Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Captain of the Transport Brigade [Third Update, Asking for Recommendation Votes]
When people smile for no reason, they are either bored or miserable.
And the reason why people suffer is because they pursue the wrong things.
The moment he saw the secret report, Chen Yonglian's face gently raised such a gratuitous smile, and even had a hint of self-deprecation.
Xianjun!
It's a legend.
The big fool of the Tang family who drooled when he spoke, could it be the reincarnation of the Immortal Monarch?
Life is full of so many surprises and accidents, Chen Yonglian was ruthless and let his eldest daughter Chen Simu pursue the ethereal immortal path.
However, God teased him like this, and the next moment there was such shocking news.
Chen Yonglian pinched the secret report with both hands, his eyes narrowed slightly, the smile on the corner of his mouth gradually froze there, and he couldn't help but think in his mind, if he saw the content of the secret report before Chen Simu stepped on the wild goose, would he let her go?
No!
He shouldn't have to dwell on that.
On the contrary, he should be glad that he didn't open the secret report in the first place just now.
Yes!
In this way, there is no need to make such a tangled decision, perhaps, all this is arranged by God.
"Mu'er! For my father, I hope that as soon as you enter the fairy island, you will never return. The deceit and power struggle in the world are not a good thing!"
Standing on the top of this Yandang Mountain, Chen Yonglian watched the sunset completely fall, and his heart rarely swelled up again.
When he was young, he made a decision to give his life to integrity and righteousness, but then he did not die, and the young man died for him.
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Staring into the distance, Chen Yonglian stood for almost an hour, and when the night covered the world again, the guards under his hand couldn't help but speak:
"My lord, the sun has set, we ...... Isn't it time to go back? ”
Raising land, Chen Yonglian was shocked, and the corners of his mouth once again showed a smile that he didn't know whether he was relieved or even more melancholy, he shook his shoulders, took a long sigh of relief, and said, "Yes! The sun has set, and we should go back to Jinling Mansion." After all, the night will come and pass. ”
Turning around and getting on the horse, although Chen Yonglian is a civil official, he is also skilled in archery and horse skills, he took out a letter that had been prepared a long time ago, handed it to one of the guards in the escort team, and ordered: "Sizhou, this secret letter, you send it to Haihou Mansion in Shunyi Town as quickly as possible, and hand it over to my close friend Ye Boya." ”
"Yes, uncle!"
This guard's name is Chen Sizhou, he is Chen Yongkang's nephew, and he has reached the cultivation of a martial artist at a young age, and he is the second largest master of the younger generation in the entire Chen family.
Riding a horse and whipping, Chen Sizhou carried the secret letter and rushed to Shunyi City overnight.
And Zhang Haoran, the chief bookkeeper who had been following Chen Yonglian's side, hesitated for a moment and reminded: "My lord, are you sure you want to do this? ”
"I've made up my mind. Since the Tang family has produced a demon like Tang Can, whether he is really an immortal monarch or not, they are already on the opposite side of the Hu City Lord, and I will sell it to them...... There is nothing to be desired. ”
After finishing speaking, Chen Yonglian rode his horse and whipped up, and rushed back to Jinling Mansion at night.
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At the same time, Tang Can, who returned to the Tang Mansion, watched his father arrange for his cronies to go to the city lord's mansion grain depot to carry grain in a truckload, but found that he had ...... What they brought back was really all food.
This time, Tang Can didn't do it, he shook his head, and said secretly: "These guys are really rigid! Forget it, I still have to go on my own trip and be a ...... Captain of the Transport Group. ”
Stopping Tang Dafang, the steward in charge of this matter, Tang Can asked, "How much have you transported now?"
"Back to the eldest prince, our cart of about 1,000 catties of grain has been transported back about 20 carts, a total of 20,000 catties. ”
Tang Dafang stood up straight very respectfully and replied, "Qian Yi, the head secretary of the City Lord's Mansion, cooperated with our people to count and count, and there was no obstruction. ”
"Whoever asks you this, I ask you...... Is it true that the storehouse of the city lord's mansion is full of grain, and there is no other treasure? You are really stupid! When you are all in the treasure house of others, won't you bring some other valuable treasures? Besides, there are treasures in the grain......
Tsk, Tang Can was very dissatisfied with this dull steward.
