Chapter 1839

Three days passed in a flash. In these three days, many gentry and rich families in Xuecheng became melon eaters for a time, and they ate happily.

The elites of the Li family for two generations have positioned themselves as the last fair executor to protect the ordinary people in Xuecheng. The villains are directly designated as the Xu family, and Yu Tongzhi, who is very close to the Xu family in law

How can the Xu family and Yu Tongzhi not fight back? Since Tongzhi began to deal with it, the power struggle has become white hot. That is to kill all the people related to the Li family in the magistrate's Yamen and the magistrate's Yamen in Fuguo county.

Before Li Yuanshu appeared, the Li family was no better than the Xu family and the Lu family. Many distant relatives or slaves arranged in the magistrate's county and magistrate's Yamen did things like taking cards and extorting good deeds.

It is natural that Tongzhi wants to engage them, find out the evidence, and open up reform in accordance with the law.

But the Li family obviously won't wait. They send all kinds of gifts to the magistrate's home. In addition, they launch their own network to praise the magistrate and exert pressure on the Tongzhi. This is normal operation. How can they praise the magistrate? Don't forget that Li Yuanshu's master is a Shangshu of the state of Lu. Shangshu is a high-ranking official with two grades, which is far from being comparable to ordinary Prefects.

As long as Li Yuanshu and his master walk around, they often say a few good words in the Shangshu. Even if he is not the Shangshu of the Ministry of officials, his weight is definitely not bad. Li Yuanshu and Li Wangjiang's two father and son operate more than just a Shangshu.

They are well-known in the calligraphy and painting circles. They not only often use calligraphy and painting to give gifts, but also can communicate with other famous calligraphers and painters in the state of Lu with technology and maintain relations.

In addition, his classmates in the same year when he was studying and taking exams in the past, the third brother of the Li family was still a senior official in the noble Yamen in the middle of the dynasty, and so on

When the network moved, the magistrate Xue Cheng couldn't carry it. Standing on the Li family's side, not only did he receive gifts, but also officials in the Li family's network praised him all over the country. After all, the magistrate, after all, was the magistrate, which easily suppressed Yu Tongzhi's power.

Of course, Yu Tongzhi and the Xu family also have their own networks, and they are not afraid of the Li family.

There is no way to clean up the officials of the Li family in Xuecheng mansion and county.

Then, in the past three days, several whole martial arts performances were staged near Wang Han's house, where the Xu family and Yu Tongzhi's Yamen constable and Li family were ordered. This was a big play, not to mention that other gentry families in Xuecheng were happy to eat melons, which even the local people had an eye opener.

It's getting worse and worse. Among the people, the reputation of the Xu family is naturally getting worse and worse, and the reputation of the Li family is getting higher and higher.

In the same sentence, the officials who handle affairs extort money from the common people. The common people are most aware of it. They are also most afraid of and resentful about such things. Some of the Li family stand up to help them resist. It's really a pleasure for Xue Cheng to be the great master of Qingtian.

Think about how exaggerated the ratings of Qingtian dramas such as Bao Qingtian are among the people in the age of inanimate earth. We can know how much Chinese people pursue and like creatures such as Qingtian. It's still the people in the age of science and technology!

When it comes to the desire for Qingtian, the people in the feudal era are the most intense and fanatical.

Later, the Yamen Constable loyal to the Li family and the Xu family staged the whole martial arts. The people didn't just eat melons. The end! Dare not come openly? I'll hide far away. When you're hot, I'll secretly hit you with something, or I'll run out and kick you and run away. Can't I?

In the two or three days before and after this war, Yu Tongzhi and Xu's family leader became more and more unable to carry it. They couldn't hold down the Li family in officialdom. They couldn't do things in person, but many of them were seriously injured. What else?

Although the Li family paid a lot of costs in government institutions, they did hold down the situation.

In shopping malls, Xu and Li have some overlapping industries, and they also staged a fierce fight at all costs.

At the gentry level, the backbone of the state of Lu, the Xiao family has its own port and wharf here, and countless people eat around the Xiao family caravan.

However, as a natural coastal town, Xue Cheng has more than one excellent port. Many of the Xu and Li families also eat business meals.

These are the caravans from big merchants. They don't want to continue here. They sell goods directly in Xuecheng. After the local gentry and rich families take over, they sell them to the Roman caravans for a while... They make a lot of money when they change hands.

This is big business!

Let's say porcelain, tea and so on. The road price of big merchants is almost the same as that in big merchants. It's normal. When they arrive in the state of Lu, they sell it five times, and the price of Xu and Li is five times. When the Roman caravan directly sells it six times, the Roman caravan transports it back, and the price starts from ten times.

There are many such businesses every year. Only one business change hands, which is much more profitable than the Xue family's business of maintaining catering and accommodation in Xuecheng. This is the foundation for them to become a top gentry and rich family.

The Xue family's operation of chain restaurants and inns always requires a lot of land, and the land in the prosperous area of the city also requires a lot of cost.

The Xu family and the Li family used to be that when the merchant caravan came, we received the goods, put them in the warehouse and transferred them to Rome for a while, or sold the goods of the caravan from Rome to the merchant for a while. This is a huge amount of silver wealth.

But in order to make trouble, the two families also started this time.

In the past, when we were in harmony, we maintained a price. Each family encountered similar quantities and values of goods every year. We did not want to continue to compete, but to maintain the overall situation of harmony and making money.

Now as soon as the war begins, you are talking about guests. I will end up bargaining and robbing people

Once the competition is started, the cheap ones are merchants and Roman caravans, and they are the ones who lose.

The only good thing is that there are not many such businesses that can be talked about and robbed in two or three days. At present, there are only two similar caravans in Xuecheng.

The Xu family and the Li family have overlapping industries, not only this one, but also the salt farm!

Although the state of Lu has few mountains and does not have so many metal mines such as gold, silver, copper and iron, there are several large salt farms near Xuecheng. In the feudal era, when the salt industry was not so developed, the coastal salt farms were the main source of salt for everyone.

Since ancient times, Xuecheng has been one of the famous salt producing areas.

In history, how rich were the salt merchants who controlled the salt farms or sold salt goods?

In Xuecheng, the three surnames Xu, Li and Lu occupied almost all the salt farms, which is also the biggest proof that their family has a big business and is one level higher than the Xue family operating restaurants and inns.

Then, the Xu family and the Li family went to war in the salt industry, competing with each other to negotiate prices and win over customers... They won the three-day gate of Lu family salt farm in Lu Guoxing. And the salt merchants who come and go to Xuecheng are pleasantly drunk every day.

If they hadn't kept a restraint, it is estimated that the two command pirates attacked the salt field, but even if the salt field hasn't started, the fishing boats working for the two families in the offshore fishing ground they occupied have fought several wars and even sunk two small boats.