The morning sun is rising, the whole Beijing and Zhou are shrouded in a brilliant red glow, leaning on a corner of the city tower, the brocade man with black hair flying, looking sideways at the elite division on the official road in the distance, very appreciative eyebrows and smile, the light and shadow flipped, his eyes are full of brilliance with the glow of the glow.

Seeing that the army was about to enter the city, his figure flashed and disappeared into the shadows in the backlight of the attic. A month ago, a thousand miles of good news stirred up thousands of waves in the city of Beijing and Zhou.

The Quartet won a big victory, the three countries negotiated peace, and the coach Zhou Tianyi set off from now on, and the class returned to the DPRK. Today, the four gates of Beijing and Zhou were opened together, precisely to welcome Zhou Tianyi and the 5,000 elites of the Northwest Army back to Beijing to meet and report on their work.

With the faint golden glow of the rising sun, 5,000 elite soldiers marched from the outskirts of the city all the way along the central axis of Chang'an Avenue to the entrance of the palace, in an orderly manner, and the young man who rode at the forefront of the team and led the army was dressed in military uniforms, and the heroic spirit lingered.

In the crowd of people standing along the street, someone recognized the leading general and exclaimed, "Huh? That's General Yue, why don't you see His Royal Highness King Zhao? "This King Zhao is the commander of the Northwest Army Zhou Tianyi, he is the ninth son of the first emperor, mixed in the military camp when he was a child, at the age of twelve out of the palace and the palace after the army with the left and right generals to join the army, at the age of sixteen in the Three Kingdoms battlefield to become famous in a thousand battles, and then he made countless military achievements, is a well-deserved god of war in the Quartet, won the hearts of the people.

The victorious army returned to Beijing but did not see the commander in the ranks, which attracted the speculation of the people along the street.

Some people say that King Zhao was wounded during the war and is recuperating, others say that King Zhao temporarily stayed at the border to prevent the situation from changing, and some people say that he saw King Zhao at the city gate yesterday who hurried back to the city...... Listening to the gossip around her, the woman in blue in the carriage in the inconspicuous corner of the street only hooked her lips and smiled lowly, there was helplessness and innocence in her eyes, if she was not wrong, the real reason why His Royal Highness King Zhao was not among the leading troops was actually ...... It's very simple.

"Hey, miss, the time we set with His Royal Highness King Zhao is afternoon! Your Highness obviously has time to lead the army into the city for the Hajj, isn't this a very important thing? Looking at his own young lady laughing there, the maid in the same car couldn't help but ask curiously, for a soldier, the reward after winning the battle is an affirmation of his merits, doesn't His Royal Highness King Zhao care?

"Yuesheng, don't you allow others to delay a little bit of other things?" Listening to the doubts of the maids around her, the woman in blue smiled even more, but she didn't answer, and Yi Yuesheng's wit would not be incomprehensible.

Seeing that the lively people had dispersed, she ordered outside the car: "Uncle Xu, let's go, it's time to go to Leshen Street." "This delay, the time for taking stock is a little tight, and I have to meet with the shopkeepers of several other shops to do some negotiations.

"Yes, miss." The old coachman answered, raised his whip, and drove the carriage steadily towards the downtown southeast of the city.

King Zhao went to the outskirts of Beijing the day before yesterday, in a mysterious pawnshop in the black market on the outskirts of Beijing

"He's" made an appointment with the head of the house, saying that he wanted to talk about a big deal, and

The second master of "He's" is often not in the store, because of the special identity of the guest this time, the guy went to find the big boss Qin Song.

After Qin Song got the news, he pretended not to know his identity as King Zhao, sent someone to pass the word, and deliberately set the time for the negotiation on the afternoon of the day when Zhou Tianyi returned to Beijing in triumph.

This time seems to have no effect on the morning pilgrimage, debriefing, and reward, but in fact it is full of difficulties.

Jingzhou City is the capital of the four directions, and it is also one of the largest cities in the four directions, from the imperial palace to the remote black market on the outskirts of Beijing, even if it is unobstructed on horseback, it takes at least half an hour.

