Chapter 15 Inquiring about the news
After nearly two months of careful care, Zhou Shixiong's horses have completely surpassed the category of Dian horses and evolved into Arab horses. The Dian horse has a maximum of about 1.2 meters, and the horse that Zhou Shixiong rode is almost 1.5 meters. From Huang Shouren's perspective, the former BMW is now worthy of these two words and is called an unparalleled master.
"Damn, it turns out that there are so many rules. It seems that I have to get a fame and fortune, otherwise riding a horse will break the law and let people live." Zhou Shixiong was of course disgusted with these rules, just like in the 20th century, when people were required to take a car, typical privilege, of course, he hated him like grassroots.
"Second uncle, that is, your Ma Tai is good. Generally, we don't have to pay attention to the messy rules of the court, haha." Huang Shouren could only comfort Zhou Shixiong. Although he was the son of the chieftain, he didn't even count among the bosses of Nanning Mansion.
Nanning Prefecture was called Huzhou in ancient times. The city was Huning City, also known as Phoenix City, and was named after the Phoenix Mountain in the city. During the Yongle period of the early Ming Dynasty, Huning was moved to Matui Mountain to build a new city, which was named Xuanhua City, which means to preach and educate. As the second largest city in Guangxi, Xuanhua City is located in the north of Matui Mountain and south of Zuojiang, Yujiang, and the water transportation is extremely developed.
Because of the dangerous mountains and rivers, Xuanhua City only has two walls, east and west. The north wall near the mountain is less than one meter wide and one foot and five can only be described as a wall. It cannot be compared with the east and west walls as high as four meter wide and about two meter wide. The south side is more thorough, and only a few towers were built by the river, so even the walls were too lazy to build.
Because the Ming Dynasty was accustomed to separating commercial and residential areas, the inn was in the Xicheng District of the commercial area. Therefore, Zhou Shixiong and his party soon came to the Xicheng City. Huang Shouren had never been here and was not familiar with the business population. However, he knew who was familiar with it. He asked the idle man squatting at the entrance of the city where the man was going. The two copper plates exchanged for the location of the man's teeth. Huang Shouren asked Zhou Shixiong to wait and take his companion to find someone.
"This young master, the surname of Guo, has been a human being in this city for more than ten years and is very familiar with it. As long as the young master has a human being, it is guaranteed to find the small ones." Zhou Shixiong was surprised that this man was actually a foreigner. Judging from his curly hair, he was either an Indian San or a descendant of A San. However, the other party's local dialect is very authentic, and he might have grown up in Guangxi.
"Boss Guo, I want a 14 or 15-year-old boy, and if you have good limbs, you can do anything else. I will give you 100 taels of gold, buy as much as you can, and I will give you another 100 taels of gold, but I have a requirement. If I know you have taken the money and still tick it out, I will take you to the official position." Zhou Shixiong looked at the suspected foreign guest with a smile, but his eyes were cold.
Zhou Shixiong is not a patriot or an angry young man. He just congenitally hates the race with privileges. No matter who he is, he hates it as long as he enjoys privileges.
Zhou Shixiong had just inquired about it. The so-called Renyazi is an agent who discusses business with the seller on behalf of the buyer and taps on both sides. Zhou Shixiong took out 10% of the price of the goods as the money, and was indeed qualified to ask Renyazi to help him with the lowest price. Guo Yazi nodded and bowed to accept Zhou Shixiong's employment, and entered the Renya market under the surveillance of Zhou Er and Zhou Wu.
"Second uncle, I remember you don't even have a maid, so why not buy one by the way. Anyway, my father gave me a lot of money, and it won't be spent or not." Huang Shouren did not rush to pay the bill with Zhou Shixiong, but threw the gold directly to Zhou Si on his back. However, he did this not mean that the money was given to Zhou Shixiong, but hoped that he would spend it, and no matter how much it was, it would always cost a little.
"Yes, then let's go." Zhou Shixiong also wanted to visit such a place where people were publicly trafficked, but he didn't have this opportunity in his previous life. Not long after he entered, Zhou Shixiong regretted it. It was a very dirty and messy description of the place. Not to mention the sewage on the ground, many slaves just lie on the side of the road, ignoring the dirty water flowing by their side.
"Is this a place to do business? It's a way to drive customers!" Zhou Shixiong couldn't help but complain. How could he do business like this? In fact, Zhou Shixiong's requirements are too high. Think about the farmers' markets in those villages, even in the 21st century, it will not be clean.
"Please, please, I will never drive the guests." A fat man like a ball ran out of a store on the side of the road, and then enthusiastically invited Zhou Shixiong to sit in the store.
"This guest official, whose surname is Liang, is the owner of this Wujie House. He has not asked for his guest official's surname." The fat man is about thirty years old. He looks very festive with two beards and round cake faces, but his body is not tall or about 160 yuan, and he is as round as a tumbler.
"I don't have a surname Zhou, is there any introduction for Boss Liang to invite me in?" Zhou Shixiong is just a straightforward person and doesn't want to go around with others, so he directly asked the fat man to get to the topic.
"Mr. Zhou is very pleased. She specializes in the business of maids in the inner house. She has excellent products. Are you interested?"
"Do you bring it out or do you want me to see it?"
