After returning home, Yu Yinqiao cheered and greeted him, and said with a smile: "Xianggong, you are finally back, I miss you so much, you are not here, I am so bored alone, I watch the sun rise and set every day, and I look forward to you going home every day." ”

Sun Zhaoyuan hurriedly hugged Yu Yinqiao and said, "Qiaoqiao, I miss you so much." It's just that the king of Nanyu detained me in the mansion, and I couldn't get out, only wronged you at home. ”

Yu Yinqiao also felt strange these days, the king of Nanyu left Sun Zhaoyuan in the mansion, there must be some secret secret, but what happened, she couldn't guess.

Sun Zhaoyuan explained the matter and said: "This matter is still more tricky, I don't dare to write a book to break this matter, not because I spare my life, but you are also in Jianzhou, if I die, then how can the king of Nanyu bypass you, and he will take your life." I also know that you won't leave me, so I don't have a clue how to deal with this matter. ”

Yu Yin Qiao heard this, and was silent, and suddenly Yu Yin Qiao's eyes lit up and said, "I suddenly have an idea." ”

Sun Zhaoyuan hurriedly asked, "What's the idea?" ”

Yu Yin Qiao said: "Do you remember the source of supply from the hanging island?" ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "Remember, Tang Zhishang mentioned before that the hanging island itself is short of products, and the necessary supplies need to be shipped from Oceania and other places. ”

Yu Yin Qiao said: "When I was on the Hanging Island, I happened to hear a few attendants of the pavilion mention that the cloth needed was transported from the coast of Jiangzhou to the Hanging Island by sea, if the Hanging Island Transport Escort Fleet could be led to the ambush site of the Three Kings, they would eat the dogs, and the Three Kings found out that they had made a mistake, and they couldn't blame you." ”

Sun Zhaoyuan was immediately woken up and said: "Qiao Qiao, what you said today really helped me a lot, if so, the three kings will not suspect me, and the Nie Er clan will find that there are traces of ship battles on the sea, they must know that there is fraud on the sea, and they will be careful if they are afraid of ambushes." I also live up to Emperor Yan's trust. ”

Sun Zhaoyuan immediately got up and sneaked into Tang Zhishang's mansion. Tang Zhishang was surprised when he saw Sun Zhaoyuan suddenly arrive at his own mansion, and said, "Why did Lord Sun come to this official mansion?" ”

According to his official position, Sun Zhaoshang is a few levels inferior to Tang Zhishang, but firstly, Tang Zhishang is just a chess piece inserted by Emperor Yan in Jianzhou, and he has no real power in his hands, and secondly, Tang Zhishang knows that Sun Zhaoyuan is a popular person in the dynasty, and he is extremely polite to Sun Zhaoyuan, and he is not dissatisfied with Sun Zhaoyuan's trespassing in his own house.

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "There is a secret here, and I need to ask Lord Tang Zhishang for advice." ”

Tang Zhishang said: "But it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "Xiaguan wants to know the sea line for transporting materials through Jiangzhou. ”

Tang Zhishang said with a smile: "This is difficult for the official, the Hanging Island fleet, will pick some unmanned sea lines, in order to avoid the arrest of the imperial court sailors, if it is so easy to find, over the years, the Hanging Island fleet has already been taken by the imperial court sailors, why is the Hanging Island so powerful." It is difficult to find this transport fleet, the vast sea, it can be described as looking for a needle in a haystack and fishing for the moon in the water. ”

Sun Zhaoyuan's heart sank, and said, "Can Master Ma have a clever plan?" ”

Tang Zhishang pondered for a long time, and said: "This official knows that there is a local businessman Jia Fan Zhigao, who controls the cotton and linen business in Benzhou, and usually collects cotton and linen from farmers' homes and sells them to the Hanging Island at several times the price. Sun Daren can torture him to find out the truth. Just ......"

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "Just what? ”

Tang Zhishang said: "It's just that this person has a thousand connections with the King of Nanyu, and if I go to get him, I'm afraid that the King of Nanyu will have a seizure." ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "Lord Xie Tang mentioned it." The subordinate will be careful. ”

Sun Zhaoyuan already had an idea on the way back, businessmen are born to love money, as long as they start with money, they can get what they want.

Sun Zhaoyuan asked Yu Yinqiao to dress up as a man, and he also dressed up in disguise, changed into a businessman's clothes, and went to Fan Zhigao's shop.

