In Liuzhou County, there are six major families, namely Zhao, Feng, Han, Chen, Wang, and Li.

These six families control almost half of the Liuzhou county town. In the past, they spoke better than the imperial court orders. Although their power suffered considerable losses after the new policy was issued, their power was still very powerful. After being controlled and kept for so many years, their secret strength was still extraordinary.

At this moment, in the Zhao family, the heads of the six families who were originally very hostile and could even be said to have a deep hatred of each other, had sat together for the first time. And looking at their familiar expressions, it was obviously not the first time such a gathering.

Zhao Tianye, the head of the Zhao family, who was sitting in the main seat, glanced at the few people and said slowly: "The news from our side must have been spread to the capital in the past few days. I think the censor will definitely send a censor to supervise when he comes to the capital."

"At this critical moment, I hope you can take care of your family affairs and not take any handle on the court."

"Don't worry, we have something important in our hearts."

Feng Wei, the head of the Feng family, nodded and said, "Just wait until the censor comes down, what should we do then? Do we really have to fight against the court to the end?"

"Have we ever fought against the court?"

Hearing Feng Wei's words, Zhao Tianye glanced at Feng Wei with some displeasure and said, "The court asked us to calm the price of food. We did as we did. The court told us not to hoard goods. We did as well. We did as well. Is it suitable to have ever fought against the court?"

"Haha, Lao Zhao said this well."

When Wang Jisi, the head of the Wang family, heard this, he couldn't help laughing, and then said, "We not only did not fight against the court, but also cooperated with the court to dress porridge outside the city. In my opinion, the court should also give me a reward."

"Ha, commendation."

Feng Wei looked at Wang Jisi coldly. Others don’t know what they have done in Liuzhou these days, but they don’t know what they have done in person.

They did these things to stabilize grain prices and sell grain, but after doing it, they just turned their left hand to the right hand. In the end, they bought their own people. The grain prices seemed to fluctuate, but in fact, there was grain in Liuzhou, and the price didn't seem to be high, but those ordinary people couldn't buy a grain of food even if they had money.

As for the porridge outside the city, it is even more ridiculous. There are many porridge sheds outside the city that they set up, but because it is private porridge, the servants in their house are the ones who maintain order.

In this case, except for the relatives of their servants, most of the people who can go to these porridge and drink porridge, except for their relatives, are some idle gangsters raised by them in Liuzhou City. People who really can't eat their porridge may not necessarily have one of the thousands of people who come to queue up.

So although they have made a fortune in their reputation, they have done nothing except pulling their backs.

It is precisely because of this that Feng Wei felt a little uncomfortable. He is pretty good on weekdays, but he probably can't say that his conscience is still gone, but he is not as unsatisfied as the rest of the companies.

The reason why he chose to join these families this time was entirely because the new policy was too ruthless, so he was a little unwilling to do so. After receiving the invitation from Zhao Tianye, he hesitated for a moment and joined. After all, five of the six major families have joined. If his Feng family does not join, he will be targeted by the other five families, and his Feng family will have a difficult life in the future.

But what he didn't expect was that Zhao Tianye's heart was so cruel. In order to confront the court, he almost ignored the lives and deaths of the victims.

Or in other words, Zhao Tianye wanted to use the lives of such disaster victims as bargaining chips to let the court see their strength and let the court know that the world is still inseparable from their aristocratic families, so as to force the court to make concessions.

But how did Feng Wei agree with this approach? On the one hand, he felt that Zhao Tianye was a bit too ruthless in doing this. On the other hand, it was because of such a disaster in Liuzhou. The court would definitely focus on this place. If he was caught, what was waiting for them would be a terrible ending.

Looking at Feng Wei's face, Zhao Tianye could guess his concerns and comforted him: "Don't think so much, and I don't want to do things so extreme, but the court is too much, and this is also a helpless move."

"It's better to check the land and prohibit slavery, but it's still limited the land. And we plan to apply the kindness order to us. This is clearly trying to cut off our foundation."

