Seeing the urgency on Zhang Yuanzhi's face, Zhang Yuanxin smiled, and joked: "Second brother, you just said that Chengzong is coming, I see, if there is a father, there must be a son, and most of Chengzong's temperament is with you." ”

Zhang Yuanzhi looked at his son with some disappointment, and sighed: "Alas, the third child, are you willing to count him down all day?" You and my brothers are getting older, and the century-old foundation of the Zhang family will be handed over to them sooner or later. Our Zhang family is a withered generation, and only the evil obstacle of Chengzong remains in Yangzhou. You have also seen, what has he done in Yangzhou over the years? If you drill into the eyes of money, you know that the one-acre and three-point land guarding the Yanyun Yamen is unbearable! ”

When Zhang Chengzong heard that the old man was talking about himself again, he retorted: "Dad, don't think I'm cheesy, what's wrong with me getting into the eyes of money?" Yangzhou's salt tax of several million a year seems to be a lot, but when it comes to the east family, the west family divides a little, and the imperial court household department has to hand over so much, how much can our Zhang family have left? Without silver, hundreds of people up and down the Zhang family eat, drink, and spend? You don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are. If you want me to say, don't look down on me, although the ancestors, heirs, and industries are more talented than me, but I am also indispensable to the Zhang family. If it's gone......"

"What if you don't have it? Do you still dare to pout? See if Lao Tzu can't kill you......"

Zhang Yuanzhi listened to Zhang Chengzong's complacent appearance, he was really angry, and without saying a word, he rushed forward to give him an electric cannon.

But after all, he was hugged by Zhang Yuanxin.

Zhang Yuanxin stopped Zhang Yuanzhi's second godson, and directly scolded Zhang Chengzong: "Chengzong, how did you talk to your father?" What has no respect for the elder should really be beaten. Get out!! ”

Zhang Chengzong can't wait to put on his wings and fly out of this bad place now, if he has this spare time, it is better to go to Yuruxuan to find Yuru's little prodigal hooves to have a drink, and roll the sheets by the way.

Yuru is a popular fan in Yangzhou City in recent days, and Yuruxuan is the house where she receives benefactors and drinks and chats and sleeps on weekdays.

Yuruxuan is no better than the ordinary Qinlou Chu Pavilion, and those who are not noble and noble will not be accepted, and it is not a place where you can enter with one hundred and eighty taels of silver in your pocket.

Over the years, Yangzhou's red-card fans basically like to make a house by themselves, and in order to show their identity as Yangzhou's red-card fans, they have raised their worth. Second, people with status and family background in Yangzhou City now like this tune.

Although these red-card fans are a bit similar to the high-end first-floor Yifeng in later generations, they are the same as those women in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion, all of them belong to public cars, but everyone has vanity, especially those with money and status, and even flock to them.

To put it bluntly, the root is still the relationship between prostitutes and their clients. It's just that in order to cater to the vanity of the rich and powerful, I deliberately made some foreign mixed-race girls, green tea, to distinguish between three, six, nine and so on.

Thinking of Yuru's soul-seducing eyes and slender thighs, Zhang Chengzong's whole body suddenly became a little hot, and while Zhang Yuanxin let him out, he rushed out of the ancestral house without saying a word.

After sending Zhang Chengzong away, Zhang Yuanxin said to Zhang Yuanzhi: "Second brother, what Chengzong said just now is naturally not true. But his words are not unreasonable, and Guo Ye's arrogance must be suppressed and his prestige must be suppressed. Otherwise, he really thinks that our Yangzhou Zhang family is muddy. ”

Zhang Yuanzhi asked: "The third brother, among our three brothers, you are the most anxious, tell me, how to suppress the method?" ”

Zhang Yuanxin approached and asked, "Second brother, I want to ask you, how many rice shops, how many salt shops, and how many wine and restaurants does our Zhang family have in Yangzhou City?" ”

At this moment, Zhang Yuanzhi suddenly understood, and said in surprise: "Third child, you mean to ...... all the rice shops, salt shops, wine shops and restaurants of our Zhang family."

"That's right!"

Zhang Yuanxin didn't wait for Zhang Yuanzhi to finish speaking, a touch of fierceness appeared on his face, and he sneered: "Isn't his surname Guo the history of Yangzhou now?" Why don't we add to him and see how he solves this livelihood problem. It's good to let him know that it's not him who has the final say in Yangzhou City, hehe, how about it? ”

"But how much money do you have to lose? Third child, this, this is a ruthless move to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred? ”

"Second brother, I can't bear to let the child trap the wolf, listen to me!"

"Uh...... Okay," Zhang Yuanzhi nodded slightly, and suddenly gritted his teeth and added, "Third brother, it's better to make a big fuss than this." We can't let our Zhang family bear this kind of thing, do you think this is good? In the name of the Zhang family, let's send posts to the gentry in the city and invite them to come to Gujing Lane to discuss ......"

