"I don't understand what you're saying...... What does it mean to solve the ninth town, they are all officials and soldiers of the imperial court, and they are not robbers of the green forest, do you still want to merge with Xu Guqing? ”

Zhang Yuan shook his head and said, "That's naturally not, but I want to eliminate harm for the imperial court." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info lowly and poor, and later made a horse for Xu Zhijun, lost the public expense in the gambling, and had no choice, if it wasn't for Mrs. Xu's reward for my pen, I was afraid that I would have to suffer a lawsuit. Cast Su Yuanchun in Guangxi, with a knife and a shot, to have today's position. Today, I have made slaves and maidservants, eat, drink, and clothe, and none of them are given by the court. Whoever wants to overthrow this court is equivalent to smashing my job, I haven't read a book, and I can't recognize a basket of watermelon-sized characters, but I know a truth, and I want to repay my kindness. Whoever smashes my job is my enemy. The ninth town wants to create a rebellion against the imperial court, you say, should I remove this harm for the imperial court. ”

"Is there any evidence that the Ninth Town is going to rebel?"

"What credentials do you need for this? Anqing rebelled, and how many officers came out of the ninth town, isn't it obvious? These officers and soldiers are together every day, except for reading, that is, reading newspapers, and they don't practice hard, not to mention the waste of public money, just say that the books they read are all anti-books! I have suggested several times to Anpu that troops be sent to raid the barracks in the Ninth Town, but he just won't agree......"

Zhao Guanhou smiled: "Then how can I help you?" You asked me to tell the army to give you an official business to raid the Ninth Town? ”

"That's not going to happen, I want the big marshal to help me and kill the source of the ninth town for me. They have been in arrears for three months, and as long as the marshal controls the financial resources in Songjiang and does not let the ninth town raise military salaries, they will definitely rebel. When the time comes, even if the army wants to protect them, it will not be able to protect them, and it will be a legitimate thing for me to suppress them. ”

Zhao Guanhou waved his hand, "Wait a minute, if you say that, won't you force him to rebel?" ”

"That's right, it's just to force him to rebel." Zhang Yuan looked as a matter of course, "These scholars have too many eyes, if they rebel by themselves, it must be when their strength is sufficient and they are fully prepared, and it will be inconvenient to make it at that time." You have to take advantage of their unpreparedness to force them to rebel in advance, so that they can be caught in one go. Isn't that what it is, Golden Hook Fishing? ”

Zhao Guanhou shook his head helplessly, didn't answer this, and asked Zhang Yuan, "Then in your opinion, should I also be arrested?" ”

"No, no, if there is no such thing, Dashuai is different from Xu Shaozhen. The handsome man is the Gu Ming of Lafayette's own seal, and he is the forehead of the ten masters, and you will never rebel. Others don't know, but the lowly position is known, in Huailai, in Xuanhua, you have made great contributions, how can you not rebel. There are some misunderstandings in the court, just like a discord at home, and it will be fine if it is opened in the future. We are not close to the righteous relatives, and the righteous are not close to the gowns, the fifth town of the handsome is the children of Huaishang, and most of the lowly soldiers are recruited from the two Huai, they are all their own people, how can they be angry. What is Xu Guqing? What qualifications does he have, compared with the handsome. There is a group of scholars recruited in the army, and in my opinion, the worst thing in this world is the scholars. A group of people take the imperial court's salary, but they want to oppose the imperial court, they are all white-eyed wolves, such an ungrateful thing must be eliminated! ”

"Come on, I just didn't hear you say this, the grain station in his ninth town is not under my control, and I won't raise money for him. But you don't want him to raise money on his own, and that doesn't hold water. Shao Xuan, let me tell you, you should think about it yourself, the current court is not stable. There has just been a big mess in Guangdong, and even the Guangdong general has been killed. At this time, if you force the rebellion against the Ninth Town in Jiangning, when the court clears the discussion in the future, Anpu will be very disadvantageous. He is the brother of the old handsome, everyone does things, and the grace of the old handsome cultivation must be right, what do you think? As for the Ninth Town, you can send a scout in his camp, which shows that you know its actions well. If there is any abnormal movement, your defense battalion can be dispatched to suppress it, and there is no need to play any tricks to force the tiger to jump into the stream. ”

"This ......" mentioned Yuan Weiting, Zhang Yuan had to obey Zhao Guanhou's arrangement, otherwise he would inevitably fall into an ungrateful name. He sighed, so he had to nod and say, "Then listen to the orders of the big handsome and look at him for a while." It's just that I'm here to say this, Xu Shaozhen is a big white face, and sooner or later he will have to rebel, and then he will know if what I said is right. ”

The words of the two were a little not speculative, but Zhang Yuan had great respect for Zhao Guanhou, the old chief, and did not dare to be presumptuous, so he had to order to prepare a meal and arrange a banquet.

