"Virtuous nephew, it's great that you can come, it's better for you to preside over this auction! The business is all built by you, and it is already a luxury for the old man to be able to share most of the benefits. ”

"Uncle Liu, you can't say that. The kid is young, except for Yishui County, who still knows who I am Li Kui? To do business, to do big business, you also need an elder like you to preside over it in order to be convincing. ”

Liu Baosheng hesitated for a while, and then took it decisively: "Then the old man will drive the ducks to the shelves, and this time he will be ugly." ”

Like him, there are many generals like him who have gambled his whole life or the luck of a family on his daughter. Liu Baosheng is not the first, nor will he be the last. For a middle-level general of the Jiangmen who has a clear goal and wants to be the head of the country, the prince of the country, and enjoy the honor of Tai Lieutenant, he is not willing to lose any opportunity to increase the relationship with the high-ranking lords.

Even, Liu Baosheng will take the initiative to give up part of his interests after discussing with Li Kui in advance.

These benefits were not for him, but for the daughters of his palace.

And Li Kui was very on the road, so Liu Baosheng got the opportunity to host this auction, and was even willing to be behind the scenes, which made him feel excited.

Liu Baosheng was rippling with joy, and the moment he saw Li Kui, he was simply smiling, and the more he looked at Li Kui, the more pleasing he became. However, in addition to being happy, Liu Baosheng also encountered a bad thing.

Pulling Li Kui to the backyard, he complained as he walked: "Renjie, the merchants in Yingzhou are really not very friendly to us outsiders, and even the supply of food is limited, and one person can only buy three liters." traveled all over the Great Song Dynasty, and the old man still encountered such a bad seller again. If it weren't for the old friend, the old man wouldn't be able to prepare the food for this banquet, would you be angry? ”

"Uncle Liu, it's not that the merchants in Yingzhou are like this to the outsiders, but the merchants in Yingzhou control the price of grain, and they are worried that they will sell too much, and the people will hoard enough food to eat, and no one will buy it when they want to increase the price."

"Anything that is eye-catching can't be put on the table." Li Kui's truth, listening to Liu Baosheng's ears, was quite harsh. Even before, when the old Liu family was poor, Liu Baosheng didn't bother to do this kind of opportunity to make money, because there were too many hidden dangers: "Don't they know that for a big family, Xiangwang is the biggest foundation of a family. ”

I couldn't help but despise the big families in Yingzhou a little bit in my heart. He was born in Jiangmen, and he knew very well that the root of the popular uprising in many places did not lie in the imperial court.

Where did the court know about local affairs?

The Great Song Dynasty was a commodity society, and it was more merchants and gentry who controlled the supply and price of goods in the market. However, Yingzhou's practice is obviously to dry up and fish, and the people are like living in hot oil, and once public anger is aroused, it will inevitably rise up. Although the scale of the popular uprising in the Great Song Dynasty was not large, there were many popular uprisings of 100,000 people.

At least there were two in Jingdong East Road, one of which was the Jinan Mansion People's Rebellion, with a mighty 100,000 horses.

As a general of the Huaiyang Army, Liu Baosheng is always clear about the people's uprising. The people can't go on, the oppression of the big households, the forced labor of the government, and natural disasters, once the three conditions are met. Naturally, the people will not be able to jump, but there are basically not many large local households who can survive. It is not impossible to even destroy the shrine and dig the grave.

There are many ways to make money in this world, and there is no need to kill people.

What's more, what is the foundation of Baishi, it is all talking. In this world, there may be only one family that can be passed down forever, Confucius. In addition, even the emperor may be knocked off the dragon chair. Not to mention a family that is powerful in a small place?

When a person sees himself as a wolf and all the people around him as a sheep, he is not far from perdition.

People are not animals, and animals are born to determine whether they will eat grass or meat in this life.

People may be born rich and noble, but because of the wrong choice, they end up falling into the result of ruin.

may also be born in difficulty, but not willing to be mediocre, and finally make a career.

Therefore, man can be a sheep, a sheep without the ability to resist. But people also change, becoming wolves, wolves who are unwilling to eat grass.

However, the affairs on the ground in Yingzhou should not be taken care of by Liu Baosheng, and he will not talk much. At most, it is to say one or two words of complaint, and the big households in Yingzhou are blind. Who would have thought that the ancestors of these people were all wise people with outstanding intelligence. but the children were reduced to such fields.

The Liu family.

For ordinary people, it is a big valve.

It's the gate magnates.

For a real wealthy family, the Liu family is still a small family that has not been paid attention to. Only a few families will notice signs of the rise of this family.

At the same time, no one can guarantee whether the rise of the Liu family is sustainable.

In any case, Liu Qingjing's status in the palace has improved, and the family has seen a rising momentum.

Unconsciously.

Yingzhou suddenly became lively.

This kind of excitement is not felt by ordinary people, and what they feel most deeply is that the price of grain seems to have become more expensive, from 30 wen a bucket to 40 wen a bucket.

