Chapter Ninety-Six: Yokoyama Ten Guards

The news that Fang De gave all the semicolons of Liangguang to his clan uncle and uncle and wanted to auction off all the semicolons under the name of Fang Long soon spread throughout the entire Yellow River, north and south of the river. The top wealthy families, including the Eight Great Emperor Villages, have sent people to the south to contact Fang De to see if they can buy some semicolons, although the influence of the Eight Great Imperial Villages is great, but their influence is always in the north, if they can borrow the semicolon under the name of Fang Long, they will naturally be able to expand their power to the southern provinces.

After Robert got the news, he immediately found Fang De: "My dear Fang, can you tell me what kind of madness you are doing, why do you want to disband the Fang Long, Fang Long is a goose that can lay golden eggs, it can bring you a steady stream of wealth, do you do this in your Chinese words, are you cutting off your hands and feet? “

Fang De felt Robertson's strong affection, so he apologized to the other party and said, "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry to let your old friend worry about me." “

"Let I'm sorry to hell," Robert said angrily, "I'm going to hear the reason, not some bullshit sorry." “

Fang De nodded: "Don't be bored, I will give you a satisfactory answer." “

"I'm listening!" said Robert, still puffing up.

Fang De said patiently: "The political line taken by our Qing Dynasty and your British Empire is different, in your British state power is concentrated in the hands of the cabinet, the royal family is just a symbolic mascot, and the cabinet members are various capitalists, The interests of the nobles elected representatives, in addition, you also have senators, the power of the parliament to restrain the cabinet, it can be said that when a resolution comes out, he basically represents the interests of the majority, but our Qing Dynasty is different, it is an absolute monarchy, no matter how rich you are, how capable, as long as the emperor can take away everything you have, including your life, and the kings of the past are most afraid of someone whose ability exceeds their own, otherwise it is the way to die, and more importantly, many kings have the habit of raising pigs and killing pigs, when your wealth reaches a certain point, he will find a reason to kill you and take away everything from you, I believe you have also heard the story of Shen Wansan, the richest man in the Ming Dynasty. “

Rob nodded: "You are talking about Shen Wansan, who repaired most of the Nanjing city wall, the emperor of China is really barbaric?"

"Now you should understand what I mean," Fang De smiled bitterly: " As the head of the Fang family, I must be responsible for the survival of the Fang family, but despite the continuous spending of money over the years, it still arouses the eyes of many enemies, such as the Prince Rong, in order to get the Fang Long, he came openly and secretly, if it wasn't for the Governor of Hubei there to protect him, our Fang family was afraid that the family would have been ruined a long time ago, so I took advantage of those uncles and uncles to disband the Fang Long and relieve some potential crises, and those who want to get the Fang Long will all come out at once, whether it is a friend or a potential enemyOnce the Fang Long is in the hands of those people, if Prince Rong still wants to get the entire Fang Long, he has to fight with those people first, maybe because of the unfair division of interests, my enemies may fight first, and when they are almost done, I will come out to clean up the mess,"

Robert suddenly realized: "I understand, you are throwing away bones to lead the dog, my dear Fang, you are really insidious, I have to mourn for your enemy for a few minutes, but you can't favor one over the other, if you still have any name or deed to sell, should you also hold on to my old friend first." ”

"I knew you would say that," Fang De took out a title deed: "I still have a big piece of land in Guangzhou, you can build a base there, dump your goods around, of course, I can give you the land, you have to take care of the local yamen, and the more important side is far away from the capital, it can be said that the emperor is far away, even if you go north to the capital to communicate with the emperor without success, but as long as you communicate with the local government, it will not have much impact." ”

Robert was overjoyed: "My dear Fang, you are really an angel who brought me the gospel, you can rest assured that I will pay you enough principal at twice the price of land in London." ”

Prince Rong learned the news of Fang De's disbandment of Fang Long, he didn't say anything for a long time, he just asked the Nine Gate Admiral Dai Duo to go south and try to take the Xia Long from Fang De, but he didn't expect Fang De to disband Fang Long first, just like a recuperated boxer was about to punch his opponent down, but the other party suddenly announced that he would not play.

His wise man Zhiji is also sighing: " This Fang De really deserves to be a wise man, well versed in the way of self-preservation, he knows that the monarchs of all dynasties have the habit of raising pigs and killing pigs, so basically every year the silver earned is basically spent in every possible way, but now he is doing it more ruthlessly, splitting the Fang Long, and eliminating all potential crises at once, even if the successor to the throne wants to find trouble with the Fang family in the future, there is no reason, plus they have the grace of two generations of emperors, it can basically be said that the Fang family is no disaster from now on, at this point He Shen and he are not half a star, I can guarantee that this Fang De's life will be longer than He Shen in the future, What's more, his trick is indeed very clever, luring out all the enemies in the open and in the dark at once, do you think those people, including the Eight Great Emperor Zhuang, heard the news of Fang De's demolition of the Seller Long, can they still bear it, no matter how slow their hands and feet are, I am afraid that they will not even have to drink the soup. ”

Prince Rong was also sighing: "This king came to you, not to listen to you say this, but to find a way, you know that this king has more than 300,000 troops, and it takes money to raise these armies, I originally wanted to take down the entire Fang Long, and use its funds to raise 300,000 troops under him, but now this plan is all in vain, you think about it for Ben, and see if there is any other way to get the entire Fang Long from some people?"

