I Rely on Beauty to Stabilize the Country

As soon as Gu Yuanbai returned to the court, everyone calmed down.

The person who was secretly watching the assassin sent a message to Gu Yuanbai. After the group of assassins sent by the Jiashen Society had inquired about the news in the capital, they had already hurriedly left before the city gate was closed yesterday.

Gu Yuanbai listened to the news while washing, and smiled slightly when he heard the words, and said: "The new batch of people from the Supervision Office have already arrived in Jingnan and Jiangnan."

The large army of the Jiashenhui was in Jinghu Lake, where it was easy to hide because of the chaos in Jinghu Lake.And a small part is in Jiangnan. Jiangnan is different from Jingnan. When dealing with Jingnan, the rebel army will directly suppress it. When dealing with the rich Jiangnan and the vast number of powerful, they may choose to coerce and lure.

Gu Yuanbai threw the handkerchief into the water basin, and his eyes glanced over the people around him. Even Xue Yuan could not stop his eyes for a second. In the end, Gu Yuanbai's eyes were fixed. On the topographic map on the wall.

That was the map of the Great Heng Dynasty that he had just shown up.

In the lower left corner of the map, there are Jingnan and Jiangnan.

Gu Yuanbai's gaze was fixed here, he sighed, and said, "It's finally about to start."

He has been coveting the various mines in Jinghu Lake for a long time.

The terrain of Jingnan Lake is naturally dangerous, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only one side is open, facing Jiangnan.

It is connected to the south of Guangdong in the south and the east of Guangdong to the left. These two places are the places where the imperial court committed exile.For example, Feng Chengzhi, the former censor of Taichung, was exiled in Guangxi.

Such a place has natural dangers, and such natural dangers are the main reason why the intricate and powerful forces in the area feel that the emperor cannot send troops to suppress them.

The local tyrants in Jingnan, and the Lu family in Huainan can also be ranked here. If you want to say that the big heads here are the five local tyrants headed by the Chen family.

The Chen family is the largest and ranks first.Their ancestors were officials, and they have inextricable connections with officials behind them. They are flamboyant and arrogant, even daring to tear down local officials and beat them in the street just because they ran into them on horseback.

Killing and murdering, controlling the government, and collecting taxes privately, the common people have no means of living under heavy taxes.

With the extension of time and the growing power, Jinghu Lake has formed a regime headed by the Chen family.

And these tyrannical powers are all the disadvantages left by Lu Feng when he controlled the government.

The patriarch of the Chen family is called Chen Jinyin. Chen Jinyin is already old, and the shrewdness of his youth has been replaced by greed.He no longer has the energy to work hard and starts to enjoy his success. He doesn't care about other people in the family, but when it comes to his mine, it won't work.

When people are old, they also learn to enjoy luxury.The porcelain he used was the most exquisite batch of porcelain fired in the official kiln. The fruits he used reached Yongxing in the north and Zhejiang in the east. They were the freshest fruits in the world.The rice he ate was good rice, and the meat he ate was the tenderest piece of meat from an animal.

Extravagance anesthetized Chen Jinyin's mind, and also anesthetized the entire Chen family's mind.The Chen family is so extravagant, who would be willing to be worse than him among the other powerful?

When the top is drunk with money and money, the people below are even more miserable.

Back then, when Gu Yuanbai sent people to follow the people from Jiashenhui and fled all the way to Jingnan and Jiangnan, he took advantage of the opportunity to deploy his own people in these two places.At the beginning of April, he had his own people pretend to be a caravan and play a trade war in the Jingnan area.

He played this trade war very high-profile, and completely transferred Guan Zhong's strategy, but replaced Guan Zhong's behavior of spending money to buy deer with spending money to buy mines. 1

The mine is a major geographical advantage of Jingnan Lake. When Gu Yuanbai sent people to rush to send the head to Jiashenhui, it was also April.

It was spring sowing at that time, and according to Yuan Bai's words, the people who pretended to be caravans stayed here in Jingnan for two months.They fully expressed the arrogance of the caravan in the prosperous area, saying, "We only need ore, no matter what kind of ore we want, as much as we have. As long as we can find ore, we can exchange the ore for money."

The caravan asked for ore and distributed money, as long as the ore was delivered immediately, the farmers in Jinghu Lake forgot about the fields that had not been sown, and went to the mountains with hoes to dig ore every day.

This incident also spread to the ears of local tyrants headed by the Chen family. They even stopped the work of their servants and tenants directly, and asked them to go up the mountain to look for ore all day and night, and then sold it to Gu Yuanbai's merchants. Team.

Two months later, after the spring sowing period, the fields in Jingnan Lake were deserted, and Gu Yuanbai's caravan also left.The common people had no choice but to continue mining and sell these to the passing merchants, and many of them actually earned more money than farming.

And half a month ago, people in Jinghu Lake actually dug out a gold mine!

Everyone in Jinghu Lake, from the tyrants to the common people, was excited, and the daily mining was even more enthusiastic.Of course that gold mine was occupied by the Chen family. After owning this gold mine, they would be sitting on a gold mountain. Chen Jinyin had been completely lost in the mine, and all his servants and tenants had been sent to mine by him.

The common people saw that the gold mine was really dug out, and the ore before it was sold and sold. Who cares about the food, they dig the mine to make money, can't the money buy food?

