"What's wrong with you? Didn't you give up on competing for the position of president of the Chamber of Commerce?"
Wang Dayu was slightly disturbed by Liang Jiabin's words and had no intention of eating at all.
"Try this fried peanut. It tastes very good. Thanks to the seeds found by Tiger Character Banner for planting, otherwise I wouldn't have known there was such a delicious thing in the world." Guest Liang did not answer Wang Dayu's question; He pointed at the peanuts on the plate with his chopsticks.
Peanuts have been introduced to the Ming Dynasty for some years, but they were only cultivated along the coast. It was not until Tiger Character Banner brought the seeds to Datong that peanuts became popular in the Xuanfu area of Datong.
Wang Dayu frowned and couldn't help but said: "Don't eat it yet. Can you tell me what's going on? Why are you suddenly interested in the position of president of the Chamber of Commerce again?"
He knew that Liang Jiajia had the idea of fighting for the position of president of the Chamber of Commerce in the past. Later, he saw the strength of the Tiger Flag and gave up the idea. Unexpectedly, he brought it up again today.
"It's time to replace the president of the Chamber of Commerce." Liang Binbin picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine.
Peanuts are like wine, and the more you drink, the better.
Wang Dayu frowned and said: "Who is Liu Heng of Tiger Flag? You should know that he is a tiger that can eat people. If you take his position as president, he might eat people."
"It's different. This time he can't eat people. The tiger hunters are here." Liang Binbin looked up at Wang Dayu.
Wang Dayu frowned deeply and said, "Do you know something?"
"Keep the wine, and you can step aside!" Liang Jiabin told the maid waiting in the room, and then said to Wang Dayu, "Tian Shenglan came to see me today."
"Why did he come to see you? Because of Fan Yongdou, we have no contact with the Tian family." Wang Dayu said with a frown.
At the beginning, the Wang family helped the Fan family deal with the Tian family. Because of this relationship, the relationship between the three families was very tense. They would ignore each other when they met in the chamber of commerce.
When Liang Jiabin saw the maid walking out of the hall, he said, "Tian Shenglan wants me to deal with the Tiger Flag together with him."
"Tian Shenglan is really a white-eyed wolf." Wang Dayu said sarcastically.
The Tian family was suppressed by the Fanji Chamber of Commerce and almost collapsed, but finally recovered with the help of the Tiger Character Flag. This is not a secret in the Xuan Mansion.
Liang Binbin shook his hand and said: "It doesn't matter whether Tian Shenglan is a white-eyed wolf or not. The key is that the person behind him has a big background. I'm afraid the Tiger Flag will be doomed this time."
"Who is the person behind Tian Shenglan?"
Hearing that there was someone behind Tian Shenglan, Wang Dayu's expression paused and his voice lowered unconsciously.
Liang Binbin stretched out his chopsticks and pointed to the sky, and said: "On the surface, it is Wang Wenyan from the capital, but it is the Donglin Party who really wants to raise the Tiger Flag."
"Why did the Donglin Party deal with the Tiger Flag? Did the Tiger Flag offend the Donglin Party in some way?" Wang Dayu said with a surprised look on his face.
"I didn't understand it at first." Liang Jianbin picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine, and then said, "Later I figured it out. What the Donglin Party wants to deal with is not the tiger-character flag, but the Wei eunuch beside the emperor."
Wang Dayu's face became more and more puzzled after hearing this, and said: "If we want to deal with Wei Gong, what does it have to do with the Tiger-Character Flag? We can't think of the Tiger-Character Flag having anything to do with Wei Gong!"
"You're right, it really does matter." Liang Jianbin picked up a chopstick dish from the plate and said, "Liu Heng of the Tiger Character Banner is a member of Liu Hong, the governor of Datong, and this Liu Hong is exactly the son of Wei Wei people."
Wang Dayu said thoughtfully: "So, this Liu Heng is also a Wei eunuch."
"You understand this time!" Liang Jiabin swallowed the food on the chopsticks in one gulp.
Wang Dayu nodded and said: "I really didn't expect that the Donglin Party would actually take action against the Tiger Flag. It seems that Wei Wei in the capital was fighting fiercely with the Donglin Party."
"Whether it's bad or not is a matter for the adults. It has little to do with us Shanxi merchants. However, after this incident, the tiger-character flag is over." Liang Jiabin chirped twice in sympathy.
Wang Dayu nodded in agreement and said: "The fire at the city gate affected the fish in the pond, and the tiger-character flag is the fish in the pond that was affected."
"It's a good thing for us that the tiger-character flag is unlucky. I came to you just to add fuel to the fire before the tiger-character flag goes bad." Liang Binbin looked at Wang Dayu and said.
Wang Dayu's expression changed and he said: "You are not going to take action against the Tiger Character Banner, are you? Let me advise you, let's just have fun on the sidelines. Even if the Tiger Character Flag cannot deal with the Donglin Party, it still won't have much problem dealing with us. Don’t go into the Fan family’s affairs.”
The direct culprit for the collapse of the Fan family was Tiger Character Banner, and Tiger Character Banner was different from ordinary business houses in that it had its own private soldiers, and Shanxi merchants like them simply couldn't afford to offend them.
"If we don't take action, when the Tiger Character Flag is liquidated by the Donglin Party, you and I will all be liquidated." Liang Jiabin said firmly.
Snapped!
Wang Dayu slapped his hand on the table and said angrily: "Why, we and Tiger Flag only have business dealings at most, why should they liquidate us?"
"Just because we helped the Fan family deal with the Tian family back then." Liang Jiabin said, "The Donglin Party may not do anything to little people like us, but the Tian family will definitely not let you and me go."
Wang Dayu, who had been so aggressive just now, suddenly shrank when he heard this.
When they dealt with the Tian family, the Tian family did nothing wrong. They were targeted just because the Tian family did not do what Fan Yongdou said.
Now that Tian Shenglan has the backing of the Donglin Party, if he wants to deal with them, he doesn't need a reason, he can just make up any excuse.
Liang Binbin looked at Wang Dayu who had calmed down and said: "Tian Shenglan asked me to win over some members of the chamber of commerce, and then set up a convoy to smuggle with the Mongolians on the grassland. It would be best to replace him."
"There is no problem in winning over other members of the Chamber of Commerce, but the matter of smuggling with the Mongols has always been controlled by the Tiger Flag. If we do this, we will definitely offend the Tiger Flag and attract revenge from the Tiger Flag." Wang Dayu said worriedly.
Liang Jiabin looked thoughtful.
After a while, he said: "The grassland is so big, we can secretly send a convoy to the grassland, and we may not be discovered by the people of the Tiger Flag."
"You may not be able to find it once or twice, but once it happens too many times, it is impossible not to be discovered every time. You have forgotten how the tiger-character flag dealt with the convoy sent by the Fan family to the grassland." Wang Dayu reminded .
The Fan family's motorcade was robbed many times on the grassland, forcing the Fan family to stop sending the motorcade to the grassland.
Although there is no evidence, many Shanxi merchants in Xuanfu know that the people who robbed the Fan family's motorcade on the grassland should be the people of the Tiger Flag.
