Zhang Wanli, Cheng Yuan, and Wu Xiaoling used all their strengths to negotiate with the staff of the Zhizhou prefect, representatives of large gentry households, representatives of large merchants in Mingyueji, and Wang San.

The owner set a date, set off on the eighteenth day of the first month, and went straight to Jiangnan. Before leaving, the negotiations must come up with a basic charter.

Negotiations are not new in the Great Week. Mingyuezhuang, and even Mingyueji, which is deeply influenced by Mingyuezhuang, has only made a lot of improvements in the process and details.

According to the instructions of the owner, Zhang Wanli and others made many concessions "as a last resort" in the process of deliberation. For example, Mingyuezhuang is not allowed to interfere with the management of Mingyueji, and the Zhuang of Mingyuezhuang can only stay in his own workshop on the edge of the Han River...... The most important thing is, of course, the sharing of technology and the help of Mingyuezhuang to rebuild the workshop.

"Lest there be any misunderstanding." This is the statement of Party B's representative, and it contains a lot of meaning.

After all, the overall atmosphere of the Great Zhou is "ashamed of words". Although a group of middle-aged and elderly people frequently scolded their mothers in their hearts, they didn't have a few times when they blew their beards and stared at them on the surface. During the negotiation, they also toasted tea with each other, talking about "cooperation", "neighborly harmony", "building a harmonious Han River" and so on, and the negotiation site was more like a symposium.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, at noon, there was an intermission.

Zhang Wanli, Cheng Yuan and Wu Xiaoling sat in the conservatory of the owner of the council hall, feeling the temperature of the charcoal stove, drinking honey tea, and resting comfortably.

Originally, he looked down on the officials, but Zhang Wanli also admired the officials in the negotiation process for more than half a month. After all, both of them are the losers of the imperial examination, and they are the elders of the losers, and they are both mixed with practical skills......

On the eve of the new year, the two families began to move around.

Zhang Wanli said politely, took the dim sum handed by a strong woman, and ate a small piece of honey tea, "Hundreds of families in the village do filial piety, so they can't get through the New Year's Eve, so they can only have a good time during the Dragon Boat Festival." ”

Wu Xiaoling covered her face with her sleeves and used a piece of crispy rice cake, "I have to have a good time and go to get rid of bad luck." The elder battalion, the guards, and the personal guards of the Zhuang owner combined with 12 casualties, 24 Zhuang people, and 71 mutinous Zhuang people. The south bank of the small river let the officers and soldiers burn for a while, and it would be good to clean up before and after Qingming. ”

The three were silent.

Although some people are self-inflicted, looking at the miserable and miserable appearance of the people who lived together in the past, the three of them are still uncomfortable.

Cheng Cheng was reminded by his nephew Cheng Jianghai, and today he was particularly energetic, and he opened the heavy topic and said: "Our owner is the real benevolent person." Wealthy families choose people from among the homeless, and most of them choose girls with good looks, but what about our owners? Priority was given to the selection of strong women with rough hands and black skin, and while giving these strong women work, they also handed over the surplus orphans and orphans to them to raise. ”

In this way, the strong woman has a job and a hope, and the orphan and orphan girl also has someone to rely on to raise. There is no greater good in the world than this. ”

The atmosphere is much more relaxed.

Wu Xiaoling nodded, "Our owner has always focused on letting more people live. Mengxue, the Medical and Health Department, and the Judgment Hall are all places that make people live more like people. There is always a Zhuang people in his heart, and the owner of the village is really a hero. ”

"Choke!" The clerk was so frightened that he touched the teacup, and Zhang Wanli was also touched.

"Ahem, the slave family lost his words, don't blame it." Wu Xiaoling looked to the side and lowered her head.

"Where, where." The clerk waved his hand in a panic.

"Drink tea, drink tea." Zhang Wanli raised the teacup.

The three of them continued to use tea with twinkling eyes, their hearts itching, trying to suppress dangerous thoughts.

Li Xiang asked the three to "passively make concessions" during the negotiation process. It means that concessions must be conceded, but they must make a helpless appearance.

