Red Mansion Royal Cat

Chapter 65
The salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River all have rich family backgrounds, among which the six families of Lu, Yang, Tan, Sun, Mo, and Bai are the most luxurious.

The six major salt merchants almost monopolized the entire process of salt circulation in the south of the Yangtze River, wantonly lowered the buying price, raised the selling price, exploited the kitchen households and the common people, and obtained huge profits.

Coupled with strong financial resources and the closest relationship with the government, he gradually became a giant among salt merchants.He has great influence in Jiangnan and even in the court, and there is a faint tendency to influence the officialdom in Jiangnan.

Among them, the Yang family and the Tan family not only operated the salt department in Lianghuai and Changlu, but also invested a lot of gold and silver by supporting the poor family, making many civil and military officials, so that the two families changed their families in just 30 to [-] years. Among the ranks of officials.

This time the six major salt merchants dared to take advantage of Lin Ruhai's serious illness to come to Yangzhou, not just to check whether Lin Ruhai was really terminally ill.

The main reason was that they had received instructions from the capital to take advantage of Lin Ruhai's serious illness to test whether they could devour the Lin family and take down the network resources accumulated by generations of the Lin family.

The wealthy family that was built with money is not a real wealthy family. In the eyes of Shilin, the Yang and Tan families are still just a vulgar family that suddenly became rich.The best way to really quickly enter the officialdom is to marry the only daughter of the Lin family and take over the political resources left by Lin Ruhai, who was born in Tanhualang.

Anyway, Lin Ruhai was about to die, so the Lord Xunyan Yushi also wanted to leave a way for his daughter!
As for whether Lin Ruhai would agree?It's a blessing for a girl whose reputation has been ruined to marry into the Yang family or the Tan family, isn't it?
of course not!

With Third Master Cong here, not to mention the son of a salt merchant, even if the loyal and trustworthy king Liu Wei dared to attack Daiyu, he would cut off the dog's paw without hesitation!
"You really have the guts to do this nasty thing in the young master's house... I will hang it up for the young master, I must let them know why the flowers are so popular today!"

Jia Cong was really angry. If Jia Lian hadn't arranged for the guards to step up the patrol, maybe these two thieves would have broken into the inner courtyard.

After all, the Lin family was infiltrated by outsiders, and the servants and maids who had been guarding the gate of the inner courtyard unexpectedly left the gate at the same time due to "urgent matters".

Jia Wuyi led several soldiers, tied up Yang Ruyi, the youngest son of the Yang family, and Tan Qichang, the second son of the Tan family, and hung them on the crooked neck tree in the front yard, allowing them to scream loudly.

Jia Lian and the heads of the six major salt merchants in the front hall hurried out to check after hearing the movement.

I saw Jia Cong holding a whip in his hand, lashing at the two of them angrily, again and again, without any intention of stopping.

"stop!"

Yang Ruyi is the most beloved son of Yang Siqi, the head of the Yang family. When he saw his son with several bloodstains on his body, he looked at Jia Cong with anger and hatred in his eyes.

However, he is still reasonable, knowing that Jia Cong, who is holding a whip, has a noble status, and he has no advantage in a direct conflict with him.

He opened his mouth to put pressure on Jia Lian, and asked in dissatisfaction: "Second Lord Lian, I am waiting to visit Mr. Lin today. My son is also a well-known scholar, but he was lynched and humiliated by your family. If my son accidentally offended Cong Third master, I, the father, can make amends on my behalf, okay?"

Snapped!
Ah!
As soon as the words fell, Yang Siqi screamed and covered her face.

It turned out that Jia Cong hit Yang Siqi's face with a whip, and the whip slanted across his left eye, nose, mouth and right neck.

Yang Siqi, who has been pampered and respected for nearly 40 years, has never suffered such pain. She was so painful that she couldn't speak a word. She covered her face and curled up to one side, humming for a long time without any other movements.

