Chen Mu summoned Yan Qing and came quickly. Shao Tingda rushed from Guangcheng in the afternoon when he went to Guangcheng, which was beyond his expectations.

When he rushed back to Qianhu Yamen, Yan Qing was waiting at the door, bringing two young men in the shop, who were holding a few jars of wine in his hand.

"Shopkeeper Yan is here so quickly, why don't he come in the evening?"

Chen Mu spread the reins and bowed his hands and laughed loudly: "Chen asked Manager Yan to come over, but he didn't want to delay the business of Gubu Building. Please come in quickly!"

Yan Qing had never seen such an easy-to-deal official. Although he knew Chen Mu was a good-natured person at the Gubu Tower at that time, he did not expect that he could speak so easily without drinking. He responded respectfully and then smiled and said, "For the first time I visited Qianhuya, Xiaomin had nothing to do with. I picked up a few jars of wine from the wine shop. I hope you don't dislike it."

"Mr. Chen invites you here. How can I ask you to deliver things? Wait for the money to pay for the wine." Chen Mu was unwilling to collect things for nothing. After accepting them, he became the same person as most of the broken officials in the Ming Dynasty. Seeing that Yan Qing was about to refuse, he smiled and walked into the yamen first, saying, "Today, the military officers who were given to the county have arrived. There are more things to do, so the shopkeeper has been waiting for a long time."

Xiangshan County Magistrate Zhou Xing was very efficient. In the blink of an eye, he had recruited hundreds of households for thousands of households and sent them to the hundred households that were being built in Jiudu Yifang.

Chen Mu asked them to push two general flags and build them under Shiqi's army. With a newly-edited complete 100-household office, Zheng Ding began to train, and Yu Ding joined the work of building a house.

I originally wanted to pick out craftsmen from the army and send them to Qianhu Yamen, but was delayed by the news that Yan Qing rushed over, so I simply handed over this matter to Shi Qi.

Zhou Xing gave the right words and said that in another twenty days, the 300 households would be fully checked, which made Chen Mu feel relieved.

"I'm worried about Qianhu. The shop is fine, Qingyao is watching." Chen Mu did not ask Yan Qing to follow him to the front hall of the yamen, and directly led Yan Qing into the courtyard of Qianhu's house. He heard Yan Qing say: "There are good business these days. When Fujian merchants and Hui merchants were in large numbers, their family was well-off and generous. They were full of brothels and tiled houses. They went to Xiaomin's shop to ask for some wine."

"Go wide?"

Chen Mu originally wanted to ask, "Xiao Yan's aunt looked like that, so she told her to manage the store to burn the house?" But thinking that the relationship was not enough, and she said this too abruptly, so she asked about the new word "Zou Guang".

"I don't know? I just came to you. I haven't noticed that there are many more cars and horses parked in Xiangshan in the past few days?"

Yan Qing always explained to Chen Mu with a lingering sense of pleasingness in his expression: "When they go to Haojing and Fanyi, they come with goods every April and sell them to Haojing Fanyi. In May, they buy some Guangdong-based goods from Guangcheng to return to Fujian, and use the excuse of going to Guangxi, which is actually smuggling."

Chen Mu thought about it and it seemed that there were indeed more pedestrians and merchants on the road these days. If Yan Qing didn't say that, he wouldn't pay attention.

That is to say, under his nose, a large number of Fujian merchants were smuggling the Fanyi in Haojingao.

"Does Manager Yan know about the opening of Yuegang in Fujian?" Chen Mu was very puzzled. If the Fujian merchants came here in the past to smuggle in the name of Guangxi, he would not find it strange, but now?

"Why don't they go on a boat to go on a business trip?"

Yan Qing smiled and said, "Thousands of households are right. Xiaomin always welcomes and sees off this matter in a restaurant. I have some understanding of it. There are two types of merchants in Fujian, including maritime merchants and domestic merchants."

"Maritime merchants have a lot of money, and they use their lives to make money. Therefore, local big merchants don't go out to sea in person. They send their adopted sons whom they raised since childhood to take their ships to sea to protect goods, and their parents and children travel on land. Some small maritime merchants have no money and have to go to mainland merchants and smuggle Xiangshan, so they have money to buy ships and recruit people."

"What's more, not everyone can get a boat guide. Xiaomin heard that Yuegang Maritime only issued fifty business guides. Many people want to go to sea and rent a big boat to go to sea."

Chen Mu knew this and wrote down this matter in his heart, intending to ask Shi Qi to return to lead the troops to visit the county to see what these mainland merchants are like.

He did not oppose domestic and maritime trade. Even if the imperial court did not allow it, he recognized it. However, he could not ignore it without any regard for his smuggling in his jurisdiction. He wanted to hand over a group of people and arrest him.

Kill those who do evil and leave those who make money to support their families.

"So, Shopkeeper Yan knows about the opening of Yuegang? Chen has a business to talk to you." Chen Mu bit his dry skin on his upper lip and said, "The opening of Yuegang is open, and merchants have arrived. It will definitely be very lively. Does Shopkeeper Yan want to open a restaurant outside Yuegang City, which is bigger than the Gubu Building. It has food, drink, sleep, rental warehouses, business and sales news, sales charts, and good connections?"

"Yuegang?"

Yan Qing respected Chen Mu's official position, but this did not mean that Chen Mu's words could affect his experience in business affairs for nearly ten years. Naturally, he could hear what Chen Mu's implications were. He said as he said: "Thousand households are not a commoner. Recently, many merchants in Fujian have said that Yuegang has opened a port, and the land price is unknown. Even those mainland merchants are powerless. The land price outside the city is as expensive as fifty taels. How can they buy such a small Jia? What's more, even if they have money, no one is willing to sell it."

Fifty taels?

Chen Mu had no expression on his face, but he couldn't help but swallowed his saliva slowly.

Shao Tingda bought dozens of acres of land outside the city for him for less than 200 taels of land. When he came back, he told him that the land near the roadside was really expensive, and it would cost four taels of silver per acre to go to the field.

No one is willing to sell it? It’s not that no one is willing to sell it. All the people who are willing to sell it were bought by Mr. Chen, so the rest are naturally unwilling to sell it!

"Shopkeeper Yan doesn't know. Chen is a native of Hong Kong for half a month. His mother's family is from Yuegang. It's a coincidence that you know. Chen has Yuegang land on his hands."

Chen Mu smiled. No one was willing to sell it. He was willing to sell it. He had to ask Shao Tingda to return to Yuegang to sell the land as soon as possible.

Only then did he really make up his mind to give some to Shao Tingda and his clan elders, keep some of them himself, and get rid of the rest as soon as possible.

After all, he is not in Yuegang, and his clan is not considered a wealthy family in Yuegang. It is becoming more and more popular to hold so much land in his hands.

Just make a quick money, and get over the current predicament of Qianhus in Xiangshan as soon as possible, save some money and wait until the local thieves in Huangliangdu are pacified, choose a suitable port area within the jurisdiction of Xiangshan, and build a shipyard in the military village.

It is not good to be an official in the court. Although you can get support from the court, you must report to the superiors if you want to do something big.

As for whether the governor can get approval from the memorial, who knows?

Let’s wait until you have money!

"Chen went out to the land and found a piece of land suitable for business outside Yuegang. He built a large restaurant, which was run by Manager Yan, and the profit was 30% or 70% off. Since Miss Yan can take care of the store, the Gubu Building can continue to be opened. With Chen in Xiangshan, she should be able to protect her from danger."
Chapter completed!