Civil servants of the Tang Dynasty

It seems that there is really no free lunch in this world. After sitting quietly for a while, Tang Cheng cheered up from his depression, "I understand, it's time to go, let's say goodbye today! If there is a predestined relationship in the day, you should continue your journey through the long night."

Zheng Lingyi's body shook suddenly, "Don't you want to make money, why are you leaving in such a hurry?".

"I want to make money. After all, only with money can I make my family and myself live better. That's why I came to Yangzhou." Tang Cheng didn't hide it at all, but what puzzled him was Zheng Lingyi's meaning.

"Among the many people I know, although everyone wants money, you are the first one to say it so frankly." After saying this, Zheng Lingyi smiled, "Although the Yangzhou Shipping Department It will eventually intervene, but the exact price is still unknown, and Yangzhou Boyamen also has the authority to designate tung oil suppliers."

Just like the autumn wind blowing under the warm sun, Zheng Lingyi said in a casual tone after pondering for a while: "I mean no one, I have no one who can be trusted when I am newly appointed, so I will point it out to you. As for As for the price, Tang Cheng, please come up with a plan first, and we will discuss it later. Since you are interested in doing business in this shop, you should still understand the market price."

Zheng Lingyi's words are extremely light, but the weight of these words can kill people. What she just promised is a sea of ​​gold and silver, a licensed supplier with partial pricing power!Under the current situation, whoever masters this is equivalent to mastering the lifeblood of marine merchants and tung oil merchants at the same time. How much profit is there? Rao Tang Cheng has worked in a company in later generations and has seen the world. Now he couldn't help but sucked in a breath of cold air.

The benefits are enough and big enough that Tang Cheng needs to take several deep breaths in succession and recite "Li Ling Zhi Fainted" four or five times before he can calm down and return to normal thinking.

The time of thinking was unusually long this time, during which Zheng Lingyi didn't speak, just laying his head on Tang Cheng's shoulder, listening to the wind and basking in the warm sun.

"If what I see is not bad, regardless of the imperial palace in Chang'an City, the most powerful people are the four families. Since Lord Wu and the prince have sent people here." After a long time, Zheng Lingyi finally spoke to Tang Cheng, but What he asked was a very strange question, "But I don't know if there have been people from the residence of Princess Taiping of Zhenguo and Prince Anguo's residence?".

"You know quite a lot. Yangzhou is the richest in the world, and the sea merchants are the richest in Yangzhou. Even if it's not for this, if it's just for the dispute between Wu and Li, people from the prime minister's mansion and the princess' mansion will come."

"That's good," Tang Changchang said slowly after heaving a sigh of relief: "Then I will do this business."

Chapter 1 Back to Golden State!

"What do you mean by that?", no matter how much Ren Zhengling thought about it, he was still puzzled.

"It's not interesting, just asking." It's not that Tang Cheng didn't want to explain, but he really couldn't explain it. Just now he thought more about Zheng Lingyi's retribution than thinking about the gains and losses.

After all, what she gave was too much and too heavy. There has always been a folk proverb in Yunxi that "polite seriously hurts people". These four words not only contain one of the principles of interpersonal communication, but also contain a kind of Survival wisdom.

If he can't repay this "important gift", then Tang Cheng would rather not take over this business that is both temptation and danger. Love is the most depressing.

Tang Cheng thought of Li Longji following the political struggle, and suddenly his eyes lit up. If Zheng Lingyi could be rewarded with his life, it would be worthy of her "gracious gift". If I remember correctly, Li Longji joined forces with Princess Taiping to abolish Wei Later, the palace change that killed Shangguan Wan'er was three or four years later.

After the matter was finished, the two of them tacitly didn't bring it up again, and just sat on the grass like this. During this time, Tang Cheng said very little, and most of the time it was Zheng Lingyi who would talk about it, and all she said was about childhood Yes, but nothing about what happened after the age of 12.

