Li Sangrou is a man of action, at noon the next day, Li Sangrou waited for Gu Xi outside the Chenhui Gate, stood on the side of the road, and told Gu Xi his plans in a few words.

Gu Xi's eyebrows were raised in surprise.

"I heard that the post post is managed by the Ministry of War and the Privy Council, and the Seventh Prince said that the Ministry of War and the Privy Council can speak?

As long as we take the post road, shelter from the rain under the eaves of the shop, if we can do it and make money, we will take out two or three percent, repair the shop, repair the post road or something, or give the post workers some supplements, or, directly give the money to them.

If we really do this, if there is something in our court, we can catch the post delivery, but there are two families, and the whole world is the king's land. Li Sangrou looked at Gu Xi's surprised face, and then smiled.

"That day, when it came to the excerpt of the official's letter to the family by post, Shouzhen said that he kept laughing, as if he was making some idea, and I thought he was too careful. How did you come up with this idea? ”

Gu Xi's attention seemed to be a little off.

"I think it's good business." Li Sangrou smiled.

"This has to be discussed with the eldest brother in advance." Gu Xi responded, and then asked, "Took Pan Qi's name and went to the female household?" ”

"Hmm. On the day I went to the house, I met the seventh prince on the road, and he thought that I had something to do with the eldest prince of Yongping Houfu, so he stopped me and asked. ”

Li Sanrou explained a few more words.

"What does it have to do with Shen Mingshu?" Gu Xi was surprised.

"Look, it's a thing, that's it, one by one, and it's not over once it's pulled." Li Sangrou sighed, "On the fourth day of the new year, we had dinner in Liu Lou and met Shen Gongzi and Qi Gongzi, I thought about it, Yongping Hou Mansion even silver tickets with wages, just rewarded us with 20,000 or 30,000 silver, we always have to say hello, just like that, Qi Gongzi thought too much." ”

Gu Xi heard the sentence of rewarding twenty or thirty thousand silver, and laughed, "Then yesterday the day before yesterday, I went to the Ministry of Industry for two days in a row, and the matter of going to the household was not done?" Is it difficult to do it? ”

"No, the day before yesterday was too idle, I don't know anyone else in Jianle City, and Mr. Wen are busy people, thinking that the seventh prince must be idle, so I went to talk to him.

Yesterday he invited me over and invited me to taste his food and tea, and I asked him for a new book by the way. ”

Li Sangrou patiently answered Gu Xi's questions one after another.

No way, she's asking for him.

"If you want a new book, just find someone to give me a message." After a pause, Gu Xi continued: "Pan Xiang doesn't care about the post station. ”

"It's not for books, it's not for Pan Xiang, look where you go, it's just idle, find someone to talk to, the seventh prince speaks funny, and the person is straightforward." Li Sangrou patiently explained.

"He is a person who has not achieved enough things and has more than enough failures. Also, his daughter-in-law is fierce and spicy, her face is sour and her mouth is sharp, Pan Qi is a little bad, his daughter-in-law is often angry with others, be careful. Gu Xi solemnly confessed.

"Good!" Li Sangrou nodded.

"Well, I'll discuss with my eldest brother first, and I'll talk back in the evening, what do you want to eat?"

"Changqing Building, I heard that his leek basket is doing well, and this is the time to eat leeks." Li Sangrou unceremoniously ordered the place and said goodbye to Gu Xi.

In terms of difficulty in ordering, Changqinglou ranked second in her small book, so she borrowed his light.

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Seeing Li Sangrou turn around and leave, Gu Xi hesitated for a moment, turned around, and went to the Chenhui Gate to enter.

The eldest prince Gu Jin was about to eat, and when he saw Gu Xi coming in, he was surprised: "What's the matter?" ”

"It's nothing, thinking that I will eat alone when I go back, it is better to come and eat with my eldest brother. I love this dish. Gu Xi prevaricated, looked at the plate of steamed fish on the table and smiled.

"I love to eat scallion and braised fish." Gu Jin looked at him and instructed the little waiter: "Let the kitchen burn another green onion, and add two dishes that the prince loves to eat." ”

The two of them ate, Xiao Nei served tea, Gu Xi took two sips, and said with a smile: "That Miss Li, she actually wants to do the business of the post office, this idea is really interesting." ”

Gu Jin glanced at him obliquely, didn't speak, and laughed for a moment.

Gu Xi laughed, "I just think that I have never heard that the post post can make money, and the silver used by the imperial court on the post post every year is nearly one million, which is not a small amount, I don't know what she thinks."

