Xie Wendong is a businessman in Jiankang, specializing in trading on the Yangtze River. However, he is not the owner of the caravan, he is just a high-ranking treasurer of the Xie clan of the Chen Jun clan. Speaking of his owner, the Chen Jun Xie family, it is a famous family in Jiangdong. At the time of the Battle of Weishui, it was Xie An of the Xie clan of Chen County who commanded the Eastern Jin Dynasty army to achieve this great victory. It was also from that time that the Xie family from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Southern Chen Dynasty had always been the largest high gate in the south of the Yangtze River with the Wang family.

However, in the late years of the Southern Liang Dynasty, when Hou Jing rebelled, Hou Jing failed to propose to Wang Xie and his family, and when he rebelled, he slaughtered countless Wang Xie and his two clans, almost extinction. Up to now, after experiencing the Southern Chen, the Sui Dynasty, and the restoration of the Southern Chen, nearly a hundred years of recuperation, the Xie family has finally recovered some vitality.

At the time of the early establishment of Nan Chen, the Xie family was even one of the four major families in the court. It's a pity that the Xie family still declined in the end, and now Nan Chen has become the world of the Shen family. Although the Xie family still lives in Jiankang, they have been completely excluded from the imperial court. Having lost their political privileges, the Xie family also had to start turning to the economy. However, after years of war, people everywhere are fighting, and business is not so easy to do.

Xie Wendong, as a member of the Xie clan, had the opportunity to become the treasurer of the Xie family's merchant fleet, which specialized in running the Yangtze River, but in the war years, he not only had to take huge risks, but also had to sneak back and forth to Jiankang, Jiujiang, Jiangling, Jiangxia and other cities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River under the nose of the naval fleet of Beichen. However, there are too many checkpoints for profits, taxes have to be paid everywhere, the profits of the merchant ship are meager, and his salary is getting smaller and smaller. After paying for the living expenses of his family's seven wives and concubines, more than a dozen children and dozens of slaves, he can no longer even afford to pay for a girl in Qinglou last time when he was on his way to the business house.

"You don't seem to be happy?"

"No, the little one has always been like this. Born to be annoying, this is not the only way to face you. Xie Wendong whispered.

The latter words looked a little like a stamp, but the middle-aged man sitting across from him didn't seem to care.

"Your fleet is the Xie family's merchant ships, right?"

"Yes."

"What do you think of the Xie family?"

It was still a cold question, but after asking, he was noncommittal to Xie Wendong's answer, which made Xie Wendong's forehead sweat flow out involuntarily.

"I don't know. But aren't all the worlds the same? The Wang family, the Xie family, the Gu family, the Zhu family, the Zhang family, and the Xiao family all seem to be the same. ”

"Reasonable, do you think these privileges are fair to the people? You see, now Chen Guo is what you call Bei Chen, and Bei Chen now doesn't have these privileged clans that exploit the common people. ”

"It's impossible, no matter how the world changes, it's just that this group of people has been replaced by that group of people. Although Bei Chen washed those clans in blood. But now there are not ten marshals, countless generals, governors and admirals, etc. It's just a change of name for Taishou or something. I heard that the Changsun family, the Li family, the Gao family, the Chen family, the Xue family, the Chen family, the Luo family and other families in the North Chen are not inferior to those Gao family, Liu family, Zhao family and other families in the Sui Dynasty at all. ”

"Oh!"

The man sitting opposite who was the governor of Jiangxi Province looked at Xie Wendong with great interest, and when he looked at him like this, Xie Wendong always had a feeling of being stared at by a snake. This man, who is said to be in charge of the power of the soldiers and horses of a province, is equivalent to the minister who commanded the soldiers and horses of the six counties in the past, and he is only in his thirties. It is very strong, but there is a hideous purple scar on his face. It's intimidating. However, I heard that this person was one of the first generals to follow Emperor Beichen to fight the world, so in the face of Hu Hai, the governor of Jiangxi, he was also worried, for fear that if he didn't answer well, he would be arrested and killed. …,

"That's an interesting idea. Is it your own idea? ”

"Where does the little one have such an idea, it's just learning and selling, a friend of Jiangxia said it. That person used to be a staff member of Yang Jun, the king of Liao, and now Yang Jin is the emperor of Sui and occupies Bahan, and he is also rising. I heard that they are all now too guarded. ”

"What's that friend's name?"

"Wade"

Xie Wendong reported this name with some pride, Wei De is the younger brother of Yang Jin's concubine Wei, and he likes fishing. When Jiangxia still belonged to Yang Xuan, the two met in Jiangxia's Qinglou. The two stink each other, but they soon became friends with wine and meat. But when he said it at this time, Hu Haidudu didn't seem to care much, and he suddenly had a feeling that no one appreciated it and could only sing and enjoy himself.

After a moment of awkward silence, the governor with a big scar finally spoke. He didn't open his mouth again. Xie Wendong was about to lose his grip.

"I have a task for you. No, it should be that the Commander of the Governor of the Great Chen and Jiangxi Provinces has a major task entrusted to you. ”

"Ahh Xie Wendong was surprised. I didn't know how to react for a while. Xie Wendong's owner is the Xie family, which is a large family of the Southern Chen Kingdom. And this Jiangxi Province, although it is also south of the Yangtze River, and it also belongs to the Chen Dynasty, but this Chen Dynasty is the Northern Chen. Nan Chen and North Chen are two rivals. Although the emperor is a biological father and son, everyone knows the relationship between Nanbei Chen, and now this Beichen wants to entrust him with a task, which is a little too strange.

