Overlord of the late Qin Dynasty

Chapter 12 Cooperation
Yin Tong is now over 40 years old, and has only one daughter and no heirs under his knees. Yin Po is the son of his elder brother Yin Lian and the sole heir of the Yin family.

Yin Lian died in battle when he was a general of the Qin State, and then Yin Lian's wife couldn't stand the stimulation and died suddenly, leaving Yin Po alone.

Because Yin Po was young and Yin Tong didn't have any heirs at that time, Yin Tong took Yin Po over and raised him like his own son.

Yin Tong had a son when he was 40 years old. He originally thought that a son could inherit the family property, but he did not expect to be a daughter after he was born.Yin Tong gave up, and placed even higher hopes on his nephew.

When Yin Po became an adult, he set up his own mansion and started a business.Because there is an uncle who is a doctor in the court as the background, many businessmen made him a lot of money in order to curry favor.

Since Yin Tong was transferred to Wu County, Kuaiji County as the county magistrate, Yin Po's business in Xianyang plummeted.Seeing that Yin Po, who was not making much money, abandoned his business, he went south to follow Yin Tong.

In Wu County, because Yin Tong had a good relationship with Li Si when he was a doctor, he arranged for Yin Po to become the county captain of Wu County.The prefect Qin Ling also did not obstruct Yin Tong's appointment too much because of Li Si's request to take care of Yin Tong before he took office.Moreover, Yin Tong himself appointed officials at all levels in Yin Tong Wu County without any interference.

But Yin Po doesn't have this ambition, he still wants to do business.This time, I heard that Xiang's wine was in short supply in the north, and after trying it myself, I was thinking of snatching it.However, because Yin Tong knew about it in advance, he sent someone to investigate and found that the ultimate secret of the two wines of the Xiang family was in the hands of his nephew and uncle, so he stopped Yin Po's thoughts.

Xiang Liang thought about it for a while on the surface, and then said: "Yes, yes! However, your magistrate should have heard that the Xiang family and the four Wuzhong families have signed a binding treaty, right?"

"Naturally! I, Yin Tong, can guarantee that I won't do anything to destroy the Great Wall after I get the Huadiao wine and Zuixian wine from Xiang's family!" Yin Tong immediately swore.

"That's it! I'll make it cheaper. Jiuhuadiao wine is [-] yuan per jar, and Zuixian wine is [-] yuan per jar!" Xiang Liang said generously.

What Xiang Liang said made Yin Tong, an old Confucian scholar, embarrassed. Although Yin Tong was a bit pedantic, considering that the Xiang family was not a family with a title, he promised: "If so! Then under the rule of this county, the Xiang family will not use it in the future. Served!"

"Liang, thank you magistrate!" Xiang Liang cupped his hands in thanks.

After the two finished talking about the most important thing, they started chatting and laughing happily again.

After a while, Xiang Liang said to Yin Tong: "Your Excellency, County Magistrate! I have an unfeeling request, I don't know if I should say it or not?!"

"Speak up and listen! Let me be a staff officer!" Yin Tong didn't know what Xiang Liang was asking for, so he didn't dare to agree easily, so he said.

"Xiaomin thinks that some wine should be presented to His Majesty the Emperor?!! In this way, the wine of my Xiang family can be named as tribute wine, and my wine shop of the Xiang family can be protected! Second, it can make the world's rich and powerful The big family recognized my Xiangjia's fine wine even more, and guaranteed the sales of my Xiangjia's fine wine!" Xiang Liang said what he had been hiding for a long time.

After Xiang Liang spoke, Yin Tong began to fall into deep thought.

Yin Tong already knew that Xiang Liang had ulterior motives in agreeing to let the Yin family join the ranks of selling Huadiao wine, in order to let him offer it to the emperor so as to protect his family's fine wine.Although I don't like Xiang Liang's calculations a little bit, there is nothing I can do about it.

After all, no one could refuse the temptation of promotion, and Yin Tong knew that if he offered this fine wine, he would definitely become the governor of Kuaiji.Because it has been reported that Tan Ling, the current Kuaiji County, will soon be transferred to the south, preparing to take over the newly established Guilin County in the south and become the first county governor of Guilin County.

"Okay! The county agrees! Tomorrow, the county will report to the magistrate to ask the county Wei Qintong to go to Xianyang with the people you sent to offer wine!" Yin Tong said.

Yin Tong still has a good impression of Qin Ling.After all, Tan Ling got the position of sheriff of a county based on his own ability, and he also helped himself. In order to prevent Qin Ling from being transferred to the remote southern Guilin County as the magistrate, Yin Tong wanted Tan Ling to have a share of the credit for offering wine.

Yin Tong believed that with the contribution of offering wine, Qin Ling could be transferred to a large county in the north, or even return to the court.

**********************
The Xiang family's Huadiao wine and Zuixian wine made the whole Kuaiji County and even the entire Central Plains popular. If a big family doesn't have Huadiao wine and Zuixian wine, it can't be considered a big family.And if a good restaurant does not have Huadiao wine and Zuixian wine, then the business will decline and eventually close down.

Huan Chu was originally a school lieutenant of the state of Chu. After Qin destroyed Chu, he was dissatisfied with the indiscriminate killing of prisoners of the Chu army by the state of Qin, so he led the crowd to escape. He became a water bandit in Daze in Wuzhong.

When they first arrived in Daze, it happened that Yu Ying, the biggest water bandit leader in Daze, came out to rob houses and was bumped by Huan Chu, and the two started fighting.

In the end, the two became close friends, and Yu Ying also respected Huan Chu as the eldest brother. The two brought together a total of [-] water bandits and began to dominate the entire Daze and confront the local government of Qin.

After unifying all the water bandits and mountain bandits in Daze, the number of Huan Chu and Yu Ying's men soared to two thousand, and they began to use civilians to cover up their identities to inquire about news, and robbed the Qin government's food delivery team and rich and unkind businessmen for Life.

Xiang's family lives by the lake, and because of his good reputation, Xiang's family also often helps the poor people under Xiang Yu's suggestion, so Huan Chu and Yu Ying will not offend Xiang Jiaqiu.

Zhuwuling on Jinting Island is the base camp of Huan Chu and Yu Ying, where they live with more than 500 of their most confidant subordinates.

The news that people in Kuaiji County and the entire Central Plains flocked to Xiangjia’s fine wine reached Yu Ying’s ears. Yu Ying told Huan Chu and suggested that Huan Chu could go to Xiangjia to borrow food to alleviate the crisis of food shortage in his family.

"Second brother, have you forgotten what I said?" Huan Chu was very annoyed. He thought that after being with him for a long time, he could get rid of Yu Ying's bandit habits, but he didn't expect that he still has the bad habits of those bandits now.

"I haven't forgotten! Brother, isn't this urgent? Our food can't support so many brothers for a month! But the government's food transport team and those businessmen's transport teams no longer pass by the marsh, why are we here?" How long has it been without income! One month later, we have nothing to eat, and the brothers still go back to rob Xiang’s family in the marsh! Why don’t we go and borrow some food from Xiang’s family now?!! We can’t rob, we can still ask for protection They came in exchange for food!" Yu Ying said self-satisfied.

But what Yu Ying said made Huan Chu's eyes shine, right!With thousands of people under my command, I can provide protection to others in exchange for the food I need!

(End of this chapter)