Some people think that the post post can make money, but they think it's interesting. ”

"Didn't ask her?" Gu Jin said with a smile.

"I asked, and she said that she didn't know if she could make money, so let's try it first." Gu Xi spread his hands and said.

"What else did she say?"

Gu Xi met Gu Jin's gaze and said with a smile: "If she is a post post, she will definitely take the post road, borrow the night to deliver the shop, and say that if she makes money, she will take out two or three percent and hand it over to the imperial court."

She even thought that she could make money, and she thought that she would take out the money she earned and give it to the court, which was really interesting. Say yes? ”

"Take the post road and stay overnight in the delivery shop, then her business, that is, just find some porters, and half of the money she earns to deliver letters to the court is cheap." Gu Jin snorted.

"It can't be counted like this, even if she doesn't borrow it, the court can't save a penny on the post post." Gu Xi said.

Gu Jin snorted again: "If she only delivers letters, then it's fine, but what if she delivers goods?"

Just by the things she said, I know that this Miss Li must be very good at drilling camps, and when the time comes, give some benefits here, stuff a few big money there, and the post road of the imperial court will be handed over, I am afraid that it will be her family. ”

Gu Xi's brows furrowed, "It's that I think less, so ...... Or would she be restricted to only delivering letters? ”

"Let me think about it." Gu Jin frowned slightly, and after a moment, he turned his head and motioned to the little waiter: "Call Dafu in." ”

Gu Xi was stunned.

Cao Dafu is in charge of confidential matters such as espionage in Ming'an Palace, what does the eldest brother tell him to do?

Cao Dafu came quickly, and when he saw the salute, Gu Jin motioned to him: "Tell the prince about Miss Li." ”

"Yes. The day after the prince arrived in Beidong County, the uncle instructed the little one to thoroughly investigate Miss Li and her group of four. ”

Cao Dafu turned to Gu Xi and explained first.

"Three years ago, just after the first lunar month, in the middle of the lower nine streams of Jiangdu City, a beggar gang suddenly rose up."

Cao Dafu's words paused, glanced at Gu Jin, and continued:

"The villain is incompetent, before this, I couldn't find a word about Miss Li and the beggar gang.

Before, in the middle of the lower nine streams in Jiangdu City, no one seemed to have heard of the beggar gang and Miss Li.

People who live in the south of the city only know that there is a group of little beggars in Sanqingguan who steal chickens and dogs, and the government has coaxed them a few times, but they always disperse and gather.

Chang Shan, Ma Shaoqing and Mao Feng were mixed among the beggars before, and they were not outstanding, and there were very few people who could hear about them.

Before the number of Dachang came out, Changshan was nicknamed the bamboo pole. Mao Feng's nickname was Huang Mao, and he was later renamed Golden Retriever, which is said to be out of respect. Ma Shaoqing is a dark horse, and the three of them have been together before they followed Miss Li, begging and stealing.

The battle for fame of the beggars in Jiangdu City was to grab the territory from the hands of the poppy Qinglaizi in the south wall and alley of the city.

From the south gate of Jiangdu City to the west and east, there are all prostitutes, and the closer to the city wall, the cheaper the prostitutes.

The four alleys in the west and the three alleys in the east are the territory of Qing Laizi, and the prostitutes have to pay Qing Laizi every month.

Qing Laizi is thirty-five or sixteen, it is said that he is a horizontal kung fu practitioner, invulnerable, and there are twenty or thirty people under him.

In this battle, on the morning of the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month, a group of beggars lined up, knocked on the gong, and for the first time carried out the signboard of the beggar gang, and gave Qing Laizi a war letter.

The battle was in the evening of the same day, under the roots of Nancheng.

From the time of the war letter, the little beggars ran and shouted in the seven alleys, saying that they had said that the money of each family would be halved in the future.

Kyoraiko ignored it and didn't go.

Qing Laizi went to the prostitute house on the twenty-sixth of the month to collect money, and the next day was the twenty-sixth, just after dawn, the seven alleys were full of little beggars, and when they saw Qing Laizi's people collecting money from the prostitute, they called for a message, and Miss Li took Chang Shan, Mao Feng, and Ma Shaoqing to intercept and beat the people who tied up Qing Laizi.

Qing Laizi got the letter, brought more than a dozen people, and bumped into Miss Li and her group of four people in South Second Lane, saying that Miss Li killed Qing Laizi in one face.