I saw Jia Cong flicking his whip in the air, and looked at Tan Zhen, the head of the Tan family who had never spoken.

"Patriarch Yang is willing to take it on behalf of his son, I accept it. Patriarch Tan, what do you say?"

Tan Zhen looked at the grandson hanging on the tree with cold eyes, and asked calmly: "Master Cong, can you ask me, how my grandson offended you, and was hanged from the tree by Master Cong to be whipped?" .”

"Heh! I don't believe Patriarch Tan doesn't know, these two dogs are sneaking into the inner courtyard. I can't find out what kind of plan they are planning to be a young master?"

Jia Cong beckoned, and Jia Wuyi brought up two papers full of words.

Jia Cong threw the two pieces of paper directly on the ground, and said coldly: "This is the confession of Tan Qichang and Yang Ruyi, you can read it for yourself. The Tan family... and the Yang family must give me a satisfactory answer." Tell me, otherwise these two dogs don't have to go back!"

A gust of wind blew by, and the confession on the ground was blown to Tan Zhen's feet by the wind.

Holding back his anger, he picked it up and glanced at it casually.Today he deliberately brought his grandson here, because he wanted to see if he could win the girl from the Lin family.

This was originally the plan after getting the letter from the capital, but I didn't expect that the Rongguo Mansion would get involved, which made the original plan fall short.

Different from the Yang family, this plan is rough, Tan Zhen is completely trying it out, it doesn't matter if it can come true.

The attempt this time was simply to cope with the orders of the master in the capital. As for Tan Qichang, the grandson, in Tan Zhen's heart, his face was really not as important.After all, he has many children and grandchildren, so this one is not bad.

I saw Tan Zhen pretending to read the confession in his hand carefully, pointing at the grandson hanging on the tree angrily and cursing: "You bastard, you have done such a thing that corrupts the family tradition, it really disgraces the family..."

Tan Zhen cupped his hands and bowed deeply to Jia Lian: "Second Master Lian, it is the young master's lack of strict family education that made his children and grandchildren offend the nobles. Please forgive the sin of Second Master Lian! Starting today, Tan Qichang's name will be removed from the Tan family tree , let the Rongguo Mansion deal with it, and the little old man will never complain!"

hiss!
Although Jia Cong didn't show it on the surface, he took a deep breath in his heart.

This Tan Zhen is really cruel, to abandon his grandson so straightforwardly.

"Master, Chang'er is your own grandson. How can you just leave him alone? If you don't care about that old woman, the Tan family doesn't want this grandson, but the Zhen family does!"

Before Jia Lian and his brothers could react, an old woman rushed out from the direction of the inner courtyard.Behind him was a little woman who was also worried, and several maidservants.

Nanny Li walked up to Jia Cong, whispered a few words to him, and then stepped back to watch the play with sarcasm in her eyes.

The old lady is Tan Zhen's stepwife, she looked at Jia Cong beggingly as soon as she came up, and begged with a salute: "Master Cong, Chang'er is caused by the poor education of the old woman, please also ask Cong San Lord, hold your hand high, and forgive him once..."

With an unhappy face on his face, Tan Zhen ordered: "Ma'am, don't mess around here..."

"Nonsense? Master Tan, don't forget why Chang'er would do this."

Mrs. Tan chuckled, and looked at Tan Zhen sarcastically: "My son is dead, and only this grandson is left. Who dares to treat him as an abandoned son? Don't blame the old lady for going crazy and dying with him!"

The vicious look on the old woman's face covered up the original kindness and pleading. The heads of the six major salt merchants, including the indifferent Tan Zhen and Yang Siqi who covered their faces and wailed, were all taken aback by the old woman's ferocity. .

Tan Zhen remained silent for a long time, but Jia Lian already sensed something unusual.

They exchanged information with Jia Cong's eyes, and both brothers smiled knowingly.Interesting, it looks like some plans need to be changed a bit!

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