Tie Shou left, and before leaving, he told Qin Han everything he knew, but he still didn't know Deng Yong's whereabouts, and for this kind of confidential information, it was useless in Qin Han's eyes, but in his heart, he still firmly remembered Great Xia and Western Wu, which were once extremely brilliant countries.

People's pursuit of power, this is the eternal goal since ancient times, Qin Han has never thought of these before, because in his opinion, it seems to have nothing to do with him, he just wants to live a happy life in this land, but the reality is that there are always those places where the sun can't touch, and a person without power is not qualified to touch these things, especially in this feudal era, maybe even the most beautiful love can't be touched, Qin Han is at this time in his heart is extremely eager for this power, as if between fish and water。

Rich Jiangnan, poor desert north, this sentence has been passed down for hundreds of years, enough to see the wealth of Jiangnan Province, and Tianshofu and Jiushui City are the most of them, even the salt gang entrenched in the area of Yancheng and Jiangle Mansion has to stammer respectfully in front of the former, which can be seen.

Ling Xiao is the most optimistic person in this generation of the Ling family who may inherit the head of the family, and the status is naturally extremely respected, and the industry of the Ling family is large enough to include all walks of life, but the two largest sources are porcelain and silk, the largest private kiln in Daqin Anhua Workshop is the Ling family, the scale of Dalian Imperial Kiln is inferior to three points, not to mention the workmanship is also the leader of the entire industry, in the silk piece, someone has counted before, the entire Jiangnan Road, nearly 80,000 looms, but nearly three of them are all Ling family's machines, it is no exaggeration to say that the Ling family controls the entire silk market, and the Jiangnan Road has to tremble at will。

At this moment, on the Taihu Lake, a delicate painting boat is leisurely wandering on the surface of the lake, which also comes with bursts of piano sound, and the sound of poetry is also heard from time to time, a good fairyland on earth, a good Taihu Lake beauty, especially in this winter has a special mood.

"Gotta get it, with Brother Jia here, you don't want the class to get an axe, let's ask him to write a poem for everyone!"

"I've heard that Brother Jia has good writing skills, so I might as well let everyone open their eyes. ”

"Everyone, don't make fun of someone Jia, with the old master of Zhao here, I don't dare to make a mistake in my next life. ”

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Zhao Yuesheng smiled and waved his hand lightly.

Just when everyone was laughing loudly, a young man in white, holding a folding fan in his hand, followed by two guards, walked lightly between the people, and then said: "Everyone is so happy, what are you talking about?"

Seeing this, everyone hurriedly got up and said, "I've seen Ling Gongzi." ”

"You are all uncles and grandparents, don't bother me. Ling Xiao hugged his fists with a smile on his face.

Such a handsome descendant, with this smile that makes people feel like a spring breeze, I am afraid that no matter how much grudge there is, they can't be half angry, although everyone accepted Ling Xiao's gift of the younger generation with a smile, but no one dared to despise and snub him, after all, his family business is only a drop in the bucket compared to the Ling family, and if he wants to live a nourishing life in the coming year, he has to look up to the snort of others, and if the descendant in front of him is unexpected, he must be the next generation of the head of the Ling family, so how dare he slacken?

"I'm a cheerful person, and everyone knows it, so it's never too late to take my time when the bells and whistles are done, so I open the skylight and say something. ”

"Ling Gongzi really knows us people! ”

"Very good, very good. ”

Ling Xiao listened to their constant flattery and the brilliant smile on his face, and sneered in his heart: "You will cry in a while!"

Then he sat down on the main seat unceremoniously and said: "Let's start with the porcelain, this year's palace has put a lot of pressure on our Ling family, and everyone here is also clear, so the output and scale are much smaller, after all, my Ling family doesn't want to be the master of that high achievement." ”

Everyone nodded their heads and said, "This is nature, this is nature." ”

"Thank you for your love, I will tell you the estimated porcelain output next year, so that you can know in your hearts, and the share of each family will be according to last year's. ”

"One hundred pieces of the best, four hundred pieces of the top grade, one thousand three hundred pieces of the middle grade, and two thousand five hundred pieces of the lower grade. ”

As soon as the words were finished, the expressions of the people below could be described in four words, and they couldn't speak for a while, after all, last year's output was as many as 300 pieces of the best alone, and there were nearly 1,000 pieces of top grades.

