"Wei Qingxiao really deserves to be killed!" Shen Zangfeng frowned and said in disgust, "I thought Marquis Jingcheng was jealous that his concubine was favored by his father in the past, so he killed his niece by mistake... I didn't expect the father and son to be like this. It’s so disgusting! It’s inappropriate to kill a flesh and blood relative for no reason. Such insult is simply unworthy of human beings!”
Shen Zangfeng does not consider himself to be a person of high integrity, and as the future leader of the Shen family, Shen Xuan will not teach him to be a high-class person. The blood relationship and closeness of the same clan really hindered him. Regardless of male, female, old or young, Shen Zangfeng would never show mercy when killing.
but…
Just as a scholar cannot be killed but cannot be humiliated, Shen Zangfeng would not feel anything wrong if he killed a seven-year-old girl for a major event, let alone cruelty. But insulting a seven-year-old girl was what Shen Zangfeng hated.
In fact, it's not just him who thinks so, most nobles who like normal things have this attitude.
It's okay to remove those who stand in the way. Everyone agrees to do it and everyone will do it. Which wealthy family leader has not stepped on a few of his family members when he rose to power
But what Wei Qingxiao did was no longer just unacceptable, it was downright dirty. If word spreads, even the confidants of Marquis Jingcheng in Zhiben Hall will probably be outraged!
Because even if the seven-year-old girl he killed after insulting her was someone else, not his cousin, it would not make people hate him so much. Wei Xintai was not worth mentioning in the eyes of Marquis Jingcheng, she was just a daughter of the clan. But in everyone's eyes, she and Wei Changjuan actually have the same identity, the daughter of a wealthy family.
Scholars and women.
Wei Changjuan, whom King Heng Shen Xun insulted, was not only seventeen years old, but Shen Xun did not kill her, and even provoked the six clans to join forces and force the Holy Admiral Shen Xun to change the title of King Heng. What's more, Wei Qingxiao's move
If word of this spreads out, all the girls in Zhiben Hall will not be able to survive! Even Rui Yutang, who is thousands of miles away, can't compare. If the Wei family can produce a Wei Qingxiao, who knows if there will be a second one
But from the perspective of the Wei family, it was fortunate that Wei Xintai was young at the time.
Because she was young, ten out of ten people who had speculated over the years about the hatred between Wei Xinyong and Jingcheng Hou would guess like Shen Zangfeng did before, and they would never guess the truth.
Anyone would think that the root cause of the matter must be Wei Ji, and the little girl Wei Xintai might have witnessed something or ate something with her father, and was implicated... so that the father and daughter died suddenly together.
If Wei Xintai was seventeen years old, as beautiful as a flower, and more handsome than Xizi, someone might think that Wei Qingxiao coveted the beauty of his cousin without caring about ethics...
After all, ordinary people, even those who are well-informed, will not think of the most evil things. Under normal circumstances, one would guess based on the temperament of ordinary people. Who would have thought that Wei Qingxiao would be the abnormal one
Wei Changying was still a little angry and said: "I used to think that King Heng was already a very dissolute person, but I didn't want Wei Qingxiao to be even more shameless!" He said with itchy teeth, "It's also a cycle of heaven. I am not happy with the retribution. I heard Lai Qinniang describe that all my great-grandfathers were mediocre in talent and abilities, yet they gave birth to such an amazing and talented son as my sixth uncle. The descendants of Wei Qi's descendants combined are not as good as my sixth uncle. Uncle! If this continues, my sixth uncle will be able to take revenge with his own hands sooner or later."
"Judging from his plan, it doesn't seem like he is only targeting Marquis Jingcheng and his son." Shen Zangfeng said, "From what I've seen from his actions over the years, there is deep hatred. I'm afraid Jingcheng Marquis and his son alone are no longer enough." Let him vent his anger."
Guard Chief Ying Hengshu didn't have the slightest favorable impression of Zhibentang. Hearing this, he nodded and said, "It wouldn't be a bad thing if he had the ability to eradicate Zhibentang."
Shen Zangfeng smiled, stopped discussing the topic, and said, "Can Lai tell me where the jade mine is?"
