Yangzhou Qingtian Guild Hall.
Luo Xing and his party settled here. Qingtian is a county in Nanchu. Businessmen in this county are mainly engaged in the acquisition and preliminary processing of mulberry silk.
He was regarded as the raw material supplier of Tianlan Sect, so this time Luo Xing took advantage of the situation. When the defenders at the city gate saw that they were going to the Qingtian Guild Hall, they were naturally not embarrassed.
The Tianlan Sect's business is declining in Nanchu. Momen controls overseas sales channels. In terms of high-end silk, as the technology of its opponents continues to improve, the bright dye formulas brought back from the Western Continent are on the market. What's more, Tianlan Sect is retreating steadily...
Tianlanzong's market share has not only shrunk in recent years, but its profits have also dropped significantly, and competition in the field of silk raw materials has also been lost.
Without so much sales, it is natural not to eat so much silk, and people are profit-seeking, so many suppliers have also left.
Fortunately, the basic position of Dazhou was maintained, but now it is difficult to maintain even the basic position. Nanchu won the three southeastern states of Dazhou.
This land of fish and rice in Dazhou, Sanzhou City, is also the place where silkworm cocoons are produced. Previously, merchants from Nanchu could not enter, but now it is different.
If this market is eroded again, Tianlan Sect's profits will be even less this year.
Although the Tianlan Sect is a holy land, it is such a huge sect, with at least tens of thousands of people eating and drinking. What should I do if I have no money and no cultivation resources?
This economic base determines the superstructure. Without money, it is absolutely impossible.
The Tianlan Sect is naturally anxious. It has now become the Tianlan Sect's top priority to open up business routes to the Western Continent and gain a high share of them.
If you can't defeat the Demon Sect at sea, you can only find a way overland.
The Demon Sect, especially the Demon Sect Wanxiang Palace, now accounts for more than 80% of the Demon Sect's revenue through maritime trade. The other three palaces have only become supporting roles, especially the Jade Blood Palace, which has almost become the thugs of the Wanxiang Palace, and the Paradise Palace. After completely surrendering to the Wanxiang Palace, there is only one Star Soul Palace left, which is the most mysterious palace of the Demon Sect and the place where the masters of the Demon Sect were always born. Now it cannot do without the support of the Wanxiang Palace...
Luo Xing has no control over this business matter. It is a matter for the two holy places.
His current identity is the person in charge of a cocoon purchasing point somewhere in Suzhou. Originally, Tianlan Sect had a general merchant in Suzhou who was responsible for purchasing silkworm cocoons. However, after the war started, most of Suzhou's territory was occupied by Nanchu, and the general merchant was in Suzhou. As for Dazhou, if they were acquired by the cocoons in the area under actual control of Nanchu, they would have to find other sales.
No, I just came after receiving the invitation letter from Qingtian Chamber of Commerce.
This excuse and identity can completely withstand scrutiny. As for whether you will meet someone familiar, don't worry about it.
Nanya will naturally settle everything.
In the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, even under the control of Nanchu, Nanya still has the ability. Otherwise, what has Zhuo Chunfeng been doing for more than two months since he took office?
Naturally, Luo Xing did not use his real name. His current surname is Shen, and he is from the same clan as the Shen family of Duke Cheng Guo. You can guess whether it is related. Hongying’s pseudonym is: Aru. He has just taken over the family business and brought his newlywed wife with him. Come to Yangzhou City to see the world.
Aru is a skillful hand and good at weaving...
For this reason, Hong Ying also deliberately learned it, and it worked well, but her proficiency was not enough. But if she was given time to practice, it would only be a matter of time before Aru became a skilled craftsman.
As for Hai Lanzhu and the fox girl Susu, they played the role of maids, one was called Lan'er and the other was called Ping'er. As for Yatta, she acted as a female guard. Xiong Daxiong Er was also a guard.
Aunt Hua, Fang Tianfu, Jiang Songping and others do not live with them.
When he came to Yangzhou, the first thing Luo Xing did was to buy a house. After the war, Yangzhou gradually regained its popularity.
But it is still far from its peak. At its peak, Yangzhou City was not as big as Luojing, but its popularity and liveliness were comparable to the capital city. The prices here were cheaper than the capital city, but the climate was much more comfortable than the capital city. .
Emperor Yongxi still had a palace in Yangzhou City, just in Jiangdu, but that palace has now become the palace of the Emperor of Nanchu.
The city of Yangzhou was destroyed very quickly, so the main city was basically not damaged much. Except for some of the people who fled, most of them continued to stay. The officials were still the same people, but they were replaced by kowtows. object.
Nanchu wants to occupy this place for a long time, so naturally they will not impose excessive taxes, be harsh on the people here, and they will not do anything like fishing in the marsh.
Therefore, the city of Yangzhou is still very prosperous, but the housing prices have dropped a lot. In particular, some officials who identified themselves as supporting Zhou had their homes confiscated and beheaded, and some people who were tied to Zhou Shen also abandoned their homes and left.
These houses were all taken back by Nanchu officials.
After Nanchu officials took back these houses, they directly sold them to the outside world. The prices were very low, but not many people bought them.
