Li Xiangnan, after taking over his father's position as a meritorious hero, served as the guard of the capital Jubaomen Thousand Households, with more than 1,000 soldiers, responsible for guarding the capital, guarding the city gate, inspecting the tooth plate body of the incoming population, inspecting the traitors, etc., and waiting for the dispatch of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

Coincidentally, his top official is the former military governor of the left, Li Zengzhi.

Jubaomen is the south gate of the capital, and all kinds of merchants and handicraftsmen enter and exit from here, bustling and with a large flow of people. The defenders of the city gate inevitably plucked their feathers and took some filial piety from these people. Therefore, guarding the treasure gate is a real fat shortage.

Li Xiangnan relied on this fat shortage, greedy for thousands of gold, just good gambling, and most of the greedy money flowed to the gambling table. It's also thanks to his good ability to drill camps, and there are still a few legitimate and improper businesses in his hands, so he won't lose his family and bankrupt. What's more, guarding the city gate is the main business, and the daughter of the city gate will come back after being scattered.

The seventy taels of silver that Yang Fang handed him didn't take long to turn into one hundred and fifty taels, doubling. Li Xiangnan was very trustworthy and gave Yang Fang a piece of the principal......

"Third brother, you are short of money, look for me and your second brother!" Zhang Ben said, "You find an outsider!" ”

Lin Liangyou: "Big brother, I don't have any money now......

"No money...... You're looking for me! Zhang Ben said, "What do you want money for?" ”

"When you go to the West, you can't do it up and down?" Yang Fang said, "I still want to make some money for Miss Ren to keep some of, and I go to the West, but I don't know when I will come back!" ”

"So, what happened to the silk merchant Zhang Mingguang? You're forcing people to sue the king. ”

"This ...... At the beginning, Li Xiangnan only said that there was a business that I could participate in, and I could make a lot of profits. Yang Fang said, "As for what kind of business it is, and the fact that he embezzled a cart of gold and silver, I don't know at all!" ”

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One day, Li Xiangnan was invited to the Nanshi Building to drink, and the guest was Sun Dali, who came to the capital to operate a wooden shop in Taizhou, Zhejiang. Although the Da Bao En Temple has not yet broken ground, the internal news has already been revealed by internal people.

This is the so-called, following the courtiers, it is difficult not to get rich.

Sun Dali invited Li Xiangnan to drink, just to ask him to take care of him when the wood entered and exited the Jubaomen. For such a banquet, Li Xiangnan has always refused to come.

There were also two chaperones at the banquet, one was the jeweler Fu Yancheng, and the other was Zhang Mingguang, who ran a silk village.

During the banquet, he unconsciously talked about business, and the jeweler Fu Yancheng mentioned that today's gold and silver jewelry and utensils are in short supply, and now they can't say that the price is one per day, at least it will rise every month, so he wants everyone here to jointly raise some capital to buy gold and silver products in foreign prefectures and counties, and transport them to the capital, not to mention double the profit, at least half of it.

Zhang Mingguang disagreed, frowned and said: "This business, it sounds good, but now the imperial court prohibits gold and silver trading, and the risk is too great." To do business, we still have to be down-to-earth, and thanks to General Li's care, we can take care of the current business, and we are already satisfied. General Li should not listen to the drunken nonsense of the shopkeeper, and we will never do anything that violates the law and discipline. Drink and drink, don't talk about business today. ”

Businessmen, not to mention profiteers, at least they are all shrewd, Zhang Mingguang said this, it does not mean that he is really a businessman, but he knows that this Li Xiangnan Li Qianhu in front of him, is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and the business allows him to participate in a lump sum, can he still be profitable?

Li Xiangnan naturally guessed Zhang Mingguang's thoughts, drank a few glasses of wine, and then retired.

After sending Li Xiangnan away, Zhang Mingguang complained about Fu Yancheng: "Old Fu, we can discuss business matters in private, why bother revealing it to Li Qianhu?" Now that the wood of the shopkeeper Sun is unimpeded in the Jubao Gate, and the joint with Li Qianhu has been opened, we can hide the gold and silver utensils collected in the wood and send them to the capital, and when the time comes, we can at least save Li Qianhu's share, and the three of you and I are all happy? ”

Fu Yancheng and Sun Dali nodded yes.

