Ming Dynasty Road

Chapter 10 Business Cooperation
After a while, the owner of the tavern and the waiter quickly added a few tables in the private room, and the tableware was placed neatly together. As soon as it was cleaned up, the Fanbang woman and her staff appeared at the door of the private room.

The two parties sat down after a few polite words, and the Fanbang girl did not sit with her own people, but directly sat at the table of Zhao Yi and Niu Yong. Fearing that Zhao Yi would harm them, only the Fanbang woman boldly sat with Zhao Yi, her beautiful face showing calmness.

Zhao Yi smiled slightly when he saw this. He didn't feel angry. He felt that he could understand them. After all, doing business brought a lot of money.

Zhao Yi was a little surprised to see the Fanbang woman sitting directly at his table, and the Fanbang beauty was still looking at him with a smile, which made Zhao Yi's heart jump wildly!
Zhao Yi looked at the smiling Fanbang woman, cleared his mind and said, "Just now I was in a hurry and didn't come to make an urgent introduction. Next, Zhao Yi is the county magistrate of Tumubao. I haven't asked the girl's name yet."

In ancient times, a man could not directly ask a girl's name, but the foreign woman in front of her was not shy at all, and said with a cheerful smile, "Call me Moon."

"Then I will call the girl by her name, Miss Moon. I just saw that the girl and her party are a caravan. Do you dare to ask if the girl is going to do business?" Zhao Yi asked boldly.

Yue Yue smiled like a flower, and instead of answering Zhao Yi's question, she said coquettishly, "Master Zhao, do you want me to chat on an empty stomach?
Only then did Zhao Yi realize that he really hadn't thought carefully, so he hurriedly greeted Xiao Er, and added some sauced beef, two high-quality stir-fry dishes, a plate of stewed stew, and a pot of soju, and helped us prepare these dishes. Take them all down.

After ordering, when the store waiter went down to prepare, Zhao Yi said embarrassedly: "It's because I didn't think carefully, don't blame Moon Girl!"

Seeing Zhao Yi's appearance, the corner of the moon's mouth turned up, and he said repeatedly: "Forget it, forget it, I don't blame you, but I think you seem to be very interested in doing business? Do you also want to do business?

A group of foreign people around them also ordered their own food and started to eat. Zhao Yi's table was eating new dishes and chatting with each other.

When Zhao Yi thought that thousands of troops were stationed in the Tumu Fortress, and the cost of feeding people and horses would be a bottomless pit, he simply said cruelly: "Yes, I have some spare money now, but I don't have any experience in this field. I don't know if I can ask the girl for advice." one two.

"That's no problem. We Fanbang people still have some experience in doing business. First of all, doing business is to sell things that others need to earn the difference. For example, your textiles, tea and ceramics from Daming are very good. They are popular with us, and our gems, spices and other things are very popular with you Daming. In this way, you can eat the price difference twice, and it is not a problem to turn the cost of 100 taels into 200 taels or even more. The journey is long and dangerous, horse thieves and bandits will also be encountered, and doing business is already very hard, and these goddamn bad guys want to rob us.” When talking about horse thieves and bandits, Yue Yue also had a look of helplessness and anger, It seems that I have suffered a lot of grievances.

"It turns out that there are so many things to pay attention to in doing business. Just organizing the goods is a university question. So what kind of goods did the girl caravan organize this time, and what happened to the horse thief?" Zhao Yi listened to Yue Yue's explanation. Immediately, Mao Sai suddenly realized, and thought of the horse thief again, so he couldn't help asking.

"This time we brought some grape wine and luminous cups, and we are going to sell them in Liaodong. Now grape wine is very popular there, so we bought some liao ginseng and animal skins from Liaodong. Famine, many hungry people, like Liao ginseng and animal skins are sold in large quantities, and the price is still cheap." Moon said to Zhao Yi like a few treasures, and if you say that these should belong to the commercial secrets of the caravan, shouldn't it be like Zhao Yi? Outsiders said it, but for some reason Yue Yue felt an inexplicable sense of newcomer towards Zhao Yi. After talking about the business, Yue Yue changed the subject, wrinkled her tall Qiong nose and said: "Damn horse thieves, these horse thieves live in the On Langxiao Mountain, tens of miles away from Tumu Castle, we live by plundering passing caravans, and this time our caravan lost two members of the caravan guards."

After listening to Yue Yue's introduction, Zhao Yi turned his head and looked at Niu Yong who was at the side. Seeing Zhao Yi looking at him, Niu Yong said in a low voice: "My lord, this group of horse thieves also came to our civil castle. Seventh Master also has some friendship, and often cooperates with Bai Qiye to rob the residents of our civil castle, and the caravans passing by are often hijacked, let alone human lives. According to past caravans, just last year, the Hundreds of lives were lost at the hands of the horse thieves in Langxiaoshan, and the head of Langxiaoshan is not weak. The bandits and bandits with a radius of hundreds of miles were gradually recruited by him. Recently, since our Tumu Fortress After the team training was organized, they might have received the news, so they didn't show up."

After receiving Niu Yong's reply, Zhao Yi had a plan in mind. After learning about the situation of the horse thief, he said to the moon seriously: "Miss Moon, your caravan is full of fat in the eyes of horse thieves. Although you have The people who guard the caravan by themselves can't stand the looting of horse thieves again and again. Although my Tumu Fort is not a big military town, we still have an army. Why don't we send someone from our Tumu Fort to help you deal with these horse thieves? Do you like it?"

