"Finally back to Yangzhou!" A young man with a face full of vicissitudes finally landed on the land of Yangzhou, standing on this land, he couldn't help but feel very emotional.

"Lord, let's hurry up and strive to reach Shouchun as soon as possible!" There was also a man with a face full of scars next to the young man, the scars were already terrifying, and he had the ability to make children cry by shaking when he spoke.

"Forget it, don't worry!" The young man was excited, and now he was eager to fly to Shouchun immediately, but he didn't know why he slowed down his pace under his feet.

"What's the matter, lord? Commanders: They will be overjoyed when they know we are back. Another man said the same thing.

"Yuan Zhi them!" The young man muttered to himself.

"What's wrong with my husband? Why don't you go? Behind the man, a voice came from a carriage.

"Get off the horse, let's slow down and don't rush back first!" The young man said to the bronzed woman behind him.

"Oh!" The woman didn't ask too much, but listened to the young man's words and stepped out of the carriage.

"Lord, aren't we going by water?" If they take the waterway, they can reach Yangzhou faster, take the Lujiang River to Hefei and then go to Shouchun, or even go directly down the river, take Baima Lake directly to Shouchun, which is fast and not too bumpy and tiring.

"Wouldn't it be the same on land?" The young man also got out of the carriage and walked towards the nearest Yangzhou city with two strong men and a beautiful woman.

Xinye City, the county town that belonged to Jingzhou, has now become a bridgehead in Yangzhou. The original Shinno Castle was very prosperous, and there were many merchants coming and going. Most of the people in Yangzhou and Jingzhou do business with each other. Yangzhou can give Jingzhou merchants status, and Jingzhou can give Yangzhou merchants benefits, the combination of the two, but it is happy, for a while, Xinye's prosperity is not inferior to Jingzhou's capital Xiangyang.

However, the prosperity did not last after all, Jingzhou and Yangzhou fell out, and immediately the vast trade route of the entire Xinye was completely blocked.

Jingzhou's goods could not be transported to Yangzhou, and Yangzhou's merchants could not enter Jingzhou. So Shinno slowly declined.

But overall, Shinno Castle is much better than when the young man came.

"Let's go, let's go into the city!" It was already getting dark, and the young man and the others were ready to enter the city for a short rest before making plans.

When they arrived at the city gate, the young man and the others were stopped.

"What's going on?" The young man frowned, looking at this day, it was not the time to close the city gates, why should he and the others be intercepted.

"My lord, they won't let us into the city!"

"Bold, even the frame of our father-in-law dares to stop it!" The strong man with a scar on the side was about to come forward to theorize, but was stopped by the young man.

"What's wrong with this military master? It was not yet the time to close the gates at night. Why don't you let me wait to enter the city? Liu Mang went up and asked the two guards of Xinye City.

"You want to enter the city?" The two gatekeepers of Shinno Castle looked at the young man and asked.

'Exactly! It was not too early for us to visit relatives in Yangzhou, so we had to stay outside the city. I'd like to go into the city and rest for the night, and then get up tomorrow and go!" Liu Mang said to the two guards.

"I want to enter the city! Yes, pay the toll first! The two soldiers looked at the young man and his group, and immediately looked at each other and said with a smile.

"Tolls?" The young man was stunned for a moment, he thought about it and understood, this is an unspoken rule after all, you basically can't avoid it, these soldiers guarding the city gate, from day to night, need to stand guard to guard the city, relying on their own little salary is naturally not satisfied, Yangzhou Army does not have any night shift subsidies or anything, so this group of soldiers who watch the city gate is another unwritten rule, then you can get a hardship fee from the past merchants, generally speaking, according to the number of merchants' goods, A big car is counted as ten copper plates, so that they can also have a very good extra money by relying on the flow of passengers, to subsidize their standing guard day and night.

"This military master, we are not merchants, we are just going to Yangzhou to visit relatives!" The young man said to the two soldiers and explained, "There is only one carriage and two war horses, where are the merchants?"

"Not a merchant?" The two janitors looked at each other and repeated.

"Yes, yes, we are not merchants, we just came to Yangzhou to visit relatives!" The young man continued.

"Whether you are a merchant or not, you don't count!" The two janitors pointed to the young man.

"So who's in charge?" The young man continued to ask.

"Naturally, it's the military master who is us! We say you're a merchant, you're a merchant! The two soldiers pointed at Liu Mang and said.

