Yang Yingqian and his entourage returned to the guard, the old housekeeper Yang Fu was already waiting at the south gate, after seeing Yang Yingqian, Yang Fu stepped forward to hold the reins for Yang Yingqian, and told Yang Yingqian that Cao Hongxian had just sent someone to say that Yang had cleaned up the house where Yang Ming lived before, and asked them to move their luggage there directly, Yang Fu was afraid that Yang Yingqian would not find them after he came back, so he came to the south gate to wait.

Hearing that Cao Hongxian was so concerned about his own affairs, Yang Yingqian's heart couldn't help but warm slightly, thinking that this little old man was still very good to him.

At that moment, Yang Yingqian turned his horse head and said to Yang Fu: "Uncle Yang, I still have some things to discuss with adults, you go back to the house first, and I will go back by myself in a while." ”

Yang Fu said yes after hearing this, Yang Yingqian seemed to remember something again, and stopped Yang Fu again.

"Uncle Yang, if you have nothing to do in the past few days, you can see if there is a favorite store in the city, and if the price is right, you can put one down."

"What does the young master do when he buys a shop, but he wants to buy a family business?" Yang Fu asked strangely.

"Young master, I'm going to do business soon, by the way, I'll ask the sergeant to take you to Baishayu in a while, you go to Baishayu to pick up the goods, Dayong is busy there, put the goods back in the new house first, and tell me the number of goods when I return home!"

Immediately, Yang Yingqian instructed a guard beside him to tell him to take Yang Fu to Baishayu to find Sun Dayong in a while, and after speaking, he waved his horsewhip lightly, leaving Yang Fu, the old butler who was still in confusion, to go to the Yamen of the commanding envoy.

Walking to Shuiguan Street, Yang Yingqian saw Wenxuantang, a shop selling the four treasures of the study room on the side of the road, thought for a moment, and then handed the horse to the soldiers behind him and entered the store by himself.

The shopkeeper greeted him with a smile when he saw the business coming to the door: "I don't know what the distinguished guests want to buy when they come to the shop?" ”

Yang Yingqian looked at the four treasures of the study room full of shelves and said, "I want to buy paper!" ”

"Speaking of paper, you have come to the right place, our Wenxuantang is the only store in Yongningwei that specializes in the four treasures of the study."

While praising the professionalism of his shop, the shopkeeper turned around, took down the rolls of rice paper on the shelves and put them on the counter in front of him, and then introduced them to Yang Yingqian in the same way.

"Distinguished guests, please see, this is the best Chengxintang paper, as thin as an egg membrane, as clean as jade. This is water-patterned paper, you see how beautiful this pattern is, it is best to write and draw with it! ”

Yang Yingqian listened to the boss's cheerful and endless sales pitch, looked at the paper in front of him carefully, took out a piece of paper with a snow-white color and a tougher texture, twisted it in his hand, and asked.

"Boss, what kind of paper is this?"

Hearing the question, the boss's face seemed to open a chrysanthemum again.

"Your guests have good eyesight, this is North Korea's domestic Korean paper, we don't have this kind of Ming, you see this paper color like white silk, tough like silk is a strange product, but this price, it is slightly ........ than other products."

The shopkeeper rubbed his fingers as he spoke.

Yang Yingqian didn't want to listen to the boss's rambling anymore, so he took out a silver ingot from his arms and threw it on the table.

"How much I have wrapped, this is a deposit, I will send my family to pick it up later, and all the Korean paper will be cut into palm-sized square pieces of paper for me!"

Immediately, Yang Yingqian took out a piece of paper, used the knife on the container to cut a piece of paper into twenty palm-sized rectangular pieces of paper of equal size, raised it to the boss, and put it into his arms.

The boss was confused when he watched Yang Yingqian's operation, and he couldn't help but feel that the young man in front of him was a psychopath, but since he had paid for it, he didn't bother to care what people did with these papers.

Out of Wenxuan Hall, Yang Yingqian got on the horse again, and the group went straight to the command envoy's yamen.

