Feng Wenlan did not go to the Ministry of Household Affairs to answer questions today. She stayed in the Feng family mansion and waited for her eldest son, Feng Liao, to bring back Feng Yi and Kong Xirong.
Kong Xirong was Feng Wenlan's nephew, and he was led by Feng Yi in everything. He couldn't reprimand him harshly, but he stared into the eyes of his third son, Feng Yi, and wanted to eat him alive.
"The father and son of the Han family are so ambitious. How many tricks do you have to play with others?" Feng Wenlan scolded him, "Do you think I'm not angry enough with you, or did I never warn you from the beginning?"
"You didn't say to stay away from Han Qian before. Besides, who can be sure that the third prince will not succeed?" Feng Yi muttered in a low voice.
"What did you say?" Feng Wenlan was so angry that the veins on his forehead jumped. He held the cane in his hand that had not been used for a long time, and slapped Feng Yi on the head and face. "You think Han Qian is here to catch the money?"
What the hell is a good job?”
Feng Yi was beaten so hard that he screamed "Ouch" and ran around the room. He didn't forget to ask for help from the outer room: "I'm going to be beaten to death, I'm going to be beaten to death, aunt, please save me."
"You guys catch this little beast, I'll kill this little beast today!" Feng Wenlan ordered a few soldiers, deciding to teach Feng Yi a lesson today to avoid causing a big disaster.
"Anyway, Yi'er is not the only child of the Feng family. If you want to kill him, then kill him. I don't have a few years to live. Even if I am angry to death today, I deserve it. Who is it that I have protected Yi'er since she was a child?
Yes, whatever his fault, I have to carry it for him!" At this time, a heartbreaking cry came from the outer room, "Don't stop me, let me knock you down!"
Feng Wenlan raised the cane high, but could not pull it down ruthlessly. Finally, he threw the cane aside angrily and ordered the people around him: "Drag this bastard out and lock him up - send someone to the third prince's place."
He said this scoundrel is seriously ill and needs to recuperate for a few months."
After the soldiers helped Feng Yi out, another sound of crying came from the outer room, and Feng Wenlan became upset after hearing this.
At this time, a pretty middle-aged woman walked in. Seeing Kong Xirong still sitting there, she glared at him and yelled, "Get out of here quickly."
Kong Xirong did not dare to tell the truth about Chun Niang and other matters. His mother scolded him and he walked out obediently.
"Brother, according to me, you should also learn from Han Daoxun and find an opportunity to serve as an official as soon as possible," said the middle-aged beautiful woman. "Your Majesty is worried about the Xu family, but you can't touch the Xu family. If you delay, there may be trouble one day in the court."
There is chaos, and it may be a big chaos. The Feng family is now in Jinling City, big and small. It is too passive, and I can’t sleep well at night. If the eldest brother can become an official, no matter which family becomes powerful in the future, the Feng family will be in his eyes.
The use should be greater, and those who stay in the city should be safer."
"What my aunt said is true, but I'm afraid that if I act rashly now, I will only arouse the suspicion of Anning Palace." Feng Liao said.
Anning Palace was the one who interfered in the past and selected Feng Yi, Kong Xirong, Han Qian and others to accompany the third prince. In addition to the notorious reputation of these playboys, it also seemed to be a bit of a pushback.
Since Emperor Tianyou had been weakening the power of the senior ministers in recent years, Feng Wenlan guessed that Emperor Tianyou would not be able to tolerate the situation where his relative Xu Mingzhen had a large number of troops to support the crown prince Yang Yuanwo as he ascended the throne. Han Daoxun pretended to be a fool and made a fuss at the court meeting.
The people who were driven away from hunger were severely reprimanded by Emperor Tianyou, which further proved this point.
Feng Wenlan and Kong Zhou were both in the court. Even if they wanted to go to Anning Palace, they did not dare to reveal the slightest clue. Otherwise, they would become the first targets of Emperor Tianyou. On the contrary, unlike the officials in prefectures and counties, they had more freedom of choice.
Some.
Therefore, for the Feng family, the best choice is not to make a choice. Feng Wenlan has always specifically told Feng Yi and Kong Xirong to stay with the third prince, eat, drink and have fun, but no one expected that Han Daoxun, Han Qian and his son would dig
To create such a big hole and make a pool of stagnant water so turbid?
Feng Yi and Kong Xirong had not done much in the past year, so they had close contacts with Han Qian, but even so, their innocence could no longer be cleared.
And with the lessons learned from Han Daoxun and Han Qian and his son, what will the Anning Palace think when he tries to find a place to become an official?
Feng Wenlan was extremely distressed. At this time, another family member came in and reported: "The Han government sent someone over and said that they had 800 tons of tea and wanted our house to receive it. They also said that they had agreed with the eldest son to use it as compensation for the third son.
And the capital of four million yuan that young master Biao is responsible for catching money."
"Does this guy insist on dragging us, the Feng family, into this mud pit together?" Feng Wenlan cursed angrily.
Feng Liao also looked gloomy.
On behalf of Feng Yi and Chen Xirong, he agreed to undertake the task of capturing the money of the Longque Army. He just wanted to give one to two million yuan to the Linjiang Marquis Mansion every year, and they secretly paid tribute to Anning Palace and the prince's money and property every year.
, is far more than this number. Even if it is finally spread out and liquidated, it cannot be considered a big stain.
Feng Wenlan asked Feng Liao to take people to Lanting Lane to intercept Feng Yi and Chen Xirong, and Feng Liao publicly agreed to the conditions proposed by Han Qian, with the intention of proving his innocence.
