Bianliang.

In the private room of the most stylish restaurant in the city, eight or nine people sat on the table.

These people all have a calm breath, long breathing, full of majesty and shrewdness, and the materials of their clothes are top-notch, and they are all valuable people, obviously they are all strong people with status.

The eldest is gray-haired, and the youngest is already past his prime.

If there are big businessmen from Bianliang present, they will definitely be able to recognize the identities of these people at the first time, they are all the principals of various families in Bianliang City!

At the same time, he will also be shocked, because some of them do not have a good relationship with each other, and they often fight with each other on weekdays, because they belong to the generals and nobles and scholars!

"Over the years, Tong Jing will send people every once in a while to interfere with the normal operation of our various industries for various reasons, today said that someone sued us for shoddy, tomorrow said that we forced to buy and sell, the day after tomorrow said that we framed our peers, every time we came back, we had to look through the account books, from top to bottom to investigate, so that we could not buy and sell normally for several days, large and small guests and partners, were disturbed tirelessly, refused to come to the door again.

"In recent years, we have been losing money, the scale of our business has been reduced again and again, and many shops have had to close their doors.

"Especially in the recent period, Tong Jing has become more and more unscrupulous, and has even begun to directly close down our shops under various names! When dealing with us families, this bird has not forgotten to support the poor merchants to see the cracks and wantonly encroach on our industrial share! If this continues, in a few years, we will completely withdraw from Bianliang City!

"You are all the elders of each family, and you have the heavy responsibility of increasing the income for the family, and because of the current situation, I believe that you are all criticized by the head of the family. If we really lose our business in Bianliang and even in the Central Plains, I'm afraid you won't be able to give an explanation to your family, right?"

It was Zhao Zhengji who spoke, the principal of the Zhao family in Bianliang City, in his forties, with a masculine face, and his words were reasonable and sincere.

When the elders of the world heard this, most of them had solemn faces, and there was no shortage of sighs, obviously Zhao Zhengji's words were exactly the dilemma that everyone was facing, and it was a difficult problem that could not be easily solved.

After listening to Zhao Zhengji's speech, all the elders turned their eyes to him, today the other party invited everyone to come here for a banquet, and the reason why everyone would abandon the prejudice between the families was to discuss and come up with a solution together.

Now that Zhao Zhengji has picked up the conversation, everyone wants to listen to the other party's next words and see if the other party has any good suggestions.

If the sentence that the interests of the family are the same in front of the Hanmen is somewhat vague and difficult to implement in the current situation, then in Bianliang City, these elders who are sympathetic to each other undoubtedly have the possibility of joining forces.

The power of Bianliang is basically in the hands of the officials of the Hanmen, Tong Jing is a strong person, relying only on a single family himself, and he is still seeking the affairs of businessmen, and now he is forced to stand on the opposite side of the power of the government, it is indeed difficult to move forward, and it is extremely difficult to reverse the situation.

However, before Zhao Zhengji could continue, a discordant voice full of sarcasm sounded in the room: "What Elder Zhao said seems to be that the industries of all families in Bianliang have reached the autumn of life and death.

"However, none of you here know that the industries that Tong Jing has seized at the moment are basically Zhao's shops. In recent times, it has also been the Zhao family that has suffered the most. In other words, Tong Jing's real target is your Zhao family, not our other families. ”

The elders followed the prestige, and saw a half-hundred old man with a rather elegant temperament, looking at Zhao Zhengji with a sneer.

This is Xu Song, the elder of the Xu family, the cousin of Xu Minglang, the prime minister of the dynasty.

Zhao Zhengji's face sank: "What does Elder Xu mean by this, hasn't the scale of each industry been greatly reduced?"

Xu Song-for-tat: "What Xu means is that Tong Jing is only dealing with you Zhao now, and only you Zhao are facing the danger of withdrawing from Bianliang, and the other families are not in danger of life and death."

"Elder Zhao just said so much, he just wanted to drag us into the water together, so that we could fight against Tong Jing with you. You are using us as a gunman, making us all like the Zhao family, jumping into a situation where Tong Jing is not ending and there is no way out! Do you think we will agree?"

The Yang Clan Elder who was present couldn't sit still when he heard this, and said loudly:

"Tong Jing wants to completely suppress the power of the family in Bianliang, of course, he will not force us all to death at the same time, causing us to resist together. But once the Zhao clan withdraws from Bianliang, it will be our turn next! Isn't Elder Xu even able to understand such a simple truth?"

