Early in the morning the rooster crows,

The old town of Luoyang is still noisy,

The market vendors opened early in the morning, and the customers were full of many temple fairs.

The day after tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the most prosperous area of Luoyang City. On the opposite side of the octagonal building on the cross street, a courtyard is majestic and magnificent, and a solid wooden plaque is hung on it, and only two gilded characters are shown - the Golden Mansion.

This is the mansion of Jin Rong, a well-known wealthy businessman in Yuzhou, and the young shopkeeper of the Jin family.

This Jin Rong, a person from Nanyang, followed his father in business at a young age, knew all kinds of business trivialities at a young age, "saw people and talked to people, met ghosts and ghosts", in the fifteenth or sixteenth year, he went to Luoyang for his father to do business, and bought a piece of land, in the past few years, the area has become a downtown area, and his father was happy, so he handed over the Luoyang shops to his dots......

After Jin Rong married a local sister flower, he lived here for a long time, according to today's legal calendar, monogamy as the standard, for the Jin family young shopkeeper to eat a lot of lawsuits, all the Song teachers want to use this name to shock the party, Jin Rong spent a lot of money for this matter.

People are rich and rich, but the marriage is simple, the two women are side by side in the main room, there is no concubine room to say, but after marriage, the eldest lady often shows up to receive visitors, but rarely sees the second lady, the visitor asks why he always laughs and does not answer, and is often ridiculed for the gold house Zangjiao, but the gold boss has never been immoral, and there are more and more shops under the table, and the business can be described as thriving.

Since the Guandong, the west, and the Nanyang population migration, the economic center of gravity has also shifted, and now Kyushu has a separation, but the merchant is a business life that can be eaten by any dynasty and any generation, as the saying goes:

Seven points depend on strength, three points depend on luck, and the remaining ninety points depend on opportunities.

There have been countless businessmen throughout the ages, but there are only a handful of people who are famous for eating openly. Tao Zhugong has been overshadowed by his descendants, but he can't give real money, and if he wants money, he has to earn it himself.

Since the extension of the Silk Road, exchanges in the Central Plains have been frequent. Even in the event of a war, merchants can travel far away from the customs, not to mention running back and forth between Kyushu, after all, the rise and fall of merchants is closely related to the entire finance of the dynasty. The most important thing in their eyes is profit, which is the real thing to feed a family, the whole family, and the whole family.

In the main room in the backyard of this Jin Mansion, Jin Rong just finished paying tribute to Fan Li's statue, this pair of patterned brocade robes just lined his appearance, and there was still a person standing in the main house, standing silently, it was Zhong Wuxuan.

After the incense is applied, the salute is made. Jin Rong strolled in front of the table, cleaned the tea set, and didn't see Wuxuan move, but was happy: "Sit, what's wrong, there's no meat on the buttocks, I'm afraid I'll panic? ”

Zhong Weiyu, Jin Rong stall set up tea sets: "People~ I can do it for you, I promise not to leave a trace, but I have a condition, the Jin family's shop in Pengcheng's storefront, catch up with this year's rent increase, I heard that your maternal uncle is quite famous in the local area." You see~ I am tired of writing a letter to my family, and I will think about it. ”

Wuxuan looked at the tea, but didn't do it, he is also a person who understands tea, the rules of business, you can't drink it at will if you don't talk about it, there are a lot of mysteries in it.

"Within a year, the rent was halved. ”

"Young Master Zhong is generous~"

"But I want you to dispose of the body within the scope of Sima Mansion, and it will be discovered by others", Wu Xuan's eyes were resolute, as if he had finally made a decision.

"Shhh...... What do you mean... Make others think that this person died at the hands of the Sima family?"

"Exactly. ”

"That'...... It's not that simple......"

"I don't doubt your ability at all, Pengcheng's future store business will need long-term cooperation. ”

"Then it's a deal!", the golden shopkeeper agreed heartily.

Jin Rong poured tea, and knocked on the table with two fingers. Seeing this [kowtow], Jin Rongcai smiled heartily: "Happy cooperation~, I wish Zhong Shao~ Pengcheng Wanli, splendid Qianyang~"

"By the way, there is something I need to ask you, did Hou Yi spend a lot of money with you?"

"Young Master Zhong, the gold and silver flowing between this guest is a business secret, although I am a little treacherous for business, but as a person, I still have my own bottom line, I can't tell you"

"I don't care about that, it's just that I want to know the interest between you......"