Zhijizi smiled bitterly: "My prince, you are too worthy of a minion, Fang De's trick is a conspiracy, a conspiracy is more terrible than a conspiracy, it is to let you know that it is a trap but have to continue to jump in, everyone knows that Fang Long is a golden goose, who is stupid enough to give the semicolon in hand to others, one by one to fight, it is not in line with reality at all, even if the prince finally gets the entire Fang Long by this means, it is more than worth the loss, offending many people, which is not good for the great cause of the prince." “

Prince Rong smiled bitterly: "You don't know what you said about this king, but there is no way to make money, how do you let this king raise those 300,000 troops?"

Zhijizi said: "If the prince just wants to get a way to make a fortune to raise an army of 300,000, it's simple, we can do it to the Lei family?"

Prince Rong's eyebrows locked slightly: "Do it to the Lei family?"

"The slave knows that Lei Mei is the woman of the prince outside, but this is also a helpless thing, Fang Long is indeed very profitable, but the Fang family has never saved money, every year the money they earn is basically donated to the victims through the Disaster Relief Bureau, in other words, we won Fang Long, and we can't take out any cash to raise the army in the short term, but the Lei family is different, they have shipped all the money they have earned over the years back to their hometown in Shandong, and get this part of the money, the prince will not worry about the lack of money at least in the short term, and more importantly, the Lei family still has a way to make money, that is, the Cao Gang。 ”

Prince Rong smiled bitterly: "You let this king do it to his own woman, how can you make this king embarrassed?"

"The overall situation is important," Zhijizi replied: "Without a few million taels of silver, it is basically impossible for the 300,000 army to go with the prince, how can you fight with Qianlong and his son." “

Prince Rong was silent.

In the end, the ambition in my heart still prevailed over my feelings: "You let Dai Duo do this matter, and this king doesn't know anything." “

"Yes, Lord Wang!" Zhijizi immediately agreed.

Although they want to do it to the Lei family, before they do it to the Lei family, they still have to let them exert their residual heat, so that they can only win some Fanglonghao's trade names and shops. So Zhijizi put two carrier pigeons on Dai Duo, on the one hand, he asked Dai Duo to postpone his trip to Hangzhou, and on the other hand, he informed Lei Mei that it was only possible to take the shops in the main area of Fang Long.

When Lei Mei received the carrier pigeon, Lei Laohu was by her side: "What does the prince want us to do?"

Lei Mei burned the letter brought by the carrier pigeon, and then replied to Lei Laohu: "Fang De wants to dismantle the seller's Long, the prince already knows, and he let us only take some more of Fanglong's shop property." ”

Lei Laohu nodded: "Since the prince said so, then let's take it as much as possible." ”

Lei Mei shook her head and smiled bitterly: "You take this matter too simply, who are the people who participated in the auction of Fang Long, in addition to the rich merchants from all over the country, there are also the Eight Great Emperor Villages, we are undoubtedly fighting with these people to snatch food from the tiger's mouth, even if we succeed, we will offend a large number of people." ”

Lei Laohu's head was also a little big: "But the prince's orders we can't help but do it!"

Lei Mei nodded: "I'll go see Fang De first and see if I can buy some Fang Long's property from them." ”

"What kind of nerves do you say this Fang De is doing, how could he auction Fang Long when he is so good? Fang Ren and Fang Xing don't pose a threat to him at all, and Fang Long doesn't encounter any financial difficulties. ”

Lei Mei thought for a while and said: "Fang De must have his thoughts when he does this, but we can't think of it for the time being, we are still ready to fund some of Fang Long's properties, otherwise it will be difficult for the prince to explain." ”

Lei Laohu nodded: "I'll go and prepare the silver." ”

When Lei Mei visited Fang De at Fang's house, Fang De was receiving his friend Yokoyama Shibei he met in Kyoto, Japan, Yokoyama Shibei is not only the head of the Japanese Yokoyama family, but also known as the first person in Dongying martial arts, what is even more rare is that he still has several dojos in Kyoto, and has countless disciples, and the hero of Sada who came to challenge Fang De is his second disciple, and today he came to see Fang De A total of two people, one is his eldest disciple Yokoyama Jianshu, and the other is his pearl Yokoyama Sakurako, when in Kyoto, Fang De had been warmly welcomed by Yokoyama Shibei, since people came to Hangzhou, he was not good at slacking, fortunately, Ouyang Sihai did not go out today, stayed at home, he asked Ouyang Sihai to fry a few stir-fried vegetables to entertain Hengshan Shibei, as for Miao Cuihua and Ma Yumei, they still don't want to be ugly, the food they cook is difficult to swallow at all.

