Those who visited the Zhaoguo Mansion were the Marquis of Yongping, the Marquis of Yichun and others.

In Beijing, there are some such families, although they are powerful, but the whole family, there is only one title left, except for the ability to receive some money from the court every year, there is no real power, a few years later, this only remaining title will also be deprived by the court with the passing of a generation.

The Marquis of Yongping, the Marquis of Yichun, including the Zhou family, are all such families.

After a short period of time, it was the last light that they could ignite in Beijing.

For these families, revival is already a luxury, and in the absence of a successor to the family, they will eventually decline, but even if they decline, there are two situations.

Some families have nothing after the decline, and some families, long before the decline, have accumulated enough wealth, and with a little shadow of the family, they can still be at ease in Beijing for many years.

Yongping Hou Yichun Hou and others have long had no hope of reviving the family, these years, they have followed the Zhou family and made a lot of money, even if they have no title, they can still live a life that is the same as now.

They have only done one business over the years, and that is to send people to the Western Regions to plunder those beautiful women from the Western Regions and sell them to the magnates of the capital at a high price.

These families used to have some small businesses in Kyoto, but none of them could be as profitable as this unprofitable business, and over time, they only did this one business.

Now, if the imperial court wants to ban their business, it will cut off their back road.

After several people heard the news, they gathered at Zhou's house to discuss countermeasures.

"We are arresting the people of the Western Regions, what is the matter with Guan Tangning and King Huai, is it good for them to do this?"

"The last tax reform was the leader of them, and the two of them cut off our financial routes three times and twice"

"Zhao Guogong, didn't you go to the palace today, what did the Queen Mother say?"

In this business, they have always been headed by the Zhou family, and Zhou Wu, the Duke of Zhao, is naturally their backbone.

Zhou Wu was irritable in his heart, waved his hand, and said: "How else can I say it, the entire court is now one-sided, and this matter will definitely not be done openly in the future." ”

"What?"

"And how much silver are we going to lose?"

One person's face changed greatly, and said: "I have received 100,000 taels of deposit for the next batch of goods, and now I am told that I can't do it, how can I explain to the buyer?" ”

Zhou Wu glanced at Yongping Hou and said, "The goods in the Western Regions have never worried about the buyer, who told you to collect those silver in a hurry?" ”

The Marquis of Yongping's face was gloomy, the deposits of those buyers had already been given to him, he had hired a lot of people with this silver, and he was about to go to the Western Regions, but the imperial court forbade them to go to the Western Regions to rob people at this juncture, wouldn't it be to cut off his wealth?

This is not the most important thing, the important thing is that he has spent extravagantly in the past few years, every time he has silver in his hands, he will soon gamble and spend it all, and now that the business is yellow, how can he pay back those people's silver?

Those buyers, who is not a powerful person, if he can't pay people back, and can't pay them back the money, then he will definitely die an ugly death.

Zhou Wudao: "I can't help this matter, you can do it yourself, Zhou Da, send off guests." ”

Yongping Hou looked at him and hurriedly said: "Zhao Guogong, Yichun Hou, everyone is in the same boat, you can't ignore me"

Zhou Wu glanced at him and said, "This is the trouble you caused yourself, it has nothing to do with us, you can solve it yourself."

These magnates came to the Zhou family worriedly, and soon returned disappointed.

If the imperial court did not allow them to do this again, they would naturally not be able to oppose His Majesty and the courtiers of the full palace, at most they would only move the matter from the open side to the underground.

As for getting them to give up completely, this is, of course, impossible.

This is their only and most important source of wealth, and giving up this matter means that they will have to sit on the mountain and eat nothing, and the accumulated wealth will not be lost in a long time.

Compared to them, Yongping Hou is obviously even more miserable.

He likes to gamble and spendthrift, and if the court bans this business, he will immediately fall into an embarrassment.

And this time, he accepted the money from those people and had already raised all the manpower, but at this time, such a thing happened, not only was there no money and money, but he also had to think carefully about how to explain to those big people behind him.

Walking out of the gate of Zhou's house, Yongping Hou quickly caught up with a person and said: "Yichun Hou, stay"

Yichunhou stopped, Yongpinghou stepped forward, and said with a smile: "I've been a little strapped for money recently, I don't know if Yichunhou can do it"

Yichun Hou looked embarrassed and said, "Ben Hou doesn't have a lot of money. ”

Yongping Hou's virtue, he couldn't know it anymore, this money is lent out, I'm afraid that it will be a meat bun beating a dog, and there will be no return.

Yongping Hou said: "As long as Yichun Hou can help me get through this difficulty, I will remember your kindness for the rest of my life!" ”

Yichunhou looked at him and asked, "How much?" ”

Yongping Hou said: "One hundred thousand taels." ”

Yichun Hou shook his head and said, "One hundred thousand taels is too much, and Ben Hou can't take it out even if he is bankrupt." ”

Yongping Hou said: "Then how much can you lend me?" ”

Yichunhou thought for a while and said, "One hundred taels." ”

When the Marquis of Yongping returned to the mansion, he could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, and took out the one hundred taels of silver tickets lent to him by the Marquis of Yichun from his sleeve and tore them to pieces.

He calmed his face and said hatefully: "You dare to insult me like this!" ”

He took a deep breath to calm his mind, and looked up, only to find a figure standing in the middle of the courtyard.

The man looked back at him and asked, "When will the twenty maidservants of the Western Regions arrive?" ”

Yongping Hou's face changed, and he said: "You listen to me, the imperial court has been recently."

"We don't care about the affairs of the imperial court." The man looked at him and said, "Collect money to do things, this is the rule, if the rules are broken, it will not be good for anyone, either you will hand over the people at that time, or we will return the silver we gave you twice, otherwise, the next time I come to you, it will not be me."

Long after the man left, Yongping Hou stood in the courtyard, his face pale, as if he had been pulled out of his soul.

I don't know how long it took before he raised his head, his face was extremely gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Tang Ning, King Huai, surnamed Zhou, you forced me!" ”

Today in the imperial study, after the county lord of Anyang left, what Emperor Chen said to him showed that he agreed to Tang Ning and King Huai's proposal.

These gray industries have existed in Chen Guo for a long time, and they are hidden in the shadows on weekdays, in places that no one can see.

And when these things were put on the table, Chen Guoren, who engraved the word "li" in his bones, couldn't hang his face very well.

Tang Shui's case was completely quelled by the county lord of Anyang after such a fuss, Tang Ning turned his head and glanced at the pavilion behind him, hoping that after this incident, the county lord of Anyang would not fight his silver idea again.

In the pavilion, Tang Shui looked at the county lord of Anyang and said, "Thank you."

"Don't thank me." The county lord of Anyang glanced at Tang Ning and said angrily: "Your Majesty is still biased towards him, otherwise, this matter will not end so easily." ”

Speaking of this, she remembered Tang Ning's disdain for her in the palace, and she was a little embarrassed in her heart, but thinking of what he said later, her heart was a little more balanced.

After all, in addition to being his cousin, Tang Shui is also his unmarried wife, and she is indeed comparable to an outsider.

She looked at Tang Shui, then skimmed Tang Ning who was not far away, and said, "Don't say it, you two are quite husband and wife."

Tang Shui glared at her and said angrily: "You only have it!" ”

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