Zhao Yi's words were sincere and insightful, Yue Yue took it seriously, she lowered her head and pondered for a moment and said: "In this case, I, Moon, will thank Master Zhao on behalf of our caravan. I don't know how much money we need to pay the government as a reward?" Yue Yue said , picked up the purse and poured the gold coins onto the table.

Zhao Yi said with a serious face: "Cleaning up horse thieves and bandits is what I should do in Ming Dynasty's official uniform. How can I charge money?"

Seeing that Zhao Yi was really sincere, Yue Yue put the gold coins into the purse, and suddenly said, "Since Mr. Zhao refused to accept the money, Mr. Zhao promised to help us. I don't know how to thank my lord, if there is anything I can help, please say so, my lord."

Zhao Yi was noncommittal, but said: "Actually, I do have some people who need help. Now there are many soldiers stationed in my civil fort. In the long run, our military expenditure will be a problem. I plan to become a shareholder of your caravan, and our civil fort will provide manpower to protect you." The safety of the caravan, and then I am adding a team to do business with your caravan, Miss Moon, do you think my proposal is okay?"

Yue Yue secretly thought that his father sent him to open up a new business route this time, if he could get the protection of the government, wouldn't it save a lot of unnecessary trouble, and this Zhao Yi didn't talk like other officials, but just wanted to add a team Doing business together, although there will be competition, but compared to the safety of the caravan, this is nothing, why not be a favor.

The matter was settled soon. Tumubao sent a team to protect the safety of the Fanbang caravan, and a caravan of nearly a hundred people joined the ranks of the Fanbang caravan. In addition, they wiped out the horse thieves in Lang Xiaoshan. Fanbang people pay attention to credit, so He took out the parchment paper that he carried with him, and wrote down the regulations one by one according to the negotiated regulations. Zhao Yi and Miss Moon each signed a copy, which was regarded as a formal cooperation agreement between the two parties.

Originally, Zhao Yi wanted Yue Yue and others to spend the night in Tumubao, as a kindness to the landlord, and secondly, in case something went wrong on the road, but Miss Moon said that because she had already set a delivery date with the Liaodong company, she stayed behind. Paper contract, take the caravan first, and bring Zhao Yi's caravan back together when they return to Tumubao.

Zhao Yi was very happy to find a solution to the military expenses, and also heard an important news. It turned out that the Tatars crossed the border this time because of a famine. The military expenses were settled, and they got such important information. Great job, inevitably He Niuyong drank a few more glasses, and did not say goodbye to each other until late at night.

The weather was unavoidably cold at night, a gust of cold wind hit, Zhao Yi staggered to the door of the house, thought it was time to go to bed, but when he opened the door, he saw Yaoyao sitting in front of the table with her head propped on her small hands, drowsy As soon as he heard the door knock, he looked up and saw Zhao Yi coming back, and stood up happily.

Because she is busy with the affairs of the county office today, only when she returns home every day, Yaoyao's face will show joy. Zhao Yi looks very distressed, and he has been too busy recently The question about the wedding was that Zhao Orion went to purchase things for the wedding, and said that he would hold a wedding for Zhao Yi and Yaoyao on an auspicious day. Home, I can't help being moved in my heart.

Zhao Yi said emotionally: "Yaoyao, it's so late, I thought you had already fallen asleep."

Looking at the food on the table, I don't know how many times it has been hot. The food was steaming, and Zhao Yi felt ashamed. Yaoyao poured a cup of hot tea for Zhao Yi, and said softly: "I'm afraid you are too busy with business. , so I left food for you, Grandpa was going to wait with me, but I persuaded him to go to rest."

Zhao Yi's face became hot when he heard it, and he said awkwardly: "Well... Today, because the military expenditure issue cannot be resolved, I am not in a particularly good mood. It happened that Niu Yong said to have a drink... I was too hasty to go home Let me tell you, I didn't expect you to wait so long."

Yaoyao had already smelled the smell of alcohol on Zhao Yi's body, so she knew he was going to drink. Seeing Zhao Yi's appearance and explaining, Yaoyao pursed her lips and smiled: "It's normal for you men to drink and socialize, I know it, Brother Zhao Yi Drink some hot tea and rest."

After hearing her words, Zhao Yi's heart warmed up, and he said softly: "Yaoyao, thank you, I am a big man and I still need you to take care of me, and I want you to wait for me to come back so late. Someone has come to tell you that you won't be made to wait any longer."

After listening to Zhao Yi's words, Yaoyao blushed slightly, and said with emotion: "I'm going to marry you soon, taking care of you is a matter of course, besides, we women should serve our husband with all our heart. what!"

Zhao Yi thought that most women in ancient times lived at home with their husbands and children. If she is not required to serve her husband, should she go outside to show her face?Thinking about it this way makes me feel better.

Seeing Zhao Yi yawning drunkenly, Yaoyao hurriedly helped Zhao Yi take off his official boots and said, "Brother Zhao Yi, you should rest first! It's getting late." Zhao Yi drank a lot and was sleepy at this time. Feeling overwhelmed, she agreed, pulled a pillow over and fell asleep, and said sleepily: "Yaoyao, I'm sleepy, you should also take a rest."

Yaoyao responded, covered Zhao Yi with a quilt, blew out the oil lamp in the room, closed the door softly, and went to the wing to rest. "

(End of this chapter)