Chapter 7 The Crisis of the Tang Family
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The people in these cities were spreading rumors, and three of them became tigers. After such a blind spread, the whole city became even more panicked. Every household had closed their homes before the curfew and looked at their own elderly and children.
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In the Tang Mansion, in the meeting hall, sitting above were three respected elders of the tribe.
The great elder Tang Xiao, the second elder Tang Ti, and the third elder Tang Li, these three elders do not take care of family affairs on weekdays, and all of them are controlled by the head of the family Tang Xun.
However, some major matters involving the tribe's ancestor worship and disputes, the head of the family still needs to obey the arrangements of the three elders.
For example, this time, when the Tang family made a mistake in providing the best yellow-glass wine needed for their birthday, the three elders were alarmed.
Because the Tang family has always relied on some protection provided by Zhenhaihou to gain a foothold in the southwest of Daliang Kingdom.
Therefore, this time, Zhenhai Hou’s 60th birthday is also a crucial opportunity for the Tang family to perform.
In addition to preparing generous birthday gifts, the Tang family also received 100,000 jars of yellow rice wine needed for the birthday banquet of Zhenhai.
Because the yellow-glass wine brewed by the Tang family has a mellow aroma, it is at least three or four grades better than the wine brewed by other merchants on the market.
The ninth day of next month will be the 60th birthday of Zhenhai Hou. However, when the Tang family prepared 100,000 jars of yellow-grey wine for a year, they were ready to load and transport it for random inspection, they found that the 100,000 jars of yellow-grey wine were actually light and tasteless. Not only was the mellowness of the original Tang family yellow-grey wine, but even the mellowness of ordinary wines on the market was far inferior.
This time, the disaster will be a big deal.
Fortunately, there was a problem with this batch of yellow rice wine before being transported to the truck. Otherwise, it would have been transported to Shunyi City and exposed the problem when it was used to entertain distinguished guests from various counties and counties of Daliang Kingdom at the banquet of Zhenhaihou. Then the Tang family would be doomed.
This incident immediately alarmed the three elders of the Tang family's ancestral temple.
The head of the family, Tang Xun, immediately carried a thorn in the ancestral temple to apologize, and immediately ordered a strict investigation into where the error occurred during the brewing process.
However, the disaster has already taken place.
With less than twenty days left before Zhenhai Hou’s 60th birthday, where can the Tang family go to find 100,000 jars of yellow-fried wine with mellow aroma!
If the Huangliang wine cannot be handed over by then, Zhenhaihou’s anger will be blamed, the Tang family will at least lose all the business routes and lose the Zhenhaihou’s protective umbrella. In the worst case, Zhenhaihou may be ordered to be confiscated and exterminated.
It was precisely because of this great disaster in the Tang family that the three elders were so anxious that they racked their brains to repair the ants on the hot pan.
Among them, the great elder Tang Xiao had an old friend with Chen Yonglian, the prefect of Jinling City, and knew that Ye Boya, the first think tank under the commander Chen and Zhenhai Hou, were classmates or Jinshi on the list.
The great elder came to ask for help, and the prefect Chen gave the conditions very simply.
As long as the eldest son of the Tang family, Tang Can, married into the Chen family, and the Tang family will provide him with necessary money and goods in the future, he can ask his classmate Ye Boya to lobby the Zhenhai Hou to cancel drinking on the 60th birthday in the name of commemorating the old marquis Concubine, and use tea instead of wine to show filial piety.
In this way, the Tang family's crisis can be easily resolved.
However, the Tang family has to pay is not light. Tang Can, a demented man, married into the Chen family, at most, because the reputation of the Tang family was slightly damaged and ridiculed, and it has nothing to do with it.
However, the political meaning represented by this is that the Tang family was unable to continue to maintain neutrality in Jinling City from then on, and it completely turned to the prefect Chen.
Chapter completed!