Chapter 357 (2/2)
Ming Qingda was a bit surprisedHe thought it about it before understanding as happening”It looks like everyone knows that Sir Fan junior is regulating the palace treasury export routes this year, and no one dares to, at the rab for this bowl of rice to eatThey are waiting to see hoe and the is upIt see to enter the field next year”
Ming Lanshi+ raised his head and furrowed his brows”Those salt merchants do not seem like such prudent people”
”Who is their support in the back?” Ming Qingda snan Road, Sir Xue Qing knows Sir Fan's intentionsAt least within this year, he will suppress the salt merchants and not allow them to enter the palace treasury to cause trouble for Sir FanThis is the face that Sir Xue is giving Sir Fan junior, the old Minister Fan in the capital, and the director”
Ming Lanshi+ was silent and had nothing to say
”It's fine this way” Ming Qingda thought for a bit then said, ”With thedown the fort, no one would dare enter andas we can get the bid and get through this year safely, everything will be fine”
”The i Mingda replied, ”If we do everything in the open, why should we be afraid of the i business, he can't be as good as usAs for the palace treasury opening bid, it goes to the highest bidderThere will be people co fro that the palace transport co fa to spend the silver, Sir Fan junior can't hold on and refuse to give it to us”
”What I meant ill the imperial envoy incite other families to purposely raise the price? This is the si but canshook his head with great confidence”There are probably none in Jiangnan Road who dare offend Sir Fan junior, but other than hi familyYou have already asked about the newsThose fa from the side this year”
”If he wants to find a puppet to raise the price,” Ming Qingda furrowed his brows and said, ”bidding needs visible silverThe imperial envoy does not have this much silverHe won't be able to raise it much”
A faint sense of mockery rose on his face”Don't be blinded by that chest of 130,000 liang of silverWhen it co people with silver, officials are still not very good”
As for beating people with silver, naturally it was the Ming fa out 400,000 liang of silver at one ti ith the intention of knocking Fan Xian dizzyAlthough it didn't work, this kind of boldness was not a realm that the bribes in the capital could touch
”The father of the imperial envoy…oldcourt andLanshi+ re silver, he has da said in a slightlytone”It would be fine if the Ministry of Revenue did not moveIf the i faBelieve me, the Eldest Princess has been quiet for this entire ti for thatGardenMing Lanshi+ felt a slight chill in his heartHe knew that although it appeared his father was retreating step by step, he had long decided on a method to defeat the imperial envoy with the nobility in the capitalWho kne er was concealed behind the palace treasury bidding?
TheLanshi+ did not dare to keep asking these questions that should not be said aloudHe steadily changed the topic and reported, ”Like the previous years, themoney house is already preparedYou warned us repeatedly, so we have prepared an extra 30 percent of silver in case we are caught off guard during the bidding”
The palace treasury bidding used open bid and openaside the 40 percent deposit after the deal, the bidding money itself needed to be prepared ahead of tiold and silver or banknotes fronized money housesThey both needed to be sent to a special location before the opening
This was an accuIt was difficult even for a leadingfamily to immediately withdraw this much silverAfter all, they couldn't sell land and houses, further silver would be immediately returnedRoyal merchants didn't want to use their cash flow e fa families, every year they needed a massive a ether the oods as collateralIt had beco there to be trouble at the palace treasury opening this year, Fan Xian would think of ways tofa money house prepare an extra 20 percent of the banknotes they were issuingThis 20 percent was in itself a terrifying nus as collateral
”Taiping da said in a serious voice”It's an old relationshi+pFurtheryi people will always depend on us to provide goods”
”Yes,” Ming Lanshi+ agreed quietly”Besides, we are notThere are always supercilious people in Jiangnan ant to laugh at the expense of the Ming faet the bid this time, it would be like a slap to their facesAt the same time, it will ensure that the ie a business deal as big as the palace treasury is our fada looked at him with approval”That is precisely our intention, so we ulations of the court necessitating this inally meant to weed out those merchants who did not have the capabilitiesAt the same time, it has also swept away many of our opponentsOf the people who can move this much, one family has already fallenWho else can there be? Unless the imperial envoy wants to watch as there is no one to take over the palace treasury goods next year, otherwise he has to give it to sFirst is the question of priceIit can't be ridiculously highSecond is the question of bindingThere will be pressure from the capital to pressure the transport company to follow the old rules and divide the 16 iteht, six, one, and oneAs always, we only want the eight”
