Three hundred and forty-eighth chapter Huang shopkeeper
"Oh oh oh..."
With the high-pitched crowing of roosters, Nanbao Town, the southernmost town in the Han District of Lingao County that has prospered due to mining and trade in Li District, began to wake up gradually. + + + White smoke drifted from the chimneys. The small shops had been unloaded.
The door panels began to prepare for the morning market. The National Army soldiers on duty at night rubbed their red eyes and came down from the watchtower.
The National Army officer on duty came out of the duty room, holding the key in his hand. He yawned while opening the fence gate at the entrance of the town. This place is next to Li District and less than two kilometers away from the nearest Li Village. The Han people on Hainan Island
The contradiction between Li and Li was very acute in the Ming Dynasty. Large agricultural counties on the island such as Lingao have always been the areas where the conflict between Han and Li over land was most acute. Several major Li people's riots in the Ming Dynasty basically occurred in the Qiongbei area.
Although the Li and Miao Affairs Office believes that it is unlikely that local people will riot again after the three-pronged infiltration of trade, missionary work, and cultural and educational security, it still needs to take necessary precautions. After all, they still have little control over the Lebanese district.
It is very weak and has considerable uncertainty. Nanbao is not only the window for trade in Li District, but also has the important Nanbao coal mine. Although the quality of the coal mines here is not high, the lignite, stone and clay provided here are used in agriculture and construction.
There is still a huge demand in the industry.
Therefore, after the security war in Qiongbei, the General Military Administration stationed a platoon of the National Army here to maintain a high level of alert.
As the town gate opened, some miners rushing to go to work for the morning shift and vendors heading to Li District began to go out, and the number of people on the street gradually increased.
Sima Qiudao climbed up from the bed that was made up of two tables wearing a patched robe. The sky was already turning white. It was getting late, so he had to put on his clothes quickly, otherwise the girls living upstairs would
I can't come down to make breakfast.
The place where he lives is a two-story building along the street. This house is one of the many "paved houses" built by the cooperative in Nanbao. However, the cooperative obviously overestimated the development potential of Nanbao. After the establishment of Nanbao Mining Company, the local
It was very prosperous for a time, but as coal from Hongji and Qiongshan began to be continuously supplied by sea, Nanbao coal with low calorific value was basically simply used as a fertilizer raw material. If it were not for the huge demand from the agricultural population,
The coal mines in Nanbao are almost worthless.
Fortunately, Lingao's construction industry has great demand, and Nanbao Mining Company's production and sales of stone and clay mined by Nanbao Mining Company are still booming. As a result, Nanbao Mining's production scale has not further expanded - Nanbao's coal reserves are not large.
As for stone and clay, the high transportation costs of building materials make their sales scope very limited. The originally planned phases three and four of Nanbao were canceled by the Planning Institute.
Without the leading enterprises, Nanbao's population growth rate has dropped significantly. In recent years, although a number of rattan wood processing, Chinese herbal medicine processing, leather and kapok processing have been started in Nanbao specifically for Li District trade products.
Deep processing small businesses, but small in scale, can absorb a limited labor force. The Planning Institute has not arranged a large number of immigrants here. As for the free immigrants, they prefer the prosperous banks of the Wenlan River, and no one is willing to go south.
Bao, this "border" area.
The development of Nanbao was not as good as expected, and naturally it could not support too much business. The cooperative built a lot of paved houses and they were reduced to rental housing. After Sima Qiudao and his party came to Lingao, the local coordinators
They arranged it here.
The house has a two-story, three-bay facade, with a small courtyard at the back and several wing rooms. The street in front of the house is not prosperous, but it is adjacent to the main road. The back door leads to a rather deserted small box. The transportation is very convenient.
.Huang Zhen, who was responsible for looking at the house, fell in love with this place at a glance.
Huang Zhenren is called "a copper pen and an iron abacus". He is rich and has the temperament of a businessman. This action is regarded as the "shopkeeper" who will do business in the coming high-opening business.
Nowadays, there are many businessmen who come to Lingao to open shops for business, but most of them are in Dongmen City and Bopu, and very few are in Nanbao. Therefore, as soon as he showed his intention to "invest and open a shop" in Nanbao, the director of the local cooperative was furious.
They took him all over the town to look at houses, and Huang Zhen finally chose this place.
For Sima Qiudao, this house is quite good, clean and tidy, and quite comfortable to live in. The only drawback is that the house is a bit small compared to the number of people they came this time.
This time the Central Plains Wulin launched a large-scale campaign, and the only people who came here early were seven or eight people led by Huang Zhen and Sima Qiudao. Others are coming one after another.
Of course, it is not possible to ask these men and women from well-known families to shave their heads and "purify" them to become civilians. But if they want to "employ themselves", they will look too conspicuous wherever they go. They can only be arranged in this so-called "shop"
Hidden.
It’s not that there are many people, there are also several “females” here. Although they are all children of martial arts, after all, there are differences between men and women. Moreover, these masters are also prestigious elders in the martial arts world. We can’t all sleep together.
