chapter 82 – the great men

Winter has gone, spring has not yet arrived, last night a cold wind swept through, the new tender green ma outside the wall of the Ming Garden was suddenly frozen to death again, flooded with an inauspicious miserable white color.

Ming Qingda slightly closed his eyes.

He has long guessed that the other party will choose this program, and if you throw away the humiliation of the family being counted, if the proprietor of the Merchants Money Bank really entered the shares of the Ming family, the two sides embraced, the funds will immediately become plentiful, and the development of the future is unlimited …… even the face of the Dongyi City and the Taiping Money Bank do not have to look at it again.

Ming Qingda’s mood slightly eased, after a moment of deliberation, he said, “How much do you want?”

“Thirty percent.” The big shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief, raised his face and smiled gently and said, “Thirty percent of all, by the government to establish a deed, a death deed.”

Ming Qingda will only be a little better mood, immediately fell into endless anger and ridicule, he looked at the big shopkeeper contemptuous said: “30%? Is your family’s proprietor not having seen the world? A mere four million taels of silver …… wants thirty percent of my Ming family?”

“The Grand Master has misunderstood.” The big shopkeeper said respectfully, “The entire 30% is the specified family’s shares, and the total amount does not include the dry shares of those nobles in the imperial court …… My family’s proprietor, although ambitious, does not have such a big appetite and guts.”

Ming Qingda coldly laughed, the number of dry shares of the Princess and the Qin family in their own home is extremely large, if you say 30% is included in this number of dry shares, then it is really good to see how you will die in the future, however, the other party wants the rest of the 30%, and this amount is also extremely excessive.

“It’s not worth that much.” He said indifferently, preparing to send off his guests.

The big shopkeeper smiled and said, “The Ming family is rich in the world, holding the endless livelihood of Jiangnan, ten thousand hectares of good land, countless properties, this area of four million taels of silver is certainly not worth this amount …… However, this time, this time, this kind of thing and assets like cash silver is not the same, the same one or two taels of silver, at different moments. but has a different value.”

He continued, “This four million taels of silver if placed in the past, is only the Ming family’s yearly income of cash silver, of course, can’t offset 30% of the shares. But now the Ming family is short of running water, need cash silver to save the emergency, my family Dongjia after shares, naturally will vigorously provide silver support …… This four million taels represents a more important value …… Now in exchange for thirty percent of the Ming family shares, and is not greedy. Master is also a person of understanding, of course, you know that the price that my family’s Dongjia shouted is already considered quite fair.”

Ming Qingda was silent for a moment, knowing that the other party was speaking the truth.

“This is a big matter, even though I’m the patriarch I can’t make arbitrary decisions, I need to think about it again.” He picked up his teacup, and the Merchants Money Bank Grand Master and the young man behind him excused themselves and went out.

Ming Lan Shi walked in from the side, looked at his father and said in fear, “Father, we can’t give it to them.” Then he said indignantly, “Only now do I realize that this Merchants Money Bank is really fucking dark! It actually started plotting our family’s estate from a year ago.”

Ming Qingda glanced at his son, shook his head somewhat unhappily, disapproving of his words, and said, “In business, if it wasn’t for the support of the Merchants Money Bank during this year, our family’s days would have been a bit more miserable, four million taels of silver in IOUs, together with the subsequent flow of water support, in exchange for 30% of the shares, is indeed a very fair price, as they said. ”

“But ……”

Ming Qingda waved his hand somewhat wearily, in today’s negotiation with the Merchants’ Money Bank, he looked confident but was backing up step by step, so much so that deep down he had some sort of doubt about himself – was it that after being hit by the Supervisory Court repeatedly over the course of the year, his own confidence was running low, was it that after kneeling down in front of Fan Xian once and making countless After holding back and making concessions, one has lacked a certain boldness and gotten used to being led by the nose?

But …… one is the contemporary master of the Ming family!

Ming Qingda slowly said, “In business, but Merchants Money Bank since the use of yin …… us and why should we still pretend that we have always had clean hands?”

