A century-old family that runs through the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 97 The rapidly growing family and the reduction of vassalage

"Brother made a small profit today. Come on, let's go have a drink?"

"Okay! Shall we go to Yan's restaurant?"

"Why are you going there? I'm used to going to the He family's Taishun building to drink. I can't get used to the Yan family's place!"

"Hey, how dare you go there to eat! Haven't you heard that the food in Taishun Building killed people a few days ago!"

"What! Please elaborate..."

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Scenes like this happened in the streets and alleys of Fucheng.

As things progressed, more and more people learned about what happened in Taishun Building, and its reputation became more and more bad. No one wanted to eat there anymore.

And even if someone knew the mangy dog ​​Xiao Si and guessed the truth of the matter, they would not dare to tell it openly.They were afraid of retaliation from Mr. Hong and others. Those government officials were never good people. In other words, good people could not control these citizens.

"Tell me, why are you provoking him? Why are you provoking him?"

At this time, Mr. He could only be helpless and furious at his own home.

He lost his previous calmness, and finally felt fear when faced with the rows of deficits in his family's account books.

This kind of thing was originally a kind of off-market trick, just like when they asked gangsters to cause trouble in front of Yan's restaurant.

There are ways to deal with it, otherwise a restaurant will be destroyed too easily, and the people are not fools.

The key is that this time it was the government officials who did it themselves, with the government's endorsement.

For the common people, the government is heaven.

Although people usually gnash their teeth when mentioning Mr. Hong, there are not many people who don't believe them if they really have to say something.

Such a commotion was far more powerful than other off-board moves. Coupled with the Yan family's encouragement, the matter quickly spread throughout the entire mansion.

Almost instantly, Taishun Building was as quiet as a tomb. The waiters had nothing to do in the store all day long, cleaning the table until it could be used as a mirror, and there were even spider webs on the stove.

Dozens of restaurants had almost no income in more than two months, and the He family's main industry was severely damaged.

Their hearts were filled with regret.

If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have provoked the Yan family. Wouldn't it be nice if they just ate some of the other's leftovers?Even now, the He family's expenses are still huge, but their income is not even half of the expenses!The host family was forced to cut back on food and clothing to cope with expenses!

The fourth child's intestines were filled with regret.

He was the culprit, and now that the neighbors saw him, they couldn't help but whisper.

The Duke's Mansion just stretched out a finger and pushed them, a large family in Ningbo Mansion, directly from the sky into the quagmire.

They could only rely on their own land, which was not very large, to eke out a living for their large family.

There were still people who were unwilling to give up and sent a letter to the capital, hoping that the clan members who served as officials would read a copy of the Yan family, imagining that maybe this huge Yan family would be disgusted by the emperor and collapse in an instant. .

However, they were still disappointed after all. The third master of the He family quickly wrote back, scolding them and asking them to come and apologize quickly.

Not everyone dares to scold Yan Guan. He cannot afford to offend Duke Yue and Duke Chen!The day after the letter arrived, Mr. He and a group of people from the He family came to the door of the Yan family with generous gifts and apologized.

Not only that, they also donated one-third of their family's land, and gave the family's legitimate daughter to the Duke of Yue as a concubine, just asking for the Yan family's favor.

No one could have imagined that just two months ago, they were trying to start a business war with the Yan family and dominate the Ningbo Mansion Restaurant.

These transformations are simply astonishing, but one cannot help but admire the beauty of power.

One sentence can determine life or death.

This is also what Yan Ling gained after playing countless games.It was not like he had never been in business back then, and he used various modern methods to make his family extremely wealthy.

However, since they had no backing in the court, they soon became fat sheep. They found any reason to "collaborate with the Japanese" and put the family in dire straits. The family property was divided up and the prefects and county magistrates ate their fill.

So in this real game, he chose to enter officialdom first and then business.

Sure enough, in the face of that huge background, all problems were easily solved.

The prefect got his wish and was promoted soon after. Yan Ya just said a few words for him. The prefect immediately attracted the attention of his superiors, and was appointed as the salt envoy of the Huaidu and Lianghuai capitals not long after. One of them is from the fourth grade.

Good luck!This was an extremely fat job. The prefect smiled so hard that his mouth almost twisted. At the same time, he also made up his mind in his heart to hug Duke Yue's thigh tightly.

He has already begun to prepare his filial piety to the Duke.

On this side, after the great rise of business, mainly restaurants, supplemented by shops selling cloth, medicinal materials, spices, etc., the fiscal deficit has been greatly alleviated.

The Yan family has finally entered a period of rapid development. The treasury is full, and many properties have been acquired by them, which has brought more profits to the family.Part of this money was saved and part was used for the development of the family.

Such as expanding schools, retraining clan soldiers, building ships privately, building some small workshops...

Yan Ling was working in full swing.

However, during these days, there was no rest in the imperial court.

Yongle, as a vassal king, relied on his strong strength to ascend to the throne of the emperor. But after he secured this position, he felt the same as Zhu Yunwen in the past.

Even because of his "Jade in the Front", although the strength of the Eight Great Sai Kings has been weakened now, this feeling is even more like a light on the back.

Not long after, in April of the first year of Yongle, Zhu Di decided to start his nephew's unfinished business again.

However, unlike his stupid nephew, Zhu Di's reduction of vassal status was relatively mild.

First of all, he knows better than Zhu Yunwen and knows better than to push people to a dead end.

Zhu Yunwen is not cutting down the feudal vassal, it is simply killing people!The princes were either reduced to common people or sent to the frontiers, and the princes who were well-dressed and well-educated were asked to go to these poor places to carry out construction. This was not much different from beheading them directly.

How could this not spark a rebellion?Just like besieging an army, if you don't leave a gap, the dead defenders will risk their lives.

So Zhu Di made his policy clear - I want your soldiers, I want your power, but I don't want your life or money, and I will even give you money.

This is an extremely correct approach. In this way, the clan is appeased. Not everyone has such a strong desire for power, especially when there is little hope of successful resistance.

However, this also had obvious drawbacks, and Chen Guogong Yan Keng quickly raised objections to this move.

(End of this chapter)