The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 393
Cai'er and Rumeng are now the No. [-] and No. [-] stars in Daming's entertainment industry. Bai Mudan, Bai Furong, Lan Meimei, Mei'er, Yi'er, and other new stars in the production team are also in the limelight.

After all, performing on stage is too hard, not like the movie stars of the later generations, as long as the filming is over, it will be over. In the Ming Dynasty, it needs to be performed one by one. Huang Sheng didn't want his concubine to work so hard.

Bai Mudan is getting older, and it's time to quit the entertainment industry, so it is imperative to cultivate new stars to dig out the red officials in Jiangnan's courtyard.

The two most popular actors, Lan Caier and Rumeng, will definitely be sought after if they go south together, and the star effect will definitely be extraordinary. They have unique vision and appeal. It should be relatively easy to choose Jiangnan famous actors to join.

Seeing that parting is imminent, in the red silk tent on a spring night, Caier, a cartilaginous beauty, is stalking the master like an octopus to beg him, and she is so charming to the bottom of her heart...

"Master, my family knows that we are looking for talented and beautiful Jiangnan beauties to join our Huang family, and my family also wants to help the master find some Jiangnan sisters, hehehe..."

Before the beauty finished speaking, she almost lost her temper with laughter. It turned out that Huang Sheng saw Xiao Nizi testing him with words, and directly tickled her naked body.

"Master, let me go, cluck... I won't dare again... cluck..." The cartilaginous beauty was afraid of tickle, and she burst into tears.

"Cai'er, the master is an upright gentleman. He has known Rumeng for so long and has never done anything out of the ordinary. It's not because you broke his innocence back then."

"Hehe... Master, there is no innocence in a man, I don't dare to be a slave. When did you accept Sister Rumeng?"

"Don't talk nonsense, you have to stop when you are a man, there are many good women, and you can't just want one if you like one!"

"Master said so because he has a crush on Sister Rumeng. If she finds out, she will be very happy!"

"Cai'er, don't make extravagant events. You go to Jiangnan to visit famous courtyards. Remember! Talent is the most important thing. Your team will naturally become popular in Ming Dynasty."

"My family knows, my family will hold parties in clubs in Suzhou and Hangzhou and invite famous actors from various courtyards to perform on stage, and invite them to our film crew if they catch the eye."

"You can do it boldly. If there is something embarrassing, let Yi Facai send someone to negotiate. Sometimes it is most effective to deal with unscrupulous bustards and presumptuous turtle slaves."

"Master, don't worry, my family has never been troubled by anyone in Nanzhili. There are too many adults who want my family to recommend you."

This is true. The coachmen and handymen in the crew are all brave men from the countryside, and their strength is not weak. Many crew members are equipped with double-barreled short guns. Anyone who dares to find fault for no reason may be shot by them.

The beauty chatted with the master in high spirits until after three o'clock before falling asleep. The next day, Yang Fan set off to cross the East China Sea, enter Taihu Lake via the Yangtze River, and arrive at Suzhou.

Before Zhao Rui was transferred to "Huaxia Island" to manage property, he handed over the financial rights of Huangjiawan Island to Chu'er. The Huang family has a large population, which can be said to be a big family. Chu'er and Gu Ling'er have been taking care of many chores at home.

As soon as Huang Sheng came home, Chu'er didn't want to worry about anything, and left most of it to Ling'er, and took the time to spend with her husband.Huang Sheng's life is still the same, he goes to the military camp to attend classes every day, and visits workers in the arsenal every now and then.

At the end of February, Zuo Shouquan, who was transferred to work in the Military Intelligence Department of Beizhili, went back to Huangjiawan Island to meet the Patriarch. After more than a month of open and unannounced visits, they got an important piece of information.

The [-] shi of grain purchased by the Fan family in Shanxi has already been transported to Zhangjiakou, and they may have to leave the customs.

In the past, it was relatively easy for the Fan family to ship goods. It was the best way to buy off the Denglai Navy to ship to Gaizhou. The loss was small and the cost was low. Sanchahe delivery.

The cost of transporting grain on this route remains high, and I don't know how many obstacles need to be dealt with.

Now that the Huang family is rising, neither of these two lines can work. The Fan family is very shrewd, and their family knows Huang Sheng's story well.

The Denglai Navy knows that Liaohai has been effectively controlled by the Huang family. Juehua Island Navy sentry ships are so fast that it is impossible for the fleet to avoid their patrols.

The Ming army on the patrol ship is completely different from other teams of the Ming Dynasty. As long as the procedures are legal, they will not eat and take cards. If a large amount of food smuggling is discovered, no matter how much money they bribe, they will not be able to make these Ming troops forgive.

Therefore, the Denglai navy did not dare to help the Fan family send food to Liaodong. They all knew that the food was sold to Jiannu. It's hard to say whether they will move, so no one dares to take the risk.

Seeing that they couldn't transport the goods, the Fan family was about to give up such a business. Who knew that there was a shortage of gold and food, so they sent more than a dozen people to Mongolia to Zhangjiakou to find the Fan family and send them a deposit, the price of which was six taels of silver for a stone of wheat.

It was the nature of Shanxi merchants in the late Ming Dynasty to seek profit. They sold their wives, let alone their country, for money. The Fan family decided to sell grain long distances from Zhangjiakou to Liaodong.

To transport [-] shi of grain for more than [-] miles, the movement is too big, and too many carts need to be hired. If a mule cart is full of [-] shi of grain, they need more than [-] carts, three to five thousand big cattle.

Because it takes nearly two months to go back and forth on the road, so many people and animals have to eat more than [-] shi of grain, so if you want to send [-] shi of grain to Liaodong, you must bring at least [-]% more when you start the shipment.

The cost of transporting grain for thousands of miles in this era can be seen, so water transport is the lifeblood of the court. If the Grand Canal, the main channel of water transport from north to south, is destroyed, many people in the north will starve to death.

Huang Sheng developed sea transportation, which doubled the transportation volume and increased the speed. Compared with the inland river transportation of grain, it saved a lot of cost and reduced too much loss. In the future, it is completely possible to take over the work of imperial water transportation.

The Fan family's caravan was already quite large, but it couldn't satisfy such a transportation volume, and it wasn't enough to hire mules and horse-drawn carts from familiar merchants, so they could only choose to hire a large number of social vehicles to make up the transportation capacity.

Smuggling food requires a large number of people, vehicles and horses, which is actually too easy to be discovered. The reason why Ming Dynasty repeatedly banned it is not because it cannot be done, but because of the collusion between officials and businessmen, no one is serious.

The newly formed North Zhili Military Intelligence Office easily obtained the news that Fan's firm purchased a large number of grain and prepared vehicles and horses. Qian Meng sent Wu Yi and Zuo Shouquan with intelligence agents to Zhangjiakou to find out the situation.

Wu Yi and Zuo Shouquan decided to infiltrate the Fan family to find out what happened. They were eager to give the Fan family what they wanted.

They are from Cangzhou. They used to drive carts for a living. They often transported and sold grain in Yongping Prefecture. Now they went to Yongping Prefecture and recruited a dozen brothers to start their old business. The car went to Zhangjiakou to sell grain.

These people are either Wuyi's fellow apprentices, or poor buddies who live together. These days, the men who make a little money by running long-distance trafficking in the north don't give it to them for free. They all bring their fellows and behave viciously. .

These guys who run the rivers and lakes know that the old buddies Wu Yi and Zuo Shouquan are really serious now, and they are actually military officers of the court.

The two of them now lead their brothers to work for the imperial court, charging a high price of two taels of silver plus four buckets of refined grain for a month.

(End of this chapter)