Ming Lan Shi felt a cold sweat gush out of his back and ate and said, “Father, once the matter is defeated, it is a capital offense of plagiarizing the family and exterminating the clan.”

Ming Qingda laughed coldly: “There is the eldest princess to protect, that is, Fan Xian does not dare to mess …… around with a Merchants Money Bank, what does it count for?”

“But the head office of the Merchants Money Bank in East Yi must have accounts.” Ming Lan Shi looked at his father and suddenly felt a chill, feeling that his father, who usually seemed wise and wise, now …… gradually became stupid and angry.

“Whatever!” Ming Qingda calm and wise eyes flashed a trace of grimace, coldly said, “The people of Dongyi City are looking for our Daqing to ask for money …… who is patient to pay attention to it?”

“Otherwise …… Otherwise ……” Ming Lan Shi murmured, “Let’s sell the land and sell the mansion? This silver is a lot, but it is not impossible to pay back.”

Ming Qingda said grimly, “What you can think of, can they not think of? The court strictly prohibits the private sale of land, if it is a small amount of okay, but so many fields to be sold, how can not alert the government? The formalities will take at least a year to complete……. China Merchants Bank would rather lose 30% than pay off the debt early, for what? Isn’t it to force us to share the shares?”

The old man’s heart suddenly sank, thinking of the imperial court’s strict control of land sales and purchases of laws, which was precisely one of the new policies that the Ye family’s mistress had forcefully implemented when she was alive.

Ming Lan Shi left with a face like dirt, he guessed what his father would do, but did not know how his father would do it, only knowing that his father had finally lost his mind under the pressure of the year when the Ming family was facing a stormy situation …… and although he was still extremely difficult to maintain a trace of clarity, thinking that it would be better to cooperate with Merchants’ Money Bank, but based on his own that A thing that has been hidden and unreported, he did not dare to open his mouth to persuade anything.

That night, suzhou city, that green stone street, suddenly more rustling sound, like by the winter trapped in the hole for a long time of rats, suddenly smelled the smell of fragrant pastry, through the cover of the night to come out.

However, there were only three rats, three experts in black night clothes easily broke through the defense of the Merchants’ Bank and directly killed into the back hall.

The defense force of the money bank had always been strict, coupled with the behind-the-scenes identity of the Merchants Money Bank, the secret bottom had invited many good fighters in the jianghu, yet it was such a defense force that could not stop the thunderous strike of those three nightwalkers, which showed the superb strength of those three nightwalkers.

The most frightening is the attacker in the hands of the long sword, the sword as if branded with some kind of magic, breaking the air without sound, the sword out of not back, straight stabbing like nine heaven descending fury, the momentum of an unrelenting never look back, a few moments in the money store store left more than a dozen corpses and blood all over the ground.

And no one had time to send out a miserable cry and call for help.

However, such three very skillful swordsmen, but in the back garden of the money changers, encountered a great obstacle. They clearly saw the box of debit deeds that the Merchants’ Bank’s Grand Master was holding in his arms, but they were unable to stab the tip of their swords into each other’s throats.

Even the supreme expert who was the leader of the three could not do it.

This was because the supreme green sword in his hand that opened mountains and broke rivers was currently being surrounded by a green-colored streamer that appeared to be soft, but actually contained infinite sheer power.

With three hissing sounds, the swordsman withdrew his sword and returned, clasped his hands together and saluted the young man holding the green streamer.

There was dignity in the martial arts path, and when assassination reached this point nowadays, it became a contest in the martial arts path.

At this moment, the green streamer had already been twisted into countless pieces by that extremely brilliant and calm sword intent, and the word Tie Xiang written on it had also turned into small black dots on the shredded pieces of cloth, and the young man who had once assumed the name of Tie Xiang, and now assumed the name of Wang Thirteen Lang, with the bare streamer stick in his hand, looked at the black-clothed man who was holding the green sword against the man who was holding the green sword with the air of a grandmaster, and slowly bowed his head to return a salute.

