In the afternoon, in a tea room on the second floor of the famous Huangjianzui Teahouse on East Street, Fanning and Zhu An sat opposite each other, and Zhu An seemed a little silent and kept drinking tea.

"What is the fifth brother usually responsible for?" Fanning asked with a smile.

Zhu An smiled bitterly, "What kind of fat shortage will I have for a concubine, I just manage a few warehouses at the Hongqiao Wharf outside the city." ”

Among the three Zhu brothers, Zhu Yuanjun took the official career, and his property was not much, mainly some real estate and land, but Zhu Yuanjun had many children and grandchildren, and it was impossible for them to take the official career one by one, and if he wanted to support a large family, he would inevitably embark on the business road.

Of course, Zhu Yuanjun's business route is also related to the Zhu family, when the three brothers broke up, Zhu Yuanfu took over the Zhu family's ancestral house, ethnology and ancestral hall, which have been controlled by Zhu Yuanjun.

In exchange, he also gave Zhu Yuanjun's ship, a large ship composed of thousands of inland river cargo ships, responsible for transporting salt, tea, oil, grain, cloth and other bulk goods from the south to the capital in a steady stream.

While operating the fleet, Zhu Yuanjun also has nearly 100 warehouses in inland wharves around the country, including four warehouses in Beijing, and the Hongqiao Wharf outside the city is one of them.

"Your grandfather and Zhang Yaozuo are very close?" Fan Ning asked, fiddling with the black pot of the building kiln in his hand.

Zhu Anzhong was a little resistant at first, but he was a smart person after all, and he knew that the third grandfather had already given him the opportunity, and whether he could grasp the opportunity or not depended on how well he cooperated with Fan Ning today.

His mentality quickly adjusted, and a smile appeared on his face, and he said to Fan Ning: "Like the rumors outside, my grandfather did hug Zhang Yaozuo's thigh, and Zhang Yaozuo was very important to him, and he had replaced Liu Yun's position in the past and became Zhang Yaozuo's right-hand man. ”

This temptation made Fan Ning quite satisfied, at least Zhu An's matter in his grandfather Zhu Yuanjun had been released.

Fan Ning pondered for a moment and asked, "Has Zhang Yaozuo been planning something with your grandfather recently?" ”

"They do a lot of things, depending on which one you refer to?"

"I mean..... Out-of-phase, such as Ruizhao and the like. ”

Zhu An suddenly understood, "You mean Rui Zhao about King Langya?" ”

Fan Ning nodded, Zhang Yaozuo wants to put King Langya on the throne of the crown prince, Ruizhao is necessary, but there are many ways for Ruizhao, and Fan Ning doesn't know which one Zhang Yaozuo will choose, if he can block Ruizhao and make Ruizhao a joke, it will definitely be a major blow to Zhang Yaozuo.

Having said that, it is even more difficult to grasp Zhang Yaozuo's actions, and Fan Ning did not have much hope, he just casually mentioned this matter.

Zhu An pondered for a moment and said: "Actually, I know a little bit about Ruizhao, did the virtuous brother know about the Laizhou Fish Belly Jinshu last spring?" ”

Fan Ning smiled: "Of course I know that this matter was published in the tabloids, and it is said that the Laizhou government also reported this matter to the imperial court. ”

Last spring, Laizhou fishermen picked up a strange fish, found a white brocade in the belly of the fish, wrote the words 'new Wang Li', caused a sensation, because Laizhou was called Langya County in ancient times, so the new king on the fish belly brocade book obviously refers to the king of Langya, but this matter was later more controversial, and finally it was settled.

Fan Ning also speculated that Zhang Yaozuo was likely to repeat his old tricks and create Ruizhao again because of this fish-belly brocade book.

Fan Ning heard what Zhu An said, and asked again: "Do you know about the fish belly brocade book?" ”

Zhu An nodded, "During that time, my second brother happened to take someone to Laizhou, and it didn't take long for the news of the fish belly brocade book, and I speculated that my second brother did it." ”

Zhu An's second brother is called Zhu Xing, very shrewd and capable, and is one of Zhu Yuanjun's most important grandsons, Fan Ning has also seen this person, but the point is not here, but it confirms Fan Ning's guess, Zhang Yaozuo really handed over this kind of side-door matter to Zhu Yuanjun, who was in an idle position.

Fan Ning thought for a moment and asked, "Can you buy off your grandfather and the people around Zhu Xing?" ”

"The people around my second brother are not big problems, they are all red when they see money, and it is easy to buy it, and the people around my grandfather are a little troublesome, but you can start with the little tea boy Ma Yuer, this puppy is very favored, and he is very greedy for money, as long as you give him enough money, he can sell his wife."

Fan Ning thought that the twenty warriors that Zhu Yuanfeng handed over to him could just come in handy.

........

