Great Tang Southern Emperor

"Get up and tell me what's going on?" Li Zhensu said in a loud voice, "If Master Shen is really wronged, I will definitely decide for you."

"Yes." Xu Daoshen got up when he heard the words, and said with tears streaming down his face: "Speaking of it, it was the remnants of the Feng family who did it."

Chapter 267 Seven Great Powers

Chapter 43 The Seven Powers

It turned out that ever since the direct line of the Feng family was wiped out by the enemy, the offshoots of the Feng family began to stir up trouble, fighting for the Feng family's property.

The Feng family has been operating in Lingnan for a hundred years, with a profound foundation and countless resources. They had direct descendants before, and if these resources were not in their hands, they naturally didn't think about it.But now that the main line has been wiped out, the resources have naturally fallen into the hands of the branch lines. This is nothing at all. There is no one in the direct line, and there is nothing wrong with the lineage inheriting the property. No one else can say anything.

It's a pity that people's hearts will not be satisfied. After some branches tasted the sweetness, not only were they not satisfied, but they became more greedy. Chaos.

The Lingnan turmoil caused by the Feng family has made some outsiders have different thoughts, especially the miserable small family that was bullied by the Feng family on weekdays. Now that the Feng family is split, they will naturally not let go of this revenge. Opportunity.Coupled with some families who wanted to be the second Feng family and the barbarians who were unwilling to be lonely, the whole of Lingnan became a complete mess. Sometimes there would even be fights on the street in broad daylight, and the whole of Lingnan was turned into a miasma by them. , Ordinary people don't even dare to go out easily.

"Doesn't the commander of the Lingnan Road Army care about it? What does Liu Hongji do?" Li Zhen asked. Liu Hongji was a famous official in the early Tang Dynasty. Since Feng An was killed, Li Shimin sent him to be the new general. Steward - history is completely messed up.

"It's nothing to do with the chief executive." Xu Daoshen shook his head and said, "The whole of Lingnan is in chaos, and none of these people rebelled. It's considered a local political affair. According to the law, the army can't take care of it. What's more, the chief executive of Lingnan is Feng An, although he is dead. But Yu Wei is still there, General Manager Liu should still be rectifying military affairs, and he can't do anything for a while."

"Go ahead and talk."

"Yes, since the chaos in Lingnan"

In the great chaos in Lingnan, countless ghosts and monsters came out, and various forces rose rapidly and then declined rapidly, but just like the Three Kingdoms period, there will always be some powerful figures when the waves wash away the sand.

For example, Feng Zhibao, Feng Gai, and Feng Mian of the Feng family, these three were relatively outstanding characters in the Feng family branch. They were suppressed miserably because of the suppression of the direct line before, but since the direct line was killed, these three people quickly After growing up, they can be regarded as representative figures of the Feng family, but the three of them acted independently and did not cooperate, otherwise the formed force might not be worse than the previous Feng family.

Another example is Wei Guangzhi, who was just a scholar before, working as a small clerk in Lianzhou, penniless.However, after Lingnan was in chaos, it rose rapidly and became the overlord.According to everyone's speculation, this Wei Guangzhi should be supported by a family, most likely the support of the seven clans and five surnames, otherwise, no matter how capable he is, he wouldn't be able to rise so quickly.

Another example is the Ning family and the Chen family. These two are also a wealthy family in Lingnan. The Ning family is the leader of the Lingnan barbarians. Lingnan is powerful.The same goes for the Chen family. Chen Zhilue was a general of Xiaoguowei in the Sui Dynasty.

Such a family is a wealthy family in any place, but it is a pity that they met the Feng family, and under the suppression of the Feng family, they did not live well.Now that the Feng family has been wiped out, the two families have taken advantage of the situation and are threatening to replace the Feng family.

"Hmph, these rich families really don't know how to repent." Li Zhen snorted coldly. Xu Daoshen said that the six powers are all controlled by the family, and the only grassroots is still controlled by the family. These families are really tired.

Du He also frowned and asked: "Is there no power that is not controlled by the family?"

"Yes." Xu Daoshen said: "This is the last force, and it is also the most dangerous force in my eyes, even more dangerous than the previous six combined."

"Oh? Let's hear it." Li Zhen's attention was immediately attracted. He really wanted to know what kind of power was more dangerous than the six aristocratic families?

