Yulang Street, Xicheng, Yangzhou.

The Bai family mansion.

In a side hall in the deep courtyard, there are purple smoke on the double eaves.

A copper crane in the hall spits out incense from time to time from the mouth, refreshing the heart.

Eight men dressed in wealthy clothes, had white hair, were middle-aged, or young, sat in the hall.

Although the eight people are of different ages, they all look quite powerful.

It can be seen that he is a person who has long held great power.

These eight people are the eight famous salt merchants in Yangzhou.

The person sitting on the main seat is Bai Shijie, the head of the Bai family.

It is also the only young man among the eight people.

However, he does not seem to be the last junior, but rather the central figure among the eight people.

Although no one spoke at this moment, the other seven people's eyes were all on Bai Shijie's face, either open or secretly, as if waiting for him to make some ideas.

The Bai family is indeed the leader of the eight major salt merchants.

However, Bai Shijie can sit in the middle, not just because of his family background.

Since the founding of Dagan, the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou City have not always been the eight people sitting in this hall.

Only the Bai family and the other Zhao family have always ranked eight, while the other six schools have feng shui turns and will change every six years.

For a hundred years, great merchants and giants from various provinces such as Shanxi merchants, Hui merchants, Shandong merchants, and Guangdong merchants have always been thinking about these eight locations where gold and silver are cast.

The reason why Bai Shijie was able to become the leader of the eight major salt merchants at the age of 30 was that in the past ten years after he succeeded the head of the Bai family, he led seven other salt merchants more than once and severely repelled the snipers from Shanxi merchants, Guangdong merchants, Shandong merchants and other major squads.

There were several times when he even spared no effort to help the Bai family to help the other seven families.

Help them get through the difficulties again and again.

Then he led the eight great masters to continuously develop and strengthen their strength, and eventually became a giant in the eight great masters.

It is precisely through real interests that Bai Shijie has become a leader in the entire Yangzhou City and even the entire Jiangnan, and is recognized as a world-renowned master.

Although the eight major salt merchant families were not among the thirteen families in Jiangnan, it was just because the court deliberately restricted the eight families from entering the imperial examination and prohibited the eight salt merchants from entering the official career.

But in terms of strength, these eight schools are definitely not below the thirteen schools in Jiangnan.

Although the eight major salt merchants did not know how to enter the officialdom, they continued to cultivate their strength in the officialdom through marriage, funding and other means.

The entire Jiangnan was woven into a big net by these eight families.

As the base camp, Yangzhou has been operated by these eight companies into an iron barrel formation!

Anything that is wrong can't be hidden from them.

The change of the Jinyi Hundred Houses in the Bronze and the words Jia Cong said after he arrived at the Salt Government Office, were known to the Eight Family members in less than half a day.

Although it is rainy at dawn, I still don’t know what happened in the hundreds of households for the time being.

But the eight masters knew almost exactly what happened in the Salt Administration.

Naturally, everyone knew that Jia Cong had galloped thousands of miles in two months, swept across the five provinces of the brocaded and thousands of households, and recovered most of the brocaded and erotic land in the south of the Yangtze River.

This is also the direct reason for the gathering of eight of their salt giants.

As part of several major forces in Jiangnan, the power of Jinyi's personal army is actually not very powerful.

Without the support of the central government, the Jinyi personal army of other provinces became almost legal "rugged thugs" and played the role of dirty work for several other major forces.

However, it is this force that many bigwigs didn't even want to look at them, but suddenly became extremely dangerous at this moment.

Because the dirty and smelly work that Jinyi's personal army once did is now very likely to become the direct evidence of the fact that many major forces will die without a burial place!

Among them are the eight major salt merchants.

"I thought King Wu was still alive, and the heroes of Zhenyuan who took action that night were still in the important position. The Jinyi personal army would not be revived. I didn't expect..."

A gray-haired old man said with a serious expression.

The old man is named Qiu Lun, and he is the head of the Qiu family, the eight major salt merchants.

It is worth mentioning that Qiu Lun had a granddaughter who married into the Salt Administration and became Lin Ruhai's concubine...

After Qiu Lun said that, a middle-aged man said, "This uncle in Rongguo Mansion is not simple. In addition to his famous literary figures and his masters from Mr. Yumin and Song Chan, he also had some clues with the queen mother's nephew and granddaughter.

I heard that the only daughter of the Ye family who respected Princess Bi admired the Jia family very much and said a lot of good things to him in front of King Wu.

The Jia family wrote the song "Ten Years of Life and Death" to Queen Wu, and the queen mother's granddaughter took the opportunity to convince King Wu and gave four King Wu's personal guards to the Jia family as a gift.

With the four guards of the Wu King, Zhenyuan's heroes could not attack him again.

The man in the palace had made up this relationship and was given the title of official title of the commander of the Jinyi.

It's so sophisticated! You can calculate."

The middle-aged man who talked about was named Zheng Ze. He was the head of the Zheng family of the eight major salt merchants. He valued dignity, acted conscientiously and had great wisdom.

After he said that, another person interjected: "It's not just that... In order to pave the way for the Jia family, Mr. Guanmin arrived in Jinling on the ninth day of last month and summoned the patriarchs of the nine major families in Jiangnan, asking them to take care of the Wenhua Seeds that were released every five hundred years.

A quip of "When will the bright moon come to the top" pushed the Jia family's literary name to the top.

With Mr. Guanmin and Song Chan as their protection, many families and even many officials in Jiangnan were not as good as those of the Jia family.

