[R18] Will drink wine – “About Wine” Chapter 201 [English]

Chapter 193 Fear

Yan Heru changed his words temporarily and continued: “——Qiao Ruyi!”

“It’s only polite to prepare a gift,” Shen Zechuan put down his pen and said, “I’ll show Mr. Yan his seat.”

Qiao Tianya let go. Fei Sheng squeezed Yan Heru and said, “Look, give Mr. Yan some tea!”

Yan Heru was so unlucky that he carefully selected a number of people from Cui Qing, all of whom were good-looking boys and girls.He originally wanted to choose Yao Wenyu first, but after opening up Yao Wenyu’s path, wouldn’t it be much smoother to deal with Shen Zechuan?But he didn’t even see Yao Wenyu’s face.After entering this courtyard, I wanted to give it to Shen Zechuan again.What man doesn’t love beauty?Xiao Er is not a sinking fish and a falling goose.

Yan Heru touched the back of his head, remembered Qiao Tianya, and sat down with his robe in his arms.His face was still kind, but he suppressed his smile and showed a bit of melancholy, saying: “Who knows about the heroic achievements of King Li Bei? I am afraid that the Lord and the Marquis will be too sad. If it hurts the body, it will miss the kindness of the old prince. I came here today to do such a bastard, just to make the Lord laugh! Alas, Lord Fu expresses his condolences.”

Yan Heru speaks Mandarin, with a bit of a Hezhou accent. He can’t get rid of the “ma” and “na”, and he speaks in a very quaint voice.At this moment, he is persuading people obediently, but it really seems like that.

Shen Zechuan accepted this sentiment. This year, the whole country has huge expenses, and everything cannot be done without Yan Heru.He took the medicine while Yan Heru was talking, took a few sips, and said with gentleness on his brows: “I’m in Libei, and I heard that you gave Bian Boying tens of thousands of taels of silver to repair the horse trail.”

“It’s all small money,” Yan Heru said, “how can it be worth remembering by the governor? Besides, it’s not a united front now. Li Bei and Qidong are all just to fight against the bald people in Biansha. I, a businessman like me, can’t help with anything else. It’s just a little thought.”

Fei Sheng secretly sneered, feeling that this guy was no better than himself when he was pretending to be a human being.Now that I know about the United Front, I don’t feel any guilt at all when I took Hongshang to do business with Biansha in Dunzhou.

After Shen Zechuan drank the medicine, he paused for a moment before speaking: “You came to see me specially today. What’s the matter?”

“Just look at Mr. Fu,” Yan Heru smiled again, ” Mr. Fu is like my brother now. I feel panic when I don’t see him for a day.” He sat up straight and said, “How about Mr. Fu accept me as your younger brother, and I will kowtow to you twice.”

Yan Heru was indeed shameless. He called Cai Yu grandpa, called Lei Changming his eldest brother, and when he met Lei Jingzhe, he called him eldest nephew. Now the situation has changed, and when Shen Zechuan takes control of the whole territory, he just wants to be like a younger brother.Is it okay to stay down and be a kid?That’s nothing compared to money. This kid can see it clearly than anyone else.

“Okay,” Shen Zechuan saw that Yan Heru was happy, and then said, “Kowtow to Shen Wei twice first, and we will be considered the same sect.”

Yan Heru almost sighed, he is not stupid, his reputation is ruined by being next to Shen Wei, and he has to be scolded on both sides.He went back to his bed and said with half interest: “Forget it, my family has rules. It is definitely not allowed to worship Shen Wei.” He said to Shen Zechuan, “Fu Jun, Fu Jun.”

Shen Zechuan said: “Where?”

Yan Heru regained his energy and said, “As for me, I have something to discuss with you. Hasn’t Qidong reached an agreement with our Cizhou now? There will definitely be no problem with the general’s military rations this year. I will make up for it. I will make up for it.”

Shen Zechuan drank tea to clear his mouth and didn’t answer in a hurry.

Sure enough, Yan Heru said: “Qandu is also afraid of Fujun now. You have strong soldiers on your left and right. If we really want to fight back, how can the Eighth Battalion be able to withstand it? But it doesn’t seem to be a problem to bow down like this, so I thought that Qandu will cut off our business to Juexi from this year. At least the Xi family’s copper mines and fleet will no longer be in your hands.”

Yongyi Port’s fleet is related to the Libei Mutual Market business. Raw tea is not valuable in Juexi, and it relies on the fleet to deliver it to other countries to make huge profits.Yan Heru didn’t feel bad about the Xi family being closed down. It wasn’t He’s shop anyway.The Yan family can no longer do the grain business in Zhongbo. Yan He has to find a replacement for this shortfall, and he is keeping an eye on the port.

