Chapter 234 Looking for Support
Chapter 234 Looking for Support
Yang Lihua smiled slightly and said, "You say!"
When Xiao Xia signed the lease, he explained the whole story of the cloth shop in the city.
Yang Lihua understood immediately that the prince wanted to monitor his nephew's every move! She was also very annoyed and asked, "What do you need my help with?"
"Reporting to my aunt, today Shangqing Commercial Bank hired 20 or so thugs to smash the store and beat people. I tried my best to stop them, but they drew their swords to kill me. I lost control and killed the thug leader by mistake. I think the prince will use this to make a fuss. Can you please tell the emperor grandfather the truth first, so that he won't be misled by the prince and think that I took advantage of my power to kill people?"
Yang Lihua thought for a moment and said, "The shop is yours, so you are right first. But the Yun family is clearly in the wrong. Will he bring this matter to the Emperor's grandfather? He is not that stupid!"
Xiao Xia shook her head and said, "I didn't make it clear just now. The prince will use this case to force father. If father doesn't care, it means he is breaking the law and protecting his son. He will take the opportunity to impeach father. If father asks me to compromise, I will not accept it. I want my grandfather to be the one to judge justice."
Yang Lihua nodded. "You have a point. The prince will probably use this to seduce your father. Give me the lease and I will go to the palace in the next two days."
Xiao Xia felt relieved, and he smiled and said, "There is one more thing. I want to talk to my aunt about setting up a business."
Yang Lihua smiled and said, "I told you a long time ago to set up a business as soon as possible. Now is the time to set up a business quickly."
Yang Lihua originally had not considered letting Xiao Xia set up a trading company. It was completely fine for her Da Zhou Trading Company to run it together, as long as the accounts were separated.
But something happened last year that angered Yang Lihua. She told her daughter and son-in-law about giving 40% of the shares to Xiaoxia Trading Company, and neither of them had any objection.
But one day, He Ruo, the mother of son-in-law Li Min, came to talk to her. Although she did not say it explicitly, she still implied that the Li family firmly opposed her dividing the property among her nephew.
This made Yang Lihua suddenly realize that the Li family had been eyeing her property.
Yang Lihua had no son, only a daughter. Unfortunately, her daughter was in poor health and had a weak character. Once she died, all her property would fall into the hands of the Li family.
The Li family is a huge family. If the daughter died earlier, her property would become the entire Li family's assets.
How could Yang Lihua accept this?
Yang Lihua had always wanted to adopt her nephew Xiao Xia, but unfortunately her father firmly disagreed. However, Yang Lihua still regarded Xiao Xia as her own son, not to mention that they shared the same blood.
She changed her mind and urged Xiao Xia to set up a business as soon as possible. She also planned to assign some high-value shops to Xiao Xia, including the most famous Da Zhou Shop and Da Zhou Jewelry Shop.
Giving them to his younger brother and nephew is certainly much better than letting them become the property of the Li family.
Yang Lihua smiled again and said, "In order to reward you for your great success, your aunt will give you a gift."
"What gift does Aunt want to give me?" Xiao Xia asked shamelessly.
"Wait until your business is established, and I will definitely surprise you!"
In the study, Crown Prince Yang Yong listened to Yang Yu's report without showing any expression. It had always been the second son Yang Yu's job to monitor Xiao Xia. In Yang Yong's arrangement, the eldest son Yang Yan, as the eldest grandson of the emperor, had more appeal, so he was responsible for winning over important officials.
The second son, Yang Yu, was more shrewd and capable, as well as ruthless. He was responsible for intelligence and assassinations.
This time, the plan to buy the cloth shop and monitor Xiao Xia was planned by the second son Yang Yu. Of course, Yang Yu would not come forward directly, but let his grandfather the Yun family come forward and the Yun family's Shangqing Commercial Bank would purchase the cloth shop.
This seemingly perfect plan unexpectedly failed and even resulted in loss of life.
Yang Yong was annoyed and asked, "What's going on? You mess up even the smallest things?"
