Chapter 39: Go to the Three Treasures Hall
Quanzhou Prefecture Yamen is located in the north of Quanzhou inner city, while Quanzhou’s most prosperous commercial area is located in the south of the inner city.
Although the prosperity of Quanzhou is far from that of Kaifeng Prefecture, it is also quite lively.
The streets are crowded and bustling, and very lively. There are merchants who drive goods into the city to do business, gentry who enjoys leisurely watching the street scenes, officials who ride horses or inspectors, hawkers who sell along the streets, idle men running around, servants, scholars who carry book boxes to the city to take the exam, monks who carry bamboo baskets, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, all kinds of religions and all kinds of religions, Han people, Yao people, Dong people, Miao people, She people, and even foreign merchants and maritime merchants from the Great Food Kingdom, Byzantine Empire, Sanfoqi, Annan Road, Chameng, Mayi and other places.
This is the unique feature of Quanzhou, that is, many of the merchants in Quanzhou are foreign merchants and Hu merchants.
The big nose, high nose bridge, blue eyes, and the Hu merchant made Xu Biao and other guards riding horses with Li Sanjian feel extremely curious and excited...
"Xu Dutou, that guy's eyes are blue."
"Tao Xu Du, that guy is more powerful than you!"
"Hitung Xu, you may not be the opponent of that Hu man."
At this time, several yamen runners surrounded Xu Biao, the newly entered Quanzhou Prefecture Yamen, and said laughingly, instead neglecting the new Quanzhou Prefect Li Sanjian...
"Bird!" Xu Biao looked at him disdainfully: "If you don't want to stop these birds, I'll look at you! I just let the guy lie down on the streets with just a little finger."
"Hahahaha, that's not necessarily true. If you really start, who's not sure."
"Thief Xiaoqi, how dare you look down on me?"
"Oh, Xiaoke doesn't dare!"
"Be gentle, be gentle, don't disturb my husband!"
Xu Biao is a muddy person. Although he is more reckless, he is also good at muddy person. That is, Xu Biao has no airs. After Xu Biao was promoted to the head of Quanzhou Prefecture by Li Sanjian, he quickly became a mess with him.
Everyone also respected Xu Biao more, but rather respected Xu Biao, it was better to respect Li Sanjian behind Xu Biao.
Who is Xu Biao? It’s okay to be extremely brave, but he is just a common man. The key is that Xu Biao is the confidant general of Li Sanjian, the governor of Quanzhou. He came to Quanzhou with Li Sanjian from Kaifeng Prefecture, the capital.
In this way, everyone just stopped looking at monks and Buddha's faces.
When Xu Biao and others saw the Hu people in the foreign merchants, they had already awakened Li Sanjian who was thinking. So Li Sanjian glared at Xu Biao fiercely and scolded: "What are you looking at? You're fussing, why don't you leave quickly?"
"Yes, yes...Sanlang, let's go now, let's go now." Xu Biao nodded repeatedly when he heard this, then waved his hand and surrounded Li Sanjian and rushed forward.
Everyone was secretly amused in their hearts at this moment. When a big and thick hero saw Li Sanjian, he was as obedient as a mouse and cat.
According to common sense, court officials like Li Sanjian usually travel by car. They carry the sedan chair with eight large sedan chairs, and the yamen runners ring the gong and open the way. It is both majestic and cool. At the same time, people are extremely comfortable to sit in the sedan chair. Those who are older can be shaken to fall asleep directly...
But since Li Sanjian became an official, he has never been used to riding a sedan chair. Wherever he goes, he either rides a horse or walks. The reason is that riding a horse or walking is much more convenient and quicker than riding a sedan chair.
In the downtown area, they dare not ride a horse and gallop. It is hard to say that they hurt people. Therefore, Li Sanjian and others controlled their horses and walked slowly towards a house.
The official horses in Kaifeng Prefecture are mainly northwest horses, tall and extremely majestic, while the horses in southern Fujian are mainly southwest Yunnan horses. They are not tall, but they are relatively flexible.
When Li Sanjian and others walked to a larger house in Quanzhou City, they saw that the house was already open with a large middle gate. Many people gathered at the door, waiting at the door, young and old.
"Here, come..." After seeing Li Sanjian and others arrive, several children clapped their hands and ran towards the crowd of people.
At this time, an old man with white hair and beard, wearing a satin made of Jiangnan silk, bowed and greeted Li Sanjian and others: "Caughter Chen Guangbi paid homage to the magistrate of the magistrate! The magistrate is visiting the place where he is today, and it is really a brilliance of the magistrate!"
Seeing this, Li Sanjian hurriedly raised the hem of the long gown with his right hand, raised his legs and jumped off the saddle.
Riding a horse is convenient and fast, but it is not so convenient to get on and off the horse in a long gown. Fortunately, Li Sanjian has been riding a horse for several years, so he has not made a fool of himself in public...
"Young boy can't be like this old lady!"
Although Li Sanjian is the magnificent emperor of a state, he has to respect the old man in front of him.
The most important thing is that Li Sanjian comes from asking for something today. Since he comes from asking for something, it would be inappropriate to show off his superior and unreasonable appearance? If it arouses the other party's disgust, then what Li Sanjian wants will not be so easy.
