Chapter 151 \ \ Beidi Chamber of Commerce
Ever since he drank a cup of tea from the floating leaves in the backyard of the Ruling Division, Prince Huayan had always felt a little pain in the back of his head.
His body has become a vampire and is very bad, so it is inconvenient to seek medical treatment, and he does not want to find someone to look for him in order to maintain his majesty.
The mallet of the floating leaf is real, and he will be very happy when he sees that mallet in the past two days.
There are rumors at the foot of the West Mountain that a white-clothed swordsman named Su Shi has been active in the wasteland north of the Moon God Temple for the past two days.
Su Shi, a white-clothed swordsman, specializes in hoeing the strong and helping the weak, so as to fight grievances, and he especially hates robbers who block the road and rob pilgrims. There have already been several waves of bandits entrenched on the official road leading to the Moon God Temple, all of which have been annihilated by Su Shi with one person and one sword.
Su Shi's style is very much in line with the methods he used when he exterminated the snow thief Night Mowgli.
Su Shi likes to decapitate robbers after killing them. He would also line up the corpses of all the robbers he had killed, chop off their heads and place them on their lower abdomen, and have the corpses hold their heads in their hands.
Such a murderous style made the name of the white-clothed swordsman Su Shi spread. The bandits saw him as a demon from hell, but the pilgrims saw him as a guardian angel.
There are people everywhere who have witnessed the demeanor of the white-clothed swordsman Su Shi when he was chivalrous. At this point, Fushengye is no longer the only person who has seen Su Shi in the rumors.
Prince Huayan represents royal power and cannot allow anyone to kill openly outside the rule of law. He has issued a Zhao'an order to make Su Shi surrender within a time limit, and promised to pardon Su Shi's sins.
After the expiration of the Zhao'an order, Su Shi did not reply to Prince Huayan's kindness, and still went his own way and got away with it.
Annoyed, the prince of Huayan issued a reward order to arrest Su Shi.
The bounty is 1,000 taels of gold, which belongs to the level of the top Jiangyang thief.
As soon as the bounty order was issued, it immediately attracted a large number of bounty hunters. Many of the contestants living on the West Mountain were also eager to try to catch Su Shi in exchange for a bounty.
In order to pretend to be Su Shi, Fushengye often invited Prince Huayan to come to the backyard to drink tea. Every time the prince goes back after drinking tea, he has a headache for a while.
After a period of surveillance, Prince Huayan found that every time the white-clothed swordsman Su Shi was making waves at the foot of the mountain, Fushengye was drinking tea with him.
From this, he concluded that Fushengye was not the white-clothed swordsman Su Shi, and the white-clothed swordsman Su Shi was not in Xishan. There are still five days left before the Sword of the Young Division's Sword Competition.
Prince Huayan has taken over Princess Aya's original job and has become the host of the Sword of Young Priest's Life Competition.
After the Shao Si Destiny Competition, it was the wedding day of the third prince Lei Zhe and the lord of Zhangxiong Mengfan. A few days ago, the Zhangxiong Department had already sent someone to escort the Lord of Mengfan County from Nanzhao to Drifting Snow City.
Prince Huayan decided to move back to the Xishan Villa, and he really didn't want to go to the backyard of the Ruling Division for tea. Every time he came back from tea, he would have a headache, which made him suspect that the floating leaves had put chronic poison in the tea.
The floating leaves in the backyard of the ruling division sent off the prince of Huayan, and he was in a happy mood.
At noon that day, Xiyan and Qianluo of Donghu Babu suddenly came to visit him.
It turned out that it was because of the last battle in the Ice Lake, both Qianluo and Cheng Xinghe were injured. Although the injury was not very serious, in order to recover as soon as possible to participate in the Sword of Shao Si Competition, they still spared no expense to invite a doctor to recuperate the two.
After these days of recuperation, their injuries were almost healed, but the silver was also spent.
Xiyan had no choice but to come to Fushengye and ask him for help.
Floating leaves met them in the study.