One half of the ite family still said ”only” The confidence was clear in his words
Ming Lanshi+ was happy to accept thisWhat looked like a tense situation becaulationsIt see bid under the absurd rules the court had set
”Thesaid slowly”Have that one in the fa theLanshi+ couldn't help but feel his whole body relaxThat was the biggest weapon against the Ming faiven the steady way the Ming fanan itself, Fan Xian shouldn't be able to find any excuse to defeat hifamily still felt a chill
He didn't kno his father dealt with the matter on the sea or how those pirates entrenched on the island were silencedAs for the help the Ming family received, a portion of it was certainly from the ht so even hi family, did not knohich military troops were mobilized by the capital this time
The matter on the sea was solved by his fatherThe matters at home were up to hi Lanshi+'s face
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As night entered, the young olden roo at the sky, thinking about soirl curled up as cute as a catHer slender fingers were drawing circles on his naked chestShe was Ming Lanshi+'s third concubineSince her identity was special, she was always kept outside of the Ming Garden
”Lanshi+” The concubine's breath armShe said breathily, ”I still want”
MenLanshi+ smiled coldly, ”What else do you want? Do you not kno to be satisfied?”
Suddenly the concubine's face changed color and she ground her teeth”What do youa close watch and shi+ps don't dare to sail out, so you thinkLanshi+ sently voice he said, ”Darling, you've earned sofamily these years, how could you not be useful?”
As his words fell, his hands landed heavily on her snohite buttocks, sending up a white rippleShe pouted playfully
The concubine's eyebroere thin like silk and full of expectation
Ming Lanshi+'s face was all smilesOne palm chopped down on the back of her neckHe watched as the concubine gave a cry and fainted, then he wrapped his hands to steadily and emotionlessly choke the snohite throat he had kissed countless times
Chapter 357 Choking The Throat Of LifeTranslator Nyoi Bo Studio Editor Nyoi Bo StudioThere were not e to visit Chen Garden, where Director Chen Pingping of the Overwatch Council livedIn their eyes, the Li Palace in Xinyang, the Sword House in Donggu, and the Ming fanan were the three most beautiful and expensive private constructionsThis ranking did not take into account the i Royal Palace in Shangjing, Northern Qinobility lived in the Li Palace, and a great grandmaster lived in the Sword HouseTheir existences were both far re Garden, not far froave the common people a chance to ad fath, and they did not purposely e fanan scholars and travelers would, after they had wandered around Suzhou, followed the wide road beside the trees and wound their ay frolih they could not enjoy it up close, a look fro fa Garden, which had been built alo, still maintained the clear rass and tree, every step and pavilion, were not eye piercingly extravagant, on the contrary, they exuded a faint sense of inti the foot of theon the official road could easily see the soaring roofs withinStanding slightly closer, they could hear the sound of running water from insideIntimate did not mean domestic, and concise, of course, did not eable people, they were certain to see that there were no criticisardenAll the ly clever and skillfulYet, in the eyes of a soldier, they could see that this garden did not have any defense capabilitiesWith a few sies, it could quickly becoeDue to a spring chill and dense, thin rain, as Youngthe road heading hoirls taking walks on the greenThe carriage arrived at the side door and stopped strangelyYoung e curtains to reveal a slice of a dark and so thesent off thereAtoward his own carriage with an angry expressionMing Lanshi+ released the carriage curtainsHe turned to look at Zou Lei and angrily said, Speak of Guo Zheng, and Guo Zheng arrivesWhy does your superior have no sense of discretion Zou Lei was silentGuo Zheng was his direct superior and had served as Idou last yearAfter the spring exa questioned Fan Xian under a mixed division in the Ministry of JusticeAt the time, he relied on the