In Xiangyang, Jingzhou.
Kuai Mansion, Kuai Yue has slowly retreated from the official position in Jingzhou. Among them, Kuai Yue himself deliberately wants to fade out of sight, and the other is that the current Jingzhou court is no longer the same as before. The Kuai family and the Cai family co-hosted, but now the Huang family, Huang She, and Liu Biao's second son, Liu Pan, are fighting against each other.
Instead of joining one of the parties, Kuai Yue simply let go of some great powers. Of course, it is impossible for Kuai Yue to let go of the main powers.
"Come back!" Kuai Yue shouted while sitting in the yard drinking tea, watching the busy figure over there.
"Father!" The busy voice heard the cry and looked over, saw the figure bowing to Kuai Yue and shouted. This person is Kuai Ran, the eldest son of Kuai Yue, Liu Mang's sworn brother. Kuai Ran is no longer as frivolous as before.
Kuai Yue looked at his only son, the more satisfied he was, the former Kuai Ran was a playboy, although he had Kuai Yue in charge, he dared not be too presumptuous, but what is the difference between a ignorant first grade and a ninth grade Woolen cloth.
However, since he got to know His Highness the King of Shu, his son has changed from not caring about anything to now knowing how to help him share the pressure.
The Kuai family is a big family, and he is one of the few remaining aristocratic families in Jingzhou.
I don't know how many people are spying on the position of this aristocratic family, thinking of replacing the Kuai family as the aristocratic family, so the Kuai family must have a good heir. In the past, Kuai Yue had no hope for Kuai Ran. But now he is doing better and better.
"Didn't you go to collect the income of the past few months? How did you come back so quickly?" Kuai Yue asked a little puzzled. The Kuai family is a big family, and their various expenses are astronomical figures. Therefore, apart from relying on the salaries of Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang, the Kuai family also has their own property. They are different from businessmen. , They don't do business themselves, but give it to the people below. After the disaster, they only need to provide contacts and collect money every time.
The Kuai family's property is really not small. There are hundreds of shops and merchants alone, and the business of each shop has to be handed in. It has been accumulated for several months now, and the amount should be calculated in ten thousand gold. Those who counted the money in the treasury and put them into the treasury in proportion, but they came back so quickly today.
"Father, the count is over!" Kuai Ran said to his father.
"So fast?" Kuai Yue said with some doubts.
"En! It's just that the money hasn't been put into the treasury yet!" Kuai Ran said to his father, he was rushing back to accompany his wife, who was pregnant. So he rushed back to eat and didn't put it in the warehouse directly.
"Nonsense!" Kuai Yue became angry, "What if the money is left outside like that, what if there is a mistake?" Kuai Yue is not worried about the money, but wants his son to develop a good habit. Do this now and what to do later.
"Father, there is no need to worry, I have already brought back all that money!" Kuai Ran said to his father.
"Bring it back?" Kuai Yue was stunned for a moment, but didn't understand what Kuai Ran meant. The amount of tens of thousands of gold would have to be loaded in at least a dozen carts. Kuai Yue was even angrier. Swaggering through the market with money
"Father, I misunderstood!" Kuai Ran hurried forward to explain to his father, if the explanation is not clear, maybe his father can really smoke himself.
"Come on, bring those golden Lu Bu!" Kuai Ran shouted to his cronies.
"Yes!" Soon a box was brought up, the size of a lunch box.
"Father, all the store income for the past few months is here! Father, please look over it." Kuai Ran pointed to the box over there and said to his father.
"The income of the past few months? Is it all in this?" Kuai Yue was immediately dumbfounded. Are you fucking kidding me? Tens of thousands of gold in such a small box? Kuai Yue's whole body began to shake.
This is to be pissed off. Just now I thought this kid was a grown-up, but now it seems that this kid is just messing with me? You really think that your father is old and confused.
Kuai Yue followed suit and threw the teapot in his hand, "I'll beat you to death!" Kuai Yue became angry when he said that, and was about to shoot Kuai Ran over there. He thought that the prodigal son of his family spent tens of thousands of gold to buy such a broken box and came back.
