"Until death..." Chi Rui looked at Mr. Chi, "It's easy to say it, but it's even more difficult to actually do it. We are bound by blood to our father, not to mention he is our elder. If we If we really fight to the death with him, what will the people outside think of us in the future? And his students are all well-known now, and we may not be able to withstand their verbal abuse."
"It doesn't matter. It's just for the sake of justice." Young Master Chi waved his hand, "Brother, you really think too much."
"They won't say that we are exterminating relatives out of justice. They will only say that we are adding insult to injury and that we are unfilial sons. I don't need to tell you how ruthless a scholar's mouth and pen can be. I don't need to tell you. You also know. If nothing else, , just for those people at Yushitai, how many of them are my father's students. Although they may have different opinions at ordinary times, if something happens to their teacher, they will stand together if it is a hindrance to their teacher. If they are impeached every day , being pointed at your nose and scolded every day, do you think you can bear it?"
"There's nothing that I can't bear." Seeing the sneer on Chi Rui's face, the second young master Chi asked curiously, "What did eldest brother think of?"
"It's nothing, I just think my father is very powerful." Chi Rui sighed faintly, "He has a good plan. There are many students all over the world. No matter what, someone will speak for him."
"Other things may be possible, but this matter right now..." Mr. Chi shook his head in disapproval, "Not necessarily, it's not as pessimistic as you think."
"Oh? What did you say?"
"Have you not noticed? Ever since our house was confiscated, have his students and old friends kept away from us? If it were an ordinary matter, someone would have already interceded for it, and there must have been people who came to visit my father. Quite a few, look at it now? I haven't even seen a single person."
"It's not like there aren't people interceding, there are some, but..." Chi Rui shook his head gently, "It seems that they have all been suppressed."
"How did you know?"
"If I don't hang out with you, there will still be one or two friends who come to see me."
"Then do you know that His Majesty got furious in the court and cursed all the uncles who had contact with our family bloody?"
"Where did you hear this?"
"What your Majesty's biological brother, Prince Li, said is to tell us not to expect others to save us, but to save ourselves." Young Master Chi sighed, "The current situation is actually very unfavorable for father and Chi Hong. People who get close to them and play well with them on weekdays are all in danger. What I'm afraid of now is not that they cut off the relationship, but that they will step on me from behind. So, at this time, if we two brothers end our relationship out of righteousness, we will definitely They will praise you to the heavens and make the sky extremely bright."
"Your description is really... very apt, but once my father is okay, they will be like mad dogs and bite us to death."
"How can it be possible? What has he done in these years? He knows in his heart that just leaking the news about Prince Ning's Mansion will make him suffer and walk away. This is the late emperor and today's Ni Lin."
Chi Rui lowered his head and thought for a while, and felt that the words of the second young master Chi made sense. He nodded slightly, "Yes, plus he is involved in the salt and iron business. If this comes out, it will cause chaos in the court. "
"I don't know what kind of poison Chi Hong gave his father to dare to get involved in this kind of business. They didn't come forward themselves, but they wanted to push me."
"You never refused?"
"Brother, no matter how filial I am, I still know how to be powerful. Naturally, I have refused, and more than once." Young Master Chi sighed, "After returning from the Kingdom of Jin with the eldest son of the Qing family, I feel that the businessman is really like me. What I want to do most in my life, since I have this convenience, I will do it well. Therefore, I carefully summarized my experience in this industry and summarized that Jin people not only like silk and porcelain from Daxia, but also I was interested in something from Daxia, so I made a serious plan to go to various places to buy it myself." He looked at Chi Rui, "Brother, you should remember that I took a year-long vacation that year and spent half of the year outside. ,Right?"
"Yes, I remember."
"I spent half a year searching outside and bought some items that I thought were unique and representative of Daxia. Because I wasn't sure whether they would really be liked by the Jin people, so I bought them. It wasn’t much, so I just treated it as asking for directions. After preparing these things, I also made an appointment with the eldest son of the Qing family for the next departure time. Just when we were about to show off our skills, something unexpected happened. Just over half a month before our departure , one day my father told me to introduce two veteran businessmen to me. I didn’t have any suspicion, so I went with him. The people I met were indeed businessmen. They were old and well-established. Not too small either.”
"What's your background?" Chi Rui frowned slightly, "What's your background?"
"He is a merchant licensed by the government to sell salt and iron." Young Master Chi raised an eyebrow at his eldest brother, "You didn't expect that, did you?"
"They... are so powerful, what do they do with my father? Their business should be able to make them a lot of money, right?"
"Businessmen are all greedy. The more money they make, the less they feel it is a lot. The prices of salt and iron given by the government have basically remained the same for decades, but the prices of private salt and iron have remained the same every day. , especially selling salt and iron to neighboring countries, it is a huge profit among huge profits. It is absolutely impossible to say that they are not tempted at all, but they suffer from the fact that no one can help them build a road."
"Although it is a huge profit, the risk is too great and it could be a disaster at any time."
"What they are after is this kind of excitement, and of course they won't mind it." Mr. Chi Er sighed, "But I do, so when they offered to take my motorcade to Yiqing Prefecture, I sternly refused Well, that meal... ended unhappily. After I got home, I had a big fight with my father. I was so angry that I didn't go home for several days, but stayed in a shop that hadn't opened yet. Later. , Chi Hong came to the shop several times to lobby for his father, hoping that I could agree to his father's request, but I didn't let go until..."
"Father is sick." Chi Rui nodded, "I remember, at that time, I blamed you and Chi Hong for not being able to resolve any issues properly and making my father angry."
"Yes, I was still scolding you in my mind for standing and talking without hurting my back. If it were you, you would make the same choice as me."
"That's right." Chi Rui nodded, "Because my father is sick, so you relented and decided to help them this time?"
"Yes, at least it was to appease my father, but I didn't expect..." Mr. Chi Er smiled bitterly, "I jumped from one pit to another, and my father and Chi Rui set a trap for me." Seeing Chi Rui's puzzled expression, he explained, "For every time I help them carry goods, my father can be rewarded with a gold brick. This is how part of the gold bricks in our cellar come from. Later, my father and Chi Hong's appetite increased, and they thought about starting this business themselves, but before they could realize it, their house was confiscated. Also because of this, I completely offended Mr. Qing, and I can no longer visit him."
