Xu Churen is now in an embarrassing situation.

Although he pretends to be upright, in fact, in his early years, he was also attached to Cai Jing, but later he was suspicious of Cai Jing, and the two turned against each other. Now that Cai Jing is about to return to his face, he is a great threat.

Tong Guan has a deep grudge with him, as long as there is a chance, Tong Guan will never feel mercy, and must sweep him to the ground.

Now I have to add the Xiang family, although Xu Churen's twists and turns made the Xiang family disgraced, and Xiang Zonghui, one of the two county kings of the Xiang family, simply fell at home, but Xu Churen is not happy, and some of the shadows laid by the Xiang family are instigating several imperial historians to bite him.

Originally, Xu Churen could count on Wu Zhizhong to help, but Wu Zhizhong, who was nearly eighty years old, had been demoted.

Xu Churen is well aware of the risks above the officialdom, and if he wants to turn himself from danger to safety, there must be one thing that can impress the Son of Heaven and make the officials help to protect themselves.

But he has been guarding Xu for many years, and his political performance can only be said to be mediocre, and the only hope is that he can make a breakthrough under the rule of Li Guojian.

"How much ore do you want?" He asked Zhou Fu.

"Four to fifty thousand catties of ore every day!"

"In other words, there is a shortage of manpower to mine and transport ore, and I heard that Ling Lang has recruited more than 500 people." Xu Churen said.

When it comes to Zhou Quan, Zhou Fu can't say anything, because he doesn't know what his son is planning.

Seeing that Zhou Fu didn't say anything, Xu Churen didn't like it in his heart, he felt that he had hinted very clearly, but this stupid man didn't know anything.

Since there is a shortage of materials and people, then ask yourself, and it is convenient for you to put forward the conditions.

"The official will go back first, you are so good, in five days, let Ling Lang come to Pengcheng and listen to it under the official's curtain." Xu Churen left such a sentence, turned around and left with his subordinates.

After he left, Zhou Quan hurried over, and when he heard what his own Lao Tzu said, Zhou Quan was also inexplicable.

But soon, he knew what Xu Churen meant.

"Someone is being detained?" On the third day, Zhou Quan got the news.

Now that Li Guojian is building a large number of buildings, Zhou Quan recruits craftsmen and laborers at a high price, but relying only on the manpower near Diqiu is not enough to support such a large project. Therefore, Zhou Quan sent people to spread the news of recruitment to the entire Xuzhou, even several prefectures near Xuzhou.

Among them, the power of Zhao Mingcheng's family was borrowed.

Originally, every day from all over Xuzhou, there were dozens of young people running with bedding, but today there is news that on the main roads into Diqiu, Xuzhou Mansion set up a card check, in the name of arresting key criminals, and stopped those young men who came to apply.

"What does Xu Churen want to do?" Zhou Quan asked puzzled.

"Who knows, he came that day, left a sentence for no reason, and then ran away, could it be that he came to threaten me?" Zhou Fu was also confused.

How did they know that Xu Churen obviously wanted to take the credit of cement, but he was unwilling to ask for it, so he relied on the power in his hand to set up a block, forcing the Zhou family father and son to beg him.

Several people discussed for a while, but there was no conclusion, and they could only attribute it to Xu Churen's usual hostility.

"What did Xu Churen say about arresting key criminals?" In terms of how to break the game, Zhou Quan thought of Xu Churen's excuse and asked.

"The key criminals mentioned by Taishou are three groups of thieves, one is He Shun's gang who killed Xiang An." The Li Guo Supervisor who came back to report glanced at Zhou Quan cautiously.

"What else?"

"The other two groups, one is the bandit high-legged man who gathered in Mengshan, Yizhou, and the other group is the rabbit of Liangshan Bowang."

When he heard "Liang Shanbo", Zhou Quan's heart had jumped suddenly, as far as he knew, although the Water Margin was mostly fictional, Song Jiang and others were indeed people in history.

When he was in Beijing, the strongman Lu Jinyi who was bought by Jia Yi may be the jade unicorn Lu Junyi, and Xiao Yi, who was stabbed by Zhou Quan, is likely to be his apprentice Yan Qing.

Now that he heard the Liangshan thieves again, Zhou Quan suddenly became nervous.

Fortunately, I have never heard of this king rabbit, and I don't think it is a difficult person.

"This is just an excuse, Mengshan and Liangshan are far away from us, and the thieves over there don't come to Xuzhou many times!" Meng Guangdao.

Shen Fat Man also nodded again and again, the beads of sweat on his forehead were fine, but his face was ugly white.

He invested all his net worth on Zhou Quan's side, betting on the cement market. But today's cement production is not enough for Zhou Quan, and he can't make much money at all.

Production must be scaled up!

"It seems that I really need to meet this Xu Taishou, and he said let me listen to it...... Let's see what I do, if I am asked to lead the troops to exterminate the bandits, it will be simple. ”

Zhou Quan thought about it, if he was given another two years, no, as long as one year, nearly thirty of the array boys under his command were over sixteen years old, according to the habits of the Great Song Dynasty, they were adults, plus some people in the kiln, he was really sure to exterminate these two gangs of robbers.

But right now, these teenagers can't afford to take that risk.

Zhou Quan came to Pengcheng, which was expected by Xu Churen, so he met him as soon as possible. But when Zhou Quan opened his mouth to speak, he was unexpected: "The bachelor summoned the officials here, I don't know what to order?" ”

"Xiaguan?" Xu Churen frowned slightly, and then remembered that the young man in front of him did have the title of Jilu, and he could receive some Lu rice money every year.

