Nowadays, the brotherhood is a piece of fat, everyone wants to take a bite, and the government is no exception. It's not easy for the babies to do some business, they have their own opinions, don't listen to those people's nonsense, don't be busy and don't help, and add to the chaos. ”

Old Man Xiao found Zheng Baihu, hoping that Zheng Baihu would persuade his son Zheng Biao to visit Lord Zhizhou and have some connections. As a result, Zheng Baihu persuaded him instead, Old Man Xiao thought that it was Zheng Biao who was in charge, Zheng Baihu said this, it seemed to make sense, but he was still not at ease, and planned to see it with his own eyes.

The next day, he went to the hall of the brotherhood in Cangshan Mansion City with Zheng Baihu, and the Xiao family did not go alone with Old Man Xiao, accompanied by several children and nephews, including Xiao Qinghe, Old Man Xiao pondered, even if his master's words didn't work, his father's words should always be listened to, for this reason, he discussed with Xiao Qinghe alone for a while.

Along the way, I heard Zheng Baihu say that many workshops in the villages along the way are the industries of the Brotherhood, and not only Cangshan Mansion, but also other county governments also have the halls and industries of the Brotherhood.

It's not that I saw it with my own eyes, it's hard for Mr. Xiao to believe that a few hairy children have created such a big family business, and now that he sees it with his own eyes, he still feels a little incredible, and he doesn't understand how a few children messed around with a gang, how did it suddenly become developed?

In fact, now many people in the Xiao family are also working in the brotherhood workshop, earning some wages, and the family situation has improved a lot.

Zheng Baihu has always paid attention to the development of the brotherhood, and now that the brotherhood is so prosperous, he also has some dreams and sighs, but he knows in his heart that these should only be businesses on the surface, and they are big deals in secret, as for the specific business, Zheng Baihu does not dare to guess.

"Zheng Baihu, you don't let your family come to see it, such a big industry, if you lose a few babies, how can you get it!" A young man of the Xiao family suddenly burst out with a sentence.

"These industries are all earned by a few babies, and they are all handled by them, and they don't ask me for a penny, am I embarrassed to meddle? Besides, I don't have that ability, the door inside is deep, and if you leave it to me, it's also blind, maybe it will be over in a few days! ”

"Is it so mysterious?"

"If you don't believe it, go and see for yourself, I won't allow anyone from my Zheng family to interfere anyway!"

Zheng Baihu glanced at the person coldly, and saw that this person had some thoughts, and said something, wanting to block the thoughts of some people in the Xiao family. Zheng Baihu didn't have no ideas earlier, visit, all kinds of affairs, looking at it, his eyes were dazzled, his scalp was numb, and he couldn't play with it, so he should be an old lady with peace of mind!

Zheng Baihu secretly said that Xiao Tianlei was clever, and pushed his son in the front row, if Ming Li said that Xiao Tianlei was in charge, maybe the elders of the Xiao family had something to do, but the trouble was transferred to the Zheng family, some relatives of the Zheng family knew that Zheng Biao was the president of the brotherhood, and came to Zheng Baihu from time to time, shouting that they wanted some benefits, Zheng Baihu was annoyed, and asked them to go and talk to the brotherhood themselves, but some idiots really went, saying that they were Zheng Biao's who, and they were beaten up and blasted out.

"Grandpa, why are you here?"

As soon as he entered the gate, Xiao Tianbao came out and was a little shocked when he saw Old Man Xiao and his party.

"Come and see!" Old man Xiao replied, looking at Xiao Tianbao, he hadn't seen Xiao Tianbao for a while, this child didn't feel at ease to study, Old Man Xiao was still a little annoyed, however, the baby didn't like to read, and he was helpless, now seeing Xiao Tianbao, although he was still childish, he had a heroic spirit.

Seeing that it was Xiao Tianbao, an uncle asked, "Tianbao, what are you doing here?" ”

"Brother, they're all busy, leave me here to watch the show." Xiao Tianbao replied, looking a little reluctant.

"What are you busy with?" Old Man Xiao asked quietly.

"It's too much, after a while, I will go to the sea to Yazhou, and when the time comes, I will go too!" Xiao Tianbao didn't tell the truth, he answered perfunctorily, and when it came to going to sea, his eyebrows suddenly fluttered.

Old Man Xiao didn't think much about it, he didn't know how to do business, he didn't ask again, just looked around, the brotherhood was indeed busy, and the teenagers were not idle, especially in the front hall, where the babies were writing documents with goose feathers. Old Man Xiao took a special look and found that he almost didn't recognize the text symbols written by these teenagers, only a few of them recognized, and they were all relatively simple words. Asked Xiao Tianbao with doubts, only to learn that because the Daxia script was troublesome to write and slow to learn, in order to facilitate writing and learning, the brotherhood used simplified characters, and many words were replaced by some symbols.

