The salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River are all rich in their families, among which Lu, Yang, Tan, Sun, Mo, and Bai are the most luxurious.

The six major salt merchants almost monopolized the whole process of salt circulation in Jiangnan, wantonly lowered the purchase price, raised the selling price, exploited the stove households and the people, and obtained huge profits.

In addition, he had strong financial resources and the closest relationship with the government, and gradually became a giant among salt merchants. has a great influence in Jiangnan and even in the DPRK, and there is a faint tendency to influence Jiangnan officialdom.

Among them, the Yang family and the Tan family not only operated the salt classes of Lianghuai and Changlu, but also invested a lot of gold and silver to smash out a number of civil and military officials by supporting the poor family, so that the two families changed their doors and became among the eunuchs in just twenty or thirty years.

This time, the six major salt merchants dared to take advantage of Lin Ruhai's serious illness to come to Yangzhou, not only to find out whether Lin Ruhai was really terminally ill.

The main reason is that they received instructions from the capital, and they planned to use Lin Ruhai's serious illness to try to see if they could swallow the Lin family and take down the network resources accumulated by the Lin family for several generations.

The wealthy family smashed with money is not a real wealthy family, and the Yang and Tan families are still just vulgar families who suddenly got rich in Shilin's eyes. If you want to really quickly enter the Shilin officialdom, the best way is to marry the only daughter of the Lin family and take over the political resources left by Lin Ruhai, who was born in Tanhualang.

Anyway, Lin Ruhai is going to die, and I think this Lord of the Salt Patrol Imperial History also wants to leave a way back for his daughter!

As for whether Lin Ruhai will agree? It's a blessing that a girl whose reputation has been ruined can marry into the Yang family or the Tan family, isn't it?

Of course not!

With the third master of Cong, not to mention the son of the salt merchant, even if the faithful king Liu Xi dares to beat Daiyu's idea, he will not hesitate to cut off the claws of this dog thing!

"It's really bold to dare to do such a dirty thing in the master's house...... Hang me up for my master, and I must let them know why the flowers are so red today! ”

Jia Cong was really angry, if Jia Lian hadn't arranged for the guards to increase the intensity of patrols first, he would have really let these two dog thieves break into the inner courtyard.

In the end, the Lin family was still infiltrated by outsiders, and the little maid and maid who were originally guarding the gate of the inner courtyard actually left the courtyard gate at the same time with an "emergency".

Jia Wuyi led several personal soldiers to tie up Yang Ruyi, the youngest son of the Yang family, and Tan Qichang, the second son of the Tan family, and hung them on the crooked neck tree in the front yard, allowing them to scream and shout loudly.

Jia Lian in the front hall and the head of the six major salt merchants hurriedly came out to check after hearing the movement.

I saw Jia Cong holding a horsewhip, and angrily whipped the whip on the two of them, again and again, without the slightest intention of stopping.

"Stop!"

Yang Ruyi is the favorite son of Yang Siqi, the head of the Yang family, and when he saw his son who had several blood marks drawn from his body, his eyes were full of anger and hatred when he looked at Jia Cong.

However, he is still sensible, knowing that Jia Cong, who is holding a whip, has a noble status, and he has no advantage in a head-on conflict with him.

He opened his mouth to put pressure on Jia Lian, and asked dissatisfiedly: "Second Master Lian, I came to visit Master Lin today, how can I say that my son is also a famous Xiucai, but he was lynched and humiliated by your mansion. If my son unintentionally offends the third master Cong, I, who is a father, will make amends on my behalf, okay? ”

Syllable!

Yes!

As soon as the words fell, Yang Siqi covered his face with a scream.

It turned out that Jia Cong whipped Yang Siqi in the face, and the whip slashed diagonally across his left eye, nose, mouth and even his right neck.

Where has Yang Siqi, who has been pampered for nearly forty years, suffer such pain, he can't say half a sentence in pain, he curls up to the side while covering his face, and hums for a long time without any other movements.

