Dominate the Country

The cold wind swept across the land, like a whistling horn, which made people feel cold in their bones. Jackdaws croaked across the sky and headed east. As the junction of mountainous areas and plains, Lushan County never has a strong wind in winter. Anyone who grew up here is accustomed to the cold wind in winter. So after November, the marriage between the Chen family and the Li family began to be arranged in full swing.

At the same time, Wang Youji of Ruzhou Camp was very clear about taking money to do things. In late October, he brought two or three hundred green camps to Daying Town, the closest to Qingtiaoling in Baofeng County, with great fanfare.

Because of external support, the Chen family had plenty of money, and this army of our Qing Dynasty, which made the whole Baofeng feel like it was facing a great enemy, did not have any bad records of disturbing the people and looting. On the contrary, because the food and drink for the two or three hundred people were all purchased from Daying Town, the locals in Daying Town, which was depressed in winter, had an unexpected prosperity.

Chen Hui spent 1,000 taels of silver to let Wang Youji lead the team to stay in Daying Town until the eve of the New Year. During this period, all the food and drink expenses of the team were borne by the Chen family. The Chen family didn't care how the 1,000 taels of silver were divided among Ruzhou Camp. As long as they saw the effect, Ruzhou Camp would completely block the economic and trade exchanges between Daying Town and Qingtiaoling, and there would be a generous reward of 1,000 taels of silver afterwards. In addition to the Chen family's arrangements in Baofeng County and Ruzhou Yamen, as well as the food and drink expenses of these two or three hundred people for two months, the total investment in Qingtiaoling alone was no less than 5,000 taels of silver.

Of course, the arrangements of Ruzhou Yamen and Baofeng County must have played a role in the Chen family's dealing with the Guan family. Even if the Chen family would say one thing for another when making arrangements.

The fight between the Chen family and Qingtiaoling and Guan family was completely about hurting others with their own capital and hitting them with silver. As long as the Guan family doesn't tell the truth and doesn't explain why they want to spy on the bone china formula, the Guan family is the biggest enemy of the Chen family.

——Inspired by the unsuccessful kidnapping, when the Chen family is out, ensuring safety becomes a major issue for them. Because of the iron business, too many Chen family members know about the changes in Xiaonangou. Although they don't know the whole truth, it would be a huge disaster if it is exposed. This is also a problem that Chen Ming didn't consider at the beginning, and the Chen family didn't expect that the benefits of iron would be so huge. By the time the senior members of the Chen family realized this problem, the news had spread inside the Chen family. Too many people knew.

Chen Hui accepted Chen Ming's opinion and signed one share distribution agreement after another with each branch of the Chen family. The main branch represented by Chen Hui only got 50% of the benefits of iron in the end. The black and white words and the white silver won over the entire Chen family. Therefore, in this fight between the Chen family and the Qingtiaoling and Guan family, the power of the entire Chen family gathered behind Chen Hui was dedicated. Chen Hui took out 6,000 taels of the 10,000 taels activity fund, and the remaining 4,000 taels were also paid by each branch and vein without hesitation.

4,000 taels of silver was not a small amount for them. The interest on iron materials for two or three months was only 10,000 taels of silver. In order to establish the secret trading network in Xiang County and pave the way in secret, I don’t know how much of the 10,000 taels of silver was spent. The silver distributed to each branch and vein according to the proportion was far less than 4,000 taels. As a result, in order to collect the silver they should pay, many branches and veins of the Chen family pawned their real estate and land, which caused an uproar in the whole Lushan County. In order to compete with the Guan family and Qingtiaoling, the Chen family invested so much money that no one expected, and the strong cohesion of the branches of the Chen family shocked the whole Lushan County. This was for the main vein to "ruin the family to help the difficulties". The branch can actually achieve this step. The high cohesion of the Chen family shocked everyone.

In the eyes of outsiders, the high cohesion of the Chen family would not be possible if the main branch of the Chen family was not righteous and Chen Hui was upright and fair - at least within the Chen family, it would never be so. This incident seemed to have given Chen Hui a dazzling halo, and the barbaric Chen family also had some loyalty. The transformation of the Chen family was unexpected by the Chen family before.

As the date of Chen Ming's wedding approached and the money of the Chen family was spent, the Guan family felt more and more overwhelmed. Guan Lin has mobilized all his energy, but unfortunately, Baofeng County is like Lushan County, and there has been no one who has been named in the imperial examination in the past 10 to 20 years. Guan Lin is a juren, but he is working in Lanyang, thousands of miles away, and has no influence on Baofeng County. He handed over a post to the Baofeng County Government, but how can a post compare to the money of the Chen family? Guan Lin's peers, classmates, and classmates in Baofeng County could mobilize scholars with no future. Several juren in Baofeng County also sent a message to the county government because Guan Lin was also a juren, but that was all.

The Guan family has dominated the Feng Shui treasure land of Zhuge Temple Town for decades, and I don't know how many people in Baofeng County envy, jealousy and hatred they have caused. That's all silver. The Guan family is arrogant and thinks they are a family of officials and scholars. When dealing with powerful landlords and gentry in the same county, they also boast of their status and have made many enemies.

In the past, everyone kept their distance from the Guan family because they had an official skin. What about now? The Chen family's silver is about to suppress the Guan family. Who would lend a hand to a family that doesn't know how to share profits? ?

The Chen family was born in a humble family, and they abided by the rules and knew how to give up. Therefore, the Chen family did not have no enemies in Lushan. Most of the powerful landlords and gentry families did not necessarily support the Chen family, but the Lushan township party forces represented by these families would not easily stand against the Chen family. Unless the Chen family was doomed to fail, these people would not easily add insult to injury. But the Guan family was different. They themselves were unpopular. As long as there were twists and turns in the momentum, there would be people who would add insult to injury.

The best way to destroy a family is to send them to jail. The people of the three Zhuge Miao Town families controlled by the Chen family did have their lives buried in the hands of the Guan family's children, but under such overwhelming pressure, the Guan family was still as hard as a stone in the toilet.

"Humph!" In the main hall of the Guan family mansion in Zhuge Miao Town, Guan Heze, the old man of the Guan family, sat at the top, and Guan Song, the eldest brother of Guan Lin, and Guan Chengze, the old man of the second branch of the Guan family, sat on the left and right. Guan Heze, who is nearly seventy years old, looks quite old. He is a very determined hawk to the Chen family.

Guan Heze, whose father is a Jinshi, whose son is a Juren, and whose grandson is a scholar, looks down on the Chen family, which started out as a yamen runner. A small official, a small Chen family, relying on their wealth, dared to bully the Guan family to this extent. If the Guan family still gives in, how can he, Guan Heze, have the face to meet the ancestors of the Guan family in the underworld after a hundred years?

Guan Chengze is the representative of the Guan family's ****, and he doesn't want to fight with the Chen family. Because Guan Heze did all that without telling him, and Guan Chengze doesn't know much more about the inside story than the Chen family.

He also has a grandson who passed the exam and became a scholar, and he has two sons who also passed the exam, so this is the fundamental reason why Guan Chengze is not a side branch but the second branch of the Guan family. But the second branch of Guan family is poor. He is a bastard, and when the family was divided, he did not get much. His children and grandchildren are good at studying but not good at business. The second branch of Guan family has to rely on the first branch for a living. But this does not mean that Guan Chengze cannot make his own voice.