Chapter 80 – Who can stop the boulder from crushing the car?

Yang Wanli glanced at Fan Xian beside him and said, “Teacher, the matter of Jiangnan has been settled, so you shouldn’t worry too much about it.”

He said this is very sincere, very sincere, at this time Yang Wanli, after half a year of the wind and rain on the river embankment, river transport governor Yamen in the tug-of-war, has long been gradually clear the true meaning of being an official, people’s livelihood is difficult.

For the official, if you want to do things for the people, for the court to share the worry, the hands must have the right to have money, otherwise you can not do anything. Yang Wanli because there is Fan Xian as a backer, so in the Ministry of Industry no superior dares to tell him what to do, although the River Transportation Governor Yamen is still a mess, but he has the power to directly dial the inner treasury of the silver, so in this regard, no one can give him to create obstacles.

He is no longer the year that a brush of two sleeves of wind, will dare to the door of the division of the pure youth, every thought, for the door of the division of the year in Hangzhou, West Lake, the lessons deeply admired.

At this time, the two of them under the foot of the endless riverbank embankment, is this year Yang Wanli’s achievements. Every time he looked at those square stones and yellow soil, looked at the embankment under the tame river, his heart is always full of fullness and pride, patched clothes, dark face favor, have become a kind of glorious mark.

Yang Wanli was clear that what he could rely on to reach his life’s ideal was the unfailing care and support of the father and son duo of old Fan Shangshu and young Lord Fan, so he was both joyful and worried about the arrival of his disciple’s master, and uttered the words he had spoken earlier.

Everyone in the world knew that Fan Xian had been attacked on his way back to the capital, and Yang Wanli was worried about Menji’s health.

Fan Xian shook his head and looked at the river at his feet and said, “There’s no harm in it, you shouldn’t think too highly of me, I’m a lazy man, I won’t be so busy with political affairs that I’ll spoil my own body……. As for what happened in Jiangnan, the Ming family’s seven inches were pinched long ago, and naturally, they don’t have much power to fight back, it’s just that if you want to eat it in one bite, the In fact, it is still somewhat difficult.”

Today’s Yang Wanli, of course, could understand the meaning of these words, it wasn’t difficult to eat the Ming family, the key was the members of the royal family behind the Ming family, if Fan Xian didn’t have to be afraid of the situation in the palace, the Ming family would have already been eaten by him.

Fan Xian smiled, did not go into detail about the specifics, but just said reassuringly, “This time back to the capital, quite rewarding, although his majesty’s determination to reorganize the bureaucracy did not come down, but the change of blood in the courtroom has already begun to take place……. You should have seen Cheng Jialin’s name on the Di Di newspaper. ”

“Yes, Brother Jia Lin is the first of the four of us to return to the court to serve.” Yang Wanli said happily. The investigation into Fan Xian’s assassination had ended without a hitch, while Emperor Qing had taken the opportunity to drive out some of the old timers and install many newcomers into the dynasty, and Cheng Jialin, the least famous of the four sons of the Fan family, had coincided with the occasion and had been promoted over the ranks, and was now a minister of the Ministry of Ceremonies, a key cultivation target of the imperial court.

Fan Xian glanced at him and smiled, “Among the four of you, Jia Lin is the most silent and mediocre, and only for this reason, he instead walks a little smoother than Ji Chang. …… Of course, Ji Chang’s problem is also in me, if I didn’t call him to Jiaozhou, he wouldn’t have gotten into this kind of stalemate, and I just hope that he won’t blame me. .”

Yang Wanli shook his head and said, “What are you saying teacher? Ji Chang has also written to me about the matter in Jiaozhou, it’s a big matter, and only Ji Chang can handle it.”

Fan Xian nodded, since the four knew of his bitterness, there was no need for him to explain more.

The two of them walked along the long river embankment in the downstream direction, strolling and gossiping along the way. Fan Xian reminded: ”I’m very clear about the things you did in the river engineering yamen, and the imperial court is also clear about it, and now the title of Desperate Miles has also been passed into the palace, and this is a great benefit to you in the future……. However, you still have to remember the words I said back then, things like repairing the river engineering, the things you know how to do, you have to work hard at them, and the things you don’t know anything, don’t command carelessly.”