"Father, please listen to my explanation, please listen to my explanation!" Kuai Ran is good at being agile, otherwise the teapot was hit on the head, and he would have died.
"I don't listen, you prodigal son, what a crime our Kuai family has done! With such a prodigal son like you!" Kuai Yue was about to strike again.
"It's so lively!" At this moment, a person entered the yard alone.
"Second Uncle, Second Uncle, save me, save me!" Kuai Ran ran towards Kuai Liang over there as if seeing a savior.
"Kuai Liang, you came at the right time. I want to kill this prodigal son. I bought such a broken box for tens of thousands of gold! Don't stop me!" Kuai said more and more angrily.
"Tens of thousands of gold to buy a broken box?" If this is the case, Kuai Liang will not be able to help Kuai Ran, and Kuai Yue's anger will not be relieved unless he is beaten up by his father Kuai Yue.
"Second Uncle, I didn't buy the box!" Kuai Ran said injustice, "But the money is all in that box!"
"You rebellious son, dare to quibble, see if I don't beat you to death!" Kuai Yue became even more angry.
"In the box?"
"Yeah, all of them were replaced by Jin Lu Bu and put in the box!" Kuai Liang explained to his second uncle.
Kuai Liang stepped forward to pick up the box, which was quite heavy, and opened it, and there were pieces of things that looked like the picture quality.
"It's just such a pile of torn paper, you tell me it's worth ten thousand gold?" Kuai Yue pointed to the things inside the box and said, in good conscience, he also felt that the paintings on those papers were pretty good, and he had never seen Lu Bu before. , but I know that Fang Tian painted a halberd. The painter did a good job. But no painting is worth ten thousand dollars.
"Haha. Haha!" Kuai Liang laughed when he saw those Jin Lu Bu.
"Kuai Liang, what are you laughing at? It's not something you've gotten used to!" Kuai Yue even taught his younger brother a lesson.
"Brother, that's really wronged. As the saying goes, the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. If you want to blame it, you can't blame me!" Kuai Liang blinked at his brother.
"You!" Kuai Yue pointed at his younger brother, speechless.
"Okay, brother, you said that you have taught us since we were young, that we need to learn and memorize, and that we need to read more and ask more questions! Now you are doing better. Just don't ask, and beat you up indiscriminately. It's me, I also Don't accept it!" Kuai Liang said to his brother.
"Don't be unconvinced! Brother, you are really ignorant!" Said Kuai Liang took out a card and handed it to his brother.
"This piece of paper is really worth a hundred gold!" Kuai Liang explained.
"This torn paper?" Kuai Ran asked in disbelief.
"This is not torn paper, this one is called Jin Lu Bu!" Kuai Liang explained to Kuai Ran over there, "With him, you can go to any gold shop in Yangzhou to exchange for 100 gold!"
"Yangzhou?" Kuai Yue was taken aback for a moment, what does this have to do with Yangzhou.
"But, come and explain to your father!" Kuai Liang raised the ball to Kuai Ran over there.
"Father, this piece is called Jiaozi or Jinlu Bu. The one hundred gold written on it means that he is worth a hundred gold. As for the Yangzhou Gold Bank, this Jiaozi was sent by Brother Liu Mang in Yangzhou. This thing It can make it easier for merchants to communicate with each other. In the future, merchants don’t need to carry books and thousands of gold, but need so many large carts and merchant ships to transport, so that less thieves will worry about it. You only need to bring these ten pieces of money, and you will be rich!” Kuai Liang Explained to Kuai Ran over there.
Jingzhou is the prince closest to Yangzhou. Although Liu Biao and Liu Mang have a grudge against each other in Jingzhou, they can’t stop private trade. Therefore, Jiaozi’s portability, plus any gold bank in Yangzhou, he can exchange it. At the beginning, some people were still waiting and watching, but in some transactions, your gold was not in place, and people were unwilling to sell the goods to you, or directly sold the goods to others, so you cried, so for the sake of business Because of the timeliness, many people have started to buy these golden tickets.