Monkey business! It's nonsense! Can words be simplified?! Old Man Xiao only had such an idea in his heart at that time, but he didn't say it, he looked at it again, and had to admit that compared with the original words, these simplified words are easier to write and faster to process documents.

After listening to some of Xiao Tianbao's statements, Mrs. Xiao is about to know the general situation of the Brotherhood now, and it is indeed a great industry and power, before, listening to the meaning of Xie Jinan and others, I hope that the Brotherhood will do things for the government, maybe Xie Jin'an's character is trustworthy, but the reputation of a huge government is not good, especially in recent years, the people have been exploited layer by layer, causing many people to flee to Lingzhou to seek a way to live, just because Lingzhou is poor and bad, and the government does not expect Lingzhou to collect much tax, mainly from Lingzhou to collect some salt, iron, and lacquer, Qiongzhu, leather goods and other specialties.

Old lady Xiao also thinks that it is best not to be involved with the official face of such a big industry, the collusion between officials and businessmen is not a good reputation, and it is better to interject less if you don't understand, if you see Xiao Tianlei, you will also persuade him not to be too ostentatious, and the others don't need him to worry about it, he has also heard of the notoriety of the brotherhood.

However, Old Lady Xiao felt that it was better for the Brotherhood to have a backer, others could not be relied on, and it was better to produce some officials from his own family, and then the Xiao family would be able to return to their ancestral land in a glorious manner, and he seemed to have seen the scene at that time.

Mrs. Xiao's mind returned to this year's literary examination, did not stay in the brotherhood any longer, led everyone back to Zhengjiazhuang, and urged the children of the clan to concentrate on preparing for the literary examination, but the Xiao family and the family all know the industry of the brotherhood now, from time to time, some clansmen come to cry, saying that the family is really unbearable, let the old man Xiao give Xiao Tianlei a few talks, who to arrange an errand, the old man Xiao is a decent person, the most unsightly crooked ways, one by one to give the training back, but also annoying.

During this period, there was also a happy event, Xiao Tianbao's father Xiao Qingyun returned from a study trip and also wanted to participate in this year's literary examination.

In autumn, the literati were busy making final preparations for the literary examination, and the farmers were also busy preparing for the autumn harvest.

Located deep in the mountains and forests, the Wild Boar Ridge is already in full swing, the purple coriander has matured, the population has increased a lot, and the fields have been cultivated a lot. Because of the investment of some small manpower and machinery, the work efficiency is much higher, and in a month, all the purple coriander leaves are made into bags of tobacco.

Just entered October, three ships set off from Conch Harbor, loaded with tobacco, dragon's blood wine, perfume, snow skin cream, and some silver mirrors produced by Wild Boar Ridge, at the same time, one ship departed from Lingzhou Wharf, empty boat, in the name of the Brotherhood, said to go to Yazhou to do business, four ships converged at sea, and headed towards Yazhou together.

Except for the ship that Xiao Tianlei was on, each of the other three ships had a brother with a hero template who could keep in touch at any time.

A while ago, Xiao Tianlei led people to attack small gangs, and he actually got a lot of system gold coins, and successively gave Jiang Kui and Ma Hu hero templates.

Jiang Kui matches the hero template - the king of the barbarians.

Tiger matches the hero template - Beast Spirit Walker.

This time, Qin Jincai wanted to follow, Xiao Tianlei had to let Xiao Tianfu go to the Brotherhood to sit in town, although Xiao Tianfu spent most of his time in Zhengjiazhuang, but he never slackened his martial arts practice, with his current skills, Xiao Tianlei did not dare to say that it was easy to win, enough to deal with most martial arts masters.

Together with Zheng Biao and Xiao Tianlei, the fleet that went to Yazhou this time, five people with heroic templates, and the rest of the crew were also elites selected from the Shanyue warriors, and the four sea ships were further transformed and armed to the teeth.

Xiao Tianlei was confident that such a lineup could cope with any situation, and he also wanted to carry out a real battle, but unfortunately it backfired, and he was stunned along the way.

In fact, through the merchants who trade with the Brotherhood, they already know some news from the sea, the last time, Hailong Island hit the idea of the wife and children of Li Haichao, the leader of the Yinghai Gang, and afterwards Li Haichao retaliated and invited many gangs and some master helpers who have business relations with the Yinghai Gang to join forces to encircle and suppress Hailong Island, Hailong Island suffered heavy losses, and other pirates also suffered because of this, and they have converged, so the South China Sea is a lot safer.

