After going back, Xiao Ming informed Jie Zhicong of the plan, and asked Jie Zhicong to send a gift to Zhang Duan, and it must be sent to Zhang's wife to receive it personally, and bought off a small servant in Zhang's Mansion, and then everyone waited for the show.

Xiao Ming got the news and judged that Zhang Duan was not interested in the purchase of iron ore, and just wanted to throw away the hat of the mine supervisor as soon as possible, so that he could go to the new seat to search, so he was more confident.

On this day, Xiao Ming invited Zhang Duan to the banquet as the host, and he used words to test during the banquet, and he could be regarded as getting the exact information, but the reason why Zhang Duan refused to let go was that he still wanted to eat rebates, and in order to reduce the cost to a lower level, Xiao Ming insisted on the implementation of the plan.

Sure enough, the personnel who monitored Zhang Duan came to report on the same day, saying that the fat man had gone to the residence of the third concubine, so Xiao Ming immediately arranged for people to report to Zhang Duan's wife, and the little girl who bought it played a key role here.

When Xiao Ming arrived, the tigress was in a big way, scratching Zhang Duan's face, and Zhu was also grabbed with her hair scattered, and her face was full of finger prints, which was done by Mrs. Zhang.

Xiao Ming and the others rushed to the scene, and when they saw the tigress knocking Zhu to the ground and kicking indiscriminately, Xiao Ming hurriedly stopped him and gave Jie Zhicong a look.

"Madame, angry, angry! Don't kill people, everything is negotiable," Jie Zhicong stopped the crazy woman.

Jie Zhicong gave Mrs. Zhang a heavy gift, and he still had some face, but the tigress still didn't want to give up, where did she scold more than once, Zhang Duan was extremely embarrassed, and cast his eyes for help to Jie Zhicong.

It was good to persuade Zhang Duan's wife to leave, Xiao Ming sent Zhu into the room, and told her to obey the arrangement, Zhang Duan outside had recovered his appearance as a man, and bowed down to thank Jie Zhicong for coming to the rescue.

After Xiao Ming came out, he said to Zhang Duan: "The Zhu family is pregnant, which is a good thing, but I think Mrs. Zun will definitely not let her mother and son live in the world, what do you think should be done, Lord Zhang?" ”

Zhang Duan was overjoyed when he heard that the Zhu family was pregnant, but he quickly thought of the wife at home, and said viciously: "This, if you don't come out by yourself, you will harm my Zhang family's veins, and I really can't keep it!" ”

Xiao Ming reminded: "Mrs. Zun's brother, I'm afraid you don't see it that way, right?" ”

mentioned his eldest brother, Zhang Duan calmed down, but then he wanted to deal with the relationship between his wife and concubine, but he couldn't come up with it as a fat brain, so he had an embarrassed expression.

Xiao Ming said: "I have a way, I don't know if Master Zhang is willing to listen?" ”

Zhang Duan said: "Sir, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it. ”

Xiao Ming said: "Since we are friends, we will do you a favor, Zhu's we will help you send you to Tokyo to find a quiet house to live in, you can rest assured, go back and tell Mrs. Zun that Zhu has been sent away, Mrs. I don't know that I will send someone to Tokyo, and I will be angry if I can't find her, Zhu's baby is raised in Tokyo, you will always arrange to take care of her mother and child, right?" ”

Zhang Duan heard this, very satisfied, to Xiao Ming thanks, thinking that he was middle-aged, he was not very emotional, into the room to Zhu family love, that night to arrange for Zhu to leave, these Jie Zhicong has already made arrangements, Ri Changlong has his own staff in Tokyo, everything is not a problem.

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After this incident, Zhang Duan was equal to the pigtail was arrested, and mastering the Zhu family can be with Zhang Duan's heart, not afraid that he is thinking about the left and right, as soon as the matter is over, everyone is excited, there is basically no major obstacle to the sale of iron ore, and now you can basically put your mind at ease, as long as the Shi family does not have much other action, it can be said that the Xuzhou iron ore has arrived, and the Shi family did not come, only sent a representative.

In addition to closely monitoring Xue Bingchang, the rest is the accounting documents, accounting for iron ore property, and compiling contract documents, Xiao Ming is rare and idle for a few days.

But after a few days of this kind of leisure, An Daoquan and Gongsun Sheng came back, and after finding Xiao Ming, there was only one sentence: "You can go, the location has been discovered" Xiao Ming jumped up and said: "Just wait for this day!" ”

Obviously, An Daoquan has already found out the burial location of the treasure, and he came back to find Xiao Ming to discover the treasure, how can Xiao Ming not be excited? Being able to join the treasure hunt in person is an exciting thing in itself, not to mention that the owner of the 600,000 catties of gold is still himself.

Treasure exploration means adventure, men are born with the spirit of adventure, but adventure is not the same as blindness, the previous preparations still have to be done, such as the selection of personnel, the preparation of tools, carts and horses, the outfit can not be too simple, now it has just snowed heavily in the north, the necessary fuel and warm items also need to be prepared, and most importantly, Xiao Ming must personally configure gunpowder for Antao.

Just when everyone was busy, there was a person who suddenly visited Xiao Ming, and this person was Xue Bingchang!

After hearing the name of the reporter, Xiao Ming was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Hurry up, please!" ”

After Xue Bingchang was invited in, Xiao Ming looked at him and smiled, and finally Xiao Ming took the tea, "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, Brother Xue is really an interesting person, just say anything you want, Xiao Mou listened"

Xue Bingchang laughed and said: "Brother Xiao is hidden deeply, it is easy to find my brother for a while."