Alas, the man in the palace is really good at using people. After finding such a difficult person to make a knife, hedgehog makes it difficult for both civil and military officials to get started. It is really embarrassing.

Whoever dares to touch the Jia family directly, even if he really kills him, he will have a good ending, and will instead face a disaster of extermination.

The queen mother's nephew and granddaughter in Beijing was not a vegetarian. She was so cute that she would get angry, so the emperor would make her three points, let alone Mr. Yumin and Song Chan...

If these two masters of the world are really angry, who can withstand it? Even if we don’t care, do you still want the family door?”

The person who complains endlessly, named An Hua, is the head of the An family. He looks very rich and wears a dress in a foreign uniform. He always smiles on weekdays, a bit like the God of Wealth, and has a very good popularity.

However, his words made the atmosphere in the hall solidify.

Next, no one spoke.

How to deal with a person with a defensive aura that is invincible to civil and military affairs?

Bai Shijie, who had never spoken, looked around the hall and whispered: "Our eight salt merchants were not noble at first, and they were even regarded as pigs in the year and were slaughtered when they were fat. It was not until the ancestor of the Saint Ancestors' southern tour that my Bai family used half of their wealth to build a five-toothed dragon boat for the Saint Ancestors. As a saint, his loyalty and filial piety finally felt the Saint Ancestors'. Since then, the position of the Saint Ancestors has been improved and they will no longer be slaughtered by mermaid meat.

During the Zhenyuan Dynasty, King Wu led the troops from all over the world to fight in the north and expand the territory for the great karma. However, with his great martial arts, it was difficult to hide the excessive consumption of national strength. National affairs became increasingly difficult, and there were gradually a discussion of military striving among the scholars.

It was my ancestor of the Bai family who invited eight major salt merchants to gather together to raise two million silver for military expenses, which led to the glory of King Wu's pursuit of the north and the Shanyu's escape at night.

That time, I, the Bai family, invested one million taels.

At this point, Emperor Zhenyuan and King Wu personally summoned my grandfather and personally gave the emperor a "Rule of the Country" to pass on the throne.

In the second year of Chongkang, there was a severe drought in the northwest, in the fourth year of Chongkang, the dike of the Yellow River broke through in the middle of Shu...

After repeated national crisis, my Bai family and my uncles always give their all to help.

I said this not to show my merits, but I just believe that the emperor will not forget these, the court will not forget these, and the people of the world will not forget these.

You won’t let the rampant children do whatever they want, so you don’t have to panic too much.”

These words shocked everyone and looked much better.

only……

Qiu Lun said earnestly: "My nephew, even though that is the case, in recent years, the provinces have done some disgraceful things for us. Among them, there are those who have eliminated our personal salt rivals..."

"Uncle Shi!"

Bai Shijie warned in a deep voice: "We eight salt merchants have never had direct contact with those people, nor would we contact such people. We are innocent salt merchants, the Holy Ancestor, the Supreme Emperor, and the merchants whom we praised today. No one can throw dirty water on us just by relying on small slanderous words.

Over the years, we have built bridges and roads to help disaster victims, which are a kind family recognized by the world, and are the "righteous business of the country" written by the Emperor of the Supreme Emperor.

Don't forget this at any time."

Although Qiu Lun was old, facing Bai Shijie who had been young for a few rounds, he did not rely on his seniority. Instead, he nodded thoughtfully and said, "My nephew said it is reasonable and he said it is reasonable."

Bai Shijie's expression was calmer and said with a smile: "Uncles are so panicked. I thought something big happened... Of course, this matter is not small, but it is not so exciting. The thing we should be most anxious now is not actually us. How many people rely on the eight people in the brocade and the black-clothed mountains to make some dirty money to live. Thirty percent of the prostitutes on the Qinhuai River outside Jinling City were touched by those bastards, not to mention the black gambling shops and people's markets.

If they know that the disaster is about to come, uncles, would you guess they will sit and wait for death?

Will Lin Zhao, who is from Jinling, accept his fate?

Besides, everyone has long learned that the Jia family came to help the court implement the new law.

This song is not ours.

Our eight families rely on this salt to make a living. As long as the salt is brought to us, it will be wealth for generations.

But others are not. If you don’t say anything, which one of the Thirteen Jiangnan families is not a fertile land Wanqing?

Haha, so the sky collapsed and there was a high top in front of it.”

After hearing what Bai Shijie said, everyone's expressions became lighter and lighter.

A tall and thin middle-aged man smiled and said, "The nephew Shijie is worthy of being the leader of my eight salt merchants. With you here, we will feel much more at ease. If the bastards in my family are 30% able to do it, I will be satisfied!"

This person is Zhou Zhi, the head of the Zhou family of the eight major salt merchants. He has always been feminine in his behavior, but he looks more sincere at this moment.

After Bai Shijie thanked, he paused and said, "Originally, Shijie wanted to be a host today, and it is rare to invite you uncles and uncles to get together. I just want you to go back and clean up some things. Why not wait until after October 15th, and Shijie will be a host. Please be sure to appreciate your uncles and uncles."

When the other seven people heard this, they stood up and said "You're welcome", and then left without much politeness.

They do have many tails to be cut off early...

After they left, Bai Shijie put away his smile, called his confidant, and ordered in a deep voice: "Immediately send someone to Jinling to rush, tell Liu Zhao what happened today, and make sure that he must use all his strength to kill Jia Qingchen outside Jinling City before October 15th!"

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Chapter completed!