I saw Jia Cong flick a whip in the air and look at Tan Zhen, the head of the Tan family, who had never spoken.

"The head of the Yang family is willing to accept it on behalf of his son, and I accept it. Master Tan, what do you say? ”

Tan Zhen looked coldly at his grandson hanging from the tree, and asked calmly: "Third Master Cong, can you ask the little old man, how did my grandson offend you, and he was actually hung on the tree by Third Master Cong and whipped." ”

"Huh! I don't believe that the head of the Tan family doesn't know, these two dogs sneakily broke into the inner courtyard, what kind of idea did they really have, I can't find out when the master? ”

Jia Cong beckoned, and Jia Wuyi held two pieces of paper full of words and sent them over.

I saw Jia Cong throw these two pieces of paper directly on the ground, and said coldly: "This is the confession of Tan Qichang and Yang Ruyi, you can see for yourself." Tan Jia...... There is also the Yang family, I must give my master a satisfactory explanation, otherwise these two dog things don't have to go back! ”

A gust of wind blew, and the confession on the ground was blown to Tan Zhen's feet.

He picked it up with anger and glanced at it casually. Today, he specially brought his grandson over, and he wanted to try to see if he could win the Lin family.

This was the plan after getting the letter from the capital, but I didn't expect that Rongguofu would get involved, making the original plan fall short.

Unlike the Yang family, this plan is already rough, Tan Zhen is completely in the guise of giving it a try, and it doesn't matter if it can come true.

This attempt is simply to deal with the orders of the master of the capital, as for Tan Qichang, the grandson, in Tan Zhen's heart, it is really not as important as his face. After all, he has many children and grandchildren, and this one is not worse.

I saw Tan Zhen pretending to read the confession in his hand carefully, and angrily pointed to his grandson hanging from the tree and scolded: "Bastard, you have done such a thing that corrupts the family style, it is really a shame for the family......"

Tan Zhen bowed deeply to Jia Lian: "Second Master Lian, it is the little master's lax family education that makes his children and grandchildren collide with the nobles, and I also ask Second Master Lian to forgive my sins!" From today on, Tan Qichang's name will be removed from the Tan family tree and will be disposed of by Rongguo Mansion, and the little old man will have no complaints! ”

Hiss!

Although Jia Cong said that he didn't show it on his face, he took a deep breath in his heart.

This Tan Zhen is really ruthless, and he gave up his grandson so straightforwardly.

"Master, Chang'er is your own grandson, how can you just leave him alone? If you don't care about the old woman, the Tan family doesn't want this grandson, my Zhen family wants it! ”

Before the Jia Lian brothers could react, an old woman rushed out from the direction of the inner courtyard. He was followed by an equally worried little woman, as well as several maids.

Mama Li walked up to Jia Cong, whispered a few words to her, and then stepped aside to watch the play with a sneer.

The old woman is Tan Zhen's stepwife, and as soon as she came up, she looked at Jia Cong pleadingly, and begged with a blessing body: "Third Master Cong, Chang'er is the old woman who has not been well educated, so she caused this trouble, and please raise your noble hand and spare him once......"

Tan Zhen was unhappy, and said, "Madam, don't mess around here......"

"Nonsense? Master Tan, don't forget why Chang'er did this. ”

Old Madam Tan smiled and looked at Tan Zhen mockingly: "My son is dead, there is only this one grandson left, who dares to treat him as an outcast, don't blame the old woman for going crazy and dying with him!" ”

The ferocity on the old woman's face covered the original kindness and pleading, and the heads of the six major salt merchants, including the indifferent Tan Zhen and Yang Siqi who covered their faces and wailed, were all startled by the ferocity of the old woman.

Tan Zhen was silent for a long time, but Jia Lian had already smelled something unusual.

exchanged information with Jia Cong with his eyes, and the two brothers both smiled. Interestingly, it seems that some of the plans need to be changed!

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