Shen Mingwen rolled dozens of people, and hit the stairs curve like a rolling Cuju several times, then changed direction and continued to roll. Finally, he fell heavily on the ground on the first floor, and the person lay there motionless. Because he had been beaten up before, his head and face were covered with blood, he didn't know if he was fainting or dead now.

When Shen Mingwen shouted, the guests who came out to watch the fun were a little surprised because they didn't understand the truth. When Shen Mingwen rolled down the stairs, there was an uproar in Huaiyang Tower.

Su Tong squeezed forward from the crowd and looked at Shen Mingwen who fell downstairs, and was furious: "Your Huaiyang Tower is just a place for people to enjoy, and you dare to hurt people's lives. Do you really ignore the king's law?"

The camedy had a sneer on her face, and she waved her hand and slapped Su Tong on the face. With a "pop", a red handprint appeared clearly on Su Tong's left cheek.

Su Tong was stunned and came to visit the Fengyue place. Even if the old man in the official office was polite and flattering to him, he had never seen such a cruel and vicious Qing|Lao Lao|Bao Maple.

A lowly old brothel who is in a place of love and mist, actually dares to hit customers!?

The queen gave her slim waist and said sternly: "If you have the ability, go and sue the government and see if the government accepts it! Hurry up and carry your people away. People die in my Huaiyang Tower. I think it's dirty to me... What do you think? It's not your business, go back for a banquet!"

The old man turned around and shouted at the guests. Many people came into contact with her eyes, but they lowered their heads and went back to the room obediently. This scene was something Shen Xi did not expect. He thought that his party was a foreigner, so he was despised and insulted by his mom, but it didn't seem like that now. Even the local guests in Fuzhou did not get the mom's good face.

Shen Xi didn't bother to think about it, so he quickly followed Su Tong and others downstairs to check Shen Mingwen's condition. He was sure that Shen Mingwen had a breath, so he felt a little relieved.

Everyone lifted the person up with all their strength, but was blocked by the people from Huaiyang Tower at the door, asking them to leave through the back door, and they had to settle the accounts before leaving, with a lot of expenses and compensation.

As a result, the man was beaten in vain. He didn't spare a penny, and Su Tong paid a lot of compensation.

Shen Xi finally understood why Xi Jinping didn't accept compensation and settle the matter. Since he could beat people and get compensation, why should he bear that tone?

When Shen Mingwen was sent to the doctor, the doctor saw the injury. Su Tong and Shen Xi went out, and his hand touched the part of the cheek that had just been beaten.

Shen Xi sighed: "We were wrong, but we were at fault first, but we didn't expect that the people in Huaiyang Tower were so domineering. Aren't they afraid that the guests will no longer visit and will go to another house?"

Su Tong was still scared and said, "She is not afraid. Brother Shen, you don't know anything. I heard that this wedding lady is the adopted daughter of Fang Guan, the commander of Fujian Metropolitan Commander. She relied on her adoptive father to support her. She bought the contracts for girls with a slightly beautiful appearance in the city. Even the women in the official office could not welcome guests normally, but wanted to go to her Huaiyang Building to laugh with others."

Shen Xi didn't expect that "godfather" and "goddaughter" are popular these days. If you say that this wedding girl is nearly forty years old and looks just like a fair face. But she has a charm in her bones, and she should be able to win the love of an old man. Besides, even if she can't be favored, she is mother Sang, and she has a group of girls under her hands, and she has all kinds of beauty. She can also win the love of her godfather.

"She has an official background and has a group of thugs in the local area. She has a lot of bullying and dominating the market on weekdays. Even more than half of the shops in Fuzhou City have to pay filial piety to her every year. In addition to Huaiyang Tower, she also has more than a dozen gambling workshops, prostitutes, and wine shops in this city. Do you think such people can afford to provoke?"

When Chen Xi heard this, he took a deep breath. This is not a fair woman who runs Qin|Louchu Pavilion. She is simply a domineering place, and the head of the elder sister on the road.

Chen Xi understood that this time it was really hard to make Su Tong. Even though he knew that Xi Jinping was not easy to mess with, he took the initiative to stand up for Shen Mingwen, but was beaten in vain.