Yang Wanli smiled and responded, “After spending a year on the river embankment, I understand some of the things I don’t know any more.”

Fan Xian gave him a disapproving look and said, “River work is a big deal, even more important than the war on the Western Hu and Northern Qi borders, so if you just understand some …… how is this some enough to support you in saying such confident words?”

Yang Wanli immediately heard and understood, ashamed to be taught.

“A mere year’s time is certainly not enough to stop the river trouble.” Fan Xian suddenly frowned and said, “This is the work of ten years, or even a hundred years, or even as long as people live on both sides of this great river for as many years as it takes to repair it, you have to refrain from arrogance and …… be willing to be lonely.”

“Yes, teacher.”

“But you should also pay attention to cultivating some capable subordinates and specialized talents.” Fan Xian said sincerely, “Although you have the wish to benefit for the people, but long years of wind and rain, the body and bones are afraid to stand, you cultivate a competent person, river engineering Yamen do not stay, give me back to the capital to do serious work.”

Yang Wanli was shocked, hurriedly said: “Teacher, I do not want to go back to the capital, that the capital than the dike can be much more trouble …… Besides, I am not afraid of suffering, early used to.”

“Beijing of course trouble, but you want to do something, you must go back to the capital!” Fan Xian decisively said, “This and you can not hold this bitter has nothing to do with, I still expect you to live a few more years …… so old people, even the daughter-in-law have not married, pass out like what words?”

Yang Wanli was agonized and didn’t dare to say more. It’s amazing, Fan Xian’s age is younger than his four students, but in the past two years, Fan Xian occasionally touched in a place, Fan Xian set up the door teacher’s spectrum to teach them, but more and more accustomed to it, which is probably the so-called residence to move the body, the maintenance of the gas shift.

After a few days Fan Xian is still in Yingzhou hovering, most of the time in the river embankment and Yang Wanli pointing, but also inevitably by the Governor of River Engineering Yamen’s banquet. Fan Xian could generally push back the local officials, but this time the river governor came to the banquet in person, and this kind of face was really no excuse.

The reason why the governor invited Fan Xian was very simple, what the Governor of River Engineering lacked was silver, and what Fan Xian presided over the inner treasury was silver, this year, the Governor of River Engineering’s office repaired the river smoothly, and was greatly honored by the Emperor, it was because of Fan Xian, from the open and the secret, to this office bet on the enthusiasm and countless silver, this kind of affection, no wonder that the governor was not grateful.

And let Yang Wanli feel strange is, the door division has been staying in Yingzhou in the end is why, line Jiangnan road officer of course can patrol the dike construction, but look at Fan Xian’s appearance, even is ready to stay here half a month.

“Teacher, are you not going to Suzhou?” One day, Yang Wanli boldly asked.

“There’s no rush, wait a little longer.”

Fan Xian smiled. Qing’s Kyoto was in the north and Suzhou was in the east, and he was sitting firmly in Yingzhou at the moment, coldly watching what was about to happen in the two places, just like a picker picking two loads of prickly fruits, just the right amount of weight on his shoulders without worrying about the prickly fruits stinging his thighs.

He was waiting for things in Suzhou to come to a head first, and then waiting for things to break out in Kyoto, Yinzhou is the best place to watch the show. Because even though he was a person who was very offensive in the eyes of the world’s officials, he still needed to avoid suspicion at such a sensitive time.

The Supervisory Yuan Qiyan group in Jiangnan has two leading figures, one is in the three major workshops in northern Fujian Province in charge of the internal treasury production matters Su Wenmao, one is in Suzhou City, the internal treasury transit division to keep an eye on the Ming family’s movements of the Hong Changqing.

