Bidding farewell to Qianhu and coming out, when Xiao Ye was leaving, he saw Tian Fangjun waiting carefully outside the door, so he thought that he made a look, and the shopkeeper Tian nodded knowingly and sent Baihu out of the door of the shop.

Tunli along the surrounding of the land temple, in front of each house has dug a ditch, plaster groove paved, covered with plaster, convenient for each family to concentrate dirty water into the ditch, dirty water directly discharged out of the tunzi, flowing down the north mountainside.

Like the drainage ditch in the stone fort, the drainage ditch in this tun was dug by the craftsmen in order to prevent the dirty and smelly water from flowing sideways.

Originally, the water source was in the back mountain, and each family was reluctant to spend too much money to buy water, but now the appearance of the umbrella also made Xiao Ye see the hope of using water for hundreds of households in the future, so the pure water of one penny and one bucket became one penny or two buckets.

It's a discount business, and it's okay to stick a little more, so that the big guy can have a good time, it's worth it.

Walking on the cover of the ditch, listening to the flowing water under the feet, you can know which family's family members are washing diligently, and Xiao Ye still has a sense of accomplishment.

didn't go back to the hundred households directly, Xiao Ye ran to his father-in-law's house, said hello to Yang Tianshou, pulled Mei'er, and beside the stone table in the courtyard, let this wife, who was better at arithmetic than herself, take out her abacus and calculate it carefully.

"The cost of the charcoal in Tunli, one or two catties of silver, is already high, if it is in the gravel fort, nine hundred dollars can buy a thousand catties," the little hand pressed on the abacus, Mei'er didn't even think about it, and said directly; In the gravel fort, she is in charge of the family's firewood, rice, oil and salt.

Xiao Ye nodded, although he didn't know the value of the pocket watch, but just looking at the greed in the eyes of the two thousand households, it was not a cheap thing.

Down, Xiao Ye said little by little, 3,000 catties of charcoal, tens of thousands of catties of earthy yellow iron ore artificial, fine sieving white sand artificial, 50 catties of copper, 10 taels of mercury, one item was written on paper by Mei'er, and finally calculated, the cost was nearly 200 taels, not counting the dead stone.

"Husband, what's this?" Mei'er, who was confused, didn't know what Xiao Ye was counting, but she just converted these seemingly inconsequential things into silver coins and added them up.

"The pocket watch is a small crown that looks at the time, it is very delicate," Xiao Ye said with some frustration, "Those two thousand households are not things, if I hadn't given them the pocket watch, it is estimated that Tunli would not have lived in peace,"

His words made Yang Tianshou, who was drinking tea next to him, squirt out of the tea, "Stinky boy, why are you talking, thousands of households are not things, what are you a small hundred households, you are really open-mouthed,"

Yang Tianshou had never heard of pocket watches, so naturally he didn't care about Xiao Mian, catching Xiao Ye was a lecture, Xiao Ye, who was talking about it with a black face, nodded again and again, greeted Mei'er embarrassedly, and went out of the yard. After a detour to Li Langzhong, Xiao Ye returned to Baihusuo.

Back at home, Mei'er was already there to pack up her dirty clothes, without her father-in-law's surveillance, Xiao Ye pulled his wife to make love, worried that there were still guests coming, so he didn't pick up a gun and got on the horse, and let go of Mei'er's fiery lips.

Late at night, Tian Fangjun led Tian Guanglin to the Baihu Office, and with Xiao Ye's orders, the guards' personal guards were directly released.

In some cold courtyards, Tian Guanglin chuckled and said with a chuckle after receiving Xiao Ye's salute, "Ximen Baihu, you are heavily guarded here, and it is very strict compared to the gravel fort."

There are only three rooms in the 100 households, and with the family in the inner room, it is not easy for Tian Guanglin to enter at night, so he sits on the stone bench in the courtyard and talks.

"Lord Qianhu laughed, this place is not comparable to the gravel fort, the gravel fort has thousands of acres of fertile land, nearly 10,000 acres of second-class fields, Shiguantun grows vegetables in the corners of the house and on the roadside, there is no grain field at all, and the sergeants are poor," Xiao Ye picked up the teapot with a smile and poured a cup of hot tea for Tian Guanglin opposite.

"Today, I neglected Tian Qianhu, and invited a large number of adults, and the boy gave tea," picked up the teacup, and Xiao Yeli was thoughtful; Tian Guanglin also smiled and drank the sweet and sour farmhouse tea, which tasted good.

"Boy, there is still a perfume here, please come to Qianhu to take a look, if the adults are interested, then the Tian family shop has an additional supply," Xiao Ye, who didn't talk much, directly said tonight's topic.