It's a bit tricky.

After a turn of thought, a smile appeared on Xu Churen's face: "Recently, there have been a lot of correspondence with Beijing, and some interesting things have happened in Beijing, I don't know if Zhou Lang knows?" ”

"What do you mean?"

"Castle."

Although Zhou Quan was kicked out of the personnel who prepared Rongcheng, he still cared about this platform that he had set up single-handedly. As far as he knew, He Zhizhong stuffed his son into Rongcheng, and there were many nieces and sons-in-law of the rest of the officials.

Because there is such a strong force in the court, the establishment of the city is faster than Zhou Quan imagined, and now in Xiongzhou, the original location of Baigou Station, is already under construction.

Moreover, the first batch of trade in this city has also been completed, and it is said that this time alone, the two sides traded goods worth more than one million guan, and even some merchants resold all the bicycles and got more than ten to Liao.

This time alone, the Great Song Dynasty collected one-tenth of the commercial tax, which was as much as 100,000 yuan.

In fact, because the Liao State could not take out enough copper money, they used refined copper, leather goods, ginseng, livestock and other northern specialties to offset it, and these northern specialties were sent to Beijing through Rongcheng and sold in Beijing, selling more than 2 million yuan.

The commercial tax of more than two million yuan completely fell into the pocket of the Great Song Dynasty, not like the tax in the city, but also to share the profit with the Liao State.

This time is just a trial, whether it is the Great Song Dynasty or the Great Liao, the preparation is not very sufficient, the second and third are also in preparation, and the scale of trade will be larger. When the city of Baigou Post is built, this kind of trade will be normalized, from the current once or twice a month, to every day, but it is no longer the same as now, one time is millions of runs.

"The matter of Yucheng, the lower officials have never heard any interesting things." Zhou Quan pondered in his heart, and then responded.

"I heard that in this mutual market, some Liao people spent hundreds of dollars and asked someone to bring a letter to the Great Song Kingdom to deal with Zhou Lang in charge of the affairs of the city...... Hehe, it just so happens that among the five officials in the Great Song Dynasty who are now in charge of the affairs of Yongcheng, there is one surnamed Zhou, whose name is Rong, and the word master is the current science and technology scholar, so this letter fell into the hands of this Zhou Rong. He only laughed at him, but he was a man of the same age, surnamed Luo, and his name was Ruji, and he had always been good friends with him, and he got this letter from him......"

Xu Churen told this matter in the end, and Zhou Quan was dumbfounded when he heard it.

The one who spent a hundred yuan to send him a letter was undoubtedly Yu Liyan. But the letter was not sent to him, but to this Zhou Rong. I don't know which big guy in the DPRK and China pushed out this Zhou Rong, and he can get the dispatch of the affairs of the city, but this person knows that the letter is not his, but he still withholds it and does not transfer it to the person who should give it, which is really excessive!

"This Luo Ruji got this letter and sent it back to Beijing, so the princess of Liao fell in love with the Great Song Zhoulang, and it should have spread all over Beijing at this moment." Xu Churen laughed again when he said this.

This is one of the few things that can make him happy after his recent troubles.

It's just that after laughing twice, he found that Zhou Quan's face was expressionless, neither ashamed nor angry.

"You're not afraid of that?"

"Captain Tong went on an envoy with me, and he already knew about it, and as soon as he came back, he reported it to the official's family, and the official family also summoned me to ask me carefully." Zhou Quan said lightly.

As soon as he heard Tong Guan, Xu Churen's mood was very bad, and when he found out that he thought he could handle Zhou Quan, the other party didn't care at all, and Xu Churen's mood was even worse.

"I heard someone from the Jingshi say that Zhou Lang is resourceful, and I have a case here now, so I will hand it over to you." Thinking of this, Xu Churen snorted.

"The lower official is not a bachelor's official, and this kind of case is handed over to the lower official, and the name is not right." Zhou Quan said.

"I'm going to the Son of Heaven, please make you the middle law of my state." Xu Churen refused to let him go.

Zhou Quan was silent for a while, and then said with a smile: "I'll talk about it when the edict of the Son of Heaven arrives." ”

Seeing that he was soft and hard, Xu Churen was anxious, where could he wait for the edict of the Son of Heaven, not to mention whether Zhao Ji would agree to his request to dig a pit and bury Zhou Quan, it would take more than a month just to exchange books and approve them from the court, Xu Churen knew very well how great the bureaucracy of the Great Song Dynasty was!

At that time, I was afraid that the edict agreed by the Son of Heaven had not yet arrived, and the edict to denounce him had been given.

"Zhou Quan!" Originally, Xu Churen was about to have a seizure, but when he saw Zhou Quan's ancient eyes, he suddenly panicked in his heart.

At the same time as the princess of Liao fell in love with the Great Song Zhoulang, there was also the news that the young man in front of him broke the Jurchens in Liao. Although Xu Churen doesn't believe it, there must be a reason, and there is some basis for such rumors.

"Zhou Quan, this case happened under the rule of Liguo, if you don't take it, then let your father go to the trial, the case is not conclusive, your father is not allowed to go to the kiln again!" Xu Churen said.

The corners of Zhou Quan's mouth twitched: "It doesn't matter, what does the bachelor command, just say to my father." ”

"You...... You...... If you can try this case, I will remove the checkpoint and allow Li Guojian to recruit potters throughout Xuzhou! Xu Churen was cornered, and he could only show a little tone.