After a while, Xu Fulai also said goodbye and left.
Feng Shoudao came closer and asked in a low voice: "Sir, are you just going to let Zhu Shide go like this?"
Lu Tao said: "Zhu Donglai today clearly has an attitude of not giving up until he is released. If I spend time with him and focus my energy on this, I will have no time to take care of other things."
Then he asked: "Shou Dao, this person is Zhu Shaozhi."
Feng Shoudao responded: "I'm afraid I won't obey your master's instructions."
Lu Tao smiled and said: "Of course, he is not under my jurisdiction in the first place."
He let out a deep breath and said, "I'm busy dealing with the chaos in the city at the moment. If he secretly stumbles, I won't have time to deal with him."
Feng Shou said: "Sir, please say hello to Third Master."
Lu Tao shook his head: "It's easy to kill Zhu Shaozhi, but another Zhu Shaozhi will appear soon."
He said and ordered: "Ignore him for now. If anything happens, report to me again."
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It was already the fourth day for both parties to purchase food. Xie Fu and Ye Yui had prepared the money and were waiting for the news to be sent back.
The difficulty in buying grain with cash is to get the money in time. This also involves converting the silver into copper coins, which increases the quantity and weight, and also makes transportation difficult.
When Song Huike came back after a long journey, Ye Yui immediately greeted him and asked, "Mr. Song, how are you doing?"
Song Huike shook his head: "Miss, sit down and speak slowly."
It turned out that the Jiangnan grain merchants who had friendship with Song Huike did not sell his face at all, but Song Huike's efforts for the past three days were in vain.
In the face of absolute interests, human feelings become as thin as paper.
"Miss, I'm sorry, I can't help you."
Ye Yui comforted him: "Mr. Song, there is no need to blame yourself, you have done your best."
Xie Fu asked: "Sister Yui, what should we do now?" He was not familiar with this matter and couldn't come up with an idea, so he had to ask Ye Yui, who was familiar with this trip.
Ye Yui rolled her eyes at Xie Fu, "You think Sister Yui is a god and can solve everything."
Song Huike said: "Miss, all the grain merchants in Jiangnan East Road are from the Zhu family in Hangzhou. There is no way we can win this grain war."
Xie Fu said: "Since the people of the Zhu family in Hangzhou are all on the east side of the Yangtze River, can we work on the west side of the Yangtze River? Hongzhou is surrounded by plains and fertile land and is known as the granary of the south of the Yangtze River."
This is erudition.
Song Huike suddenly realized: "Yes, Jiangnan East Road is all people from the Zhu family in Hangzhou. We can work hard on Jiangnan West Road..."
He suddenly shook his head: "No, it's too late. Today is already the fourth day. Even if we can purchase grain, we won't have time to transport it back to Suzhou."
Ye Yui said: "I think my father set the time for ten days just to limit the scope to Jiangnan East Road."
Song Huike asked: "Miss, what does Mr. Ye mean by proposing this test?" This was clearly a test without any suspense.
Ye Yui said: "I think my father wanted to see a miracle, a result that convinced him and made him extremely determined."
Believe in the promises in that bid.
Song Huike immediately understood: "The tender submitted by Miss Gu is so good."
Ye Yui said: "If it's not good, we won't be able to impress him. At this moment, we have been eliminated."
Xie Fu asked: "Are you sure to lose?"
He didn't want to appear like a helpless person, but after all, someone had to ask questions and someone had to solve them.
Ye Yui smiled and reassured: "Don't you still have love for your family?"
Song Huike smiled softly: "It's not that I underestimate Miss Tantai. Miss Tantai is a cloth merchant, not a grain merchant. As the saying goes, every line is like a mountain. Forgive me..."
Just then, Butler Kong came over in a hurry and shouted: "Sir, Miss Fei Ge Express."
Xie Fu took the quick book and started reading. His expression slowly changed, from serious to relaxed, and finally smiled.
Ye Yui asked: "Brother Fu, what did He Qing say?"
"Sister Yui, He Qing said in the letter that she has captured Changzhou, Huzhou, Muzhou, and Mingzhou, so let us finish the silver in time..."
Song Huike was stunned and looked in disbelief.
Before Xie Fu finished speaking, Ye Yuiyi said excitedly: "He Qing is really a powerful general. He can conquer cities and territories and conquer all battles. He quickly captured four states in such a short period of time. I'm afraid even the Zhu family in Hangzhou won't be able to react." .”
While he was excited, Xie Fu thought that He Qing was running around all day long.
Indeed, in the past few days, Tantai Heqing has been working on errands during the day and traveling at night, treating himself like an iron man.
"Brother Fu, show me the letter."
Xie Fu handed it over, and Ye Yuiyi applauded while reading it, feeling as if he had won consecutive battles.
The outcome of victory or defeat is just one word each, but the difficult process is difficult to imagine.
"Miss, borrow it." Song Huike still couldn't believe that it went so smoothly.
Song Huike was still reading the letter carefully, while Ye Yuiyi and Xie Fu had already sat down to discuss countermeasures.
It turned out that whenever Tantai Heqing visited a place, she would contact a familiar local cloth merchant and ask the cloth merchant to lend her the money at an interest rate of eight cents per ten days. At the same time, she also asked the cloth merchant to exchange the silver into broken silver and copper coins.
With many years of business reputation, this process has no twists and turns.
While purchasing grain, it also solved the difficulty of Xie Fu's cash transportation.
Now Xie Fu only needs to transport it to various places and return it to the cloth merchants within ten days. This gives him a lot of room for maneuver and does not require him to rush to get there.
In addition, in the letter, He Qing also asked the two to transport the silver to the other states in Jiangnan East Road in advance.
This move also means that the troops and horses have not been moved yet, and the food and grass have to go first.
Ye Yui said with emotion: "I don't admire anyone, but He Qing really makes me admire him from the bottom of my heart. He even solved our difficulties for us."
Xie Fu asked: "Sister Yui, are the Yunyin fleet ready?"
Ye Yui said: "Just wait for the news from He Qing and Mr. Song."
Song Huike's face turned red when he heard this.
Xie Fu said: "Then what are you waiting for?"
At the entrance of Tantai Mansion, boxes of silver that had been prepared long ago were loaded onto the carriage in a hurry.
At this moment, there was a sound of trampling of horse hooves, and a group of people came on horseback, wearing uniform clothes, with good horses on their crotches, just like well-trained elite riders.
Xie Fu's face darkened. Could it be that his opponent was trying to trip him up?
The first person to dismount was one foot away from Mr. Xie, and stepped forward to say respectfully: "Gu Chong, a member of the Gu family's guard, has come in the name of Mr. Gu to obey Mr. Xie's instructions."
After Xie Fu was stunned for a moment, he said happily: "Third Master! Then you will be the Gu family's tiger guards."
The guard responded: "It is the Chongzi Guard of the Yueqi Department."
This Gu family tiger guard was trained by Gu Xuan and is the Gu family's private army.
On the surface, they are Gu family guards, but in fact they are more sophisticated and sophisticated than the formal army.
There are eight parts in total.
They are Houying Guangchuan Chong and Shang Dade Qifu. Jin Shi Literary Edition, Di Shi Qi Xia Zhen. Huaicai uses it to manage the country, and Dengzhong governs longevity. Wei Yongsheng Rensi and Yun Liangmei Zaigen.
There are forty guards in total, with eighteen people per guard.