Xiao Liuzi took out a wooden lacquer plate, on which were placed two small porcelain gourds, these were the two empty medicine bottles that Xiao Ye asked for from Li Muchen, the pills had been used up, and the bottles with the taste of Chinese medicine were washed several times before they were completely clean.

"My lord, please look," Xiao Ye pinched a porcelain gourd and handed it to Tian Guanglin, who was smiling but silent; Tian Guanglin took it, pulled out the cork on it, and suddenly a faint fragrance went straight into his nose.

"Hey, this, it's so strange," Tian Guanglin, who lingered in the Huanchang Hualou when he was a teenager, was an expert in rouge gouache, the corners of his eyebrows jumped slightly, stretched out his little thumb, dipped a little water stain in the bottle, and slid it on his left wrist.

His movements were very natural, and although Xiao Ye was strange, he was embarrassed to open his mouth to ask.

"Well, yes, how to call this thing," the light fragrance, floating but not strong, Tian Guanglin, who was fanning his nose, showed joy on his face, the gouache of the Fu brand in the capital, even if it was a box of top goods of one hundred taels, it could not compare to this natural taste.

"Perfume is developed with a large number of flowers, which is quite labor-intensive, and it is also a kind of gouache of the Persians," Xiao Ye replied calmly, there is a way that there are too many lies, and it has become the truth, and Xiao Ye is not sure now whether there are Persian caravans on the grassland; But depending on the situation, there is no and there has to be.

Hey? If you don't have it, you have to have it, if this is ......, Xiao Ye will suddenly be a little distracted.

"Okay, perfume, fragrant, crystal like water, good name," Tian Guanglin smiled and put the bottle on the stone table, tonight's harvest should be there.

"The gorge passes north through the Gobi steppe, and there is an oasis more than 2,000 miles away, where the Persian Xiaguan inadvertently healed their companions, and then made a deal with Xiaguan, and they built a city, and there was a big gap with the Mongol Tartars, and Xiaguan was just a coincidence,"

Without Tian Guanglin's inquiry, Xiao Ye sobered his head, took a sip of tea quietly, and took the initiative to "explain" the source of the perfume.

So far away, not to mention Tian Guanglin, I'm afraid that few people in Daming can get there, the scimitar of the Tartar on the grassland, that's not a joke, and you have to have a life to do business.

The six major merchants have a lot of regular customers on the grassland, but those regular customers sometimes don't mind being horse thieves, and unfamiliar business routes often indicate blood and losses.

"So far away," Tian Guanglin frowned, and before he could open his mouth, Xiao Ye continued, "Every month, the Persians will send horse teams to trade with the lower officials near the Altai Mountains," as for the rest, Xiao Ye needless to say, it is a secret about silver money.

Since the Tian family knows the news of the Persians, I am afraid that it will not be long before other big merchants will also know that there are more unjust ghosts on the grassland who are exploring the way, and Xiao Ye does not care.

As long as you can lead the troubled waters to the grassland, and you can be alone, that's enough.

"And the price of this perfume?" Nodding, putting the perfume on the stone table, Tian Guanglin, who was not good at asking any more, pointed to the porcelain bottle on the table, and asked with a smile; This kind of porcelain gourd, he couldn't tell that it was an empty medicine bottle, so he didn't say anything.

"Half a catty and two hundred taels is the price given by the Persian merchants," After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Ye really couldn't think of how much silver could be sold for the perfume obtained by fifteen eldest sons plus three thousand catties of charcoal, and closed his eyes at a price that he was crazy about.

His uncomfortable appearance, Tian Guanglin saw it in his eyes, and couldn't help but sigh, brother, you are too sincere, two hundred taels, and in terms of catties, in the Fuzi store in the capital, two hundred taels of silver can buy a small box of mid-range goods of less than five taels.

Forget it, let's take care of this inexperienced hundred households, the old man in the family has an explanation, Tian Guanglin stepped forward and whispered about today's everything, it is nothing more than his Ximen experience is naïve, and he doesn't know the pain when he is slaughtered.

The exquisite pocket watch, the bizarre perfume, and the silk cotton coat, etc., if you want to say that it is believed to be made by Shiguantun, let alone Tian Guanglin, no one will be stupid enough to do that; The situation in Shiguan Tunli has been thoroughly understood by the Tian family and the Huang family.

Also, the stone mill that moved into the stone castle, who can believe that the big guy will change, and there is no need for the old cow to grind.

