"Was Gu Rong sent away by Ren Siqi?"

Huang Binqing told her daughter that Ren Siqi was not interested in reclaiming the looted goods from the pirates but refused to return them to their original owners, and only consulted Gu Rong's whereabouts. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"I should have sent it away." Huang Fengwu thought for a while, as if he had heard from those shopkeepers that Ren Siqi sent people to escort a large number of pirate captives away from Cen Gang.

"It's bad now, the surname Ren wants to swallow the public house that exterminated the pirates!"

"The pirates were originally exterminated by Ren Siqi, and Gu Rong was also captured by him, so why monopolize it?" Huang Fengwu asked puzzled.

"You know what? If Gu Rong is still in our hands, then the pirates in Sijiao Mountain will naturally be exterminated by us, so no matter what the results of the pirate attack on Zhoushan this time, I will be innocent. But now that Gu Rong has been snatched away by Ren Siqi, he refuses to give me this great merit anymore. If he reports to the court that I have abandoned the city and fled, it will be bad! ”

"Gu Rong was originally caught by Ren Siqi, why should we take risks. He's not that kind of person, and he won't tell you about abandoning the city and fleeing. Huang Fengwu comforted his father.

"What do you know? This man, fame and fortune are the most important, and compared with fame, the private affairs of children are nothing. Ren Siqi looks ambitious, and he will not be trapped by personal feelings.

But why did he send Gu Rong to Zhoushan not long ago? There's something weird about it. Gu Rong came to Zhoushan on the front foot, and a large number of pirates began to attack Zhoushan City, how could things be so coincidental, could it be that all this was Ren Siqi's conspiracy? ”

Huang Binqing's expression changed drastically as he spoke, and an inexplicable fear suddenly surged into his heart.

"Daddy, are you too careful, Ren Siqi just exterminated Gu Rong, how could the pirates obey his orders?" Huang Fengwu was very dissatisfied with her father's suspicions, although she said that she had just quarreled with Ren Siqi, but she didn't believe that Ren Siqi was such a person.

"You, I think you are stunned by him," Huang Binqing pointed to his daughter's hatred of iron and steel, "That Ren Siqi started from scratch and created a great career in just one year, how can he be a simple character!" Maybe Ren Siqi fell in love with me, and maybe Zhoushan Island.

No, I have to leave and go to Nanjing, find a relationship to settle this matter, I'm afraid it's too late. ”

The more Huang Binqing thought about it, the more uneasy he became, and he left and ordered someone to prepare a ship for silver, and he was going to Nanjing to go to Nanjing to get in touch with him, so as to keep the position of Zhoushan counselor.

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The silk produced by the spring silkworms finally came down, and several small boats came to Cen Harbor from the other side every day.

Lin Yunhai is a silkworm farmer in Dongwu Town, Yinxian County, with 30 acres of mulberry fields at home and a silk reeling workshop. Most of the annual raw silk will be collected by the silk merchant, and he has signed a contract with the silk merchant to supply thirty quintals of raw silk every year. However, the price of silk stipulated in the contract is dead, but the market price of raw silk is alive, although there is a contract in his raw silk is not worried about the market, but the silk merchant also keeps the price very low.

I heard that a load of raw silk could be sold for 80 taels of silver in Hangzhou last year, but the silk merchant gave him only 55 taels. Planting mulberry trees, picking mulberry leaves, raising silkworms, and reeling silk, all year round, most of the profits from the raw silk produced are earned by silk merchants, which makes Lin Yunhai feel willing.

However, the silk merchant was a local gentry, and someone in his family was an official in the court, so he couldn't afford to offend him. But Lin Yunhai is not stupid, naturally knows the loopholes of the contract, the contract stipulates that at least 30 quintals of raw silk will be sold every year, which is calculated according to the minimum output of 30 acres of mulberry forest, in fact, the Lin family has to produce more than 40 quintals of raw silk every year, and Lin Yunhai naturally does not want to sell this excess raw silk to silk merchants.

From Dongwu Town to Cen Port is more than 20 miles of waterway, you can go back and forth in one day by boat, sell the prolific raw silk to Cen Port, and you can earn dozens of taels of silver more in one trip.

Every year, after the raw silk comes down, leaving enough for the contract, Lin Yunhai will transport the remaining raw silk to Cen Port.

In Cen Gang, Lin Yunhai has a cooperative store, and he sells raw silk to Cen Gang's money shopkeeper every year.

But this year, when he came to Cen Harbor again, the ship entered the wharf, and as soon as he came ashore, a strange fellow came up to talk to him and asked him to sell the raw silk to the newly established Qiyun firm.

Lin Yunhai, who had a Qiyun business name or something, had never heard of it, so he naturally refused to deal with people who had never cooperated. So he ignored this person's entanglement and went to find a familiar money shopkeeper on his own.

The money shopkeeper was very happy to see Lin Yunhai and asked him to unload the raw silk from the ship, and the price was still according to last year's price, and he was given sixty-five taels per load of raw silk. But when checking out, the money shopkeeper told Lin Yunhai that there was no cash in the store now, and asked him to settle the bill in a month, everyone was an old relationship, and there was no need to worry that he would repay the account.

Lin Yunhai was anxious when he heard this, he had always delivered the goods with one hand and paid the money with the other, what he did was illegal, where was the reason for credit.

At this moment, the guy from the Qi Yun firm came over again and offered to ask Lin Yunhai to sell the raw silk to the Qi Yun firm, and gave him a price of sixty-seven taels per load, and paid him cash on the spot.

Each load of raw silk sells for two taels of silver, and it is cash silver, of course Lin Yunhai will not miss such a good thing, and at the moment, regardless of the retention of the money shopkeeper, let the guys who came with him pick the raw silk to the Qiyun firm.

Qi Yun's firm was actually set up in the original inspection department yamen, which made Lin Yunhai very surprised. The raw silk sold very smoothly, and the cash was obtained on the spot. It sold more than 20 taels of silver more than in previous years, which made Lin Yunhai very excited, and gave each of the two guys a reward of one or two silver.

Other trading houses in Cen Gang were robbed by pirates, and the goods and silver in the store were looted, and the proprietor behind them certainly knew the news, and these days, people have come to visit Ren Siqi one after another. The Zhangjialin family in Ningbo has successively come to deal with this matter.

The person from the Zhang family is Zhang Jingxian's cousin and brother of Zhang Pujia, of course he knows Ren Siqi. came up and had a relationship with Ren Siqi, hoping that Ren Siqi could return the goods in the past. Ren Siqi entertained him well, feasted, and played, but he didn't talk about returning the goods.

The goods were snatched by Ren Siqi from the pirates, and Ren Siqi also saved the lives of the people in the shops, everyone is from Yinxian County, and they can't make trouble about this matter. The people of the Zhang family see that if they don't return the goods, it's just that.

The shopkeeper Qian is not a local, and relying on Qian Qianyi's relationship, his confidence is very strong, and he is angry with Ren Siqi. But Changshu is too far away from here, and it has been ten days, and the Qian family in Changshu has not yet come to deal with this matter. But in this way, the raw silk business was delayed, and he could only watch Ren Siqi snatch his business away. (To be continued.) )