A young man dressed in fine clothes with a thin face sat at an old square table.

"This is the opportunity given to you by His Highness, you must take advantage of it."

"I'll think about it."

Hearing what Shi Cheng said, the young man didn't persuade much, put down the thick pile of silver tickets, got up and left.

After going out, he also helped the other party close the tattered door very intimately.

Looking back from the door, Shi Cheng looked at the silver ticket in front of him.

At this moment, there is no joy in his heart.

Since the farewell of the Tang Mansion, Shi Cheng returned to the cottage left by his mother. relied on his previous fishing and hunting skills, as well as some silver coins given by Sima Liang.

From a boy in a fishing village to a son-in-law, he finally fell back to the fishing village.

After these ups and downs, Shi Cheng no longer has any delusions. He didn't blame the indifference of the Zhongdu people, nor did he blame Sima Liang for refusing to help. He only blamed himself for being so useless, and he couldn't do anything but eat and wait for death.

But fate likes to joke with him, when he is ready to marry an ordinary fisherman girl to live an ordinary life.

The opportunity was placed in front of Shi Cheng.

After a night of thinking, Shi Cheng sat down at the table again and looked at the stack of silver tickets.

"It's just eating, drinking, having fun, and being jealous, Your Highness is really good at looking at people. That's what I can do, and I can still come in handy. ”

After a day, looking at the silver ticket in front of him again, Shi Cheng laughed.

"That's it, success or failure. At least I can spend money for a while, and I won't lose anything. ”

He took off his crude coat and put on the clothes he had bought with Sima Liang's silver money.

After tidying up, he put the silver ticket in his arms.

"Lu Ying, your senior young master is back."

The way Shi Cheng went out, there was a feeling of a strong man breaking his wrist.

But where he went, it didn't look like that. Because he went to Fengyue Tower. And he was sent by Sima Liang's order.

The reason is very understandable, that is, to prepare a jealous opponent for Lu Dashao.

Sima Liang picked and chosen, and finally picked Shi Cheng. It can be said that it is an errand that fits him quite well.

Originally, he and Lu Dashao didn't deal with each other, and they were often jealous. In addition, after he was kicked out of the division's house, the other party did not fall into the well and ridicule.

This time it can be regarded as revenge, and at the same time, it can also have some value.

Coming to the Tang Mansion at the same time, Sima Liang listened to Feng Si's report.

"Your Highness, the income minus the expenses, is about 5W taels."

Sima Liang stretched out his finger and roughly counted the cash he had prepared.

"It's almost, the cash in the hands of the three families is not much, so there is no need to prepare too much. Plus some of mine and the Sheng family. A 20W cash silver is enough. ”

"Your Highness, you shouldn't ask a question. If it fails, my Feng family will have nothing. Is His Highness really sure? ”

Feng Si is not as unconditionally pressed as his son, even if he has reached this point, he is still a little apprehensive in his heart.

Sima Liang knew the other party's worries, and 5W taels was not much compared to the total amount of investment. But this is all that the Feng family can come up with, and for this reason, the boats in their names are sold to the owners and changed to lease.

Now under the name of the Feng family, there is no boat of their own.

It is hard to imagine that the Feng family, which directly or indirectly controls one-third of Yancheng Shipping, only has these family backgrounds.

The money-making freight is all monopolized by several major families. In addition, they also went out for each salt shipment, but several major families only leased their ships, and they were paid according to the ordinary cargo volume.

Plus with so many boats, there is also an off-season. If you want to break even, you have to be careful with your budget. As long as there is some risk, or the cash is tight, it is easy to lose money.

This kind of day of walking on thin ice is not up or down, Feng Si is a little powerless when he is old. In addition, Feng Qi is young and vigorous, and he is unwilling to be subordinate. I want the Feng family to become a big family in name only.

This is also the reason why the father and son bet on Sima Liang and gambled.

"To say foolproof is to be a lie. As long as I am in the day, the Feng family will be there. It's really not good, I beg King Ning, and I can also find a place for you in Ningcheng. ”

Sima Liang poured a cup of tea and handed it to Feng Si. I hope the other person can believe in themselves.