The reward is a major event for the Quartet to reward meritorious deeds, the procedure is cumbersome, and it is reasonable to last until lunch, and then the Son of Heaven will give heavenly grace and hold a celebration banquet, and when the celebration banquet ends, it is a bottomless pit.

Therefore, if King Zhao participated in today's reward, even if he could leave the palace and go directly to the black market after the reward was over, it was very likely that he would not be able to catch up with the appointment time.

"It's just a test of sincerity, but I didn't expect him to even go to the reward for his work." There were still people outside the car talking about King Zhao's absence, Qin Song propped his head and glanced sideways at the constantly changing people and things outside the window, and couldn't help muttering.

"Miss, what did you say?"

"Huh?" Qin Song came back to his senses and found that he seemed to have said what he was thinking without thinking, and he had an idea, and hurriedly found a topic to divert his attention and prevaricate.

"I mean, His Royal Highness King Zhao's big deal, I'm afraid it's not easy to do." The comparison between the two is more important, which shows that King Zhao attaches great importance to this meeting, no, or rather, King Zhao cares very much about this transaction.

"It's not good, we can refuse, how can there be forced to buy and sell?" Qin Song laughed at Yuesheng's thinking that was still on the normal traders, shook his head and sighed: "Yuesheng, you still don't understand the black market. "The black market has huge profits, and at the same time, the black market also has its own rules, and it is quite normal to buy and sell.

Qin Song wanted to explain a few more words, but the carriage had already stopped.

"If you are free, you can run the black market and follow the moon to feel it." After speaking, she got up and straightened her clothes, and got out of the carriage before Yuesheng.

There are seven streets and nine lanes in Beijing Thursday City, and Leshen Street is located in the southeast downtown area, which is one of the most prosperous streets in the national capital.

Qin Song's family

As a century-old merchant home, "Qin's" naturally has many shops here. In the early years, Qin Huai, the head of the Qin family, would also take care of the business of Jingzhou, but in recent years, the eldest son Qin Feng has become more and more mature, and the eldest daughter Qin Song has emerged, so he waved his hand to hand over most of the Qin family's industry in the Sifang country to his children to take care of it, and he took his wife Chu to the neighboring countries of Wujing and Jiuhuan to continue to develop a career for the family.

During this time, Qin Song's eldest brother Qin Feng was busy with the medicine and liquor business in Huaiyang in the south of the Sifang, so the responsibility for Jingzhou fell on her.

From the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the new month, Qin Song will go to the various shops in the hands of the Qin family in Beijing and Zhou.

Qin Song is shrewd, the inventory is fast and accurate, and he will point out that over time, the shopkeepers of the shop dare not steal rice and food under the hands of the young lady, but today ......

"Shopkeeper Yang, it seems that it hasn't been able to figure out the rules of the Qin family for more than a year." Qin Song gently threw the general account of the Yang's rice grain store on the table, and stared at the middle-aged man with a puzzled expression with a smile in the corner of his eyes.

Originally, the Qin family's industry in Beijing and Zhou did not involve rice grain, so when Qin Song acquired the Yang family rice grain store that could not be supported a year ago, there was no suitable new shopkeeper candidate for a while, and the Yang shopkeeper's business methods were quite passable, so he was not in a hurry to change the store's manpower.

"Miss, the Qin family is honest and profitable, and the villain knows it." Shopkeeper Yang rubbed his hands and replied respectfully.

"Yuesheng, go to the treasury and take out the detailed accounts from June of the previous year. When the moon sets, go get an abacus. Seeing that Shopkeeper Yang didn't plan to explain, Qin Song was neither angry nor annoyed, and pulled a chair at the door of the rice grain store and sat down.

"Miss Ben will settle accounts for Yang's Rice Grain Store today." As soon as Qin Song's words came out, Shopkeeper Yang almost laughed.

Others may not know, but he has been in charge of this store for ten years, and the detailed accounts of the rice grain store are recorded every day of every transaction, as much as a cow's hair.

Even if Miss Qin is capable, she is only a woman, which is too self-conscious.

"Yuesheng, get ready with pen and ink." Qin Song didn't care about the change in Shopkeeper Yang's expression at all, and took care of himself.

