In Yangzhou City, salt merchants seem to be today's social 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 as soon as possible.
But that day, the good people in Yangzhou City discovered that outside the Zhuozhen Building, where the salt merchants gathered, the guards sent by the salt merchants were closely guarding the place, and no one was allowed to get close to it.
Today, the Biao Zhen Building has been completely taken over by the Qi family. Qi Chun'an stood at the top of the stairs, personally greeting every salt merchant who came. And those salt merchants who received invitations did not come. All of them
Attend. Of course, although they were facing Qi Chun'an, they still seemed very polite on the surface, but the expressions on their faces always seemed a bit unnatural.
Qi Chun'an knew full well that at the banquet later, there would definitely be some salt merchants who would make things difficult for his Qi family.
As expected, after all the salt merchants drank a glass of wine together, before some of the slower salt merchants put down their glasses, someone was heard asking: "This time our colleagues in the Yangzhou Salt Industry have suffered a great disaster.
We are here today, it’s time for you Qi family to give us an explanation!"
All the salt merchants looked at the person who spoke. His name was Guo Zeng'an. He was a medium-sized salt merchant among Yangzhou salt merchants. However, he was also vassalized by the Lin family, one of the four major salt merchants in Yangzhou. And
Guo Zeng'an's attack this time, the discerning people here can also see that it is actually the Lin family who instigated Guo Zeng'an's attack behind the scenes.
But Qi Chun'an was not angered by Guo Zeng'an's attack. He still kept a smile and said: "This catastrophe in Henan has also caused great losses to our Qi family. Brother Zeng An can't blame us in any way."
Let’s pray for the family.”
Although Qi Chun'an still maintained a good demeanor when answering, in the ears of the observers, there were actually sparks in the words of the two people.
"Why doesn't it matter? Otherwise, hand over the secret king of your Qi family and let us all listen to what he has to say." Guo Zeng'an was still reluctant.
"To be honest, it is indeed suspicious that Shopkeeper Wang left without saying goodbye. But I will make an oath here. If there is a person named Qi in our Qi family who tries to assassinate Wu Shoubei, then let us Qi family
All people will die a good death and have no descendants."
After hearing Qi Chun'an swear such a poisonous oath, some salt merchants on the side also began to waver.
But Guo Zeng'an still waved his poisonous tongue and said: "How do we know whether some people's swearing is true or false? Maybe some people's swearing is just like farting."
But before Qi Chun'an could retort, a burst of insults suddenly came from behind Qi Chun'an. The person who made this voice was one of Qi Chun'an's nephews. He said: "You are the one raised by a nun to fart, maybe it's
Someone is deliberately setting it up."
These words are very unpleasant to hear, because Guo Zeng'an's mother was originally a nun. Anyway, you can make up your mind as to why this nun returned to secular life, but these words really exposed Guo Zeng'an's scars.
But before Guo Zeng'an got angry, Qi Chun'an turned around and slapped his nephew, and then cursed: "Is there any place for you to talk here? Go home quickly." Qi Chun'an's nephew
He could only cover his face and leave angrily.
In fact, Qi Chun'an knew that Wang Mi's disappearance was indeed a big loophole in his Qi family, so before today's party, Qi Chun'an had already arranged for his nephew to be prepared. And now, Qi Chun'an's
This nephew has completed his mission and can go home.
Being interrupted like this, the scene became a little deserted. So Qi Chun'an handed over to the other three family heads and said: "Three seniors, my nephew's family has encountered misfortune. I thought that the salt industry colleagues would work together to tide over the situation.
This is a difficult situation. But today, my nephew is being accused inexplicably. Here, my nephew does not argue. It is fine for my nephew to suffer some grievances. However, I hope the three seniors will come up with a way soon to prevent the situation in Henan from getting worse.
Already."
Qi Chun'an's words were very powerful. He avoided the weak points of the Qi family and took the initiative of the words into his own hands. Moreover, he also limited the scope of discussion to the four largest salt merchants to prevent
The speeches of other small and medium-sized salt merchants are given to avoid people talking too much.
But how could Qi Chun'an's wishful thinking be hidden from the three old and cunning salt merchants? As for the others, the Lin family ranked second among the Yangzhou salt merchants, and had always been ranked below the Qi family. And this
By chance, the head of the Lin family discovered a chance to get rid of being the second child.
So the head of the Lin family said: "My nephew, what you said is wrong. Although Xiao Guo's words just now are a bit off-putting, it is common sense that he wants your shopkeeper Wang of the Qi family to explain the whole story clearly.
Otherwise, if we don’t know the cause of this matter, how can we solve the problem in Henan?”
The head of the Lin family brought the topic back again with his understatement.
Qi Chun'an cursed secretly in his heart. Fortunately, he was still prepared, so Qi Chun'an seemed to hesitate before saying: "Since Mr. Lin said so, my nephew also revealed a piece of news to everyone. The whereabouts of Shopkeeper Wang
, our Qi family already has some clues. Before today's gathering, our Qi family has also sent people out. This time, we must catch shopkeeper Wang and his family. But my nephew is also here to ask you, Qian
Be sure not to spread this news."
Qi Chun'an's words immediately caused a commotion among the salt merchants. They did not expect that Qi Chun'an actually said such words. And now, those salt merchants can no longer force the Qi family, because about the solution to this problem
, we had to wait until the Qi family caught Wang Mi before dealing with it.
At this time, among the three heads of the family, the head of the Teng family, who was relatively close to the Qi family, made peace: "Today, the wise nephew Chun'an summoned our colleagues in the salt industry here, and he did not ask us to quarrel. But Henan
In this situation, we must come up with a clue in advance. Otherwise, even if Wu Shoubei is willing to talk to us, we will not be able to continue talking with him."
The words of the head of the Teng family caused unanimous nods from the salt merchants present. The head of the Lin family had no choice but to let go of the topic. However, the head of the Lin family was not ready to let Qi Chun'an go.
"It's definitely not possible to talk to Wu Shoubei with empty talk. As for sending some gold and silver women, all of us here can also come up with it. But now even if we don't talk about who assassinated Wu Shoubei, then Wu Shoubei and
The reason why our Yangzhou salt merchants turned against each other in the first place must be at least because your Qi family cut off Wu Shoubei's salt supply. Here, I will be a bad person for once and ask Qi Xian's nephew: How will your Qi family compensate Wu Shoubei?