"Father, this is indeed an accident. The cloth shop put up a transfer sign, and Xiao Xia might have seen it. This shop is his neighbor, so of course he wanted to buy it. The Yun family didn't know that Xiao Xia had already bought it, and thought it was the old owner, so the matter got out of hand." Yang Yong became even more annoyed, "Can't they just pay to buy it? Why do they have to put up a transfer sign? It's unnecessary!"
Yang Yu did not say anything. If the Yun family had honestly bought the shop, they would not be the Yun family. Over the years, the Yun family had used all kinds of tricks and robberies to expand Shangqing Commercial Bank tenfold. It was obvious that they could just ask the municipal government to terminate the lease with just one word, so how could they pay an extra 6,000 strings of cash?
But that's the way it is. If you're greedy and you want to rob people, even a fish will not be willing to be slaughtered and will struggle a few times before it dies, let alone a human being. The original owner certainly doesn't want to suffer heavy losses and be driven away, so he'll sell it if he can.
All the coincidences may seem like coincidences, but they are also reasonable. This is what is destined.
Now that things have come to this, there is no point in blaming the Yun family for their poor performance. The Yun family never thought much of the cloth shop in the first place, and they only took action to do things for the prince.
Yang Yong walked a few steps with his hands behind his back and said, "Who did he kill? A warrior from Shangqing Commercial Bank?"
"No, he is the leader of the warriors of Baotai Martial Arts School, named Jiang Ping, and one of Yuwen Shu's twenty-four young guards."
"Yuwen Shu?"
Yang Yong was a little confused. How did Yuwen Shu get involved in this matter?
Ever since King of Han Yang Liang was overthrown by Xiao Xia and punished to face the wall for a year, Yuwen Shu, who was originally loyal to King of Han, implicitly showed his goodwill to Crown Prince Yang Yong. He asked his son Yuwen Huaji to use the identity of one of the four great princes of Chang'an to hang out with the emperor's eldest grandson Yang Yan all day long, trying to please him in every way and taking him to secretly taste various women. The two became party members.
Crown Prince Yang Yong understood Yuwen Shu's intentions immediately. Although Yang Yong hated the betrayal of Yuwen Shu's three-surname servants, Yuwen Shu was powerful and half of the generals in Guanzhong were promoted by him. In view of Yuwen Shu's powerful strength, Yang Yong had to accept Yuwen Shu's loyalty again.
However, Yang Yong had an additional plan this time. Yuwen Shu was only secretly loyal to him, and on the surface he was still a man of King of Han Yang Liang.
Now Yuwen Shu's men were killed by Xiao Xia in order to help him. This is not a easy matter to deal with!
At this time, Yang Yu whispered: "Father, I have an idea!"
"what idea?"
"Isn't the King of Jin in charge of the law? He claims to be fair, but now his son has killed someone in the street. Will he punish his son severely, or will he protect him?"
Yang Yong's eyes lit up. This was a good opportunity to force Yang Guang to abdicate. Yang Guang would be back in two days, so it was a perfect time to take action.
Zhang Yunqiu repeatedly warned him not to provoke Xiao Xia, but Yang Yong was afraid of Xiao Xia in his heart and it was impossible for him not to pay attention to Xiao Xia. At this moment, he had already forgotten Zhang Yunqiu's warning.
Yang Yong nodded and ordered: "Go and call your eldest brother!"
Soon, the eldest son Yang Yan hurried over, bowed respectfully and said, "I am here to see you, father!"
Yang Yong asked, "Have you been with Yu Wenzhi these days?"
Yang Yan bowed and said, "Reporting to my father, Cui Hongsheng celebrated his birthday yesterday, and Yu Wenzhi also represented his father. We happened to be seated together, so we chatted for a while."
Yang Yan would never dare to tell his father that after the birthday banquet yesterday, they took the opportunity to fool around with the Indian Hu Ji.
Yang Yong nodded, "Go find Yu Wenzhi now and tell him that a warrior from their Baotai martial arts school died this morning. I will give the Yuwen family an explanation."
Yang Yan was confused, but he didn't dare to ask more questions, so he agreed, "I'll go now!
He bowed and hurried away.
(End of this chapter)