"Yes, miss." Yuesheng willingly took the pen and ink and waited on the side, snickering in her heart, her young lady's skills have not been revealed on the street, and the shopkeeper Yang has not been in contact with the young lady for a long time, so he must not know, I am afraid that his eyes can be seen on the ground for a while.

Qin Song flipped through the account book with one hand and planned the plate with the other, and while flipping through it, he reported the daily entry and exit of the rice and grain store like flowing water, without staying on any page for long.

Originally, only a few people stopped out of curiosity, but now there are more and more people around to watch the excitement, and the full moon has to run out to stop the onlookers, not allowing them to block the light of the young lady, let alone letting them get too close to the young lady.

The accounts are reported more and more, and the more they are reported, the faster they are reported, except for the surprise of the speed of this account, the shopkeeper Yang only waits quietly on the side.

As the account books in Qin Song's hand piled up higher and higher, most of the people present were suspicious. It's almost been a whole year since this was investigated, and there is no clue, could it be that Miss Qin came out to entertain her subordinates with nothing to do?

When the "July ......" was turned to the accounts of July last year, Qin Song's speed suddenly slowed down, and the daily general ledger and monthly general ledger that had been checked had been recorded by Yue Sheng, but Qin Song repeatedly flipped through the accounts in this month's rows, his eyes swept extremely quickly, and the expression on his face was still the same, which really made people unable to understand her thoughts.

As if she hadn't found anything, she put July's account book in her hand, and took another copy of August's and continued to flip through it.

……

"Guanghan, you say...... What will happen if you put those properties in the palace in the hands of a special person? Zhou Tianyi sat in the Moon Tower diagonally opposite the rice grain store with his head propped up, and looked at the farce of the street inventory with interest.

The position he sat was just half a staircase higher than the first floor, and he could clearly see the attentive expression and flexible fingers of the woman who took the account, and the abacus rose and fell, and the strokes were clear and clear.

Suddenly, it seemed that all the noise on the street had returned to silence, and only he and her were left in heaven and earth.

"Huh? Someone who takes care of it naturally earns more than now. Zhou Tianyi's close attendant Guanghan replied as a matter of course, the master is not in Beijing and Zhou all the year round, and the property of the palace is now ruled by two housekeepers, although the two housekeepers take care of the Zhaowang Mansion in an orderly manner, the operation is still not as good as those veterans who are in the business field.

After a while, his mind seemed to turn back to the right path.

"Lord, master, what are you talking about? Why did you let General Yue lead the troops back to the city instead, the soldiers are looking forward to you accepting the reward in front of the emperor! Although he had followed Zhou Tianyi for many years, Guang Han still couldn't understand the deep meaning of his master's behavior in the past two days.

At noon yesterday, the master sent someone back to Beijing to hand over the work report written by himself, and deduced that he was sick and damaged the prestige of the army, and that he would return to Beijing a few days later.

And early this morning, I went up to the city tower alone to wait for the army, but I only watched it from a distance for a while, and then I went to this Moon Tower to order a pot of tea and a few plates of snacks, and I have been sitting until now.

Zhou Tianyi didn't give a little attention to the attendants beside him, and continued to look at himself: "Go back and investigate that girl." ”

"Master? The soldiers are looking forward to your reward in front of the emperor! Guang Han repeated his previous words again, and Zhou Tianyi turned his head to look at him,

"What's wrong?"

"No, it's fine." Guang Han was stunned for a moment, when did the master's actions and considerations need to be explained to himself?

His previous words were full of transgressions, and he immediately lowered his head and stopped speaking. He knew that Guanghan had doubts in his heart, this battle had been fought hard for so many years, and now the world was finally peaceful, and the person who led the troops to accept the reward was not the commander who gathered the hearts of the army, and anyone would be dissatisfied.

Zhou Tianyi can be said to have been mixed in the military camp for more than ten years, and he is quite familiar with the Quartet's celebration and reward system.

After the debriefing, there is a reward, and after the reward, there is a celebration banquet, and the celebration banquet may be grabbed by the Manchu Dynasty civil and military to stare at the congratulations and toast, this set of processes is down, and it is normal to make a fuss until the middle of the night.

