There was a snapping sound on the stairs, Cui Guangzhi and Li Tu greeted the door, and saw a Ming military attache wearing a black gauze hat, a pan-necked narrow-sleeved robe, and soap boots walking in. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info The military attache's robe was tattooed with a bear pin on his chest, and he had a saber pinned to his waist, probably in his thirties, and it was Zhou Pingde, a thousand households of the Liuao Institute.

Zhou Pingde is not very old, but he has a pair of dark circles under his eyes and looks like he is overly drunk.

Cui Guangzhi and Li Tu bowed their hands and saluted Zhou Pingde. Zhou Pingde smiled and bowed back to Cui Guangzhi, but he didn't pay attention to Li Tu and sat on the main seat.

Cui Guangzhi pointed at Li Tu and said with a smile: "Ping Song, this virtuous nephew is Li Tu, the general shop of Xiao Xiangui, a merchant of Tongfan. Today, on behalf of Xiao Xiangui, the owner of the Zaixing, he came to talk with Pingsong. ”

Pingsong is the table word of Zhou Pingde. When Li Tu saw Cui Guangzhi introduce himself, he quickly stood up and said, "Li Tu of cloth clothes, I have seen thousands of households." ”

That Zhou Pingde looked at Li Tu and just nodded, which could be regarded as a return of the courtesy.

Seeing this, Li Tu secretly said in his heart that these thousands of households are so big.

The host and guest took their seats, and in the middle of the ring, Xiao Er sent wine and food. Zuixianlou is one of the restaurants in Zhangpu County, and the level is indeed okay: tiger skin meat, salted duck, Shih Tzu tongue, Panlong vegetables, spicy rabbit shreds, donkey meat is burned on a large table, and there are shark fin soup, steamed abalone and other expensive dishes, with good Jianchang Magu wine, Li Tu is drooling.

Li Tu asked Xiao Er to exit the room, stood up and poured wine for Cui Guangzhi and Qianhu. Li Tu toasted the two of them with a glass, and the three of them started their chopsticks and ate the food. After eating for a while, Li Tu stood up again and poured wine and toasted.

After thirty years of drinking, Li Tu began to get down to business. Putting down the chopsticks, he said eloquently: "It's not a secret that the Zaixing is trading in the sea area defended by Liuao Qianhu. According to the custom, we are going to pay filial piety to the officials of the thousand households. However, when Qianhu took office, Zaixing was in the Wa Kingdom, and he didn't have time to congratulate Qianhu officials! ”

He bowed to Zhou Pingde of the thousand households, and Li Tu said with a smile: "This time I came, I came to make up for the silver that should be honored to the officials of the thousand households!" ”

Zhou Pingde, who was a thousand households, didn't know what idea he had to fight, and when he heard Li Tu's words, he didn't like it.

Putting the chopsticks on the table, Zhou Pingde glanced at Li Tu with a pale face, and asked slowly: "So, not only do you trade privately, but you have also been giving the previous thousand households filial piety silver?" ”

Qianhu Zhou Pingde's sentence is a bit heavy.

He looked like he didn't eat oil and salt, and said to Li Tu that he had no interest in honoring him, but he questioned Zaixing's trade, and questioned Zaixing's filial piety to the previous thousand households, which meant that he was not only not interested in Zaixing's filial piety, but also to strictly investigate Zaixing's smuggling trade, and even to investigate the previous one's crime of accepting bribes.

Hearing this, Li Tu's face also changed, and he didn't know what Pingde meant this week. Li Tu muttered to himself in his heart: This person blocked the Zaixing in the open sea, and he has no interest in accepting bribes, could it be that the Zaixing really met a Qing official who did not enter the water?

Look at the appearance of this person with dark circles on his face, it doesn't look like it!

This thousand-household official has a big shelf.

Hearing Zhou Pingde's words, Cui Guangzhi coughed, and said: "Pingsong, it is also a common practice for this boat to respect the thousands of households on the ground, and it is also a common practice in the officialdom. Why should Hiramatsu have trouble with silver? ”

Listening to Cui Guangzhi's words, Pingde eased his face a little this week, and said slowly: "It turns out that there are still such rules in Zhangpu County!" ”

Li Tu glanced at Zhou Pingde, his heart was crossed, he took out a silver ticket of one thousand taels from his arms, and handed it to Zhou Pingde with the silver ticket.