If Fan Ning sees the little tea boy Ma Yu'er, he will understand what Zhu An means by 'very favored', he is not in a big grade, only eleven or twelve years old, but he looks oily and smooth, and his appearance is very handsome, which is the kind of little boy that many dignitaries like.

Ma Yu'er came from a relatively low background, his mother was a prostitute, he was mixed in the brothel since he was a child, fried a good tea, was taken by Zhu Yuanjun at the age of eight, and became Zhu Yuanjun's tea boy, he was very good at pleasing Zhu Yuanjun, and became more and more favored, so that the children of Zhu Mansion looked down on him from the bones, but had to slap him.

Maybe it was because he grew up in a brothel, Ma Tonger loved money like life since he was a child, but Zhu Yuanjun was stingy and had no power, so he couldn't make much money, so he made up his mind with the children of the Zhu family.

In the morning, Ma Yu'er followed Zhu An out excitedly, "Old Five, is the person you are talking about really willing to give a cent of profit every day?" ”

"With my guarantee, what are you afraid of?"

Ma Yu'er thinks about it, it's too late for this Zhu family disciple to stammer himself one by one, where do you dare to pit yourself, this Zhu An is a concubine, and she has to double her slap herself, thinking of this, Ma Yu'er smiled and said: "This time I have benefited, I will not treat you badly, I will definitely give you a few good words, let you be in charge of the land." ”

"Then thank you Brother Yu!"

Zhu An held back the extreme hatred in his heart, led Ma Yu'er to an alley, and walked directly to the end, he knocked on the far door, the door opened, and a young man glanced at him, and then turned sideways to let them in.

This man was murderous, so that Ma Yu'er was scared for a while, he took a step back, turned around and was about to run, only to feel that the back collar was tight, he was actually picked up, and before he could react, he felt that his body was floating, and then he fell heavily to the ground.

Ma Yu'er was dizzy and dizzy, and when he raised his head for a while, he found that four or five big men surrounded him, all of them were fierce and vicious, staring at him condescendingly, with a big foot on his chest, and his crotch was hot, and he was scared to pee.

At this time, a big man walked out of the house and said with a smile: "How do you treat guests?" Didn't the host explain, be polite! ”

The big man said politely, but he grabbed Ma Yu'er's placket and dragged him into a room like a dog, "Master Qiqi, he's here!" ”

Ma Yu'er lay on the ground, and it took a while before he finally reacted, he was fooled, and Zhu An, a dog thief, framed himself.

He slowly got up, and saw a tall young man sitting on the top, looking at him coldly, and there were four fierce men standing on the left and right, all with cold eyes and chilling eyes.

At this time, Ma Yu'er was suddenly attracted by the thing on the table beside the young man, which turned out to be a pile of yellow and clear gold.

"You stand up and speak!" The man above said coldly.

Ma Yu'er got up, only to feel that the crotch of his pants was cold, which made him ashamed, but his heart was still trembling, and he didn't know what he was going to face, but he faintly felt that what he encountered today was not necessarily a bad thing, and there was a pile of glittering gold waiting for him on the table.

The young man sitting on it was naturally Fan Ning, and the big men around him were the twenty henchmen Zhu Yuanfeng gave him.

Fanning pointed to the gold beside him, smiled and asked, "Do you want it?" ”

Ma Yu'er grunted in his throat, stared at the gold fiercely, and nodded heavily, "I want it!" ”

Of course he wanted it, he clearly remembered that the old man gave his mother a gold ingot of five taels, and his mother let the old man take him away, and everything he had that day was taken possession by the old man, and the heart-rending pain was still engraved in his heart, which was the price of five taels of gold, and now it was five hundred taels in front of his eyes.

Fan Ning said lightly: "These five hundred taels of gold can be given to you, but you have to help me do things, do a good job, these five hundred taels of gold are all yours!" ”

Ma Yu'er was extremely clever, he immediately understood what the other party wanted him to do, he was silent for a moment and asked, "Will you kill me afterwards?" ”

This Ma Yu'er is very smart, Fan Ning shook his head and said: "Rules are rules, as long as you do things well for me, take what you deserve, and then leave the capital, never show up again." ”

"Good! I promise you, that Zhu Yuanjun should have died a long time ago. ”

Fanning shook his head, "I'm not asking you to kill him. ”

Ma Yu'er was stunned, "Didn't you kill him?" ”

"It's not!"

Fanning beckoned to him, asked him to step forward, and whispered in his ear: "You help me keep an eye on his every move, I want to know who he is contacting and what he is going to do, you just have to tell Zhu An, understand?" ”

After speaking, Fanning put two ingots of gold weighing fifty taels each in his hand, "This one hundred taels of gold is a deposit, and after the matter is completed, the remaining four hundred taels will be given to you." ”

Ma Yu'er looked at the heavy gold in his hand, his eyes were straight, as if he was in a dream, and after a while, he slowly nodded, "I understand!" ”

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