The most powerful patriarch in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 62 Intimidation

"Patriarch Lu's words, forgive Fang for not being able to understand, isn't it a misunderstanding between Fan's Commercial Firm and Fuzhou Lu's, how did Jianlu get involved?" Fang Wen regained his senses and said with a face of innocence.

When mentioning the master of Jianzhou, the deepest secret in his heart was exposed face to face, and Fang Wen had a momentary breakthrough.
But he quickly reacted and immediately defended himself.

Very few people know that Fan's firm has anything to do with Jianzhou. Lu Changle is just the patriarch of a small and declining clan in Fuzhou.
I spend most of my time in Changle County, and I have never even been out of Fujian.

How can I know such a confidential matter, nine out of ten it is to deceive myself.

Yes, definitely so.

Lu Changle walked up to Fang Wen, straightened his collar in a gentlemanly way,

When Fang Wen thought that Lu Changle was about to change his attitude, he felt some pain in the position of his right arm. He turned his head and saw that Lu Changle's right index finger was poking hard at a wound on his right arm, and a joint of his finger was stuck into the flesh. The painful scar that formed, bleeds again.

Fang Wen cried out in "pain" and asked angrily, "Patriarch Lu, do you really want more than 1 members of the Lu family in Fuzhou to be buried with you?"

You have said all the good and bad things, why don't you listen?
Do you really think that you are not angry, or that Fan's firm is just paper?
After years of operation, Fan's firm has already woven a huge network of relationships for itself.
As long as he escaped, it would be easy for Fang Wen to take care of a small Fuzhou Lu family.

Fang Wen suddenly regretted a little. After learning about the major changes in the Lu family in Fuzhou, he changed his strategy and tried his best to win him over.

I feel that young people are inexperienced and easy to control. Now it seems that I am wrong.

I ran into a reckless Lengtouqing.

"More than 1 people?" Lu Changle shook his head and said, "Your Excellency is overthinking. At most, Fan Sanbo, several shopkeepers from Fan's Commercial Firm, and people from the Black Tiger Team will be buried with you. As for the Lu family in Fuzhou, it depends. For the ransom of 10 taels, burning two paper figurines for you is enough benevolence."

To attack people, attack the heart first. If you want to get the secret out of Fang Wen's mouth, you must first smash his pride and reliance one by one, and destroy his psychological defense.

"What? Qiongbiao and the Black Tigers, what did you do to them?" Fang Wen looked at Lu Changle in surprise.

An expression of disbelief.

In Fang Wen's mind, Lu Changle pretended to be a member of the Incense Sect and took him away. In fact, he was afraid of poverty and wanted to get some money from Fan's firm.

At this moment, Fan Sanbo must be thinking of a way to save himself. The money and contacts accumulated by Fan's firm over the years can easily crush Fuzhou Lu's.

It's those generals who have scruples, and the Black Tigers supported by Fan's firm alone have given Fuzhou Lu a headache.

The Black Tiger Team not only has the masters that Fan has cultivated secretly for many years, but also many elite soldiers who have seen blood.

"It's nothing. I knew you were bored by yourself, so I invited Fan Sanbo. It's a pity that the Lu family in Fuzhou is small and there's not much food, so we can't invite so many people. Those shopkeepers and the Black Tiger Team will be sent to the underworld first." Lu Chang Le clasped his hands, squinted at Fang Wen and said, "Your Excellency will not think that I will tie you up and do nothing else, just wait for Fan Sanbo to find this place with chasing soul incense, and wait for him to take revenge."

"Patriarch Lu, what happened to Zheng Du was really an accident. Don't let anyone take advantage of it. Even if Qiongbiao is not here, and the Black Tigers are not here, the contacts and goods of Fan's Trading Company are still there these years, and the goods of Fan's Trading Company are still there. A lot of power hidden in the dark"

"If Patriarch Lu has prejudice against us, Fan's Trading Company can withdraw from Fujian, and all the properties of Fan's Commercial Bank in Fujian will be donated to Patriarch Lu, which can be regarded as a disaster avoidance, how about it?"

"Fan's business is in Fujian. There are three tea shops, five grain and oil shops, six silk shops, seven herbal medicine shops, and a total of twelve restaurants and hostels. As long as Patriarch Lu agrees, all of these are yours." Increased the intensity of temptation, and deliberately listed the properties of Fan's firm in Fujian.

