Wu Zheng's worries came true, and a month later, Jian Hai took Cao Rang Cao Ting's two brothers, as well as Luo Shi, and a large number of people in the city, large and small rich armor, Yin Yuanhui and Zhuang Neng, all came over.

A large number of people blocked Fan Li's door, the reason is that Fan Li handed over the industry to the brothers, and a large number of black-hearted rice were found in more than 20 rice shops.

Under the questioning in front of everyone, Fan Li didn't say a word, and the old customers of the rice shop before came to the door one after another.

The brothers of the Cao family, insisting that when Fan Li handed it over to them, the existing problems, all kinds of strange voices, appeared, but Fan Li looked like nothing happened, without the slightest worry.

"Oh, Tao Zhugong, this kind of thing, alas, not everyone wants to see it, please go back with me and get things to a conclusion."

Luo spoke very quickly, and several officials came over and wanted to take Fan Li away.

Luo has already bought the brothers, this point, Fan Li is very clear, as the saying goes, take advantage of your illness, you want your life, this is the truth, now Fan Li's wealth has been empty, it has become someone else's, and some businessmen who were completely unable to compete with Fan Li before also fell to the side of the Cao brothers.

The noise is getting more and more chaotic.

"Everyone, please listen to the old man."

At this time, Yin Yuanhui stood up, and he walked up to Fan Li.

"As you know, Tao Zhu Gong is the great good family of our Dingtao, in many places before, there was a famine, and Tao Zhu Gong reached out to help, and over the years, Tao Zhu Gong's business, everyone can see it very clearly, there has never been such a problem, why didn't it appear at other times, but after Tao Zhu Gong's family business was taken to the evil people, it appeared?"

Yin Yuanhui's words suddenly made Cao Rang and Cao Ting, the two brothers, a little scared, but at this time, Jian Hai walked out.

"People's hearts are impermanent, but it will become, maybe, Tao Zhugong has already made a good calculation, made a lot of money, and then got rid of it, otherwise how can there be those black-hearted rice that is backlogged in the warehouse, right, everyone."

Jian Hai said, and the opinions began to be divided into two factions, and Luo insisted on taking Fan Li back to investigate the matter clearly.

"Luo is a big man."

At this time, Zhuang Neng also walked out of the crowd.

"Oh, Master Zhuang, I don't know ......."

"You, magistrate, are you sitting too uncomfortable, another day, change places."

Suddenly, the voice in the crowd stopped, no one made any more sound, Luo was very pale, he hurriedly kept saying good things about Tao Zhugong, and also ordered his subordinates to go back, saying that the matter must be what Yin Yuanhui said, someone deliberately framed him.

And those old customers of Fan Li for many years also have doubts, for Fan Li, their good impression should be more than bad impression, so they gave up.

Only the two sons of the Cao family are still clamoring, but Jian Hai can also see that the Zhuang family and the Yin family, which are currently the first and second in Dingtao's family, have already stood up for Fan Li.

In the end, the matter was settled.

A few days later, Zhuang Neng and Yin Yuanhui came to Fan Li's home, and the three of them sat together and began to discuss.

"The king of Chu has already sent someone to urge, let the two of us find a way to persuade Cao Yingong to let the army of Chu State enter from our Cao State, and then they can go straight to the heart of Lu State."

Zhuang Neng immediately spoke, but Yin Yuanhui was embarrassed.

"Your Zhuang family, there are more forces around Cao Yingong, but our Yin family, although we have military power in our hands, but it is still a little inappropriate for a general of Cao to help this kind of thing, and there are other forces in the palace, if you don't do it......."

Zhuang Neng nodded, and then the two looked at Fan Li at the same time, but Fan Li just smiled and said nothing.

"I don't know about Dr. Fan... Oh no, Boss Fan, what's your opinion? ”

Yin Yuanhui asked sincerely.

Fan Li asked people to bring a map, then pointed to the map and said.

"Today's form, as you can see, the two countries of Qi and Lu are constantly resisting in order to deal with the army of Chu, and the Yue State is still recovering its vitality, and now Gou Jian has entered the age of not being confused, it is not as ambitious as when he was young, with worries, the city-states around the Yue State, although it is a posture of bowing down to the vassals, but the wolf ambition, Gou Jian does not dare to act rashly, so the King of Chu is looking at this point, and he made a move against the Lu State."

Then Fan Li continued to analyze, Qin and Zheng, although Zheng is not as good as Qin, but at this time, Qin is in drought for many years, hungry people everywhere, and the country is poor and weak, and no one on either side dares to do it first, and Chu State also sees this, so he dares to do it under the condition that Qin State is in the west and Yue State in the east.

And the Yan State and the Jin State have long been gearing up and ready to make a move, so now, although the Chu State has a huge advantage, it cannot go further.

