However, when he saw Chu Chuyan and his party coming over, Xie Yi's face suddenly turned into a smile: "Niece, I just came back and heard that you came to see me. I thought I missed it, and I am feeling upset."
Zu An thought that each of these guys was more sinister than the other. They were obviously at home all the time, but they deliberately disappeared before, but now they pretended to be okay.
Chu Chuyan was obviously used to this kind of thing and didn't show it at all. He smiled lightly and said, "Chu Yan has met Uncle Xie."
"Hey, this uncle is a little hard to be called," Xie Yi sighed. The other party did not call him the city lord, but called him uncle. Obviously he wanted to use the friendship between the two families to talk about the matter. "Niece, I generally agree with your purpose of coming today. You can guess it, but what your Chu family committed this time is too big."
"I remember you were always very calm. This time Zhongtian got confused. Why did you get confused too?"
Chu Chuyan said melancholy: "Many things are easy to say but difficult to do. In recent years, the proliferation of private salt, coupled with other expenses, the Chu family has already been unable to make ends meet. In addition, the salt was robbed, and we have no money." Method. What's more, every family has been operating this way for so many years, and it has long become an unwritten rule. Who would have thought that Governor Sang would suddenly be so... so serious."
Anyone who does salt business will inevitably encounter a situation where there is not enough salt. If the tax law stipulated by the court is followed, the cost of salt merchants will double, and the common people will not be able to afford salt.
Therefore, each family has gradually formed a tacit understanding. If they encounter this kind of situation, they will pay a small amount of advance payment as a pretense, but most of them will not pay that amount.
Because the Salt Transport Envoy had always had a good relationship with the Chu family, Chu Zhongtian was in charge and everyone was in peace. Who knew Sang Honglai would do something like this.
"Although this is an unspoken rule, after all, it conflicts with the court's laws. There is nothing anyone can do about it." Xie Yi sighed.
Chu Chuyan said solemnly: "We also know that this matter is somewhat troublesome, so we came to ask Uncle Xie for help."
Xie Yi smiled bitterly and said: "My niece should know that I am just a city lord. Prefect Sang is my immediate boss, and he comes with the emperor's order. I don't have the ability to help."
Chu Chu's face was frosty, and he fell into silence.
Xie Yi continued: "Although I don't have that ability, someone should be able to help the Chu family."
Chu Chuyan was silent, Xie Yi was smiling, and the atmosphere in the whole room became a little weird.
Zu An was confused as to what riddle the two of them were playing: "Who is it?"
Xie Yi did not explain: "My niece should know better."
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Finally he spoke: "Uncle Shi, you should know the principles of our Chu family."
Xie Yi gave her a meaningful look: "It's often not so easy to be neutral. There is often a huge price to pay."
Chu Chuyan stood up and said, "I've been disturbed a lot today. I hope Uncle Shi won't be offended."
Xie Yi hurriedly stood up and asked to stay: "You kid, why did you leave just like that?"
"Well, since everyone is not an outsider, I have something to say directly." Hand over this thing, and someone will naturally help you settle everything now."
Chu Chuyan's expression changed, and after a long time he said, "I need to go back and think about this carefully."
"Of course I should. You can also discuss it with your family. After all, it's not a trivial matter." Seeing that she didn't refuse on the spot, Xie Yi's eyes lit up.
After the two left Xie's house, Zu An couldn't help but feel curious: "What on earth was City Lord Xie talking about?"
From the conversation between the two, he had already understood that Xie Yi was trying to persuade the Chu family to defect to the King of Qi at first. After being rejected by Chu Chuyan, he put forward another condition.
He couldn't figure out what this was at all.
Chu Chuyan showed hesitation, but still said: "Azu, you are no longer an outsider. There are some things that I should let you know. What City Lord Xie is talking about is an account book..."
Then I briefly told him the ins and outs of the account books.
Zu An felt angry when he heard this: "Then isn't Xie Yi taking advantage of the situation to rob him?"
He suddenly thought of the account book that Pei Mianman asked him to find before. At that time, he told him that it was about the weapons, salt and iron business transactions between the Chu family and various forces. Now that he thinks about it, she probably didn't tell me the truth.
Hey, this world is really scary. On the surface, she is still Chu Chuyan's best friend, but secretly she is thinking about something that will kill him.
He felt a little uncomfortable when he thought of this, but then he thought about it. Although Pei Mianman was a little hypocritical to the Chu family, he was really good to himself.
For a moment, he didn't know what to do.
At this time, Chu Chuyan sighed: "Nowadays, everyone is a knifeman and I am a fish and meat. What can I do if others take advantage of the situation and rob me?"
Zu An came back to his senses: "You don't really plan to give him the account book, do you?"
"Of course not, it's just to save everyone's face." Chu Chuyan replied.
Zu An couldn't help but said: "Actually, I don't quite understand. You have such a powerful weapon, why don't you make good use of it?"
"Use it?" Chu Chuyan was stunned, "How to use it?"
Zu An said: "This thing is completely like a nuclear weapon... Well, don't worry about what a nuclear weapon is. What I mean is that you have the handle of so many important officials, and you can use it to blackmail them."
"But this way, everyone is completely at odds." Chu Chuyan frowned.
"Now that the Chu family is going to be finished, do you still worry about this?" Zu An said.
"But we originally had a good relationship. Maybe we would secretly help each other because of our old friendship. What if we completely offend them and they just sit back and watch?" Chu Chuyan said worriedly.
"You are so concerned that you are confused," Zu An said, "Then let me ask you, after the Chu family has been in trouble for so long, who of those people helped."
Chu Chuyan opened her lips, but ultimately said nothing.
Zu An sighed: "If I were those people, I hope your Chu family will be finished soon, so that no one will have anything to do with them. How do you think these people can come to the rescue?"
"No wonder..." Chu Chuyan is not stupid, but he was confused before when he was in the game. Now he was awakened and immediately reacted, "Then what should we do?"
"Go directly to those people and threaten them that if they don't care, everyone will die together!" Zu An said, "According to what you said, those people have been dispersed to various departments of the imperial court. They are definitely an extremely huge force."
"The reason why the Chu family has been having troubles one after another during this period is because Sang Qian is secretly dealing with you."
"Even if the advance payment of salt is solved this time, Sang Hong will find another thing to deal with the Chu family next time. There will always be a time when he cannot prevent it."
"So to fundamentally solve the problem, we must not only resolve the Chu family's crisis this time, but also completely solve Sang Hong. If your description is not bad, those people on the ledger will definitely have the ability to help you solve Sang Hong. This is troublesome. But the premise is that you have to force them!"
Chu Chuyan thought for a long time, and finally his eyes became firm: "Okay, I'm going to the capital. Those people were so greedy back then, and the Chu family has been wiping their butts for these years. They should also do something for the Chu family. Got it!"
