Six hundred and thirty-nine: Eight salt merchants

Wu Xiumin was discouraged for a while, only feeling discouraged for a while, and at this time, the two children in the yard suddenly let out a weak cry: "Mother............"

She suddenly turned her head, and her eyes looked at her two sons as cold as ever, this is the evil seed of her and that beast! It's a seed that shouldn't exist! It's proof that she's sorry for her husband!

These thoughts bombarded Wu Xiumin's brain crazily! Her eyes grew blood-red, her chest heaved and heaved, and then a crazy thought crossed her mind.

She looked coldly at the two children looking at her with big eyes, Wu Xiumin finally stood up, then turned around and went into the small kitchen inside, and when she came out, she was clearly holding a boning knife in her hand!

The two children stood there in fear, the instinctive fear of danger that drove them to flee, but a part of the human sensibility told them that the person in front of them was the mother who gave birth to them and raised them............

Wu Xiumin walked slowly in front of the two children, and the little boy raised his head and called timidly: "Mother............"

A layer of mist was thick above Wu Xiumin's red eyes, and it seemed that there was a little more unbearability and pity in her crazy eyes, her hands trembled slightly, these were the two pieces of meat that fell from her!

She felt that her whole body was stunned, and she fell into an unconscious tremble, looking at the two children in front of her, but the face of her dead husband suddenly appeared in front of her, and he died tragically at the hands of the father of these two children!

This brute also humiliated himself! Use rhetoric to deceive yourself! Let yourself be willing to give birth to children for him! I actually took care of the family business for this husband-killing enemy, let him live in his and her husband's house, and gave birth to two sons for him! This brute! After all, it is the bitter hatred that finally overwhelms the brilliance of motherhood............

The blood red in Wu Xiumin's eyes became deeper and deeper, and after all, without a trace of hesitation, he reached out and grabbed one of the children, and when the child was still confused, Wu Xiumin frantically stabbed the sharp knife in his hand into the child's heart!

The blood spurted out suddenly! sprinkled on Wu Xiumin's hideous face, turning the originally soft face into an incomparably crazy hideous.

The child just struggled in Wu Xiumin's hands, and then said softly to Wu Xiumin: "Mother, I, I hurt ............" Wu Xiumin did not show the slightest mercy, and her blood-red eyes looked at another boy on the side.

The boy may have been scared stupid, or maybe he didn't know how to escape, he was splashed with blood, and he watched his mother kill his brother and throw it on the ground, his brother convulsed twice, and seemed to be vomiting blood in his mouth, and then he lay on the ground with blank eyes and looked at the rainy sky............

Wu Xiumin looked at the boy nervously and whispered: "Soon, Gu'er, don't be afraid............ Evil seed! ”

As he spoke, he pressed the boy to the ground, and the sharp knife in his hand stabbed down frantically, one, two, three............

The blood-spattered courtyard was full of it, but the continuous drizzle washed it all away, slowly washing down all the blood like a river, and converging into a lake of blood.

Wu Xiumin sat on the ground weakly, looking at the two sons lying on the ground with pale faces, Wu Xiumin looked at all this caused by himself in a distracted manner, and didn't know what to do for a while, until a trembling voice mixed with an incredible voice sounded in his ears: "Mother?!" ”

Wu Xiumin raised his head suddenly, only to see Xu Zhiping at the gate of the courtyard looking at his mother covered in blood in shock, and the two half-brothers were lying in a pool of blood, and the book in his hand suddenly fell on the lake where blood gathered!

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The gardens of Jiangnan have always been the best in the world, if only the study of garden architecture, the gardens of Jiangnan can not be said for a lifetime! It can be said that it is the most beautiful treasure in the history of human architecture!

Therefore, even the magnates in the north also love to use the gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, such as Jia Jing's Grand View Garden, although there is also the reason why Jia's mother is from Jinling, but it is indeed because of the unique style of the gardens in the south of the Yangtze River.

So as the most authentic Jiangnan garden, in Yangzhou, which can be called the most enjoyable and richest Jiangnan city, the garden is naturally even more extraordinary!

