Chongzhen for three years, Yangchun in March.

Nanzhili, Yangzhou Prefecture, Xinghua County.

Not far from the east of the county, there is a place called Xujiazhuang, which is very famous in the county.

Xujiazhuang is not very large, and it is a newly built Zhuangzi, which has only been established for two years, but has created a number of legends that have caused a sensation in the county and even Yangzhou Prefecture.

Such as super wheat with a yield of 1,000 catties per mu.

High-yield potatoes and sweet potatoes with a yield of tens of thousands of catties per mu.

The yield of thousands of catties of high-stem corn per mu.

They are all from this Zhuangzi, and the gods that have shocked countless people in the world have even heard of it in the imperial court, and are regarded as auspicious by the magistrates.

It's just that Xujiazhuang is quite mysterious, very closed, surrounded by barbed wire, there are young men with knives and forks patrolling day and night, and strangers are not allowed to enter, as for the thieves who want to go in to steal seeds and steal things, they often fail to get close, and they are found in time, and the end is very tragic.

The owner of Xujiazhuang is a mysterious person, it is said that he is a wealthy overseas businessman, who has done many good deeds, helped orphans and widows, spent money to adopt many orphans and young children, opened a school, and taught them to read and write. However, he also wantonly annexed the land of the common people, turned yeoman farmers into hired laborers in farms, required all boys and girls over the age of 6 to study, strictly forbade women to bind their feet, and promoted the shaving of short hair, and severely punished if they disobeyed.

……

Xujiazhuang.

In the living room of the main house with a six-pointed star-shaped bastion.

Xu Yuan sat on a yellow rosewood official hat chair, holding the Longjing tea that had just been put on the market this spring, and drank two sips leisurely, in the steaming white water, his somewhat handsome face appeared, 27 years old, he may have been a little old in ancient times, but on the side of Blue Star, he was still an immature young man.

Raising his left wrist, he looked at the looming white aura.

Xu Yuan couldn't help but sigh secretly.

It's been three years.

It's been three years since I got this portable time gate.

When he was only 24 years old, he inexplicably found that there was an aura on his wrist that could not be removed, and after studying it for several days, he suddenly opened the halo, enlarged and expanded into a time gate, carefully stepped in, explored, and found that behind the time gate, there was a parallel time and space after the end of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night, walking and dancing.

followed by resignation, decisively breaking up with his money-worshipping girlfriend, and becoming a time-lapse master...... It's so old-fashioned, I'll just mention it here.

The career of the master of time and space lasted for about a year.

The specific operation process is similar to the content of those popular novels, reselling industrial products such as salt, sugar, glass products, soap, mechanical watches, lighters, and penicillin from the Blue Star to the late Ming Dynasty to earn gold, silver, antique calligraphy and paintings, etc., and obtain high profits from them.

Xu Yuan has calculated that no matter what industrial products are resold, after exchanging them for high-value gold, they can generally obtain ten, twenty or even hundreds of times the profit.

In less than a year, in terms of the currency of the late Ming Dynasty in ancient times, his net worth reached 10 million taels of silver.

On the side of Blue Star, Xu Yuan's bank account also has a deposit balance of up to 1 billion yuan.

However, Xu Yuan, a profession with unlimited money, suddenly didn't want to do it.

It's not that he thinks he's made enough money and plans to lie down and enjoy it, but that the risk factor of this industry is too high.

It's okay on Lanxing's side, as long as he pays the tax in full, no one will trouble him.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was a completely dark jungle society.

Extorted by ruffians.

Slandered, smeared, and suppressed by business competitors.

Targeted by strongmen and bandits.

Hunted down by assassin thugs.

was knocked out of the bones and sucked the marrow by the officials.

The troubles he faced were endless, and all the underworld forces were eyeing his fat sheep, and they all wanted to bite him hard and slaughter him completely.

In order to solve these troubles, Xu Yuan spent a lot of money and energy, and more than 30 lives were ended by his own hands, but the troubles still followed.

If it weren't for the Time Gate, Xu Yuan could have escaped back to Blue Star in an instant, and there were a few dangers, he would not have survived at all, and his life would have been lost long ago.

In short, this year's time and space reversal experience, ups and downs, countless dangers, writing 500,000 words is definitely enough.

Xu Yuan is tired of it, he doesn't have strong officialdom connections, he doesn't have clan protection, he wants to do business and get rich in ancient times, it's just a dream, it's a hellish game experience, although the profits he makes are indeed a lot, but there is not much refreshment at all, only a high degree of nervousness and fear.

Xu Yuan plans to change his playing style.

I am not going to go through the business stream, but to go through the traditional farming stream.

So he took Wanguan's family wealth and more than a dozen trustworthy subordinates, went to the countryside, bought extensive fields, and merged, and spent two years to establish a manor with 10,000 acres of fertile land as his foundation.

In the autumn of last year, Xu Yuan also went to Yangzhou Mansion to participate in the hospital examination, using high-tech cheating methods, successfully obtained the fame of Xiucai, and barely entered the ancient gentry class, although it could not bring much benefit, but it was also a very good talisman to avoid many troubles.

now

Come back to your senses.

Three years have passed.

Compared with other travelers, Xu Yuan's achievement may not be nothing, and there is not much to boast about, but he himself thinks it is not bad, at least he can sleep soundly at night.

With the solid foundation of Xujiazhuang, the next plan can also be carried out smoothly and smoothly, and it will no longer be as difficult as before.

"Owner."

Xia He, a young maid in a green dress, walked over, bowed, and said, "The businessmen who participated in this year's agent bidding have all arrived, and they are all waiting in the main hall. ”

"I see."

Xu Yuan nodded, put down the teacup, stood up, and walked towards the main hall with his hands behind his back.

……

Inside the main hall at the moment.

Merchants from all over the world dressed in silk and satin gathered together, and it was very lively.

Some of them were local merchants in Nanzhili.

Some are from Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Beijing and other places.

There are also maritime merchants from Fuzhou and Guangzhou.

There are seventy or eighty people, speaking with different accents, or closing their eyes and contemplating, or talking to each other, probing each other.

"Brother Zhang, how much silver do you want to take over the agency distribution rights in that place this year?"

"I didn't prepare much, just a few thousand taels, and the people in Songjiang Mansion were poor and couldn't sell much goods."

"Brother Luo, I didn't expect you to come again this year, you don't do a good salt merchant business, and the Yangzhou thin horse at home doesn't play, what are you doing to keep an eye on this kind of small business?"

"Hehe, this is not a small deal, last year, the agency of Yangzhou Mansion was robbed by you with 200,000 taels, I will not be careless this year, I must take the agency back!" The businessman surnamed Luo gritted his teeth.

"Brother Luo, why fight and lose? Why don't you and I cooperate, operate together, one person contributes half of the capital, wins the agency of Yangzhou Mansion, shares the profits equally, and everyone makes money together? ”

"Who's equal with you? Last year, you said that the bid price you prepared was 150,000 taels, I believed it, but you came out with 180,000 taels, I won't believe your words anymore, you find someone else to cooperate, this year's agency, I Luo is bound to win! ”

"Brother Luo, you ...... It's a big waste of money. ”

"The owner has arrived!"

The voice of the housekeeper Zhao Jinde sounded.

The merchants immediately stopped talking to each other, and their spirits were shocked, and their eyes looked towards the porch.