In the quiet valley, there was a depression and panic, but no one dared to do it Ming Lanshi of course knew that this was something arranged by Fan Xian, from the beginning, but he didn't understand that the other party was a court official after all, how could he do such a shameless thing - in the face of such a terrible cavalry, Ming Lanshi didn't want to fight with the other party, so as to give away his own life, but the debris all over the ground made his brain angry!

"I'm going to Kyoto to fight a lawsuit!"

Ming Lanshi scolded angrily.

"Whatever, I won't be accompanied. ”

Jing Ge coldly threw down this sentence, and led the team away, and before leaving, he didn't forget to carry the heavy stone back to the carriage, leaving only the Ming Lan Stone crying without tears, those dumbfounded Ming family private troops, and a large piece of crystal shards scattered on the ground.

In previous years, the Ming family secretly raised pirates, colluded with the Jiaozhou sailors, robbed ships and goods in the East China Sea, killed people like hemp, I don't know how many lives were harmed, and how many goods were robbed of the imperial court, but now Fan Xian did the opposite, not on the sea, but on land, neither harming your Ming family's life, nor taking your goods, just ...... All of them are destroyed, so that your Ming family can't cry and can't cry.

The cycle of heaven and earth, heaven and earth, should be like this.

It's not over yet.

Hong Changqing, who was wearing an official uniform, coughed twice, walked to Ming Lanshi's side from the mountain, and said with a smile: "Young Master Ming is good." ”

"Lord Hong?" Ming Lanshi was already numb at this time, and he was not surprised to see Fan Xian's cronies, but he didn't know what the other party wanted to say to him.

"My real name is Qingwa, and I am also a brother on that island. Hong Changqing leaned into Ming Lanshi's ear and gritted his teeth and said coldly: "These worthless pieces of glass are the official for Brother Mengzi, Sister Orchid, and the hundreds of brothers who died on the island...... Thank you. Don't forget Sister Orchid, that's your most painful aunt......"

After Hong Changqing said this, his chest was full of the pleasure of revenge, and he said loudly: "Thank you!"

Haha laughter, Hong Changqing left in a dashing manner, leaving Minglan Stone Face like earth, with a shocked face, he looked at his hands in amazement, as if he remembered at this time that he had used these hands to end the life of a woman who was full of infatuation with him.

............ When the news came back to the Ming Garden outside Suzhou, Ming Qingda shook his right hand, and the porcelain bowl of Shanghao Guan Kiln in his hand fell to the ground with a bang and shattered into countless pieces, but he didn't feel distressed at all.

Because the crisp sound of those silver mirrors shattering into pieces of glass had already made him feel so distressed that he was unconscious, and the old man suddenly felt that his heart, like the porcelain bowl on the ground and the silver mirror there, was shattered into countless pieces.

――――――――――――――――――――――― "I'm not afraid of lawsuits." The royal lawsuit is even more fearless...... Who is he going to fight for him?"

After spending half a month in Yingzhou, Fan Xian waited for Wang Qinian, finally got into the carriage, and began to continue to Hangzhou.

The news of the Supervision Yuan has already been delivered, Fan Xian raised his eyebrows, a little funny, a little happy, although he was also calling for wind and rain in Jiangnan last year, he was always depressed and dragged by the old fox of Ming Qingda.

He just gave a general strategy, but the specific executor was the person below, and he didn't expect that Hong Changqing still remembered the tragedy on that island until now, and he refused to let the Ming family die happily, so he had to cut the meat so slowly.

"Cut the meat with a slow knife and boil the frog in warm water. Fan Xian said to Wang Qinian beside him: "I feel sorry for the Ming family, pass the order, the fire is coming, let the sons and daughters stop being greedy for fun, and hurry up and accept it." ”

Wang Qinian stayed in Beijing for nearly a month, just to watch the movements in the palace, and said: "In two days, the eldest princess and the crown prince can no longer care about the life or death of the Ming family, and they want to do it before the Ming family reacts, and now is the right time." ”

Fan Xian nodded and said, "What they want is that they can't think of me as ruthless...... The Ming family is now only afraid that I will continue to accompany him to slowly survive, and I will catch him off guard. ”

He suddenly laughed, lifted the curtain in front of the car, looked at the slowly regressing Jiangnan official road, couldn't help the happiness in his heart, and hummed a little song.

Wang Qinian listened to the strange music on the side, and couldn't help but smile and asked, "My lord, as for Le Cheng like this?"

