Emperor Sui Yang

200 million shi grains were transferred to Luoyang, and the transportation cost was not a small figure, and the money had to be paid by the state treasury.

The country has ships, Luokou Wharf and Banzhu Wharf have [-] boats, but there are not enough people to operate the boats, and all of them have been conscripted to dig canals. Besides, sailing such things requires professional people to do it, not just arbitrarily. When people come here, they can sail the boat.

The country couldn't save this money even if it wanted to. During Yang Guang's southern tour, all the sailors who steered the boat were provided by major families, completely free of charge.

But if you are not serving the emperor, don't expect others to do it for you.

In fact, Dugu Zhuan didn't like the money, but he wanted to build a good relationship with the southern clan through this food shipment, so that everyone could get acquainted with each other and make money together.

The role of the canal is reflected in this. People in the south are more connected to water, commerce is developed, and there are fewer people and more goods. Through water transportation, you can also build a good relationship with the big families in Guanzhong, which is convenient for paving the way for your children. Through a river, the connection between the north and the south, Gradually more frequent.

After Xiao Liang destroyed the country, he was replaced by Nan Chen, but the status of Xiao's children in the south has risen instead of falling, thanks to Comrade Yang Guang who worked here for 11 years as the general manager of Yangzhou.

Tongji Canal's water transportation business, except for Xiao's family, can't afford it. Some of them have boats and backstage. They are doing public business, and they are not afraid of not being able to settle the bill.

As the saying goes, if there is a profit, there is a loss. Yang Guang and his wife hope that the Xiao family can make a lot of money. The more they earn, the better, because if Yang Guang is short of money in the future, he can take care of them. An invisible small treasury can also be regarded as releasing water to raise fish.

Empress Xiao used to have a low status in the family and was quite neglected, but she married well, so after she became popular, Lanling Xiao began to fawn on Empress Xiao desperately, but Empress Xiao, who holds grudges, except for a few of her own Apart from keeping in touch with the brothers, the rest of the tribe didn't even have the chance to meet Empress Xiao.

As the younger brother of the empress with the same father and mother, and also the last prince of Xiao Liang, Xiao Yu has great influence in the family. With a single word from him, the family can change Xiao Xuan, because Xiao Xuan is not He's just the person in charge of the family's water transportation, a coolie.

He was close to Yang Ming, which violated Yang Ming's taboo, and Xiao Yu knew that his sister wanted Yang Ming to succeed him, so among the two nephews, he was partial to Yang Ming.

After Xiao Yu came to the Qin Palace, he and his nephew Yang Ming and nephew Dugu Xin began to discuss business matters.

For this business, there must be a shareholder in Luoyang, otherwise gods from all walks of life will intervene openly and secretly. If the Lanling Xiao family does not have a partner in the north, it will be difficult.

The Dugu family is undoubtedly powerful enough. Although it does not have the super backing of Dugu Jialuo, there are Zhao Guogong Dugu Zuan and the general of the Youjianmen Mansion Dugu Huai'en to support the scene. They are relatives of Li Yuan, and there is Yang Ming behind him. .

The cooperation between the Dugu family and Lan Lingxiao to carve up the water transport business is undoubtedly a strong alliance.

The three of them discussed back and forth, Yang Ming took [-]%, Dugu's family and Xiao's family also got [-]%, and the remaining [-]% was used for management. All the devils from all walks of life are waiting to be fed with their mouths open. This money cannot be saved.

As Dugu Xin said, the food transportation this time is just asking for directions, and the real money will come in the future. As long as they have a good relationship with the Xiao family, they will be sure of this river.

The current trade in the south is very developed, and it is in its infancy. There are a lot of resources that have not been tapped yet, and the potential is unprecedentedly huge.

Xiao Yu is Dugu Xin's uncle, and his wife is Dugu Zuan's sister. As long as the two of them work together, almost no one can shake their future position as the overlord of water transportation in Tongji Canal.

Yang Ming was also happy to make this kind of money, which was almost the same as picking it up for nothing.

Making money is like this, the more power you have, the more status you have, the money is no different from the wind blowing.

A few days later, Dugu Xin was about to leave, but he hoped to take Dugu Feng'er away and let her go home to take a look. In fact, it was also a means of stabilizing the relationship with Yang Ming.

Because Dugu Feng'er is not young anymore, but she still doesn't understand anything, so Dugu has to bring her back to Luoyang, so that someone can teach her well, so that she doesn't have a clear relationship with Yang Ming like now, what is this called? something?
You two have something to do?You two are fine, the family is about to have trouble.

Of course, Yang Ming couldn't refuse. Feng'er has been in the capital for about seven or eight years, and she hasn't been back to Luoyang.

Before leaving, Yang Ming deliberately went to find Feng'er. Seeing this, Dugu Xin, who lived here, hurriedly found an excuse and slipped out.

"I don't seem to have any luggage?" Dugu Feng'er had been busy all morning, and only sorted out a few packages, most of which were still clothes.

Yang Ming sat down beside him and said, "A Lou will go back with you, too?"

"Yes," Dugu Feng'er nodded, "Nurse also wants to go back and have a look."

Dugu Bailou is Dugu Zuan's righteous sister. She has no blood relationship, but she has a good relationship. After all, she is the closest person to Queen Dugu. It is impossible for the Dugu family not to respect her.