He is now the governor of Jiangnan and has the authority to investigate smuggling, tobacco, and ban. One of the most important is to check the salt, once the illegal salt is checked, not only will the dirt be confiscated, but also the life will be at risk. Whether it is a salt merchant or a smuggler of salt, he has to buy his account and give a considerable amount of filial piety every month.

His subordinate troops in Jiangning City have more than 20,000 horses, each of whom only eats five yuan on his head, and is 10,000 taels of silver per month. With so much money, the diet and living are extraordinarily luxurious. He himself is good at drinking, and he needs at least half a catty of Fenjiu for each meal.

The dishes are also prepared with care, the first to come up is to press the table and cold dishes, and then put a big watermelon with green skin, Zhao Guanhou doesn't know what kind of allusion this is, how to use fruit as a dish, and wait until the maid removes the melon skin, only to see that it is a big fat duck.

Zhang Yuan introduced: "The chef in the humble mansion was sent by a salt merchant in Yangzhou, and this watermelon and duck dish is his specialty dish. Remove all the flesh of a watermelon and put the duck in it to stew. If it's just this far, it's not surprising, so please try the meat. ”

Zhao Guanhou sandwiched a piece of belly meat, but felt that the taste was full of seafood, and then looked at the duck's belly, and then understood. It turns out that all the organs in the duck's belly are taken out, and bird's nest, river shellfish, and sea cucumber are built, and the seafood is integrated into the duck flavor, which has this taste.

What came up immediately was to make bird's nest lamb after it was frozen with bird's nest ointment, which was a wonderful product to accompany food. There is another porridge, called jade porridge, but it is Aunt Shao's private dish. Wash and chop the whole freshly picked lotus leaves, fry them into a thick green soup, mix them with ether sugar, and combine them with fragrant rice from Wuxi.

Zhao Guanhou was satisfied with the preparation of this table of banquets, and the atmosphere gradually eased down. After the meal, Zhang Yuan said: "Dashuai, you haven't tasted the taste of the boat lady on the Qinhuai River, have you?" Come, take you to the flower boat to sit and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Qinhuai for ten miles? ”

Zhao Guanhou pointed at the inner house with his hand, "Shao Xuan, you still speak so indiscriminately, now this is a dry mouth, isn't it for me to find a doctor?" ”

"Haha, a manly husband, it's not natural to play with a few women, she is a concubine, and she dares to take care of her husband's affairs?" Zhang Yuan looked puzzled, "Handsome, I begged four aunts for my humble position, and I still drank flower wine, who dares to say one more word, I will immediately slap her, I am not afraid that she will not accept it." Women are like this, the more you spoil, the bigger her temper, you beat her, she will be honest. ”

"I also admire your majesty at home, but the situation of each family is different, don't cause my grape trellis to fall, let's just sit here and drink some wine."

Seeing that he didn't move, Zhang Yuan had no choice but to instruct the servant to prepare red wine. His wine was a first-class gift from Consul Capet, and the Zhang family had their own ice room, and the wine was chilled in an ice bucket to drink, and the taste was particularly outstanding. Zhang Yuan said while drinking:

"Dashuai, you don't want to let the lowly position take the initiative to solve the Ninth Town, but you also have to let the lowly position, and have some strength to defend yourself. His ninth town is the new army, and the guns and equipment are better than my troops, and in the future, once the war starts, my men and horses will suffer. To tell you the truth, there is a sum of money in the hands of the lowly position, but if you want to buy a gun, you don't have to have money, you have to need a way. The War Department does not allow all armies to purchase arms on their own, and all of them are purchased and distributed by the War Department. Besides, because of guarding the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, most of the guns in the Ninth Town are self-made, including guns from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and guns made in the Huguang Hanyang Arsenal. Our defense camp is even worse, all the old guns that are not used in the ninth town, and occasionally there are some Hanyang made, which are treasures, if this fights, are you waiting to suffer? ”

"What do you mean?"

"It is true that there is a compromise in the army, but the War Department believes that weapons should be distributed to the new army on a priority basis, and it is useless to fight. I wanted to buy my own equipment, but because of the treaty, I had to buy ordinary equipment. I couldn't negotiate with the Prussians, and I talked to me a few times without getting the essentials, and I only bought some Prussian guns for my own soldiers, and the brothers below were still old guns. ”

His talent is poor, he doesn't know anything about the etiquette of communicating with foreigners, and it is predictable that he will suffer a loss in the procurement of equipment. Zhao Guanhou said with a smile: "This is easy to do, I will sell you a batch of foreign guns, and I guarantee that they are foreign." As for the price, you can only collect the cost of work, but I also have a request, in addition to the money for buying a gun, you must put another amount of money in Zhengyuan, which means that you have confidence in Zhengyuan. In addition, you have dealings with those salt merchants, and when you have a banquet, you can praise my Zhengyuan......"

