When you enter the Liang family courtyard at night, it is quiet. In the villa like this, it is mostly composed of wealthy families outside the city, which often symbolizes the prosperity of their family business. In previous years, when it is summer, the wealthy families and rich men in the city will come to their villa outside the city, enjoying the rare refreshment and enjoying the leisurely life under the eastern fence of picking chrysanthemums.

Of course, with the decline of the family business, the first ones sold were the outside world and the land around the other. For many wealthy families and gentry in the city, it was also a kind of risk-averse investment. Although the Liang family had already declined, the courtyard was still quite comprehensive, but not many people knew that before the New Year last year, the owner of this villa near the river had been replaced.

"Second, after I return to my hometown, I will ask you all here at that time."

In the study, Fan Sanba looked at his second brother and gave a message.

"Don't worry, brother, I know what to do."

Although he was the second young master of the Fan family, Fan Sanlun always listened to his elder brother's instructions like a verbal worm. There was nothing he could do. After all, the elder brother was like his father. What's more, when his father was not around these years, the elder brother was the one who was in charge of the family's business, so he had to obey.

"It's not that I know or not, but that I must not make any mistakes. When we buy these millions of stones of grain, it may not be worth much, but after the spring begins, these grains will be the life-saving of the people in the capital. This time, Prince Rui entered the pass and burned and killed the canal. Most of the granaries of various sizes along the river were affected by military disasters, and there was not much grain left in the warehouse. At least before the Jiangnan grains entered Beijing today, if millions of soldiers and civilians in the capital wanted to survive, they would have food. By then, these foods would be precious..."

While sighing, Fan Sanba walked to the window, opened the window, looked at the mountains of food in the yard, and couldn't help but sigh.

"This is food here, it is clearly a mountain of silver!"

As a businessman, for Fan Sanba, he never had any interest in his eyes. It was because of this that he made a plan with his father. By providing the Qing army with information that the defense was empty inside the pass, the official army was suppressing the enemy in Jingxiang and other places, and leading the Qing army to invade, burning, killing and looting the whole way, it seemed that the Fan family did not get much reward, but in fact, Fan Sanba knew very well that the Fan family could make at least tens of millions of taels of silver based on this transaction alone.

Since Yongle moved north, in order to ensure the supply of grain from the capital and the millions of soldiers and civilians in the north, dozens of granaries of large and small along the capital and canals, and millions of stones of Jiangnan grain in the warehouses were related to the livelihood of millions of people. When the Qing army invaded, they naturally did not let go of those granaries. Although the granaries were guarded by the warehouses, they could not withstand the fires burned by rockets.

Those few fires may not burn all the food, but they can burn it almost the same. For the Fan family, the opportunity comes naturally.

"Brother, I know, I didn't write a letter from the capital yesterday that the grain prices in the capital have risen by more than 50%. Those grain merchants have more than a dog's nose. So many granaries have suffered military disasters. There are millions of mouths waiting for food in the capital. As long as we wait for another month, the grain here will definitely be sold at a high price!"

Fan Sanlun joked and looked at the mountains of grain in the yard, just like his elder brother, he never thought about how this grain was obtained. For him, what he saw was the huge profits behind it. This was a reward of tens of millions of taels. Just this business alone could make the Fan family become a wealthy rich that could rival the country. This deal... is really worth it!

"Brother, your move is amazing. Prince Rui enters the pass, no matter how he does it, he cannot take everything away. Especially things like food, he can only burn it or throw it away for nothing and sell it to us. He can still sell it for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. When the Qinghuang is not in charge, our defeat will be dozens of times the profit. If we make a few more troubles, our Fan family will be rich and can rival the country..."

When the second brother said that Fan Sanba shook his head and said.

"Second, this kind of business is just a transaction, and you also see, "Soldiers pass by like combs, bandits pass by like combs." This time, there is no one along the river for hundreds of miles, and they will come again next time..."

Shaking his head, Fan Sanba sighed.

"I'm afraid even if we have the will, we won't get so many things, after all..."

After all, it’s almost done to kill people, and there’s no one anymore. I will naturally not be able to grab things when I come back next time.

"Oh, that's a pity..."

"Yes... What a pity!"

While sighing, Fan Sanba ordered again.

"Oh, by the way, there are those things that need to be hidden. Those things are not ours. Those things are Prince Rui, the things from the Qing Dynasty. They are just temporarily stored here. Maybe they will be transported out of the customs in the future. This time, Prince Rui did not bring them back because there were too many things, so they were left to us. If the things are lost, then the emperor and Prince Rui blamed them, maybe our family would have to pay the money. The compensation is not important. What's more, if the emperor no longer believes in our Fan family, it will be completely over. Do you understand?"

Fan Sanlun smiled when his elder brother told him the instructions.

"Brother, look at what you said. Those things are hidden there. Who can know except us? Those who know are those magistrates. Is it useless to them? As long as you give enough money, they will definitely not talk nonsense."

"It's always right to be careful. The business we do in Fan's family is not an ordinary business. Although we have the help of fellow villagers in the capital, we must be careful, after all..."

After pursing his lips, Fan Sanba sighed in his heart. The business may be rewarding, but once something goes wrong, it will lose its head and not take it lightly.

"After all, our business is not an open business, be careful and there is no big mistake. If my father hadn't been careful over the years, something might have happened to this business. Those people in the capital would have taken care of us when nothing happened, but once something happened, they would be clearer than anyone else. Those people only have money in their eyes. At the critical moment, they would be more ruthless than anyone else. So, in the final analysis, we should be more careful, do you understand?"

"I understand."

He looked at his younger brother again. He naturally believed in his brother very much, but he would inevitably say a few more words.

"Okay, you go back and rest first, don't send me it tomorrow..."

After the second child went to rest, just when Fan Sanba wanted to go to bed, he heard the knock on the door outside, and then the shouts of the servant.

"The eldest young master, the eldest young master, the master's urgent letter..."

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I recommend a friend's novel "The Last Hard Man in the Ming Dynasty", a very good novel, absolutely the most handsome one.
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