Great Song Pirate

Chapter 273
Yue Fan was also very curious about Xu Yi's identity, so while toasting Xu Yi and the three of them, he asked Xu Yi: "Brother Xu, you are a businessman, but Brother Yang and Brother Li have such good skills." , and I think you should also have kung fu. Is it dangerous to be a businessman now? You have to use such a good skill to be a guardian. I think you are all so good, why not go too What about joining the army and serving the court? Do you have to be a businessman?"

Xu Yi saw that Yue Fan raised this question, and his mother-in-law was looking at him as if she wanted to know his thoughts, so he replied with a calm smile: "Brother Li Bo and Brother Zaixing are my brothers, they are not generals. Only after I came to the north this time did I realize how unsettled it is here. Fortunately, with them accompanying me, I was able to finish the business smoothly. It is indeed not very safe to do business now! As for what you said, we have skills and should serve the court , This is how I look at it. People have their own aspirations. Sometimes it is not necessary to serve the country by serving as a soldier. Businessmen are also serving the country. Apart from food and other things, which one is not the credit of the merchants? Merchants travel here and there, selling special products from all over the country to the whole country, which promotes the development of society, and most of the country's expenditures are paid by the taxes paid by the merchants. Confession, without the merchants in the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that we can no longer operate normally, so although we did not join the army, it does not necessarily mean that we did not serve the country. I wonder if my answer is satisfactory to you?"

Yue Fan seemed to understand what Xu Yi said, and scratched his head to think about it, while Yang Zaixing said: "Our innkeeper is right. Although martial arts is good, it should be used in the right way. It doesn't necessarily mean that you must join the army. Only then can we serve the country. Although our shopkeeper is a businessman, the government may not even be able to do the things he can do. He traveled all the way and saw that there are hungry people everywhere. How much have you done? Not only have I not heard that the government here takes in and relieves refugees, but instead treats them as scourges, either expelling them or massacring them. What about those soldiers? Could it be that they are serving the country? On the way back from Cizhou, we met a battalion of soldiers and horses. They said that they were soldiers and horses of our Great Song Dynasty, but they did not serve the country, but oppressed refugees, and even massacred refugees in the name of suppressing bandits. It wasn't our shopkeeper's quick wit, I'm afraid they would have killed us all, taken away our goods, and brought our heads to ask for credit and reward! If soldiers are like them, Yang would rather follow our shopkeeper's merchants , and I don’t want to be such a soldier!” After speaking, Yang Zaixing could not help but clenched his fists, with a look of resentment.

Li Bo didn't speak, but just sat aside and nodded, expressing his agreement with what Xu Yi and Yang Zaixing said.

Yue Fan was also furious when he heard that, he slapped the table and said angrily: "There is such a thing? Could it be that these soldiers are so lawless? If this is the case, then my brother will go to join the army. Can they get along with each other? That’s not okay, aunt, why don’t you just write a letter and let my brother come back, if according to Brother Xu and the others, I don’t think this soldier is a good soldier!”

After hearing what they said, the mother-in-law also had a worried look on her face. She had heard of this kind of thing, and she had also seen how the government, officers, soldiers, and wealthy families treated these refugees. Or do you want to buy it from the emperor's family and not let Yue Fei join the army?She didn't think so, but she still admired Xu Yi's views, and felt that Mr. Xu was a pretty good person.

Xu Yi saw that his mother-in-law was silent, so he comforted Yue Fan and said, "Although that's true, as I said just now, people have their own ambitions. Although there are still some officers and soldiers in the government today who are really bad, but our Great Song Army Not all of them are like this, and a country cannot be without an army for a day. I think with the character of Brother Yue, even if he joins the army, he can only be a loyal and patriotic general, and he will never join forces with those unscrupulous people , and only when people like Brother Yue become generals, can we keep our Great Song Dynasty from being bullied by foreign vassals. You don't have to worry about this matter, otherwise, I wouldn't have traveled all the way here to see Brother Yue !"

After listening to Xu Yi's words, Yue Fan felt a little relieved, as long as his elder brother was different from those people, it would be fine for him to be a general with his abilities!And the mother-in-law who was sitting on her hands also showed a smile. It seems that Mr. Xu really knows his son well!He said he had never met Yue Fei, so how could he be so sure that his son was not that kind of person?The mother-in-law really couldn't figure this out.

After the meal, Xu Yi bid farewell to his mother-in-law and Xiao Yueyun, who was reluctant to part with him, and took Li Bo and Yang Zaixing to leave Xiaoti Village. Waving to him at the entrance of the village, Xu Yi felt very uncomfortable.

