Zhu Nao

the other side.

When the time was approaching, Jin Min changed his clothes, ordered the manpower, and prepared to leave for the government.However, just as he was about to go out, officials from the government came to deliver letters to him.The official informed them that today's meeting was cancelled, and asked them to go again in two days.

"Cancelled?" Jin Min was very surprised, "Why did it suddenly cancel?"

The official who sent the letter replied in a businesslike manner: "Fei Fuyin suddenly feels unwell, so he needs to rest for two days."

Jin Min was stunned.Unwell?

The official came to deliver a letter, and then went back after delivering the letter.And Xie Wuji is not here today, he went out to visit the market and teahouse by himself, because the Shu merchants have said almost everything they need to say, and now he no longer joins in the fun with going to the government.So after the officials left, Jin Min started discussing with his subordinates.

One of his subordinates said: "Why is Fei Fu Yin suddenly feeling unwell? I saw that he was fine yesterday."

Another person said: "He obviously doesn't want to cooperate with Shu merchants, is he pretending to be sick again to delay time?"

They had already experienced Fezen's ability to delay time.Although the method of pretending to be sick is too low, but judging by Fei Cen's attitude towards the Shu merchants in the past two days, he is indeed so disgusted that he doesn't even bother to perfunctory, so it's not surprising that he came up with such a bad trick.

Jin Min is very gloating about this.Anyway, the agreement to garrison troops on their side has been reached, and the progress of the Shu merchants is not going well, and they are still very happy to see it come to fruition.

You must know that the relationship between them, the Shu merchants, and the Jingzhao government is very delicate. There is cooperation between each of them, but there are also disputes among them.If Shu merchants fight too fiercely with Jingzhao Mansion, it will be bad for them.

Jin Min sneered and said: "He is willing to pretend to be sick, so let him pretend. In short, it has nothing to do with us."

The subordinate worried: "Deputy Jin, what if the Jingzhao Mansion fails to reach an agreement with the Shu merchants, and the Shu merchants ask us to intervene?"——After all, they are allies, and it is also a previously agreed matter to deal with Jingzhao Mansion unanimously .

Jin Min frowned, quite disdainful: "The Jingzhao Mansion has already agreed to so many conditions for them. Without those few conditions, they really dare to ask us to send troops to attack? You Gan is not such a ignorant person, is he?"

The implication is that they can just watch the fun now, and it doesn't matter to them anyway whether they succeed or fail.

The subordinates thought about it, and it was indeed the truth.So everyone no longer entangled, gloated and waited for the show.

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Xie Wuji walked around the market, and then came to the door of the teahouse.Recently, whenever he has nothing to do, he would visit the teahouse.However, he never met that person named Jia Yizhen again.

He stood at the door of the teahouse, looking around the hall.Today is still the same as the previous few days, the teahouse is full of people, but there is no such person.

He stood silently for a moment, then turned and left.

He has been searching for Jia Yizhen's whereabouts some time ago, with the intention of recruiting talents.But in the past few days, he wanted to see Jia Yizhen again, but he just wanted to understand one thing.

——A person who can see through the general trend of the world at a glance and express his troubles in a word is really just an ordinary businessman?What is the identity of that person?What is the background?

Jia Yizhen may have been transformed from "false is also true".

Xie Wuji actually had a guess in his mind.Sometimes he hopes that the conjecture is false, and that Jia Yizhen is a lost gem, so he can safely take this person for his own use; sometimes he also hopes that the conjecture is true.Because it doesn't matter whether it's true or false, at least letting him figure out what's going on is better than leaving it unresolved.

Xie Wuji stood in a daze in the middle of the road for a moment, then went back without finding anything.

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Two days later, Fei Cen "recovered", so Jin Min took people to the government to continue the unfinished negotiation.

At the gate of the official residence, Jin Min met You Gan.

