Li Shi couldn't have imagined that Chen Tongtai would be in Thailand before he entered Guangzhou.

It was only two days ago, when he was flying to the gorge to enjoy the scenery, in Shaozhou City, Yan Sanniang and Luo Tangyuan also saw how the ants on the hot pot were jumping.

The private residence of Shaozhou Mansion and Bai Daolong is on the same street, on the top floor of a three-story restaurant at the end of the street, and a few guards guarding the staircase politely stopped a group of guests who had to go upstairs to eat and did not even persuade the shopkeeper of the restaurant. The guest still wanted to make noise, and Si Wei showed the waist card of the Shaozhou Town Mark, which scared the other party away.

"That's it, he's been walking down this street for more than an hour."

Yan Sanniang made up her mind, Luo Tangyuan took a deep breath, forced himself to hold his beating heart, and opened the two long wooden boxes under his feet.

"Are you sure this shot...... Can't miss a shot in 100 steps? ”

Taking out a musket from a box, sticking her fingers into the barrel of the gun, and touching the unevenness of the circle, Yan Sanniang asked Luo Tangyuan very suspiciously.

"If there is no wind, fifty steps will be at most one palm, and a hundred steps will ...... It depends on whether you can take aim. ”

Luo Tangyuan was very proud, and he was finally able to show off in front of this girl's master.

"Can you aim better than I do?"

Yan Sanniang asked rhetorically, the sharpshooter drooped his head, who made this Sanniang understand the commonality between shooting and martial arts, and the accuracy of the musket even surpassed him Luo Tangyuan.

"Hang the lamp! Phonate! ”

Good ammunition, Yan Sanniang resolutely ordered.

A red light was hung outside the window on the top floor of the restaurant, and at the same time, the sound of suona waist drums sounded on the second floor.

Diagonally facing the street forty or fifty steps away, I saw two beggars pretending to be teenagers fighting with each other, leaning towards Chen Tongtai, who was still grinding outside the gate of the mansion. Chen Tongtai was accompanied by three companions, always blocking his figure. According to the plan, the teenager pretended to steal money and lured away at least one or two companions.

Seeing that the young beggar was about to approach Chen Tongtai and his party, Chen Tongtai moved, striding towards the farther street corner. There was a small room surrounded by wooden doors on three sides, but it was not completely sealed, and there was a gap leaking high to the chest. Looking at the traces of filth around them, passers-by pinched their noses and avoided the side, this should be a street toilet, and the gap is for people to breathe fresh air. 【1】

Chen Tongtai opened the door and entered the toilet, and he could only see the money rat butt on his head, and the two young beggars dressed as guards froze for a moment, and turned their heads to see that the red lanterns in the restaurant in the distance had not been taken off. After muttering a few words together, they walked straight to the toilet, one teenager pretended to open the door, and the other squatted weakly, as if he was gesturing his body, and then reached out and drew on the toilet board.

"Get out of here!"

The companion drove the two teenagers away, and then turned around to see, two lines were drawn on the wooden board on the back of the toilet, vaguely the outline of the back of the person sitting down, and shook his head helplessly, saying that this little beggar can really be trick-or-treating.

Seeing that the companions also thought the taste was too heavy, they all avoided it one after another, the white lines were extremely clear, Luo Tangyuan stretched out his arms and made a figure of eight, squinting his eyes and estimating.

"Seventy steps, master, this distance ......"

He hesitated, and Yan Sanniang gritted her teeth.

"Two guns together! If he really doesn't win, then God will spare him. ”

The two of them held their guns, Yan Sanniang learned from Luo Tangyuan, moved the sliding door to the back gear, calmed down, and aimed ahead.

Chen Tongtai, who was squatting in the toilet, only felt that his five internal organs were burned into a tuo, Bai Daolong said that he was going out on an errand, and the banknote supervisor ignored him, and asked him to secretly call God for help.

Now the only hope is in the prefect of Shaozhou, he handed over enough money to the concierge, and when he heard the guy, he shrank inside. wrote a long note and handed it in, and the words were soft and hard, so I expected that guy to be able to speak, but I didn't expect to wait for more than an hour.

He had the heart to continue to guard and never let go for a moment, but his intestines couldn't wait. I felt that my stomach was about to crack, so I hurriedly went to the toilet, and I was lucky, but I couldn't hold it back.

"Mother, do you want to give my face to my face with this asshole!?"

