The Young and Vigorous Eighth Prince

But as Jiang Fan broke up the aristocratic families, distributed the tax to each acre, and opened academies in the Great Western Dynasty, breaking the aristocratic families' monopoly on knowledge, they felt the crisis.

Although Jiang Fan did not take action against the aristocratic families in Dayan, with Jiang Fan opening an academy in Dayan and the emergence of movable type printing and low prices, they had already felt the crisis.

After all, with the implementation of Jiang Fan's series of measures, the interests of the aristocratic families were the most damaged. They had actually wanted to take action against Jiang Fan for a long time.

In addition, Jiang Fan's actions in Daxi made them truly afraid. For the sake of their own interests, they would do anything desperate.

But Jiang Fan's power in their minds still scared them. They could threaten Emperor Yan as if he were a fool. But that was because Emperor Yan had no courage and had many concerns.

But they didn’t think Jiang Fan would have too many concerns. If Jiang Fan were really allowed to return, no one knew how this notoriously vicious King Qin would deal with them!

"What are you afraid of... Don't forget that we are from the Five Surnames and Seven Families. Nearly half of the officials in the entire Great Yan come from our Five Surnames and Seven Families. His Majesty dare not touch us because one move will affect the whole body. He is afraid that Great Yan will be in turmoil..."

"If Jiang Fan really dares to touch us, then we will perish together with him! Not to mention that our people occupy important positions, the money and food we control alone will make Jiang Fan afraid!"

Cui Jing snorted coldly and looked at the other people present. Upon hearing what he said, everyone looked at Cui Jing, and everyone showed joy on their faces.

Cui Jing's words gave them more confidence.

After all, they are not without a fighting chance. The official positions controlled by the five surnames and seven families alone are enough to make the royal family wary.

If officials from all over Dayan were to cause trouble, the entire administration of Dayan might be paralyzed. Not to mention, if several of them joined forces to control grain and salt, etc.

The people in Dayan live without food and salt. If even other commodities are not circulated, how will the people of Dayan survive? !

By then, as long as public opinion is mobilized again, no matter how powerful Jiang Fan is, he will probably compromise.

"Master Cui is really wise, but I wonder if Master Cui has any good ideas!" At this time, one of the seven families spoke up.

Others also looked at Cui Jing, their eyes full of anticipation!

"How?! Is this easy? You'd better stock up on supplies and raise the prices little by little! Give our Prince Qin a heads up first!" Cui Jing smiled playfully, his eyes full of pride.

When everyone heard this, they showed joy on their faces, and confidence surged in everyone's hearts.

These five surnames and seven families control nearly 80% of Dayan's economy. If they want to stir up trouble, I am afraid the entire Dayan's economy may be paralyzed.

"Then our Luohe Chen family will start hoarding salt. We will buy up all the refined salt on the market. I want to see how they respond next. Even if Jiang Fan sells more refined salt, we will buy it all!"

The representative of the Luo family among the seven families spoke at this time.

Their Luo family is famous for selling salt, and almost all of their businesses are salt mines. However, Jiang Fan's refined salt has a great impact on them.

However, with their price cuts and other measures, they have taken nearly half of the market share. After all, the low price of salt will still make many people choose it.

If Jiang Fan’s refined salt was not only of good quality but also of low price, I’m afraid the Chen family would not have lost that half of the share.

No matter what, the Luohe Chen family is an aristocratic family that has developed for hundreds of years. It has a very deep foundation and its wealth is astonishing.

Now, in order to deal with Jiang Fan, their Luohe Chen family decided to compete with Jiang Fan in the salt business.

However, they bought up all the refined salt on the market in a short period of time. No matter how much refined salt Jiang Fan sold, they would buy it.

He just didn't believe that Jiang Fan's refined salt reserves could keep up with their purchases, and when the refined salt production capacity on the market was insufficient and there was no refined salt to sell.

Then the people would panic and even riot. As long as they kept making trouble, he didn't believe Jiang Fan would not surrender.

This is just the sanction on refined salt. If we add grain, sugar, and other necessities, all of them will become problems.

It would be strange if the whole Dayan is not in chaos. By then, Jiang Fan will be so busy dealing with the unrest in various places that he will have no ability or courage to fight them!

I'm afraid that Jiang Fan will just come over here and surrender to them in shame, and won't have the heart to attack his five surnames and seven families.

After several people discussed it again, all the five surnames and seven families took action, each responsible for stockpiling a piece of daily necessities, and some even prepared to make moves in the officialdom.

It will paralyze administrative functions in various places and cause more unrest.

After the discussion, all the people from the five surnames and seven families left.

Li Changgong returned to his house with an extremely grim look on his face. His legitimate son Li Xiaozhi saw his father's grim look and showed a trace of worry in his expression.

"Father, do you...really agree to cooperate with them?" Li Xiaozhi asked Li Changgong cautiously.

Li Xiaozhi is 20 years old, handsome and graceful, with a strong and upright look on his handsome face.

"What can we do if we don't cooperate? We have always shared interests with them, and sooner or later His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin will target the noble families, and we can't escape it either." Li Changgong sighed, his tone full of helplessness.

At this point, he looked at his son, his face full of guilt.

"My son, it's not that I don't care about your happiness. I know you fell in love with Princess Shengping at first sight, but... you and her are not meant to be together after all!"

Upon hearing this, Li Xiaozhi looked at his father and said with a complicated expression: "Father, do you really think that if the five surnames and seven families unite together, they can fight against His Royal Highness the King of Qin?"

"With the great talent and strategy of His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin, even if the five surnames and seven families attacked together, I'm afraid they would not be taken seriously by him, not to mention that three of the seven families chose to wait and see."

"Father, I think we should not get involved with them at this time. If you help His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin at this time, even if it is not timely assistance, it will definitely be icing on the cake."

"Even if His Majesty the Prince of Qin doesn't spare our Li family because of my father's surrender, our Li family has done a good job and is worthy of His Majesty the Prince of Qin!"

Upon hearing this, Li Changgong frowned, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

The reason why his Li family ranks almost at the bottom among the five surnames and seven families is not because of their own lack of strength, but because they have their own principles.

Even when they support their subordinates to become officials, they choose them based on their character. In addition, they never take anything by force. Therefore, they have achieved the current situation.

Speaking of which, although Jiang Fan destroyed many aristocratic families in the Great West Dynasty, most of them were plunderers and evildoers.

Some noble families with good moral character stayed, but the only pity was that their development was restricted. It was impossible for them to develop into a big family, but it was still possible to become a middle-to-low-level family.

Therefore, Li Changgong did not have no choice. He did have a choice. It was just that he was weak in character and was manipulated by others!