Mingshi

Chapter 996
"Yes!"

Luo Sheng nodded and said: "Okay, I understand, you can go back in the dark. Be careful."

"Thank you, Lord!"

The man went down the rope again and disappeared into the night in a small boat.

"My lord!" Several generals looked at Luo Sheng on the deck.

"Send out scouts to keep an eye on the pier. When intercepting, try to minimize the casualties of the Daming Navy." Luo Xin said lightly.

"Don't worry, my lord. As soon as our cannon fires, those bastards will pee their pants in fright."

"Hahaha..." Everyone laughed loudly in the night sky.

three days later.

Hu Zongxian sent a navy to protect the merchants of the vassal state and went to sea, and Xu Jie's two sons sent a housekeeper with dozens of servants to follow.Xu Jie's two sons had already started to hold a banquet in a restaurant in Hangzhou to celebrate. They also invited Zhang Juzheng and Xu Shixing, but they were both rejected.

Why are Zhang Juzheng and Xu Shixing so congratulatory?
There was always an inexplicable uneasiness in the two of them, and they waited for the news with trepidation.

I don't know if it was a coincidence, but the restaurant opposite to the restaurant where Xu Jie's two sons held a banquet, the heads of the five great families also had a party there.Through the window, Xu Jie's two sons saw the five masters in the opposite window, so they went downstairs excitedly, walked to the opposite restaurant, went upstairs to the box of the five masters, pushed the door out without knocking , laughed loudly and said:

"Five uncles, I'm so excited!"

"That's right! It's good to see old friends get together more often."

"You have to obey your old age. You are already old, so don't take part in things that you can't do. It's okay. It's great to get together with old friends and drink. Ah ha ha ha..."

The faces of the five patriarchs became ugly, and the patriarch of the Zhang family said lightly: "Young man, it's better to follow the rules and follow the footsteps of the predecessors, otherwise the steps are too big and you will retreat to the egg."

Xu Kun looked at the Patriarch of the Zhang family with disdain and said, "My father is the chief minister of the cabinet, and our Xu family has the right to break the rules."

The Patriarch of the Zhang family looked at Lu Ding and said, "Brother Lu, I have heard Lord Luo say a kind of son who brings trouble to father. What is that word?"

"Crap!" Lu Ding said with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Yes, it's cheating!"

"Hahaha..." The five laughed loudly.

A stern look flashed in Xu Kun's eyes, and he said, "Think about yourself. Without the right to trade, your family's tea groves, silk workshops, and porcelain can't be sold. Why don't you sell them to me? I'm an old man." Love young."

"Hehe..." Lu Ding sneered twice and said, "Okay, as long as you follow the market price, we will sell it to you."

"Market price?" Xu Kun also sneered twice and said, "What I said is the market price."

"Oh?" Lu Ding looked at Xu Kun playfully and said, "What's your market price?"

"Twenty percent of the original price." Xu Kun stretched out two fingers proudly.

"Not for sale!" Lu Ding said calmly.

Seeing that the five masters did not lose their temper, Xu Kun sneered and said, "If you don't sell goods, then you can only sell workshops."

"Not for sale either."

"Ambition!" Xu Kun gave a thumbs up and said, "You have tens of thousands of people under your command. Let's see how long you can support them."

Lu Bing said lightly: "The five of us have not earned anything these years, but we have made a lot of money. We can afford it. But you, Mr. Xu, do not have the supply of our five. Let me see how you organize the supply."

"Without Butcher Zhang, why don't you eat pigs with hair?" Xu Kun sneered and said, "Southeast is the largest of your five families, but it's not like there are other workshops besides your five families."

"Then I wish Mr. Xu a lot of money! Don't be fooled by the time, you must know that it is not easy for your father to overthrow Yan Song and become the chief assistant of the cabinet."

"We'll see. I'll wait for you to beg me to buy your goods."

"Haha..." The five Patriarchs laughed together.

Xu Kun flicked his robe sleeves and turned to leave. Xu Ying stretched out her fingers and nodded at the five Patriarchs, and left with a hostile face.

After Xu Kun and Xu Ying left, the faces of the five people in the box became gloomy.The head of the Zhang family said with some confidence:

"Brother Lu, are we really leaving like this?"

"So what if you don't retreat?" Lu Bing sighed and said, "Our Lu family is not what it used to be, and now without Master Luo's support, do you think we can win over the Xu family?"

"But... Master Luo, what does this mean?"

Lu Ding shook his head and said, "I don't know, but I know Master Luo will never let it go."

"But... the current situation, Mr. Luo simply let it go?"

"Back then, we had done right with Lord Luo. At that time, we also thought that Lord Luo was at his wits end and could only let us go. But what happened?"

Everyone was stunned, but they all clearly remembered how Luo Xin dealt with them back then.Every time they felt that Luo Xin had no choice but in the end they lost miserably.

"Master Luo is hard to see through!"

"It's okay if we can't see through it. If we can see through it, he will not be a Rhoda. He is not a rotten scholar. Don't forget, he is a military god."

"Yeah, we don't have to do anything, just watch from the sidelines. It's rare to be able to watch a scene easily. Let's keep our eyes open and take a good look at how the scene is played."

"By the way, do you think there are really pirates at sea?"

"It's really hard to say, how big is the benefit of the Shibo Department, maybe another group of pirates has gathered at sea."

"I really hope the pirates robbed Xu's goods."

"This is not realistic. Even if there are pirates, the newly established pirates will not be too strong. Hu Zongxian can completely defeat those pirates."

"Ugh……"

The sea.

The vassal state is a merchant ship and Hu Zongxian's navy sailing on the sea.

"There is a boat!"

The sentinel suddenly shouted, and the Daming navy immediately put on guard, and the boat on the opposite side also saw the Daming navy, and immediately raised the semaphore.

"It's a vassal state and a merchant ship! Let them approach."

Soon, the ships of both sides approached.On a ship opposite, a white man called out:
"Joseph, are you going back to the voyage?"

"Tom, you're here too."

"Yeah, Joseph, have you encountered any pirates?"

"Tom, you also encountered pirates?"

"Let him come over!" the leader of the Daming Navy shouted.

The boats from the two sides approached, and a wooden plank was built on the two boats. Tom walked over from the opposite side, first saluted the leader of the Daming Navy, and then said:

"We encountered pirates ahead. They didn't rob us, but they told us to hand over half of the goods to them on our return journey. Joseph, have you encountered any pirates?"

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(End of this chapter)