“Please.”

The man in black removed the cloth scarf covering his face, with a solemn face, three light whiskers fluttering slightly, holding the sword with honor and sincerity, putting all the essence of his body into this sword, opening his lips lightly and saying.

With Wang Thirteen Lang’s fearless and unrestrained nature, he suddenly saw this person’s face and couldn’t help but be moved!

If Fan Xian was here and saw the face of the man in black, I’m afraid that he would also turn around and leave without a moment’s delay.

Yun Zhilan, the first disciple of the Four Gu Swords of Dongyi City, a generation of Ninth Grade Upper Sword Art experts, Yun Zhilan!

Wang Thirteen Lang’s right hand tightly gripped the streamer stick, his pupils shrinking slightly, very nervous.

The two nightwalkers who followed Yun Zhilan into the backyard of the Merchants’ Chambers were none other than Dongyi City’s experts, and when they saw Yun Zhilan face off against the enemy head on with his sword, they very respectfully stepped aside, in their hearts, although the young man holding the streamer opposite was extremely profound and unpredictable, as long as he wasn’t a Grand Master or a perverted character like Qing Guo Fan Xian, then he would definitely not be an enemy of Yun Zhilan’s sword.

Wang Thirteen Lang looked at him in a daze and suddenly said, “Have you …… recovered from your injuries?”

Yun Zhilan frowned slightly and said slowly, “Your Excellency knows me?”

Last spring, Yun Zhilan single went to Jiangnan, on the one hand is secretly watching his female disciples practice, the most important goal is to want to watch the opportunity to assassinate Jiangnan Road Qinzhi Fan Xian, however, the end of the matter is a bit painful, a generation of swordsmanship everyone, actually just sitting on a fishing boat from a distance to see the upstairs Fan Xian a glance, and then in the Supervisory Yuan’s ambush.

To this day, Yun Zhilan still can’t forget about the sword that appeared from the water like a ghost, and he was secretly chilled, because the sword that appeared like a ghost made him suffer the heaviest injury since his debut. However, the news of his injury had been strictly controlled, and it was thought that the Southern Qing court was not willing to cause a diplomatic storm, so when Wang XIII Lang asked if he had recovered from his injury, Yun Zhilan felt a little surprised in his heart.

Wang Thirteen Lang smiled somewhat helplessly and said, “Jun is a generation of swordsman, but he is a thief for others.”

Yun Zhilan smiled and said, “Why is Your Excellency not the same?”

“Even if you kill all the people from the Merchants’ Money Bank and burn these deeds, you can’t help the Ming family.” Wang XIII Lang sighed and said, “The ones left here are just copies, the originals are naturally not in Suzhou.”

“If the originals are in Dongyi City, they should be gone by tomorrow.” Yun Zhilan slowly said, “I don’t know where your Excellency’s disciples are from, but the Ming family is too important to my Dongyi City, so please don’t stop your Excellency.”

Wang XIII Lang said, “Ming Qingda is finished.”

Before he could continue speaking, the black-robed man who had been quietly waiting by Yun Zhilan’s side opened his mouth and said, “Master, this person is stalling for time.”

Wang Thirteen Lang was slightly stunned and realized that this man in black was actually a woman with an extremely crisp speaking voice, so he couldn’t help but incline his head and laugh, “Si Si is also here?”

The black clothed man’s body shook, Yun Zhilan also looked at Wang XIII Lang curiously, sighed and said, “I didn’t expect that you actually know so much about my master’s clan……. It’s really a bit curious, it’s just a pity that there isn’t much time left, soon the Suzhou House will be coming.”

He slowly raised the sword in his hand, the tip of the sword trembled slightly, pointing at Wang XIII Lang’s throat from afar.

“You won’t kill me.” Wang Thirteen Lang said.

“Why?”

“Because ……”

Wang Thirteen Lang suddenly face solemn, left leg retreated half a step, green streamer lone stick suddenly chopped down, left hand back from the back to hold the end of the stick, right hand a pressure, the tip of the stick with a forceful intention to downward pressure!