Xi Yan said: "Cheng Xinghe has been at the bottom of the mountain for two days in exchange for a bounty in order to capture the white-clothed swordsman Su Shilai and still has nothing to gain, we are now penniless, and we still owe a lot of consultation money to the doctor, so we have no choice but to ask the Ninth Elder to help us tide over the difficulties." In the future, we will definitely send a sum of incense money to repay you for your righteous deeds of helping the poor today. ”
Fusheng Ye said: "You were injured to save Prince Huayan, don't he care?" ”
Xiyan said: "We are not familiar with His Highness. After the last glacial lake incident, there was a gap between us. Senior Brother Cheng Xinghe didn't let us go to His Highness for help again. ”
Fushengye asked Su Xiao to take out a wooden box from the inner room, and there were three money bags in the wooden box. He took out a money bag and handed it to Xi Yan and said, "This is my private money, and it does not belong to the public wealth of the Moon God Temple." You can use it, you don't have to pay it back! ”
Xiyan and Qianluo thanked Fushengye together, and then left the Adjudication Division.
Qianluo was walking on the way back, and suddenly looked up at the West Mountain.
Xiyan asked him, "What did you find?" ”
Qianluo said: "It's a little golden eagle, on the day I encountered a rat infestation in the ice lake, two little golden eagles killed the falcon of the prince of Huayan." I remember I shot one. ”
Xiyan said: "Do you want to shoot this one too?" ”
Qianluo said with a solemn expression: "No, I found that the golden eagle that flew over just now is the one I shot at the beginning." Could it be that I'm dazzled? The elders said that shooting a golden eagle would bring bad luck, and I was always restless for the past two days. ”
Xiyan said: "You mean that the golden eagle that killed the falcon of the Huayan Prince may come from Xishan." ”
Qianluo nodded: "The water in the Moon God Temple is too deep, let's take care of our stomachs first!" ”
Xiyan smiled when he heard this: "You have finally eaten a trench and grown wise!" It's better not to know some things than to know, and if you see them, you should treat them as if you didn't see them, let's go back! ”
The floating leaf received a flying letter from the painting heart with a small golden eagle. He learned from Huaxin that on the day of the Battle of the Ice Lake, the lower half of the lower body of the Huayan Prince was seriously injured, and it stands to reason that he should not be able to stand up.
This made the floating leaf even more convinced that the prince was using spells to maintain the humanoid body, but in fact he was terminally ill. Such people are dangerous. The prince of Huayan did not have the consciousness of a dying person at all, and even tried in vain to marry Lan Ye as his wife.
This made Floating Leaf feel even more damned.
The painting heart has arrived at the bluestone city of the Central Plains Empire, and it is still more than a month away from the imperial capital. She also drew up a plan for how she would conduct business once she arrived in the imperial capital.
Influenced by the floating leaves, this plan is ambitious, but it is too expensive, but at a glance it is full of silver.
However, Huaxin said that money was not an issue, and they planned to do some underworld business to accumulate wealth.
Ukisuba agrees to her plans to start a business, but not to her underground ways to gain wealth.
There is still a large amount of treasure buried in the snow pirate camp, and as long as this wealth can be transported to the imperial capital, it will be enough to start her plan.
However, the snowy region and the imperial capital are still thousands of miles away, and it is not easy to transport so much gold, silver and jewelry.
As soon as the market of Fifty Miles opened, all kinds of merchants gathered. Some of them also come here to put up banners to solicit business.
Fushengye personally went to a few dart bureaus and asked about the market. Most of these dart games are just business between the various departments of Mangyuan, and the rates range from one to two percent.
And if you want to transport gold, silver and jewelry to the hinterland of the Central Plains Empire, the high rate is terrifying, and the starting price is between four or fifty percent, and there is no compensation for loss.
Floating leaves heard that this was too nonsense. Let the dart bureau bring the goods to the imperial capital once, and the freight alone will have to consume half, and the people are not responsible for losing it.
He certainly wouldn't have chosen that approach.
Wearing a black robe and a gold mask, Fushengye inquired about the market for transporting goods to the imperial capital in Fifty Miles, which quickly attracted the attention of people with a heart.
A Beidi merchant who led a camel followed Fushengye all the way and saw him enter the Guanshan Inn.
This Beidi merchant was over fifty years old, tall and of Kua's father's ancestry, and he walked with a somewhat hunched back and spoke with a thick Beidi accent.
He came to the Guanshan Inn and called the shopkeeper to say that he wanted to stay in the hotel. He didn't expect that the shopkeeper here was a disabled teenager.
After the weather gets hotter, the gauze on Su Xiao's body can't be tied all day. He would sometimes untie the gauze on his face to allow the skin on his face to breathe.