"Hey, I can also understand the difficulties of the Wang family master, but I also hope that you can understand the difficulties of the family, even today's output, and my father does not know how many times he asked for it, Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, and it doesn't matter if you lose some money next year, you should break the fortune and eliminate the disaster." ”

"Ling Gongzi, you make the family a big business, and it is acceptable to lose hundreds of thousands or millions of taels of silver, but we are different, tens of thousands of taels sometimes can't be turned, and tens of thousands of taels are enough to bankrupt the family!

After hearing this, Ling Xiao didn't think about it and replied: "This is impossible, the annual share of silk has long been fixed, how can you say that it will be changed, it really can't be done, do you seniors want to go to the imperial kiln to have a look?"

"Ling Gongzi won't forget that the share of the Imperial Kiln was allocated a week ago, right? The price there is almost catching up with us, and it has been robbed all over the place, how can there be any superfluity!"

Ling Xiao's face was cloudy and uncertain for a while when he heard this, and then said: "It's really not good, I'll go and ask my father to allocate two million taels of silver to you at that time for turnover, and I don't want the interest of three cents from other banks, just give two cents!"

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other, they were all old fritters who had been in business for many years, and they could naturally hear the meaning of his words, everyone had done this kind of thing when they got cheap and sold well, but why was it so uncomfortable when it was their turn? The most infuriating thing is that there is nothing to do about it, they can't beat and beat, scold and scold, and they have to wait for their lives, and their faces are about to turn into pig liver color, but they still have to show a grateful look.

After the business was over, the entertainment activities that should have been held, but no one was willing to participate, and they all left in a hurry with ugly faces, so Xiao couldn't help laughing when he saw this scene, and after everyone left, he was quite interested in drinking and drinking, holding the idea of wasting shame, and called the ladies and sisters who were originally invited to accompany him one by one, and then quickly fell into the gentle township in the sound of Yingying Yanyan.

Ling Binghe is Ling Xiao's father and the contemporary head of the Ling family, at this moment the night is dark, but I don't know what he is studying in the study, just when he is concentrating, Ling Xiao's voice came from outside the door.

"Why hasn't my father slept yet?" Before the maid waiting outside the door could answer, Ling Binghe's words came from the room.

"Xiao Er has something to say, just come into the house and talk about it. ”

After Ling Xiao entered the house, he didn't say a word, but he bowed and said, "The child pays homage to his father." ”

Ling Binghe rubbed his eyes that were a little sour, and then waved his hand and said, "If my father remembers correctly, today is to discuss the distribution of the next year with the heads of the various families, and I think you are here because of this." ”

"That's exactly what happened. ”

"I'll figure out how to get the extra porcelain, in short, you must be cautious, and remember not to let the people in the palace know. ”

"Father, if you want to come to those porcelains, it won't be long before a reliable family will come to you!"

"What?"

Then Ling Xiao explained all the processes of today in detail, and after a while, Ling Binghe stroked his palms and laughed: "This trick is really wonderful, it not only takes care of the royal requirements, but also does not damage the interests of our family, and the most important part can be sold at a high price, it can really be described as killing three birds with one stone! However, why don't you discuss such a big matter with your father?"

"The boy doesn't see his father working day and night, and he can't bear to be upset any longer, so he thinks about telling you the old man when the time comes. ”

Not to mention the filial piety of the father and son of the Ling family, those big families who made a fortune with the Ling family have bad luck, and they have to explain to the people in the family one by one after they go back, the Wang family master of Fengcheng, Wang Ze is one of them, although he is the head of the family, but the brothers in the family's industry are also in it, after all, it is from the father's generation, and the big family is like this.

Wang Ze said with a calm face at this time: "The royal family has been fighting to suppress these wealthy families in Jiangnan since last year, you all know this, especially the family related to the royal industry, he Ling family is naturally the first to bear the brunt, the fact has become so, what's the use of you talking to me so much?"

