Chapter 63: No grass grows under the big tree
The three top wealthy families decided to fight hard before the queen's position was determined.
Since, the daughters of the three wealthy families of Fan, Zhu, and Sui competed for the position in the harem and fell into a disadvantage, and they could not change it from the harem level, they worked hard through external channels.
In order to show their affection to the King of Qin, the wealthy family of the Fan family decided to return the land annexed in the last year to the local people.
The Zhu family not only returned part of the land to the people, but also paid 200,000 stone of grain to the royal court to fight against the dogs.
While returning the land, the Sui family also donated 200,000 taels of silver to the royal court.
The three wealthy families are the queens, which can be described as extremely desperate.
It is no exaggeration to say that the woman of the four top wealthy families can become the queen, and which wealthy family can become the first noble family of Great Qin in the future, occupying half of Great Qin, just like the wealthy family of the Yin family of Wei State.
When the three wealthy families made such a move, they were naturally fanned by the people who were bought by the prime minister with a lot of money.
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Xianyang, Zhangtai Palace, Imperial Study.
King Qin was holding an ancient book made of special metal materials.
This book is a remnant of the ancient formation obtained from the Tianlu Sect.
During this time, he had free time, so he delved into it, and he had eaten almost everything on it.
Ying Zheng decided to try to arrange a small formation in the Imperial Garden.
This array is definitely not as big as the pill cultivation formation of Tianlu Peak.
Of course, before setting up the formation, he needed to collect the best quality jade.
At this moment, Lang Zhong ordered Zhou Bin to trot in with three scrolls of folds, and said with a happy face: "Your Majesty, the three wealthy families of the Fan family, the Zhu family, and the Sui family, have sent you a big gift. ”
Hearing this, Ying Zheng looked away from the remnants of the formation and looked at Lang Zhongling: "Submit it!"
"No!"
Lang Zhong ordered the three scrolls to be folded to His Majesty.
Ying Zheng opened it to watch, and after seeing the content clearly, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Hmph! What is the Great Qin Thirty-six Hao Clan Alliance, advancing and retreating together?"
The world is bustling with profit!
In the face of huge power and the temptation of interests, the four top wealthy families are no longer calm, and they have gone into battle shirtless.
King Qin said: "Immediately give the Fan family, the Zhu family, and the Sui family a return edict, they can think about the royal court and the people like this, and the hearts of the widows are very relieved!"
"No!" Lang Zhong ordered to go to draft the edict.
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The mansion of the Lu family.
Bang!
With the sound of porcelain cracking, I saw a fine ceramic tea bowl, which was smashed and shattered, and the tea mixed with fragments scattered in all directions.
And the person who smashed the tea bowl was the patriarch of Lu Hesheng, who had always shown his good temper.
He was so angry because he had just learned that the three wealthy families of Fan, Zhu, and Sui had donated land, grain, and silver to the royal family in order to win the favor of the King of Qin, so as to help the daughters of their respective families compete for the position of queen.
"This group of shameless old things, their own women can't compete for favor in the harem, and they can't compete for Yu Yan's girl, and they actually do such a despicable act outside!"
"Damn it!"
Lu Hesheng scolded and scolded.
Several other patriarchs present also had angry expressions on their faces.
"Fan's. The Zhu family, the Sui family, it's really shameless!"
"Where is this fair play?!"
"Patriarch, what should we do?"
"Patriarch, we must not let the good situation that arises be destroyed, we must let Yu Yan become the queen of Great Qin!"
The elders were gossiping.
Lu Hesheng took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and said, "We will also return the land annexed this year to those people, and in addition, send another 300,000 stone grain and 200,000 taels of silver to Xianyang." ”
When the elders heard this, they were slightly stunned.
"Patriarch, is it a bit too much?" said one of the patriarchs.
Lu Hesheng sighed: "If you can't give up the child and can't trap the wolf, today's pay, he will bring us ten times a hundred times the return!"
The elders fell silent.
A few days later, Ying Zheng received grain and silver from the Lu family, and he immediately asked Lang Zhong to draft an edict allowing the Lu family to sell salt in the local area.
Salt, profiteering industries, the Qin State is all monopolized by the government, even the wealthy family can not interfere, is one of the important sources of Qin's financial revenue.
In the field of salt, Ying Zheng is open to the Lu family, which is equivalent to sending money to the Lu family.
Even if it is only sold in the county where the Lu clan is located, it is a year of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
For the three wealthy families of the Fan family, the Sui family, and the Zhu family, Ying Zheng only praised a few words verbally, and did not give other benefits.
Today, the Lu family is allowed to sell salt, which will definitely make its three top wealthy families indignant and even more hostile to the Lu family.
Ying Zheng thought about it, adding this fire would definitely accelerate the differentiation of the Great Qin Hao clan.
After receiving the edict of King Qin, the Lu family was overjoyed.
The sale of salt is an absolutely lucrative industry, and the King of Qin is actually open to the Lu family.
They had already decided that Ying Zheng was determined to support the Lu clan's wealthy clan into a Yin clan-like existence in the Wei state, helping the Ying clan to better rule the Qin state and suppress other wealthy clans.
All the elders admired the old patriarch's wise decision.
The three top wealthy families of the Fan family, the Zhu family, and the Sui family, gritted their teeth angrily after learning of King Qin's reward to the Lu family.
Ying Zheng is favoring one over the other!
At the same time, they also hated the Lu clan more and more!
Especially the Fan family, there was a dispute with the Lu family!
At the junction of the land of the two wealthy families, a small iron sand mine was discovered, most of which were on the side of the Fan family, and only a very small part appeared on the side of the Lu family, and the two families were mined at the same time.
After the Lu family finished mining the iron placer ore on their side, they dug up the Fan side through the tunnel.
The Fan family used to negotiate with the Lu family constantly.
But to no avail, the Lu family said that this is a complete iron sand mine, since some of it appears in the Lu family's territory, it means that the Lu family has the right to open the entire iron sand vein.
The strength of the Fan family is slightly weaker than that of the Lu family, and in order to jointly contend with the Great Qin royal family, the overall situation is the most important, and finally chooses to swallow his anger.
Iron placer ore is just one aspect of the conflict between the Lu and Fan clans, and there are other business conflicts between them.
The three wealthy clans of the Fan Clan, the Zhu Clan, and the Sui Clan, have already expected that in the near future, the Lu Clan is likely to become a terrifying giant tree like the Yin Clan of the Wei State.
The Lu family grew into a giant tree, which may be a good shade under the big tree for the Qin royal family.
But for other wealthy families, there is no grass under the big tree, and there is no way for them to live.
They must check and balance the Lu clan before it grows into a giant tree in the sky.
It's best to let the Lu clan never grow into a giant tree in the sky.
Ying Zheng kept getting the news from Jinyiwei about the continuous fermentation of the contradictions between the four top wealthy families, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Let these wealthy families who can't get rid of their tails fight with each other, and the harder they fight, the better.
"Ding Dong! January has passed, congratulations to the host for getting a god and demon summoning card again. ”
The system warmly reminds that after the issuance of the God and Demon Summoning Card this time, the time interval for obtaining the God and Demon Summoning Card next time will be extended. ”
At this moment, Ying Zheng's voice came from the cold system.