Since mid-June, merchants from all over the country have been visiting the capital one after another.

Tens of thousands of people suddenly poured into the capital, and there were still people coming in the follow-up, making the capital popular again, and it was more crowded than in the year of Dabi.

The inns were full, prices were rising, and the guild halls in the provinces had no place to stay, so the late merchants had to rent houses in Beijing.

Most of the businessmen who arrived in the capital immediately issued a letter of recommendation and paid the registration form, and some shrewd people still paid the registration fee in full despite having a letter of recommendation from the provincial or state capital.

There are also some businessmen who have found a different way, and they did not ask the government to issue a letter of recommendation, and directly paid the registration fee of 1,000 taels.

Since the Imperial Merchants Selection Conference will begin on July 20, some of these early businessmen are going around and some are making friends everywhere.

Most of the merchants brought goods with them when they entered Beijing, and even if they didn't carry them with them, they arranged for their lives to be sent over one after another.

Therefore, the selection has not yet begun, many skirts have started business, and the inn has become a place to talk about business and make friends, and the night sheng song does not stop.

Xue Pan was forced by Aunt Xue and Xue Baochai to work for more than half a month, and finally on June 20, according to the content on the registration form, he sorted out the family business, filled out the registration form, and handed it over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

After completely relaxing, the second Xue Pan asked Feng Ziying, Chen Yejun, Wei Ruolan, and Jia Baoyu, who had recovered from his injuries, to drink and celebrate in Jinxiang Courtyard.

Xue Pan was the first to arrive, and immediately after arriving, he asked people to call Yun'er.

Not long after, the old bustard came to apologize to Xue Pan with a smile on his face, and Yun'er was accompanying the guest and couldn't get out.

Xue Pan was suddenly angry: "Put, Lao Tzu has already wrapped her, who asked her to accompany the guest!" ”

The old bustard hurriedly smiled and said: "Uncle hasn't been here for more than half a month, Yun'er thinks about it all night, and washes her face with tears, I also see that Yun'er is unhappy, so I arranged a guest for her to have some fun for Yun'er!" ”

Where is Xue Pan willing to follow, dragged the old bustard, and asked her to take herself to the place where Yun'er accompanied the guests.

The old bustard didn't want to lose Xue Pan, a regular customer with a generous hand, so he took Xue Pan to a room with half a push.

After Xue Pan pushed the door and entered, he saw a man in a green shirt and a blue shirt in the room holding Yun'er and moving his hands and feet, and he was still drinking with her.

Yun'er had a clear slap mark on her face, her eyes were filled with tears, and her body struggled slightly.

The blue-shirted man in Tsing Yi was a little drunk, looked at Xue Pan and the others who suddenly broke in, and scolded angrily: "Bastard, who let you in!" ”

"Get out of here, don't disturb the uncle's fun!" is about to continue to force Yun'er to drink.

Xue Pan's anger surged up instantly, and he rushed up angrily and pulled up Yun'er, and then raised his leg with a kick, kicking him over with the stool, cursing incessantly in his mouth, and kicking the rao stomach.

The man in blue shirt in green clothes began to be stunned, and after taking a few kicks, he reacted, hugged Xue Pan's feet, and flipped Xue Pan to the ground, and then flipped on, punching Xue Pan in the face.

Xue Pan howled in pain, and when the four servants who followed him saw this, they hurriedly ran forward and pulled away the blue-shirted man in Tsing Yi.

Xue Pan covered his left cheek, stood up and shouted angrily: "Beat me to death!" ”

The four of them gave the order, and immediately put the man in blue shirt in green clothes to the ground, and in an instant, they exchanged fists and feet, and hit the man in blue shirt in green clothes like a storm.

Xue Pan hugged Yun'er and asked her to rub her left cheek, while continuing to shout for the servants to continue to fight and fight to the death.

The movement here instantly attracted nearby guests, but many of them were businessmen who entered Beijing to run for the election, seeing that Xue Pan was acting so arrogantly, he was afraid of what kind of background he had, so no one dared to persuade him.

Liu Xianglian squeezed in the crowd, recognized Xue Pan, watched his entourage beat people and vomited blood, and refused to give up, and couldn't help but remind loudly: "Stop, beat people like this, you should be angry, and if you continue to fight, if you kill someone, you can't afford it!" ”

"Which rabbit cub put it!" Xue Panxun scolded angrily.

When Liu Xianglian heard this, her blood suddenly surged, anger appeared on her face, and she stared at Xue Pan angrily.

"It's you..." Xue Pan was scolding, and suddenly saw Liu Xianglian looking very handsome, and saw her angry eyebrows upside down, her face was slightly red, and she was instantly attracted by it.

