If the Zhang family steward just gave a reason, the drought in Shanxi was very strict, and the price of grain was high, so it was not unusual to transport grain to the north for profit at this time, and maybe he would hide it from Wu Wei, but he wanted to add to the snake, saying that it was to transport grain to the border army, which caused Wu Wei to be suspicious.

If Wu Wei didn't know, it wouldn't be fine, since he knew that there was a problem with this batch of grain, with his character, if he still didn't ask, he really couldn't get past his own level.

Wu Wei had already started the idea of this batch of grain, but the steward was still unaware, and said to Wu Wei: "The official doesn't know, these homeless people are the most stubborn, they are traitors, they are not afraid of the government, and there are still many rogues in it!" To rob the army of rations is to sabotage the border defense plan, and it is to rebel! ”

Wu Wei frowned slightly, Nima himself is a traitor and slanders others as spies, how long is this cheek, even if these grains are robbed, it will also enter the belly of the common people, no matter how you say it, it is better than relieving Jianyu!

The steward couldn't stop looking at the grain cart and grain ship at the wharf as he spoke, and said anxiously: "Lord Wang, please do things quickly, because the grain will be robbed by the people in any later days!" ”

It turned out that although the rain of arrows just now frightened away the hungry people in the vicinity, but the desire of the hungry people to survive was so strong that the people in the distance were not affected much, and they were still desperately trying to grab food.

Wu Wei slandered in his heart, but some words could not be declared, and he was still silent at the moment, and said with a smile: "Brother is Wu Wei, the commander of Yan'an Wei." There are a few coal kilns in the house, and there is a shortage of manpower, these poor men are just right, and it is a pity that they died in vain, so it is better to be disposed of by brothers? ”

After that, he didn't wait for Wang Baihu and the steward to agree, and glanced at Wu Shiyi.

Wu Shiyi received the order, and immediately rushed towards the crowd with several personal guards, followed by more than a hundred fierce and light Ansai battalion sergeants!

It turned out that seeing that the momentum on the dock was not right, Wu Shiyi used the tailwind ear (walkie-talkie) he brought with him to get in touch with the nearby brigade station, and the emergency response of the Ansai battalion was extremely fast. At this time, more than 100 people just arrived!

I saw that the sergeants of the Ansai battalion were all fierce and fierce. Well-trained, there are many strong men among the homeless people, as long as the two of them step forward and clamp and lift, he will immediately fall to the ground. The sergeants all wore cable ties. It is used exclusively for capturing prisoners on the battlefield. One person restrained the captive, and the other began to tie it up, and tied it to death with a twist and a pull. Immobile. The sergeants tossed their bound captives aside and threw themselves on the next target, skilfully moving on to the next target.

This set of skills was still practiced when Ansai broke the "two kings", tens of thousands of prisoners were captured, and the sergeants of the Ansai battalion have now all practiced a captive stunt.

Seeing that the sergeant of the Ansai battalion was so strong, it was okay to take care of things, but he only felt that Wu Wei's subordinates were very flexible and their movements were quite good-looking, but Wang Baihu was stunned. He can also be regarded as a long-term military veteran, and he has also led troops to participate in the so-called army meeting several times like a story, although his own ability to fight is not successful, but his vision is always much stronger than ordinary people.

The more than 100 sergeants in front of him, all of them are brightly dressed and armored, with big shoulders and round waists, and their movements are slightly not half jerky, and they are extremely skilled and flexible.

Is this the world-famous Qin soldier? Wang Baihu couldn't help but feel a little in a trance.

Since someone stood up for him, the steward no longer insisted that Wang Baihu take action, and the two stood there together and watched the soldiers of the Ansai battalion act.

Almost instantly, three or four hundred of the thousands of homeless people in front of them fell to the ground and were bound, and the rest of them shouted and fled all of them, leaving only the grain bales and rice grains scattered everywhere on the ground, and there was a mess everywhere.

The steward of the Zhang family and Wang Baihu had already seen that they couldn't get down to the bridge, and only came back to their senses when a few guards returned the order to Wu Wei, and they were busy praising Wu for his subordinates, and he was very strong. If Wu Wei's title of commanding affairs at the beginning was not enough to move the two of them, the strength that was revealed just now made people feel shocked from the bottom of their hearts!

Seeing that the sergeant of the Ansai battalion was so powerful, where did the two of them dare to question the reason that Wu Wei said, the hungry people who grabbed rice left and right have been dispersed, and their own purpose has been achieved, since this Wu is a big man, Lord Wu doesn't want to die more, then let him be!

After all, the steward cared about the loss, and after confessing to Wu Wei and Wang Baihu, he brought a few grain transport guys to check. According to a rough estimate, the loss of at least two or three hundred stone of grain was at least two or three hundred stones, which was really painful. However, due to the limited berths at the wharf, the large group of grain ships did not have time to dock, and they were not affected in this turmoil, which is also a blessing in misfortune. He weighed it repeatedly in his heart, and felt that it should still be within the range of bearing, and he expected that the head of the family would not blame him too much, and his face was better.

It's a big deal to get to the "east" and raise the price of rice a little more, are you afraid that they won't be able to buy it? The steward thought to himself.

After making a plan, the housekeeper of the Zhang family turned around and thanked Wang Baihu and Wu Wei again and again, and decided to invite the two to a gathering at the famous restaurant "Fan Lou" in the town. Wu Wei just wanted to intuitively understand the inside story of the Jin merchants, and Wang Baihu was not happy at any banquet, and the parties hit it off.