"Please, please, please inside." As soon as he heard that there was a door, Fat Liang immediately rolled up and took Zhou Shixiong into the backyard. There were bungalows in the backyard, and there were about ten women in each house. It looked like there were all ages twelve or twenties. Although they were all very handsome, they did not have the beauties of the national beauty described in time travel novels. Zhou Shixiong also felt that those waiwai novels were unreliable. Even such high-end beauties would not appear at this level.
"What price?" Zhou Shixiong was very straightforward, and Fatty Liang immediately introduced, "The five-single copper coins under the age of fourteen, ten-single copper coins above, and fifteen-single copper coins after giving birth."
"I want all those under the age of fourteen, and all those who are ten-singular. Zhou Si, please give the money." Fatty Liang didn't expect that the young man was so generous. He didn't bargain and was full of money. He immediately smiled so hard that his little eyes were almost gone. He opened the door and greeted the girls, and asked the guy to bring a stack of body contracts.
"Boss Liang, just leave these things to the servants. I have something to ask you."
"Young Master Zhou said, please come here." Walking back to the living room, Fatty Liang called someone to serve tea for Zhou Shixiong, and then sat down to chat with Zhou Shixiong. "Boss Liang, I have been busy at Zhennanguan for a while. What are some interesting things recently?"
"I haven't heard of interesting things. There are two things worth mentioning. In June, the Wanggong Factory in Beijing exploded, and half of the capital was shocked, with tens of thousands of casualties. I heard that a prince and a minister were killed and killed."
"Oh? It's so scary, but the capital is so far away, I'm afraid the news has been exaggerated a lot." Zhou Shixiong was not interested in what happened so far away and responded casually.
Fatty Liang also saw that Zhou Shixiong didn't want to talk about this matter, so he immediately changed to another thing, "Yes, maybe only a few hundred people died, and it can be exaggerated to tens of thousands of people when he came here. There is another thing that is not far away, and it shouldn't be too fake. I heard that the Cen family in Xunzhou Prefecture is preparing to attack Nanning Prefecture, and the first unlucky guy is Hengzhou."
This incident did make Zhou Shixiong pay great attention. The heads at the first level of the prefecture level attacked the heads at the first level of the prefecture level, which means that the strength of modern municipal and county levels is too different. "It seems that Hengzhou cannot withstand the Cen family, right?"
"Young Master Zhou doesn't know that the Lei family in Hengzhou is also a big surname in Guangxi, and there are also several amazing people. Lei Shouzhen from Hengzhou is a juren. Not only is he powerful in Hengzhou, but even the prefect of Nanning Prefecture will give him some face. If the Cen family really attacks Hengzhou, this Lei Juren will not be able to get around." Fatty Liang looked well-informed and shaved with a beard.
"It's hard to say, as long as the Cen family doesn't move Lei Juren, what can he do?" Zhou Shixiong had no common sense about these things, and Huang Shouren was very clear about them.
"What this young master said is that the Guangxi chieftains may not be able to control the court. If Lei Juren did not suffer any losses, it would be difficult to incite the court to intervene." Fatty Liang said lies to others when he saw people talking, and Huang Shouren retorted, he followed his tone and gently jumped away from the topic to talk about other experiences.
Zhou Shixiong listened and thought that the price of iron materials in Nanning Mansion probably rose because of this incident. Zhou Si came back and reported it and the handover was completed. There were twenty-two under the age of fourteen, eighteen over the age of fourteen, and forty in total.
"Shouren, please send someone to take them to the inn and wait for the children to buy them and send them to the house outside the city." Zhou Shixiong did not avoid Fatty Liang when he arranged the arrangement. When Fatty Liang heard that Zhou Shixiong wanted to buy someone, he immediately interrupted with a smile, "Young Master Zhou, I wonder if I can help you?"
"I have arranged for a buyer to buy it. Will it be better if I ask Boss Liang to take over?,,,"
"This will not conflict. The two brothers here specifically purchase population. If there is a young master who needs it, they can sell it directly to the young master without going through the market. The price is more cost-effective. I just don't know how many people the young master needs?"
"I only need a teenager over fourteen years old, and my limbs are healthy, but I must have a body contract. Don't send it to me if you are abducted. If I find out, you don't think you can have good fruits." In order to match Zhou Shixiong's momentum, Huang Shouren smiled and said, "Boss Liang, my father is based on Xiangzhou chieftains, so it's okay to kill a few human traffickers."
"It turns out that Mr. Huang is in front of me, and I feel respectful. Mr. Huang, please rest assured. We have been running this business for a long time and know what we cannot touch. We will never dare to make money with our lives. We will definitely not." Fatty Liang wanted to refund part of the money we just collected to Zhou Shixiong, but Zhou Shixiong insisted on not wanting it, "We are a transaction with clear and real price. I think we can buy it if it is worth it, and if it is not worth it, you will have to discount it if it is worth it. What should I do if I have a face?"
"It's right, Mr. Zhou's face cannot be reduced. Otherwise, I will give it to Mr. Zhou as a gift for him as a meeting. Is this how to save your face?" Fatty Liang is indeed good at being a good person, and he is both making jokes and pleasing. It's enough to buy face with a gift of nearly a hundred cents.
Chapter completed!