Speaking of this, Zhao Tianye looked at Feng Wei and said, "I think Mr. Feng doesn't want his family business that he has finally built in a hundred years, right?"

Zhao Tianye's words directly reached Feng Wei's heart. If it weren't for this, he wouldn't have sat with them. Therefore, he was silent for a long time before asking, "What will the head of the Zhao family be doing next?"

"Do more and more mistakes, we should not do anything at this time."

Zhao Tianye looked at the few people and said, "When the imperial censor arrived, I hope you don't do anything. No matter what request he made, we can do it "as much as possible" and don't have to fight against him."

"I just need to remind you, that is, don't think about bribing him!"

Speaking of this, Zhao Tianye looked at the people with a warning look and said, "No matter who the person is, since he can choose to be the censor at this time, it means that he must be deeply trusted by His Majesty."

"So I don't want you to have troubles, otherwise if you can't buy it, you'll take the initiative to give him a handle."

"clear."

Wang Jisi sighed and said, "Some officials are for money, some officials are for promotion, and it is really a bit troublesome to solve the problem of promotion."

If it were before, they would have a way to deal with it, whether it was for money or for officials, because there were many people in the court who had close ties with them, and it was not too difficult for them to help people get promoted.

But now it is not possible. The court has been cleaned up. Even if there are still people who have something to do with them, they have long cut off their connections. So now they have no influence on the court.

"Just understand."

Zhao Tianye knew that the patriarchs of these families were not stupid people, otherwise they would not have fought each other for so long.

But not being stupid does not mean that you won’t make a small mistake. After Zhao Tianye explained the matter, he turned to look at Wang Jisi again and said, “Master Wang, I heard that after the people you sent out bought the grain, he returned to the grain shop again?”

According to the plan agreed by several of their families, most of the purchased grains were used to open a porridge shed and prepare porridge. The remaining part was really too much to be consumed and destroyed on the spot instead of returning to the grain shop.

So when Zhao Tianye learned about this situation, he was very annoyed. At this time, his eyes were a little cold when he looked at Wang Jisi.

"This...is something really happening."

Wang Jisi's expression was a little embarrassed, but in his opinion, this was not a big deal. He did not deny it, but defended: "Doesn't I think it's a pity to destroy these foods directly?"

"No one can know anyway, so when the servants took them back, I didn't say anything."

"madness!"

Zhao Tianye suddenly scolded and said, "The grain in the grain shop has already been registered by the government. These things are all figured out. Now you transport the grain back and wait for the censor to check the accounts, have you ever thought about the consequences?"

"Just a little food, it should...it shouldn't be so?"

Wang Jisi, who was scolded by Zhao Tianye, had a little disgusting on his face. He said, "And, even if he was found, he could throw the grain shop to him, and he wouldn't be able to find my head."

"Take it out, you're so light."

Zhao Tianye snorted coldly and said, "Take the grain shop to him, do you know what he will find along the grain shop? Can you really guarantee that those who buy grain will not say anything when they enter the government office?"

After these two sentences, Wang Jisi's expression was a little ugly, obviously not knowing how to refute it. Zhao Tianye was unreasonable at this time. He slowed down a little tone and said, "Master Wang, this time is different from the past. This time we are not to make money, but to compete for profit with the court."

"If something goes a little wrong with this kind of thing, it will be the consequence of losing your head. I don't think you want to see this situation, right?"

Wang Jisi knew that he was in the wrong, so he didn't say anything more. He nodded slowly and said, "I understand. After I go back, I will ask them to deal with this batch of food."

"Since that's the case, I won't say much."

Zhao Tianye looked at everyone and said firmly: "As long as everyone handles the matter well, even if the censor comes, then we have no choice."

"This time, as long as we unite and wait for the imperial censor to come, we must let him know who has the final say in Liuzhou."

"Old Zhao's words are reasonable."