Yang Ming asked again: "How long will it take?"

"Whenever you want me to come back, I will come back." Dugu Feng'er smiled, moved a chair and sat down opposite Yang Ming, and said, "Second brother has said a lot of strange things to me these days, as if implying the relationship between me and you."

Yang Ming frowned suddenly: "What did he imply?"

Dugu Feng'er said with a smile: "He hopes that I will please you and be your woman."

Yang Ming breathed a sigh of relief: "That's it."

"But you have too many women, I don't like this," Dugu Feng'er said quietly, "What I'm looking forward to is a husband and wife relationship like the Supreme and the Holy Queen, there is nothing but each other."

Yang Ming nodded and said with a smile, "It seems that I have no chance."

Dugu Feng'er came over, held Yang Ming's hand, squatted down and said:

"You are the person I care about the most. I hope you are all well. Although I don't know why I have such feelings for you, I can't accept sharing you with others, so you really have no chance. "

After finishing speaking, Dugu Feng'er stuck out her tongue, she was smiling, but the smile was very sad.

Yang Ming raised his hand, stroked the other person's cheek, and said softly, "I hope you are well too."

Dugu Feng'er nodded, and said with a dull expression: "I have always had a feeling in my heart that I seem to have missed something, and it is very important to me. I hope that one day, I can find him back. Come."

"Well," Yang Ming nodded and stopped talking.

On February [-]th, Dugu Feng'er left the capital where she had lived for eight years and returned to her home in Luoyang. In the past eight years, what happened to her caused the Dugu family to suffer huge losses, but the biggest loss was actually Dugu Feng'er herself.

On Yuanwendu's side, Yang Ming also wrote a letter, asking him to contact Dugu's family.

Since Li Yuan returned to Beijing, he has been running to Prince Qin's mansion every now and then to see his grandson.

As the so-called intergenerational relationship, although Yang Ming always knew that Li Yuan was unreliable, the other party's love for Yang Cong was indeed from the bottom of his heart.

Because it has not yet had a son.

This made Li Yuan and his wife very anxious, because they were worried that it was their son's problem.

Jiancheng and Yang Ming are the same age, Yang Ming has four sons, and he doesn't have any, which makes him very inferior. When he saw his own nephew Yang Cong, he felt very uncomfortable.

His wife's family background is undoubtedly very good, Pei Yun's own daughter.

The couple also took a lot of medicine, hoping to conceive a child soon, but Pei Xi's stomach has not moved.

So Li Yuan quickly found a concubine for his son to try, whether it was the son's problem or the daughter-in-law's problem, and the concubine became pregnant.

But Li Yuan was not happy, because this is a concubine, and their Longxi Li is very particular about concubines, a concubine means no son.

But now that Pei Yun is in the limelight, you can't let your son divorce his wife, can you?After all, many couples who have not had children for many years can suddenly have children.

So Li Yuan can only wait and see, as long as it is not his son's problem.

Yang Ming knew that Li Yuan hadn't been idle for the past two years. He saw that his father Yang Guang was lustful, and seeing that Yu Wenshu and Yang Yue frequently presented women to the emperor in order to invite him to be favored, he directly sent his niece, Mrs. , dedicated to Yang Guang.

This Wang family is very favored, and he was directly named a concubine. His father, Wang Yu, is only a county magistrate now. Unfortunately, this person used to serve as a backup for Yang Jian, but Yang Jian didn't make good arrangements for him at that time. In Yang Guang's era, Yang Guang refused to admit it.

During the chat, Yang Ming deliberately asked about the Wang family. Li Yuan hesitated and beat around the bush, not daring to answer directly, because he knew that Yang Ming didn't care about offering a woman to the emperor, but if this woman was made a concubine, then Yang Ming It is impossible not to care.

Because in the emperor's current harem, among the three concubines, there is only one concubine De Wang, who is the first-rank concubine under the empress.

"It's just a concubine, what can't you say?" Yang Ming smiled lightly.

Everyone in the room could hear that something was wrong with Yang Ming's words. Of course, Li Yuan knew that Yang Ming was warning him, because his niece had a bad temper, was young and energetic, and offended Empress Xiao.

Li Yuan hurriedly said: "I was confused for a while, Your Highness, don't say any more."

Yang Ming seemed indifferent, but he said with a strong sense of warning:

"I can't say some greetings, but you have to remind her, tell that Mrs. Wang, after seeing this Queen Mother, please behave yourself. I won't give her a second chance. This is for you. good."

Li Yuan nodded hastily, pretending to be humble, and wiped his forehead.

You didn't sweat, why wipe your forehead?Who is it for?

Yang Ming also knew that, in fact, the Wang family was not really offended, but because of his recent favor, he moved a screen that belonged to Empress Xiao to her palace.

Empress Xiao is not easy to provoke, she has already made people take back the screen, and killed two of Wang's maids with a stick, which is a warning.

Yang Ming had to put on this posture today, because because of this incident, Yang Hao ran to the palace to make a fuss.

In the Sui Dynasty, the concubines in the emperor's harem, except for the empress, had no status, all because of Dugu Jialuo.

So don't look at Wang as a high-level concubine, but Yang Hao still doesn't care about her. She is doing her mother's favor, which is justified.

This round was won by Yang Wei, this kid is too good at stitching things together.