The most unlucky crossing in history

The night breeze was slightly cool, and the night in the south of the Yangtze River in May was the most refreshing, without a trace of cloud and mist, but Zhong Qiyun always felt that there was a layer of fog in his heart.

In front of the gate of the other courtyard, it has been quiet for a long time.

Xie Wenyuan lowered his eyes, removed Zhong Qiyun's hand without a trace, and said, "Brother Zhong is drunk."

Zhong Qiyun's eyes widened suddenly, his breathing became chaotic, and he suddenly realized what he said in a flash of heat, and the palm that just touched Xie Wenyuan's cheek burned like a fire.

Clenching his fists tightly, keeping his palm temperature away, Zhong Qiyun took two steps back and said with a smile, "It seems that he is a little drunk."

The word 'drunk' erased what happened just now, Xie Wenyuan smiled, "Indeed, we will see each other again, and I don't know when we will see each other again. Go look for me in Shangshu Mansion, Xie will definitely sweep the couch and wait."

Xie Wenyuan lowered his eyes slightly: "Tomorrow morning I have to hurry back to Beijing. If Brother Zhong has nothing else to do, Xie will not send him far away, so let's say goodbye."

That being said, both Xie Wenyuan and Zhong Qiyun understood that if they didn't want to cause trouble, it would be better for them not to keep in touch.

Zhong Qiyun shook his head and smiled and said, "Tomorrow morning, I happen to have a business discussion with Zhang Zhenfeng..." Zhong Qiyun paused, feeling a little depressed for no reason, took a deep breath, and said, "Just leave it here."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked towards the chariot and horses that Xie Wenyuan ordered to prepare, without looking back.

Waiting for the chariots and horses to leave and go away, Xie Wenyuan said to the servants beside him as if he had just recovered: "Go back."

The already quiet garden became much cleaner after the noisy person left. Xie Wenyuan turned around the corridor and was about to walk to his bedroom when the maids in the garden hurried over, the night was dark and the wind was high , and didn't see anyone coming around the corner, if Xie Wenyuan hadn't stepped back and stretched out his hand to separate, she would have bumped into Xie Wenyuan.

Xie Wenyuan frowned slightly.

"Master!" The little maid shouted in a trembling voice when she saw the person coming.

Xie Wenyuan was the same as the previous owner of the garden, he didn't like the servants in the garden in the mansion to be surprised and panicked, everyone in the garden knew this.

In front of the servants, Xie Wenyuan was serious at first, but now that she frowned like this, the little servant girl was so frightened that she quickly fell to her knees, "Damn the slave! You ran into the master!"

"Forget it, let's get up." Xie Wenyuan waved his hand, and waited for the servant girl to stand up before asking, "Why are you in such a hurry?"

The servant girl quickly handed over the exquisite and gorgeous box in her hand, and replied: "Just now when the servant girl was cleaning up the lotus pond pavilion,

When Mr. Zhong saw this, he must have left behind, so the slaves rushed to the door to deliver it to him. "

Xie Wenyuan heard the words, looked down at the sandalwood box, his eyes moved slightly, and after a while, he took the box from the maid.

He said: "There is no need to look for him, this is mine."

The servant girl replied after hearing the words: "Your maidservant made a mistake, it really shouldn't be."

"No problem." After finishing speaking, Xie Wenyuan took the things and asked the servants to fetch some water for washing, and then went back to the room.

Under the light of an orange candle, Xie Wenyuan sat in front of the table and opened the box. In the box worth thousands of gold, lay the priceless treasure that was verdant and dripping quietly.

It was the beautiful jade I saw by the river that day.

Xie Wenyuan caressed the jade lightly with his fingertips, it was cool and moist.

Early the next morning, the streets and alleys of Hangzhou City were very lively, and this was already the busiest day of the new year.Xie Wenyuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, came to Hangzhou City quietly. Although he did not inform Wanmin when he left, he did not hide it either. Now many people from the city went to the north of Hangzhou City to see him off.

