The Fu family's mansion, listening to the sea garden.

In the main hall sat the stewards from the other four major families, and they all had a very high status in their respective mansions, and they followed the old people by their respective heads all the year round.

In the face of everyone, Fu Hongwen had a bitter face, and could only squeeze out a smile and let the maid serve tea and pastries.

Last night, my father just decided to clean up the Xu family. Fu Hongwen hadn't gone to talk to the other major families, but the stewards of the other major families came to visit one after another.

Looking at the gloomy looks on the faces of the stewards of the major families, everyone sighed for a long time.

The decisions of the governor's palace and many officials in Jinling and Jiangnan Province were already known to them. Fu Hongwen crumpled the paperwork in his hand, and his face was also not good-looking.

I wanted to take some of the Xu family's property, but now that I didn't get the wealth of the Xu family, I actually wanted to post 500,000 taels of silver and 100,000 loads of grain.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you judge. That's why, that's why! Fu Hongwen held his forehead and was angry.

"Who's to say it isn't, it's good now. Whoever doesn't come out of the house has become a collusion with the Yin Yang Evil Sect, and this suspicion is too obvious. ”

The person who spoke was Wang Ping, the steward of the Wang family, an old man with a white beard and hair, dressed in a plain brocade robe, sitting there, as if a gust of wind could blow it down.

Wang Ping thought that he had calculated early, and maybe he could meet the head of the Fu family, but when he came to the Fu family's mansion, he saw the carriages of the other three families.

Although they live on Xuanwu Street, each mansion occupies a huge area, and there are several mansions in between.

"Let's get an idea together, our head of the family is still waiting for a reply. How much is the right amount of 500,000 taels of silver and 100,000 quintals of grain? ”

Wang Ping glanced at the few stewards present, and his eyes finally fell on Li Fu, the steward of the Li family, and his eyes were full of emotion.

Li Fu couldn't sit still when everyone looked at him, and said coldly, "If you want to blame it, blame Kai Xuyao, it was he who proposed that everyone come out." ”

Speaking of Kai Xuyao, everyone moved their eyes to Fu Hongwen again, Kai Xuyao is a member of their Fu family, each family has to give so much money and food this time, who has no resentment in their hearts.

"This, how can this be blamed on Lord Kai? It doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense! If you want to blame, you can only blame that kid, if he hadn't trespassed on our Fu family, how could this kind of thing happen. ”

"Xu Fan's shaft is just talking nonsense, how can our Fu family have anything to do with the Yin Yang Evil Sect. This is nonsense! Fu Hongwen said it confidently, and everyone present just nodded slightly, and there was a "hehe" in their hearts.

Who is behind the five major families in Jiangnan, and the other families will not know?

Everyone just knows it, and no one will say it to their faces. This time, it was also the bad luck of the Fu family, and it happened that the kid surnamed Xu saw the master of the Yin Yang Evil Sect.

Even if you see it, it's fine, anyway, the government has no evidence.

Now, what to do with this huge amount of money and food has become a big problem for everyone in the hall.

Let's say it's out, the five great families, who doesn't have this money and food in their hands, but no one wants their own family to suffer.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think of this? The Xu family kid slandered my Fu family. Let the Xu family bear the money and food that everyone wants to pay, how about it? Fu Hongwen's eyes narrowed slightly, and he slowly swept over the stewards of several major families present.

This matter was finally finalized by his father and grandfather last night.

He also wanted to explain to the rest of the houses today that it was just something that was supposed to go into his own pocket, and this time he was going to give it to the Governor's Palace.

"If the five of us want to get out this time, we have to give at least about 1.5 million taels of silver and 300,000 quintals of grain and grass to the Governor's Palace. The Xu family of Guangling Mansion is not enough, right? Wen Sihai, the steward of the Wen family, scratched his bare bald head and thought for a moment.

