Ma Yingkui later met people and said that the Governor of Dongchang and Gao Jie invited him to eat and drink, but he didn't remember what wine he drank and what kind of food he ate, and others said that he was bragging, but Ma Yingkui knew that he didn't blow it, but he really couldn't remember what food and wine he was at that time, because he was confused throughout the whole process.

I only remember that Chang Yu told him when he was eating, go back and pack his bags, and leave with him in two days to go to Jinan, and then follow Octopus's caravan to Puzhou, Shanxi to find Li Yan.

Ma Yingkui asked: "Is it Li Yan, one of the Eight Pillar Kingdoms?" After receiving an affirmative answer, he became excited: "Are you going to fight Xi'an?" ”

Chang Yu didn't expect a small low-level military general to care so much about the situation, and he actually knew that the deployment of troops in Puzhou was to attack Xi'an, so he liked Ma Yingkui a little more and decided to train him well.

After the meal, Ma Yingkui left, and Chang Yu asked the shopkeeper when he checked out: "Do you know who is the richest in Yangzhou City?" ”。

"Of course it's the Wang family," the shopkeeper said without hesitation: "The Wang family's business is very big, not only in our Yangzhou City, but also in the entire Nanzhili and even in the capital."

Chang Yu paid the bill and left very satisfied, stood on the street and looked up at the scorching sun above his head, turned his head to Gao Jie and said, "Take you to a rich house to have a cup of tea to relieve the heat."

"It's not good to be like this" Gao Jie rubbed his head, he thought that Chang Yu was going to take advantage of it again: "With your current status, you have to pay more attention to the impact of doing things, and if you fight, you will have to get some of it, and now that the war is over, ...... It's not good for your reputation to spread it."

"What do you want" Chang Yu pushed Gao Jie: "You and I will do something to fight local tyrants and divide other people's property, it is a robbery of Chiguoguo." Brother, I want to do the same, but I want face."

"Then ...... you" Gao Jie was stunned, and Chang Yu took a long breath: "Didn't I tell you before, come to Yangzhou City to talk about business, let's go, let's visit the Wang brothers, the richest man in Yangzhou."

"Hey, how do you know they're two brothers?" Gao Jie spat out and then patted his head again, it was not surprising that Dongchang knew anything, he thought that Chang Yu had actually asked Dongchang or Jinyiwei to investigate the Wang family.

Not really.

Although Chang Yu had known about the Wang family for a long time, it was definitely not the information he got from Dongchang and Jinyiwei, but the historical records record that when Duoduo besieged the city, he accepted a huge bribe of 300,000 gold from the Wang brothers, a Hui merchant in the city, but did not agree to their request of "don't kill innocents".

This record proves that Duoduo did order the massacre of Yangzhou at that time, and the financial resources of the Wang family!

300,000 gold! Even silver is a huge amount of money, let alone gold!

Of course, this is also the most humane bribe Chang Yu has ever seen, not to get promoted and make a fortune, but to buy the lives of the people! It is in stark contrast to the two devils who led the way with the Jin merchants in Shanxi who collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country as Tartars.

So Chang Yu feels that this kind of person deserves to make him rich. Although I don't know what happened to the Wang brothers later, (it is estimated that there will be no good ending) but in this time and space, Chang Yu decided to make friends with these two people and seek win-win cooperation.

The Wang family has financial resources, he has the right to have a way, and I believe that the Wang family will not refuse.

Hui merchants, so the name of the businessmen born in Huizhou, there was no Anhui Province in the Ming Dynasty, that was later the Qing Dynasty will be Anqing and Huizhou Mansion into one administrative province.

At this time, the Huizhou government only had one government and six counties under its jurisdiction, and it was not outstanding in terms of administrative ability or other aspects, except for ...... Business!

"Anhui Gazetteer" said that "Hui people buy more, and its momentum is also." "Huizhou Mansion Chronicles" contains: "Huizhou Baojie Valley, the mountains are according to the original foothills, the fields are barren, the production is thin, most of them are one year old, and they can't support tithes. The small people are more skillful, or those who sell and eat other counties, often nineteen. Gu Yanwu said: Huizhou, "there is no land below the middle family." There are many merchants in Hui, and it is natural to cover it", Chao merchants, Hui merchants, and Jin merchants are the "three major merchant gangs" in Chinese history