Xu Song sneered: "The relationship between the Yang family and the Zhao family, no one knows, Elder Yang naturally spoke to Elder Zhao. But we don't do anything that is not beneficial. ”

"You!" Elder Yang was furious.

Zhao Zhengji suddenly said: "What if it's beneficial?"

"What good can it be?" Xu Song looked incredulous.

Zhao Zhengji said with a straight face: "Zhao is sure, as long as we join forces, this time we can bring down Tong Jing and his henchmen! After this incident, all industries can recover as before, and there may be a chance to develop and grow!"

Xu Song sneered disdainfully: "It's not ashamed, it's empty." ”

Zhao Zhengji's face turned pale, and he said angrily: "Do you dare to bet with me?!"

"How are you going to bet?"

Zhao Zhengji gritted his teeth and said: "This time, you Xu can not participate, but if the matter is successful, Xu's industry will completely withdraw from Bianliang!"

"What if it doesn't work out?"

"I, the Zhao family, will never set foot in Bianliang again!"

"Okay! A word is a certainty!" Xu Song was afraid that Zhao Zhengji would regret it, "The elders present are all witnesses, if you break your word, the Zhao family will be discredited!"

Zhao Zhengji said coldly: "The Zhao family never breaks its promise, and I hope that the Xu family will not go back on its word!"

"This is the contract, written clearly in black and white!"

"That's exactly how it should be!"

Seeing that Zhao Zhengji and Xu Song were in a red face, the elders of all generations were a little embarrassed, the Zhao family and the Xu family were the top two families in Daqi at the moment, and as the civil and military disputes intensified, the relationship between the two families became more and more tense, and the fight between them, these family elders were not easy to interfere with.

If this had been placed in the past, the elders of the private room might have stood in line according to the distinction between civil and military, but now in the face of the menacing Hanmen with the support of the emperor, and the current situation in Bianliang, everyone has shown great restraint and caution.

After the agreement was made, the atmosphere of the private room was no longer suitable for the banquet to continue, and it was not long before everyone dispersed.

Except for the two elders who followed Xu Song, the elders of the other families all decided to take the same position as the Zhao family this time. In the face of vital interests, differences can be put aside temporarily, and it doesn't hurt to see if the Zhao family can find a way first.

At the end of the banquet, Zhao Zhengji and Elder Yang left the restaurant together.

"Since Brother Ning already has a strategy to deal with Tong Jing, let's act on our own, there is no need to pull other families together, especially those scholars, it's not that they can't do it, what are we going to do with them with all this talk and effort?"

As the number one person of the Yang family in Bianliang, he already knew how Zhao Ning was going to deal with Tong Jing.

At this moment, Zhao Zhengji was completely annoyed by Xu Song's anger when he was in the private room, and the whole person looked relaxed and relaxed, not at all like he had just been angry, and when he heard this, he smiled lightly, and said meaningfully:

"Brother Ning can see farther than us. He was no longer satisfied that the Zhao family and the Yang family were only influential in Jiangmen. ”

The Yang Elder was stunned, and said in surprise: "Does the Zhao Clan still want to make friends with scholars?"

"This is an opportunity, and it is also a stone to ask for directions, and let's see how it works. All in all, it is much better to start with commercial matters than to meet directly with the officials of the Maison in the field of power, and there is a lot of room for maneuver. Zhao Zhengji said unhurriedly.

"At present, the civil and military disputes in Daqi are like cooking oil on fire, in this situation, Ning Ge'er still wants to seek friendship with the scholars, he ...... What the hell are you going to do?!" Elder Yang's eyes widened, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this question was not simple.

After the decline of the Liu family and the Pang family, and the decline of the Zheng family and the Lu family, the unbearable people in the scholars, except for the Xu family, have basically been cleaned up, and the rest are not to mention that all of them have a pure family style, at least there are no big traitors.

Zhao Zhengji didn't answer positively, in fact, Zhao Ning didn't give him a clear answer, he just relied on his own speculation and said slowly:

"There is no eternal enemy in this world. Brother Yang, don't forget, before this dynasty, the gate valve family itself was not so obvious the separation of civil and military, the real family Junyan earlier, which one was not a general?"

Elder Yang didn't seem to understand.

After a long time, he sighed and said leisurely: "I may not understand what Brother Ning is thinking, but I know at least one thing right now." ”

"What?"

"Xu Song and the Xu family will lose a lot this time. ”

"Brother Yang thinks what they have lost?"