How shameless it is to be a scholar who was slapped by an old brothel in the face in public! But Su Tong took the responsibility down.

Chen Xi felt very guilty: "It's all my fault. If I didn't bring my uncle out, there would be no so many things."

Su Tong smiled and comforted, "How can you blame Brother Shen? Or Uncle Shen... He just drank a few more glasses. If you were in Qinglou, Tingzhou Prefecture, let alone go up and take a few glasses of wine, even if you carry it into the room? But in Fuzhou City, the girl in Qinglou is not easy to mess with than the one in the official office."

Chen Xi felt a little ashamed of Su Tong and could not compensate for it for a while. As for the medical expenses, he would naturally bear it, but Chen Xi could not compensate Su Tong's mental losses.

When I found someone to carry Shen Mingwen back to the inn, Manager Yin and several of the inn were surprised at why Shen Mingwen was so seriously injured, and they asked questions.

Chen Xi was inconvenient to say it clearly, but he just said that he accidentally fell down from the building while having a banquet in Huaiyang Tower. Manager Yin heard that it was related to Huaiyang Tower, and his face was a little scared: "Little Manager, if you can go to Huaiyang Tower, try not to go to this Huaiyang Tower. Our Tingzhou Prefecture Chamber of Commerce has a bad relationship with them, and it is easy to cause trouble."

Chen Xi asked in confusion: "What's going on? Can Manager Yin explain it clearly?"

Manager Yin is an enthusiastic person and explains the situation roughly to Chen Xi.

The Tingzhou Prefecture Chamber of Commerce entered the provincial capital Fuzhou through the former prefect An Rusheng and the yamen of the governor. The big boss Xiniang of Huaiyang Tower was protected by Fang Guan, the commander of Fujian Commander. There was a conflict of interest between the two sides, and small-scale conflicts broke out before.

The Commander Division, the Administrative Division and the Censor Division are called the Three Divisions, which are in charge of the military, administrative and criminal prisons of a province, and the three parties do not govern each other.

In Fujian, due to the surging rebellions of Japanese pirates and various ethnic minorities, the military's rights are far greater than those in other places, and the setting of military command institutions is more complicated.

Fujian established a commander commander in the provincial capital Fuzhou, which was in charge of coastal coastal defense and established a Xingdu Division in Jianning Prefecture to manage a prefecture and county in western Fujian, mainly responsible for suppressing the resistance of local ethnic minorities.

The Fujian Commander Commander and Xingdu Commander are both affiliated with the Former Army Governor's Office. The leaders of these two institutions, the Commander Commander and Xingdu Commander are both senior officials of the second rank.

With the support of the second-rank official, Xi Niang is naturally confident.

Chen Xi then understood why Xi Niang was not so angry when she entered the door, but why was she angry when she heard that Shen Mingwen, Su Tong and others had Minxi accents?

Or it was because the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce entered the provincial capital and infringed on her interests. She became even more annoyed by the people of western Fujian. She could have ended up being harmonious, but in the end she had to fight.

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The next day, Shen Mingwen stayed in the room to recover from his injuries. Chen Xi was afraid that Shen Mingtang would ask someone to inform Ninghua's old lady after she learned about the news, so she didn't tell Shen Mingtang about the matter. However, he still asked Ma Jiu and asked about the grudges between the gang and the chamber of commerce in Xi'an's hands.

Ma Jiu sighed: "Little shopkeeper, it's not that I don't want to say it, it's really... it's useless to say it."

Chen Xidao: "If I know, at least I know how to deal with it, I can help you think of a solution."

Ma Jiu scratched his head: "Actually, the young man has not been in the provincial capital for a long time. I just heard from the Long family and his brothers that when our Chamber of Commerce entered the provincial capital, the development momentum was pretty good. Not only were our Tingzhou-born shops joined one after another. Even local shops in the provincial capital also joined in because they wanted to rely on our Chamber of Commerce to protect them, pay less taxes and filial piety to Huaiyang Building."

