The woman hurriedly smiled and said: "Sir, the little girl encountered misfortune at home, but she was still very smart a few days ago." But she thought in her heart that in just a day or two, I managed to train these two little girls not to cry or to make trouble.
Would you like to try someone else?
Seeing that He Qizhou was losing his temper, Xu Mu hurriedly said: "I feel pity for you, it's really good." Then he walked over and took the pulses of the two little girls respectively, and then asked them to open their mouths to check their teeth, and then said to Xiang Chen:
"Boss Xiang, what you said is true. I am very satisfied with these two people. Please bring their household certificates and transaction receipts."
Seeing Xiang Chen nodding, the middle-aged woman hurriedly took out a paper bag from her arms. Xu Mu took out the document, read it carefully and put it away. He Qizhou took out a hundred taels of silver and handed it to Xiang Chen. Xiang Chen hurriedly said: "I
I want to express my feelings for a while, but since you two insist on it, I will accept it with trepidation."
After He Qizhou looked at the paperwork, he suddenly said: "You bought these two children just a few days ago. I don't know who has a sharp eye and solved a problem that I was worried about. I will definitely repay you well."
The middle-aged woman's eyes were burning, but she didn't dare to speak. She just lowered her head and waited. Xiang Chen chuckled and said, "Well, this is this person. Her name is Liu Juan. She is not a member of Taohua Pavilion. She usually helps with training for a few years."
Young lady, since you two have already paid double the amount of silver, there is no need to be polite anymore."
He Qizhou knelt down and said to the two little girls: "Little sister, can I take you to find your parents?"
One girl looked up at the middle-aged woman in horror, while the other one nodded fiercely with tears in her eyes. He Qizhou stood up and said: "Very good, Boss Xiang. You see, we two grown men are not very good at it either."
To take care of the little girl, how about this? Let this Sister Juan go to Danguiju to take care of these two little girls for a day or two, and I will definitely reward you with a lot of money afterwards!"
Xiang Chen said: "It's a trivial matter, Ajuan, why don't you thank Mr. Cheng?"
Ajuan suppressed her smile and thanked her Wanfu. He Qizhou informed Ajuan of the room number in Danguiju and asked her to come over tonight, and he would help the three of them get another room.
After A-Juan left, Xiang Chen said: "You two, noon is coming soon, why not have a light meal here and then leave. My men will be back in a quarter of an hour."
Xu Mu said coldly: "No, the navy is still waiting for us. They can't wait until after noon, so we can wait another quarter of an hour at most and either bring the money back or give up!"
Xu Mu knew very well that it was five miles from here to the east gate, and almost ten miles from the east gate to the pier. It would take half an hour at most for a quick horse trip. If you add in the time for inspection and verification of the warrant, three quarters should be enough, and from there
It has been almost three minutes since the petty official left with the warrant, and he might be reporting to Chen Yan and the others.
Sure enough, when a stick of incense was not available, the man walked in with a dusty face and whispered a few words in Xiang Chen's ear. Xiang Chen nodded and said to Xu Mu and Xu Mu: "The warrant is correct, so I won't keep it."
You two, do you want me to send someone to take you back to the inn?"
He Qizhou held the hands of the two little girls and said: "We came in two carriages. These boxes of things are more than enough. You can ask someone to help carry them into the carriage." Then he opened his right hand to Xiang Chen and said:
"Can you give it back to me?"
Xiang Chen pretended to suddenly realize it, took out the Liu family's sandalwood plaque from his arms, handed it to Qi Zhou, and said, "Look at my memory."
In fact, Chen Yan found the steward of Liu Xizhou's family early in the morning and asked him to look at the wooden plaque. The steward was shocked when he saw it. He said that he had seen the owner of the family holding this wooden plaque and asked if something happened to his master.
Chen Yan was not willing to tell the truth. He said that a friend had accidentally obtained it from the capital and asked him to keep an eye on him. He was just curious and was about to return it. He also said that the friend had a good background and that the manager was because of Liu Xizhou.
Since I'm not in the house, I don't dare to ask any more questions.
After the two left, Xiang Chen hurriedly walked into the secret room of the house, where Chen Yan and Chen Su were already waiting.
Chen Yandao: "I know everything you discussed. As expected, Zhang Luyao began to post notices everywhere in the city. Today, the government began to sell grain at fifty cents per catty. Grain stalls were set up on various roads in the city.
mouth, and also said that a large amount of food will arrive in ten days, and the price will drop, so people can only buy ten days of food rations."
Xiang Chen said: "Then how should we respond?"
Chen Yandao: "Two thousand dan is only two days' ration for the people in the city at most. He is just forcing us to lower the price. Don't worry about him. I have asked the people below to sell it at 150 Wen per catty. In addition, I will slowly send people
I went to collect Zhang Luyao's grain and bought up all his two thousand dans at once. I was afraid that the people would be frightened and rush to buy. In the end, our income was reduced. And we couldn't let Zhang Luyao find out, otherwise he would just
If we limit the quantity that each person can buy, it will be difficult for us to collect more.”
Xiang Chen said: "Master Chen, there is something you don't know whether to say or not?"
Chen Yandao: "Mr. Xiang, please speak."
Xiang Chen said: "Mr. Chen, you said last night that you would not treat us badly. There are some things that we should put first as villains before gentlemen, and make it clear. In the next few days, the food sales will not be carried out under the Chen family's name, but will be done under the name of the Chen family."
The big group of brothers below cannot be allowed to work in vain. I guess our ancestors will not care about our petty business. If we can bring down Jin Yan and the others, the Chen family will do it even if they pay a large sum of money.