"If they hadn't been wasting time looking for this mine, we almost wouldn't have discovered it this time. My sixth uncle's biological uncle, the old man, died of illness six months ago. Although he left a map drawn from memory, However, Lai Qinniang said that the Mengshan Gang has been around Taohua County for more than ten years and has never found similar terrain. Now they only know that it is in the Mengshan Mountain in Taohua County, and I really don’t know where it is." Wei Changying. He said lightly, feeling a little uneasy in his heart, but his face remained calm as usual, and he said with a smile, "Otherwise, if they found the specific location and estimated the size of the jade mine, they would have gone to the government to buy the entire mine. "Come on, now that the master is well-known, it will be difficult for anyone to interfere."
Speaking of which, the Wei family has little influence in Guanzhou, and the Shen family has now changed its owner because of the obstruction of the East Palace. The emperor was forced to depose Shen Xun by the governor, and he was simmering with anger. If the Shen family reaches out to Xiliang again, In other places, I was worried about offending the Holy One, who would seriously attack the Shen family... All these things, that's why it was so troublesome.
If this mine was in Fengzhou or Xiliang, what would the Wei family or the Shen family do? Just make the entire mountain part of the family property!
But because Guanzhou is not the area covered by the influence of either of the two families, it can only take the official side.
However, Mengshan Mountain is so vast. If we really take down the entire Mengshan Mountain in Guanzhou, even if it is just a Taohua County, even at a very low price, it will be an extremely huge number.
It wouldn't matter if we just want to build a courtyard in this section of Mengshan Mountain. The key is for the jade mine. If you use your power to get it at a ridiculously low price, and later let people know that there is a jade mine in it, and if there are many jealous people, they will definitely talk about it so that they can get a piece of the pie. If we don't use low prices and use normal prices, then people surnamed Gu don't know how big the mine is and what its quality is
If the color of the jade was as good as the two pieces he picked up, and it was large in size, it would be worth buying it like this.
If those two pieces are the best, most of the jade is very rough, and the mine is not big... It would be a joke to buy it like this.
If not for these concerns, Mo Binwei and Lai Qinniang would not have been caught by the Shen family because they searched for the mine on the map to no avail...
With a thought in Shen Zangfeng's mind, he suddenly understood the real intention behind his wife's deliberate mention of "no one can interfere". He thought for a moment and said: "Now we still have to find the jade mine first. Mo Binwei has been looking for it for a long time. Even though he deliberately concealed it, we all know it. It is difficult to guarantee that no one else or other places will spread the news. By then everyone They have entered Mengshan to search for minerals, but it is a problem. "
Wei Changying looked at him and smiled, and said: "Do you want to send some people to help? After all, Mengshan is very big."
"This is actually not a matter of manpower." Shen Zangfeng smiled meaningfully and said, "The Mengshan Gang has been around Taohua County for more than ten years, and behind them is Ji Gu. Walking deep in the mountains, the biggest threats are nothing more than two The first is ferocious beasts, and the second is miasma. There are thousands of men in the Mengshan gang, and there are so many fierce bandits in them. If you gather a group of people, you don't need to be afraid of the former, especially if the government is just showing off. Still threatening, they have been surrounded and suppressed several times. The Mengshan Gang will temporarily retreat to the mountains just to show off... Do you think that although the man with the surname Gu was forced by the situation and had no choice but to go into the mountains, he was alone, no matter how courageous he was. "With limited strength and limited carrying luggage, how far can we go deep into Mount Meng?"
Wei Changying was startled and suddenly said: "You mean..."
"Either Uncle Wei Liu remembered it wrong, or the man with the ancient surname remembered it wrong or said it wrong!" Shen Zangfeng took the map of Guanzhou Prefecture from the side and pointed to Taohua County, which is two counties away from it and to the west. A place where Liangzhou and Liangzhou are not connected said, "You see, the name of this place is Xanthium County. It sounds like it has nothing to do with Peach Blossom County, but the reason why this county got its name is because the county is rich in Xanthium angustifolia."
