"Where have you been? You haven't been seen all night?"
Lu Yuan was caught by his father Lu Ming as soon as he returned home.
Lu Ming looked at his eldest son who smelled of alcohol and immediately frowned tightly.
Now, where did this brat get the smell of alcohol during the national mourning period?
Originally, when they were in the court, the Holy Father had a problem with them because of the donation. If they were involved again and Lu Ming's son was still drinking and having fun during the national mourning period, then he would really go to the latrine in the middle of the night and seek death. Got it!
Lu Yuan, who was so drunk, saw double images of people. When he saw his father, he couldn't help but giggle twice, and then said:
"Hahaha, Dad! Where else can the kid go, other than to eat, drink, and have fun with those friends? But don't worry, dad, the homework I still have to do has been done long ago, and there won't be any delays. Hahahaha..."
Lu Ming's brows furrowed even more tightly, and he snorted coldly: "Don't you know it's the period of national mourning? As a father, you have been walking on thin ice in the court during this period, but you still go out to drink and have fun during the period of national mourning. Are you eager to do this? Could your father be killed by you?"
Lu Yuan's face suddenly became ugly. Perhaps he was drunk, and he couldn't help but blurt out words that he usually didn't dare to say.
"Haha, old man, I know you look down on me, thinking that I can't read the second child in school, and I can't be the third child in martial arts!
You don't like me!
However, I am the boss, the eldest son and grandson of the Lu family!
No matter how much you look down on me, you can't change this!
You don’t need to worry about my affairs, just take care of the second and third children!
Leave me alone! "
After saying that, Lu Yuan ignored his father and walked towards his small courtyard without hesitation.
On the spot, Lu Ming looked in astonishment as his usually obedient son suddenly became tough and was stunned for a moment, but then he immediately became furious!
"You traitor! You traitor! Sooner or later, I will be killed by this traitor like you!"
…
Hearing the old man's angry voice behind him, Lu Yuan laughed indifferently and sang a ditty.
"Then Xue Lang left without mercy. After eighteen years, he left his wife alone and stayed in the cold kiln. Hey, hey, hey~"
When he finishes making this money and puts millions of taels of silver in front of the old man, he will naturally know which son is better!
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Funing Palace.
"Your Majesty, so far, the boy from the Lu family has sold 50,000 shi of grain and made a profit of 250,000 taels. However, this kid is very evil. He told his collaborators that he would only sell 100 wen per pound. In fact, he The selling price is 500 yuan, and the profit is five times more than what he said!"
Zhao Jun laughed out loud when he heard this and asked: "Did his collaborators believe it? Didn't they even investigate?"
Wang Huaien nodded heavily: "They all believed it. The slaves were worried about their brains and took the biggest risks. In the end, they couldn't even get half of the profits."
"If they had any brains, they wouldn't do something like this."
Zhao Jun scoffed, then asked: "Is that guy from the Lu family the only one who has the idea of a disaster relief warehouse?"
Wang Huaien immediately shook his head: "Your Majesty, it was indeed only the Lu family who did this kind of thing in the beginning.
But since the boy from the Lu family revealed his income in Xiuyun Tower, others who were still waiting to watch have also joined in.
Now at least hundreds of thousands of stones have been moved from the disaster relief warehouse!
Your Majesty, do we have to wait any longer? "
Wang Huaien asked.
"How many people are participating?"
Zhao Jun asked in a deep voice.
"Seventy percent of the officials involved in the disaster relief were involved, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to transport all the hundreds of thousands of stones of food without anyone noticing."
"Seventy percent?!"
Zhao Jun was startled, and quickly tapped his fingers on the table to think. After a long time, Zhao Jun asked again: "Have you figured out everything about the grain merchants?"
Wang Huaien nodded immediately: "No one is left behind, we are all on target!"
Zhao Jun's eyes narrowed when he heard this, and then he stood up and said: "Okay! Since they are shameless, don't blame me for fishing law enforcement. Now that I have released the bait, they have also bitten the hook. Then be prepared to bear the consequences.
In this way, the layout is ready for capture from now on.
