Lu Wu didn't know what Miantang was planning in his heart. He listened to her words, but he thought it was just a child's spoiled behavior, but he just laughed out loud without caring about it.

Miantang also laughed, but her smile was much more intriguing.

The next day, she found her uncle and asked only how many regular customers from the Lu family escort agency were left.

Lu Xian was a little ashamed by his niece, and said with a shame: "Our escort agency used to be the main focus of long escorts, but later because of losing escorts, he lost his reputation. The rest were short escort businesses in nearby states. Those who didn't make money stayed. They just had enough to raise a few escorts, which was better than nothing."

Miantang asked about the canal and camel transportation that were jointly operated by the Lu family. Without exception, there was not much left to make money.

Mian Tang nodded and said to his uncle: "The money I made before, grandfather doesn't want it. You also know his stubbornness. But the family is eager to use money. That farm was my grandmother's dowry back then. He said he could not sell anything. Since this is the case, it would be better to make some adjustments to supplement the family's income. You check the business in the escort agency and give it to me as a price. In this way, if the family has money, you don't have to sell the farm."

After hearing this, Lu Xian turned to her suspiciously: "What are you going to do? Your grandfather won't let you get into trouble again. You should stay at home honestly and spend some time finding a good matchmaker to say that marriage is the most serious principle..."

Before my uncle could finish nagging, Miantang asked only one question: "If you don't sell, I will find another way to do it. At that time, my uncle should not say that I am ignorant and cause trouble for my family..."

If the other children of the Lu family said this, Lu Xian would just think they were young and energetic and say some tough words. But it was Mian Tang who said this, Lu Xian's heart would be thrilled.

After all, he did not lose his memory, but he knew what this little aunt could break! Since she wanted to have a mess left by the escort agency, she would just give it to her. She had something to do and could be more honest in Xizhou.

Now Lu Wu doesn't care about the mundane affairs at home. So Lu Xian thought about it and went to discuss with his second son. After hearing this, Lu Mu asked, "How much money Miantang plans to give?"

Lu Xian said honestly: "One thousand taels..."

Lu Mu's eyes widened when he heard this. Just a short escort agency, he would burn a lot of incense if he could earn 100 taels a year. She actually bought 1,000 taels of silver?

So he asked Lu Xian carefully: "When someone on Yangshan said that she had bought a sum of money and escaped privately, would she?..."

"How can you do it!" Lu Xian cursed viciously at his second brother, "Yangshan's group of donkeys who have unloaded the mills and killed donkeys will only put shit basins on Miantang's head! If Miantang really took that large sum of money, could those grandsons in Yangshan be so peaceful and honest and not come to find Miantang?"

Lu Mu quickly put out the fire for his elder brother and said, "I didn't say that our Miantang did this. But... where did she get so much money?"

Lu Xian suppressed his anger and said, "You don't know Miantang's ability yet. She took advantage of the ban on the northwest and sold some fat sheep with black tails. Now in the mansion of the nobles in the capital, the sheep are sold at a pound, and it's expensive. She also made some money, and probably all of them are in disguise to supplement their family."

After hearing this, Lu Mu nodded repeatedly and praised Miantang as a good child who thought about the family, and then said, "Since Miantang is thinking about the Lu family, the eldest brother will not be able to get cold to the child's wishes. She is a girl's family and will be supported by our Lu family when she gets married in the future. If our family is lying on airs, I wonder how much anger the girls at home will be in the future!"

Lu Xian sighed when he heard this. In the end, Lu Mu made an idea for him and agreed to give Miantang the remaining scattered bids from the escort agency.

Although Miantang is a member of the Lu family, his surname is Liu after all. So the day when the escort agency signed a contract and changed a new owner, Miantang asked people to hang two strings of firecrackers. With the crackling sound, the old plaque of the "Shenwei Escort Agency" that had been for decades was taken off.

The onlookers looked at the new plaque and couldn't help but widen their eyes and carefully recited the words on the plaque: "Liang...Xin's Escort Agency!"

Someone shook his head and said, the new owner of this escort agency is not very knowledgeable, and this one is not as good as the old name of the escort agency.

