Fan's family is located in Fanjiazhuang on the edge of Jiangkou County, Fanjiazhuang was originally called Balizhuang, and it was named because it was eight miles away from the county seat.

The Fan family moved to Balizhuang for 10 generations, and it was the first batch of people who went south with the former Song Dynasty Emperor, and the Son of Heaven entered Jianye, and the people began to settle down around Jianye.

The ancestor of the Fan family didn't want to get too close to Jianye, so he went down the river and arrived near the mouth of the river.

Suddenly, I saw a number of egrets resting on a hill on the north bank of the river, and a buffalo was grazing in the farmland not far from the side of the mountain, and there was an egret on the back of the buffalo, which was a very good meaning, the white crane rode the green ox, the omen of prosperity of the family business, and he liked it all of a sudden.

100 meters away here is the Balizhuang at that time, Balizhuang was a small village at the beginning, only more than ten households, because there was a small wharf nearby at that time, and several boatmen built houses here and settled down.

Later, with the frequent exchanges of merchants, there were gradually more people here, and many people leveled the land in the surrounding area, opened canals, and some farmers also moved from the side, and there were more than 30 households and more than 100 people in Balizhuang.

After the ancestor of the Fan family fell in love with this, he bought dozens of acres of mountainous land not far from the southeast of the village from the county government, first leveled a few acres and built a yard and a few earthen houses, settled down, and later reclaimed the surrounding wasteland to make paddy fields, forming the original appearance of the Fan family, which is also the foundation of the Fan family's fortune, and even the ancestral tomb of the Fan family is here.

As the Fan family grew bigger and bigger, the Fan family expanded, but the Fan family has been very benevolent for generations, and no matter what, they have not forced the original residents to move once, but have expanded to the other side of the mountain.

Before the fifth generation, the hill, which was later known as Lushan, was bought, and the current layout of the Fan family is half surrounded by Lushan.

On the other hand, more and more villagers also moved in and expanded from several other directions, and it became a large village and town with hundreds of households and thousands of residents, and then it was slowly called Fanjiazhuang.

Early in the morning, Mr. Fan sat in the gazebo in his backyard and took a nap with his eyes closed. There was a small guy on the side who was fanning slowly.

Although it is just starting to get hot and the heat is not high, there are some small flying insects flying everywhere, which is also more annoying.

Mr. Fan has come back from Yangzhou, closed his door, and in recent days, he has been under the pretext of the heat, inconvenient to see guests, and turned away all the guests, and even some old friends in the house have euphemistically pushed away, which made those old friends can't help but think crankily, and quickly find someone to inquire whether the Fan family is going to change as a family.

The door of the inner courtyard opened, and a middle-aged man walked into the gazebo, looked at Old Man Fan, and shouted softly.

"Dad, just now Master Li came back from Taiyang and told me something, the other courtyard we have been looking at for the past few days, those people came out this morning and went straight to the dock and left by boat."

Seeing Old Man Fan sitting there, without any response, without hesitation, continued.

"We have learned about a few places that Xiao San said, there are two places that are related to the Lu family in Shuyang, and there are still a few places that cannot be found out at present, and the people we arranged in Taiyang City do not know much about the Lu family, whether it is their secret place can not be determined now."

"Boss, Taiyang, Shuyang, Jiangzhou, these places, I said a long time ago, we must have our own sources, we are now the target of public criticism in Yangzhou, those big families will not stare at us one day, so many businesses, dealing with all kinds of things, once there is a problem in one place, other places will be implicated."

The old man sat up as he spoke, "This time, we were forced to come out, there was no way to retreat from the beginning, what we have to do now is to smash this matter to death, there can be no hesitation and illusions, no matter how difficult the future is, who is in front of the obstacle, no matter how desperate to kill, only in this way can there be a glimmer of life." ”

Old Man Fan looked at the boss, he had never been so serious, "Boss, you are good in other aspects, but there is a little, too soft, not enough murderous intent, it is right to be cautious, it is troublesome to think too much, if you are already facing a killing situation, you can only kill it, and retreating will bring a catastrophe, if the Lu family really colludes with the bandits, we will be the first to suffer." ”

The old man knows this eldest son very well, steady and thoughtful, but the only thing he lacks is that he is timid and afraid of things. From the very beginning, he was worried about this matter, and told himself that he thought it was too risky, and he didn't want to get involved too deeply, so he wanted to watch from the sidelines.

