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As soon as the hour arrived, a dozen tightly covered grain boats sailed away from the riverbank, and under the bright moonlight, they rowed heavily through the river and gradually approached the north bank.

Colonel Nobavsky, who was involved in the famous "Grain Merchant's Gate" incident because of the seizure of grain merchant ships on the south bank of the Yellow River and the restriction of the personal freedom of some grain merchants, was not only recruited to Texas at the end of the "Grain Merchant's Gate" incident, but also received a bitter scolding from Lord Prayatin who came from the capital, and almost lost the black gauze hat on his head. I also want to go to General Zeng Tianyang, commander-in-chief of the Qingzhou garrison of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, on the other side of the Shu River, to express his deep apologies.

Nobavsky, who had lost face and lost his prestige, suddenly had an idea after drinking "big wine" for several days in a depressed state, and after a few "big-braided officials" with bright brains, he suddenly had an idea. Yes, Wuding Mansion is too poor, the army has been stationed here for more than a year, and the land has almost been scraped clean, and it seems that it has not really made much profit, since it can't stop the people-to-people exchanges between the two sides of the strait at the moment, why not ......

As a result, under the command of Nobanonski and the operation of the magistrate of Binzhou, a group of "serious grain merchants on the north shore" took over the business sent by the grain merchants on the south bank. From then on, there were no longer Russian soldiers patrolling along the coast, but the task of patrolling was handed over to the Binzhou regimental training, and the large-scale north-south grain trade once every three days no longer gave Nobanovsky a headache, but brought him rich rewards.

Dressed in a robe and horse coat and wearing a small watermelon skin hat, Lord Ha of Binzhou Zhixian County, stood at the ferry, his already thin and slender neck stretched out like a big goose. Seeing the grain boats gradually approaching on the river, he really felt like a long drought and spring rain.

Under his leadership, the grain trade had begun to get on track, and a large amount of grain arriving from the south bank passed through his hands, not staying locally, but pouring into Zhili. Since Jiangsu and Zhejiang have long become the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the "wine and grain" that can be met by the guò canal in the early years has long become history. In addition, the "donation movement" and "patriotic soldier recruitment movement" that began in the capital last year and gradually spread to various localities have led not only the peasants but also a large number of landlords to join the predicament of leaving their hometowns. The greater the shortage of food, the fewer people who grow it, and the land begins to be abandoned regardless of its quality or inferiority. Under such circumstances, it stands to reason that even if the food that sustains people's basic survival has become valuable, there is still a big shortage, let alone any rich food that can enter the brewery, right?

But the reality is so strange. Despite the scarcity of food, the wine business is getting thriving stronger. Of course, the price of wine is naturally high, taking the well-known Lao Baigan in Hengshui as an example, since the beginning of last year, the price of wine has been rising at least twice every month. According to the memories of many old people who lived through that era, at that time, the comment on who was poor and who was rich did not look at how much gold and silver treasure your family had, but who had more wine, because, in most days, even if you were rich, you might not be able to buy wine. Those who lived through that era remember, especially the people of Shanxi, that at the beginning of 1856, the once famous Xinghuacun winery had no wine. There is no wine restriction order issued by the imperial court, but in the territory of the Qing Dynasty, the only remaining winery is a "Hengshui Lao Baigan".

There used to be such a true joke among the people. There is a lonely man in Shenzhou, who has inherited the excellent wine-making skills of the ancestral industry, and the small pot brewed was once famous in Sili and Eight Villages, and he could barely survive. However, since last year, due to the shortage of food, like other small wineries, he has lost his job, and soon, he is so poor that he has nothing, from a small master of burning, and in an instant he has become a well-known poor man. In desperation, he also thought about joining the "Patriotic Soldier Mobilization Movement", at least he could mix a bite of food, right? It's a pity that the "uncompetitive old lady" just called him scabies again, and during the interview, the poor man's shirt had just been taken off, and he almost didn't scare the officer leading the army to death......

