Compared with the ruin of Jiankang City, today's Jingkou can be said to have reached a peak of prosperity, because of the spread of the war in the west and the standing of the Xingtai here, many families from the north and south gathered here.

In the past, the prosperity of Jingkou was more as a gathering place for people and a distribution center for goods from the north and south. After seeing the huge market potential and relatively stable environment in Jingkou, the atmosphere of buying real estate in Jingkou has climbed to a peak for a while.

In the past six months or so, although the war in the west has been fierce, because of the existence of the Great Cause Xiongguan, the real impact on Jingkou has not been great. After a period of disruption, the market is gradually getting back on track with the influx of goods from the south. Without the double pressure of survival and safety, the atmosphere in Jingkou became active again for a while, and even set off a climax of large-scale construction.

Compared with the old capital Jianye, the geopolitical environment of Jingkou is safer, and the forty-mile-wide river does not have to worry about the threat from the north, and there are also scattered armed forces of displaced people between Huaisi on the north bank of the river. With the dredging and trimming of the entire Wuzhong waterway, it is more convenient to obtain the supply of materials in Wuzhong. There are also a large number of armament facilities to the west, and there is no need to worry about threats from the upstream.

For these families who had just endured the dangers of the Liyang Rebellion, Jingkou was simply a perfect place to recuperate. In the past, they gave up operating in Jingkou because a large number of displaced people gathered here and could not be resettled, the public security was too chaotic, and Jingkou at that time had not undergone large-scale development, the mountains and forests were dense, and wild beasts were rampant.

However, with the vigorous development of Shangmeng and Yinjue in Jingkou, many infrastructure projects have been created, large areas of wasteland have been developed, and the diversion and resettlement of displaced people have also been on the right track.

Such a safe and potential treasure land has naturally aroused the covetousness of many people. If these newcomers want to make arrangements in Jingkou, it will inevitably affect some of the patterns that have been formed here. Nowadays, if a family wants to operate somewhere, it is seldom to follow the right path, on the one hand, the price to pay is too great, and on the other hand, the progress is not too fast.

However, when they tried to take advantage of their past experience, they were met with unprecedented resistance. To give the simplest example, a certain foreign high-ranking family wants to embezzle some low-income people's properties according to their authority, obviously this family does not have the prestige and prestige, but once it is invaded, it is a response, and the high-ranking gate will soon become the target of public criticism in the local area, and even the safety is threatened!

In the past, similar disputes were staged almost every day in Jingkou, and there were even some vicious times when some outsiders were directly killed by local refugees and burned and looted at home. After receiving enough lessons, these outsiders gradually realized the power of the Hidden Lord and the Shang Alliance in Jingkou.

It is impossible to use force, and after these outsiders realized this problem, some chose to lie dormant, while others were still unwilling. It is true that compared with these families who have been operating in Jingkou for a long time, they lack both human and material resources, but it does not mean that there are no opportunities for cooperation with each other.

These people in Jingkou either have sufficient human and financial resources, but they have one shortcoming, that is, they have no political resources and promotion channels, so they stay in Jingkou for a long time. But outsiders went to Jiankang to operate very early, whether in terms of fame or position, they were incomparable to these people in Jingkou.

It is true that in Jiangdong, where the rebellion has not yet been quelled, the value of these resources is greatly reduced compared to the promotion of the peace of the world. But in other words, because of this, the locals in Jingkou are also coveted by it. After all, in the current world, wealth is only to ensure a relatively stable standard of living, but fame and prestige can determine the starting point and future of a family, which is undoubtedly a great attraction for those local families who are unprepared or lack of power.

On this issue, the two sides hit it off, with outsiders responsible for building fame and prestige for local families, and those local families facilitating these people's foothold in Beijing.

At a time when the invisible barriers of class are so strict, even if the children of the poor have a lot of money, they have no way to seek help politically, and they are looked down upon. But now, as long as they provide some goods, people, and land, they can become guests on the high seats, mingling and laughing with the celebrities of the time who were previously unattainable. This would have been unthinkable in the past!

And for those celebrities in the family, these Jingkou cold rumors are vulgar, untasteful, and homeless. In the past, not to mention communicating with these people, even if I accidentally saw it, I felt that it was polluting my own hearing and hearing. However, these people have resources that are beyond their reach in Jingkou, but they have no means to snatch them.

Although each of them still occupies a lot of power in the Xingtai, at the moment even the Xingtai has to rely on these people to support them, and their little authority is really not enough to pose a substantial threat to the other party. And because of the existence of the Hidden Lord and the Shang Alliance, coupled with the inextricable relationship between the Huaibei Liumin Army and Dongyangzhou and these people, the past way of dividing and disintegrating and fighting among each other will not work. The only way to get the resources at their disposal seems to be through cooperation.

