Gundam narrowed his eyes slightly and leaned back in his chair: I haven't been to Fuguo for many years, and I don't know anything about the changes and things that have happened in Fuguo over the years, so I'm afraid Uncle Gao won't be able to help you this time

Han Juzheng: Uncle Gao, we have never been to Fuguo once, so we want to find someone who is familiar with Fuguo to lead us to Fuguo to buy grain

Gundam "Haha" I see, it's just after the autumn harvest, why do you want to go to Fuguo to buy grain, can't you buy grain with grain merchants in your own country?

Li Yang: The current grain price of the high shopkeeper has been coaxed up to 7 by the grain merchants to a pound, if you buy less, then buy it in Taizhou with the grain merchant, so it can save a lot of trouble, but I want to buy 50,000 yuan, but the grain is too much money, it is also a coincidence that yesterday Alan County came to a southern caravan, and the shopkeeper chatted with him, I heard him say that this year Fuguo is a bumper harvest year, so I have the idea of going to Fuguo to buy grain

Gouda: I can make some money by selling more grain this year and selling it next year, and if I had done it for the first two years, I could barely have gone to Fuguo with you, but now that I am older, my legs and feet are not as sensitive as before, and I still have to build my pharmacy

Han Juzheng: Uncle Gao also hopes that you can help us for my father's sake

Gundam: Uncle Gao is really Aimo who can help with this

Li Yang understood what he said, he thought that I was like those grain merchants, and I stockpiled grain in order to sell it at a good price next year and make a lot of money, and businessmen have a common problem, that is, they can't afford to make money early, and if they ask others to help make money, they naturally have to give people some benefits, or if they don't change, no one is willing to go

"Shopkeeper Gao, Ju Zheng and I came this time to ask for advice, and secondly, I don't know if you are interested in a business."

When Gundam heard this, he straightened up and straightened up: Tell me about it

Li Yang: I am going to take 3,000 denier of refined salt to sell this time in Fuguo, and the profit is about 10,000 silver coins at the beginning, if the shopkeeper can take us to Fuguo to buy grain, I am willing to take 3% of the profit as a reward

Gundam's face leaked a look of embarrassment: This...

Li Yang: It is rumored that the shopkeeper Gao is a kind-hearted person who often gives medicine to save the dead and help the injured, and I hope you can help the tens of thousands of Li people in Alan County and the father of Juzheng's family

Hearing this, Gundam summed it up in his heart, according to what he said, the profit of 3% is about 3,000 silver coins, this price is quite conscious, and I promised him that I can still make a favor, this is a good deal

Han Juzheng: Uncle Gao, just help us

Gundam raised his hand and patted Han Juzheng lightly on the shoulder a few times: Juzheng, I have been friends with your father for many years, and it is naturally my duty if Uncle Gao can help you

After hearing this, Han Juzheng got up excitedly: Uncle Gao, you promised to take us to Fuguo

Gundam smiled and nodded: But I have one request

Li Yang: Shopkeeper Gao, please speak

Gundam: That is, when you get to Fukukoku, you have to listen to me for everything

Li Yang didn't hesitate at all: This is no problem, when will we be able to set off

Gauda: To tell you the truth, in the early years, I made a lot of money by running a leather business with the people of Fuguo, but I didn't expect to be framed and said that I was a fine worker of Fuguo, so I was confiscated by the government, and since then I have been banned from doing business with Fuguo merchants, and if you want to go to Fuguo, you must first go to the government to obtain customs documents

Li Yang: You don't have to worry about the customs documents of the senior shopkeeper, I will find a way to get the customs documents

Gundam: Then when you get the paperwork, we'll leave for Fukukoku

Li Yang got up and arched his hand: Okay, let's make a decision

After saying that, Ju Zheng and I walked towards the outside of the store, and Gao Mimi followed behind us to the outside of the pharmacy, and walked down the street to see the officials gathering the victims of the disaster in the city, and the vendors set up various stalls on the side of the street, and the passers-by seemed to be familiar with these victims

When he came to a fork in the road, Han Juzheng: Brother Li, I won't accompany you to the state capital Yamen, it's rare to come back, I want to go home to see my father

Li Yang nodded slightly, "Hmm" Juzheng, then I will go back directly after finishing my errands

