Perhaps in order to set an example, or to declare authority, after Shao Fang's master and servant were beheaded for public display, they were once hung on the flagpole, but their former fame turned into a dead eye. However, the building has collapsed, and no matter how much resentment they have, they can only go to Jiuquan to complain. After Shen Yingkui placed Fuyun in the medical hall, he came forward to collect the three corpses with different heads, and ordered three coffins to be sent back to Danyang. Despite the difference between master and servant, he decided to bury Ngawang and Acai with his father-in-law, so that he could have a companion.

As for Wang Fulin, he went to report a letter to Shen Yingkui, and also covered up Shao Yi for others, and then accompanied him, which is benevolent and righteous, he and Shao Fang are enemies, of course they will not help these things. In the next three days, he personally came out to seconded some people named Weisu to Zhang Jiayin, who were actually the generals of the Qi family's army to help transport grain across the river, and he was very busy.

Ten days have passed, and the Huaiyang water has finally gradually receded, especially in Yizhen County, the southernmost county near the Yangtze River, and other places, the water potential has receded the earliest. However, the official road is full of mud, and the water level of the canal is still high, but it is barely able to pass through the boats.

On this day, when Wang Fulin returned from the wharf on the north bank of the Yangtze River to the Zhenjiang wharf on the south bank of the Yangtze River, he had already seen a lot of his recent comings and goings on the Yangtze River, and a captain caught up and said: "Little official, Shen Gongzi has come to you several times. Later, because he really couldn't see you, the weather was hot, so he went back to Danyang first. ”

Wang Fulin had left the deposit of one hundred taels of gold in the Shao family, because the heads of Ah Wang and Ah Cai fell to the ground after they were arrested, and he waved his hand to let the generals divide it—even though he knew that the money should have belonged to the Shao family. As for now, he still has a little scrap of silver on him, but it is impossible to compensate for the value of 10,000 stone of grain. In addition, he didn't want to witness how Shen Yingkui handled Shao Fang's funeral at all, so he thought about it. In the end, it was decided to find a professional messenger to send a letter to Shen Yingkui. The meaning is very simple, when he comes back after going to Yangzhou to do the last thing, he will let people go to Danyang or Wujin and settle the accounts.

After all, it was Master Cheng's salt merchants who paid for it, and it was not the most shameless government in the world. Money and goods have to be done, right?

When the 10,000 stone grain was transported to Yangzhou by water, Wang Fulin finally entered Yangzhou City again. The knee-high water that once filled the city has receded, and traces of mud can still be seen on the roads of the city. He first went directly to Master Cheng's new home, and sure enough, he learned that the leading figure in the salt merchant had moved back to this magnificent mansion, and there was a carriage parked in front of the door asking to see him, not to mention that there were many servants and stewards who made a special trip here to inquire about the news. When they saw Wang Fulin casually walking in, someone immediately recognized him.

"Look, that's the little official of Songming Mountain! I thought it was a child of the Cheng family, but I didn't expect it to be the Cheng family in Huangjiawu, Shexian County. It's the people of the Wang clan of Songming Mountain! ”

"Master Cheng really played a good hand, this Wang Xiaoguan is famous in the six counties of Huizhou, the last time Mr. Nanming's younger brother Mr. Zhongyan passed through Yangzhou, he can preach a lot of deeds, Wang Si Master doesn't recognize the younger generations of the same clan, this is really blind!"

Wang Daomin has been covering the sky with one hand for so many years, this time he actually said that he would take off the horse, and all six rooms of the Wang family were shot, and it is said that now the fourth master Wang is so angry that he has a stroke. It's just that the two sons are not useful! ”

If he had known that more than half of the remaining salt in the stack had been snatched up, he might not have been so angry. In the final analysis, ambition is great and talented, but he is still so ambitious, and he actually led outsiders to oppose his own people, which is simply to blame! It is said that the Salt Transportation Division sent a message from the side, and Huainan returned to Huainan. Huaibei belongs to Huaibei, and it is not allowed to be mixed up. ”

Hearing these specious discussions, Wang Fulin secretly said that people are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and now he is not only famous in the circle of Xin'an people, but also gradually known outside. But you have to be careful, don't get carried away like Shao Fang and Wang Daomin, and bring about your own destruction. When he entered Cheng's house, he found that the yard was neat and clean, and it was obvious that the servants had carefully cleaned it, especially the bluestone road was smooth and tidy, and there was not a trace of mud and sand loess. Before he had walked a few steps, Cheng Hu heard the news, and after greeting him with a smile, he immediately led him to Master Cheng's study.

I saw Cheng Naixuan honestly standing beside Master Cheng who was sitting on the chair of the master of the main seat, and when he saw him come in, he quickly squeezed his eyebrows, and when Master Cheng looked back, he was immediately honest. And on the guest seat on the side was Lu Guangwu.