The other few people also agreed, "As long as we don't give him any handle, no matter who it is, we can't do anything to us in Liuzhou."

The few people plotted for a while and discussed the big and small matters in detail with the response plan. After the discussion, the few people dispersed.

After they all left, the butler who had been serving in the room spoke to Zhao Tianye, "Master, the attitude of the Feng family leader seems to be a little wandering."

"I know."

Zhao Tianye picked up the teacup casually, blew the tea leaves, and said disregardlessly: "A old guy Feng Wei, who usually hailed benevolence, righteousness and morality, has been doing a lifelong drama, and he really believes it."

"He didn't think about it. If the Feng family was truly benevolent, righteous and moral, how could the Feng family have more and more land, and how could the Feng family's house be bigger and bigger."

"Benevolence, righteousness and morality? What a joke."

"But, Master..."

The housekeeper hesitated and said, "If the head of Feng's family is in his current attitude, will there be any problems if the imperial censor arrives?"

"Of course."

Zhao Tianye gave an answer that surprised the housekeeper without hesitation. He looked at the surprised housekeeper and said lightly: "Do you believe it or not? When the imperial censor arrives, as long as the censor is not a fool and uses a little trick, Feng Wei will immediately turn against him?"

"this……"

The housekeeper was a little puzzled at this time. He looked at Zhao Tianye with some confusion and asked, "Head of the family, since you know this will happen, why do you still want to join the head of Feng?"

"So what if he turns against him?"

Zhao Tianye did not answer the butler's question, but asked back: "Have my Zhao family ever violated the law? He didn't have any handle on me. Even if he turned to the censor, what can the censor do to me?"

It is true that their six major families are local snakes in Liuzhou County, but they never do some really dirty things with their own hands. The various industries of the County City, even some gangs driven by them, have nothing to do with them on the surface.

Although they have taken a lot of money from these dark businesses over the years, they have handled it extremely cleanly. Even if they uprooted those forces, it is difficult to pursue them.

In addition, in order to deal with the court, they were ready to abandon those forces. The elderly people familiar with them in the industry were either replaced by them or directly silenced by them. Therefore, these people and these things were not involved in them at all.

Seeing that the housekeeper understood a little, Zhao Tianye then showed a confident smile and said, "I want Feng Wei to surrender to the Censor. If he doesn't surrender to the Censor, how could that Censor know what I did?"

"I want the censor to know that Liuzhou is the territory of my aristocratic family. Even if he is the censor of the court, if he wants to do things here, it depends on my face."

Speaking of this, Zhao Tianye said in a cold tone: "It would be fine if the censor was tactful. If he was not tactful, even if Feng Wei defected to him and our five families joined forces, I can make him unable to move in this Liuzhou!"

Zhao Tianye’s goal at the beginning of this time was the imperial censor. It was only his way to drag the imperial court back. His real purpose was to lead the imperial censor and let the imperial censor see the true power of their aristocratic families, so that the imperial court knew that these aristocratic families were not those untouchables that they could control.

Even when they are legal and compliant, they have countless means to control the situation in Liuzhou.

However, those southern families, in his opinion, are all idiots. They dare to directly raise the banner and rebel, which is really a way out.

However, then again, the reason why the aristocratic families in the south rebelled was entirely because the southern counties were different from the northern ones. The capital was far away and the power of the court was far beyond reach, so the other side was dominated by the whole family, so the strength of a county could be easily gathered.

However, these aristocratic families in the north are completely divided. Within a county, at least three or five aristocratic families compete with each other, at most six or seven, and they are basically inconsistent with each other. Therefore, even if they want to gather forces to rebel directly, it is not realistic.

But it doesn't matter. Even if they don't rebel on the surface, they have countless means to prevent the implementation of the new policy. This Liuzhou disaster is just a great opportunity.

Thinking of this, Zhao Tianye showed disdain, "Hmph, court."

"Isn't the county magistrate Cao Yanqing just a decoration in this county town? What is the court?"
Chapter completed!