Jingkou is not easy, most of these people are in a hurry to leave the capital, and there are not many goods with them, plus the prices of Jingkou are soaring, and Xingtai does not have enough financial resources to support them. As the war dragged on in the west, many families naturally fell into a difficult situation.

There is a huge gap in chance, when food and clothing cannot be satisfied, people's temperaments are different, and they will naturally make various choices. It is true that there are a considerable number of people who still stick to their doors and are proud of themselves, but there are also many people who want to improve their living conditions, and naturally hit it off with those Jingkou people who have no way to enter.

With these old surnames sparing no effort to wave their flags and shout, many families here in Jingkou who were originally hopeless have become famous, and some people who already have a good family reputation have also taken this opportunity to return to the mainstream vision again because of the fall of their families when they crossed to the south earlier.

And those outsiders also took advantage of the help of these local families to start buying real estate in Jingkou, many garden villas rose from the ground, and the shares in Yinjue were also changed frequently, so that the entire Jingkou was once again rejuvenated.

After passing the Great Cause Pass, Shen Zhezi met his second uncle Shen Ke who came to greet him and many Wu Zhong relatives in the business alliance. As the powerful faction in the current situation, Tao Kan and Wen Qiao have reached a consensus with Wang Dao, and each will send a group of people to follow Shen Zhezi to Xingtai to meet the empress dowager and others.

Originally, Shen Zhezi did not plan to return to Jingkou in the near future, although he did not have a specific ministry in the capital, he still needed to personally sit in the town and mobilize and dispatch manpower and material resources to Jiangbei. However, on the Xingtai side, the Yin Jue and some principals of the Shang Alliance all spread the news that there were some bad trends, and there was also a little accident in the selection of personnel to go to Jiangbei.

Many of the sons of the family who followed Shen Zhezi's surprise attack on Jiankang enthusiastically asked to join Du He's team, which made Shen Zhezi a little unexpected, but also happy. These people are willing to go to Jiangbei to make contributions, Shen Zhezi is happy to see it, but it is not good to send people to Jiangbei so casually, and they can't explain to their respective families, so this time they will take them back to Jingkou by the way, so that they can communicate with their families, and if they still insist on going, then join together.

Because of the urgency of the Jingkou side, Shen Zhezi arrived at the Great Cause first, instructed the personnel who stayed behind the Great Cause to be responsible for receiving the army in the rear, and then set off to rush to the Beijing with those who greeted him.

Along the way, Shen Ke talked to Shen Zhezi about the hidden worries of the development of Yinjue and the business alliance, that is, the transaction and cooperation between many outsiders and locals. The integration of supply and marketing between Yinjue and Shangmeng was built overnight, and many conventional rules were formed with the process of operation and growth. However, with the frequent change of participants, many of the original rules have been broken, which has brought great trouble to the daily operation of the two.

"As early as when Tao Gong broke Liyang, there were already rumors in Xingtai that the Yu family's relatives were used, and they were guilty of no merit and caused trouble to Jiangdong. The escort army is on the line, and it is already difficult to maintain it, and if it were not for the queen mother's stubbornness, the situation would be even more worrying. ”

After Shen Ke finished telling the general situation in Jingkou, he sighed: "People's hearts are unpredictable, and it is difficult to calm down. The business alliance has its own foundation in Wuzhong, and it can still maintain chaos. But now Yinjue is a pot of boiling soup, and many people have joined in and want to divide the power. The guards have been unable to make a decision, and the goods that were previously being transported to Jiankang are now trapped along the river, and they cannot start after delay. ”

After Shen Zhezi heard this, he nodded slightly. He wasn't surprised that the structure of the Hidden Lord and the Shang Alliance would go wrong. The reason why this structure was established earlier was because there was a premise for working together to develop the large market in Beijing. But now that the Jingkou market has been fully developed, showing enough potential and benefits, it is normal for people to covet it.

Shen Zhezi never thought that relying solely on the power of capital could accomplish too profound changes, no matter what period and what kind of economic changes, political first is always a premise that cannot be ignored. Although the establishment of the Hidden Jue was supported by the highly inflammatory theory of the Fifth Level and Three Jin Dynasty in the early stage, what was more important was the protection and attraction provided by the power of the Yu family.

Now that the power of the Yu family is in jeopardy, it is certain that the Hidden Lord will waver. In particular, