Fenghou

Wang Hao said slowly: "I know that Wang Mi has an information point in Hanzhong. I want to know its exact location. If you write it down and leave with the money, we won't look for you in the future. If you don't want to write it down, There is a glass of poisoned wine next to it, you choose it yourself."

Qi Gui sighed in his heart. The other party even found out the secret that he knew the information point, which meant that someone inside them had already betrayed.

"Okay! I'll just write it."

Anyway, it wasn't surrender to the Jurchens, it was just an internal struggle in the Song Dynasty, Qi Gui didn't have any pressure, he took a pen and wrote down the detailed address of the intelligence point, after thinking about it, he simply wrote the name of the leader of the intelligence point.

He put down his pen and picked up the silver.

Wang Hao smiled and said: "I like to deal with straightforward people like Qi Shiwei. Qi Shiwei should have something to say! For example, this shopkeeper Tao, does he always have any weaknesses?"

Qi Gui thought for a while and said: "This person is neither lustful nor greedy for money, he is loyal and honest, so Wang Mi uses him. If you want to find his weakness, there is only one thing, and that is his only son."

"Tell me more in detail, where is his home?"

Qi Gui hesitated, and Wang Hao's eyes immediately became sharp.

"Does Guard Qi think we are too talkative?"

"No no!"

Qi Gui hurriedly waved his hands, "This shopkeeper Tao regards his son as his life, where are the others? Where is his son?"

Wang Hao nodded in satisfaction, and picked up a pen to write a few more lines.

Qi Gui asked anxiously: "If there is no problem, can I go?"

Wang Hao looked at the address he wrote, and asked again: "Who usually delivers letters to Nanzheng County?"

"It must be Feng Wu's subordinates. It will be decided temporarily when the letter is delivered. I am afraid that someone will be sent to deliver a letter in the next two days."

"What letter?" Wang Hao asked.

"I heard that it has something to do with the Jiedushi arbitrarily appointing puppet Qi officials."

Wang Hao nodded, "You can go now. If you want money, you have to exchange information. You can find me in the outer hall of the inner guard camp on West Street."

After Qi Gui left, Wang Hao immediately sent for Sima Qing, a capable officer under his command, and after a while, a young general of the inner guard hurried over, clasped his fists and said, "Please command me!"

Wang Hao wrote a note and handed it to him, "This is your task. You immediately lead ten brothers to Nanzheng County, observe carefully, act boldly, and make no mistakes!"

"Follow the order!"

Sima Qing took the order and left.

……

At dawn, there was a cry from next door, Lu Xiu couldn't miss her husband's warm embrace any longer, so she got dressed and got up.

Since becoming a mother, she seldom sleeps well at night. Although there are nurses who watch the baby at night, she will be awakened by the sound of the baby crying, and she cannot fall asleep again until the baby calms down again.

"Let me get up too!" Chen Qing also sat up.

"Today is a day off, husband, please sleep a little longer!"

"The day off is a day off, but I want to go out and get some basic information about the status quo. I have a lot of ideas, and I need to implement them one by one."

Lu Xiu pursed her lips and smiled, "I think the most important thing for your husband is to recruit talents. With talents, you don't need your husband to do many things in person."

Chen Qing laughed, "That's right, talent is the most important thing, I really need to boldly promote some outstanding talents."

After putting on her dress, Lu Xiu quickly walked to the next door, and when she reached the door, she turned her head and said, "The premise is that my husband has to appease that supervisor, so that he won't target my husband."

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "Don't worry, the supervisor must be full of surprises now."

Chapter 492

Wang Mian was still at a loss. There were forty large boxes neatly placed in his room, each of which contained a hundred taels of silver ingots. There were at least fifty ingots, and each box contained 5000 taels of silver. , Forty large boxes, isn't it 20 taels of silver?

Wang Mian sat blankly on the chair, he never dreamed that Chen Qing would send someone to bring him 20 taels of silver.

What does it mean?buy yourself?He must have bought himself!

After a while, Wang Mi recovered from the daze, and then fell into ecstasy and trouble again.

Of course, joy is 20 taels of silver, which is the biggest gain in his life. Compared with this income, the [-] salt tax bribes that made him ecstatic the year before have become insignificant again.

100 million guan!He can't spend this money in two lifetimes.

But he also knew that the money was not so easy to collect, which meant that the silver mine must exist.

And after receiving the money, he had to make concessions to Chen Qing, at least the matter of silver mines and iron mines could no longer be mentioned.

The conflicts that happened before can only be ignored, don’t worry about it, and the report he wrote to the emperor has to be false, and write some relatively false things, such as Chen Qing has a bad attitude, he likes to be arbitrary, and he is very tyrannical to the supervising army. Very contradictory and so on.

As for the filing of the Jiedu Mansion, it can only be ignored, as it is indeed the abbreviation of the Jiedushi's staff.

As for that Jiang Yanxian, I suggest that he change his name!Just pretend that you don't know that he was the magistrate of Song Dynasty in the past.

The silver bullet's offensive was really powerful, and Wang Mi immediately broke the defense. He began to think about how to explain to the officials and the queen mother, so as to meet the requirements of the queen mother and the officials, and at the same time not make the problem serious. For money's sake...

