Long Wind Crossing

    The money from the Zhao family was delivered in full, and when this was done, the entire wealthy businessmen were trembling with fear.

    Undercurrents are surging in Wangdu, and everyone is preparing for the worst.

    Huzi handed over the daily route of these wealthy businessmen to Gu Jiusi, Gu Jiusi secretly gave Huzi money, Huzi is now almost the head of the entire Wangdu homeless. Gu Jiusi looked at the deeds of these wealthy businessmen, frowned for a long time, and sighed: "Understood, please help me watch some ladies."

    Liu Yuru was also aware of all this. First, she unconsciously found that there were more beggars and refugees around her, and they followed them every day, as if they were on guard.

    So she gritted her teeth, spent money to hire a few people to be bodyguards, and at the same time kept inquiring about the trends in the city.

      shop thing. Sometimes she couldn't help but ask Gu Jiusi, "What is the plan between Fan Xuan and Zhou Gaolang, haven't they given you any news yet?"

    Gu Jiusi responded, and then said, "Maybe they are still thinking about it."

    Fan Xuan and Zhou Gaolang discussed for a long time, and after nearly ten days, they finally gave Gu Jiusi news.

      . You can try it as long as you want. If you can, then we will push it down."

    "Yes." Gu Jiusi breathed a sigh of relief, the result was much better than he originally thought.

    "However, since this method is tried out, Wangdu must be effective. At the end of this year, Wangdu must pay this amount of tax."

    Fan Xuan wrote down a number.

    Eight million. Nine hundred thousand stones.

    Darong’s tax revenue is 80 million taels of silver a year, and 100,000 soldiers need 300,000 shi in January. There are nearly 200 counties in Youzhou, and Fan Xuan wanted to pay one-tenth of the country's tax revenue and a quarter of food and grass for one hundred thousand troops.

    Gu Jiusi looked at the number quietly, Fan Xuan put down his pen and said calmly: "I need so much money, this number cannot be added to the donation from your Gu family. If you can raise it, you can use it. I don't care what I can do, I'll leave Wangdu to you, and you can do it. The whole Wangdu, military defense and finance, I'll leave it to you, if you can do it, "

    Fan Xuan raised his eyes and looked at Gu Jiusi with a solemn expression: "The Ministry of Household should have your name."

    Gu Jiusi pursed his lips, after a while, he took a deep breath, and then said: "Xiaguan understands."

    Fan Xuan was sent away, Gu Jiusi stood up.

    He was ready early, waiting for Fan Xuan's words. As soon as Fan Xuan left, he immediately visited the major families in Wangdu.

    It's September now, and there are still three months until the end of the year, and now Wangdu's tax revenue is only 200,000 taels, and the donation from the Gu family plus the donation from the Zhao family is only 700,000. Most of the rich and big businessmen hold land in their hands, and there is not much cash at all. Even if the Gu family claimed to be Yangzhou's down payment, and their net worth could cover one year of Darong's tax, most of them were land in their hands, and in the end they could bring you to Youzhou, but only 8 million silver. Now that we have to make up 8 million, if it doesn't hurt the fundamentals of the business, it's easier said than done?

    However, things have to be done in the end. The first person Gu Jiusi visited was the Yao family. The Yao family was a major businessman in Wangdu. Thin noodles.

    After Gu Jiusi came to the door, the Yao family's attitude was not bad. After Gu Jiusi told his thoughts to the Yao family, the Yao family hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "I understand what Master Gu means," he sighed He took a breath and said, "This is also a no-brainer. Master Gu has to worry about me waiting."

    The Yao family started, and before Gu Jiusi came to the door, several families came forward one after another and bought Gu Jiusi's "Youzhou Debt".

    Gu Jiusi divided the 7.3 million debts into two parts, including 6 million long-term debts, which were forcibly purchased by merchants. There are nearly 100 merchants in Youzhou, and they purchased according to the financial situation of their families. . The remaining 1.3 million short-term bonds were put on the market by Gu Jiusi and sold publicly.

    He specially opened a room in the government office to be responsible for selling "Youzhou bonds". There are no restrictions on short-term Youzhou bonds, and they can be bought for a penny. Those who bought in the first three months, not only The interest is high, and if you introduce relatives and friends over, part of the interest from relatives and friends will also be placed on his account.