"This force is the force of the barbarians. The leader is called Zhechong, but he gave himself a Chinese name called Li Yuanhui. He is the leader of a tribe in the Lingnan barbarians. He also took advantage of the opportunity of the Lingnan chaos to rise rapidly. The popularity among the barbarians was the same for a while, and many barbarians followed him because of his reputation, and now he has subdued all the barbarian tribes in the surrounding thousands of miles of mountains."

"The reason why I say that Li Yuanhui is the biggest threat is because he is different from other aristocratic families. The aristocratic families only compete for interests. Even if they use force, they only attack each other and rarely hurt the people. But Li Yuanhui It is a siege, invincible, and several counties around his stronghold have been defeated by him, and they have been plundered, and the people in the city have been massacred."

Li Zhen said coldly: "Why didn't you report this kind of thing? What did Liu Hongji do for food? He even allowed the barbarians to make trouble? And the Chief of Lingnan, can fighting for power and profit be more important than the lives of your own people?"

"This matter only started in the last month. The Yongzhou governor's office has already reported it, but it may be a long way away, and it has not been sent to Chang'an." Xu Daoshen shook his head and said: "As for the encirclement and suppression, it is impossible to talk about it. The barbarians are treacherous. It's not that the prefectures in the south of the Five Ridges have never been encircled and suppressed, but if things can't be done, the barbarians will retreat into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and the army will have nothing to do with them."

"That was before, from today onwards, such things will never happen again." Li Zhen snorted coldly: "From today onwards, the barbarians will either come down the mountain and surrender, or they will be my slaves and build roads until they die." .”

"" Xu Daoshen looked at Li Zhen, and shook his head silently in his heart. He is another dandy with a heart higher than the sky. If the barbarians were so easy to be wiped out, how could they survive to this day?

Li Zhen naturally saw the disbelief in Xu Daoshen's eyes, and waved his hands indifferently: "Don't talk about this, you can continue talking, how did Governor Shen die?"

"Yes, we should have said this." Xu Daoshen said inwardly, feeling ashamed that someone had diverted the topic.

The current forces in Lingnan are divided into seven groups, and Shen Youqing died at the hands of Feng Jia and Feng Gai.Feng Gai's hands are mainly the private soldiers left by the Feng family before, so he is the one with the strongest combat effectiveness among all of them.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages. With so many resources in the Feng family, Feng Gai only controlled the private soldiers of the Feng family. As we all know, it is very expensive to raise soldiers, but he has no way to make money.After spending all his money, he had no choice but to choose the easiest and fastest way to get money, and that was to rob.

I have no money, but there are many rich people. In just a few months, more than a dozen small or wealthy families near Yuezhou were wiped out by him.It's just that Feng Gai is very cunning, and he will hide his identity when he commits a murder, so that everyone knows that he is responsible for the case, but unfortunately there is no evidence, but Shen Youqing has nothing to do with him.

However, there are accidents in everything. Just a few days ago, things turned around. When Feng Gai led people to rob a landlord’s house, the landlord’s son resisted desperately. It was chopped off, and was picked up by Shen Youqing who went to the scene to investigate the case later.

However, Shen Youqing is also an idiot, knowing that Feng Gai is a desperado, not only did not summon Feng Gai after picking up his ID card, but went directly to him to question the crime, what is this not courting death?

Feng Gai was originally a desperado, seeing what happened now, how could he spare Shen Youqing?He directly ordered people to kill Shen Youqing and Yuezhou Biejia, and then threw them in front of the governor's mansion.

"That is to say, Feng Gai picked up the original evidence?" Hearing this, Li Zhen was also speechless. Shen Youqing, how did you get to be the governor?

"Yes, but everyone knows that it was Feng Gai who did it." Xu Daoshen said sadly, "In Yuezhou City, only Feng Gai is capable of doing this kind of thing."

"So what?" Du He said in a deep voice, "Evidence is the most important thing in handling cases now. If there is no evidence, what can you do with others? Didn't you all have nothing to do with Feng Gai because of this?"

"That's why I begged His Highness to come here." Xu Daoshen said: "I also ask Your Highness to be the master, and to restore Master Shen's innocence."

"You can rest assured." Li Zhen nodded and said: "As the prince of the Tang Dynasty, how could I just watch the imperial court official die unexpectedly and ignore it? As long as the matter is true, how could I not give him an explanation?"

"Thank you, Your Highness." Xu Daoshen bowed deeply: "I will take my leave first."

Chapter 268

Chapter 44 Yuezhou Shipping Department

Xu Daoshen withdrew, Du He asked: "Your Highness, is this person trustworthy?"