The most important bargaining chip in the hands of the gentry and wealthy businessmen is, of course, the safety of Liu Chengdong in the south of the Yangtze River, and then the Hanjiang River waterway, Danjiangkou warehouse group, tax sampling, and workshop land controlled by the government but very important to Mingyuezhuang......

Li Xiang wished that the Hanjiang River was full of workshops, so that Mingyuezhuang could better hide its financial resources. Even if several officials didn't have many chips in their hands, Li Xiang would take the initiative to send them to them.

The reason is very simple: if Mingyue Village is in a hurry to help the government and big households, some people will definitely not be at ease.

Those people will think: nothing to do, but to be a traitor or a thief. You Mingyuezhuang actually took the initiative to cultivate competitors, and there must be a bigger plan and deeper intentions. Since you can throw out huge benefits at will, there must be great benefits that are greater than the sky.

The complexity of people's hearts is nothing more than the fact that while you push and drag, you must also take precautions at all levels.

End of break.

Zhang Wanli wiped the corners of his mouth and hands, got up and walked out of the warm house, greeted a new round of embarrassing chats, and thought: "The owner of the village is so proficient in the way of hidden self-preservation, which is the biggest reason why the old man defected!" ”

The clerk gargled exaggeratedly. Since it's a mouth cannon, it's not okay to have a bad voice.

The official said in his heart: "Who are those box soldiers, township soldiers, county lieutenants, and inspectors who were sent?!" If you want to make profits, but you don't dare to speak up in front of the representatives of the gentry, this is what the owner of the village said about being timid and obscene. Why didn't I find out when I was a Xu official before that the martial artists of the Great Zhou were so spineless? ”

Wu Xiaoling, as a representative of the workshop owner, was quickly promoted by the owner of the village after the New Year's Festival, insisted on walking last, and said in her heart: "The owner of the village is amazingly talented, and he wants to take the opportunity to help the government rebuild the Mingyue set and the workshop, completely jump out of the circle near Nanyang, and sell the goods to most of the week." ”

"The workshop in the village, in the future, will take more Qinling business routes and secret channels, and make a lot of money in a low-key manner......"

The dragon lurks in the wilderness, incarnating invisible.

In the antique room, sandalwood tables and chairs, rosewood ornaments, Junyao vases, lacquerware tea cups, and inkstone rice paper...... It seems that they are all dyed with a strong smell of medicine, exuding a stale atmosphere.

"Li Xiang, I'm going to fly." Compared with a hundred times more confident a month ago, Huang Liren's beard and hair are all white, and he looks decadent and old, "If Liu Chengdong returns safely, then the old man will have no way to take Mingyuezhuang in a short time." ”

Steward Huang, that is, Huang Chengen, bowed down and said, "Master, you can raise your mind with ease, it's not too late to take care of your body." No matter how powerful Li Xiang and Liu Chengdong are, they are just a strong martial artist, how powerful can they be? ”

Huang Liren didn't speak.

Cai Er Laizi also contributed a lot in dealing with Mingyuezhuang, and echoed: "There is no problem with the master's plan, it is all damn homeless people who stir up the situation, causing those big people to throw rat traps, and Li Xiang escaped the catastrophe." ”

Huang Liren ignored the pug, and lamented in his heart: How can it be so simple, even the old man can't tell where he lost.

Li Xiang was hit by three arrows, and hundreds of people around him saw it. Huang Liren was sure that Li Xiang was hit by an arrow, but Li Xiang was only slightly injured, and he started to serve within a day? There is poison on the arrows! The only explanation is that Li Xiang is too vigilant, and he has to hide heavy armor under his robe nearly 100 meters away, and at the same time wear a thick iron helmet......

Li Xiang did not have the slightest trust in a gentry like himself, and always showed the greatest vigilance. This is the first miscalculation that Huang Liren summarized.

The owner of the village was injured and unconscious, and most of the small people in Mingyue Village were subconsciously resisting. The official army is really a waste, and Liu Sheng rushed to the ground with nearly 100 people. In addition, the Zhuang people who were loyal to Li Xiang's family withdrew from the river in time, and the official army, the official mission, and the Liu family could not fish in troubled waters and break through the psychological defense line of those untouchables......

Li Xiangren's expectations are too high, and the separation of Zhuang people is timely and well-arranged. This is where the second miscalculation lies.