"Then it's the merchant, ten copper plates, let's give, we give!" Although the young man was very dissatisfied with the two soldiers, he only glanced at the two of them, waved his hand at the man with the scar on his face behind him, and quickly took out ten copper plates from the scarred man's pocket and taught them, "Master Jun, this is our toll!" ”

"Ten copper plates? Hehe, you call Hanako! The two soldiers didn't take over the ten big money at all, but stared at each other with wide eyes.

"So how much do you want, Master Jun?"

"At least that's the number." Two Yangzhou sergeants guarding the door stretched out five fingers of a palm.

"Fifty big bucks?" Fifty big money, although it is five times more than ten big money, but it is not too much of a number, and ordinary merchants can still afford it.

"Fifty? Hehe, it's five thousand! The two janitors showed their faces.

Not fifty as the young man thought, but five thousand that really multiplied a hundredfold. Five thousand dollars is a lot of money, and it's only half a gold when converted into gold, but it's just a carriage with two horses, and what if you were any other merchant. How much does it cost.

"Five thousand? Why don't you grab it? The other strong man also spoke dissatisfiedly, "We couldn't rob you even if we robbed you before." ”

"Five thousand dollars. These two military masters are a bit too much. "The young man wants to continue mediation.

"Ever? Five thousand dollars, I will sue you for not a penny. If so, you will live outside the city tonight. "The two city gate guards are very confident, why, because when they saw the young man and others coming from the south and two war horses in a carriage and two war horses, they knew at a glance that they were not locals, and he was also not a big businessman or a person with great background, just a passer-by. If such a person doesn't slaughter him, who will he slaughter, take the words of the two janitors, he is a foreign second stunned.

"You!" The strong man next to the young man couldn't help but make a move, but he was stopped by the young man.

"Five thousand dollars, okay, we'll give it." The young man still took out his pocket and took out half a gold and threw it over, so that the eyes of the two city gate captains were impressed, and then the young man and the others were allowed to leave.

Seeing that the five thousand dollars had arrived so quickly, the guards at the door were all smiling, but looking at the money bag that the strong man put away, he still felt a little regretful, and he would have asked for a little more.

Watch them go. A city gate soldier said greedily to the robe on the side, "Although this is only four people, this is a lot of money." ”

"How. You've taken a fancy to their money, and you want to take it for yourself?" asked the robe on the side.

"Take it for yourself? I don't have that much ability! "The group didn't say how much money they carried, but they said that these horses were worth a lot of money.

"So what do you mean?"

"What is the current price of this war horse!" The captain of the city gate smiled and counted.

"Forty gold!" The robe on the side still knows a little bit of the market price.

"You're talking about inferior horses, which can only be used to carry things." The captain who opened his mouth smiled disdainfully, "These war horses, no matter how you say it, you have to have a hundred gold." Hey, you help me with the shift, and I'll be back when I go. ”

"What do you want to do? You don't really have the idea of fighting those war horses, do you? ”

"I don't do anything, even if these war horses are given to me, I'm too hot" These war horses together have five or six hundred gold, how dare he swallow a small captain, I don't know if the husband is not guilty, he left not to act on his own to ask the young man to bring the war horse into the city, but to report to a person.

"Is that true?" The city gate commander was reporting to a middle-aged man, although the middle-aged man was already middle-aged, but there was still a frivolous look on his face, and there was no trace of the steadiness of the middle-aged man.

"It's true, how dare the little one deceive the general, those war horses, all of them are high-headed horses, they all look like gods, and they all make Jean envy each other more than a god." The captain was reporting to one of his superiors.

This person is a 10,000-strong general in Xinye City, he is extremely greedy, his defense is the direction of the south gate, the war horse has always been a general can meet but not ask for something, a warlike horse can save lives, but unfortunately this person has never gotten any decent war horses, are either inferior horses, or ordinary horses, and now I actually heard from my subordinates that there are several good war horses appeared, and I am naturally excited.

"You know where they are!" Not only did he send horses, but even the commander General Wei Yan with him had few good war horses, if it was really as this captain said, then these war horses could not be said to be divided into the boss Wei Yan.

"They've gone into the city, it's supposed to be a guest house!" The Captain of the City Gate reported.

