When Yan Tiju heard this, his scalp felt a little numb, and he said in his heart, daring to love the boats of goods they detained, it was actually Xue Ji's private things, this time he caused a lot of trouble, someone came to him at the beginning, and wanted to redeem these ships and ships, he refused righteously, but he couldn't imagine that these ships were still related to Xue Ji, and he actually wanted to swallow these ships, isn't this going to the toilet with a lantern - looking for death ()?

So after Yan Tiju listened to Gao Huaiyuan's words, his face immediately changed color, he jumped up, his expression was very nervous, he rubbed his hands and turned around in the room, as if he was like an ant on a hot pot, he was afraid to death at this time, although they were not in charge of the Ministry of Officials, but the promotion of officials had to go through the Ministry of Officials, if he didn't know the current affairs and didn't return these goods, what was waiting for him, he knew very well, but the problem at the moment was, It's been nearly a month, and the ship is still detained at the dock, but he has already sold more than half of those goods to his subordinates, and now the problem is that he can't send them back if he wants to!

What a good thing that is! The money for the sale of the goods was not taken by himself, except for the large amount he received, the rest of his subordinates had their own share, and they all had money, if this matter was poked out, then as long as they found a reason, it was enough for their gang to go around without eating, and it was a trivial matter to raid the house, and it was not good to lose their heads!

Yan Ti raised a lot of fine sweat on his head, and even the underwear in the official uniform was soaked with sweat, and he only felt that his ears were ringing, and his head was a little dizzy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"This ...... This one...... That's it! Hehe...... Oh! Lord Gao sat down for a while, and the official wanted to inquire about this matter and then give a reply to Lord Gao, after all, you also know this...... The affairs of this dock are very busy, and we have a lot of things at hand, and some things are not very clear to the lower officials! How about allowing the official to go down and inquire? After Yan Tiju pondered for a while, he forcibly held back the fear in his heart and hurriedly found an excuse.

Gao Huaiyuan was not in a hurry, nodded and said, "Xiaguan understands!" Lord Yan is indeed very busy here, you just have to go and get busy, and the lower officials are waiting here! ”

This Yan Tiju hurriedly lifted the corners of the official robe, and hurriedly walked out, while Gao Huaiyuan crossed Erlang's legs, sipping tea in a leisurely manner, and by the way, he had nothing to do to look at the arrangement of the official office, he had full confidence to bring these ships of goods back, because he believed that he would not dare to go to Xue Yan to ask if these ships were Xue Yan's, and they were also embezzling goods this time, and what they did was also illegal, forgive him for not spitting it out.

Sure enough, Gao Huaiyuan only waited for less than two quarters of an hour, and Yan Tiju trotted back with the corners of his robe, sweating profusely, and broke into the side hall.

When he saw Gao Huaiyuan, he said with a smile: "Oops! Let Master Gao wait for a long time, Xia Guan just went to inquire, and it is true that there is indeed a matter of truth, misunderstanding, misunderstanding! It was all because of the cowhide in these ships, so the people below didn't know, so they detained the cargo, so that there was such a big misunderstanding! ”

Gao Huaiyuan raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Is there such a thing? That's hard to say, otherwise, Lord Yan should deal with it impartially! Otherwise, it will be difficult for adults! ”

"Where is that? Xia Guan has already said that it is all a misunderstanding, but it is just a few cowhides, where is the need to deal with it like this, Xia Guan has already reprimanded his subordinates for running errands, this matter is purely their mistake, Xia Guan ordered them to return the cargo!

But there's a problem right now! Can you take a step to speak? Yan Tiju said as he made a gesture to invite Gao Huaiyuan to speak inside.

Gao Huaiyuan then stood up and followed this Yan Tiju into a small guest room behind the side hall, and after sitting down again, Yan Tiju wiped his sweat and said to him with a wry smile: "Don't hide it from Lord Gao, the lower officials are indeed in trouble right now, when I went down to inquire just now, this matter is indeed true, but I didn't think that when I asked them to return the goods, I heard that the lifting warehouse was flooded late at night two days ago, so that some of the goods were seriously damaged, so that all the goods could not be returned!"

This is all due to the lax control of the lower officials, and the lower officials are guilty! Xia Guan thought about it just now, since the matter has come to this, how can he think of a way to solve it? Why can't you make Lord Xue suffer! Therefore, Xia Guan wanted to discuss with Lord Gao to see if these goods could be converted into cash, and how about the Yamen of Tiju to pay compensation to Lord Xue? I promise not to let Lord Xue suffer! How about bothering the tall adults to be accommodating? ”

As soon as Gao Huaiyuan heard this, he understood that those goods had been sold privately by this Yan Tiju and others, and now they could no longer return these things as they were, so they used the excuse to say that these goods were lost and compensated with cash, so his face immediately sank, touched the beard on his chin, and groaned.

