Chapter 667: The Feast
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Everyone was stunned in their hearts, this is not right! Everyone is working together to compete with Luo Xin, what happened to the Lu family of the first family in the southeast at this time? On the contrary, Song Danian asked with understanding:
"How much is the boss going to donate?"
Lu Ding stretched out a slap and said boldly: "Fifty taels!" ”
"Poofha......"
Everyone laughed, and an old man smiled: "My family is not as big as the Lu family, but I am not willing to donate to the city, so I will donate forty-five taels." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"I'll donate forty taels!"
"I'll donate thirty-five taels!"
"I'll donate five taels!"
"Hahaha......"
“…………”
Night!
In the back garden of the city, there are several tables of banquets, the wine is good wine, and the food is good food. It's just that these family heads who go to the banquet eat better than this every day, so everyone's energy is not focused on wine and food, but looking at Luo Xin, who is in the center of the first table.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Luo Xin also looked at everyone calmly: "Let's eat first, what I brought to you today is not good news, if you say it first, it will affect everyone's appetite, or eat first." ”
When the words fell, Luo Xin took the lead in raising his glass, and everyone exchanged glances, and they all raised their glasses and drank them all. After putting down the wine glass, Luo Xin stopped talking, but ate heavily. When everyone heard that Luo Xin was not good news just now, they decided that Luo Xin must have wanted them to donate money and let them take money out of their pockets, which was naturally not good news for them. It's just that they have already prepared in their hearts, and they came here today to see Luo Xin make a fool of themselves, so they all let go of their hearts and ate a lot. All of a sudden, the atmosphere of the whole banquet was surprisingly good.
Looking at their behavior, Luo Xin's heart was also very puzzled. He told them that what he brought was not good news, and these people were able to have such an appetite, which couldn't help but sigh with confidence.
"Their hearts are so big!"
Because everyone just drank a glass of wine, and then they all ate, and there were few words during the meal, so everyone ate quickly, and in about two quarters of an hour, everyone stopped their chopsticks and their eyes converged on Luo Xin's body again. Luo Xin asked with a faint smile:
"Everyone's eaten!"
"Thank you, my lord, we've all eaten."
"Okay, now that everyone has eaten, let's get down to business!"
Everyone's spirits were lifted, and their eyes looked at Luo Xin with burning eyes. Luo Xin's expression became serious and said:
"I think you should all know that before I came to the southeast, the court was forbidden to the sea. What is the forbidden sea? That is, the board cannot go to the sea, let alone smuggle. ”
Everyone's hearts jumped, one by one, one by one, isn't Luo Xin going to be like them today? And at this time, Luo Xin said another sentence that made their hearts tremble:
"But I know that all of you here are smuggling."
Everyone was stunned, they didn't expect Luo Xin to say so publicly, which couldn't help but make their faces bad. Who are they?
They are the heads of the wealthy families and the owners of the scholarly family.
Seen as a copper stench!
How can the scholarly door be contaminated with copper odor? To do smuggling?
So, did they smuggle?
Of course!
They need money, and they like it as much as those merchants who have the lowest status in the Ming Dynasty, and they need money. However, they can't admit that they like money, let alone that they smuggle, because their readers, they are people with backbone; How can a well-educated reader be contaminated with copper stench?
Generally speaking, these people just want to be **** and want to set up a memorial arch.
Things can be done, but they can't be said, let alone let others say them. Others said that it was to slap them in the face again, but now Luo Xin is slapping them in the face, and these people are immediately unwilling, and they all seem to be humiliated to the extreme, and they all say:
"My lord, you are slandering ......"
Luo Xin waved his hand to stop them and said: "I don't care if you are really confused, or if you are pretending to be confused, what I want to tell you here tonight is that you have been smuggling before, and the official is not to blame for the past." However, from tonight, this official solemnly reminds you that smuggling is a crime of killing heads. Don't regret it when the time comes. ”
"Adult ......"
When everyone saw that Luo Xin had begun to threaten them, they were angry in their hearts. In their opinion, Luo Xin is giving them a dismissal, and then making a donation. This is to make them bleed! This must be fought with Luo Xin, and he cannot admit smuggling, otherwise he will be caught by Luo Xin.
However, when these people just tried their best to fight with Luo Xin, they saw Luo Xin stand up and shouted:
"Sending off!"
