"Oh my Lord Shen," Huang Jin shouted for help as soon as he saw him, "You have to help me." ”

"Don't worry, you speak slowly." Shen Mo asked him to sit down and said, "Haven't you been in Hangzhou all the time, why did you come all the way here?" ”

"I'll tell you the truth," Huang Jin said with a sad face, "I'm here for refuge...... The creditor has taken possession of my old nest, and I have a home to return to......" said as he wiped away tears.

Shen Mo said a little strangely: "Which one doesn't open his eyes and dares to break ground on Tai Sui's head?" ”

Huang Jin pouted depressedly and said: "In our Jiajing Dynasty, what kind of green onion are we people, don't look at people's faces as father-in-law, I don't know how to bury us in my heart." ”

Shen Mo smiled and comforted: "No, respect is still from the heart." Saying that, he took a sip of tea and said, "What the hell is going on?" Father-in-law tell the lower officials. ”

Huang Jin sighed, and started from the beginning for Shen Mo, it turned out that he had already arrived in Hangzhou a year before Shen Mo, because he was originally from the Weaving Bureau, so he was naturally familiar with the reconstruction of the road, and soon resumed contact with several large silk cloth merchants and invited them to work for the Manufacturing Bureau.

You must know that at this time, the silk cloth, because the maritime merchants monopolized the way of export, the price was naturally pressed to a very low level, and the silk merchants were almost operating at a loss. Now Huang Jin is earnest, and the price is very fair, but it is much more cost-effective than selling to maritime merchants, so several major silk merchants in Hangzhou and Ningbo have thrown themselves into the arms of the weaving bureau and began to supply silk cloth to them.

Someone wants to ask, the palace is poor like that, where does Huang Jin get the capital? Yes, he really didn't have any money, so he brought 50,000 taels of silver with him when he came out of Yanjing, and he also filled the façade and renovated the dilapidated manufacturing bureau yamen very magnificently. Then he sat in this glamorous yamen, and summoned those silk merchants to come to negotiate, because they were all old relations more than ten years ago, and the businessmen still remembered the rules of the manufacturing bureau at the beginning, which were all settled after delivery, and never gave a deposit, and now they saw that Huang Jinxiu spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to repair a yamen, so he did not doubt that he had him, and they all acted according to the old rules.

The reason why Huang Jin dared to be such an empty glove white wolf was naturally because of his Tao in it - when he left Beijing, he relied on his good relationship with Lu Bing to get a letter written by the governor of the capital, and soon after arriving in Zhejiang, he prepared a generous gift and went to Pinghu Lu's house to worship the mountain.

He is an old Jianghu, and when he was in the Hangzhou Manufacturing Bureau more than ten years ago, he knew that if he wanted to do a good job, he must first worship the Pinghu Lu family.

Because the Lu family, which has been an official for generations, has deep roots in Zhejiang, especially after Lu Bing emerged, no one can stand out, but he is the first to look forward. It can be said that in Zhejiang, there is basically nothing that the Lu family can't do. Therefore, with great sincerity, Huang Jin was ready to use the extremely tempting condition of 28 points in exchange for the Lu family to match him and contact the sales channel - of course, it was not sold to maritime merchants, and he was ready to find another way to transport it south.

"To the south?" Shen Mo said softly: "Do you want to find the Francophone?" ”

"Clever! Sure enough, it is a person that His Majesty is optimistic about! Huang Jinzan said: "Lord Shen, you don't know, when I left Beijing last year, Guangdong Province agreed to live on a small island called 'Haojingao' for a fee, and this matter was not issued by the cabinet, but it was discussed among several cabinet elders. Said with a wry smile and said: "Speaking of which, it is also forced by money, Yan Ge Lao felt that the deserted island was idle and idle, so it was better to rent it out and let Guangdong eat some rent, so he agreed." ”

"So you're going to try your luck with the Francis?" Shen Mo asked.

"You can't call it luck, can you?" Huang Jindao: "Wang Zhi's gang monopolized shipping, and the Francois people were also eaten to death, and if they wanted my Ming goods' goods at a high price, they had to endure Wang Zhi's blackmail." Scratching his chubby chin as he spoke, he said: "I think that in this way, we have a common language with Francois and Franco, and it is a good thing to hit it off, how can it not be done?" ”

"Isn't that good?" asked with a silent smile.