But after the party was dismissed, Sun Dali went to Li Qianhu and dragged out the plan of the three of them, and at the same time, he also offered a plan......

A month later, Fu Yancheng and Zhang Mingguang bought a large cart of gold and silver products, and waited for Sun Dali's timber convoy outside the Jubao Gate, wanting to mix in and enter the city together.

This time the sale is huge!

When he came to the city gate, Li Qianhu personally led the team to intercept the parking team and searched carefully!

Sun Dali stepped forward, nodded and said: "Lord Qianhu, I am all wood, you know, there is a tax payment license, please don't check it, it is not easy to clean up if it is messed up." As he spoke, he stuffed a few treasure bills.

Fu Yancheng and Zhang Mingguang also laughed on the side.

Unexpectedly, Li Xiangnan took the treasure banknote, threw it on the ground without looking at it, and ordered the soldiers to search! As a result, gold and silver products were found, and all of them were confiscated!

Sun Dali and Li Xiangnan sang and harmonized, thinking that they were seamless, but after all, they were sparse and thought things too simple.

Fu Yancheng and Zhang Mingguang soon knew that it was Sun Dali who colluded with Li Xiangnan to do the ghost, and Li Xiangnan only handed over half of the cart of gold and silver, and the rest were divided into four or six with Sun Dali, he was six, and Sun Dali was four.

Sun Dali has Li Qianhu to protect him, and Fu Yancheng and Zhang Mingguang are not unmanned in the court. Immediately, Fu Yancheng went to Liu Zuo, the senator of the General Political Envoy; Zhang Mingguang also found his own family Zhang Yushi and instigated him to write a chapter for impeachment......

"You don't know what kind of business you dare to participate in?" Zhang Ben shook his head and asked Yang Fang, "How much did you vote?" ”

"The one hundred and fifty taels were all thrown in......"

"Did they share your profits?" Lin Liang asked.

"Also...... No. Yang Fang shook his head.

"That's fine." Lin Liang said, "These people's gold and silver transactions are already illegal, and Li Qianhu's raid can be regarded as acting impartially, but he is just greedy and colluding with businessmen, so I am afraid that the merit will not be worthy." Fortunately, third brother, you haven't shared the profits......"

Zhang Ben said: "Although it has not made a profit, Wang Qian has already used this reason to find trouble, they received the news so quickly, I'm afraid, this matter is not so simple." ”

Yang Fang said: "Big brother, it's not as complicated as you say, right?" I'm going to find Li Xiangnan and chase back my one hundred and fifty taels! ”

Although it was late at night, Zhang Ben left him to go.

"I feel that the third brother is not completely telling the truth." After Yang let go, Zhang Ben lobbied Lin Scale, "He has something to hide from us." ”

"Why did the eldest brother say this?" Although Lin Liangyou also felt this way, he still wanted to hear Zhang Ben's thoughts first.

"With the temperament of the third brother, I definitely disdain to be in the company of people like Li Xiangnan." Zhang Ben said.

Li Xiangnan, in addition to being good at gambling, also likes to take advantage, as long as he likes something, no matter how big or small, he will do everything possible to get his hands on it to be happy. is also able to be flattering to the yang, in the cage of yin cloth, to the official whiskers, to be mean to his subordinates everywhere, let him be a city gate guard for thousands of households, it is really a condescension.

"People change." Lin Lanyou didn't seem to agree with Zhang Ben's opinion, "What if it's for money? You know, the third brother is staying in the elephant taming place, that kind of environment, no matter how angular people are, they will be smoothed out or even smoothed, right? ”

Zhang Ben nodded and said: "Maybe it's for money, maybe it's for other ......"

"I agree, he has something to hide from us."

"In the future, I think we will still call him Yang Apu!"

"It doesn't have to be ...... Everyone has privacy! ”

"You know, big brother, I like to peep into people's privacy the most."

"Big brother, this is going to be punished by the palace!"

"It doesn't matter! A small three-inch thing, go and go! Zhang Ben slapped the table and got up and said, "Tonight, I want to see what the third brother has done without us!" ”

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