Chapter II. 219. And rightfully so
Now that Yan Tian has chosen the fertile land of the Dongyou Li family, he naturally has to discuss it with the 'number one fighting dog' under Li Deng's door, Wan Changning.
This Wan Changning has been by Li Deng's side since he was a child, and he knows more about this Youbei Prime Minister than Li Le'an, his own daughter. Knowing that he had just made a start, Wan Changning poured cold water on himself.
According to Wan Changning, although his maternal uncle was born in a businessman family, he had been traveling around the Huayu Continent and visiting celebrities in his youth. Although the plant he had high hopes for, called 'Elephant Valley', was found by Bagge from the classical texts of shamanism during his lifetime, it was actually not a rare thing at all in the Minjiang River and southern Yunnan in Nankang. This so-called 'shamanic secret medicine' actually only needs to be processed a little before it becomes something else - hibiscus cream.
Judging from Li Deng's style of acting in a wide range of ways and a gentleman's standard in everything, if the crown prince went to discuss with him personally, maybe the stubborn old man would have made a move to clean up the door directly on impulse.
However, Wan Changning's heartfelt words did not dissuade Yan Tian, who was full of ambition; On the contrary, his desire to sell Elephant Valley, or the 'business' of hibiscus cream, became even deeper. The reason for all this, of course, is that the benefits that can be obtained have made a huge difference.
Although Yan Tian had been in contact with Xianggu before, he was very familiar with things like Hibiscus Ointment. Because as early as when he accepted the greeting gift of Di Ting, the Double Heaven Gambling House, he had already heard about this kind of thing from Huang Li's mouth. According to their agreement at the time, all the gambling income of the first and second floors, including the 'seal money' that the prince had borrowed privately at usurious rates, belonged to him alone, and all he had to do was to allow Di Ting to sell hibiscus cream on the third floor of the gambling house. Moreover, the prince can also take 10% of the dry shares from this.
Wherever the people are poorer, the richer the rich will be. Don't look at most of the people on Youbei Third Road, they are living a difficult life; can be the family background of these rich men in the capital, but it is not worse than the rich businessmen of Nankang.
No matter how Yan Tian imagined it, he couldn't imagine that the income from the ten private rooms on the third floor of the Shuangtian Gambling House was not inferior to the gambling rooms on the first and second floors. Such a rich reward has already made Yan Day, who can only drink soup, salivate. Now that there is such a God-given opportunity, he naturally has to grasp it firmly.
Although Yan Tian grew up in the palace, after all, he was also a child of a family, and he was naturally very clear about the matter of flies and dogs in the big family. He would never believe that since the Yan family was full of intrigue in private, his Li family would be a monolith. It can be said that except for the special situation of the Guo family's thin incense, the relationship between the children of each big family in private is not much better.
According to Wan Changning, since Li Deng returned from his study tour, he has not stayed in the Li family's base camp, the Great Wilderness City on Dongyou Road, for a few days. And after he entered Beijing to take over his father's position as prime minister, he never returned to his hometown again. And what kind of crops to cultivate on the land of Dongyou every year also relied on the four elders of the Li family's outer branch to decide together, and finally reported to Li Deng for approval. In recent years, this kind of overall management of private affairs and miscellaneous matters has been managed by Wan Changning on his behalf.
And after he secretly formed an alliance with Wan Changning, Li Deng, who was destined to be kept in the dark with his 'mediation', was naturally not worried. Moreover, the actual head of the Li family, that is, the old man of the four Li families, will definitely not be able to hide from them if something grows in the land of Dongyou Road. And Yan Tian also understands this truth very well, and he is also ready to get a piece of the pie.
The strategy he and Wan Changning finally settled on was to start with the Li family's external lineage, and lure them with heavy profits to secretly plant this kind of 'elephant valley' with rich returns, and the grain that should have been planted was either smuggled from Beiyan and other places, or replaced by official warehouses and old grains from previous years. As long as they are presented in full, let Wan Changning give an explanation to Li Deng.
So, the prince sent his confidants to Dongyou Road to negotiate, but he didn't expect that the old man of the Li family, who had four and a half of his body in the ground, heard that there were such beautiful things in the world, and he didn't even dare to pay back the price, so he directly agreed to it. Moreover, their eldest elder Li Gao also asked someone to bring back a sentence: If the crown prince can help his grandson Li Sanlin to sit on the position of Li Deng's head of the family in the future, then he can also guarantee that the Li family in Dongyou Road will be completely loyal to 'His Majesty Yan Day' after he ascends the throne.
These two really hit it off! Originally, Yan Tian was also worried that after getting rid of the Li family, who would hand over Dongyoulu to manage, so that there would not be a tiger and wolf minister like Li Deng and Guo Yunsong; Now Li Gao's attitude has really shown himself a chance to be able to transition smoothly! is because even if he completely eradicates the Li family, he will definitely hurt his muscles and bones when he goes up and down the East Secluded Road; But if he raised another puppet of the Li family, would he need to work harder?
