He was a young man with neat clothes and bright eyes.
Zhang Mingtu had not seen him in the past seventeen years, but when he frowned and thought carefully, he had a vague impression in his mind.
He felt that the young man looked quite familiar.
Zhang Mingtu will stay in Jianyi for the next ten years and will only conduct investigations within the Wang and Li families.
When Zhang Mingtu thought of the Li family, he felt a stronger sense of familiarity in his mind.
The moment he realized it, he immediately understood that this young man must be from the Li family.
"Why are the Li family here now? Did they find my investigation report?"
This was the first thought that came to Zhang Mingtu's mind, but he quickly dismissed it.
He changed his appearance to deliver the escort to Longmen Escort Agency, and the Jianyi Investigation Report was not placed on the top layer, but marked with special code words and placed between different books.
In addition, the Longmen Escort Agency originally thought that this was just an ordinary escort mission, and the people in charge of the inspection were not very well-educated.
I took on this order after the discharge examination, so there shouldn't be any problems there.
"Or am I showing off somewhere else?"
Zhang Mingtu's thoughts raced in his mind, and he was no longer in a hurry to continue helping to move the goods.
He just closed his eyes in the hall and pretended to be resting.
In fact, most of his energy was focused on the young man. If the secret was really revealed, he would of course change his plan immediately and try to kill the Wang and Li families in the shortest possible time.
Having learned a lesson once, Zhang Mingtu knew very well how terrible these wealthy families, who seemed to be high and mighty in their daily lives, would be once they started to take action.
Their family business did not appear out of thin air, but was accumulated bit by bit over the past. During the growth process, countless peers were swallowed up by them.
You can't be careless when dealing with them. As a result, Zhang Mingtu secretly observed for a long time and found that the boy's attention was not on him most of the time, or he basically didn't pay attention to him.
Instead, he spent most of his time on the diners in the restaurant. Every time someone ordered Yuhuchun, the young man would become more focused.
After many times, Zhang Mingtu discovered that the young man was really not paying attention to him, but was paying attention to Yuhuchun in the restaurant.
"Did the Li family send someone to investigate?"
Zhang Mingtu felt something in his heart, breathed a sigh of relief, and then immediately raised it again.
The young man's behavior clearly showed that the Li family seemed to be interested in the Zhang family's Yuhuchun.
Zhang Mingtu remembered that after handing over the Yuhuchun recipe, even though he did not oppose the Wang and Li families, he submitted a relevant investigation report.
The Zhang family will also face a devastating blow after about ten years of development.
When the riverbank collapsed and refugees were everywhere, the Zhang family would mobilize troops to destroy them, often accusing them of harboring traitors.
Zhang Mingtu couldn’t figure it out before, but now, recalling the bitter smile of the patriarch when the Zhang family was destroyed, he suddenly had a guess in his mind.
"Regardless of whether the Zhang family harbored the rebels or not, at a time when refugees were everywhere, the Zhang family was wealthy and possessed such a captivating Yuhuchun. It was only natural that they attracted the attention of the Wang and Li families..."
Zhang Mingtu was well aware of the high profits of alcoholic beverages.
Yuhuchun only requires simple rice wine to be purified and it can become quite mellow, making it a first-class liquor.
Normal strong liquor was quite difficult to brew in that era, but Yuhuchun only needed a few copper coins per pound of rice wine to brew it, so the cost was quite low.
The purified Yuhuchun can be easily sold for more than one or two taels of silver, and everyone around thinks that the price is very reasonable. These days, several pots of Yuhuchun are sold in the restaurant every day.
Ordinary people may not care, but Zhang Mingtu is quite familiar with the Li family, perhaps even more familiar with them than the head of the Li family of this generation.
The foundation of the Li family is food. They own the most and most extensive land in Jianyi, and they harvest a lot of food every year. At the same time, his subordinates are all tenants and farmhands.
Many of them have sold themselves to them, and the amount of grain they need to hand over is very little, even less than what the wealthy families in ordinary villages pay.
After all, the country still collects taxes based on households, not land. The only people registered with the Li family are members of their family. As for the slaves and farmhands under their names, they are not human beings to the Li family.
They actively concealed the household registration of many people.
Jiangnan is a prosperous area, but the overall registered population is not very large.
Food is the foundation of the Li family's existence. With enough food, they will naturally get involved in the wine-making industry. Wine is also one of the goods that the Li family often exports.
"It's normal for them to send people over to investigate."
Zhang Mingtu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, he took a deep breath.
Being targeted by the Li family and secretly investigated is not a good thing.
But at the same time, Zhang Mingtu also knew that the Li family could not act rashly at this time.
At least it is impossible to openly go to war with the Weiyuan Escort Agency. After all, the Weiyuan Escort Agency is known for its military strength. It has dozens of registered escorts, some of whom are extremely powerful.
A head-on collision would be very unfavorable to the Li family.
I think it's just an investigation at the moment, and action will have to be taken in the future.
But when Zhang Mingtu took a look at the young man, he still felt a sense of urgency and a trace of unsuppressible anger in his heart.
The Zhang family is diligent and conscientious, and they do not make any mistakes in their conduct.
There was nothing wrong with the whole process. His parents were simple ordinary people who were busy every day just to have a happy future.
As a result, these people who live such a diligent life are targeted, simply because they are too outstanding and have excellent wine-making recipes.
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