Tongbu. So two of the three rooms upstairs were given to them, and one was reserved for the main figure in this operation who had not yet arrived: Zhuo Yifan, the great disciple of the Wudang Sect. The remaining people could only
Squeezed into the back room, even Huang Zhen could only rest in the small tent on the first floor.
Sima Qiudao felt that there were too many people and it was noisy, so he simply stayed in the shop, using two Eight Immortal tables put together as a bed, which was quite comfortable.
He went to the well in the backyard to wash up and saw Huang Zhen already rinsing his mouth. He was in his fifties and looked like a businessman. He had an abacus under his arm and a writing brush stuck in his lower back. He looked very strange.
Looking at his fat figure and slow movements, you can't tell the level of his martial arts skills.
Sima Qiudao knew that Huang Zhen was the chief disciple of the Huashan Sect. When it came to martial arts, only Zhuo Yifan was stronger than him here.
"Shopkeeper Huang." For the sake of concealment, they saw that they had changed their names, "You get up really early."
"It's Sima." Huang Zhen spat out the water in his mouth. "It's already late. Business people can't sleep. It's said that at dawn, sweep the courtyard. Clean yourself and the shop. Guest officials.
It’s only when you come to the door that you feel happy, and the business can be done well.”
Sima Qiudao secretly thought: Stop pretending! This Huang Zhen usually likes to act like a businessman. This time he sneaked into Lingao and put on the boss's airs.
However, in a martial arts world that pays attention to sect origin and seniority, Huang Zhen's status is not comparable to that of a junior from the Qingcheng sect. Therefore, Sima Qiudao was still very respectful on the surface: "The shopkeeper is right."
While they were talking, a woman had already come out of the house. She was probably awake and still rubbing her eyes. She saw Huang Zhen and Sima Qiudao both in the yard, and they were very busy.
"Miss Nan, you got up so early." Huang Zhen narrowed his eyes and greeted with a smile.
The woman called Miss Nan is no longer young by the standards of this time and space, and looks to be about twenty-five or six years old. She wears a light green skirt, a light red armor, and a slender waist.
She has a graceful figure, a pair of sparkling black eyes, and she is extremely flexible, as if her eyes can speak. She has a beautiful face, and a half-smile at the corner of her mouth, which makes people feel close to her.
Women do not wash themselves on the well platform. Even the children of the Jianghu family must maintain some dignity and respectability, and they must not be too unruly outside.
"It's still early. It will be bright in a while. If we don't cook for a while, everyone will have nothing to eat." Miss Nan pursed her lips and went to the kitchen to measure the rice.
Seeing her go in, he whispered to Huang Zhen: "Shopkeeper Huang, are we still hanging out like this these days?"
The smile disappeared from Huang Zhen's face: "Didn't Master Qi say that? Everything must be obeyed by his instructions. This place is not as dangerous as the Ming Dynasty."
The so-called Seventh Master is the person who assists them locally. They know very little about this Seventh Master, they only know that he is from Jinyiwei and has been lurking in Lingao for many years.
"Shi Weng said that this place is like a dragon's pond and a tiger's den. I went to their home base of Dongmen City yesterday to explore - it was nothing more than that."
"Zixiao, don't underestimate the thief Kun. Over the years, in the green forest, I think of the countless people who have come to make money in Lingao, a newly prosperous place, but all of them have gone away and never come back. It's like they have disappeared into the sea. I feel guilty.
Several of them are big thieves in two capitals and several provinces. It is said that they also lost their reputation in Lingao. "Huang Zhen is older, so he is naturally much more mature. "Seventh Master said that there are many spies in the interview bureau here, and they are not
Talking about the rules of the world, we can't tolerate this here. We must be very careful in every move we make and never act rashly."
"Yes, I understand." Sima Qiudao was a little disapproving. Because he had just been to Dongmen City and Xinnachun junction a few days ago. Although he was shocked by the prosperity and neat street order of Dongmen City, it was not as he imagined. "
"Three steps, one post, five steps, one sentry", a scene of numerous weapons and tight security.
When he was patrolling the streets of Dongmen City, he didn't even feel the slightest sense of danger. There were countless fake Kuns who were easy to obey. Kun thieves are so good at winning over people's hearts. No wonder the imperial court was helpless after occupying Lingao for many years.
"Zixiao," Huang Zhen felt that his youth was too reckless, so he warned, "Shi Weng has tried his best to send us here this time, and even took out people like Master Qi who were in his pocket. We must
We must live up to our high expectations and get to the bottom of this matter! Report it to the imperial court and save all the people!"
Sima Qiudao nodded, and couldn't help feeling a little more stressed. It has been more than a month since he sneaked into Lingao, and he has been hiding like this. Sometimes he really doesn't know what he is doing here.
However, the purpose of this trip is only known by Zhuo Yifan, the leader of the Wudang Sect who has not yet arrived.
Even a character like Huang Zhen is just a front-runner. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!