Yan Yun: On a February day, a child's face, cloudy and sunny and warm in an instant. The wind blows sleet at night, and the morning is warm and sunny in the sky. In February, the spring is cold, the wind is bitter, the rain and snowflakes are accompanied, the muddy roads are slippery, and the pedestrians are stumbling. The clouds covered the rain and snow, and the haze shrouded the ground like wolf smoke.

When the brigade went out from the big tent of the Chinese army, the weather was still good, and it was only more than ten miles away, and there was a chill in the wind, and Li Rubai, who was riding on the horse, immediately frowned, "Fengzhang, this day, it seems that it is going to change, otherwise, let's go back!" ”

The obedient official rode on his horse and laughed, "Brother Rubai, you are a good man, are you still afraid of the cold!" As soon as he said that, as soon as his legs clamped the horse's belly, the horse went forward, Li Rubai smiled bitterly, ordered the soldiers on the left and right, and took out the veil and covered his face.

It is very popular to wear a veil in the Ming Dynasty, but this veil is not as ordinary people imagine, that is, to take a hat and sew a layer of yarn around it, but it is diverse, with a lot of patterns, such as Li Rubai wearing it on the face, the exact description is like the helmet mask of Fusang Kendo in later generations, but it is finely woven with silver wire, the craftsman is extremely ingenious, and the silver wire is woven like a yarn, and then the silver silk yarn is used to twist the face of Chengren, and the silver silk yarn is inlaid with large East beads around it, which looks extremely gorgeous. When it is draped over the face and tied with a ribbon on the back of the head, it has a cruel but elegant strange beauty.

He was born and raised in Liaodong, and he was extremely familiar with the climate of the Northland, so he naturally had such things with him, but after covering his face, he hesitated for a moment, took off his veil again, and whispered to the soldiers around him: "Send two sides to Uncle Guo and the princess Fusang." The pro-soldier went, but he took the reins, rode to Yan Qingwei's side, and handed over the veil on his hand, "Senior sister, this looks like it's going to be wind and sand, you bring the veil, the wind and sand outside the plug are very large, and you are from Jiangnan, you don't know how to breathe, and you are easy to get sick when the time comes." ”

Yan Qingwei's eyes narrowed, thanked her, then took the veil and put it on her face, and tied it behind her head to the back of her head.

The obedient official didn't pay attention to her, but just took the veil on his hand and said excitedly to Li Rubai: "Brother Rubai, this thing is good, but did you make it in the house?" 100,000 taels of silver, I bought the patent. ”

Li Rubai was stunned, he didn't understand, the obedient official explained to him with a smile, and he shook his head, "This is not too uncommon in the luxury people in the Northland, you can do as much as you want......"

With a smile on his face, the obedient official said: "Brother Rubai, you don't understand this, I have to say that this design is Ning Yuanbo's, and then I bought it with real money, from now on, no one else can make it, and if it is made, it is a crime, either fine the silver, or go to prison...... Why don't you do it! Brother Bai, you take another 200,000 taels of silver, plus the price of this veil patent is 100,000 taels, even if you buy shares, give you one percent of the shares, it's not too little, fifty-five percent is in my sister's hands, I want to run a brand, it's called Wanli......" His idea is very bad, and he plans to take Li Chengliang to carry the black pot.

Li Rubai was shocked by him, in fact, the Ming people also have brand awareness, for example, Bao Daxiang gold, Qi Yuezhai jewelry, but, blatantly use today's year name as a brand, this is too wanton, but then I thought about it, but I also calmed down, who is this young man in front of me? Concubine De's younger brother, today's most valued brother-in-law.

Speaking of these, the obedient official is quite gushing, and he gave the idea to Li Rubai to say, in fact, this idea he has in Nanjing, Xue Susu and other votes to go to Yanjing, the most important thing is to run a Wanli Yanjing flagship store, in the idea of the good official, Wanli brand will be under the jurisdiction of a variety of types of business, such as women's clothing, to make a standard, and then, make a large number of ready-to-wear clothes, the Ming Dynasty has all kinds of ready-to-wear shops, but, can it fight with the assembly line of later generations?

There will be a variety of brands under Wanli's name, such as "Concubine De", which will include women's clothing and jewelry, and "Jianzun" will include a variety of artworks, including muskets, Japanese knives, bird guns, Franc machine guns, and all kinds of general cannons, all of which will be branded with the trademark of Jianlu Jianzun.

