Chapter 46: The Prison Disaster

Before the holiday, he received a letter from Liu Qing and Ma Yuan, Liu Qing talked a lot about his work, various things about building a city and building roads, and preparations for next year, and finally mentioned the matter of being a matchmaker, he said that he had gone to the domestic city to find Ma Yuan, and Ma Yuan was also interested. The letter from the pen and the court www.biquge.info Ma Yuan did not mention anything about this matter, but only talked about the fact that Wofu was just a tribe, and they sent people over, released a few clouds and thunders, and they all surrendered without fighting, perhaps thinking that the gods had descended to earth. Now Ma Yuan has controlled these territories, although it is snowing heavily, those new Han people are finally back to being masters, and their enthusiasm is super high, and they have completed all the work beyond the standard. The sinicization here will be completed in less than 10 years.,The key is to keep up with the school education in the future.。

Jiang Hexing said to Fan Jiao next to him: "Ma Yuan is no problem here, what does your sister say?" ”

"My sister must be willing, now I feel like something is going on at home, otherwise I wouldn't have been heard from all the time?"

"Yes, if there is no news for so long, it seems that there is something abnormal, in this case, I will not come forward, I will tell Ma Yuan directly, this is his own business, it is better to solve it by himself. He has a brother-in-law in the court, and he will find a way. ”

Hearing Jiang Hexing say this, Fan Jiao's slightly melancholy face stretched a little. Finally, Jiang Hexing asked, "Seeing that the holiday is approaching, do you have any plans?" At that time, after selling the grain, your father took his family back to Chang'an, did he still treat me as a thief? ”

Fan Jiao smiled: "When my father left, he said that he wanted to bring all the funds back before the heavy snow came, and do another big business." It's definitely not that you don't have any distrust in Hewang, if you don't trust it, can you still do business back and forth a few times? However, he has made too much money these few times, is there someone who has paid attention to our family again? ”

"Hewang, I don't have anything to do on vacation, my family also bought a house here, I can take care of myself. I want to take the opportunity to learn the things in the school here, I heard that they are different from those in the Han region, and some of them are textbooks written by He Wang, and I want to study hard. ”

Jiang Hexing said: "Even though I wrote it, it was only something I learned before. It's always good to learn more while you're free. ”

The holiday begins, and the river travels back home, and you live a relaxed life for a few days. Xianwu City seems to be more lively, now here on the New Year's goods street, not only the things are sufficient, the variety is unbelievable, Chang'an's Luoyang, Liaodong, Liaoxi, what variety, everything. The silk of Chang'an, the pickles of Luoyang, the fresh river from Jilin City, the newly ground tofu from Xianwu City, the new ready-to-wear made by the garment workshop, the new deerskin boots, the new mink coat and the sheepskin coat, etc. People who go shopping here and there to see, one by one, they feel that they have bought a little too much until they can't move their hands.

There are plenty of supplies, and there is nothing to worry about. Even Qingzhou and other newcomers have brought rice, flour, oil and salt to them to welcome them for the Chinese New Year. People spent the New Year happily, eating white and fat one by one.

A few more months passed, and spring returned to the land, and the frozen rivers once again brought the goods, grain, and gossip of Xianwu to various places on sailboats. Among the many ships, there were several inconspicuous sailing ships that quietly came to Phoenix Island with Zhang Meng and his team of merchant ships.

In order to keep it secret, Chen Gang arranged Zhang Meng to live on a smaller island east of Phoenix Island, Niu Island. Zhao Qingyang's canvas factory opened on Phoenix Island, why didn't she expect that there were so many businessmen on this desert island, although it was not prosperous, it was not difficult to buy anything, and it happened that many military dependents were arranged in the canvas factory. It took many days for her to discover the secret of the island, which was actually the place where salt was produced, and the snow-white salt she usually ate was here.

According to Chen Gang's wife, she didn't like it when she first came, but now she doesn't want to leave again, there will be no more ice and snow, and it turns out that this is heaven when she hears her.

Zhao Qingyang and Zhang Meng have started a new life here, Zhang Kai is also very happy, although they are brothers, he doesn't ask much about Zhang Meng's affairs in order to avoid suspicion. It's just that the brothers have also married and become brothers-in-law with Jiang Hexing, although they didn't attend the wedding, they still don't have any dissatisfaction in their hearts.

When Zhang Kai was happy, Liu Qing was busy with his feet not touching the ground, and the newcomers were basically sent to the line from Yaowu to Changchun, dividing the cultivated land, preparing seeds, and repairing the road. Fortunately, many merchants from Luoyang, Chang'an, came, and a large number of farm tools were sold from Xianwu to Changchun. These merchants also brought a large number of people to open up the wasteland, because they were not from Pingzhou, they could only open up the wasteland downstream along the big river in Jilin City, but after all, they were not very far, and many things had to be coordinated by him.