This is the heaviest time Old Man Fan has spoken.

"Boss, I'm old, I don't know how long I can last, you have to take the position of the head of the family sooner or later, such a big family, to maintain, there are many difficulties, especially now that the situation is different, the opinions in the court are becoming more and more difficult to grasp, once you encounter an opportunity, you can only seize it, otherwise it is to give others a chance."

The old man said so much in one go, he was a little tired, and lay down on the chair again.

The boss of the Fan family did not respond when the old man spoke, he knew the old man's temper, and also believed in the old man's vision, it is rare for the old man to say so much today, which shows that he is in the final guidance, and it also shows that the old man is really old.

He didn't want to say anything, and he didn't want to explain anymore, it was enough for the old man to approve of him.

"Dad, then I'll go, there are still some things to arrange later, you rest first," Boss Fan said hello to the resting old man and left the backyard quickly.

The old man opened his eyes rarely, looked at the back of the boss, sighed softly, and thought to himself, the boss is completely enough, the seventh generation of the Fan family has struggled to the point where it is now, and what is needed is a relatively conservative family.

This adventure originally did not want to involve the old man Fan, but many uncontrollable factors involved the Fan family, once Yangzhou got out of control, the Fan family was wiped out, and the struggle of the seventh generation came to naught.

I don't know what the blind Taiyang family thinks, entangled with the bandits, don't those bandits kill people, don't they rob things or give you money to earn!?

Yangzhou is in chaos, the people are homeless, can businessmen still make money, the old man scolded in his heart.

The boss of the Fan family is called Fan Rong, the word Shengzhi, as the head of the big family, he has been in the vicissitudes of the world, when he was young, he crossed the river and the sea with the family's business, and the jackals, tigers and leopards saw it, and he had learned a lot about the face of eating people.

For what happened to the third child this time, he really didn't pay attention to it at first, the Fan family is such a big family, and it's really not who said that you can come up and take a bite if you eat it.

Although the annual payment to the government is an additional 20%, compared with business and profits, the Fan family is still profitable, and Fan Rong has always skipped some opponents' small tricks.

This time, for some reason, after the old man heard the third child's message, he attached great importance to it, not only sent someone to follow up the whole process, so that the old worshipper of the family, Master Li, went to Taiyang, and he also made a special trip to Yangzhou to discuss with the inspector.

Fan Rong didn't understand the old man's thoughts at first, until just now, the old man's words made him understand at once, he despised the opponent's collusion with the bandits, and also overbelieved in the power of the government.

It can be said that in the past few decades, the pirates have hardly landed from the places north of Songjiang, and the Jiaqing to Wuzhou is the hardest hit area, and the guards who defend the pirates are stationed in Wuzhou, and they have fought large and small battles for decades, but they have not settled down.

Now it seems that at least a few bandits have come to Yangzhou, and the number of merchants here is no less than that of Wuzhou and Zhangzhou, and the wealth gathered is also amazingly astronomical.

The bandits came over this time, and it was not a big deal if they did not land, but once they landed, it would be a catastrophe for Yangzhou.

According to the old man's idea, now these stocks are likely to cooperate, and he is ready to come to Yangzhou to make a big profit.

He scolded hatefully again, these local rich businessmen are simply dead.

If they don't do it on a good day, they will collude with the bandits, even if it is done, can they still stay in Yangzhou and sit in the exclusive business, or do they move to the sea to dry salted fish.

No matter which family it is, if you die at home, don't overturn a boatload of people, the Fan family is such a big family, you can't afford to play and can't afford to die, whoever wants to die, then die, don't think about pulling anyone together.

Hmph, the Lu family, it's just a broken household!!