A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 448 Brother-in-law Save Me Wu Sansi

As soon as Wu Huaiyu came home from court, he saw that the house was very lively.

Wu Mao was actually beating someone, he beat up a young man in brocade clothes, Wu Lao San Huai Liang was still applauding, but judging by his bruised nose and swollen face, it was probably just an act.

"what happened?"

"This kid should be beaten." Seeing his brother come back, Wu Huailiang immediately lost the energy of shouting and cheering just now.

And the young man in brocade who was rubbed by Wu Mao on the ground heard Huaiyu's voice, and immediately called for help, "Brother-in-law, help me,"

Huaiyu went up to tear Wu Mao apart, and found that it was Qiu Shenji who was beaten up by him.

Is this the flood that washed over the Dragon King Temple?
Qiu Shenji was a few years older than Wu Huailiang and Wu Mao, but he was going to be beaten so embarrassingly that Wu Huaiyu didn't understand what was going on.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

Wu Mao knelt directly in front of Huaiyu, lowered his head and said, "Ah Lang please punish me."

Qiu Shenji refused to let go, stood beside him and kicked Wu Mao, "This dog slave dared to bully the master, pulled him out and killed him with a stick."

Wu Huailiang, who was originally honest and chubby, immediately went over and pushed him, "This is the Wu family, what kind of master are you?"

"All right,"

Wu Huaiyu scolded, and then let the three of them follow him to the corridor.

Don't drive away in Yongzhou, the existence that can make all the rangers, villains, hooligans, and local ruffians in Chang'an fear, and can't clear up the disputes between the three teenagers.

Things are not complicated.

Today the ethnology school is on holiday, so Wu Huailiang brought Wu Mao and Hou Da over to Huaiyu's place in Xuanyangfang, to say hello to his second brother, and to see his nephews and nieces by the way.

Then Qiu Shenji was also on vacation at Taixue today, so he came to visit his pregnant sister.

As soon as Qiu Shenji arrived, Wu Huailiang and the others were about to leave, Hou Da went to lead the horse, Xiaopang and Wu Mao were waiting at the door, and they clashed with Qiu Shenji.

"Wait, why did you have a conflict?"

Xiaopang said that Qiu Shenji scolded him, and Qiu Shenji said that Xiaopang scolded him, and they pestered for a while.

Huaiyu found the concierge at the time again, and listened to the testimony of a third party. The whole story was that Qiu Shenji was at the gate of Wu's house.

Although Wu Mao is a slave of the Wu clan, he has been with Hou Da for the past two years and has been with Xiaopang Huailiang. Not a slave.

When Xiaopang saw Wu Mao being scolded, he stood up to defend him, and then made a move.

Seeing that Fatty was praised, Wu Mao immediately threw himself into the savior. Although he was a few years younger than Qiu Shenji, but now he has been in the Wu family for two years, and he is no longer the poor boy with thin head and thighs. Wu Mao is now very strong, especially He practiced martial arts diligently at ordinary times, and this kid was ruthless in fights. Regardless of whether Qiu Shenji was older or taller than him, he only focused on attacking but not defending.

On the contrary, Qiu Shenji, who was taller and taller, was overturned and rubbed on the ground.

Wu Mao's nose was blue and his face was swollen, but Qiu Shenji was even more embarrassed.

"You don't know each other?"

Wu Huaiyu asked.

Even if Qiu Shenji is the concubine's younger brother, he is still a guest.Wu Huailiang is a half brother and a family member, so we can still fight.

Qiu Shenji admitted that he didn't recognize Xiaopang at first, but he didn't know it was Brother Huaiyu until he started to do it.

As for Xiaopang, it was only after the beating that he realized that he was the younger brother of Huaiyu's concubine, Qiu Shi, but he didn't care about that.

After figuring out the ins and outs, Wu Huaiyu shook his head and smiled, it's a trivial matter, a teenager in his teens, just playing around like a house.

"Okay, the matter has been clarified. There was a little misunderstanding. You both apologize to each other. If you don't know each other, you will get to know each other later. You are all relatives."

Although Xiaopang was young, he was straightforward at this time, and stepped forward to apologize to Qiu Shenji with his arms crossed, and Qiu Shenji had no choice but to return the salute and apologize.

When Wu Mao came up to apologize, Qiu Shenji didn't accept it, and refused to apologize to him.

"He's just a slave. Brother-in-law, I'll go first. Don't tell my sister what happened today, and don't tell me, Aye." After saying that, Qiu Shenji ran away.

Xiaopang also defended Wu Mao.

Huaiyu patted the dirt on the two guys.

Only then did Hou Da come over, and he wasted some time at the stables in the outer courtyard.

Regarding today's incident, Huaiyu praised the two teenagers, Xiaopang was able to protect his own people, which is a very responsible performance.

And Wu Mao was able to stand up to protect the Lord without hesitation, showing his loyalty even more.

Although it is obviously wrong to beat up the guests at home.

