Su Yin continued, "As for why I want to protect them, apart from the friendship between Heng Youyi and me, the more important thing is the Baixing Commercial Bank behind the Heng family. It contains a huge number of business contacts and business opportunities."
"When we get to that position, we have to be responsible for the millions of people in the world and ensure that they can afford to eat and buy clothes. All these aspects cannot be avoided by the business. Baixing Business can save us a lot of trouble and enable us to better implement many of our early ideas and national policies."
"Look, the Northwest's grain transportation this time depends on these trading companies. If it weren't for Baixing Trading Company and Wan's Trading Company, how could we possibly send so much grain to the Northwest?"
In fact, Su Yin saw that this guy was planning to use this opportunity to swallow up the Heng family's Baixing Trading Company and make it their own.
Now that he had to save the Heng family, he naturally felt unhappy.
Su Yin patted Su Xinguang on the shoulder, "There are some things we must hold on to firmly, and some things we can let go. Only when a hundred flowers bloom can we prosper. Of course, we must not let one dominate and become a hindrance to ourselves."
He finally realized that his elder sister wanted to protect the Heng family.
Forget it, just listen to my sister!
It's just a business. There's no need to argue or get angry with my sister about it.
After Su Xinguang figured it out, he was no longer upset.
"Listen to my sister." Su Xinguang sighed.
While the two siblings were talking, Heng Youyi's mood was not so calm.
Her mind kept recalling the conversation between the two of them in the teahouse just now. The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became. She was originally supposed to go back to the Marquis' Mansion, but she immediately told the driver to change the route and go back to the Heng family.
As soon as the carriage stopped, the gatekeeper saw the carriage with the Marquis's Mansion logo and immediately notified everyone.
After Heng Youyi entered the house, he went straight to the study and asked someone to call his parents.
Seeing the young lady's hurried steps, the servants left without delay. One went to the shop outside to call for help, and the other went to the inner courtyard to call for help.
After a while, Heng's mother pushed open the door of the study.
"The people below said you had an urgent matter? But what happened?" Heng's mother asked.
Heng Youyi shook her head, "Mom, wait until Dad comes, and I'll tell you."
Noticing that her daughter's face looked particularly serious, she knew that what she was about to say must be of great importance.
Fu Wenlin is dead, and the old witch in the Marquis' Mansion is nothing to be afraid of. It should not be the Marquis' Mansion's business. It seems that it must be something else that makes my daughter so worried. I'm afraid this matter is related to the emperor.
Heng's mother was already thinking about it in her mind.
The head of the Heng family was inspecting the shop outside. When he learned that his daughter was looking for him and asked him to go back quickly, the head of the Heng family, who knew his daughter's temper well, realized that something big must have happened.
He hurriedly said a few words to the shopkeeper and immediately returned home.
As soon as he entered the study, he saw the mother and daughter playing chess. When they saw him coming, they stopped.
The study door was closed and there was someone guarding outside, not allowing anyone to approach.
The three members of the Heng family sat opposite each other in the room.
"Tell me, what happened?" Heng's mother asked.
She had already made some guesses in her mind, but it was just a guess and she didn't know whether she was right or not.
Heng Youyi said in a deep voice: "Our Heng family has caught the emperor's eye. I'm afraid he will take action against us soon."
This means that the Heng family is doomed to be destroyed.
When the couple heard their daughter say this, they looked at each other. There was no panic on their faces, but instead they smiled calmly.
"Dad and Mom, don't you already know about this?"
Heng's mother held her daughter's hand and said, "It's not that we already knew about this, but we have already planned to donate a portion of the money to His Majesty, just to buy peace for the Heng family."
The head of the Heng family continued, "The emperor is short of money, and our Heng family is too conspicuous. Even if Fu Wenlin doesn't mention it, the emperor will eventually put the knife on our heads. Rather than being slaughtered passively, it is better to take the initiative and have a chance of survival. I only hope that the emperor will let our Heng family go because we took the initiative to hand over the money."
There was a strong sense of helplessness in the tone of the Heng family head.
Under the imperial power, the common people like them can only be slaughtered at will.
"Dad, Mom, have you ever thought about this? Given His Majesty's greedy nature, would he be content with just that little bit of money? I'm afraid he will even go after our Heng family."
The principle is very simple.
You could have gotten one million taels, but now you can only get 100,000 taels. As a person with supreme power, would you be willing to take only 100,000 taels?
Emperor Rong Xian is an extremely greedy person. Would such a greedy person be satisfied with just a few hundred thousand taels?
The answer is obviously no.
The more greedy a person is, the bigger his appetite is.
He didn't do it before, not because he was kind, but because the treasury was rich. He wanted to be a wise king, so he naturally disdained to ask for money from the lowly common people.
But things are different now. He cannot rob the national treasury, and even the ministers are eyeing his private treasury. This has shaken his foundation.
At this time, Emperor Rong Xian was naturally anxious and had to find a way to make up for the deficit. What he had looked down upon before, he now looked up to.
When Shunyi Marquis was alive, others might have been concerned that the Heng family was Shunyi Marquis's in-laws. But now it was different. With Shunyi Marquis' death, those who had long been eyeing the Heng family and wanted to please the emperor were naturally ready to make a move.
The Heng couple also knew this truth.
Heng's mother said, "Giving His Majesty some money is to protect the Heng family's safety. Secondly, it is to buy the Heng family some time."
"Dad, Mom, are you planning to..."
"Escape." Heng's mother calmly uttered these four words.
How could the Heng family's century-old foundation be destroyed in their hands? They couldn't just hand over the entire century-old foundation to them.
They can only survive in the cracks.
"Dad, Mom, you are so confused! The emperor has already set his sights on us, so how could he not send people to keep an eye on us? It's not easy to escape. Once the emperor finds out about this, my Heng family will probably die even faster."
They all understand this principle, but they have no way to do it.
"Mom and Dad, today someone gave me a way to save my life."
The couple looked at each other with surprise in their eyes.
"What is it?"
"Who?"
Heng Youyi said slowly: "That person asked us to find a backer."
"Backers? Who dares to challenge His Majesty?"
"Of course we don't dare to do it with just one, but what about more than one?" Heng Youyi said calmly, "What if we surrender to the four princes, the King of Qin, the King of Jing, the King of Yun, and the King of Wu at the same time?"
The couple was dumbfounded. They always looked for one family to seek refuge with, but you were looking for four at the same time, and they were all enemies. This was simply like seeking death.
Just as Heng's mother was about to say something, the head of the Heng family patted the back of his wife's hand and signaled his daughter to continue speaking with his eyes.
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