Although Yangzhou gardens are not as famous as Suzhou, there are a lot, among which the most famous should be Shouzhi Garden!

Shouzhi Garden adopts the technique of stacking stones, bamboo shoots, lake stones, Yellowstone, Xuanshi stacked into spring, summer, autumn and winter rockeries, within a garden, gather the scenery of the four seasons, swim in it, you can see the scenery of the four seasons for a while!

At the same time, the law of gardening and landscape painting are integrated, just like a landscape painting in the south of the Yangtze River, and the pond pavilion in the park is quiet, the water and wood are bright, and the bamboo poles are planted, which is quiet and elegant! If Jia Jing hadn't occupied one of the rare springs in Shenjing, he would never have been able to introduce living water into the Grand View Garden, but the living water ponds here can be seen everywhere!

The mountains and the water complement each other, the weather contains bamboo gas, the mountains are full of lakes, if you talk about elegance, it is even far better than Jia Jing's Grand View Garden!

This kind of garden is naturally not something that idlers can have, this garden is owned by the Huang family, the head of the eight salt merchants, and there are countless people in Yangzhou who rely on selling salt to survive, but they are all small fights that can really be called scale, only eight.

Huang Bai Jiang Zheng Gao Dai Li Wang, these eight salt merchants control the salt administration of the entire Yangzhou, and Yangzhou at this time is actually the most concentrated place of all salt administrations in the world, so it can also be said that these eight completely monopolize the salt industry of the entire Dayan!

Among them, if the most powerful qualifications are the oldest, it is the Huang family, the life of Huang Yingyun, the head of the Huang family, is legendary, this person was born in Zhao County, Beizhili, his father is the county commander of Zhao County, and later after the death of his father, the family road fell, Huang Yingyun rode a donkey into Beijing, relying on the dare to fight, as well as some of his father's previous relationships, he actually got the permission to operate the salt industry in Lianghuai!

At this time, not everyone can sell salt casually, and to become a salt merchant, you must have a salt guide issued by the imperial court, and you must also have a fixed place for selling, which is called: "Yinwo"

And Huang Yingyun relied on this salt to come to Yangzhou City alone, and in this world of hidden dragons and crouching tigers, he really created his own piece of the world! In just a few decades, the penniless hairy boy has become the largest salt merchant in the entire Yangzhou City!

People are either greedy for enjoyment after they have money, or they are stingy and conservative, but Huang Yingjun is different, he is an ambitious and thoughtful businessman.

Therefore, he repeatedly funded Emperor Taizong's Northern Expedition, at this time Emperor Taizong wanted to become the famous emperor of history, but also in order to wash away his notoriety of seizing the throne of his nephew, so he launched the Northern Expedition several times, of course, it was effective, and the Tatars and Warat fled to the wind, but then various problems followed, the most serious of which was one point: he had no money............

Emperor Taizu left behind almost all of the troubles that Emperor Taizong had done, and in this way, Emperor Taizu wanted to go north again to beat the Rakshasas and Koreans............ This made Emperor Yongxi, who was in charge of the inner library and the household department, almost knelt down for Emperor Taizu and King Ning!

It's a torture job! Emperor Yongxi's head is going to be bald, and he really can't find a penny! If you still want to fight, kill me first!" I can't even pay a penny!

The war is definitely going to be fought, but what if you run out of money? At this time, Huang Yingyun stood up intimately, it doesn't matter if you don't have money, the last thing grass people lack is money!

So under the mediation of Huang Yingyun, the imperial court agreed that the rich people who donate can give an honorary title! Those salt merchants lack nothing, the most lacking is status, all men who don't have the dream of becoming officials?

Emperor Taizong was almost poor and crazy at that time, and even the meritorious ministers had no money to reward, so he could only make up for it by raising a few titles, and would he care about an honorary title? Therefore, I happily agreed to this matter!

So the salt merchants of Yangzhou desperately supported Emperor Taizu's Northern Expedition, and the treasury suddenly made a large amount of donations!

