"Girl, come and see!" Alan called out excitedly.
Ling Qingyu moved to her side, and also poked his head out from the crack of the car door to look. Under the bursts of lightning, he saw Yang Zhao under the mountain had retreated from the opposite mountain forest, looked at the sky, and muttered: "Don't let the thunder strike you!" Just do it."
Before she finished speaking, she heard a blast of thunder falling behind her, then heard a scream, and then Ling Yunfei laughed loudly, and laughed at the same time: "I told you to do evil, you must have been struck by lightning!"
Ling Qingyu looked back again, and saw that in the forest behind, a man in black had been split into a scorched black figure, and then fell to the ground, while another man in black beside Ling Yunfei, the figure of the man in black was Very familiar.
As if sensing her gaze, the man in black turned around and left, his steps staggered a little, and one hand was drooping to the side.
Ling Qingyu retreated into the carriage, closed his eyes, and said, "Alan, go and heal his injury."
Alan glanced at her, opened the door and jumped out of the carriage, shouting, "That big man, leave that child behind."
Hearing her call, Ling Yunfei moved, grabbed Ye Shiyi, and said, "Wait, someone is looking for you."
Alan ran up to the two of them, wiped the rain off his face, and said, "Ling Qingyu wants me to heal your injuries, come with me."
Ye Shiyi was taken aback, looked up at the carriage, his lips trembled slightly, but he couldn't say anything.
"Let's go." Alan took Ye Shiyi's intact hand and dragged it back to the circle. He was about to open the car door, but Ye Shishi blocked it.
"I'm dirty." Ye Shiyi lowered his head and said, then looked at the silent carriage and said, "Just give me some medicine, I'll do it myself."
Alan shook his head, opened the car door and got in. When the door opened, Ye Shi must have looked into the car. Seeing Ling Qingyu turned sideways and only showed him his back, his heart ached and he backed away slightly. two steps.
With the sharp sound of horseshoes, Yang Zhao had already rode back to the circle, looked at the dozens of corpses in the forest, and then looked at Ye Shishi.
"I just heard their conversation. They are from King Duan'an, and the bandits from Laoding Mountain also belong to their forces. This dispatch is an order from Crown Prince Duan'an." Ye Shixi finished speaking and took the With the medicine bag in Alan's hand, he knelt down, kowtowed to the carriage, then turned around and flew away.
Duke Duan'an! Yang Zhao sneered unknowingly, the ambition is really big, this is good, there is a good reason for this military training.
*****
"Suppress bandits?!" Emperor Xiwen looked at Cheng Xiang in disbelief and said.
"Yes, Zhezi from the prefect of Luzhou. The bandits on Laoding Mountain have been harassing the surrounding people for several years. Luzhou suppressed them several times without success. The number of people on Laoding Mountain has grown to thousands, which has caused great damage to the state capital. This place is very close to Luoyang and not far from Bianjing, so he asked Yang Zhao to send troops to help, and now this trouble has finally been resolved." Cheng Xiang replied respectfully.
"Then why did he come to Xiangyang?" Emperor Xiwen leaned back on his seat and asked.
"He only brought five hundred soldiers with him to Xiangyang. He is going to pick up his wife to marry in Dai County." Cheng Xiang said with a slight twitch of his mouth.
"Madam? The savior he mentioned?" Emperor Xiwen became interested and said, "I really want to see what kind of woman can make him resist marriage twice and still go thousands of miles away to pick her up?"
Cheng Xiang wiped off his sweat, and said: "My lord, the magistrate of Luzhou also attached this. These were found in the bandit's lair in Laoding Mountain. They are the correspondence between Duan'an County King and those bandit leaders."
"Chai Zhengye?" Emperor Xiwen narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "What do you think, Xiang Cheng?"
"We have to be careful. If the king of Duan'an is stationed in Luoyang, if he really has a different intention, Bianjing will not be guaranteed." Cheng Xiang slightly lowered his head and said, "But just a few letters can't explain the problem, I want to send someone to investigate first. "
"Well, you can arrange this."
****
"Brother, let me join the army!" Chen Rongxuan said happily after he finished the story of following Yang Zhao to Laoding Mountain.
"If you are not afraid of your second brother chasing and killing you, then you can go." Ling Yunfei said coolly. After killing those bandits, Yang Zhao led the team into Luzhou overnight, left Ling Qingyu at the inn, entrusted him and a hundred soldiers to protect him, took the rest of his troops and killed Laoding Mountain, and brought a large amount of property and The two bandit leaders who were still alive, Yang Zhao and Zhizhou had a secret conversation for an hour, and then, after the rain was over, they set out on the road again leisurely.
Half of Laodingshan's property was left for Luzhou Zhizhou, and the other half became the dozen or so carriages behind the team.
"But speaking of it, how do I feel that General Yang is very skillful in searching for those treasures?" Chen Rongxuan rubbed his head and said.
Ling Yunfei picked out his ears, stopped listening to his nagging, and glanced at Ling Qingyu's carriage. After passing Taiyuan, several carriages were added to the convoy. He always felt that he had seen that green-clothed scribe somewhere.
"Establish a commercial line in Xiangyang?" Han Bian asked while looking at the map.
"Well, Yan Sanbu is over there, I want to have a stronghold there." Ling Qingyu nodded.
"Okay, I'll take someone to do it right now." Looking up at Ling Qingyu for a while, Han Bian said, "Master, you..." Han Bian swallowed back the comforting words that followed.
