Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Difference Between Chen and Guan
The cold wind swept across the earth, like a whining horn, which made people feel chills in their bones when they heard it. The jackdaw croaked across the sky and threw it to the east. As the junction of mountains and plains, Lushan County never breaks the wind in winter. As long as you live here, you are used to the cold winter wind. Therefore, after the marriage between the Chen family and the Li family entered November, it was in full swing.
At the same time, the king of the Ruzhou battalion guerrilla and took money to do things, without any ambiguity. In late October, he came to Daying Town, the closest to Qingtiaoling, in Baofeng County with two or three hundred green camps.
Because of the external support, the Chen family's abundant silver, this army that makes the entire Baofeng like a great enemy of our Qing Dynasty army, and there is no bad record of disturbing the people and looting. On the contrary, because the food and drink of two or three hundred people were all purchased from Daying Town, it also caused a burst of unexpected prosperity in the market of Daying Town, which was depressed in winter.
Chen Hui used 1,000 taels of silver to let Wang Guerrilla lead the team to sit in Daying Town until the eve of the New Year's Festival. During the period, all the food and drink expenses of the team were all taken care of by the Chen family. It doesn't matter how the 1,000 taels of silver Ruzhou Battalion divides the Chen family, as long as they see the effect, the Ruzhou Battalion will completely block the economic and trade exchanges between Daying Town and Qingtiaoling, and there will be a generous reward of 1,000 taels of silver afterwards. Coupled with the Chen family's efforts in Baofeng County and Ruzhou Yamen, as well as the food and drink expenses of these two or three hundred people for two months, the total investment in Qingtiaoling alone was no less than 5,000 taels of silver.
Of course, the dots in Ruzhou Yamen and Baofeng County will definitely have an effect on the Chen family's deal with the Guan family. Even if the Chen family will say one yard to one yard when they are dotting.
The Chen family's fight with Qingtiaoling and the Guan family was completely to hurt people with their own and smash people with silver. As long as the Guan family doesn't spit out the truth and doesn't explain why they want to peep into the bone china formula, the Guan family is the Chen family's biggest enemy.
Inspired by the unsuccessful kidnapping, when the Chen family was out again, ensuring their safety became a major concern for them. Because of the iron business, too many Chen family members know the changes in Xiaonangou, although they still don't know the whole truth, but it is also a huge disaster if it leaks out. This is also a problem that Chen Ming did not consider at all, and the Chen family did not expect that the benefits of iron materials would be so huge. By the time the senior leaders of the Chen family realized this problem, the news had already spread within the Chen family. There are too many people who know.
Chen Hui accepted Chen Ming's advice and signed one share distribution agreement after another with each branch of the Chen family, and the main line represented by Chen Hui finally only won fifty percent of the iron interests, black paper and white words and white flowers, so as to envelop the entire Chen family. Therefore, in this battle between the Chen family and the Qingtiaoling and Guan families, the strength of the entire Chen family condensed behind Chen Hui is to do their best, and the activity fund of 10,000 taels, Chen Hui took out 6,000 taels with a clear sense of righteousness, and the remaining 4,000 taels of each branch and vein are also obliged to solve it one after another.
Four thousand taels of silver is not a small amount for them, and two or three months of iron money is only ten thousand taels of silver, and in order to establish a secret trading network in Xiangxian County, in order to pave the road secretly, I don't know how much ten thousand taels of silver were spent. The proportion of silver divided into each branch and vein is far less than four thousand taels. So much so that in order to make up the money they should have paid, many people pawned the real estate and acres, which caused an uproar in the entire Lushan County. In order to compete with the Guan family and Qingtiaoling, the Chen family invested so much money that everyone expected, and the strong cohesion of the Chen family's branch shocked the entire Lushan County. The branch branch can actually do this step, and the Chen family's high cohesion shocked the Quartet.
In the eyes of outsiders, if the Chen family's high cohesion were not for the benevolence and righteousness of the Chen family, Chen Hui's integrity and fairness - at least for the Chen family, it would never be like this. This incident seemed to have given Chen Hui a dazzling halo, and the barbaric Chen family also had a bit of righteousness, but the Chen family had changed a little, but the previous Chen family had not expected.
With the arrival of Chen Ming's wedding date, and with the arrival of the Chen family's silver, the Guan family became more and more anxious. Guan Lin has already mobilized all his energy, but unfortunately, Baofeng County and Lushan County are the same, and there has not been a person who has been named in the field in the past one or two decades. Guan Lin is a true person, but he is in Lanyang, which is thousands of miles away, and he has no influence on the local area of Baofeng County. He handed the post to the Baofeng County Ya, but how can a post compare to the Chen family's white money? Guan Lin's peers, classmates, and classmates in Baofeng County were mostly a few talented people who had no future, and several people in Baofeng County also handed over words to the county government in the face of Guan Lin's face, but that's all.
The Guan family has dominated the feng shui treasure of Zhuge Temple Town for decades, and I don't know how many people in Baofeng County are envious and jealous. And the Guan family has a precipice and self-esteem, thinking that they are official eunuchs and scholars, and when they deal with the powerful landlords and gentry in the same county, they also boast of their identities, and they have already formed a lot of enemies.
In the past, everyone looked at the Guan family for the sake of having an official skin, and stayed away. What now? The Chen family's white money is about to be suppressed by the Guan family, who will go to help a family who doesn't know how to make a profit??
The Chen family comes from a humble background, abides by the rules, and knows the way to give up. Therefore, the Chen family has no enemies in Lushan, and the vast majority of powerful landlords and gentry may not really support the Chen family, but the party forces in Lushan Township, represented by these people, will not easily stand opposite the Chen family, and until the defeat of the Chen family is decided, these people will not easily fall into the ground against the Chen family. But the Guan family is different, they themselves are unpopular, as long as there are twists and turns in the momentum, there will be no shortage of people who fall into the well.
The best way to destroy a family is to send them to prison, and the people of the three Zhuge Temple towns in the hands of the Chen family are indeed buried in the hands of the children of the Guan family, but under such overwhelming pressure, the Guan family is still hard to the stone of the pit.
"Humph!" In the main hall of the Guan family's mansion in Zhuge Temple Town, Guan Hezegao, the old man of the Guan family, sat on the head, Guan Lin's eldest brother Guan Song and Guan Chengze, the old man in the second room of the Guan family, sat on the left and right. Guan Heze, who is close to seventy years old, is old-fashioned but not young. For the Chen family, he is a staunch and unusual hawk.
His own son is a jinshi, his son is a lifter, and among his grandsons, there is also a talented Guan Heze, who looks down on the Chen family, who started as a servant. A little warden, a little Chen family, relying on money, dare to bully the Guan family to this situation, if the Guan family is still soft and admit to planting, then how can he Guan Heze have the face to go underground to see the ancestors of the Guan family after a hundred years.
Guan Chengze is the representative of the Guan family, and he doesn't want to fight with the Chen family. Because Guan Heze did everything without him, Guan Chengze didn't know much more about the inside story of the matter than the Chen family.
He also has a grandson who was admitted to Xiucai, and he also has two sons who have also been admitted to Xiucai, so this is the fundamental reason why Guan Chengze is not partial but the second room of the Guan family. But the second room of the Guan family has a thin background, he is a concubine, and when he separates the family, he does not get much, and his children and grandchildren are also good at reading but not good at management, and the second room of the Guan family has to rely on the big house to make a living. But that doesn't mean Kwan can't make his voice heard.