"Rest assured~ The interest is zero, I only need the principal price, and I don't take anything else. ”

Wuxuan sneered: "You profiteer also have times when you don't make profits? ”

Jin Rong flicked his sleeves: "Businessmen also have to look at their eyes, I can see that Hou Yi's generation will be capable in the future, if this relationship is good, it will not be as simple as money in the future." ”

Wuxuan lightly let go of the teacup in his hand and stared at Jin Rong: "You can weigh carefully, the fate of businessmen gaining power, you know the historical examples very well, don't dig your own grave." ”

"Hahahaha, what a self-digging grave, I'm just a layman, except for money, I don't look at it, I think I'm a copper smell, which power can tolerate me?"

Wuxuan plays with this teacup, the size is moderate, the purple sand is the text, the most important thing is that this tea precipitation can be seen to be a perennial tea taster, not a pomp.

Those who understand tea also understand life.

"Jin Rong, I don't need to write to my family, I will go home by myself, but I still have to borrow your transportation line, you can quickly enter and exit the goods in and out of Kyushu, there must be a private transportation line. ”

Jin Rong turned around and stared at Wuxuan: "How much do you know about me, who are you?"

"Don't be nervous, Dong Yu told me, he told me to nominate with you, and you will help, and you have to ask him for the rest, I'm just asking for convenience." ”

"You know Mr.!I'll help you with this, drink tea, and go with me~, don't worry, even if you go back on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can still have it~"

Out of the gold house, the face is the cross street octagonal building, in front of the building is the downtown area, people come and go, but no one to the octagonal building to take a look, look closely, the front of the building tea stall, pastry shop, restaurant back and forth a few people, similar clothes, embroidered a gold word on the back, presumably are also the guards of the Jin family.

"The Jin family's shops are all over the world, relying on not treachery, it is your love and my willingness, the first article of my Jin family's business motto is: do not sit on the ground and raise the price, force to buy and sell. This business did not fly out of thin air, but was earned by the old Jin family from generation to generation......"

Boss Jin strutted his head and proudly described this great business to Wuxuan. Of course, Chung Wuxuan was not interested, but what made his eyes light was the trivial matters ahead.

A monk turned into a fate, the vendor took out a whole piece of bread, but only broke half to the monk, the monk was puzzled and asked why, the vendor only said: "I wait for the weekday to go out early and return late, what I do is labor, taste is hard, I think I have never owed anyone a penny, all I get is earned with both hands, you turn the fate today, I only give you half, one and a half full, half is just hunger, I sell ten cakes to be enough for me to pay for lunch, why can you get lunch so casually?"

The monk was puzzled and said: "Amitabha, the poor monk persuades people to be kind, solves people's doubts, eliminates disasters for others, and cultivates penance just to influence more people, all of them are good fruits, can't they be exchanged for a cake belly?"

The vendor's wife rushed from the house and laughed when she saw this: "We are just ordinary ordinary people, doing some small business and doing good? I have worked hard with the shopkeeper since childhood, and we know how to do good deeds and accumulate virtues;

"Then our temple also does things for urban and rural areas free of charge. ”

"I'm begging you, and your temple is also funded by the young shopkeeper of the Jin family all year round, and our shop is incorporated into the Jin family and pays taxes to them, which is not free. ”

Jin Rong happily walked to the front, the vendor and his wife saw the boss coming, and hurriedly said hello, the financial department bought the cake from the vendor, turned around and said: "Elder, don't blame, it's just a joke, now this cake is ready." ”

The monks thanked each other, did not ask for the bread, turned and walked away quickly.

Zhong Wuxuan's eyes were round, and he was very angry: "Do you want to give or not to give?"

"I don't have the right to ask about the things that belong to the vendors, but I agree with them. ”

"Then you still give money to the monastery?"

Jin Rong crushed half of the cake and spread it on the chicken coop next to it, "It's a good place for tourism, and such a good business opportunity makes me feel good." What's this called, in the words of a friend of mine when I was young, this is called [Old Turtle One]~"

"Good words", Jin Rong people are chattering, but they are also very interesting, Wuxuan has not felt so many interesting things for a long time, and today they are pouring out one after another, and this nervous state of mind has eased a lot.

The two of them came to the fourth floor of the octagonal building, and the guards who guarded them were five big and three thick, with hideous faces, and they said hello to the boss when they saw that they were busy here. Jin Rong whispered a few words in his ear, and the guards returned to their places.

In the center of the fourth floor, an eight-sided table, two feet in length and width, an internal rotating compass, and a gossip engraved outside.

