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

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 of life by relying on the meticulous care and support of the father and son of Lao Fan Shangshu and Xiao Fan, so he was happy and worried about the arrival of the door master, 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 the health of the door master.

Fan Xian shook his head, looked at the river under 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, it was actually still a little 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 has been quite fruitful, although His Majesty's determination to rectify the rule of the officials has not been made, but the blood exchange 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.

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 goes more smoothly than Ji Chang...... Of course, Ji Chang's problem is also with 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, and the imperial court also knows it, and 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 can do something that you know, you have to work hard to do it, and what you don't understand, don't command 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 work is a major matter, even more important than the war on the border of Xihu and Northern Qi, if you only 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.

............ A few later, Fan Xian was still in Yingzhou, and most of the time he spent pointing fingers with Yang Wanli on the river embankment, but he inevitably had to be invited by the Yamen, the governor of the river industry. Fan Xian, an ordinary local official, 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 is very simple, what the governor of the river industry lacks is silver, and Fan Xian presides over the inner treasury is silver. His Excellency the Governor could not be gratefully grateful for this affection.

What made Yang Wanli feel strange was that the door master had been staying in Yingzhou, of course, Xingjiang South Road Qincha could inspect the construction of the embankment, but looking at Fan Xian's appearance, he was actually ready to stay here for half a month.

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

"Don't worry, 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 who picks up two loads of thorn fruits, and happens to carry the flat burden on his shoulders, but he is not worried about being stabbed by those thorn fruits in his thighs.

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.

There are two leading figures in the Jiangnan of the Qinian Group of the ――――――――――――――――――――― Supervision Yuan, 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 department of Suzhou City.

The action against the Ming family was actually set up as early as a year ago, and the real action started half a year ago. On the one hand, China Merchants Qian Zhuang vigorously transferred money to the Ming family to support the other party's channels and rì needs, and began to provoke Ming Lanshi to open up new trade routes, and at the same time attacked the Ming Sixth Master who only liked sumo wrestling...... The confused Ming Sixth Master only knew that China Merchants Bank had borrowed a lot of money from him, but he didn't think that his own shares in the Ming family had already become a few deed papers in China Merchants Bank.

This qiē was carried out in an open manner, because even if China Merchants Qianzhuang forced the debt at this time, with the strong strength of the Ming family, the mortgage of the goods in his hands, the constant flow of water, and the support of Taiping Qianzhuang, he could still cope with it, and he did not have to be forced to liquidate and pay off with the shares of the commercial bank and the land property.

Therefore, the problem in front of Fan Xian has always been how to make the Ming family's turnover shrink rapidly, and make the turnover of the Ming family strictly zhòng.

To deal with such a huge industry of the Ming family, even if there is money, I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve this goal, but the problem is that Fan Xian has the full power to dispose of the inner treasury, and he is desperately choking the supply of goods, and if he chokes 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 of Qingyutang, since the end of last summer, the production of the three major workshops of the inner library has gradually and steadily risen, and the quality has also been greatly improved.

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

Although such a large amount 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 in that period. If it goes on like this, what a wonderful rì it would be.

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

............ After the news of the stoppage reached Suzhou, Ming Qingda was furious and asked Ming Lanshi to hurry to the Yamen of the Inner Treasury Transfer Division to ask what had happened. Hong Qingda shamelessly accepted his questioning, but he 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 trouble 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 yīn scheme, they began to wait for the day when Neiku resumed work. The reason why the Ming family is so impatient and so nervous...... It was all because of the smooth wind and rain 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 number of rì usual.

The manifest has now expired, the Ming family needs a large number of goods, and the merchant needs credibility, and the Ming family would rather lose money than sell without goods.

After a few more years, 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 little panic for a while, and in order to complete the goods list, they had to start to transfer goods everywhere, not to mention the last spare inventory stored by the family, and they were forced to borrow some goods at a high price in the houses on 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, his partner this time is Yang Jimei, the largest salt merchant in Jiangnan, and knows that Yang Jimei and the governor Xue Qing have a very strong relationship, so Ming Lanshi is not worried about anything...... It's just that the return of illicit salt will take at least three months...... If my father had known that he had moved the running water in the 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 control the price of goods on the market, come to eat our family's silver, then give it to him to eat, anyway, he will vomit back in the future...... The manifest must be completed. ”

However, of course, the action of the Supervision Yuan was not as simple as the price of cāo, which was the second after the success of the Ming family's high-priced collection...... The workers of the three major workshops were as excited as if they had eaten ephedrine, and the operation of the inner library suddenly exploded, and there was no trace of the shadow of the workers, and in a very short period of time, they set a peak in production.

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...... Who let the Ming family mark the way the most.

The Ming family worked hard to collect high-priced goods and fulfilled most of the orders, but seeing that the prices of goods on the market were falling, they were indescribably 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, the 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 were all supported by the Taiping and China Merchants two money houses.

............" This order must be sent over, although Shi Bibao is a foreigner, but he is also a big foreign trading house behind him, 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 his best to do, and he didn't know how many connections he used, so he snatched them from the inner library.

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 would not be 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 had been operating in Jiangnan for a long time, and it was only after passing 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 be so smooth?

"Don't worry about anything. Ming Qingda said with a calm 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 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 and said in a cold voice: "If someone ...... Really dare to kill people and rob goods...... We can't kill everyone and flee back, and then we will go to Beijing to fight the imperial lawsuit!"

............ Three years 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, and it turned into a cold, at this moment, he thought of the massacre of a large number of officers and soldiers of the Jiaozhou Navy Division on the island a year ago, and he thought of the seabirds that ate carrion, the pirate brothers who died on the island.

Although from the beginning, he was a secret agent of the Inspectorate and was responsible for the detection on the island, but after staying on the island for a long time with those pirates, he always had some feelings. 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.

Just as he was thinking about it, a group of about 200 cavalry, escorting several carriages, walked over from the official road opposite the Ming family.

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

Ming Lanshi had 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 move, just indifferently passed by the Ming family's convoy, although these cavalry were on the horse, but there was a cold and murderous atmosphere all over the body, so that the private soldiers of the Ming family did not dare to move.

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

Several carriages escorted by two hundred cavalry suddenly broke the side compartments, and all the things inside were dumped out and 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 after hearing a few muffled sounds, there were countless small cracking sounds!

Ming Lanshi screamed, and hurriedly dismounted to check, only to see more than 100 silver mirrors...... Most of them were crushed into shredded shimmering lenses, and although they still reflected the glamorous light, they ...... 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 also want to make noise, angering your grandfather, be careful of your head. ”

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

In this world, there is such an accurate overturn? Both sides have losses? No matter how your stone is overturned, there will be no less corners, and your own ...... But it's a fragile silver mirror!