Rushed to the back hall, Cao Hongxian was teasing a budgie in the birdcage in the courtyard, saw Yang Yingqian coming, stopped what he was doing, looked at Yang Yingqian with a smile and said: "How about Yingqian, what's the situation on Baishayu?" ”

Yang Yingqian smiled mysteriously at Cao Hongxian: "My lord, please move to the inner hall, the lower official has a rare thing to show your lord." ”

Cao Hongxian smiled: "You kid, you're still selling Guanzi here!" With that, he took Yang Yingqian into the inner hall.

Cao Hong did it first, and then saw Yang Yingqian mysteriously take out a palm-sized piece of paper from his arms, and then took off a small cloth bag from his waist.

I saw Yang Yingqian fold a trace of the piece of paper from the middle, grabbed a small handful of something like hay from the cloth bag and carefully sprinkled it on the paper, and then rolled the piece of paper into a column.

"I said, what are you doing, boy? You haven't told me about the red-haired merchant ship yet! ”

Yang Yingqian smiled mysteriously: "My lord, the matter of the merchant ship is not in a hurry, you try this first!" With that, Yang Yingqian stuffed the rolled cigarette into Cao Hongxian's mouth.

When he came back from Baishayu just now, Yang Yingqian specially asked Chris for some tobacco first, as a smoker, Yang Yingqian knew very well that only if Cao Hong tasted this first, he would be more supportive of this matter.

Seeing Yang Yingqian stuffing this strange thing into his mouth, Cao Hongxian couldn't help but exclaim: "What are you kid giving me to eat, do you want to harm me?" ”

Yang Yingqian hurriedly explained with a smile: "My lord, this is an overseas pastime, called tobacco to put it in the mouth and light it, inhale it into the body, it feels quite mysterious, Yi people once had clouds, a cigarette after a meal, happy like a fairy!" ”

Hearing Yang Yingqian say that this thing came from overseas, Cao Hongxian was also very interested at the moment, and hurriedly put the cigarette roll in his mouth and said: "Come, quickly light it for this official!" ”

Yang Yingqian laughed secretly in his heart, took out the fire fold from his sleeve and lit the cigarette in Cao Hongxian's mouth, and just wanted to tell him to take the first puff to suck slowly, Cao Hongxian's reckless nature attacked, and he took a puff violently.

Immediately followed by a heart-rending violent cough, Yang Yingqian couldn't help but have a black line on his face, and hurriedly stepped forward to pat Cao Hongxian's back and said: "Xiaguan forgot to remind the adults, this thing needs to be inhaled slowly on the first attempt, otherwise it will be choked by the smoke." ”

Yang Yingqian thought that Cao Hongxian would not be able to stand it and throw the cigarette aside, but he didn't expect Cao Hongxian to laugh out loud after relieving himself: "This thing is spicy and happy enough!" It's in line with the official's temperament! ”

As he spoke, Cao Hongxian put the cigarette in his mouth and smoked it, and after a while, he finished smoking.

"Boy, order another one for this official!" Cao Hong beckoned to Yang Yingqian first.

Yang Yingqian smiled slightly, and rolled another one for Cao Hongxian: "My lord, although this thing has a different flavor, it will hurt the body if it is used more, and adults can take a few small cigarettes every day to relieve boredom." ”

Cao Hong took another sip first, then looked at Yang Yingqian playfully and said, "You kid, there are other things to say." ”

Yang Yingqian clasped his fists at Cao Hongxian and smiled: "My lord is wise." ”

Immediately, Yang Yingqian's face turned straight: "Xiaguan has been thinking about how to revive the prestige of my Yongningwei for the past few days, thinking about it, it is nothing more than training and reorganizing the army, and one day if the court summons us again, I can be ashamed of the snow and the muddy river and serve the court." ”

Cao Hongxian did not answer, but quietly watched Yang Yingqian take another puff of cigarette.

Immediately, Yang Yingqian's words changed: "However, whether it is training troops or reorganizing the army, a large amount of military expenditure is required, but my Ming Dynasty first went through the three major expeditions of the Daxing Emperor, and Jin and the Liaodong Tartars repeatedly invaded Liaodong, and the treasury has long been empty, and it is impossible to have extra military pay for us to train our troops." ”

"What do you want to say?" Cao Hongxian's eyes shot a few rays of light, not at all like a rude and reckless man, but like an old fox who has lived in the world for many years.