No one is a fool. It is possible to make mistakes now, but it may also be wasted. Nanchu has heard about the battle this spring, so naturally he will buy these houses. Now, most of them are just waiting and seeing, especially some houses with excellent locations. The price is not cheap either.
Once you buy this, it will become a contribution to the Nanchu court. The locals in Yangzhou do not dare to buy it easily. After all, when you buy it, you will get the land title issued by the Nanchu government. Once the court calls it back, it will become a subsidy. Who dares to make fun of Nan Chu’s criminal evidence?
Only those who are not afraid of death and have a strong head dare to buy property in Yangzhou City, including the generals in the Nan Chu army and the officials who rely on Nan Chu.
But after all, they are only a few people and cannot eat such a big plate.
Luo Xing didn't care. He was from Suzhou. He was a wealthy landlord from the countryside. He came to Yangzhou City to buy property. On the first day, he bought a 30-acre yard near Slender West Lake. It belonged to a Yangzhou salt merchant. This salt The entire Shang family was killed by Yuan Rui, the current Yangzhou shepherd. All the men were beheaded, and most of the women and children were turned into military prostitutes.
The reason is very simple. This salt merchant competed with Yuan Rui for a wealthy man named "Monroe". Yuan Rui did not have enough financial resources and lost to the other party.
After Yuan Rui gained power, he directly fabricated a crime, killed the salt merchant's family, and took away their property and accumulated wealth. He also took Monroe into his house.
There are not a few people like him in history who exterminated a whole family for the sake of a woman.
Who would have thought!
This salt merchant's name is Jiang Chaosheng.
This turned out to be Jiang Mansion, with pavilions, pavilions, rockeries and streams, and even a stream of running water brought in from Slender West Lake. The chief spiritual officer of Lingguan Palace was asked to observe the Feng Shui and the direction of the earth's veins, and spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to build it. This garden.
Now the listing price in Yangzhou is only 300,000 taels of silver. In fact, many people want to buy this garden, but no one bids.
Because it is said that Tian Wenjing, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition of Southern Chu, has long taken a fancy to this garden, but he has not paid for it yet, and it is also because Southern Chu has not yet completely conquered the three southeastern states of Zhou Dynasty. , the battle situation is undecided.
If he really paid to buy this garden, he might just throw the 300,000 taels of silver into the water. The money was taken away by the Nanchu court, and it would be impossible to get it back.
But this garden fell in love with him. Even if he wanted to buy it in the future, no one would dare to compete with him, and the price would not rise.
At least it must be seen by everyone in Nanchu government.
But what I didn't expect was that a country boy named Shen actually bought the garden directly with a generous investment of 300,000 taels of silver. He paid on the spot and signed the contract to transfer the property. "
Since the garden was listed for sale, people could afford it, and there were no problems with the identity verification, so naturally they couldn't refuse the sale.
Otherwise, if the credibility is gone, then the official credibility will no longer exist. Originally, Yangzhou locals still cherish their motherland, but this will make people's hearts even more unstable.
Moreover, Tian Wenjing only said that he liked this garden, but did not say that he would spend money to buy it. Yuan Rui had the attitude of not making a lot of money.
When Tian Wenjing wants this garden, he can just find another opportunity to take it back. How simple it is.
This is not the first day he has done this kind of thing. How many of the high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Jinling City have not gotten what they want by themselves in this way?
He was tied to these people, and no one could move the position of Yangzhou Mu.
After buying the garden, Luo Xing immediately took people to move in, and then recruited guards to look after the garden in the name of the owner.
In this way, Fang Tianfu and others joined forces with Luo Xing and others in the name of protecting the hospital.
A rich country man spent money to buy a garden. This news indeed spread in Yangzhou City. However, various things happen in Yangzhou City every day. Soon the people will turn their attention to other things, such as The stewards on the flower boat on Slender West Lake are combing their hair again.
The Queen of Flowers Conference in Luojing attracted many people from the Qing Dynasty to participate, but Yangzhou is still a paradise for "thin horses" and a city of Mi Mi.
Yangzhou City cannot be defended for a long time. This is destined by the characteristics of this city. It is a node city with developed trade and water and land transportation from north to south. If the water transportation is cut off, the city will be abandoned. Therefore, in the past, Nanchu Only after peacefully coexisting with the Zhou Dynasty did Yangzhou develop, and Yangzhou's salt merchants made a lot of money.
When they have money, they will build houses and gardens beside Slender West Lake, and then they will have the beautiful Slender West Lake and countless beautiful gardens.
The garden of the Shen Mansion that Luo Xing bought was not the largest in Yangzhou City. The largest one was probably the Jiangdu Palace, which covered an area of thousands of acres. After it was built, Emperor Yongxi only visited it twice, and the longest time he stayed there was three years. month, and then he didn’t come.
After the huge palace was built, it was abandoned there. Although there were people to look after and maintain it, because it belonged to the royal family, no one was qualified to live in it.
So, quite a waste.
There are many gardens of one hundred and ten acres, at least a dozen, all owned by salt merchants. Those with forty or fifty acres are even more, and those with thirty acres are considered small.
