"Listen, big guy, don't rob any of you, don't mess up, the salt is there, the stove is burning, and the carts and horses are being transported here." Lin Haitian said loudly.

A middle-aged woman pursed her lips, tilted her pointed chin and said: "Who are you deceiving, there is so much salt, why are you only allowed one person to buy a catty, obviously there is not much, if you don't buy it now, the price will increase again in the future, right?" ”

Hundreds of people in the back also shouted, "That's right, since there is so much salt, why not limit the purchase, it's clearly a trick!" ”

Lin Haitian patted his chest and said: "Folks, Lin is also a businessman with a name and surname, and spitting foam is a nail!" Indeed, the original old salt merchants made trouble, wanting to resist the reform and raise prices. However, the king of Zhongshan has already made a decisive move, and the salt works in various places are still in normal production. What is lacking at the moment is capacity, boats, horses and carriages are all being transported, and only the first batch is being shipped at the moment. The purchase limit is one catty, which is to help everyone in emergency. If there is no shortage of salt in your home, I advise you to wait, it will not take ten days, and the price of salt will drop significantly! ”

Listening to Lin Haitian's words, everyone looked at each other, and most of them were still skeptical.

The woman pouted even more: "The old lady has seen everything over the years, but I haven't heard that the price of salt can be reduced, who do you want to deceive!" ”

Lin Haitian was also mad with anger, he suddenly took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms and slapped them on the table.

"You all see, this is a total of 500,000 taels, it was originally the money that I Lin bought the salt farm, and now I am betting here, if the cheap salt is not delivered after ten days, you will divide the silver. I, Lin someone, frowned, I will never dare to be a businessman again in this life! ”

The real money was smashed in front of him, and everyone present looked at each other, but they hadn't really made up their minds yet. At this time, there was a burst of laughter from outside.

"Folks, listen to the old man. The price of salt is going to come down, and we have all caught up with the good time, and the king of Zhongshan will reform the salt policy, and in the future. There is hope that the price of salt will drop several times! ”

When the big guys looked back, they all knew each other, and they all nodded and said hello.

"Old Madam Mao, why are you here? Are you okay with your old age? ”

"Okay, okay, my son is back. My body is completely healed! The old lady smiled and took Mao Bijiang's hand, and said to everyone: "Fellow villagers, this news was brought back by my son, and he will serve the King of Zhongshan now." I heard that. There are good things waiting for us in the future! ”

Lin Haitian tried his best to foam, few people believed it, but the old lady was different, she was highly respected in Rugao, listening to her words, many people recited Amitabha.

"Hey, this King of Zhongshan is really a good official. After so many years, no one has really thought about us ordinary people! ”

"Yes, if the price of salt drops, I will pull a few feet of cloth for the doll at home to make a new dress, and the child will still be wearing the clothes from three years ago!"

A few people couldn't help but ask, "King Zhongshan?" Isn't it the one who just defeated the Tartars, but I heard that it's the prince of the country! ”

Mao Bijiang said with a smile: "The Duke of Ji Guogong has made many military exploits and has been named the King of Zhongshan, which is an honor that my dynasty has never had!" ”

"No wonder, the Tartars don't even look at it. They also care about the salt merchants. ”

"Yes, go on the horse to govern the army, and get off the horse to govern the people. King Zhongshan's this! ”

Countless people stretched out their thumbs, and some people congratulated him on opening up the frontier and wished him a prosperous journey.

There were also quite a few people gathered around the old lady. Said with a smile: "Yo! I haven't seen the young master for a few days, I said that the young master was a Wenqu star, and sure enough, the old lady, you are really blessed, just wait to enjoy the blessings in the future! ”

"Enjoy happiness and suffering, the old body has passed, and it is better to just ask for peace and security for a lifetime than anything else."

Seeing that most of the people were dispersed, except for what was urgently needed, no one else grabbed it, Lin Haitian also took a breath, wiped the sweat on his head, and bowed to the old lady and Mao Bijiang.

"Thank you, old lady, for your help. What is this brother called? ”

"Venture out of the frontier."