"Princess......! That's the city lord's storehouse, how dare we...... How dare you make a mistake, and it is also what you said, to carry 100,000 catties of grain. ”
Tang Dafang is also aggrieved and depressed, he is just an ordinary steward, how dare he be as bold as Tang Can, besides...... Qian Yi, the master bookkeeper, looked at the inventory, and it was completely unrealistic for him to want to transport anything else.
"Forget it, I'll go over ...... myself."
He knew that this Hu City Lord was a well-known iron rooster and collector, and the treasures collected in the warehouse must not be less.
The reason why Tang Can used the name of asking for grain was to give the stingy Hu City Lord to "raid the house" once.
Since this steward is not bright enough, he will go out himself.
The castle lord's warehouse is located in the north of the city, because the north is water, and there is a large lake next to it, and setting up a warehouse here can be very effective in preventing and avoiding fires.
When Tang Can came to the warehouse, he saw Qian Yi with fifty guards of the city lord, firmly guarding the door of the city lord's warehouse.
The Tang family's family was busy carrying bags of grain onto the trailer.
A bag of grain is about 200 catties, and a cart puts five bags, which is about 1,000 catties.
"The master of the hard-earned money, this big night, I have to bother you to count here. Otherwise, you should take your brothers back to rest and give me the key to the warehouse. We'll send you the keys back when we're done transporting the food......"
Walking in front of Qian Yi, Tang Can said with a smile.
But what he said made Qian Yi's expression froze, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's not in the way." Tang Gongzi, this is my job, and I can't talk about any hard work. It's Tang Gongzi's delicate body, so you don't have to come here in person for such a vulgar thing, right?"
Obviously, Qian Yi also saw that Tang Can's comer was not good.
Are you kidding?
Give you the key to the warehouse and let you help yourself?
I'm afraid not, after coming over the next day, the entire warehouse will be moved by you.
"How can this be considered a vulgar thing? It stands to reason that this is the first transaction I have made with the Venerable City Lord Hu! Of course, I must come in person to show my sincerity and respect for the City Lord Hu. ”
Tang Can also waved his hand, and said, "Master Qian, you can't trust me?"
"Where! Where is the great prince of Tang famous, how can he not believe in it. ”
Qian Yi is not easy to match, and he is already fighting with Tang Can between words.
On the surface, he was talking about Tang Can's "prestige", but in fact, he was secretly ridiculing Tang Can's name as a "big fool" in the past.
"That's really to thank Master Qian for trusting me. But I can't trust these people in my own mansion, for fear that their hands and feet will not be clean, if I take any rare treasures from the city lord of Hu, won't it ruin the reputation of my Tang mansion?"
In this way, Tang Can walked towards the warehouse and said, "In this case, it should be no problem for me to go to the warehouse to inspect and supervise those family members of my family, right?"
"Tang Gongzi and slow ......"
Seeing Tang Can's actions, Qian Yi had a headache even more, knowing that he had bad intentions, but he couldn't dissuade Tang Can from reasoning, so he could only chase after him quickly, "Tang Gongzi is slow! There are many mosquitoes, insects, rats and ants in the warehouse, let me lead you along!"
"Please!"
The corners of Tang Can's mouth curled slightly, and he didn't care about the money that came up.
......
"Tang Gongzi went to this side, where the warehouse was divided into two parts, and the granary was on the east side. ”
Qian Yi hurriedly led the way in front, for fear that Tang Can would walk to the warehouse in the west.
And it was precisely when he saw him so nervous that Tang Can knew that the warehouse in the west should be the place where Lord Hu hid his treasures.
Following him to the east granary, Tang Can saw bags of various grains stacked in his eyes.
There is rice, millet, sorghum, corn, and more!
These ordinary grains are stacked in warehouses relatively casually, but in the northeast corner there is a large barn made of silver, which is kept in a closed space.
Seeing this scene, Tang Can was shocked.
What the hell is this thing that requires so much silver to build a barn to preserve?
Immediately, Tang Can knew that what he was looking for must be in it.
He walked slowly to the side of the large barn made of silver, and tapped with his hand, making a very dull noise.
Seeing this, the chief bookkeeper Qian Yi immediately secretly screamed that it was not good, but he still pretended to be calm and took the initiative to say: "Tang Gongzi, you Tang Mansion wants 100,000 catties of grain to make wine, right? I heard that you want to brew 100,000 jars of yellow sorghum wine." The city lord and I both felt that 100,000 catties of food would definitely not be enough, or ...... I'll give you another 50,000 catties?"
