In response to Old Man Li's politeness and the look of the guests, Shen Deshan and Shen Zeyuan showed decent smiles, but did not greet the guests around them.

Shen Deshan had never been to Queensland, so he was naturally unfamiliar with everyone present, but Shen Zeyuan saw a few acquaintances, but he wanted to be a guest at the Li family, and he didn't say anything.

After giving Mr. Li a birthday gift, Shen Deshan and Shen Zeyuan sat down in the hall with all the guests, and exchanged a few words with the surrounding guests from time to time, and also listened to a few words of greetings from others.

With the arrival of more valuable guests and birthday gifts, the original guests' attention to Shen Deshan and Shen Zeyuan has faded.

After the arrival of Peng Mingyi, the general of Xining Wei, they had left Shen Deshan and the others behind, and now what they were surprised was the nine-foot-tall red coral sent by Peng Mingyi.

However, Shen Deshan still felt a special gaze, which was looming, but it was extremely fiery, and it was impossible to ignore. Who is looking at you like that?

Shen Deshan had some doubts in his heart, and when all the guests were amazed by the red coral and congratulated Old Man Li on his good fortune, he followed that special gaze and found that it was an old man of the same age as Old Man Li who was looking at him fiercely!

Coincidentally, Shen Deshan knew who this old man was. Just when he was greeting just now, Shen Deshan heard someone call this old man "Old Man Yang", and his tone was very respectful.

Easily, Shen Deshan knew the identity of this old man, Old Man Yang, needless to say, it must be the old man of the Yang family, one of the three families in Queensland!

Old man Yang, the patriarch of the Yang family in Queensland, has great ambitions, and at the beginning of his tenure as patriarch, he vowed to lead the Yang family to become the most brilliant and prestigious family in Queensland. However, for so many years, his oath has not been realized, because the Li family in Queensland has always been firmly pressed on the head of the Yang family, whether it is power, power, or wealth. The Yang family is inferior to the Li family!

Naturally, the old man of the Li family is also better than the old man Yang, and he is respected in Queensland. Old Man Li can be the first, but Old Man Yang can only be second!

Old Man Yang was naturally unbearable for such a situation. He led the Yang family to compete with the Li family openly and secretly, maybe it was not time to fight him, or maybe the Li family was too popular, and now the old man Yang is almost seventy years old, the original situation has not changed, and the Yang family can still only be ranked behind the Li family! ——This is Ruliu's report on the situation of Old Man Yang.

Old Man Yang's intentions are self-evident. In the opinion of Old Man Yang. Perhaps the appearance of the Shen family was an opportunity for the Yang family to break through, which is why he had such a blazing gaze.

Gently, Shen Deshan raised the corners of his mouth. It can be regarded as a response to Old Man Yang's gaze, no matter what Old Man Yang's intentions are, Shen Deshan has to have a posture to deal with it.

Although he smiled lightly, in Shen Deshan's heart at the moment, it was not much easier. After seeing Old Man Yang's eagerness, Shen Deshan felt a little heavier pressure.

It is expected to be connected with the Yang family, but the key to open the Li family, will it be the Yang family? Shen Deshan is uncertain about this. As for the metaphor and reason for the lock and key, we have to start from when Shen Deshan and others were still in Jingzhao.

Since learning that he was going to take the Shen family's sons and nephews to Xining Road to open up the Xining trade route, Shen Deshan was under tremendous pressure. This pressure comes from the responsibility on your shoulders.

For so many years, he has been taking care of the most important general affairs and business affairs for the Shen family, so he naturally knows what it means for the Shen family to open up the Xining Road trade route, and he also knows clearly the money and manpower invested by the Shen family in this matter, so he knows better what the responsibility he has to bear.

To open up trade routes, the power of a poor country cannot be completed well, and now it can be completed by the function of a family? Shen Deshan is not confident enough in this regard.

Although Jingzhao has his brother's circumstance and the escort of Hubu Shangshu, he is really confused about how to operate it. Taking Queensland as a point of relevance, this is because Queensland's location is important, but Queensland's forces are intertwined, where to start? How do I get started? If this is not good at the beginning, let alone opening up the Xining trade route, even the Shen family's calculations in Xiyan and Lingnan will all be lost!

It is thinking of this kind of stakes that Shen Deshan will feel that the pressure is getting heavier day by day, although his nephew and nephew are all capable people, but as the pillar of the Shen family's development of the Xining trade route, everything he plans and worries about is related to the future of the Xining trade route.

When he was still in Jingzhao, Shen Deshan and his brother Shen Huashan stayed up all night discussing the affairs of Xining Dao. From the Xining Provincial Observation Envoy to the General Xining Wei, from the Queensland Thorn History to the Guizhou Thorn History, they were all within the scope of their discussion.

"It stands to reason that Xining Road has a mutual market as the foundation, and commercial affairs and trade routes should be the most developed, but why is Xining Road's business so barren? How small will the annual income from Xining Road be? The emperor also had the intention to open up the Xining Road trade route. But why is it that after the mission surveyed Xining Road in 36 years, it has been more than six years now, and no official has written to request the development of Xining Road? Have you thought about these reasons? At that time, Shen Huashan pointed to the map of Xining Road and said in a heavy tone.

