Huang Wanquan's eyes twitched involuntarily when he saw the IOU on the desk.
Everyone is already dead, but that guy Yang Fan still asks his subordinates to collect debts with IOUs. Is this really appropriate?
This is one hundred thousand copper coins!
The aristocratic families occupy a large amount of land. In ancient times when commerce was not developed, land rent was the main source of income for the aristocratic families.
During the Zhenguan period, there was a good harvest of grain. Although there were occasional disasters, it did not affect the harvest.
Therefore, as long as it is not a disaster year and prices are extremely low, a bucket of rice only costs a few dozen cents.
This one hundred thousand guan, how much grain rent will this cost?
What's more important is that the Huang family was defrauded of hundreds of thousands of dollars by Yang Fan half a month ago, and even the gold and silver mountains were almost emptied.
The wealth of aristocratic families relies on accumulation from generation to generation. Those who get rich overnight are only considered wealthy families, not aristocratic families at all!
One hundred thousand guan is almost the savings of ordinary people for more than ten generations.
Even an ordinary aristocratic family would be unable to handle so much cash at once.
From Huang Wanquan's point of view, Yang Fan Pants Wool came to his Huang family specifically!
But Huang Wanquan had to recognize these black and white words.
This is simply like digging out the flesh from the heart with blood, it hurts!
Even if a wealthy family like the Huang family never takes money seriously, no one would be so happy if they want to give out a hundred thousand yuan for nothing.
So Huang Wanquan immediately argued: "General Zhai, my brother Wanxi has been punished as he deserves. Now you are still asking for such a huge amount of money. Are you going too far?"
"Why do you keep targeting our Huang family? Although my incompetent brother often causes trouble and has also done things against the governor, he was only inspired by other Jiangnan nobles."
"Besides, our Huang family didn't take the lead in those things. Could it be that just because you didn't catch other families, you put it all on us? This is too unfair!"
Hearing Huang Wanquan's complaint, Zhai Changsun rolled his eyes.
My heart said, are you stupid? We have made it clear that we are looking for trouble with you, so what about you?
Who told you, the children of the Huang family, to have a weak brain and insist on hitting the edge of the knife?
Looking at Huang Wanquan, Zhai Changsun said calmly: "Does the head of the family mean that our chief governor is unfair? In that case, you can go and argue that the chief governor is very open-minded? Come on, please take away the head of the Huang family. …”
Huang Wanquan turned pale with fright and quickly shouted: "General Zhai, I didn't mean that. How dare I question the justice of the governor? I won't go. I will give you this money... It's just for a while." I can’t raise so much money!”
What a joke!
I don’t know if I can come back alive after being taken away by you.
Let him argue with Yang Fan, it would be better to kill him with one knife!
However, this guy Yang Fan is simply not a son of a man, and he doesn’t even let go of the dead man’s money!
Seeing this, Zhai Changsun smiled from the corners of his eyes: "It's okay, head of the family, take your time to raise money. I have plenty of time. When I get the money, I will return to Huating County to resume my life."
People under the eaves have to bow their heads.
Now that things have come to this, what else is left to say?
Although Huang Wanquan was full of dissatisfaction, he had to ask people to raise money quickly.
In order to confirm the authenticity of the IOU, Huang Wanquan carefully held the IOU in his hand, for fear that Yang Fan would use this IOU to collect debts again.
Check the IOU in front of you again:
"Huang Wanxi of Jiangning County killed his soldiers in anger because he owed money for food. He now makes the following compensation. The two dead soldiers were compensated 20,000 guan, and the damaged items were 30,000 guan...a donation of 50,000 guan...a total of 100,000 guan. Due to insufficient money, , establish this IOU..."
Looking at the words above, Huang Wanquan's heart ached.
If Huang Wanxi had not died, Huang Wanquan would have wanted to beat that guy to death.
These few words, one hundred thousand guan are gone. Do you really think that the money is just water?
30,000 pieces of damaged items...
Are all the things in the restaurant made of gold?
Tens of thousands of coins can buy a restaurant!
Moreover, donating 50,000 yuan for free is simply not treating money as money!
The more he looked, the more Huang Wanquan became sweating profusely. He hesitated for a long time, and finally made up his mind and begged: "Well...General Zhai, if I damage a few things in the restaurant, I will pay 30,000 yuan. Isn't it too much? In addition, I That unhappy brother Huang Wanxi is no longer here, so the donation must be dispensed with, or else we should pay 30,000 yuan together with the pension..."
His family's fortune was almost gone, so Huang Wanquan thought it would be better if he could get a little less!
In his decades of life, he has never cared so much about money!
He really looks like a miser!
How could Zhai Changsun let him get his wish? He glared and said: "It's okay not to donate money after death, but the money cannot be less, because the items that destroyed the restaurant seem to be more than 30,000 guan, and should be worth 100,000 guan. Then you can just compensate according to the price. !”
Huang Wanquan was stunned. He really didn't expect that people could be so shameless and confident?