Eldest Princess support and beat Fan Xian a few ti to force a confession froround to be so powerfulNot only did they not topple the Fan fa offended Prime Minister Lin, the Fan faiants struck outWithoutmuch noise, they easily had the Minister of Justice, Han Zhiwei, lose his positionAt the saest loss Imperial Censorate Guo Zhen suffered in this lifetieNow that Fan Xian had co wanted to incite the Ming fa Lanshi+ s expression was very unpleasantHe thought the foolish old Guo was acting out of a private angerHe had come to his home today probably to add some kind of pressureFather, the orders have been sent downMing Lanshi+ stood respectfully at the botto Garden and spoke toward the inside of the roomFrom inside ca fah this year before we talk of anything elseReet hold of anything that can be used against theh Lanshi+, you have always been steady, now you need to be evenLanshi+ quickly nodded his head in acknowledgeda walked slowly from the roomThere was a trace of tiredness on his faceDid you see Guo Zheng earlier Ming Lanshi+ furrowed his brows and replied, Yes, fatherI m afraid that his brazen visit to our door will be noticed by the ihNever hIf ant to shed our relationshi+p with that matter now, it is impossible, and no one would believe itDon t think about these problems anymoreDid he co Lanshi+ asked hesitantlyHearing these words, the lines around Ming Qingda s eyes deepenedA hed and said, When can these officials ever have their own identities Ming Lanshi+ s felt his heart clenchHe understood thewas here to pass on the Eldest Princess and His Highness suggestionsHe looked at his father nervouslyDon t worry, and don t pay attention to the intentions of the capitalHis Highness wants us to hinder the ieneration, smiled coldly and saidThis is to use us as a knifeCould I be so stupid Of course, on the surface ill still have to do as they say because no one knoill happen or ill sit on that dragon chairMing Lanshi+ slightly furrowed his browsThe order has already been sent outAs long as the inan, ill stay quiet, only always shoeakness is not a long ter Qingda s faceCom out the bonesIf he can t find anything to use against us publically and is worried about the backlash froentlemen officials, then he cannot carry a bowl of water and sholeAs long as we are well behaved and give hiive us sohness face, Ming Lanshi+ said with a pained sly and said, Historically, the merchant identity has always been too inferior to be shown in public, but right now it is the oppositeSir Fan is the son of Lady YeLooking at the way he acts, he always harms the officials but not the people, and he does not have any prejudice toward hness any face, does not ive us some faceWhen is all said and done, no matter how the Second Prince retaliated, it would ata trap for hie the power of the peopleOf course, untileach other with swords drawn, be sure to not provoke hi Lanshi+ was irritatedHis father had said this countless of ti overly careful and cautious on this h he knew the reason, he still found it difficult to acceptSeeing the faint worry on his father s face, he couldn t help but be coFather, if it won t work then let s pull backIt was silent for a da slowly shook his headA h the eyes of this half a century old elderThere are sos from which I cannot pull back my hand just because I want to, he smiled coldly and saidIf I pull back, ill the tens of thousands in our faet the shares nobility in the capital have takenEven if we stopped, are they not going to stretch their hands out to us for silver The Eldest Princess, the Crown Prince, the Second Prince, and a nurown used to eating from us all these yearsIf we really pulled back this tiether, who knohat they will do Never underesti Lanshi+ gazed at his father and felt a thread of sy s he had no choice but to doWith a face full of hatred, Ming Qingda said, The Ming fahen in their eyesIf the hen can no longer lay eggs, then those people who supported us will probably want to kill us even more than the imperial envoy to have one lastLanshi+ s face was immediately hiddenHe cursed in a low voice, If those people in Jingdou didn t take so much silver every year, we could honestly export the palace treasury goods and wouldn t be ht nowEven if the palace treasury side is intercepted by the inan, we could still continue to support the faoing to continue this topic of conversationHe s fa shady business so we can fill in those people s appetitesPerhaps Sir Fan junior coiven to me by the heavens to allow radually decrease the tribute we send to the capital, and the Eldest Princess and the as we can win at least 60 percent of last year s at the opening this time, it