Cui Tang, Li Tianyi and Rhodes, are all in Jiangnan?

"How did I not know?" Wu Qi blurted out such a sentence, and then realized how ridiculous his words were. http:

But to his surprise, Du Shiyi actually answered him: "Because someone invited the three of them to Jiangnan to promote the cotton fields, they were tempted for a while, so they naturally happily went south." It's just that, like you, they have seen the benefits of Shu tea, and they have also bought a lot of mountainous land in addition to the cotton fields and started planting tea trees. In the land of seven or eight states in the south of the Yangtze River, I bought tens of thousands of acres of land. ”

Tens of thousands of acres

When Wu Qi had previously moved his brain to move back to Wudi, he had already bought nearly 1,000 acres of land as a tea garden, and as for the rice fields and mulberry fields that Jiangnan people regarded as fundamental, he did not rashly get involved. After all, it is not necessarily known whether he will move over, and if he wants to go back, the tea plantation will be just that, and no matter how many fields he has, it will be difficult to manage. However, those three families bought so much land quietly, is this preparing to move the family over? Impossible, the foundation of the three families is deeply rooted in Shu, how can it be so easy......

"By the way, Cui Weng, the clansman who is a candidate in the capital, has just made up for Yuhang County Cheng, the Li family and the Luo family, and there are also two clansmen who have successively awarded the Fuyang County Master Book, and the Shan Yiīn Captain."

Although these official positions seem insignificant, at least half of the more than 1,000 states and counties in the world are in barren and remote places or often troubled places, and the three counties mentioned by Du Shiyi are ranked in terms of wealth, and they can be ranked in the top 100 or even the top 50 in the whole world, so even if it is just an auxiliary officer like the county lieutenant and the county governor, it is not easy to get it. Hearing that even Rhodes had obtained such benefits, Wu Qi felt irrepressible remorse for his avoidance of Wu Di for the first time.

The previous letters all said that the Wu family in Chengdu was quite stable, but if these news spread out in Du Shiyi's mouth, the Wu family would definitely be in trouble, how could he, the head of the family, not be the target of the public at that time?

"Du Shiyu is really ...... Good means. Finally holding back such a sentence, Wu Qi lowered his head and remained silent, waiting for the ensuing stimulation. However, after waiting for a while, he suddenly felt a warmth behind him, and when he looked up, he saw that Du Shiyi had already turned around and entered the door. Before the thick carpet curtain fell, he heard something incredulous.

"As I just said, you have never committed a crime, nor have you ever killed people and goods, so I will not do anything to you. But if you don't want to hide and sneak around like this anymore, you might as well come to me when you think clearly. ”

Seeing Du Shiyi come in with a smile, Pei Ning, who had just been talking to Yuan Sheng with great interest, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. Being able to take charge of the regular academic affairs in Songshan Thatched Cottage, Pei Ning is naturally not a person who is not good at sociability, but he is just idle for people who are unwilling to deal with him, he never pretends to sè, since Du Shiyi hinted that he was polite to Yuan Sheng, he was erudite and talented, and he naturally tried his best to say what Yuan Sheng liked to hear. From the heyday of the Runan Yuan clan in the late Han Dynasty to the depression and even its demise, when it comes to the family history of the Yuan clan in Jiangzuo, the comparison of the rise and fall of the two Yuan clans makes Yuan Sheng happy in every word.

"It seems that Du Shiyu met his old acquaintance in a foreign country, this is a very happy conversation?"

Yuan Sheng asked with a smile, and after seeing that Du Shiyi really nodded, he laughed and talked about all kinds of interesting things in Weiguanshu, and he fell into this relaxed chatter again, and he didn't notice for a while, and when Wu Qi came back, he couldn't tell whether he was happy or depressed. When he was full of wine and food, he suddenly became a little sleepy, and after yawning, he said apologetically: "People are old, and the gods are insufficient, so the old man will go back to take a nap first.

Du Shiyi and Pei Ning came all the way, but they did not go to see Zhang Jian's family head as Wang Rong mentioned before. First, Zhang Jian had never mentioned this before, it should be that the clan was not very optimistic about it, and it was not very helpful, he didn't want to spend precious things on such unimportant people, and secondly, there was news from Jiangnan, although the cotton planting in the previous year almost met expectations, but the yield and quality were not too optimistic, so Wang Rong had rushed over first.

Although the matter was proposed by him, Wang Rong had earlier sent people to invite more than ten old farmers with more than ten years of experience in planting kapok from the cotton-producing fields in the Western Regions.

In Huainan Road before, he and Pei Ning had already seen several assassins, among whom were young and strong, and there were also those who were more old than Yuan Sheng, but without exception, they needed to be exhausted when dealing with each other, so when they first arrived in Suzhou this time, they thought that Yuan Sheng, who was a lot of age, must be difficult, who knew that the other party was like an old man next door, and even invited an old acquaintance like Wu Qi to accompany him. When he came out of the Suzhou Assassin History Bureau, Du Shiyi had to mention the past to Pei Ning, and when he talked about Wu Qi, he saw the third senior brother raise his eyebrows

"You are an official, he is a citizen, most of the past grievances came from Fan Chengming, since you don't plan to repay him, do you plan to borrow him?"