The obedient official is not afraid of taboos at all, what's wrong with the brand Wanli? Don't call Wanli a taboo! Called Wanli, it means that this is the emperor's business, and he can also openly fake the tiger, when someone pirates and counterfeits the cottage, he can take the brocade guard to copy the house, the emperor's greatest use is here, the emperor himself is doing this, he will be sprayed to death by the imperial historians, but he Zheng Guo's uncle is doing this, what is the saliva of the imperial historians afraid of!

When the emperor's decree does not work, the holy decree written by the governor of the Dongchang factory can take people's lives, the Ming Dynasty is sometimes so absurd, the obedient officials do not mind adding another fire, and later generations have experts to the Wanli Dynasty to calculate an account, and finally believe that the GDP of the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period accounts for 80% of the world, and the entire Ming Dynasty GDP is 65% of the world.

Look at the wealth created by the Wanli Dynasty, and then look at the big taxes collected by the Ming Dynasty, the national tax of four million silver a year, and laugh off the big teeth when you say it, the entire Ming Dynasty will collapse on the military budget to be honest, and then look at the military expenditure of Citigroup five hundred years later, if you compare it carefully, people of insight will hate to chop the merchants at that time and make them into dumplings.

Good officials don't mind being impeached or something, I'll compete with the people for profit, what's the matter!

Seeing the obedient official talking endlessly, Li Rubai couldn't keep up with his train of thought for a while, and couldn't help but shake his head, not that he didn't approve, but that he couldn't figure out the good official's whimsical thinking at all, how could there be such a demon in this world! Almost everywhere is better than others, he couldn't help but glance at Yan Qingwei, and thought silently in his heart: In this way, it seems that the junior sister is really not worthy of Feng Zhang, hey! Poor junior sister, looking at her appearance, she should still like Feng Zhang, but unfortunately, she is too stubborn and too self-conscious, I'm afraid it's no fun!

At this time, Yan Qingwei couldn't help but snort, "It's so vulgar, it's in the eyes of money." ”

The obedient official was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that your Yan family is from a maritime businessman, isn't it a crow laughing at the pig black, and you don't see yourself ugly!

As soon as she thought of this, Yan Qingwei continued: "I really can't imagine that the young celebrity who made his life as he first saw at the beginning, has now degenerated to such a point...... She didn't seem to notice that her attitude was a little awkward, maybe, she found out but felt that it should be so.

Belch!

The obedient official immediately froze, it was really a good mood for a day, and she was suddenly unhappy by her words, her mouth moved, and she wanted to sarcastically say that she was brought into a neuropathy by the neurotic teacher, but Xu Wenchang was also Li Rubai's teacher, this blow was too wide, and he wanted to come and go, so he had to give up!

It was Li Rubai who helped the obedient official say fairly, "Senior sister, you can't say that, there is no silver, the Yellow River is broken, the imperial court can't repair it, the Tatar border court can't send troops, last year, Xiao Luzon killed 50,000 merchants of my Ming Dynasty in one go, and in the end, it didn't work, doesn't the imperial court want to send troops?" No, it's just that there is no silver to send troops, and the private merchants are too rich, and they are red by little Luzon, that is also a matter of course, wealth needs strong force to protect it......" he said, and said proudly: "I Liaodong has been rich in the past twenty years, I dare to say, thanks to my father, but my father also has to worry about giving silver to his soldiers, and sometimes, he has to collect taxes from the merchants who pass by, but those merchants would rather go around in a circle and go from other places in the thirteen towns than pay the road tax." ”

"If you don't have any money, how can you fight?" Li Rubai said with some excitement.

The low commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty, there is no need to say more, everyone knows it, and even, if the transaction does not meet a certain standard, it is still tax-free. There are a lot of banknotes in the Ming Dynasty, of course, we can understand the banknotes as the customs of later generations, but countless civil officials like to do one thing, after the tax set by the imperial court is sufficient, the banknotes are suddenly opened, and businessmen enter and exit at will, without collecting money.

Therefore, the Ming civil officials are extremely bad, and the Ming businessmen are extremely happy.

Li Chengliang collected taxes, and the merchants were not happy, at most they went around the town on the side, but they walked a little more, and they actually saved money.

Yan Qingwei's face suddenly turned red, but she was wearing a veil, so she naturally couldn't see it, not to mention that she couldn't say that Ning Yuanbo built the mansion like a fortress and palace, aren't these all silver, the merchants have traveled thousands of miles and earned some hard-earned money, and you are embarrassed to accept other people's silver.

Or did the obedient official give Li Rubai a look, meaning to say: Don't you know the temper of your junior sister? That is a master who wants to go east and she wants to go west, and she will not turn back if she does not break through the south wall, and even if she breaks it, she will not turn back.