"Of course, it's not just in Bianliang's business profits. ”

"What else?"

"Unparalleled prestige among the scholars!"

......

As Tongping Zhangshi and Tokyo Prefecture Yin, Tong Jing has a lot of government affairs every day, so although the situation was not small last night, after Li Yan and Cai Guan rushed over, Tong Jing didn't take this matter to heart, and just waited for the other party to bring him back good news.

In the middle of the two Yuan Shen Realms with four Yuan Shen Realm early stages, there was only one Zhang Jing, even if there were many river bandits under the latter's command, there would be no surprise in Tong Jing's opinion.

What really annoyed Tong Jing was the person standing in the middle of the lobby in front of him.

It was a young official in his thirties, from the Zhang clan of the scholars, one of the two young Yin from the four grades in the Tokyo Prefecture, named Zhang Donglai. He was also the only family official among the upper echelons of the Tokyo Prefecture. Less than forty years old, he can live in the fourth grade, in addition to his illustrious family background, Zhang Donglai's own ability is also extraordinary.

What gave Tong Jing a headache was that the other party had a terrible character.

Zhang's, Shi's, and Chen's are all low-ranking families in the family, although the family is not big, but one is more stubborn than the other, and the poetry and book heirloom is cultivated by a group of guys who regard etiquette as bigger than the sky.

"Zhang Jing is a disaster in the township, although the crime is unforgivable, but the root cause of the fact that he can have more than 10,000 people under his command lies in the fact that the land annexation of Bianliang has been too great over the years! It is not difficult for us to exterminate Zhang Jing today, but if we cannot suppress the land annexation and sit back and watch the number of displaced people continue to increase, then there will be Li Jing tomorrow, and Wang Jing will be the day after tomorrow......"

Listening to Zhang Donglai talking, Tong Jing's face couldn't help but be as black as ink, he felt that the other party was likely to say that there would be another Tong Jing the day after tomorrow.

Suppressing land annexation is to put it lightly, if the landlord of the poor family does not increase his strength, how can he, a poor official and representative of the interests of the poor family, have a stable position in Bianliang?

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the foundation of the dynasty is the big family, and now the emperor suppresses the family to support the Hanmen, which is to replace the ruling base of the dynasty with the landlords of the Shu clan, so as to achieve centralized power.

If you don't support the poor family, how can the emperor's plan succeed?

The creation of some displaced people is just a price that must be paid.

Thinking from Tong Jing's standpoint, when there is no family in the world, and all the family businesses and fields of the family are vacant, there will naturally be a place to settle the displaced people, and the world will naturally be stable at that time.

As for the moment, forces like Zhang Jing dare to make trouble, and they will be destroyed. Could it be that the emperor will condemn him for this matter?

The emperor is clearer than anyone else.

"Zhang Jing's matter will be handled by the official, Zhang Shaoyin should continue the task assigned by the official before and deal with those illegal businessmen!" Tong Jing coldly interrupted Zhang Donglai's words. The so-called illegal businessmen actually refer to the industries of various families, and using people from families to deal with people from families can reduce a lot of hatred for Tong Jing.

"My lord, the lower official said that it is not Zhang Jing, but a displaced person, and it is a land annexation......" Seeing Tong Jing's concept secretly changed, Zhang Donglai emphasized sternly.

"Stand down!" Tong Jing snapped.

Zhang Donglai opened his mouth, but in the end, he still couldn't disobey the authority of Shangguan, so he could only leave the lobby silently.

Looking at Zhang Donglai's angry and lonely back, Tong Jing secretly sneered. As an official, the first task is to figure out what is a political achievement, which is the foundation of one's life and the step of advancement.

Is it a political achievement to curb land annexation and make decisions for the common people? Expanding the power of the poor landlords and suppressing the power of the family is the political achievement that the emperor needs to recognize!

Tong Jing is already a second-rank member, with the title of Tongping Zhangshi, if he wants to continue to climb up, he has to look at the prime minister's position.

He has had good political achievements over the years, Tong Jing has carefully calculated, and when he finishes what he is doing, so that the industries and forces of various families basically withdraw from Bianliang, he has completely proved his ability to deal with the family, and this achievement is enough for him to go further.

At that time, the first prime minister of the Great Qi Dynasty will be him Tongjing!

He will create a historical precedent, break a new day for countless poor officials in the future, and become famous in history, becoming the object of praise for countless poor officials in later generations!