During the meal, the mother-in-law was very moved when she saw how Xu Yi got along with Yue Yun and loved Yue Yun so much. She had the idea of ​​recognizing Yue Yun in front of Xu Yi and being his adopted son, but Xu Yi politely said Declined, his reason is very good, that is, he is just a businessman, and Yue Fei will be able to achieve great things in the future, if he becomes a high-ranking official, if Yue Yun realizes that he is an adopted son, it will inevitably humiliate the Yue family. No way, Yue Yun can call him uncle, he is already very satisfied, and his mother-in-law sees that he is determined, so she doesn't force her anymore.

In fact, it's not that Xu Yi doesn't want to recognize Yue Yun, but he really doesn't dare. He knows his identity, and he is afraid that he will give Yue Fei his identity because of his identity. His weaknesses have framed him, and now he even wants to find a chance to find that Qin Hui first and get rid of him, so that he will not frame Yue Fei in the future, but he also understands that this is currently impossible, not to mention that it is not easy for him to kill him now. Qin Hui, even if he could be killed, there is no reason to kill him now. After all, Qin Hui's betrayal was after he was captured by the Jinren, so he can still be regarded as a loyal minister now!And after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, even if he killed Qin Hui now, I am afraid that the Jin people will still come up with a new Qin Hui, and he can kill him, no matter what!
After leaving Xiaoti Village, Yang Zaixing also bid farewell to Xu Yi and left for a while. He went back to his former residence and hometown, and relied on his popularity to find some of his childhood friends and put them under Xu Yi's subordinates. Wu Zhifeng has been said since ancient times that military generals come from the north and talents come from the south. Although they are both from the Song Dynasty, the Song people in the north are still stronger than those in the south, especially the Tangyin generation, whose folk customs are even more sturdy , Many common people like to practice martial arts and keep fit, so Yang Zaixing made this trip, and the dozen or so brothers he found were all in good health, powerful in martial arts, and all of them had good kung fu. These personal guards are not bad at all, and the basic skills are much more solid, which makes Xu Yi very happy again, and also dilutes the feeling of worry when he said goodbye to Xiao Yueyun.

Everyone has their own destiny, and sometimes it may not be easy for one person to change. There is still a long way to go, so let's take it one step at a time!As long as he deposits more power now, if it doesn't work, when Zhao Gou's son and Qin Hui's old thief want to murder the Yue family, he will take his brothers to rob the Yue family and his son at worst!Anyway, he can't do anything now!Xu Yi is not a person who likes to dig into the horns, so he quickly dismissed this matter.

After they left Tangyin, they didn't delay any more, and hurried all the way to the ferry of the Yellow River, that is, Zhengzhou area. Because there were a lot of them on the way, although they walked slowly, they were not harassed by small groups of rogues. The long-eyed guy came out to rob the road, and was immediately dealt with easily by Gao Jun or Yang Zaixing, without posing any threat at all.

The ferry of the Yellow River is very busy, because there are no bridges on the Yellow River in this era, and all the ferry boats on both sides of the Yellow River used to ferry across the Yellow River, so the ferry industry on both sides of the Yellow River is still quite developed, relying on this ferry industry. There are few people, and a market town has spontaneously formed here, called Dukou Town. There are many ferry market towns like the ones on both sides of the Yellow River. Without them, I really don’t know what they would look like.

When they arrived at Dukou Town, everyone stopped, and what Xu Yi had discussed with those iron merchants in Wu'an was to deliver goods here, so he had to leave someone here to take care of this matter, so he called to accompany him When Li Bo came back, he asked him if there was any business of the Li family here. Li Bo replied that there was no business of the Li family here, but because of the business exchanges between the north and the south, the Li family still had some staff and acquaintances here. There are several, Xu Yi felt relieved after hearing what he said.

After discussing with Li Bo and others, he decided to keep a few smart and down-to-earth brothers here, and rent a large courtyard in the town to be responsible for receiving and transferring goods. After observing all the way, Xu Yi In the end, Xie Bin was chosen to stay in charge of this matter, and he also found Lei Tong, and asked him to arrange two loyal apprentices to stay here as well, to be responsible for inspecting the goods, so as to prevent the iron and steel supplied by the iron dealer from being mixed with unsatisfactory items. This kind of thing has to be guarded against. There is no such talent among Xu Yi's brothers. Lei Tong nodded in response, and picked out two caring apprentices to stay, which solved Xu Yi's problem.

After arranging this matter, Xu Yi took everyone on board and sailed towards the south bank of the Yellow River.

(The hard disk of the computer crashed yesterday! It took me a long day to save the manuscript, which delayed the update time, and there were fewer updates yesterday. Today is the third update! There will be another update tonight!)

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