you're right, I can also see that you are a man with a heart for the world, so I plan to entrust my son to you, and I hope that he can restore the prestige of the family because of you." Lu Zhongsu smiled miserably and carefully chose his words.

"What? What's going on? Su You was shocked at the time, and then recalled his attitude towards himself last night, and the relief he felt when he heard that he was leaving when they met this morning.

It doesn't seem like the result of a night of thinking about it, does it?

Could it be my own nonsense at breakfast just now?

"Father, I will not leave you." Su You was about to pretend to be reluctant to agree, but he heard Lu Sheng's voice coming from the hatch.

Su You was a little embarrassed, and he didn't know whether to persuade Lu Sheng to listen to his father's words, or to persuade Lu Zhongsu, his father, not to take it lightly to decide the child's future

Lu Zhongsu obviously didn't expect his son to eavesdrop at the door, he glanced at Su You embarrassedly, or immediately picked up his father's shelf and shouted, "Shut up, do you dare to listen to your father's words?" ”

Lu Sheng said in a trembling voice, "I will listen to you any time, but this time I will not leave what you say." ”

What's going on? Su You was stunned for a moment, and finally proceeded from his own interests, and said insincerely, "Brother Lu, being a father must be for your own good, although I am not sure what I can bring you, but I can guarantee that I will never treat you badly." Or would you think about it again? ”

Lu Sheng shook his head and said with a crying voice, "I don't doubt that I may have a chance to be successful after mixing with my husband, but what is the use of having a good future, I'm afraid that in a few days, I am afraid that it will be difficult to see my father again."

"Shut up." Lu Zhongsu slapped the table and interrupted Lu Sheng's words at the right time.

Su You looked at the wide-eyed father and son, and thought unconsciously that they had encountered some difficulties, and then the father vowed to drive his son away in order not to implicate his son, but the son was afraid that his father would be in danger, so he vowed to follow his father

It's horrible!

The room was quiet for a while, Su You couldn't stand the oppressive atmosphere, and asked with a forced smile, "I don't know what difficulties your father and son encountered, if Su You is fortunate enough to help you, then Su You can also repay you a little bit of your kindness; If you insist on treating me as an outsider, then it is inconvenient for me to interfere in the unspeakable secrets of your father and son. ”

Lu Zhongsu was speechless for a while, and thought depressedly, "I really didn't treat you as an outsider, but you are an outsider at all, right?" ”

Lu Sheng looked at his father, but said to Su You, "I really didn't treat you as an outsider, but you are afraid that you don't have the ability to take care of our affairs, wouldn't it be boring to say it?" But when my father told me to leave with you, I stopped there. ”

Lu Zhongsu listened to his son's previous words, and when he understood the matter, but when he heard the back, his brows inevitably screwed into one place.

Su You is not the kind of master in fantasy novels who will gouge out your eyeballs if you stare at me, and if you scold me, I will destroy you, and he has already passed the age of blood surge, but listening to Lu Sheng say so unscrupulously that he can't do it, his mood is still a little annoyed, especially when he thinks of his refuting his statement about the Maritime Silk Road just now.

Although, maybe Lu Sheng is right.

Su You's ruffian anger came up, and he immediately slapped the sword on his waist on the coffee table, and then looked at Lu Sheng and said in a deep voice, "I can't hide it, this is the sword of the Son of Heaven given by the Holy Lord today, Brother Lu, please tell me, your affairs can not be managed by this sword?" ”

"This" Lu Sheng was first startled by Su You's sword slapping, and then stunned by Su You's words.

If this thing is just a joke, it will be a big rebellion to make people listen to it, but does Su You look like a joke?

"He's a member of the imperial court, and he seems to be a member of the Inner Shishe?" Lu Zhongsu shook his head helplessly and asked Su You suspiciously.

Su You also shook his head and replied with a wry smile, "The Inner Shi She was an official position before the Northern Tour, and I am now the Imperial Historian and the Southeast Economic Envoy." ”

"Doctor Goshi?" Lu Sheng looked at Su You with a high mountain on his back, he couldn't have imagined that Su You would climb to such a high position at a young age, he was a little envious, but even more still a little suspicious, "What about your honor guard?" ”

Honor guard?

Speaking of the guard of honor, Su You was suddenly depressed, if he traveled with the guard of honor, why did he fall to this?