"Looking for an inn?" The middle-aged man muttered to himself and repeated, "Okay, you go and keep an eye on them, I'll be right away." ”

The young man and his party entered Xinye City, far away from the south gate of Xinye City, and the strong man next to the young man immediately opened his mouth and complained, "Lord, you are too kind to them, five thousand yuan, it costs five thousand yuan to walk through a city gate, why don't they rob it?" If you want me to say that I should have killed them just now, these insatiable villains. The strong man was very dissatisfied.

"Don't be impatient, don't be impatient." The young man was pacifying everyone, it was easy to kill the city gate guards, but once the matter happened, it was difficult to clean it up quickly, and the villain was easy to deal with, but I didn't know who was behind this villain, how to deal with it.

The young men had entered the city in the name of visiting their relatives, and they had to pay half a pen, but what if the others had entered the city. Isn't it more? In fact, young men they think too much. If it weren't for Liu Mang, there were few of them. And it's still an unfamiliar face, some other big businessmen don't dare to ask for five thousand dollars for a carriage for ten brave soldiers at the city gate, you must know that there are always some scholars behind these merchants.

"It's getting late, let's find a place to stay first!" Liu Mang led the war horse and walked in front.

"A few guest officers!" Soon the young man and the others found a place to stay, and a place called the Happo Inn was open, and they immediately greeted the young man and the others with fresh faces and horses.

"There are four of us, and we can arrange three upper rooms for us." The young man said to the shopkeeper.

"Howler! Three upper rooms! Guest officer, please inside! ”

Just when the young man and the others were about to teach the war horse to Xiao'er and let him take him into the backyard to entertain Mas for a good reception, something suddenly flew out of this Bafang Inn.

"My lord, be careful! There is a hidden weapon! The strong man on the side immediately ran to the young man's side to protect the young man's face. Young men don't stop either. Who can hurt himself in front of him?

Only then did the young man take a closer look, and it turned out that the hidden weapon in front of him was not anything else, but a person, a living person, who was moaning in pain on the ground.

"What's going on?" The young man frowned and asked when he saw the pain of the man lying on the ground.

"I sue you Liu Wu that even if your package is pressed on us, either you take the money to redeem it, or you will give me a fuck! What a thing, the hotel doesn't give money.! A man who looked like a housekeeper with a few servants behind him said disdainfully to the man who was thrown outside.

"Poor, poor! Thousands of family fortunes are scattered in one day. Xiao Er on the side saw the man who fell to the ground in front of him, and couldn't help but shake his head.

"What's wrong?" The young man asked, as if he had some interest.

"This master, this one who was thrown out is called Liu Wu. It's the mediocre person, who was originally a wealthy businessman. You said that he didn't bring a good mediocrity, but he was blinded by lard, and he came to us with all his net worth! ”

"Lard blinded to heart?" The young man on the side frowned even more: "How can lard be blinded, how can Shangyong City compare to the treatment and rights given to merchants in Yangzhou!" "Yangzhou is encouraged to bring all their wealth to Yangzhou to develop, not only halving the tax, but also giving the title of official businessman, so that they can have enough rights to sit on an equal footing with others, rather than blindly becoming the most humble businessman.

"He thinks so too, so he offended, Xinye's old man's Guo's family!" After Xinye became the territory of Yangzhou, the interests of the Guo family were not divided, but because Xinye was more stable, Liu Qi, the Taishou of Xinye, took pacification measures against the Guo family, making the Guo family more and more powerful.

The Guo family also has a few people who work in the government of Xinye City.

How did this Liu Wu get to such a field, it was because he Liu Wu really thought that the merchants in Yangzhou had returned home to be the masters, and thought that there was no need for the Shi clan to lower their heads and avoid the original trend.

So in these few business competitions, Liu Wu, a person without a background, contradicted the Guo family several times, and even didn't give the Guo family any face, originally because Xinye had just entered Yangzhou, so the Guo family was also low-key, and he didn't talk much with this Liu Wu, but some time ago, after Xinye Taishou disappeared for a long time, the Guo family finally showed his fangs.

Liu Wu's Wanguan net worth was confiscated by the Guo family at once.

The Guo family used various means, at first it was just to test Yangzhou's attitude towards businessmen, but later when they saw that Yangzhou did not react, it became the original set again.

What kind of person is his Guo family, he is a scholar clan, what are you Liu Wu, but he is just a lowly businessman, how can Liu Wu's Wanguan family wealth compare to the suppression of these scholars, and soon Liu Wu's family business collapsed.

