Chapter 262 It’s both right and wrong
Chang Xin walked out of the gate of the Protectorate with some disappointment.
He knows very well that once something starts, it is difficult to stop.
When the snowball first starts rolling, it is just a small weight, but as long as it keeps rolling, and as long as you have the strength, it is possible to roll it into the size of a mountain.
The business competition has not yet begun, and it is not certain who will win or lose, but the rift in the Chang family has already begun.
As soon as the news of the family separation came out, the ninth room jumped out impatiently.
With the first one, is the second one still far behind?
But I couldn't stop it.
Obviously, Li Dachui regarded this incident as the beginning and a typical example of the split of the Chang family. He would not tolerate anyone destroying this incident.
A familiar shadow flashed in the corner of his eyes, and Chang Xin suddenly looked up.
It was indeed Chang Wei.
He was lowering his head, hunching his shoulders, turning around and trying to hide in the corner of the street.
"Twelfth brother!" Chang Xin roared and strode towards Chang Wei.
Seeing that he could not escape, Chang Wei, who was in his early thirties, walked over with his head lowered.
"Old Twelve, how have the Chang family ever failed you?" Chang Xin looked at the other party bitterly: "Are you so impatient to separate the family? Think about it for yourself, your parents died young, Who allowed you to grow up with no worries? Who nurtured you to become a talented person? Are you still a person despite being ungrateful?
Chang Wei slowly stood up straight, unfolded his hunched shoulders, and straightened his chest. His brows and eyes were still a little shrinking, but they slowly became stunned as Chang Xin accused him.
"Brother, how did my parents die?" Chang Wei said coldly: "They died fighting for the Chang family. Yes, it was indeed the Chang family who raised me, let me study, and taught me Xueyi, but brother, how much of the property my parents left to me is left now?”
“For decades, poor management and bankruptcy are common occurrences! The family has no shortage of money for you, when have you ever been wronged because of money?" Chang Xin said angrily.
"Yes, a little bit of money!" Chang Wei said with a smile: "And over the years, brother, how much money have I made for the Chang family? The wine produced by our ninth house is the only one outside the customs. In the Yuan Dynasty, Guan Nei even sold as far as Nanchu, with tens of thousands of kilograms of it every year. But how much did our ninth house get? The third brother collected wine from us, and the price was so high that he wanted to sell it to the ground. Go out, how much is the profit? Do you really want to bully me?”
“You also know how big the Chang family is. Why does the money go to the clan? Lao Twelve, can you feel at ease? The reason why I make wine at home is because the Chang family is here, otherwise, even your life would be a luxury! ”
Chang Wei nodded: "Now I can live and make wine without relying on you. Brother, I won't hide it from you. It was Li Duhu who I found. Xuanwei County itself has a lot of grapes. Duhu The government gave me another 10,000 acres of land, and I will go there to make wine. There are people in the Duhu government who specialize in marketing, and they only take 40% of the profits!"
"Twelve brothers, think about it carefully! , If the skin is gone, how can Mao Jiang be attached? After leaving the Chang family, will Li Dachui and the others still value you as much as they do now? He just wants to divide us!"
Chang Wei shook his head: "That's not the case. , Brother, I don’t want to leave for a day or two, it’s none of Li Duhu’s business. Who am I in the Chang family? My status is not even as good as the housekeepers in the old house. When I go back to my old house, I have to look at their faces. It makes me feel that my surname is Chang and I have status. I can only enter the ancestral hall during the days when I worship my ancestors. Normally, I am like your eldest brother, you. "
Chang Xin stepped forward and took Chang Wei's hand: "Twelfth brother, it was my fault in the past. I didn't pay attention to your feelings. Come back, what you want, Brother, I can give it to you!"
Chang Wei smiled and got rid of Chang Xin's hand: "Brother, my uncle often teaches us that a gentleman's words are hard to follow, and if you don't keep your word, you don't know what it means. But! Now that I have made a decision and agreed to Li Duhu’s conditions, there is no reason to go back on it.”
Seeing Chang Wei striding into the Duhu Mansion, Chang Xin's face became gloomy little by little.
The departure of Ninth Fang is another heavy blow to the Chang family.
Li Dachui said it right. With the emergence of large markets outside the customs and the competition of free trade, those places led by Tai'an City that have gone very far in commerce will quickly defeat the Chang family. manor economy.
The wine production that Ninth Fang has been responsible for is not easily affected, and this business is also one of the most profitable businesses of the Chang family.
But this business has too many human factors.
It can be said that with the departure of Chang Wei's Ninth Fang, the Chang family's business has basically come to an end.
Hundreds of thousands of coins disappear every year.
Chang Wei’s departure will inevitably bring about a demonstration effect.
Many of the Chang family's businesses and industries are in the hands of those side houses.
Once they leave one after another, the Chang family will really be scattered.
