Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

"Your Highness, we have recently been trying some new ways of family management. My current identity is the product of this experiment."

Li Decai spoke seriously, and what he said made Fang Yuanjian very interested.

"The Shenmu Kingdom is carrying out reforms, and your families are following suit. Haven't you seen how many people died in the court because of the reforms?"

His words were certainly not alarmist.

At any time, whether it is a large organization or a small organization, there are always vested interest groups within it.

Given enough time, they can gradually occupy an advantageous position and become termites.

The reform is to expel this group of people, just like what Hua Yunhong did to Duanmu Jiang before.

If the major families want to accomplish this, there will inevitably be bloodshed.

So he was very worried about whether these people could bear this huge price.

Although Fang Yuanjian was worried about their actions, his impression of the Li family improved a lot.

Fang Yuanjian himself was the first person to bring forth new ideas in the imperial court.

But at the beginning he was weak and no one paid attention to him, and he was even constantly besieged.

Therefore, he wanted to see the Li family's determination and the results of the reforms. If he was satisfied, he would give the Li family a chance today.

"Your Highness, several elders of the Li family died of illness a few days ago. The funeral will be held the day after tomorrow."

Li Decai nodded and suddenly said a very shocking piece of news.

"I came to see you today because I actually wanted to invite you to attend the funeral the day after tomorrow."

This sentence contained so much information that Fang Yuanjian and Fang Cai beside him were stunned.

Just now, Fang Yuanjian wanted to see how strong their determination was.

But when Li Decai said this, it meant that several elderly people in their family who held power were likely dead.

As to whether he died of illness or not, only God knows.

Being able to do such a thing means that their determination far exceeds that of other families.

At least Fang Yuanjian can feel at ease by cooperating with such a determined family that can come and communicate with him in person.

Thinking of this, he slowly said:

"I will attend the funeral. I wonder if the other major families will also be there?"

"Of course. We have invited other major local families to attend the funeral."

Li Decai knew what Fang Yuanjian meant by asking this question.

If they want the Li family to set an example, they should gradually move closer to the royal palace in the south.

That requires everyone to see Fang Yuanjian's actions.

If they gathered at the funeral and saw Fang Yuanjian, they would most likely guess what had happened recently.

Then the opportunity to choose will be given to them.

Are you willing to work with Fang Yuanjian?

It depends on their choice whether to continue to stubbornly stay in their own piece of land.

"good."

After chatting for a few sentences, Fang Yuanjian finally expressed his opinion.

Staring into Li Decai's eyes, he slowly nodded and began to praise.

After receiving these two words, Li Decai finally bowed and started today's conversation.

"Your Highness, the Li family came here today to seek the oil mine business."

"How do you want to run your business? Please tell me first."

"It's simple. We won't get involved in the oil mines they already control. We will only be the general merchant of the oil mines."

"Ok?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Fang Yuanjian and the other man's expressions changed immediately.

They can purchase and mine the resources here by themselves.

However, after mining, people from the imperial court need to take over, especially in the sales and transportation links. Only with their participation can they better count their sales and collect taxes.

However, those who do such things are not considered real court officials, so there is no way to give them official positions.

At most, he was just helping the court.

Therefore, the imperial court set up general merchants for salt or various mining industries in various places.

Let them coordinate various aspects such as sales and transportation.

Although the merchants who are responsible for providing resources for sale have the resources and can mine them, if they want to make money, they have to depend on the mood of these general merchants.

The Li family used the lives of several powerful old stubborn people in their family as a stepping stone to meet Fang Yuanjian and discuss this matter with him. It was obvious that they had big plans.

And their goal actually hit Fang Yuanjian's pain point.

Because now Fang Yuanjian just needs a big force among the people, especially in business, that can take over a lot of business.

Only in this way can one build up a completely independent force outside of Tongbao Pavilion.

After the other party finished speaking, he waited quietly for Fang Yuanjian's reply, but at this time Fang Yuanjian's face suddenly became gloomy.

He stared at Li Decai with a questioning look and said contemptuously:

"Li Decai, you seem a little overconfident coming here today. Do you think... the Li family is strong enough to be the general merchant?"

Li Decai's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

They had actually made all the preparations they could, but there was still a hurdle they needed to cross, and that was Fang Yuanjian's approval.

After all, they have just completed their internal purge, and no one knows how much strength they still have.

Just at this time Fang Yuanjian brought up their pain points again.

"Those old guys are gone now, and it seems like you young people of the new generation can't control the situation."

The reason why these big families have been able to survive for so many years.

In addition to the resources they have at their disposal, there are also the connections and relationships of these older generations.

Although some people appear to be low-key on the surface, they can even bring out an internal affairs official from the court to settle things at critical moments.

This is also one of their foundations.

But now all those old guys are in their coffins.

How could Li Decai have such a great reputation by himself?

This is the issue Fang Yuanjian was talking about.

After losing the support of the older generation, they were able to undergo a major transformation and maintain vitality.

But the foundation is still a little lacking.

Li Decai's heart was pounding. Although today's meeting was extremely ordinary, everyone in the Li family knew that they were actually betting a lot.

I want to take a gamble and follow Fang Yuanjian to do things.

If the deal doesn't go through today, they will actually lose a lot.

In addition, he had not invested in the oil mines some time ago, thus missing out on a huge development opportunity, and instead had constantly stirred up disputes within the family.

If they fail this time, they will most likely decline.

After thinking quickly for two breaths.

Li Decai suddenly raised his head, and he noticed a key point.

"Your Highness, you are wrong."

This was the first time Li Decai had refuted Fang Yuanjian so strongly since he met him.

Fang Yuanjian's heart moved, as if he had realized something.

So he smiled and asked:

"Tell me, what's wrong?"