The pace of spring is getting closer and closer, and walking by the Bianhe River, you can already smell the fresh smell of fresh shoots coming from the big willow trees on the riverbank. The wind blowing on the surface of the river blows on the face like a girl's hand, which makes people intoxicated.

A tea shed by the river sat only two or three guests.

A big-shouldered man with a round waist occupied a table alone, his feet resting on the bench next to him, his trousers rolled up, revealing the messy black hair on his calves.

Seeing that this big man had a fierce face, Fu Yuanwai whispered to Shi Qingnian beside him: "Director Shi, is this big man we are looking for?" He looks like a pig killer, but not like a businessman. ”

Shi Qingnian said with a smile: "Relax, this big man was specially found by my brother to decorate the façade." He looks so fierce that idlers don't dare to approach, and only those who are introduced by others to do business will come to him. Buying and selling tea, it is often thousands of copper coins, can you really open a shop to collect? Go forward and give me my name, and he will show you the way. You just have to listen to him, we have known each other for many years, and we can still trap you! ”

has already arrived at the place, Deng Yuanwai and Fu Yuanwai have no reason to turn back, and they have dealt with Shi Qingnian for many years, and they can also trust him as a person. Although he was a little scared of the big man, he cautiously approached him.

Shi Qingnian watched the two of them arrive at the big man's table, and he didn't know what to say, so he got up and arched his hand to himself, and hurriedly walked to the alley on the other side of the avenue.

Nodding with a slight smile, Shi Qingnian only felt comfortable physically and mentally, and involuntarily hummed the new song he learned from a young lady who sang last night, and walked towards the inconspicuous restaurant next to him.

Entering the restaurant, Shi Qingnian walked straight through the empty hall and walked to the backyard.

As soon as he entered the backyard, he was confronted by a man in his fifties, and the two bowed to each other.

Seeing Shi Qingnian's face full of spring breeze, the visitor couldn't help asking: "Director Shi is here to make another transaction, this time he will definitely make a lot of money, and his face is so happy that he will bloom!" ”

"Where, where, eat with a mouthful."

Shi Qingnian was polite to the visitor, and walked into the flower hall in the backyard.

There was a table in the middle of the flower hall, and a middle-aged man sat there sipping tea. Next to it are several desks, and behind each desk there is someone holding a pen and jotting something on the paper.

Shi Qingnian came up and saluted the middle-aged outside: "I've seen Zheng Yuanwai." ”

The middle-aged member looked at Shi Qingnian's face and said, "It seems that I have earned a lot this time, and my face is full of joy." ”

"I don't know how much, but these two guests have been friends with me for many years, and every time I went to the capital before, I had at least sixty or seventy thousand tea guides on me, and I want to come this time I won't be less."

As Shi Qingnian spoke, he sat down next to him and gossiped with the middle-aged staff.

After a short time, a young servant came in from outside, and after saluting, he placed a list on the table.

The middle-aged member picked up the list and glanced at it, and said hello to Shi Qingnian: "Director Shi, this time it's amazing!" A full 160,000 pieces of tea, today you won the first prize! ”

"Really?" Shi Qingnian stood up after hearing this, stepped forward to read the list, and his face was full of joy. "But I don't want these two Shaanxi guests to look vulgar and have such a large amount of money!"

Together with Shi Qingnian, he drew a flower charge on the list, and the middle-aged clerk handed the list to the person who was behind the case on the side and registered it in the account, and said to Shi Qingnian: "160,000 yuan, these two guests must remember your benefits." While they haven't left the capital yet, you have to let them invite you to have a few drinks in the Fan Lou these days, and find a few delicate little ladies to accompany you. ”

Shi Qingnian said a few politely and said to the middle-aged staff: "Such a large business, there is a lot of interest in the middle, I will go in and say hello to the master." ”

"Okay, the Taishi has been very busy in the past two days, let him rejoice too."

knew that Shi Qingnian was going to invite merit, and the middle-aged staff also came from this time, although he went.

Bidding farewell to the middle-aged staff, Shi Qingnian walked out of the flower hall, went around to the main hall in the backyard, and said to the little guy guarding the door: "Go in and tell the master, I have made a business of more than 100,000 yuan, come and say hello." ”

The little maid entered the main hall, and after a while, he came out of it again and entered the door with Shi Qingnian.

In the main hall, Taishi Liu, who was pale with flowers, was talking about things with a capable middle-aged man, and when he saw Shi Qingnian coming in, he beckoned to him: "I heard that you have made a business of more than 100,000 yuan?" Come, come and sit. ”

Shi Qingnian bowed and saluted: "Tuo Taishi Hongfu, I met two big fat sheep." ”

Shi Qingnian sat down, and Taishi Liu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Yes, Xiao Qilang, you have been getting better and better in the past few years." In a few days, I should arrange a more important errand for you to do. ”

Shi Qingnian's face was full of joy: "Thank you Taishi for cultivating!" ”

"Well, he's busy these days." Taishi Liu leaned on the table and sighed, "I hope you can collect more tea to attract it, but I'm afraid that if you collect too much, you won't have time to change the tea, and your heart will be broken!" ”

"Taishi works hard, there is no way, so many of us all rely on Taishi, you-"

Taishi Liu sighed continuously, took a sip of the tea on the table, put down the teacup and said: "The court of Shangyuan Festival has a three-day holiday, and in these three days, we have to replace all the tea with tea, and we must not attract attention." Xiao Qilang, there are many people involved in this, it is not easy for the tea to be successfully replaced, and there must be a field after the change, and even a large part of it must be transported out of the city in time, and you can't make a mistake in a single step, do you know how difficult it is? ”

Shi Qingnian's face was full of reverence: "This kind of thing, except for the Taishi, no one can do it!" The imperial court changed the tea method, and every time the Taishi could help everyone earn countless net worth, was it easy? ”

Shi Qingnian did not deceive Deng Yuanwai and Fu Yuanwai from Shaanxi, if the two of them did not sell the tea in the past two days, they would suffer greater losses in the future. But it was not the southern tea merchants who received their tea, but several shops with Liu Taishi as the core. These people won't sit back and wait for the implementation of the new tea law, and use the old tea to replace the new tea, so how much money can they make? They want to take advantage of the holiday of the Shangyuan Festival to replace all the tea quotations with tea to obtain the greatest profit.

This is a huge network of interests linked together, as long as every node is connected, it will grab amazing benefits when the old and new tea laws change. The people in this net don't really care about how the tea method changes, all he wants is to change it after a while, and every time they change it, their pockets will bulge once.

And Taishi Liu is at the core of this network. (To be continued.) )