Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 1710 Crisis
Xiao Yu said indifferently: "Interests are relative and mutual. What Your Majesty wants now is the stability of the south of the Yangtze River. We put our energy overseas, which is in line with the emperor's wishes. As for the interests... the interests of my family, even if it is invaluable , how can it be placed in the eyes of His Majesty who is rich in the world?"

What he said was disapproving, but in fact he was helpless.

The Xiao family has a great business. Although there are ten thousand hectares of fertile land and a forest of shops, such a small and long-flowing industry obviously cannot support the family's extravagant life of bells and whistles.

It is impossible to save money. How can the habit of extravagance cultivated for hundreds of years be easily changed?Open source became a priority.The Xiao family has been engaged in overseas trade, but has never invested much in such lucrative and high-risk industries. When going to sea once, the sinister wind and waves and raging pirates often make boats go bankrupt and people lose everything. The loss is not something anyone can afford casually...

However, since the establishment of the Royal Navy, the eradication of pirates has opened up trade routes, the benefits of maritime trade have increased sharply, and the safety has been greatly improved.With the escort of the Royal Navy, all the routes in the offshore are covered by the Navy. Pirates will avoid the Navy's white sails and rumbling guns from afar. How dare they send them to their door to seek death?Various houses near the water in the south of the Yangtze River are flocking to carry out sea trade, and the scale is increasing day by day.

Right now, due to Xiao Yu's strength in the court and the background of the Xiao family, the Xiao family has already occupied one-twelfth of Datang's maritime trade, and has become a leading maritime trade family.

Profits drive people crazy.

Tasting the sweetness of the huge profits from the sea trade, some respected elders of the Xiao family gradually became dissatisfied with doing business in a satisfactory manner under the control of the Shibo Division. The next piece of bloody flesh made them so painful that they couldn't swallow raw food.

As a result, smuggling began to rampant...

Xiao Yu was in the center, and his gaze was naturally not comparable to that of those old people living in the countryside. Instead of chasing huge profits from smuggling, how could it be safer to pay taxes in accordance with regulations?

The family and the country are in a complementary relationship. Although the country collects taxes and taxes, it also builds sailors to protect the environment and the people, and to support merchants.Conversely, if the country's finances are unsustainable, the political situation will be turbulent and the people's hearts will be uneasy. Where can merchants make money?

In the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, people are like worthless things, and the lessons are not far away...

However, those short-sighted elders have been blinded by violence, trained a large number of domestic slaves to act as sailors, and armed them to participate in smuggling along with sea ships.

It's no problem if this is normal, no one in the country dares to break ground on Xiao Yu's head, and the rumor officials are all under his leadership, who would have the guts to impeach him?As for overseas, a large number of domestic slaves are armed, and their strength should not be underestimated, and even pirates should stay away.

But now, Xiao Yu was a little worried and a little bit regretful.

If you fail to bring down Fang Jun's stick, you are very likely to suffer backlash from him...

But he still has confidence, even if Fang Jun wants to take revenge, it must be limited to a certain scale, and as long as he negotiates properly with Fang Xuanling, even if Fang Jun is not angry, he can only calm down.

How could Lanling Xiao's daughter be a gift for nothing?
Xiao Rui was still worried: "That guy Fang Jun... has a really bad temper, and he won't let you in. Now that Fang Xuanling is going south, he should tell his family to be more careful. Fang Xuanling is a gentleman, and he will never abuse the law for personal gain. However, once he learns that smuggling in the south of the Yangtze River is becoming more and more rampant, it is hard to guarantee that he will not be furious."

Fang Xuanling got angry, Fang Jun must calm his father's anger, and those families involved in smuggling will be unlucky.Fang Jun's face is as black as iron, no matter who it is, he has no human feelings at all.

"It's natural."

Xiao Yu nodded, and said: "This trip south for my father is also to take the opportunity of offering sacrifices to Emperor Jing to warn the elders of the family that there will be no good end to such insatiable greed."

Enough is enough in everything, too much is too late.

Those stupid elders in the family have endless greed and will make big troubles sooner or later.His Majesty now has to stabilize the fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River for the Eastern Expedition, but there is a limit to this kind of patience. Once the emperor's bottom line is touched, the thunder will be furious.

If you don't stop, I'm afraid it will be too late...

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The dusk is getting darker, and the autumn wind is picking up.

