Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

() In Yangzhou City, the salt merchants seem to be the current celebrities. Their every move will be followed by the paparazzi of the Ming Dynasty at any time, and after that, their news will be spread throughout Yangzhou City in the first time.

But this day, the troublemakers in Yangzhou City discovered that outside the Baozhen Building where the salt merchants gathered, the guards sent by the salt merchants were so densely packed that they would not let any idlers approach.

But today's Braised Zhenlou has been completely taken over by Qi's family, and Qi Chun'an stood at the stairs, personally welcoming every salt merchant who came.And those salt merchants who received the invitation did not hold back any of them, and all attended.Of course, although they faced Qi Chun'an, they were still very polite on the surface, but the expressions on their faces always seemed a little unnatural.

Qi Chun'an is well aware that at the banquet later, there will definitely be some salt merchants who will embarrass his Qi family.

As expected, when all the salt merchants drank a glass of wine together, before some slow-moving salt merchants put down their glasses, they heard someone asking: "This time our Yangzhou salt industry colleagues suffered a catastrophe. We are here today, should you Qijia give us an explanation!"

All the salt merchants looked at the person who spoke. His name was Guo Zeng'an, and he was a medium-sized salt merchant among the salt merchants in Yangzhou.However, he is also a vassal of the Lin family, one of the four major salt merchants in Yangzhou.As for Guo Zeng'an's attack this time, all the discerning people here can see that it was actually the Lin family who ordered Guo Zeng'an to launch the attack.

But Qi Chun'an was not upset by Guo Zeng'an's attack.He still maintained a smile and said: "The catastrophe that happened in Henan has caused great losses to our Qi family. Brother Zeng An can't blame our Qi family for anything."

Although Qi Chun'an still maintained a good demeanor when answering, in the ears of the listeners, from the words of these two people, sparks had actually been rubbed against.

"Why doesn't it matter? How about handing over that Wang Mi of your Qi family, and let us all listen to what he said." Guo Zeng'an was still relentless.

"To be honest, it's really suspicious that the shopkeeper Wang left without saying goodbye. But let me make an oath here, if there is a person named Qi in our Qi family who does something to assassinate Wu Shoubei, then let us Qi family All people will die badly and lose their children and grandchildren."

Hearing Qi Chun'an made such a poisonous oath, some salt merchants at the side also began to waver.

But Guo Zengan still waved his poisonous tongue and said: "How do we know that some people swear is true or false, maybe some people swear like farting."

But before Qi Chun'an retorted, a burst of insults came from behind Qi Chun'an.It was Qi Chun'an's nephew who made this sound.He said: "You are a nun who only farts, maybe someone is deliberately planting it."

This is an ugly scolding, because Guo Zeng'an's mother turned out to be a nun.Anyway, you can make up your mind why this nun returned to secular life and gave birth to a child, but these words really solidly exposed Guo Zeng'an's scars.

But before Guo Zengan got angry, Qi Chun'an turned around and slapped his nephew, and then cursed: "Is there a place for you to talk here? Get the hell out of here." Qi Chun'an's nephew He could only cover his face and leave resentfully.

In fact, Qi Chun'an knew that Wang Mi's disappearance was indeed a big loophole for his family, so before today's gathering, Qi Chun'an had already arranged for his nephew to make preparations.But now, Qi Chun'an's nephew has completed his mission and can go home.

After being interrupted like this, the scene became somewhat deserted.So Qi Chun'an bowed his hands to the other three patriarchs and said: "Three seniors, my nephew's family suffered misfortune. I thought that my colleagues in the salt industry would work together to tide over this difficult time together. But today my nephew is inexplicable." Accused. My nephew doesn't argue here, it's fine if my nephew suffers some grievances. But I hope the three seniors can figure out a way to prevent the situation in Henan from deteriorating any longer."

Qi Chun'an's words are very powerful.He avoided Qi's family's weakness and took the initiative of speaking into his own hands.And he also limited the scope of the discussion to the four largest salt merchants, preventing other small and medium-sized salt merchants from speaking, so as to avoid too many people talking.

But how could Qi Chun'an's wishful thinking be hidden from those three old and cunning big salt merchants.The others are fine, the Lin family ranks second among the salt merchants in Yangzhou, and has always been inferior to the Qi family.And this time, the head of the Lin family found a chance to get rid of being the second child.

So the Patriarch of the Lin family said: "Nephew, what you said is wrong. Although Xiao Guo's words just now were a little off-putting, it is common sense that he wants you, the shopkeeper Wang of the Qi family, to explain the ins and outs of the matter clearly. Otherwise, if we don't know the cause of this matter, how can we solve the problem in Henan?"

In the understatement of the head of the Lin family, the topic was brought back again.

Qi Chun'an cursed secretly in his heart.Fortunately, he still had a first-hand preparation, so Qi Chun'an seemed to hesitate and said after a while: "Since Mr. Lin said so, my nephew also revealed a piece of news to everyone. We, the Qi family, already have some information about the whereabouts of the shopkeeper Wang." Eyebrows. Before today’s gathering, our Qi family has already sent people out. This time, we must catch the shopkeeper Wang’s family. But my nephew is also here, please, please don’t spread this news to others. go out."

What Qi Chun'an said immediately caused a commotion among the salt merchants, they didn't expect that Qi Chun'an would say such a sentence.But now, those salt merchants can no longer force Qi Jia, because the solution to this problem has to wait until Qi Jia captures Wang Mi.

And at this time, among the three patriarchs, the Patriarch of the Teng family who was closer to the Qi family smoothed things over: "Nephew Chun'an summoned our colleagues in the salt industry here today, and it wasn't for us to bicker. But Regarding the situation in Henan, we have to come up with a case in advance. Otherwise, even if Wu Shoubei is willing to talk to us, we won't be able to talk to him."

What the Patriarch of the Teng family said caused the unanimous nod of the salt merchants present.The head of the Lin family could only helplessly let go of the topic just now.However, the Patriarch of the Lin family was not prepared to let Qi Chun'an go.

"It's definitely not okay to talk to Wu Shoubei in the vernacular, and all of us here can come together to send some gold and silver women. But now even if we don't talk about who assassinated Wu Shoubei, then Wu Shoubei and Wu Shoubei The reason why our Yangzhou salt merchants turned against each other first was that you Qijia cut off Wu Shoubei’s salt goods. Here, the old man will be a villain first, and ask Qixian nephew: How will you Qijia compensate Wu Shoubei? What about the loss?"