When she heard Li Quancheng's name, the woman was startled. She quickly stood up and saluted, saying, "My little girl, Chu Lianbai, has seen you before!"
To say what is most popular recently, it must be Li Quancheng. Boyan A'shu fell into his hands, Xiangyang Fancheng was lost and recovered, a hundred thousand Yuan troops were defeated in Xiangyang City, and a Yuan army of 200,000 were defeated in Hulu Valley. Among them
There was no shortage of people adding fuel to the flames, and many things were unclear, but the facts were there, so Li Quancheng suddenly became mysterious.
Rumor has it that his height ranges from one to two feet. Anyway, comparisons in the market place once compared his height to three feet. He is as black as iron, invulnerable, extremely powerful, and proficient in the art of Qimen Dunjia. These Chu Lianbai are all
Although I didn't believe it after hearing about it, I didn't expect that Li Quancheng turned out to be a weak scholar and was knocked unconscious by his little sister.
Li Quancheng's tall and mighty image suddenly collapsed in Chu Lianbai's mind, but then, Li Quancheng's real appearance was more deeply imprinted in her mind. When she came to her senses, she saw that Li Quancheng had walked out of the room. Chu Lianbai
Lian Bai hurriedly followed.
This Chu family water village is like a small town. There are restaurants, tea shops, gambling houses and brothels in it, but the scale is relatively small and the business is average. Knowing that these places are only open to the inside, he understands in his heart, but now in his mind
I still remember the image of a city-like water fort that I saw on the boat. After asking, I found out that this is Chongming Island. The water fort was built on the island and the protective gate was built in the shallow water.
Chu Qunying and Chu Lianxiang came over after hearing the news and couldn't help but apologize to Li Quancheng. They were even more surprised when they learned Li Quancheng's identity and secretly complained. They obviously knew more than Chu Lianbai. Li Quancheng was famous in the Central Plains.
On the one hand, what he did was really shocking. On the other hand, there was indeed a force in the court that was adding fuel to the flames and building momentum for Li Quancheng. It is conceivable that when Li Quancheng passed by Yangzhou, he must be going to Lin'an, and his future would be limitless.
!
When Li Quancheng saw the two Chu Dragon Kings looking like this, a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. The Chu family father and son smiled and felt chilled in their hearts. They didn't know what Master Li, who was known as "a cheater", was planning.
Fortunately, although Mr. Li was silent all the way, he walked firmly towards the camp gate. This made the Chu family and his son feel a little more relieved, and they hoped that the old man would leave with the army by boat as soon as possible.
As soon as they arrived at the camp gate, the third tong drum was already ringing. At the same time, the shouts of killing were loud. The father and son of the Chu family were both Jianghu people. They thought they had seen many strong winds and waves, but they had never seen thousands of armies roaring together.
The sight of tens of thousands of troops shouting for death immediately turned pale with fright. Both of them were like this, not to mention the gang members who were guarding behind the guardrail of the camp gate, but none of them could even hold their weapons safely.
Lu Wenhuan and others stood on the flagship, never letting go of the clairvoyance in their hands. Seeing that the time for three incense sticks had passed but there was still no sign of Li Quancheng, Lu Wenhuan was also anxious. At this moment, a group of people came out from the corner of the street, and the leader was
Li Quancheng and Lu Wenhuan were overjoyed and quickly stopped the military demonstration. They were about to send a boat over when they saw Li Quancheng raising his hand and making a gesture.
Lu Wenhuan knew that there was a set of communication gestures circulating in the Western Beijing Military Region, but Li Quancheng, the hands-off boss, had left everything to him. How could he have the time to learn any gestures? He quickly asked Dou Wen beside him, "Sir, sir."
What does the gesture mean?"
"Your Excellency said that he is fine, let us cheer up... to create a deterrent for the Chu family... to ask General Lu... General Yue... to go... uh..."
"What did you do in the past?"
Dou Wen put down his clairvoyance, looked at Lu Wenhuan and Yue Yin helplessly, and said: "Your Excellency, let the two generals bring a dozen or so good men to the Chu Family Water Village to negotiate..."...
Lu Wenhuan thought for a while and realized that Li Quancheng was going to trick someone. His eyes trembled and he ordered people to put down the boat. He took Yue Yin and ten soldiers to the water stronghold. Li Quancheng went up to meet him and said: "Lu Wenhuan
General, how could you send troops to surround the water stronghold? I was about to discuss business with King Chu Long, but you interfered. You really... what do you want me to say about you..."
Both the father and son of the Chu family were stunned, with a bad premonition in their hearts. Sure enough, Li Quancheng changed the subject and said: "But since we are here, we will simply wait until I and King Chu Long have finalized the business. When the time comes,
Let’s go back together!”
Both the father and son of the Chu family were gangsters, and they did a lot of extorting money. Seeing Li Quancheng say this, he didn't understand the little calculation in this guy's heart. If the deal was settled, he would leave. If the deal was not settled, we would leave.
It’s been used up!
The father and son looked at each other, their eyes full of bitterness, and sighed secretly, as expected, they have to pay back everything they come out to do.
Like the master of the water village, Li Quancheng led Lu Wenhuan and Yue Yin in front and entered the meeting hall. This guy sat directly on the main seat. However, he didn't do it very well and sat on the right side.
It gave the Chu family face.
Chu Qunying sat down on the left side of the main seat, but the rest of the people could only stand. At this time, Li Quancheng suddenly touched the back of his head and then his forehead. The Chu family father and son suddenly felt a thump in their hearts, and secretly said, "Sure enough, we are here!"
