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Chapter 1656 Take Again
"I thought you would spend the night with Miss Su."

In the new house, Liao Xuan looked at Wang Yan, who walked in, with a hint of grievance in her voice.

She was still wearing her red wedding dress, but some of her gold and silver jewelry had been removed, leaving only two gold hairpins inlaid with gemstones to hold her hair in place.

"On your wedding day, how could I leave you alone in the house? I didn't even go to see her, let alone spend the night with her. I came over right after talking with Lord Chen."

Wang Yan walked over in a few steps, picked Liao Xuan up and put her on his lap. "Besides, you're my lawfully wedded wife, the head of the household. What can she, a mere daughter-in-law, possibly do? You'll always be the boss. If we get married in the future, you'll be even more formidable. Dealing with your concubine will be a piece of cake."

"You're just trying to coax me." Liao Xuan patted Wang Yan lightly. "Put me down, wash your feet, it's time to rest."

Liao Xuan wasn't a considerate girl, because she wasn't a meticulous person. Although Old Liao was a gambling addict, he always maintained the bottom line of not giving away his beloved daughter, whom he depended on for survival, and he raised her quite well. Although she sometimes went hungry, she didn't suffer too much hardship. After all, Old Liao was a skilled worker, and a well-known one at that. With so much tea in Huizhou, he was never short of work throughout the year.

This fostered Liao Xuan's carefree personality; otherwise, she wouldn't have dared to chat with her father while making tea for Wang Yan, laughing and joking happily.

This is precisely why Liao Xuan is always careless; she makes no major mistakes, but constantly makes small ones. However, with each mistake comes improvement. Now, Wang Yan has assigned Liao Xuan to handle women's affairs, and she's doing quite well…

Liao Xuan and Su Zixuan have two faces, but the difference is that Su Zixuan was just as outgoing during their first meeting, while Liao Xuan was very shy, completely unlike her usual carefree self...

After a night of passion, Liao Xuan washed up and went to the dining table.

"How did it feel for you, being a virgin for the first time?" Su Zixuan, who was already sitting at the dining table, greeted him with a smile.

"Don't worry about it!"

"Hey, First Wife, show some respect. You need to be more tolerant. Otherwise, how will our other sisters respect you in the future?"

"That's none of your business! You know I'm the head wife, yet you still dare to point fingers and criticize? Be careful, or I'll make things difficult for you!"

"Is that so?" Su Zixuan laughed frivolously. "But I've heard that concubines, secondary wives, and mistresses are more favored."

"But I've heard that it was all the concubines, mistresses, and mistresses who died?" Liao Xuan glared at his concubine, unconvinced.

"Fine, you win. Who told you to be the head wife?"

Su Zixuan looked indifferent, but she emphasized the words "head wife" as she glared at Wang Yan, who walked in from the door.

"The little wife is going to compete for favor~" Liao Xuan smiled, then took a deep breath, feeling intoxicated and satisfied, "Mmm, this old hen is stewed so well, I want to eat it just by smelling it."

“I have!”

Liao Xuan looked over and saw Su Zixuan holding up two fingers, "This is the second time!"

Wang Yan explained to Liao Xuan, "It's to replenish qi and blood, and help you recover. You should eat more of it."

Su Zixuan said, "I want to eat more too!"

"You are in good health. If you eat too much, your blood and qi will surge and you won't be able to handle it."

"That's because you're too hot-tempered. What kind of man are you? I don't care, I'm going to eat!"

After saying that, Su Zixuan lifted the lid and started scrambling to serve the soup with Liao Xuan, while Wang Yan sided with Liao Xuan and served her the soup...

Su Zixuan sipped her chicken soup with relish, saying sourly, "Men, they just forget their old loves once they find a new one. They're completely unreliable."

"Really unreliable?" Liao Xuan slurped her chicken soup and glanced at her. "As far as I know, you've done quite a few things outside using my name. Are you trying to say that you've brought me a lot of talent and introduced me to some business? Do you think those people wouldn't come without you?"

“I sent them out, and even though there are escort agencies all over the world now, there are still places they can’t reach, and some people can’t get out.”

Without giving Liao Xuan a chance to refute, Su Zixuan went straight to the point, "You know about the Eight Families of Shanxi, right?"

Wang Yan smiled and said, "Is it about the money exchange?"

"you know?"

Before Wang Yan could answer, Liao Xuan said quietly from the side, "You may not know, but yesterday, when we got married, some of their people seized the opportunity to assassinate us. They were just interrogated yesterday. There was another incident before that, which they also committed, right after the large-scale issuance of the new banknotes."