Wang Mian was faced with a complex emotion that he had never experienced before.

……

"Bang! Bang!"

A large store on East Avenue opened for business, attracting many people to watch. It turned out to be the opening of the Chengji County Branch of Baoji Cabinet.

Baoji Cabinet Shop, also known as Baoji Money Shop, was once one of the three major money shops in Bianliang in the Song Dynasty. Later, it moved to Lin’an. It has branches in many important cities, but there are not many in the west. None, but there is a branch in Chengji County.

Of course, the reason why there is no branch in Nanzheng County is because of the war. Jin Bing broke through Nanzheng County twice, so there is really no sense of security.

A carriage, escorted by more than a dozen cavalry, slowly stopped opposite the newly opened cabinet shop. Through the window, Chen Qing looked at this new shop with the same exterior decoration as Chengdu Baoji cabinet shop.

When he saw Wang Hao passing by in the shop, Chen Qing laughed and said, "Go in and have a look!"

Chen Qing walked into the cabinet shop, but Wang Hao received him. The owner of this cabinet shop is called Qin Xi, who is actually the internal affairs camp.

Naturally, this cabinet shop was prepared for Wang Mian. Chen Qing was not generous enough to bribe an eunuch with 20 taels of silver, and only kept it there temporarily.

So he needed to set up a cabinet shop to keep the money for Wang Mian. Of course, the cabinet shop was a trap for Wang Mian, but it was a normal cabinet shop for others.

This cabinet shop was originally a government-run cabinet shop that the county government planned to open, but Chen Qing temporarily allocated it to the internal affairs camp and borrowed the name of Baoji cabinet shop.

There are eight assistants, six guards, and a shopkeeper. The shopkeeper's surname is Yao. He is about 50 years old.

The cabinet workshop covers an area of ​​about eight acres, and the most important buildings inside are two warehouses, all of which are made of large bluestone, each with two iron gates, which are extremely strong.

The cabinet workshops in the Song Dynasty were the early prototypes of banks. They mainly stored money for customers and charged storage fees.

Shopkeeper Yao led Chen Qing to a warehouse, smiled and introduced Chen Qing: "There are two iron doors in each warehouse, the first iron door is opened by the chief guard, and the second iron door is opened by me. Stabilized."

A guard stepped forward and unlocked the big lock of the first iron door. After walking a few steps, the second iron door was in front of him. Shopkeeper Yu took out the key and opened the heavy iron door, and pushed it open creakingly.

The warehouse is very large, there are dozens of independent warehouses, large and small, and it is a place to store large amounts of money. The property above [-] guan is stored here, while the small wealth below [-] guan is stored in another warehouse. Inside the warehouse.

"Are there any customers already?" Chen Qing saw signs on the small doors of several independent warehouses.

"Reporting to Jiedushi, several families have come to store their belongings, and the first one is Commander Zheng."

It was actually Zheng Ping, Chen Qing said with a smile, "How much money has he deposited?"

Shopkeeper Yao showed embarrassment, "Jiedushi, I'm really sorry, this is the first rule of the cabinet shop, never reveal the amount of wealth of the customers."

"It's okay, I just need to know about one family. It's not Zheng Ping. I don't care about others. Also leave me a warehouse. My wife may come to store my belongings tomorrow."

Shopkeeper Yao hurriedly bowed and said, "Please rest assured, envoy Jiedu, we will definitely make proper arrangements when Madam comes."

Just as he was talking, a clerk rushed over and said, "The Superintendent has also sent someone over to inquire about the storage of property, and they are waiting in your guest room."

It was expected by Chen Qing that Wang Mi sent someone to inquire, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.

Chen Qing smiled slightly and said, "Master Yao, please go! I still have something to do, so I'll leave immediately."

Shopkeeper Yao apologized and hurried away.

Chen Qing immediately left the cabinet and got into the carriage. The carriage started and drove towards the west of the city...

Today, Chen Qing went to the cabinet workshop just as a drop in. What he really wanted to visit was Huren Street. Huren Street was a small street parallel to West Street. It got its name because there was a Huren Inn on the street.

The property right of this street belongs to the county government. The construction has just been completed, and dozens of shops have not had time to rent out. The county government received an eagle letter from Chen Qing from Huangzhou City, requesting that all the shops in Huren Street be rented out. Leave it to the barbarians in the Western Regions.

Chen Qing decided to extend the eastern starting point of the Silk Road to Chengji County.

It is not difficult to achieve this. The transactions in Huangzhou City are basically transactions between merchants from the Western Regions and Ren Dejing. Although there are some Han Chinese caravans coming from Bashu, they are mainly transactions between the government and merchants from the Western Regions.

Therefore, as long as the government's trading place is moved eastward to Chengji County, merchants from the Western Regions will naturally follow.

At present, more than [-] Hu merchants have opened shops on Huren Street. These Hu people originally opened stores in Huangzhou. When they heard that Chen Qing was going to move the trading market to Chengji County, they immediately came to lease the shops.