The two low-level martial artists of Xunyang and Shiyan, in order to protect themselves, actually came up with the idea of burning, killing and looting. They thought that after muddying the waters, they would unite with the court officials of Xunyang Shiyan to suppress the next move of the Huang Cheng family.

The chess pieces also have thoughts, and they will do anything in order to protect themselves. This is the third miscalculation.

Huang Liren carefully calculated and felt that even if there were these three miscalculations, Li Xiang would definitely die: even if Li Xiang endured and did not rebel, what was the use? The workshops on the banks of the Han River could not be preserved, the warehouses in various places could not be saved, the Zhuang people who were devoted to Li Xiang were torn apart, and the Qinling trade route and the secret trade route could not be saved.

If Li Xiang loses his foundation, the local gentry and foreign wealthy businessmen will rush up and completely share Mingyuezhuang. Today's Mingyue Village was brought out by Li Xiang, as long as Li Xiang is killed or restricted, the rest of the people are just fish and meat.

Huang Liren thought about it carefully and found that the starting point of failure was three people, more precisely, a woman.

The broker and the tooth shop pushed the green-skinned ruffians and Daomen gangs to harass the workshop in Mingyuezhuang on the edge of the Han River, which was a clever move that Huang Liren came up with. The light and dark forces that rely on the bright moon set for a living, even if they make some small moves, will never dare to rob and smash the workshops of the gentry. In fact, the scum just wanted a piece of the pie.

However, the woman named Wu Xiaoling actually resolutely resisted to the extreme the moment she saw the official army making a rebellion and Mingyuezhuang being on fire!

Without the slightest hesitation, Wu Xiaoling frantically burned the workshop, starting with the workshops of Huang Cheng and the two families.

The group of workshops on the edge of the Han River was completely chaotic, except for Wu Xiaoling's three people, other forces began to fish in troubled waters.

Everyone is not afraid: what if the gentry's workshop is burned, the night is so chaotic, which eye do you see Lao Tzu burning? No matter how powerful the gentry is, Mingyue gathers tens of thousands of people, and there is a kind of chicken and dog that will not stay......

Thinking of the widow named Wu Xiaoling, Huang Liren hated it so much that his liver hurt: It's all you, a slut!

The small people in the village saw that there was also a fire on the side of the Han River, and thought that the Huang Cheng family was going to kill them all, so they completely gave up the luck mentality. Liu Xia was unable to persuade the small people on the north bank of the Xiaohe River to surrender, and completely lost the opportunity to take the entire Mingyuezhuang and collect evidence of Li Xiang's crimes. The officers and officers were almost unable to cross the river and burn them, so they could only bully the Liu relatives who let them into the village.

The fire in Mingyuezhuang is getting bigger and bigger, and the Hanjiang workshop group is the same, as if it is competing.

The seven Liu families let the officials and soldiers into the village, but they were raped by their "allies" and suffered by themselves. In the eyes of outsiders, isn't what happened in Mingyue Village a riot? Who cares about something deeper? Who cares about the terrible control of Li Xiang? The facts are here, if it weren't for your dog-eat-dog, Li Xiang's house would be finished. Are you telling me now that Li Xiang is too terrible, has a different heart, and has an ulterior secret? Ha, you've seen too much of the strange story, dude?

There was chaos on the side of the Han River, and the dog-eat-dog of the official army and the seven Liu families was staged in the village. The local gentry and officials no longer considered getting too many things from Mingyuezhuang, and they despised Huang Liren's clumsy plan, the unscrupulous officials and soldiers, and the vagrants being too arrogant.

The most important thing is not to completely force Li Xiang to rebel!

Wu Xiaoling, that woman, is crazy, and she can lead people to completely mess up the situation, if the people who are all crazy about Li Xiang...... Thinking of the scene where Li Xiang concentrated all the forces in the Qinling Mountains and eroded the entire Nanyang Basin, the scalps of the gentry and local officials were numb!

Harmony makes money.

Now that Li Xiang has learned a lesson, let's open the net, after all, Liu Chengdong is still a Xiangjun.

Since Li Xiang is so tough, everyone recognizes him as Haoqiang, and it is the right thing to ask him to help rebuild the workshop.

Huang Cheng two? them!