This Fan Zhigao spends all day drinking in Fireworks Willow Lane on weekdays, and he happened to reconcile with the shopkeeper in the shop that day. Fan Zhigao said: "Why is this year not as good as last year, I earned two thousand taels of silver last year, and I lost five hundred taels this year." ”

The shopkeeper said: "Last year, there was a lot of cotton and linen, and we purchased it at a low price and sold it to the hanging island, so we could make a lot of money." This year, there are few cotton and linen goods, and the price is expensive, and the hanging island refuses to give us more silver, so we have lost some this year. ”

Fan Zhigao said angrily: "Those officials on the hanging island also took a lot of benefits from me, but they didn't want to help me and solve my difficulties, and then I would no longer sell goods to him, nor would I take the risk of killing my head." Fan Zhigao paused and said: "It's difficult now, the store expenses can be saved, and the redundant and lazy guys are good to save some expenses." ”

While he was talking, the guy in the store knocked on the door and said, "There are two visitors from other places, saying that they want to negotiate a deal with the store owner." ”

The shopkeeper thought that a farmer wanted to sell cotton and linen, so he said, "I'll come here." ”

The guy said: "Those two visitors were very angry, saying that they had a big deal in their hands, and they only talked to the shopkeeper. ”

When Fan Zhigao heard this, he was curious, and said, "What kind of visitor, what kind of business, want me to talk about it in person?" He drank the tea bowl in his hand and put it down, and said, "I'll take a look." ”

went downstairs and saw Sun Zhaoyuan and Yu Yin Qiao in the hall, Sun Zhaoyuan was dressed extraordinarily, and he was also a rich man. Fan Zhigao is a businessman, and immediately smiled, and arched his hand: "Why are you two here?" ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "Your Excellency is the famous Fan Zhigao Fan official in Jianzhou. ”

Fan Zhigao is a businessman with a surname in Jianzhou, and he was not surprised that others heard his name, and said: "It's exactly below." ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "Under the surname Tong name Ji Shi, this is my cousin's surname Tong name Bushi, is Jiangzhou Jianghuai Mansion people, this year, Jiangzhou, Jianzhou and other places cotton and linen harvest, the price rose sharply, we spent a huge amount of money from Zhaozhou to buy a large amount of cotton and linen to sell to Jiangzhou, but do not want to, recently there was a war at sea, the people are reluctant to spend money, the hands of cotton and linen only sold one or two percent, there is a large amount of inventory can not be sold, so I want to come to Jianzhou next door, looking for cotton and linen businessmen, and sell the cotton and linen in their hands at a discount. ”

Fan Zhigao said: "How much cotton and linen do you have in your hands?" How much silver do you want to sell? ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "I have more than 50,000 catties of cotton and linen in my hands, and I want to sell it for 1,000 taels of silver." ”

Fan Zhigao calculated in his heart: "Now Jianzhou collects cotton and linen for two and a half dollars and a pound of silver, and these 50,000 catties are 1,500 taels, he only sold me 1,000 taels, and I earned 500 taels just by collecting the price, and then sold the cotton and linen to the hanging island, and I can earn 700 taels from this single transaction." So his face was full of smiles and he said, "Two distinguished guests, I still want to do this business." It's just that the price can't be less. I also have a lot of expenses for large and small personnel, and the price is lower to make a little profit. ”

Sun Zhaoyuan pretended to be angry and said: "Don't think that you don't know the Jianzhou market in the next place, this Jianzhou cotton and linen charges two and a half dollars a pound of silver, and sells it for two dollars in the next, which has made a lot of profits, not thinking that there are too many stocks in the next hand and it is inconvenient to sell, and it will not be sold so cheaply." If you don't buy it, find another merchant to see if you can sell it. ”

Fan Zhigao hurriedly pulled Sun Zhaoyuan and said, "Brother don't be angry, just buy it below." Where is my brother's cotton and linen now? My brother sent someone to fetch it. ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "The goods are in Jiangzhou, and they have not yet been transported to Jianzhou. The younger brother's meaning was that Brother Fan sent people to transport cotton and linen to Jianzhou by sea. The younger brother only counts and collects money in Jiangzhou, and doesn't care about the rest. ”

Fan Zhigao said: "If this is the case, my brother will still need to spend one or two hundred taels of silver as freight." The younger brother still gave the elder brother some more price. ”

Yu Yinqiao said: "If you buy it, you can buy it, if you don't buy it, you will scatter it in two, we are already doing a loss business, if we lose the cost again, even if we throw away all those goods, we will not sell them." ”

Fan Zhigao said: "This little brother don't say anything about it, doing business is still friendly and making money." ”

Yu Yin Qiao said: "How not to be angry, I lost so many silver taels, if you don't buy it, then we will leave." ”

Fan Zhigao hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Buy, buy, buy, can't my brother buy it?" ”

So it was agreed that three days later, the goods would be picked up at the Jianghuai Fu terminal in Jiangzhou.