"I didn't expect Xi'an to be so lively at the end of the Ming Dynasty!" Liu Cheng stood at the entrance of the street, looking at the drum tower in the distance, compared to when he just crossed two months ago, his long hair was barely pulled into a bun, he looked like an ordinary Ming Dynasty person, he was a little distracted to look at the flow of people on the long street, as one of the most complete monuments preserved in Xi'an, the drum tower was very familiar to him, but at this time it looked particularly strange.

"My lord, let's go shopping!" A voice broke Liu Cheng's reverie, he looked back and saw Du Gu, Totobuhua, Xu Xianming and others, all of them with some impatience on their faces. It turned out that he was training in Xi'an these days, and seeing that the light market had arrived, several of his subordinates were teasing to see the freshness, Liu Cheng had to leave Du Ruhu in the camp to guard the house, and he led a few people to go shopping.

"Well, let's go check it out!" Liu Cheng smiled to himself and walked into the flow of people. The group became more and more crowded, even if Liu Cheng sometimes wanted to stop and look at a certain store, but he was involuntarily pushed forward by the crowd, and was dispersed after a while. After walking for a while, Liu Cheng walked to the door of a jewelry shop, walked in out of curiosity, and happened to see a man in a red robe with no beard under his chin talking in the company of the shopkeeper. In order to avoid causing trouble, Liu Cheng did not approach, but just stood aside and watched casually, listening carefully to the eunuch's words.

"Two thousand taels can't be missing?" The eunuch asked, holding a jewel in his hand, looking at it carefully in the light.

"It's really indispensable! The steward of the old man's house had already come a few days ago, saying that he wanted the villain to leave this thing for him, if it weren't for your father-in-law, the villain wouldn't even show it to others. If it was in previous years, this thing could have been sold for 4,000 or 5,000, but it had not been good in the past two years, and the good things could not be sold at a good price. The public opened his mouth, and the villain paid a few hundred taels of silver, and the right should be filial piety to the father-in-law, and please take care of the father-in-law in the future! “

The eunuch looked at the gem for a while and said, "Okay, I'll keep it, it's not that I want to use it, it's just that the hat of my family's patriarch (the eunuch's honorific title for the eunuch with the seal of the celebrant of the celebrant seal) is still empty, let's see if it is appropriate to be embedded in the hat!" ”

Liu Cheng now knows that two thousand taels of silver is enough to feed his small army for more than half a year, but at this time it is only used to buy decorations on a eunuch's hat, and he can't help but secretly speak, but he doesn't want to move a little bigger, attracting the eunuch to look sideways, Liu Cheng didn't want to cause trouble, turned around and walked out of the door, just walked a few steps, and was slapped on the back, which startled Liu Cheng, and when he looked back, he couldn't help but be surprised and happy: "Oh, it's you!" Just as he was about to speak, the man winked and said, "It's too crowded here, let's find a secluded place to talk!" ”

The two turned around and squeezed towards the road, walked a short distance on the side of the road and saw that there was an alley on the side of the road with fewer people, the two entered the alley and turned a few corners, and there were a lot less people, Liu Cheng opened his mouth and asked: "Brother Xu, why are you here!" ”

The man stopped, but it was Xu Hecheng, wearing a roe deer fur hat on his head and a satin sheepskin robe, like a solid businessman, Liu Cheng saw him dressed like this, and couldn't help asking: "Brother Xu, why are you dressed like this!" “

Xu Hecheng smiled slightly, shook his sleeves and looked like a person: "I am now the owner of Ruifuxiang!" “

"Ruifuxiang?" Liu Cheng was stunned when he heard this, and immediately reacted: "Isn't that the jewelry shop I entered just now?" “

"Yes, that jewelry store is also a middle school industry, brother, you are outside, I am checking the accounts inside, so I chased it out."

"What a coincidence!"