After thinking about it, Zhou Tianyi sighed, and still explained a few words: "There may not be a reward, the imperial brother may be true to test me, besides...... Didn't we make a covenant with someone beforehand? "The Three Kingdoms have been tired of fighting for a long time, the treasury is not surplus, he is the commander and the royal family, the letter from the emperor's brother a few days ago deliberately mentioned the situation of the treasury, and the purpose is obvious.

So...... If he attends today's debriefing, he will have to pretend to be righteous and awe-inspiring to make a prevarication of the reward, and the reward will only decrease and not increase after that.

No matter how poor the Quartet is, it is the richest of the three kingdoms, but before the people of the four sides will starve to death if they give out a reward, at most they will cut a little unnecessary expenses.

That being the case, it is better to let Yue Yichang, the general, receive this reward in a dignified manner. Moreover, for him who left the border camp and returned to Beijing this time, it was better to accept the reward of the imperial brother than to distinguish between the true and the false

It is even more important for the "He's" family to meet and buy what they want.

The whereabouts of the head of the "He family" are secretive, and it is difficult to make an appointment, but this time he got a letter of permission to meet on the afternoon of the first day of March in one day.

"Did you listen to what I just said?" Seeing that Guang Han had no reaction, Zhou Tianyi asked in an aggravated tone.

"Yes, yes, there is an appointment in advance." Guang Han answered the last sentence he heard without thinking, but he didn't see the master's expression soften, and immediately reacted and changed his words: "No, no, no, investigate that girl, but master, to what extent do you want to investigate?" "He followed Zhou Tianyi from birth to death, and he risked his life to investigate any dangerous person, but this time he was an accountant girl who couldn't see the background, where can this start?

"Just be more detailed." As if remembering something, he paused in the action of drinking tea, and added: "There is no need to check the inconsequential things one by one." "This Guanghan is good at everything, but his brain is dead, and he seems to be even less brilliant after returning to Jingzhou, he told him like this, this kid shouldn't send all the inexplicable things to him.

After thinking about it, he moved his eyes out the window again, focusing on the results of the inventory. The account book hill had completely shifted from Qin Song's right hand to his left, and it seemed that it was close to the end.

“…… Sixty pounds. ”

"Total ......"

"Miss, a total of eight thousand five hundred and twenty-three pounds." Qin Song nodded, then turned to look in the direction of Shopkeeper Yang, seeing that he was still unmoved, she smiled lightly and asked deliberately, "Shopkeeper Yang, do you have anything to say?" The named shopkeeper Yang woke up like a dream, but he didn't expect that it was only a little more than an hour, and this Miss Qin really rechecked the accounts for more than a year, and the score was exactly right.

He stepped forward and said respectfully: "Miss, the price of the total catty and tael you calculated is the same as the one I reported, and I have no objection." ”

"Well, 'Yang's' is the first rice grain store that my family acquired in Jingzhou, and I have a question, I have always wanted to ask Shopkeeper Yang."

"The villain doesn't dare, Miss, please speak."

"The harvest in the south was poor the year before last, and the price of your rice and grain was high, I can understand it. And as far as I know, there was a bumper harvest in the south last year, why did your purchase price ...... Same as the year before? ”

"Miss, the Ye family of the Li family in the south bid for grain, and the price of grain has been raised!" Shopkeeper Yang seemed to tell the truth about the price of grain, and his voice was full of grievances.

"Really?" Qin Song gave Yueluo a look, and Yueluo understood, took out a letter from his sleeve and put it in the hands of Shopkeeper Yang.

"Shopkeeper Yang, my brother happened to pass by the south some time ago, and he had some friendship with the Li family and the Ye family, so he inquired a little about the grain prices in the past few years. The Li family and the Ye family have always been good friends, and they have always cooperated to collect grain. And the purchase price on your account is nearly sixty percent higher than that of Li and Ye, and you ...... "The detailed purchase price of rice grain can only be found out by people who have deep friendships with Li and Ye, holding a letter as light as a goose feather, Yang Shopkeeper feels that there is a thousand gold, and there is no need to open it, and the fire paint of the Li and Ye family crests at the seal can know the authenticity of the contents."

In March last year, the rice grain store was suppressed by rice merchants from the south who entered Beijing, and it was difficult to operate, but at that time, it happened to grasp the life-saving straw of the Qin family.