Therefore, Huang Yingyun can be said to have solved Emperor Taizong's urgent need, and it can also be said that he has made great contributions.

first gave him the honorary title of salt transport envoy, and then promised the Huang family that the salt tax could be halved within three years! That's a salt tax, a very high tax, half of the exemption is already a huge amount of money, and the Huang family can actually be exempted from it for three years!

The Huang family was famous and advantageous for a while, and because of this, Huang Yingyun was also very powerful and his strength increased! Became the first of the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou!

To this day, the Huang family is still the most powerful and respected family in the entire Yangzhou City! Even a few of the two Huai Patrol Salt Imperial History had to come to the Huangfu to meet Huang Yingyun before taking office!

Huang Yingyun is not very old now, and he looks about the same age as Jia's mother, but he is very well maintained, and he still looks agile and deaf.

He became famous very early, which is why people think that he is very old now, but in fact he is still a very strong and healthy little old man.

Even now, I can see many people a day, and just now, another person who came to visit walked out of the Qingyi Pavilion in Shouzhi Garden with admiration for Huang Yingyun and the idea of being worthy of it.

Qingyi Pavilion is a hexagonal small pavilion, tall and dignified, the scene of the whole Shouzhi Garden can be seen on it, the surroundings of Qingyi Pavilion are arranged with many Taihu Lake stones, and the outside of Taihu Lake Stone is surrounded by a bend of green water, Qingyi Pavilion is more and more delicate under this heavy arch guard.

And now Huang Yingyun, who has retreated bravely, his favorite thing to do every day is to sit in this Qingyi Pavilion to fish and see the scenery.

A young man in the distance saw him from a distance, so he hurriedly walked over, and the visitor who had just left saw him also hurriedly bowed, and the young man saw this and hurriedly smiled and bowed back, greeted him for a while, and then hurriedly entered the Qingyi Pavilion.

"Grandfather."

The young man bowed respectfully, and Huang Yingyun smiled: "Shuang'er is here?" Is there nothing to do in school today? ”

The young man is Huang Yingyun's eldest son and grandson Huang Shuang, Huang Yingyun has three sons, the eldest son Huang Zhiqi, the second son Huang Zhilin, and the third son Huang Zhixi.

Huang Yingyun's teaching to his son is also in place, so the three of them are actually the best among the people, and when Huang Yingjun was in his fifties, he chose to retire with peace of mind and began to train the third generation of heirs for the Huang family.

After all, who doesn't want to rest? The guys at the bottom think that the shopkeeper is not tired, the shopkeeper thinks that the big shopkeeper is not tired, and the big shopkeeper thinks that the owner is not tired, in fact, in any industry and anything, you have to be the top, you want to make a lot of money, you want to have great achievements, and hard-working is just a prerequisite...............

So Huang Yingyun decisively chose to retreat bravely after he was able to retire, the Huang family with him and the Huang family without him are completely different things, so he cherishes his body very much, and the Huang family will never fall with him!

The Huang family obviously knows this, so even if the old man is no longer in charge of things now, he is still respectful to the old man.

Huang Shuang heard his grandfather ask, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Yes, there was a lot of trouble in school today, so I can't learn anything, so my grandson will come back first." ”

Huang Yingyun smiled unexpectedly when he heard this: "Trouble? What's there to make a fuss about? As he spoke, he patted the embroidered stool beside him and said, "Sit down and talk slowly, come to the roasting fire, it's cold." ”

Huang Shuang responded with a smile, and then did it on the embroidery stool beside Huang Yingyun, Huang Yingyun stared at the buoy in front of him and smiled: "You young people are too temperamental and too good-looking, so they will make trouble every time." ”

Huang Shuang smiled and said, "It's really not who has a dispute with whom today............ Didn't Grandfather get the news? ”

Huang Yingyun glanced at him when he heard this, and said with a smile: "What news?" Huang Shuang said with a smile: "That legendary Ning Hou is coming to our Yangzhou!" ”

Huang Yingyun looked at his grandson's slightly excited smile, was stunned for a moment, and then thought for a while before he suddenly realized: "Oh, you are talking about the one from Ning Rongjia's family." ”