Jiang Hexing is also busy with various things, several places have to develop greatly, the transportation of various materials, and the negotiation of various things, and they are also busy. Fortunately, many places are commercialized, and businessmen are much more motivated to work than officials, as long as the quality is controlled well, and they do not pay if they do not meet the standards, they can obediently do all kinds of requirements. Four-wheeled carriages were used in large quantities, the transportation of materials was much faster and more efficient, merchants also purchased one after another, and the carriage factory was busy like a sailing shipyard, and everyone turned over on their backs.

When everyone was busy, Fan Jia actually came back, this time with the whole family, and after settling down, he came to find Jiang Hexing as soon as possible.

Fan Jia told his experience with a face full of shame, it turned out that after harvesting the autumn grain last year, he still wanted to do a business at the end. He hurriedly took the money, braved the wind and waves, and quickly returned to Luoyang. On the third day after arriving in Luoyang, he said that he was involved in a murder case in the Yellow River and asked him to go to the yamen to investigate.

He was inexplicable, but he couldn't afford to offend the yamen, and after he went in, he couldn't get out again. The family moved around, and the gold and silver were spent like water, and it didn't do anything. Later, it was also found out that the murder case was committed by suicide due to loan sharks, but later the family changed their minds. It's not that it's not clear, and the yamen wants to make decisions for them.

Fan Jia didn't suffer too much abuse, but fortunately, he was also a wealthy party, and the roads in Luoyang could be paved with silver. Later, after being locked up for a long time, someone secretly told him that as long as he was willing to give up the sailboat, the case could be re-investigated.

Fan Jia confirmed that someone was plotting his sailboat, so he was naturally not to be outdone, after all, he also had a way. Although in prison, he also bought some jailers to run errands for him. The two sides were like a tug-of-war, there was no result for a while, but a lot of money was spent, and he gritted his teeth and pleaded not guilty, and the other party was also a little discouraged, and finally gave in and said that as long as he was willing to sell the sailboat, he could do it. He was hesitating, when suddenly the sky was clear, and everyone came to apologize.

After coming out, I learned that it was Zhijinwu Chen Mao who directly found Wang Mang, and Wang Mang did not want to offend Jiang Hexing at this time. Wang Mang is preparing to make the crown prince, and he doesn't want to provoke anything wrong, especially the right and wrong in the frontier. At this time, he needed stability, and he needed the people to know how great the Han under the leadership of An Han Gong was. Chen Mao is Ma Yuan's brother-in-law, and according to Ma Yuan's letter, Fan Jia is his future father-in-law, and Ma Yuan is the general who gave the golden helmet to the Empress Dowager herself. A group of officials in Luoyang were bored with themselves, saying that they had misunderstood, and some even returned the money.

Chen Mao comforted Fan Jia with kind words, but Fan Jia didn't dare to stay in Luoyang, Chang'an anymore, packed up, took his family, and the river froze, so he immediately rushed to show his martial arts.

Jiang Hexing listened to Fan Jia's experience and thought to himself that if the peasants would suffer from floods, droughts and locust plagues. The disaster of the merchant is the disaster of power, the disaster will not be warned, the disaster may befall every businessman at any time, sometimes it comes inexplicably, if you find greater power, he will go without a trace, as if he has never been to the general.

Jiang Hexing asked: Mr. Fan, what are your plans for the next step? ”

Fan Jia sighed and said, "My family has moved over, and I will do business here in the future." Silk is not produced here, and there is no way to make silk. I just want to ship the delivery, you said it's called transportation. I think this is also good business, I don't have to deal with people ashore, I have the final say on everything on the water. ”

"Now that Pingzhou has frozen, from Jilin City down to the summer capital, it is full of big rivers, which is much safer than walking in the sea. There are almost no people who do it now, so you might as well start doing it first, and it will be a golden waterway in the future. It's just that now no one has walked the whole way to survey the water conditions. I estimate that this river will eventually flow to the sea, from Jilin City to the sea, it is estimated that there are thousands of miles, in the future both sides of the river will be farmland, some places will build cities, water transport business must be good. ”

Fan Jia nodded and said, "He Wang, but I still have seven sailing ships in my hands now, and I think this ship still plays a bigger role in the sea." Sometimes the water in the river is deep, and in some places the water is shallow, and it will run aground at every turn. I thought I would be able to deal with the sea in the future, but if you say that, I can buy two sailboats and try them in Jilin City first. My 7 boats can't be transported to Jilin City anyway, so I still have to eat the sea breeze. I'll stay in Xianwu City and do the transportation business first. ”