Li Rubai saw his eyes, and immediately pursed his lips, "Don't talk about state affairs, junior sister, go, go roe deer hunting." ”

Yan Qingwei naturally saw the look on the faces of the two of them, and for a while, the demented woman was angry again, and said loudly: "Senior brother, I am not a powerless daughter, if you want to hunt, you will hunt wolves and red foxes......" As she spoke, her legs clamped the horse's belly, and she ran out, Li Rubai smiled bitterly, senior sister! It's not like the teacher, who can dance the sword lightly and sit on a horse, so he can be called both civil and military.

He doesn't say that he can ride a horse but can sit on a horse, in the eyes of a child of a Jiangmen family like him, who is similar to the Mongols who grew up on horseback, like the teacher Xu Wenchang, who can dance two sets of sword dances, and can sit on a horse, it is still powerless.

"Brother Rubai, now I know how awkward your junior sister is! I said a big disrespectful thing, she is the women's version of Mr. Qingteng, Mr. Qingteng killed his wife if he suspected his wife of fornication with others, she may not kill her husband because she said a few more words to the woman......" The good official lowered his voice, Li Rubai immediately glared, "Fengzhang, the son does not say anything about the father...... Besides, Qingwei is still a child, and your words are also heavy. He meant to say, can you not always mention the matter of my teacher, Mr. Qingteng, as for Miss Yan, it is his junior sister, and she also needs to maintain it.

Child? It is normal for a woman in the Ming Dynasty to run around the ground when she is pregnant at this age, giving birth to a child in October, and she seems to be abnormal like this!

Secretly pursed his lips, the good official laughed twice, and said: "Okay, okay, I apologize, I shouldn't say bad things behind my back......" As he spoke, he put the veil in his hand on his face, tied the ribbon, and felt that he had the demeanor of the king of Lanling, laughed and rode forward, Li Rubai shook his head, patted the horse and chased after him.

Yan Qingwei insisted on finding some face in front of the obedient official, insisting on hunting the red fox, at least a wolf, but this did not mean that it was encountered, but in the afternoon, there was a sandstorm, and everyone had to dodge, and this wind explosion blew for two days, and it didn't stop until the morning of the third day.

After the storm stopped, the sky was exceptionally blue, Yan Qingwei looked at the dazzling blue sky, immediately got on the horse, and rode forward, leaving a string of laughter, "Senior brother, I will definitely hunt the red fox." ”

The obedient official couldn't help but muttered again, "Brother Rubai, look, this girl who doesn't listen to persuasion......" Li Rubai pulled him and hurriedly got on the horse.

A group of people searched on the grassland for a long time, but they did not see a red fox or a wolf, at this time, a lot of cavalry came, led by a square-faced man with thin eyes, and when he came near, he rolled off his horse and knelt down in front of the good officer.

"The slave Yan worm year, by the order of the pioneer officer came to the capital governor to report the good news, the pioneer officer was besieged by the trap of the barbarian Khan, just in time for the chief military officer of Shangji Town, the chief military officer of Shangji Town, the chief military officer of Datong Ma Gui, and the chief military officer of Xuanfu Dong Yiyuan, led the army to relieve the siege, won a big victory, and beheaded more than 10,000 people......" The squinting man knelt on the ground with a happy face to report the good news to the good official.

The obedient official was stagnant at first, this slave Hachi, but he was a good dog, and he didn't die if he fell into the trap of the barbarian Khan? I originally expected that he would definitely die of the plan of the Tuman Khan, the Tuman Khan is not an ordinary person, Li Rusong has fallen for his strategy in history, that is also powerful, as long as the Tuman Khan has brains, it is impossible to fight Li Chengliang or directly hit the Chinese army, the so-called picking soft persimmon pinch, naturally first pull out the nail of the vanguard.

However, when he heard that his Uncle Shan was coming out of the customs with soldiers, he still liked it very much, and immediately asked: "Can my Uncle Shan take the big boy?" ”

Yan Worm Nian was obviously instructed before he came, and said with a sneer on his face: "So that the Metropolitan Governor knows that the Shan Xiaoye is also there, and he specially asked the slave to bring a message to the Metropolitan Governor, saying that he misses the young master very much......"

The good official laughed, reached out and took out a finger-sized gold ornament in his arms, and threw it on the ground casually on the horse, "Good slave, reward you." ”

Yan Worm Nian picked it up and looked at it, there was a monkey sitting on a horse, golden, it was an auspicious omen thing that was immediately sealed, and he was overjoyed at the moment, and knocked his head on the ground like this, knocking his head into a black purple still unconscious, "Thank you to the slave for rewarding the capital, the slave's dog life will be the governor of the capital from now on......"

(To be continued)