Volume 6 Chapter 80 of the Palace Front Huan, who can stop the big stone press?

Yang Wanli glanced at Fan Xian beside him and said, "Teacher, the matter in Jiangnan has been decided, don't worry too much." ”

At this time, Yang Wanli, after more than half a year of wind and rain on the river embankment, and the prevarication in the yamen of the governor of river transportation, has gradually figured out the true meaning of being an official and the difficulties of people's livelihood.

As an official, if you want to do things for the people and share the worries of the court, you must have power and money in your hands, otherwise you can't do anything. Yang Wanli has Fan Xian as a backer, so no boss in the Ministry of Industry dares to point fingers at him, although the Yamen, the governor of river transportation, is still a mess, but he has the right to directly pull out the silver of the inner treasury, so in this regard, no one can create obstacles for him.

He is no longer the pure young man who dared to shout at his protégé with a breeze on his sleeves, and every time he thinks of this, he deeply admires the lesson of the disciple in the West Lake in Hangzhou.

At this time, the endless riverbank embankment under the feet of the two is Yang Wanli's achievement in this year. Every time he looks at those ashlar loesses, looking at the tame river under the embankment, his heart is always full of fulfillment and pride, and the patched clothes on his body and the dark face have become a glorious mark.

Yang Wanli knew that he was able to achieve his ideal in life, and what he relied on was the meticulous care and support of Lao Fan Shangshu and Xiao Fan's father and son, so he was happy and worried about the arrival of the disciple, and said the previous sentence.

Everyone in the world knew that Fan Xian had been attacked when he returned to Beijing, and Yang Wanli was very worried about his body.

Fan Xian shook his head. looked at the river at his feet and said: "It's okay, don't think too highly of me, I'm a lazy person, I won't be busy with government affairs and damage my body...... As for the matter in Jiangnan, the Ming family's seven inches had already been pinched, and they naturally had no power to fight back, but if they wanted to eat it in one bite. Actually, it's still a bit difficult. ”

Today's Yang Wanli, of course, can understand the meaning of these words. It is not difficult to eat the Ming family, the key is the members of the royal family behind the Ming family, if Fan Xian did not have to taboo the situation in the palace, the Ming family would have been eaten by him a long time ago.

Fan Xian smiled, did not say the specific situation in detail, but comforted and said: "This return to Beijing is quite rewarding. Although His Majesty's determination to rectify the rule of the officials has not been made, the exchange of blood above the court has already begun...... You should have seen Cheng Jialin's name in the newspaper. ”

"Yes, Brother Jialin was the first of the four of us to return to the court. Yang Wanli said happily, the investigation of Fan Xian's assassination ended without a hitch, but Emperor Qingguo took the opportunity to drive away some old guys and installed many newcomers into the court. Now he is a member of the Ministry of Rites, and he is a key training object of the imperial court.

Fan Xian glanced at him and said with a smile: "Among the four of you, Jia Lin is the most silent and modest, and because of this, he went more smoothly than Ji Chang...... Of course, the problem of Ji Chang is also in me. If I hadn't called him to Jiaozhou, he wouldn't have fallen into such an impasse, I just hope he doesn't blame me. ”

Yang Wanli shook his head and said: "What are you talking about, teacher? The matter of Jiaozhou, Ji Chang also wrote to me, and the matter is big, and only Ji Chang can deal with it." ”

Fan Xian nodded, since the four of them knew their hard work, they didn't need to explain more.

The two walked downstream along the long embankment, walking and gossiping all the way. Fan Xian reminded: "I know very well about your affairs in the Hegong Yamen. The imperial court also knew it. Now the title of desperate thousands of miles has also been introduced to the palace, which will be of great benefit to you in the future...... But you still have to remember what I said back then. This kind of thing is a river repairer, you have to work hard to do what you know, and if you don't understand something, don't command it indiscriminately. ”

Yang Wanli responded with a smile: "After staying on the river embankment for a year, I have learned some things that I don't understand." ”

Fan Xian glanced at him disapprovingly, and said: "River engineering is a major matter, even more important than the war on the border of Xihu and Northern Qi, if you just know something...... How is that enough to sustain you to say so confidently?"