Tang Cheng didn't resign from the Zheng residence until after dinner and the full moon rising in the east.When he returned to the inn, he saw an anxious Wu Yujun waiting for him in front of the inn door.

"You're back." Seeing Tang Cheng, Wu Yujun walked up to him from a long distance, "Where have you been? Good guy, Lin Ming got the letter from somewhere, and sent someone to post a post to invite you to the banquet." , I heard that you went out, and that guy just sat and waited in the room."

The news spread really fast enough, but thinking about it, there was no surprise. There was a large group of people accompanying Zhou Lirong last night, and it was hard to guarantee that there was no one who knew Zheng Lingyi among them.

"Just wait, it's inevitable that people will come to your door after this." Tang Cheng pulled Wu Yujun into the house, "Let's go and have a look."

The person sent by Lin Ming was waiting in his room. After Tang Cheng went in, he couldn't help but exchange pleasantries, because he had already had dinner, and the two parties agreed that the banquet would be changed to noon tomorrow. After dismissing this person, Tang Cheng He called Wu Yujun over and talked about what happened with Zheng Lingyi in the afternoon.

As Tang Cheng talked more, Wu Yujun vented his anger more and more, and at the end his face turned pale, "Brother, this...is a big fortune, you...will you accept it?" .

"Wealth and wealth are sought in danger", Tang Cheng nodded slowly. After seeing him nodding, Wu Yujun seemed to have exhausted all the strength in his body, and suddenly sat down beside Tang Cheng, "My good brother, this time You've finally figured it out."

"This matter involves too much, and the interests involved are too great. It is far from as easy as you think. Take what you have to take, and give up what you have to give up. Let's do it with our heart." At this point, Tang Cheng paused for a while Said: "I reported your name to Zheng Lingyi, and you will be busy with the affairs of the scene after a while."

"Give me my name?"

"After all, I am a student of the county, and I am still a knife and pen of the Yunxi county government. It's not easy to go directly to discuss business with the merchants. This is what Ling Yi meant." He said that Wu Yujun still didn't understand anything, just his face The supervisor inevitably felt a little disapproving, "With such a big shop business, the county school and the county government have a stupid head, and he has been an official for thousands of miles, not just for the sake of money!".

Encountered such a problem, Tang Cheng wisely didn't explain anything to Wu Yujun, but just smiled.

After discussing this matter for a while, the two went back to their rooms. Excited by such great news, Wu Yujun stopped lingering in the Goulan.After grooming, Tang Cheng tossed and turned on the couch for a long time before falling asleep. At some point, he was awakened by the sound of hurried footsteps outside while he was soundly asleep.

He opened his eyes in a daze, and after waiting for a while, the sound outside not only didn't disappear, but became louder. He felt that he couldn't sleep anymore. Tang Cheng got up from the couch with a stomach full of anger, and opened the door to prepare Call the waiter who is on duty at night to ask questions.

As soon as the door was opened, Tang Cheng first saw a group of tolerance officers standing in the open space in the middle of the house outside, and the house surrounded by these tolerance officers... No, the upper room of the Tianzi size lying in the outer hall is not It was under Lin Ming's contract!

Seeing this scene, Tang Cheng's irritability of having his dream disturbed disappeared immediately.

Something happened to Lin Ming!And judging by the attitude of the policemen, the matter must be serious.

"That's Lin Ming's room." Wu Yujun from the next door also came over with his clothes on, his sleepy-eyed face was full of solemnity, "I'll go and have a look."

Lin Ming is dead.

He was attacked and killed on the way back to the inn from the Happy Building. The location of the attack was on the 24th Bridge, where the moon is shining like water. There are still a large number of tolerances who are salvaging the bodies of Lin Ming's followers in the water under the bridge. Four followers died. Three, but it was because of their desperate resistance that Lin Ming, who was seriously injured, was able to barely support himself back to the inn.

"It's him?".

Wu Yujun's face turned pale, and Tang Cheng also had a serious face, "It's him."

When Tang Cheng walked into the room, Wu Yujun still couldn't believe it, "Fatty Zhou really has such courage?".