His face was full of scars from the burning when he untied the gauze, and he looked hideous. But he has a pair of pure and beautiful eyes, and he is very smart.
Su Xiao instructed the shopkeeper to arrange a guest room for the merchants of the Beidi clan. The merchant of the Beidi tribe tentatively asked Su Xiao what the identity of a person wearing a black robe and a golden mask was.
Su Xiao saw that the Beidi businessman was quite good-looking, and he spoke very politely. He said to the Beidi merchants: "It's the first time that the guest officer has come to the Moon God Temple, and he hasn't even heard of the head of the Xishan Adjudication Division?" ”
The merchant of the Beidi tribe said: "Of course I have heard that the head of the Xishan Adjudication Division is also a person wearing a black robe and a golden mask. I just didn't expect to meet him here! ”
Su Xiaodao: "The first adult has been waiting for you for a long time in the No. 1 guest room!" ”
The Beidi merchant said: "The first lord is waiting for me?" So what's going on? ”
Su Xiaodao: "You followed the adults all the way, and asked the adults why they were looking for you?" You should tell your adult what you are doing with him! ”
The Beidi merchant said, "I understand! I'm going to go and explain the situation to the first one. ”
The name of the Beidi merchant is He Laiming, and he is the new deacon of the Beidi Chamber of Commerce. This time, he was ordered by the chairman to go to the Moon Temple to carry out the business of the bank.
After listening to He Laiming's introduction, Fushengye asked curiously: "What kind of organization is the Beidi Chamber of Commerce, and why did you come to the Moon God Temple to open a bank." ”
He Lai famously said: "The chamber of commerce organization has been rising in the territory of the Central Plains Empire for two hundred years. However, there was no large-scale chamber of commerce among the various ministries of Mangyuan. Because of the constant disputes between the various ministries in Mangyuan, people did not have the habit of putting money into the bank. But in recent decades, Mangyuan has grown stronger under the rule of the Red Golden Khan. With the development of trade between various ministries, the dart board alone can no longer meet the normal money and goods transactions between merchants. Because the dart board escort gold, silver and jewelry is not only costly, but also risky. But with money banks it's different. You must not know what the benefits of money are there, so let me tell you more about it! It's complicated, if you don't understand it, just ask me! ”
Fushengye thought to himself, this He Laiming really regarded himself as a dirt bun.
Isn't a bank just a bank?
However, he didn't want to show that he knew Qian Zhuang very well all of a sudden, so he patiently listened to He Lai's name talk about Qian Zhuang's past and present life.
He Lai's eyebrows fluttered in the name of the speech, and the floating leaves listened drowsily.
After He Lai's name was finished, he saw that Fushengye still looked lukewarm, and he asked tentatively: "What do you think of Qian Zhuang?" ”
Fushengye said: "But the money in the Moon God Temple will not be deposited in the money bank. ”
He Lai said: "I didn't say that I want you to put the money from the Moon God Temple in the money bank!" ”
Fusheng Ye asked, "Then what do you want to do with so much?" ”
He Lai said, "I saw you in the bazaar and asked a few dart bureaus about the delivery of goods to the imperial capital. I can help you exchange your belongings for silver tickets, and you can use silver tickets to exchange silver at the ticket number of the Beidi Chamber of Commerce when you arrive at the emperor, what do you think? ”
Fushengye heard it: "You also have a ticket number in the imperial capital?" ”
He Lai famously said: "Our Beidi Chamber of Commerce is actually a branch of the Imperial Capital Huaxia Chamber of Commerce. As long as you have the silver ticket of our Beidi Chamber of Commerce, you can exchange it for silver when you go to the imperial capital to find the ticket number of any Huaxia Chamber of Commerce. ”
Fushengye said: "How much is the rate?" ”
"The public rate is 20 percent, but we give you a discount of 1 and a half percent. As long as you can help our chamber of commerce promote the business, we will give you a commission. ”
Fushengye said: "I don't want to give you a packing ticket, because I have to keep things secret. ”
He said, "Secrecy is a must!" But as long as you do it, people will know about it, and although it won't be public, it may attract customers for us. ”
Fushengye said: "I'll consider your proposal and go back and ask the owner of the Guanshan Inn to contact you." ”
He Lai famously said: "Is the Guanshan Inn the filial son with a scar on his face?" ”
Fushengye said: "Yes! ”
He Laiming was a little disappointed, and the amount of business brought to him by a filial son was probably very effective.