Yang Wanli immediately understood, ashamed to be taught.

"Of course, it is impossible to stop the river in just one year. Fan Xian suddenly frowned and said: "This is a ten-year work, or even a hundred-year work, and even as long as people live on both sides of this river for how many years, they will have to cultivate for as many years, you have to guard against arrogance and dryness...... Willing to be lonely is. ”

"Yes, teacher. ”

"But we also need to pay attention to cultivating some competent subordinates and specialists. Fan Xian said sincerely: "Although you have the wish to benefit the people, but after many years of wind and rain, your body and bones are afraid that you can't stand it, you have cultivated a capable person, the river work yamen should not stay any longer, let me go back to Beijing to do things seriously." ”

Yang Wanli was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Teacher, I don't want to go back to Beijing, there is much more trouble in Beijing than on the embankment...... Besides, I'm not afraid of hardship, I'm used to it. ”

"Of course it's troublesome in Beijing, but if you want to do something, you have to go back to Beijing!" Fan Xian said categorically: "This has nothing to do with whether you can endure this hardship, I still expect you to live for a few more years...... For such an old person, he hasn't even married his daughter-in-law yet, what kind of words do it say?"

Yang Wanli was distressed and didn't dare to say more. It's also wonderful to say, Fan Xian's age is younger than his four protégés, but in the past two years, they have occasionally met in one place, Fan Xian put up the score of the door master to teach them, and they are getting more and more used to it.

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A few days later, Fan Xian was still in Yingzhou, and most of the time he was pointing fingers with Yang Wanli on the river embankment, but he was inevitably invited by the Yamen, the governor of the river industry. Normally, local officials Fan Xian can shirk it, but this time the governor of Hegong actually came to the banquet in person, and this kind of face is really good.

The reason why the governor invited Fan Xian was very simple, what the governor of the river industry lacked was silver, and Fan Xian presided over the land in the inner treasury was silver. It is because Fan Xian is very enthusiastic about this yamen and countless silver taels from the open and secret. His Excellency the Governor could not be gratefully grateful for this affection.

What makes Yang Wanli feel strange is that why the door master has been staying in Yingzhou, of course, Xingjiang South Road Qincha can inspect the construction of the embankment, but looking at Fan Xiandi's appearance, he is actually preparing to stay here for half a month.

"Teacher. Aren't you going to Suzhou?" asked Yang Wanli one day.

"There's no rush. Wait. ”

Fan Xian laughed, Qingguo Kyoto is in the north, Suzhou is in the east, he is sitting in Yingzhou at this time, watching what is about to happen in the two places with cold eyes, just like a porter picking two loads of thorn fruits, just carrying the flat burden on his shoulders. But he didn't worry about being stabbed in his thighs by those thorns.

He is waiting for the matter in Suzhou to get to the point first, and then waiting for the incident in Kyoto to break out, Yingzhou is the best place to watch the show, because although he is very suspicious in the eyes of officials in the world, he still needs to avoid suspicion at this sensitive moment.

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There are two leading figures in the Qinian Group of the Supervision Yuan in Jiangnan, one is Su Wenmao, who is in charge of the production of the inner treasury in the three major squares of northern Fujian, and the other is Hong Changqing, who is watching the movements of the Ming family in the Inner Treasury Transfer Division of Suzhou City.

Actions for the Ming family. In fact, the game was laid out as early as a year ago, and the real turmoil began half a year ago. On the one hand, China Merchants Qian Zhuang vigorously transferred silver to the Ming family to support the other party's channels and daily needs, and began to provoke Ming Lanshi to open up new business routes, and at the same time, he also attacked the Ming Sixth Master who only liked sumo...... The confused Ming Sixth Master only knew that China Merchants had borrowed a lot of money from him, but he didn't think about it at all. His own shares in the Ming family have already become a few deeds in the China Merchants Bank.