Most of them were swallowed up by the Guo family, which is why Liu Wu was so miserable.

"Shouldn't this Liu Wu be an official businessman? How dare this Guo family do anything to Liu Wu? "Those who bring all their wealth to Yangzhou are rewarded by the Yangzhou government, and officials and businessmen are one of them.

"Officials and businessmen? Hehe, in name only, the quota of this official businessman has long been occupied by the Guo family! Where is his turn to get Liu Wu! "There are also quotas for officials and businessmen given by Yangzhou, that is, to encourage businessmen from other state capitals to come to Yangzhou to develop Yangzhou commerce. Only business developed. Naturally, it will drive Yangzhou's economy. There will be greater market returns if there are investors.

But now the official and commercial quotas in Xinye, those tax-exempt quotas and beneficial things are all occupied by the Guo family, they not only take the quota of officials and businessmen, but also use the interests in their own hands to deal with businessmen from other state capitals, these individuals were originally attracted by Yangzhou's policies, and they wanted to make a big show, but they didn't expect to be used by the Guo family. deceived the family property, or used strong means, or came secretly.

These businessmen who came to Yangzhou could only be miserable, because they all brought their entire net worth, but they didn't expect this to be a point of no return.

"The Guo family?" The young man read the name several more times. He remembered this Guo family.

"My lord? That Liu Wu? The strong man on the side asked the young man, as if he wanted to ask if he could help this Liu Wu. The young man waved his hand, and it was better to have more than one thing, and it was not appropriate to give birth to right and wrong.

"Child, please take our war horses to the backyard and feed them with good forage, and the money will be counted in our account books." The young man asked the strong man to take out another piece of gold and give it to Xiao'er, and Xiao Er smiled and was about to take the order.

"It doesn't have to be so troublesome!" A big grinning voice sounded behind Liu Mang: "These war horses, let General Ben take care of them." ”

"Huh?" Liu Mang turned his head. He saw an acquaintance, wasn't it the captain who was guarding the gate outside the city gate before.

The captain of the gatekeeper was standing beside the man on horseback. Looking at the appearance of this man on a war horse, it seems to be a character at the rank of a captain.

"The Guo family is here!" Xiao Er on the side said cautiously in a low voice.

"The Guo family?" The young man's brow furrowed even deeper.

"Who are you?" The young man asked the Yangzhou military general, who was riding on a horse.

"I'm Guo Yi, the garrison general of Xinye City!" This General Guo quickly reported his name.

"It turned out to be General Guo, I don't know if General Guo is looking for us and has important matters?" The young man stepped forward and asked.

"Where are you from?" This Guo Yi asked the young man.

"General Hui, we are from Jingzhou!"

"You're here to visit?"

"Yes!"

"What do your relatives do?" This Guo Yi asked the young man as if he was checking his household registration.

"My uncle just came to Shouchun to settle down, and we came to him when we knew the information."

"Oh that's good!" Guo Yi nodded.

"General, what do you mean?"

"It's okay, it's just that a few of my family's war horses were lost and came to search for them, don't you see that I found it!" Guo Yi is not a fool, if he was a fool, he would not have said so much to the young man at first, he said so much to visit the young man, now he knows that this person is from Jingzhou, if he is from other places Guo Yi can still be nervous, but Jingzhou does not need to be like this.

Now Jingzhou and Yangzhou are enemies, his former old club and the current old club are no longer allies, but enemies, Jingzhou Navy was wiped out by the Yangzhou Navy again, so Jingzhou is no longer much of a threat to Yangzhou, this is still coming to visit relatives, his relatives do not have much status in Yangzhou, it seems that at most it is just a vegetable in Yangzhou settled in the people.

"Fart! This is obviously our war horse! The man with a hideous face on the side immediately spoke angrily, these war horses were ridden all the way by them, how could they be Guo Yi's war horses." We just rode them! ”

"You said you rode these horses?" Guo Yi asked with a smile at the man with a scar on his face.

'Yes! We rode him into town! The man with a scar on his face explained.

"Then it's the best! As soon as my horse was lost, you rode on horseback, and now that I have stolen it, what do you want to say! ~" Guo Yi looked at the young man below, and a treacherous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Someone take them down for me!" (To be continued......)