Since then, these seven alleys have become the territory of the beggars, until now.

At the beginning of April of that year, Yu Fu, the head of the night incense line, died of illness, and the four generations of the Yu family were already very rich, and Yu Fu's two sons had already moved to Hangzhou.

After Yu Fu's death, the Yu family abandoned Yexiangxing.

The lower nine streams of Jiangdu City all want to take over this night incense shop, and it is said that Miss Li took the three of Changshan to win the night incense shop in a bloody battle.

Ordinary people in Jiangdu City have heard of the beggars and Miss Li.

In the middle of the lower nine streams, almost everyone looks up to and admires the Sang Da gang leader, but very few people have seen the Sang Da gang leader, at least half of the people don't even know that the Sang Da gang leader's surname is Li, and he is a girl.

In the past two years, the little beggars in Jiangdu City love to hang a small piece of mulberry wood, saying that it is the blessing of the big gang leader.

The dozen or so beggars who first followed Miss Li are now all well-known figures in the ninth rank of Jiangdu City, and when someone asks Miss Li, they are extremely vigilant and almost don't say a word.

As for Miss Li's boat boss, He Shuicai, the people in Jiangdu City, only the coolies on the dock and a few tooth people in the tooth shop who knew He Shuicai also looked at the picture and said that this was He Boss, and they didn't know his name He Shuicai.

The statement on the Jiangducheng wharf said that Boss He was from Jiangning, and there were several boats at home, and he often came and went to the Jiangducheng wharf, unloaded and then loaded the goods, and nothing else was known.

Here in Jiangning City, I heard more.

It is said that He Shuicai was born on the boat, grew up on the boat, has excellent water nature, knows the wind and makes the boat, and is a rare water person.

He Shuicai has two brothers, he is the eldest, and when he became a parent, he moved off the boat and rented a house with his daughter-in-law on Wharf Street. Gave up the family boat to his younger brother.

His brother said he was six or seven years younger.

In the second year of his brother's marriage, his daughter-in-law had a difficult birth, when the boat was moored in the place where there was no store in front of the village, his brother ran to the town forty or fifty miles away, invited Wen Po, and then carried Wen Po back to the boat, the daughter-in-law survived, and his brother was cold and tired and exhausted, and died of a sudden illness.

said that at that time, He Shuicai had saved enough money to buy an old boat, and when such a thing happened, He Shuicai sent his younger brother, and then treated his sick parents and took medicine, as well as his brother-in-law and little niece in the confinement, and after the money was used up, he still owed twenty or thirty taels of silver.

owed money and had to feed three or four more people, so He Shuicai took the risk and got on a private boat transporting felt and silk.

The prince also knows that when the wool from our place arrives at Liangdi, and the silk from Liangdi comes to us, we will be subject to extremely heavy taxes, and some outlaws will smuggle them across the border to evade heavy taxes. ”

Gu Xi nodded, he knew that this tax was heavy enough to double the price of wool and silk on the spot.

In recent years, the silk and satin entering the country of Nanliang have increased year by year, and almost one-tenth of the cotton uniforms in the army this year are paid by those silk taxes.

"He Shui's fortune is not good, the second trip, I met the patrol boat of Jiangdu City, the people on the boat jumped into the river to escape, and only two people swam back to Jiangbei alive, saying that the others were shot to death by the martial army.

But a month later, He Shuicai not only returned to Jiangning City safely, but also made a fortune, and after a year and a half, he bought five or six boats one after another.

He Shuicai should have been voted for Miss Li in that month, but what the hell is going on, the villain is incompetent. ”

Cao Dafu's words paused, looked at Gu Jin, Gu Jin lowered his eyes and said, "Go on." ”

"Yes. met Miss Li at Shanzi Tea House, first Ye Ansheng of the Anji Ye family, and then Ye Anping.

Ye Ansheng was expelled from the clan three years ago.

After seeing Miss Li that day, Ye Ansheng went back, and immediately set off, changed horses all the way, and went to Yingjiang Temple outside Anqing City day and night.

Ye Ansheng didn't come out again after entering Yingjiang Temple, and the next day the Ye family went to someone, took him away, and locked him up in the Ye family ancestral hall. ”

Cao Dafu's words paused slightly, and his head hung down.

The person who went with him was careless, and he didn't follow up immediately, and when he went in again at night, Ye Ansheng had been poisoned and died, so he couldn't ask anymore.