"That pocket watch, in the future, you will also know that it can be sold for 1,500 taels in Shanxi, and it is more expensive in Beijing, and it is still priceless," Speaking of this, Tian Guanglin stroked the short beard on his chin, "And this perfume is sold for two, not by catties,"

"The official will not treat you badly, the perfume is half a catty and two hundred and twenty taels, you can hand it over to Fang Jun for delivery, no matter how much," Tian Guanglin, who simply monopolized the perfume, comforted Xiao Ye without changing his face, "You are still young, the official will protect you, and the new goods in the future can be brought to the gravel castle, so that the official can bargain after seeing it, so as not to be taken up by others,"

"Yes, the lower officials know, or Qianhu can see it clearly," Xiao Ye, who was submissive, although his face was burned red, he could still hide it in the night, and he had a lot more favorability than Wang Chongli for this deputy Qianhu who could collapse his body and tell him about his experience.

He is now like a dry sponge, how much experience can be absorbed, and he still relies on others to guide him, or exchange losses for lessons.

Wang Chongli, who was sleeping in the Tian family's guest room, if he knew that Tian Guanglin had intervened in the perfume business, he was afraid that he would vomit blood and raise the price, "Is three hundred and a half catties good, and four hundred taels is also successful?"

The next morning, Wang Chongli and Tian Guanglin, accompanied by Xiao Ye, went to the mill again, and the large pile of stones outside, the stone mill without movement, made them firmly believe that the complexity of the plaster ingredients was undesirable.

Calculating the investment of the capital, it is better to sell a pocket watch and a pound of perfume upside down, who will do the thankless work.

Subsequently, I watched the drill of the sergeants in the training ground, the scimitar was shining cold, the sound of twenty firearms shook the sky, and Shiguantun, which had no heavy firearms, did not look at it in the eyes of the two thousand households; However, the sergeants' ruddy faces and vigorous steps made Wang Chongli still satisfied.

After Wang Chongli comforted the sergeants, he took a turn in the tunli to see the workshop of making handcuffs, and then went to the land temple to put a stick of incense, and then prepared to turn back to the gravel fort.

After checking it several times, Wang Chongli and Tian Guanglin, who really couldn't see anything abnormal, lost interest in Shiguantun and were ready to return to the gravel fort.

Before leaving, Wang Chongli complained again about the poisonous weeds all over the mountain, explained to Xiao Ye, and sent people to the gravel fort to pull some grain and iron, and the life here was still very hard.

Naturally, the price in this is calculated according to the market for Xiao Ye's face, and it will rise a little bit if there is a slight fluctuation, and the Wang family's business acumen is not ordinary shrewd.

Tian Guanglin, who was carrying two porcelain gourds in his arms, took Luo Yufei, who was unconvinced, and said goodbye with a smile.

At this point, Shiguantun has returned to its former busyness, but the output of plaster given by the stone mill still makes Xiao Ye quite helpless. Fortunately, the Huang family, the Tian family, and the newly mixed Wang family transported truckloads of charcoal to Shishan from time to time.

On the quarry, behind the hill where the wood was cut and the grass was cut, almost all the craftsmen and hunters who were responsible for supplying the raw materials for the mill were sent up; In addition to the fifteen artisan households that draw water, Wang Dali is now in short supply.

The connection channel between Bailong Lake and Shiguantun has been quietly opened, but the distance is too far, and the camel team that can go back and forth once in ten days is already the limit of Xiao Ye.

In order to cope with the daily needs of the military households, artisan households, and hunters in Tunli, Xiao Ye had to use most of the output of the stone mill for trading, but there were not many firearms.

At the end of March, the wheat seedlings in the field grew taller, and on the road leading from the gravel fort to Shiguantun, there were not only convoys passing through, but also a messy crowd.

The 55 exiles originally assigned to the Gravel Fort, together with more than 300 family members, were transferred to Shiguantun under the operation of Wang Chongli and Tian Guanglin.

Xiao Ye, who didn't know the inside story, woke up one night and owed Wang Chongli two pocket watches, and Tian Guanglin a pound of perfume and a pocket watch, and the perfume was still the kind that was specified to have a mellow fragrance.

Pocket watches and perfumes, they will use materials to redeem the bill, but this price, I'm afraid it will be too much discount.

After all, they added military households to Shiguantun for half a day, and they will remember their hard work during the period.

The change of status to military household is simply a catastrophe for prisoners in the mainland, and it may be extremely difficult for their descendants to change their identity again.

Holding two letters, Xiao Ye looked at Lei Xiaoqing in front of him helplessly, and ran to the gravel fort, this flag officer not only brought back two truckloads of 100 stone of old grain, 500 catties of rusty iron, but also brought back 300 exiles for himself, all waiting outside the stone fort.