Immediately let go of Yun'er, revealing a pair of colored eyes, approached Liu Xianglian with bad intentions, and said with a smile: "As long as you are willing to have a drink with the uncle, the uncle will let him go today?" ”

When Liu Xianglian saw Xue Pan's gaze, she was already furious, and when she heard Xue Pan do this, she suddenly felt insulted, and when Xue Pan got closer, she smashed a fist into his eye socket.

Several of Xue Pan's servants heard Xue Pan's wail, looked up and saw that the uncle had been beaten, and hurriedly ran over to help.

After Liu Xianglian punched Xue Pan a few times, when she saw her helper coming, she let go of Xue Pan and fought with Xue Pan.

The scene was suddenly a little chaotic, and everyone flashed one after another, leaving room for several people to fight.

Liu Xianglian took a few kicks, knowing that her fists were invincible to her four hands, and she slowly walked beside Xue Pan, holding Xue Pan hostage, and Feng Ziying rushed over at this moment.

"Stop, it's all your own people!" Feng Ziying hurriedly shouted.

After he arrived, he didn't see Xue Pan and a few people, thinking that a few people hadn't arrived yet, so he sat down and waited, only to hear Xue Pan's howl, and hurriedly came to check.

Liu Xianglian saw that the situation was embarrassing and didn't want to stay any longer, so when everyone stopped, she made a look with Feng Ziying, and quickly walked through the crowd and left.

After Feng Ziying saw Liu Xianglian go downstairs, she checked Xue Pan's injuries, and saw that Xue Pan's two eyes were beaten red, so she hurriedly took Xue Pan to a nearby medical center to take medicine.

When he walked to the door, he looked at the man in blue shirt lying on the ground, and saw that it was covered in blood, so he asked his entourage to carry him up and go to the hospital for treatment.

There was a merchant from Jinling in the crowd, who recognized Xue Pan, so he went out of Jinxiang Courtyard, and after returning to his residence, he made an appointment with a few people, planning to make a fuss about Xue Pan.

Xue Pan's face was broken, and after taking the medicine, he was ashamed to see people, so he asked Feng Ziying to pick up Wei Ruolan and a few people, and he went home first, but he was locked by the officials who rushed out halfway, and Xue Pan and several of his servants were escorted back to Shunfu.

It turned out that the blue-shirted Rao entourage saw that his master was beaten, and when he was carried out, he was covered in blood, thinking that his master had been beaten to death, so he hurriedly ran to Shunfu to report the case.

Shunfu Yin heard about the life, and hurriedly ordered the officials to arrest the person.

After a while, Lu Jing learned about the incident, and then immediately sent sprinkle to investigate the whole story, and found that it was just a coincidence at the beginning, the person who was beaten by Xue Pan was now seriously injured and lying on it unable to move, but entrusted his family to sue Xue Pan to the court, and his attitude was tough, he did not accept compensation, and only asked to punish Xue Pan.

But now there are multiple forces working behind the scenes, wanting Xue Pan to stay in prison in order to attack the Xue family and reduce a potential competitor.

After learning about it, Lu Jing was thinking of taking this opportunity to poke out the matter of Xue Pan and Jia Yucun, and completely remove the restless time bomb of Jia Yucun.

Before he could act, he received an invitation from the king of Zhongshun and invited him to Xiyuan for a while.

Lu Jing had some doubts in his heart, could it be that King Zhongshun wanted to reduce the dimension and attack Xue Pan in order to cut off the wings of the Jia family, and guessed the reason for King Zhongshun's summons all the way, and quickly rushed to Xiyuan.

After Lu Jing saw the ceremony, King Zhongshun went straight to the point and said: "This king has already ordered to go down, no matter who asks for it this time, it is useless, only if you come forward, Shunfu will release Xue Pan!" ”

"Does the prince want the lower officials to come forward to save Xue Pan?" Lu Jing was a little surprised, and his heart was even more suspicious, and he didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of King Zhongshun.

It stands to reason that the Jia family owes the Xue family a lot of silver, and if they can use Xue Pan to split the relationship between the two families, it will undoubtedly cause conflicts between the Jia and Xue families, and the Xue family's financial support for the Jia family will be cut off at the worst.

"Yes, this Xue Pan is still somewhat useful, and there can't be an accident for the time being, this king thinks that you have some contact with the Xue family, so he will send you a person, those who want to engage in Xue Pan, this king has sent someone to warn them!" King Zhongshun said with a smile, "In addition, in this imperial merchant selection, you must ensure that the Xue family is among them!" ”

"Can the lower officials know the reason?" Lu Jing asked, he was about to take this opportunity to remove the Xue family's share of the emperor, but he didn't expect King Zhongshun to make this request, I'm afraid this is the real reason why King Zhongshun is looking for him.

