Chapter 244: Calculating the King's Situation
Although Li Jingye was shrewd, he obviously misunderstood what he meant, so An He could only explain again:
"Brother Li, you misunderstood, I didn't want us to monopolize the mining of coal, if they were willing to mine, I would still like to, but after the mining~ hehe......"
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"Oh~, I see, Brother An, you don't want to use those two things, do you?"
When Li Jingye heard An He's words, he immediately came to his senses. He patted his head and stood up excitedly and shouted. Hearing Li Jingye's reminder, Cheng Boxian also seemed to understand something, and his expression was suddenly enlightened.
"Hehe, Brother Li is really smart!"
An He said with a smile. Although Li Jingye didn't say it explicitly, he pointed out the most critical point, so that An He immediately understood that he already knew his intentions.
"Hey, Rokuro, what are you talking about, why can't we understand?"
Fang Yiai said with some dissatisfaction, like Li Jingye, he initially thought that Anhe was going to use patents to monopolize the mining of coal. However, after hearing An He's denial, he immediately became confused.
An He saw that most of the people had a confused expression, so he stopped selling Guan Zi, and told the way he thought of Cheng Boxian The more they listened, the brighter their eyes became, and when they heard the last. Everyone is happy, and it is so insidious to laugh and scold An He.
At the same time, in the meeting hall of the Taiyuan Wang's long house, a group of people were also gathered to discuss things. In the center of the main seat sat a white-haired old man who was not angry and arrogant, and there were more than a dozen middle-aged people sitting beside him. The rest are young people in their twenties and thirties. However, unlike Ann and their harmonious atmosphere, there is a lot of noise in the hall right now. And the subject of the quarrel was also about coal mines.
"Uncle, the family's property has always been taken care of by me, how can you order the people below to rob the carboniferous mine with An and them without my consent?"
A young man in a fancy costume standing at the bottom said in a deep voice, although he tried his best to restrain himself, but the anger on his face could not be concealed. If An He was here, he would definitely recognize that this young man was the Taiyuan King he had seen last time.
The long-bearded middle-aged man sitting next to the head of the family heard Wang Guo's words, and immediately snorted angrily and coldly:
"Hmph~, what does it mean to give an order without authorization, this is a decision made by several of our elders together, do we still have to get the consent of you, the junior?"
When the middle-aged people sitting beside him heard Wang Guo's words, they also glared at him angrily.
"Naturally, the decisions made by a few uncles don't have to go through their nephews, but have you ever thought about it, what will be the consequences of your doing this?"
Wang Guo said with a sad face, although he is very beautiful in front of outsiders, but in the family, he is just a junior who is not valued, otherwise he would not let him give up the imperial examination, and instead deal with those businessmen every day, and take care of business and wealth for the family.
"Hmph, what can be the consequences, it's just a group of boys who don't know the importance of it, they dare to go to our Taiyuan Wang's territory to spread wild, I didn't know the use of this thing before, but now those cement factories are clamoring to buy coal every day, how can such a good opportunity be cheap for others?"
A young man about thirty years old in front of Wang Guo snorted coldly, this person is Wang Kuang's cousin, his name is Wang Xian, and he is also the eldest son of the middle-aged man next to the main throne.
"Brother Hall, the profits of Shi Tan are indeed huge, but have you thought about it, just because of this little profit, almost all the upstarts in Chang'an City have been offended, is it worth it?"
Wang Guo looked at his unlearned cousin, angry and hateful, he had already received reliable news, the first to grab the carboniferous mine with An and them, it was the cousin in front of him, and then his father in order to cover up for his son, this persuaded several elders in the clan to order a large-scale purchase of carboniferous ore, although this matter will offend many people, but it can also bring huge profits to the family, so there are not many people who object.
"King, this matter is not as simple as you think!"
At this moment, the old man who had been sitting in the main seat with his eyes closed suddenly opened his eyes, glanced at the king and said. This old man is the patriarch of the Taiyuan Wang family, named Wang Tong, who has also been an official for many years in the former Sui Dynasty, but since the Tang Dynasty won the world, this Wang Tong has never been out of office, and has been handling family affairs as the patriarch, and his prestige in the clan is extremely high.
"Grandson is blunt!"
Hearing Wang Tong speak, Wang was also startled, and immediately bowed down and saluted. Wang Tong has also been old in recent years, and he has rarely managed the affairs of the clan, although he usually sits on the main seat, but he is like a decoration, and rarely expresses his opinions, and is generally managed by the uncles of the kings under him, but he did not expect that today he suddenly spoke. In fact, not only the king, but also the other people around him were also very surprised.
"Hmm!"
I saw Wang Tong suddenly stand up from his chair, glanced at the people in the hall, and finally looked at Wang Guo and said, "Since you know that those people who bought mines are all upstarts in Chang'an City, don't you still understand the intentions of your uncles?" We, the wealthy families known as the king's surname Qiwang, are the objects of His Majesty's efforts to suppress today, and those new family nobles formed by the founding heroes and the Li royal family are the weapons he uses to suppress us, if they are allowed to enter the territory around Taiyuan, and then use those mines as a stronghold, and slowly infiltrate into Taiyuan City, although our Wang family has been operating here for a hundred years, but compared with the nouveau riche who has the support of the imperial power behind it, it is still at a disadvantage, so, no matter what, we must also prevent the nouveau riche from reaching around Taiyuan City! ā
After all, Wang Tong was old, and he was extremely hard when he said the last few words, so he had to stop and take a breath, and then continued:
"In addition, since you are in charge of the business operations of the clan, you must know very well about the financial situation of the clan, with the current operation of His Majesty in the Western Regions, the commerce of Taiyuan is no longer the grand situation of the past, and the income of our Wang family has also decreased by several percent, and now no matter what the clan does, it is tight, if you can have more income from the mine, it can also alleviate the embarrassment of the clan."
Hearing the words of the old patriarch, Wang Guo was also shocked in his heart, he only thought about building a good relationship with An and them, so as to facilitate further cooperation in the future, because he saw a very huge wealth potential from An He, if he could cooperate with An He, it would definitely bring a lot of benefits to their Wang family, and he did this to alleviate the growing financial crisis in the clan. But what he didn't expect was that the competition for the coal mines around Taiyuan actually involved the struggle between the old family represented by Qiwang and the new family of Datang, and even related to the emperor's suppression of these family valves.
Although Wang Guo is smart, he has been busy with the family's business affairs all these years, so he has become accustomed to looking at things only from the business side, and he didn't expect that there would be such a deep meaning. In this way, from the time An and them decided to mine coal near Taiyuan, they had already been on the opposite side of their Wang family, and the battle for the mine seemed to be caused by the greed of the Wang Xi's cousin, but in fact, from the perspective of the general trend, this is an inevitability.
But what makes Wang Guo a little worried is that with his understanding of that An Zhonglang general, he will definitely not let others snatch things from his mouth, although their Wang family can have the upper hand around Taiyuan and grab the carboniferous mine as much as possible, but you don't have to think about it to know that after the other party suffers a loss, he will definitely not swallow his anger, but I don't know what method they will use to retaliate?!
Wang Guo guessed right, An and they will not only retaliate, but this method of revenge is also very vicious, it can almost be said that it is a salary from the bottom of the kettle, although it will not make the Wang family's investment in buying the mine in the early stage useless, but even if the Wang family buys the mine, and even organizes people to dig out the coal, but the future sales will all depend on An He's face, if you want them to earn, you can make them earn, and if you want them to lose, it can be said that it is completely in the hands of An He. (To be continued.) )