"What's good?" Huang Jin scolded and said: "I am really an eighty-year-old girl, but I can make the little rabbit cub of the Lu family suffer." ”

"What's going on?" As soon as he heard this, he squinted silently, the big iron box of the Lu family was still lying in his mansion, and no one asked him for it so far.

"The second master of the original Lu family has been there for several years." Huang Jin said depressedly: "Now the young master of the Lu family is in charge, I see that he is young, and he is a little uneasy, but thinking that such a big family and so many people can let him be the master, it is obviously his superiority." ”

Smiled silently and noncommittally, and listened to Huang Jin continue: "So I asked him to give it a try, but that kid was really powerful, and he didn't have a month, so he said that it had been arranged, and a thousand carts were transported south, and the goods were paid on delivery, and a deposit of 10,000 taels was given to me." ”

"As soon as I saw those big cars, I believed a little, and felt that there was a relationship between Lu Bing, and it was impossible for him to lie to me, so I delivered the goods quickly, but after all, it was the first time, so I didn't give him more, only gave him 2,000 horses of silk, 3,000 horses of yarn and silk, and asked him to transport them on his behalf."

"At the end of last year, the money over there arrived, a total of 800,000 taels of silver, which is not a lot." Huang Jin said with a depressed face: "So I handed over all the 10,000 horses of silk, 10,000 horses of yarn, and 20,000 horses of silk to the kid of the Lu family. Speaking of this, his heartache trembled and said: "Who knew that when I arrived in Fujian, I actually ran into a Japanese robber and robbed all my goods, woo woo ......" Now I really cried.

Shen Mo frowned and said, "Since you are taking the land route, how close is it to go from Jiangxi to Guangzhou?" Why go around Fujian? ”

"Who knows what's going on?" Huang Jin said with a crying voice: "I thought the Lu family could cover it, so I let them make trouble, who knows how they left Fujian?" ”

"There are so many problems here," Shen Mo sighed and said, "It's not that I said you, Huang Gonggong, people are clearly yin to you - now in this year, how can there be such a thing as cash on delivery?" Everyone doesn't see the rabbit and doesn't scatter the eagle, at least you have to get the capital back first, how can you be such a generous lord? ”

"I don't want to do this either," Huang Jin said with a sad face: "That Lu family kid is too good to say, he said that the Francois is the most honest, since the contract is decided, smashing the pot and selling iron will also be fulfilled, I asked him to leave a sentence, there is a sentence, and the result is a vague agreement." ”

"Hey......" Shen Mo sighed with him, "This dumb man has suffered a lot of losses." ”

"Who's to say it's not?" Huang Jin's cheeks trembled and said: "Those creditors have been waiting in the yamen of the Weaving Bureau all day long, so that I can't go back to my home, so I have to come to you, Lord Shen." ”

"My father-in-law will naturally welcome me with both hands," said silently: "But unless you never do this business, you still have to pay off your debts, otherwise who would dare to take over the work of the Weaving Bureau?" ”

"That's ......" Huang Jin sat down on the chair like a deflated ball, and after a while, he suddenly raised his head, grabbed his silent right hand tightly with both hands and said: "Lord Shen, before the slave maid left Beijing, His Majesty once said to me, if you encounter trouble that cannot be solved, just look for you, you can't see death and not save it!" ”

Silently, he withdrew his hand without a trace, and comforted with a smile: "My father-in-law will stay in my house first, recuperate for a while, and wait until I straighten out the matter at hand, and see if there is a way to help you solve the problem." "This is not like the kind of thing that Wanfu Ji has to bear if you don't have to bear it, Shen Mo doesn't want to easily carry this burden of a thousand pounds for no reason.

Huang Jin was a little disappointed, but more grateful, because he also knew that Shen Mo was also a newcomer, poor and white, and there was no way to do it, so he had to laugh: "Yes, I'll bother for a while, there is a way that one person counts the short, and the two of us count the long, and our brothers can sum it up sooner or later." ”

"That's what it means." Shen Mo nodded and smiled.

After arranging Huang Jin to the inner house, ordering people to serve him well, he sat silently on the Taishi chair and closed his eyes and pondered, unexpectedly on the first day of his appointment, things rushed like a tide, drowning people all at once, and couldn't help laughing and laughing: "The idle day is gone forever." ”

He raised his head, cleared his throat and said, "Someone." ”

Sanchi, who was waiting outside, came in and said, "What do you command?" ”

"Two things, one, please come to Mr. Gui, and second, get ready, this official will travel in micro-clothes at night."

"Yes." Three feet out, after a while, Gui Youguang hurried over, respectfully saluted, "What do you command?" After an afternoon in the back hall, he didn't dare to underestimate this young adult in the slightest.

"Please sir help me do two things," Shen Mo said politely to him: "First, from tomorrow, the prices of rice, noodles, meat, eggs and other livelihood commodities in Suzhou City will be counted, and I will be given at noon at the latest, and this will be the case every day." ”

Although there is some trouble, it is not a difficult matter, and Gui Youguang should say: "Obey." ”

"Second, the matter is somewhat complicated," instructed Shen silently, "I ask Sir to find out the principal place of origin of the commodities to be counted, and to write to that place in the name of the officer, and order or request his assistance in the monitoring of prices." ”

Although it was a little difficult, it was not impossible, so Gui Youguang responded softly and asked, "My lord, what are you monitoring prices for?" ”

Of course, Shen Mo confided the truth, and said with a smile: "This thing is too important, there is a way that the people take food as the sky, as long as the people don't worry about eating, they will live in peace, we control the price and try to keep it reasonable, the people can't mess up." ”

Gui Youguang pondered for a moment, and his eyes lit up and said: "My lord, my subordinates will do it." Then he took his leave, and walked away quickly.

At this time, it was already Shen Shi, and it was getting late, and Tie Zhu came in and said, "My lord, I have received three invitations in the front yard, please take a look." ”

Shen Mo took it and took a look, one was the school society and the literary club in Suzhou City, and jointly invited the Lord Fuzun to the lion forest banquet; the other is that the royal family of the big clan in the city invited the adults to the banquet in the humble administrator's garden; There is also a share, which is also the Suzhou wealthy family 'Wu County Lu Family', and invited him to the banquet Canglang Pavilion.

Looking at these thunderous place names, Shen Mo couldn't help but shake his head and smiled bitterly: "There are so many famous places, why do you want to concentrate in one place?" Wouldn't it be nice to give it somewhere else? Of course, it's just a joke, because he also knows that things have always been like and people are grouped, and where elegance and richness are place, there will be a strong elegance, and where there is roughness and wildness, there will also be a lot of roughness, which is unavoidable.

At night, Shen Mo changed into a black dress, quietly left the house in a carriage, turned left and right in Suzhou City, and only jumped out of the car at an intersection until he was sure to shake off all the stalks, so that the carriage continued to circle around the city, and he was escorted by iron pillars to the mixed residential area in the south of the city.

Then in the cool moonlight, the two of them searched one street after another, and finally found the strange symbol at a certain street corner, and according to the guidance of the symbol, the iron pillar knocked on the door of the penultimate house.

The knock on the door, two long and two short, two short and three long, broke the silence of the night and also alarmed the people inside: "Who is it?" ”

"Drinking buddies." Tie Zhu said: "Hangzhou has drunk it, and the capital has also drunk it." ”

There was silence inside for a moment, and the door creaked open, revealing Zhu Shisan's familiar old face.

Seeing that it was indeed Shen Mo and Tie Zhu, he quickly let the two into the house, and ordered someone to go out to see if there were any spies who were watching, so he introduced Shen Mo into the main house, and said with a smile: "I just heard that you arrived yesterday, and I was thinking about how to go to visit the adults, but I didn't expect you to come first." ”

Shen Mo glanced at him with disgust, and said, "What are you, you, do you still recognize my brother?" ”

"Hehe......" Zhu Shisan was flattered and said, "You are an adult now......"