Wei Changying knows that Xanthium sibiricum is a medicinal material that can dispel wind, remove dampness and clear the body, but Taohua County has never heard of any medicinal materials that are abundant except for the peach trees everywhere... This is what Lai Qinniang told me. People came all the way from the imperial capital to Guanzhou to sell some medicinal materials, save money to get a wife and build relationships.
Shen Zangfeng then pointed to a very inconspicuous town near the county seat of Xanthium County, extending into the Mengshan Mountains, and said, "The name of this town is very interesting. It's called Taohuaxian Town!"
"Peach Blossom Fairy? Peach Blossom County!" Wei Changying had just heard what her husband meant, but he didn't expect that the mistake was in such a place. He was surprised and said, "Didn't the man with the ancient surname tell my sixth uncle that he Is the place where I went to Guanzhou with my companions to collect medicinal materials a town, not a county?"
"Maybe he didn't even know there was a Taohua county in Guanzhou, so he didn't alert Uncle Wei."Shen Cangfeng also found it interesting, saying, "We just looked into this town of Peach Blossom Fairy, and its name is Peach Blossom Fairy Town because there is a peach tree in town that has been planted for over 500 years, and it is called Peach Blossom Fairy Town. You think we're used to two or three words when we talk about places, but we're a minority when we talk about four-word place names. And I asked Ms. Mok, who was 16 when she came to Guanzhou with her hometown and was illiterate at the time. He was able to write because he had some money in his hand after going back to Didu and had some words taught."
At the age of sixteen, a boy who didn't know a single word followed his companions - I'm afraid Wei Xinyong later found Taohua County based on his words. Did this man himself think it was Taohua County
As for the difference between towns and counties... Just like Ji Gu scolded Lai Dayong, after seeing the prosperity of the imperial capital, looking at the towns below, they are actually about the same... In any case, they are very shabby compared with the imperial capital.
Originally, Guanzhou was just a lower state, and even the state and city could not come into Ji Gu's sight.
Let alone a small county under its jurisdiction
Taohua County is extremely cramped.
The terrible thing is that Taohuaxian Town is larger than ordinary towns. Due to the favorable location, 70% of the county's cockleburs are gathered here, which naturally attracts medicinal dealers from all over the Wei Dynasty.
... In this way, it is not surprising that people with the ancient surname mistakenly identify Taohuaxian Town as Taohua County.
After thinking about this, Wei Changying was really speechless. After a while, he said: "This seems to be a benefit to the Shen family."
With Mo Binwei's manpower and the power of the Mengshan Gang in Guanzhou, if he had found Taohua County correctly, in Taohuaxian Town, he would have already found the jade mine and bought the area where the mine is located. Mo Jiajun is in charge. , began to hire miners to start work...
That way it won't alarm Xiliang...
Wei Changying couldn't help but lament the Shen family's good luck - but then again, the Wei family, or Ruiyu Hall, was not bad luck either.
According to Wei Xinyong's plan, he had painstakingly planned it for many years, naturally in order to monopolize this benefit. But because of a one-word difference, now he not only has to break up with the Shen family, but also with Rui Yutang - without Rui Yutang standing behind him, and because Wei Changying, the Shen family's daughter-in-law, is the daughter of the Wei family, the Shen family has How could Xiliang's powerful army, which had defeated Qiu Di and beheaded Shanyu in battle just a few months ago, take the so-called Mo family army seriously
Of course, Rui Yutang couldn't stand in vain. In fact, since Wei Changying knew the news about the jade mine, it was impossible not to share it with Rui Yutang.
As a result, Wei Xinyong's biological uncle discovered the mine and wanted to find Wei Xinyong's biological father to occupy it.
As a result, Wei Xinyong's uncle, biological father, biological mother, sister... the whole family paid a heavy price for this mine, and in the end he had to share it with Ruiyu Tang and the Shen family... If he had known this, even if he simply gave up the mine, he might still have There is no need to fall into this situation. Or maybe take it out early and share it with everyone. If you do it well, you may get some benefits. Even if the benefits are not as good as monopoly, it is better than losing your life for this benefit before you get it.
Thinking about it, Wei Changying felt that the Sixth Uncle's family was really pitiful. After such a situation, it was no wonder that Wei Xinyong's eyebrows were always full of anger... (To be continued)