Carefully taking the cup of tea, Feng Si drank it slowly.

After sighing, he glanced at Sima Liang, who was calm and relaxed.

"It's because I'm too worried, and I'll have to rely on His Highness in the future."

"I only move my mouth, and I want Feng Qi and you to do it in the future." Sima Liang drank tea and smiled.

"It would be nice to be able to help His Highness."

Speaking of his son, Feng Si was a little relieved. I thought to myself: This guy can finally save some worry and do some serious work. It's just that I've been suffering a little bit lately, and I'm always not at home.

After discussing the next layout for a while, a little eunuch ran over recklessly.

"Your Highness, Lord Sheng is looking for you."

King Sheng? Sima Liang was puzzled for a moment.

"Call him in. He guessed something had happened, otherwise he wouldn't have come back at this time. ”

"I guess it's the Lu family, the Sheng family used to cooperate with them quite deeply."

……

As he spoke, King Sheng walked into the hall with a sad face.

"Take a seat."

"Your Highness."

Sima Liang brewed a teacup, then poured a cup of tea and handed it to the other party.

"Let's talk slowly, it just so happens that Feng Si is also here, and I can help you sum it up."

King Sheng took the teacup and drank it all.

Then, he pulled out a stack of notes from his clothes.

"This is the contract signed by the Sheng family and the Lu family last year, and there are about 500 pieces of silk that have not been given this year. They paid the deposit, and it stands to reason that I have to pay it. But I know what you mean, so I temporarily deducted it and didn't deliver it. ”

Sima Liang and Feng Si took the contract and looked at it carefully.

After a while, both of them shook their heads.

If you want to come to the Lu family's contract, there is no loophole at all. Either you perform or pay five times the liquidated damages.

500 pieces of silk, 10 taels each, a total of 5,000 taels, and the Lu family gave a deposit of 1,000 taels. If you default, you will lose 2W4 taels, which is not a small amount.

The most important thing is that they took this batch of silk and sold it to Qi Guo, which is roughly more than 5 times the price, which can be said to be both horizontal and vertical.

Sima Liang put down the contract and began to think about whether this contract could have some other effect. He didn't want to give the other party this money or silk for nothing.

In the future, he will rely on this to slaughter the Lu family.

"Lu family, Lu Dashao." Sima Liang muttered to himself.

Suddenly, he had a bad idea.

"You go and tell Young Master Lu that you have more silk to sell to the Lu family. But the condition is that the future transaction can only go through the hands of Young Master Lu. At the same time, you stuff him with some money, and it is best to mention it when Fengyue Lou orders him a few women and drinks some wine. ”

King Sheng understood what he meant, but he still felt that something was wrong.

"It's not too obvious, even if he will be fooled. A few people in the Lu family will not be fooled. ”

"This is originally a conspiracy, and you can't hide it if you want to." Sima Liang was helpless.

Most of what happened on the boundary of Yancheng would fall into the eyes of several major families. So you can only use yang strategy, even if the other party is wary of Sima Liang.

Moreover, Sima Liang is not completely exposed. He had the right to decide everything, and that was to negotiate with the emperor and get the franchise to export silk.

The Lu family is a silk merchant, but the focus has long been out of business. The ticket number is their main business now.

After all, the money comes quickly, plus the principal they already have. Use money to make money, why bother to do business ha.

Seventy percent of the Lu silk on the market is the goods of the Sheng family. Just change the name, and the Lu family can also make twice as much money. You don't have to worry about production yet.

In this Qiguo trade, the Lu family is also the most popular, judging from Lu Dashao's behavior. Sima Liang knew that the other party was like this, that is, he overprinted silver tickets.

If you play this method well, you can make money out of thin air. If you don't play well, you will be run on and the capital chain will collapse.

The Lu family has a great business and a very high reputation, and some problems with excess are obviously not big. But if it is over 10W, or even 20W and then a run occurs, it is estimated that it is not a small problem.