The sound of breaking wind was suddenly made, suddenly rested, and only a line was cut out in the air!

What a powerful sword intent!

Yun Zhilan’s pupils shrunk slightly as he slowly asked, “Who exactly is the proprietor of the Merchants Bank?”

Wang XIII Lang hesitated for a moment, slowly withdrew the green streamer, and opened his mouth to silently compare a mouth shape.

Yun Zhilan’s face was filled with astonishment that appeared and disappeared, he smiled helplessly, and without saying a word more, he turned around and left the backyard with his two female disciples. When he was about to leave the backyard, he suddenly turned back and said, “Senior brother, take care, Fan Xian is even more sinister than you think.”

Wang XIII Lang said with a bitter smile, “Eldest Senior Brother, if you told Ming Qingda, I believe I would have had the opportunity to watch how Fan Xian slowly shaded me to death.”

Yun Zhilan did not turn around, his shoulders as stable as cast iron. He said after a moment of silence, “He used such a great benefit as a bet to test how much loyalty you have to him …… I don t understand.”

“I also do not understand.” Wang XIII Lang slowly said, “Maybe he is very confident that even if I rebel against him, he still has the means to screw the Ming family to death, he is just letting me preside over this matter, and in the meantime, he is looking at my attitude.”

Yun Zhilan said, “What exactly does Master Teacher mean? Is the Ming family important, or is Fan Xian’s trust in you important? Knowing this, I can decide what I should do.”

“Little Lord Fan’s trust is most important.” Wang XIII Lang said sincerely, “Even if I join forces with you and tell Ming Qingda the truth about what happened and help the Ming family get through this calamity, what about next time? The …… Inner Vault is ultimately Lord Little Fan’s, and Master Teacher doesn’t mind establishing some sort of friendship with a little friend from a foreign country.”

“Then you shouldn’t have told me just now.” Yun Zhilan said slowly.

Wang Thirteen Lang smiled and glanced at the Grand Master of the Merchants’ Money Bank behind him, who was clutching the paperwork with a wary face, “Even if I hadn’t told you, who knows if secretly I would have notified you, so it would have been better to tell you face to face.”

“It seems that Dongyi City won’t make a move either.” Yun Zhilan sighed, he wasn’t sighing that he had made a trip for nothing, but rather he was marveling at the profound resourcefulness underneath his master’s foolish face, and it was only until today that he realized that that most mysterious youngest master had been following Fan Xian in his work after he had come out of the hut.

“Yes.” Wang Thirteen Lang bowed his head and said, “Nowadays, I’m the one who is attacking, so please ask Senior Brother to retreat for the time being, and please remain silent.”

“I can retreat, but why should I be silent?” Yun Zhilan said calmly.

Wang Thirteen Lang took out a tiny jade tablet from his bosom and showed it to him. Yun Zhilan immediately sighed when he saw this jade token, shaking his head and laughing, “It has always been known in the sect that you don’t have a sword token, I didn’t realize that the original master had given you this one.”

In this world, all the people, all the forces are doing the wall-riding grass, and the Dongyi City lineage is undoubtedly a big tree in the sky, and if he falls down towards any side, it may produce some kind of unexpected ending, never able to float back again.

That was why the Four Gu Swords could not fall, because his sword had to guard Dong Yi City. He had to judge the situation in Qing completely before he would make a decision, or rather, he would only make a move if there was a strong enough fatal temptation.

Because of Fan Xian’s sudden rise, he had to throw in enough sincerity on Fan Xian’s side, part of his attitude, which was exactly what Wang XIII Lang had done. And he also retained a portion of his attitude on the side of the Elder Princess, such as Yun Zhilan.

As long as this was the case, in the future, whichever side within the country of Qing won, he could gain the corresponding benefits.

This was grasping with both hands.

And the raid on the Merchants’ Money Bank this night had caused the two hands of the Four Guards Sword to hold together head-on and begin to fight, only that this situation hadn’t even occurred to this Grand Master.