After Ye Ansheng's family set off, they packed their luggage overnight, and set off in a hurry the next day, rushed back to Anqing Mansion, and knelt down in the Ye family ancestral hall.

Half an hour after Ye Ansheng arrived at Yingjiang Temple, Ye Anping came from Yingjiang Temple, rushed over day and night, and after seeing Miss Li, Ye Anping did not stay, and went back to Yingjiang Temple on the same day.

Ye Anping is the elder of the previous generation, officially in charge of the Ye family at the age of twenty-four, until four years ago, he suddenly retired and escaped into Buddhism, and now Yingjiang Temple is cultivated.

Ye Anping's side, on the orders of the uncle, did not dare to alarm. ”

"Stand down." Gu Jin signaled to Cao Dafu, looked at Gu Xi and said: "Ye Anping's sudden retirement, the next year after he retired, I went to Fanlou, met the owner Shao Liancheng, and asked him.

Shao Liancheng said that Ye Anping did retire by himself, saying that it was because he wanted to take a confidante home, and his daughter-in-law Tao was jealous by nature, not only did not nod his head, but also caused the confidant to throw himself into the river and die, Ye Anping was disheartened and escaped into the empty door.

Now, Ye Ansheng has been poisoned, and it seems that this statement is probably just a rhetoric to the outside world.

About the Ye family, did Miss Li tell me anything? ”

"No, she just said it was a private matter that was not humane." Gu Xi furrowed his eyebrows.

"Well, a couple of little things." Gu Jin continued: "Qinglaizi has a wife Zhang, as well as a son and two daughters, in the first year, Miss Li asked people to send five taels of silver every three months, and a year later, Miss Li placed 100 acres of paddy fields and 100 acres of dry land in Matou Town, more than 100 miles away from Jiangdu City, in the name of Zhang.

Cao Dafu asked people to inquire in Jiangdu City, and when he found Zhang's and wanted to inquire about Miss Li, he was smashed out by Zhang's dustpan.

After Miss Li took over Yexiangxing, she did not collect money from the prostitutes in the seven alleys of Nancheng, saying that it was an agreement to ask the prostitutes in these seven alleys to give a hot meal to the little beggars who came to beg. ”

Gu Xi's eyebrows raised when he listened, "There is one more thing, I thought it was a trivial matter at the time, and I didn't tell my eldest brother."

At my request, when Miss Li went to Jiangdu City to investigate my assassination, she killed Zhao Mingcai's wife, Yang Xian. ”

"The one who snitched?" Gu Jin asked.

"Well, after that, the spy from Jiangdu City delivered a letter, saying that a sword pierced the Adam's apple and held the corner of the counter where Zhao Mingcai was killed when he died.

The next morning, when the body was found, it was said that the Nightshade Gang had set off firecrackers for half an hour.

The yamen of Jiangdu City decided to kill him, and Huluti passed over, as if he hadn't even written the case file.

Also, Yang Xian's daughter-in-law took her two children and went to the door of Zhao Mingcai's house with filial piety, and Zhao Mingcai's eldest son, Zhao Rui, took a water and fire stick and guarded the door of the house, not letting them in.

Two days later, Yang Xian's daughter-in-law knelt at the door of Zhao Mingcai's house with her two children, saying that she wanted to enter Zhao's house to be a cow and a horse, but Zhao Rui still stood at the door with a water and fire stick and did not let him in.

Zhao Mingcai, the eldest son, is only seventeen after the New Year, which is very good! ”

Gu Xi praised with satisfaction.

"I heard about her speaking for Fan Ping'an, and what she said, that day, and I didn't sleep for several nights. Alas. Gu Jin sighed lowly.

"Such a person, I don't think she can take a fancy to Ye Anping, this confidante, even if there is such a thing, I'm afraid it is Ye Anping's wishful thinking."

Gu Xi nodded again and again, he thought so too!

"She was rescued from the river and lost in the past.

I asked the Imperial Doctor, it is not too rare to lose the past, most of them are stupid, chaotic and chaotic, and those who can take care of themselves in daily life are considered excellent, like Miss Li...... It's just too rare. It's an adventure. ”

"Hmm." Gu Xi then nodded.

"She wants to be a postman, tell her, let her show me a charter first." Gu Jin laughed.

"Big brother really plans to let her do it?" Gu Xi raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Hmm." Gu Jin hummed with great certainty, "I've been waiting, I want to see which line she likes in our Lecheng, if she does the night incense line again, it will be too disappointing, I didn't expect that she actually planned to do a post post, it's really exciting." ”