"Qianhu official, this is a little bit of the heart of the owner Xiao Xiangui, it is not a respect, and I hope that the Qianhu official will accept it with a smile."

That Zhou Pingde saw Li Tu stand up and hand over the silver ticket, and glanced at the silver ticket with his eyes. When he saw the amount on the silver ticket, his face pulled down again.

Seeing that Zhou Pingde didn't accept the silver ticket, Li Tu simply put the silver ticket on the table and put it in front of Zhou Pingde.

That Zhou Pingde put the silver ticket there, and he didn't refuse or accept it, but he bowed to the north and said, "This little brother, do you know?" I am a military attache of the imperial court, and there is no reason to accept smuggled silver. Even if you put the silver ticket in my hand, there is no reason for the patrol ships patrolling everywhere to withdraw. ”

Cui Guangzhi was a direct person, and when he saw Zhou Pingde doing something, he hurriedly persuaded: "Pingsong, don't say these things, it's all conventional." Cui Guangzhi turned his head and asked Li Tu, "How much gold did you give to the previous Qianhu before?" ”

Li Tu replied honestly: "The convention is one thousand taels. ”

When Cui Guangzhi heard this, he said, "Since it is a common practice, you can accept it in Pingsong!" It's the same everywhere now, so why bother talking about those big truths? ”

Zhou Pingde looked at the silver ticket on the table, brushed the complement in front of him, and didn't speak.

Seeing Zhou Pingde's appearance, Li Tu turned his heart sideways and said lightly: "I don't dare to hide the officials of a thousand households." By June, even if the number of patrol boats sent by the Thousand Household Officials is doubled, we will sail to the Wa Kingdom. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Pingde's eyes widened, and he frowned and asked, "What are you going to do in the country without unloading and loading the ship?" ”

Li Tu smiled and said lightly: "Don't dare to hide the Qianhu official." Although our ships were blocked in various harbors, we had already managed to unload our cargo and deliver supplies. In another two and a half months, we will naturally have the means to load the goods. When the time comes, we will naturally go to the country to sell the goods. ”

When Zhou Pingde heard this, his face had already changed. He put away his grim face and asked nervously, "How did you unload the goods?" ”

Li Tu said with a smile: "Qianhu officials have just taken office, and I'm afraid they are not very familiar with the environment. Those soldiers under the Qianhu Officials, can the Qianhu Officials really manage it? Rather than letting the subordinates benefit, the Qianhu officials should be happy to get this silver ticket. ”

Li Tu bribed the soldiers of Qianhu to transport goods under the nose of the patrol boat, and those soldiers naturally did not make a noise when they got the benefits, and Zhou Pingde did not know the details. Hearing Li Tu's words, Zhou Pingde looked at Li Tu deadly, as if he wanted to see the truth of Li Tu's words. Looking at it, Zhou Pingde's face was cloudy, but his face changed several times.

Ren Zhou Pingde stared at himself, Li Tu just smiled faintly and did not speak.

Finally, Zhou Pingde was defeated and believed Li Tu's words. Raising his head, Zhou Pingde laughed. With a smile on his face, he didn't have any idle hands in his hands, and grabbed the silver ticket of one thousand taels and put it in his arms.

Seeing the appearance of Zhou Pingde of thousands of households, Li Tu secretly scolded a hypocrite.

The reason why Pingde put on a sanctimonious appearance this week was not because he was a clean official and gentleman, but because he thought that he had blocked the business of the Zaixing, so that the Zaixing could not enter Hong Kong and could not do business, so that the Zaixing could only come to him. The reason why he looked like he was thousands of miles away was that he wanted to sit on the ground and raise the price and slaughter Zaixing for a sum of silver.

This is a blackmail planned by Zhou Pingde!

However, what he didn't expect was that he had a good plan, but Li Tu had a wall ladder. His subordinates couldn't stop Li Tu at all, and Li Tu had already found a way to unload and load. He is making calculations here and creating trouble for the Zaixing, but he only cheapens others and benefits others.