This Yan Tiju looked at Gao Huaiyuan's expression, so he panicked even more, his legs and stomachs were a little tendoned, and he hurriedly said: "This is all the fault of the lower official, but the matter has come to this point, Lord Gao must think of a way for the lower official!" This is a little bit of the lower official's heart, and please ask the tall man's subordinates, be sure to think of ideas for the lower official! ”

As he spoke, Yan Tiju felt out a thick stack of punctuation from his sleeve, pulled Gao Huaiyuan and stuffed it into his sleeve, his face was bitter as if he was about to come out of the water.

Gao Huaiyuan, this is happy! It seems that the official university crushed people to death, it is true, moved out of Xue Ji as a guise, and really scared this guy half to death, if he had known, he would have moved out of Shi Miyuan, an old thief, and it is estimated that he could live this surnamed Yan to be scared to death!

Looking at this Yan Tiju's frightened face, Gao Huaiyuan pretended to be unbearable, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "How could there be such a mess?" It's dry, so be careful with the candles! In the future, Lord Yan will have to be more cautious, since this matter is already like this, then he can only do what Lord Yan wants! After the lower official goes back, he will explain it to Lord Yan! ”

After listening to Gao Huaiyuan's words, he was finally relieved, almost sat on the ground, wiped his sweat and thanked Gao Huaiyuan, and asked Gao Huaiyuan to give him two days to prepare, and after two days, the compensation for the goods will be sent to Gao Huaiyuan's hands, and the ships will be returned to Gao Huaiyuan immediately, and Gao Huaiyuan will go to the dock to pick up those ships first.

Gao Huaiyuan nodded and said: "It seems that it can only be like this, then everything will be Lord Lao Yan, it just so happens that I will also buy a birthday gift in Qingyuan Mansion in the next few days, just wait a few days!" ”

Yan Tiju thanked him for a thousand thanks, so he wanted to send Gao Huaiyuan to live in the post house, but Gao Huaiyuan considered that the post house was full of people, and they were all people on the official face who stopped there, so he rejected Yan Tiju's proposal to arrange a place for him, and said: "This is not to worry about Lord Yan, this time Gao came to Qingyuan Mansion and wanted to walk around, I don't know where it will go, I will arrange this accommodation myself, Lord Yan will be busy with you first!" I'll go to the dock first to see the boats! ”

Yan Tiju didn't dare to force it, and hurriedly arranged a subordinate to take Gao Huaiyuan to the dock to take Gao Huaiyuan to retrieve the ship, and then repeatedly asked that he wanted to invite Gao Huaiyuan to have a light meal in the drunken immortal building of Qingyuan Mansion in the evening, but he was also rejected by Gao Huaiyuan, so he didn't have the leisure to drink with this guy and say something that was not nutritious!

When Gao Huaiyuan returned to the dock, the priest took him to a pier dedicated to lifting the yamen, pointed to several ships gathered together and said to Gao Huaiyuan: "Lord Gao, please see, these four boats are the ones we detained at the beginning, they haven't moved anything, and they can set sail at any time!" Please check it out! ”

Gao Huaiyuan took a look at these ships, like this sea boat, he has seen it in Yangzhou Wharf before, most of them are unique flat-bottomed sand boats in the two Zhejiang areas, square head and square tail, very suitable for use along the coast, not easy to run aground on the beach, so it is also called anti-sand flat-bottomed boats, another name is called square stern, several ships are three-masted ships, the carrying capacity is at least about four or five thousand stones, in this era is not a small ship, but some ships are even more than the level of thousands of stones, the displacement is at least about 1,000 tons, This also fully illustrates the degree of development of maritime trade in the Song Dynasty.

Gao Huaiyuan looked interested, after all, he hadn't paid much attention to business matters before, most of these things were handled by Huang Zhen, after seeing these boats today, Gao Huaiyuan was quite emotional, it turned out that he already had so many big ships, if he couldn't become an official one day, it would be quite good to simply go to sea to be a maritime merchant!

"Excellent! Not bad! I see, these ships should stop here first, and the officer must go find the sailors first, or the officer will not be able to get rid of these ships! I'll take care of you for two more days! Gao Huaiyuan looked at the ships from beginning to end, turned his head and said to the priest.

This priest immediately showed a look of sincere fear, and quickly replied: "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely take good care of these ships in the next two days, and there will be no more trouble. ”

Gao Huaiyuan left the dock and walked towards the place agreed with Li Ruohu before.