When he learned that the owner of the rice grain store was a sixteen-year-old girl, he started to think about other things.

"Little, Miss, the villain is wrong, the villain is wrong."

"Say, where did the difference in the price of the eight thousand five hundred and twenty-three catties of grain go?" Qin Song's cold voice was cold to the bone at this time, the Qin family made money and took it in a good way, but she didn't realize that the shopkeeper Yang was making fake accounts under her nose until now, no wonder her father and eldest brother were not at ease with her.

Shopkeeper Yang was so frightened that his face turned pale and he stood up. The difference, the silver that was exchanged for the difference, had already been spent by his unfilial son gambling and prostitution!

What is the best of now?

"That's it, send it to Jing Zhaoyin, the moon sets, you keep an eye on it." The account problem is already clear, Qin Song doesn't want to waste any more time in the rice grain store, just go back and change the rice grain store to a real shopkeeper.

The time to make an appointment with the shopkeeper of several other shops is approaching, and then she has to rush to the black market on the outskirts of Beijing to talk about business with King Zhao, she closed her eyes and rubbed her temples to slow her breath, and after opening her eyes and getting up, she was full of energy again, and raised her feet and walked towards the diagonal Moon Tower.

From the moment Qin Song walked to this side, the corner of Zhou Tianyi's eyes never left her, and when she went upstairs, she passed by him and walked straight towards the noisiest private room on the second floor.

"Miss, you're here." Seeing Qin Song arrive at the door, the six shopkeepers who had heads and faces in the Beijing and Zhou industries immediately stopped arguing, and all got up to greet each other, and then, the largest private room on the second floor became lively again, and the voices of the six shopkeepers arguing were higher than one another, one after another, endlessly.

"Master, those are the shopkeepers of famous jewelry shops in Beijing and Zhou." These people Guang Han knew that although he hadn't found a favorite woman to send these things, but the brothers around him had it, and they talked about the favorites of these Jingzhou women when they were idle to drink and eat meat.

Glancing at Guang Han, Zhou Tianyi nodded and didn't say anything. The voices and demeanors of the shopkeepers just now were clearly really happy and convinced of this girl, and the quarrels before and after the door closed showed that the relationship between these people was not harmonious.

As for the rest, Zhou Tianyi, who has read countless people, can see that these shopkeepers are afraid that they are all iron roosters who are not pulling out a dime, and even give profits in front of the door, and they will double and steal them back under the guise of being behind them, all in all, it is not easy to deal with.

What the hell has this girl done to be able to accept these big old men. Subconsciously picked up the teacup and drank tea, and found that the tea had bottomed out, he smiled helplessly, looked at the private room on the second floor, and got up to call Guanghan,

"Let's go, to the outskirts of the city." Rather than accepting the glory of the great victory, when he returned to Jingzhou on this trip, he wanted to find out the real cause of his father's death and what happened to Jingzhou two years ago.

There is such a thing as seizing the throne, becoming a king or losing a king, as a member of the heavenly family, he naturally has nothing to say, but when he was young, his brothers who loved him very much for the sake of power...... Is it really unbearable...... At that time, he was not in the national capital, and almost everything was passed through the mouths of others, so to this day, he still has doubts and ...... about it By the skin of one's teeth.

If he wants to investigate this matter, it is easy to startle the snake through the power of the DPRK and China, so he wants to know the whole story through the hands of black market intelligence agents, so that even if it is discovered by the emperor's side later, he will not be able to find out about his head for a while.

- The Quartet, the fifth watch, and the nine winds have been tired for a long time, and the people are tired. In the second year of Emperor De, King Zhao won a surprise victory, retreated millions of enemies, and the general trend of the Quartet was unstoppable.

In the third year of the German emperor, the three kingdoms stopped fighting, and the armistice was negotiated for peace. - "Book of the Hundred Worlds • Chronology of the Quartet" - In the spring of the third year of Emperor De, the Quartet won a great victory, and King Zhao returned to the dynasty to report on his work.

- "Book of the Hundred Worlds • Zhou Tianyi Ji" - Qin Song asked the account on the street, and when it was not much, the entries were clear, and the industry was impressed.

- "The Book of Hundred Worlds: The Legend of the Strange Woman"