As soon as he entered the main house and saw that Qian Jiang and the others were already sitting in the middle, Shen Congrong knew that everything was going well.

"Qin Shuai. As soon as Shen calmly entered the door, the commanders all stood up and saluted.

Pressing down with his right hand, motioning for them to sit down, Shen calmly returned to the main seat and said: "The generals have worked hard, I know that everyone is very tired after the rapid march in the past few days, today I went to Yunmeng Mountain with General Bai Ren to take a look, and mastered the situation of the Xu army's station. ”

As soon as these words came out, all the commanders were very surprised, just one day after arriving here, Qin Shuai actually figured out the situation of the other party's station, this is not just a lucky general, it is simply a god general.

Qian Jiang sighed: "Qin Shuai Shenwu!"

The commanders also praised.

Shen calmly sat down, motioned to Bai Ren to put the drawn defense map of the Xu army on the table, and then said: "Count the time, our army has already set off, you can rest more recently, send people to pay attention to the situation of the Xu army's garrison every day, mark the way, let our army close to the Xu army's garrison, just wait for the army to arrive, we will attack immediately." ”

Bai Ren spread out the defense map on the table and said: "From Qin Shuai and my exploration, we found that the Xu army is now seriously divided, their current overall defense is useless, very weak, and their reinforcement army is still on the way, today they have just begun to expand the camp, I think it will take more than half a month for their reinforcements to arrive, before this, it is a good time for us to attack." ”

When Bai Ren was explaining, his hand swiped over the defense map, introducing the deployment of the Xu army and the location of their expanded camp.

Under Bai Ren's detailed introduction, Qianjiang and the others had a basic concept of Xu Jun's defense.

Qian Jiang pointed to the location of Xu Jun's expansion camp and said: "Expanding in this position is equivalent to exposing the biggest gap in the camp on flat ground, is Song Hui's voice in Xu Jun so low now?"

Shen said calmly: "Judging from the news we got and what we saw, Song Hui can be said to have no say in Xu Jun now, but he has been in charge of the army for many years, and he must have his own cronies around him, but it seems that he can't make any waves." ”

Qian Jiang gnawed his nails and thought for a while: "If this is the case, the deployment of the Xu army is indeed useless, as long as our army arrives in their backyard before them, they can be severely damaged, or even wiped out." ”

Another commander said: "Yunmeng Mountain is the border between Xu and Qin, there are a lot of business trips, and there are also mountain bandits on the mountain, why don't we pretend to be mountain bandits first, on the one hand, exhaust their spirits, contain their troops, and on the other hand, delay the progress of their camp construction and increase their internal division?"

Shen Congrong thought for a moment and said: "Although this can be done, it is also easy to sound the alarm for them and increase the pressure on our attack, and we now have less than three thousand people in the territory of Xu State, all of them are elite and strong generals, and losing one of them is a great loss." ”

Shen Congrong's implication is that he doesn't want to do this, the risk factor is too great.

Bai Ren said: "Qin Shuai, in fact, you can also do this, and it can not only contain the Xu army's forces and interfere with their direction of attention, but also make the troops in their camp empty, making it more convenient for us to attack." ”

"Oh? Shen Congrong was quite moved by the benefits that Bai Ren had said.

Bai Ren said: "General He is right, there are quite a lot of bandits on this Yunmeng Mountain, and they rely on robbing passing merchants to survive, usually they dare not approach the armies of the two countries. But recently, the Xu army has been quietly buying and transporting grain and grass, as long as we rob a few batches of grain and grass and lead them to a mountain bandit village, Xu Jun will definitely not be able to swallow this breath, and at this moment the fighting atmosphere in the Xu army camp is high, and they will inevitably send troops to suppress the bandits. ”

What Bai Ren said was very reasonable, and the result was attractive enough, Shen calmly thought for a while and said: "Okay, just do what General Bai Ren said, you have a good life today, and tomorrow General Qianjiang will lead people to find out the path of the Xu army's secret grain transportation army, and General Bai Ren will explore the nearest mountain bandit village, just wait for confirmation, and then take action." ”

"Yes!" the Commanders saluted, and then they all dispersed to rest.