"Do you know Jia Hua?" King Chungshun asked.

Lu Jing nodded, and seemed to understand the reason why King Zhongshun wanted to protect Xue Pan, and it was estimated that he wanted to use Xue Pan to deal with Jia Yucun.

Jia Yucun is now being praised by Wang Ziteng, and has been promoted to the right attendant of the military department, if he waits for Wang Ziteng to spend resources to push Jia Yucun to a high position, he will use Xue Pan to block Jia Yucun, he will inevitably give Jia Yucun a fatal blow, or use this as a handle to blackmail Jia Yucun to defect.

No matter what the result is, it can cause heavy losses to the Jia family and the Wang family, and their vitality will be greatly damaged.

"This king found out that this Xue Pan was already a dead man in the Jinling household registration, and the person who decided the case at that time was Jia Hua, and the best thing is that this Jia Hua relied on the Jia family to recover!" King Zhongshun laughed.

Lu Jing heard this and completely confirmed the guess in his heart, so he said: "Xia Guan heard that Jia Hua and the Jia family were connected, and they are both peers and relatives with Xue Pan!" ”

King Zhongshun smiled and said: "Yes, your wife is the niece of the Jia family, do you know that the Xue family wants to marry their daughter to Concubine Xiande's younger brother?" ”

"I've heard of it!" Lu Jing nodded, and there was a hunch in his heart that King Zhongshun seemed to have a deeper plan.

"Since the Xue family is bent on marrying the Jia family, then the king will fulfill them!" King Zhongshun laughed.

When Lu Jing heard this, he suddenly understood in his heart that Jia Yuan, who was really going to be dealt with by King Zhongshun, once Xue Pan's matter was exposed, the Xue family lost his morality, if Xue Baochai married Jia Baoyu, it would inevitably affect Jia Yuan's reputation, and the emperor would have more room to do.

At the same time, he also understood the meaning of King Zhongshun, and kept the share of the Xue family's imperial merchants, that is, he didn't want the Xue family to be rejected by the Jia family because of the big gap in the shares, and wanted to come to the King of Zhongshun and have a successor.

Lu Jing nodded and said, "The lower officials do their best, I wonder if the prince has any other orders?" ”

King Zhongshun shook his head, and then said, "This king believes that you will handle it properly!" ”

Since Xue Pan was arrested, the Xue family didn't take it to heart at first, Aunt Xue asked the Jia family to go to Shunfu to save Xue Pan, and sent someone to arrest Liu Xianglian.

It's just that the Jia family has come forward many times to no avail, and even Jia Zheng personally went to see Yin Wu Bingxuan of Shunfu, but it still failed to work.

At this time, the Xue family was suddenly anxious and went to ask the Wang family again, but Wang Ziteng was not in Beijing, and the housekeeper of the Wang family took Wang Ziteng's name to beg, and was also prevaricated back by Wu Bingxuan.

Wu Bingxuan was also very helpless in his heart, as soon as King Zhongshun sent someone over, he knew that he was involved in the game between King Zhongshun and Xungui again, but fortunately, King Zhongshun did not die of words.

Therefore, while prevaricating the people invited by the Jia family and the Wang family, he hoped that Lu Jing would come over quickly and take away Xue Pan, a hot potato.

After the Xue family made a lot of silver to no avail, they were completely panicked, and now the selection of the imperial merchant is imminent, but the principal of the Xue family is locked up in prison, if the share of the imperial merchant is lost, the Xue family will completely decline, so it is more and more anxious, and constantly spends money to find someone to beg.

Wu Bingxuan couldn't wait for Lu Jing, and he was annoyed by the Xue family and had no choice, so he had to secretly remind the Xue family that Lu Jing was now in the ascendancy of the saint, and it might be useful to find him.

After Aunt Xue learned about this, she didn't believe that the Jia family and the Wang family couldn't do it at all, and it would be useful to find a six-rank official with Lu Jing, and felt that Shunfu Yin was perfunctory.

Xue Baochai combined with the current situation, thought about it for a long time, and speculated that someone was targeting the Xue family, wanting to use this matter to make the Xue family lose the name of the imperial businessman, and now Lu Jing is in charge of the selection of the imperial businessman, and he should be able to rescue his brother.

After figuring out this, Xue Baochai struggled for a long time, and for the sake of his brother and family, he had to come to the Lu family and ask to see Daiyu.