All this is carried out clearly, because even if China Merchants Money Zhuang is forced to pay debts at this time, with the strong strength of the Ming family, the mortgage of the goods in hand, the daily flow of water, and the support of Taiping Qianzhuang, it can still cope with it, and it does not have to be forced to liquidate and pay off with the shares of the commercial bank and the land property.

So all the time. The question in front of Fan Xian. It is how to make the flow of the Ming family shrink rapidly, so that the turnover of the Ming family has serious problems.

Deal with such a huge industry as the Ming family. No matter how rich he is, he is afraid that it will be difficult to achieve this goal, but the problem is that Fan Xian has the full authority to dispose of the inner treasury, and he is strangling the supply of goods, and he is waiting to choke the throat of the Ming family.

The first to do it was Su Wenmao, with the full cooperation of the deputy envoy of the inner library, the cousin of Ren Shao'an, and under the skillful arrangement of several old Ye shopkeepers in Qingyutang, since the end of last summer, the production of the three major workshops in the inner library has gradually and steadily risen, and the quality has also been greatly improved.

There are many shipments, there will inevitably be more food, and the Ming family will not let go of this opportunity, and during this time, the harassment of the Ming family by the Supervision Yuan has also relaxed a lot, so the entire industry of the Ming family has come to life, swallowed countless goods for a time, and transported them in the direction of Dongyi City and Quanzhou.

Although such a large sum of goods cost the Ming family a lot of money, Ming Qingda was not worried, because this change of hands would bring back the silver to the account, which was also the reason why he felt relaxed during that time. What a beautiful day it would have been if it had continued like this.

However, the three major workshops of the Inner Treasury Transfer Division suddenly stopped work for unknown reasons!

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After the news of the suspension of the construction site reached Suzhou, Ming Qingda was furious and asked Ming Lanshi to hurry to the Yamen of the Inner Treasury Transfer Division to ask what happened. Hong Qingda shamelessly accepted his questioning, but only refused to say that the three major workshops were undergoing routine equipment maintenance and needed to wait for some time.

The Ming family has the qualifications to be angry and roar, because he is the imperial merchant who has summoned countless taels of silver from Neiku, and since Neiku has received his standard silver, he must ensure his incoming channels, otherwise he can go to the imperial court.

But Hong Changqing also has an excuse to delay, because the three major fangs have completed the share of the bidding documents in the shipment last year, even if it stops for ten days and a half months, the goods that your Ming family should receive have been collected.

Ming Qingda had no choice but to use the power of officialdom to find out the real news of the first place in Fujian, and finally got the news back, I heard that it was the three major squares that started to make a wave of labor again, and the Su master of the Supervision Yuan cut off the heads of more than 20 people, so he could barely suppress it, but he had to miss the work for many days.

Knowing that this was the reason, the Ming family breathed a sigh of relief. As long as it wasn't Fan Xian's conspiracy, he began to wait for the day when the inner library resumed work. The reason why the Ming family is so impatient and so nervous...... It's all because everything went smoothly in the first two months, and the Ming family gradually recognized the shipping capacity of the inner warehouse, and signed a large contract with Dongyi City and overseas according to the daily quantity.

The manifest has now expired, and the Ming family needs a large number of goods. What merchants need is reputation, and the Ming family would rather lose money. I don't want to sell it without goods.

After a few more days, the three major squares finally resumed work...... However, there are not many goods produced, and I don't know when we will be able to return to last year's situation. The Ming family fell into a small panic for a while, and in order to complete the manifest, they had to start transferring goods everywhere, not to mention the last spare inventory stored by the family. I was also forced to borrow some goods at a high price in the places of Xingbei Road and Xingnan Road.