Chen Tongtai struggled hard, but there was a cracking pain under him, and he screamed in his heart. When did constipation go wrong, but at this critical juncture, could it be that my heart was too hot before, and I dried my intestines?

was holding back his face purple, his consciousness was also fluttering, and he shivered twice, only to feel a coolness penetrating from the left and right waists of his back at the same time, soaking his stomach and intestines, and then squirting out from his front abdomen...... Then the coolness spread the boiling heat on his legs, Chen Tongtai secretly felt that something was wrong, his eyes turned downward, and his soul shattered.

His stomach had already broken open a large hole made of two in one, his liver and gallbladder were spread out on his legs with broken intestines, and a large mass of strange things was squirting from the cracked intestines.

The pain only then entered the brain, instantly drowning consciousness, Chen Tongtai's eyes rolled, his body fell forward, and his head slammed against the wooden board that had been dyed red and yellow.

"Success! Leave! ”

Seeing that there was no trace of the money rat's butt in the gap of the toilet, in the distance on the restaurant, waving away the gunsmoke, Yan Sanniang followed Luo Tangyuan to quickly pack up the musket, followed the guards and hurried downstairs, and when he left, Luo Tangyuan threw a silver ingot to the suona waist drum class, "Continue to play two songs and then leave." ”

The leisurely suona waist drum in the restaurant ended, Chen Tongtai's companions all frowned, his shopkeeper hasn't seen any movement yet, can this bubble be pulled for so long?

If you look closely, there is no head in the gap, and the secret feeling is wrong, and when you knock on the door, there is no response, so you pull it away, and you are stunned on the spot.

After a long while, the three companions held their stomachs, and threw up, shouting in a hurry: "Kill...... Vomit...... Hoo! ”

When Li Shi knew about this, Chen Tongtai had been in Thailand for four days, and when he received the news, he was rubbing his stomach, lamenting that the reputation of Guangzhou people who dare to eat anything really has a long history, and it is not much different from the situation three hundred years later. Thanks to his knowledge in his previous life, except for the very taboo prototypes such as raw monkey head, three squeaks, drunken shrimp, and live donkeys, as well as some weird mussel snails, the others can still be handled. Rao is like this, I have rushed a few times in two days, and this stomach is still a little unbearable.

"Come on, drink it and feel better."

Pan Jinling brought a bowl of stomach-invigorating decoction, and greeted in a tone like a gentle little daughter-in-law, Li Shi took it, glanced at the urgent letter on the table, and sighed with emotion: "If only Sanniang could have a surname like you." ”

Pan Jinling froze for a moment, and his mind turned a few times before he roughly understood what Li Shi meant, and quickly lowered his head, only smiled slightly: "Then it's not called Yan Sanniang......

Then she realized something, and asked in surprise, "Could it be ...... What earth-shattering things did she do? ”

Li Xian sighed helplessly: "It's really unexpected, the Red Thunder Woman suddenly turned into a sniper...... It's just that this time I'm going to have to teach her a lesson. ”

The first half of the sentence Pan Jinling was incomprehensible, and the second half of the sentence aroused her worry: "You...... It's not going to punish her, is it? ”

Li Shi changed the topic: "I brought the latest microscope from Wu Chong's side, you better hurry up and build your Zhiwei Building, just pay attention to secrecy." I will also transfer some of your disciples in Yingde, and if there is anything missing, go directly to Peng Xianzhong, who will be stationed in Guangzhou. ”

Pan Jinling lowered his eyes and responded respectfully. Li Shi stared at her cheek and looked at her for a while, until a faint blush rose on the elegantly contoured goose egg face, and then he turned his gaze away.

"I have to look at Shu......"

Li Xi pressed down on his strange thoughts, and said again: "At most, for half a year, I will take care of the affairs of Yingde clearly, and I should also come to Guangzhou." The location of the Shantang you chose is very good, and the medicine shop in the future will also be near the Shantang, so it's better to stay away from here. It's a matter of Shantang, don't involve too much, just focus on leprosy. ”

This time, Jin Ling only listened to the first half of the sentence, only to feel that the heavy haze in his heart suddenly dissipated, but he didn't dare to look up at him, and his cheeks were even redder.

"Oh, and besides, you still have a task for this half a year......"

Li Xi didn't spare her, and looked at her tall but somewhat thin figure.

"The zero money I gave you, don't change the good name of the Bodhisattva, eat more and eat well, at least ten catties of meat will grow out in half a year, otherwise others will always say that I have treated you badly."

Li Xianren was no longer there, and the medicine bowl on the table became empty, and these words were still swinging in the bottom of Pan Jinling's heart.

"If you don't know that you have no intention, if you change to another woman, I'm afraid I will have no sleep all night."