When the words fell, he flicked the sleeves of his robe and thought about walking to the back hall. At this moment, everyone was stunned.
Didn't Luo Xin invite them to the banquet and ask them to donate?
First of all, they pointed out that they were all smuggling, didn't you scare them so that they could donate more?
Why didn't Luo Xin send off the guest before he started talking?
Didn't Luo Xin have the idea of asking them to donate at all?
So what does he mean?
Bringing people in just to scare them?
These people left in confusion, they did not go back to their respective homes, but found a restaurant and got together, trying to find out what medicine was buried in Luo Xin's gourd?
Prefect's Yamen.
Song Danian's housekeeper hurriedly entered.
"Your Excellency!"
Song Danian put down the scroll in his hand and asked lightly, "Luo Xin's banquet is over?" How much money did he donate? ”
The housekeeper wiped his sweat and said, "I didn't raise a penny of money." ”
"Huh?" Song Danian showed a hint of surprise in his eyes.
According to those who left, after Luo Xin came forward, he just toasted a glass of wine, and then announced that he was eating, and did not say a word during the banquet. After the banquet was over, it was pointed out that the wealthy families present were secretly smuggling, and smuggling was a death penalty in the Ming law, and it was a crime of the nine clans. He told those who were married to wealthy families, and he didn't care about smuggling in the past, and he was not to blame in the past, but who dared to smuggle in the future, he Luo Xin would not forgive him. ”
"And then?" Song Danian's face couldn't help but change color.
Then he sent off the guests and left the table straight back to the back hall.
Song Danian was stunned and said, "What does he mean by this?" ”
Then he fell into deep thought, and muttered to himself, "Does he really dare to kill?" Isn't he afraid that the forces of the southeast will divide him? The forces in the southeast are intricate, there are officials, families, wealthy families, the most businessmen in the world, pirates, real widows, and fake widows, do you Luo Xin really think that you are covered in iron?
Once you infringe on the interests of these people and bring these people together, then you really have no place to die. ”
Song Danian stood up, walked to the window, pushed the window open, and the cold wind outside blew in his face, and his eyes became deep.
"Luo Xin! Luo Xin! I think when I first arrived in the southeast, I also had a lot of enthusiasm and wanted to make a career in the southeast, but I found that this place was a quagmire, and it would only sink deeper and deeper. Only if you become mud can you survive here, if you refuse to change, you can only sink into the mire and suffocate to death.
Luo Xin, are you going to get into the quagmire?
What a pity! Pathetic! ”
Song Danian stood there and sighed for a while, then looked back at the housekeeper and said, "What about those wealthy families?" ”
"They gathered in Taibai Building."
"Hehe......"
"Sir, we ......"
"We're not going to do anything, we're just watching. Let's see if Luo Xin dug the quagmire, or if the quagmire drowned Luo Xin. Tomorrow I will leave Hangzhou and inspect the following counties, and you stay in Hangzhou and send me the news here. ”
"Yes, sir."
"Huh...... I really want to know what kind of face those wealthy families are now, they shouldn't have thought that Luo Xin was so tough, right? ”
"Master, do you think Luo Xin is a bluff?"
Song Danian pondered for a while and said: "It's hard to say, there are still three days left for these wealthy families to smuggle, let's just stand aside and watch quietly." ”
Taibai Building.
"I think that Luo Xin is a bluff." The head of the Cui family said disdainfully.
"What if not?"
"Alright, don't talk about it anymore." Lu Ding patted the table and said, "Regardless of whether Luo Xin'er is bluffing or not, let's try it and know." ”
"How do I try?"
"There are three days left for our smuggling, and we smuggle and say that it is smuggling, but in fact no one in the whole southeast does not know. But so what? Even Hu Zongxian, who has a heavy army, doesn't dare to take care of us, I don't believe that he Luo Xin dares to care? ”
"Then let's go normally?"
'No'!" Lu Ding shook his head and said: "Three days later, our families will only smuggle the goods of the past thirty percent, if Luo Xin dares to appear, then he will not only offend our entire southeast family, but also cut off the wealth of the pirates and pirates." In this way, we can join forces with the pirates and completely wipe Luo Xin from this world. ”
"Then what if Luo Xin didn't show up at all, just bluffed?"