But Miantang turned a deaf ear to the discussions behind the people, and just looked at the plaque he wrote with a smile, feeling that his handwriting would be a day when he could be elegant, and he really had a long face!

Because the new escort agency opened, she recruited some more friends, some of whom were orphans funded by the Lu family for a long time.

There was a young man named He Quansheng. When he heard that the granddaughter of the Lu family bought an escort agency, he recommended himself to be an escort. His father was also an escort at the Shenwei escort agency back then, but unfortunately, he was infected with typhoid fever. Because he was in another place, he did not receive timely treatment and died of illness.

Miantang sat on the counter of the escort bureau drinking tea, looked up and down through the teacup, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and handsome. So he asked, "You are going to be an escort, but what are the skills you have to be a escort?"

The young man didn't say anything, just stood in the hall and punched a long set of fists. The fist wind sounded and the operation was smooth, but it was not a gorgeous set, but it was all real punches and kicks.

Mian Tang was aware of the goods, and he couldn't help but nodded after seeing it. Although this young man, who was a military master in Beijie, lacked some skill in fist and foot skills, it was already good.

"What a fist! Unfortunately, our escort agency has a small presence, but you can't afford much money, so you're willing?"

He Quansheng looked at the bright girl Liu in front of him, looked away embarrassedly, but said honestly: "My mother said that I have received many favors from the Lu family over the years. I always reminded me to repay the Lu family's nurturing kindness when I grew up. I went to join the uncle before, but the uncle said that he did not lack people, but you have few capable people... I don't want monthly money, and the Lu family has given me and my mother a ten-year monthly money. When will you not need me, I will leave?"

After hearing this, Mian Tang nodded. His grandfather was kind and righteous all his life, and he did not raise the charity wolf who rolled his eyes. So she pointed to the plaque above her head and said, "Although my temple gate is dilapidated, it is 'conscience'. You are a conscientious young man, so you can naturally stay here."

So, Miantang's small escort agency officially opened.

The new escort agency always needs to earn some popularity when opening, and temporarily pull down some escorts to attract customers. It even brings out the sign of reducing half of the escorts to the door within a month.

The veterans of the Shenwei Escort Agency would drink tea in teahouses in Xizhou every now and then. When talking about the newly opened conscientious escort agency, they all smiled helplessly and shook their heads.

I just say that Mr. Lu’s granddaughter is really worried and always makes trouble! From ancient times to the present, I have never heard of a female boss in the escort agency who is in charge and makes a breakthrough!

Sure enough, in the following days, the gate of the Conscience Escort Agency was deserted.

However, the head girl Liu was not worried. She still ate and drank every day, and she also went to the canal from time to time to see the winter withering by the river.

After a while, my family couldn't take a look.

On this day, when the women in the two rooms were gathered together to cut cloth and cut clothes, the eldest aunt Shen couldn't help but fall to Miantang: "Your uncle is a confused man, why did you mess with the escort agency? A few days ago, my father heard about your absurd things, but he scolded your two uncles so much that they only asked them to return the silver to you... The silver was divided into three parts by the second uncle, and the one given to our eldest uncle, your eldest uncle didn't move, and he wanted to leave it to you as a dowry. As for..."

The second aunt Quan interrupted the elder sister-in-law: "What does our family share Miantang's money? My elder brother is doing business in the northwest and owes a lot of debts. The one who is honest in our family thought of redeeming the money from the escort agency and making up for the elder brother's holes. As for the other two, they are not distributed to anyone, but they are divided into public-center spending, and future needs... A while ago, our Lu Lao Er borrowed some money from my dowry and filled in public-center spending. Now that he has exchanged the silver, he has to pay back the money he owed me?"

Everyone was silent for a while when they heard this, everyone knew that the Quan family seemed to have endless dowry. Since they said that, no one could check the accounts of the second house.