The action against the Ming family, in fact, as early as a year ago, the layout, and the real movement has begun from half a year ago. On the one hand, China Merchants Bank vigorously to the Ming family silver to support each other’s channels and daily needs, and began to provoke the Ming Lan Shi to develop new business routes, while also on that only like sumo wrestling Ming six masters under the hand of …… the confused Ming six masters, only know that the China Merchants Bank borrowed a lot of their own silver to spend, but did not think that, his own shares in the Ming family! The first time I saw a lot of people in the world, I was very surprised to see that they were so happy to see me.

All of this is carried out in the open, because the Merchants Bank even if this time to force the debt, with the strong strength of the Ming family, the hands of the goods mortgage, daily flow of water, the support of the Taiping Money Bank, can still cope with, and do not have to be forced to liquidate, with the shares of the merchant bank and the property to pay off.

So all along, the problem in front of Fan Xian is how to make the Ming family’s flowing water rapidly shrink in price, so that the Ming family’s turnover occurs serious problems.

Against such a huge industry as the Ming family, even if one had more money, it would be very difficult to achieve this goal, but the problem was that Fan Xian had the full power to dispose of the inner treasury, which deadlocked the supply of goods, and was also tantamount to strangling the Ming family’s throat.

The first to take action was Su Wenmao. With the full cooperation of the deputy envoy of the inner treasury, that Ren Shao’an cousin, and the skillful arrangement of several old leaf shopkeepers of Qingyu Hall, from the end of summer last year, the output of the three major workshops of the inner treasury began to gradually and steadily rise, and the quality was also greatly improved.

When more goods are produced, more goods are eaten, and the Ming family also refused to let go of this opportunity, coupled with the fact that during this period of time, the harassment of the Ming family by the Supervisory Yuan was also relaxed quite a bit, so the entire industry of the Ming family all came to life, and at one time swallowed up countless goods and transported them towards Dongyi City and Quanzhou.

Although such a large amount of goods consumed a lot of silver money of the Ming family, but Ming Qingda is not worried, because this change of hands will have back silver into the account, which is precisely the reason why he felt relaxed in that period of time. If it continues like this, what a wonderful day it would be.

However, the Inner Treasury Transit Division of the three workshops suddenly stopped working for unknown reasons!

After the news of the work stoppage reached Suzhou, Ming Qingda was furious and told Ming Lan Shi to hurry to the Inner Treasury Transit Division’s Yamen and ask after what had happened. Hong Changqing shamelessly took up his questioning, but was only willing to say that the three major workshops were undergoing routine equipment overhauls and needed to wait for some hours.

The Ming family has the qualification to rage and roar, because he is the imperial merchant that the inner treasury tenders out tens of thousands of taels of silver, since the inner treasury receives his bidding silver to guarantee his incoming channel of goods, or else he can go to fight the imperial lawsuit.

But Hong Changqing also has an excuse for delay, because the three major workshops in the last year shipments, has completed the share of the tender, even if the stop a ten days and a half months, you Ming family should be collected goods have been collected.

Ming Qingda have no choice but to use the power of the officialdom to explore the real news of the Minchu place, it is not easy to have the news back, I heard that the three major workshops began to make trouble again, the Supervisory Yuan Su adults cut off the head of more than 20 people, only barely suppressed, but to miss many days of work.

Knowing that this was the reason, the Ming family breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it was not Fan Xian’s conspiracy, they began to wait for the day of the resumption of work in the inner library. The reason why the Ming family will be so impatient, so nervous …… is because in the first two months everything is smooth, the Ming family for the inner warehouse shipping ability gradually recognized, according to the daily quantity, with the Dongyi City and overseas signed a large contract.

Now that the bill of goods has expired, the Ming family needs a large amount of goods. Merchants need credibility, and the Ming family would rather lose money than have no goods to sell.

After a few more days, the three major workshops finally resumed work …… However, the production of various goods is not much, a drop in the bucket, I do not know when to return to last year’s light. The Ming family momentarily into a small panic, in order to complete the list of goods, had to start around the transfer of goods, the family saved the last spare inventory transfer not to mention, but also forced to use high prices in the line of the north road and the line of the south of the road in the few borrowed some goods.