    Accounting in this way became particularly troublesome, Gu Jiusi had to find someone to take care of these accounts.

    Liu Yuru looked at it and led someone to sit at Gu Jiusi's place to settle the accounts.

    In the first month, there were not many people, so Liu Yuru was groping for ways to improve efficiency while managing the accounts. She gave everyone a brand, paper deed and number, and recorded it in the file.

    Liu Yuru was in charge of short-term debt, and Gu Jiusi went to the merchant every day to persuade them to buy long-term debt.

    After half a month, Liu Yuru's short-term bonds were not sold much, and most of them were bought and played by some bored people with a few dozen or one hundred yuan. And Gu Jiusi also gnawed on hard bones after the first few houses were handed over.

    Behind the Liang family are figures from the Youzhou military, so no matter what Gu Jiusi said, they pretended not to hear.

    When Gu Jiusi came to the door for the third time, the eldest son of the Liang family spoke impatiently in pure Youzhou dialect: "Why can't you be a country bumpkin in Yangzhou? Right? If you make trouble for me again, I will let you die!"

    Of course, Gu Jiusi couldn't be scared by such words, but he also realized that using soft ones might not be useful to the Liang family.

    He came home at night, tossing and turning in bed. Seeing that he couldn't sleep, Liu Yuru took his hand and said, "Langjun, don't worry about it," she said gently, "It's been a while since you took office, so you should have some iron-and-blood tactics."

    Gu Jiusi pursed her lips, and Liu Yuru leaned against his chest, chuckling: "I know you are soft-hearted, if you are sincere, you can rest again. After a while, the first month's The interest is distributed to the people, and the short-term debt will be sold, and I will find a way for you."

    Gu Jiusi did not speak, he looked at the girl leaning on his chest, and his heart moved. With warm fragrance and jade in his arms, he will naturally have other thoughts. But he didn't know why. Whenever this kind of thoughts came up, he felt suppressed by something. He felt a little dirty. He even enjoyed Liu Yuru leaning on him so quietly. His heart was calm, gentle, bright and clear. Peaceful.

    So he raised his hand to hug her, after a long time, he sighed: "Forget it, I'll think of a way tomorrow."

    He was newly appointed, in addition to urging money, there were still many regulations to be revised, so he had another busy day in the government office. In the afternoon, when the sun was shining warmly in the house, he suddenly felt a little palpitated, and looked up at the swaying grass and trees outside the window, feeling a little dazed.

    After a while, Huang Long hurried over from the outside and said anxiously: "Sir, it's not good."

    Gu Jiusi raised his eyes, a little dazed, and heard Huang Long say: "Madam was robbed on the way to Anyang!"

    Gu Jiusi's pen trembled slightly, and the ink fell on the paper, causing a panic.

    Liu Yuru opened a new store in Anyang.

    She didn't plan to travel far, but the new store opened, and she still had to visit after all, so she specially invited the guards and brought a lot of strong men. On the way.

    She chose the daytime, and wanted to rush back and forth during the day, at least to find out the situation in Anyang.

      Two women in a carriage.

    Yin Hong shivered, Liu Yuru's face was pale, but she pretended to be calm. She squeezed her dress tightly, and forced herself to calmly say: "If you strong men are seeking money, there is not much to get off the carriage, why don't you send someone to get it."

    Hearing this, everyone laughed loudly, and a man picked up the curtain with a knife and looked in.

    Liu Yuru looked up, the other party looked less than 20, quite handsome, with a kind of masculinity unique to northerners, a knife scar running through his face, making him handsome His face looked a little grim and intimidating.

    "Yo," the other party turned his head and said humanely behind him, "It's two women, we have gained a lot."

     Yin Hong and Liu Yuru turned pale when they heard this. The other party stretched out his hand and went to drag Yinhong first. Yin Hong screamed, Liu Yuru grabbed Yin Hong, and Yin Hong kicked and kicked, crying and screaming in horror, "Madam, save me! Save me!"

    Liu Yuru's hands trembled, and without opening the seal, the brawny man sneered and pulled the two girls straight out.

    Liu Yuru and Yinhong were dragged and fell from the carriage, and the surrounding people began to circle around them on horses.

    The feeling of being completely surrounded made both of them feel desperate, but Liu Yuru forced herself to calm down. She grabbed Yinhong's hand and said tremblingly, "Don't be afraid."

    The scarred man sneered when he heard this, he grabbed Liu Yuru's waist, and carried Liu Yuru on his shoulders amid Liu Yuru's exclamation.

    "Madam! Madame!"

    Yin Hong screamed and rushed over, another man next to him pulled Yin Hong into his arms, everyone whistled, the man with the scar threw Liu Yuru to the horse, and then brought He led Liu Yuru into the mountains with people and horses.

    Liu Yuru found that struggling and screaming would only make the group more excited, so she gritted her teeth and forced herself not to speak.

    Yinhong screamed again and again under the teasing of others. Liu Yuru listened to Yinhong's screams and begging for mercy behind her, she controlled her trembling, bit her lower lip, and let tears well up in her eyes.

    She desperately analyzed the situation.

    These people did not want money, they took them away, obviously to want people. Her life is now more important to Gu Jiusi, so these people are most likely sent by those who want to force Gu Jiusi.

    Then these bandits either received money from the other party, or were trained by the other party's own family.

    Liu Yuru analyzed the other party, but the other party saw that she hadn't spoken for a long time, and said with a smile, "If you hadn't spoken just now, I would have thought you were dumb."

    Liu Yuru lowered her head and said nothing, the other party pinched her chin, forcing her to look up at him, he stared at Liu Yuru, Liu Yuru stared at him, a trace of fear in his shocked eyes, the other party and her After looking at each other for a while, he suddenly smiled: "You girl is very courageous. My name is Shen Ming, what's your name?"

    Liu Yuru stared at him and resisted silently. The other party snorted, and then said, "I know if you don't tell me, Liu Yuru, the boss of Huarong." A man with five or three thick faces said, "Brother Xiong, your daughter-in-law really likes her rouge, doesn't she?"

    "Yes." Brother Xiong smiled honestly, "I just went to buy it for her the day before yesterday, and everything she wanted was out of stock."

    Liu Yuru listened to their gossip, and felt that they were not too vicious, so she felt a little more at ease. She thought about inquiring about the news, and Shen Ming didn't shy away from her, so he chatted with the people behind.

    Liu Yuru heard that they should be bandits who are stationed in the vicinity, Shen Ming is the small leader, and the boss on top of them should be a man named Tiger Lord.

    Liu Yuru was taken to the cottage by them, Shen Ming tied her and Yin Hong and locked them in the firewood room.

    Hearing this, Shen Ming was stunned for a while, and after a while, he suddenly burst out laughing.

    Liu Yuru frowned, she didn't understand what Shen Ming was laughing at.

    After a while, Shen Ming wiped his tears and said, "I'm sorry... It's the first time I heard someone call me Young Master, I think it's a little funny..."

    Liu Yuru: "…"

    She was suddenly a little desperate, and she felt that she had met a person who could not negotiate at all.

    And after Shen Ming wiped away his tears, he coughed lightly to make himself look serious, and then said, "Well, do you know who gave me the money?"

    "The one in Wangdu City," Liu Yuru said calmly with a confident face, as if she already knew who it was, but pretended to be mysterious, "He just wanted to threaten Jiusi with me. But What Jiusi has to do is actually not bad for them, and they will be grateful to Jiusi in the future. You are just asking for money, and I can guarantee that what I can give will definitely be more than that.”

    Shen Ming didn't speak, Liu Yuru raised her eyes and looked at Shen Ming, he was holding a greasy chicken leg and nibbling seriously.

    Liu Yuru felt a little suffocated, she couldn't help saying: "Did you listen to me?"

    "Ah?" Shen Ming recovered, coughed lightly, nodded and said, "I heard it."

    "What do you think."

    "Pretty."

    "Huh?" Liu Yuru was a little confused, Shen Ming looked at her with admiration in his eyes, and said very seriously and calmly, "I found that you are much more beautiful when you talk than when you don't. Really, you are the most beautiful girl I have seen in the past nineteen years, and you are also very temperamental. You can't go back anyway, why don't you follow me?"

    Speaking, Shen Ming leaned back and said proudly, "Following Master, I promise not to treat you badly."

    Liu Yuru listened, and it took a long time for her to react. She was instantly flushed with anger and clenched her fists. She didn't dare to choke, she could only grit her teeth and say, "I've already made a promise."