This time the Kuai family has a total income of 70,000 gold, and there are 700 gold tickets here. Each chapter is worth 100 gold, which are placed in a box and ready to be stored. If you need gold, you can exchange it directly.
"Golden ticket?!" Kuai Yue took these golden tickets, and his eyes flickered. Although he, Kuai Yue, had never seen this golden ticket, he quickly saw through the essence of it.
"However, you said that in the Jingzhou market, many merchants are using this golden ticket?" Kuai Yue asked his son.
"Yes, several commercial firms are using it, including the Huang family and Liu Pan!" Kuai Ran responded. "Not only those merchants, but even ordinary people are using it!"
"The common people are also using it?" Kuai Yue seemed to be chasing after him for a longer time, "How can those common people afford it?"
"The common people use another kind of jiaozi, father, you see, these are the ones!" Kuai Ran took out a ten thousand yuan jiaozi, which was spent on the Hall of Heroes.
"There are thousands of coins, hundreds of coins!" Kuai Ran also took out two other kinds. "Father, do you want me to give you two?" Kuai Ran was quite filial.
"Hehe!" Kuai Yue waved his hand, and couldn't help laughing bitterly, "Jingzhou has already half-fell into the hands of His Highness the King of Shu!"
"En?" Kuai Ran was a little confused, what is meant by Jingzhou being already half in the hands of His Highness the King of Shu.
"However, you said that if Yangzhou goes to war with Jingzhou again, what will happen if His Royal Highness the King of Shu stops exchanging my Jiaozi from Jingzhou?" Kuai Yue asked his son.
"Stop the exchange of Jiaozi?" Kuai Ran thought for a while and his eyes widened, so how many people will suffer heavy losses.
Take their Kuai family as an example, here is the 70,000-gold Jiaozi. In the future, Kuai Ran plans to exchange the income of several months for the settlement, the last one-time exchange, or do not exchange and do business directly with others. Once Yangzhou stops the exchange of Jiaozi, then these Jiaozi will rot in their hands and become a piece of waste paper, that loss! The entire Jingzhou is probably counted in millions.
In this way, Jingzhou has already lost the possibility of going to war against Yangzhou. Even if Liu Biao wants to fight, the people in Jingzhou over there will be up and down. Go up to the nobles. Down to those ordinary people will not agree.
A dozen of them will lose a lot. Do you think they will agree? Not to mention whether you can win or not.
"Ah!" Kuai Ran was also surprised, he didn't expect his sworn brother to be like this.
"However, you have made a good friend!" Kuai Yue was still smiling wryly just now, but then he felt lucky again, because His Royal Highness the King of Shu had a good friendship with their Kuai family, and all of this was caused by Brought by his own stupid son.
"It seems that we have to make preparations as soon as possible!" Kuai Yue was worthy of being the chief counselor of Jingzhou in the past, and he was able to discover so many things from such a small Jiaozi. In the past, Kuai's family didn't want to help. It is precisely because he has no possibility of collaborating with the enemy that Liu Biao did not go too far against the Kuai family, but now the Kuai family has to take the initiative.
"Brother, I came here this time to talk to my brother about this matter!" Kuai Liang also said to Kuai Yue.
"En?" Kuai Yue raised his eyebrows, because he saw his younger brother looking around, because he was afraid that the walls had ears.
"You all stand down!" Kuai Yue said to the people around him, waiting for those maidservants and servants to leave, this Kuai Liang stepped forward and said to Kuai Yue.
"Brother, that noble man is about to give birth!"
"I'm going to give birth?!" Kuai Yue suddenly felt that his brain was not enough. "Didn't she get kicked out?" This she is none other than Cai Mao's younger sister, Mrs. Cai, who was locked up by Liu Biao because of that incident. Into the prison.
Even Liu Biao wanted to vent his hatred. He also sent troops to attack Yangzhou, but it was a pity that he was defeated. Jiang Xia is gone, and was blackmailed a lot.
Burning with anger, Liu Biao naturally wanted to abort the child in his stomach and sent someone to send him abortion pills.