This trick is called "abandoning the pawn to protect the car", before coming over, the city lord Hu instructed him that if necessary, he could give Tang Can a little more food to distract him and recover other possible losses.
Qian Yi saw that Tang Can was staring at this big sterling silver barn, and it was called a drop of blood in his heart!
The reason why City Lord Hu specially called him over to look at the granary was because he was worried that the 10,000 catties of dragon tooth rice in the big sterling silver barn would be discovered by Tang Can.
The proportion of money in the Great Liang Kingdom is that one tael of gold is equal to ten taels of silver, and one tael of silver is equal to a consistent copper coin, and a consistent copper coin is a thousand.
In terms of prices, it is about two copper plates for a pound of ordinary rice, millet and sorghum rice are cheaper, and a copper plate can buy about a catty.
However, what is stored in this sterling silver barn is the dragon's tooth rice for the sake of warriors, and the market price can be sold for two taels of silver a catty, but it is still priceless.
On the black market, the price of a pound of dragon tooth rice has been speculated to nearly ten taels of silver a catty.
Why is this dragon tooth rice so expensive? It is thousands of times that of ordinary rice.
Because this dragon tooth rice is not only extremely difficult to plant, it can only mature in two years, but it is also a job that can only be planted in a special dragon tooth field, and the yield per mu is only a pitiful 100 catties.
After harvesting, the dragon's tooth rice needs to be preserved with pure silver or pure gold utensils, otherwise it will completely deteriorate into black within three days.
However, because the rice made of dragon tooth rice is very delicious and glutinous, and contains extremely powerful qi and blood power, it is the best staple food for martial arts practitioners.
Therefore, those who have the conditions to practice martial arts can't wait to eat rice made of dragon tooth rice every day.
There is a saying called "Dragon Tooth Rice Every Day, Ten Years to Become a Martial Artist", which means that as long as you eat Dragon Tooth Rice every day, even if it is a waste material for martial arts, you can at least become a martial artist in ten years.
After all, martial arts training not only requires talent, but also requires a huge supply of nutrients.
The so-called "poor study, rich learning martial arts", without a certain family background to provide daily meat supplies, can not keep up with the consumption of qi and blood in martial arts, the harder you practice, the more your body will be consumed.
Ordinary martial arts practitioners eat the most common pork and beef and mutton on the market, and those with conditions will buy the flesh and blood of various mountain beasts brought by many hunters, such as tiger meat, leopard meat and wolf meat, and the effect will be much better than that of pigs, cattle and sheep.
However, the best thing is not the meat, but the simply steamed dragon's tooth rice.
The effect of one pound of dragon tooth rice is probably better than at least ten catties of tiger meat, and there will be no various residues produced by eating meat to block the blood, which can be said to be the best choice for martial arts practitioners.
But even a parent official like Governor Chen can't support her daughter Chen Simu to eat dragon tooth rice every meal, and one meal of dragon tooth rice in seven days is already the limit of what can be provided.
After all, the amount of food and consumption of a martial artist is extremely large, a meal is at least five catties or more, and a top martial artist like Chen Simu will not be less than ten catties of rice in a meal.
If you eat a meal of ten catties of dragon tooth rice, it is directly equivalent to eating one hundred taels of silver, which is the income of ordinary people's families for five or even ten years.
It can be seen from this that according to the calculation of ten taels of silver per catty, the ten thousand catties of dragon tooth rice in this sterling silver granary are worth at least 100,000 taels of silver.
And this ......
It is the main goal of Tang Can's trip!
The feng shui of Jinling City is good, and it has 100 acres of dragon tooth fields suitable for planting dragon tooth rice.
Therefore, every two years, the city lord of Hu can harvest about 10,000 catties of dragon tooth rice, which can be regarded as a specialty of Jinling City.
Not long after the harvest this year, Tang Can expected that about 10,000 catties of dragon tooth rice must still be stored in the granary of the city lord of Hu.
Really......
With such a casual knock just now, Tang Can was sure that the sterling silver barn was full, and 10,000 catties of dragon tooth rice was enough.
"Hehe! It seems that City Lord Hu is quite interesting. It's been almost a month since I harvested this 10,000 catties of dragon tooth rice, and I am still reluctant to sell it. Sure enough, I had foreseen it and left it for me!"
So, the corners of Tang Can's mouth burst into a wicked smile, and he was no longer polite, and directly called the steward Tang Dafang: "Tang Dafang! Tang Dafang! Call everyone over...... Open this granary, and the grain inside ...... Shipped back all ......"
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