    "Oh, that Gu county magistrate, I know. Is it useful?" Shen Ming spread his hands, "I took you back, and the famous festival is gone, even if you go back, Gu Jiusi still recognizes you?"

    Hearing this, Liu Yuru's face turned pale, and Shen Ming approached her with a smile in his eyes: "Even if he recognizes you, he will remember this for the rest of his life. If he is pregnant with another child at this time, he will have to think about who this child belongs to for the rest of his life."

    Speaking, Shen Ming smiled, with a bit of regret in his tone: "What a grievance, right?"

    "He won't..." Liu Yuru said, with trembling in her voice. Shen Ming leaned back and looked at Liu Yuru. He seemed to like seeing people struggling. He supported his chin and calmly said, "Since you can't, why are you shaking?"

    "My wife is afraid of you!" Yin Hong pretended to be courageous and shouted, Shen Ming glanced over coldly: "Have you spoken?!"

    Yin Hong was so roared that his momentum weakened and he shrank back. Shen Ming analyzed the pros and cons for Liu Yuru: "To be honest, it's not my decision to tie you up. I don't care what you tell me about money or not. I'm almost twenty this year. My mother is always urging me to find a daughter-in-law, and I look around and see that you are quite pleasing to the eye. The main thing is that she looks good. "

    Speaking, Shen Ming glanced at Liu Yuru again, Liu Yuru felt a little humiliated, turned his head, Shen Ming continued: "I am a good martial artist, can talk, and have a good temper. It's very good to my daughter-in-law. I can buy you anything you like. And I don't have the old-fashioned ideas of those rotten literati. I don't mind if you married someone in the past, I just like you. It's unrealistic to go back. Even if Gu Jiusi brought someone to rescue you, but you go back, what will others think of you? Just stay on the mountain, and let's live happily ever after, isn't it good?"

    "My husband is not such a person." Liu Yuru looked at Shen Ming, glared at him and said, "He won't mind this, he will definitely come to save me, as you say he can do it , why should I spend the rest of my life with you?"

    Shen Ming was stunned for a while, then looked at the girl in front of him and said seriously: "He is better-looking than you, his martial arts are also good, his temper is also very good, he is also very good to me, he will do everything I want. Buy it for me, you can spend a month’s salary to buy me rouge, can you?!”

    One month’s money to buy rouge…

    Shen Ming was silent for a moment, and finally said: "What is your face like "Mountains and Rivers" such a large canvas, how can you use so much rouge in a month?!"

    Liu Yuru was stunned for a while, then said angrily: "You thief, have you used up the rouge?!"

    Liu Yuru was stunned, Yin Hong suddenly became very calm when the two were quarreling, she tugged at Liu Yuru's sleeve and whispered: "Madam, don't be arguing Well, he's stupid."

    Hearing this sentence, Liu Yuru came back to her senses, she took a deep breath, suppressed her temper, and said to Shen Ming: "Shen Gongzi, if you can't do this, the master, You might as well pass my words on to the village owner. Everything he wants is easy to talk about."

    "Don't worry." Shen Ming sighed, "You can't talk about this, you, it's good to save your own life."

    When Shen Ming and Liu Yuru were talking, Gu Jiusi was standing in the yard.

    He was dressed in plain clothes, his hair crowned with jade, and his expression was calm.

    Hu Zi hurried in and hurriedly said: "Jiu Ye, I found out, it was Heifengzhai's hand."

    Gu Jiusi nodded: "Say hello to Brother Zhou, everything is arranged?"

    "It's arranged."

    Hu Zi responded: "Eldest son has already followed your instructions and brought troops and horses to Liang's house."

    "Hmm."

    Gu Jiusi responded, and after a while, Yunyun came in anxiously, took a note and said to Gu Jiusi: "Master, the note you were waiting for came, it was shot at the door with an arrow. Find out where it came from."

    Gu Jiusi was not surprised, he took the note from Yunyun. The content of the note was very simple:

    Come to Heifengzhai alone.

    Seeing the above content, Huzi immediately said: "Nine Masters can't go, this is their trap, this is obviously for you to die!"

    Gu Jiusi did not speak, but after a while, he did say something.

    "She should be fine."