A patriarch who is so poor that he can't even pay the government taxes and wants to sell his ancestral tea mountain, can he not be tempted when he sees so much wealth?
As long as you are tempted, you have the opportunity to go out,
You can make money when you lose money, but you only have one life.
Besides, don't think that everything will be fine when you get the money, you have to spend it with your life.

Lu Changle said with a half-smile: "Your Excellency said just now that you are just an idler. Why, Fan's firm has so much money in Fujian, and without the consent of Fan's owner and young owner, you made up your own mind?"

The more this happened, the more Lu Changle believed that he had caught a big fish.

"It's really not a big shot." Fang Wen said without changing his face: "Fang likes to travel, and he has made some friends more or less when he is away from home. Frankly speaking, there are friends from Jianzhou among them. Fan's firm can do business with Jianzhou. , I am the middleman, Fan's transports cloth, salt, rouge and lipstick to Jianzhou, in exchange for horses, animal skins, ginseng and other goods, making huge profits. It's a relationship again, and I don't think they'll mind."

Lu Changle mentioned Jianzhou just now, and I don't know what rumors he heard, or what he found out.
A little revealing, but also to appear sincere.

It has something to do with Jianzhou, this is a serious crime of beheading, and it cannot be said to ordinary people and government officials.

It's okay to tell Lu Changle, Lu Changle is someone who has participated in clan fights, signed life and death contracts, and robbed floats,
The foundation is not clean, the eldest brother does not laugh at the second brother.

"Tell me, who are you and what are you planning in Fujian? What's the secret of Jiuchongtian? By the way, what are you doing secretly buying and hoarding medicinal materials recently?" Lu Changle asked several questions in one breath.

This Fang Wen was very cunning, like squeezing toothpaste, he really couldn't hide it, so he only revealed a little bit, and avoided the serious ones.

Those traitor merchants in Zhangjiakou transported food, ironware, and intelligence to Jianlu, and turned them into insignificant cloth, rouge, lipstick, etc. in his mouth,
He also said that he would exchange horses for Daming, as if he was doing his best for the country.

Lu Changle didn't bother to talk to him anymore, and questioned him directly.

As for Fang Wen's claim that it was ruined to prevent disasters, and that he gave all of Fan's business in Fujian to the Lu family in Fuzhou, Lu Changle didn't believe a word.

Let the tiger return to the mountain, there will be endless troubles,
Besides, there are quite a few bigwigs in Fujian staring at Fan's firm, even if it is divided up, it will not be their turn.

"Patriarch Lu, I'm really Fang Wen. If it's fake, it's nothing to buy and stockpile medicinal materials. What Qiongbiao said, there is a panic now, and many business routes have been cut off. Once the commercial routes are cut off, rare things are more expensive. Hoarding is just to make more money, for a businessman, traveling thousands of miles is just for money, so it’s not too much.”

Lu Changle looked at Fang Wen, and said blankly: "I thought this conversation was very pleasant, but unfortunately your Excellency is too uncooperative, don't worry, give you time to think about it slowly, I hope that when I come next time, we can speak nicely."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Fang Wen to speak, Lu Changle turned around and walked out of the cave.

Fang Wen didn't give in, and his psychological defenses didn't collapse. It would be a waste of time to chat with him any longer.

"Patriarch, what should I do if you don't want to eat this hob meat?" Lu Jinyuan chased after him, and said a little depressed.

After the man was caught, he knew that he had a serious problem, but if he didn't say anything even if he was tortured, Lu Jinyuan would get angry when he thought about it.

Lu Changle nodded and said, "It's Hob Knife Meat. After chatting for so long, I couldn't get anything out of it. Instead, I let him know a lot of news."

"What should we do now? Just lock him up like this, or wait for Fan San to call that fat pig to speak first?"

"You can't just count on Fan." Lu Changle refused on the spot: "It took so much effort to get it back, we can't just let it hang around like this, let alone pry his mouth open, we don't know if Fan is the truth." There is no way to prove it, so we must find a way to make him speak."

Lu Jinyuan said in embarrassment: "This guy is not afraid of torture at all, and he is also shrewd. If he can't get him to talk, if he hits harder, he's afraid of killing him. He's so fucking breathless."

Lu Jinyuan also boasted about Haikou, saying that he would be captured within an hour,

Now face off.

At this time, it was a little far away from the cave, Lu Changle suddenly stopped, and snapped his fingers: "Uncle Yuan, we have it."

(End of this chapter)