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Volume 1: The Life of a Bandit Chapter 211: Holding a Luncheon

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    After resigning from the Pingdu magistrate's office, Feng Jian and his party of more than 20 horses rode directly to the Dayou Liang Store in the south of the city. The people Feng Jian wanted to send to the capital were at the Dayou Liang Store.  Dayou Grain Store was originally owned by the Cui family, a wealthy family in Pingdu. Last year, the former head of the Cui family instigated an assassin to assassinate Feng Jian, but failed, and instead was destroyed by the Huluyan Hunter Division.  The new head of the family, Cui Chengyong, wanted the whole Cui family not to be implicated. He took the initiative to half-sell many of the Cui family's properties and give half to Huluyan. He also voluntarily rented most of the family's freight ships to Huluyan, specifically for the transportation of goods produced in Huluyan.  Food supplies, and then exchange them for the supplies needed for Huluyan from various places.  Cui Chengyong, the new leader of the Cui family, is a smart man. No matter how much wealth you have in this world, you can't compete with the generals who have elite soldiers and strong generals. Paying such a high price in exchange for the continued existence of the Cui family in Pingdu City is truly consistent.  The interests of the entire Cui family.  In half a stick of incense, Feng Jian and more than 20 riders rode their horses and stopped in front of the largest grain store in Pingdu City.  This is the first time Feng Jian visited Dayou Grain Store. He looked around and saw that this street was full of shops selling grain. This should be the area in Pingdu City that specializes in selling grain.  There are more than a dozen facades with plaques of Dayou Grain Store, concentrated in the middle of this grain street. People buying and selling grain come in and out of each facade, showing a busy scene.  Feng Jian came to Dayou Liang Store to find Pan Zhaoying, the shopkeeper. He was the best person in Feng Jian's mind to contact the capital.  Among the existing subordinates, Pan Zhaoying is the most business-minded and flexible in situations. He will handle the liaison in Beijing this time and has plenty of money.  Coupled with the eloquent Fatty Pan, this matter will definitely be accomplished.  Huang Jinjiang came to Dayou Grain Store.  He waved his war horses and said to Feng Jian: "Sir, you have to go through the back door to enter Dayouliang Store." Feng Jian smiled playfully when he heard Huang Jinjiang's words.  He waved his riding crop and said, "Lead the way!" Huang Jinjiang was a little baffled when he saw the commander's playful smile, and secretly thought that his words were not out of line!  After a moment's hesitation, he said, "Yes!" Then he rode his horse towards the back door of the Daliang Store.  At this time, Pan Zhaoying was frowning and thinking in the shopkeeper's private office. Hearing that the baby had just been born, the commander happened to return to the garrison. This can't help but make people think!  The commander is happy to have a son. As the first person to follow the commander, he is naturally very happy. If there are successors to the commander, Huluyan's power will remain strong.  There are just some flaws.  Why is the commander¡¯s first child not Su Su¡¯s? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????OUT out of the blue, the door to the official room was suddenly pushed open from the outside.  I saw Feng Jian walking in with a cold air, followed by two personal guards, Huang Jinjiang and Qin Mazi.  Pan Zhaoying was taken aback and quickly left his seat and walked to Feng Jian to salute and said: "I really didn't expect the commander-in-chief to come suddenly. Please take a seat. I will let someone serve you tea." Feng Jian waved his hand to stop him and joked:  "Fat man, you have become more and more talkative now that you have experienced it. I came here today because I have something important for you to do." When Pan Zhaoying heard that there was something important, he hurriedly went to Feng Jian to please him and said:  "As long as the commander orders, the villain will risk his life to complete it." Feng Jian's face straightened and he asked first: "Fat man, how much money does your Daliang Bank have?" Pan Zhaoying said without thinking: "  Because most of the grain bank's supplies are shipped from Huluyan and settled once a quarter, most of the large amounts of silver stored in the grain bank have been exchanged for banknotes. Currently, there are about 2,000 banknotes and cash in circulation in the accounting room.  One hundred thousand taels." He glanced at Feng Jian and added: "The villain has to check the accounts with General Accountant Lin Dong every day. Is the commander going to check the accounts?  His eldest brother-in-law has been working as an accountant at Dayou Grain Store. After the grain store was transferred to Huluyan, Feng Jian promoted him to the general accountant of the grain store to be in charge of money. Feng Jian was happy to have a son. Lin Dong went to the garrison mansion today to help receive him.  The guests have gone.  Feng Jian generally knows how much money Huluyan has, but he doesn¡¯t know much about the specific money transfers. These matters are handled by the mutual aid association and its branches. It is indeed unrealistic for Feng Jian to personally participate in everything.  After hearing Pan Zhaoying¡¯s report, Feng Jian relaxed. He originally planned to use a carrier pigeon to send a message, asking Sun Fang to prepare silver coins from Huluyan and send them to Pingdu City overnight.  Now I heard that Dayou Liang Bank has more than 200,000 vehicles with bank deposits and banknotes, so the expenses for the activities in Beijing have been settled.  Feng Jian planned to ask Pan Zhaoying to bring enough 100,000 taels of silver notes. These banknotes would be more than enough to settle the matter of the Dengzhou Navy. The remaining silver taels would be used to buy a storefront in the capital, where he would specialize in business.Various types of grain produced in Luyan were secretly communicated with court officials to obtain useful information, and important matters could be conveyed through carrier pigeons.  