In the past, with Yang Guang covering, Su You didn't have to think about all kinds of travel problems whether he was in the capital or on the way to the north, and he didn't expect to encounter so many troubles on this first business trip.

If you want to blame it, you can blame Lai Hu'er, the old man, for not explaining it to Su You in advance, so Su You doesn't quite understand the rules of Jingguan travel; It stands to reason that when the exiled Beijing officials first took up their posts in other places, they didn't rush to the destination with their own people.

How to get there?

Under normal circumstances, the officials follow the local people who do business in Beijing to the locality; For businessmen, they can change the merchant ship to an official ship, so that they can evade taxes all the way, and the official can also save a sum of travel expenses, which can be described as a win-win cooperation.

Su You listened to Lu Sheng's question, and he didn't know if he doubted the authenticity of his official position, or if he wanted to use his official authority because of this; In any case, this is an embarrassing question, and there is also an embarrassing answer.

"To tell you the truth, I am on a private visit to Weifu this time, and there will definitely be a guard of honor, but now is not the time to play a guard of honor." Su You nodded, said this depressedly, and finally remembered that this was not the point, so he continued to ask, "You haven't said anything yet, what difficulties have you encountered?" ”

Lu Sheng looked at Lu Zhongsu and stopped talking.

Lu Zhongsu was silent for a while, and finally spoke, "To be honest, our destination this time is not Yangzhou, but Pengcheng. We're here to fight people."

Of course, Su You understands the meaning of "rush", specifically it is the way two gangs of lawbreakers fight and ask for people's lives.

"The question is, what are your conflicts of interest?" Su You was a little incredulous, and then asked sharply.

Lu Zhongsu let out a long sigh and said faintly, "This matter is a long story. ”

"Let's make a long story short." Su You nodded.

Lu Zhongsu nodded, but still said from the beginning regardless of it, "After the canal is built, it has become a place for several gates to play games, and it is no exaggeration to say that the boats walking on the canal during the day, except for the official ships, the rest of the ships basically only come from the two major ship lines. These two shipping companies each have thousands of ships, monopolizing the private transportation of the Tongji Canal, and all the merchants must find them to transport goods, bearing high freight costs, if they dare to find other private ships to transport goods, once discovered by the two shipping companies, they will often suffer the bad luck of shipwrecked cargo collection. ”

Su You had a half-understanding of when Caoyun was monopolized, but how could he think of it so strictly? At this time, there was a flash of inspiration, and he asked in a deep voice, "Let me guess, one of them must be the Zhang family, right?" ”

Lu Zhongsu nodded, and said angrily, "It seems that the imperial court still has some understanding of the current situation of the canal, but why not take action to rectify it?" Could it be that these big gates are controlling the government? ”

"Your Majesty's original intention of repairing this canal was originally to communicate the north and the south and facilitate business travel, but I can't imagine that someone will take advantage of it to make huge profits!" Su You's face also changed, and then motioned for Lu Zhongsu to continue.

"Despite the domineering nature of the two shipping lines, there are small fleets that take the risk of carrying goods for short distances. Before the autumn harvest this year, a small trader approached me to avoid the high fees of the two shipping companies, and asked me to transport 10 ships of oil to Yangzhou."

"Ten ships of oil? This is not a small trader anymore. Su You frowned, it seems that his pattern is still a little small, and the ten ships of oil in people's mouths are all small traders

"That was before our ship was refitted, and there wasn't much fuel for those ten ships." Lu Zhongsu responded depressedly, and continued, "Although there are many rivers in the Central Plains, the transportation of goods must go through the canal, once caught by the government, you will have to go to jail and eat lawsuits, and last year's drought has not been completely restored, except for the canal, other small rivers are not able to sail." ”

Su You didn't know about these situations, and speaking of which, this was the first time he had sailed in the canal by boat.

"We have never walked such a long route from Kaifeng to Yangzhou before, and we have abided by the habit of sailing like a thief day and night, but when we arrived in Pengcheng County, something still happened."

"What's wrong?"

"You know, we were stopped, one of the two big ships."

"The result?"

"The result of our fleet was no exception, the ships were all scuttled, and all our men jumped into the water and fled when they saw the opportunity; The trader lost his goods and drowned in the canal because he couldn't swim. ”

Su You was dumbfounded when he heard this, and then shouted angrily, "Is there any reason for this? Is there still a royal law for this? ”