Chapter 26 The Dust Is Initially Settled, and the Wind and Rain Are Coming
into the night.
Zhuang Ming has returned to Qianlong Villa.
On this day, there was indeed some turmoil in Zhuang's firm.
Under Song Tianyuan's arrangement, the Song family in Xuancheng had saved up for half a year, prepared both light and dark, and launched an overnight attack.
Even if he was prepared, he felt a little exhausted.
However, at this moment, the outcome has been decided, and the situation has been decided.
Zhuang Ming had predicted that Song Tianyuan's planned offensives would be followed one by one.
Although the Zhuang's firm was also damaged, and it would continue to cause some damage from today onwards, he still won in the end.
The Song family in Xuancheng collapsed, Song Tianyuan was dead, and he returned to Qianlong Villa to calm down the subsequent turmoil by himself.
After this time, some potential threats and hidden dangers hidden in the dark that were unfavorable to Zhuang's firm also surfaced under Song Tianyuan's instigation.
Now most of the accidents have been eliminated, and the remaining families are also kept in his heart, so there is nothing to worry about.
After this, most of the hidden dangers have disappeared, and the relationship between Zhuang's Commercial Bank and each city and each family should become more and more close.
From another perspective, the foundation has been further stabilized.
This time mobilizing teachers and mobilizing people can be regarded as a big success.
However, for him, the biggest victory is not to defeat the Song family in Xuancheng, nor to stabilize the foundation in the Sixteen Mansions of Huai'an, but to buy the Baishen Pot easily with silver taels!
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Huai'an Mansion, Fengcheng.
Zhongwang Mountain, Qianlong Villa.
"This Gu Dao vessel is almost mature."
Zhuang Ming looked at Baishen in the room with a little eagerness in the depths of his eyes.
As long as this Baishen Pot is used well, in terms of effectiveness, it can be worth ten years of hard work in nurturing it day and night.
But judging from the current situation, there may be three or two months before raising Dacheng.
But Zhuang Ming is familiar with all kinds of classics, there are many fragments of ancient books, and most of them have other skills.
He got a prescription at the beginning of last year. It is a folk recipe lost by the folks. It can promote the growth of poultry. After it was confirmed to be effective last year, he has spent 80,000 taels to build chicken coops and raise chickens in various cities in Huai'an. He has benefited a lot. .
And this prescription has little effect on beasts, but it is equally effective on insects and the like.
In fact, deducing such a prescription is naturally not difficult for Gu Taoists.
But in this way, it is inevitable to backfire.
For practitioners who drive Gu worms, Gu worms are sharp weapons in their hands, and Gu worms formed by pulling out seedlings are not enough heat, less fierce, not strong enough, just like the blade is not sharp enough, it is a big taboo.
But Zhuang Ming didn't have any scruples in this regard, he just wanted to raise a Gu worm to raise dragons and use it as medicine, not to control the Gu worm and drive it for use.
"My lord, the medicine you ordered is already on the way and will arrive in the evening." Bai Lao came forward and said.
"Okay." Zhuang Ming nodded. He built a large number of chicken coops and raised chickens, and made a lot of profits. It was because of the birth of this medicine that the chickens grew faster and could be raised earlier, so he also agreed with this. It is quite confidential, from the collection of medicinal materials to the preparation of this medicine, it is made in three places separately before it is sent to the chicken coop and mixed with chicken food for feeding.
"In addition, the corpses of Song Tianyuan and his subordinates have been disposed of." Bai Lao offered some things, put them on the table, and said, "This is Song Tianyuan's stuff."
"This is his bottom slip in Anzhuang?" Zhuang Ming took the bottom piece of paper and chuckled lightly.
"Exactly." Bai Lao said: "Before this old slave thought, he should not carry tens of thousands of taels with him, how Anzhuang would let him out, now I finally understand."
"This fellow thinks that with the Jade God Flower, he'll be sure of me, and he will be able to swindle me out of a large sum of money." Zhuang Ming laughed and said, "If he sells it directly to An Zhuang, he can earn five hundred taels at most. From then on, no matter how high my bid is, it will be owned by Anzhuang... But he thinks that he has won me and can cheat me out of a lot of silver, so it is impossible to give all the money to Anzhuang, but to make another deal with Anzhuang. This kind of transaction is that after a successful sale, he will get 80% of the proceeds and give 20% to the Anzhuang. This time he was detained by the Anzhuang, so he only needs to show the receipt and give 20% to the Anzhuang. At this point , I had expected it."
"By the way, young master." Bai Lao pointed to another object and said, "What is this thing?"
"this……"
Zhuang Ming reached out to take it with a strange expression.
This is a jade order with holes pierced at the top and tied with a colorful rope.
In the middle of the jade order, there is a eight trigrams engraved, which is divided into yin and yang.
He paused for a moment and exhaled. Although he was a little surprised when he saw this token, it was not surprising that Song Tianyuan's city mansion was appreciated by traveling overseas and that he was awarded this token.
"An entry order to a mysterious sect overseas."
"Mysterious sect? Entrance order?" Bai Lao was taken aback.
"Don't worry, this sect issues tokens like this every year, if not 10,000, there are 8,000. Those who get this token are only registered disciples, it doesn't matter at all."
"There is such a sect?" Bai Lao asked in astonishment, "So weird?"
"This sect is good at reasoning, so it pays attention to comprehension. The disciples they taught in the mountain gate must have extraordinary roots and intelligence since childhood, but there are also many wise and wise people outside. Therefore, a hundred years ago, there were also It is a saying that recruits wise people from the outside world and accepts them as disciples of the outer sect."