After getting the reward from Mr. Ledger and weighing the flowing water available in the clan now, Ming Qingda frowned and said, "What does Fan Xian want to do? ”

Ming Lanshi listened on the side, his mouth was a little bitter, these days he secretly transferred a sum of money to China Merchants Qian Zhuang to prepare to participate in the private salt business, the object of his cooperation this time. is Yang Jimei, the largest salt merchant in Jiangnan, and knows that the relationship between Yang Jimei and the governor Xue Qing is extremely iron, so Ming Lanshi is not worried about anything...... It's just that the return of illicit salt will take at least three months...... If his father had known that he had moved the water in his family to another place, would he still be as successful as he is now?

"Our Ming family has nothing else, but silver. Ming Qingda smiled indifferently: "Fan Xian wants to manipulate the price of goods on the market to eat our family's silver." Then give it to him, he's going to vomit back in the future anyway...... The manifest must be completed. ”

However, of course, the action of the Supervision Yuan was not as simple as manipulating the price of goods, and it was on the second day after the Ming family's high-priced collection was successful...... The workers of the three major squares became excited as if they had eaten ephedrine, and the operation of the inner warehouse suddenly broke out, and there was no trace of the labor tide at all, and in a very short period of time, it hit the peak of daily output.

Although the price of the goods sold by several major imperial merchants is the price set by the imperial court, the price of the sale must be controlled by the upstream supplier. The main reason is to earn a lot of price difference in the Ming family...... Who let the Ming family mark the way the most.

The Ming family worked hard to collect high-priced goods. Most of the orders were fulfilled, but the price of goods on the market was decreasing. Unspeakably annoyed, especially a few foreigners who went to sea in Quanzhou shamelessly ran away and turned to Lingnan to pick up bargains...... Let the Ming family smash a lot of high-priced porcelain perfumes in their hands.

In this battle alone, the Ming family lost 700,000 taels of flowing water.

If it was placed in the past, these 700,000 taels were nothing to the Ming family in Jiangnan, but after being suppressed by the Supervision Yuan for a year, the circulation channels of the Ming family were already close to drying up, and they all relied on the support of the two money banks of Taiping and China Merchants, and now there are 700,000 taels of flowing water that melt away like snowflakes, so the owner of the Ming family, Ming Qingda, is not vigilant.

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"This order must be sent over, although Shi Bibao is a foreigner, but behind him is also a foreign business firm in the earth, he will not be as shameless as those islanders, he is also credible. Ming Qingda rubbed his tired eyes and said to his son below: "Lan Shi, this time you will personally escort the goods, you must be careful." ”

Ming Lanshi responded, he also knew that this batch of goods was very important, because this batch of goods was a batch of trial goods that his father tried every means to use and didn't know how many connections he used.

The so-called trial goods refer to the goods that were successfully developed for the first time in the inner warehouse, just like the previous spirits and perfumes, although the price is extremely high, but everyone knows that it must be a very novel thing, once sold, it can be sold as gold.

This trial goods are a batch of mirrors - Ming Lanshi personally inspected the goods, the main material of these mirrors is glass, but the back does not know how to do it, it is actually plated with a layer of silver, and it is really a treasure.

It stands to reason that with the relationship between Fan Xian and the Ming family, it is not the turn of the Ming family to make a fortune with such an important trial goods in the inner library, but after all, the Ming family has been operating in Jiangnan for a long time, and it was only through another imperial merchant that they ate this batch of goods. But Ming Lanshi still had some ominous feelings in his heart...... If this batch of silver mirrors can be safely delivered to Shi Bibao in Quanzhou, the current very difficult turnover situation of the Ming family can be greatly alleviated. But...... Will it go so well?

"Don't worry about anything. Ming Qingda said with a gloomy face: "I have communicated with Jingzhong, you personally escorted this batch of goods, and the Jiaozhou sailor also explained, this time we will not go to sea by ourselves, although we will earn less, but walking between the states and counties, it should be safe......"