"As a result...not long after, the main hall of the Fuzhou Branch of our Chamber of Commerce was burned to white ground with a fire. It is said that several brothers died at that time and a large amount of goods were lost. Since then, the Chamber of Commerce's goods were often robbed during transportation, and even disappeared after being sent to the warehouse for a day or two. Although there is no evidence to prove that it was done by the people from Huaiyang Tower, there is no one else in the provincial capital except them."

Chenxi is very clear. There are forces hidden underground in every place. In Fuzhou, a big city like Fujian and Guangdong, these underground forces are even more complicated.

Think about it, the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce has to pass the "Water Road Gang" and "Dry Road Gang" on the ground in Tingzhou. In the end, it was through fierce fighting and the government that the Chamber of Commerce forces finally gained a foothold.

Now Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce is in the provincial capital, and it belongs to the Cross River Dragon. It is really difficult to gain a place.

Chen Xi asked again: "So, our chamber of commerce is often disturbed by others?"

Ma Jiu nodded with a bitter face: "I heard that a ship was robbed in the middle of last month. This month, a batch of tea leaves were stolen in the warehouse of Chengnan Wharf. These things are endless, causing panic. Many shops plan to withdraw from the Chamber of Commerce. After all, they always lose goods, and even if the purchase price is cheaper, they cannot make up for the huge losses."

Chen Xi didn't ask any more questions.

If he went to Fuzhou this time to make a major development plan for the Chamber of Commerce, it would be possible to give advice to the Chamber of Commerce and compete with the local forces for a long and short period of time. But his main purpose this time was to participate in the provincial examination, and if he delayed his studies, it would be a bit unworthy of the loss.

But if you just sit back and see, the Fuzhou branch of the Chamber of Commerce will be over sooner or later. Thanks to the loss Hui Niang keeps investing money, the money will only be wasted in the end, causing huge deficits to endanger the Chamber of Commerce and the bank account itself.

Chen Xi returned to the room and wondered how to compete with these local forces led by Xiniang.

He had asked Ma Jiu about the specific situation of the Chamber of Commerce before. As Song Xiaocheng's left and right hand, Ma Jiu rectified the brothers at the church hall as soon as he came over and calculated the manpower, but only 70 or 80 people. It is said that Xiniang's people have thousands of people, and they have the support of the military, which is even more difficult to deal with.

On June 15th, half a month after the incident, Shen Mingwen's injury healed. He finally had a few days of honesty, but at this time he was ready to move, always asking Chen Xi why Su Tong couldn't come to visit.

Chen Xi thought to himself: "If you don't want to live, don't take others to take care of it!"

That afternoon, Chen Xi received a letter, to be precise, an invitation, to invite him to the teahouse next to the inn to have a chat. Chen Xi recognized the person who came to deliver the letter, which was the stunning girl who played the flute in Huaiyang Tower that day. It was just that the girl Chen Xi secretly gave her ninety-five points. At this time, she changed into a small suit and looked handsome and charming.

The girl's eyes were bright and she looked at Chen Xi with a little curiosity in her expression, as if she thought that a young man pretended to be very old-fashioned.

"This girl, how did you find this place?" Chen Xi asked in surprise. He had never known this beautiful girl, but he glanced at it in a hurry in Huaiyang Tower. At that time, the two of them didn't even say anything, but the other party found it accurately, as if they knew him well.

The girl's voice was crisp and pleasant, and it was straightforward: "It was my aunt who asked me to find Mr. Chen."

"Happy lady?" Chen Xi asked.

The girl shook her head quickly: "It's the aunt of the official office. The aunt said that a friend from Tingzhou Prefecture wrote to her. If you have any questions, please ask Mr. Chen for help."

The aunt of the official office? So, she is the old master of the provincial capital Jiaofangsi! She also has a friend from Tingzhou Prefecture, so she is naturally the "sister" Yu Niang.

Originally, Fuzhou official office should be the most popular place for love in the provincial capital. However, because Xiniang's power has risen strongly, the good girls in the official office have to go to the private Qin|Louchu Pavilion to depreciate themselves and make money, and most of the money they earn belongs to others.

Yu Niang received a lot of help from Chen Xi, and the relationship between the two sides was good.

Chen Xi thought to himself: "Isn't it that Yu Niang feels that this good sister in Fuzhou has been bullied and wants to ask me to come forward for help?"

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