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At that time, the hoard in our hands will really be thrown on the ground and no one will pick it up!How about...or should we sell it to them at the purchase price of Huajiabao? "

Li Siyuan said with a cold face: "What's the hurry? It's not certain whether these people will accept the price offered by Huajiabao! Even if they reach a deal, we can't mess it up!"

The transaction went very quickly and smoothly. The merchants accepted the price offered by Huajiabao, and the two sides immediately counted the types and quantities of the animals, as well as the leather and wool goods brought by the accompanying carts.

Less than half an hour later, the transaction between the two parties was completed. The people of Huajiabao drove the cattle and sheep to the large sheepfold and cowshed at the rear, and put the fur and wool into the yurt for storage.

The merchants immediately asked the accompanying guards to load the money currently loaded into the carriage, and then drove the carriage to the north.

Seeing this scene, the merchants in Suiyang City felt even more heavy.

Not long after, two more groups of merchants came from the north with large herds of cattle and sheep, and carriages full of furs and woolen goods. The transaction was completed before the sky darkened.

"What should we do?" Wool merchant Wei Zhi asked worriedly, he was a little bit impatient and impatient.

Li Siyuan frowned and said, "Be safe and don't be impatient. Only three groups of businessmen have come here, so you can't hold your breath anymore?"

Yu Ce, a wool merchant, stomped his feet and said, "It's not that we are impatient, you have also seen that three batches of merchants came in a row and quickly concluded a deal with Huajiabao, which shows that they agree with the price offered by Huajiabao. This shows that the price in the north is much lower than the price given by Huajiabao, otherwise, how could they sell the livestock and furs to them? What I am worried about now is that after tonight, Huajiabao will cut the price again tomorrow, and no one will buy it. I won't buy our livestock and furs anymore, and the stock in our hands will become stinky shit!"

These words made the mood of other merchants even worse.

Wang Guiyuan looked at the crowd and asked, "Everyone, why don't we also set up a point ahead to buy the livestock and furs of merchants from the north?"

Immediately someone asked: "Do you still have working capital? Even if you do, what do you plan to do with more livestock and furs? Who will you sell them to? Who will want them?"

Wang Guiyuan immediately fell silent.

"Everyone listen to my advice, hold on for two days and wait, if the situation is still the same on the third day, let's take action!"

Chapter 61

For the next two consecutive days, Hua Mulan kept her composure. Every day, several groups of people pretended to be businessmen from the north came to conduct transactions with a large number of livestock and a carriage full of furs, and successfully deceived the people in Suiyang City. Merchants, and the prices are lowered every day.

On the third day, the purchase price of Huajiabao dropped to [-] yuan for a sheep and [-] yuan for a cow. Li Siyuan and his group of merchants in Suiyang City finally couldn't stand it any longer. , and sold all the livestock, fur goods and woolen materials in his hand to the purchase point of Huajiabao.

Hong Fugui, who had just completed the transaction and was instructing his servants to load boxes of money onto chariots and horses, saw Liu Guang riding a horse coming from a distance, immediately went up to salute and said, "Master, why are you here?"

Liu Guang reined in his horse and said: "The new army member is very strict with his official duties. I went to the posts below to watch the postmen for drills. I just came back! What are you doing?"

Hong Fugui sighed: "Master, I don't know. The market for livestock and furs has not been very good recently, and the prices have been going down. We have too many livestock and furs in our hands, and the capital turnover is not good. In order to avoid bigger losses The loss has to be dealt with at a low price. Look, the entire Suiyang City livestock and fur merchants are here!"

Liu Guang was a little surprised and said, "Oh? Who is this rich and powerful who wants to eat all the livestock and furs in Suiyang City?"

"Hua Mulan from Huajiabao! Look, isn't this coming out of it?" Hong Fugui pointed at Hua Mulan who came out of the purchase point.

Liu Guang looked forward and saw Hua Mulan in men's clothing, but the man beside Hua Mulan made his eyes freeze, and asked involuntarily, "Why is he beside Hua Mulan?"