"I know that Yan San doesn't want me to be unhappy either. Don't worry. Also, Xiangyang is close to Shennongjia. There are a lot of good herbs there. Han Bian, I want to make more medicines and stock them up." Ling Qingyu pointed to the map and said.
"This is no problem, but why?" Han Bian asked puzzled.
"It's best to make it impossible for those martial arts people to buy any medicine!" Ling Qingyu gritted his teeth.
"It's too troublesome for you to do this, why don't I give you a suggestion, you go and buy all these herbs, and then I will give you this poison, you find someone to put it in the wells of those sects, and after they are poisoned If you can’t get the medicine, don’t you still ask to come to you?” Alan laughed beside him, and brought Han Bian a cup of hot tea at the same time.
Ling Qingyu raised his eyebrows and said, "That's a good idea, who will poison it?"
"The big guy outside is not bad, I bet you, if you give him money, he will definitely do it!" Alan pointed at Ling Yunfei outside the window.
Ling Qingyu turned her head and said to Han Bian: "Let's talk about business. There have been natural disasters in Dazhou for several years. Although it seems that the weather will be smooth this year, civil unrest has already started. It may be used in the future when it is made into a medicine."
"Well, and the pharmacy is not eye-catching. Our pharmacy has already opened in the south of the Yangtze River, and it will be fast to advance here." Han Bian nodded.
"These places are all places where medicinal materials are produced, and the medicine fields and yam farmers in these places are enclosed." Ling Qingyu turned to Alan and said, "Alan, get some prescriptions, such as the prescriptions for treating common diseases such as diarrhea and fever. Son, it can be made into pills."
"Why would I do such a thing?" Alan pointed at himself and pouted.
"Han Bian," Ling Qingyu whispered in her ear, "Twenty-five years old, not married."
"That's easy, I'll get you hundreds of sheets, no problem." Alan patted his chest and said.
"There is no problem with the genius doctor." Han Bian smiled slightly, thinking to himself, this genius doctor is notoriously difficult, but he was subdued by the head of the family
"By the way, if the grain production is good this year, let's collect more grain." Ling Qingyu said.
"Well, our own production of sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes is very high, and there are already many more. Are you considering selling some?" Han Bian asked.
"No, make it into dried sweet potatoes and save it. When I was in Quanzhou, I bought a few tea mountains in the name of Cheng Jia. How is the output of tea this year?" Ling Qingyu put the account books aside, took a sip of tea, and asked.
"That's right. This year, I shipped all the tea leaves from Yinzhou and Heishuiguan to Yinzhou and Heishuiguan. Our own tea mountain produced more than 300,000 catties. I only handed over some of them to the government, and the rest were sent directly to the ship. Xi also bought some old tea mountains in Huzhou, and the quantity of tea produced this year is not bad, and they have already traveled halfway through Longmen to Hangzhou for shipment." Han Bian said.
"What new measures did the government come up with?" Seeing that Han Bian's expression was not quite right, Ling Qingyu asked.
"When ten coins are issued, it is not only on Shaanxi Road, but also in the whole territory of Dazhou." Han Bian pondered for a moment, and said: "And the amount of tea and salt that has been distributed this year is very large, I will go to pick up the tea." When I was there, I saw that there was not much tea left in the warehouse, but there was still a lot of tea in the back.”
Ling Qingyu sneered and asked, "How much money do we have?"
Han Bian's face suddenly turned bitter, and he said, "We still have more than 4.5 million taels, how much do you have?"
"More than five million taels." Ling Qingyu sighed.
Snapped! Alan smashed the teacup, then rushed towards Ling Qingyu, and said, "You dislike the bank notes, but I don't. Come and give me all of them. Slap me in the face!"
"Alan, are you sure you didn't wear clothes?" Ling Qingyu asked while looking at her.
"What to wear? I took the bank note and you care what I wear?" Alan stared.
Ling Qingyu took out a silver ticket from his purse and gave it to her, saying: "Okay, let's play with it."
"Current silver and copper coins are not yours. There are more than four million taels accumulated in the warehouse. Are all the silk products sold this year to Fanwai? The quantity is quite large. Now it is not only Liangzhe Road, but after our disaster relief last year, Jiangnan Road The weaving workshops in Wuzhou have also bought a lot, and now we have monopolized half of the weaving workshops in Jiangnan, plus the retail investors collected through the retailers below, we can gather millions of pieces of silk at any time." Han Bian As he spoke, he watched Alan turn his eyes from the bank note and glared at Ling Qingyu.
"How rich are you?" Alan stared at Ling Qingyu with stars in his eyes, and said, "You are so rich that you can still be taken away?"
Ling Qingyu felt a sudden pain in his heart, turned his head and coughed.
Han Bian gave Alan a hard look, and said, "The head of the family, why don't we cooperate with some big martial arts factions, as long as we spend some money every year, we can let them work for us."
"Well, if you're looking for someone who didn't attend the Xiangyang Conference, it's best to cooperate with a sect with the same conscience and loyalty as Longmen Tiedaomen. Also," Ling Qingyu closed his eyes, and said, "Then the Qin family and those in Wolong The martial arts sects who besieged us on the peak tried to find a way to take all their fields and property! Aren’t they greedy? Then we will let them have nothing!”
"I'm afraid it's not easy for you to come forward about these things." Ling Yunfei said leisurely outside the window: "Our Liuyun Village can help."