"Then according to Boss Fan's meaning, we should take action after the rule?"

Fan Li shook his head.

"Boss Zhuang, Cao Yingong's personality, everyone must have been very clear, although he is hesitant on the surface, but in fact, he really wants to meet the Qin State and the Qi State, which must be very clear to the two of them."

"Indeed, Cao Yingong, who used to be secret, sent a lot of secret letters to the monarchs of these two countries, accompanied by a large number of precious things."

Yin Yuanhui said, Fan Li nodded.

"Two, you can reply to the king of Chu, just say, now the situation is unstable, rashly act, the two kingdoms of Qin and Zheng in the west, and the two kingdoms of Jin and Yan in the north, they must not sit still, they are far from our Cao State than Chu State, if they are aware of the movement of Chu State, I am afraid that they will only be one step ahead of Chu State and annex Cao State, and Cao Yin Gong must not be a fool."

After making a decision, Fan Li stood up and looked at the two respectfully.

"Two, now, Fan Li's family fortune is empty, I only hope that the two of them will borrow the capital of a business to Fan Li, and in the future, they will be returned three times."

Zhuang Neng and Yin Yuanhui did not hesitate, so they decided to lend money to Fan Li, and they did not need him to pay it back three times.

But Fan Li smiled, and Zhuang can borrow people, and Yin Yuanhui borrowed money, neither of them understood what Fan Li wanted to do, but they still didn't ask, they knew very well that Fan Li was powerful.

The rumors about Fan Li in the city were immediately stopped by Luo, and he also set a law, if anyone dared to smear Fan Li, he would be caught and served with a cane and stick.

Luo knew very well that Fan Li now had the support of the Zhuang and Yin families behind him, so he naturally immediately approached Fan Li, drew a clear line with the Cao family, and personally brought gifts to make amends for a few days in a row.

The person borrowed by Fan Li and Zhuang Nengjia was a miner, and he wanted to mine ore in some mountains near Dingtao, and began to send people to the smelting city of Yue Kingdom, and began to hire a large number of blacksmiths to come over.

Zhuang Neng and Yin Yuanhui also finally understood what Fan Li was going to do, he was planning to build weapons and armor, and now it was a troubled time, these were all materials for war, but Cao Guo had a problem, non-official businessmen were not allowed to get involved in this area.

Fan Li also knew very well in his heart that he decided to go to Cao Yingong's palace in person to persuade him.

Everything is going according to plan, the number of blacksmiths in Cao Guo is extremely rare, their military strength has not been expanded for many years, Cao Yingong has always wanted to be attached to whom, live happily, and he has no interest in the hegemony of the world.

Half a month later, Fan Li came to the palace, and under Zhuang Neng's arrangement, he successfully met Cao Yingong, who was being fed fruits by his favorite concubine.

"King Cao, Zhu Zi came this time because he had something from the bottom of his heart and wanted to say."

Fan Li began to speak, now, Jin and Yan are ready to go to war, and Yan must need a lot of weapons, they will go to war, sooner or later, if at this time, Cao Yin Gong will trade weapons in the past, which is equivalent to sending charcoal in the snow.

Under Fan Li's rhetoric, he got the right to make weapons, but he needed to be under the supervision of local officials, and weapons were only allowed to be sold to Yan Guo.

Fan Li once again, began to do business, and with the influx of a large number of blacksmiths from the Yue Kingdom, there was also a news that in the Chu State, there are now two very good blacksmiths, the cadres Mo Xie and his wife, who forged swords for the King of Chu Zhao and have entered the court.

Fan Li, who heard the news, sighed.

"Mr. Ou Yezi, if you have a spirit in heaven, please bless your daughter and son-in-law."

Mining went very smoothly, the iron industry, began to flourish in Cao State, before, ordinary people, is not allowed to cast swords privately, but with Fan Li persuaded Cao Yingong, many began to cast weapons, selling.

Among them, the largest one in casting weapons is Fan Li's family, again, Fan Li has earned a lot of money in more than a year, and he has also converted the borrowed money and manpower into money, and returned three times to the dealer and the Yin family.

At this time, the Cao family, Cao Yuan was terminally ill and was about to die, Fan Li took his wife to visit from time to time, and the Cao family's business, although it was good, but because they deliberately wanted to dominate the family and deliberately lowered the price of grain, the people in the grain producing areas were unwilling to sell grain to the Cao family.

Finally, at the beginning of spring, Cao Yuan died, Fan Li took his wife and children, returned to Cao's house, as soon as he entered the door, he was blocked, saying that Fan Li was not his family and was not allowed to go in, only Fan Li's wife was allowed to go in with his sons.

In the end, Fan Li had to go to the festival in the evening after Cao Yuan's burial, accompanied by Wu Zheng.