Hong Fugui said: "You are talking about Zhao Junsheng, right? The two of them are good friends, and it's normal to be together! Why, the master knows him?"

Before Liu Guang could speak, Zhao Junsheng saw him first, walked over with Hua Mulan and asked, "Liu Lingshi, why are you here?"

Liu Guang was originally displeased with Zhao Junsheng, and relying on his uncle being the county magistrate, he was not afraid of him, and the smell of gunpowder became strong as soon as he opened his mouth: "My subordinates are in Zheyi, [-] miles away, to urge the postmen to practice. They just returned, but they joined the army. Shouldn't you be on duty at the Yamen right now? Why are you here?"

Zhao Junsheng immediately put on a straight face, put on his official authority and shouted: "Where did I go and what did I do, do I need to report to your subordinate? You just said that you were in Zheyi to supervise the drill of the postmen? You will run away before the application time." I'm back, I think you are a typical representative of leisure and hard work! You should immediately write a letter of repentance to the official back to the yamen. If you don't understand your mistakes deeply, then continue to write until you deeply understand your mistakes! If you don't want to write, you can do it tomorrow You won’t be on duty in the Yamen anymore!”

As the saying goes, the first level of officials crushes people to death, which is fully reflected in this feudal era!Regardless of whether it is the county government or the prefect's mansion, except for a few main officials who are officially appointed by the imperial court, other officials have no establishment. They are all hired by these imperial officials. In the hands of prefects and county magistrates, and the appointment and dismissal of Lingshi, Lingshi, and officials at the bottom is in the hands of their immediate superiors, joining the army. Yes, you can be dismissed without even looking for a reason.

"You're ruthless!" Liu Guang couldn't hold back, and ran away on horseback without saying a word of ruthlessness.

Hong Fugui didn't expect that the young man next to Hua Mulan turned out to be his master's immediate boss, so he hurriedly apologized and left in a hurry.

Hua Mulan said at this time: "This Liu Guang seems to be the nephew of Wu Zhen, the county magistrate, right? Are you afraid of offending Wu Zhen if you punish him like this?"

Zhao Junsheng shook his head and said: "There is no need to worry. My official position was appointed by General Wan. I was born to stand on the opposite side of Wu Zhen, the prefect. I have to be laid off! Officialdom is not so easy to mess with!"

"Laid off?" Hua Mulan was full of doubts.

"Uh..." Zhao Junsheng came to his senses and quickly explained, "It's because he was dismissed!"

"Okay, your strategy has worked. I believe that within two days, the price of livestock fur in all cities in Henan will drop further, so you are ready to make a big purchase."

, I'm still busy with the yamen and the establishment of a leather goods factory, so I'm leaving first! "

"Okay, slow down!" Hua Mulan couldn't help shouting after watching Zhao Junsheng gallop away on horseback.

After Zhao Junsheng bid farewell to Mulan, he rode his horse into the city and saw several people kneeling on the ground at the gate of the city. These people all had a straw stuck in their heads.

At this time, a rather familiar face appeared in Zhao Junsheng's sight. He reined in his horse and jumped off, leading the horse to these prostitutes who were kneeling on the ground, looked at one of them and said in surprise: "Uncle Liang, you... What are you doing here?"

A little boy with a grass sign on his head, squatting beside him are a frail middle-aged man in his 30s. The middle-aged man has a messy bun on the top of his head, and a few strands of long hair hang down from his temples. He looks quite tired and haggard.

This person's surname is Liang, and his name is Ji. He was a member of the scout battalion where Zhao Junsheng's grandfather Zhao Gui was, and he was responsible for recording military achievements. After leaving his hometown, Zhao Gui often walked around when he was alive. When Zhao Gui passed away, Liang Ji also came to help with the burial matters. He hasn't been here for the past two months. Judging by his current appearance, Zhao Junsheng knows that their family must Something went wrong.

Hearing the sound, Liang Ji raised his head to look at Zhao Junsheng, with a hint of shame and embarrassment on his face, and said in a hoarse voice: "Brother Jun? I made you laugh. Uncle Liang is ashamed, ashamed!"