Hearing this, Tang Cheng sneered, what is this?Back then, Wu Sansilian had already been crowned king, and Zhang Jianzhi, the prime minister, dared to send people to attack and kill him. Now, why wouldn't he dare to face Lin Ming, who was a merchant?

"I don't know who is a good person and who is an evil person in the world, but those who are kind to me are good people, and those who are evil to me are evil people! Brother Wu, do you know who said this?" Tang Cheng gently He closed the door, and before Wu Yujun could answer, he answered to himself: "This sentence is exactly the famous saying of Lord Wu Sansi."

At this point, Wu Yujun's excitement from last night completely disappeared, "Ah Cheng... this".

"Don't panic." He patted the silent Wu Yujun on the shoulder. Tang Cheng gritted his teeth and said with a smile: "Wealth and wealth are in danger! This is not what you like to say. Besides, if Fatty Zhou wants to strike, he won't do it between the two of us." Find you."

"Ah Cheng... let's go back, it's not worth it, the money is not worth it."

"There is no risk, and there are benefits?" Facing the frightened Wu Yujun, Tang Cheng deliberately smiled and relaxed, "Don't scare yourself, let's look again, look again."

It was not only Wu Yujun who was frightened. After a sleepless night, the first person to find Tang Cheng and Wu Yujun the next morning was the shopkeeper of Jinzhou Wanfulai. However, there was only one meaning, he was going home, this year the tung oil takeaway business in Jinzhou was handed over to Wu Yujun, and before he came to find the two, he went to Zhou Lirong to report the news.

That is to say, from now on, Wu Yujun became the only official representative of the Jinzhou tung oil merchants in the host province of Shannan.

Sending Zhou Lirong away, Wu Yujun just cursed, "This grandson can run fast enough", and then someone came to visit. This time, it was a Persian Hu with deep eyes and a high nose, who was also a housekeeper, but his master was Yangzhou The biggest barbarian sea merchant, the owner of Kangyuan, Dulahe.

After Zhou Lirong, the short-lived ghosts Lin Ming and Du Lahe came here one after another. It seems that the news of the night tour the night before has completely spread. The originally unknown Tang Cheng suddenly became the focus of attention of all parties, but now Now Du Lahe and the others just want to get news from him, after all, Zheng Lingyi, the new envoy of Yangzhou City, is too low-key and silent.

Revisiting Kangyuan within three days, Du Lahe's rhetoric is not too different from Zhou Lirong's, and Tang Cheng will naturally not reveal Zheng Lingyi's hole card, seeing that there are still three or four months before the new tung oil matures today. Kung fu, suppress it!The tighter the pressure on these people, the better. What Tang Cheng has to do now is to use this kind of communication to get in touch with people from all sides. As for the others, he will have to wait for two or three more, until the new oil is about to come out. , the hole cards will not be revealed.

After Du Lahe, the old man Wang Hanxiang also came forward, and the old man who started to run the sea boat is now the leader of the Yangzhou Tang people's sea merchants.

In the next few days, when the murderer was arrested in the Governor's Mansion and the Fourth Office of the Yangzhou Mansion, Tang Cheng sank into the Sea of ​​Jiushan and Yanhai. Except for the few giants, as the news spread, people from all over the world The famous tung oil merchants also came to the door. After all, these people are the source of the goods, and Tang Cheng did not neglect, but although he went there, he made Wu Yujun stand at the front desk for all the contacts and greetings with these people.

During this process, Zhou Lirong, who lived in seclusion, was very quiet.

Tang Cheng regretted that Xue Dong from Zhenguo Taiping Princess' mansion and An Guoxiang Wangfu's Zhang Liang hadn't shown their heads yet. Seeing how they roamed around every day, if they hadn't received confirmation from Zheng Lingyi, Tang Cheng Cheng really couldn't believe that the two of them came here because of the tung oil business.