If you don't recognize the donation but add compensation, isn't that just taking off your pants and farting?
But now people are fighting for their own good, and he is really afraid that Zhai Changsun will do something wrong.
The elder of the Huang clan who had been sitting aside hurriedly persuaded in a low voice: "Master, even if we have lost money and avoided disaster, now that someone has a knife on our neck, what else can we say?"
"We will pay as much as the IOU says. If we offend Yang Fan again and escort our entire family to Huating County, we will be too late to cry to death!"
After seeing Zhai Changsun's toughness, these clan elders were also afraid, fearing that Huang Wanquan's further bargaining would make others unhappy.
When Huang Wanquan heard this, he thought, isn't this the truth?
The Jiangnan nobles have always been resistant to Yang Fan's intervention in Jiangnan, and they have long angered Yang Fan.
Some time ago, he participated in the robbery of the county government prison, which was another act of seeking death.
If Yang Fan's anger is not calmed this time, can the Huang family bear his anger?
This is the truth, but Huang Wanquan is a little unwilling to do so.
He really wanted to chop Huang Wanxi's head into pieces in the box now.
My younger brother is too stupid to see the situation clearly!
It's not good to offend anyone, but he decided to offend Yang Fan. He was really blind.
Now that the clan elder had spoken, Huang Wanquan no longer hesitated and immediately launched various connections to raise money.
You must know that 100,000 yuan is not a small amount!
However, Huang Wanquan also knew that from now on, the Huang family would become the laughing stock of Jiangnan.
Although one hundred thousand dollars is a huge amount of money, it is not something that the Huang family cannot afford.
The most important thing is that my face was completely peeled off and I felt extremely depressed.
A group of Huang clan members were dejected and sat in the lobby without saying a word, greeting all the eighteen generations of Zhai Changsun's ancestors in their hearts.
If this guy hadn't brought too many soldiers, he would have wanted to chop this bastard to death with a knife.
Faced with the cannibalistic looks of the Huang clan, Zhai Changsun didn't care at all.
When it's time to eat and drink, it's just like being at home. He even asked the Huang family to prepare this and that, just like a big boss.
By the time the matter of asking for money was settled, the Huang Wanxi incident had already exploded in Jiangnan.
In the eyes of many Jiangnan nobles, Yang Fan sentenced Huang Wanxi to death and then had people come to collect debts, which was obviously a challenge to the authority of the Jiangnan nobles.
As a result, the major Jiangnan noble families secretly contacted each other, hoping to resist Yang Fan's harvest by holding together to keep warm.
They don't want to be slaughtered like meat on the chopping board like the Huang family!
Therefore, major aristocratic families received letters respectively and decided to activate their family relationships and jointly put pressure on the emperor to transfer Yang Fan back to Chang'an.
Suddenly, the whole Jiangnan became turbulent again.
Seeing this opportunity, Xiao Ran's mind became active.
Now that the Xiao family has long lost its former glory, Xiao Ran thinks this is an opportunity.
Xiao Ran was extremely angry at the fact that the Jiangnan nobles bypassed his own family to frame Yang Fan, and sent out soldiers to rob the prison and kill Yang Fan.
As the leader of the Jiangnan gentry, how could Xiao allow such things to happen out of his control?
However, since they have shown their status in the Xiao family again, everyone in the Xiao family believes that they must show their presence again.
Therefore, Xiao Ran allowed the Xiao family to maintain an ambiguous relationship with Yang Fan while contacting the Jiangnan nobles.
He wants these arrogant Jiangnan nobles to know that in the Tang Dynasty, only the Lanling Xiao family can serve as the leader of the Jiangnan nobles, and no one else can!
He wants to take the family to another level like his cousin Xiao Yu.
How to do it?
The most direct way is to work with the Jiangnan nobles to put pressure on the emperor and try to transfer Yang Fan back to Chang'an.
After all, their Xiao family has Xiao Yu in the court.
Since the people in Jiangnan want to mobilize connections to get the emperor to transfer Yang Fan back to Chang'an, then the Xiao family is definitely the most powerful.
As Xiao Yu's cousin, Xiao Ran believes that as long as the interests are stated to Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu will definitely agree with his idea in the face of family interests.
So, Xiao Ran decided to go to Beijing in person to persuade Xiao Yu.
When Xiao Ran's situation was explained to Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu was in a dilemma.
On one side is the request of the family's descendants, which involves family interests.
And Yang Fan is a rising star that he is optimistic about, so how should he choose?
Besides, if the Jiangnan nobles unite, can they really bring Yang Fan back to Chang'an?
Xiao Yu knew very well Yang Fan's temperament, and that guy was a man who was determined to retaliate against others.
Whoever treats him well will be rewarded ten thousand times in return.
That guy will never show mercy to anyone who goes against him.
If the Jiangnan nobles' plan to ask the emperor to transfer Yang Fan back to Chang'an failed, how could they not anger him?
Once that Bangchui starts to take revenge without hesitation, you can imagine how miserable the Jiangnan nobles will be!