After hearing this, everyone stopped talking, but after a while, a middle-aged man said: "He has never been the master of the family, why is he so obedient this time? I think there must be some problems in this!"

"What does the fourth brother mean?" Wang Ze wondered.

"Since the palace has spoken from the surface, they naturally dare not speak against it openly, but who can say it secretly? I think it is better for the master of the house to run again, and no matter how bad it is, they must have some inventory in their hands, and we will pay a price higher than before, maybe we can get more goods from the Ling family, so that we can recover more losses, and it is really okay to not get two percent. ”

"The fourth brother is reasonable, it seems that he has to trouble the second brother!" Before Wang Ze could speak, the brothers heard that they would make a gesture.

Wang Ze's eyes rolled after hearing this, although this method is a loss for his own family, but it is not a method, it is much better than before, so he nodded and said so, and Wang Ze rushed to the Lingfu early the next morning.

After arriving at the Ling Mansion and letting the housekeeper pass through, Wang Ze entered the hall to wait, this time Wang Ze did not plan to talk to Ling Xiao about these things again, but directly negotiated with Ling Binghe, the head of the Ling family, he could see it, that kid thief didn't say anything, and he didn't care about the relationship between the two families for so many years, in contrast, although Ling Binghe was also cunning, but he would give some thin noodles for the sake of so many years of business contacts.

After a while, Ling Binghe walked in from outside the hall, and as soon as he saw Wang Ze, he said: "Brother Wang, you have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and you don't usually come to see me." ”

"What is this talking about, brother, you know, I have been busy this year, and I left Fengcheng at this time this year, and I usually can't get out at all. ”

"Hey, that's true, I was busy day and night in the past few years, and even this white hair has grown a lot, old, old, in the past two years, I have slowly let Xiao Er and them all the things at home, let them young people toss it, and my old man should also enjoy it." ”

"My brother is only fifty-four this year, what's so old, he's still young, but it's better to let go and enjoy the happiness as soon as possible. ”

"Haha, don't talk about this, Brother Wang will tell me if there is anything to do this time, as long as I can help, I will definitely help!"

"Okay, I'm relieved to have your words, you should also know the situation of our family, according to next year's shipments, I will definitely lose to death! I thought that this year's goods may be less, and when I signed a contract with other merchants, it was signed according to seventy percent of previous years, but who knew that this year this year is not even forty percent, how can we live?

"Brother, I won't tell you, I still have some inventory in my family, but I really don't dare to put it, you also know it in the palace, don't embarrass my brother, you see this, I can lend you 300,000 taels of silver, and the interest doesn't need to be two cents as Xiao Er said, one and a half cents will be done!"

Wang Ze's face changed when he heard this: "One percent more purchase price, otherwise my Wang family really won't have much money." ”

"Brother Wang, it's not a question of whether it's silver or not, but..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw that Wang Ze stood up and gritted his teeth and said: "Twenty percent! This is the highest price my Wang family can give, you must not die without saving!"

Ling Binghe shook his head with a wry smile when he heard this: "That's it, that's it, your brother Wang has said this, what else can I do? But there are only two percent of the original goods, and there is no more." ”

Wang Ze was overjoyed when he heard this, and thought that it would be good to have one and a half percent of the goods before, but now he has two percent, but his face still regretful: "Two is two percent, I can't make it too difficult for my brother." ”

"Brother Wang, you and I have been friends for decades, so I have the courage to give it to you, don't leak the news, otherwise you and I will have no good fruit to eat!"

"Brother, you and I are both prosperous and lossy, I still know this truth, you can rest assured!"

There were no less than ten waves of people like Wang Ze before and after that day, and in the end, as Ling Xiao said, they effortlessly disposed of all the remaining goods, and what they didn't know was that the scale of the Wang family's kiln not only did not shrink, but also expanded a lot in the past year, of course, everything turned from light to dark, and those big families also because of Ling Xiao's hand, not only fell into the favor of his Ling family, but also did not dare to leak the news to the outside, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.