I came to the yamen of the state capital alone to ask to see Lord Sun, and after the official reported him, he took me to the inner hall, and before I could speak, Sun Yuanwu raised his head and raised his eyebrows: Oh, you are here

I saw him raise his left hand and gesture to the side: Sit

This made me very surprised, in the past, when I came to the state capital yamen, as a subordinate, I had to salute the officials, but this time I came back and waited for me to salute, and the lord let me sit down, it seems that the lord has regarded me as his own person and is not confined to those false courtesies in the past

Sun Yuanwu saw that I didn't move for a long time, so he coughed lightly and said, "Cough, this time, you came to this mansion, is there something wrong."

I came back to my senses: my lord's subordinates want to go out of the customs, and I came here today to ask my lords to give my subordinates a customs clearance paperwork

Sun Yuanwu frowned: Out of the customs! Okay, Mo Yang, why do you suddenly want to get out of the customs, where do you want to go

Li Yang: I want to go to Fuguo for my subordinates

After hearing this, Sun Yuanwu looked at Li Yang with a surprised face: Fuguo is an enemy country, and the Zhejiang people will strictly investigate the guards at the border of Fuguo, and the danger must be clear to you if you don't say it

Li Yang: Lord Hui's subordinates know that this trip is dangerous, but the blessing caused by the current situation must go

Sun Yuanwu had a trace of doubt on his face: How to say it

Li Yang: The price of grain has been raised to 7 pounds a pound by grain merchants, and it is not good to make this momentum go up after the New Year, although a pound is only 2 pounds short of money, which is more money, yesterday Alan County came to a Fuguo person to talk to him and learned that Fuguo is a bumper harvest year this year, so his subordinates came up with the idea of going to Fuguo to buy grain

Sun Yuanwu: I see, I said, why do you suddenly want to go to Fuguo?

Li Yang: My lord, can you give your subordinates a piece of customs clearance?

Sun Yuanwu was a little embarrassed: I'm afraid this time this time this mansion won't be able to help you

Li Yang asked with a puzzled face: Why

Sun Yuanwu: You are also a general with troops, and the people of our official family must first be recorded in the yamen of the place where they belong when they go out of the customs, and when they come back, they will be interrogated by the governor's department in every way, like where they have been, who they have come into contact with, what they have done every day, and if you don't know it, you will be convicted of fornicating with the enemy country by people with ulterior motives

Li Yang took a deep breath: My lord, is there any other way to let his subordinates out of the customs

Sun Yuanwu just shook his head slightly, in fact, he only said half of Lord Sun's words just now, and that half may be that he didn't say it because he still had some friendship with his colleagues, but even if he didn't say it, I guessed that once something happened, then the person who issued the customs documents would also be implicated, not long ago, in order to protect me, my lord did not hesitate to offend Wen An, the servant of the Criminal Department, Ji Fang, Shaoqing, Zhang Wenzheng, etc., if this matter reached them, these people would not let go of this opportunity to retaliate, Hey, I just want to buy some food, why is it so troublesome?

The silence in the house made both Sun and I feel a little embarrassed, looking at each other but not knowing what to say, and there will be no progress in this matter, and if we stay for a long time, it will be boring, and suddenly the scene we saw on the street when we think of it flashes through our minds

"My lord's subordinates came back and found that there seemed to be a lot fewer people on the streets of the city than before, and the vendors also set up stalls on the side of the road from the beginning, and there were more pedestrians than before.

The embarrassing atmosphere disappeared in an instant, and Sun Yuanwu leaked a relieved smile on his face: Don't say that your kid's eyes are quite poisonous, it's not that there are fewer victims in the city, but that the government has found a remote place in the city and placed them all there, the victims begging and wandering on the streets all day long, making the city smoky, you see how good it is now, the shops have resumed business, and the residents have also returned to their previous lives

Li Yang: It's a blessing for the people of Taizhou to sit in Taizhou

Sun Yuanwu shook his hand humbly: This mansion just did what it should do, you don't deliberately compliment this mansion

Li Yang: The words of your subordinates are all heartfelt

Although the adult said so, but I can see from his expression that he is very happy after hearing this sentence, in fact, whether it is a superior or a subordinate like to be praised by others, praising people is to affirm what others do is a kind of recognition, while the adults are happy now, I retire and leave, everyone has a step down each other