In the past half a year, Hangzhou City has been in dire straits several times. No one knows better than the people in the city, so they understand even more. In those days, how much the Hangzhou City Governor and the Minister of the Ministry of Justice did to preserve Hangzhou City is naturally obvious to all. The breeze goes to the sky with both sleeves, without taking an inch of cotton from the south of the Yangtze River."

To the east of the city, in the Qingyu Pavilion at Linjiang Port, in the private room above the quiet tea house, the sound of silk and bamboo can be heard clearly. Zhong Qiyun took a sip of tea, thought about it carefully, and said to Zhang Zhenfeng: "You The Li family bank mentioned, but the Li family in Shuchuan?"

Zhang Zhenfeng nodded and said: "That's right. Although the Li family is in Shuzhou, it has opened a bank in Hangzhou. The land of Bashu, the land of abundance, has been peaceful for generations without war. The ancestors of the Li family heard that it was originally built in Shuzhou." A big iron shop owner, during the Uyghur War of the Great Late A hundred years ago, the Li family was close to the place of battle, so he provided weapons, food and grass to him. It is said that he didn't take any money at the beginning. After getting the brand name, his Li family also made a fortune from it. With a lot of money, they started a bank, and now it is considered the largest bank in Dazhu. If Brother Qiyun wants to deposit your gold and silver treasures, I think it should be the Li family. Qianzhuang is more suitable."

With strong capital and an official background, it is naturally stable.but......

Zhong Qiyun shook his head with a smile. In fact, he did not intend to save all the money. In his opinion, the money saved is naturally not as fast as "putting" out the money. After he finishes the matter of the ship gang, he will then save the money. Get the land in Songjiang Mansion and Yuhuan County...

I'm afraid there won't be much money left.

He asked Zhang Zhenfeng about the Dazhu Bank, but he wanted to know if there was room for him to intervene in this area.

Now it seems that there is no.

Dazhu suppressed the operation of the bank to the utmost extent. Basically, only those few families were qualified to open a bank. Among these five families, the Li family in Shuzhou was the worst, and they only operated a bank.Although the Hu family has the most money houses in Hangzhou, leaving Hangzhou aside, most of the money houses in the area are owned by the Li family.

Now that he knew all this, Zhong Qiyun didn't think about it for the time being, and just managed the caravan safely.

Thinking of this, Zhong Qiyun said to Zhang Zhenfeng: "Mr. Zhang's family focuses on timber business, right?"

Zhang Zhenfeng nodded: "Naturally." No one knows about this.

"I heard that Mr. Zhang's family also has some cooperation with several major shipbuilding workshops in Hangzhou City?"

When Zhang Zhenfeng heard this, he knew why Zhong Qiyun was so forthright when he was invited that day.Zhang Zhenfeng squinted his eyes and smiled, "Brother Qiyun, do you want someone from Zhang to recommend you?"

Zhong Qiyun didn't talk nonsense, and said bluntly: "I have been to several shipyards in the past two days, but to tell you the truth, Mr. Zhang, although those ships are good, they are still far from the sea-going ships. They talked about it, but for the safety of going to sea, I want to invite Mr. Zhang to go there together, because I want the most suitable and the best timber for shipbuilding, so I will make a tripartite contract with you Mr. Zhang and the shipyard. "

The sea is already full of dangers, and it is only this small boat that protects life, and there is no trace of falsehood.

and......

Thinking of the caravan becoming bigger in the future... Zhong Qiyun sighed slightly, there are some things, it is better to be on guard as soon as possible.

"You want us to provide the wood directly, and the shipyard to provide the shipbuilding process?"

"Yes."

Zhang Zhenfeng squinted at Zhong Qiyun in front of him. He guessed that Zhong Qiyun was afraid that these shipyards would cut corners and cut corners in shipbuilding in the future. However, although the Jiangnan timber suppliers were not as big as his Zhang family, they were not without them. Send him a big deal?

During the past few months at sea, he knew that Zhong Qiyun was not the kind of person who would do such deliberate favors, so why did he do this?Could it be that he trusted Zhang Zhenfeng?