"In the land of Wuzhong, although the Wu family is not as good as before, and there are no eunuchs, it is better than the crowd. You have also seen that out of Shuzhong, the scale of tea planting is very small, if so, what is the need to set up tea introduction divisions in various places? In addition to using tea merchant acquisitions to stimulate large local households with many acres of land, someone also needs to promote it. For example, Wu Qi, a person from Shu who knows the benefits of tea, is the most haode promoter. ”

Speaking of this, Du Shiyi suddenly asked: "The place that Xiangyang Pei's family mentioned to the third senior brother, do you want me to accompany the third senior brother to you?" ”

"Although they have the same surname, their blood relationship is long gone, and they are strangers who have never been in touch, so it's good for me to go in person, but it's not beautiful for you to go." Pei Ning showed a shallow smile, and finally sighed lightly, "I asked my clan brother for help before, so that I could come to Jiangnan with you as a deputy envoy, but I didn't expect that someone from my Pei family would really abandon literature and engage in business, and what they did was silk brocade, and it was only in the past two years that they made tea."

Pei Ning wanted to go alone, but Du Shiyi didn't insist after thinking about it. After the two were temporarily separated, he went back to the guest house first, called Chen Baoer and Lu Cong, and said with a smile that he would take a look around Suzhou City. For this city of water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the latter two are the first time to come, and after entering the city, they find that the waterways are full of black canopy boats, all of which are very curious. At this time, there is leisure to enjoy the scenery of the water city, and neither of the two will refuse. So they went out of the alley where the guest house was located, and the group and the entourage only chartered two canopy boats that shuttled through the city, and the rest of the people led the horses around by land.

The captain at the helm is a rapper, shuttling through the city along the twists and turns of the waterway, while rocking the oar, while smiling and saying: "This Suzhou city has eight doors on land and water, a total of more than 60 squares, in this place in the south of the Yangtze River is one of the best cities The guests are here for the first time, don't look at my boat, in fact, it is very stable."

As if to confirm his words, he stomped hard, and the whole ship shook even more. Except for Du Shiyi, who has many experiences in small boats, Chen Baoer was so frightened that he climbed the side of the boat with his hands, as if he was afraid that he would fall into the water carelessly, and Lu Cong was even more unbearable, his face was pale, and he covered his mouth stiffly, as if he would vomit out the next moment. This kind of small boat is completely different from the large passenger boats on the big rivers, the water seems to be only two or three inches from the upper edge of the ship's side, and the danger of falling into the water seems to be close at hand.

The old man was amused by the gaffe of the two guests, but he stopped making a fool of himself, and the boat gradually returned to stability, but swayed slightly from side to side with the rocking oar. When the boat passed by an extremely wide pier in the backyard, Du Shiyi couldn't help but ask curiously: "Is this the dock my own?" ”

"Yes, don't the big families in the north have spacious stables with a hundred and ten horses? In our Suzhou Water City, most of the large households have such a wharf, and even have a small dock, especially the merchants...... This Lang Jun, you see, is the famous Pei's tea shop in Suzhou City.

Just now Pei Ning mentioned his same surname, and at this moment he came to the dock behind someone else's tea shop, and Du Shiyi had to take a few more looks. Seeing that the dock was wide and sturdy, and in the small dock on the side, there were faintly visible four or five boats, and they were stronger and more spacious than the canopy boat under him, which was obviously specially designed for transporting goods, he nodded slightly, but only heard Chen Bao'er suddenly shouting behind him: "Master Du, there is a ship coming in front of you."

Suzhou's urban waterways are not too wide, and it is already reluctant for two boats to go back and forth in parallel, and if some boats are too wide, they will even get stuck with each other. When Chen Baoer shouted, the old man at the back had already seen it, he was a veteran of the waterway, and at a glance he knew that these two boats would meet head-on, and they would inevitably be tightly blocked, and the other boat behind him would not be able to pass, so he immediately shook the oars to the dock next to him, and greeted him without looking back, and the boat behind naturally followed him.

Only two boats had to be squeezed in side by side, but it was not so easy, and for a while, the boat shook so that Chen Bao'er and Lu Cong felt uncomfortable in their chests, and they almost vomited immediately.

The oncoming boat also knew what was wrong, and when he saw that someone was making way for him, the young captain who rocked the rudder came over, he shouted loudly: "Uncle Zhang, I am in a hurry to deliver wine, and I will thank you when I come back." ”

When the boat passed, the old man was about to rock the boat out, and the back door of the tea shop suddenly opened, and a slender middle-aged man appeared, and when he saw this scene, he raised his eyebrows, and then glanced at everyone. He bowed his head slightly and said with a smile: "You should not disturb the boat by taking this opportunity to avoid the ship. But the tea shop is about to be loaded on the ship at this time, so please make a space. ”

The old captain smiled and sang a big song, and immediately rocked the boat out, and waited until the boat behind him followed out of the dock, Du Shiyi saw a person carrying boxes out of the back door of the tea shop and was busy loading the ship, he couldn't help but stare thoughtfully for a while, and then asked the old man: "Does the old man know this person?" ”

"Why don't you know? In the land of Wu County, the surnames of Zhu, Zhang, Gu and Lu are the most prominent. Now the Zhu family is not good, but the Gu family has still had the prime minister, that is Gu Sanlang, who has always been polite and polite, and Suzhou City is also famous, in the end, he is a big family, good manners, good upbringing, he is Pei Shilang's brother-in-law, so far it should just be a casual look. ”

"Then how was the business of this Pei's tea shop just now?"

"It is said that that thing is drunk to prolong life, but it is not cheap, I have not tasted it, but I have heard others say that it quenches thirst and has an endless aftertaste. I don't know if the business is good or not, but I have seen a few big cars pull money out before. This Pei Shilang started as a silk machine, and later made silk brocade, from moving out to a well-off family to the current Wanguan family business, I heard that the land bought is not less than 10,000 acres, but when there is no money, I think I have money, I really have money, but the family may not be peaceful......"

As soon as the old man's voice fell, he only heard another shout not far behind him: "San Langjun, it's not good, Pei Xiaolangjun accidentally fell into the pond at home"