"It can't be said to be a coincidence!" Xu Hecheng laughed: "This shop is the foot of the sect in Xi'an City, the address I once left for my brother is here, if my brother was free a few days ago, maybe he would have met me a long time ago." “

When Liu Cheng heard this, he couldn't help but blush. Although the other party has the grace to save his life, deep down he has always been very wary of the White Lotus Sect, a folk religious organization, so after coming to Xi'an, he was obviously short of money in his pocket, but he never took this line. Xu Hecheng has been rolling in the rivers and lakes for so many years, and he can't see Liu Cheng's thoughts, but he doesn't reveal it, and pats the other party's shoulder: "I happened to meet today, you and I brothers and have a few drinks." ”

Liu Cheng hurriedly responded, although he was wary of the White Lotus Sect, but he was quite grateful to Xu Hecheng himself, the grace of saving his life and the virtue of giving money were all great graces. The two found a clean shop, ordered a few side dishes, warmed the pot of wine and chatted while eating, and after a few glasses of wine, their faces were also red. Liu Cheng casually introduced his recent situation, and then asked, "Brother Xu, where have you been these days?" ”

Xu Hecheng showed a mysterious smile on his face: "I'm making a big deal these days!" ”

"Big deal?" Liu Cheng was stunned for a moment when he heard this, there was a big cult leader in front of him, and the big deal in his mouth could be understood as a variety of meanings, thinking of the current chaos in the northwest, should Xu Hecheng want to rebel?

Xu Hecheng looked around, the business in this small shop was quite depressed at this time, there were only the two of them, the shopkeeper was sitting behind the counter and was thinking for a while, and the one who ran the hall squatted behind the stove and took a nap. He reached out and dipped it in the wine glass, wrote two words on the table, and when Liu Cheng saw it clearly, he reached out and wiped it away, and said, "I did these two businesses." ”

With the help of the dim light, Liu Cheng had clearly seen that Xu Hecheng wrote the words "salt" and "medicine", and couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, this medicine is just fine, salt was an absolute official commodity in ancient times, because salt is necessary for everyone, and most inland areas cannot produce it except for coastal areas

Salt and salt have actually become a tool for the state to levy a poll tax and a lever to regulate the economy, so since ancient times, smuggling salt has been the target of the state's vigorous crackdown -- the reason is very simple, smuggling salt is tantamount to stealing money from the state's pocket, and destroying the country's economic order, naturally it is not comparable to robbery and murder. As for medicine, although it is not a state-controlled commodity, looking at the "big business" that Xu Hecheng just said, I am afraid that it is not an ordinary medicine.

"The medicine you are talking about is red medicine (a common name for trauma medicine)?" Liu Cheng asked in a low voice.

"Sure enough, I can't hide it from Brother Liu!" Xu Hecheng laughed, he took out a silver ingot from his arms and threw it back, then landed on the counter of the shopkeeper, and said loudly: "Shopkeeper, I want to talk to my brother about my own affairs, I will contract this store tonight, you will close the door, don't let anyone disturb you." ”

The shopkeeper's weight was about three or two, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed in his heart, and he agreed. He and the general of the running hall went down the door panel, and sent some braised pork, broad beans, sauce tofu and other appetizers, and then returned to the back stove room to listen to the instructions, there were only Liu Cheng and Xu Hecheng in the store, Xu Hecheng poured Liu Cheng full of wine, and said with a smile: "Brother, you are on an errand under the governor, you must know that the northwest is not peaceful at the moment, there is chaos everywhere, and many businesses cannot be done." But as long as you are human, you have to eat salt. ”

Liu Cheng saw that Xu Hecheng was in high spirits, and asked in a low voice: "As far as I know, the northwest side is going to eat human flesh, where is the money to buy salt?" ”

"No one else has money to buy salt, and those rebels don't have money? They have opened so many cottages and houses, and the money is not old and young. Xu Hecheng smiled slightly: "Red medicine and salt are sent over, it is so much benefit!" While speaking, Xu Hecheng spread out the five fingers of his right hand, flipped it over again, and made a "tenfold" gesture. Speaking of this, Xu Hecheng saw a surprised look on Liu Cheng's face, and a wry smile appeared on his face: "Brother, do you think that I, a man in the rivers and lakes, cares so much about money and looks down on me?" ”

"You can't say that!" Liu Cheng secretly thought that you were born five hundred years later, and in my time, whether it was a high-ranking official or a peddler's pawn, it was a blockage that was more important than life: "Didn't Taishi Gong's "Biography of the Goods and Colonies" say: 'The world is crowded, all for profit; The world is bustling, all for profit. There are really few people in the world who can take money lightly. ”

"It's a good world to be busy, all for profit; The world is bustling, all for profit! Brother, if I had known this a few years earlier, I wouldn't have ended up like this! Xu Hecheng drank all the wine in the cup suddenly, and poured several glasses in a row, and if he wanted to go to the pot but it was empty, he slapped the table and shouted: "The store will send the wine up!"