Miantang was injured on his hand and couldn't do a long time to do a hand job, so after cutting it for a while, he took a break and ate the red bean fried cakes made by his aunt. After hearing the urgent words of Quan Shi, he smiled and said, "There are so many places in the family to spend money. If you sprinkle it all at once, you will have no money to turn back. Since my grandfather scolded him, I will ask my two uncles to enjoy it. As for my future dowry, don't worry, both aunts..."

The second aunt Quan said quickly: "No! The child of Miantang doesn't really want to do some escort business, but he just uses different ways to help the family. Sister-in-law, don't be embarrassed. We Miantang are rich now, and this little money is nothing to her..."

Shen still wanted to talk, but the topic was brought to the Su family, who was coming to see him. He only said that Mr. Su's family was about to arrive in Xizhou. At that time, everyone would have to help him and entertain the distinguished guests well so that their second girl could achieve a happy marriage.

For a moment, everyone was talking and laughing, and Shen was not going to be so bad that he brought the second wife back to refund the money.

Besides, Mr. Su, who was eagerly looking forward to the second wife of the Lu family, finally arrived in Xizhou on time the next day.

For the sake of the son of the Su family, the Lu family's storefront has been renovated by the second house. If the Su family does not come, the second house will be demolished and rebuilt.

However, Miantang did not stay in the mansion this day and went with the Lu family to welcome her future son-in-law, and she also had social engagements today.

Because he had done business with the He family in Lingquan Town, Liu Miantang calculated that in the past few days, the He family would come to buy the best dyes for coloring.

Looking at the Mandayan, only the ancestral green produced by the saliva of a tortoise produced in Xizhou was condensed. This color was very simple and elegant on the porcelain plate. It has always been monopolized by the He family.

Miantang had heard He Zhen say before that his father liked to eat local crispy ducks and drunk crabs from Xizhou, so he would stay in Xizhou for a few days every year when he bought ancestral green dye.

Thinking of this past, Mian Tang calculated the time accurately and walked by the dock of the canal every day. His hard work paid off and finally waited for the He family's merchant ship.

Moreover, there were two people who came off the boat. In addition to Mr. He, the third girl He Zhen actually came to Hezhou with his father.

When he saw Liu Miantang wearing a hood and a cloak, He Zhen shouted in surprise: "Mrs. Cui, aren't you going to the northwest? Why are you here?"

The He family is in Lingquan Town, so naturally they don’t know about the disbandment of the fake couple in the Cui family in the northwest. She felt a lot of sorrow in her heart recently. When she saw Lady Liu, she seemed to have seen a savior. While her father turned to explain to the boatman, she quietly said to Miantang: "You are gone, I don’t even have anyone to talk to... Do you know that King Huaiyang... He is going to be married!"

When Liu Miantang heard this, he slowly raised his head and looked at He Zhen silently. The He family is an imperial merchant, and he knows a lot about the matter in the capital.

He Zhen was immersed in his sorrow and said, "I heard that the Empress Dowager intended to marry her biological daughter to the King of Huaiyang... After that... there was no hope."

Miantang knew what He Zhen meant. Since ancient times, which prince consort dared to take concubines casually? Cui Xingzhou became the queen mother's son-in-law, so he could save the desire to marry him in the future. He could only be determined to be harmonious with the princess Qinse.

He Zhen originally fantasized about the Huaiyang King breaking the engagement, and she might have a glimmer of hope. Who would have thought that he would marry a princess in the future. In this way, it would be better to marry his virtuous and kind cousin!

She said a lot of words, but she could not see Miss Liu comforting her as she used to. She just looked at the river in silence, and her expression was as calm as the windless river.

He Zhen was a little embarrassed and asked, "By the way, you haven't said yet, why are you here?"

Miantang seemed to have woken up and smiled slightly and said, "Come here to see the canal transportation."

He Zhen did not doubt that he had him, so he enthusiastically recommended: "The Cao family boat trip I used is fair in price, but the goods are transported accurately, so you might as well go to his house to transport goods."

But after hearing this, Miantang shook his head firmly and said, "I don't need his house."

He Zhen asked strangely: "Why do you say that?"