"Wu Mao, your loyalty is commendable today, so I will let you off once. From now on, you will be a part of my Wu family, and you will no longer be a slave. In addition, I will reward you with ten pieces of silk, and you will go to the pharmacy of the outer courtyard to get medicine for rubbing."

Wu Mao knelt down, "I ask Erlang to reward you."

"But the next time you encounter something, don't panic, think more, today's conflict can actually be avoided,"

"That's what Erlang taught me."

Huaiyu looked at this boy, and it was hard to imagine that this was the poor child without shoes that he brought back from the White Deer Plateau when he first came.

He has changed a lot now, following his studies and practicing martial arts, and his faithful performance today makes him feel that he is worth cultivating.

"Do you have a big name?"

"It's called Wu Mao."

"Wu Mao's name is indecent, please change your name, think twice, I hope you will think twice before acting."

Wu Sansi, Ah Mao likes this name very much.

Seeing this, Hou Da also asked Huaiyu to give him his name.

Hou Da is the eldest son of Lao Wu's old buddy Hou San. , and then gave it to Lao Wu, and followed Lao Wu as a pawn, and he was also loyal.

When Lao Wu settled down in Sanyuan, he also farmed the land, and obtained the status of a trilogy.

Huaiyu went to Longyou, Hou San followed Huaiyi to Longyou, made military achievements, and became a military officer. Last year, Huaiyu was transferred to Shuofang and made new achievements. Now he is also a seventh-rank military officer.

Hei Wa stayed in Chang'an all the time, followed Huai Liang, and studied in the Wu Clan together.Hou Da and Wu Mao have different identities. Hou Da is also the son of a military officer now, and he is regarded as a guest in the Wu family.

"Just call yourself Sanxing, think twice before acting, and examine yourself three times a day."

Wu Sansi and Hou Sansheng.

The two teenagers thanked Huaiyu for the name together.

"Huai Liang, the two of them are your partners, you should cherish this relationship, and you will help each other in the future."

I asked about the homework of the three of them. Today's Wu Clan School in Chengnan, the teaching conditions are getting better and better, and the teaching staff is constantly strengthening. Under this circumstance, many celebrities and teachers are often invited to give lectures.

Nowadays, there are also many students in the Wu Clan School, not only the children of the various branches of the Wu Clan in Taiyuan, but also the children of some relatives and friends of the family who are attached to the school.

Of course, Wu Clan Studies is also famous for its rigorous teaching and closed management. Even if it is a son of a prince's family, he can at most bring an accompanying student to the school, and no servants are allowed to enter the school. You have to take care of yourself and don't do it for you.

During the first ten days, you have to study in a closed room for nine days, and then you can leave school for a day off.

The daily teaching content is full, such as getting up early to practice, reading in the morning, and there are labor classes and manual classes every day.

If you don't study well and violate school rules, you will be punished with a ruler if you are mild, spanking if you are serious, or you will be expelled directly if it is more serious.

How many people are willing to donate a large amount of money and food to the family school, and want their children to come to the school, but they still have no chance.

In addition to classics and history, ethnology still has to learn books, arithmetic, and laws, and there are also courses such as painting, music, go, riding and archery. Although there are grades and courses are different, but Wu clan studies is indeed an aristocratic school. The six arts of a gentleman, the comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physique and beauty.

Xiaopang is quite hardworking in school. His father-in-law, Xueshi Wang, and his brothers are all visiting professors in the ethnology department. This son-in-law-to-be can't let water go, and if he can't read well, he will be punished with a ruler.

"Study hard, learn knowledge, it is your own, and you will never suffer."

Huaiyu remembered that he was too busy now to go to ethnology studies, and he would go there more when he had time.

Back in the backyard, I went to see the Qiu sisters. The two sisters are now both pregnant.

"I heard that my brother got into trouble, and my concubine apologized to A Lang on his behalf."

The long-legged Qiu Derou Qiu Twelve Niang has a very upright attitude, and she didn't want to favor her brother just because he was beaten by her uncle at the door of the house today.

"It's just children playing around. I've asked them to apologize to each other and it's over,"

"Aye, are you okay in Xiangzhou?"

"pretty good."

Qiu Sanniang Deshu next to him also said that his father, Qiu Xingze, had just sent a letter from Jiaozhou to Beijing, saying that a large amount of sucrose was heading north from Jiaozhou.

"I, Aye, said that this time, we will first take the sea route from Jiaozhou to Guangzhou, then take the inland waterway to Shaozhou, and then cross the Dayuling Meiguan Road to enter the Ganjiang River in the south and west."

The Red River Delta Plain in Jiaozhou is very fertile, and the climate is not only suitable for planting Champa rice, but also suitable for planting sugarcane.

The Qiu family had established many plantations in Jiaozhou before, and captured a large number of slaves to plant sugarcane. Now Wu Huaiyu has a more advanced decolorization recipe than the Asan of Tianzhu, and the white sugar of the Wu family has successfully replaced the Asan. Chang'an, and even the monopoly of the high-end white sugar market in the entire Tang Dynasty.