Now that boy controls the military and political affairs of Jiangnan and has an independent navy, he may not dare to massacre the Jiangnan nobles.
But once he goes crazy, it is entirely possible to choose a few aristocratic families to vent his anger on.
If this were true, the Xiao family would also be shocked and trembling.
The Jiangnan of today is no longer the Jiangnan of the past.
If the Jiangnan gentry were monolithic, Yang Fan might still be afraid of them.
But since the battle at Yuntai Mountain, everyone in the Jiangnan gentry has been in danger, and no one wants to help.
How can a piece of loose sand resist Yang Fan?
In view of this, Xiao Yu did not immediately reply to Xiao Ran, nor did he express his own opinions. Instead, he asked about Yang Fan's recent situation.
Xiao Yu's jaw dropped when he heard that Yang Fan had defrauded the Jiangnan family of more than 10 million yuan.
Xiao Yu originally thought that he thought Yang Fan was very strong, but apparently he still underestimated him.
However, Xiao Yu was very satisfied with Yang Fan's performance.
I really didn't expect that that kid had just established a foothold in Jiangnan and would immediately retaliate with fierce means.
And it was able to control this retaliation within a range acceptable to all parties, without even causing large-scale turmoil.
And with so much money from the Jiangnan family, he could not only carry out drastic reforms, but also strengthen his army.
Yang Fan's step-by-step approach and political wisdom are far more sophisticated than those old guys who have been immersed in officialdom for many years.
I really didn't expect that boy to actually use colluding with pirates as a breakthrough to let the Jiangnan nobles know that they were in the wrong.
In addition, the Jiangnan nobles were caught robbing the county government prison. No matter how hard Yang Fan tried to exploit them, these Jiangnan nobles could only silently swallow this bitter pill.
This method is too high!
Moreover, from this incident, Yang Fan raised a huge sum of more than 10 million yuan, which is definitely a huge fortune.
You know, the current tax burden of the entire empire is only more than 30 million yuan.
No wonder this guy is known as the God of Wealth, he is so good at cheating money.
More importantly, this amount of money is enough to make every family in the south of the Yangtze River exhausted. There is no extra money to organize forces to fight against Yang Fan. At most, they can only do evil in the dark.
In this calculation, Yang Fan's control of Huo Hou was perfect!
"Having a son should be like Yang Fan. His Majesty Li Er uses this son to break the situation. His vision is really vicious!"
Knowing the cause and effect, Xiao Yu had to sigh.
Now that he is old, he doesn't know how long he can protect his family.
He really hoped that Yang Fan was a descendant of his family!
What is most important to a wealthy family?
Of course it’s talent!
If there is a youngster in the family who is extremely talented, it can often push the entire family to another level, and even lay a foundation that will last for a hundred years!
On the other hand, if a deceit comes from any generation, it can drag the entire family into an abyss of eternal destruction.
The Xiao family has been a noble family for generations. Although they once lost their country and ruined their family, they have never fallen into decline because of the connections and foundation accumulated by their ancestors. This is also because they have enough talents.
But no matter what, it is still far from its heyday.
what is the reason?
There just are no outstanding talents to lead the family.
Xiao Yu is self-aware. Although he has some talents, he is definitely not a monster.
His ability to reach where he is today is the limit.
However, there is no outstanding person among the younger generation, and Xiao Yu is very worried!
"I'm so envious!" Xiao Yu sighed again.
He regretted not recruiting Yang Fan as his son-in-law first.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be possible to find a talented and beautiful woman among the legitimate daughters of the Xiao family and marry her to Yang Fan? Wouldn't it be possible to capture this outstanding talent?
The Xiao family’s daughter is a virtuous and virtuous person known throughout the world!
Although her sister recognized Yang Fan as her godson, she also betrothed her daughter to Yang Fan as a concubine.
But after all, my sister's daughter is a nephew, so she is not as close as her own bloodline to the Xiao family.
While thinking, Xiao Yu's annoyed mood made him stunned.
But Xiao Ran couldn't wait any longer and reminded him: "Uncle, what do you think about the joint impeachment of Yang Fan?"
Xiao Yu withdrew his gaze, looked at Xiao Ran and said in a deep voice: "Didn't someone tell all the elders in the family earlier that they could not go against Yang Fan no matter what? Why do they want to get involved now?"
"Look at everything Yang Fan has done in Jiangnan, whoever stands in his way will reap the rewards?"
"Take what you just said. This time, each family wants to rob the prison, and at the same time, they want to put Yang Fan to death. Are they being plotted by Yang Fan instead?"
"Fortunately, we, the Xiao family, were not involved this time, otherwise we would have been hurt. There is no sign of the impeachment being launched this time, so why do we need to wave the flag so early?"
"If those fools in Jiangnan steal the chicken but lose the rice this time, won't they ruin the future of the Xiao family?"
When talking about it later, Xiao Yu's voice was extremely harsh.
(End of chapter)
