Liu Mu gave Cui Yiyan an authorization from the general secretary, and also helped Cui Yiyan ask Zhang Chuchen for an authorization. This is indeed a very big support for Cui Yiyan.

A few days later, a letter arrived from Chang'an.

When Niu Jinda got the official document allowing him to go on the expedition, he couldn't close his smile and he personally ran to Iuriyama Castle to pick up Yanagi on the boat, and then sent him to Izumo.

On Tsushima Island, Kototo finds Yanagi.

"Lang Jun, I want to go to Xinjin Port first, there are some industries of our sisters, they can't leave on business in Juqishan, I'll go and see it for them."

Liu Mu smiled and asked, "You didn't invest money?" ”

"I voted a little, but this time the big shopkeeper was not from anyone's family, but openly recruited. This method was learned from Lang Jun, the shopkeeper had his own shop before, and the rebel army destroyed him at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the family property was basically ruined, and he didn't turn over again over the years. ”

After listening to Baoqin's explanation, Liu Mu can probably understand that the industry must be a joint stock.

There are even some high-ranking families involved.

It was relatively fair to choose a recruited shopkeeper, and Liu Mu didn't care too much.

When the willow wood arrived in Izumo, the eldest grandson Wujian and Dugu Lanruo were not there.

The rest of the princesses and ladies were not there.

Liu Mu specially ran to Iwamiyama to ask, Li Xiaocha told Liu Mu, Li Xiaocha pointed in the direction of his house: "What about people, my wife ran away, two of the three concubines ran away, and the last one was forced to stay by lot." ”

"What?" Yanagi couldn't close his mouth in surprise.

Li Xiaocha sighed heavily: "You don't know what you're busy with these days, some time ago, the people around you sent a letter to Changping, and then Changping didn't seem to see the news in the letter, and gave the letter to Princess Changsha." ”

Yanagi asked, "What is the content of the letter?" ”

"I don't know!" Li Xiaocha said these three words heavily, and then added: "Before leaving, my wife planned to secretly move some silver ingots from the warehouse, so that I could find out." If I really want him to move out, I guess I'm ......."

Li Xiaocha didn't say what would happen if he continued, and the result was terrible.

Taking the silver of Yinshan privately, if Li Shimin turns his face for this crime, not to mention that Li Xiaocha is a clan, even Li Shimin's own brother will be exemplified.

Liu Mu also knew that this matter was very troublesome, and asked in a low voice, "How much did you take?" ”

"If you plan to move two stacks, let me find out that ......" Li Xiaocha sighed heavily, and still told Liu Mu: "I quietly asked her to move four stacks." ”

"Ahh

Liu Mu became more and more surprised, it is said that Li Xiaocha found out about this, so he shouldn't have let him move, why did he double it.

Li Xiaocha explained: "There are pledges in the warehouse, and the jewelry alone is worth eight stacks, as well as more than 400 gold coins. The first name of the IOU is Princess Changsha. ”

"Why do you want to take all this impure silver?" Yanagi just couldn't understand it.

Li Xiaocha shook his head: "I don't know, a few princesses opened their mouths, and the pledge they left behind wrote a document, so it's hard for me to refuse." I have sent someone to report this to the Holy Front, and I expect to be back in a month. ”

"Why?"

Yanagi didn't understand at all.

The purity of the silver ingots on the side of Iwamiyama is very low, and there is no high-standard refinery built here. What's more, silver has to be refined once before it can be minted, so it is necessary to build another refinery here.

"I don't want to, I'll go to Xinjin Port. Since the matter of those silver is guaranteed by Princess Changsha first, there will be no problem in the future. I don't know if the queen knows about this. ”

"The queen will pretend not to know if she knows." Li Xiaocha is more clever than Liu Mu in this matter.

A stack of silver is a square pile of silver ingots placed on a wooden frame, and the four stacks weigh at least about a ton according to the weight of later generations.

Two tons of silver, even if it is impure, is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Li Xiaocha drank wine and willow wood until midnight, and left Iwamiyama early the next morning and went to Xinjin Port.

As he approached the port of Shintsu, Yanagi saw a very miscellaneous fleet of ships lining up to enter the port.

Why do you say miscellaneous, because the fleet controlled by Liu Mu is almost all full-sail, and there are only a dozen old-style big-bellied tankers that are not full-sailed.

And more than seventy percent of the ships that are entering the port here are hard-sailed ships.

It is impossible for these hard-sailed ships to stay away from the coastline, they can't withstand the strong winds and waves, and the speed makes the willows crazy, but the load is huge, as long as they are not afraid of sinking, even if they are loaded on the ship, the more they are loaded on the ship, the more stable the ship is at sea.

Liu Mu got off the boat at the berth of the official ship, but watched from a distance as Lu Chengqing stood on a high ground at the dock with a thick account book, looking at the ships on the dock while flipping through the account books.

Liu Mu walked over there, and immediately a small official ran to Lu Chengqing and told Lu Chengqing that Liu Mu had arrived.

Lu Chengqing greeted Liu Mu and hugged him: "Willow horse." ”

"Heavy on official duties?" Liu Mu asked with a smile.

"Liu Juma has been busy outside recently, and there have been some changes in the Maoshan mining area. I was put in charge of logistics, but I found that the number of people was increasing and things were getting more and more. The Goguryeo slave laborers are illiterate, and some clever errands are okay, but there are always some small mistakes in doing this, and I am thinking about how to train them as soon as possible to become qualified officials. ”

After listening to Lu Chengqing's words, Liu Mu comforted him twice: "Don't be in a hurry, take your time." ”

"Yes."

Lu Chengqing pointed to the wharf: "These ships belong to more than 1,000 shops in 49 merchant gangs, and their total numbers are distributed in 5 provinces, 23 prefectures, and hundreds of counties. ”

"Oh." Liu Mu looked at the dock with great interest.

"Goguryeo slave workers are stupid, and it has taken almost a sentence of time for the lower officials. They still can't tell the difference between Shu pickled cabbage, Lingnan pickled cabbage, and Jiangnan Dongdao pickled cabbage. Every time the ship was transported to the mining area by a horse-drawn carriage, there were mistakes every time. Lu Chengqing complained.

Liu Muxin said that he couldn't tell the difference between the three kinds of pickles.

Lu Chengqing motioned to the little officials around him to get a list for himself, and then handed the list to Liu Mu.

Yanagi's scalp tingles when he sees this list.

Pickles!

Datang alone transports tens of thousands of jars of pickles to the Maoshan mining area every month, with countless types. Most of the dishes you can think of are made into pickles.

The largest number of them is Frost Ageless. That is, the snow red of later generations.

"Liu Juma, some time ago, the princess of Changsha sent a steward to build a Zhuangzi thirty miles north of the wharf, and also built a small wharf, which can't enter the big boat, and can dock two hundred small boats and fishing boats."

Hearing Princess Changsha, Liu Mu thought of the silver ingot, and immediately asked, "Do you know what is going on over there?" ”