Empress, you don't want to be thrown into limbo by your father, do you?

"Many people in Lin'an City are waiting to meet His Highness, do you see?"

In Fang's mansion, Mr. Fang personally accompanied him, and at the same time made an exception for his daughter-in-law and daughter to sit at the same table.

On the surface it is informal, but in fact the reason behind it is now well understood by everyone in Fangfu.

They didn't dare to say anything more, after all, just yesterday a few servants were ordered to be beaten to death by Mr. Fang because they discussed this matter in private yesterday, and they were thrown directly into the Shentang of Qiantang River.

"Is it for the purpose of doing business with foreigners?"

Li Changshou savored the cooking skills of Fangfu's cooks. To be honest, he was a little bit moved by eating some Jiangnan cuisine now that he was used to the taste of the capital.

In his previous life, he was from the south of the Yangtze River. In fact, his taste is more inclined to the cuisines in front of him. The cooks in the capital can't say that their skills are too bad, but he just can't get used to them.

"Your Highness is wise, there are a few families that have some friendship with our Fang family, so the old man wants to ask His Highness for mercy."

Mr. Fang is a fine person, and he can take the initiative to ask Li Changshou for favors. How could it be as simple as friendship behind it?
People like him don't get up early without benefit!
If there is no benefit, you will never take a risk to speak up.

"The Department of the Imperial City has found out that there are people from foreign countries who are secretly buying and selling arms. Does Mr. Fang know?"

Accompanied by two charming beauties beside Li Changshou, one is Fang Rou and the other is Zhuang Die'er. The two women are actually not used to this kind of occasion, so let's not talk about it in private. They are still in front of Mr. Fang in public. .

However, this meal was hosted by Mr. Fang on his own initiative, so the two girls could only accompany them with blushing faces.

"Your Highness, calm down!"

Mr. Fang immediately fell to his knees in panic and panic.

Li Changshou was the only one in the past hundred years to treat the Fang clan head who could cover the sky with one hand in Lin'an Prefecture and even the three counties in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Mr. Fang doesn't have to be like this. He only cares about Rou'er and Die'er's face. As long as the Fang family doesn't go too far, there are some things that you can just turn a blind eye to."

What did the Fang family do?
Can it scare Mr. Fang like this?
It's very simple. The Fang family secretly sold the swords and weapons controlled by the imperial court as commodities to a foreign businessman at a high price through Admiral Lu who had been executed.

"But Mr. Fang should know that the imperial court is extremely strict in the management of ordnance, especially the imperial standard weapons are not allowed to be used for other purposes. Your Fang family was very courageous before!"

Li Changshou almost didn't have to do it himself, Fang Rou and Zhuang Die'er poured the wine and helped with the vegetables.

It was a good picture of hugging from left to right, but looking at Mr. Fang who was kneeling on the ground with cold sweat on his forehead, Li Changshou's voice turned cold, "If the royal father finds out about this, what does Mr. Fang think will be the result? "

Mr. Fang swallowed, how could he not know?
However, the Fang family is not the only one who does this kind of thing. The Dagan Dynasty seems to be thriving and prosperous, but in fact, every place is riddled with holes, especially the aristocratic families in those places are completely Tuhuang.

Few imperial court officials can suppress it, whether it is a county guard or a higher-ranking governor of the state, not to mention suppressing aristocratic families, most of them are in the same boat as the aristocratic families.

"Your Highness, calm down! Your Highness, calm down!"

On the surface, Mr. Fang looked nervous and hesitant, with cold sweat breaking out on his forehead, but he was not that panicked in his heart. He had already seen Li Changshou's temper.

If you really want to attack someone, you won't talk nonsense at all, just like sending someone to kill Admiral Lu on the spot!

If you want to attack the Fang family, will you come to the banquet?

Not to mention that the Fang family paid a very high price to benefit Li Changshou!
"Gu said, for the sake of Rou'er and Die'er, Gu treats the Fang family as his own, so don't make an exception!"

Li Changshou put his arms around one of them, and his calm tone seemed to be just beating, not asking for a crime.

"Thank you, Your Highness, I will definitely discipline you strictly, and I won't make things difficult for Your Highness!"

Mr. Fang kowtowed to thank him, while Li Changshou nodded, "Get up."

It's just that, as a result, Mr. Fang couldn't continue to beg for favors for several aristocratic families in Lin'an City, so he could only think about how to explain to them.

After all, all the benefits have been taken, and now things have not been done.

"How much sincerity did they show?"

How could Li Changshou be unclear, so he asked casually.

Mr. Fang immediately replied, "Those families are willing to donate [-]% of their annual harvest to His Highness as a sincere gift."

Originally, these benefits were for the Fang family.

But as a smart person, those benefits may increase the Fang family's wealth by more than ten or 20 yuan a year, but compared to Li Changshou's backer, it seems insignificant.

"Thirty percent!"

"Your Highness is this?"

"Let them take out [-]% and give [-]% to your Fang family."

Why don't you make money when you have money? Those aristocratic families are all very rich, and at the same time they don't have a penny. Li Changshou is going to let them bleed a lot and take out part of the profits.

Otherwise, after the recruitment is over, the expenditure of tens of thousands or even one hundred thousand troops in the future will not be a small sum.

Does he need to exchange points for money from the system to support him?

How can that be done!

Points can be exchanged for money, and it is acceptable for an emergency. Isn't he a blood loss if he does this all the year round?
Compared with system points, money has no meaning in his eyes other than raising soldiers for thousands of days.

"In addition, how many weapons, armor and food were sold before, and I gave them a month to spit them all out! If it can be done, then I can let the past go, otherwise!"

Li Changshou didn't continue, he also wanted to kill two birds with one stone this time.