The rules of the Hengshan family are much larger than those of the Fang family, when Fang De and Hengshan Shibei were dining, Hengshan Jianshu and Hengshan Sakurako were standing on the side, Fang De was really unacceptable to this rule, so he asked Ouyang Sihai to divide the meal into a table, and Hengshan Jianshu and Hengshan Sakurako enjoyed it on the side.

For Fang De's approach, Yokoyama Kenshu and Yokoyama Sakurako felt a great respect, and after getting their father's permission, they also sat aside and enjoyed Chinese food.

After three rounds of drinking, Fang De began to ask Hengshan Jianshu about the intention of coming to the Qing Dynasty.

Yokoyama Shibei smiled: "...... Contemptible people came to the Qing Dynasty this time, one is to make a batch of silk, and the other is to fulfill our promise seventeen years ago, presumably the boss Fang still remembers our promise in Kyoto seventeen years ago, at that time my wife and Mrs. Zun were pregnant, at that time we had an appointment, we Hengshan and your Fang family to marry, if the two ladies are of the same sex in the womb, they will become brothers, Sisters, if the opposite sex is married, the two generations are friendly, I have bad luck, I gave birth to a daughter is Yokoyama Sakurako, you have seen it just now, although she does not look like a national color, but it can be regarded as a good look, I heard that Brother Fang You gave birth to two sons, and I don't know which one of the sons we agreed on at that time, but one of your two sons is my son-in-law, this is 100% sure, my daughter will reach the age of marriage after the New Year, so I sent her to you. Then he turned to Yokoyama Sakurako: "Sakurako, don't just remember to eat, come and meet your future father-in-law." ”

When Yokoyama Sakurako heard this, she immediately put down her chopsticks, got up, came over, and greeted Fang De according to Chinese etiquette: "Daughter-in-law Yokoyama Sakurako has seen her father-in-law, and her father-in-law is blessed with great blessings." ”

Fang De was stunned when he heard this, although the agreement of the year was a drunken word, although he didn't take it seriously, but people kept it firmly in mind, not seventeen years later, people came to the door in person to force marriage, but then again, this Yokoyama Yingzi looks like a peugeot, and her temperament is also very supple, but she is also worthy of his two sons, and what is even more rare is that Yokoyama Sakurako actually has a fluent Chinese mouth, it can be seen that Yokoyama Shibei has put a lot of effort into her Fang family daughter-in-law over the years, although Fang De was stunned, but he still reacted quickly: "Get up, don't be so polite or don't be polite, we don't have so many etiquettes in our Fang family, everything is as you like, but this future father-in-law can't see that the future daughter-in-law doesn't have a meeting gift, I said Brother Yokoyama, you killed me by surprise this time, I never brought any gifts on me." ”

Yokoyama Shibei smiled: "We are all the same, the difference is that I am marrying a daughter, you are marrying a daughter-in-law, this meeting gift will return to your family in the end, how much gift you give Sakurako, I will have to return the big gift, in the end it is still me who suffers, or we will forget it, or you call out your two sons and let me choose a son-in-law among them." ”

Fang De also smiled: "Pick a son-in-law, let's not rush first, but you first tell me, what is your business trip to Hangzhou this time, if you can help, I will definitely help, although it is Fang Long, I am currently preparing for auction, but if I only purchase some commercial goods, it will not be difficult for me." ”

"I believe this," Hengshan Shibei replied: "Brother Fang split the Fang Long, I also heard about it when I was in Quanzhou, although I don't know why you suddenly split the Fang Long, but the contemptible people know that since you did this, there must be your reasons, now can you tell me in detail." ”

Fang De smiled: "The one who can still be optimistic about my Fang De at this time is this true friend, and I will not hide anything from you, and even if my enemies know about this, I don't care, because this is simply an unsolvable plot." ”

"An unsolvable conspiracy?"

Fang De nodded: "A family-style time-honored brand like ours has developed to a certain point with this or that problem, these problems are basically divided into two kinds, one is foreign, the other is its own, when the font size is small, everyone can still work together and work together with the outside world, but after a certain achievement, many people think that when it is time to share the results, it is inevitable that they will have such and such thoughts, which is the helplessness of our time-honored brands." ”

Hengshan Shibei bowed his head, like Fang De said this problem, they also have it: "How are you going to deal with this kind of problem?"