So I got up from my chair: there are still some things in my family's family that I will not be forgiven today

Sun Yuanwu: Then you can step down

Just when I turned around and was about to leave, Sun Yuanwu said to himself: You are a person from an official family, and the government can't give you customs documents, but your brother Li Song is not from an official family, and this government can give him a customs exit paperwork

Hearing this, I immediately turned around, yes, how can I look at this stubble, although I am a person from an official family, I can't go out at will, but Li Song is not, things are often so difficult to do, and it must be really difficult to do, but it lacks understanding, and people have to mention it

I reacted immediately: Actually, I didn't explain it just now, my lord, I came today to ask Li Song for a customs clearance paperwork

Sun Yuanwu took out an excerpt from the copy, then picked up a brush and wrote a few words on it, and when he picked up the prefect's seal on the copy, he was about to stamp a seal on the folding, but for some reason he suddenly stopped and raised his eyebrows and looked at me: When you buy food, don't forget these victims in Taizhou City

Li Yang: Please rest assured on this

Sun Yuanwu then put the seal on the paper and handed it over, and I hurriedly stepped forward and stretched out my hands to take the customs clearance paperwork: Master Xie's subordinates retired first

Sun Yuanwu waved his hand lightly, and after leaving the yamen of the state capital, Li Yang returned to Gaoren Pharmacy, told Gao Gao about getting the customs documents, and agreed to set off in three days

When I returned to Alan County, it was already dark, and there were not as many pedestrians on the dark streets as there were during the day, and the cold wind at night made people shiver, and as soon as I returned to the manor, a family member walked over quickly: the two patriarchs, Young Master Gao Yuan and Yuan Kui, had been waiting in the council hall for a long time

When he came to the meeting hall, Li Yang clasped his hands apologetically: I'm sorry for making you brothers wait here for a long time

Gao Yuan pestle on the chair: Why did you come back so late?

Li Yang: I ran for a day today and finally got the customs paperwork

Yuankui: When are you going to leave?

Li Yang: I agreed with the shopkeeper Gao to leave for Fuguo in three days

Yuan Kui sighed: If you have to go, then I'll go with you

Gao Yuan saw that Yuan Kui was also going to follow: Then I will go with you

Li Yang shook his hand: Plateau-Yuankui, you two stay to watch the house, training a well-disciplined iron army is the top priority for the two of you, if we all go to Fuguo, who will protect Alan County when the Haikou attack

Yuan Kui thought about it carefully: If that's the case, then you should go to Fuguo and bring more people

Li Yang: I'm going to take the Shadow Wind Camp to Fuguo

Li Long heard it: The Shadow Wind Camp is led by me and Li Hu, if you take the Shadow Wind Camp to Fuguo, then our brothers will have to go with you

Li Hu helped on the side: That's right

Li Yang: Okay, then this matter is decided

Early the next morning, people were busy for this trip to the blessed country, far away from the old man, they heard the sound of "ding-ding-ding" wooden hammer hitting the wood and the sound of "creaking-creaking" sawing wood, the carpenters in the workshop are busy transforming the existing more than 100 carriages in their hands, the previous carriage weighed only 500 catties, and after this transformation, the load can reach 1,000 catties, and nearly 100 taels of carriages and hundreds of wooden carts are being made, which is undoubtedly a challenge for the craftsmen

In order to speed up the production process, the craftsmen came up with a method that can be said to be a cross-century process, which was to divide the carpenters into several groups, each group to make parts in different positions, and finally put these parts together to form a complete carriage and wooden cart, and the carpenters also added a layer of iron sheets to the wheels to improve the stability of the vehicle

In a blink of an eye, it was the last day of the three-day appointment, and Li Song and the others also rushed back with the caravan, but this time the merchant did not make any money, but only exchanged some straw shoes and straw mats and some daily necessities that were not very valuable, and Li Song also looked a little lost

Li Yang raised his arm and shook it on Li Song's neck: The second child is not a big deal, everything is difficult at the beginning, although you didn't make money this time, you earned these goods, and when you sell these goods in the future, you will make money, you go back first and have a good rest, and I will go to Fuguo with me tomorrow

Li Song's face was excited when he heard this: Boss, is this going to Fuguo to buy grain?

