Chapter 244? Wusong returns
Zhang Xiaowu immediately asked Wang Yijin what was going on. Wang Yijin couldn't explain clearly. Wu Song was actually escorted to Mucheng by the Beggars' Sect, but Zhao Suo and the ten soldiers he brought were gone.
"Did Zhao Suo escape with the money?" Wang Yijin guessed.
"Zhao Suo would not do this." Zhang Xiaowu said, "He is not greedy for money or lust, but he likes righteousness and will definitely not do such despicable things."
Wang Yijin said: "But Wu Song..."
Zhang Xiaowu said: "Let Wusong have a good rest. I guess I will come to him again tomorrow. I will hand him over to you. I need a healthy him."
"What if he looks for you?"
"Just tell him that when he recovers from his injury, I will naturally take the initiative to look for him."
"Here."
Snow ginseng is very precious to the people, but for the Murong family, snow ginseng is not a very expensive thing. So when Guancheng found Murong Shisan and Murong Yin, he generously took out the snow ginseng collected in his home and asked: "Prince Guan, Lord Zhang is healthy, why do you need this snow ginseng? There are many military doctors in my city. If he is sick, he can let it go."
Guan Cheng said: "The city lord is in good health, but our military advisor is sick."
Murong Yin said: "Who is the military advisor?"
"Wu Song, can the Thirteenth Young Master recognize it?"
Murong Yin thought for a long time but couldn't think of who Wu Song was. He had never even heard of his name, so he had to smile bitterly and shook his head. He knew that Guancheng liked women, so he arranged for Guancheng to stay in a brothel. However, he thought that Guancheng was lustful but not lustful. That night, he rode his horse back to Mucheng and sent Xue Gan in time.
Zhang Xiaowu was quite surprised to see Guan Cheng coming back so early and praised him for putting the overall situation first. Guan Cheng smiled and said that there were women who could sleep together everywhere, but there were not many brothers who could sleep together. Zhang Xiaowu always felt that this righteous words were so righteous. Why did Guan Cheng say something a little gay in his mouth...
After being injured for a few days, Wusong recovered a lot. Zhang Xiaowu brought everyone to express his condolences. Everyone had an old friendship with Wusong in the Dead Soldier Camp. Although Wusong had not experienced the rapid development and growth of the Dead Soldier Camp, he had long been his own person in everyone's heart. And everyone was very anxious about what seemed to have happened to Wusong, especially why Zhao Suo and others disappeared.
Everyone couldn't let go of what happened during this period, so they just followed Zhang Xiaowu.
Seeing that everyone came to express their condolences, Wusong immediately bowed from the bed to thank him. Zhang Xiaowu hurriedly stepped forward to comfort him and sat on the bed, reminding him: "Mr. Wu doesn't have to get up, continue to rest."
Wu Song said: "I have almost finished resting. I have been resting well these days. Thank you for finding the nourishment of Snow Ginseng for me."
Zhang Xiaowu said: "Mr. Wu still has some important uses for him."
Wusong immediately said, "Sir, Zhao Suo and more than 30 of them are about to be sent to Lingnan to fight the border. Bei Zhi is incompetent, not only can he not save them, but he even becomes wanted criminals. After living in Bei Zhi, he begged all the way back to Mucheng, and he wants to pass the news to you."
Zhang Xiaowu frowned: "Mr. Wu, what happened?"
Wu Song said: "After I arrived in Yangzhou, I found Guazhou Island. I used my family's relationship to establish a good relationship with the chief clerk of Yangzhou. I bought Guazhou Island for only 3,000 taels of silver. Zhao Suo and others spent another 2,000 taels of silver to build the river bank and raise the terrain. Everything was going very smoothly, but the bad thing was the construction of the river bank.
After the river embankment was repaired, the area of Guazhou expanded by half, and the lower reaches of the river beach was exposed. After the river beach was exposed, the workers who built the river embankment found that many sand gold appeared downstream, and Guazhou actually became a golden sand beach."
Hu Li exclaimed: "Did the chief clerk get jealous when he saw Jinsha Beach? That's why you are hurt? Is it because of the bitch who keeps a bitch? Did he make friends with ungrateful wolves?"
Wusong shook his head and said, "The chief clerk has had a long friendship with my Wu family, so he is not so mean, but he is also jealous. Although Yangzhou is the richest prefecture of the Holy Han Dynasty, the reason is that Yangzhou produces sea salt, and there are countless large and small salt dealers, which has made Yangzhou rich. However, Jinsha Beach is the first time in Yangzhou. Just imagine, if you can dig gold directly, who would be willing to sell private salt at risk or endure the exploitation and trafficking of public salt by the government. Yangzhou, no matter how big or small, comes to watch the fun,
The farmers who built river embankments did not build river embankments and instead dug sand gold. Sand gold appeared on Guazhou Island, which belongs to us. Naturally, we do not allow others to mine randomly. Mining sand gold can easily lead to the collapse of the river embankments. Zhao Suo took people to protect them day and night. But they were still guarding them day and night, and people continued to come to steal them. After seeing this, I discussed with Zhao Suo that this sand gold was an unexpected fortune and was jealous of people. It would be better to share it with others. They could collect it downstream, but could not dig it to avoid destroying the river embankments.
After such an announcement, tens of thousands of people flocked to Guazhou Island, and many even asked to live on Guazhou Island. During this period, we built a lot of houses, and they even paid high prices to bury those simple thatched houses. Although we opened the lower reaches of Jinsha Beach, many of them were insatiable and thought that we occupied the most sandy land in Guazhou Island. Some little bullies and gangsters were not in our eyes. More than 40 of us, either the wounded soldiers returning to the hometown or the men who had killed on the battlefield, they just needed to kill some blackmailed villains away.
However, the real troubles are the river robbers and gangs. They are ruthless and numerous, and the Salt Gang is involved in it, which is the most troublesome. It is important to know that in Yangzhou, both public and private salt trafficking must have a good relationship with the Salt Gang. If you offend them, those who traffic in public salt cannot get the salt tract, those who traffic in private salt can't get the way, and even the whole family will be killed. It is my Wu family, who has to rely on the Salt Gang relationship in Yangzhou.
One day and night, more than 200 members of the Salt Gang came to Guazhou Island and surrounded our house. The people of the Salt Gang knew that we had an imperial guard background and bought this piece of land just to comfort the disabled soldiers. They did not forcefully rob Guazhou at first. The people of the Salt Gang brought two thousand taels of silver and said they bought Guazhou. Naturally, we disagreed."
Wang Yijin was so angry that he stamped his feet and gritted his teeth and said, "It's unreasonable, it's unreasonable! Is this a forced purchase and sale? It's lawless. How dare we provoke the Dead Soldiers camp?"
Hu Li said: "Sooner or later, I will kill all corrupt officials in the world."
Zhang Xiaowu shook his head and said, "Stop bragging, corrupt officials cannot be killed. From ancient times to the present, no dynasty can kill corrupt officials. Do you know the reason? Because the court divides officials into capable officials and mediocre officials. Those who are capable of corruption are also honest officials, and those who are mediocre officials are corrupt even if they are corrupt. I believe that although these officials in Yangzhou are greedy, they are also capable officials, so that the court turns a blind eye to them."
Chapter completed!