Fan Xian laughed and said: "After holding back for a year, I can finally let go and do things, and it's hard to be happy." ”

............ When the carriage of the Lord Qincha marched towards Hangzhou at the slowest speed, the people in Suzhou City had their own thoughts, and Xue Qing, the governor of the southern part of the Yangtze River, had been sitting in the study in a daze after receiving the letter written by Fan Xian, and the two masters on his left and right also knew the content of the letter, and they were in a daze like the adults.

It looks like three mud bodhisattvas.

Xue Qing left Beijing early, the road was fast, and he arrived in Suzhou more than 20 days ago, and he was clear about the losses suffered by the Ming family in these paragraphs, but he thought that this was just another weakening of the Ming family by the Supervision Yuan, but he didn't expect Fan Xian to be so confident in the letter, and he actually ...... It's like you're ready to finish the battle.

"Fan Xian, why is he? This is not a fight?"

Xue Qing, the governor of Jiangnan, obviously didn't know about the business of China Merchants Qianzhuang, and was thinking hard about where Fan Xian's confidence came from, and why he wanted to ventilate to himself in the letter to prepare himself.

"Since Lord Chincha said this, it means that he has a certain number in his heart. Master Zuo frowned and said, "The question now is what should we do?"

Xue Qing fell into deep thought, if Fan Xian could really eat the Ming family, as a close confidant who knew His Majesty's intentions, of course he would cooperate well, but the problem was ...... He was also quite jealous of the royal power behind the Ming family, and once there was no obvious tendency in Beijing, he would never dare to take the lead.

"Or else...... Let's just do the same as last year, let's take a look?" Master Right thought for a long time, and only came up with a way to make peace with the mud.

Xue Qing's eyes suddenly opened, and two cold lights came out: "Look...... Of course, we have to continue to watch, but we can't just look at it, Fan Xian is just doing Jiangnan Road, even if he has a way to get rid of Ming Qingda on the surface, but secretly it is inconvenient for the Supervision Yuan to take action...... We must always take care of the hearts of the people in Jiangnan. ”

The Governor of Jiangnan finally said: "The 1,000 private soldiers of the Ming Yuan and the Ming family are watching the Zhou army...... If Fan Xian can't help it, let's continue to watch, if Fan Xian succeeds, we have to help him eat these people!"

Master Right said in a trembling voice: "My lord, transfer troops to kill...... If those people in the palace find out, there will be big trouble. ”

Xue Qing waved the handwritten secret letter sent by Fan Xian in his hand, and said calmly: "Since he dares to do it, he must be sure of the situation in the capital, this young Lord Qincha is not a fool...... When you write to me, you want to share the credit with me...... But this year, the Jiangnan Road Yamen didn't do anything, if you want to share this work, you must have to do it. ”

Suddenly, there was a hurried knock on the door outside the study, Xue Qing frowned, the master stepped forward to open the door, and a subordinate official of the Jiangnan Road Yamen walked in in a hurry, and he didn't have time to bow down, and reported directly to Xue Qingyu: "Lord Governor, something happened to the Ming family!"

Something happened to the Ming family?

Xue Qing was shocked in his heart, and secretly sighed that Fan Xian was so fast, but his face was still calm, and asked, "Specifically." ”

The official swallowed his saliva and said, "At the morning hour, Shangmingyuan, the Yamen of the Inner Treasury Transfer Division, collected a batch of accounts, and the name seemed to be a silver mirror. ”

Xue Qing knew the inside story of the batch of silver mirrors being smashed by Fan Xian, his brows furrowed slightly, and he couldn't help but feel a little distressed, and asked, "So what? The Ming family signed an agreement, and this silver is naturally to be given." ”

These words are obviously biased towards Fan Xian's side, and the court is always so shameless when dealing with merchants.

"It's not the money. The officer glanced at the Governor and said carefully, "I heard...... There was a problem with the turnover of the Ming family, and several money banks related to his family ...... Now they are all going to Mingyuan to force debts!"

Forced debt?

Xue Qinghuo stood up with a bang, the Ming family has been in the south of the Yangtze River for a hundred years, and he dares to go to Mingyuan to force debts...... But there are not few, one is that the Ming family has a lot of money, and the other is that there is no money bank willing to offend its family, which is ...... Why did this suddenly change today? Xue Qing's heart immediately turned countless thoughts, could it be that Fan Xian had rectified the Ming family for a year, and he had actually forced the Ming family to the point of exhaustion?

If the Ming family really can't pay the money, and the firms forced by those money banks are sold cheaply, the family will be in chaos...... This...... Xue Qing's brows furrowed, he knew what His Majesty meant, the Ming family wanted to let the imperial court control it, but ...... The Ming family can't be messed up!

Once the Ming family is really bankrupt, not to mention the tens of thousands of people in that clan, what will happen to the people of Jiangnan, who are closely related to it?

