Chapter 104: Complex forces in the city
The business of Tianwu Restaurant is very good.
Although limited by the scale of the restaurant and the impact of freshness in the past, the business situation of the restaurant is still climbing in the past few days, maintaining a daily turnover of about 500 yuan, deducting the invisible cost, and the net profit is 350 yuan.
Tian Wu collected the income of the past few days, and when he came back from Ping An Qianzhuang, the total assets on his body returned to 1,400 yuan, most of which were stored in the iron ring in the form of money tickets, and more space was vacated in the ring, so that he could put other things in.
Greedy, he directly put a large plate of more than 20 catties of mixed cold noodles, as well as thousands of skewers of vegetarian skewers and meat skewers with pots and bowls and chopsticks, and reoccupied the weight.
The space function of the iron ring is very domineering, it can keep it hot and fresh, no matter how long it is stored, it can be eaten directly and authentically.
After trading ordnance with the Wang family, Tianwu, who was in a hurry to cash out, gave the Wang family a small discount, and while gaining the favor of the Wang family, the total assets climbed to 3,100 yuan.
Enthusiastically helped Jiang Rui a favor, and he obtained more than 70 people without work, and this hand saucy operation Tianwu is obedient to himself, so now there is no shortage of labor in the village for the time being.
The main thing to do is to send all kinds of supplies to the village desperately to ensure food and drink.
The construction of the village cannot be rushed, even if the construction cannot be completed in the past few days, the competition period of the Hundred Cities League is very long, and the work will not be affected halfway.
The most urgent task now is to make cement slabs and select more potential people from the villagers to join the village soldiers.
It was getting dark, and he walked around the city alone, but what made him frown was that he did not find any merchants who could supply pig iron, fly ash and limestone mines.
"It's troublesome now, isn't there a market for this in Xizhou City? But it can't be, the construction of houses, the maintenance of city walls, and even the operation of blacksmiths, where are these merchants missing? I'm afraid I have to find it from a special channel. ”
In a teahouse, looking out the window at the bustling crowd on Pingjiu Street even though it was dark, and the brightly lit street scene, Tianwu pondered in his heart.
If you don't have to worry about limestone, Xiheshan is a long mountain, and it is of course easy to find a limestone mine, but Xiheshan is too far away from the village, a full two hours away. Even if there are boats in the village now, the transportation process is smooth, but it is still very troublesome.
Mining is a particularly difficult project, without explosives and advanced tools, the primitive crow-tongs are dangerous and inefficient, and the daylilies are cold by the time they are mined.
If you want to say that the sand and gravel merchants don't need to look for it, the bridge is repaired and directly crosses the river to search in the opposite wasteland, no matter how much the river is in the river, and the shallow places want as much as they want.
"It seems that it is not possible to go to Li Junmu's old dog now."
Tianwu had a toothache, and just as he was about to get up and leave to go back, he suddenly heard a group of officials next door who came to drink tea after work bragging about it.
After listening to it a little, there is nothing he is interested in, but there are still a lot of things that ordinary people don't know, and these little officials are all in their thirties, I'm afraid they have been in the yamen for a long time.
"Man, give this table the signature dish."
Tianwu beckoned, the guy ran to the kitchen diligently, the eyes of the three little officials were bright, they were originally going to drink tea and go back to dinner, but now there are local tyrants who invite them to eat and go back to their fart home.
Tian Wu sat down with a smile and communicated with a few people.
The three officials were in Caoyun, Hedao and Xuezheng, because the three of them entered the state government together at the earliest, so the relationship was relatively good, and they often got together.
Tianwu inquired about the ownership of the major forces in Xizhou City, and originally thought that the three officials would be wary of themselves, but they didn't expect the three goods to come back at once.
"We have four major forces in Xizhou City, the City Guard Mansion, the Town Guard Mansion, the Xizhou Mansion, and the State Pastoral Mansion. Among them, the state pastoral mansion is an official sent by the imperial court, and it is a targeted existence in the territory of our Shanbei country. ”
"Xizhou Mansion is directly under the royal court, and the town guard is under the command of General Guide, only the city guard does not have any faction, although it is also appointed by Hojing, but it is not those bullshit doctors."
"And those big family forces in our Xizhou City also have their own forces, in addition to hugging the thighs of the four major mansions, they are also holding their own groups. Among them, the more famous ones are the Gan family and the Wang family, the Gan family is the prince's person, and the state government is naturally in a group, but our current state government does not care about anything, and everything is smiling, so almost all the power has been taken by the Gan family. ”
"The Wang family is the people of the city guard, and the city guard is relatively weak because he does not stand in line and has no faction. Fortunately, he is usually relatively low-key, so he made a fortune in a muffled voice, and he has made a lot of money on both sides over the years, especially from the state treasury, I don't know how much snowflake silver has flowed into the treasury of the Wang family and the city guard. ”
Tianwu's heart moved: "Who is guarding the arch bridge on the other side of the Zhoudao River, and who is the one who guards the Hanoi ferry?" ”
"Of course it's from the state capital." The officials replied.
Tian Wu sighed in his heart.
Aren't the people in the state capital the people of the Gan family, this time they got the Gan family, and the worst thing is that they guard the waterways and roads from the city to the village, and it would be bad if they made it difficult for themselves.
After leaving the teahouse, Tian Wu returned to the restaurant, and after the restaurant closed, he went to the house not far from the restaurant with everyone.
The Sanjin house has long been cleaned up, and there are people who move in.
The scenery in the house is very good, and even at night, the flowers and plants are pleasing to the eye under the light of the hanging lanterns.
Because it was still early, several people carried chairs outside to chat and enjoy the night view.
Tianwu asked Zhou Shuixian: "Narcissus, you are also happy now, your hand is cramping when you count the money in the restaurant, and you don't want to go to Zhoujiapo to find your family?" ”
Zhou Shuixian, who was whispering to Zhao Yanran, changed his face, and he was speechless for a long time before he shirked his responsibility and said: "It's all to blame, Brother Tian, your food is so good, you eat and sleep well during this time, and you really forgot about them!" ”
"Poor thing!"
Tianwu shook his head: "A certain person eats and drinks spicy food here, has silk clothes to wear and is in the mood for wind and snow, but her parents eat grass roots and gnaw tree bark, roast half-cooked fish without salt, full of fishy smell, live in a shack, and at night when you touch your face, all crawling are fleshy caterpillars, but this is very good, you can stew and eat it at dawn..."
"Brother Tian, what are you talking about!"
"Disgusting."
Zhou Shuixian and Zhao Yanran are about to vomit blood, and the primitive people are afraid that they will not have such a miserable life.
Zhou Shuixian ran angrily to accuse Tianwu, but was pushed by Zhao Yanran behind and threw himself into the arms of the village elder in surprise.
"Zhao Yanran, I strongly condemn your behind-the-scenes attack."
Tianwu took Zhou Shuixian, who had not been intimate for a long time, into his arms, climbed the front mountain with one hand and the back mountain with the other, and kept moving in his hands while scolding Zhao Yanran, who was covering his mouth and laughing.
It wasn't until Tianwu was pressed on the chair by Zhou Shuixian, who was so soft that he had long lost his strength, that he came back to his senses slightly.
Look at the menacing Zhou Shuixian again, this girl's eyes are foggy, her pretty face is red and hot, her snort is whistling, and her plump chest rises and falls, making her heart feel depressed for a while, where is there anything else?