Recently, due to the investment of the governor's yamen, large and small businessmen in Zunhua City gathered. As the best restaurant in the city www.biquge.info Sanyuan Restaurant has about a dozen tables on the second floor in the afternoon. They are all wealthy businessmen and staff outfits. With servants, slaves. Or drink alone, or a few people get together to drink and laugh.

The three of them made such a fuss, and immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Jia Huan, Pang Ze and others are no exception. Although many of the governors at their table knew each other, none of them were qualified to come forward to toast. So it's very clean.

Looking at the food and drinks spilled on the ground, all over the place, Jia Huan took a sip of hot soup, watched the development of the situation, and his heart moved slightly.

Imperial merchants, as the name suggests, specialize in the procurement business of the imperial court and the imperial court: from the timber and stone built by the palace, to the weaving of clothes of the harem concubines, female officials and eunuchs, to the planting of flowers and trees in the court, and the rouge gouache of women, etc., with rich treatment and profits. It is similar to the official government procurement company. It is managed by the household department.

Most of the current imperial merchants of the dynasty are families handed down from the three dynasties of Taizu, Taizong, and Shizu. And most of the imperial merchants surnamed Xue are Xue Pan and Baochai's family.

The middle-aged man from the Zheng Mansion pointed at the noses of the two shopkeepers of Xue and Xia and scolded, "If you don't take this business, you have to take it." Otherwise, you will weigh the consequences! With that, he took his entourage downstairs and walked away.

The shopkeeper of the Xue family and the shopkeeper of the Xia family glanced at each other and smiled bitterly. They can't handle this matter, so they have to report back to the capital and let the masters decide.

The two of them sorted out the soup on their clothes, and when they were about to leave, Jia Huan raised his voice and said, "The two shopkeepers stay." ”

Jia Huan got up and said to Pang Ze and Zhang Chengjian, who were at the same table: "When I meet someone from my old family, I'll ask about the situation." ”

Pang Ze, Zhang Chengjian, He Staff and others all laughed: "It should be." I was slightly surprised. Don't be a teenager who likes to fight, right?

The shopkeeper of the Xue family and the shopkeeper of the Xia family saw a young man coming from the dining table near the window. He is very young, wearing a blue shirt and a square scarf, typical of a scholar. The eyes are calm, energetic, and calm.

The two glanced at each other, bent down and saluted, "I've seen the little minister." I don't know what the little minister has to say when he stops me? "This young man is a scholar at first glance, no matter whether he is a talent or not, looking at this bearing, it is always right to call Xianggong.

Jia Huan smiled, "I'm Jia Huan." Which one is the shopkeeper of the Xue family? ”

The shopkeeper of the Xue family is surnamed Zhou, a middle-aged man in his forties, shrewd and capable, with a windy and frosty face. Hearing Jia Huan's self-report, he immediately couldn't help but shed tears, and he was about to kneel on the ground, and said: "The slave Wednesday Fu has seen the third master of Huan. ”

The four major families of Jinling, Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue have been married for a hundred years, and they have close and frequent ties with each other. And the three masters of the Xue family are living in the Rongguo Mansion in the capital at the moment, and he, as the old man of the Xue family, knows this situation. And Jia Huan was young and famous. How could he not know? Jia Sanye is his own family.

Although he and Shopkeeper Li did not come to participate in the investment promotion of the Shuntian Governor Yamen, they often ran here in Tanglin outside Zunhua County, and of course they had heard of the name of the small governor of the Yamen. I haven't had the opportunity to visit. I didn't expect to see you here. It's an accident within an accident, a surprise within a surprise. Jia Sanye has the ability to help him solve his current predicament.

is also because Uncle Xue once sent Steward Liu to Dongzhuang Town to run a cloth business. During the Double Ninth Festival, several big shopkeepers of Xue Feng got together once, and he admired Jia Sanye's business methods in Dongzhuang Town.

That's why Wednesday Fu reacted so violently.

Jia Huan has always been uninterested in the master and slave, and helped Zhou Fu not let him kneel, and said, "No need." Shopkeeper Zhou, let's talk in a different place. Actually, when he heard the name Zhou Zhoufu, he wanted to vomit a little in his heart: Do you have an elder brother named Zhou Tai Fook, or a younger brother named Zhou Liufu?

Jia Huan, Pang Ze, and Zhang Chengjian confessed, and stayed with Qian Huai in the restaurant to wait for the checkout, took Hu Xiaosi, followed Zhou Zhoufu and Li Shopkeeper out of the restaurant, and walked dozens of meters to a south store on the street to talk.

Shopkeeper Li instructed the guys to serve tea and give Jia Huan a gift again, "I've seen Master Xiao Jia." "Lifting people, no matter how young he is, he is also a master.

Jia Huan smiled and nodded, and asked, "Are you the shopkeeper of the Xia family, the Xia family of osmanthus?" ”

Shopkeeper Li smiled and said, "Yes." ”

Jia Huan knew it in his heart. It is the family of Xia Jingui that Xue Pan will marry in the future. The two families are both imperial merchants and are listed under the name of the household department.

Jia Huan actually had a question in his heart, according to what was written in the original book: Xue Pan took a fancy to Xia Jingui, so he asked for marriage, and he was very anxious. However, with Aunt Xue's scheming character, would she choose a wife for her son so easily?

The Xia family is hugely rich, the osmanthus in the palace is enshrined by the Xia family, and the osmanthus bureaus inside and outside the capital are all of the Xia family. In other words, the monopoly operator of the flower market. Xia Jingui is the only daughter of the Xia family, has no brothers, and only has an old mother. This family business, I'm afraid that there are some other meanings, is normal.