“What’s your idea?” Shen Zechuan put down the tea lid, “Speak directly.”

“My idea is,” Yan Heru lay on the table, “We don’t want Yongyi Port anymore.”

Shen Zechuan tapped the tea lid, raised his eyes to look at Yan Heru, and saw ambition in his eyes.Shen Zechuan didn’t reply immediately. He sat here patiently and quickly figured out Yan Heru’s thoughts.

Yan Heru blinked and said, “We can… build a new one.”

The Yan family in Hezhou occupies the waterway south of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which is the key to the Yan family’s business extending east and west. However, after its goods arrive in Juexi, they have to be handed over to the Xi family fleet in Yongyi Port for trading. Therefore, the greatest benefit of this line is not in Yan Heru’s pocket, but in Xi Hongxuan’s pocket, which is now Shen Zechuan.Yan Heru has been making excuses with Shen Zechuan, relying on every possible means to cooperate with Shen Zechuan, but seeing that the trade routes throughout the country are shrinking, he has to keep up with Shen Zechuan’s speed.This year Juexi will seal the copper mine and Yongyi Port, which is an opportunity for Yan Heru to ride on the wind.

A few years ago, Yan Heru couldn’t get to the north, and Libei wouldn’t cooperate with him, so he directly established a small mutual market in Dunzhou and relied on pawnshops to launder money for officials from various places.It’s the same now, he is still as bold. Giving up Yongyi Port means that the Xi family can no longer contain the Yan family in the west. Yan Heru wants to hold both the internal and external waterways in his own hands, and be on an equal footing with Shen Zechuan in this mess.

Shen Zechuan rubbed the edge of the tea cover with his fingertips and said, “How do you get around Jiang\Qingshan?”

“The master of the house holds the handle on Juexi,” Yan Heru smiled, “In recent years, merchants have been to Dunzhou to launder money for local officials. There are many Juexi officials on the list. If the account books in the pawnshop fall into the hands of Jingshan, they will die or die. In order to get through Juexi, I filled in countless silver, and now it’s time for them to pay back the debt.”

There are hundreds of officials and subordinates in a place. Even if the state capital itself is upright and strict, it cannot ensure that everyone below has clean hands and feet.The cases in one state and one city are extremely complicated. There are only so many people in the supervisory roads in each place. There are too many places that cannot be seen from above and below. These are all gaps.Yan Heru was able to do such a big business next to the Xi family in Juexi. These people were all the heroes who protected him, and now, these people are stepping stones to pave the way for him.

Shen Zechuan wants to re-examine Yan Heru.

Yan Heru has always looked shameless since he started in Dunzhou. He kept smiling even though he was cold butt all the way, making people forget that he is the helmsman of the Yan family in Hezhou, and he was eating human blood steamed buns in Zhongbo a few years ago.He was also quite decisive when he gave up on Lei Jingzhe. For Shen Zechuan’s liking, he was even willing to surround and kill Lei Jingzhe in Dunzhou.

No matter how sweet Yan Heru shouted, he was not ambiguous at all when it came to killing people.He is truly greedy for money, just like he will never go out without a gold car. If the person sitting opposite him does not have enough profit chips, he will not even show his face.

“Liuzhou on the coast is a geomantic treasure. It is remote and far away from Yongyi Port. It is also a crescent-shaped bay. The fleet will not be exposed. As long as the mouth of Youtan, the capital of Liuzhou, is sealed, we can continue to do business.” Yan Heru tapped the golden abacus and said, “Put that list onAfter using it, the caravan going to Juexi will no longer have to pay taxes to Jiang Qingshan. Future customs duties and inland commercial taxes will be decided by Fu Jun… When Fu Jun becomes hegemonic in the future and takes over the thirteen cities of Juexi, these corrupt officials will be my first gift to Fu Jun. Kill them when the time comes.There is red water all over the place, who dares to accept bribes from the master?”

Make the best use of everything and kill the donkey!

Yan Heru has not yet reached the crown this year, but he already knows how to write the word cruel and ruthless.With this harmless face, he moved the small abacus loudly. What was calculated on it was not only silver, but also heads.

Shen Zechuan had no reason to reject Yan Heru. He really needed a new port to avoid Jiang Qingshan, and he didn’t even want to give up the copper mine.Due to the war, various expenses have increased this year. When the remaining three states are fully recovered, the expenses will double again.

“You think too far,” Shen Zechuan said with emotion, “I’m not as good as you when it comes to doing business.”

After Yan Heru left, Qiao Tianya put his hand on the chair handle, watched the door curtain rise and fall, and said, “This boy can be killed.”

“He is lively in his work, and he knows how to do what others want.” Shen Zechuan also looked at the slightly moving door curtain, “In time, it will definitely become a disaster.”