No matter what, can we talk about the specific division of the price difference of selling rice this time? I can also give an explanation to those gangster brothers."
Chen Su also said: "Yes, the brothers have settled the accounts. Everyone has contributed money, and there are a lot of subordinates watching eagerly."
Chen Yan had a headache and felt a lot of hatred in his heart, but at this critical moment, he could only make concessions and said: "Then let's calculate how much profit we will get."
Chen Su said: "The price has been slowly increasing since six days ago. Now the additional income is almost ten thousand taels. If we collect Zhang Luyao's grain again, we will still have 20,000 taels on hand. We can sell it in ten days."
It's unlikely, but selling it for 15,000 dan shouldn't be a big problem. Regardless of whether the price will continue to rise in the future, if you calculate it at 150 taels per pound, you can earn 11 taels per dan, which is almost 165,000 in total.
One thousand taels, the remaining five thousand shi are calculated as three liang per shi, plus the 10,000 taels obtained earlier, the total is 190,000 taels, deducting the 56,000 taels purchased from the navy and the cost of other grains is about 20,000
If you add more taels, you can make a net profit of at least 110,000 taels. How do you think we divide it?"
Chen Yan was moved in his heart. Although he was the talker of the Chen family here, his net worth was less than 20,000 taels. How could he not be tempted by such a huge profit? He tentatively said: "What do you think of this? Each of us will share
Thirty thousand taels, 10,000 taels are given to the gangster brothers, and the remaining 10,000 taels are considered as an explanation to the family."
Chen Su hurriedly said: "I think it's feasible."
Xiang Chen was dissatisfied. After all, he had negotiated with the Liu family, and he had arranged the underworld people. Fortunately, the underworld was already profitable in the process of selling food, and it would be possible to share the profits with the underworld.
He grabbed most of that portion! He nodded in agreement.
Chen Yandao: "Then let's scatter the remaining nine thousand taels on hand and let people go to buy the grains that Zhang Luyao sells everywhere. It seems that we need to raise more silver taels, and the bank and
If the gambling house takes out more, if the relief food delivered by Chen Yan tomorrow is more than expected, you can buy it back at any time."
"You should indeed prepare more money just in case." Chen Su nodded.
"Go and watch it yourself now. If you have any questions, come to this secret room to discuss it." Chen Yan said confidently.
The two immediately went out to summon their subordinates to do some work, while Chen Yan returned to his inner office to inquire about Zhang Luyao's movements. Several cronies were already waiting in Chen Yan's living room. They would send people to transport food in the morning and post thousands of notices everywhere.
The situation was reported to Chen Yan in detail. Chen Yan asked: "Who wrote so many notices? Why is it that no one asked me for instructions when it is my responsibility?"
An official said: "Zhang Luyao directly asked disciples of the Quanzhen sect and some people from the Jinling sect to take the scholars who had taken refuge here to post the notices in the neighborhoods of the city. They probably wrote them overnight. However, his subordinates were a little dissatisfied.
Understand, the government servant who went to the dock to transport food this morning came back and said that there was only about two thousand dan of food in total. Not to mention the victims, even if it was all given to the people in the city, it would not be enough to feed the people in the city for two or three days. However, the notice said that the food supply within ten days was safe.
Please don’t hoard food when prices are high. Is it possible that there will be food coming later?”
While he was talking, someone suddenly came to report that the government officials who had just returned had to be called to the dock again to guard the food convoy. It turned out that the Zhili relief food that was supposed to arrive early tomorrow morning had arrived half a day early, and was now waiting.
Unloading cargo at the dock.
After hearing this, Chen Yan was shocked and said to his subordinates: "Hurry to the dock in person and ask how much food has been transported in total? And see what's happening over there at the Navy. Are there any Navy officers and soldiers to receive Jinling?"
Go and get the food as soon as possible. I'm waiting for your news here. No, you come to Xiang Chen's house to find me, go quickly!" After saying that, Chen Yan didn't have time to have lunch, so he quickly walked back to Xiang's house alone, and found himself in the secret room.
Xiang Chen, who had just finished his work, was waiting inside and told him the latest news again. Then he sent someone to notify Chen Su who was in Osmanthus Alley, asking him to come as soon as possible after arranging things.
Less than half an hour later, Chen Yan's confidant came to the dock to report that Jin Yan had raised a total of 5,000 shi of grain this time, of which 2,000 shi had been directly loaded onto trucks and sent to the city, and another 3,000 shi were being unloaded and placed at the pier.
In the warehouse, there seemed to be no movement from the navy.
Then the man handed over a hastily sealed letter, saying that an escort officer claimed to know Mr. Tongzhi and asked him to bring it to Chen Yan.
Chen Yan opened the secret message, looked at it quickly and murmured: "A skinny camel is indeed bigger than a horse."
Xiang Chen asked what happened? Chen Yan dismissed his subordinates and said to Xiang Chen: "Among the escorting officers and soldiers on Jin Yan's ship, there was someone from the Lord Patrol. That person reported that the ship departing from Jinling indeed only had three thousand stones, but
There are many disciples and former officials of Jin Yan. Although most of them are in the north, I didn't expect that there are so few people who are familiar with him in the south. The fleet travels day and night, with many stops along the way. It has received enough food donations of two thousand dan from the literati and squires on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Zhang Luyao personally went to the dock to greet him, and the three thousand stones were put into the dock warehouse first according to Zhang Luyao's request. Presumably, they were prepared to be returned to the navy."