"It seems that my current weight is still not enough!" Standing in front of the window in the room watching Zhang Liang in a Confucian shirt, he walked out of the inn in four directions. Tang Cheng only looked away after he blended into the crowd and disappeared.

Tang Cheng is not impatient, and after this period of time, after Zheng Lingyi releases the news of the "franchise dealer", he is not afraid that Zhang Liang will come to his door.

Wu Yujun - Tang Cheng - Zheng Lingyi, Zhang Liang - Zhang Wei - Li Longji.

For Li Longji, who has the ambition of the world, but is born as the third son of a concubine, and now has a shallow foundation, if he has the opportunity to get a piece of the fat and oily tung oil business, will he really not be tempted?

Tang Cheng didn't believe it, so he was not in a hurry now, the big fish always sank at the bottom, all he needed to pay now was enough patience.

After several days of commotion, except for Princess Taiping and An Guoxiang's palace, everyone else who should be seen and contacted has also been contacted. Seeing that the preliminary preparations have been completed, and the season has entered August.

It's time for Tang Cheng to return to Jinzhou. The next time he returns to Yangzhou, it will be at the end of October two months later. When the cards are lifted, the essence of this shop's business will really begin.

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In the back garden of Zheng's mansion on Shugang in Yangzhou, Zheng Lingyi's voice seemed a little erratic as the swings swayed high: "Are you leaving?".

"I've done the work of laying the thread, and now I've seen everything that should be seen. What I want to see is that I can't see it here." After Zheng Lingyi came back with the swing, Tang Cheng stretched out his hand to push her, making her Swinging high again, "It's enough to keep Wu Yujun here, there are still a few months, I have to go home and have a look."

Zheng Lingyi didn't speak at the moment when he heard the words. He didn't say anything until the swing had been up and down two times: "Lin Baiyu has already signed up to ask the Ministry of Criminal Justice to thoroughly investigate Lin Ming's case, and the crown prince has sent people to Yangzhou again. One after another, the Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor’s impeachment of the Lingnan Road Observer and the Marching Ambassador is one after another. Now that there is a trend in Yangzhou, it’s better for you to go back and avoid the limelight.”

When the swing came back again this time, Zheng Lingyi grabbed Tang Cheng's hand to stabilize his body.

Zheng Lingyi took Tang Cheng's hand, and pressed the fingertips of the five fingers of her right hand tightly to the fingertips of the five fingers of Tang Cheng's left hand. She used such strength that there was never a gap between the fingers.

The ten fingers of the two were almost transparent under the autumn sun, especially Zheng Lingyi's slender fingers were as empty as pink jade, moist as cream, and extremely beautiful, "Ah Cheng, these are ten fingers connected to a heart".

"Um?".

Ignoring Tang Cheng's doubts, Zheng Lingyi lowered his head and looked at the palms of the two people's ten fingers together, and then pressed his palms tightly onto Tang Cheng's palms. So far, the two hands have been completely imprinted. together.

"It's a bond of hearts."

Fingers connected to heart, heart to heart, because Zheng Lingyi lowered his head, Tang Cheng couldn't see the look on her face clearly, all he could feel was the lazy joy in her voice.

"Ah Cheng?".

"kindness!"

Zheng Lingyi twitched Tang Cheng's fingers, "Aren't you going to say something?".

Zheng Lingyi's raised face looked extraordinarily glamorous under the sun. Tang Cheng avoided the tender affection that could not be concealed from the brows of her brows, and changed his hand from "ten fingers connected to each other, heart to heart" to the same as the previous two. Holding each other like a moonlit night.

"A handshake among thousands of people makes my sleeves fragrant for three years." Tang Cheng's voice was very low, but the low voice had a different kind of penetrating power.

After Zheng Lingyi quietly recited these two lines of poems a few times, he smiled, "Ah Cheng, let me get up."

The swing was swaying high again, and Zheng Lingyi in the wind sang a folk song of the Six Dynasties: "Wen Huan went down to Yangzhou and sent him off to the top of Chu Mountain. Put your arms around your waist and watch, the river doesn't stop flowing...".

