There must be gains and losses, and it is never possible to have the best of both worlds, but compared with the income brought by the night shift, a little gasoline and diesel is nothing, and the final cost is evenly apportioned, and the annual gasoline and diesel money of 20,000 or 30,000 yuan is really not much. Twenty years ago, it would have been a joke to spend 50,000 inches of silver on lamp oil a year.

The next day, Bai Liyan rushed to Wang Dependents to see Huang Che, and some business involving black and dirty had to be handed over to him.

"General Huang has been doing well lately."

"Okay, isn't it all thanks to the blessing of the Hou Ye, if there is no Hou Ye to take care of it, Huang Someone can have today, hehe......" Huang Che was busy pouring tea for Bailiyan, and glanced at Zhou Kong again and said: "General Zhou is a rare guest, how can he have time to come to Huang Someone's Humble House today." ”

Zhou Kong tilted his head and disdained Huang Che's face, pursed his lips and said:

"Why, doesn't General Huang welcome Mrs. Moben?"

"Yo, where can this be. It's all distinguished guests, and I, Huang, don't dare to slack off, hehe......"

Huang Che is good friends with Fang Ke, but he is not very familiar with Zhou Kong. A few years ago, after abandoning the ship and going ashore, he opened a gambling stall specializing in gambling, and Zhou Kong has always looked down on Huang Che.

Saying something irrelevant, Bai Liyan said bluntly:

"Are all the men on the outside reliable?"

"It's all reliable, Hou Ye rest assured."

"Hmm. How is the goods going on the other side of the country, is it going well? ”

"The inventory on the road is very strong, so the goods are not very smooth, but the sales are very tight, the goods can be sold together, and the price is also very high, so I don't have to worry about selling at all."

"It's good if you can get rid of it, and in the second half of this year, I will transfer a 10,000-stone ship to you, and you can hide more goods, and next time you will go to the goods, take more lances, spear heads and iron ingots, and don't go anymore with swords and armor, with iron ingots, they can fight by themselves."

"Understood. In addition, it is not to take some strong bows and crossbows, and the country is in short supply. ”

Huang Che proposed, and Bai Liyan nodded in approval:

"Yes, but not right now. The ship is still too small, the bow is too big, there is not much to hide, and it is not too late to leave in the second half of the year. ”

Since last year, Bailiyan has begun to smuggle weapons to Qiguo, and Qiguo's finances have been exploited by both Jin and Wei, and their finances are very limited. As a result, the amount of trade at the official level is very limited, and it is far from meeting the needs of the 200,000 troops of the country.

However, the private armies of the nobles of the Ki people were no different from those of other princes and nobles, and the cultivation of private soldiers and county soldiers was the norm, and the demand for high-quality weapons was huge, and they were willing to pay for better equipment when they had the money.

Based on the common problems of the aristocracy of various countries, Bailiyan organized a huge smuggling group to smuggle weapons and goods abroad, and Qiguo was only the tip of the iceberg. More goods, iron weapons, and weapons were sold to all parts of the Central Plains through caravans and smugglers controlled by Huang Che, but the prices were lower than those sold by the princes.

In this way, on the one hand, they export commodities with legitimate trade, and on the other hand, they attack the markets of other countries with the low prices of smuggled goods, and eat up the profits from both high and low, thus imperceptibly attacking the production enthusiasm of the princes and destroying their own economic production potential.

"In addition, what is the progress of the people you released, don't take the money to travel around the mountains and rivers without doing your job."

"No, what I explained, they don't dare to slack off, the world is big, it will take some time."

"In this way, Ben Hou will send you another twenty groups of people, and the sketch must be completed as soon as possible within three years, and there will be no further delay."

"No problem, I'll send someone to urge them one by one as soon as possible."

Three years ago, Bailiyan successively sent 60 groups of cartographers, of which 30 groups were sent by Huang Che to disguise themselves as merchant travelers, nobles, wealthy families, Langzhong, literati, etc., to go to the northern part of the Zhiguo, the northern part of the Jin Kingdom, the whole country of Changsun and the old land of the Sun Kingdom to conduct surveying and mapping, and draw maps of 1:1 million and 1:100,000.

The other 30 groups had Ding Su in charge of covering and went to the five countries of the West Sea to draw maps. Yuke selected personnel to train a group of cartographers to be responsible for the map mapping of Xu, Song, the southern part of the Zhiguo, the southern Jin Kingdom, and the Qianyue Mountain, with a surveying and mapping period of five to six years.

Last year, the 1:1 million map of Xianguo had been surveyed and mapped, and the progress of Yuke was not slow, Ding Su followed, but Huang Che's 30 groups of people made the slowest progress, which inevitably made people worry that this group of people really took the money to go to the mountains and rivers.

After talking to Huang Che, Baili Yan had a dry mouth and drank the tea, and felt that something was wrong when he drank it:

"What does your tea taste like, why is it so bitter, Ben Hou doesn't seem to remember drinking it from you before."

Huang Che laughed, touched his huge belly and said:

"Hehe, this is the 'Luo Luo' of the Western Tapir, drink it to refresh your mind, it's wonderful."

Huang Che's eyebrows danced, and Baili Yan looked at it from a bright place, but found that the tea was black, and there was no tea in it, so she was even more puzzled:

"It's powdered."

"Exactly, the squirt is actually a big red egg, which only the Western tapir has it. They sold to the Central Plains can only make tea and drink, it is said that there is also a kind of coconut can be eaten in pieces with sugar, fragrant and smooth, and it is more delicious. ”

"So, General Huang, have you eaten it?" Bai Liyan asked, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that this thing might be something similar to cocoa and coffee beans, with both the silky mellow flavor of cocoa and the strong and bitter double taste of coffee, but without the smell of cocoa and coffee, more like a bitter smell of vanilla, maybe it is a plant unique to the moment.