But Li Quancheng snorted softly and said: "General Lu, do you have any medicine for golden sores? This head hurts..."
The Chu family father and son secretly scolded Li Quancheng for being shameless. He asked for gold sore medicine even though his skin was not even broken. Lu Wenhuan quickly took out a bottle of gold sore medicine and gave it to Li Quancheng. Before, Chu Lianqing hit Li Quancheng on the right forehead, but Li Quancheng used the gold sore medicine.
Applying it on the left forehead, Chu Lianqing pouted and was about to speak. Chu Lianbai saw it clearly and quickly pulled Chu Lianqing out of the meeting hall, fearing that this precious sister would do something to make Li Quancheng unable to step down.
matter.
Li Quancheng showed his composure, coughed lightly and said, "Two leaders, I want to do business with Caokou!"
"I wonder what kind of business Mr. Li wants to do?"
When Chu Qunying saw Li Quancheng being so straight to the point, his tone was affirmative. He knew that the deal was done, but whether he would lose money or not still depended on the subsequent negotiations. Now he no longer had the extravagant hope of making money. As long as he didn't lose money, he would be thankful!
"Caokou is in the water transportation business, so naturally I'm going to discuss the transportation business with Mr. Chu!"
Li Quancheng threw the golden sore medicine to Lu Wenhuan, stood up, walked to the door, looked at the sky outside, and said solemnly: "The weather is going to change. There are many people in my family, so I need to prepare some supplies!"
Chu Qunying was startled and understood the deep meaning of these words, but he became more and more confused and did not dare to ask, so he said: "What supplies do you need, sir?"
"I need food, medicine, fine iron, cloth, cotton... I need all the necessities of life, and I want as much as I can get!"
Li Quancheng turned around, looked at Chu Qunying, and said: "And we also need ships, as many as we need! If Mr. Chu can still contact his colleagues, that would be even better!"
"Well - I don't know about the price - ahem... What I mean is that there are still a few of my colleagues. Sir, please give me a price so that I can negotiate with those colleagues..."
Chu Qunying was also a veteran. Seeing that Li Quancheng only wanted things and not talked about money, she had no choice but to mention it.
"General Yue, how much money do we have left?"
"Sir, the first batch of silver from Song Ting has arrived. Together with the remaining money in Xiangfan's treasury, we now have five million taels of silver in cash!"
Li Quancheng was not good at managing money, but he knew that he still had 50,000 to 60,000 people who needed to eat and buy this and that. This money was really not enough to spend. It seemed that he had to ask the little emperor for money this time when he went to Lin'an. He couldn't help but say: "Chu
Old man, you have also heard it. I have over 100,000 people living on this little money, so I can’t give you a deposit now. I can only give you a promise!”….
Chu Qunying's brows trembled and she said bravely: "Sir, please tell me!"
"When the Mongolian cavalry goes south, the Song Dynasty will be in danger. When the nest is overturned, there will be no intact eggs. My promise to you is to ensure that your water transport is safe. Not only that, but also to turn your water transport business into sea transport. Within ten years, you
The Chu family’s business spreads all over the sea countries!”
When it comes to bad checks, Li Quancheng has always made very good-looking statements, but this time there was military deterrence, so he made it more obvious: "You will be exempt from the Chu family's shipping business tax for ten years, and we will use warships to escort your Chu family's business."
, and the price is that within one year from now, you will give everything you have to serve me and serve the world!"
"Exemption from commercial tax", "warship escort", "serving the official, serving the world" are heart-breaking words. Such words are not what a minister should say. Yue Yin's eyes flashed, but Li Quancheng caught him and stared at him intently.
Yue Yin, Yue Yin couldn't stand Li Quancheng's gaze and lowered his head.
The father and son of the Chu family are both in a state of confusion. Li Quancheng speaks with great care, but in these troubled times, the Chu family does not care about heart-breaking words or even heart-breaking things, and the shipping has always been a major concern for the Chu family.
It is the dream of generations, but pirates are rampant on the sea and non-state forces cannot resist. Now that Li Quancheng has offered such attractive conditions, it is impossible for them not to be tempted.
But what Li Quancheng wrote was obviously a bad check. The bad checks were divided half and half. If Li Quancheng was in a high position, one person below ten thousand people, then he could fulfill his promise. If he had a different body or
After all, the Chu family's savings for generations were wiped out. This was a huge gamble!
Li Quancheng also knew that they couldn't make a decision so quickly, so he couldn't help but said: "I have put the conditions here. Mr. Chu and Brother Chu will discuss it carefully. I will stay in the largest inn in Guazhou Ancient Town. I have thought about it before noon tomorrow.
Inform me so that I can arrange relevant matters!"
Li Quancheng led Lu Wenhuan and Yue Yin out, leaving the Chu family father and son in a gloomy mood.
After leaving the door, Li Quancheng said calmly: "General Yue, I treat people with sincerity. When it comes to important matters, I have no selfish motives or ambitions, so I don't want there to be any double-minded people in the West Beijing Military Region!"
Yue Yin's body shook suddenly and he slowly raised his head, only to see that Li Quancheng had already walked to the front without even looking at him. Lu Wenhuan took a deep look at Yue Yin and said, "General Yue, our Lord may not be a good minister.
, but he is a good official! The king wants good ministers, and the people want good officials. And my lord has said that the people are more noble than the king. Don’t you still understand my lord’s painstaking efforts?”
Yue Yin was stunned again, savoring Lu Wenhuan's words carefully, and then quickly caught up without saying a word.