In the next few days in the city of Yangzhou, the wind and waves were calm.

Guo Ye's succession as the Assassin of Yangzhou seems to be smooth, not only the officials in the government are respectful to him, but even the people in the city know that there is a new young Assassin Shi.

On this day, Guo Ye, accompanied by Chen Jitao, the county minister, and surrounded by the six Cao Zuoguan, took stock of the grain depot, silver treasury and arsenal in the government office against the account books.

He didn't have any hope for the mess left by Tong Huan, but after the final inventory, he didn't expect it to be more scarred than he imagined, rotten to the roots.

In the silver treasury of a Yangzhou Thorn Mansion, there are only 3,000 taels of silver, and there is a lot of silver owed to the nine counties under its jurisdiction on the books, all of which were borrowed by Tong Huan when he was in office.

After returning to the study, Guo Ye slammed the account book on the table with a gloomy face, and scolded: "Tong Huan of the dog day, Lao Tzu really didn't catch you wrong, you are a big rat in the granary, a moth that eats bones and does not spit slag." ”

There is also Juncheng Chen Jitao on the side in the study.

Seeing this, Chen Jitao smiled bitterly and said: "Guo Thorn Shi Mo is going to be angry, Tong Huan has been in a nest with Yangzhou Zhangjia snakes and rats all these years, and he has already cleaned up the foundation of the Thorn Shi Yamen." In addition, there are people in this court who are good at shading, so all the colleagues in the government dare to be angry but dare not speak. Now that Lord Assassin Shi has taken over this position, the most important thing at the moment is how to fill these holes, at least there must be enough treasury silver and grain in the government to meet the needs of the emergency! ”

Guo Ye scolded hatefully: "Dog, I want Lao Tzu to clean up the mess for him." Now to fill these big holes, the fastest way is to transfer the silver intercepted by the Yanyun Yamen over the years to fill them. It seems that it is time to make a move on Yanyun Yamen and Zhang Chengzong. ”

When Chen Jitao heard that he was going to attack Zhang Chengzong, his spirit was immediately lifted, but when he thought of the power of the Zhang family in Yangzhou, he sighed with some embarrassment: "It's a pity that Tong Huan refused to let go, and took on the matter of hiding the seal of the assassination history, and was unwilling to involve Zhang Chengzong." Otherwise, you can use this excuse to directly take down Zhang Chengzong and expel him from the Yanyun Yamen. ”

Guo Ye chuckled: "I have long expected that Tong Huan will not confess to Zhang Chengzong, because he hid the seal, and even filled his pockets in Yangzhou in the past, these are not capital crimes, and the most serious is just demotion and exile." But if he confesses Zhang Chengzong, it will really be impossible to escape death. How could the people of the Zhang family let him go? Speaking of which, Tong Huan still has a little bit of self-knowledge. ”

Chen Jitao listened to Guo Ye's analysis and nodded yes again and again, and said: "My lord's analysis is extremely correct, but now the Yanyun Yamen is controlled by Zhang Chengzong inside and out. Even if you have the permission of the imperial court to replace it, but if you change the soup without changing the medicine, I'm afraid that Zhang Chengzong won't let your lord fulfill his wish. ”

"Haha, Chen Juncheng, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain."

Guo Ye didn't think this was a problem at all, but laughed optimistically and said, "As long as Zhang Chengzong is in the position of the salt transport envoy for one day, I will still have a chance to catch the sore foot." His ass isn't clean, and I have a way of finding the guilt. When the time comes, I will take this guy first and declare war directly with the Zhang family. ”

Chen Jitao asked in a low voice, "Could it be that Lord Fei secretly has other arrangements?" ”

At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the study, and a personal soldier who had been brought to Yangzhou from Chang'an shouted outside: "Report to Lord Shi, Lord Guan Jiu Guan is back!" ”

Guo Ye couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, looked at Chen Jitao with a confused face, and said with a smile: "Look, say Cao Cao Cao will arrive." ”

Chen Jitao asked, "My lord, who is this dove?" ”

Guo Ye said: "He? He is my right-hand man, and the best person to take over the post of salt transport envoy in the future. In the future, you will have to work together, let's go, Chen Juncheng, I will take you to get close to Guan Jiu, the sour talent. ”

When Chen Jitao heard that Guan Jiujiu was arranged to take over the post of salt transportation envoy, he secretly said in his heart, it seems that this Guan Daren really has the trust of Guo Tingshi, otherwise he would not have handed over the Yangzhou salt tax to him to take care of.

Immediately, he also had the idea of befriending Guan Jiu in his heart, and nodded to Guo Ye and said: "Well, my lord is very right, Xia Guan wants to get close to this Guan Daren." ”

Guo Ye stretched out his hand to hold Chen Jitao's shoulder, and laughed loudly: "Haha, let's go, I'll let you see Guan Lao Xiucai's pretentiousness!" ”

After that, he walked side by side with Chen Jitao and walked out of the study.