Li Yang nodded slightly: Yes

Li Song: Then I have to go back and prepare

When I got home in the evening, I took out two ordinary clothes in the closet and put them in the package, Song Shiting and Hengyan saw it and asked: Husband, are you going out?

Li Yang looked at the two while cleaning up: Well, I'm going to Fuguo

Song Shiting squeezed me aside with her body to help me sort out the package: Then you have to go for a few days

Li Yang: It's hard to say, maybe half a month, maybe a month

Song Shiting stopped when she heard this: Then I'll go with you

Li Yang took Song Shiting and Heng Yan's hands and walked to the table and sat down: Madam, this is unacceptable, this trip is indispensable to sleep outside, I don't want you two to suffer this crime with me, you two still stay and take care of the manor and take care of our mother for me

Song Shiting leaned her head on Li Yang's shoulder and said: That person doesn't worry about you

Li Yang raised his hand and touched her head: Madam, don't worry, this trip Li Long and Li Hu led the Shadow Wind Camp to go with me, it's not early, let's go to bed early, I have to get up early tomorrow

In the early morning of November 11, 1523, Li Yang, who had already prepared, took 500 soldiers disguised as ordinary guards and drove a caravan composed of more than 200 carriages and hundreds of carts to set off

Song Shiting tearfully pulled me to the hand: Husband, you have to take care of yourself when you go out this time

Li Yang patted her little hand lightly: Don't worry, madam

After speaking, he bowed to his mother: The mother and child are gone

Mother: Don't worry, you don't have to worry about the things in the house, the man is ambitious, your brothers should have gone out to wander around

The plateau is on the side: Don't worry, there is still me and Yuan Kui at home

Although he said this, Li Yang was still a little uneasy: If there is anything in the plateau-Yuankui, discuss it with the Guanshan Daoist and Ju Zheng, and if you need money, you can go to the silver treasury to get it

Jiang Yu held the withered grass in his mouth: Why don't I go to Fuguo with me this time

Li Yang: That's not good, you might as well stay and take care of my family for me

Li Yang disguised himself as a guard and left Alan County in the caravan, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he deliberately bypassed Taizhou City, and sent people into the city to inform Gundam to meet at Xiandu Mountain, after the caravan rendezvous, the Taizhou Mansion entered the territory of Chuzhou, and the vehicle walked along the wide official road for three days to a checkpoint called Hanlong Pass

As soon as he entered the checkpoint, Li Yang was stunned by the scene in front of him, there were dozens of large and small caravans gathered at the checkpoint in front of him, and several larger caravans in front of him were waiting in line to get out of the pass

Li Yang glanced around, these caravans were small, there were dozens of carriages, and there were even hundreds of carriages, and the scale of the carriages was huge, and I found that the wheels of these carriages in front of me had left a deep indentation on the grass when they were moving, and I could see that the contents of these carriages were all very heavy

The more than a dozen soldiers guarding the city gate, all wearing iron armor and holding swords, were lazily leaning against the city wall to watch these carriages pass through the pass, to Li Yang's surprise, no one stepped forward to check on these vehicles

Li Yang whispered to Gundam beside him: Shopkeeper Gao, you see that the goods loaded in these vehicles are so heavy, the soldiers guarding the pass don't even look at it

Gundam smiled lightly: "What's so strange about this, the caravans that go out of the customs all year round to do business have already taken care of the top and bottom, and if I'm not mistaken, eighty percent of these cars are loaded with iron ingots and armor weapons

Li Yang was taken aback when he heard this: If it is iron ingots and armor weapons, then they are so bold, don't they know that once these things go out of the customs and reach Fuguo, they will be used to equip the Fu army, what is the difference between this and the enemy

Gundam quickly put his finger to his lips and looked around nervously before whispering: You are really rare and strange to sell iron ingots, armor and weapons, what is it, you think that these businesses can be done by ordinary people if they want to, and there is no way for anyone to dare to do this headless business

Unexpectedly, the sentry post, which is an important border town, has been eroded to such an extent, and the soldiers who are supposed to protect their homes and defend the country have turned a blind eye to the blatant smuggling of the caravan