Therefore, Li Sanjian jumped off his official horse, supported the old man, and regarded himself as a descendant.
"Haha, people say that Li Zhizhou is young and promising. Now it seems that this is true. Li Zhizhou is worthy of being the top scholar of my Song Dynasty." Chen Guangbi then said to a middle-aged man beside him: "Yi De, why don't you invite Li Zhizhou to join?"
So Chen Yide, a big merchant from Quanzhou on Fujian Road, was in a very complicated mood and bowed to Li Sanjian and said, "Master Li, please come in!"
Chen Yide was a Fujian businessman who collected the pearls and other sea objects collected by Li Sanjian's grandfather Fu Gui and others back then. He got to know Li Sanjian's old acquaintance...
Chen Yide and Li Sanjian had a conflict over the acquisition of Zhenzhu. Chen Yide raised the acquisition price and the two parties reconciled. Then they met again on the road. Chen Yide had a whim and also helped Li Sanjian, who was penniless at the time, go abroad to study. It should be said that Chen Yide was still kind to Li Sanjian.
How could Chen Yide know that in just eight years, Li Sanjian had gone from a half-large boy like an ant to become a top scholar in the Song Dynasty, a world-class literary leader. How many people can there be in the world?
Soon afterwards, Li Sanjian became a sixth-rank official in the court, and at this time he became the lord of Quanzhou and was the parent official of Quanzhou. In other words, all the merchants in Quanzhou must make a living under Li Sanjian's wings, and they all have to rely on Li Sanjian's breath...
This is the main reason why Chen Yide's father, Chen Guangbi, went out to greet a young man in his twenties at the age of 71.
The heaven favors someone, why is this?
Therefore, how could Chen Yide's mood not be extremely complicated at this time?
"Haha, okay, okay, okay." Li Sanjian was extremely happy when he saw Chen Yide, and enthusiastically called out three good words: "At that time
It has been eight or nine years since Sanjian and Chen Yuanwai parted, right? It can be said that time has passed, like water. Li has never forgotten the kindness of Chen Yuanwai to Li back then."
You should know that in addition to Changping Warehouse, there are also warehouses for reserved grain such as Yi Warehouse, She Warehouse, Guanghui Warehouse, Huimin Warehouse, Fengshu Warehouse and other warehouses.
Among them, the social warehouse was founded by private people and was built in the rural society, so it is called the social warehouse.
It is said that the social warehouse began in the Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasties, and the purpose was to provide disaster relief. However, there were very few such private granaries, and a large number of them were established to gain fame and gain a good reputation for themselves, and very few were actually used for disaster relief.
Merchants or wealthy families all aim to pursue profit. How many of them can truly care about the life and death of the common people?
Li Sanjian had previously inquired that Chen, a large family in Quanzhou, had established a social warehouse. Regardless of whether it was true or false, even if there was no social warehouse, there would be a large granary in the Chen family's family. Therefore, Li Sanjian came to ask for help from Chen today.
Li Sanjian is not a god, he cannot transform into food or money. At this time, the granary in Quanzhou is about to be exhausted, and the number of victims waiting to be fed is increasing. Therefore, Li Sanjian has to take advantage of this inferior policy, borrow money from the Quanzhou Fushi, and borrow money in the name of the government.
Break debts from Fushi. This matter is easier said than done. Which Fushi's money and grain fell from the world? How could it be so easy to lend it? Unless Li Sanjian sent someone to force it to grab...
However, Li Sanjian then inquired about Chen's eldest son, which was actually Chen Yide. At that time, Li Sanjian thought he was a relative name and surname, but now he saw Chen Yide, and he couldn't help but feel happy.
In this way, Li Sanjian's debt-raising move may be twice the result with half the effort.
"So, is Li Fuzun here to repay his kindness today?" Chen Yide smiled slightly when he heard this.
"That's right!" Li Sanjian said with a smile.
"Li Fuzun is indeed a person who is grateful for his kindness! Haha, Li Fuzun, please come in!" Chen Yide laughed and invited Li Sanjian into the house.
A ghost would believe you, Chen Yide said in his heart.
As the saying goes, if you don’t go to the Three Treasures Hall without any trouble, Li Sanjian, as the governor of Quanzhou, has fewer complicated things? What’s more, Quanzhou is flooded at this time, and Li Sanjian is even more busy. At this moment, he still has time to come to the Chen family’s house to repay his kindness and love?
At the same time, although Chen Yide didn't have much contact with Li Sanjian, he had a dispute with Li Sanjian for the price of the real pearl eight years ago, and then had a long talk on the ship. Only twice, Chen Yide couldn't know much about Li Sanjian, but he also knew that Li Sanjian was a man who would never suffer any loss. Such a person basically had a purpose in everything he did.
Li Sanjian was invited into the Chen family's guest hall. Old Mrs. Chen returned to the inner room to rest, accompanied by Chen's eldest son Chen Yide.
"Li Fu Zun, please drink tea!" The two sides sat down, and several maids in the house immediately presented the famous tea in southern Fujian, Qingfeng Marrow.
Qingfeng marrow is produced in Jian'an, Fujian Road. Li Sanjian didn't even hear it.
It is indeed different for wealthy families. The living room layout and equipment are extremely luxurious, and there is a hint of elegance in the luxury.
Chapter completed!