This matter, although not initiated by him, was a person sent by the Pu family to assist Pu Jinshan. According to the Pu family's seniority, he was Pu Jinshan's sixth uncle.
With the situation developing to this extent, he no longer knew how to handle it.
"Someone!"
"Send this letter back to Quanzhou by carrier pigeon!"
After a long while, Pu Kaishan finally decided to report the matter to the family patriarch.
After all, Pu Jinshan was still at the prefecture yamen, and with Wang Bing's military order, even the prefect Li Yueyang was helpless.
He could not possibly leverage high-level connections.
The people from the Eight Great Families were all watching their subsequent handling of the matter, both openly and secretly. If they could not regain face, they would soon become a laughingstock.
"Yes!"
After quickly writing a letter and handing it to a servant, Pu Kaishan slumped onto the chair.
He understood in his heart that if this matter could not be resolved properly, he would likely have to bid farewell to the family's power center forever.
Although the journey from Mingzhou to Quanzhou was not short, with carrier pigeons, they should receive a reply by tomorrow evening at the latest.
At this moment, no matter how unwilling he was, he could only quietly await the judgment of fate.
"Keep those倭人 under guard. They are not to step out of the manor without my orders!"
Thinking that this matter was caused by these damned倭人, he gnashed his teeth in hatred.
If it weren't for the fact that these people might still have some use, he would have ordered them to be torn to pieces long ago.
"Yes!"
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"Patriarch, this is the carrier pigeon letter we just received. Something has happened in Mingzhou! Jinshan has been arrested by the officials!"
The next morning, as Pu Haida had just gotten up, the old butler outside the door rushed in to report.
"What did you say? Jinshan is in trouble?"
Upon hearing this, Pu Haida was startled and quickly reached out to take the pigeon letter handed to him.
After reading the contents of the letter, Pu Haida's face immediately turned extremely grim.
"This rebellious son, what is he thinking!"
He never expected his son to make such a mistake.
Because of a few倭人, he directly clashed with the officials of the Xuanfushi Division. Now, even he found the matter a bit tricky.
"Patriarch, we cannot stand by and do nothing about this. Anger is anger, but the top priority now is to get Jinshan out as soon as possible!"
Seeing his furious demeanor, the old butler quickly said in a low voice.
"Get him out! Get him out! Easier said than done!"
Pu Haida said as he slammed his palm heavily onto the table in front of him.
In this day and age, any matter involving the Xuanfushi Division was no small matter.
Especially this time, his son had directly confronted an official of the Xuanfushi Division.
To resolve this matter, they might have to pay a heavy price this time.
"In that case, you go to the Cai residence immediately and tell them that I am willing to give up an extra ten percent of our shares this year and ask the old Mr. Cai to help me settle this matter! I want that official from the Xuanfushi Division, Han Mo, to be removed from office and demoted!"
After careful consideration, Pu Haida finally made up his mind.
"Ten percent of the shares? Isn't this price a bit too high? Why don't we go to the Xuanfushi Division ourselves? Or invite Mr. Wang to mediate?"
Upon hearing this, the old butler was stunned.
The Pu family and the Cai family had been splitting profits equally for years.
Although ten percent of the shares did not sound like much, they were operating the most profitable businesses of the current era.
In the face of spices that were valued in the tens of millions of guan, ten percent of the shares would be millions of guan!
Although this matter was indeed tricky, if they were to use money to solve it, using millions of guan to exchange for the fate of a seventh-rank official seemed like a significant loss.
"If only it were that simple. Don't forget, that kid is from the Han family of Xiangzhou, and he also has the reputation of being the number one scholar in the Great Song. Although our influence is not small, wouldn't it be a loss to expose all of our influence to deal with such a person?"
As the helmsman of the Pu clan, Pu Haida's vision was quite far-reaching.
Money could be earned again, but they were outsiders after all, and this was an era of war and chaos.
He was truly reluctant to expose all the connections he had accumulated over the years to deal with a minor seventh-rank official.
After all, the knives hidden in the dark were the real deterrents. If they were brought into the open, their influence would have no deterrent power.
"But if we do this, how will outsiders view us..."
"Do outsiders' opinions matter? No matter how much they scorn us, they still have to buy our spices!"
Unlike his nephews and brothers, Pu Haida did not care about any false reputation. What he cared about was only genuine profit.
It was precisely because of this that he was able to completely defeat the brothers who vied for the position of family patriarch with him, and finally overcame all opposition, leading the entire Pu clan to develop in Quanzhou.
"Yes..."
Hearing him say this, the old butler no longer spoke and quickly turned and walked out.
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"Son-in-law, why is there no movement from the Pu family? Could they have chickened out?"
It had been four days since Han Mo moved into the post station, but there was no news from the Pu family, and no one had come to seek trouble with Han Mo. This made Jiang Yan feel a bit incredulous.
"If that's the case, then what kind of movement should they make? Should they bring a group of people and kill their way in brazenly?"
Han Mo asked with a casual smile while burying his head in writing something.
"But they would just endure such humiliation?"
"Endurance is impossible, but you have to learn to hear thunder in silence! If you calculate the time, I think by now, quite a few censors should be writing memorials!"
"Then you can still sit still? Aren't you afraid that something might actually happen?"
Seeing the worried expression on Jiang Yan's face, Han Mo stretched with a smile.
"He has his plans, and I naturally have my countermeasures! Alright, if you have nothing to do, help Lieutenant Han tidy up his house these days!"