"Why?" At that time, Shen Deshan was puzzled, and could only repeat Shen Huashan's words.

"Yes, reason! The reason why the Xining Road trade road has not been able to develop! Only by understanding why there is today's situation in the area of Xining Road, can we make a difference in Xining Road! Shen Huashan's tone was rare and heavy, obviously, he already understood what the reason was, and it was just to remind Shen Deshan that he asked like this.

"The reason? Not because of business, but because of the rule of officials? What is the reason for the rule of the officials? Corruption? Someone is making personal gain? Even, some people rely on Xining's distance to become their own climate? With years of experience and sensitivity, Shen Deshan thinks quickly.

The situation in Xining Road is indeed unusual, if the same situation happened in Jiangnan, this trade route would have been opened a long time ago! It will not wait until today to the point where the Shen family will work hard to open up. What is at stake in the trade route must be the officials and officials, could it be that there are people in Xining Road who cover the sky with one hand?

"You're half right, I suspect it's not anyone, it's everyone! I suspect that the more real situation is that the entire Xining Road is linked from top to bottom, and government and commercial affairs are linked together, and there is no separation. Therefore, if you start the whole body, Xining Dao cannot change, and change will damage the interests of everyone! This is the crux of Xining Road! Shen Huashan's tone changed from heavy to angry.

Xining Dao is becoming more and more important and rich, but the people of Xining Dao and the imperial court can't even increase the income from Xining Dao! He really couldn't understand why there was such a strange situation in this great Xining Dao and this great Dayong!

"The trade route of Xining Road is not barren, but the people are far away! The imperial court is not as strong as it is, and you are going to Xining Road to take advantage of business affairs to take advantage of the power of Xining Dao! I'm going to take a look, where has the income of Xining Dao gone over the years! Shen Huashan's tone returned to calm.

The development of the Xining Road trade route is certainly for the layout of the Shen family, but not for what Shen Huashan has seen in the court over the years? In Shen Huashan's view, the opening up of the Xining Road trade route is to sort out the forces of Xining Road, which is very important!

In the process of sorting out the "chaos of people", Shen Huashan and Shen Deshan finally focused on the Li family in Queensland! The brothers were surprised to find that all the incomprehensible situations and situations in Xining Dao had the shadow of the Li family!

In other words, the power of the Li family runs through the top and bottom of Xining Dao, and even, the people of the Li family are the link that connects the various forces of Xining Dao!

In Shen Deshan's mind, the Li family is a lock, a lock that locks the Xining Road trade road! As long as this lock is opened, it is a simple matter to open up the Xining trade route and connect the layout from Xiyan to Lingnan.

As long as he thought of the difficulty of opening the lock of the Li family, Shen Deshan's heart would hang high, and he would also feel that the pressure on his shoulders was getting heavier and heavier. Unlocking the lock is to disintegrate the power of the Li family, how easy is this?!

The Li family is the key to the Xining Road trade route, to sort out the power of Xining Road and smoothly open up the Xining trade route, the first thing is to sort out the power of the Li family, know the reality of the Li family, and finally of course to disintegrate the power of the Li family! This is what Shen Huashan repeatedly told him before Shen Deshan led the team to leave Jingzhao.

Therefore, before entering Xining Road, Ruliu began to systematically and carefully sort out the intelligence of Queensland; So after entering Xining Dao, Shen Deshan asked Shen Zeyuan to take Hu Butu and others to Wenzhen secretly to see how far the Li family's influence in Xining Dao had extended; Therefore, in Guizhou, Shen Deshan gave Li Huishan a bait, also to explore the depth of the Li family......

The results of this series of investigations and combing certainly made Shen Deshan's heart flutter, this Li family, the power can be said to be all over Xining Road!

It is obvious that from the president of the medicine market in Wenzhen to the history of the Queensland Thorn, they are all children of the Li family; It's even simpler, the wife of Peng Mingyi, the general of Xining Wei, is the niece of Old Man Li! Not to mention that there are countless children of the Li family who hold large and small positions in the official office, the military department, and the business world.

The Li family has deep roots in Xining Dao, the right is supported by many children, the support of Xining Wei, and the money is supplied by various presidents, to disintegrate the power of the Li family, think about it, Shen Deshan feels that it is as difficult as climbing to the sky!

Even if it's as hard as it gets, this thing has to be done! Shen Deshan scratched his hair and didn't know how much, but he could only stuff one or two baits into the Shen family, or bury one or two dark chess, and they were all useless now. The key to the real unlocking, Shen Deshan still can't see.

When the Li family was full of guests, looking at Old Man Li's satisfied smile and feeling Old Man Yang's fiery gaze, Shen Deshan felt a lot of pressure.

Now, the lock is right in front of you, but where is the key?

ps：

Midnight! I recommend my friend Doudou's sprouted "Alchemist's Scientific and Technological Civilization Life". /mmeb/Waste wood? Are you talking about me? Do you want to say that I, a great god-level alchemist who has never been seen before or since? Very good, I took your very test item. When the only god-level alchemist of the magical civilization crosses over to the technological civilization, what kind of sparks will collide with the technological civilization?