If the people's hearts are lost, there will be no way to lead the team.
We must find a way to stop this wave of exodus. Chang Wei’s incident must not happen again.
My father was promoted to Xiantian and officially handed over the Chang family to him. He would never let the Chang family fall into his hands.
Looking at Chang Wei's back, Chang Xin took a deep breath, turned around, mounted his horse, and rode away.
“Don’t regret it?” Li Dachui looked at Chang Wei in the Duhu Mansion. "I don't regret it, I'm just afraid that my eldest brother will send someone to kill me!" Chang Wei said: "If he can do it, if I die, the Ninth House will naturally not be separated. Protector, once our Ninth House leaves, The highest craftsmanship of brewing has gone with us.”
"He doesn't dare!" Li Dachui said calmly: "Chang Wei, go to Xuanwei and work hard. In the future, the wine you brew can be sold in large quantities to the Jiangnan area. Now there is civil strife in the Yuan Dynasty and the civil strife in the Qin Dynasty. But things are booming in the south. In the past, the wine your Chang family sold there was pitiful. From now on, we can sell it there in large quantities. We can sell as much as you brew! You will make a fortune! "
"Go by water?"
"Of course!" Li Dachui smiled: "Now that we have opened the sea route from Danyang to Xuanwu, trade between the two places has begun vigorously. , I call it the Maritime Silk Road. In fact, it is the Yuan and Qin countries. We also have good channels to sell. No matter how chaotic the world is, those who should enjoy it will still be able to enjoy it and suffer. It's just ordinary people. And ordinary people basically can't afford the wine you make."
Chang Wei nodded: "Compared to cheap green ant wine, wine is indeed better. Too expensive.”
"Go ahead, grow grapes and make wine well. Maybe in a few years, we people outside the customs will be able to buy a jar of the wine you brewed and drink it!"
"I'm afraid. It’s hard!”
“What’s so hard about it? Even if you can’t afford it, it’s okay to buy a can during the holidays. You can make your own wine and improve the production and quality. As for whether the people can afford it, that’s my business.”
Li Dachui stayed in Qingtongxia, thinking about how to demolish it! There are many local powerful families like the Chang family, and families similar to the Chang family but weaker than the Chang family outside the customs.
This is mainly due to the special local characteristics of Guanwai in the past.
With years of war and constant banditry, everyone could only form villages and build forts to protect themselves. Slowly, families formed one after another, and everyone stayed together to keep warm.
Now that Li Dachui wants to split up, it is indeed not an easy task.
These families, unlike the Yan family, gave Li Dachui and Xiao Changche a real reason to collude with the Yuan people.
Many of these forts and villages outside the Pass actually buy neither the Qin people nor the Yuan people.
The main character is a person who takes a dim view of life and death, and will do it if he doesn’t accept it.
As for whether you can win or not, that depends on what you do.
The people outside the customs are tough.
But now these forts have become the biggest obstacle to Li Dachui's control of the outside world.
What kind of laws and rules are almost zero in these Wubao villages. They are the clan and the parents who have the final say.
And this is exactly what Li Dachui cannot tolerate.
If everyone does this, where will the tax come from? Where did the soldiers come from? How to form a big market? How to knead the outside world into a whole, how to form the greatest resultant force in the shortest time?
The visible walls of these Wubao plugs don't matter, but the invisible wall they have against the government is something Li Dachui wants to smash.
Courtesy first, then attack.
Zhang Ruo, the supervisor, doesn't have much to do now. He just happens to be a lobbyist who travels around the countryside. Besides how many dates he has, there should be many discerning people in these villages and forts. If If you can convince a few, then you have an example.
In the end, those who insist on fighting will have no choice but to use the knife.
In fact, what Li Dachui really wants is only the common people below. As for the leaders, the best are dead.
These things are much more difficult than fighting.
When fighting, you can do anything to win, and no one will criticize you.
But in politics, sometimes you really have to be a bitch and build a memorial arch.
You are not thick-skinned enough and your psychological quality is not strong enough, so you really can't do such a thing.
Anyway, Xiao Changche can’t do it.
She has always paid no attention to these things. When Li Dachui was scratching his head and thinking about it, she was patrolling along the Qingtong Gorge and Yezhu Ridge. By the way, she also took care of some stragglers who were still resisting on this line. Got it sorted.
The Qin Dynasty lost these places for thirty years, so most of the people around this line considered themselves to be Yuan people, even if they looked like they were Qin people from appearance.
Now that the Yuan people have left, those who stayed behind are still quite wary of the Qin army. It is a long and arduous task to get them to return.
The reason why Qingtongxia and Yezhuling are important is because these two places maintain a commanding advantage over the outside of the pass and can use their geographical advantages to launch attacks on the areas outside the pass at any time.
Now that these two places have been taken back, the Qin army has a support point and is no longer as passive as in the past.
(End of this chapter)