Zhao Junsheng quickly knelt down and pointed at the little boy and asked, "Uncle Liang, is this the younger brother? What's the matter with you? How did you end up in this situation?"

Liang Ji sighed: "There was a flood at home, all the crops, fields and houses were washed away, there was no harvest, and there was no place to stay! There are many children in the family, and your aunt suddenly became seriously ill. In order to treat your aunt, we had no choice but to It has to be like this!"

As Liang Ji spoke, tears appeared in the corners of his eyes, and Zhao Junsheng suddenly felt his nose sore. Although Liang Ji was only responsible for recording military achievements in the army, is it possible for ordinary people to be a member of the scout battalion?This man can be regarded as a man with strong bones and blood licked by the knife head. If there is no other way, how can he fall into the situation of selling his sons and daughters?

"No matter how hard life is, I can't sell my little brother!" After Zhao Junsheng finished speaking, he grabbed the straw mark on the little boy's head and threw it on the ground, picked him up and put him on the horse's back, and pulled Liang Ji up again, saying: "Let's go, let's go to the house with my nephew to eat something, let's find a way together!"

Zhao Junsheng dragged Liang Ji and his son to the house, and shouted after entering the backyard: "Uncle Hua, look who I brought!"

Hua Hu walked out of the room holding the auxiliary walking frame with both hands and under Hua Yuan's care. When she saw Liang Ji appearing in front of her eyes, she was excited and hurried forward while holding the walking frame, "Liang Ji, you... ··You came!"

Liang Ji didn't expect to see Hua Hu here, seeing that he had trouble walking and seemed to be sick, so he hurried forward and said, "Hua Bingtou, long time no see, what are you..."

The two got together for a while, sighing, and sat down to talk about their encounters over the years.

Zhao Junsheng hurried to collect food, wine and meat, and quickly set up a table, and invited the two to the table. He accompanied them and poured wine for them. Liang Ji's son Liang Yi was holding a big bowl and gobbling it up, obviously hungry. broken.

After a few glasses of wine, Huahu figured out the reason why Liang Ji brought his son here, and immediately scolded him for selling his son.

"Cough cough!" Zhao Junsheng coughed twice, and said to Liang Ji and Hua Hu, "Uncle Liang, I am planning to set up a leather garment factory recently, which is to collect leather goods first, and then make them into leather garments after preliminary processing. The labor required must be determined." Quite a lot, but I'm working in the government now, and I don't have much energy to take care of it, so I need to find a trustworthy person to preside over it. I want to ask Uncle Liang to come and help me. The other younger brothers and sisters also took over and rented a house nearby to settle down. The genius doctor Zhang who treated Uncle Hua is very skilled in medicine, I will invite him to come over to show my aunt, what do you think?"

Chapter 62

Seeing that Liang Ji was a little embarrassed to agree, Hua Hu immediately patted him on the shoulder and said, "Junsheng is my son-in-law and your nephew, and he is not an outsider. That's it! Doctor Zhang won't let me drink. Happy to have a cup with you, come come!"

Zhao Junsheng also picked up his wine glass and said to Liang Ji, "Uncle Liang, my nephew respects you!"

After drinking, Zhao Junsheng took out a gold cake from his bosom and stuffed it in Liang Ji's hand, saying, "Uncle Liang, my aunt's medical treatment costs money, renting a house here costs money, brothers and sisters need to eat and buy clothes You have to spend money too, you take the flowers for this pancake first, if it’s not enough, I’ll take it later!”

"Isn't this the money Mulan gave Junsheng to eat?" Huahu muttered secretly after seeing it, but she loved her son-in-law more and more in her heart, especially in terms of life, which is not something ordinary young people can do.

Liang Ji pondered for a while, and said to Zhao Junsheng and Hua Hu, "Since Hua Bingtou and Brother Jun think highly of me, Liang Ji, and also think of the brotherhood between me and your grandfather, they are willing to give my Liang family a way to survive. Just accept it. But we have to follow the rules, from now on, my Liang family will be attached to the Zhao family, and if the Zhao family prospers, the Liang family will prosper; if the Zhao family is defeated, the Liang family will be defeated!"