Hu Shibiao, a hundred households who escorted the exiles, handed in the official / document, and after getting ten taels of hard work, he returned with his subordinates, and Xiao Ye was not even in the mood to send it.

Holding the roster transferred by Qianhu, Xiao Ye, dressed as a hundred, Shi Shiran walked out of the fort gate, this door without a gate, the two Qianhu laughed at him, but Xiao Ye didn't feel that he couldn't sleep.

"Get up, stand up, the Lord of the Hundred Households has arrived," under the shouts of the guards around them, a group of men squatting on the ground, more of them were old people, women and children, standing up in rags, most of them didn't even have cloth shoes on their feet, and they stood there with a rag on their faces.

"Ladies and gentlemen," stood in front of everyone for a while, and when there was no more noise in the crowd, Xiao Ye patted the roster in his hand, "You are all Shiguantun military households now, and this official Ximen Xiao Ye is your hundred households,"

"In my place, no one will look down on you, but if you are cheating and cheating, Lao Tzu will let him understand that the food in Shiguantun will have teeth when eaten, and whoever eats it will be his fate," The last gloomy sentence suddenly shocked the spirits of the exiles, and their eyes were a little frightened.

Especially those expressionless guards, the fire/guns, crossbows, and waist knives on their bodies made Xiao Ye's words, no one dared to ask for instructions; In this wilderness, there are a lot of dead people, and they can't even find a place to report to the government.

Seeing that Baihu no longer spoke, "The literate stand on the right, the skilled stand on the left, and the other stands in the middle of the station," Xiao Liuzi stepped forward and waved his hand with a dark face, "Take your family, immediately, quickly,"

With a shout from him, these exiles with broken burdens on their backs immediately became chaotic and shouted in confusion.

In this Ming Dynasty, the people who could distinguish the left and right were really visible, so the people who couldn't figure out where they should stand suddenly covered their heads, shouted their fathers and called their mothers, and the gate of the stone castle was in a mess, and these gangsters were gathered around.

Xiao Liuzi and they were just learning to distinguish between left and right when they were training, and now they show it off, but they have made a little mess.

"Peng," Xiao Ye, who was emitting a puff of gunpowder smoke from the handcuff, raised the revolver to the sky with a shot, and the surrounding guards also raised their guns in an uproar, aiming their guns at the crowd.

Under the muzzle of the black hole, no matter how much the exiles have other thoughts in their hearts, they don't dare to get along with the guy in the hands of the sergeant, after all, the military order is in the body, and in this Shiguantun, he was beaten to death with a gun, and there is no place to shout grievances.

"Those who know how to read, stand here," the little six sons who ran out to demonstrate in person shouted again and again in a hot sweat, so that the exiles could figure out where they should stand.

Finally in the shouting and scolding of Xiao Liuzi, the crowd was divided into three pieces, and the exiles on the right hand side were obviously about twenty people, and there were still family members in it.

Ignoring the illiterate people, a guard stepped forward, took a piece of paper, pointed to a dozen sentences on it, and someone could read it, and the whole family went to the stone castle for dinner.

If you can't read it and want to fish in troubled waters, you kick it into the pile of people on the left; If there is craftsmanship, Wang Dali and a few old craftsmen walked over, and they could quickly figure it out.

After a stick of incense, soon, the number of people in the three pieces was clear.

Six literate people were taken to Li Langzhong to work as pharmacists, fifteen craftsmen went to two workshops in a team, and most of the others were divided into teams of ten people, and Wang Si took them to the mold filling field.

The houses where these people live have not yet been built, and they will have to rest in tents at the training ground for the next few days.

With the support of three merchants with their own intentions, Shiguantun increased its manpower for the first time, and the Shibao Mill continued to be in a state of operation.

Xiao Ye, who knew the profits of pocket watches and perfumes, was excited for several days; Although it costs an extra amount of money to buy charcoal, a pocket watch can support a month's consumption in Tunli, and he doesn't care.

It's a pity that the amount of stones coming from Bailong Lake is still too small.

Uncle Kun, who is guarding the arsenal, now has another task, that is, to use five large wooden boxes to put away Xiao Ge'er's precious belongings, and when he saw Mei'er's slip, he slowly selected it and handed it over to the three shopkeepers at the gate of the fort.

A deacon of the Wang family came to deliver goods every few days, but he did not stay in the tunli for long, at most he rested in the guest room of the Tian family's shop.

Without the order of the Lord of the Hundred Households, the stone fort is now not allowed to be entered, and the guards standing at the gate of the fort are not hot or cold no matter how familiar their faces are, and the two shopkeepers who are angry can't stop scolding. Only the deacon of the Wang family did not want to go to the stone castle at all, it seems that he has seen the world, and his vision is not low.