While speaking, Bai Sanye rode his horse and ran to Liu Siye's house in Toudaogou.

Less than twenty miles on the south side of the Han Green Ridge Mountains, it is the home of Liu Siye of Toudaogou. As mentioned earlier, Liu Siye, who relies on the purchase of leather goods and mountain and forest specialties, is really not an ordinary mountain style, he has four brothers in his family, he is the eldest, he looks white and clean, and he wears a wide coat. When I was a child, I didn't do farm work, and I went to private school for a few years, so I can read and write. With his own skills, he is mixed up in seven towns and eight towns. For many years, he has been going to the countryside and towns, collecting leather goods and pouring mountain and forest specialties, and making many friends with powerful people. Therefore, there is a big and small affair in the tunbao in each village, and it is indispensable to invite him to Zhang Luo to handle it, and over time, Liu Siye will become Liu Tiezui!

These days I have nothing to do at home, sitting under the grape trellis in the yard drinking tea and enjoying the coolness, there are fruits and melon seeds on the small tea table, and I am leisurely shaking my head and humming the two of them.

…… One top! A small sedan chair! Woohoo woo hoo Hey, hey, hey, he Hey, whoa, whoa! Hey, whoa, whoa! O woodcutter! I'm an official!

"Shout! Liu Siye is so idle? "Bai Sanye came to the outside of the courtyard and bolted the horse into the courtyard." Oops! This is the gust of wind that blew you Bai Sanye! Hurry up, please take a seat! Have a seat! Liu Siye was humming proudly, and when he saw a guest coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him. The two sat down, and Liu Siye poured tea for Bai Sanye and handed it to Bai Sanye. Bai Sanye took the teacup, lifted the lid of the teabowl, shook it, took a sip gently, closed his eyes and shook his head, and said, "Liu Siye, you deserve to be an elegant person!" Third brother, I can't reach it! Liu Siye put down the teacup and replied with a smile: "Where is it, where does the fourth brother dare to compare with the third master!" Your Bai family, your family is big, and you are thicker than my waist when you pluck a single hair! No pastime! It's a pastime! The two of them were polite, each wondering what to say next.

The two sides talked for a while, and Liu Siye asked: "Third master, you are a busy man, didn't you accompany me to talk about family things in this big and far-away hurry, right?" If you have something to order, as long as it is the fourth brother, I can do it, and there is no ambiguity! ”

Bai Sanye, smiling at Liu Siye's treacherous smile, and after taking another sip of tea, he tilted his head and said, "Alas, I said Fourth Brother, do you know the new Ma family after the Ling?" Liu Siye pretended to be shocked and said, "I don't understand! I only heard that the foundation is very strong, the business is very large, and no one on the scene knows what it is. What's wrong? Is there a place where you can't get along with the Bai family? Bai Sanye smiled and said: "There is no frontal conflict, but he has come to resist the momentum of the Bai family, break the feng shui behind the ridge, and disrupt our previous market. Third brother, I will bring you two barrels of oil this time, sell a big face, please help me get an idea, if I can move the Ma family down! Third brother, I can't do without your benefits. I heard that you have a close relationship with the Niu Ma Xingsha family, and I brought some money, it depends on your means, fourth brother! ”

After hearing this, Liu Siye blinked his eyes, thinking in his heart, this Bai Laosan is really an owl entering the house today, and he has nothing to do? The Ma family and I have no enmity in the past and no resentment in the near future, just rely on your white three or two barrels of oil, I can't offend the Ma family, I, Liu Siye, go south and north, and need network contacts everywhere, how can I build a high wall for my own future business! But since I have asked for my fourth master, Liu Siye, if I save Bai Laosan's face, it will be mixed in the rivers and lakes, and it will not look good. You might as well leave a favor and sell a personal favor to make a bridge!

"So be it! Third brother! You don't have to be polite about my benefits, for the sake of my buddies, I Liu Si can stick a knife in both ribs, I will sell you the favor, build a bridge from it, you can't be bad about other people's favors, as for the gourd and gourd, I don't care about it! I just ask that you, Bai Sanye, will not break our friendship and dismantle my platform. As soon as Liu Siye said this, Bai Sanye immediately stepped forward and raised the teacup, "That's a certainty!" Whether it's successful or smashed, I won't forget your fourth brother. Money is something outside the body, money is a bastard, and you can earn it if you don't have it! Ha ha! Hahaha! ”

Liu Siye also echoed and smiled, and said, "That's good!" Since Bai Sanye has this psychological preparation, he wants to do this, then let's choose a day instead of hitting a day, let's leave today, you have to worship the real Buddha! Let's go now, I'll let you see Sha Wuye, after drinking, and then listen to Little White Shoes's "Splashing Water in Front of the Horse"! Walking! ”

The two of them said goodbye and packed up their belongings. Liu Siye also slammed his yellow fat horse, moved the saddle and pedaled, waved the whip out of the courtyard door, and exercised the shortcut, only hearing the sound of horses' hooves, huh! For! For! For! Gallop to the cattle and horses!

The Ma family behind the cold green ridge is a business opened by the three brothers, mainly engaged in charcoal burning, harvesting wood in the cold green ridge, transporting the wool away, and making furniture from the finished wood. The leftovers are burned into charcoal, and ginseng and fritillary are planted in the woodlands after harvesting. The Ma family has been an official for three generations, and the old lady Ma served as the deputy commander of the Soldiers and Horses Division in Fengtian before his death, leaving two sons, one as an official in Yunnan, and the other in Fengtian to do supply and demand affairs for the imperial court. There are three sons in this third generation, the eldest Ma Chiye is in Mukden, the second is in Meihekou, and the third is sent to Jilin to develop ginseng base and come to Hanlingling.

From the selection of the east and west fields of the cold green ridge to the charcoal burning, and the planting of ginseng, after a few years, there are more than 100 long-term workers. The house is a high-walled compound, and there are twenty or thirty guns in the family and the factory guard team alone. Because there are many bandits in the Kanto region, all the masters who come here to do big business have their own arms. Otherwise, if you want to do business in this place, you wouldn't even dare to think about it.

But speaking of which, the business done by the Ma family is really generous, with reasonable employment and generous money. He never withheld laborers, and he was full of food and use, even those who passed by and begged did not treat him slowly, and he gave him a full meal and a drink. Therefore, the long-term guards also did their best, far stronger than in the Bai family. Everyone calls this big boss Ma Shanren.

Shajia leather goods store, looking at the many shops of cattle and horses, it is absolutely overwhelming first-class. From the Sandao Wharf to the area of the mosque near the Jiangmen, when it comes to the Sha family, everyone knows it! The ancestor of the Sha family was the hero who followed Nurhachi into the pass to fight the world. After three or four lifetimes as an official, in the later Guangxu period, because someone participated in the failure of the new law change, he was demoted to Jilin Nishiha as an errand. Halfway through, I got a deal for the imperial court to run medicines and buy skins, although it is not as prominent as when I was an official, but I also ended up a leisurely and happy life, right?

The Sha family, in this generation, has five brothers, the eldest is in Beijing, responsible for answering errands with the princes and nobles, and has social affairs and small affairs, which are arranged at any time to the second child in Fengtian and the third child in Meihekou Harbin, as well as the fifth Sha Lao who stayed in the cattle and horse shop. Each branch purchases according to the boss's list and makes a fortune from it. Only make money and make money, and there are no mistakes. Sha Lao Wu has many disciples and a wide range of disciples. There are hundreds of people in the next family like Liu Siye, but there are really not many people who can talk to him directly, and they can be regarded as friendships.