Chapter 129 Take advantage or suffer?

It was already completely dark, but the living room of Sun Yuanda's house was full of people.

Sun Yuanda in the center was smoking a cigarette, and the rest of the people in the living room were also silent, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.

Yang Wenhu, the shopkeeper of Baishengtong, is a middle-aged man who looks like a scholar, and he looks out the window and says to Sun Yuanda: "Sun Gong, it's dark and the lamp is in charge." ”

Sun Yuanda nodded, and then five or six maids brought candles, and the room was bright.

"Your Majesty and the Prime Minister should already know about us people at this time, right?"

An old man with a thick Shexian accent slowly stood up and said.

Yang Wenhu smiled bitterly and said, "Whether it is a disaster or a good thing, it is difficult to say now." ”

Sun Yuanda, who was smoking, put down his cigarette stick and said, "General Lei Hengda entered Yangzhou, did he go to your mansion to loot?" ”

Yang Wenhu said with palpitations: "When the army entered the city, I thought that the Yang clan was about to be wiped out. ”

Sun Yuanda said: "When the Lantian officials took over Yangzhou, in addition to re-measuring the land outside the city and distributing our excess land to those tenants, did they deprive us of our shops? ”

Yang Wenhu said: "Is this to be true, I learned from those officials that although we are going to start paying taxes, no one has collected the money sent to them."

If Lantian doesn't collect black money, I, Yang Wenhu, would rather pay more taxes. ”

Feng Tong, an old man with an accent in Shexian County, looked at the room full of humanity: "Lantian abolished the "Kaizhong Law", razed Zhangjiakou to the ground, and set a unified price for Yanba, I have calculated, there is no benefit in the middle.

Those of us who made our fortunes on salt are going from here? ”

Sun Yuanda coughed and said, "Then it depends on how Your Majesty decides today, but we can also see some clues from Your Majesty's style of acting."

This world is already His Majesty's, so the big guy doesn't have to worry about being exploited by thieves and thieves.

Destroying the world will not do His Majesty any good.

Since we have already sent the news out, let's just wait slowly, I don't believe that there will be no discerning person in the Lantian Imperial Court who can see our intention to meet His Majesty. ”

Everyone nodded in unison, replaced the tea that had no taste, and prepared to continue waiting.

At this time, the housekeeper of the Sun Mansion hurriedly came in and said to Sun Yuanda: "Master Liu of Lantian is visiting. ”

Everyone in the room was shocked, stood up one after another, and walked into the inner room without Sun Yuanda's instructions.

After the maids cleaned up the tea bowls and restocked the snacks, Sun Yuanda walked in with the frosty face of Master Liu.

Master Liu stared at Sun Yuanda for a moment, and then sat down in the top position and said, "You have hurt me so badly." ”

Sun Yuanda said with a smile: "We just want to see His Majesty, and we don't mean to harm the old master." ”

Master Liu took the tea bowl and drank it dry, and then said: "My relationship with Your Majesty is not that of a monarch and a minister, but of a master and servant, I think Shopkeeper Sun should already know this." ”

Sun Yuanda said with a smile: "If it weren't for the master servant, what would he be happy to do with the old master who had been in charge of the Gyeonggi important land for so many years, and had served as the little master for fifteen years?" ”

Master Liu waved his hand and said: "Don't talk about talent, shame the old man, Your Majesty let me stay in Lantian for the sake of my diligence, and Your Majesty can see through the tricks you played at a glance."

You can only deceive a useless person like me, and change to a main hall official from Yushan Academy, and these methods of yours are not enough for others to grasp.

Don't give money to my people in the future, sending money is tantamount to harming them, just before you come here, one of the head catchers who took your money, two scribes have been expelled from the county government, and they will never be used. ”

Scribe, the head-catching book is Sun Yuanda's three idle chess pieces to test the Lantian County Ya, and they will be thrown away after using it.

Therefore, it was not surprising to hear that these three people ended up like this, and said with a smile: "There is a bribe, just to see how hard they live, give some carriages, horses, and tea." ”

Master Liu looked at Sun Yuanda and said: "Don't be tempted in the future, Lantian officials are not poor, and a scribe has twelve silver dollars a month, although it is not enough for them to have big fish and meat all day long, it is more than enough to support their families."

Shopkeeper Sun, let me tell you, you are lifting a stone to shoot yourself in the foot!

Our Majesty has always been wise, and the whole world is under His Majesty's nose.

The "Open China Law" is gone, the salt merchants are useless, and you have a lot of money, and the country has just experienced the flames of war, and it is the time when you rich people need to make a big move.

Your Majesty should have considered it for a long time, and it didn't cost a tael of silver, but now, you have been frightened by you, and you have passed on Your Majesty's message. ”

When Sun Yuanda heard what Shopkeeper Liu said, he immediately picked up his robe and knelt on the ground.

Master Liu said angrily: "Stand up, the Lantian Imperial Court has abolished the bow ceremony, you just stand and listen, Your Majesty now only accepts the big gift of an old slave like me." ”

Sun Yuanda looked at Master Liu suspiciously: "We businessmen don't have to bow down?" ”

Master Liu said impatiently: "You don't need to call Huazi!" ”

Sun Yuanda had no choice but to stand straight, clasping his hands into fists and saluting, which was quite a bit of a deaf meaning.

