The reason why the people sent by Zhao You found the Zuo family was because of the relationship between the children of the Zuo family and the Rui Wangfu in the early years, and the second was because they also valued the connections of the Zuo family.
Although the Zuo family is only second- or third-rate in Jiangnan, where there are many famous families, as mentioned earlier, the Zuo family has been committed to marriage in the past few decades.
Therefore, although the Zuo family did not produce a few jinshi, they gained a large number of relatives, most of whom were scholars, in-laws, fellow students, and classmates, and even the Zuo family had connections.
Zhao You sent people to Jiangnan, of course, not only the Zuo family, but the Zuo family is the lowest among them, such as collecting grain, other families may not be willing to put down their bodies to do it, but the Zuo family has nothing to do.
In the past two years, there have been disasters and famines in the north, and the harvest in the northwest is not good, but the south of the Yangtze River and the two lakes in Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and the two lakes are in good weather.
Zhao Yi took charge of half of the Cao Gang's ships and manpower early, which was specially used for him to transport grain, grass and military supplies, so he was the only one in the three families who did not lack grain and grass.
Zhao You had silver in his hand, but he couldn't buy food with silver, so he could only send someone to Jiangnan to buy it.
Guanqi had long suspected that Zhao You would use the connections of King Rui's Mansion in Jiangnan in the early years, so he let Zhan Erpeng go to Jiangnan early.
The twenty boats of grain that the second master on the left made up are nothing in Zhan Erpeng's eyes, but if this road is stepped on by Zhao You, the next step is probably not as simple as buying food.
Therefore, Qin Jue asked him not to touch the second master of the left first, and Zhan Erpeng readily agreed.
Within a few days, Qin Jue sent a few people over to summon him.
Of these people, one of them was the "turtle slave" who pretended to be Ouyang Jie and made Gao Yun disgraced, and the others were his helpers, and they were ancestors who ate this bowl of rice.
Zhan Erpeng already knew the origin of these people, and couldn't help but flick his forehead, where did Qin Jue find these people It didn't take long for these people to get in touch with the second master of the left, and introduced a big deal to the second master of the left who was short of money, which not only earned back the silver that the second master left used to seal the clansmen, but also made a surplus.
The second old man on the left was overjoyed, and the two sides were so good that they almost bowed to the handle.
Immediately afterwards, the matter of the second master on the left looking for a boat was also solved, these people have their own boats and their own guards, not to mention going to Henan, they can go to a farther place.
The second master of the left felt that his luck was back, it was like someone handed him a pillow to sleep, and everything went well.
The matter of the ship was clear, and the second master left went to find Cui Jiong sent by Zhao You.
Cui Jiong just came back from Yangzhou, he was not smooth in Yangzhou, there were several big salt merchants in Yangzhou, in the early years, these salt merchants had to transport grain to the border in exchange for salt, and later the imperial court built a military tun, without the salt merchants to send military rations all the way, the salt merchants freed up their hands to deal with the people in the officialdom, and they could still get the salt lead.
In other words, the salt merchants all had ships in their hands, which was the main reason for their conflicts with the Cao Gang for decades.
Cui Jiong originally wanted to use the big salt merchants in Yangzhou, but unfortunately although he read a lot, he didn't know these giants.
I have long heard that the merchants in the capital and northwest are 108,000 miles behind the salt merchants in Yangzhou.
This time he went to Yangzhou, and he really saw it.
The salt merchants in Yangzhou did not miss the silver that sold rice or transported grain, Cui Jiong contacted the Zhang family who had sent silver to the Ruiwang Mansion in the early years, but he didn't expect the Zhang family to send a small guy over, and the little guy took out a silver ticket of two hundred taels of silver, and said: "This is the rule of our house, but everyone who comes to recognize relatives and friends is this number, you don't dislike how much, every household in Yangzhou City is the same." ” In other words, the salt merchants in Yangzhou City treated their relatives and friends who came to fight the autumn breeze for 200 taels.
Cui Jiong was dumbfounded, he was obviously not like this in Jinling or Wuxi, no one thought he was fighting the autumn wind, and those scholarly families still had to save face compared to the salt merchants.
Sending the Zhang family away, he still didn't give up, so he simply sent a name card to the Li family and the Dong family, only saying that it was an old man, and did not mention the Rui Wangfu.
What made him even more jaw-dropping happened, the two families didn't even send a little maid to him, but in the gatehouse, they gave him a fluttering silver ticket, and the number on it was really the same as what the Zhang family said, that is, two hundred taels.
Aren't you afraid of meeting a liar, and if someone comes, give two hundred taels No, it was because they regarded him as a liar that they sent him away for two hundred taels.
Cui Jiong was so angry that his head was dizzy, and he returned to Jinling with six hundred taels of silver, and saw the second old man Zuo with a smile on his face.
"Master Cui, the matter of the ship is solved, not only this time, but we don't have to worry about it in the future."
The second old man on the left danced with his eyebrows.
Cui Jiong frowned slightly, he only knew when he arrived in Jiangnan that now Jiangnan couldn't buy rice with money, but he couldn't hire a boat with money.
The ships in Jiangnan are all controlled by the Cao Gang and the salt merchants, and if these two sides can't handle it, don't think about the wife Taiping to transport the rice and grain out.
"Is it reliable to have a ship, the second master, let's listen to it in detail."
Cui Jiong asked.
The second old man on the left was about to say it, but the words came to his mouth and swallowed again, looking at Cui Jiong's haggard face, he was afraid that there would be no gain when he went out this time, he didn't have to think about it to guess that Cui Jiong went to Yangzhou and borrowed a boat from a local salt merchant.
The salt merchant's path must not have passed, and neither can the Cao Gang, and now all they can count on is the ship in their own hands.
You can't tell Cui Jiong openly and honestly about this matter, otherwise this credit will not be Cui Jiong's, and when Cui Jiong has a relationship with others, he will be kicked away.
But if he holds the boat firmly in his hand, Zhao You will sit in the world in the future, he will be a person who has made great contributions, at that time, even if it is not as good as the ancestor of the Qin family, this major event for the emperor to solve his worries can also be famous in history.
Thinking of this, the second master of the left bit even more so that he didn't tell Cui Jiong, and Cui Jiong also understood what the second master of the left meant, and secretly scolded in his heart for being short-sighted.
But now apart from the boat in the hands of the second master of the left, he has no other way, so he has to give the second master of the left to do it.
Within two days, the second master on the left saw these ships with his own eyes, all of them with large cabins and strong masts, and at first glance they were large cargo ships that could take long-distance waterways.
The second old man on the left was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked how many there were, and the answer was that since you have twenty ships of goods to transport, I will give you twenty ships, and if you can't fit them, you can transfer another twenty to them.
Forty boats, and these men have forty big ships in their hands The second old man on the left didn't know what to say, if he could give Zhao You forty boats of food, then He swallowed his saliva with difficulty, it was not difficult for him to buy another twenty boats of grain, and now that he had another ship, what could not be done He excitedly went to find Cui Jiong. t1706231537: