Chen Mingming didn't think about it for long, and rushed to the Yangzhou Mansion in the afternoon to meet Lord Qincha, how dare he make Lord Qincha wait for a long time now?

As the head of the Chen family, Chen Zhizhi naturally will not sit still, he has already arranged for backup before he goes to the mansion, once he has an accident, the people of the Ningbo merchant gang in Yangzhou will run up and down for him, carrying out all kinds of dredging and dotting.

The Chen family has a pivotal position in the Ningbo Merchant Gang, and the Ningbo Merchant Gang will definitely do their best to save it, plus the Huzhou Merchant Gang, which belongs to the same Zhejiang Merchant Gang as the Ningbo Merchant Gang, and the Hui Merchant Gang who have close business contacts with the Ningbo Merchant Gang, and even the Jin Merchants who are not too much contact, will contribute to this.

The so-called dead lips and cold teeth, rabbits and foxes are sad, how can the businessmen of Yangzhou City sit idly by and ignore Chen Mingzhi who is in trouble, otherwise it is likely that it will be their turn next.

What's more, there is a friendship between the merchants, and those businessmen in public and private will come forward to save Chen Mingming, which will be a huge force, Li Hongyu even if he is a celebrity in front of Emperor Wanli, he has to be afraid of three points, after all, even Emperor Wanli sometimes has to compromise with his courtiers, otherwise he will not share the Liao salary evenly according to the number of acres of land in the country.

However, if it weren't for the desperate moment, Chen Mingming didn't want to do this, because in this way, Li Hongyu would be completely offended, and in the future, when the Customs Department set up a customs office in Ningbo, he didn't want to be targeted by Li Hongyu, in that case, the Chen family would be in danger.

Obviously, as an official of the imperial court, Li Hongyu can easily find trouble with Chen Mingming, and as long as he uses smuggling as an excuse, he has the right to punish him, which is not what Chen Mingming wants to see.

Although Chen Mingzhi was received by Lord Chincha, he did not meet Lord Chincha, and Lord Chincha sent the captain of the guard, Ma Xianglin, to meet him.

To tell the truth, since Lord Qincha came to Yangzhou City, except for the high-ranking officials and magnates of Yangzhou City who saw him once, Lord Qincha has not seen anyone, and has been touring the mountains and rivers, which seems to be a little unprofessional, so Chen Mingzhi still doesn't know what Lord Qincha looks like.

"Lord Ma, I came to ask Lord Qincha for guilt, and I had no way to teach my son to make the rebel son competitive for a while, and he was instigated by outsiders to send someone to set fire to the Jade Tower, and I hope that Lord Qincha will forgive his sins."

Chen Mingzhi knew that Lord Qincha did not come to see him because of his identity, but it was not bad to be able to see Lord Qincha's guard, this was Lord Qincha's confidant, so he bowed to Ma Xianglin and said solemnly.

Before coming, Chen Zhizhi weighed for a long time, pondering how to explain Chen Renhai's matter to Lord Qincha, and after some trade-offs, he decided to tell the truth as much as possible, after all, those Chen family's subordinates have been arrested by the new army, and Chen Renhai's main messenger can't be excused no matter what.

"Outside Chen Yuan, do you know why Lord Qincha has not moved the second son?" Ma Xianglin glanced at Chen Zhizhi when he heard this, and asked quietly.

It seems that Chen Mingzhi's reaction is really the same as Li Hongyu's prediction, this time he came to ask for guilt, and did not excuse Chen Renhai, so that he can save a lot of useless tongues.

"Please make it clear." Chen Zhizhi raised his head when he heard this, and said with a serious expression.

He was also very puzzled about this, and couldn't figure out what kind of medicine Li Hongyu was selling in his gourd, but one thing was certain, that is, Li Hongyu didn't seem to have any intention of being ruthless to the Chen family, otherwise Chen Renhai would have been arrested a long time ago.

"In recent years, your Chen family has donated a lot of silver, and you have also helped many people who are living in poverty, Lord Qincha feels that your Chen family has contributed to this matter, so you should be given a chance."

Ma Xianglin stared at Chen Mingzhi and said expressionlessly, "Lord Qincha said, the matter of the Jade Tower is very important, and the impact is bad, so it cannot be hastily dismissed, so those arsonists will be exiled to the frontier, and the loss of the Jade Tower will also be borne by your Chen family." ”

"It's nature, it's nature." Chen Zhizhi immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and hurriedly nodded, Li Hongyu did not kill those arsonists It was enough to give the Chen family face.

"In addition, Lord Qincha hopes that you can use 300,000 taels to bid for a place among overseas trade suppliers, which can be regarded as sharing worries for the country and being loyal to the king."

Ma Xianglin's conditions were not finished, and Yu Feng turned around and continued, "This is also a punishment for the second son, to make up for the negative impact of the fire in the Jade Building on the bidding conference for overseas trade suppliers. ”

"Rightfully deserved, rightfully deserved." Hearing this, Chen Zhizhi was like taking a reassuring pill, and now he could finally put down a hanging heart, and immediately nodded in agreement: Since Li Hongyu asked him to take 300,000 taels to buy a quota, it means that Chen Renhai's affairs can be turned over.

Although 300,000 taels is a lot of money, it is still a piece of cake for Chen Mingming, and taking 300,000 taels in exchange for Chen Renhai is naturally a good deal.

