Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 131 Despised
Cheng Ji came out of Wuyang Thousand Households in a daze, his mind was full of words such as wheat, potatoes, and agents, and he almost couldn't tell the difference between south, east, and north——this shows that Yang Menglong is really good at deceiving people. Fudge people alive!The servants looked at him worriedly, worried for him.After he got into the carriage, the oldest servant finally couldn't help but speak: "Master, you are throwing all your wealth into Wuyang, isn't it too risky? What if..."

Cheng Ji stopped and said, "There is no chance, I know it will work this time!"

The famous family Ding said: "But we can't see how capable that Lord Yang is. If he puts all his eggs in one basket, if he fails..."

Cheng Ji said: "If I fail, it can only be regarded as God will kill me! Master Yang's plan is very detailed and feasible, he is very confident, so I have confidence in him." He clenched his fists, "Because there is no A decent food source, I get angry everywhere, and my father doesn't look at me at all, this time I must make him look at me with admiration!"

The famous man Ding hesitated to speak, and finally swallowed the words on his lips, sighed, and stopped talking, and Cheng Ji couldn't listen to it.Cheng Ji is a son of a concubine, the master was drunk and sexually involuntary, and was born to a maidservant with a humble background. Naturally, his family background cannot be compared with that of the eldest son born to his wife. .Now that Mr. Cheng is getting old, he has handed over the business to him and his elder brother. The several better food sources in the Cheng family's hands have all been given to the young master, while he only gets a sum of money and has no source of food. , can only run around in Zhili in the north and south, looking for food sources.Now that there is a shortage of food everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, how easy is it to find an ideal food source?Despite his painstaking efforts, after several years, there is still no improvement. On the contrary, it is the young master who has done a prosperous business. The old man is full of praise for the eldest son. Higher.Now that the opportunity came, he bet all his wealth without hesitation, as if he was putting all his eggs in one basket.However, it was not without reason that he dared to put all his eggs in one basket.Yang Menglong built waterwheels, dug deep wells, prepared pesticides, used chickens and ducks to eradicate locusts, opened free schools, and a series of effective actions gave him great confidence. The entire Nanyang Prefecture was devastated by drought and pests. Only the Wuyang Thousand Households Office has achieved a bumper harvest. He believes that the investment in the Wuyang Thousand Households Office will return a rich return sooner or later.This is the case with investing. When you find a potential stock, you must start as soon as possible. If you hesitate to wait and see, until the potential stock becomes a bullish stock, you may not have a chance to make a move.

Watching Cheng Ji go away, Xiao Yufang tugged on Yang Menglong's sleeve worriedly: "You...you want so much money from someone all at once, is it really all right?" The biggest sum of money was only a few hundred taels of silver, and Cheng Ji threw tens of thousands of taels all at once, which frightened her.

Yang Menglong smiled and said, "What's the problem?"

Xiao Yufang said: "If you take other people's money, what will you do if you don't have that much food to give them?"

Yang Menglong said: "If I dare to take his money, I am not afraid that there will be no food for him! Don't worry, it's fine. If you really can't pay it back, at worst, let him sell my flesh to pay off the debt."

Xiao Yufang glared at him: "You man! I'm so restless, you still have the mood to make such jokes, heartless!"

The leader of Yang Meng smiled, turned around and walked in, muttering as he walked: "This is all right, the wages of the craftsmen have been settled, the gap in funds for the steelmaking plant has been filled, and the funds for reclamation of military fields have also been settled. If there is surplus, we can build another free school, two bathhouses... Yeah, it feels so good to be rich! Money is enough, money is enough..."

Xiao Yufang plugged her ears reflexively to prevent the magic sound from entering her ears.This guy, every time he makes money, he must hum a few words, just sing, and he is still incomplete. Hearing this, she has the urge to jump into the river. As a conditioned reflex, as soon as I saw Yang Menglong singing, I immediately plugged my ears. That movement was definitely at sub-light speed.Yang Menglong was a little annoyed that everyone was so disrespectful, but thinking that he was really not suitable for singing, let's forget it.

Cheng Ji moved very quickly, and after only three days, he sent over 5000 taels of cash, and said that he was looking for a buyer. He sold his properties in major cities one by one, and returned the funds. Buy the taste of leaving hands.With such a large amount of money, Yang Menglong was naturally overjoyed. With this money, he can do many, many things!
Well, so far, everything is going well, Yang Menglong does have reason to be proud, but then he will not be proud, because God will not let a person be proud for a long time.

After several days of intense labor, the work of harvesting wheat was successfully completed, and a total of 4 shi of wheat was harvested. More than [-] mu of land, with only such a small output, would definitely make people laugh out loud in modern times, but considering that this is the Little Ice Age and natural disasters frequently occurred, this output is already considered good, at least for military households to eat After the meal is full, there is still a little food sold outside, earning a few small money to support the family.Yang Menglong can barely accept it, this year is just like this, and next year he will work harder to make a big ticket, and strive to live a good life lying on the pile of money as soon as possible.As a rich second generation who was born with a golden key in his mouth and has never been short of money since he was a child, he was almost driven crazy by the pain of lack of money during this period of time, and he never wanted to try this kind of taste again.