Zhuang Ming put down the token and said: "The registered disciples, if they can find the mountain gate according to the traces on the token, they can be counted as disciples of the outer sect. At that time, secrets will be awarded, and the best ones will be selected to enter the inner sect. The three are true disciples."
"Song Tianyuan is overseas, got this opportunity?" Bai Lao was a little stunned.
"It should be like this." Zhuang Ming said with a smile: "His eyes are higher than the top, and he is extremely conceited. When he walked out of the Dongsheng Dynasty and came into contact with the overseas world, he thought that the Dongsheng Dynasty was nothing more than a region, just a mere region. The pond, and he is the dragon who walked out of the pond, and now he returns to the pond, and he is just returning home, looking down on you and me, fish and shrimp."
Song Tianyuan was extremely conceited, thinking that he was beyond the heaven and earth of the Dongsheng Dynasty, so he looked down on everything, even the richest man in the sixteen prefectures of Huai'an, he was not taken seriously.
Looking at it now, Song Tianyuan must have known a wider world and got this token again.
The reason why he returned to the Dongsheng Dynasty must be that he felt that he was going to go higher, so he returned to his hometown first, not only to appreciate the elegance of his hometown for the last time, but also to learn the mystery of the token in his hometown.
Perhaps in Song Tianyuan's eyes at first, this game with Zhuang's firm was just a random game of chess in his life, which was not worth mentioning.
It's just that he didn't expect that he was too conceited. After all, he capsized in the "gutter" of the pond in his hometown, and even his life fell into it.
But at this moment, Shuang Ling came in with soup, just hearing these words.
"Master, I appreciate him a lot." Shuang Ling put down the soup, smiled with eyes like crescent moons, and said, "But no matter how resourceful he is, he was defeated by Master. He is a dragon in the pond, but Master True dragon."
"There are actually many reasons why Song Tianyuan was defeated by me. It's not because I'm smarter than him." Zhuang Ming shook his head slightly and said, "In the past few months, facing this opponent, I am really It was difficult to sleep or eat, and it was not until yesterday, after his death, that he breathed a sigh of relief."
This time the Song family in Xuancheng launched an attack, Song Tianyuan had planned this strategy for a long time.
When making the plan, maybe Song Tianyuan calculated it three or five times out of caution, and only after confirming that it is correct can the plan be made.
But he was different.
He tried his best to search for clues, and he had to keep calculating all the clues he got, over and over again, for fear of missing something, which would become the fatal key.
Just like this over and over again, thinking about everything, until I exhausted all the flaws that I could think of with all my intelligence, and made up for it, I dared to really make a plan to deal with it.
Over the years, the reason why Zhuang Ming was able to defeat those old foxes in the sixteen mansions of Huai'an was not that he was smarter than these people, but that he was more cautious and focused.
Both Shuang Ling and Bai Lao believed that their young master had no plans left, unparalleled resourcefulness, and was far superior to Song Tianyuan.
But he didn't know that when Song Tianyuan was playing chess with the old Patriarch Song, Zhuang Ming was thinking about how to use tricks.
When Song Tianyuan was drinking tea and cultivating his sentiments, he was also thinking about how to use tricks.
When Song Tianyuan was practicing riding and archery and martial arts, he was also thinking about how to use tricks.
"Song Tianyuan can be regarded as a character, but he is too conceited and difficult to subdue."
Zhuang Ming sighed softly, poured a glass of wine, sprinkled it lightly on the token, and said in his heart: "I don't know how much time and time it took for you to plan and plan for my Zhuang's firm. Energy, but I must have spent more time and energy than you, thinking about what kind of strategy you will use, and even more thinking about how I should deal with your strategy."
"Actually, I may not be smarter than you, but I still lack two healthy legs compared to you, so I am not as versatile as you, but I am more focused than you, focusing on conspiracy and tricks!"
"You are excellent at chess, excellent at tea, and proficient in riding and archery, and your swordsmanship is also considered superb."
"But I'm different, I'm a cripple."
"That's why I can win."
Thinking like this, he took the silk scarf again and wiped the token clean, as if to erase the traces of Song Tianyuan.
In fact, he had indeed considered before, subduing Song Tianyuan for his own use, but this person was too ambitious to subdue.
As for letting the tiger go back to the mountain, it is even more impossible.
Even though the overall situation has been settled and the Song family is defeated, Song Tianyuan is indeed no ordinary person. He is ruthless, uses vicious schemes, and when it comes to shortcomings, he is the only one to bear.
If he is frustrated this time, defeated by himself, wears his heart out, restrains his arrogance, and subsides his conceit, he will become more gloomy, and if he specializes in scheming, he will become very scary.
Even without the Song family in Xuancheng, Song Tianyuan, who specializes in scheming, will inevitably become a serious problem.
So Zhuang Ming would rather break his promise than keep him.
Looking at it now, with this Tai Chi seal, if Song Tianyuan survived, he might indeed become a real serious problem.
Fortunately, now, everything has been settled.
Song Tianyuan finally died.
It's just that the troubles left behind are not small.
"The king with a different surname has already crossed the Huai River."
Bai Qing came to report and said in a low voice, "In three days, I will enter Huai'an."
Zhuang Ming said flatly: "Follow my instructions before, just make preparations first."
Having said that, he reached into his sleeve, stroked the young dragon's head, looked at the Baishen Pot, and said, "Don't disturb me for the past two days."