Chu Qing sent everyone away and turned around to see Xiaobao standing on the roof about to jump off.

"Don't move! Quick, get a ladder!" This shabby house has rotten tiles and the roof is not strong enough to fall down!

Chu Qing yelled at Xiao Bao and asked someone to build a ladder. Xiao Sining was so frightened that Xiao Sining almost sprained his ankle as soon as he jumped down and touched the ground.

When Xiaobao wiped his nose and wiped his nose, Chu Qing scolded them: "Why don't you two go to heaven!"

Xiaobao turned around and scolded Xiao Sining: "Why don't you, sir, rise up to ninety thousand miles when the wind blows?"

It's good to have a little skin in a child, which means that he has strong psychological endurance and will not jump off the building after being criticized for a few words. Alas, it is difficult to raise children this year!

The joint action of the three state capitals made the task of suppressing bandits as simple as child's play.

The arrival of the soldiers made Cai Haoxian reveal the unknown locations of all the caves and shanties where the bandits gathered.

Finally, Chu Yuan and the others followed the large troops into the mountains. They were suppressing bandits, and they helped collect the stolen goods. They also hunted some silly roe deer, pheasants, and the like. They didn't see any big animals, so they all hid.

The traps on the mountain made the soldiers suffer, so one can imagine their attitude towards the bandits.

The bandits' loot really didn't have many valuable items, which shows that life was difficult, but they still had hundreds of standard weapons, and they also recovered a lot of furs.

Chu Qing picked up a piece of tiger skin, looked at it and threw it aside.

These good leathers were wasted because the tanning techniques were so poor that they smelled bad and were hairless.

These are all stolen goods. The people in charge of each county offered favors and said they would be given to Chu Qing. Chu Qing looked at the hundreds of Donglun knives and thought to herself, why don't you give these to me?

They all refused: "We are here to serve the people, and we don't take advantage of them. Please arrange these things to places where they are more needed."

Chu Yuan poked Xiaobao: "Your mother has become more successful, and she is getting better and better at talking."

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In sharp contrast to the lively scene here in Chuqing, is the atmosphere in the main hall of the Meng family in Jiangnan.

The head of the family, Meng Chunzheng, and several major silk merchants were in silence, and the atmosphere was tense.

It's almost spring, and the climate in Jiangnan is not too cold, but it's chilly indoors.

"It's not a big problem." Someone finally spoke. It was Hou Yan, Meng Chun's uncle: "Even if they arrest the person, they won't be able to find anything. How much do they know?"

The first "them" refers to Chu Qing, and the second "them" refers to the killers.

Meng Chun: "It's also possible that these people are all dead. Otherwise, there would be no way one or two would come back by now."

There was another moment of silence. Everyone knew that this kind of statement was just to deceive oneself into feeling relieved.

After a long while, Meng Chun said again: "If they really find out something, Brother Wei, you have to do something."

Brother Wei, Wei Tao, and his brother-in-law are the ministers of the Ministry of Justice.

Wei Tao said: "It's natural to contribute, but Chu Qing probably didn't file a lawsuit with the government, otherwise there would be no movement until now. I heard that she is currently working on her cotton fields in Yibin Mansion."

Meng Chun: "Tell me, what is she holding back?"

Hou Yan said: "We are not afraid whether the person we sent will come back or not. We are afraid that if she doesn't report to the official now, she will go to suppress the bandits later and get more evidence against us. Then she will report to the official.

It’s complicated.”

Wei Tao: "She suppresses bandits? Why should she suppress bandits? What can she do that even the government can't do? Let me tell you, brother Meng, that steward of your family is quite smart and knows how to recruit bandits to do this."

The steward of the Meng family went to ambush Chu Qing on the road with several assassins hired by them, and chose the "Three No Matters" area in Hushan, but he was unexpectedly captured by the bandits.

However, the manager was brave and careful. He negotiated with the bandits and reached a cooperation. However, after the news of the cooperation came back, there was no news again.

Therefore, these businessmen do not know the subsequent development.

It wasn't until they learned that Chu Qing was going to open up cotton fields step by step after the festival that they confirmed that the interception had failed.

Will Chu Qing know that they did it? What actions will he take next? The unknown is the scary thing.

"You all think too much!" Kong Pugao, who had been silent until now, finally spoke:

"There are only three situations: first, she doesn't know that we did this, so even if she is lucky, we should teach her a lesson and let her be more careful in the future. After that, we will make other plans;

Second, if she knows it was us, what will happen even if she reports it to the government? As long as we don't admit it, who will take the bandits' words seriously?

Even if the people we sent are still alive and come out to identify them, we can definitely say that they were beaten into submission!

Third, even if she is extremely capable and the government really comes to trouble us, do you think any government would really come to us for such a thing?

Who would want to hold a shit basin for themselves when there is nothing left to do?"

This Kong Pugao seems to be the least important among several people, because he has no official background.

But it is the most important, because he is the richest, and he almost owns the largest tea gardens and porcelain kilns in Jiangnan.

He even dug two salt wells privately and became the largest private salt dealer in Daxuan, but no one knew about it.

Silk is just his small business.

Kong Pugao had a large group of wives and concubines and gave birth to a large group of children. He did not use his children to marry officials like others, but selected the best among them to take the imperial examination regardless of his concubines.

People with deep pockets naturally have higher vision than others.

He thinks that the official resources obtained through marriage are not suitable for cultivating officials by himself?

Now he has four sons scattered in various departments of the imperial court. In time, he will become the father of a group of high-ranking officials!

This is his real capital.

Therefore, the interception of Chu Qing this time, regardless of success or failure, is a trivial matter in his eyes. Chu Qing is just a small trouble to him.

As the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River, Kong Pugao's words made both Hou Yan and Wei Tao feel relieved. Meng Chun didn't say anything more, but felt vaguely uneasy.

Businessmen have the most investment vision. They used money to change their household registration early and became big landowners so that their sons could embark on the road to the imperial examination.

However, having an investment vision does not necessarily mean having a good education method. Except for Kong Pugao, the other three sons are not good at academics.

For this reason, they promoted Kong Pugao as the merchant general manager of Jiangnan Cloth Co., Ltd. Whenever there was any business, they would recruit him to show respect and strengthen ties, even though they were not very interested in the silk business.

But since Mr. Kong Shang said so, Meng Chun didn't want everyone to worry about this matter anymore, so he pretended to be relieved and invited everyone to dinner.

Now Meng Chun only worries about one thing: information transmission.

Meng Chun is from Songjiang Prefecture. It is separated from Yibin Prefecture where Chu Qing is located, and across Shuyu Prefecture and Jishun Prefecture. Yibin Prefecture is a place where businessmen like them have always disdained to invest. There are many mountains, forests, and rocks there.

, only the money is small.

He only bought a few small tea gardens in the southern region, and he had no influence on the rest.

Nowadays, he has no way to quickly know the situation over there at Chu Qing. In fact, even if his people are there, it would take months to go back and forth.

I can't count on my daughter either.

His in-law Wu Jichang died inexplicably. Without my care, his son would have been nothing.

What's the use of a small seventh-grade general flag in Kyoto? It's just one more grade than the head catcher in the yamen.

Because of this, the daughter's chess piece is considered a useless chess piece. Since Wu Jichang's death, Meng Chun has not provided any support to his daughter, so there is no investment value.
Chapter completed!