Shen calmly leaned back in his chair, already thinking about what would happen to Xu Jun after he experienced the grain robbery.

The next day, Bai Ren led two of his own soldiers to Yunmeng Mountain to explore the mountain bandit village closest to the Xu army's garrison, while Qian Jiang took two of his own soldiers to the grain store to investigate.

When he came to the largest grain store in town, Qian Jiang disguised himself as a grain dealer and swaggered into the store, full of style.

When the little guy in the store saw Qianjiang and them entering the door, he came up and said, "A few guest officers want something, our store has white rice, glutinous rice, millet, coarse bran, rice crackers, and all kinds of rice grains." ”

Qian Jiang said: "We are here with big business, and these are not enough in your store. ”

The little guy was stunned for a moment, knowing that he couldn't take over this business, so he said, "A few people are invited, I'll call our shopkeeper to come." ”

Saying that, the little servant led Qianjiang and them to the room behind the store, poured tea and said: "Wait a minute, I'll call the shopkeeper." ”

"Hmm. Qian Jiang answered, picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Out of the house, the little servant ran to the shopkeeper's house and said, "The shopkeeper, there are a few big customers, they say that the food in our store is not enough, and they want to talk to you face-to-face." ”

The shopkeeper put down the teacup in his hand and said, "Oh, it seems that the other party is really not small, where is it, take me there." ”

The little servant led the shopkeeper to the outside of their house in Qianjiang and said, "I brought them to this house, and they are waiting inside." ”

The shopkeeper nodded and said, "Okay, I know, you go to the front to get busy." ”

"Okay. The little guy answered and went back to the front.

The shopkeeper straightened his clothes, coughed twice, put a smile on his face, pushed open the door and walked in.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw Qianjiang Hang'er Lang, who was wearing a brocade robe, sitting on the guest seat drinking tea, and the two little people were also dressed in silk, and from the point of view of their dress, they knew that they were not short of money.

The shopkeeper smiled and arched his hand to Qian Jiang and said, "I don't know what a few distinguished guests want, how big is the volume, and the thousand catties of food in my store are not enough?"

With that, the shopkeeper sat down on the main seat and pulled the teacup on the table in his direction.

Qian Jiang seemed to be a chubby middle-aged man, smiling, wearing a brocade robe embroidered with gold and silver coins, combined with the words of the visitor, he knew that the other party was the owner of the shop.

Putting away the appearance of hanging Erlang, Qian Jiangduan sat on the seat, put down the teacup and said: "I am a merchant of the Qin State, specializing in grain, grass and silk business, and a transportation is tens of thousands of catties of grain and thousands of silks, and the thousands of catties of grain in the storekeeper are really not enough." ”

The shopkeeper touched his chin and looked at Qian Jiang again: "The guest has such a large source of goods, and he still comes to my small shop?"

Qian Jiang smiled and said: "Naturally, it is to bring a big business to the shopkeeper, there is a shortage of white rice in the market in the Qin State recently, and I naturally want to make a fortune in the grain and grass business, the money is not too much, but if you transfer goods from the territory of the Qin State, it will take a long time, so I will come here to take a look." I don't think the shopkeeper's shop is small, so I came to ask to see if the shopkeeper can provide a supply of 100,000 catties. ”

100,000 catties of white rice, but not a lot, the monthly turnover in this store can be almost 100,000 catties, most of which are resold by merchants from the two countries.

The shopkeeper looked at Qian Jiang and said: "100,000 catties, although it is not a large amount, but it is not small, it has to be mobilized for a period of time, and such a large quantity, this price." ”

Qian Jiang said with a smile: "Money is not a problem, but I only have half a month, I don't know if the shopkeeper can raise so much food?"

100,000 catties in half a month, of course it was possible before, but now 2,000 catties have to be sold to Xu Jun every day, and the time is too tight.

