Shen Mingwen's body rolled dozens of times, hitting the bend of the stairs a few times in succession, changing directions and continuing to roll, and finally fell heavily on the ground on the first floor, where the person lay motionless. Because he had been beaten before, and his head and face were covered with blood, I don't know if he fainted or died.

When Shen Mingwen shouted, the guests who came out to see the excitement were a little surprised, because they didn't know the truth, and when Shen Mingwen rolled down the stairs, there was an uproar in Huaiyang Building.

Su Tong squeezed forward from the crowd, looked at Shen Mingwen who fell downstairs, and was immediately furious: "Your Huaiyang Building is just a place for people's pastime, you actually dare to hurt people's lives, do you really even ignore the king's law?" ”

With a sneer on her face, Xi Niang waved her hand and slapped Su Tong's face, and with a "snap", a red handprint clearly appeared on Su Tong's left cheek.

Su Tong was stunned, since he patronized the Fengyue place, even if the old bustard in the official office was polite to him and greeted him, he had never seen such an arrogant and murderous old bustard.

An old bustard in a lowly place of wind and moon, how dare he hit a guest!?

Xi Niang crossed Xiao Man's waist and said sharply: "If you have the ability, you can go to the government and see if the government accepts it!" Hurry up and carry your people out, people died in my Huaiyang Building, and I still feel dirty in my place...... What do you see, it's none of your business, go back to the feast! ”

The old bustard turned to the guests and shouted, and many people came into contact with her gaze, so they lowered their heads and obediently went back to their rooms. This scene was not expected by Shen Xi, he thought that he was a foreigner, so he was despised and insulted by Xi Niang, but now it doesn't seem to be the case, even the local guests in Fuzhou didn't get Xi Niang's good face.

Shen Xi didn't think much about it, and hurriedly went downstairs with Su Tong and the others to check on Shen Mingwen's condition, and only after making sure that Shen Mingwen still had a breath did he relax a little.

Everyone lifted people up, but they were blocked by the people of Huaiyang Tower, asking them to leave through the back door. Before leaving, you have to settle the account, and the expenses and compensation are all a lot.

As a result, the person was beaten in vain, and not a penny was spared, and Su Tong also paid blood compensation.

Shen Xi finally understood why Xi Niang didn't accept compensation just now. If you can beat someone and still get compensation, why put up with that?

When Shen Mingwen was sent to the doctor, the doctor had seen the injury, Su Tong and Shen Xi went out, and his hand touched the cheek part that had been beaten just now.

Shen Xi sighed: "This was originally our fault. Reason first, but they didn't expect the people in Huaiyang Building to be so domineering, aren't they afraid that the guests will no longer patronize and go to other homes? ”

Su Tong said with palpitations: "She's really not afraid." Brother Shen, you don't know, I heard that this Xi Niang is the righteous daughter of Fang Guan, the commander of the Fujian Dusidu, she relied on her father-in-law's support, and the girls in the city who were slightly beautiful in the green buildings were bought by her, and even the women in the official office could not welcome guests normally, but had to go to her Huaiyang Building to laugh with others. ”

Shen Xi didn't expect that "godfather" and "godgirl" would also be popular this year. To say that this bride is nearly forty years old, her appearance is average, but there is a charm in her bones, and she should be able to please the old man. Besides, even if she can't be a solid pet, she is a mother Sang, and she has a group of girls under her hands, and she has everything stunning, and she can please her godfather.

"She has a government background and has a group of thugs in the local area. There are a lot of things to do on weekdays to bully and dominate the market, and even more than half of the shops in Fuzhou City have to pay her filial piety every year. In addition to Huaiyang Tower, she also opened more than a dozen gambling houses, prostitutions and liquor stores in the city. Do you think this kind of person can afford to be provoked? ”

When Shen Xi heard this, he gasped, where is this a dusty woman who runs the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion, she is simply a local tyrant, the eldest sister on the road.

Shen Xi understood that it was really difficult for Su Tong this time. Knowing that Xi Niang was not easy to mess with, he took the initiative to stand up for Shen Mingwen just now, but he was beaten in vain.

A scholar was slapped by an old bustard in public, what a shame it is! But Su Tong stubbornly took the responsibility down.