Yougan hasn't been idle these few days, he enjoys drinking and chatting with people everywhere every day, and he enjoys it very much.He is generous and eloquent, and has made many true and false friends, which can pave the way for future needs.He also drank alcohol very late last night before going back to sleep, and only sobered up in the morning, so he didn't seem very energetic.

And seeing Jin Min's lethargy in his eyes, he thought that he had hit a wall in the government, and was so upset that he couldn't eat well and couldn't sleep.

After all, it is still an alliance relationship, so Jin Min can't make things worse.So he secretly laughed in his heart, but put on a sympathetic look on his face, stepped forward and patted You Gan on the shoulder: "Brother You, look away."

You Gan was taken aback: "Ah?" What should you look at?

Before Jin Min had time to comfort him more, the officials had already come out to greet him.So the two stopped talking and took people into the government.

When they arrived at the official lobby, Fezen was already sitting in the lobby waiting for them.When Jin Min looked at Fei Cen, he couldn't help being stunned: When Fei Cen saw them in the past, although he would smile a lot, it was obviously a sham smile.But today Fei Cen's face was flushed red, and the smile could be seen from the wrinkles in the corners of his eyes. It could be said that his face was full of spring breeze.

What good thing happened?

The two parties were seated, and the talks began soon.

You Gan brought up the previously unresolved matters: "We hope to set up several non-military smelting workshops in Qianzhou and Huazhou, and each workshop will recruit [-] workers to mine the mines of Bashan for forging. The needs of the workshops are provided by our Shu merchants, and the workers are selected and recruited from the local area.

Jin Min listened and shook his head inwardly.

Shu businessmen wanted to extend their hands to Guanzhong's mineral mining and smelting, and they had mentioned it many times, but every time they were dismissed by Fei Cen and other officials with righteous words, there was no room for negotiation.To be honest, this is the arrogance of the Shu merchants. Why can't You Gan learn how to retreat in spite of difficulties?Isn't he tired of being refuted again and again?

Jin Min was secretly cursing in his heart, but Fei Cen said, "Yes."

Jin Min: "..."

Can? ? ! ? ! !

Did he hear correctly? ? ?

However, Fei Cen bargained unhurriedly and said: "If you want to open a workshop, that's no problem. But 1000 people are too few, and each workshop needs to recruit more than [-] workers, and the workers' annual salary should not be less than a hundred hu. , the expenses including the mining of minerals shall be borne by you.”

Since this matter is undertaken by Shu merchants with money, more people can be recruited to provide livelihood for more refugees in Guanzhong.The fewer refugees, the more peaceful the order.And the more people recruited, the more governing officers needed.Fetzen just needed such an opportunity to vigorously promote and cultivate people who are loyal to him.

Jin Min was dumbfounded. 1000 people still think the workshop is too small, and let them recruit [-]? ?

But You Gan laughed: "According to Fei Fu Yin's intention, that means we need to spend a lot of money to support people? It's not impossible, but I'm afraid we can't divide the income from the business on a fifty-five basis."

Fei Cen said solemnly: "The mountains, forests, seas, and minerals are all owned by the government, and the labor in the workshop is also the people in my Guanzhong. You only pay for the workshop, and it is unreasonable to want to share the income with the government. "

This was quite rascal, so the two sides debated on the issue of money and number of people.

You Gan was not afraid of arguing, but what he was afraid of was that the other party would block his way and would not even give him a chance to argue.As a businessman, he was good at bargaining, and the conditions he offered already gave the other party room for discussion.

So the two sides cited their own arguments and argued.When the fight was in full swing, both sides took out their abacus and account books and fish scale books to calculate their accounts. For a while, the hall was full of the sound of abacus beating.

Jin Min and the others stayed out of the matter, dumbfounded all the time, and couldn't even get in a sentence.

Not long after, the officials and the Shu merchants finally reached an agreement on this article after they each made some concessions and negotiated some other conditions, and continued to negotiate.