After a long time, Xie Wendong, escorted by several guards, took a carriage all the way from Jiujiang City to the Xie family's merchant ship at Jiujiang Wharf. Boarding the boat, he also waved several arms vigorously, as if he was breaking free from an invisible restraint bound to his body.

The apprentice on the merchant ship came forward as before, but was kicked down by Xie Wendong, who was full of fire, and almost fell into the river. Several sailors stepped forward to pull Xie Wendong away.

As soon as he entered the cabin, Xie Wendong's eldest son had also been running on the boat for a few years, and now Xie Cheng, who had become his deputy, said with a smile: "Father, just now there was a Bei Chen soldier at the dock and said that we can leave the port." I also gave us a paperwork, and we don't have to worry about checking it when we enter and exit Jiujiang Wharf in the future. Moreover, even the Yangtze River sailor who met Bei Chen could go directly as long as he handed over this document. In addition, there were a few people who said that they were in command of the envoys of Jiangxi, and sent a letter, saying that we could go to the commercial street and buy and sell many Liaodong goods such as glass cups, glass mirrors, wine, and other goods that were only allowed to be bought and sold by Beichen merchants. In addition, there is also a 1,000 taels of silver tickets for the Four Seas Silver Number! ”

"Father, do you think there is fraud here, we are not a big business, just a few merchant ships, why are they so good to us all of a sudden?"

"I'm selling!"

"What?" Xie Cheng was surprised when he heard Lao Tzu's brainless words.

"Sold to Bei Chen, it's that scarface."

Xie Cheng hurriedly looked around, for fear that there were people around. The merchant ships that come and go on the Yangtze River, how many of them will not know Bei Chen's scarface? Although several counties south of the Yangtze River, such as Jiujiang and Yuzhang, often change hands. But since the first half of the year, Shen Luoyan, who was newly promoted to the princess of Chu State, was defeated by the hands of the Chen army, Marshal Du Fuwei's 100,000 Huainan army was almost wiped out, and even Jiankang was almost captured by the Northern Chen army. However, Jiujiang, Yuzhang and other counties connecting Lingnan were still completely controlled by the Northern Chen army.

The princess of Chu and the king of Wu could only return from several attacks in vain, and now although Nanchen has more than a dozen counties in Jianghan and Yuanxiang, but because Jiujiang and Yuzhang and other counties were occupied by Beichen, the entire Nanchen was cut off from it. To the north of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River is Beichen Dabeiying, and even Lingnan to the south of Nanchen has already become the province of Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Vietnam and other provinces of Beichen, plus Jiujiang and other counties to form Jiangxi Province. …,

Although Nanchen owns nearly a quarter of the world's territory, it is sandwiched between the north and south, and the east and west are cut in half by a Jiangxi province. Now that Bei Chen's power is getting bigger and bigger, no one in several books thinks that Nan Chen can still recover this Jiangxi province. As long as this Jiangxi province is still in Beichen for a day, then the merchant ships in the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River will have to pass through Jiujiang, and they will have to pass through the defense of the Yangtze River Naval Division of Beichen.

And this scarred face, as the governor of the Northern Chen Jiangxi Province, no one dares to insult him. You must know that although the position of the governor is not high, but this person is the original subordinate general of the Northern Chen Emperor, so many years, there is no merit and hard work, at least people still have the title of a county prince, dealing with them a few enemy merchants, that is still said to be killed.

"What the hell is going on? Father, have you taken refuge in Hu Dudu, so have we become their civil servants or have we become officials directly? ”

"Being an official? Public servant? ”

Hearing his son's words, Xie Wendong's face became even more ugly. It would be nice to be an official or a civil servant, even if it's just a civil servant. There are many new names in Beichen, and this civil servant is said to be the former official. However, the treatment is good, and if you do a good job, you can be promoted to an official.

But where is such a good thing to be your turn?

With a long sigh, Xie Wendong looked left and right, and said softly, "This can be regarded as a kind of civil servant, then Hu Dudu has incorporated us into the military intelligence department under his command, and the task given to me is to ask me to get close to Yang Xuan's side Hanzhong Taishou Wade and help them find out information." ”

"Isn't all this Bei Chen's intelligence under the control of that secret service department? Why does Hu Hai still have a military intelligence department? ”

"You don't understand this, the secret service department is under the control of the emperor, and the secret service director is even more powerful than Hu Hai. Hu Hai is just a provincial governor, so naturally he will have some of his own scout spies or something. Xie Wendong sighed and said, even if you are a spy, you can't be a high-level, you have to be a low-level, the more he thinks about it, the more uncomfortable he feels.

"Hey, our Chenjun Xie family is a great family in China, a family in Jiangdong for generations, and a real high-ranking Zhu Di. But I didn't expect that our father and son would one day be reduced to the fate of being spies for others, the world is unfair. ”

Xie Cheng was also at a loss: "If this matter is known to the clan, will the family law execute us?" ”

"Then don't let them know."

"Hey, tomorrow's affairs will be taken care of tomorrow. Pass the word, set sail, and take one step at a time. "Maybe one day you and my father and son will become the head of the Secret Service Department or something.