Zhang Yuan nodded again and again, "As long as the big marshal is willing to help the lowly to complete this arms business, this is a trivial matter." I will buy ordnance and food, all of which will be helped by my aunt's wife, and the matter of money is easy to discuss. ”

Although Zhang Renjun promised Zhengyuan to run the old military grain station, he was not afraid of officials, but he was afraid of management, and if Zhang Yuan, the officer leading the troops, had resistance, the business would not be able to be done. When he went home in the evening, Chen Lenghe's face was not as good as in the Governor's Palace, and his face sank when he arrived at the inn

"In the future, if you don't have any dealings with Zhang, this person will be an animal. Do you know, his Aunt Shao was sold to Zhang's mansion by his brother, Zhang Yuan married first, and scolded at every turn, and Mrs. Shao could see injuries on her body. I cried without saying a few words to me, for fear that the hospitality would not be good, Zhang Yuanqian was angry and wanted to beat him, where is this court official, it is simply a bandit and a robber! ”

Zhao Guanhou took her hand and said, "Then you said that I and you, do you count as marrying first?" ”

"This ...... Of course, this doesn't count. Seeing Shaw Brothers, Chen Lenghe couldn't help but think of his own experience, and felt sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox. But compared with the two, Zhao Guanhou is much stronger than Zhang Yuan, no matter how old he looks, he is a good match, and he has never been forced, let alone scolded, compared to Aunt Shao's fate, he is really much better.

Seeing Zhao Guanhou asking, her face flushed slightly, "What are you doing when you talk about her?" ”

"It's nothing, just to explain to you, business is business, and it has nothing to do with his good guys and bad guys. Zhang Yuan, this guy is not very good, but he does have money, this business is done, we can make a lot of money, and Shandong Zhengyuan's brand can be created. Those salt merchants have money, and they also have to deposit it in reliable banks, and these big customers cannot be let go. ”

"You are a very good guy, at the end of the day, I talked about two business, as a reward, the chairman decided to ......" Chen Lenghe smiled: "Tomorrow you are allowed to accompany me to visit the Confucius Temple to make up for today's losses." ”

When it was dawn the next day, the two had not yet left, but someone threw a famous assassination, it was Xu Shaozhen, the commander of the Ninth Town. He had no friendship with Zhao Guanhou, so he took the liberty of coming to the door, which was quite unexpected. After the meeting, I saw that Xu Shaozhen was in her forties, born with a clean and clean culture, as if she was a well-educated Confucian, if it weren't for a military uniform, she wouldn't have thought of being a general with soldiers.

After seeing each other and sitting down, after a little greeting, Xu Shaozhen explained that he was here to take out a loan. He called Zhao Guanhou the crown marshal, based on his official position in the army, not his status as governor

"I heard that Guanshuai decided to set up Shandong Zhengyuan Bank in Songjiang, Xu took the liberty to come to the door and asked Guanshuai to make it convenient. The Ninth Town has not been paid for three months, and the army's public expenses are not considered for the time being, and soldiers cannot serve as soldiers on an empty stomach. Therefore, I hope that Guanshuai can make it easier and lend a sum of money to the ninth town. I will not mention the public expenses of the army for the time being, but the soldiers' salaries are always paid. Officers have high incomes and can be in arrears, while soldiers are only paid nine yuan a month, so they cannot be in arrears. I would like to borrow $300,000 from Guanshuai, as for the collateral...... Xu is in Jiangning, there is a Xueshou Hall, which contains 200,000 ancient books, some of which are Song editions. With these books as collateral, the loan period is half a year, and the monthly interest is negotiable, I don't know if Guanshuai can make it convenient. ”

Zhao Guanhou said with a smile: "Zhen Shuai, if you don't come to me, I will actually look for you sooner or later, you don't need to borrow this money, the army has already thought of a good way for you." At the moment, Zhang Renjun explained the methods he thought of one by one, in his opinion, this is the best solution for the best of both worlds, but he didn't want Xu Shaozhen to shake his head again and again after hearing it

"I have already guessed that Anpu will use this method to raise money for the ninth town, and it is precisely because I don't need this method that I came to visit and disturb the good dream of Guanshuai."

Chen Lenghe did not have the concept of whether men and women were intimate or not, and it was indispensable to deal with people as a bank, so he had been sitting, and he couldn't help but say: "Zhen Shuai, you mortgage 200,000 ancient books to the bank, if you can repay the loan on time, it will naturally be good." But if we don't get it out, we're going to take those books, don't you cherish your treasures? ”

Xu Shaozhen shook her head and said: "Aunt Chen, Xu loves books and loves books as life, but I love the people more and love the people to win the son." Comparing the two, I would rather let the book suffer losses than let the common people bear the losses for the sake of our troops' military salaries. (To be continued.) )