"Then it proves that Luo Xin is not a big deal, and we will use all means to drive him out of the southeast."
"I think Luo Xin'er is bluffing, Lord Song has cut off his material for nearly ten days, isn't he also cowering in the city, and he doesn't even dare to let out a fart?"
"Don't say, Huang Jin came a few days ago, and Luo Xin seemed to have found his father, begging Huang Jin to take care of Song Danian for supplies, and I don't know how Luo Xin begged Huang Jin and how much benefit he gave Huang Jin, then Huang Jin really went, but he was played by Lord Song in an empty city plan, hahaha......"
"Hahaha......"
Everyone laughed, and when the laughter was over, another one said: "I think Luo Xin'er just touched the nails at Lord Song, and then wanted to pinch them as soft persimmons to intimidate us. However, he is still too young and does not know much about the Southeast. Compared with us, Song Danian is a soft persimmon. ”
"Hahaha......"
Everyone laughed out loud again, and everyone relaxed. At this time, they had already concluded that Luo Xin was scaring them, and then waiting for them to come to the door. Lu Ding also looked relaxed and said with a low smile:
"Anyway, let's ship three percent in three days."
"Master Lu, if we only ship 30% of the goods in three days, what will happen to the rest of the goods?"
Lu Ding said with a smile: "Tell those maritime merchants to let them come with a few more ships next time, and we will sell the remaining seventy percent of the goods to them together with next month's goods." ”
"Next time?"
"Not bad! If Luo Xin dares to move the truth, we will only lose 30% of the goods, but we will drive the pirates and pirates to hate Luo Xin, we only need to provide information and make some plans to lure Luo Xin out of Hangzhou, and those Japanese can kill Luo Xin. Even if Luo Xin is brave, I don't believe that thousands or even tens of thousands of Japanese robbers will not be able to kill Luo Xin's children. One month is enough time to kill Luo Xin, and it will not affect our deal with the maritime merchant next month. If Luo Xin is just to scare us, then we will make a few things to ruin Luo Xin in the southeast and drive him away, so that we will not delay our deal with the maritime merchants next month. ”
"Good!"
One by one, the wealthy families left the Taibai Building in a relaxed mood, Lu Ding sat in the carriage, and opposite him sat a staff member of the Lu family. The staff member looked a little worried:
"Family master, we lead the wealthy family of the Southeast family to do this, will we?"
"Are you worried about bringing disaster to the Lu family?"
"I ......"
"Don't worry, except for His Majesty the Emperor, no one in the Ming Dynasty dares to provoke our Lu family, because our Lu family has a Lu handle."
The back hall of the city's ship.
Luo Xin sat under a big tree in a daze, as if his strength had been drained. He made a momentous decision today. Now Huang Jin came with the reward of Emperor Jiajing and left again. In this way, in a maximum of seven days, Qi Jiguang and Luo Qing will come back. At that time, Qi Jiguang had 3,000 full soldiers, and Luo Qing could also have 3,000 soldiers because of his promotion. That adds up to six thousand soldiers. With military power in his hands and a holy decree, Luo Xin has no problem doing whatever he wants.
However, he didn't want to wield the butcher's knife, after all, those wealthy families were also the people of the Ming Dynasty, and once the killing ring was opened, I was afraid that the entire southeast would be bloody. Therefore, he invited the wealthy families of the Southeast family to the banquet today, and gave them a warning, if those wealthy families can stop smuggling after three days, but take the initiative to cooperate with the city, Luo Xin will give them a way out. And get rich with them.
But......
If they insist on going their own way, Luo Xin will have no choice but to kill. Because the smuggling must be stopped, otherwise the city port division is simply a decoration, can you smuggle without paying taxes, and there is no danger, who will cooperate with the city port company?
And Luo Xin also knew that once he opened the killing ring, he would not be able to stop it, and those wealthy families in the southeast would definitely not be willing to take revenge on themselves, and the blood in the southeast would only flow more and more, so Luo Xin and Huang Jin kept saying that the matter at the dock was just a small matter. I am afraid that Luo Xin will leave a bad name in the southeast in the future. And once this matter is not well controlled, and it is used by Xu Jie's party in the court, maybe Luo Xin will be crushed, so this is also a great danger to Luo Xin.
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