At this time, the hall was quiet, only the budgie in the courtyard was still chirping.

"Today's merchant ship in Baishayu is a Francophone merchant ship that ran aground on the reef, and it is this tobacco on board, and the captain of the merchant ship, Chris, wants to trade with me very much, and the lower officials want to use the benefits of trade to help us revitalize the guard."

Yang Yingqian finished speaking in one breath, but Cao Hongxian didn't move, his brows were tightly locked, he didn't know what he was thinking, and he was silent for a long time before he said.

"The court officials trade privately, the sin is not small, if it is known by the imperial court......." Cao Hongxian did not say the latter words, but looked at Yang Yingqian meaningfully.

Yang Yingqian clenched his fists again: "The lower officials will pretend to open a business house in the name of Yang Fu, the housekeeper in the house, to hide people's eyes and ears." ”

In fact, this method is still relatively feasible, although there was still a maritime ban policy at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but many family members of southern officials rushed to smuggle by sea.

Seeing that Cao Hongxian still didn't say anything, Yang Yingqian said again: "After the trade, the lower officials plan to use fifty percent to develop the health office, one percent to maintain the operation of the commercial house, and the remaining forty percent, all of which will be handed over to the adults for the turnover of various relationships in the court." ”

Yang Yingqian knew that Cao Hongxian in front of him was not a reckless man who could only fight and kill, and he could already see from the look in his eyes just now that the old man in front of him was definitely a character who pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger, and it was better to go straight in front of smart people.

Cao Hongxian still didn't speak, stared at Yang Yingqian for a while, sighed softly and said, "You really look like your father!" ”

Immediately, Cao Hongxian chuckled, got up and slapped Yang Yingqian on the shoulder again.

"I'm old, what do you want so much money for, use my share in the guard, I'll see what you kid can do, it's just a little ......."

Yang Yingqian was overjoyed when he heard Cao Hongxian's words, but when he heard Cao Hongxian leave half a sentence, he couldn't help but stare at him in a daze, waiting for him to say the next half of his sentence.

"In the future, Lao Tzu's monthly tobacco, you kid has to wrap it for me!"

Hearing this, the two looked at each other at the same time and laughed, and the laughter only frightened the budgie in the courtyard for a while.

After discussing the trade with Cao Hongxian, Yang Yingqian took his leave and left the command envoy Si Yamen to go to his house.

Yongningwei's new home is on Beimen Street, which is not far from the commander's envoy's yamen, which is a lively area, but at this time the sky is getting darker, most of the pedestrians have already returned home, and the street has a bit of a lonely taste.

Not long after, Yang Yingqian came to his new home, the yard is not very big, but there is also a courtyard with two entrances, and he is now a bachelor, so he and a dozen subordinates can definitely live in it.

In front of the door, Sun Dayong was commanding seven or eight personal soldiers and subordinates to carry wooden boxes one by one into the courtyard, which seemed to be all tobacco.

Seeing Yang Yingqian coming back, Sun Dayong hurriedly rushed forward and dismounted Yang Yingqian.

"My lord, the goods that have not been wet have been moved into the storeroom of the house and put away, and the small one must have two or three hundred stones. My lord, can this thing really make money? ”

Sun Dayong asked suspiciously, Yang Yingqian has been very interested in these things since Baishayu, and he spent a thousand taels of silver to buy these goods, which really made him unable to figure it out.

Yang Yingqian did not answer him, but asked about Tang Ruowang and the others.

"Steward Yang arranged for them to go to the east wing, and I lived in the west wing with the brothers, those two red-haired ghosts were too scary, and the brothers didn't dare to sleep in the same room with them." Sun Dayong grinned with palpitations as he spoke, as if John Tang and the others had really become man-eating Rakshasa ghosts.

Yang Yingqian smiled slightly, and did not take Sun Dayong's words to heart, they always have to adapt to new things for a while. At present, everything is going very smoothly, and Yang Yingqian couldn't help but feel good, and patted Sun Dayong on the shoulder with a smile and said.

"Move to a new house today, have a few more drinks with the brothers, and gather all the military households in the guard house to the school tomorrow, and this officer will order troops!"