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhenfeng suddenly laughed, he couldn't see through, couldn't figure it out, so he didn't think about it, since he had the door-to-door business, of course he gladly accepted it.

but......

"A recommendation doesn't mean you can't do it. It's a trivial matter to provide brother Qiyun with the best wood..." Zhang Zhenfeng slowly approached Zhong Qiyun, bending his phoenix eyes, "However, Brother Qiyun

You have to promise me something. "

Zhong Qiyun glanced at Zhang Zhenfeng, guessed about what he was about to say, took a bite of the peach blossom crisp in his hand, and Zhong Qiyun said slowly: "Say it."

Zhang Zhenfeng's smile deepened: "I also want to discuss a business with Brother Qi Yun."

"what business?"

"You also know that I have negotiated business with the merchants in Nazhan City for the next ten years, and I naturally need a fleet to deliver the goods, so I want Brother Zhong to take me to Zhan City once a year at the right time." The elder brother has never won this order of business, because he dared not promise to make the promise of sea transportation.Although he gritted his teeth and agreed at the beginning, but if he hadn't met Zhong Qiyun by chance, I'm afraid that at that time he led people into the sea alone, and he would never return...

Knowing the pros and cons of it once in person, he also understood that now, he can only cooperate with Zhong Qiyun's fleet, otherwise, although the business is won, the follow-up will be in name only.

"Brother Qiyun..."

"Yes." Before Zhang Zhenfeng finished speaking, Zhong Qiyun responded.

Never thought that Zhong Qiyun could be so forthright, and Zhang Zhenfeng, who was about to talk to Zhong Qiyun, was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the person in front of him with a complicated expression.

If it weren't for some self-knowledge of himself, Zhang Zhen would have risked thinking that Zhong Qiyun had taken a fancy to him, so he would do what Zhong Qiyun said.

"Brother Qiyun has no other requirements? For example, the price or something? No more negotiating and negotiating? It's so simple and so agreed?"

Zhong Qiyun smiled and replied: "Of course not, the price of transportation, I have two plans in my mind, I will ask Steward Sun to estimate it, and then send it to Mr. Zhang's house. If it is feasible, then how can I find it in a day?" Sign the contract, but today, I'm afraid I have to trouble you to accompany me to those boatyards."

Zhang Zhenfeng didn't ask Zhong Qiyun's plan in detail, but replied: "Brother Qiyun is so straightforward, even if you don't say anything, Zhang should go with you."

Having said that, the two clinked glasses with tea instead of wine.

Zhang Zhenfeng drank the wine in his glass, heard the noise in the streets of the city in the distance, couldn't help laughing and said: "Speaking of which, today is the day Mr. Xie returns to Beijing, why don't you see Brother Zhong to see you off?"

Zhong Qi Yuncha's hands paused, and then he said casually: "How to deliver? How to deliver? We will see you again in the end."

Zhang Zhenfeng smiled when he heard the words: "Speaking of which, when I met this lord six years ago, he had just become a suave and high-spirited number one scholar. When I saw him again, it would be six years later, that is, The last time when I was at Hu's house, six years passed with the flick of a finger, this man

He has been worshiped as a third-rank official and became a minister of the Ministry of punishment. He is really very powerful. "

Speaking of this, Zhang Zhenfeng said with a sigh: "The world is so big, everyone is bustling, how can it be so easy to see?"

Zhong Qiyun didn't answer.

Just thinking of something, the corners of his lips curled slightly.

When he left home this morning, no one from Xie Wenyuan's other courtyard had visited, so naturally he had never received the wooden box returned by that person.

Zhong Qiyun poured another cup of tea and drank it in one gulp.

See you again.

The author has something to say: I have recently suffered from stomach problems, probably because I always stay up late and work overtime, and eat irregularly. The pain is so painful that I can't bear it.On New Year's Day on Wednesday, I don't have to work overtime, and I will make up for everyone by then!

Of course, I will also update you tomorrow~~