"Chen Yuanwai, Lord Qincha said, I hope you will behave yourself, he doesn't want this kind of thing to happen a second time!"

Ma Xianglin looked at Chen Mingming, and warned that Li Hongyu did this first, and if the Chen family dared to calculate the Customs Department in the future, then he could act calmly, and Chen Mingzhi would not be able to say anything at that time.

"Please tell your Lord, and you must remember the teachings of Lord-sama in the future." Chen Mingzhi heard the warning in Ma Xianglin's words, so his face turned pale and replied with a straight face.

Because the desired goal had been achieved, Ma Xianglin did not let Chen Mingzhi stay for a long time, and after a few words of greeting with him, he asked the soldiers to send them off.

Waiting out of the gate of the Yangzhou Mansion, Chen Mingzhi found that the clothes on his body had been wet with sweat, and he turned his head to look at the courtyard of the Mansion with palpitations, and was happy and surprised, happy that the Chen family had escaped a catastrophe, and surprised that Lord Qincha was even more difficult to deal with than he imagined, and I am afraid that there will be no good life in the future.

Although Chen Mingzhi had escaped the predicament in front of him, the officials of the Yangzhou Prefecture, who knew nothing about the inside story, did not know that the new army had caught the arsonist, so they found a few substitutes for the dead to pretend to be arsonists to report to the prefect.

However, before the Yangzhou prefect could tell the good news to Lord Qincha, Ma Xianglin had already asked the soldiers of the New Army to escort the Chen family's subordinates to him, telling him that these people were the perpetrators of the Jade Tower fire, and because they had a dispute with the Jade Tower, they held a grudge and set it on fire after getting drunk.

After learning that the few people who were escorted by the soldiers of the new army turned out to be the subordinates of the Chen family in Ningbo, the prefect of Yangzhou was taken aback, but he did not expect the new army to find the arsonist so quickly, and the few substitutes for the dead found by the government officials, it was obvious that he believed that these subordinates of the Chen family were arsonists.

Just when the prefect of Yangzhou thought that the Chen family would not give up and would definitely find a way to clear up the relationship, he learned something from Ma Xianglin that surprised him even more, that is, Chen Mingzhi not only expressed regret for what those subordinates had done, but also was willing to pay to compensate the owner of the Jade Building, which surprised him.

The prefect of Yangzhou knows very well that Chen Mingming is a good-looking person, and he will definitely not admit this crime for no reason, and there must be something unknown about it.

However, the Yangzhou prefect didn't want to know the inside story, since Ma Xianglin had already sent people over, then he would deal with those Chen family descendants according to Ma Xianglin's wishes, anyway, this was a matter for Lord Qincha, and there was no need for him to intervene too much.

Yangzhou is the richest place in the world, in addition to the two Huai Yandao Yamen, Yangzhou Mansion is the most oily and watery Yamen, and Li Hongyu is the Qincha who deals with the affairs of the Customs Department at any time, but at the same time, it is also the Hanlin of the Hanlin Academy with the power of impeachment, so the Yangzhou prefect is not willing to provoke Li Hongyu, and he is waiting for him with good food and drink.

Li Hongyu's stand-in traveled to Yangzhou after he came to Yangzhou, and he was not interested in the affairs of Yangzhou Mansion, which made the Yangzhou prefect secretly relieved.

In fact, Li Hongyu now has a lot of marks of the Chu Party, and the Yangzhou prefect is a member of the Zhejiang Party, as the two alliance factions in the court, Li Hongyu is impossible to find trouble in Yangzhou, in turn, the Yangzhou prefect naturally reciprocates Li Hongyu and his entourage.

Therefore, the Yangzhou government posted a notice in the city the next day, announcing to the outside world that the arsonist of the Jade Building had been caught and was ready to be tried in the court the next day, which caused a sensation in Yangzhou City.

On the day of the court trial, the Yangzhou Mansion was surrounded by the people who came to see the excitement, and the subordinates of the Chen family confessed their guilt in court and were sent to the frontier by the Yangzhou prefect.

At the same time, Chen Mingzhi also reached a compensation agreement with the owner of the Jade Building, and Chen Mingzhi funded the reconstruction of the Jade Building, so that the case of the fire in the Jade Building was closed.

Although the case is over, the impact of this case has spread rapidly in Yangzhou City, especially those businessmen from the north and south of Yangzhou City are shocked by this, no one would have thought that the case would be solved so quickly, and it also involved Chen Mingming, not only that, Chen Mingzhi also pleaded guilty and was punished, which is really shocking.

Obviously, if it weren't for being forced to be helpless, where would Chen Zhizhi afford to lose this face, and the rumor that Chen Renhai was the initiator quickly spread among the merchants, and no one believed that the subordinates of the Chen family dared to set fire to the Jade Tower, considering that Chen Renhai was in Yangzhou at that time, then the truth was naturally about to come out.

This made those merchants in Yangzhou City couldn't help but look at Li Hongyu with admiration, and clearly realized that this young Qincha Lord was not an idle person, so it invisibly raised everyone's expectations for the prospects of overseas trade.

The day after the trial of the Jade Building fire case was concluded, Li Hongyu had the soldiers of the New Army put up a notice on the street that a bidding meeting for overseas trade suppliers would be held in a teahouse in Yangzhou City on 15 June.

In order to avoid the recurrence of an accident like the Emerald Building, Yangzhou Mansion and Yangzhou Wei both sent people to look at the teahouse to ensure the smooth conduct of the bidding conference.

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