"It shouldn't be a problem, at least I didn't see any flaws from his expression." Li Zhen said: "Besides, there is no need for him to lie at this time. After all, the assassination of the governor is such a big thing, I am afraid that the whole Yuezhou has already heard about it." After all, even if he lied to us, this reason is too clumsy, right?"

Fang Yiai said even more self-confidently: "And we have the Blood Dragon Guard, what secret is there in Lingnan that can hide it from us?"

"That's right." Du He nodded and said, after going ashore to verify with the Blood Dragon Guard, everything will be clear by then.

The fleet quickly docked, but embarrassing things also happened, because the fleet was so large that the Yuezhou port could not accommodate it.In desperation, Li Zhen had no choice but to order the fleet to unload cargo in turn. As for the empty ships, they had to go to the Yuezhou Shipyard to berth temporarily.Fortunately, the scale of the Yuezhou Shipyard is not smaller than that of the Dengzhou Shipyard, otherwise these ships would have to spread out and berth.

"Really, I have to go to the shipyard to berth." While helping to unload, Fang Yiai yelled dissatisfiedly: "I don't think the prosperity of Yuezhou is very good, even Hangzhou is not as good as it is, and it is the largest city in Lingnan. "

"General Fang, don't complain, we are already the largest port in South of the Five Ridges except Quanzhou." Xu Daoshen hastily smiled bitterly, "No one thought that His Royal Highness's fleet would be so big. We are in South of the Five Ridges, what? Have you ever seen such a huge fleet? Usually, this port is enough for cargo ships from several surrounding states, and there is even room left. It has never received so many ships at one time.”

"No way, who makes the shipping so underdeveloped at this time. Besides, our ship has been damaged to some extent during this journey, so it's time to send it for repair and maintenance." Li Zhen shook her head and said, after all, it is still the shipping industry at this time It is caused by underdevelopment. If the potential of Yuezhou Port is really fully explored, the throughput is not just for fun. If Quanzhou is added, the entire Lingnan can become the economic center of Datang in an instant.

It's a pity that the voyages at this time are just minor incidents, and most of them are short-distance offshore shipping. I am afraid that Li Zhen's voyage from Dengzhou to Yuezhou this time is already an unprecedented feat in the eyes of others.

It was not until the Song Dynasty that the navigation industry really developed.It was also the development of the navigation industry that made the Song Dynasty the most prosperous dynasty in history, so that in the Celestial Dynasty, the per capita gdp value did not exceed that of the Song Dynasty.It's a pity that the Song Dynasty is really too soft. They obviously have the money to win the world, but they don't have the courage. They just wave a lot of money to buy peace everywhere, but they don't know that doing so will only attract more hungry wolves to pry. The fate is also destroyed by Jin Guo.The remnants of the royal family finally fled to the south and established a small court to survive. Instead of repenting and regaining their lost land, they intensified their efforts to self-destruct the Great Wall, and finally died under the iron heel of the Yuan Dynasty. It is really sad and ridiculous.

Li Zhen sometimes thought this way in her previous life, if the money from the Song Dynasty was added to the combat power of the Tang Dynasty, what kind of chemical reaction would it produce?There is no doubt that no one in the world will be Datang's opponent anymore—even if all the countries in the world except Datang are combined.

Now that this era has come, Li Zhen will naturally not let go of such an opportunity, he really wants to test his idea.This is an idea that he has had since he first passed through, and all he has done is to move towards this goal, and Lingnan is his first step.

"Your Highness, what are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking, should the most urgent task be to expand the port of Yuezhou?" Li Zhenxin made up an excuse: "The next main focus of Yuezhou is shipping, and infrastructure construction can't hold back."

"That's for sure." Fang Yiai said as a matter of course: "It's such a small port that can't even accommodate our small fleet of [-] ships. If the fleet of thousands of ships that you talked about comes , why not explode this small port?"

"Then I will leave this matter to you. I will now appoint you as the envoy of Yuezhou Shipping Department, responsible for all overseas affairs of Yuezhou, owning and managing merchant ships, collecting customs duties, investigating smuggling, buying imported materials, etc. Right. This is a lucrative position, you have to do it well. But, the most urgent thing is to repair your port first." Li Zhen said casually, and turned around to unload the goods after speaking.

"Isn't this just an accountant?" Fang Yi'ai pondered for a long time, but found that although this so-called city ship envoy sounds all sorts of lofty, but after thinking about it carefully, he is actually an accountant. He didn't care, and it was impossible for him to betray Li Zhen.