Of course, the two of them contacted each other by hand, and they used manpower to send some messages back and forth, leaving no substantial evidence at all. In this kind of 'negotiation method', only they know how true or false the promises made to each other are in their own hearts.
Moreover, in order to express his sincerity, Li Gao also took the initiative to reveal a rather frustrating news to Yan Day: Now Li Deng's only daughter, Li Le'an, has returned to the Great Wilderness City to escape the war; And the escort force around him is only a few hundred people.
The reason why this news is a bit chicken is because the situation of the Li family and the Guo family is different. After all, Guo Shuang of the Guo family is a man, and according to the rules, he can completely inherit Guo Yunsong's Zhongshan throne; But after all, this Li Le'an is only a daughter, and there is no possibility of inheriting the position of the head of the family; In this way, no matter whether she Li Le'an is moved or not, the position of the head of the Li family will eventually fall into the hands of the side bloodline.
However, his creditor Scar Man was still sitting on the third floor of the Shuangtian Gambling House every day at this time, and he must have not waited for him to wear out Li Deng's patience.
And after Wan Changning heard this, he also brought Yan Tian a not very good news: Li Deng seemed to be very satisfied with Li Le'an's future husband, that is, Guo Yunsong's grandson Shen Gui; The old and the young often get together to chat, as if they have become a pair of old friends. If it is at this rate of development, after Li Le'an really marries Shen Gui, his Li family may not really have a successor.
Because according to the rules of Dongyou Road, no matter when Li Le'an gave birth to a boy, and Shen Gui allowed him to take his mother's surname, then this baby boy surnamed Li would be qualified enough to inherit the position of the head of the family.
Of course, this is the last thing Yan Tian wants to see!
However, since you have to make a move, you have to find someone to sacrifice the flag. From all angles, Shen Gui is the number one trouble he wants to get rid of.
This remnant of the Guo family doesn't know where the scourge came out, and since he appeared, he hasn't encountered a good thing; And the entire Youbei Third Road knows that he and his second brother Yan Qinghong have the same smell, and the two are very close to each other, and there is a faint tendency to wear the same pants. And although he had also thought about recruiting him into the scene, but when he came, he still held a life of his maternal uncle Guo Shuang in his hands, if he was by his side, wouldn't it become a huge hidden danger that would explode at any time? In the second case, he also had Wan Changning's secret help. With the ability and talent he showed, even if he couldn't compare to Shen Gui, he couldn't be much worse.
However, since Shen Guiqi can't be used by me, I definitely can't let him act as the second child's staff.
Unexpectedly, after he told the scar man his plan, the scar man disappeared for five days before meeting him again.
When he returned to Nankang this time, he brought back several boxes of Ahibiscus paste as samples, and promised to strongly support the prince's overall plan. Moreover, the senior management of Diting also promised him that as long as it was an errand that paved the way for this plan, all the costs would be borne by Diting.
Of course, this scar man is also a first-class master of the rivers and lakes, and he can be sent to the top three positions in the entire Di Ting. When he comes back this time, he will do his best to help Yan Tian.
Overjoyed, Yan Tian told Scar Man about his plan to assassinate Shen Gui. Unexpectedly, when they met again the next day, the scar man had already suffered serious internal injuries. He told Yan Tian that there was an old man with a Heavenly Spirit Vein guarding the door above the Shen Mansion, if he hadn't entered the mansion at night and the old man was not wearing pants when he was sleeping, whether he could come back or not would have been in between.
As a result, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince could only retreat and ask the scar man to go to the Great Wilderness City in the East to kill his cousin Li Le'an.
After all, this future 'roadblock couple', no matter which one dies, the entire Li family will end up with no successor.
After the scar man recovered from his internal injuries, there was an attack on the Li family's mansion in the Great Wilderness City. Under the collusion between inside and outside, Li Zilin, the prefect of the Great Wilderness City who lives opposite the Li Mansion, did not lead the troops to rescue, which is naturally reasonable.
Until this time, Shen Gui got these news from Wan Changning's mouth, coupled with his own inference, and finally had a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of the prince's mental journey.
But the only thing he didn't understand was why Wan Changning would go against him, a stranger, and even did not hesitate to instigate the prince to intercept and kill his teacher's only daughter, Li Le'an.
"Because long before you appeared, I was already obsessed with the eldest lady...... I don't know if this reason can convince you? ”
Wan Changning's side face reflected the sun, and he calmly told Shen Gui the reason he had buried deep in his heart.
If you can't get it, you will destroy it with your own hands. This somewhat appalling reason is taken for granted in Shen Gui's eyes. The two were silent for a long time, Shen Gui picked up the pen, wrote a few words on the rice paper on Wan Changning's desk, and then pushed the door and left.
"Yesterday's things, like yesterday's death; Today's things, such as today's birth......"
Wan Changning chewed the words on it a few times, then chuckled lightly and said to himself:
"The writing is too ugly......