Xiao Chen's actions in Weiyang City soon spread to a separate garden in Daotai Mansion in Xijiang Province.

At the same time, there were also joint letters from the families of many victimized students.

Master Ma quietly came in from the West Corner Gate, and came all the way to Jiang Rongfeng, who was chanting poems in the stone table in the willow forest, and bowed his body and arched his hand, "My lord, there is a letter over there in Jiangdong." ”

Jiang Rongfeng's eyebrows furrowed, as if he felt that Yaxing had been disturbed, and put down the wolf in his hand unhappily.

On a plain white piece of precious paper on the stone table, not a word has been written so far.

"What's the situation? Let's hear it. Jiang Rongfeng brushed down the sleeves of his elegant robe, turned around, and a look of majesty and displeasure flashed on a pampered and fat face that had been pampered for many years.

Master Ma was respectful, handed the joint letter to Jiang Rongfeng with both hands, and then told Master Daotai in detail what Xiao Chen had done in Jiangdong Dao.

Jiang Rongfeng listened, but just hooked the thin and sharp corners of his mouth and sneered, like a cut knife on that fat face.

Immediately, he casually threw the letter in his hand aside, as if he hadn't seen it, and leisurely lifted the wolf again.

"Don't worry, it's not the time for the official to make a move, let them make a fuss for a while."

"In the sky of this Jiangdong Road, the clouds are not enough."

The breeze blows, blows the green willows, and blows the heavy conspiracy.

……

Xiao Chen wandered around Weiyang City for a few days in a row, and all the major businesses in the city got to know this young and wealthy boss, until every time he left the post house, it would cause a sensation, and Xiao Chen could only give up.

However, he has not wasted time in the past few days, obviously for entertainment, but in fact, he has been secretly probing the forces inside and outside this Weiyang City.

With his own on the most bright side, as well as Duan Haichao's half-light and half-dark, plus Xiang Yichun's eagle eye who is completely in the dark, but in just three days, Xiao Chen has already understood the situation in Weiyang City almost well.

In the afternoon of this day, Ji Hongluan, who had slept lazily, freshened up properly, and kicked open Xiao Chen's door with two knives in his hand.

saw that Xiao Chen and Concubine Shu were not in the hall, but in the small study on the west side. And these two people are just wearing home clothes, not to go out.

"Aren't you going out to splurge today?"

Ji Hongluan walked over and asked.

Xiao Chen glanced at her, spread out a heavy piece of brown paper in his hand, and said casually: "What, which handsome guy has you taken a fancy to, the girl Sichun?" ”

"You...... Less nonsense! Ji Hongluan came over, and when he saw Xiao Chen picking up the wolf's hair, he couldn't help but sneer, "You still know how to draw?" ”

Xiao Chen stretched out his sleeves, leisurely and wantonly, a clear provocative smile permeated his face, "Come, Xiaohong, roll up your sleeves for the governor and serve the pen and ink." ”

Ji Hongluan's pretty face suddenly changed, a touch of displeasure and danger permeated her, and she was about to get angry, but when she saw Concubine Shu holding a copy of Weiyang City Chronicles in her hand, and looked at Xiao Chen with such fanfare, she couldn't hide her curiosity for a while.

With a cold snort, the beauty frowned and stretched out her hand, and pulled up Xiao Chen's sleeves angrily.

"I'm going to see what you're going to do."

Xiao Chen smiled, ignored her, picked up a high-grade wolf hair, and splashed ink on the paper to draw it.

He was not good at writing with a brush, but when he drew a map, it was perfectly integrated with his crooked brushstrokes, and in a short time, a sketch of the extreme periphery of Weiyang City was drawn.

It's not as fine as the craftsmen of the Department of Household Affairs, but it's also clear at a glance.

Concubine Shu couldn't help but laugh when she watched it from the side, "You are really a genius, such a scribbled penmanship, but you can also make a book of your own." ”

"Tell me, what are the forces in this city?"

Ji Hongluan listened, only then did she know what the two of them were going to do, and a touch of amazement couldn't help but appear in her heroic and smart eyes, and she looked at Xiao Chen in disbelief, "It turns out that you haven't been hanging out for the past two days, but looking for news?" ”

This eunuch's city is so deep that she looks like she is not stingy every day, and she has been deceived by her.

The heroic eyes became deeper and deeper, and an extremely complicated look appeared in Ji Hongluan's eyes.

Xiao Chen smiled and didn't answer her, but handed the wolf in his hand to the side, and said proudly: "Change the cinnabar pen for Bendu." ”

Ji Hongluan glared at him, but a pair of small hands were ghostly, obeying Xiao Chen's instructions, put the wolf stained with fragrant ink on the white jade pen holder, and took a new brush from the side, dipped it in cinnabar red ink and handed it to him.

Xiao Chen took the pen leisurely, raised his eyebrows slightly, and hid a wicked smile in his heart that had succeeded in his treacherous scheme.

Immediately, he dotted five red dots in succession in five places in the southeast, north, and west of this map, and his voice became solemn, "You see, these five locations are the most important of some of the information that the Governor has found these days. ”

"Why?" Concubine Shu carefully smoothed the map, stared at it seriously with her beautiful eyes, and asked, "Aren't you checking the family where those troublesome scholars are?" Why are there only these five places? ”

Xiao Chen shook his head, pretended to take a sip of tea slowly, and said secretly: "Lady, it's bad." ”

"What do those scholars have to look for? Although the power occupied by their family is not small, in fact, they are just moths on top of these five coiling dragons. ”

"In this Weiyang City and even Jiangdong Dao, if you talk about civil forces, the most powerful ones belong to these five families."

"Five families?" Concubine Shu frowned slightly, thinking that she had learned in the city in the past few days, and indeed she often heard people mention the Wang family, the Zhao family, etc., and everyone mentioned this, all of them looked solemn and solemn, as if they were mentioning the officials of the Jiangdong Daotai Prefecture.

Xiao Chen pointed at the red dot in the picture with the tip of his pen in turn, "The Wang family, a wealthy merchant located in Weiyang City, the Zhao family, a large agricultural merchant located in the southeastern suburbs of Weiyang City, and the Sun family, a river merchant located at the wharf in the west of the city......"

"And, the big squire Dongfang family in Qingping County."

"Of course, there is also the Zhou family located in Qingshuiyuan."

These five families are like big trees rooted in the underground of this Weiyang City, with intertwined roots and luxuriant branches and leaves.

"For example, taking the Wang family as an example, they not only do superficial silk, ironware, grain and grass business, but the most important thing is that this family has been cultivating forces like Wang Jinli and others who hold real power in various yamen."

"These Wang family officials are not big, and they are not the main family of the Wang family. Like Wang Jinli, his father is only a distant third uncle of the Wang family, but once he sits in this seat of political history, he can provide a steady stream of convenience for the Wang family, and the Wang family will also give him an absolutely considerable reward. ”

"Speaking of which, he is a political historian in the yamen, and he is not even a fraction of the benefits he can get in the family."

"In this way, the forces are mixed and unbreakable."

Concubine Shu gasped when she heard this, if this is the case, then wouldn't it mean that these five major families are the actual earth emperors in Weiyang City? They control the livelihood of the people in Weiyang City, and even in the surrounding cities.

Ji Hongluan on the side also had a solemn expression, realizing how powerful the power of these five major families was.

Concubine Shu looked at the detailed map in her hand and asked, "So, what about the Zhou family?" Qingshuiyuan, on the map, is actually a village? Why is the Zhou family located here? ”