After singing, she turned her head to Zheng Lingyi and waved her hand: "Ah Cheng, you can go."

Chapter 1: Kill two birds with one stone and get promoted and get rich

There were six people when they came, but Tang Cheng was the only one when they returned.

Wu Yujun originally wanted to allocate two of his four entourages to Tang Cheng on the road, but Tang Cheng refused. When he was alone, the speed of the journey became faster.

First the boat and then the horse, the journey was hurried, and when the travel-stained Tang Cheng walked into the gate of Jinzhou City, he felt that all the bones in his body were about to fall apart.

It was still early in the morning, and if he rushed fast today, he could still go back to Yunxi County. Thinking of this, Tang Cheng didn't care about getting tired, so he found an inn to rest and freshen up, and then went to the Governor's Mansion.

Still in the flower hall of the Governor's Mansion, Mrs. Sun and Tang Cheng sat opposite each other. After a brief exchange of greetings, Tang Cheng directly told all about Yangzhou.

What he said was simple, but it was a completely different feeling for the listener, Mrs. Sun. Although the "franchise dealer" made her face flush, but immediately after hearing of Lin Mingzhi's death, Mrs. Sun's face The flushing in his face subsided immediately, "It has become like this? The Jade Army is over there...".

"Don't worry, ma'am, even if someone really wants to do something, it's aimed at me. Brother Wu is safe and well." As Tang Cheng said more and more, Mrs. Sun, who can be called a strong woman, felt more and more powerless in her heart. Up to now, the business of this shop has long been beyond her control. Thinking about the forces involved in this matter, Mrs. Sun really doesn't know what to say except she is at a loss.

Because of this, after Tang Cheng finished speaking, Mrs. Sun didn't say much. At this point in the matter, her original knowledge was no longer enough, and she had to discuss it with the man before she could speak.At that moment, she said a few more homely things to Tang Cheng, asked about the marriage on August [-], and sent him out.

After watching Tang Cheng go far away, the solemn Mrs. Sun beckoned to a family member, "Go, invite the master back."

After the family looked at Mrs. Sun in amazement, they said in a low voice, "It's not long before going to the Yamen...".

"Go as soon as I tell you, there are so many conversations there", Mrs. Sun completely forgot the rules she set herself at this time - no one is allowed to disturb the master when he goes to the yamen, and said with a calm face: "Just tell the master that I have something urgent, Please come back quickly."

Lin Ming is the nephew of Lin Baiyu, the investigator of the Dao, and unexpectedly... Now Yangzhou is in such a dangerous situation. With Wu Yujun, her husband and wife are involved. Think about the huge profits that are very likely, think about it Lin Ming's death, and thinking about the entanglements Tang Cheng mentioned just now, Mrs. Sun felt excited, afraid, and worried about her younger brother. All kinds of inexplicable emotions were entangled together, which made her never again. Instead of the calm demeanor of the past, the turmoil in my heart has become the impatience at this moment...

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While Sun Shijun and his wife were having a secret discussion in the study, Tang Cheng, who was returning home like an arrow, had already forced his galloping horse out of the Jinzhou city gate, galloped all the way to Yunxi, and finally rushed back to the county seat before the sky was completely dark. .

The sound of galloping horses suddenly stopped at the gate, and the porter Gao Gao looked out of the window in surprise, and immediately greeted him with a happy face, "Master is back!".

Just when Lao Gao took the reins from Tang Cheng's hand, he heard the sound of hurried footsteps inside the house, and then Li Yingwan ran out from the gate with the orchid grass, because they rushed too fast, and they even lost their skirts. Did not mention.

Since Tang Cheng left a few days ago, the first three days were fine. After three or four days, the woman and Lancao counted the days by wringing fingers every day. Maybe there is a telepathy between the close people, the silent At night, the sound of Chang Cheng Jian’s horse beating Mashi Changjie was particularly obvious. The two of them were listening to the sound of horse’s hooves outside the house just now, and when they looked at each other, their hearts moved. Zhong stood up at the same time and ran outside.