Let me think about it. In about three days, I will find a time when they are trading and catch them a current trend. Then I will see what else they have to say! "
"promise!"
Wang Huaien nodded and quickly left Funing Palace.
In the next three days, the secret guards and a part of the specially mobilized Yunzhou Army made secret arrangements, and finally completed all the arrangements before the time given by Zhao Jun.
At this time, Lu Yuan had just received the latest batch of grain. This batch was a total of 30,000 shi. Once sold, it would be an income of 150,000 taels of silver!
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A small dock on a tributary of the Bian River.
"Hurry up, everyone, hurry up! Hurry up and load the ship. Your wages will increase by one level every quarter of an hour faster than the set time. If you are late, your wages will be deducted!"
The small hidden dock was brightly lit at the moment.
This was a small pier that had been abandoned by the previous dynasty. It was originally useless. However, Lu Yuan and the grain shop renovated this long-abandoned small pier in order to trade grain more covertly.
Nowadays, a small boat that can barely hold 600 materials docks here.
This time, a full 30,000 shi of grain was traded. In order to transport this batch of grain to the south as soon as possible, the other side's grain merchants sent almost all the ships of their own firm to transport grain. If it weren't for this abandoned wharf, they could only allow 600 grains at most. The grain merchant wanted to send out all his several thousand-material boats.
Taking advantage of the dark moon and high wind, Lu Yuan was working hard to load the ship.
In a temporary pavilion not far from the pier, Lu Yuan was drinking tea with the big shopkeeper sent by the other party's grain store.
"Shopkeeper Dong, I only had 30,000 shi of grain this time, and all the ships of your grain store have used it. If there is more grain in the future, will your grain store be unable to handle it?"
Can't you keep more boats? "
Lu Yuan said dissatisfiedly as he looked at the densely packed small boats outside the reeds, but after more than two hours of loading, they were not even half loaded.
Shopkeeper Dong, the big shopkeeper of Fenghuai Grain Store across the street, immediately smiled bitterly when he heard this and said: "Young Master Lu, you don't know, now that Fenghuai can provide so many ships, it is one of the best in the entire Southern Grain Store. If the original ships are not enough, Of course we can buy new ones at any time, but not now.
Feiyun Trading Company has bought almost all the shipyards along the coast and is building ships for them.
You look at the densely packed grains coming from Bianjing. These are all shipped by Feiyun Trading Company from the sea. They also have a huge shortage of ships. Now those shipyards have no time to build ships for us, so they can only order these old goods first. deal.
Please forgive me, forgive me! "
The news revealed in his words shocked Lu Yuan. He secretly said that it was indeed a trading company controlled by the emperors, and it actually had a monopoly on almost all the shipyards along the coast.
As a result, he also knew that it would be unrealistic for Fenghuai to improve his efficiency within a period of time, so he changed the topic:
"By the way, I heard that several civil unrests broke out in the south, especially in Haifu County. The newly launched revolutionary army has gained momentum in less than a month after its rise. The land of three mansions.
Is it true that the local officials fled without even resisting, and directly abandoned the city to the revolutionary army? "
After talking about this, Shopkeeper Dong's face suddenly turned bitter and he said helplessly:
"Yes, the Revolutionary Army is just a bunch of idiots who have rebelled. Everywhere they go, they pick on wealthy families and gentry.
The local government is in a state of turmoil, but the local government is incompetent and can't even resist. Many branches of our business have been robbed, and a lot of our food reserves have been taken away by those idiots. Otherwise, our boss wouldn't be so anxious. Harvest grain.
Hey, I don’t know when His Majesty will be able to take care of the north, put some thought into the south, and deal with these revolutionary forces as soon as possible. If they continue like this, how can we, the businessmen, make any money? "
Shopkeeper Dong's face was filled with bitterness. When Lu Yuan heard this, he didn't know what to say and had to change the subject again to talk about something else.
However, what they didn't notice was that while they were waiting for the shipment to be completed, there was already a large group of dark people outside the dock gradually approaching them.
If someone could look down from the sky at this time, they would be able to see that these black shadows had formed a faint circle, completely surrounding them!
But they were surrounded and still didn't notice anything...
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(End of chapter)
