With the support of Xi and Shen, Fang Yuan's plan to build a military base took a big step from theory to practice.

Tedious work such as land selection, expropriation, planning, and purchase of materials is also being carried out in an orderly manner. According to the estimation of Fang Yuan and Xi Shen, it will take a year to build this military base, and it will take at least half a year before the climate can be seen.

In the following month, the Weng family, which had been abandoned by the Dongting Merchant Gang, was still dying.

The Weng family, who had lost more than 100,000 or 200,000 taels of silver in silk, had become a red-eyed gambler, hoping to recover their losses in the huge porcelain transaction with the Francois Chamber of Commerce.

The Weng family couldn't scrape together a huge amount of 800,000 taels of silver, so they began to borrow usury with a monthly interest rate of 20% in the underground black market bank in Suzhou Mansion to raise this much-needed fund.

After Fang Yuan learned the news that the Weng family was borrowing usury, he was overjoyed and immediately made a decision, since the Weng family was going to commit suicide, he would send the Weng family on the road with extra strength.

He contacted several loan sharks in the black market through Xu Hua, and half-threatened and half-lured these loan sharks to fully support the Weng family's loan, and Fang Yuan also paid out of his own pocket and lent the Weng family 200,000 taels of silver through Xu Hua's channels.

After the Weng family scraped together the silver they needed, they went to Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province to buy 800,000 taels of silver porcelain and shipped it back to Suzhou.

Everything was ready, Fang Yuan saw that the fish had been baited, so he sent instructions to Bruce of the Franc Chamber of Commerce to break the contract.

On the day of the delivery of the porcelain, Bruce carried the porcelain of 300,000 taels of silver sold by Fang Yuan in advance, boarded the ship and left Suzhou Mansion, only to order the deputy to receive the Weng family.

Bruce's lieutenant informed the Weng family that the Franc Chamber of Commerce's business in Luzon had gone awry, and that the cash flow was not working, and the porcelain sale had to be cancelled.

This time, the Weng family was really dumbfounded.

All the silver of the Weng family was invested in porcelain, and they also borrowed 600,000 taels of silver from usury, and the Francophone Chamber of Commerce canceled the transaction, which was a fatal blow to the Weng family.

Fang Yuan would not give the Weng family any respite at all, so Xu Hua and other merchants wantonly dumped cheap and high-quality porcelain in the market, cutting off the way for the Weng family to sell porcelain in the Jiangnan market to cash in silver.

The Weng family could not realize the porcelain smashed in their hands, and the usury silver could not be repaid when it expired, plus the agreed interest, fines, and liquidated damages, and in just one month, the interest had been lost 300,000 taels of silver.

Wave after wave of loan sharks forced debts, and the Weng family's big workshop could no longer support it, so it closed down completely. More than 20 children of the Weng family, including Weng Yang's three sons, were dragged to the gang by loan sharks to force debts, and after only three days, as many as seven or eight people were killed.

Weng Yang was forced to a dead end by the debt collection of loan sharks, and borrowed money from the Xi family and the Shen family, who were also Dongting merchants, to tide over the difficulties.

The Xi family, the Shen family and Fang Yuan have long had a tacit understanding, the Weng family is already an abandoned son of the Dongting Business Gang at this time, and the Xi and Shen families are no longer willing to deal with the Weng family, which is already a dog.

The Weng family went to the Suzhou government and asked the government to come forward to coordinate, so that the usury could be slightly reined in.

The government officials knew about the grievances between Fang Yuan and the Weng family, who would dare to come forward to intercede for the Weng family at this juncture? can only pretend to be stupid one by one, and let the loan shark violently force debts.

The Weng family is now embattled, calling every day unacceptable, calling the earth and the earth not spiritual, so they can only think of ways to save themselves, sell the porcelain smashed in their hands cheaply, and repay their debts with real estate in Suzhou Mansion and Songjiang Mansion.

The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, this batch of porcelain and real estate was already huge, coupled with the various price reductions of the acquisition merchants, the Weng family's porcelain worth 800,000 taels of silver, and the real estate worth 3 million taels of silver, only sold 600,000 taels of silver, barely paying off the loan from the usury in addition to Fang Yuan, and there was interest.

Fang Yuan lent 200,000 taels of silver, as well as the interest of 100,000 taels of silver, but he couldn't pay it back.

Fang Yuan secretly told Xu Hua that the Weng family could not pay the money, and they could use the land of Taihu Lake to pay off the debt.

After Xu Hua's repeated price reductions, he even released cruel words in the market, and no one could take over the land sold by the Weng family. In this way, the Weng family's land in Taihu Lake was worth at least one million taels, but it was only discounted by 200,000 taels and was purchased by Fang Yuan at a low price.

So far, the land, real estate, and silk workshops accumulated over hundreds of years in Suzhou Mansion have all been used to pay off debts.

There is still 100,000 taels of interest, but it can't be repaid, after a month of rolling interest, the interest of 100,000 taels of silver has become 150,000 taels, which completely pushed the Weng family into the abyss.

When Fang Yuan brought Xu Hua, an IOU of 150,000 taels of silver, led a thousand Xuanjia troops, and Hongyi cannons to Weng's Manor again to collect debts, Weng Yang realized that everything was a trap planned by Fang Yuan, but it was too late to regret it.