So, Xiao Tianlei's four ships went to the South China Sea area of Yazhou smoothly, and according to the strategy last time, they found a hidden island, docked overnight, and all disguised themselves as overseas businessmen, and then went to Haishi.

When the conch and other four ships with other stars and moon flags approached the market, it immediately caused a sensation, and the merchants who had bought gold leaf, potpourri and dragon's blood wine last year and made a lot of money knew that last year's overseas businessmen came again, and the sea market suddenly became restless, because of the scarcity of goods, gold leaf, potpourri and dragon's blood wine are now hard to find.

Some businessmen want to know the origin of these overseas businessmen, but they can't figure it out after asking some other overseas businessmen, after all, there are many overseas countries. Today, these overseas merchants appeared again, and with three more ships, and one by one they were overjoyed, and immediately called for a large quantity of gold and silver to be brought to the market.

Before the four ships of the Conch had come to a stop, a large group of merchants had already brought their men and carried large boxes of gold and silver, waiting on the ships on one side. As soon as the planks were boarded and the cargo had not yet been laid out, they couldn't wait to board the Conch, and then spoke some crappy overseas languages as they rowed.

Xiao Tianlei didn't say anything, and immediately put out some commodities and labels with the name and price of the product.

Those merchants thought that the price might rise, but they didn't want this year's price to be the same as last year, and they were so happy that they almost jumped into the sea, and there were two more novel goods, the glass treasure mirror, which was ten times stronger than the bronze mirror, baby! Snow cream, what is it used for? it, baby! As for the price...... Who is going to look at that, these overseas businessmen are just a bunch of fools, if you don't hurry up and buy them at their prices, what are you waiting for?!

So, a crazy rush to buy began, one by one big businessmen were afraid that they would not be able to buy, so they let their subordinates carry boxes of gold and silver, and rushed to the conch, buzzing and noisy, all of them wanted to buy as much as possible, but other people did not do it, inevitably abused each other, scramble, and as a result, a few people were really squeezed into the sea, if it was not for the sea market not allowed to fight, otherwise a few would have to die on the spot.

In the end, a few respected maritime merchants came forward and formulated a charter, and everyone worked together to pay for all the goods first, and then distribute them.

This time, Xiao Tianlei transported five or six hundred tons of goods, and it was not easy to load and unload by manpower, but fortunately, the cabins of ships such as the Conch have been modified and equipped with booms, so that the goods can be lifted relatively easily. In this way, it was also busy for two consecutive days, all the goods were unloaded, and four ships of gold and silver and some goods purchased in the sea market were loaded, including some strange gold bought by Xiao Tianlei.

Like last time, Xiao Tianlei also left Haishi at night, but this time, no one pursued him.

It's not that these maritime merchants have changed, they are counting on these stupid overseas businessmen to come back next year, bring in more goods, and then issue another sum, and have been in business for many years, knowing that doing long-term business is better than a hammer deal. Last year's goods were sold, and now they are sky-high, and money can't buy them, so many goods this year, needless to say, they must make a lot of money, and they will change hands to ten times or even a hundred times the profit, the only pity is that they can't cover it all, and the most urgent thing for them at the moment is to fight for as much share as possible for themselves.

Besides, looking at those warriors on the ship today, they have fierce breaths, dark skin, terrifying appearances, and some strange machinery on the ship, which must not be easy to mess with.

Although Xiao Tianlei guessed some, he did not relax his vigilance, and took advantage of the night, the four ships such as the Conch and Xiao Tianlei changed back to their original clothes, and they began to return without stopping.

On the return voyage, Xiao Tianlei deliberately slowed down, hoping to meet a few pirate ships to seize it and catch some free laborers, but he didn't succeed, and the big pirates didn't know where they died! There are some sporadic little pirates, but when they see four big ships, they don't dare to provoke them.

It is also a good thing to be able to complete this trade smoothly, just take a trip to travel, Qin Jincai and Xiao Tianbao have a good time, but they can't go to Haining to go around, which is a little pity. There is no way, if the silver money loaded with four boats is shown to the government, it will also be a disaster, anyway, the brotherhood will gradually carry out some maritime trade business, and there will be many opportunities in the future.

Sailing in the vast sea, the sea and the sky, the sea and the sky, the good swimming, the people's minds are also a lot more open-minded, Xiao Tianlei is in a relaxed and happy mood, and the mess is left behind, it is rare to be idle, but at this time, Xiao Tianfu came with a news, which ruined his good mood, saying that a group of people came to the city of Cangshan Mansion, saying that they were going to smash the brotherhood and eliminate harm for the people!