After getting the return from the accountant and evaluating the water available in the family, Ming Qingda frowned and said: “What exactly does Fan Xian want to do? Is he trying to break me down by charging me for a few days’ worth of goods, this is too childish.”

Ming Lan Shi listened on the sidelines, his mouth a little bitter. These days he secretly to the Merchants Bank transferred a silver ready to get involved in the private salt business, his cooperation this time, is the largest salt merchants in Jiangnan Yang Jimei, and know that Yang Jimei and the Governor Lord Xue Qing’s relationship is extremely iron, so Ming Lan Shi does not worry about what …… just private salt back to profit at least needs three months …… If his father knew that he had moved the running water of his family to other places, would he still be as set in his ways as he is now?

“Our Ming family has nothing else, just silver.” Ming Qingda laughed indifferently, “Fan Xian wants to manipulate the price of goods on the market to eat our family’s silver, so let’s give it to him to eat, and he’ll still have to spit it back out in the future anyway……. It’s imperative that this cargo order be completed.”

However, the action of the Supervisory Yuan is of course not only manipulate the price of goods this simple, then in the Ming family high price after the success of the collection of goods on the second day …… of the three major workshop workers like eating ephedrine general excitement, the operation of the inner library suddenly burst, simply do not see a trace of the shadow of the labor tide, in a very short period of time even create a peak of daily production.

Several major imperial merchants out of the price of goods, although the court equilibrium price, but the price of selling out is bound to be controlled by the upstream supplier, at this time the price of goods cheap up, but business is a lot better, Lingnan Xiongjia, Sunjia, and even Xia Mingji are in this wave of the market earned a lot of money, mainly earned a lot of difference in the price of the Mingjia …… who let the Mingjia marked the most road.

The Ming family hard work set of high-priced goods, fulfill most of the goods list, however, eye watching the market price of goods in the drop, can not say annoyed, especially Quanzhou out of the sea of a few foreigners are shamelessly run away, turned to Lingnan to pick up cheap goods …… let the Ming family smashed a large pile of high-priced porcelain perfume in the hands.

This battle alone, the Ming family has lost seven hundred thousand taels of running water.

If put in the past, this seven hundred thousand two for Jiangnan Ming family is nothing, but by the Supervisory Yuan full suppression of a year later, the Ming family’s circulation channel has long been close to the water dry, relying on the Taiping and Merchants two money changers to support, and now there are seven hundred thousand two running water like snowflakes melted away disappearance, no wonder the master of the Ming family Ming Qingda is not vigilant up.

“This order must be sent over, although Shi Pai Bao is a foreigner, but behind him is also a big foreign merchant bank, it must not be as shameless as those islanders, he also speaks credibility.” Ming Qingda rubbed his tired eyes and said to his son below, “Lan Shi, this time you personally escort the goods, be careful.”

Ming Lan Shi responded, he also knew that this batch of goods was very important, because this batch of goods was a batch of trial goods that Lord Father had tried everything and used who knows how many connections to snatch out from the inner treasury.

The so-called trial goods refers to the first successful development of goods in the inner treasury, just like the previous spirits and perfumes, although the price is extremely high, but the world knows that it is certainly a novelty, once sold, it can be sold as gold.

This trial goods is a batch of mirrors – Ming Lan Shi personally examined the goods, these mirrors are the main material is glass, but the back do not know how to do, but even to a layer of silver plating, shine up to the fine, is really a treasure.

According to reason, in order to Fan Xian and Ming’s relationship, the inner library of such an important trial goods how not the turn of Ming’s wealth, however, after all, Ming’s family in Jiangnan operation for a long time, turn through another royal merchant to eat this batch of goods down. But Ming Lan Shi heart is still some ominous feeling …… If you can send this batch of silver mirrors safely to the hands of Shi Pai Bao in Quanzhou, the Ming family’s current very difficult turnover situation will be able to get a great relief, but …… will be so smooth?

