The Rise of Phoenixes Chapter 573:

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If the four extra words before can be understood as Mrs. Li being nervous when she saw Wang Jia for the first time, now from this conversation it is obvious that Mrs. Li is not new to the world, then the It means it’s fun.

Flirting in public?

For a moment, everyone even forgot about the important matter of asking for money, and their eyes wandered upward ambiguously. The King of Chu was very popular in the Imperial Capital, and these people were closely connected with the Imperial Capital, how could they not know? Legend has it that this prince likes beautiful streets and willow alleys, and likes both men and women. As long as he is beautiful, he will not refuse. Look at this, has his taste changed again? Turning to women from good families?

There are also some well-informed people who have vaguely heard of the young master of the Li family. It seems that he is not successful in that regard? Is it possible that Mrs. Li, who was born in a wealthy family in the imperial capital, had an affair with the King of Chu before, but now she is lonely in the empty boudoir and resumes her old relationship with His Highness?

It is human nature to be gossipy. For a while, eyebrows and eyes were in a lively lawsuit, and interesting eyes were flying all over the place [lack of ending punctuation]

Feng Zhi smiled and lowered his head to drink, without even looking at Ning Yi. However, Ning Yi looked as usual. He held the cup and listened carefully. He smiled and said, "Mrs. Li understands justice well and should be a role model for Jianghuai gentry."

His words were the same as before, with no specific meaning. He would catch whatever was thrown at him and put it aside. No one could guess a certain number from his words. Feng Zhiwei again I was in awe of him - a man who had been trained by the royal family to speak up was so good when used to deal with women.

Qiu Yuluo seemed to be very satisfied with Ning Yi's words. She drained her glass of wine in high spirits and sat down with a blush on her face. The richest man in Jianghuai and the largest salt merchant, the Liu family, was a little anxious after hearing this. After thinking for a while, he said: "Your Highness and Mr. Wei speak, how dare we disobey? It's just that we are willing but not strong enough. Your Highness and Wei Hou, don't listen to the uninformed people talking about how rich the salt merchants are. In fact, they are." It is only through hard work that you realize that you have to pay salt fees to the Salt Transport Envoy every year, and receiving the salt quotation is a big deal. You have finally paid more than half of the year's profits to buy the quotation, but you can't withstand the troubles behind the back of the private salt dealers. Now, Since the war in the south, there have been many refugees here. They have swarmed under the private salt dealers and started this lucrative business. In this way, no matter how big the family is, they cannot withstand the digging - Your Highness is aware of it! Your Excellency is aware of it!"

"Yes." Someone answered immediately, but it was the old man of the Chen family who claimed to go to the grassland to sell rice. The Chen family monopolized Jiangnan soybeans, tung oil, tea, rice and other goods, and transported them to the south of Shannan and the north of Shanxi in exchange for salt, iron, wheat, cotton, wood, dry tobacco, and then There are branches of his family all over the country such as the reselling grassland and northwest. At this time, he frowned, stroking his goatee, his big triangular eyes flashed with a cunning light, and sighed, "Your Highness, sir, look We look glamorous on the outside, but in fact it is all empty air! There are many taxes and customs along the way in the business, and what we really get in our hands after one trip back and forth is just a small number. For a big family and the people below to chew the flowers, every year. Just maintain a superficial turnover. We don't care about the affairs of the court, but we can't afford to reach out every year. Last year, when there was a flood in the south, we also donated rice. When there was a snowstorm in the north the year before last, we also pledged 10,000 yuan. Two, the year before last..." He counted them one by one with his fingers, and at the end he sighed and said, "If you're not afraid of saying something embarrassing, I've already spent all my money. My Chen family, from top to bottom, only has one piece of meat every three days. , no more, I haven’t eaten meat for two days, if you don’t believe me, just cut open my belly and have a look!” He said with a smile.

Feng Zhi glanced at him slightly. This master of the Chen family was not too high in the Jianghuai family, but he was the most ruthless and mean person. It is said that the Chen family's bullying and **** of the market filled the pledge room in the Yamen of the capital of Jianghuai. , ignored for many years, there was a petition not long ago, accusing this man of **** a civilian girl and causing her death. It’s just that the Chen family has a great business. It is said that they have both black and white feet, and they have a group of rogues who are desperate for their lives, and the underworld is powerful. Across the entire Jianghuai River, strong dragons have always been afraid of local snakes. Although the successive chief ministers may not care about the Chen family, they are afraid of those young people who are desperate for their lives. There is no guarantee that when you go to the theater or go out, someone will come to you with a knife. All of a sudden, life was a bit too scary, so the Chen family had been running rampant in Jianghuai for many years, but no one dared to touch it.

As soon as the old guy opened his mouth, a swarm of bees exploded behind him, all of them crying and complaining.

"Your Highness Mingjian, my stall is not having a good time. Nowadays, due to the war in the south, roads are blocked, freight prices are skyrocketing, and dozens of our shops have closed... The third girl went out, and her dowry was only thirty-six dollars, and she was laughed at by her sister-in-law. After a meal..."

"Farms, mulberry, salt, iron and fisheries, every government department, every yamen, they have to reach out everywhere... A while ago, I was the leader of Zhuo Jing... The local taxes are heavy..."

"Old Chen said one meat every three days, my family has one meat every seven days!"

"My big family has to kill 16 fat pigs every day to make enough shredded meat to fit between teeth! The price of soybeans, pork, rice and noodles on the market has skyrocketed... I can't afford it..."

Most of these businessmen are used to pretending to be poor, and when they talk, they forget about the awe they originally had for this occasion. They all shake their heads, frown, stroke their beards, slap the table, and shake their heads. The pain slipped out, making people think it was a disaster relief meeting for the poor.

The head of the Chen family, who was the first to cry out, had squinting triangular eyes, shaking his legs and picking at his teeth. He looked at Ning Yi and Feng Zhiwei above with a bit of contempt. They were just two young boys! Since you, Wei Zhi, know all our details clearly, you should know that my tiger head cannot be touched, old man!

He was thinking that if he embarrassed the chief envoy today, he couldn't push him too hard. He could just give him some benefits afterwards. Ten thousand taels or twenty thousand taels? It can’t be more than 30,000!

Ning Yi and Feng Zhiwei were drinking tea slowly at the same time. Both of them were a little strange today. Except that they had to use wine for toasting at the beginning, they did not touch the wine on the table afterwards and drank tea instead.

At this moment, Feng Zhiwei seemed to be concentrating on drinking tea, but the corner of her eyes glanced at Ning Yi, who was sitting there. Ning Yi paused while looking down at the tea, and nodded almost unnoticeably.

Although the two of them had too many entanglements, they always had a tacit understanding once they were exposed to the outside world. Feng Zhiwei caught this look, smiled slightly and turned away her eyes. Suddenly she felt something strange, as if there was something staring tightly at her back. When she came up, she turned her head and saw that everything was as usual. Feng Zhiwei looked calm and lowered her head to drink tea. She poured the tea quietly and looked at her from an angle on the horizontal plane. She saw that it was Qiu Yuluo who was looking at her.