Iron Dynasty

Li San kept sorting out the information sent by the Secret Guard, frowning deeper and deeper.

According to the intelligence, Cao Zhengyang's recent behavior has become more and more suspicious, and now he can basically be sure that the real purpose of the Cao family is to transfer silver taels.

Fortunately, the Secret Guard kept someone special to keep an eye on Cao Zhengyang, otherwise there would be a major incident this time. Li San's forehead was sweating slightly.

Although the Secret Guard was established by the imperial court to collect intelligence and monitor hundreds of officials, but with the increasing number of territories and officials, the current Secret Guard is somewhat stretched.

For this reason, the Secret Guard gave up part of the supervision of the people, and focused on supervising the important officials and generals of the court, and even he was reluctant to send someone to watch over someone like Cao Zhengyang.

After all, Cao Zhengyang is just a small person compared to high-ranking officials.

But the little man is now clearly about to do something big.

Cao Zhengyang has already boarded the merchant ship heading for Dengzhou, immediately notify the guards to arrest Cao Zhengyang, and let them control all the business of the Cao family in the north. Li San ordered that if no action is taken, this Cao Zhengyang will run away. .

Yes.

The commander of the secret guard beside Li San responded, and immediately took the three people out of the secret guard.

You go to Jinling City immediately and let the Jinling City defenders intercept the silver tael. Li San said sternly, judging by the news from the other six states, Cao Zhengyang secretly transferred the silver from all the banks in the nearby county.

If this batch of silver arrives in Chu, it will have a serious impact on the industrial and commercial development of the north. Although Qingzhou Bank can now compete with Cao's Qianzhuang, there are still many businessmen who have deposited their wealth in the Cao's family under Cao Zhengyang's deceit Qianzhuang.

After issuing one order after another, Li San got up and walked towards the palace. He wanted to report this time to Xiao Ming.

All the way to the palace, after waiting outside the city for a while, he was asked to enter.

When he arrived at the imperial study, he saw Pang Yukun and Fiji also there.

Your Majesty, Elder Feige, Pang Shoufu. Li San gave a salute.

When Fiji and Pang Yukun saw Li San, they both smiled brightly. This former royal family servant has now become the commander of the secret guard of the most mysterious organization in the Great Yu Kingdom.

It can be said that every official did not dare to offend him, for fear of being caught by the secret guard.

Come here so soon, it seems that Cao Zhengyang really had an accident this time. Xiao Ming said.

Li San said bluntly: Yes, the emperor, the lower officials have found out that the Caojia Qianzhuang in the prefectures and counties around Qingzhou has the behavior of transferring silver, and Cao Zhengyang is preparing to go to Dengzhou, which is very unusual. In order to prevent accidents, The lower official has ordered the closure of the Cao family's bank and the interception of the silver taels transported by the Cao family.

This Cao family is really dizzy, how dare they demolish the emperor's stage at this time. Pang Yukun snorted angrily.

Fiji is always indifferent, he said: Actually, it is not difficult to understand, it is just the nature of businessmen. As the emperor said, this businessman is similar to nomads, nomads live by water and grass, and this businessman is after money. Ju, the Cao family defected to the emperor to keep the Cao family’s foundation, and now they defect to the king of Chu for the foundation of the Cao family, after all, the current king of Chu is not small, and he has the momentum to govern the country together with the merchants.”

What Fei Ge said is very true, but this King of Chu is also desperately ill and went to the doctor. The businessman has always been short-sighted and only pursues the current huge profits. Perhaps allowing the businessman to take power can achieve business prosperity for a period of time, but in the long run, it will inevitably be because of the businessman's relationship. Conflicts of interest between them lead to inaction in national affairs. Pang Yukun said eloquently.

Since Xiao Ming opened the Academy of the Son of Heaven, these officials have often come to audit, and now they have a deeper understanding of the political system in the books, and no longer stay in the old backward feudal ideology.

Xiao Ming let the pen rotate in a circle in his hand, his eyes stopped on Fiji and Pang Yukun for a while, and he was very satisfied with the progress of the two.

He said: I have to admit that the King of Chu is also a hero. In order to defeat me, he can put down anything. According to Wang Xuan's news, the current Lin'an is also different from Qingzhou's prosperity. It is said to follow the West. The council is being formed, and the chairman of this council is Cao Kun.

It's no wonder that the Cao family wants to throw their heads and blood for the king of Chu. This is what the king of Chu can really do. If this parliament is equivalent to the Western parliament, wouldn't the rights of the king of Chu also be restricted by the parliament, and the king of Chu would agree? ? Fiji was surprised.

The Golden Horde was defeated, and the King of Chu knew that the emperor's next target was him. Compared with his life and power, which one do you think he would choose? Even so, the King of Chu can still inherit the throne and enjoy the glory and wealth forever. Pang Yukun frowned.

After a pause, he continued: Your Majesty, the south is rich and prosperous, and for a long time, the influence of the King of Chu has always been greater than that of the royal family. If there is a war, the common people will probably not stand on the side of the royal family. The move to widen the township has always been ineffective, many people are reluctant to come to the north, and there have been many violent protests by the people.

Li San nodded in agreement.

Xiao Ming got up and walked towards the map, looking at the area south of the Yangtze River, I did underestimate the ability of the King of Chu to accept Western culture. In the past two or three years, the King of Chu has impressed me a bit.

Fiji smiled and said, The emperor, the Han people in the south, has another name, called Hakka. The origin of this Hakka began in the Qin Dynasty when Lingnan was merged with Baiyue. After thousands of years, it has formed a large and stable family. There are many Hakka people. Doing business with overseas people, and even flourishing in Luzon, Malacca, Annan and other places, these countries established by the Han people also wanted to pay tribute to the Great Yu Kingdom, but they have never been in the past hundred years. He was from Fuzhou, and he settled in Lin'an after following Gaozu, but the King of Chu and Fuzhou and other places have always been in close contact.

Old ministers were confused before, but now that I think about it, the countries established by these Han people were occupied by Westerners, said Pang Yukun.

Xiao Ming naturally understands the Hakka people. They are indeed a group of people who are good at pioneering, but even this cannot dispel his will to unify the Great Yu Kingdom.

Now that the King of Chu and the Cao family are conspiring to try to attack the industrial and commercial development of Qingzhou Prefecture, the purpose is to delay the development of Qingzhou Prefecture. Now he must smash the plan of the Cao family.

It just made him a little regretful that the king of Chu was very smart and did not leave any evidence for him to arrest. This time the Cao family is tossing about it is also a matter of the Cao family. On the surface, he is still a loyal vassal king, and he has no reason to send troops. .

And sending troops in the name of cutting vassal will cause a chain reaction of King Huainan, King Yong, King Ruyang and others, which is also what he does not want to see.