The ideal is full, but the reality is as thin as a stick.

"Go away, go away!"

Smoke and dust suddenly rose on the avenue, and twenty or thirty fast horses were blowing with the wind. Along the avenue, the knights on the horses looked arrogant and fierce, and looked at no one. They ignored the countless military households on the avenue who were carrying straw. Again and again, many people were almost trampled.This group of crabs in bright clothes and angry horses rushed all the way, came to Wuyang Thousand Households, and reined in the horses.The middle-aged man who took the lead, with a skinny face and barely shaved flesh, stroked his sparse beard, looked at the newly renovated Qianhusuo, and cast his greedy eyes on the lush greenery in the military field in the distance. Crop, with small eyeballs rolling around, suddenly laughed strangely: "It's interesting, it's interesting! At first, some people said that these poor soldiers were digging deep wells and building waterwheels, and they took care of the military fields. Very good, I still don't believe it, but now it seems that they have indeed worked out a little way."

A red-clothed warrior next to the thin man laughed, "It's true, this time we must let them bleed a lot!"

Another red-clothed warrior said: "That's right! The guy surnamed Zhang was unlucky, he died in Dingxing, and replaced him with an elm-headed stunned young man who didn't take us adults seriously at all. Li, I have been in office for several months and I haven’t visited you, so it’s impossible not to give him a little color! In my opinion, it’s best to take away all his harvest this year and ask for all his property. Find him a few more mistakes and punish him harshly, let him know who is in charge in Nanyang!"

The thin man waved his hand and said, "You can't say that, this Yang Qianhu is a little bit capable, we..." He was interrupted by a roar when he was halfway speaking: "Which bastard is in Lao Tzu's territory?" Go on a rampage and knock down so many people? Get out!"

The handsome man was stunned for a moment, and looked away, only to see a few straight-faced men striding towards them, followed by a group of military households... The clothes worn by the military households were still intact, with few patches , It seems that they have only worn new clothes for two or three months.The leader is a big boy of eighteen or nineteen years old, with a weird cut-cut head, and underneath is a round, happy baby face, but now this baby face has swollen, angry, staring. Looking at this group of knights in fresh clothes and angry horses, they looked like they were about to kill someone.On the left side of him is a baby face dressed in a hundred households, about 20 years old, squinting at the thin man, with a cynical smile on the corner of his mouth, he can tell it is a headache at a glance, and on the right is a muscular face The simple and honest man looks cute, but his fist the size of a vinegar bowl is not cute at all.There are several tall men behind them, all dressed in the same color, with a three-foot long knife on their shoulders, and a short knife pinned to the outside of their right thigh. Very dissatisfied, he may draw a knife and cut people at any time.

The thin man was stunned for a moment, seeing that these guys were all dressed in military households, he immediately resumed his usual arrogance, pointed his riding whip at the baby's face, and shouted arrogantly: "I am the aide of Liu Jintang, the commander of Nanyang Guards, you Is it a military household from the Wuyang Qianhu Office? Tell you, Lord Qianhu, to come out and speak!"

Babyface put his hands on his waist, and said in a bad tone: "I am the commander of Wuyang Guard, Yang Menglong! You are so brave, you dare to gallop on Laozi's territory and hurt so many people, we have the debt Forget it!"

"Commander of Wuyang Guard?" The thin staff member looked at Yang Menglong with the urge to laugh wildly, and asked mockingly, "Boy, what did you say you were just now?"

Yang Menglong said: "Commander of Wuyang Guard! He was personally appointed by the Ministry of War. Why, do you have any objections?"

The thin man laughed maniacally: "Wuyangwei...hahaha, Wuyangwei! It's so ridiculous...hahaha..." Holding his belly on the horse's back, he leaned forward and backward laughing, and he might fall off at any time.He was not bad, but the performance of the group of knights behind him was exaggerated. They all laughed so hard that they might fall off at any time.The thick-browed and big-mouthed warrior who was following the skinny man pointed at Yang Menglong and gasped with a smile: "Wuyangwei...hahaha...one only has to go to Mr. Liu's house every three days or so to ask grandpa to tell grandma to get some money and food to pass the day The leader of the beggar, actually dared to call himself the commander of a guard, it is really ridiculous..."

Yang Menglong glared at the group of guys who were laughing until tears came out, his complexion became darker and darker, and even Wang Tiechui, Xue Siming, Xu Gong, Jiang Zheng and others who were following him also looked very ugly.They were despised, despised by others collectively.

(End of this chapter)