Wang Yan nodded: "They use silver to run their money exchange businesses, while we issue our own new banknotes without capital, and they can be reliably exchanged for silver. Now, many transactions are conducted using the new banknotes. Even a clay figure has some temper, so the big players who have been affected and earned less silver are naturally even more ruthless. It's not just the Eight Great Families, but also many other big players, such as the Shanxi merchants and the Anhui merchants... They haven't forgotten about me."

You might not know this, but they've assembled a team specifically to crack the anti-counterfeiting features of the new banknotes and distribute counterfeit money across various regions. Although their counterfeiting methods are still quite clumsy and don't fool merchants, ordinary people suffer greatly, and it's difficult to apprehend them.

"So how do you plan to deal with this?"

"Once we find the place where the forgery is made and obtain evidence of it, the bandits will send them away from this tormenting world and help them escape their misery as soon as possible."

"Then what evidence are you looking for?" Su Zixuan's big eyes were full of doubt.

“You have a huge misunderstanding about me. The people we dealt with in the past were all people we had a certain amount of information on before we acted. Besides, things are different now. We brothers have become quite influential. So many eyes are watching us. It's not good to kill people randomly. We can only act when we are sure.”

Besides, with so many counterfeiters, you can't guard against thieves forever. There will always be people willing to risk their lives to greedily make more money. What I can do is kill those who print counterfeit money on a large scale, and catch the smaller, more persistent ones from time to time; they can't hide for long.

Otherwise, if we indiscriminately kill everyone even slightly suspected, who will cooperate with us in the future? What will the people think of us if they spread rumors? We cannot lose the people's support, we cannot lose our credibility; these are the cornerstones that have brought us to where we are today.”

"What if the evidence runs dry?"

Wang Yan ate the stewed, dry chicken: "It will definitely stop. We'll kill as many people as we can. Once we have a clear target, we'll find ways to make them wish they were dead. Speaking of you, you're such a busy person, I only see you a few times a year. You didn't come here for a wedding, did you?"

"Can't I even attend a wedding banquet?"

"Of course you can." Liao Xuan glanced at her. "It's just that I didn't tell you about the wedding beforehand, so your return is a bit of a coincidence. You know, you used to only come back for one reason."

Su Zixuan, with her delicate fingers holding a spoon, said, "It's still about buying firearms. The Heavenly Kingdom wants more firearms. They've somehow found out about cannons and say that the cannons from Huoshan are better, so they want to buy them." "I won't sell the cannons; that's my advantage against them. If I sell them, although I can still win, the casualties will be much greater, which isn't worthwhile. But since you're personally leading the charge, you have to save face, and I have to show my support. You can take ten thousand muskets; consider it an answer to the Heavenly King."

"And then you go back and sell another 10,000 guns to the Manchus?"

"Of course, balance is very important, otherwise why would they come to attack me? I still need to manage the Sichuan and Guanzhong regions, so it's not suitable to use force, or it would easily cause trouble in my own backyard."

"Who are you planning to sell it to?"

"Master Chen."

Su Zixuan had a keen sense of smell: "He just suffered a defeat, was beaten by Li Cheng and fled in terror, so he came to seek refuge with you?"

"You're very well-informed."

"I went to see Li Cheng first."

Wang Yan nodded with a smile: "Then when you go back, you can tell him that once you break through Lord Chen's army, you should send a surprise force directly south to attack the Jiang family."

"I always feel like I'm dealing with a tiger for its skin when I'm with you."

“Then you’re treating yourself like an outsider, sigh…” Wang Yan shook his head in a mocking manner, then served food to Liao Xuan, “The eldest daughter-in-law is the best, so considerate.”

Su Zixuan snorted: "I'd like to be close to you, though."

"I am burdened with a deep-seated hatred, and I cannot find peace until I avenge it. In fact, I have told you before that as long as we develop and strengthen ourselves slowly, we can avenge any hatred. Many times, conspiracies and tricks are risky and unpredictable, making them difficult to carry out."

"It depends on who you're dealing with. If you were willing to arrange an assassination, I would have already taken my revenge."

"That's useless. On the contrary, it will only make us more vulnerable to attack, forcing me to go to war with them. Do you think your father died at the hands of just one emperor and empress? No, they died at the hands of all emperors and empresses. So where did their power come from? It came from their Eight Banners, from the Han Chinese officials, from the wealthy families. They were all helping the Manchus maintain their rule."