Shen Xi was very guilty: "It's all my fault, if I don't bring my uncle out, there won't be so much trouble." ”

Su Tong smiled and comforted: "How can you blame Brother Shen? Or Uncle Shen...... It's just a few more drinks, if it's in the Qinglou of our Tingzhou Mansion, let alone go up and drink a few glasses of wine, even if you carry it into the room? But in this Fuzhou City, it is different, the girl in this green building is not easy to mess with than the official office. ”

Shen Xi felt a little ashamed of Su Tong, and there was no way to compensate for it for a while, as for the medical expenses, he would naturally bear it, but Shen Xi could not compensate for Su Tong's mental loss.

Looking for someone to carry Shen Mingwen back to the inn, the inn's shopkeeper Yin and a few guys were surprised why Shen Mingwen was so seriously injured, and they asked one after another.

Shen Xi is inconvenient to say, but said that he accidentally fell down from the upstairs during the banquet in Huaiyang Building, and the shopkeeper Yin heard that it was related to Huaiyang Building, and his face was a little jealous: "Little shopkeeper, can you not go to this Huaiyang Building, try not to go, our Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce has a bad relationship with them, and it is easy to cause trouble." ”

Shen Xi asked suspiciously: "What's the matter, can Shopkeeper Yin explain a little bit?" ”

Shopkeeper Yin is a warm-hearted person, and he explained the situation to Shen Xi roughly.

The Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce stationed in the provincial capital of Fuzhou was contacted by the former prefect An Rusheng and the political envoy Si Yamen, while the big proprietor of Huaiyang Lou was blessed by Fang Guan, the commander of the Fujian Metropolitan Envoy, and there was a conflict of interest between the two sides, and there had been a small-scale conflict of conflict before.

The Command Envoy Division, the Political Envoy Division, and the Judicial Envoy Division are called the Three Divisions, which are in charge of the military, administration, and criminal prisons of a province, and the three parties are not under the control of each other.

In Fujian, the military has far greater power than elsewhere due to the surging rebellion of the Japanese and ethnic minorities, and the military command structure is more complicated.

Fujian set up a capital command department in Fuzhou, the provincial capital, to govern coastal coastal defense, and set up a capital department in Jianning Prefecture to administer a generation of prefectures and counties in western Fujian, mainly responsible for suppressing the resistance of local ethnic minorities.

The Fujian Metropolitan Command Department and the Xingdu Division are both subordinate to the former Military Governor's Office, and the heads of these two institutions are both commanding envoys and Xingdu Commanders.

With the support of the officials of the second grade, the bride naturally has no fear.

Only then did Shen Xi understand why Xi Niang was not so angry when she entered the door, but why she was angry when she heard that Shen Mingwen and Su Tong and others were all accents of western Fujian.

Or it was precisely because the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce entered the provincial capital and infringed on her interests that she was even more annoyed with the people of western Fujian.

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The next day, Shen Mingwen stayed in the room to recuperate. Shen Xi was afraid that Shen Mingtang would find someone to inform the old lady of Ninghua of the news after knowing the matter, so he didn't tell Shen Mingtang about the matter. However, he still found Ma Jiu and asked about the grievances between the gang in the hands of Xi Niang and the Chamber of Commerce.

Ma Jiu sighed: "Little shopkeeper, it's not that I don't want to say it. It's really ...... It's useless to say it. ”

Shen Xi said: "If I know, at least I know how to deal with it, and I can help you think of a way." ”

Ma Jiu scratched his head: "Actually, the little one hasn't been in the provincial capital for a long time, but I just heard from the Long family and the brothers that our Chamber of Commerce just entered the provincial capital." The momentum of development is not bad, not only the shops from our Tingzhou have joined, but even the local shops in the provincial capital have also joined in, because they want to rely on the protection of our chamber of commerce, pay less taxes and pay filial piety to Huaiyang Building. ”

"The result...... It didn't take long for the headquarters of the Fuzhou branch of our chamber of commerce to be burned to the ground, and it is said that several brothers died at that time, and a large number of goods were lost. Since then, the goods of the Chamber of Commerce have often been looted in transit, and even sent to the warehouse for storage for a day or two. Although there is no evidence to prove that the people of Huaiyang Tower did it, no one else in the provincial capital has this ability except for them. ”

Shen Xi knows very well that there are hidden underground forces in various places, and in Fuzhou, one of the top cities in Fujian and Guangdong, these underground forces are even more complicated.

