Seeing that the bandits had been almost all killed, Li Ting launched a signal flare into the sky.
The martial arts sects and wandering knights who received Ren Qingyun's order stormed into the bandits' hideout and wiped out the bandit stronghold that had plagued Nanchen Kingdom for twenty years.
Because the Ma family had exchanged so much gold at once, and Zhao Yunwan needed a lot of silver to buy opium, she reached out to the Ma family. However, she couldn't keep up with the cash flow, so she had to borrow money from Huo Shan, a wealthy merchant from Jiangnan.
Huo Shan received a letter from Li Ting in advance, in which he told Huo Shan that the Ma family were from the Great Yue Kingdom and that they did a lot of dishonest business.
I need Huo Shan's help.
All of the Ma family's demands must be agreed to. After a period of time, Huo Shan can directly expand his business empire to Lizhou and take over all of the Ma family's legitimate businesses.
Huo Shan had long wanted to take over the Ma family, but the Ma family had no morals whatsoever in doing business, leaving many small business owners angry but unable to speak out.
The Ma family loved to snatch food from ordinary people, and their eating manners were extremely unsightly.
The Ma family borrowed money from Huoshan and mortgaged all their properties.
Ma Chong'an gave the luminous pearl to his eighteenth concubine, but the pearl disappeared into thin air while the concubine was in her hands.
Ma Chong'an searched the entire Ma family home but couldn't find it.
With the year-end approaching, there was already a need to pay tribute to the higher-ups and distribute profits to local forces. Then, Li Ting sent another letter saying that things were progressing smoothly and that the principal would be returned ahead of schedule, all to redeem the Night-Shining Pearl.
According to the regulations at the time, if the Ma family could not produce the luminous pearl, the 800,000 taels of gold would belong to Li Ting, and the Ma family would have to pay an additional 200,000 taels of gold.
Because that pearl was worth a million taels of gold.
Ma Chong'an was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, not knowing what to do.
He made up his mind and decided to renege on the debt.
But overnight, he was tied up in a cave.
Meanwhile, the silver that Ma Chong'an was sending to the capital was intercepted by Li Ting's men while it was still en route.
It's true that good fortune never comes in pairs and misfortunes never come singly!
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