At this time, the people began to worry, but the food stamps issued by the government were nowhere to be found in the market, as if they had disappeared overnight.

The liveliness of Yingzhou began when powerful people of the size of Jingxi Road came one after another.

Powerful people from the capital, Yingtianfu, Daimyofu, and Xijing rode in luxurious carriages and entered the city from the city gate from time to time.

The strong man who collected the tax, when he saw the rare animal patterns on the carriage, was frightened and told the entourage on the side of the car how much tax he had to pay.

Obviously, the identities of these people are not easily offended.

Cao family.

The Wang family.

The car of the Duke's Palace.

The car of the palace.

……

The big people in Yingzhou City couldn't have imagined that Yingzhou would squeeze into so many powerful people at once.

After inquiring, I learned that there was a Du Yuhou of the Huaiyang Army doing business in Yingzhou, and Du Yuhou was just a five-grade general, and he was a general Ning Yuan who sounded better than General Youji.

But Liu Baosheng is different, he is developed, and the palace gives General Yunlu and takes away Liu Baosheng's military position as Du Yuhou.

But anyone with a discerning eye knows that General Yun Lu is a military general of the third grade, and further up, he is a general of the same grade. And Du Yuhou is really hard to say, this is a third-in-command general in the army. It is mainly governed by trivial matters such as military discipline.

The loss of Du Yuhou's official position did not make Liu Baosheng cheap.

On the contrary, it made him worth a hundred times.

After all, General Yunlu's grade has already stated that the emperor wants to promote the Liu family, or directly indicates that the emperor wants to promote the Liu family's daughter in the palace, the concubine? Chaise?

If the emperor really has this intention, then for Liu Baosheng, the official positions under the Taiwei are just excessive official positions.

So much so that many big people who Li Kui couldn't invite at all, and even big people who couldn't be invited by Liu Baosheng's previous identity, came to Yingzhou one by one as if they were in the market.

"Brother Changli!"

"Shepherd back brother!"

"Brother Baihong!"

"Cao Gong!"

……

One by one, the big people who looked old but exuded a lofty momentum that no one could approach, passed by Li Kui and Gao Yu's food table, and when they took two steps, they were about to bow down and say a few words to their old friends. On the contrary, when they saw Li Kui's scene, almost everyone would frown, and said in their hearts: This is the kid of that family, he has no rules, and he looks so embarrassed, like a refugee.

Faced with this scene, Li Kui didn't care, holding an elbow in his hand, the corners of his mouth were shiny, and his face was full of oil. On the contrary, Gao Yu sat very angrily, Li Kui's mouth was full of meat, and he greeted Gao Yu: "Brother Gao, why don't you eat it!" ”

"You called me here to make me angry?" Gao Yu saw that Li Kui was eating and drinking without worry, and he almost snorted angrily. What kind of salt is snowflake salt, he has eaten it and seen it. I heard that this snowflake salt has been bought at a sky-high price in the capital, but in Li Kui's hands, this is just an ordinary seasoning condiment. It is clearer what Li Kui means to Snow Salt. In terms of belonging, Li Kui is the real owner of Snow Salt.

Yingzhou's warehouses and personnel transportation are all the credit of Li Kui's establishment.

However, he, the host, suddenly became a guest and was placed in an inconspicuous corner.

The position in the middle of the lobby was not reserved for Li Kui, so it was enough, but he should always invite people into the lobby, right?

In Gao Yu's view, the Liu family not only snatched the glory that belonged to Li Kui, but also snatched the identity that belonged to Li Kui.

Where is this good for the family?

It's simply the work of robbers.

Gao Yu helplessly watched Li Kui swallow a large mouthful of meat violently, and the moment the meat went down, he seemed to see Li Kui's neck thickened, and he was helpless: "Li Kui, aren't you angry at all?" ”

"Angry, why be angry?" Li Kuiman didn't care and said: "For the sake of face, it's not worth it; For the sake of affordability, you should endure it. You can't always want all the good things in the world, right? People can't be too greedy. Besides, why is this son not good? Later, there will be a neon dress dance led by the red lady, and you can see it clearly in the hall. ”

"Red lady, is the dancing lady who took away the three points of Yingzhou West Lake as the bachelor said?"

"It's not her, who else?" Li Kui was curious: "Have you seen her dance?" ”

"Where am I blessed to see her dance." Gao Yu said fascinatedly: "I heard the bachelor say that this woman is too charming, and those who are not with great perseverance can't appreciate it!" ”

Li Kui was talking, but he saw Gao Yu sitting in danger, looking like an inviolable moral gentleman, but his eyes were full of peach blossoms.

And behind Li Kui, there is a boy dressed as a boy, his eyebrows are not opened, but it is difficult to hide his coquettishness, looking at Li Kui ignoring himself, but his eyebrows are dancing and talking about the first woman in Yingzhou City, gritting his silver teeth hatefully, competing with the champa in his hand, and muttering in his mouth: "Fox spirit!" ”