Master Liu cleared his throat and said: "Your Majesty said: 100,000 silver dollars just want to see me, he thinks too beautifully, go, tell that Sun Yuanda, Yangzhou Qin Shang will see me too cheap." ”

Sun Yuanda was overjoyed when he heard this, and said to the Ya Shili of Lantian County again and again: "The grass people know their mistakes, and the grass people know their mistakes, so they will vigorously change it." ”

Master Liu and Sun Yuanda sat down again.

Sun Yuanda happily bowed his hand to Master Liu and said: "As long as Your Majesty agrees to let us grass people meet, no matter what the price is, Yangzhou Qin merchants and Hui merchants will all obey." ”

Before Master Liu came to see Sun Yuanda, he went to see Yun Zhao again, and explained in detail that Sun Yuanda gave silver money to the three little officials, which made Yun Zhao and the boss unhappy.

Fortunately, Pei Zhong was there, which calmed things down.

"The old man gave you a guarantee and let you go to Yushan Academy, then, you should have seen the train of Yushan Academy."

When Sun Yuanda heard Master Liu say such a thing, he suddenly jumped up in surprise, and couldn't wait to say, "Could it be that?" ”

Master Liu nodded and said: "Yushan Academy is full of good things, such as this train, Your Majesty has always wanted to connect Yushan City with Phoenix Mountain City and Chang'an City by train.

But what about ......"

Sun Yuanda laughed and said, "Okay, my Master Liu, isn't it just to build the railway?" It is only 80 miles from Yushan City to Phoenix Mountain City, and it is only 120 miles from Phoenix Mountain City to Chang'an, and it is only 200 miles of railway.

Please report to Your Majesty, I, Qin Shang, and Hui Shang, will bear it. ”

Master Liu nodded with satisfaction and said, "However, this requires at least a million silver coins to do. ”

Sun Yuanda laughed heartily again, and said to Master Liu: "The merchant is the most luxurious under the river, and the windows are all covered with fine yarn. The salary is 300,000 yuan, and the Western businessmen have left home since they were young.

Master Liu, a million-dollar net worth is not a rich family in my Yangzhou! ”

Master Liu's eyes lit up suddenly, patted the table and said: "Look at me, my memory is not good when I am old, the railway has been repaired, there are always trains running on the railway, you see, His Majesty wants us to connect the three places, the number of trains is small, it is not a thing." ”

Sun Yuanda said: "How can this be? ”

Master Liu was furious when he heard this, but he just stared at Sun Yuanda.

I heard Sun Yuanda say again: "If only one railway is laid, how can it be good if two trains meet halfway, the old man thinks that these train tracks should be built into two."

In this way, the train can come and go unimpeded. ”

Master Liu couldn't help but open his mouth wide.

I heard Sun Yuanda say again: "Just having a train, the train track is not enough, we also need a beautiful railway station like Yushan City and Yushan Academy, we will build one in Phoenix Mountain City, one in Lantian County, and one outside Chang'an City.

According to the old man's observation, this train is earth-shattering, and it is panting, and it is on fire, we have always been picturesque in Guanzhong, such a scourge can not become, plus the young children of the people, cattle and sheep will often run to the railway, so how to get it, both sides of the railway in the old man's opinion, should be planted full of pomegranate trees as a fence.

Every spring, the pomegranate blossoms are in full swing and beautiful, and whoever travels between the three places by train has a good mood.

When it comes to autumn, if the pomegranate is ripe, you can pick a pomegranate while sitting on the train and taste it, and the old man promises that even the ladies in Chang'an City will take the train as long as they have leisure.

I'll tell you, Master Liu, this is not the end, we still ......"

Sun Yuanda's voice sounded endlessly in Master Liu's ears, Master Liu's brain was completely stiff, he just watched Sun Yuanda's big mouth hidden in his thick beard close one by one.

Fully immersed in the beautiful scene described by Sun Yuanda.

Until he was sent out of Sun's mansion by Sun Yuandagong, he still had in his mind the beautiful scenery of pomegranate flowers blooming or growing with pomegranates by the railway.

Coming and going, it's just an hour's time.

Master Liu returned to the county office, and saw that the light in His Majesty's bedroom was still on, and the window was open, so he cautiously came to the window and whispered: "Your Majesty, Sun Yuanda has agreed to everything." ”

Yun Zhao, who was reading a book under the lamp, raised his head and glanced at Master Liu's book and said, "Don't they agree?" ”

Master Liu waved his hand again and again: "Your Majesty, they agreed to everything, and said that a railway is too thin and should be built into a double line...... He also said......"

After Master Liu repeated Sun Yuanda's words endlessly, he looked forward to a satisfied smile on His Majesty's cold face.

As a result, he was still disappointed, Yun Zhao's face did not show a smile, but said a little irritably: "If it weren't for the Prime Minister's Mansion to obstruct the construction of the railway in every possible way on the grounds that the treasury is poor, how could I cheapen these vampires." ”

"Cheap them?"

Master Liu once again showed a blank look.

He found that not only did he feel strange to His Majesty in front of him now, but even that Sun Yuanda felt like a stranger.