It can be seen how keen these businessmen are on business opportunities. Once Ren Dejing died, they knew that the trading center in Huangzhou was coming to an end.

When the group came to Huren Street, Chen Qing unexpectedly saw a group of camels, more than a hundred of them, carrying heavy cargo. Several Huren from the Western Regions led the camels into Huren Street.

Chen Qing winked at Zhu Sui, the secretary in charge who came with him, Zhu Sui understood, and hurried forward to inquire, and came back soon to report: "Jiedu envoy, they are businessmen from Khotan, and the goods they carry are mainly It's medicine and jade."

Chen Qing nodded. If he came from the Black Khan Dynasty in the west, it would probably be a thousand camels.

Seeing the camel team entering a shop, he ordered the carriage to follow.

……

The person who came to inquire about saving money for Wang Mi, the supervising army, was his right-hand man Su Hui.

Wang Mi got 20 taels of silver, so of course he couldn't store it in the expensive hotel. His money was usually stored in the Baoji cabinet.

As far as he knew, there was only one treasure store in Chengdu, and it would be nice to send it to Chengdu, but the journey was too far away, so he was really worried.

He sent someone to inquire about the cabinet shops in the city, and found out that there was also a Baoji cabinet shop in Chengji County, which surprised and delighted him, so he hurriedly sent Su Hui to find out the situation.

Su Hui took a sip of hot tea and asked, "If I want to send my wealth to Baoji Cabinet in Chengdu, would you like to accept the order?"

Shopkeeper Yao shook his head and said, "We only transport to the prefectures on Xihe Road. It is too dangerous to transport wealth to Bashu. There are Qiang bandits and mountain bandits along the way. We must have army guards. We don't have such a strong guard capability for the time being."

"If I just store it in your store, how can I ensure safety?"

Shopkeeper Yao laughed, "Why is there a problem? If you are worried, you can come and check every day."

"How much does it cost to store belongings?"

"It has nothing to do with what kind of property you store, it just depends on the size of the warehouse you rent. If it is a large warehouse, it costs two pennies per month. The cheapest is a small warehouse, which costs three hundred cash per month. There are also medium warehouses and upper-middle warehouses. "

Su Hui nodded, "I'll report back and give you an answer as soon as possible!"

That afternoon, Su Hui came again. He rented a large warehouse to store the wealth he obtained on Xihe Road, and took it with him when he left.

That night, Wang Mi personally led people to store all forty large boxes in the large warehouse.

Chapter 493 Taking a Salary

After Nanzheng County was captured several times by the Jin soldiers, it was no longer as prosperous as before. A large number of people fled to Bashu. Except for the farmers who were farming, most of the people engaged in commerce and handicrafts were lost.

The whole Nanzheng County seems to be relatively depressed. Even if it is occasionally lively, it is brought by the passing businessmen.

In the west of the city, there is a tea shop covering an area of ​​about two acres, which sells various tea cakes, and there are more teas in Fujian.

This tea shop is the intelligence transmission point set up by the supervising army Wang Mian. The tea shop is not a cover. It is indeed Wang Mian's personal property. It has existed in Fujian. It deals in tea cakes. The shopkeeper's surname is Tao, and he is about 40 years old , who has followed Wang Mian for more than ten years, is kind and loyal, and has won Wang Mian's trust.

There are five fellows below, one is the eagle slave who is responsible for receiving and delivering the letter eagle, and the four are long-distance messengers who are responsible for delivering the letter.

In addition, Shopkeeper Tao’s wife and children also lived with them. Shopkeeper Tao had a middle-aged son. He had his only son at the age of 37. Now he is five years old. But he refused to leave his son in his hometown, but took it with him wherever he went.

The business of the tea shop is very mediocre. The rich families who can afford good tea have already moved to Bashu, and the rest of the common people belong to the middle and lower classes. desolate.

At noon that day, shopkeeper Tao was sitting in the shop bored and dozed off. Although his main business was not selling tea, the business was so light that he was a little unconfident. Wang Gonggong also wanted to sell tea to make money.

At this time, a young man came in, Tao shopkeeper quickly got up and said with a smile: "What kind of tea do you need to buy? Yes, the price can be reduced, why don’t you try it first?”

Seeing that there was only one middle-aged man at the counter, the young man asked, "I'm looking for your shopkeeper Tao?"

Shopkeeper Tao was taken aback, "It's me, what does the guest officer want me to do?"

The young man took out a letter and put it on the table, "Someone asked me to deliver a letter. Shopkeeper Tao had better go inside to read it, and keep quiet."

After finishing speaking, the young man cupped his hands, turned and left.

Shopkeeper Tao was really surprised. He picked up the letter and walked slowly to the inside. When he reached the door, he stopped and his face became tense. After reading a few lines, he suddenly yelled, turned and ran towards the back house.

There is a small courtyard in the back house, which is where he lives with his wife and children, and there are two little maids. He rushed into the yard, only to see a little maid doing laundry, but not his wife and children.

"Where are Madam and Young Master?" Shopkeeper Tao asked anxiously.

"The madam wants to make a new suit for the son, so she took him to the cloth shop, and Chuntao went with her."