"Mo'er." Mu Chonglan wanted to persuade Su Chengmo, after all, she really didn't plan to avoid Su Chengmo for this kind of thing, but Su Chengmo's speed was too fast, and she didn't have time to keep it, so she could only sigh and think about going to her later.

"Come in." Mu Chonglan called, and Yan Xingsheng leaned on the wheel of the car and lifted the curtain.

In fact, the space in Mu Chonglan's carriage is not small, and if Yan Xingsheng wants to come in, he can sit down, but he has no intention of sitting in, he just gets as close to the carriage as possible, and tells Mu Chonglan about the situation he investigated.

This Yanzhou is not a peaceful place, because the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and it can definitely be called a poor country with a bad people, but there are bandits or horse bandits in ordinary places, but there are pirates here.

It is not difficult for the imperial court to encircle and suppress bandits or horse bandits, and to find their big village or lair, but the difficulty is that those places are often easy to defend and difficult to attack, so the people sent by the imperial court can not easily encircle and suppress them.

The pirates are different, they come from a wide range of ways, some are Japanese people, some are Yanzhou natives, and some are wanted in the side, and they have to come here to ask for a way to survive, they appear in groups along the coast, attack passing merchant ships, and go ashore from time to time to fight an autumn breeze, so that the Dasheng court hates them to the bone, but what can it be?

You know, the ocean is very big, and these pirates are adrift on the sea all year round, so it is not easy to find their traces, not to mention that most of the pirates are good at water, and the soldiers of the imperial court are mostly dry soldiers.

"There weren't so many pirates before, but in recent days, there have been a lot more pirates in Yanzhou." Yan Xingsheng secretly said in his heart, in fact, this sea area is vast, and when pirates are rampant, many countries are affected, but the coastal area of Yanzhou is too long, so it is easier to be patronized by pirates, after all, other neighboring countries are far from being rich and rich, and the officers and soldiers are also a little out of reach, so supplies or something, coming to Dasheng to fight the autumn breeze, has become a tacit understanding between many pirates that does not need to be spoken.

"Why are there so many pirates all of a sudden?" Mu Chonglan raised her eyebrows, she knew that it was impossible for nothing to suddenly give birth to so many thieves, whether it was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster.

"What else can it be, it's not because of the imperial court's sea ban." Yan Xingsheng pursed his lips, because the court was going to make a big move, so Emperor Sheng, who was afraid of internal and external troubles, chose to start the sea ban a few months ago, and went straight to all cargo ships, but this move caused the dissatisfaction of many maritime merchants, after all, once the sea was banned, they lost the way to survive, so some restless maritime merchants began to do some unclean small actions in private. "It was reported to the imperial court that some pirates were causing trouble, but judging from the investigation results, it should be a few sea merchants who tacitly hired the so-called pirates to make trouble, and then used the so-called pirates to make trouble, and then carried out the smuggling thing."

"That's ......," Mu Chonglan frowned.

Yan Xingsheng nodded: "Yes." ”

"Smuggling, is it very profitable?" Mu Chonglan asked.

Yan Xingsheng wanted to say that those maritime merchants were hateful, but when he heard Mu Chonglan's words, he was almost choked by his own saliva, he looked at Mu Chonglan, and thought to himself that this lady of his family has always been kind-hearted, shouldn't he first care about the impact of pirates causing trouble on the people around him?

Actually...... I actually inquired about making money first, how poor and scary it is.

"Rare is expensive, small things that are not worth mentioning here, it may be a very rare thing to get to the neighboring countries, just like glass beads, which can be bought in the streets and alleys in Persia, and get it to our Dasheng, that is, there is a good thing with a price, if you smuggle it, you can save a lot of silver if you save the tax in the middle, not to mention that those people do more than have no capital, and there are only some unaware sea merchants, as well as the people of this Yanzhou." Yan Xingsheng replied.

Mu Chonglan nodded, thinking that when he was in Dadu, he met the so-called maritime merchants, and at that time he felt that these maritime merchants were very remarkable, and they could go so far to bring things back to Dasheng, and now when they came to Yanzhou, they heard about it, and found that those maritime merchants in Dadu were just squeezed into business and had to go to Dadu to pay heavy taxes to survive.

"If only the sea ban was lifted, I could hire a merchant ship to earn some silver." Mu Chonglan said with emotion.

Yan Xingsheng frowned and said, "Even if the sea ban is lifted, it is impossible for the master to let you go." ”

"That's right, but if the sea ban can be lifted, I can transport some Dasheng specialties from other places, or buy some at a low price here, and then ship them to sell elsewhere to make a difference, which doesn't seem to be bad." Mu Chonglan blinked her eyes and thought, although she doesn't have a lot of money in hand now, but it is better to have more silver, otherwise it will be too late to think about it when it is really time to use it.

The so-called food in his hands and no panic in his heart, Mu Chonglan has thoroughly understood the meaning of these eight words since he started his own business.

Not to mention the distance, let's just say that now, she has raised so many slaves, although these slaves have work to do, but most of them give some work that can be done by one person to several people to complete, and the wages and rations are a few people, this is fashionable, if it catches up with the off-season of Zuixiaolou and Jue Seifang, she should be short of money.

What's more, if I'm not mistaken, it shouldn't take too long, and it should be time for the sky to change, and at that time, the grand event will be chaotic for a while because of the succession, and the major officials above the court, and even the officials of the state capitals in various places, will be involved in the chaos in order to support the future monarch they support, and Xiao Xiantang will not be an exception.

If it is said that the person Xiao Xiantang wants to support is the crown prince or the sixth prince, or even the third prince, it is okay to say, but the future monarch that Xiao Xiantang wants to support is the fourth prince Xiao Jingsheng, and the fourth prince Xiao Jingsheng does not have too much power behind him, it is completely like relying on luck to get to the last step, that is to say, he also has no silver.

Knowing this, Mu Chonglan felt that he could earn more silver, so that he could use it when needed, lest Xiao Xiantang would not have any silver in his hand at that time, and he would not be able to recruit troops smoothly, and he would not be able to help the fourth prince Xiao Jingsheng ascend to the throne, and he would not be able to reach the height of a king with a different surname.

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