However, with the frequent exchanges of bulk goods and people, this is the most unclear and unclear relationship.
However, now Han Qian has asked someone to directly deliver 800 tons of tea. Will they accept it or not?
And based on the scheming and strategies of the Han family and his son, if they are shutting out eight hundred tons of tea at this time, will they stop?
"Whether it is the Changping Cangling Order or the money-catching order set by the previous dynasty, it is a common practice for officials to pay principal, but there is no way to avoid it," Feng Xiao frowned and pondered for a while, and said to his father, "And I
Early in the morning, I led people to intercept Feng Yi. Others could tell that they wanted to force eight hundred tons of tea over this time. We accepted it with reluctance."
"Take it first!" Feng Wenlan said impatiently. Unexpectedly, at this time, he was unable to do anything with a vertical piece.
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Fan Dahei led his people to deliver 800 tons of tea to Feng Mansion, then led his people out of the city and rushed to Taowuji to meet Han Qian.
At this time, the Xuzhou fleet carrying Japonica rice, wheat, iron materials, homespun cloth and other materials had just arrived at the dock of Taowu Jitunying Military Mansion. More than two hundred men were orderly loading bags of grain into
Carry it back into the large warehouse of the military mansion.
When Shen Lan first came to Taowu Ji, he only temporarily requisitioned the Zhang family mansion outside the Qiuhu Mountain Villa as the military government office. Later that year, Han Qian suggested building a stronghold and building a rammed earth barrier around the military government office.
wall.
When you enter Taowuji at this time, you can see a three- to four-hundred-step-square earth city standing at the foot of the southern foot of Baohua Mountain.
A stream that cannot be said to be very wide flows down close to the west wall of Tucheng and merges into Chishan Lake five or six miles away.
Along the creek, you will find the Qiuhu Mountain Villa located in the depression at the southern foot of Baohua Mountain. It is also the real core of the planned military camp.
On the mountain ridges surrounding the other courtyard, the five sentry courtyards range in size from sixty to seventy steps to a hundred steps square. They fit perfectly into the gap into the mountain col, and actually form a relatively complete defense system with the public city.
Once encountering an enemy situation, the outer Longque Army soldiers and their families can retreat into the Qiuhu Mountain Villa and its affiliated farms, which are actually three or four miles deep, and block the enemy out based on the Tucheng and the five mountain ridge outposts.
The two-foot-thick rammed-earth protective walls of the villages outside the Junfu Tucheng were very thin and were only more than ten feet high. They could prevent thieves and thefts, but they were not enough to withstand powerful enemies.
Moreover, the twenty-five villages were built along the lake and were distributed in a long and narrow shape, making it easy for powerful enemies to penetrate directly from Chishan Lake.
Fan Dahei walked over and heard that Han Qian was discussing with the Third Prince, Chief Shi Chenlan and others to cover the rammed earth wall outside the General's Mansion with capital bricks before the end of the year.
Fan Dahei was sweating in his heart.
Although the total length of the protective walls of the five sentry courtyards is fifteen to six hundred paces, which is almost the same as the perimeter of the military city wall, the protective walls of the sentry courtyards themselves are built in dangerous areas, and one foot high is enough.
The military city wall must not only be built two feet and five feet high, but also be covered with city bricks on both sides inside and outside. The number of city bricks alone will be five times; in addition, the consumption of glutinous rice mortar will also be five times. above.
Although they were mining charcoal in the back mountains and burning charcoal to make bricks required nearly half the manpower than burning firewood, they had already built five outposts and an earthen city in four months, which was already their limit; years ago With less than three months left, how can we burn out 700,000 to 800,000 city bricks?
Seeing Han Qian stop talking to the third prince, Fan Dahei walked over and reported that the tea had been delivered to the Feng Mansion, but he said with some worry: "The Feng family collected all the tea, but they didn't mention the settlement at all. ,Afraid it’s difficult to cope with the urgent need?”
The fleet has entered Taowuji, and even if the goods escorted by the four surnames have arrived at the station, they have no way to delay for a few days before settling the money.
Although the camp military mansion spends 60 to 70 million yuan a year, with Shen Lan, Zhou Yuan and others looking gloomy, Fan Dahei estimated that they would not be able to raise 4 to 5 million yuan in a short period of time.
"This is easy. The Feng family must not dare to give up the money they owe us. You should first find out what goods are in the Feng family's warehouse in the past two days. When Feng Zhang and the others return, they will also sell raw silk and cotton from Jinling. If you want to bring back silk, paper, inkstones and other products, you can go directly to the Feng Family Warehouse to withdraw the corresponding amount of products as a trade-in," Han Qian said. "If they are not willing to do so, I will take His Highness to collect the debt in person."
"Ah?" Fan Dahei was slightly startled. He didn't expect that the young master's idea was to barter. After calculating this, the shipping company could still intercept something worth more than two million yuan this time. Medicinal materials and other goods.
"What's going on?" Yang Yuanpu was talking to Shen Yang in front. When he heard Han Qian mention him, he stopped and asked.
Han Qian stepped forward and smiled and asked him to take him to collect debts, but he turned around and saw Fan Dahei standing behind, talking and laughing with Zhou Yuan, and frowned slightly, but he left Fan Dahei in charge of investigating the child in Jinling. It was normal for him to have close contact with Cao Cao and Zhou Yuan in his house and workshop, so he didn’t think much about it.
Yang Yuanpu had been deeply influenced by Han Qian unknowingly, and he didn't think Han Qian had anything to do with this method. After hearing this, Shen Yang and the others couldn't help but shake their heads and smile bitterly.