"Brother, it's not like you don't know about the abortion pill!" Kuai Liang shook his head, the abortion pills of this era are not the modern painless abortion, even the current painless abortion, that thing can come out fatal.
In this era of abortion, even a healthy woman can survive death, not to mention Mrs. Cai's state at that time, and the child in her belly has been delayed, and it is useless to rely on abortion pills. Unless one dead and two dead, otherwise the child will be born.
The head of the big prison was also from the Kuai family, with the help of the Cai family and the Kuai family, so the abortion pill had long been replaced with an anti-fetal drug.
This led to today's result, that noble person is about to give birth.
Kuai Ran listened to the words of his second uncle and his father, his eyeballs rolled up, and suddenly he yelled that his stomach hurts, "Ouch, Ouch, father, I had a bad stomach from eating at noon, let me go to the toilet, I have to escape by urinating!”
"Have you had a bad stomach at noon? You haven't eaten this lunch yet, where did you get a bad stomach!" His father immediately saw through Kuai Ran's little trick.
"Hey, father, I misremembered, it was in the morning, and my stomach was spoiled after eating in the morning!" Kuai Ran wanted to leave with all her heart, and smiled flatteringly. As soon as he said that, he was ready to leave directly!
"Come back!" Kuai Yue called to his son, but Kuai Ran was still ready to leave.
"If you walk out of this house, you are not my son of Kuai Yue!" Kuai Yue said angrily to his son over there.
"Father, don't force me!" Kuai Ran looked at his father in embarrassment, this news must be spread.
"You think I don't know why you are going?" Kuai Yue looked at his son with a look of hatred for iron and steel, "Your second uncle said it so bluntly, don't you understand?" Kuai Yue said cried out to his son.
"Understood?" Kuai Ran froze for a moment.
"However, when you come back, your father will naturally know who Liu Mang's brother you are going to tell you!" Kuai Liang smiled and waved to Kuai Ran over there.
"Yes!" Kuai Ran nodded.
"Do you think your father doesn't know? Come back! Your father will also notify your brother Liu Mang, but not now!" Kuai Liang said to his nephew.
Now the entire Kuai family is still under surveillance. If Kuai Ran goes out and informs, the Kuai family will have a big handle in the hands of others. Maybe, when Liu Biao gets angry, the Kuai family will be wiped out. If it doesn't work, it will also hurt your vitality.
So telling Liu Mang is certain, but it must be done in secret. And even if they didn't tell the Kuai family, would Cai Mao and Cai Degui be able to bear it
"Father, I'm sorry!" Kuai Ran said with a little embarrassment. He found that he had wronged his father, and he thought that his father would stop him from contacting his elder brother.
"Huh!" Kuai Yue snorted coldly. If it was before seeing that Jiaozi, Kuai Yue would have really grounded Kuai Ran and prevented him from going out, because this muddy water is not easy to navigate. If one is not careful, the Kuai family can all fall into it.
But after seeing that Jiaozi, Kuai Yue's whole mind changed.
With the appearance of Jiaozi, it can be said that His Royal Highness the King of Shu has already controlled half of Jingzhou. At least, whether he wants to or not, those Jingzhou gentry have been imperceptibly tied to the warships of Yangzhou.
The other half is left, which is waiting for the arrival of the Yangzhou army.
Unless Liu Biao's subordinates can unite as one and fight Yangzhou to the death, Jingzhou has no chance of winning. Jingzhou has never beaten Yangzhou before, and it is even more impossible for Yangzhou to win Jiangdong now.
So his Kuai family has to start to stand in line again.
"Come here!" Kuai Yue shouted, and a black shadow appeared in front of Kuai Yue, "Let Qing Shan bring a letter to His Royal Highness the King of Shu in Yangzhou, saying that the little prince is in Jingzhou!" (To be continued. .)
ps: Father-in-law will end in more than a month! The plot is already speeding up, and the new book is also in preparation. For various reasons, some things about my father-in-law can't be shown, but don't worry, the new book will definitely not disappoint everyone! Our slogan is big brother has a gun, not a prisoner!