The shopkeeper hesitated for a moment and said: "That's the case, recently in our town, the food in each store arrives every day, that is, less than 3,000 catties, of which 2,000 catties have already been booked, no matter how anxious the guests are, it will take a month to take away the 100,000 catties of grain." ”

Qian Jiang took a sip of tea and said: "If the shopkeeper says so, it just won't work, then I'd better go to another house to have a look, if it doesn't work, a month will be enough for me to raise it from the territory of Qin." ”

Seeing Qian Jiang's meaning, the shopkeeper thought about it again, unwilling to lose such a big customer, gritted his teeth and said: "That's it, 100,000 catties of white rice, 8,000 taels of silver, half a month, I will definitely raise it, how about it?"

Qian Jiang looked at the shopkeeper gritting his teeth like this, and said deliberately: "I can, but if the shopkeeper is very reluctant, then forget it." ”

The shopkeeper said with a smile on his face: "Not reluctantly, it will be delivered within half a month, but the guest has to pay half of the deposit first, and you also know that it is not easy to mobilize such a large quantity." ”

Qian Jiang knew that if he continued to tease, he would not have to play, so he nodded and said: "Of course, I still understand the rules, but he hasn't given me the money for this batch of goods in my hand yet, so let's sign the agreement first, and I'll send the deposit three days later." ”

The shopkeeper hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, wait a minute, I'll go and prepare the agreement." ”

"Hmm. Qian Jiang answered, picked up the teacup and drank the tea again, but found that the tea had been drunk, and put it down again.

The shopkeeper saw that Qian Jiang didn't drink and put down the teacup, knowing that he was finished, he personally poured a cup of tea for Qian Jiang and said, "Guests later, I'll come when I go." ”

After the shopkeeper left, the soldiers behind Qian Jiang said in a low voice: "General, you are really good at playing with this hand, the shopkeeper was completely bluffed, but aren't we here to explore Xu Jun's grain transportation route?

Qian Jiang glanced at his soldiers and said, "You said that if we have 100,000 catties of white rice in our hands and sell them to Xu Jun for 5,000 taels, and give them 10,000 catties of rice in advance, will Xu Jun do this deal?"

The soldier said, "Then it must be done." ”

Qian Jiang said with a smile on his face: "Then are you still worried about the deposit of four thousand taels at that time?"

The pro-soldier realized what Qian Jiang wanted to do, and gave a thumbs up and said, "The general is powerful." ”

Qian Jiang shook his head and took a sip of tea, which tasted good.

Soon, the shopkeeper returned with two agreements and pen and ink.

Put the agreement on the table, let Qian Jiang look at it, and the shopkeeper said: "Guest, look, if there is no problem, just sign your name here." ”

Qian Jiang glanced at the agreement, there was no problem, the name of the shopkeeper had been signed, so he stretched out his hand and said: "Okay, the shopkeeper is full of sincerity, there is no problem with this agreement, I signed it." ”

Seeing that Qian Jiang had no opinions, the shopkeeper was also very happy and handed the pen to Qian Jiang.

Qian Jiang casually signed a name of Tian Zhen, handed the pen back to the shopkeeper, took an agreement and held it in his arms and said: "The agreement has been signed, the shopkeeper can rest assured, three days later, I will bring a deposit of 4,000 taels to sign the formal agreement." ”

The shopkeeper carefully put away the agreement and said, "Okay, then I'll wait for the guests." ”

Qian Jiang laughed, and left the grain store, after leaving the grain store, Qian Jiang sat down in the tea shop next to him, looked at the situation in the grain store, and waited for Xu Jun's grain brigade to come.

It wasn't until near noon that Qian Jiang saw a team of people and horses with more than a dozen wagons arriving at the grain store, and a dozen or so people were carrying a large number of sacks from the grain store, and then the grain store hung up a sign that the rice was sold out.

It seems that this is Xu Jun's grain transportation team, Qian Jiang stood up, left a few big coins, and went out to chase this batch of grain transportation team.

After they came out of a grain store again, Qian Jiang stopped the leader and said, "This official, I see that after you came out of the store, the white rice in this store was sold out, but you are buying a large amount of white rice?"

The leader glanced at Qian Jiang, dressed as an ordinary businessman, stretched out his hand to push Qian Jiang away and said, "Why do you ask so much, dodge." ”

Qian Jiang was not annoyed, still smiling, standing aside and saying: "Official, I am also in the grain and grass business, I have 100,000 catties of white rice in my hand, and I will arrive in half a month, as long as I am 5,000 taels, I can also pay the official 10,000 catties of white rice first, I don't know if the official is interested?"

