Chapter 250 Spider Web.

Now it is almost the New Year, and more than two months have passed since Fan Xian was assassinated.

Over the past many years, the Ming family has been living and multiplying in the Jiangnan area of ​​Qing Kingdom.

Unlike other wealthy families, the Ming family has become the largest family in Jiangnan after more than a dozen generations of careful management by the family heads, using a variety of methods and endlessly squeezing out the market. It has not experienced ups and downs, and seems to have always been at the top.

But to talk about how the various ethnic groups in Jiangnan really followed the Ming family's lead, we have to start from the time when the Ming family climbed up the ladder of the eldest princess and became the royal merchant of the Qing Dynasty's treasury.

With the profits generated by cheap and high-quality goods from the inland, as well as a steady influx of silver, the Ming family's moves became increasingly larger. Not only were they not satisfied with Jiangnan Road, they also extended their hands to Jiangbei Road and Dongshan Road, an area along the inland river.

The Ming family owns countless pieces of land and real estate in Suzhou and Hangzhou alone, and controls countless ships, shops and car dealerships upstream and downstream. To this day, the Ming family has grown and expanded, with more than two thousand family members, deeply affecting the lives of the people in the south of the Yangtze River.

During these two months, Fan Xian learned about the various factions of the Ming family and also looked for a new candidate to disintegrate the Ming family.

Fan Xian understood that facing external forces would turn the already complex factions of the Ming family into a monolith. Not only would it fail to defeat the Ming family, but it would make it much more difficult to accomplish anything.

The Ming family has two branches and six sons. Although there is no clear distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children, the two branches have been promoted based on their talents for so many years. They take turns to take over the affairs of the entire Ming family, but people are always biased.

The old lady of the Ming family, who is nearly sixty years old, has always been loyal to the eldest son of the family, which has also made some capable people dissatisfied.

As for the other descendants of the side branches in more remote areas, they were only responsible for managing some mid- and downstream industries of the Ming family.

During the years when the old lady of the Ming family was in charge of the Ming family, the biggest arrangement she made was that, except for the eldest branch of the family, Ming Qingda, the children of other families only had the right to dividends.

This is the reason why the Ming family is so powerful, but it is also a huge flaw!

"This year, all the money that the Ming family earned has been consumed."

Fan Xian smiled and said, "In the previous internal treasury bidding, I had people compete with the Ming family in a vicious bidding war, which not only raised the price, but also made their profits thinner. In addition, they had to reserve four tiers of silver after winning the bid, which left them with little working capital. If I remember correctly, they bid on more than a dozen projects?"

"The Ming family has indeed shed a lot of blood." Wang Qinian, who came here from Kyoto, smiled obscenely and asked in a low voice: "But it seems that the adults are not very happy?"

“So many things were beyond my expectations.”

Fan Xian sighed helplessly.

Although the Cui family was squeezed out of the inner treasury bidding, it was unexpected that the big leader of the Jiangnan Water Stronghold who was invited to raise the price, Xia Qifei, who was well-known in the Jiangnan underworld, was actually a member of the Junshan Society.

Although it won't be long since I joined.

Wang Qinian looked at the file in his hand and said with a wry smile, "Sir, why don't you let a professional figure it out? I feel a little dizzy reading this!"

"Don't pretend with me!" Fan Xian said unhappily, "Aren't you most sensitive about this money? Hurry up, I have something else for you to do."

"Sir." Wang Qinian did not argue any more, but pointed to a place on the file and said, "We don't have much silver left. After helping Xia Qifei win several projects from the inner treasury, we have to prepare the rest of the silver for the Ming family. The Ming family is indeed seriously injured now, but they have a deep foundation. How can you be sure that they will borrow money from the Merchants Bank for turnover?"

"Who said we have no money?"

Fan Xian smiled slightly, took out a thick envelope from his clothes lining and said, "Here are seven million taels of silver. It is said that this is all the stock of Li An, the national teacher of Northern Qi!"

"this?"

Wang Qinian was shocked. What was wrong with the two of you? It was fine if you were pulling each other's strings, but why were you either cooperating or on the way to cooperating?

"Then the Northern Qi Imperial Master isn't worried about losing all his money?"

"What does he have to worry about? Isn't he known for his ironclad judgment? He can always make up for it from somewhere else."

"But Xia Qifei is a hidden danger after all!"

"You're wrong!" Fan Xian laughed and said, "This is Ming Qi. Xia Qifei has ambitions. If that were the only reason, I wouldn't trust him. But you know that this river basin is connected to the seaport, and Xia Qifei is the big boss of the Jiangnan Water Fort. The biggest obstacle he encounters when he is doing business is pirates. And those pirates are all from the Ming family! Speaking of hatred for the Ming family, among those who want to get rid of the Ming family the most, Xia Qifei is definitely the first one!"

"Now several items from the inner treasury have been handed over to Xia Qifei. If he withdraws now, I'm afraid that our Majesty will be the first to take his life!"

"Similarly, the Ming family has made too much money over the years."

"If they earned it through legitimate means, then they deserve to be rich, instead of relying on the relationship with the princess to rob people!"

"This is also the reason why the Ming family must win more than a dozen projects this year even if it means vomiting blood. Although his family has thousands of acres of fertile land and countless properties, they are dead things after all! How can they compare to the money coming in faster and more quickly than the living water of the inner treasury? If they can't win the projects this year, how can they feed those royal family members in Kyoto?"

After listening to Fan Xian's analysis, Wang Qinian felt relieved.

While marveling at Lord Fan's handwriting, he was also worried about the huge sum of 7 million taels.

"But why would the Northern Qi Imperial Master provide this money? What do they want?" Wang Qinian asked curiously.

"This money must be repaid, and it's not seven million taels, but ten million taels!" Fan Xian curled his lips and sighed, "How wicked!"

Wang Qinian's mouth twitched when he heard this, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.

What does "nine out and thirteen back" mean?

This is!
"Do you think he just wants to make a little money?"

Fan Xian kneaded the banknote in his hand and thought carefully: "Let's not talk about the commercial street in Shangjing. The fresh goods there can already bring him a huge amount of silver. Let's talk about the navy that he asked Yan Xiaoyi to form. Others may not know his thoughts, but how could I not know?"

"He helped me succeed only because he could gain more benefits from Jiangnan!"

As one grows stronger, the other shrinks. The economic strength of Qing is likely to fall behind that of Northern Qi.

The instigators of all this are precisely these parasites of the Qing Kingdom headed by the Ming family!
The Junshan Society has also changed its nature and has become a weapon in the hands of Princess Li Yunrui.

This is often the case with wars in politics and business.

Although they are two different fields, they actually have many similarities. The biggest similarity between the two is that it is impossible to tell who the winner is until the last moment.

It is not uncommon to see a ray of hope after a dark period, but more often than not, things start to go wrong and then disappear overnight.

"Use the Merchants Bank to send this silver to the Ming family! The silver given during the previous bidding in the inner treasury is not enough to lock the Ming family in."

Fan Xian stretched and took a deep breath. Now that all the preparations had been made, he would destroy the Ming family next year!
"As far as I know, in three months it will be the 60th birthday of the old lady of the Ming family?"

(End of this chapter)