It was really a leak in the house, and it was raining even nowhere, and the only dilapidated old house in the family was destroyed in a heavy rain that followed. Die, die maybe you will be completely liberated, just when he feels cornered, only one death can get out of the sea of suffering, a miracle appears. At the base of a collapsed gable wall, the rain washed out a black pottery jar, which was inconspicuous, but when the poor man opened the wax seal, the poor man was almost happy to faint.

Wine, wafting with a strong and mellow aroma. Oh my God, it was a pot of home-brewed cooking pot buried by the dead dad in the ground, which weighed more than twenty pounds. How much did you buy for these twenty catties of burning pots? Nobody knows. It's just that the neighbors on the left and right know that the buyer of this jar pot is said to be a very dignified figure in the capital, and in order to welcome his son, this very dignified figure bought wine all the way to buy it here. After the negotiation, the poor man happily followed the wine buyer to the capital, and the neighbors swore that someone had seen this poor man in the capital who had become the son-in-law of the very prominent person.

It is said that Luoyang paper is expensive, and no one has ever seen the scene of Hengshui wine being expensive, right? In fact, it is not difficult to understand this kind of thing, the few wineries maintained in Hengshui have already become the "Baoyang wineries" of the Russian allies who came to selflessly assist the Qing government, because, from Puzhou to Wuding, after all, there were 60,000 "big wine vats" gathered at once.

Think about it, the current Hazhi County, from the south bank to get countless people want to wear the grain, and then, through the heavily armed Russian soldiers escorted to Hengshui, "processing" into fine wine, and then return to Shandong, what a wonderful business! Therefore, when the grain ship on the south coast that was supposed to dock last night actually missed the time, how could Hazhi County not be in a hurry? How can you not go into battle shirtless?

More than a dozen grain boats approached the shore one after another, scattered around, and the hundred and ten bare-handed practitioners who were greedily smoking the cigarettes that the grain merchants had given them four days earlier flocked to the shore, greeting the people on board one by one, lest they fall behind. They didn't come to patrol the defense, but to carry food.

"Oh, the hard work of the shopkeepers!" Hazhi County bowed his waist and clenched his fists, and accompanied him with a smile at the shopkeeper who was the first to jump ashore, "Shopkeeper Ma, you guys are not interesting enough this time, so the brothers waited for your drive last night, and almost jumped into the river." ”

This horse shopkeeper Hazhi County has known each other for a long time. The 50-year-old shopkeeper was a well-known grain merchant in Qingzhou, and he was the one who was detained by Nobanonski as a spy at the beginning.

"Hehe, the magistrates have come to greet me in person, my old horse is really honored, honored." The shopkeeper smiled and returned the salute, and squeezed his eyes at the young man who followed closely behind him, and then turned to Hazhi County, "I have been in a little ill in the past few days, and it is not easy to collect grain. Alas, it's difficult, no, the old man introduced me to the shopkeeper today, and you will have more contacts in the future, and the old man wants to rest. ”

"Rumors, absolutely rumors! The official personally came to pick up the grain today to supervise the grain merchants to stock up. Hazhi County gritted his teeth and stomped his feet and swore an oath, and then arched to the end at the shopkeeper Zhong who walked in front of him, "Shopkeeper Zhong, there are more than 100,000 people in Binzhou, and they will all rely on your great kindness in the future!" ”

Shopkeeper Zhong smiled, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, Lord Ha, then take the goods." ”

"Thank you, thank you!" Hazhixian nodded like a dog with a bone, but unfortunately when he straightened up, his face stiffened.

The rain cloth covering the grain was lifted, and what appeared in Hazhi County's eyes was not the grain he expected to be sacked into sack, but the soldiers who rushed ashore in Hulala.

Zhong Qiming tore off the melon skin hat with pigtails on his head, threw it away, and slammed his right leg towards Hazhi County's crotch almost at the same time.

"Oh......" Ha Zhixian only snorted halfway, his body was in a ball, rolled to the side, followed by a few convulsions, and slowly became stiff......

More than 300 officers and men of the special service battalion of the teaching brigade occupied the ferry in an instant.

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