"Taiping Qianzhuang also went?"

"Nope"

"Send someone to watch outside the Ming Garden. Hearing that Taiping Qianzhuang, the biggest partner of the Ming family, was not involved in this matter, Xue Qing's heart was a little calmer, but his face was still heavy, and he ordered: "Sue those people, the court doesn't care about the dispute between the Ming family and the Qian Zhuang, but the Ming family is not allowed to fall!"

............ Fan Xian, like Xue Qing, understood what Emperor Lao Tzu meant, the Ming family wanted to eat, and they had to eat it whole, and the appearance of eating should not be too ugly, and the Ming family's own strength could not be lost too much, which affected the stability of the entire Jiangnan.

So he won't watch the Ming family fall. It is impossible for Ming Qingda to watch the Ming family fall. Therefore, there is no idea of liquidating the debt this time, but just trying to get some ...... Great benefits. Now rì, the reason why several money houses went to Mingyuan together to ask for money...... It's purely because Fan Xian still has a trace of luxury...... can hide the behind-the-scenes owner of China Merchants Bank.

――――――――――――――――――― this world, it is always more reasonable and confident to owe money than to borrow money, so Ming Qingda, the contemporary owner of the Ming family, held a lukewarm tea bowl and slowly sipped the tea one by one, and he didn't bother to raise his eyelids, although the representatives of various money houses sat below him, and they were all his creditors in name.

And the shopkeepers of those money banks did not have the consciousness of being debt collectors, they sat on the chairs very obscenely, only dared to put a third of their buttocks, and occasionally raised their eyes to look at the master of the Ming family, and a trace of fear flashed in their eyes, where did they seem to come to collect debts.

These money bank shopkeepers know that they are all little ants, as long as the master of the Ming family moves his fingers, he can pinch himself to death and drive himself out of the place in the south of the Yangtze River. But today they had to come, because the ups and downs that the Ming family had experienced for a year in a row had already made them worried, and they were provoked by someone's heart, and they all gathered in the Ming family's living room today.

They represent capital, although there is not much silver, but it is still capital, capital feels sorry for itself the most, and the most unbearable thing is loss. Especially in this month, everyone knows that the Supervision Yuan's blow to the Ming family has become stronger again, and the Ming family has suffered losses...... And the recent scrapping of the silver mirrors, this morning's forced silver by the Inner Treasury Transfer Division, finally succeeded in crushing the psychological defense line of these money bank shopkeepers.

An old shopkeeper said with a bitter face: "Master Ming, the Ming family has been in charge of the Jiangnan business industry for nearly a hundred years, if you say that there is no silver...... No one believes it, but there have been a lot of rumors on the market recently, and I always want to ask the old man to give us people a word. ”

"Accurate?" Ming Qingda frowned in disgust, these shameless things like locusts! I used to kneel down to the door, I didn't bother to take a look, but now I actually dared to come...... Ask for words to yourself!

Old Man Ming doesn't care about these money bank shopkeepers at all, even if the turnover of the Ming family is difficult now, it is still more than enough to pay back these silvers. Out of the corner of his eye, he only glanced faintly at the shopkeeper who had been sitting quietly at the back.

The shopkeeper is the big shopkeeper of China Merchants Bank, and there is a handsome young man standing behind him, not many people know about the relationship between China Merchants and the Ming family, and the reputation of China Merchants Money Village in Jiangnan is not loud, so he sits at the back. Ming Qingda had some ominous premonitions in his heart, what kind of excitement did China Merchants Qianzhuang come to join in today?

He was not interested in saying anything to these shopkeepers, so he took the tea bowl and sent the guests off, and at the same time indifferently asked these people to go to the account room to clear all the loans, and collect a total of hundreds of thousands of taels of debts, the Ming family could not bear this humiliation.

The shopkeepers of those money banks were overjoyed and then shocked, first of all, the money was finally in their hands, although they lost some interest, but they were surprised to see the arrogance of the Ming family...... Could it be that there is something wrong with the news that these people have received?

............ All the shopkeepers withdrew, and Ming Qingda tilted his head and looked at the shopkeeper who had not moved with interest, and said softly: "I know, they were all persuaded by you to come." ”

The big shopkeeper of China Merchants Bank laughed mildly and did not refute this sentence.

Ming Qingda frowned slightly and said, "Say, what do you want." ”

are all old foxes who have been in the business world for countless years, and from the cooperation with China Merchants Money Village this year, Ming Qingda knows that this big shopkeeper of Qian Zhuang, who has never been famous, must have been a ruthless sè back then. At this time, all the idle shrimp were gone, and the two spoke much more directly.