“Don’t worry about anything.” Ming Qingda said grimly: “I have already communicated with the capital, this batch of goods you personally escort, Jiaozhou sailor side also delivered, this time we don’t go out to sea by ourselves, although less earn some, but walking between the states and counties, it should be safe ……”

This has endured Fan Xian a whole year of Ming family master suddenly raised his head, cold voice said, “If someone …… really dare to kill and rob the goods …… can not kill everyone, escape back to people, we will go to the capital to fight the imperial lawsuit!”

Three days later, from Suzhou to the southeast to a small mountain, Hong Changqing looked at the mountain under the long caravan smiled, loaded silver mirror car is not much, only two horse-drawn carriages, but the Ming family even deployed five hundred private soldiers to escort, really is very important to the export of the bill of goods.

However, his smile immediately convergence down, into a cold, in this moment, he thought of a year ago, Jiaozhou sailors large number of officers and soldiers on the island massacre of the day, he thought of those who ate carrion seabirds, the island dead in peace of the pirate brothers.

Although from the beginning, he was a secret agent of the Inspectorate, responsible for scouting on the island, but after staying on the island with those pirates for a long time, there is always some feelings, so today he stood on the hill, looking at the caravan of the Ming family and the private soldiers below, the corners of his lips showed a hint of a quick and bloody smile.

Not killing people today, but certainly more heartbreaking for Ming Qingda than killing these people.

In the middle of thinking, a group of about two hundred or so cavalrymen, escorting a few carriages, came over from the official road that was directly opposite to the Ming family.

When the two sides hedged, they blocked the bottom of the hill.

Ming Lan Shi had been paying careful attention to the situation on the road, and looking at this group of people, he immediately detected a hint of a bizarre atmosphere and commanded his private soldiers to draw their weapons and prepare to meet the enemy.

However, the two hundred cavalrymen did not move in any way, but just indifferently brushed past the Ming family’s caravan. Although these cavalrymen stood upright on their horses, they had a cold and murderous aura all over their bodies, making the Ming family’s private soldiers not dare to move.

It was precisely when the two convoys merged into two lines.

A few carriages escorted by two hundred cavalry suddenly had their side compartments broken, and all the things inside were dumped out, smashing on the Ming family’s carriage storing the silver mirrors!

If it was ordinary goods, what was there to be afraid of?

But the problem is that the things smashed on the silver mirror carriage …… are stone, extremely heavy and heavy extremely angular stone!

No one dares to stop it with flesh and blood, even if the private soldiers of the Ming family who are under strict orders, only to hear a few muffled sounds of boom followed by countless sounds of thin and broken ruptures!

Ming Lan Shi screamed, hurriedly dismounted to check, only to see that more than a hundred silver mirrors …… the vast majority of them have been pressed into the broken glittering lenses, although still reflecting the fascinating light, but ……

The official road under the mountain was in chaos, countless people drew their weapons, and the two sides confronted each other, and the great battle was about to start.

Ming Lan Shi’s eyes were black, immediately knew that it was over, he viciously turned his head, stared at the leading figure of the two hundred cavalry, gritted his teeth and said, “Sure enough …… the black cavalry of the Supervisory Yuan, when did it also do the thing of killing and robbing goods?”

That leading figure had a silver mask covering his face, and was not surprised that the young master of the Ming family could recognize the identities of his party, as they had not been prepared to conceal their identities today.

The Supervisory Yuan black cavalry vice commander Jing Ge looked at Ming Lan Shi and said indifferently, “This will not kill anyone, nor did he rob the goods …… This will escort the three major workshops of the inner treasury need stone passing through here, you and other folk merchants dared to block the road, the road is narrow and narrow, the unfortunate overturning of the car, the two sides have losses, a certain don’t you want to pay for compensation …… er and so on also don’t want to clamor, provoked grandfather ferocious nature, carefully your head.”

Ming Lan Shi vision some dim, looked at those body iron blood breath, seems to leap to the black rider …… he forced the chest of anger pressed down, only to feel a piece of blood flavor in the throat, staring at the eyes painfully disoriented: “overturning the car?”

This world has overturned the car overturned so accurate? Both sides have losses? How your family’s Shiluo turn over will not be less a corner, while the home …… is a fragile silver mirror ah!