When Cao Yi left, Uncle Ye went to see him back to the pavilion, and Gongzi asked, "Uncle Ye, what do you think about this?" ”

Uncle Ye sighed for a while and said: "Childe, this matter is difficult to say, from the perspective of the Xiliang Women's Country alone, the person behind it is not a simple character, not to mention that Liu Kou and other Jianghu people are protected like dogs, let's just say that the expenses of the Xiliang Women's Country, the house is connected by seven courtyards, and the price of a single house is nearly three thousand taels of silver, followed by its goods, the ready-to-wear clothes are all made of Suzhou embroidery, and the jewelry in the Treasure Pavilion is also the craftsmanship of the great craftsmen, so it takes seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver to raise, Moreover, this Xiliang women's country has not seen a single penny for a month, it is pure investment, and the person who can support such a large amount of expenses is also the home of a giant, but even a giant is impossible for Liu Kou and other Jianghu people to wait like a watchdog! ”

Speaking of this, Uncle Ye paused for a moment before he said: "According to Lao Yu's knowledge, the four halls occupied by the Cao Gang are all very close to Liu Kou and others, if there is nothing to say about anyone who can't see them, Lao Yu doesn't believe it!" ”

Gongzi nodded in agreement with what Uncle Ye said, and only after a long time did he speak: "According to Uncle Ye, this Gongzi Zheng's person is not only a giant queen, but also a big background!" ”

Uncle Ye stroked his beard and said, "At the very least, there must be a Beijing official above the third grade in the family to be able to control the horse hall!" ”

Gongzi was noncommittal about this, and after being silent for a moment, he suddenly asked: "Then according to Uncle Ye, should we intervene or let it go?" ”

Uncle Ye smiled lightly and said, "Childe, it's still important to get down to business!" ”

Childe frowned when he heard this, and then chuckled: "Serious business? I don't even know what the hell is going on! ”

Uncle Ye heard it, there was a clear bitterness in this smile, and he could only sigh helplessly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

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Others talked about Liu Zheng, and after Liu Zheng sent Ma Tang away, he was called by Jiang Mingda to talk about his heart, and his uncle and nephew were talking while drinking tea in the pavilion in the back garden of Liu's mansion.

"Liu Zheng, some things are not very easy to talk about as an uncle, these things should have been said by your mother and your father, but your mother went early, and your father is a fool, so your uncle has to come forward to say it!"

As soon as Jiang Mingda finished speaking, Liu Zheng knew what Jiang Mingda was going to say, and sighed helplessly in his heart, this kind of thing is urged by the elders to get married, it is good that it does not happen, and once it happens, it will be 7X24 hours of uninterrupted urging.

"Uncle, I'm not young, there are some things, I know what to do!" Liu Zheng resisted slightly.

Pity......

Jiang Mingda nodded and said: "You are indeed not small, you can't find a daughter-in-law, I won't dare to go to your mother's grave to see her in the Qingming Festival next year!" ”

"Uncle ......"

"Listen to me first!" Jiang Mingda waved his hand and said: "I know you like the little lady of the Li family, but you got it in the wrong direction in this matter, since you like her and want to marry her, you should tell your father and let your father propose, but this is not to blame you, blame your father for not teaching you, how can you be an uncle and watch your nephew suffer?" ”

"So, Liu Zheng, don't worry about this matter, my uncle has already asked someone to inquire clearly, the Li family's ancestral home is Suzhou, and the Li family in Qingzhou is just a branch of the Li family in Suzhou.

Hearing this, Liu Zheng looked at Jiang Mingda's eyes with a light of gratitude, but he was a little resistant in his heart, after all, he was not the real Liu Zheng, and his feelings were still influenced by himself in later generations.

However, in the face of the current situation, Liu Zheng really can't say anything, and he doesn't have any good countermeasures, after all, he is in the Ming Dynasty at this time, and marriage is the words of his parents.

Jiang Mingda is his uncle and his elder, as long as he goes to Suzhou to propose marriage and the other party agrees, then the marriage between him and Li Run'er will become an established fact.

Liu Zheng thought about it, and then he had a plan, that is, to drag Jiang Mingda and not let him leave, and the other is to be angry and try to capture the heart of the goddess.

The two chatted for a while, and then the topic turned to Ma Tang, to be honest, Jiang Mingda was also puzzled, why Ma Tang just swallowed his anger and left, instead of killing a horse gun and taking the opportunity to kill them.

"Why don't you say this horse hall will take this opportunity to completely exterminate us and others?"

Liu Zheng smiled lightly and said: "Uncle, don't look at Ma Tang's scourge to the people of Linqing, but Ma Tang is very timid, Brother Liu Kou told you, Ma Tang set up a card here to collect taxes, there are several rules, such as not collecting taxes for scholars, such as not collecting taxes for gentry and merchants, such as collecting taxes from Jujia's family, such as not collecting taxes from official eunuchs, only collecting taxes from the people and those small workshop owners!" ”

"Linqing is known as Xiaojiangnan, such a rich place, he scraped the ground three feet and even grabbed it with open fire, and only handed over 150,000 taels to the emperor in a year, and he only left more than 200,000 taels, precisely because of his timid and fearful nature!"