Mian Tang smiled and asked directly: "I heard that his family was stripped from the Shenwei Escort Agency and privately received escort orders. Soon after establishing the ship, he received escort orders. Of course, he would encounter officers and soldiers who set up checkpoints and charge a second-floor vehicle and ship tax. Even if the escort silver is not much, it would be more expensive in total."

The He family always entrusts the Cao family to ship fuel, and sometimes asks them to transport porcelain to Xizhou and go to Beijing.

Because every time I take this route, I take the Cao family boat ride, and there is no way to compare the self-heating process.

However, Mr. He had been doing business a long time ago. He had entrusted the Shenwei Escort Agency to transport goods. Later, he came from the Shenwei Escort Agency and changed shipping to the public. It seemed that since then, there had been more vehicle and ship tax. However, he sent the shopkeeper to follow the ship, but it was indeed taken away by the officers and soldiers.

After hearing He Erye's words, Mian Tang smiled and said, "The shipping route escort agencies were revised. The vehicle and ship tax was not issued by the imperial court. The Cao family changed the route of the old escort agency and deliberately went to Lianzhou, which had heavy taxes. Lianzhou officers and soldiers colluded with many escort agencies. The extra tax silver was divided by 46% from the escort agency. One trip to the escort agency and earned two shares of money. This kind of escort ship has hidden tricks... If it were me, I would not dare to use it."

Although the He family has been traveling on boats, they are not the ones who do escorts. How could they know there are so many tricks? However, if you admit that you have been a sucker for many years, He Erye was not very willing to do so, so he still defended them: "But the current route that the Cao family has taken is one day faster than before!"

Mian Tang was too lazy to defend himself and asked directly: "Can Mr. He ship the goods one day earlier and have to use the silver to settle the goods? That's right... Your family is not short of all these silvers, but if you wait for someone like me, you have to be more careful, otherwise there will be a lot of money in a year!"

Seeing Miantang turning around and leaving, He Zhen asked, "Which family are you going to look for, Mrs. Cui?"

Mian Tangtou didn't know how to do it, but he said: "If I use things to transport them, I will definitely find the newly opened Conscience Escort Agency. The boat trip under his house is really good!"

After saying that, Mian Tang shook the flag and shouted for his family, then got on the carriage and left, leaving only the He family father and daughter looking at each other.

Who doesn’t know about this lady Liu’s shrewdness?

After hearing what she said, it really proved that Lady Liu was smart and even examined every link of the canal transportation so carefully.

The father and daughter discussed it and decided not to eat crispy duck first, but to go to the conscience escort agency that Mrs. Liu said. Although their He family is not short of money, just like Mrs. Liu said, it can save some shipping costs and the profit in the year is also considerable.

After going to the escort agency, it was an old man who received them. After asking about the price and seeing that their families were all new ships, Mr. He decided to transport some unimportant goods for the time being and try it out. If his family is reliable, he would also imitate Mrs. Liu and use a conscience boat to travel.

So the Conscience Ship finally opened and took the first order after changing the plaque.

The master was calm and composed, but Fang Xie Bicao's two little girls kept breathing for their girls.

Because they knew that the lady spent all the money left on her to buy a boat, and if she didn't come to business, she would have to pay all of it.

Miantang was not worried. Although she deliberately misled the He family's father and daughter, everything about the Cao family's boat trip was true.

The Cao family’s money is not clean, and there are tricks hidden in it. Once it arouses suspicion from merchants, it will lose its credit and it will be difficult to retain old customers.

After the He family switched to Conscientious Escort Agency, they definitely did not dare to use large goods for the first order, so Miantang bought not many ships, which was enough to deal with them.

The freight route was drawn by her personally. When Zhao Quan was transporting military rations to the northwest, he accidentally told her that in order to facilitate the transportation of military rations, the court opened the rivers of the four counties. Local officials were not allowed to set up checkpoints along the way, and they would be severely punished once discovered.

Moreover, there are constant military ships, and the river channel is very safe. Many small merchants who cannot afford to hire escorts follow the military ships from afar, which is safer.

The He family tried a conscience boat trip and found that the newly established canal transport boat trip was fair, and the cargo delivery time was not slower than the high-priced route.
To be continued...