"Ah Cheng, really...you are back", there is endless lovesickness in the slightly trembling voice!

"I'm back." The expressions on the faces of Li Yingwan and Lancao made Tang Cheng feel warm. He stepped forward and walked to the two of them. Tang Cheng didn't care that they were still at the door, so he put his arms around the waists of the two of them. Limb, "Go, go home".

"Well, go home!" Following Tang Cheng's hand, Li Yingwan leaned softly in his arms. After Lancao glanced at his wife, she squeezed the man's arm tightly under the cover of night. The hand holding his waist.

After dinner, they took a beautiful hot bath, during which neither Li Yingwan nor Lancao almost took a step away from Tang Cheng.

It must be so tempting to be served by two beauties of this size in the bath, but Tang Cheng was so exhausted from the journey that he fell asleep in Lu Fengzhong. As for how he went to bed when he came back , although I have a vague impression, but I can't remember the specific things anymore.

After a good night's sleep, when Tang Cheng opened his eyes the next morning, the warm sun had already risen to the top of Dajian Mountain. After stretching comfortably, Tang Cheng felt indescribably refreshed all over his body.

"Wake up!", Lancao came in with a copper basin, smiling Ge Yinyin said: "Seeing that you were tired last night, why don't you sleep a little longer."

"Last night was really difficult for you." Tang Cheng stretched his waist and stretched out his hand, and Lancao's plump body rolled into his arms, "Say, who gave me the clothes last night."

"Husband... ah... ma'am!", I haven't seen you for a few days, Lan Caoxu, who is full of self-love, is pressing Tang Cheng's hand that is moving inside his chest, not only can't answer, but also the love in his eyes He was even able to wring out the water, "Ma'am thinks...you think so hard...how could...let me intervene".

This kind of flirting in the room used to happen before, at that time Tang Cheng could bear it and just make fun of it, but this period of time to Yangzhou was really hard to hold back, especially under the stimulation of Wu Yujun's nightly singing. In this way, after a good night's sleep, he felt that the plump body in his arms was like a ball of soft fire when he was full of energy, and he couldn't let go of it after touching his hands.

Seeing Tang Cheng's movements getting bigger and bigger, and his hands getting deeper and deeper, Lancao's body trembled more and more anxiously, "This is... early in the morning... madam...".

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, and Li Yingwan's voice sounded outside the door: "Lancao, Ah Cheng got up?".

Hearing this, after gesturing to Lancao for silence, Tang Chengcheng jumped out of the bed barefoot and went to the door quietly.

Li Yingwan opened the door and came in. Seeing no one on the couch, she said in surprise, "Ah Cheng..." Before she could finish her sentence, she suddenly felt her waist tighten, and she was already hugged tightly.

"You..." Li Yingwan just opened her mouth with a smile, and felt a hard mass pressing against her between her waist and hips. When her face was flushed, she couldn't say the following words anymore.

"This time I'm really hungry." Tang Cheng hugged the woman and walked to the couch, and said viciously: "Whatever I say today, I have to prostitute myself in the daytime."

Tang Cheng's passion clearly stimulated the woman, and after just a few short steps, Li Yingwan's whole body was as smooth as water when she fell on the couch.

"Sister Lan, don't leave, go and lock the door." At this moment, Tang Cheng was indescribably domineering. Lan Cao looked at Tang Cheng, who was only wearing underwear, and his wife lying softly on the couch, with a serious expression on her face. Swimming red went to lock the door, and when she turned around, she saw that the lady on the couch had all her outer skirt removed, and the mandarin ducks playing in the red bellyband were very lively under the plump breasts.

As Tang Cheng continued to stroke with his fingers, the apron had also left his body. Under the bright light, Li Yingwan's smooth body looked very attractive, especially the slightly bent high waist and long legs, standing against the messy lake green. Against the backdrop of the outer skirt and the bright red bellyband, it is extremely sexy.