Jiangnan is a land of fish and rice. The rice grown is fragrant and sweet. They transport grain to Jingnan South and open grain stores. They can buy it with money and don’t have to farm the land themselves. They spend the rest of their time mining to make money. There is no need to grow How is the place?

So until now, the food in Jinghu Lake has been bought with money.They couldn't catch up with the spring sowing, and the whole Jinghu Lake was devoted to the enthusiasm of mining. Under such circumstances, this trade war was so easy and simple that Gu Yuanbai took control of the active side.

On this day, Chen Jinyin was basking in the sun and drinking iced tea in the mansion.

The younger son, who was sweating outside, came over and sat down, picked up the unmelted ice cubes, stuffed them into his mouth, and complained casually: "Those in charge are really troublesome, but the rice grains shipped from Jiangnan are a bit high. , you have to drag me over to discuss it again."

Chen Jinyin said: "People who have never seen mountains of gold and silver, even these petty profits will take advantage of them."

The youngest son chuckled, "My son thinks so, so we can afford it. It's not like we can't afford it. I guess it's because the people in the south of the Yangtze River envy us and think that our family has dug up a gold mine, so they specially raised the price."

Chen Jinyin's heart has been covered with gold and golden light, his old eyes are dazed, he can't think clearly, hearing what his youngest son said, he also thinks so, and cursed: "The poor people in Jiangnan only do these things. Small trick! They raised the price, just to be sure that we will buy it. If we don’t buy it, I have gold mines. I can eat whatever grain I want, and the emperor is not as good as me. Previously Didn't you buy some good rice? Eat that first."

"Hey," the youngest son should say, "son will do it now."

But when he stood up and faced the sun suddenly, the youngest son was in a trance for a moment, and suddenly a terrible and absurd thought arose.

He turned his head to look at Chen Jinyin, and said in a low voice: "Father, this gold mine is in our hands, will the imperial court send troops to attack us?"

This ridiculous remark made Chen Jinyin laugh out loud, and even burst into tears. He said boldly: "Let him fight! Let me see who the imperial court will send to beat me! I have all the government offices in Jingnan, Here I am the Emperor of Earth, and the imperial court sent troops to fight? He did, hahaha."

Hearing what he said, the youngest son also felt that he was thinking too much.So he hurried out to refuse to buy those Jiangnan merchants who deliberately raised the price of grain.

So half a month later.

Jiashen Association of Ningyuan County.

Xu Xiongyuan was talking to Liu Yan, his expression was very intimate, obviously he trusted Liu Yan very much.

Zhao Zhou asked from the side: "In the first half month, the Chen family dug out a gold mine, and the whole Jinghu Lake was full of enthusiasm for mining. Brother Liu, why did you stop the people from the Jiashenhui from digging?" ?”

Liu Yan sighed: "Brother Zhao, why haven't you thought about coming here yet? Although the gold and silver mines make me very greedy, but here is Jinghu Lake, and the forces are very chaotic. Those places are powerful, and even the emperor can't do anything to them , it is already difficult for our Jiashen Society to hibernate in secret, how can we suppress them better than the emperor? Under such circumstances, even if we have dug up gold mines, they will have to be robbed by the Chen family in the end."

Zhao Zhou had to admit that what Liu Yan said made sense.

Xu Xiongyuan also thinks it makes sense, but the meaning hidden in this sentence that he can't compare with the emperor still makes him very unhappy.His smile at Liu Yan also faded, "Are these tycoons really so powerful? They also have soldiers and horses?"

Liu Yan smiled naturally: "They don't have soldiers and horses, but there are more than two to three thousand servants and tenants in the family, and the relationship between them and the officials is intricate and intricate. It's just big."

Xu Xiongyuan was dissatisfied and said: "How can 2000 domestic servants compare to my Xu Xiongyuan's [-] elite soldiers!"

He couldn't help thinking in his heart, even a small merchant can occupy a gold mine, so wouldn't it be easy for him, Xu Xiongyuan and his five thousand elite soldiers, to seize this gold mine?

Zhao Zhou seemed to know what he was thinking, and said exactly what Xu Xiongyuan was thinking in his heart.

"How can that be!" Liu Yan was surprised, and then stopped again and again, "These local tyrants are all related or distant. If the general wants to seize the gold mine by force, those who are related to the Chen family will attack it together! The government Knowing where the general is, maybe they will send troops to encircle and suppress us, not to mention acting like this, isn't it undoubtedly like bandits?"

Xu Xiongyuan and Zhao Zhou looked at each other, thinking together, this Liu Yan is good at everything, but he is too pedantic.

How can this be called robbery?Even if the gold mine is really obtained, it is only the filial piety of the Chen family to them.

They skipped this topic by coincidence, and smiled to comfort Liu Yan. In fact, they were already thinking in their hearts whether it was worth the risk of being discovered by the government to snatch that gold mine.

It would be great if the person sent to the capital to assassinate the emperor succeeded.Xu Xiongyuan thought piously, if the Buddha really existed, he, the real dragon, should be blessed. Let the people in the capital succeed in the assassination, and it would be best if the dog emperor could die like this.

As long as the dog emperor dies, the court will have no time to apply for the meeting in Serie A.The emperor had no heirs, and Xu Xiongyuan didn't believe that those clansmen couldn't mess up.

And once there is chaos, it's time for him, Xu Xiongyuan, the true dragon, to rise up.

At that time, not to mention the Chen family's gold mine, all the gold mines in the world belong to him, Mr. Xu!

Hahahaha, cheers!