Jiang Chaosheng only ranked in the middle among salt merchants, which was far behind the four major general merchants, namely the Gu family, the Liu family, the Huang family and the Chen family.
Behind the salt merchants are the Shen family of Chengguo Gong. Although the salt merchants are rich, they are far behind compared to the officials.
These four general merchants are selected by the Shen family. They are elected once every ten years. Whoever is selected depends on the mood of the Shen family. Therefore, the Shen family has this power in their hands. This is what the Yangzhou Salt Transport Envoy does. The previous Yangzhou Salt Transport Envoy Shen An was the cousin of Duke Cheng, Shen Zhuang.
After the city of Yangzhou was destroyed, this man disappeared.
The imperial court did not pursue the case, or it could be said that it secretly pursued it, but there was no trace of him.
The Shen family also has a branch in Nanchu. They separated three hundred years ago. Logically speaking, there should be no relationship, but in fact there has always been a connection.
The Nanchu Shen family is also doing well, and their business is booming. They have also been involved in the salt business in recent years, so their relationship with the Shen family of the Great Zhou Dynasty has become even closer.
In the past ten years, no one can say clearly how much benefit the Shen family of the Great Zhou Dynasty has transferred to the Shen family of Southern Chu. However, it can be seen that the salt tax collected by the Great Zhou Dynasty has become less and less. In the past ten years, the Shen family has been in the southeast. What did Sanzhou do?
Doesn’t Cheng Guogong Shen Zhuang know?
It is impossible for him not to know that he is the head of the Zhou branch of the Shen family. If he doesn't know at all what the Shen family is doing behind their backs, then wouldn't he, the head of the family, be just a puppet?
But he, the head of the family, knew clearly that these people were sucking Da Zhou's blood and pushed himself into a dangerous situation. Why did he just ignore them?
Only he himself knew this.
The garden was too big. When Luo Xing and others moved in, it was like a ladle of water spilling into the lake. Luo Xing patted Xiao Hui on the head.
This guy is very interested in finding things wherever he goes. I believe that after Yuan Rui got his hands on this huge garden, he must have sent people to search it carefully.
But the search may not be complete. If Jiang Chaosheng really hides something, he may be surprised. After all, anyone who can be a salt merchant is not a fool. Jiang Chaosheng's ancestors also served as general merchants. When he was the last general merchant, then One year can be worth ten years. Although the Jiang family is a medium-sized salt merchant, their family fortune is still very rich. Otherwise, they would not have spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to build such a garden.
This garden was sold for 300,000 yuan. It was indeed half sold and half given away. Even if all the materials used to build the garden were dismantled and exchanged for money, it would probably be sold for 300,000 taels now.
Of course, it would be a pity to demolish it, but if you take it over and restore it to its original condition, it may cost a lot of money.
Is Luo Xing short of money? He really isn't short of money, but he doesn't dare to spend it. The gold he brought out from the tomb of Taoist Chi could not be eaten in ten lifetimes, let alone a lifetime.
But if the money is spent elsewhere, it's hard to say. Sometimes a single elixir may buy the entire fortune of a medium-sized salt merchant.
Some things are not measured in gold and silver.
Xiao Hui soon discovered it. It flew over, bit Luo Xing's trouser legs and flew towards a pavilion.
Luo Xing used spiritual means to investigate and found that something was sold under the pavilion. He didn't know what it was specifically.
So, he ordered everyone to dismantle the pavilion and dig it open. Four large boxes were dug out, all made of high-quality golden nanmu.
This nanmu was not used to make coffins. Now it has been made into four large boxes. Could it be that there are human corpses inside?
Out of curiosity, everyone decided to lift the box up. As a result, a third-level martial artist under Fang Tianfu actually used all his strength to lift up the box.
A third-grade martial artist with a powerful arm.
Is such a box so heavy? Is it possible that it is filled with gold?
Pick up all four boxes.
When the lock pin on the box was pried off and opened, the brilliant golden color instantly blinded everyone's eyes. The four large boxes of Polygonatum japonica were all made of melted gold bricks, one hundred jun dollars per box, and one hundred jun dollars per box. Exactly ten thousand jun.
The yard was bought by Luo Xing, and everything in the yard belonged to Luo Xing. Naturally, these four large boxes of gold also belonged to Luo Xing.
This pavilion has been built here for a hundred years. It is difficult to tell whether the gold belongs to the Jiang family or the original owner of the pavilion.
Anyway, this is probably a dead end case.
It's not surprising that Wu Rui didn't find such a large amount of gold. Who would find a spiritual master to help detect the things underground when they ransack a house?
What's more, under such a very conspicuous pavilion?
Normal people wouldn't hide things like this.
Even Luo Xing himself would not think so, but Xiao Hui is not a human and has no such concept, so he found this place with his sensitive nose.
Together, Luo will bring prosperity and wealth.
When he arrived in Yangzhou City, he gained an astonishing amount of wealth, which was a good sign, and he could also spend money.
Don't worry about not being able to explain the origin of gold.
One jun, the weight and measure of this world is about five kilograms, one jun is twenty-five taels of gold, that is to say, there are one million taels of gold here!
(End of chapter)