Hearing that Qian Jiang had such a cheap large amount of white rice in his hand, and gave 10,000 catties in advance, the leader stopped and looked at Qian Jiang and said, "Are you serious?"

Qian Jiang looked at it, and sure enough, there was a door, and he arched his hand and said: "The merchant sits on Jia, based on integrity, of course it is true, if the official is willing, he will bring silver to Su Minglou and Heyue tomorrow, let's discuss in detail, as long as the agreement is signed, 10,000 catties of white rice should be served." ”

The leader hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll go back and tell my master, if he wants, tomorrow at noon, I will be in charge of Su Minglou and Heyue for a while." ”

Qian Jiang saluted with a smile and said, "Then tomorrow will be in the Suming Mansion and the Crane Moon, waiting for your master." ”

The leader nodded, got into the carriage and led the men to the next grain store.

Qian Jiang watched the convoy pass in front of him, the smile on his face became brighter and brighter, and the fish took the bait.

Back at Fan Zhe's house, Bai Ren has not come back yet, Qian Jiang is in a more comfortable mood, this time he is faster than Bai Ren and has done it perfectly, and he will definitely be praised by the coach.

Looking at Qian Jiang with a smile on his face, Shen Congrong knew that he must have achieved good results, and asked Qian Jiang to sit down, Shen Congrong said: "Say, do you know Xu Jun's grain transportation route, look at your mouth is almost to the back of your head." ”

Qian Jiang sat down, took out the agreement and pushed it in front of Shen Congrong and said: "I know that Qin Shuai can see through it at a glance, not only do I know Xu Jun's grain transportation route, but Xu Jun will personally bring us into their camp and let us know where his grain is." ”

Shen calmly picked up the agreement, and when he heard Qian Jiang's words, he said with some disbelief: "Oh?"

Qian Jiang pointed to the agreement and said, "Qin Shuai, you will know it after you have seen it." ”

Shen calmly opened the agreement and saw that it was an agreement signed by a person named Tian Zhen and the owner of a grain store to buy 100,000 catties of white rice for 8,000 taels, and he had to pay half of the deposit after three days.

Slapping the agreement on the table, Shen Congrong squinted at Qian Jiang and said, "Who is this Tian Zhen?

Qian Jiang said with a smug face: "This Tian Zhen is the pseudonym used by the last general when he signed the agreement, this agreement is what Qin Shuai saw, I bought 100,000 catties of white rice from his family with 8,000 taels of silver, and the goods arrived in half a month, but they were given half of the deposit after three days." ”

Shen Congrong's face turned cold, and he slapped the table and shouted: "I asked you to explore Xu Jun's grain transportation route, and you brought me such a thing, and you have to give them half of the deposit after three days? Who will give it?"

Qian Jiang knew that it was all a misunderstanding caused by his own betrayal, and hurriedly explained: "Qin Shuai, listen to me, it's like this. ”

Qian Jiang hurriedly explained the causes and consequences to Shen Congrong one by one, and clarified his layout.

After listening to Qian Jiang's plan, Shen Congrong's face softened and said, "You mean, tomorrow Xu Jun will send someone to talk to you about business with Su Minglou's Heyue, and then you will lead our people to transport 10,000 catties of white rice to their camp, and use their money to pay the deposit, and you can still know where Xu Jun is storing grain?"

"Oh yes, that's it. Qian Jiang saw that Shen calmly understood his plan, and nodded again and again.

Shen Congrong thought for a moment and said, "You kid has a lot of ideas, but what if they don't come? Who will give the deposit? What about 10,000 catties of rice?"

"Uh......" Qian Jiang was stunned for a moment and said, "No one will refuse this kind of business of 5,200,000 catties of white rice, right?"

Shen Congrong rolled his eyes and said, "If they don't come at that time, you will give me the 4,000 taels of deposit yourself, and you should prepare military rations for us." ”

Qian Jiang wailed: "Qin Shuai, you can't do this, if you count our army food, you have to pay for it from our army." ”

Shen calmly ignored him and left the main house.