"What's big? What kind of people? Shen Mo scolded with a smile: "I will always be that Shen Cunyan, and you will always be my thirteenth brother!" ”

Zhu Shisan couldn't imagine that after Shen Mo became the honor of the mansion, he was still so humble, and couldn't help but be overjoyed and said: "Zhong, then I will climb high." The two of them put their hands together and laughed.

Zhu Shisan instructed his subordinates to serve a few small dishes and scald a pot of old wine, then retreated left and right and said: "I want to eat and talk with Lord Shen, you all go out and keep an eye on it, which one dares to come over without opening his eyes, no matter who it is, he will take it all!" "Speaking of which, there is a murderous awe-inspiring face.

After everyone below was gone, he asked silently and in a low voice: "Listen to what my brother means, your subordinates are still mixed with sand?" ”

"Well......" Zhu Shisan snorted heavily, but found that his tone was inappropriate, so he slowed down: "This is also inevitable, I didn't do it from Zhejiang, I fell from the sky all of a sudden, and if I want to suppress those rabbit cubs, I still need some words." ”

Seeing that he refused to talk about the internal affairs in detail, Shen Mo didn't ask, and after a few words with him, he directly explained his intentions: "I'll ask my brother something." "He came so late to find it, naturally he didn't catch up with Zhu Shisan, so there was no need to talk about it.

"You tell me, as long as I know, I'll tell you." Zhu Shisan nodded.

"Pinghu Lu Family ......" Shen Mo asked softly, "What does it have to do with the Grand Duke?" ”

"Pinghu Lu family?" Zhu 13 said: "The hometown of the Metropolitan Governor, Gen'er." ”

"Is it close?" Shen Mo asked.

"Of course, what kind of status is the Metropolitan Governor, it doesn't matter if you still have to stutter, let alone a blood relative of the same lineage?" Zhu 13 recalled: "Every New Year's holiday, Zhejiang has filial piety to deliver, each time it is counted in hundreds of cars, but people are a family, no one can say anything. He glanced at him and said, "Brother, why are you asking this?" ”

Shen Mo said lightly: "Don't hide it from my brother, I met an assassin when I stayed at Xiaoshan Station last month, and it was from the Lu family. ”

"No......" Zhu 13 said in a lost voice: "Most of the governors have warned them, don't embarrass you!" ”

Hearing this, Shen Mo's heart sank, it seems that there is indeed something greasy in this, otherwise, Lu Bing would not have said such a thing! Thinking of Huang Jin's experience, an answer is about to come out!

But he couldn't say it, at least not in front of Jinyiwei, so he forcibly calmed down and said with a smile: "Then ask again, is there a relationship between the Lu family in Wu County and the Lu family in Pinghu?" ”

"There should be," Zhu Shisan gave an affirmative answer: "Although I don't know what the relationship is, when I counted the gifts to the Metropolitan Governor, I saw that the Lu family in Pinghu sent filial piety, and they all had the share of the Lu family in Wu County." ”

"I see......" Shen Mo nodded slowly.

Zhu Shisan's eyes were dim in the candlelight, as if he had made a lot of determination, and then he whispered: "Brother, brother, I advise you, don't go against the Lu family, even if you are deeper than them and have high means, but with the Metropolitan Governor above, you won't be able to win no matter what!" ”

"Hmm......" Shen Mo exhaled a breath of turbidity, he naturally understood the meaning of Zhu Shisan's words, unconsciously turned the wine glass in his hand, and asked quietly: "If we have a dispute, will you help them?" ”

"Of course not." Zhu Shisan shook his head vigorously and said, "We brothers, how can I help outsiders rectify you?" He smiled wryly and said, "But I can't help you." ”

"That's good." Shen Mo laughed and said: "As long as you don't interfere, since ancient times, the people have not fought with the officials, I don't believe that I can't cure him!" ”

"In that case, brother should do it himself." Zhu Shisan knew that Shen Mo had the right idea, so he no longer dissuaded him.

"One more trouble brother, you can help me check, where is the silk that was robbed by the Weaving Bureau last month." Silent and he had a drink with him, as if he remembered something.

"That's fine." Zhu 13 said: "You wait for my letter." ”

(To be continued)