The shopkeeper in the stove room at the back of the store responded, and hurriedly sent another pot of wine, Xu Hecheng looked at it and said: "How is one pot enough, at least three pots, and a big cup!" ”

The store changed the wine bowl and came up, Xu Hecheng poured it full on both sides, and drank it in two or three sips, Liu Cheng couldn't help but secretly complain on the side, before he crossed, it was the amount of two bottles of beer, although the degree of rice wine in the store was not high, but it couldn't stand such a big cup of pouring. Liu Chengzheng was thinking about how to get out, but when he heard Xu Hecheng, he had a bowl of wine: "Brother Liu, what do you say about my martial arts?" ”

"Nature is extremely clever!" Liu Cheng was convinced by this, and later he learned that Du Guoying's martial arts were top-notch in Yansui Town, but that night he was knocked to the ground after only taking a look in front of Xu Hecheng. Xu Hecheng didn't seem to hear the other party's praise at all, and said to himself: "When I was young, I liked to play with guns and sticks, and my family had the money to hire famous teachers, but I made a name for myself in the rivers and lakes in my early twenties. My younger brother can't study, and he can't practice martial arts, but he only gave 30,000 taels of silver and 500 pours of land to the top in exchange for a sea fishing document in the official mansion. Can you win one or ten? If you win ten, you can't win a hundred, and in the end, you don't have to run away incognito? ”

When Liu Cheng heard this, he had already guessed six or seven points about what happened to Xu Hecheng, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, but comforted in his mouth: "Brother Xu, don't be sad, as the saying goes, the green mountains are here, don't be afraid of no firewood, with Brother Xu's ability, sooner or later one day you will be able to take revenge and return home!" ”

"Impossible, impossible!" Xu Hecheng waved his arm violently: "My younger brother has caught up with the relationship of Tian Guifei in the palace, it is through the sky, unless the sky collapses, otherwise I can only hide in this Kansai land in my life!" ”

Looking at Xu Hecheng's somewhat crazy appearance, Liu Cheng's heart also rose with a sense of sympathy, no matter what, the other party also had a life-saving grace for him, so he decided to divert the topic and say something pleasant.

"Brother Xu, you said that you can do a business with salt, but as far as I know, if you want to do a salt business, you have to have a salt introduction, otherwise it is prohibited."

Xu Hecheng was already seven or eight points drunk, so he took out a few crisp pieces of paper from his arms and slapped them on the table: "Look at it, what I'm doing is making a living?" “

Liu Cheng fixed his eyes and saw that there was indeed a certificate stamped with the big seal of the Shaanxi Trilateral Governor's Mansion, each voucher could receive 2,000 citations of salt, according to the system of the Ming Dynasty, each citation was 300 catties of salt, and there were hundreds of tons of salt in a rough calculation, and Liu Cheng couldn't see anything else, but he was familiar with the big seal of the Governor's Mansion these days, and it should be genuine.

"Brother Xu, where did you come from?"

"Where did it come from? Naturally, it was bought with white flowers! Xu Hecheng drank all the wine in the cup: "Shen Yikui has hit Yan'an City, and your Governor Yang wants to fight but has no money to pay, so he has to sell salt to raise money." This salt trade is safe and profitable, and it has long been rounded up by those old Xi'er on weekdays, where can I get my turn to enter the market. But I didn't want to fight this time, and things came in a hurry, so I ate this large sum. Hehe, if the government wins the battle, my salt is naturally easy to sell, and if I lose, I just sell it to God Yikui and them, haha, I will make money if I win or lose! Speaking of this, Xu Hecheng lay on the table and fell asleep.

Looking at Xu Hecheng who was snoring on the table, Liu Cheng suddenly remembered the shop behind the house, what Xu Hecheng said was quite taboo, if he was allowed to sue the government, he was afraid that it would cause trouble. He stood up and walked to the door, listened to a slight snoring outside, and then breathed a sigh of relief and said loudly: "Shopkeeper, shopkeeper!" ”

"Hey!" There was an answer from outside the door, and then the door was pushed open, revealing the shopkeeper who was sleeping a little dazed, rubbing his eyes and asking, "What do you command?" ”

"My brother has drunk a little too much, do you have hot soup to wake up?"

The shopkeeper glanced at the store and said with a smile: "My wine is thin in the mouth, and it is strong in the stomach." There is also a carp in my shop, which is still alive in the well, and the soup is the most delicious. “

"Let's do it quickly!"

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