Coupled with the decision-making hand in Sima Liang's hand, as long as the other party enters the game, he will shed his skin without dying.

At the same time, he also wants to borrow this bureau and enter the other two. He has no means to deal with the other two for the time being, but he can still do it by using this to sow discord between several families.

After all, Sima Liang has been in Yancheng for a long time, as long as these people are not united.

What he has is a chance to beat slowly until the other party can't threaten him.

King Sheng didn't know Sima Liang's thoughts, and he was a little apprehensive in his heart. But when he thinks of what he asks, he can only do what he is told.

"I hope Your Highness can really do it all." He sighed.

Feng Si on the side also had a similar expression.

With mixed feelings, the two got into the carriage and went home separately.

Sima Liang sat in the hall, drinking tea.

"I don't know how he's playing. Unfortunately, we can't see each other for the time being. ”

The person he was thinking about was called Liu Yifan, and he was now drinking and chatting with Lu Dashao in Fengyue Tower.

"Brother Liu, how can you have time to come to Yancheng to play. Forget it, it doesn't matter, come to the brother's chassis, you have to drink this wine. ”

Lu Dashao was very happy to persuade him to drink. At first glance, I thought the two had a good relationship.

In fact, the two of them realized that it was just over an hour now.

As for the reason for being so familiar, it is the two women beside Lu Dashao.

Brother Liu made a generous move and ordered two expensive girls for the other party.

Who is not happy about this white prostitute. Even if you have money on hand, it is always more fragrant.

"There are a lot of nobles in this city, and if you accidentally offend someone, you came to Yancheng to hide."

Liu Yifan tried his best to pretend to be obscene, but his decent appearance was not a fellow traveler with Lu Ying no matter how he looked at it.

His true identity is one of the few people in China who can be regarded as a friend.

This time, I borrowed the entrustment of the other party and came to Yancheng to break the game.

This Lu Dashao is really unbearable, the Lu family has been intensively raising this pile of rotten meat for several generations. No wonder His Highness was the first to use the knife. Liu Yifan was disdainful in his heart.

In the same way, he didn't want to stay on the other party longer. It was also because of this that he saw a man.

"Did you really come anyway? Your Highness is really still so good at calculating. Liu Yifan whispered.

The person he saw was Shi Cheng, and the person who gave the other party money before was also him.

In order to reduce the traces of Sima Liang's hands.

Even if they noticed Liu Yifan, it was not easy to find out his background.

The Lu family has the ability in Yancheng, but they have no influence in China. Even if you want to use the second prince's eyeliner, it will take a while.

Even then, it's hard to find.

Liu Yifan's father was working in the Prime Minister's Mansion and was a person without any organization. Daily work is to help the prime minister deal with some government affairs.

The power sounds very high, but because there is no specific official position, the fame is basically gone.

In addition, there are a lot of surnames Liu in the central capital, and if it is really investigated, it is estimated that Liu Yifan has gone back.

This is also the main reason why Sima Liang wrote to the other party to ask for help.

"Brother Liu, what are you looking at? Got a good-looking girl? Lu Dashao looked obscene.

"No, it's just a nasty person."

"Nasty people? Let me see? ”

"X, this is not Shi Cheng's kid, how can he be rich and come here again."

Seeing Shi Cheng, Lu Dashao was a little incredulous.

It seems that he has a lot of stories with each other, and he is so excited when he smells it.

Shi Cheng also noticed Lu Dashao, after all, he was here to find the other party. thought to himself: To provoke Lu Ying, it is not a matter of being caught.

He squeezed his eyebrows directly at the other party, which was very disgusting.

"Dead boy, you still dare to do this. Brother Liu, take a break. I'm going to teach that kid a lesson. ”

Before he finished speaking, Lu Dashao chased out, intending to give the other party some colors to see.

Liu Yifan smiled and did not answer. He picked up the wine glass in front of him, looked in the direction the other party was running, and took a sip.

After frowning slightly, he put down his glass with disgust.

"The wine tastes almost delicious after all, so it's better to drink tea. After this time, I have to ask His Highness to compensate me for some good tea.