"Is this...?", novelty always catches Chung's gaze and opens his lazy eyelids.

"Don't ask so much, I can't say this clearly, but the family has close contacts with the imperial court, and the ancestors said that it was made of materials from the [Emperor's Terrace], so they called it [the Prince's Terrace]"

"The platform of the emperors, is it the ...... of the Yao Shunyu period?"

"Don't think about it, go back and ask sir, I have explained it here, you will use this place in the future, and drive it at will", Jin Rong controlled his eyes and replied unintentionally.

"Then ask you one last thing, why do you trust me?"

"I trust Mr. Dong Yun, I have never doubted the person recommended by Mr., when you go back to Luoyang, you can drive a horse normally, you can not use this platform, if you have any doubts after returning, you can ask Mr. ...... Zhong Wuxuan, you and I are in charge of our own affairs, and it is not yet time, and when the time comes, I will tell you all, and I also want to hear your story when the time comes. ”

"Get ready, adjust your breath, there will be discomfort," Jin Rong shouted.

Zhong Wuxuan stood in the center of the platform, facing south, Jin Rong stood in front of the platform, the flowing glimmer around him attached to the platform, and at the same time, the corner of the south of the platform shone brightly, and the glimmer on Jin Rong's body suddenly pounced on the corner.

The essence appeared, and in an instant, Zhong Wuxuan disappeared. Liujin Rong collapsed to the ground alone, oozing blood from his seven orifices, and just whispered: "I hope you can succeed this time~"

......

One of Kyushu, Yangzhou, east of Pengcheng, Huiyang area, in a cave, flashing out of thin air, a figure appeared.

Zhong Wuxuan walked out of the cave and looked at the mountain from afar, there was his hometown ancestral land, he really came back! After calming down, Zhong followed Jin Rong's advice, did not ask any questions, and rushed home first, and worshiped the moon and ancestors in the Mid-Autumn Festival......

............

It's noon, Jiuding ditch

The miners were resting, and Wang Yahao brought in a cart from outside the shed, and the cart was full of tools, and Xu Tai was busy answering. When the overseer left, everyone rushed to the front of the cart, looking for something like a needle in the bottom of the sea, the tool hammer, axe, pickaxe, and pickaxe were all there, but after looking for a long time did not find anything unusual, Yahao was dazzled, and after thinking about it, he found that the trolley was finely worked, and there was indeed a defect of uneven height of the left and right handlebars, and after thinking about it, Jing Xiao was the left hand for skill, so he pulled the left handle of the cart and twisted it for a long time, and a piece of iron fell, and a note was hidden inside, the above:

"In the future, don't do it in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhao Peng and Zhao Ju will come here to check, remember, don't be impulsive, this matter needs to be discussed in the long run. ”

The crowd browsed the information on the paper, and one person tore it up and swallowed it, leaving no handle.

"Is the blacksmith reliable, and the Zhao family will personally come to supervise the work?

Yahao scolded angrily when he heard this: "Didn't you see that this tells us to be careful, don't be reckless, we haven't planned anything, we will block the cannon hole and kill ourselves?"

"But we haven't seen that Zhao family brother for half a year, isn't this a good opportunity to assassinate him, we have more than a thousand people, there are only a lot more than the troops stationed, the plan is good, it may not be impossible, haven't you had enough of it for more than a year? I don't know what they are looking for, but I'm afraid that if they find it, they will kill us!", a grumpy young man complained for a long time, and said indignantly.

"What if they are well prepared, you have forgotten how the first two riots failed?

"If you are afraid of death, you can not participate, I don't want to waste this God-given opportunity, who knows how long the next opportunity will take again, we can't be trapped in this pit for the rest of our lives, many of the people present still have wives and children in their homes, who is willing to suffer this nest of guilt here, we are people, he Zhao Peng Zhao Ju is also a person, I don't believe that so many people want his life, he can get out of the whole body?". The crowd present whispered, and some of them were already moved by this rhetoric.

"That's enough! Gather these people, do you still want to divide into two factions and be defeated one by one?", Xu Tai saw that the hearts of the people were floating. When there are two leaders in a team who disagree with each other, the whole team will eventually fall apart and fall apart. He participated in and survived the first two riots, and now he is also the kobold military division of this team by default.

"There is still a day and a half, I know that time is pressing, I will give you the answer tomorrow morning, during this period, no one should act rashly, the slightest mistake will harm the whole group!