* * *

Yan Heru left the house, stepped on someone’s back and got into the carriage. When the carriage started to shake, he took off the golden abacus from his neck, threw it among the silk and satin cushions, rubbed the back of his neck and asked, “Have you found Hai Rigu?”

Yan Miao opened the car curtain and came in, knelt on the side and said, “Everyone in the Shen family is very strict with their mouths. There are guards everywhere and it’s impossible to find him.”

Yan Heru was a little unhappy. He dialed the abacus and lost his temper: “What Jin Yiwei? They are just a group of beggars. They all hang out when they leave the house and they are working as a pug in Cizhou! Today, I made Shen Zechuan jealous because of the incident at Liuzhou Port. He may be thinking of how to kill me at this moment.”

Yan Miao is the messenger boy of Dunzhou Pawnshop. In fact, he is also the shopkeeper who handles the accounting books of Dunzhou Pawnshop.He is the son of the Yan family. He was placed in Dunzhou by Yan Heru a few years ago. This is evident from Yan Heru’s trust in him.

Yan Miao raised his face slightly and said under the dim light: “I see that Shen Zechuan’s actions in Cizhou are not as vengeful as the rumors say. Now that the war is critical, both the north and the south are relying on him to use their strength. Young Master must not mess up the situation and ruin the relationship with him.”

“He asked me to bear the burden of the two states’ granaries in the spring,” Yan Heru slid the bead back and forth, “Isn’t he just warning me. Do you think he is not a person who will retaliate for his anger? I think it is the opposite.”

“Kong Chengfeng rejected him three times, and he was not angry. He treats Kong Ling with courtesy so far,” Yan Miao said. “We have replenished the food supplies in the two states. We have also replenished the military rations in Qidong this year. We also contributed money and effort to build a new port in the west. He should see the sincerity of the young master.”

Yan Heru suddenly removed the abacus from his lap, held back for a moment before speaking, and finally said: “A Miao, you don’t understand. Shen Zechuan treats Kong Ling well because, although Kong Ling refuses to follow him, he is still willing to contribute in Cizhou. It was Kong Ling who negotiated the business trip to Huaizhou before autumn. heI had a feud with Zhou Gui’s staff years ago, and I relied on Kong Ling to mediate it.Otherwise, how could a fool like Zhou Gui still be an official in Cizhou?Shen Zechuan is the one who knows that putting these two people together will not only make the world unstoppable, but also keep Cizhou impregnable for him.As for me, if he really wants to be with me for a long time, how can he let the pugs on his side bark at me again and again?”

Yan Heru wanted to say something else, but Yan Miao suddenly straightened up and said in a low voice: “Young Master!”

Yan Heru stopped immediately and was quiet for a moment, listening to the sound of horse hooves outside the carriage.He picked up the abacus, climbed on his knees to the side of the car curtain, and asked in a low voice: “Who is it?”

Yan Miao replied: “Libei Iron Cavalry.”

Yan Heru was immediately frightened. He clenched his abacus tightly and tried to peep while shaking, but the carriage suddenly stopped.

Lang Taoxuejin slowed down and stopped beside the carriage.Xiao Chiye, bearing the snow all over the sky, whipped his horse whip in the air, and Chen Yang and other cavalrymen behind him also stopped.

Yan Heru patted his cheeks with both hands, pulled open the car curtain, and shouted, “It’s really the second master! I was thinking of you on the road.”

Xiao Chiye tilted his head slightly and glanced at Yan Miao who was kneeling inside, then looked at Yan Heru and said, “Have you met Mr. Fu?”

I heard that Xiao Chiye ran for half a night in the snow to recapture King Libei. Not only did he not freeze to death, he also broke the necks of more than a dozen people.Yan Heru swallowed his saliva because of this, wondering if it was because of the rumors. Xiao Er’s momentum suddenly increased, and the overwhelming power made people sweat involuntarily.

“I’ve seen it,” Yan Heru seemed to be hot and wiped the sweat from his forehead, “I brought some pearls and jade to the second master. If you think it’s okay when you go back, let me know. There are a lot of them in Hezhou.”

Xiao Chiye had just come from Bianbo Camp. He didn’t want to chat with Yan Heru. He just nodded when he heard the words and took the people away.Libei Iron Cavalry passed by like a wind, and Yan Heru rubbed his arms and shivered several times in succession.

“This second master,” Yan Miao remembered something and said to Yan Heru, “has been looking for Master Yideng.”

“Really?” Yan Heru tilted his head and looked at the snow mist raised by the Libei Cavalry, his eyes gradually condensed, and he said with a smile, “…But letting Shen Zechuan get sick is far more reassuring than letting him get better.”