Even the four eastern countries, and even the merchants from the Western Regions and Tianzhu have to buy white sugar and rock sugar from Chang'an in the opposite direction.

The white sugar business is very profitable, but the Wu family does not have cane sugar raw materials. These are now mainly in the hands of the Qiu family, the Duan family, and the local tyrants of the Feng family, Xian family, Chen family, and Ning family in Lingnan. They hold a large number of sugarcane plantations.

The Wu family formed a sugar alliance with them. They supply sucrose raw materials, decolorize and process Huaiyu, and distribute a certain share of the white sugar produced by each family. The advantage of this alliance is that the Wu family will not be stuck on the raw materials, and even get a good price raw materials.

But what they have to pay is to give them a lot of sugar, and the shipping price should not be too high.

Qiu Xingze is now the governor of Jiaozhou. In the states under the governor's office of Jiaozhou, he is crazy about promoting sugarcane planting. In order to get more slaves of sugarcane, this guy even wrote a letter to the emperor, saying that Linyi is a country of barbarians. Words are not respectful enough, please send troops to crusade.

This guy actually wanted to catch slaves and grab some gold by the way.

Linyi is in the south of Jiaozhi. In the Han Dynasty, most of Linyi was once under the jurisdiction of the Central Plains, but later it became independent. Although Linyi is a remote and small country, it has developed maritime trade and worships Brahmanism. It is rich in spices and ivory. Gold, etc., and through trade, made the country have a lot of wealth.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Central Plains, Linyi often went north to invade Jiaozhou, which belonged to the Southern Dynasties. As a result, he was attacked many times.

During the reign of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, he sent more than ten thousand generals to lead an expedition to Linyi. They invaded the capital of Linyi along the way, robbed a lot of wealth, and even snatched eighteen huge pure gold statues enshrined by the royal family of Linyi.

It's a pity that this expeditionary army was later infected with plague during the division. Even the leader Liu Fang died of illness, and the soldiers suffered a lot. Goguryeo was conquered, the world was in chaos in the Sui Dynasty, and three counties were newly established, which were also taken away by Linyi.

At this time, Qiu Xingze proposed to crusade against Linyi on the grounds that the performance was not smooth, and it was nothing more than wanting to rob gold, ivory, and people.

Sugar is too much money.

Even with the local sucrose production technology, the traditional ordinary granulated sugar produced is sold by taels.

This kind of granulated sugar is very dark in color and can be called brown sugar.

The ones that are lighter in color and red are more expensive. As for the highest-grade sugar before, it is the sugar that people in Tianzhu have. They call it white sugar, but it is actually yellow.

That thing costs sixty Wen and one tael.

Almost always a pound.

And this is still the wholesale price, and there are some top-grade and high-quality products, which are more expensive.As for the white sugar sold from Tianzhu, merchants in the Central Plains usually sell it in large pharmacies together with luxury goods such as daughter algae beans and rose fragrance, and the price is doubled.

Although the price is not as exaggerated as pepper, camphor, etc., one liter costs seven or eight, or even twenty or thirty guan, but even the most common granulated sugar costs nearly 150 yuan per catty.

But now in Chang'an, the price of grain is only [-] renminbi per bucket of rice, only three renminbi per liter, and two renminbi per liter of millet.

The most common granulated sugar is nearly fifty times that of rice.

Not dignitaries, ordinary people who can afford sucrose?
At most, eat some maltose or the honey I picked in the mountains.

In the past, high-end white sugar had to be imported from Asanna, which allowed them to make a lot of money. Now that the technology has surpassed it, Ah San has to come to Datang to import white sugar. Persian merchants, Sogdian merchants, and even Roman merchants on the Silk Road also began to snap up Datang. Tang white sugar makes it a good oriental product like silk, porcelain and tea.

It's just that this amount is really too small now.

The prospects are so good, these guys who have a large number of sugarcane plantations, of course want to expand production capacity.

The Cheng family of the Duan family is in Nanzhong of Sichuan, the Qiu family is in Jiaozhou, the Xian family of the Feng family is in Leizhou Peninsula and other places on Hainan Island, and the Ning family is in Qinzhou Bay. Those who have these conditions are paying close attention.

If the land is not enough, then conquer the barbarians, organize their tribes into households, set up counties and townships, let them grow sugar cane, and even directly attack the captives who do not cooperate, and then make them slaves in the sugar cane garden.

The main reason why they are so active is the agreement in the White Sugar Alliance, which is to exchange sucrose for white sugar. The more sucrose raw materials they provide, the higher the white sugar quota they can get, and the more money they can make from selling them. many.

The conditions of the Qiu family in Jiaozhou can be described as unique. There is land for people to plant in large quantities, and the climate is very suitable. Moreover, Jiaozhou has a large port and traditional maritime trade. The Qiu family has a natural advantage in this share.

The Qiu family has been persuading the Wu family to build a processing workshop there, even willing to give away many of their family's sugar cane gardens in Jiaozhou in exchange for some members of the refining workshop.

(End of this chapter)