Two fast horses rode out from Song Guogong's mansion, passed through the city gate and arrived at the Fangjiawan wharf in the south of the city, boarded a Xiao family's cargo ship, untied the cable, and sailed down the water along the waterway to the south of the Yangtze River.

Xiao Yu was still worried that the elders in the family would not restrain themselves and would cause a catastrophe, so he sent his confidants to go south overnight...

When Fang Jun returned to the mansion, the lights were already on.

The earth dragon and kang were burned in the house, and it was as warm as spring.

After taking off her official robes and cleaning her hands and face, the maid has already prepared dinner, including delicate side dishes, a bowl of fragrant rice, and a pot of warm rice wine.There are no entertainment activities at night these days. Even if the couple do exercises on the bed, they will sleep at most after ten o'clock. Eating too much is not good.

After eating all the rice and drinking half a jug of rice wine, the tiredness of the day swept away.

The maids boiled the hot water and waited for Fang Jun to soak in the wooden bathtub. Fang Jun comfortably pillowed on the edge of the bucket. He felt that the Tangquan pool in the farm was more suitable for bathing. My parents knew how to enjoy it better than myself. , Lai almost never went back to the mansion there.

But tomorrow, when my father leaves for Jiangnan, my mother will not stay in the farm anymore. After all, if I don't have to take care of my father recently, my mother will never be able to do without her two grandchildren.

In the current Fang family, the status of the two dolls is above everything else, not to mention that Fang Jun has no status in front of the dolls, even the father and Princess Gao Yang will be reprimanded for neglecting to take care of the dolls at every turn.Not to mention Fang Yizhi, the elder brother whose mother held him by the ear every time he met and asked him to "exercise" to have a baby soon, and wished he could fly to the sky...

Slightly squinting his eyes, he felt two pairs of greasy little hands rubbing his shoulders and back. After a while, he felt something was wrong. He opened his eyes and looked back, but it turned out that it was Princess Gaoyang and Wu Meiniang.

Fang Jun said helplessly: "Don't make trouble, okay?"

Princess Gao Yang shrugged her nose and said: "We sisters serve you, why are you still not satisfied?"

Wu Meiniang also pursed her lips and smiled: "Is it because you dislike our sloppy hands and feet, and are not as gentle and careless as the maids?"

"It's in vain! How dare Xiaosheng? The two of you, a nobleman with golden branches, jade leaves and heavenly decorations, were found out by His Majesty to be bathing me at home, and you were so angry that you arrested me and whipped me hard? The other one is even a woman. Don't let the men and women take charge of the wharf so that all the merchants in Guanzhong bow their heads and obey their ears. I don't know how many officials and dignitaries want to marry home and kiss Fangze... Oh, why are you pinching me?"

Wu Meiniang withdrew her pointed nails, while Princess Gao Yang snorted coldly, "Is it nice to say these weird words?"

Fang Jun stared and said, "Hehe, the sky is about to turn upside down, right?"

Princess Gao Yang raised her sharp chin lightly, her handsome face was full of disdain: "What's the matter, to be so rude in front of this palace, do you understand the superiority and inferiority?"

Fang Jun snorted, he is not afraid of a princess or not: "You are a woman who is domineering in front of the lord, so I will let the lord teach you what is superior and inferior..."

As he said that, he stretched out his wet arms from the bathtub, wrapped around Princess Gao Yang's slender waist, hugged her light body sideways, and wrapped her in the bathtub.

Princess Gaoyang's face turned pale, and the water splashed all over the place when she screamed in shock. In an instant, Fang Jun carried her into the bathtub, and shouted: "Meiniang, save me! Ugh..."

Princess Gao Yang gasped and struggled for a few times, her pretty face was blood red, and she said coquettishly: "You, you, you... let me go, or I will make you look good..."

Regardless of Princess Gaoyang's plea for help, Wu Meiniang just leaned slightly and stood outside the bathtub, rolled up her sleeves, revealing two forearms that bullied Saixue, and gently rubbed Fang Jun's hard shoulders and arms one by one.

Langjun is about to travel far away, and fate has no eyes on the battlefield. She and Princess Gaoyang wanted to take advantage of the time of Langjun's parting to serve him well, so that he would think about the taste of his beautiful wife and concubine at home, so that he would not be seduced by the Jiangnan fox The son hooked the soul away...

(End of this chapter)