Fan Xian made the first move, so Yun Zhilan had to retreat, but he didn’t have to be silent, he could have told Ming Qingda the truth and asked him to reject the Merchants Bank’s shares, but he saw his master’s sword card, so he understood which side that Great Master preferred in the current temporary situation.

It was quiet in the Merchants Money Bank, and the smell of blood from the front yard was faintly heard.

Earlier, the grand treasurer of the money bank who had been vigilant, at this time, his face had long since returned to a calm and gentle, he solemnly saluted Wang X3 Lang who was holding a green streamer and froze, and respectfully said, “Congratulations to the 13th Grand Master for passing the test.”

Wang Thirteen Lang inclined his head somewhat dazedly, and sighed after a long time, “The human heart, it’s really complicated, Master and Fan Xian are …… really two interesting people.”

Ming Qingda once again habitually cast his gaze to the trees outside the high wall of Ming Garden, his heart was a little desolate, thinking that obviously winter had already ended, the spring breeze had already brushed his face, and the green and tender branches that had been born some days ago, how could it be that they had been frozen to death again?

He knows that now in front of himself, in front of the family situation, also like a harsh winter. The foundation of the Ming family for a hundred years, where it was so easy to be played dead, but since becoming the distribution of the inner treasury products of the royal merchants, the Ming family earns more, but also too deep, simply can not be pulled out, and gradually became the court of the major forces of the place of wrestling.

Merchants again strong, and where can withstand the court’s toying? Whether it is the suppression in this year, or the manipulation of the price of goods in the first few months, as well as that vicious to even some rogue stone smashing silver mirror …… Ming family has paid too much blood and sweat, lost too much strength, the operation of the entire family merchant bank is becoming more and more arduous.

If he could get away, the Ming family could still be saved.

But he couldn’t get away, so he needed to solve the problem. The most urgent problem in front of the Ming family right now was the poor turnover and the serious lack of running water. To solve this problem, there is a need for external support. However, after all, Taiping Money Bank is not a bottomless pit, it is impossible to transfuse blood to the Ming family forever, Dongyi City side is said to have started to raise objections. And that damn Merchants Money Bank ……

Ming Qingda’s brow furrowed and he coughed, coughing up a tearing pain in his chest.

If the Merchants Money Bank want is not the Ming family 30% shares, and hold enough chips in hand, Ming Qingda will not make such a loss of reasoning reaction, he is even willing to cooperate with the Merchants Money Bank on a deeper level, when through this storm, hands together, earn all the world’s silver.

But …… want their own family property? This touches the bottom line of the Ming Qingda, this is his matricide kneeling to endure humiliation and seek honor to seek to the family property, how can it be in order to four million taels of silver will be sent on both hands?

But …… now the Ming family, but really can not draw the silver to return the four million taels of silver, even if the Merchants Bank with the shallow water price should be deed, close to three million taels of silver, Ming Qingda can not come out.

He coughed more powerful, coughing eyes flashed a glimmer of bleak loss and submission.

Yun Zhilan once again with his people gone, only last time this sword art everyone is injured in the supervision court under, this time is the dashing away, two separate let Ming Qingda smelled extremely dangerous flavor. The night before last, although the Merchants Bank died a lot of people, but the account book and debit did not snatch over, Dongyi City in the action also did not move at all, on the contrary, the Jiangnan Road Yamen preempted the Merchants Bank blood, stationed a heavy guard.

At the same time, all of the Ming family’s private soldiers were also closely watched by Jiangnan Road Governor Xue Qing’s state soldiers.

Ming Qingda knew that he could no longer use thunderous means, being watched by the imperial court, everything could only be figured out from the Merchants Road, and to solve the current crisis of the Ming family, he could only choose to bow down.

He said somewhat tiredly to the aunt beside him, “Go and ask the people from the Merchants Money Bank to come over …… You go personally and have a better attitude.”

That personal great maid of Ming Lao Taijun back then nodded, then reminded, “Hurry up and ask for help from the capital.”