Huang Shuang nodded excitedly and said, "That's right!" That's the one! Huang Shuang laughed and said, "Do you worship him very much?" ”

Huang Shuang scratched his head and said, "Sun Er admires him more, but Xiuyuan Ziming and they are all holding back their energy!" Huang Yingyun still smiled lightly: "What are you holding back?" ”

Huang Shuang said with a smile: "When Ning Hou was not famous for his military exploits, there were good people who called Ning Hou an immortal, which shows that Ning Hou was already a hero of Dacheng in poetry at that time, and the immortal spirit is self-unified!" It can be described as an immortal in the world! ”

Huang Yingyun nodded and didn't say anything, Huang Shuang continued: "Later, I heard that Bai Yi of the Bai family went to the north to pursue the daughter of the Korean princess, and went to the banquet of King Wu to write a poem. ”

Huang Yingyun squinted his eyes slightly when he heard Bai Yi's name, and Huang Shuang continued: "Ning Hou was also present at the time, and he didn't like Bai Yi's poems, so he wrote Shoutong to care for Bai Yi in ancient times, which made the scene very ugly at that time, and Bai Yi almost had no face to stay in Shenjing City!" ”

Huang Yingyun smiled: "I have also seen that Shoutong care for the ancients, and the kid of the Bai family is not wronged." Huang Shuang said with a smile: "Bai Yi has always been touted as the first talent in Jiangnan in our place, but he was first defeated by the daughter of the Korean Duke in Shu, and then he was humiliated by Ning Hou with poetry when he entered Beijing, but not many people mocked him............"

Huang Yingyun said with a smile: "Don't expect others to make a fool of themselves, no matter how ugly they are, they are only qualified to be ugly if they are standing in the position of a talented man." ”

Huang Shuang nodded and said: "Yes, it's just that after this incident, people who do good things will call the daughter of the Korean Duke the first talented woman in the world, and Ning Hou the first talented woman in the world. ”

Huang Yingyun laughed when he heard this, and only after a moment did he cough and say to Huang Shuang: "Go on............ Ha ha. ”

Huang Shuang patted Huang Yingyun on the back while continuing: "It's just that you also know that there is no first in literature, no second in martial arts, the world calls Ning Hou the first in the world, and there are so many talented people in Jiangnan?" After the news of Ning Hou's southward movement came, how could anyone not be eager to try? ”

Huang Yingyun nodded and said: "The world is bustling, but for the sake of four words, strive to be the leader!" It is good to have this heart, and it is to be motivated............ Have you ever wondered? ”

Huang Shuang laughed dryly, and then said to Huang Yingyun: "If your grandson wants to say that you haven't thought about it, it must be fake, but your grandson knows how many catties and taels he has, and Ning Hou, whether he is from literature or martial arts, has something worth learning from his grandson for a long time............"

Huang Yingyun said quietly: "What do you say? Huang Shuang said to Huang Yingyun after a moment of speech: "What Ning Hou has done since his debut is amazing, if nothing else, just one can bring Ning Rongjia's family back to life and carry the lintel of a family alone, just this alone is enough to make grandchildren admire and learn." ”

Huang Yingyun said with a smile: "That's right, smart people know their weaknesses, and when they see the strengths of the strong, they will learn from them and become their own strengths. ”

This was inevitably a bit mean, so Huang Shuang laughed dryly and said: "Xiuyuan Ziming and they are just having a good time, didn't you also say that you know that you can't do it, but you are warriors?" ”

Huang Yingyun laughed when he heard this: "You will draw inferences!" Huang Shuang scratched his head and smiled, and then said to Huang Yingyun: "Grandfather, now that all the families in Yangzhou City have taken action because of this news, are we also ............?"

Huang Yingyun pondered for a moment, and then said with a smile: "How are you going to act?" Huang Shuang was stunned for a moment, and then thought for a while: "The other families are relatively loud, but Sun Er thinks that according to the information known now, Ning Hou should have military affairs to go to Guangzhou to deal with, so Ning Hou should not have the intention of staying in Yangzhou for a long time." ”