. After the sky, the Ming army had completely taken over all the defense measures in Taiyuan City. There were still some traces of gunpowder in the city wall. There were no traces of war in Taiyuan City. As for the East City Wall, since the bombardment of the cannons was too serious, it would not take ten days and half a month to repair it, and it would probably take at least half a year.

The era of cannons has arrived, and the role of the city wall will become smaller and smaller than that of the era of cold weapons, and the city wall will eventually become completely useless. However, at least not now, the Taiyuan city wall needs to be repaired.

Under the Ming army's notice of peace and strict military discipline, the residents of Taiyuan City quickly calmed down, and the market resumed the previous bustling scene. Even due to the tens of thousands of Ming troops stationed and the continuous transport of material resources from the rear, Taiyuan City became more prosperous than before.

Wang Fu's imperial guards are naturally temporarily stationed in the Pingxi Palace. However, the plaque of the Pingxi Palace has been removed and replaced with a plaque of Jin Palace. Jin naturally refers to Shanxi, and this place will become the emperor's official palace in the future.

Compared with the messy a few days ago, Jin Palace has been dressed up in a new look. The previously broken porcelain was replaced with newer and better porcelain, and the lost tables, chairs and other furniture were replaced with new ones. Even the broken flowers, plants and trees were planted. Of course, these things were all gifts sent by the Eight Great Imperial Merchants of the Qing Dynasty.

In addition to these, the eight imperial merchants also donated hundreds of thousands of stones of rice, tens of thousands of pieces of cloth, tens of thousands of kilograms of various medicinal materials, various chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep to the emperor to reward the army, plus 20 million taels of silver, and even nearly a hundred beauties of various types.

Even if the wealth of the eight families is rich enough to rival the country, it would be painful to take out so many things. However, in order to save his life, he had to do it, and he was afraid that the emperor would not accept it. Fortunately, the emperor accepted all these things, which made the heads of the eight families feel relieved.

"Brother, my Fan family finally survived another disaster this time." In the Fan Mansion, Fan Yongkang said easily that the Fan family is rich and has brought out the most things. He took out four million taels of silver alone, four million taels of snow-white silver. If it is blocked in the room, it can pile up dozens of large houses.

Fan Yongdou closed his eyes slightly, holding two iron galls in his hand and gently turned it. When he heard Fan Yongkang's words, his eyes opened slightly, and a flash of light flashed, and he did not look down in front of the emperor. He shook his head slightly: "Dragon, for some reason, I always feel frightened. This feeling is very bad. Maybe this disaster has not passed."

"It hasn't passed yet. The 20 million taels of silver are almost half of the property of our eight families. Could it be that the emperor still wants all our property? This emperor is not too greedy?" Fan Yongkang couldn't help but shout.

"Second, don't talk nonsense." Fan Yongdou shouted quickly.

"What are you afraid of? There are no outsiders here." After saying that, Fan Yongkang still looked around guiltily.

"The emperor wanted to kill us. It was not just because of money. Our emperor hated Manchus very much. I heard that when the emperor ascended the throne, he overturned the ministers' plan to unite the land and sanction the enemy. He proposed that Manchus were the enemy of the Ming Dynasty's mortal world. At that time, the newly built land in the South Ming Dynasty was in turmoil and still so. Later, a temple of martyrs and a traitor was built. Any Han minister who defected to the famous Manchus was engraved on the traitor monument and left it infamous for thousands of years. How could the emperor let us go easily?"

"The crimes that your Fan family did are not less than those of King Pingxi. Don't think that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty would be exposed." For some reason, Fang Xianting's words suddenly sounded in Fan Yongkang's ears. He was anxious: "Brother, what if that is the case? By the way, we went to find Jiang Xiang. When he was the general of Datong, he was fed by our eight families with silver. This time he gave him such a great contribution. He couldn't ignore us."

After saying that, Fan Yongkang started to walk out and was about to go out. Fan Yongdou hurriedly shouted: "Come back."

"Yes." Fan Yongkang quickly turned around and looked at Fan Yongdou. Fan Yongdou said, "What do you say when you found Jiang Xiang?"

"Of course, I asked him if the previous emperor had a golden word and did it count if the matter of promising to let us go?"

"You don't need to ask, Jiang Xiang won't answer you. If he knew that the emperor had the intention to deal with us, he would probably have to take the blame."

"What should I do? Is it enough to die? Otherwise, if we combine the power of our eight families and do it again. If we don't give us a way out, we will be able to break the dead." Fan Yongkangxu slashed.

"Nonsense, don't even have this idea. Tens of thousands of troops are stationed in the city. Just by the crowd of our eight families, they can crush us to death with their fingers. Now we are just guessing that there is no chance of life. If you move, there will be no chance of life." Fan Yongdou's voice became trembling and stern.

Fan Yongkang was a little dissatisfied. The King of Pingxi still had tens of thousands of troops, and was still knocked down by thousands of barrels of licorice water from the Fan family. He was about to argue when a thud of the window outside the door came.

"Who?" Fan Yongkang was shocked and hurriedly ran out of the door to see that a cat just jumped out of the window. Fan Yongkang was relieved and patted his chest and turned around.

"It's a cat."

Fan Yongdou also sat up from the chair, and his face was obviously relaxed when he heard Fan Yongkang's words. Their words just now must not fall into the ears of others, otherwise the emperor would not have to make any excuses. Just slandering the king and father behind their backs would make them die without a place to die.

After this scare, Fan Yongkang no longer dared to speak loudly, and hurriedly moved to Fan Yongdou to discuss in a low voice. Fan Yongkang's idea was severely refuted by Fan Yongdou. Licorice matters must not be repeated, let alone Ming Junjue

"Brother, can we sit back and wait for death?" Fan Yongkang asked in the end.

"Maybe there is another way." Fan Yongdou said quietly.

“What method?”

"Yu'er."

"Yu'er?" Fan Yongkang was stunned. Fan Yu'er was Fan Yongdou's favorite granddaughter. He just turned 16 this year. Not only was he beautiful, he was rare and smart, and he was as smart as a god. He also liked to study all kinds of strange things. He started making money since he was ten years old. The Fan family was able to firmly hold the throne of the eight rich people, which had a great relationship with Fan Yu'er.

As early as when Fan Yuer was thirteen years old, there were endless people who came to the Fan family to propose marriage. Fan Yongdou said that Fan Yuer would never marry outside. If she wanted to marry Fan Yuer, she had to marry into the Fan family. This immediately scared away the people who proposed marriage. Those who could join the Fan family to marry are all rich and noble, so how could they allow their son to marry into the Fan family?

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Chapter completed!