Jia Huan's thoughts turned to this, not gossip, nor sympathy for the dumb overlord Xue Pan to marry a Hedong lion and go home. is lamenting Xiangling's fate. According to Xiangling's judgment: Since the birth of lonely trees in the two places, the soul of Xiang has returned to his hometown. She will be abused to death by Xia Jingui. It was not a difficult birth and death in the sequel.

Death by abuse is really difficult for ordinary people to accept. There is also Yingchun: the sub-line Zhongshan wolf, when he learns about it, he is rampant, the golden boudoir is willowy, and he goes to Huangliang in one load. This kind of tragedy is something he doesn't want to see.

If he wants to leave Jiafu, he will take care of the affairs of Yingchun and Xiangling, and it is estimated that it will be very troublesome, and the whip will be out of reach. But since he decided to stay in Jiafu, with his status, it is not difficult to manage it. These tragedies can be changed, and he is certainly willing to change.

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Jia Huan retracted his thoughts, took a sip of tea, and said, "Shopkeeper Zhou, tell me, what's going on?" ”

Zhou Zhou Fu sighed and said, "Third Master Huan, just now it was the manager of Uncle Zheng's family. Uncle Zheng Guo found an errand to supply bricks and stones for the tomb of Emperor Taishang. The steward is here to watch. Shopkeeper Li and I are both selling stones in Zunhua. Steward Xu asked us to give priority to supplying the Imperial Mausoleum, but he refused to pay the money first. That's what we're struggling with. If the stone supply is supplied, the steward will be allowed to repay the debt, and we will even accompany our lives in it. ”

Jia Huan said strangely: "Uncle Zheng Guo? "He didn't know anything about the palace. Normally, no one will inquire or talk about the palace curtain. The Jinyiwei of the National Dynasty is not an institution that eats rice, and it is notorious.

Wednesday Fu explained: "He is the brother of Zheng Guifei. It's not good to act in the capital. ”

Shopkeeper Li said depressedly: "What's not good? It's a trick. How many of the businesses targeted by his family can have a good life? If the two of us don't agree, maybe we will be removed from the imperial merchants. ”

Jia Huan nodded in understanding. Power and money, in China, don't think about it, power is always higher than capital. Uncle Zheng is a powerful person, and it will not be too difficult to rectify the two imperial merchants who have declined.

Of course, the Xue family can turn to the Jia family and the Wang family for help. Presumably, the Xia family should also have one or two backstage. But whether these backstage and Uncle Zheng Guo are willing to collide strongly, and how much price they are willing to pay, it is estimated that it will be a matter of facts.

Zhou Zhou Fu hesitated for a moment and pleaded: "The slave is cheeky, I want to ask the third master to have an interview with Steward Xu." As long as he is willing to pay and supply him with stone at cost price, I will admit it. ”

Shopkeeper Li said: "I expect that with the tiger power of the third master, I forgive the surname Xu is just a steward, how dare you refuse?" I'll wait..."

Jia Huan glanced at Shopkeeper Li with a smile, and Shopkeeper Li's words of praise and killing came to an abrupt end, and he laughed wryly. When he's a three-year-old. Let's play this set. "The slightest carelessness in the construction of the imperial mausoleum is a big sin of losing your head. Who dares to mix easily? ”

Wednesday Fu pulled the shopkeeper Li to the side, gestured with his hand in the sleeve of his shirt, negotiated the price, and then came to Jia Huan and said: "Third master, there are indeed many doorways to build the imperial mausoleum." For example, if we send the stone over, as long as the Xu Steward reports to the officials and eunuchs above that he is not qualified, he can deduct it in a grand manner. For other purposes. Earn a lot of money.

Our two families originally sent the stone to Chengde to sell, and the summer resort was expanded every year. I have acquaintances to take care of me, and the price is not low. I never wanted to be targeted by Steward Xu. I and the shopkeeper Li are willing to produce 200 taels of silver and a recipe for firing porcelain. Please ask the third master to come forward and let Steward Xu spare us this experience. The minions are grateful. ”

Jia Huan smiled slightly, Shopkeeper Zhou's level of speaking still needs to be improved. So he is just the shopkeeper in the Xue family's business. See how Jia Mu co-opted herself? Congratulations on returning home, and the gifts are all elegant gifts. The modus operandi is not the same.

He shouted to the shopkeeper Zhou, and he did mean to ask and take care of it. Don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha. Until now, he still hasn't figured out how he offended Baochai that day in October. provoked her face to be crimson, and she was stern.

He has a little bit of a sense of compensation. It has nothing to do with the thoughts floating inexplicably in my heart and getting close to her. He has now decided to stay. He will be living in Jiafu for many years, and Baochai is expected to be too. The relationship is cold, and it will be embarrassing and uncomfortable to meet in the future.

Of course, will is will, and he will not do things for the Xue family in vain. At the age of eighteen, he may be willing to do anything for a beautiful girl to win her favor but to have her smile back at me. But he is already an adult in his thirties, and his mind is mature, and he will not be like this.

Although the level of Shopkeeper Zhou is not high, Jia Huan doesn't think much about it, and said, "Well, I should take this matter down." However, you have to listen to me as to what to do. ”

Immediately chatted for a long time, and in the evening, Shopkeeper Zhou and Shopkeeper Li sent Jia Huan out. In the afterglow of the setting sun, the thin figure of the young man disappeared into the slightly bustling street crowd with his entourage. They both let out a long exhale at the same time. Things are expected to turn around. After that, they each went back to their residences to write letters to the masters of the capital.

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After Jia Huan returned to the governor's yamen, he went to discuss the matter with Zhang Chengjian, the eldest son of the mountain chief. He has some considerations of his own. (To be continued.) )