Everyone dispersed, and Wang Yahao looked at Xu Tai solemnly: "Do you really want to do it?" My eldest brother reminded me not to act rashly. ”

"This is a good opportunity, the first two times were with the stationed prison army, people have weapons, we are all unarmed. After two rounds of silence, which had been inactive for nearly a year, their vigilance against the workers had eased considerably, as was the case with the day you could slip out of the guard line and go to the blacksmith's shop. ”

If he is caught that time, he will be the one who will die, and if he succeeds in lurking in the past, they will also benefit. This group has begun to think differently, which is a sign of disintegration!

Xu Tai saw that Ya Mo was different, and was relieved: "Thank you Brother Wang for your dedication these times, I am a literati, I don't know how to punch and kick, these workers are all kinds of people, and few of them have received professional training, and few of them have the skills of you, so they are really hard brothers." ”

"It doesn't matter, in this situation, they are all in the same boat, and those who are different are digging their own graves, and they are all laymen, just for a life. ”

Yahao looked at the mine wall from afar, and could vaguely see the outline of the blacksmith shop, "If only I could connect with laughter."

......

At dusk, the blacksmith shop, the house was empty, the biggest difference between Jing Xiao and the miners was that they didn't have to be restricted, but even so, entering and leaving the mining area had to go through layers of checks, and they could bring things in, but they didn't want to go out a little.

The backyard of the blacksmith's house is filled with scraps of iron, leftover scraps for making tools for the workers. Now it has been cleaned up in a neat and orderly manner by Jing Xiao, and it seems that there is some value in repurposing.

Jing Xiao sometimes needs to create things for the officers and soldiers in the mining area, but fortunately, the small soldiers and small officials do not need to be so delicate to serve, and the knives and guns at the second time can be handed over.

But the two brothers of the Zhao family are not casually sent, the wide wooden box that Jing Xiao brought over last time is for the eldest brother of the Zhao family, Zhao Peng, to create a pair of double knives, Zhao Peng is also burly, good at making double knives, and the knife skills are exquisite, if it is said that only with fists and feet weapons, not Taoist Taoism, the second brother Zhao Ju is not his opponent, but this Zhao Ju is cautious by nature, learned Qimen Dunjia, and applied dexterity, really according to which is stronger, the younger brother Zhao Ju is far superior to the eldest brother Zhao Peng.

With a creaky sound, Jing Xiao returned with a trolley, the car was full of iron-striking materials, the texture was average, not a high-quality product, but it could also grind a pickaxe to work, and even hit a few people with knives, guns, halberds, and halberds.

Jing Xiao didn't pull the material to the ground, but separated it from the scraps he had collected, put it neatly in another corner, cleaned up, and Jing Xiao went back to the house to pick up the food:

Boil the beef in water and add five egg whites.

said that he was treated with good taste, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it was a waste of food, the whole meal lacked oil and less salt, and a few drops of soy sauce were added to the flavor, not that Jing Xiao couldn't afford to buy condiments, he really had a lot of savings in recent years with his exquisite craftsmanship, but according to his meaning, less frying and less pickling, it was of great benefit to the strong muscles on his body, and the rice was not much taste, but Jing Xiao had long been used to it.

After eating, Jing Xiao came to the backyard, the work was done, the meal was eaten, and it was time to move after a short break.

The backyard is cleaned up, not empty, two or three "native piles" in the courtyard, made of fine sand and ginseng soil and solidified repair, Jing Xiao found the latest pile in front of it.

The left hand clenched into a fist and raised the elbow to protect the face, the right hand held the fist in front of the chest, and turned sideways to the pile, and suddenly his eyes flashed with the eyes of the frightened little official that day. After the fixed step, he rushed forward suddenly, and the right elbow hit the pile, one or two times, constantly circulating, quickly closing the elbow, the shoulder was ahead, the overall momentum was sent out from the shoulder, leaning towards the earthen pile, and the cycle was repeated, the native pile was hit by frequent tremors, if it weren't for Jing Xiao's good skills, I am afraid that it would not have been broken long ago......

In the middle of the night, Jing Xiao withdrew his hand, his shoulders, elbows, knees, waist and hips, and his forehead were full of dust. Jing Xiao turned his left shoulder, twisted his neck slowly, and clicked, listening to the madness.

smiled and sighed: "Alas~ If only I could move, I would fight back." ”

Jing Xiao went back to the house to scrub it, and the pile looked like a human in the setting sun, especially the dark red liquid oozing out of the cracks, which was more like human blood.