At that time, there was a saying that there was no Hui and no town, Hui merchants were all over the world, and the Southern Song Dynasty began to appear Hui merchants with huge capital, and the brothers Cheng Chengjin and Cheng Chenghai of Qimen became rich in business, and they were respectively called "100,000 Grand Dukes" and "100,000 2 Dukes", collectively known as "Cheng 100,000". Zhu Xi's maternal grandfather Zhu Qu ran shops and inns that accounted for half of the Huizhou Mansion, and was known as "Zhu Banzhou". At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Jiang Jia, a merchant from She County, issued usury loans in Huizhou and made huge profits. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the capital of Hui merchants increased greatly compared with the Song Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang entered Anhui and was short of salary, and Jiang Yuan was paid 100,000 taels of silver at a time. In the five hundred years of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the more the Hui merchants fought more and more, they were not inferior to the few Jin merchants who wore crowns, and their representatives were Hu Xueyan! Everyone should be familiar with this person, he is also a Hui merchant.

All in all, that is, Hui merchants are not bad for money.

The Wang brothers are also from Hui merchants, and later settled in Yangzhou, the eldest is called Wang Zhaoyi, the second is called Wang Zhaode, the largest house in the east of the city is Wang's mansion, the Wang brothers are low-key and have no evil deeds of bullying men and women, at least Chang Yu and Gao Jie have traveled all the way to inquire about people except to hear some sour words about hating the rich.

After Guo Ren knocked on the door of Wang's Mansion, the gatekeeper inside poked his head out and glanced at the six or seven big men standing outside, all of them were extremely rugged except for a young man, and he couldn't help frowning: "Who is it?" ”

"We are recommended by the prefect to come to visit Master Wang" Guo Ren arched his hand, but the janitor frowned even tighter: "Since it was recommended by the prefect, why didn't anyone come to inform ......" Just as he was about to continue, Guo Ren patted the steel knife on his waist: "Gong family."

The janitor swallowed: "Wait a minute," he said, retracting his head, slamming the door shut, and plugging it in.

Chang Yu laughed: "It's over, why do you think that we are the heroes of the green forest who came to make a fate."

"No, right" Guo Ren smiled bitterly: "This gatekeeper will not be so eyeless" Gao Jie shrugged: "It's really hard to say, this kind of ordinary wealthy gatekeeper really doesn't have the eyesight of the yamen, and it is common for the green forest road to come to the door to fight the autumn wind."

If you are visiting and don't want to swagger, you can only wait outside the door honestly, Chang Yu and Gao Jie chatted for a while in front of the tethered horse stake next to the door, and finally heard movement inside.

The door creaked open, and more than ten people stood on the steps with knives, guns and sticks in hand, glaring at Chang Yu and others, and the others hurriedly protected Chang Yu in the middle and shouted at those family members: "Bold, you can know our identity."

At this time, a person took a step forward and arched his hand to the situation and said: "I don't know if I want to know where you come from and why you come from, this point of pestering you to eat and drink and leave quickly, my Wang family has a lot of money to do with the yamen, and I believe that you will not mess around."

Hahaha...... As soon as the housekeeper's words landed, Gao Jie couldn't help laughing, until the tears of laughter came out, and even Chang Yu couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, and the rest of the guards also leaned forward and backwards.

The housekeeper and the family looked at each other, I don't know what these people are laughing at, in fact, it is no wonder that they misunderstood, Chang Yu and his party have been marching and fighting for months, and they are rougher than the other, except that the clothes are quite neat, and they look no different from those green forest heroes.

"Know the words" Guo Ren took a step forward and sent the waist card forward, and the housekeeper immediately weakened his legs when he saw it; "It turned out to be an official family, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, please ...... you" said and hurriedly invited Chang Yu and his party into the house, but there was nothing to be happy in his heart, after all, the eagle claws of the East Factory are not a good thing, this door must be here to fight the autumn wind, the appetite must be greater than those heroes of the Green Forest Road, to be honest, he would rather the other party be the Green Forest Road now.

The Wang family was illiterate and didn't know what was written on the waist card, so they scared the housekeeper like that, and as soon as they entered the courtyard, they quickly went to report to the head of the house, but they also knew that since they could take out the waist card, it must be an errand in the government.

Wang Zhaoyi was taking a nap in the room after lunch, and suddenly heard that the housekeeper urgently reported that there was a Dongchang fan coming to the door, and he was frightened and turned over, and hurriedly asked people to call his family Wang Lao Er, and asked the housekeeper to quickly go to the yamen to find the prefect to come over, and then went to the lobby to meet the guests.