Fei Cen was "ill" for two days, and Jin Min almost suspected that his brain was burnt out during the illness. His attitude changed from the past. Instead of being reckless, he was very proactive.Originally, he either didn't want Shu merchants to intervene, or racked his brains to squeeze the scope of Shu merchants' participation, but now he took the initiative to expand it.Some Shu merchants only wanted to do some things on a small scale, but he wanted to force others to do it drastically.Just because the bigger the matter is, the more room he has to play in it.

By the end of the day, both sides had been arguing dryly, and those things that had been pending for a long time had finally made great progress.

Both Feizen and Yougan were exhausted after several hours of high-spirited quarrels.However, their tired faces also wore satisfied smiles...

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In the evening, Jin Min returned to his residence with his men.

As soon as the gate was closed, these soldiers couldn't help but explode.

"What's going on with Fei Fu Yin today? Is he crazy?? Or was his head lowered??"

"What happened in the past few days? Could it be that Fei Cen also accepted bribes from those Shu merchants?"

"No way? If Fei Cen also took bribes, how could they still be arguing so fiercely today? Besides, he is a governor, why would he take bribes..."

"But if it hadn't been bought off, how could the Jingzhao Mansion really agree to let the Shu merchants intervene in so many matters! In this way, wouldn't the power of the Shu people completely extend into Guanzhong?!"

"I don't understand, I really don't understand. What do those officials think?"

Everyone was confused, chatting in full swing.Jin Min was not in the mood to discuss with them, and hurriedly went to Xie Wuji to report today's changes.

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Xie Wuji was reading a book in the room, and after Jin Min came in, he hurriedly reported to Xie Wuji the general progress and process of today's talks.

Xie Wuji was also a little surprised after hearing this, but after hearing Jin Min's description of Fei Cen's words and actions today, he quickly figured out what Fei Cen's intentions were.

After a while, Xie Wuji didn't see any joy or anger, his eyes were deep, and he said coldly: "The world is prosperous, and it's all for profit. The world is hustle and bustle, and it's all for profit."

In fact, Jin Min already understood the pros and cons.He couldn't help worrying: "General, what should we do now?"

With this change in the government's attitude, the layout of Shu merchants in Guanzhong was too thorough, which was extremely unfavorable for them to want to control Guanzhong in the future.

Xie Wuji did not make a sound.

After a long time, he was about to say something when there was a knock on the door outside: "General, Deputy Captain Jin."

The eyes of the two of them immediately turned to the outside of the door.

"What's the matter?"

The soldiers outside the door said: "A man from Shu merchants came outside and sent a message saying that he wanted to discuss something important with us. He also said that when the sun is not over, they will send someone to the second floor of the Fuji Teahouse in the city Elegant room and so on."

Jin Min was taken aback, and said inexplicably: "Tomorrow is not the time? Shouldn't we all continue to talk in the government office? What do they mean by this? Could it be that they want us not to go to the government tomorrow?!"

Xie Wuji was slightly taken aback when he heard the word "Fuji Tea House", his deep eyes sparkled slightly.

Jin Min knew that Dingshu merchants had no good intentions, and he was worried that this matter was fraudulent, so he said: "Is there any important matter that they can't come to talk about? Or ask us to find it. How can we make an appointment in a teahouse? It's so weird time!"

Xie Wuji interrupted: "Tomorrow you still go to the government. The teahouse asked me to go."

Jin Min was stunned, and said in disbelief: "General? How can this be possible!... If they are uneasy and kind..."

Xie Wuji said indifferently: "There is no need to say too much."

Jin Min was speechless.As long as Xie Wuji came forward, he would inevitably worry about Xie Wuji's safety.But thinking about it carefully, Shu people should not know Xie Wuji's identity.Besides, in the teahouses in the busy city, even if the Shu people are uneasy and well-intentioned, what can they do?With Xie Wuji's skill, it would not be easy for ordinary people to hurt him.

Xie Wuji made up his mind, Jin Min knew it would be useless to say anything, so he just bowed his head and said: "Yes, General."