The death of an emperor simply means another will take over. They still control the same amount of territory and have the same number of men to serve them. The only difference is that because someone died, they are forced to attack me directly, which will disrupt the current situation and cause even more deaths.

"Are fewer people dying now? You know about the human flesh trade outside."

Wang Yan shook his head: "At least many people have run to safety. In the past few years, there have been over a million more people in Sichuan and Guanzhong. They have all survived. But if I were to get involved, the food reserves wouldn't be enough. As soon as the army starts moving, there would be starving people everywhere."

He couldn't tell the two women exactly how many people were affected by the war, but the peace and stability he enjoyed here had genuinely saved many lives. Even though his arms sales had increased the casualties on both sides, it was also a trade-off. Tactics had also evolved with the times, and military personnel had begun to study trenches and how to defeat the enemy while taking fewer bullets themselves.

Both sides copied each other, constantly coming up with new ideas, and writing their own versions of the war philosophy of firearms...

"In the end, what you should hate is that force. Without the support of that force, your father, a high-ranking official, wouldn't have been killed so easily. It was everyone who abandoned your father and pushed him out to die."

“I’m used to it. If I don’t do something, I feel restless and can’t settle down. Otherwise…” Su Zixuan looked at Liao Xuan, “I’ll have a baby. We’ve been together for several years and still don’t have a child. I’m such a bad wife.”

"Let's talk about it after the eldest daughter-in-law gets pregnant and gives birth."

"Did you hear that? You haven't had a child all these years, and now you want one? No way!" Liao Xuan said smugly.

Su Zixuan snorted and slammed the spoon into the bowl: "I'm not eating!"

Liao Xuan glanced at the clean bowl: "Are you full?"

"I'm furious right now!" Su Zixuan looked at Liao Xuan, then, under the latter's dismissive gaze, turned her attention to Wang Yan...

Early in the morning, Pang Qingyun washed up, ate and drank, and then sunbathed in the yard.

On a fine winter day, with the sun high in the sky, hiding in the yard where there's no wind and only sunshine, it's so comfortable that you can squint your eyes, feel sleepy, and drift off to sleep.

Finally, when the sun was high in the sky, he and some others who wanted to see Wang Yan arrived at the large study in the training ground. They lined up in the outer hall, each with a cup of tea, waiting for Wang Yan to receive them.

Pang Qingyun was the last in line. He watched as people came and went, some happy and some sad. He kept thinking in his mind how to speak to Wang Yan and how to showcase his talent.

In fact, he had been thinking about this for a long time, and even didn't get a good night's sleep last night...

Another person left with a mixture of joy and sorrow, and Pang Qingyun entered the hall that symbolized the supreme power of 'Huoshan'.

He saw a young man sitting by the window, pressing tobacco into his pipe. What was most striking was the man's shaved head.

Everyone knew this was a major rebel. The Taiping soldiers all had normal, long hair, but this rebel leader, who didn't need to move around much, still sported a half-shaved head. In fact, after he arrived in Huoshan yesterday, many people were still sporting this half-shaved head…

He approached and greeted them, then heard Wang Yan speak.

"You are Lord Chen's subordinate, what is your opinion of Lord Chen?"

Pang Qingyun hadn't expected Wang Yan to forgo his presentation. It was as if someone trying to attract investment hadn't presented a meticulously prepared PowerPoint presentation and was immediately questioned, even...
He pondered for a moment, then replied, "Lord Chen is a weak man. He cannot defeat Lord Di, Lord Jiang, or the other Grand Councilors. Otherwise, I would not have suffered such a crushing defeat in this battle that I would be the only survivor. Sir, I am willing to serve you faithfully, I only ask that you give me a chance to risk my life!"

"Everyone you saw come in before said the same thing: they all wanted an opportunity, they all said they were willing to risk their lives. Pang Qingyun, do you think I need people willing to risk their lives?"

"Of course we have enough, sir, but some people just lose their lives, while others can do the things you ask us to do."

Wang Yan lit a pipe and puffed on it, asking, "So, have you done what Lord Chen asked me to do?"

"Sir, it's the Kui Battalion that's refusing to come to our aid. If they had gone, most of my brothers in this battalion could have survived, and we could have won this battle! Sir, He Kui is Lord Jiang's man, which is why I said that Lord Chen is no match for Lord Jiang!"

"Why don't you go back first? I'll have someone go and find out some information, such as whether He Kui has been punished."

Watching Wang Yan leisurely exhale smoke rings, Pang Qingyun's heart skipped a beat...

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