"Oh!" Lin Haitian's eyes suddenly widened, and he said in surprise: "You are the fourth son of the Restoration Society?" ”

"There has been no resumption of the society for a long time, more than a year ago, I worked for An **, wrote a lot of articles, and was scolded by the sky, but fortunately, I was thick-skinned and survived. No, the prince said that he wanted to open a port in Shanghai, so let me go to Zhangluo. ”

When Lin Haitian heard this, he immediately grabbed Mao Bijiang, and said with a smile: "Brother Mao, opening a port is not a trivial matter, you don't know how many of our businessmen's eyes are red, so they are looking forward to this day!" ”

Mao Bijiang also smiled: "Brother Lin may not know, in the barracks of An**, there is a map hung up, I heard that it was presented by Xiyi." There are incomparably vast 6 lands on it, and I am less than one-tenth of it. There is also a vast ocean, which is several times more than 6 places. The prince said that wealth comes from the sea, and threats also come from the sea. Only when a country learns to manage the oceans can it dominate the world! ”

Lin Haitian lowered his head and thought about it, thought it was true, and said with a smile: "This is really a wise saying, a few years ago, the Japanese were not from the sea, and the Western merchants also came from the sea, and the prince's insight is really refreshing!" ”

They laughed and said, the old lady even wanted to take Lin Haitian home with her to celebrate.

At this time, Chen Zhenhui was also half-sober, he sneered and said: "Abandon the original and chase the end, the way to disrupt the country, you still praise Gu Zhenhua, it is simply a group of demons who have lost the country!" ”

Lin Haitian's eyes widened, and he shouted angrily: "What kind of thing are you, you dare to criticize the prince, believe it or not, I will put you in prison now?" ”

"If you have the ability, put me in now, you look at yourself, what kind of thing is it, but it's just a businessman. Shinong industry and commerce, the last class. I read the books of the sages, following the sages and humanitarians, full of economy, and the court does not use it, that is Zaifu is incompetent and blind!

Mao Bijiang waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "Brother Chen, I haven't seen you for more than a year, you haven't grown at all, it's really funny!" ”

"Dare you laugh at me?"

"Why not? Brother Chen, do you know, I have killed two Tartars with my own hands, I have seen piles of corpses, what have you seen? ”

Chen Zhenhui took two steps back at once. There was a look of horror in his eyes, but he still had a hard mouth, and said: "Wengui and Wuqi, as a big soldier, what is there to be proud of?" ”

Mao Bijiang ignored him. Instead, he said slowly: "When I arrived in An**, Gu Zhenhua forced me to write Donglin's crimes, and if I didn't write it, I wouldn't give us food, and he punished us for working every day and receiving military training. To tell you the truth, if I had a firebolt in my hand. I want to kill him! Just three months later, Donglin's guilt was written, and we were asked to live in the barracks, write articles for the soldiers, and make biographies. ”

When Chen Zhenhui heard this, she couldn't help but hold her stomach and laughed: "It's a risk." Risking the frontier, I didn't expect you to not only become a royal literati, but also write articles for those Qiu Ba, what to write? How to rob men and women, how to do evil? ”

"Chen Zhenhui, I advise you to take this sentence back, if there is no soldier to serve. At this time, the Tartars had crossed the Yangtze River, and you and I were slaves of the country. It was they who defended the Ming Dynasty with their blood and their lives! Chen Zhenhui, who is 10,000 puffing lips and tongues and playing with the pen, is no better than a soldier carrying a gun in the face of the Tartars! Do you know what is useless, it is to show you this virtue, rice bucket, straw bale, waste? Dregs! Waste food alive, stinky land when you die! ”

Mao Bijiang has always been gentle and elegant, but suddenly became angry, like a lion, forcing Chen Zhenhui to retreat step by step.

"You. What do you want? ”

"I don't want to do anything, I just want to tell you that when you are drunk and dreaming of death, there is a group of people who are burning their lives! When I was in northern Henan, I followed the people to carry the wounded soldiers, and there was a young sentry commander who was less than twenty years old, and his stomach was cut open and his intestines flowed out. We desperately carried him back, when suddenly we ran into a group of Tartars, broke up the people, and the stretcher fell to the Tartars. A couple of us turned around and tried to save him, you know, the sentry shouted for us to go, leave him alone. But there were still people who rushed forward, and the arrows of the Tartars shot down one after another. ”

It was also the first time that Mrs. Mao heard her son talk about things in the army, she clutched Mao Bijiang's sleeve tightly, and the afterimages on the battlefield kept appearing in front of her, and the old tears crackled down.

"Son, did you save the sentry commander?"

Mao Bijiang shook his head painfully: "He died, he was afraid that we would save him, so he broke his intestines and died!" ”

"Ahh

The old lady covered her face, tears welling up between her fingers. Lin Haitian was also shocked.

"Hey, the soldiers are so loyal and brave, no wonder they can look down on them!"

They were all sighing, but Chen Zhenhui was completely stunned, his eyes widened, and they were full of disbelief.

"You, you are talking nonsense, you cut off your intestines by yourself, I'm afraid that the overlord of Chu doesn't have this ability!"