Think about it, the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce still has to pass the two levels of "Waterway Gang" and "Dry Road Gang" on the ground in Tingzhou, and in the end, it is only by rushing and the government that the power of the Chamber of Commerce finally gains a firm foothold.

Now that the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce is in the provincial capital, it belongs to the river dragon, and it is indeed very difficult to occupy a place.

Shen Xi asked again: "In this way, our chamber of commerce is often harassed by people now?" ”

Ma Jiu nodded with a bitter face: "I heard that one of our ships was hijacked in the middle of last month. A batch of tea leaves placed in the warehouse of the seongnam wharf was stolen this month. These things emerge in an endless stream, making people panic, and many shops are planning to withdraw from the chamber of commerce, after all, they always lose goods. Even if the purchase price is cheaper, it will not make up for the huge loss. ”

Shen Xi didn't ask any more.

If he entered Fuzhou this time for the development of the Chamber of Commerce, then it is not impossible for the Chamber of Commerce to make suggestions and compete with local forces. But the main purpose of his visit this time was to take the township examination, and if he delayed his studies, it would inevitably be worth the loss.

But if you just sit idly by, the Fuzhou branch of the Chamber of Commerce will end sooner or later. Thanks to Hui Niang, she kept throwing money over, and the money would only be wasted in the end, resulting in a huge deficit that endangered the Chamber of Commerce and the Silver Horn itself.

Shen Xi returned to the room, pondering how to compete with these local forces led by Xi Niang.

He had asked Ma Jiu about the specific situation of the Chamber of Commerce before, and Ma Jiu, as Song Xiaocheng's right and left hand, as soon as he came over, he straightened out the brothers at the entrance of the Chamber of Commerce, and counted the manpower, but it was only seventy or eighty people. And the people of the bride are said to have thousands of people, and they also have the support of the military, so it is even more difficult to deal with.

On June 15, half a month after the incident, Shen Mingwen's injury was healed, and he finally had to be honest for a few days, but at this time, he was a little nervous, and he always asked Shen Xi why Su Tong couldn't come to visit.

Shen Xi thought to himself: "You don't want to live yourself, and don't pull others on your back!" ”

In the afternoon of the same day, Shen Xi received a letter, to be precise, an invitation, inviting him to the teahouse next door to the inn. The person who came to deliver the letter, Shen Xi recognized, it was the stunning girl who played the flute in Huaiyang Tower that day, but this girl who Shen Xi secretly gave her a score of ninety-five, changed into a small dress at this time, and looked handsome and lovely.

The girl's eyes were shining, looking at Shen Xi, with a little curiosity in her expression, as if she thought it was funny for a young man to pretend to be very old.

"How did you find this girl?" Shen Xi asked in surprise. He didn't know this beautiful girl, but he glanced at it in Huaiyang Tower, and the two didn't even say anything at that time, but the other party came over accurately, as if he knew him well.

The girl's voice was delicate and pleasant, and it was straightforward: "My aunt asked me to find Shen Gongzi." ”

"Xi Niang?" Shen Xi asked.

The girl hurriedly shook her head: "It's the aunt of the official office." My aunt said that a friend from Tingzhou Mansion wrote to her and asked Shen Gongzi for help. ”

The aunt of the official office? So it's the old bustard of the Provincial City Teaching Division! She also has a friend from Tingzhou Mansion, so needless to say, she is naturally a "peer sister" Yu Niang.

Originally, the Fuzhou official office should be the most popular Fengyue place in the provincial capital, but because of the strong rise of Xi Niang's power, the good girls of the official office had to go to the private Qin Lou Chu Pavilion to depreciate their value, and most of the money earned went to others.

Yu Niang received a lot of help from Shen Xi, and the relationship between the two sides was good.

Shen Xi thought to himself: "Isn't it that Yu Niang thinks that this good sister in Fuzhou has been bullied and wants to ask me to help?" ”

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