will be fineWe shouldn t be like the Cui fa business legally, can the Ming fahtly and said, What you say iven up the s their overseas pirates, they were going to lose out on a huge amount of silver this year outside of the account booksThe shareholders would still have to be paid their dividendsWith this, at least for this year, the family would have a lossThey would also need to use their principal nan, then was the fa in the silver themselves No ainst antswhat his son orried about, Ming Qingda did not want to explain more or provide assurances because the reality was just as it wasIf the Ming family had to be cut apart to protect itself, then the sacrifices of these two yearsof the palace treasury, Ming Lanshi+ said quietly, I met with everyone these two daysThe everyone he referred to was the official nan area ere at least a little faHe continued to report, I ve asked the fanan and Sun fah it seeht to sell on behalf of the palace treasury, their targets were still on the portions the Cui family had left behindThey also pro Qingda nodded and said, This is a golden rice bowl, and everyone wants to hold oneHowever, since we are early in the order, they cannot act in opposition against us openly, unless they don t want to do business any family faintly showed a few threads of the confidence and pride that the leading nan should haveMost ida furrowed his brows slightlyThose salt dealers are ruthless figures who scoop money out between the space of life and deathThey have enough spare , it will cause so to be afraid off, it will just use ulations are fixed at a 40 percent deposit He shook his head and continued, If we take too much, I h during the first half of the yearThe wealthiest people in Jiangnan were the so called royal merchants and salt merchantsThe two minded their own businesses, but now that the Cui family had fallen, who knehether or not the salt reedily at the palace treasury businessThe salt merchants held a robust amount of capital in their hands, and had supporters in courtThe Ming family were someorried about thisI ve paid a visit to all the salt ht about all that he had seen and heard over the last few days and said with surprise, They said very straightforwardly that this year they will definitely not enter the palace treasury I don t knohat this is all aboutMing Qingda was a bit surprisedHe thought it about it before understanding as happeningIt looks like everyone knows that Sir Fan junior is regulating the palace treasury export routes this year, and no one dares to, at the rab for this bowl of rice to eatThey are waiting to see hoe and the is upIt see to enter the field next yearMing Lanshi+ raised his head and furrowed his browsThose salt merchants do not seem like such prudent peopleWho is their support in the back Ming Qingda snan Road, Sir Xue Qing knows Sir Fan s intentionsAt least within this year, he will suppress the salt merchants and not allow them to enter the palace treasury to cause trouble for Sir FanThis is the face that Sir Xue is giving Sir Fan junior, the old Minister Fan in the capital, and the directorMing Lanshi+ was silent and had nothing to sayIt s fine this wayMing Qingda thought for a bit then said, With thedown the fort, no one would dare enter andas we can get the bid and get through this year safely, everything will be fineThe ida replied, If we do everything in the open, why should we be afraid of the i business, he can t be as good as usAs for the palace treasury opening bid, it goes to the highest bidderThere will be people co fro that the palace transport co fa to spend the silver, Sir Fan junior can t hold on and refuse to give it to usWhat I meant ill the imperial envoy incite other families to purposely raise the price This is the si but can reat confidenceThere are probably none in Jiangnan Road who dare offend Sir Fan junior, but other than hi familyYou have already asked about the newsThose fa from the side this yearIf he wants to find a puppet to raise the price, Ming Qingda furrowed his brows and said, bidding needs visible silverThe imperial envoy does not have this much silverHe won t be able to raise it muchA faint sense of mockery rose on his faceDon t be blinded by that chest of 130,000 liang of silverWhen it co people with silver, officials are still not very goodAs for beating people with silver, naturally it was the Ming fa out 400,000 liang of silver at one ti ith the intention of knocking Fan Xian dizzyAlthough it didn t work, this kind of boldness was not a realm that the bribes in the capital could touchThe father of the imperial envoy oldcourt andLanshi+ re silver, he has da said in a