His gaze subtly swept over Fan Qichang and Tian Yuliang, and Zhou Chen's voice continued indifferently: "Thanks to the grace of the Holy Lord, this official has been appointed as Youyu County and is responsible for the implementation of the opening of the mutual market.

When the matter is ready, the mutual market opened in our Youyu County will be able to become the only place for commercial trade between the imperial court and the grasslands outside the Guan.

And the head of the family where the two heads of the Fan Tian family are located is a model merchant in my Youyu County, and the official will naturally take care of the Fan Tian family in this mutual market.

Of course, since a formal channel for trade with the grassland has been established, the official will naturally not tolerate illegal smuggling in the secret.

As long as it is found by the official that there are still commercial houses carrying out illegal smuggling in the secret, then there is only one final end, raiding the family and exterminating the family! ”

When he said the last four words, an incomparably fierce aura emanated from Zhou Chen's body.

This made the temperature in the entire living room even faintly drop several points because of this.

However, this coldness came quickly, and it dissipated extremely quickly.

If it weren't for Fan Qichang and Tian Yongliang, who were shocked into a cold sweat just now, they would have thought that this was just an illusion.

After collecting the momentum, Zhou Chen looked at Fan Qichang and Tian Yongliang, and said with a smile and a friendly smile.

"The two families of Fan Tian are commercial families, and this official now provides a channel for the two family heads to trade with the Guanwai grassland in an open and honest manner, and the two family heads say that this is not very beneficial to the two families?!"

"Thank you for the love of the county, the grass people should be grateful to Dade in their hearts, and they will definitely remember the great kindness of the county."

Hearing Zhou Chen's inquiry, Fan Qichang and Tian Yongliang were very nice on the surface.

However, the actual situation is true, and the two of them no longer know that they have cursed Zhou Chen hundreds of times in their hearts.

If the Fan Tian family is an ordinary small merchant and hawker, then the opening of the mutual market that Zhou Chen said will naturally play a very huge role for them.

However, as the two of the eight major families of the Jin merchants, the Fan Tian family could not be compared to those small merchants and hawkers.

Even if there is no opening of the mutual market, the two of them control the smuggling channels outside Youyu County and the grassland pass, and the two of them can still trade with the grassland pass, and make a lot of money from it.

On the contrary, after the opening of this mutual market, the interests of the Fan Tian family will even suffer extremely huge losses.

After all, with relatively safer and more stable formal channels, how could other traders continue to endure the exploitation of the Fan Tian family and continue to hand over the goods and commodities to the Fan Tian family to smuggle outside the grassland gate on their behalf?

Moreover, since this mutual market was organized and opened by the imperial court, it was absolutely impossible for illegal items such as iron weapons and ammunition to be transported through this mutual market.

Therefore, the opening of this mutual market, which is not very important for the Fan Tian family, which specializes in contraband smuggling, will not play a huge role in nature.

The other traders were able to gain benefits, but the Fan Tian family was still standing still, which was naturally a huge loss for the interests of the Fan Tian family.

The most important thing is that Zhou Chen just said that after the successful opening, once all the smuggling forces are caught, there will be only one end of raiding the house and destroying the door.

At this moment, Fan Qichang and Tian Yongliang seemed to have completely understood what was going on with the frequent transfers of Youyu Linwei and Jinyiwei in the past two days.

The mobilization of these violent military agencies is all for the imminent opening of the mutual market in Youyu County, as well as for the smuggling forces that are secretly carrying out in them.

At this moment, Fan Qichang and Tian Yongliang, who had completely figured out Zhou Chen's thoughts, couldn't wait to jump up and split Zhou Chen in front of them alive.

After all, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, how can the two of them be indifferent to the loss of their own interests.

It's a pity that this is the Youyu County Ya, even if they lend Fan Qichang and Tian Yongliang a pair of bear-hearted leopard galls, the two of them don't dare to anger the county lord in this county ya.

Even if they were angry in their hearts, the two of them could only accompany the smiling face in the end, which was in line with everything Zhou Chen said.

Looking at the forced smiles on the faces of Fan Qichang and Tian Yongliang, the curvature on the corners of Zhou Chen's mouth became more and more obvious.

"Okay, this good news has been communicated to the two family heads.

Now that the official has just arrived in Youyu County for a few days, there are still a lot of official errands around him, so he will not leave two more family heads.

After a period of time, when the mutual market was completely established and opened, the official invited the two heads of the family to come and celebrate together.

It's not early now, so please go back to each of the two heads of the family! ”

Just when the smiles on the faces of Fan Qichang and Tian Yongliang became more and more reluctant, Zhou Chen finally picked up the teacup, chuckled and said to the guest.

Fan Qichang and Tian Yongliang's expressions suddenly relaxed, and the two of them let out a sigh of farewell and saluted: "Then the grass people and the others will not disturb you, the county lord, and the grass people will retire!" ”

As for Zhou Chen's invitation when the mutual market was opened, the two of them didn't mention it at all, and the two of them couldn't wait for this mutual market to never be established.

"Su Xiancheng, the king's master's book, send one to the head of the Fan Tian family on behalf of the official!"

Slowly putting down the teacup in his hand, Zhou Chen stood up and instructed Su Tong and Wang Yan, who had never intervened, but he himself had no intention of going to say goodbye in person.

"Yes, sir!"

Su Tong and Wang Yan bowed their hands to answer, and then sent Fan Qichang and Tian Yongliang and the two of them out of the county government's living room.

Fan Qichang and Tian Yongliang, who were more and more reluctant to stay in the Yamen of Youyu County, walked out of the county yamen with fast steps.

If the speed was a little faster, the two of them would have already run away.

Listening to the footsteps of the four people gradually disappearing, Zhou Chen, who was still smiling, flashed a cold light in his eyes.

Immediately, he greeted in a deep voice with a cold face: "Chen Baihu, Xu Baihu, you two come out!" ”

At the moment when Zhou Chen's voice fell, two footsteps passed through the side hall.

Chen Yun and Xu Yan, who had been waiting in the side hall for a long time, immediately bowed to Zhou Chen and said, "Humble to meet Lord Qianhu!" ”