Mao Bijiang shook his head slightly: "Brother Chen, do you know what the biggest problem of the Donglin Party is?" It's just too self-righteous, always thinking that the eunuch party is the worst, the emperor is the most greedy, the clan has no good things, the common people are ignorant, and only the Donglin Party is a good person in the world! If the Donglin Party is the same as the other, they will say that someone else formed a party first, and the party was also formed to eradicate the traitors. As for corruption, I feel that I am not greedy, and the real huge greed is others. Engaging in conspiracy and trickery to frame the opponent is also to turn the opponent into a heinous one first, and any shameless means can be justified! ”

When Mao Bijiang said this, he sneered: "I worked all the way, and in the end, looking back, Donglin is only half a catty or eight taels compared to the eunuchs, and even worse." When the situation in Liaodong was at its worst, it was all Donglin Bingzheng, and it was really difficult for Brother Chen and his ilk, and he thought that he was a talented person from Kuang Fu Sheji, which was really ridiculous! ”

Mao Bijiang used to be a member of Donglin, but now he is evaluated, it is simply three points, Chen Zhenhui wants to refute, but let him be romantic, but he can't find a word, so he can only stand stunned, pointing at Mao Bijiang with his hand.

"You, you, you ......"

"Brother Chen, the king of Zhongshan likes to talk about hard work and prosperity, and the Ming Dynasty fell to the point of dying because he talked too much and did too little. It's easy to say that you don't compete with the people for profit, but it's really difficult to benefit the people! To do things, you have to be like the king of Zhongshan and lower the price of salt! It's a pity that Donglin will only satisfy the greed of wealthy merchants. You are also full of knowledge, really do useful things, don't waste your talents! ”

In the past, he was also the fourth son of the Fushe, but Mao Bijiang was still the worst, and he couldn't even pass the exam, but at this moment, Mao Bijiang was like a teacher, with a tone of lesson and compassion in his eyes, and said to Chen Zhenhui.

Chen Zhenhui's wine smell had long been so angry that he ran away, his lips were blue, he screamed, his back was facing the sky, and he actually lay on the ground.

Lin Haitian was taken aback, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Mao, your mouth is comparable to Zhuge Wuhou!" ”

Mao Bijiang spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "I don't want to do this either, who wants such a drag oil bottle, I have to rush to Shanghai immediately, it's really hard to deal with!" ”

"Leave it to me, if he can put down the shelf, he can write and calculate, and he will do it for me, and I will not die of hunger. If he is still so virtuous, I will send him home. ”

"Thank you, Brother Lin!"

Mao Bijiang accompanied his mother home, treated the neighbors well, only stayed at home for one night, and immediately pedaled on the road. Before leaving, these neighbors came out to say goodbye, and their eyes were full of envy.

Xiao Cui's daughter-in-law even hugged the child who was just two months old, looked at the carriage and said: "When you grow up, you have to be a capable person, don't be like your useless father, who spent so much useless salt in vain!" ”

……

Mao Bijiang left his hometown, immediately crossed the river by boat, and came to Shanghai. In the Ming Dynasty, Shanghai was subordinate to Songjiang Prefecture, and the fine cloth of Songjiang was the same as the silk of Suzhou and Hangzhou, which was famous all over the world, and it was a hard head of export for silver.

After Mao Pijiang got off the ship, someone took him to Shanghai County, and along the way, he constantly met Xiyi merchants, including golden-eyed Dutchmen with red heads, and Arab merchants covered in big robes.

Following the flow of people, he came all the way to the county yamen.

Hundreds of Western merchants gathered in the open space in front of the county yamen, and one by one they craned their necks and looked into the middle.

Mao Bijiang was also a little curious, and couldn't help but look inside, there was a table in the middle, and two cups were placed on top of the table.

The person in charge of the introduction gently held one up and said with a smile: "This is a chicken bowl cup fired during the Chenghua period of the Heavenly Empire. Its fetal quality is white and delicate, thin and light body, and the white glaze is soft and luster, and the surface and the inside are the same. The color of the picture includes underglaze blue and white and overglaze bright red, leaf green, water green, goose yellow, turmeric, black and other colors. The use of color, color, dyeing, dotting and other techniques, with blue and white hook line and flat dyeing lake stone, with bright red to cover flowers, water green to cover leaves, goose yellow, turmeric to fill the chicken, and with red color dot cockscomb and wings, green color dyeing slopes. Ingenious and ingenious, it can be called a treasure in the world, friends from afar, what do you think? ”

These Westerners have never left this cup with their eyes, and they dare to swear that if this pair of cups goes to the West, it will definitely cause the nobility to go crazy!

"Why have we never seen such fine porcelain?"

Mao Bijiang suddenly laughed and said: "In the past, the Celestial Empire was not allowed to sell really good things, but this time the King of Zhongshan has opened his grace, you are blessed!" ”

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