In fact, the five major families have been eyeing the Xu family for a long time, in addition to wealth and industry, there is also the matter mentioned by the master of the Yin and Yang Sect.

It's just that now there is a little mistake, and the Governor's Office has accounted for most of the Xu family's industries in Jiangnan Province, leaving only some very obvious industries.

In addition, recently, the Jiangnan Provincial Government soldiers have begun to plow and sweep the holes in the territory, even if they have to use the method behind their backs, it will not work for the time being.

And the industry in Jinling City, who will touch the mold at this time? Is it true that Qin Ruhai's knife won't kill?

"That's about that. If these are to let the Xu family fill the hole, I'm afraid that one Xu family is not enough. Unless the Xu family also hands over the interests of the salt business, it may be okay. Wang Ping narrowed his thin eyes, and his wrinkled face wrinkled into a ball.

"If everyone thinks it's feasible, we will each start to mobilize the forces of each family, and this time we will make the Xu family pay the price. Push things back on track. Fu Hongwen coughed lightly and said the ultimate goal.

The original track? That is, the five great families divided all the industries of the Xu family in Jiangnan Province, and the Yin and Yang Gate studied the forbidden land of the Xu family in Guangling Mansion.

Now only the industries in Jinling City are left, and the five great families can only pounce on the tigers, so that the entire officialdom of Jinling will move.

"Okay, I'm going to let all the adults of our Wang family in the officialdom jointly write a letter, and we must let the Jinling Mansion come forward to solve this matter." The steward of the Lu family heard everyone's discussion and said directly.

The grudge between their Lu family and the Xu family is the deepest, and before he came, the head of the family also made a special confession that he must find a way to unite with the Fu family and completely destroy the Xu family.

When Guangling Mansion was in Guangling, one of the helmsmen of the Lu family in the Yin and Yang Gate, and a protector of the Dharma were all folded in the Xu family.

Now that he has seized this opportunity, the steward of the Lu family thought that it would not be easy to unite the Fu family, but he did not expect that the stewards of the other families would also gather here, and it happened that the governor's mansion had asked the major families to start donating.

"Then let's do it."

Seeing this, the two stewards of the Wen family and the Li family could only nod their heads in agreement, saying that they would also contact the connections of the major families in Jinling officialdom, and it was bound to make the Xu family pay everything.

Fu Hongwen smiled slightly, and he could be regarded as having completed his father's decision in his heart. Immediately, he personally sent the stewards of the other provinces out of the main gate of the Fu family's mansion.

Next, it depends on how the Governor's Palace will take over.

Whether to protect the Xu family, or to oppose the entire Jinling officialdom.

Once the connections of the five major families are activated, even Lu Mingyuan, who has been immersed in Jinling officialdom for a lifetime, will be unable to withstand it.

As a humble background, Lu Mingyuan survived in the cracks. It is precisely because of the identity of the Hanmen that the position of the prefect of Jinling can also let him sit.

This is the result of the balance of forces of all parties, and it is also a situation that the Shenjing Imperial Court is willing to see.

The five great families are deeply rooted in Jiangnan Province, if one of them is allowed to sit in the position of the prefect of Jinling, is Jiangnan Province still a great Jiangnan Province?

The five great families thought very well, but they forgot that there was still a fierce tiger lying in Jinling City, and it was a fierce tiger with sharp claws.

Nan'an Palace, in front of the study in the back garden.

There was a muffled grunt, one after another.

There were more than a dozen elite men lying on the long wooden bench, and more than 20 palace guards on the side waved back and forth with long whips in their hands.

With each whip drop, more than a dozen elite men let out a muffled snort, their backs already peeling open, and blood soaked the bluestone floor beneath them.

"Say, who told you to assassinate the county lord of Anyang!"

A cold voice came from under the eaves, a young man in fine costume, in his early twenties, dressed in a long hat.

The young man wore a white hosta, his eyebrows were clear, his eyes were as clear as water, he wore a jade belt around his waist, stepped on brocade boots, walked back and forth, and ordered to be beaten heavily from time to time.

