Among these four people, in addition to Wang Yukun, the head of the Wang family, the other three people are Lu Handu, the head of the Lu family, Du Yuanqiao, the head of the Du family, and Liu Wensheng, the head of the Liu family. The hometowns of these four families are in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, but today they all gathered together on the edge of the West Lake in Hangzhou.

In the eyes of others, the four of them seem to have no connection, but in the smuggling circle, these four can be described as thunderous! Because these four families have the most officials in the imperial court, they have the largest share of smuggling!

As for the fact that they are gathered here today for tea, they are definitely not here to drink tea, but are entrusted by more than 100 large and small families who control the underground trade in coastal cities to come here to discuss how to treat Liu Haojia and the ban on the sea!

I only heard the head of the royal family say, "...... That's how things are, it can be seen that Wu Ningbo is ready. So it's going to be hard to instruct those grass people to make some trouble!"

Liu Wensheng nodded and said, "That's right, although those grass people are very stupid, if they know that someone is willing to buy goods from them, they will go on with some hopes, and they will not make trouble according to our arrangement."

Du Yuanqiao said: "So can we convince those weaving mills not to buy raw silk, or to produce silk and hoard it and not put it on the market? This can also have an impact!"

Lu Handu shook his head and said, "It's hard! First of all, our influence can at most affect private weaving workshops, and to do so, we have to pay enough money and favors to do so. But now the main silk weaving workshops on the market are all official! Unless we open the joints in it!"

Wang Yukun said with a wry smile: "It's useless, I just received the news that Zhao Gonggong, the eunuch of Nanjing, has just sent a letter to the weaving mills in various places, asking them to complete all silk orders with quality and quantity this year!" He even told them that there might be more silk on the market this year than in previous years!"

I have to say, these people are really powerful! I'm afraid that Eunuch Zhao's order has just been delivered, and the same news has already been sent to them! Now there may be some farther weaving workshops that have not received the news, but now they have been placed on their desks, which shows the deep penetration of these people into Jiangnan officialdom!

Du Yuanqiao said, "What about the guards who work for us on weekdays, can they come forward to intercept them? They take the goods in the name of smuggling, how about we eat them at a lower price?"

Wang Yukun shook his head and said, "It's easy for us to eat those goods, but that thing can't be stored for a long time, and once the storage is not good, it will turn yellow and change color!" We have some silver in our house, but that's not how we throw it into the water!"

And Lu Handu immediately added, "I'm afraid this idea won't come true! Someone in the guard station sent me a message that Wei Guogong had just ordered the guards to check the soldiers and horses, and asked them to ensure that no bandits appeared in various places in the near future, and that no merchants were allowed to intercept and block logistics!"

The other three immediately frowned when they heard this, while Wang Yukun sighed and said, "If that's the case, it's really not easy to do! Although we have made deals with them, and even some of them have the power in our hands, but going against Wei Guogong's military orders is tantamount to losing his position, and no one will want to do this!"

Du Yuanqiao said, "What if we bribe a group of these people and let them act in secret?"

Luhandu said, "Equally not! If we want to buy, we can only buy a few people, and it won't affect the overall situation!"

At this time, Liu Wensheng sighed and said, "Don't look at the young age of this Wu Ningbo, his actions are not leaky! This is a clear attempt to completely exclude us from the sea trade!"

Wang Yukun smiled bitterly and said, "This may not be! His biggest purpose is to hope that we will bow our heads, pay taxes to him, and buy the Blue Dragon Tooth Banner!"

At this time, Lu Handu snorted and said, "This is forcing us to die and the net is broken! It seems that the only way to impeach him is to use the power of the court!"

Wang Yukun said, "If you use the power of the imperial court, I'm afraid that the loss will be not small! After all, human affection is limited after all, and sooner or later it will run out!"

Liu Wensheng sneered and said, "That's better! Then we focus our resources on our own families

Then they will know how difficult it is to lose our support, and they will definitely come back!"

Several of them discussed for a long time, but they did not come up with any particularly effective good methods. That's the benefit of overpowering people with a big trend! Run over with dignity, so that you can't prevent it!

After discussing for a long time, Du Yuanqiao said fiercely: "Then sacrifice the interests of those small businessmen! Let all the errand officers and village soldiers in our hands go to the road to set up cards, let go of other goods, and only take care of raw silk and tea! Once these small merchants are found to be transporting raw silk and tea, they will be directly detained in the name of smuggling!"

Wang Yukun said: "The problem is no longer here, we can't transport it after eating it at a low price, and the raw silk and tea are not resistant to storage, and the peace is lost in vain!"

Du Yuanqiao gritted his teeth and said, "Save as much as you can, and destroy it if you can't save it!" As long as we mess up the market, the people in the court can take the opportunity to exert their strength, and say that Wu Ningbo has messed up the market!"

But everyone was very dissatisfied with this way of killing a thousand enemies and losing a thousand themselves! After all, it's to make money, not to burn money! So in the end, the four of them didn't negotiate any charter!

can only follow the final proposal and use all means to disrupt the market, hoping that the imperial court can put pressure on Liu Haojia to return them to their former state.

Soon Wang Yukun and Liu Wensheng left, and only Du Yuanqiao and Lu Handu were left in the private room slowly drinking tea.

After a long time, Du Yuanqiao asked someone to write a letter with pen and ink, and then called a confidant and asked him to send the letter to Jingshi. Lu Handu, who had been watching from the sidelines, said, "Can just such a letter satisfy the head of the society?"

Du Yuanqiao spread his hands and said, "Then I can't help it! You've seen what happened just now, where can you come up with a solution?"

Lu Handu shook his head and sighed, "Now I regret joining your Juggernaut! More than two years ago, you boasted of the Juggernaut, but now you can't even deal with an ordinary noble, but you still have to pay our own money, where is the ability to dominate the court as you said?"

Du Yuanqiao's face turned a little blue when he heard this, but he still smiled and said, "What you said is not comprehensive! Over the past year or so, how much has your Lu family gained by using the power of the Juggernaut Society? Just two people from your own family and the court have been promoted, and three people have been evaluated as "Jiashang", and they will go one step further next year! Not to mention supporting you to swallow two industries locally! Why complain when you need to deal with the enemy now? 「