After this incident, Pan Zhaoying stayed in the capital as the general liaison person sent by Huluyan to the capital.  Feng Jian smiled and said, "Don't be nervous. How can I, the commander, find the time to check the accounts?"  The reason for asking about money is because there is an urgent need for a large amount of money to smoothen the relationship.  " So he explained to Pan Zhaoying in detail the whole story and the purpose of his visit to Beijing. Pan Zhaoying never had stage fright when dealing with people. Money makes people bold. He believed that as long as there was money to open the way, any difficult matter could be solved. Pan Zhaoying immediately patted his chest.  "Dong dong" sounded, and he assured Feng Jian that he had achieved the purpose of his trip and that he would create a world in the capital and let everyone know that Huluyan is the world's big granary. After noon the next day, two planes flew out of Pingdu City.  The carriage headed north along the official road. In the carriage were the envoys sent to the capital by Chen Suowen and Feng Jinweng's son-in-law. In the front car was an aide from Zhizhou Chen Suowen, and in the back car was naturally the fat man Pan Zhaoying.  The more than twenty knights who followed to protect the two carriages were Feng Jian's personal guards led by Qin Mazi. They needed to protect Pan Zhaoying, who was carrying one hundred thousand silver coins, and twenty of Jiao Keli's men.  After all, they were the first spies stationed under Feng Jian in the capital. They also sent Pan Zhaoying away this time. The next day, Feng Jian rushed back to Huluyan, mainly to attend the spring plowing and production meeting of the Mutual Aid Association.  In spring plowing, more than 60 branches of the Huluyan Mutual Aid Association, under the guidance of people sent by the General Mutual Aid Association, have planted drought-resistant, high-quality and high-yielding corns, and have achieved a bumper harvest this year. There are many experienced farmers in the Mutual Aid Association Breeding Department.  Talented people joined in and put forward many useful suggestions for increasing the yield of corn. After discussions with the main members of the General Mutual Aid Association, they planned to expand the scale of corn cultivation this year and gradually form a major grain production area based on corn and wheat in Daze Mountain.  On the 22nd day of the first month of the fifth year, the Huluyan spring plowing meeting ended. Each branch mutual aid association arranged spring plowing production according to the arrangements of the general mutual aid association and according to their own different conditions. In the cold spring season, more than 100,000 villagers in Daze Mountain started a new round.  Another purpose of Feng Jian's return to Huluyan was to meet with the foreign craftsmen. He didn't know the state of these foreign craftsmen at this time, and he was worried that they would refuse to cooperate. Naturally, he would punish them when he met them.  To appease, find a way to get these foreign craftsmen to serve the Huluyan Zhenshan Camp. At noon, Feng Jian was holding a luncheon in the Huluyan Assembly Hall to entertain the main personnel of the Huluyan. There were several carbon basins on the table.  , there was a fragrant casserole on it, and the main dish of the banquet was the popular Tongzhang hot pot in Huluyan. Among them, the main generals of Zhenshan Camp attended the banquet with the largest number of people, Xu Yannian, Zhao Shougang, Shen Xiaoshan, Zhou Wei,  Jiao Keli, Zheng Qing, Hu Dake, Guo Tai, Liu Rongsheng, Jiang Yu, Gao Daman, Ding Lian, Jiang Liang and other generals formed a circle of their own. In addition, there were Sun Fang, Qin Huaibao, the leaders of the mutual aid association, and several branches of the mutual aid association.  The presidents, Zhang Dalai and Liang Yuanhao from the Military Research Institute, Shen Hanyang and Pan Nier from the Medical Hospital, etc. Pan Nier is the only woman attending the banquet, and she is a young and beautiful woman, so she is particularly eye-catching.  . Now the Zhenshan Camp medical team has expanded to 400 people, and the three thousand headquarters of the Zhenshan Camp have an average of 100 military medical teams.  A medical hospital was established at Zhenshan Camp, and Pan Nier, as the captain of the medical team, led a medical team of 100 people to stay in the medical hospital to assist Shen Hanyang and other Huluyan doctors in diagnosing and treating injured soldiers transferred from the battlefield.  Pannier, who is dashing and heroic on the battlefield, seems a bit reserved among a group of grown men. She rarely talks to people other than Shen Hanyang, and her eyes are always quietly paying attention to the every move of Commander Feng Jian who is sitting in the first place.  So much so that he doesn't devour the food in front of him like others.  He just had a son a few days ago, and he heard that Su Su was about to give birth. Su Su was from the same background as himself, and his appearance and abilities were no worse than hers. Why could Su Su marry him?  Pannier's heart was full of envy, and her eyes turned to Feng Jian again. She felt troubled in her heart, and she thought that the banquet would end quickly and she left the scene.  Shen Hanyang, who was sitting next to her, saw all Pannier's expressions and behavior. Shen Hanyang knew clearly what Pannier was thinking.  Shen Hanyang secretly sighed, if he had the chance, he would be willing to set up a match for the female disciple he had trained.  Feng Jian was also watching everyone at the banquet. Zhenshan camp had the largest number of people, and it seemed that they were divided into different waves.  Xu Yan???, Zhao Shougang, Zhou Wei and other Zhenshan Battalion combat officers formed a small circle.  Shen Xiaoshan, Guo Tai, Jiang Yu and other enemy hunters form a small circle.  Jiao Keli, Gao Daman and other people who do not accept people at night are another circle.  But the artillery commander who had just entered the Zhenshan Camp system was relatively lonely.  This phenomenon of different systems in the military being incompatible with each other is what Feng Jian is happy to see.  !  !  (To be continued)
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