In addition to forcing [Princess] into a corner, the other side also took this opportunity to continue beating those aristocratic families.

He was not afraid of those big families not submitting, unless they directly rebelled or sent someone to kill him.

Otherwise, you can only obediently spit things out.

"Your Highness, this matter..."

"difficult?"

Fang's family was also among them, Mr. Fang was in distress.

Those weapons, armor and even food and grass were sold long ago, and all of them were exchanged for gold, silver, jewelry and wealth. Now if they spit it out, wouldn't that be embarrassing?
Food and grass are fine, as long as there is money, Jiangnan is rich anyway, and it can be done by spending some time collecting grain at high prices in the three counties of Jiangnan.

But those weapons and armors were all secretly transported out of the army camp in collusion with the dead Admiral Lu. Few people among the people can make so many weapons and armors!

Li Changshou didn't care how the Fang family and others fulfilled his request.

After drinking for three rounds, Fang Rou and Zhuang Die'er directly went to the backyard to rest.

No one in the Fang family dared to say more, or even took it for granted.

After Li Changshou left, Mr. Fang frowned. At this moment, someone was sneaking around.

"What's up?"

"Grandpa, did your Highness and my mother go to rest?"

Fang Chen walked in with a grin. Hearing his nonsense, Mr. Fang rolled his eyes, but some things were the result of his acquiescence or even deliberate push.

"I went down to rest with your mother and your aunt. You have been with His Highness these two days, have you made any progress?"

For the only grandson of the Fang family, Mr. Fang also hated iron for being weak. The reason why he allowed his daughter-in-law and daughter to be taken over by Li Changshou was in the final analysis because he wanted to take this opportunity to train his grandson.

Fang Chen chuckled when he heard the words, "His Royal Highness asked me to tell my grandfather that the matter of food, grass and weapons should be handled by my grandson."

"Your Highness really said that?"

Mr. Fang was a little surprised and disbelieving. Of course, this is also a good thing, at least it proves that his grandson has been reused.

But my family knows that Fang Chen has nothing to do except eating, drinking and having fun.

Will such an important matter be entrusted to him?

"Grandpa, if you don't believe me, you can wait for His Highness, my mother and aunt to wake up and ask to find out!"

Seeing that his grandfather didn't believe it, Fang Chen couldn't help muttering.

Immediately, Mr. Fang coughed heavily, "What nonsense!"

"There are no outsiders around. Your Highness has a relationship with my mother and aunt. Who doesn't know at home now?"

"You bastard!"

"Am I wrong? It must be my mother and aunt's credit that Your Highness entrusted me with this kind of matter."

Seeing his grandson's expression of complacency and complacency without the slightest bit of shame, Mr. Fang didn't know whether to be angry or relieved for a moment.

The ignorant bastard who used to be is finally a bit smart now, but this smartness always makes people feel... crooked?
"That's all, that's all, since His Highness entrusts you to handle it, then you should get the matter done seriously, and don't disappoint your mother and your aunt's cultivation of you."

Some things are hard to get over.

Mr. Fang can only let nature take its course, and because of this relationship, the Fang family will only benefit more in the future.

"Grandson understands! Grandpa don't worry!"

"I hope you really understand."

"Just now, you were always worried that the things His Highness explained would not be easy to handle?"

"Since His Highness has mentioned this matter to you, you should know the difficulties in it."

The old man did not hide it, and he really wanted to take this opportunity to let Fang Chen grow up. The latter nodded after listening: "Grandson knows that food and grass can be bought at a high price, and it will only cause a little blood for our Fang family and the others. .”

"But weapons and armor are difficult to deal with, unless the foreign merchants are arrested and forced to spit out their things."

When young people do things, they are wild!
After hearing this, Mr. Fang blew his beard and stared, and scolded, "What nonsense are you talking about? How can our Fang family be trusted in the future? Who else would do business with our Fang family or even the entire Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce?"

The principle of killing the chicken and taking the eggs is the worst policy for businessmen.

As a last resort, there will never be such a choice.

"Of course the grandson knows, so the grandson has an idea."

"Oh? You talk about it."

"Grandpa, you are confused. Have you forgotten that the Zhuang family owns several mines, and most of the blacksmith shops in the south of the Yangtze River are owned by the Zhuang family?"

Weapon armor requires a large amount of metal ores, especially iron ore, copper ore and coal.

The Fang family doesn't have it, but someone has it!
That's the dealer!
"You mean?"

"The Zhuang family is related to our Fang family by marriage. Grandpa only needs your proposal for this matter. By the way, let my mother come forward to inform my grandfather. In addition, this matter is His Highness's request. If you want to come to the Zhuang family, you will not refuse, right?"

Fang Chen giggled, but Mr. Fang looked embarrassed.

After thinking about it, he even paced back and forth, and then murmured: "This is not appropriate. It is a felony for the people to forge weapons and armor privately. If the number is small, it can be covered up, but the current number..."

Several aristocratic families secretly resold at least tens of thousands of weapons and armor before, and now it is too big for them to spit them all out!

"Grandpa, you are still confused!"

"What do you mean?"

"You always think about it, who is behind this?"

Fang Chen guided from the side, "It's Your Highness, and His Highness is going to Jiangnan by order, which means that everything you do is approved by His Majesty!"

"Furthermore, Grandpa has forgotten that His Highness is recruiting soldiers and buying horses this time. With so much money, wouldn't it be a joke when we have soldiers and horses but no weapons and armor?"

Mr. Fang had a flash of inspiration, "You mean?"

"It's just what grandpa thinks!"

Fang Chen nodded heavily, he is reckless now, and wants to do something!
The hard work and sacrifice of his mother and aunt can't be wasted!