slightlytoneIt would be fine if the Ministry of Revenue did not moveIf the i faBelieve me, the Eldest Princess has been quiet for this entire ti for thatLanshi+ felt a slight chill in his heartHe knew that although it appeared his father was retreating step by step, he had long decided on a method to defeat the imperial envoy with the nobility in the capitalWho kne er was concealed behind the palace treasury bidding TheLanshi+ did not dare to keep asking these questions that should not be said aloudHe steadily changed the topic and reported, Like the previous years, themoney house is already preparedYou warned us repeatedly, so we have prepared an extra 30 percent of silver in case we are caught off guard during the biddingThe palace treasury bidding used open bid and openaside the 40 percent deposit after the deal, the bidding money itself needed to be prepared ahead of tiold and silver or banknotes fronized money housesThey both needed to be sent to a special location before the openingThis was an accuIt was difficult even for a leadingfamily to immediately withdraw this much silverAfter all, they couldn t sell land and houses, further silver would be immediately returnedRoyal merchants didn t want to use their cash flow e fa families, every year they needed a massive a ether the oods as collateralIt had beco there to be trouble at the palace treasury opening this year, Fan Xian would think of ways tofa money house prepare an extra 20 percent of the banknotes they were issuingThis 20 percent was in itself a terrifying nus as collateralTaiping da said in a serious voiceIt s an old relationshi+pFurtheryi people will always depend on us to provide goodsYes, Ming Lanshi+ agreed quietlyBesides, we are notThere are always supercilious people in Jiangnan ant to laugh at the expense of the Ming faet the bid this time, it would be like a slap to their facesAt the same time, it will ensure that the ie a business deal as big as the palace treasury is our fada looked at him with approvalThat is precisely our intention, so we ulations of the court necessitating this inally meant to weed out those merchants who did not have the capabilitiesAt the same time, it has also swept away many of our opponentsOf the people who can move this much, one family has already fallenWho else can there be Unless the imperial envoy wants to watch as there is no one to take over the palace treasury goods next year, otherwise he has to give it to sFirst is the question of priceIit can t be ridiculously highSecond is the question of bindingThere will be pressure from the capital to pressure the transport company to follow the old rules and divide the 16 iteht, six, one, and oneAs always, we only want the eightOne half of the ite family still said onlyThe confidence was clear in his wordsMing Lanshi+ was happy to accept thisWhat looked like a tense situation becaulationsIt see bid under the absurd rules the court had setThesaid slowlyHave that one in the fa theLanshi+ couldn t help but feel his whole body relaxThat was the biggest weapon against the Ming faiven the steady way the Ming fanan itself, Fan Xian shouldn t be able to find any excuse to defeat hifamily still felt a chillHe didn t kno his father dealt with the matter on the sea or how those pirates entrenched on the island were silencedAs for the help the Ming family received, a portion of it was certainly from the ht so even hi family, did not knohich military troops were mobilized by the capital this timeThe matter on the sea was solved by his fatherThe matters at home were up to hi Lanshi+ s faceAs night entered, the young olden roo at the sky, thinking about soirl curled up as cute as a catHer slender fingers were drawing circles on his naked chestShe was Ming Lanshi+ s third concubineSince her identity was special, she was always kept outside of the Ming GardenLanshi+The concubine s breath ar these words after the actMing Lanshi+ smiled coldly, What else do you want Do you not kno to be satisfied Suddenly the concubine s face changed color and she ground her teethWhat do youa close watch and shi+ps don t dare to sail out, so you thinkLanshi+ sently voice he said, Darling, you ve earned sofamily these years, how could you not be useful As his words fell, his hands landed heavily on her snohite buttocks, sending up a white rippleShe pouted playfullyThe concubine s eyebroere thin like silk and full of expectationMing Lanshi+ s face was all smilesOne palm chopped down on the back of her neckHe watched as the concubine gave a cry and fainted, then he wrapped his hands to steadily and emotionlessly choke the snohite throat he had kissed countless times