Ming Qingda knew how much silver taels the Ming family had transferred to China Merchants Bank, if China Merchants Bank had also joined the team of forced debt liquidation before, the Ming family could only sell the land and sell the house, even if it was supported this time, the family would be greatly damaged...... And since the other party has been silent until now, it will definitely not be the joke of the Ming family, and there must be something else to ask for.

And those IOUs held by China Merchants Qianzhuang are indeed qualified to ask for something from the Ming family.

The big shopkeeper smiled slightly and said, "Old man Ming, my owner wants to ...... Working with you. ”

Cooperation? Ming Qingda's eyes narrowed, and the cold light was immediately released, what kind of cooperation is the cooperation between Qian Zhuang and the merchants? He closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then said softly: "No." ”

Although the word "no" is light, it is loud and unquestionable.

The big shopkeeper didn't seem to expect the Ming family to refuse so directly, and after being slightly stunned, he still laughed: "No...... Yes, too. ”

Ming Qingda opened his eyes sharply, stared at the shopkeeper with a trace of pity and disdain, and a cold voice seeped out from between his teeth: "You...... Are you threatening me?"

"Don't dare. The big shopkeeper said gently: "It's just a request." ”

Ming Qingda fell into contemplation again, he didn't ask the other party for threatening him, he borrowed a lot of money from China Merchants Bank this year, which was enough to make the other party speak with a little more confidence.

The big shopkeeper said unhurriedly: "In business, in the current situation, Master Ming, you also know that if I ask for silver by the bank, the turnover of the Ming family will be cut off soon, what do you take to supply the follow-up silver of the inner treasury? That little Fan can wait for you to take out the silver...... You can cut off your right of way. Although the Ming family is rich and powerful, it ...... The identity of this imperial merchant must not be avoided, and the silver flowing out of the inner treasury cannot be avoided. ”

Ming Qingda was silent, knowing that the other party had said his own harm, and the biggest problem of the Ming family now was that the turnover of the flow of water had gradually dried up.

"The deed of the silver bar is clearly written, before the time comes, don't even think about taking back a tael of silver. So far, Ming Qingda still hasn't panicked at all, because he has enough confidence.

Unexpectedly, the chief shopkeeper of China Merchants Qianzhuang smiled slightly and said: "Who said that you can't take it back?" The deed says that if Qianzhuang is willing to pay the deed at a shallow water price, you must repay the silver within five rì, this lawsuit ...... Even if you go to Kyoto, I will win, and you will still have to pay back the money. ”

"Shallow water price!" Ming Qingda stood up suddenly, with an incredible expression on his tired face, and lowered his voice and reprimanded: "You are crazy!

The face of the big shopkeeper remains unchanged: "If you really can't cooperate...... Even if you lose 30% of the silver, we will ask you to repay the silver in advance. ”

Ming Qingda stared at him coldly, as if he wanted to judge whether the other party was a madman or not, slowed down a little, and said: "If you really do this, my Ming family can't sell the land and sell the land, and it's not that you can't pay you back, but the loss of your money bank will be great......"

"This is a testament to our determination and sincerity. The big shopkeeper smiled gently: "My owner has always been in the money business, but he is very interested in your country's business, he is an ambitious person, willing to cooperate with a hero like you, so please be sure to appreciate it." ”

Ming Qingda sat down slowly, he finally figured it out, it turned out that the owner of China Merchants Money Bank wanted to join the Ming family's business through the relationship of borrowing money a year ago, this situation ...... It's too old.

"Who's your owner?"

"When the agreement is reached, the owner will come to the door in person to worship Master Xie Ming. ”

"But what if I really don't want to?" Ming Qingda had already regained his composure, and said lightly: "It's okay to fight a lawsuit, my Ming family will accompany me all the way, but this silver can still drag on for a year and a half." ”

"Can it really be delayed?" the big shopkeeper smiled gently: "The imperial lawsuit is just a joke, according to the Qinglu people's livelihood, adults should understand that the private loan lawsuit can reach the Jiangnan Road Yamen at most...... Hit in front of Lord Xue Qing, you ...... Are you willing to do so?"

Of course, Ming Qingda was unwilling to do this, the imperial court had been looking at his own family for a whole year, and if he encountered this kind of lawsuit, he would definitely try his best to kill himself.

Unexpectedly, China Merchants Qianzhuang had already calculated all the back roads, and saw the dispute between the Qingguo court and the businessman so clearly, Ming Qingda's fingers trembled slightly, staring at the big shopkeeper, and the old tired heart roared: "This is a yīn scheme!"

............ After a long silence, Ming Qingda said a little tiredly: "How does your owner want to cooperate with me?"

"Debts to silver, to equity. The big shopkeeper said cleanly.