"Because he is timid, so he thinks a lot, thinks too much, and has concerns, for example, he is afraid that our people have entered the city and are hiding somewhere, and he is afraid that if he doesn't wait for him to destroy us, our people will already destroy him!"

"Another point is the promise I made to him, last year I only gave Chen Zeng 100,000 taels, but I told Ma Tang that I gave Chen Zeng 400,000 taels, and I said that I only wanted money, and at the same time I would give him a piece of silver that was not less than Chen Zeng, what other reason did he have to come back?"

Jiang Mingda nodded and said, "I said, it turns out that you have words hidden in your words, my uncle is really useless, I didn't hear it!" ”

Liu Zheng laughed and said: "Uncle, don't be arrogant, the reason why my uncle didn't hear it is because the time he came to his nephew's side is still short, and he still doesn't understand some things!" ”

Speaking of this, Liu Zheng said with a straight face: "Uncle, presumably from today onwards, Ma Tang will be honest, let's not care about Ma Tang first, think about how to deal with the Cao Gang first, we want to build Linqing into a business distribution center, there can be no unstable factors like the Cao Gang!" ”

Although he didn't understand Liu Zheng's words, Jiang Mingda could guess some of the general meaning, and thought about it: "The Cao Gang, which has existed since ancient times, is impossible to completely destroy it, besides, if we really want to wipe out the Cao Gang, who will work for us?" ”

Liu Zheng nodded and said: "Uncle is right, but my nephew I don't want to completely destroy the Cao Gang, but I want to hold the Cao Gang in my hands, not simple control, but complete control, I will never stay in the middle and upper classes, only a plate of loose sand Cao Gang is a good Cao Gang!" ”

Jiang Mingda wrinkled his brows and thought for a while and said: "You want me to secretly ......" Speaking of this, Jiang Mingda made a movement to wipe his neck, and then said after doing this action: "I'm afraid it's not easy to do, as far as I know, Cao Hai, the leader of the Cao Gang, is also a capable person, even if I can kill Cao Hai secretly, it is impossible to use this method to kill all the hall masters of the Cao Gang!" ”

Liu Zheng shook his head and said, "No, a simple assassination will not achieve the goal I want, and the assassination will only provoke them to resist even more!" ”

"If I want to achieve my goal, I need to completely subdue them and disperse them!" Speaking of this, Liu Zheng sighed and said, "With our strength in Linqing, it is very difficult to do this!" ”

Jiang Mingda thought for a while and said, "Then why don't you mobilize some people from Qingzhou?" ”

Liu Zheng shook his head and smiled: "Uncle, do you think I haven't thought about it?" But Linqing is the throat of the north-south traffic of the canal, and cutting off this place is equivalent to cutting off the connection between the imperial court and Jiangnan, and the rice and taxes in Jiangnan will not reach the imperial court, do you say that the emperor will be anxious? ”

Jiang Mingda said puzzledly: "Liu Zheng, I don't know why, why are you so afraid of the emperor's urgent eyes?" What if he was in a hurry? With our strength, how much did he come for nothing? ”

Liu Zheng smiled bitterly and said: "Uncle, I started to say before I came to Linqing, until now you haven't figured out the purpose of our Linqing, we come here, we don't do anything, just for silver, if you raise a knife soldier, the businessman is afraid to avoid it, who will come to do business?" If there are no people who do business, how can we make money? ”

Jiang Mingda was even more puzzled: "I said nephew, as far as I know, now you have five or six million taels of silver in your hand, so much silver is not enough for you?" ”

Liu Zheng felt that he couldn't communicate: "Uncle, do you think five or six million taels of silver is a lot?" Do you know how much silver the imperial court spent on soldiers during the Ningxia Bibai Rebellion? It cost two million taels of silver to send troops for only tens of thousands, and this is just a battle! The imperial court has spent nearly seven million taels of silver since the beginning of the war between Korea and the Wa Kingdom! Uncle, do you still think I have a lot of silver? ”

Jiang Mingda was secretly surprised, although he was a martial arts hero, and he also knew a lot about swordsmen, but this understanding was only on paper, and the so-called paper was shallow, not to mention that what he knew did not include the cost of grain and straw, and now he finally heard the real number, and he was surprised in his heart.

Seeing the look of surprise on Jiang Mingda's face, Liu Zheng continued: "So uncle, it's not that I'm afraid of the imperial court, but I don't want to use a knife with the court at this time, once the knife is moved, then all our efforts will be useless!" ”

Jiang Mingda wrinkled his brows and thought for a while: "Then since you can't fight well, why don't you convince them?" ”

Liu Zheng smiled bitterly again: "Uncle, what kind of people is the Cao Gang, the Cao Gang is counting on the people who eat in the canal, if there is no canal, they will be hungry, such a group of people, the people who are most afraid are not the Jianghu people, but the government, because the government controls whether they can eat enough!" ”

Jiang Mingda thumped his legs, sighed and said: "These don't work, that doesn't work, it's really troublesome!" ”

Liu Zheng spread his hands: "That's why your nephew and I are so worried!" ”