The steward also made a gesture to invite the inspector of the inspection department to go with him, but the inspector was lowly and small, and he couldn't suppress the homeless people, so it was not interesting to ask for this, and finally after getting ten taels of silver from the steward, he led the team to leave with a thousand thanks.

As for the hundreds of captives, Wu Wei only gave a few words, and Wu Shiyi and Zhao Wenzhuo took people to deal with them, and the two of them knew Wu Wei's intentions, so they would arrange it properly, and they would take them on the road to participate in the construction of Zunhua, and the rest would be given money and food to be dismissed, and everyone was familiar with it, but there was no need to worry.

Fan Lou is the property of the Jiexiu Fan family, and the Fan family is also a famous big merchant, one of the eight imperial merchants designated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty after entering the customs. The restaurant is three storeys high and sits on the upper floor. You can enjoy the food of the north and south, and you can also see the spectacular scene of Hukou Waterfall from afar, which is the best place to go in this Hukou town.

The steward of the mansion also called the bureau and invited the number one red-card Fang official of the most famous Qinglou Yifang Building in the town to sing music and accompany the wine, which was really a big expense, even if it was to thank the two of them for relieving them, it seemed too much.

In fact, there is another inside story in this, it turns out that this steward feels very familiar after hearing Wu Wei's self-report home, and after seeing the methods of the sergeant of the Ansai battalion, he suddenly remembered the rumored history of Ansai Wu Dian. The businessman is the most well-informed, and he once heard that there is a surname Wu Dian in northern Shaanxi. Recruit displaced people to build water conservancy. It also encouraged industry and commerce to develop its own businesses, so that countless hungry people could support themselves, and countless people were left alive. Many of the anecdotal stories are of interest to merchants. He couldn't afford to pay more attention.

Among them, the one that interested him the most was the legendary Taixi immortal potato introduced by the Wu Dianshi. can produce as much as 10,000 catties per mu, and no one knows what this means better than the Jin merchants who monopolize domestic and foreign trade and know the disaster situation in various places. In these years, grain is silver, what does it mean to have a good seed of 10,000 catties per mu? That's a mountain of gold!

At present, some people naturally tried their best to smuggle out the fairy potato seedlings from Ansai at any cost, but they invited the best old farmers to try to plant, and none of them succeeded, even if they seemed to survive at the beginning, they all withered after a short time, and when they were pulled up, the roots had turned black and rotted, showing that there must be something strange in it.

However, this result is also normal, such a precious good seed, if it lives in a lifetime, it is too easy, isn't it after this thing, there will be no hunger in the world?

Hearing that the history of the surname Wu has no deep background, some people have planned to use some soft and hard means against him, but he turned out to be an all-rounder of Yunwen Yunwu, and in the first battle of Ansai, he defeated 100,000 thieves with less than 3,000 men and horses! Later, I heard that it was deeply appreciated by Yang He, the governor of the three sides, which made some people with a heart shrink their hands and feet.

Fortunately, in addition to the good varieties of fairy potatoes, Ansai's various strange skills are also very numerous, all of which are ingenious and can lead to huge profits, and under the intention of the people, they also spread quickly from Ansai.

This is also a helpless thing, the Ming Dynasty does not have any concept of intellectual property protection, even if Wu Wei wants to be independent, there is no way. However, such a militaristic heavy weapon as the steelmaking blast furnace is not afraid of being stolen secret, because there is a problem of refractory materials, just like the detoxification of potato seedlings must be soaked with pesticides, which is unsolvable in this era.

Merchants from all walks of life have copied a lot of novelty artifacts invented by Ansai, take the Zhang family in front of you as an example, in addition to food, there are also a large number of honeycomb coal stoves imitating Ansai in the fleet moored outside the wharf! This thing is shipped to the bitter cold land of Liaodong, and it is expected that it will be a strange commodity to live in, and the supply will exceed demand!

If it is the legendary history of the surname Wu in front of you, then it is not to step on the iron shoes and find nowhere to go, it takes no effort to get it, just talk to it, if you are lucky, you have a gain, and it is expected that the head of the family will be rewarded heavily!

With this thought, the attitude of the Zhang Mansion Steward towards Wu Wei was extremely warm.

The group wrapped up the entire third floor of the Fan Building, and the guards took their seats on the second floor in twos and threes, intentionally or unintentionally watching the stairs going upstairs, and did not allow ordinary people to wait for them to go upstairs.

Seeing that the Zhang family steward was so diligent, Wu Wei also guessed a little in his heart, but he didn't care too much, Tai Chi pushing hands was what he was best at, and he was just thinking hard about how to sabotage the Zhang family's plan to transport grain to Liaodong.

Sending someone to touch the Zhang family's grain boat at night and set it on fire, well, it is feasible to do, but it is a pity, this lot of grain was burned in vain, how many victims could have been saved!

Moreover, these grains are only thousands of stones, which is just a drop in the bucket to alleviate the famine in Houjin, and it is expected that the project of blood transfusion to Houjin will not be completed by the Zhang family, and it must be the collective action of the entire Jinshang group.

Even in the case of the Zhang family, the fleet transporting grain to Liaodong will never be the only one, even if they burn all these grain ships, it is just for the Zhang family to spend more time and money to reraise, for a wealthy family like the Zhang family, it is definitely not a heavy loss.

Is it just a matter of letting it go for nothing? Wu Wei was a little unwilling. (To be continued......)