The young man was Li Xin, the son of the king of Nan'an, and on a soft couch beside him, leaning on a white-faced scholar, occasionally holding his forehead and coughing lightly.

Turning a blind eye to the cruel scene in the courtyard in front of him, the little maids and maids waiting on the side were all trembling with fright, and no one dared to squeak.

"Deaf? Don't say it again, I'll kill you disobedient things! Li Xin's face turned blue with anger, and he rushed up directly, snatched a long whip, and whipped it heavily.

"Anyang is my favorite sister, I can't take care of her, you dare to do it to her! Tell me, who's the instigation? ”

The long whip was whipped down heavily, more than ten times in a row, and the shot was extremely heavy.

The sturdy man on the wooden bench fainted directly and lost his intuition, but Li Xin still refused to give up and vowed to beat this group of subordinates to death.

The white-faced scholar sitting on the soft couch coughed lightly and waved his hand, "Okay, I can't ask anything, drag these people down." ”

In the courtyard, the monks who were waiting around led the royal guards to step forward, set up these sturdy men with bare upper bodies, and rushed out.

This group of subordinates who dare to assassinate their masters are bound to be directly executed. Even if they were already monks, there would be no place for them in the Nan'an Palace.

Until the moment when the white-faced scholar Xiao Yun said that it was dragged down, these sturdy men who endured the pain and did not make a sound already knew their end.

Fortunately, they did not confess who was behind the scenes, so Li Xin would also protect their families, whether it was his wife and children, or his parents and relatives.

Li Xin gasped, threw the whip in his hand on the ground, walked quickly to the soft couch, knelt on one knee, his eyes were red and swollen, and he cried a lot, "Uncle Xiao, you have to make the decision for me." Those stupid subordinates must have been instructed by others, and you must believe me in this matter. ”

"Your Royal Highness, rest assured, it wasn't you who did it, and the prince will never blame you." Xiao Yun slowly got up, waved his hand at a beautiful little maid beside him, and turned around and walked towards the study behind him.

The little girl's soft and boneless slender hand held Xiao Yun's arm, and the two of them were only half a body apart, and walked towards the back study.

Li Xin looked at the two figures that were gradually moving away, and his tense nerves were relieved.

As long as Xiao Yun doesn't want to believe that he did this, he won't talk much in front of his father.

As the four major thinkers of the Nan'an Palace, nothing that happens in the palace can escape the ears and eyes of the white-faced scholars, which is why the county lord of Anyang immediately went to find Xiao Yun as soon as he sent someone back to the palace.

In the small study room of the palace, the four of them sat in front of the beast horn ice book in front of the screen, eating sweet and cool melons and fruits. I could hear the snort coming from the courtyard outside.

Even what Li Xin said when he knelt on one knee in front of Xiao Yun, several people in the study listened to it.

The little county lord of Anyang, who was crying on the side, naturally heard it clearly, but he still made trouble with Li Muzhi and asked King Nan'an to find out the real culprit and vent his anger to her.

Li Muzhi put down the half-eaten melon in his hand and shook his head helplessly, "Girl, why did you think about that kid from the Xu family?" It's not like your style. ”

Hearing his father's words, the little county lord of Anyang, who was still coquettish, stopped making trouble, blushed shyly, put his head down, and showed a little daughter posture that he had never seen before in front of Li Muzhi.

"Father,... The shy voice of the little county lord of Anyang sounded in the small study, causing the other three thinkers to laugh.

"Our little county lord has grown up."

"Yes, my lord. It's time to find a wishful husband for the county lord. ”

"I think, do you want to let the princes of Jinling and Shenjing come to Jinling to meet?"

"Immortal Master Lu, you !!" When the county lord of Anyang heard that Lu Haocheng, a Qingshu Daoist, actually suggested that his father give her a choice among the sons of the major princes' mansions, he was anxious.