Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

"This~~" Luo An thought for a while with some entanglement, and said: "If it is only a small amount, then you can still get it by spending more money, but if it is a large amount, you may need to find those big cloth merchants!"

The Luo family is also a big cloth merchant, but the Luo family's cloth business is mainly in Chongshan Town.

In Jing'an Prefecture, the Luo family can only be regarded as a small cloth merchant.

"The general needs a lot of cotton cloth, the more the better!" Wu Zhan said in a deep voice.

Luo An naturally knew who the general Wu Zhan was talking about, but he still said helplessly: "Master Wu, I really have no choice. I am humble and can't be in charge of such a big business."

He is just a shopkeeper. Although Luo Shang has told him to spare no effort to help the Yang family, his spare no effort is at most within the scope of the Luo family store. Outside the Luo family, he is just a shopkeeper.

"Unless the boss can come, but the boss is now in Chongshan Pass, and it may take six or seven days to come!"

Wu Zhan frowned.

Wait for Luo Shang to come, and then let Luo Shang go to discuss the business. After the business is settled, the cotton cloth will be transported to Tenglongwei. This will take at least half a month.

This is still a smooth situation. If it is not smooth, it may not be done in a month.

Wu Zhan felt that this matter could not wait for Luo Shang to deal with it. He had to find a way himself.

After thinking for a moment, Wu Zhan said: "You first send a message to Luo Dongjia, saying that the general wants to see him and ask him to go to Tenglongwei."

"Okay!" Luo An quickly agreed, but said: "What about the cotton cloth?"

Wu Zhan said: "I will visit a few fellows first to see if they have any way. If there is anything I need your help, I will come to you again!"

"Okay, I will stay here all the time. If Master Wu wants to find me, just come here directly!" Luo An said.

If other people come to do this, they may return empty-handed.

But Wu Zhan is different. He was a disciple of the Tianqing Sword Sect. He had traveled in the world and knew many people in the world.

Jing'an Prefecture is not far from the Tianqing Sword Sect, and the Tianqing Sword Sect still has some face here.

So Wu Zhan plans to find some connections in the martial arts world first to see if there is any way to buy cotton cloth.

Don't underestimate the people of the martial arts world. From the temple to the mountains and fields, there are people of the martial arts world.

The relationships that merchants need to manage are not only officials, but also the forces of the martial arts world.

There are several martial arts forces in Jing'an Prefecture, and the most famous one is the Jing'an Shang Family.

The Shang Family is a martial arts family that has been passed down for hundreds of years, but the Shang Family seems to have always been tepid. Although it has been passed down for a long time, it is not the top martial arts force in the entire Liaodong region, and it is not even as good as the Tianqing Sword Sect.

The Tianqing Sword Sect has some friendship with the Shang Family, and one of the friendships seems to be worth gossiping about.

It is said that Shang Mingde, the head of the Shang Family, pursued Hua Jinqiu when he was young and almost married Hua Jinqiu home.

However, Wu Zhan is not sure whether this gossip is true, he just heard about it.

After a little preparation, Wu Zhan went to the Shang family with a visiting card.

The Shang family has a mansion in the city, but most of the Shang family members live in Ancheng County in the south of Jing'an Prefecture. Shang Mingde often lives in the mansion in the city.

Today Shang Mingde happened to be in the Shang family's mansion.

Seeing Wu Zhan's visiting card, Shang Mingde felt a little confused.

"Wu Zhan? Is there such a person in the Tianqing Sword Sect?"

It's not his fault that he is ignorant. It's really that Wu Zhan's reputation in the world is too small, or he has no reputation at all.

Although Wu Zhan had traveled abroad before, he was just a small warrior at that time and didn't make a name for himself in the world.

And Wu Zhan has been staying in the Yang family for the past few years, so his reputation is even less prominent.

Shang Mingde thought about it and felt that it would be better to meet Wu Zhan.

Although he had never heard of Wu Zhan's name, the Shang family and the Tianqing Sword Sect had a deep friendship.

Especially after Hua Jinqiu became the head, he personally went to Tianqing Sword Sect to congratulate, but Hua Jinqiu was not willing to pay attention to him.

Soon he arranged for the servants to invite Wu Zhan to the hall.

"Junior Wu Zhan greets Senior Shang!" Wu Zhan clasped his fists and said.

Shang Mingde looked at him, looked at the sword on his body, and showed a gentle smile on his face.

There was the symbol of Tianqing Sword Sect on Wu Zhan's sword. Although this could not guarantee that Wu Zhan was a disciple of Tianqing Sword Sect, it was at least a proof.

"So it was nephew Wu, haha, I wonder which senior brother nephew Wu came here on behalf of?"

Wu Zhan also knew that he was just an unknown person, and Shang Mingde would definitely not know him, so he said: "Master Su Kun, but this junior is not here on the order of my master, but on the order of Lord Yang, the commander of Tenglong Guard!"

Shang Mingde was stunned at first, and then he thought of who Lord Yang was.

It was no secret that Yu Qingyi married Yang Zhengshan. Most of the underworld forces in Liaodong knew about it. Not only did they know about it, but the marriage also caused quite a stir in Liaodong underworld.

A woman from underworld married a third-rank guard commander, which aroused the gossip of many people.