General He, who was holding back a smile on the side, said: "Old Qian, let you make a plan without reporting in advance, now it depends on whether you dare in the future." ”

Qian Jiang looked at General He with a pitiful look and said, "Old He, you have to help me, if those guys from Xu Jun don't come by then, you have to help me with the money." ”

General He stood up and waved his hand and said, "Don't, I don't have so much money, you did it yourself, don't take me with you." ”

Saying that, General He also left the main house, leaving Qian Jiang alone.

Qian Jiang was depressed for a long time, regained his spirits, and went to Fan Zhe to raise 10,000 catties of rice.

In the evening, Bai Shinobu and the others also returned to the courtyard after the investigation, and everyone gathered in the main house again to discuss the day's information and future plans.

Bai Ren pointed to the map and said: "Qin Shuai, look, we took a turn in Yunmeng Mountain today, and found that about forty miles away from the two mountains where the Xu army was stationed, there was a relatively large mountain bandit village, and their route down the mountain was not close to the Xu army camp, and they had never been to the direction of the Xu army camp to provoke, so they have been safe, we can start from them and lead the Xu army." ”

Shen said calmly: "Well, yes, it just so happens that our General Qian has negotiated a deal with Xu Jun today, and we can make full use of it to draw Xu Jun's attention to this group of mountain bandits." ”

Hearing Shen Congrong say that Qian Jiang and Xu Jun had talked about a business, Bai Ren was stunned for a moment, and saw that all the generals on the field were holding back their laughter, while Qian Jiang looked depressed and wondered: "What's the situation? What kind of business did General Qian and Xu Jun talk about?"

Shen Congrong glared at Qian Jiang and said, "Let's tell me what business you talked about with Xu Jun." ”

Qian Jiang had no choice but to retell what he had done today, including his thoughts about doing so and the consequences he predicted.

After listening to Qian Jiang's words, Bai Ren knew why the other generals were holding back a smile, glanced at Qian Jiang, and Bai Ren said: "General Qian, you really have to think about it, but if you can do it, you can really use it, and you must succeed in tomorrow's meeting with General Qian." ”

Qian Jiang said depressedly: "I don't know if Xu Jun will come." ”

Qian Jiang's words caused laughter.

"Alright, alright. Shen calmly patted the table and stopped them from laughing: "Prepare your words, tomorrow's meeting will only succeed and not fail, don't give me a lot of money, if you fail, you will really pay the money yourself." ”

Qian Jiang suddenly sat up straight and said, "Yes, success is guaranteed." ”

Qian Jiang's actions caused all the generals to laugh again, and under Shen Congrong's stopping, they all dispersed to rest.

The next day, Qian Jiang cleaned himself up, took the two previous soldiers to Su Minglou, and waited for Xu Jun's arrival for two hours.

In the direction of Xu Jun, Sun Caixing heard the report of the grain transportation team that there was a merchant who wanted to sell him 100,000 catties of white rice at a price of 5,000 taels, and he also made an appointment to discuss business in Suminglou and Heyue, as long as he talked about the achievements, he could first offer 10,000 catties of white rice.

This temptation makes Sun Caixing very excited, you must know that the price of white rice is not cheap, if you can buy 100,000 catties of white rice with only 5,000 taels, it is a sure profit, you must know that there are still 100,000 troops on the road, the consumption of this white rice has to be eaten according to hundreds of thousands of catties every day, there is a cheap supplier, it is naturally good, if it can be supplied for a long time, it will be better.

With this in mind, Sun Caixing decided to take over the business, so he called one of his generals.

"Tomorrow, you go to the border town with the grain transport team, and go to Suminglou Heyue to meet a person, he is a grain seller, the price is cheap, make this business for me, and tell him that we need a lot of white rice, how much we want, and cooperate with him for a long time at the same price. Sun Caixing told the general about his mission.

The general was worried that he had no way to be promoted, and now Sun Caixing gave himself a chance to show his face, so he naturally had to grasp it well, and saluted: "Yes, Mr. Sun, rest assured, the general will definitely complete the task." ”