Xiao Ming laughed twice with him, and then said with a face: "I think Brother Xue has already found out my origin, but I don't know Brother Xue's background, I don't know if I can tell you honestly?" ”

Xue Bingchang said: "This time I came to you for this matter"

Xiao Ming said: "Oh? Please speak"

"Brother Xiao knows a poem by Mr. Wang Jinggong Jiepu. It was the poem "Sending Zeng Zigu": "Sijun coerced Qipu, and was willing to sell unscrupulous couples." And the identity of the brother is this good couple. ”

The good philistine in Xue Bingchang's mouth is actually a philistine, Xiao Ming only knows that "philistine" is now regarded as a curse, and its original meaning is a buying and selling intermediary, which is equivalent to the current brokers, exchanges, agents, and notaries. Other information about the philistine was not clear, so I asked Xue Bingchang to explain in detail.

Xue Bingchang himself is a philistine, so he naturally knows a lot about it and tells Xiao Ming eloquently.

Originally, in the word "shi", "shi" means to buy and sell, and "yu" means to meet. "Philistine" is also known as Ya Yu and Ya Man, and "Ya" means interaction. In the old days, it was also called the horse trading intermediary man. Because of the different objects of business and other reasons, the philistine is called the city, the tooth, the bird, the big bird, the tooth, the father, the village, the official, the girl, the good girl, the scholar, the painter and so on.

It is said that the Qin and Han dynasties had philistines. The philistines of the Song Dynasty were inherited from the previous generations and began with the people. However, at this time, the economic value of private philistine activities was recognized by society, and the scale and pattern were not comparable with those of previous generations.

In the Song Dynasty, philistine brokerage activities were very common at that time. In the Song Dynasty, people had a strong sense of lending money for profit, and a number of private loan sharks with large capital and different from the original ones also appeared, with the nature of capital management. This kind of philistine is called "Xing Qian".

The identity of the money is to issue bonds on behalf of others, take half of the interest from them, and pay the other half to the money owner. The Song Dynasty did not suppress annexation and allowed land to be bought and sold freely. There are three main types of land transactions: land mortgage loans, pawns of land pawns, and outright sales of property rights. All three of these relationships need to be established by contract. In addition to the owner and the owner of the deed, there are also tooth people, neighbors, and deed writers, and the money owner and the tooth person are the main characters. Matters such as the submission of the contract to the government, the affixing of the seal, the payment of the deed money, and the new tax amount are generally handled by the Yaren. The tooth man acted as a notary at this time.

Although the Song Dynasty had the legacy of "not adding the endowment of farmland", due to financial constraints, in addition to the tax on Ertian in summer and autumn, other tax items with various names continued to increase. In particular, with the advent of monetary rent, after the exemption law replaced service with money, the cumbersome collection of taxes caused a headache for the government, and various tax collectors came into being. This kind of person is called a solicitor, also called a solicitor.

Solicitation of households is officially recognized and imprinted, and the status is the same as that of county officials, but officials cannot also be collectors. There are three ways for the collector to profit "between the cashiers": one is to make the necessary arrangements for the assets of several employers to be collected, and use the time difference between the collections to obtain business funds or interest for the borrower; The second is that when the employer is unable to pay the tax when the tax period is approaching, the employer will pay it on behalf of the employer, and then repay it at a high price; The third is to take care of the tax matters of general taxpayers and collect commissions. Some of them even set up shops similar to today's offices. Compared with the petty tenants who collect commissions, this kind of solicitor has progressed to a certain amount of money capital management, which is the best among the philistines.

At the same time, although philistines have objectively facilitated the development of the commodity economy, they only aim at profit-seeking and have repeatedly violated the law and harmed the people, so the official recognition of them has also restricted them. So the whole industry itself needs to improve itself, the world's philistines are also an important part of the 36 lines, even beggars can set up a beggar gang, philistines can also set up a gang, this gang is called: Yaxing Gang, the previous directors are not called the gang leader, but called the Puguan.

Xue Bingchang took a sip of tea, then pointed to himself and said, "Isn't it just the second Puguan!"

After saying so much, Xiao Ming was also an eye-opener, "It turns out that in addition to the beggar gang, there is also a tooth gang!" This may be a new thing that may only appear in the highly developed industrial and commercial society of the Song Dynasty.

However, Xiao Ming fully understands the role of brokers, agents, and intermediaries in modern society, and the rapid accumulation of capital must be indispensable in the auxiliary industry of commercial behavior.

But what Xiao Ming is most concerned about now is: What is the purpose between the Tokyo historian and this "Puguan"? Why did the Gu refinery stick in the purchase of iron ore!

"Actually......" Xue Bingchang suddenly smiled and said: "Behind the Gu family's refinery is Ri Changlong, Ri Changlong is already breaking the rules by meddling in salt and iron, Young Master Shi Wengong just wants to cooperate with Ri Changlong, as for what to cooperate with?" I can't tell you yet, but there is one thing that can be said, that is, the historian wants to marry Richanglong."

After a pause, Xue Bingchang continued: "I know that Mr. Xiao has a lot of weight in the eyes of Ri Changlong, and I would like to ask you to bring a message to Su Cai'er's shopkeeper, Young Master Shi Wengong is in his prime, his age is quite old and his mind is smart, and he is really a good match for Su Da's shopkeeper."

"Oh" Xiao Ming nodded, his chest suddenly felt a little sour, and he said, "It seems that Mr. Xue, you don't want to be a philistine anymore, you want to be a matchmaker?" ”

Xue Bingchang laughed and said, "Haha, Mr. Xiao made fun of it"

Xiao Ming said: "Where, as long as the Shi family is not in the way in the next acquisition of the iron factory, I will definitely bring the message, and ......" Xiao Ming looked at Xue Bingchang, and then said: "And our business with the government below, is this middleman?" - Please be the one who becomes."