Some people envied, some were jealous, some were optimistic, some ridiculed, some thought it was a good thing, and some were waiting to see Yu Qingyi's joke.

At that time, many people thought that Yu Qingyi was marrying above her station, and they also thought that Yu Qingyi's life in the Yang family would definitely not be easy.

But as time went by, those who were waiting to see Yu Qingyi's joke were left with only envy and jealousy.

Yu Qingyi not only lived well in the Yang family, but also passed on the family lineage to the Yang family, and her position as the mistress of the Yang family was firmly established.

Shang Mingde naturally knew the origins of the Tianqing Sword Sect and the Yang family, so when Wu Zhan mentioned Lord Yang, he thought of Yang Zhengshan.

"Is Master Wu here on Lord Yang's orders?" he asked uncertainly.

"That's right!" Wu Zhan smiled and said, "But Lord Yang didn't ask the junior to come to visit the senior, he just asked the junior to come to Jing'an Mansion to buy a batch of cotton cloth!"

Shang Mingde suddenly realized, and he said that their Shang family had no friendship with Yang Zhengshan, so why would Yang Zhengshan send someone to visit?

"As for cotton cloth, our Shang family does have a batch. If the general needs it, our Shang family is naturally willing to support it!"

It was just cotton cloth, not something expensive, so there was no reason for him to refuse such a small matter.

But the batch he said was obviously not of the same order as the batch Wu Zhan said.

Yang Zhengshan wanted cotton cloth that could meet the needs of tens of thousands of people for the winter, which would require tens of thousands of pieces of cloth.

The Shang family had a lot of business, but they were only doing small business in the cloth business, not as good as the Luo family's cloth shop business in Jing'an Prefecture. So the batch of cotton cloth he mentioned was at most a few hundred pieces.

Wu Zhan was naturally aware of the situation, and he whispered: "The general wants to purchase cotton cloth for the military households of Tenglong Guard, and the quantity required may be relatively large!"

Shang Mingde paused, thinking that he seemed to have lost his mind just now.

Since Wu Zhan was helping Yang Zhengshan, it was naturally not a trivial matter.

If it was just a few hundred pieces of cotton cloth, Wu Zhan would not have come to their Shang family for help, but if it was a large amount of cotton cloth, their Shang family seemed unable to take it out.

"This, our Shang family's cloth shop business is very small!"

"Junior knows, so junior would like to ask Senior Shang to help contact the big cloth merchants in Jing'an City!" Wu Zhan said.

"Is that so? Haha, that's easy to say!" Shang Mingde was relieved immediately. It was just a matter of matchmaking. It was easy to do.

Shang Mingde was still very positive about being able to help Yang Zhengshan.

Yang Zhengshan was a general appointed by the emperor himself and the commander of the third-rank Tenglong Guard. In the eyes of the Shang family, he was also a big shot.

More importantly, Yang Zhengshan was also from Jing'an Prefecture and was from the same hometown as the Shang family.

Shang Mingde had long wanted to get in touch with Yang Zhengshan, but he had never found a suitable opportunity. Now that the opportunity was at his doorstep, he naturally had no reason to refuse.

Then Shang Mingde took Wu Zhan out to visit several large cloth merchants in Jing'an City without saying a word.

Although Wu Zhan was usually careless and looked like a free and easy traveler, he was a very opinionated person.

He did not become restrained because Yang Zhengshan did not give him specific orders, asking for instructions on everything and waiting for Yang Zhengshan's orders, but took the initiative to negotiate prices with several large cloth merchants.

In terms of price, the price of cotton cloth supplied by the Luo family to Tenglongwei is actually based on the market price, so Wu Zhan also negotiated with several large cloth merchants based on the price of cotton cloth supplied by the Luo family.

Several large cloth merchants wanted to raise the price at first. After all, such a large amount of cotton cloth was sent to Tenglongwei, and the price of cotton cloth in Jing'an City would definitely rise. It is understandable that they wanted to take the opportunity to raise the price.

However, with Shang Mingde mediating, and knowing that the seller was Yang Zhengshan, they gave up raising the price.

The Shang family is a martial arts family in Jing'an Prefecture, but the Yang family is also an official family in Jing'an Prefecture. If there is a family ranking in Jing'an Prefecture, the Lu family is still the well-deserved first, but the second must be the Anning Yang family.

Shang Mingde's face must be given, but the face of the Yang family must also be given.

Moreover, these large cloth merchants all know that Yang Zhengshan is behind Luo Shang, and the Luo family became a wealthy businessman in Chongshan Town because of Yang Zhengshan's support.

They also want to use this opportunity to get in touch with Yang Zhengshan.

In just two days, several big cloth merchants collected 10,000 pieces of cotton cloth and transported them to Tenglongwei.

At this time, Yang Zhengshan didn't know what Wu Zhan did in Jing'an City. If he knew, he would definitely praise Wu Zhan.

The heavy snow fell intermittently for three days, and it finally stopped today.

Although Yang Zhengshan had long ordered each thousand households to reinforce the houses of the military households, and also asked Xie Yuan to go out to inspect the reinforcement of the houses, many military households' houses were still collapsed by the heavy snow.

A foot thick snow is a snowstorm for the entire Tenglongwei.

The military households, who have been poor for a long time, are simply unable to resist such natural disasters.

The problem caused by the collapse of houses is not as simple as having no place to live.