The master of the Ming family, who had endured Fan Xian for a whole year, suddenly raised his head. He said in a cold voice: "If anyone ...... Really dare to kill people and rob goods...... You can't kill everybody and flee back to people. Let's go to Beijing to fight the imperial lawsuit!"

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Three days later, on a hill from Suzhou to the southeast, Hong Changqing looked at the long convoy at the bottom of the mountain and laughed, there were not many cars with silver mirrors, only two carriages, but the Ming family actually sent five hundred private soldiers to escort them, and they really attached great importance to the export manifest.

However, his smile immediately fell. It turned into a cold, and at this moment, he thought of the day when a large number of officers and soldiers of the Jiaozhou Navy Division went to the island to slaughter a year ago, and he thought of the seabirds that ate carrion, the pirate brothers who died on that island.

Although from the beginning, he was a secret agent of the Supervision Yuan, responsible for the detection of the island. But after staying on the island for a long time with those pirates, there is always some affection. So today, he stood on the mountain, looking at the Ming family's convoy and private soldiers below, and a happy and bloody smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

If you don't kill people today, it will definitely make Ming Qingda more heartbroken than killing these people.

I'm thinking about it. A group of about 200 cavalry, escorting several carriages, walked over from the official road directly opposite the Ming family.

The two sides hedged, and they were blocked at the bottom of the mountain.

Ming Lanshi has been paying careful attention to the situation on the road, looking at this group of people, he immediately noticed a strange atmosphere, and commanded his private soldiers to draw their weapons and prepare to meet the enemy.

But the cavalry of the two hundred people did not make any moves, but just passed by the Ming family's convoy indifferently, although these cavalry rode straight on the horse. But there was a cold and murderous aura all over his body. The private soldiers of the Ming family did not dare to act rashly.

It was precisely when the two convoys merged into two lines.

Several carriages escorted by 200 cavalry suddenly broke the side compartments, and all the things inside were dumped out. smashed on the carriage where the Ming family stored the silver mirror!

If it's a general cargo, what are you afraid of if you smash it?

But the problem is what was smashed on the carriage where the silver mirror was stored...... It's a rock, a very heavy, heavy, and angular stone!

No one dared to stop it with flesh and blood, even the private soldiers of the Ming family who were carrying strict orders, only to hear a few muffled bangs on the ground, and countless small cracking sounds came!

Ming Lanshi screamed, and hurriedly dismounted to check, only to see more than 100 silver mirrors...... Most of them were crushed into shredded lenses, which still reflected the glamorous light, but ......

There was chaos on the official road under the mountain, countless people pulled out their weapons, the two sides confronted each other, and a big battle was about to break out.

Ming Lanshi's eyes were dark, and he immediately knew that it was over, he turned his head fiercely, stared at the leader of the two hundred cavalry, gritted his teeth and said, "Sure enough...... When did the black rider of the dignified Supervision Institute start killing people and robbing goods?"

The leader had a silver mask on his face, and it was not surprising that the young master of the Ming family was able to recognize the identities of his group, because they were not prepared to hide their identities today.

Jing Ge, the deputy commander of the Black Cavalry of the Supervision Yuan, looked at Ming Lanshi and said indifferently: "Ben General did not kill anyone, nor did he rob goods...... I will escort the stone needed by the three major squares of the inner library to pass through here, and other private businessmen dare to block the road, the road is narrow and narrow, unfortunately overturned, both sides have losses, do not want you to compensate...... You don't want to make noise, provoke your grandfather's fierce nature, and be careful about your head. ”

Ming Lanshi's eyes were a little dim, and he looked at those black riders who were covered in iron and blood, and seemed to be eager to try...... He forcibly suppressed the anger in his chest, only to feel the smell of blood in his throat, stared at his eyes and said in pain: "Overturned?"

In this world, there is such an accurate overturner? Both sides have losses? No matter how you turn over the rocks, you will not lose a corner, and your own ...... But it's a fragile silver mirror!

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