"It's not a matter of being afraid or not, having a good relationship with the Xu Mansion is also good for your city. If you resolutely don't give face to the teacher's family, and the teacher's sons and brothers make a little trouble for you, won't it delay Your Majesty's taxes?

The most important thing is that the teacher's family is involved, and it does not delay you from collecting taxes. Why should you refuse such a double thing? ”

Xu Shixing pondered for a moment, and was very disgusted with the sons and brothers in the Xu Mansion. But he also knew that Zhang Juzheng was right, he didn't have the rights that Luo Xin gave him when he first came to the southeast, he didn't have the rights that officials below the third rank could dispose of, and he didn't have an army in his hands like Luo Xin. If the sons of the Xu family, the head snake, really stumbled on themselves, they would really be anxious. So, he said seriously:

"My lord, I can agree to the Xu family's involvement. But you have to tell the Xu Mansion that not a penny of tax is less. ”

"There's no problem with that!" Zhang Juzheng's face was relieved and said: "If there is a problem with taxes, not only will you and I not look good, but the teacher's face will not be good-looking, and the teacher will not allow such a thing to happen." ”

As a result, the Xu Mansion also set up a company and began to trade with the merchants of the feudal kingdom in a grand manner. That's it. However, what the Xu Mansion wants is not just to participate, what they want is to monopolize and squeeze out those people in Daming Sea Trade, such as the five major families headed by the Lu family. In particular, Lu Bing is dead, and the Lu Mansion is no longer any threat in the eyes of the Xu Mansion.

Therefore, they actually took the initiative to reduce the price and trade with the merchants of the feudal kingdom in order to squeeze the space of the Ming Dynasty's trade.

At this point, the scene began to spiral out of control.

If Xu Shixing wants to clear out the Xu Mansion, it is impossible. Because the Xu Mansion has already come into contact with the merchants of the feudal kingdom and has a market. And Xu Shixing couldn't just invite Xu Mansion out, because Xu Mansion didn't pay a penny of taxes, in such a situation, Xu Shixing really couldn't stand up to Xu Jie's face and invite Xu Mansion out regardless of it.

However, Xu Shixing already had a feeling of unease, and he always felt that things were out of his control. But I don't know how to change that. At this time, he felt the gap between himself and Luo Xin.

Fortunately, to his peace of mind, his taxes are not less.

Lu Dingneng's five family heads have looked for Xu Shixing, and Xu Shixing has also been to Xu's mansion. I hope that the Xu Mansion can stabilize the price and not compete maliciously, so that there is no benefit in the slightest except for cheap feudal merchants.

However, Xu told Xu Shixing that this was fair competition. If you can't afford to play Daming Haimao, then don't play.

As a result, this vicious competition continued. Now, the Xu Mansion has pressed its profits to a very thin level, and the five major families are a little unbearable.

In fact, it is not said that they can't stand it, they have made a lot of money through sea trade in the past two years. It's just that no matter how much you earn, if you continue like this, you will lose money in every transaction! If you lose money like this, who will do it?

In fact, at this time, everyone knew that Xu Fu's mind was that even if he lost money temporarily, he would squeeze out the five great families, and when the time came, they would monopolize the sea, and then raise the price.

Luo Xin was in anger when he heard Lu Daqing come in and told him that Lu Yi was visiting. Luo Xin sighed, knowing that this should be Lu Ding's letter.

went to the flower hall and saw Lu Yi, and sure enough, he came with Lu Ding's letter, and Luo Xin read the letter. After explaining the situation in detail in his heart, Lu Ding only asked one sentence in the end.

"What should I do?"

Luo Xin put the letter away, and Lu Yi asked, "My lord, what should I do?" My uncle said, what do you say, just do it, even if you don't want this Daming Sea Trade. ”

"Then don't do it!" Luo Xin said lightly.

"Huh?"

Lu Yi looked at Luo Xin in surprise, Luo Xin smiled indifferently and said, "Tell Lu Ding to let them go." ”

"Really let go?"

Luo Xin nodded and said, "With the greed of the Xu Mansion, once the Daming Sea Trade withdraws, they will make the chaos even bigger." Now because Daming Haimao is here, they are doing their best to deal with Daming Haimao, and they dare not offend Xu Shixing, the representative of the government. However, once Daming Haimao completely withdrew, so that the Xu Mansion won an absolute victory, with their greed, how could they not recover the losses that suppressed Daming Haimao before? At that time, their enemy was only Xu Shixing, who represented the government. ”

"What can they do to Xu Shixing? Xu Shixing is not a businessman, he just collects taxes. Could it be that the Xu Mansion still dares to fight the idea of taxation? ”

"Yes, they will! As soon as there is a problem with the taxes, His Majesty will know immediately. And I firmly believe that Xu Shixing will not hide it. When the time comes, Xu Jie will be involved. ”

"Your target is Xu Jie?"

"Let's take it one step at a time. It's just that I have to temporarily wronged the five great families. ”

"You say it's temporary?" Lu Yi's eyes lit up, to be honest, the Lu family was extremely reluctant to let the Lu family abandon such a big business.

"Of course!" Luo Xin said with a smile: "When Your Majesty learns that all this is caused by the Xu Mansion, he will eventually hand over the rights of sea trade to the five great families and let everything get back on track, because Your Majesty is a person who is afraid of trouble." ”

"That's fine, I'll go back and inform my uncle."

After sending Lu Yi away, Luo Xin sighed and muttered in a low voice: "I'm afraid I'm going to wronged Xu Shixing." and Hu Zongxian, I'm afraid he will also be implicated. ”

Luo Xin returned to the study, picked up the pen and wrote a letter, then put the letter away and left Luofu.

Now that Dongchang and Jinyiwei are under Luo Xin's control, Luo Xin no longer has to worry about someone following him. It's just that he still cautiously turned around, and then he came to Maosheng Hutong.

first lingered on the bed with Wang Cuiqiao, and then took out the letter and handed it to Wang Cuiqiao and said:

"Send this letter to Luo Sheng and let him do what the plan on the letter is."

The next day.

At dusk, Luo Ping returned from the barracks. Luo Xin accompanied his father to finish dinner, and then followed his father to Luo Ping's study. Seeing Luo Xin follow him into the study, and there were Lu Daqing and Wan Daquan guards outside the study, Luo Ping's expression became serious, and he said in a low voice:

"What happened?"

Luo Xin told his father in detail, and finally said: "Father, now that Dongchang and Jinyiwei are in our hands, how about the five military camps?" ”

Luo Ping's eyes showed a look of confidence and said: "I don't dare to say that I control the five military camps, but as long as I give an order to my father, one-third of the five military camps will obey my father's orders." ”

"So many people have been developed?" Luo Xin asked in surprise.

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