Pan Jinling shook his head with a wry smile, suppressed the swaying in his heart, and then patted his cheek, looking very annoyed: "Look, I was still counted down by him, I didn't work hard enough, I can't think cranky anymore." ”

The aftermath of setting foot in Guangzhou has not yet dissipated, Li Zhushou and Bai Daolong are still in the city of Guangzhou with officials from all walks of life, happily waiting for the good fruit, with them in front, plus the Guangdong governor to resolve the ripples of the rice price matter, Li Xi no longer has to be in Guangzhou. His goal is to make a name for himself in Guangzhou and lay the starting point, and this task has obviously been accomplished. The name of "Li Banxian" is no longer called in Guangzhou, and the officials and businessmen in Guangzhou refer to Li Shi as "Li Beijiang", which is said to have come from the Governor's Palace.

Of course, there is not only this name, there are those called "Li Yingde", some are called "Li Shaozhou", and some people even call him "Li Shuangjiang" because he controls the two roads of the Jiangbei River...... In the next few days, Li Shi struck while the iron was hot, gathered the owners of the Beijiang Shipping Company, took out the new business contract that had been drawn up a long time ago, and put together the group of people who originally only relied on the mutual insurance of the Beijiang Shipping Contract into a real shipping company in the form of substantial shares.

With the Qingtian company behind him as the big boss, the other shipowners are small bosses, the business is arranged and dispatched by Li Xian, and the income and expenditure are also uniformly accounted for.

has a guaranteed fixed salary, his own ship also enters the industry as a member, and there is such an energetic big man as Li Xi to take orders, and there is no obstacle to sailing all the way, plus the personal experience of this rice transportation, the shipowners are happy to accept it. In addition to the more than 20 ships directly operated before, there were suddenly more than 30 large sand boats of more than 3,000 stones, and more than 50 medium-sized sand boats of 1,000 stones.

The reason why he decided to set foot in Guangzhou as the proprietor of the ship company was that Li Shi had discussed with Duan Hongshi before that his industry would eventually be revealed, which part was the most appropriate and least likely to attract the attention of the government, and it was this ship company that was finally determined.

First of all, he is an inland river shipping business, which is a grade worse than a maritime merchant like Zhang Yuanlong, and he has not highlighted his reputation by the price of rice, which is not too big in Guangdong, and it is even more inconspicuous in the whole country. Secondly, he did not monopolize the Beijiang River, and the volume of ships collected was much worse than the total volume of the two rivers, and it did not affect those wealthy merchants who had their own fleets, but only convenient for small and medium-sized merchants who did not have ships, and would not provoke the imperial merchants, officials and businessmen, at least not so quickly provoke them to make strange calculations. Third, in this era, there are almost no industrial businessmen who focus on simple shipping, because this is far less profitable than direct trafficking of commercial goods, and the technology required for organization and management is not something that ordinary people can have.

Another point is that if you only look at the shipping company, the government can't find too sensitive attention, because there are regulatory agencies such as banknote customs, and the problem is ...... The Xunzhuo Pass is in Li Xian's hands, and in his opinion, the two passes on the Shaozhou side have fallen into his hands, and it is not too long ago.

Peng Xianzhong was transferred to the newly established supervisor of the shipping bank, and he established the headquarters of the shipping company in Guangzhou, responsible for the unified order and row of ships, a series of operations, which required a large number of calculation men. In addition to the dispatch of part of the Qingtian Company, a part of the transfer from the Xunhuan Customs Bank, coupled with the local recruitment in Guangzhou, should be able to operate in the early stage.

As for the later work, such as formulating a more detailed operation and management charter of the shipping company, improving the set of accounts that Li Shi used in the customs bank, and also using it in the shipping line, how long these things will take, and how detailed and smooth they can be done, depends on Peng Xianzhong's ability.

"Rest assured, this is our lifeblood, I am doing my best, and I am dead, we must say that our lifeline is Tongtai as soon as possible!"

Peng Xianzhong, who shoulders the heavy responsibility, is full of energy, and he is still the first general under Li Xian who is not in the "Li Zhuang system", of course, he will go all out.

After conditioning the boat line, and then visiting the widow Wang, whose career such as the leather shop, the shoe shop, and the Qingtie shop had also begun to get on the right track, Li Shi was about to go home. For him, Guangzhou is still only one end of the bloodline, and Yingde is still a dantian. The task of setting foot in Guangzhou has been completed, and the ship line has also become a model, he has overfulfilled the task, and the next focus is to keep the dantian and continue to forge the core purely.

And the first thing he did when he went back was to pour a basin of ice water on someone who thought he had done a good deed. Before Pan Jinling asked him if he wanted to punish Yan Sanniang, he deliberately changed the topic, not only for fear of leaking the news in advance, but also for fear of scaring Pan Jinling.

(To be continued)