Wang Fulin didn't say hello either, and after bowing his hand, he said bluntly: "Uncle Cheng, fortunately, I don't disgrace my life." ”

"I've heard about it from Mr. Lu." Master Cheng nodded, and then said, "Shao Fang is Shao Fang, and his family is his family. What's more, even if Shao Fang is guilty, the account that should be given cannot be relied upon. I have already instructed Cheng Hu to go back and let him go to Wujin, the Changzhou Mansion, in person and send the money to Shen Yingkui. ”

Although Wang Fulin hadn't mentioned to anyone that Shen Yingkui had gone back and forth to Danyang at night to save Shen Yingkui, listening to Master Cheng's tone, he realized that the other party already knew, and immediately looked at Lu Guangwu. I saw this Xinchang Lu Gongzi bowing slightly, and then said as if talking to himself: "Disaster is not good for the family." ”

Wang Fulin also had no intention of asking how Lu Guangwu knew, or whether he had contributed to the rescue of the widow that night, so he settled down and simply poured out another thing: "This time I went to Zhenjiang Mansion to buy grain, I brought a deposit of one hundred taels of gold, as well as some silver tickets that can be used in Yangzhou City, but when I get to Zhenjiang, which is across the river, gold is available, but silver tickets are not passable." Nowadays, whether it is a Hui businessman, a Jin merchant or a Jiangyou merchant, they are all walking the world, and they have to do a big business of thousands of taels at every turn, and if they want to be light, they can only exchange silver into gold, but once they exchange more, the price of gold in the market will inevitably skyrocket. ”

"And to be honest, it's still inconvenient and unsafe to carry gold with you. I had been to Hankou Town, where Hui merchants gathered, and later when I met Mr. Nanming in Wuchang Mansion, I once mentioned to him that the Tang Dynasty was fashionable and could use flying tickets, and there were Jiaozi in the Song Dynasty, and in the early Ming Dynasty, treasure money was used, but in addition to flying money, it was originally because there was a mortgage, and Jiaozi and treasure banknotes were all businessless businesses, and later they all became waste paper. Nowadays, the amount of transactions is several times higher than that of the year, and most of them have to go to other places to trade. So I thought, is it possible to set up a ticket number in a place where wealthy businessmen gather, and only need to deposit money in one place, issue a silver ticket, and then redeem cash in a different place? ”

Wang Fulin took out the words that had lobbied Wang Daokun at the beginning, and told Master Cheng in detail, especially how to prevent counterfeiting. At the end, seeing that Master Cheng was thoughtful, he changed his words and said: "Actually, Brother Cheng and I once issued rice coupons in She County. At that time, we were short of funds, and the common people had a lot of spare money, but they could not afford to borrow money for profit like those who were usurers, so we gathered these idle funds by issuing rice coupons, and then invested them in the grain trade. The interest paid is only a drop in the bucket, but the income is very substantial. ”

Although Master Cheng has a fame, he really proves the value of his life, which is in business, so as soon as Wang Fulin talks about exchange and interest, he tastes it. His eyes narrowed suddenly, and he breathed softly for a long time: "After I left, I heard that Fu Lin and you and Naixuan made a lot of things in She County, although I knew that your brothers were not messing around, but they only thought it was a small fight, but now it seems that you think long-term." However, the matter of the ticket number is not trivial, I have to think about it carefully, how about I reply to you in two days? ”

Of course, Wang Fulin knew that this was not something that could be implemented immediately, and that he needed to plan, manpower, and even more so to finalize the first batch of cities to implement foreign exchange, so he naturally would not rush. And after finishing the business, Master Cheng smiled and quipped: "I heard that Fu Lin has already made a marriage, this time Brother Lu will also go back to Huizhou with you to drink a glass of wine?" It just so happens that I can also spare time here in Yangzhou, and when the matter of donating food is over, I will go back with you, you must know that after my daughter-in-law entered the door, she has never visited my father-in-law. ”

"Do you know that you haven't even seen your daughter-in-law......" Cheng Naixuan couldn't help muttering in a low voice, but there was still a word in his belly. Is Wang Fulin your son, or am I your son? You haven't come back since I married my daughter-in-law, that is still the daughter of Xu Shixue of the Hanlin Academy, and now Wang Fulin is getting married, you have time to go back!

Master Cheng was suddenly a little embarrassed, and waited until Wang Fulin said yes, and then Lu Guangwu smiled and said that he wanted to discuss things with Wang Fulin, and the two of them went out first, and he couldn't help but scold in a tone of hatred: "Your daughter-in-law I have been to and from Xu Village before, and I don't know how many times I have seen it, but I haven't seen Fu Lin's fiancée yet, not to mention the difference between inside and outside, do you understand?" ”

Seeing that Cheng Naixuan didn't understand, he just stared at himself like this, and Cheng couldn't wait to knock twice on his son's head to express his annoyance at the wooden fish's head: "Now Yangzhou is calm and calm, everything is under control, of course I can leave, I want to have a wolf and a tiger in front of you, if it weren't for your father and I rushing to kill in front, can you have money to marry a daughter-in-law?" Stinky boy, I wonder who was the person who spoke desperately for Fu Lin at the beginning, and now he is embarrassed to fight for this idleness! If you're as capable and sensible as Flin, do you need me to worry about it? ”

"Didn't I mean that?" Cheng Naixuan was speechless for a moment, fortunately he had a lot of eyes, and suddenly thought of a good way to divert the topic, "Anyway, Dad, why didn't you tell Fu Lin just now, the two young ladies of the Ye family let out a little noise in the Wuhu rice market, and now Huguang Wuhu has sent a large amount of grain to Yangzhou, and the previously high rice price has fallen in response, plus the fat Fuzun and the salt transport made Lord Gu raise grain, so the governor of Fengyang praised them?" ”

"With Lu Gongzi here, do you still need your father and me to talk about this?" Master Cheng glanced at his son with a smile, and then said meaningfully, "These days, I really understand that Ye Xianzun can become Ye Observation, although Fu Lin has made great contributions, but his family has also made great contributions. (To be continued......)