At this time, Huang Che said with a little regret:

"The sugar-soaked and Western tapirs are kept for themselves to eat, and they are rarely exported, and only those that are made of tea are sold out."

"That is to say, the tea that I eat with sugar and drink is all squeak."

"It should be. However, the canopy eaten with sugar is very expensive, half a catty is about seven or eight inches of silver, and the powder for making tea is not cheap, and one catty also costs four inches of silver, which is really more expensive than silk. ”

"It must be a scarce production, a long way to go, and a lot of heavy taxes to levie during the period, so the price is naturally much higher. Do you still have it here? ”

"Yes, in the first month of the first month, my son entrusted someone to bring back more than 20 catties from Liang Guo, and there are still a lot of them at home. Or I'll have someone get five pounds or six pounds. ”

"Well, I've broken the bank again."

"Eh, if there is no Hou Ye, how can I have Huang today, so it will be a waste of money."

Bailiyan continued to taste the taste of the caramel, the bitterness exuded the smell of vanilla, there was indeed a feeling of invigoration, but it was not like narcotics and drugs to give people spiritual pleasure, it inevitably made people think that it contained some special alkaloids, maybe not addictive substances such as caffeine, but something else.

After drinking the snarle in the cup, Baili Yan said leisurely:

"Since October last year, has Qing Xijun made any different moves in the royal family?"

"Not really, I should eat and drink, I am still happy and happy, but there is nothing abnormal."

"Spending money doesn't increase?"

"No, the monthly cost of eating, drinking and having fun has basically not changed, but his son is quite capable of tossing, and I don't dare to provoke more, so I can only pay some money to eliminate disasters every time."

"It's not normal to make such a lot of money last year, but not spend it."

"What is Master Hou worried about?" Huang Che asked carefully, and he didn't dare to ask too deeply, he knew that Qing Xijun and the prince were very close.

Bailiyan frowned and pondered, her fingers tapped the rhythm on the coffee table, and she kept shaking her head:

"Qing Xijun has always been a person who has no one to swagger through the market, and this time he got a lot of gold and silver, but as usual, there must be an inside story. General Huang continued to keep an eye on the movements of Qing Xijun's subordinates in the king's family, and reported me as soon as possible if he made any unusual moves. ”

"Understand, although Master Hou can rest assured, this matter is on me."

The royal family was like the second stronghold of the magnates, both a gold cave and a center of money laundering. Qing Xijun Miyuan got gold and silver equivalent to more than 120,000 inches of silver last year, half of which was forcibly stored in the money shop, and half of it was in hand, so much more money overnight, he saved it at home, and he could only hoard it to death, which was not cost-effective, and he was bound to take it out to run the business to turn the money around.

Now there is no sign of a large flow of gold and silver in his hometown, and if he can keep all the gold and silver at home to appreciate, Bailiyan does not believe it, so there must be a place for investment returns, but this "place" is unpredictable.

It's not that a hundred miles of Yan Yan Baht will be more difficult to see others get rich, and the current system is still imperfect, and all levels of knighthood have private soldiers, which is not only a privilege that has been recognized for a thousand years, but also a part of the armed forces of the regime.

If it is banned, it will be strongly rebounded by the local magnates, Bailiyan has long been afraid of the private soldiers of the powerful forces, so repeated reforms have not touched this red line, because Guangxin, Luhou, Xuanting, and also Bailiyan himself, all raise a large number of private soldiers in the name of the court or private

Qing Xijun is now relying on the prince to become more and more bold and reckless, and the 2,000 private soldiers under his command have been replaced with heavy armor from the original ordinary armor soldiers, and they are also equipped with high-quality horses as cavalry, so blatantly expanding their strength, their ambitions will not be small.

Although there are indeed not many 2,000 people compared to the three major forces of Guangxin, Luhou, and Bailiyan, if these 2,000 people are the prince's soldiers, the nature will change, not to mention that if there are more than 2,000 people, the problem will be more serious.

Now the Xian King may be limited at any time, the salt lord's power is seriously differentiated, the intervention of the silk merchant and Qing Xijun makes the political situation after the crown prince ascends the throne is very delicate, if the triangular relationship between Luhou, Xuanting and Yongxing is replaced by Qing Xijun, silk merchants, Xihuan and the split salt lord, it will not only shake the relationship between the salt lord and the Jiang family for hundreds of years, but also the internal division of the Xian country, and even towards the second civil war in 20 years.

Qing Xijun took advantage of Bailiyan to be busy in Yongxing City, secretly playing with fire, and being careless became a tricky trouble.

Don't pass Huang Che, Bai Liyan walked on the street with a lot of thoughts, and couldn't be interested in the prosperity along the street, Zhou Kong couldn't guess what he was thinking, out of his wife's duty, Zhou Kong, who had been holding back for a long time, asked:

"What do you want, frowning?"

Baili Yanmeng came back to his senses and looked dazed:

"Ah...... Oh, thinking about trivial things. What do you want to eat and play, the prince has everything, just pick one? ”

"I see that you are not giving up, do you think of something dangerous, and let me know if you say it."

"It's really nothing, I can hide something from you. Let's go, how about going to see the horse races? ”

"Really?"

Zhou Kong was highly skeptical, and Bai Liyan denied it again and again:

"Not really. Don't get too busy, let's go and watch the horse races. ”

Holding Zhou Kong, handing over Feiyu to Wei Qi and the others, Bailiyan strode to the racecourse outside the city to bet on horses.