When Weng Yang saw the muzzle of the Hongyi cannon pressed by the Xuanjia Army, he knew that the Weng family had reached a dead end.

At the moment of death, Weng Yang finally burst out with the integrity of a century-old family, and no longer cowered in the manor waiting for the shelling of Hongyi's cannon, but personally went to Fang Yuan's military camp to negotiate.

Fang Yuan looked at Weng Yang obliquely at this time, who was already like a lost dog, and said with a smile, "Weng Lao, I did what I said, saying that if you want your family to be ruined, you will want your family to be ruined, and now you believe it?" ”

Weng Yang closed his eyes tightly and said, "Fang Yuan, the sin is only on me, not as much as my family. ”

Fang Yuan played with the 150,000 taels of silver IOU in his hand, this Weng Yang dared to come alone to intercede for his family, at least he was much more backbone than Qian Qianyi, the old miscellaneous who looked at his wife as a shield, "This is an IOU of 150,000 taels of silver, how does Weng Lao want to solve it?" ”

Weng Yang tightened his old face and said in a trembling voice, "Fang Yuan, this silver is really not repaid. I confess my sins, and I am willing to commit suicide to atone for your sins, hoping that your righteous heart will spare the innocent children of the Weng family. ”

Fang Yuan thought about it, he had been paying attention to the complaints about the Weng family in the mailbox, it seemed that except for one Weng Xiang, there were really no other Weng family children who had been complained, and slowly got up and said, "Spare them?" Wait for them to seek revenge on me again? ”

Weng Yang sighed and said, "Fang Yuan, I will set strict rules, officialdom and shopping malls are dangerous, from now on, the people of the Weng clan will only govern knowledge, collect classics and classics, and no longer engage in politics or business." ”

Fang Yuan groaned slightly, anyway, the Weng family was already bankrupt, and they couldn't afford to make any big waves, and indiscriminate killing would only bring Fang Yuan a reputation for murder, without any benefit.

What's more, the Weng family, the Xi family, and the Shen family are all Dongting merchant gangs, and they killed the Weng family too much, that is, they directly slapped the Xi family and the Shen family in the face.

The Xi family, the Shen family, and even the entire business community in Suzhou are as calm as water, without waves, but there are undercurrents. Everyone was watching Fang Yuan's every move in dealing with the Weng family, judging in their hearts whether Fang Yuan's conduct and style were benevolent or cruel.

A person who slaughters people at every turn will not be a military and political leader worthy of the support of both the political and business circles of Suzhou Prefecture.

"Be forgiving, forgiving!"

Fang Yuan muttered to himself, and then agreed to Weng Yang's plea, "Elder Weng, I only have two conditions, one is that you must commit suicide to correct the law of the country; Second, the children of the Weng family moved out of the Weng manor, and I want to requisition this manor. ”

The terrain of the Weng family manor is remote, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Fang Yuan requisitioned this manor to use it as a future military factory.

The Weng family is now a man-made knife and I am a fish and meat, where does Weng Yang still have the capital to bargain, so he can only agree to Fang Yuan's two conditions.

Fang Yuan said, "I will return the Weng family's 2,000 mu of cultivated land as compensation, and from now on, the Weng clan will live honestly!" ”

Weng Yang saw that he did not kill the Weng family at the last moment, and returned 2,000 acres of cultivated land, giving the Weng children a livelihood and a way to live.

He had deeply regretted that he shouldn't have been mixed with Qian Qianyi of the Donglin Party, and was pulled into the trap of confronting Fang Yuan, but at this time, it was too late to regret it.

In the early morning of the next day, the Weng family sent Weng Yang's body that had hanged himself.

After Fang Yuan verified the truth, he burned the IOU of 150,000 taels of silver, and then returned the land deed of 2,000 mu of cultivated land.

It wasn't until all the children, male servants and maids of the Weng family moved out of the Weng family's manor that Fang Yuan ordered Jing Jie to lead the Shenji camp and take over the manor.

Qian Qianyi of the Donglin Party and the Weng family of the Dongting Merchant Gang, two forces that respectively represented the gentry and wealthy merchants of Suzhou Mansion and took the lead against Fang Yuan, one fled to avoid disaster, and the other was forced to commit suicide, which completely shocked the gentry and wealthy merchants of the entire Suzhou Mansion, and no one dared to openly stand up against Fang Yuan.

The gentry and wealthy businessmen of Suzhou Mansion have been cleaned up one by one, and all the work in Suzhou Mansion has been put on the right track, and the construction of military bases has also begun.

The military base was built by 20,000 peasants who lost their land due to land requisition, fishermen, and hired workers who lost their jobs due to the bankruptcy of the Weng family.

The six million taels of silver in Fang Yuan's Yu Bao account alone cost two million taels to build a sergeant base, and once the training began, spending money was like flowing water, and other sources of silver had to be explored.

His goal was to raise the commercial tax of the Suzhou prefecture, as well as to start collecting the outstanding land tax from the next prefecture.

After Fang Yuan summoned Qin Zhan, Jing Jie and others to discuss, he drew a circle in Songjiang Mansion.

The next target is Matsue Prefecture!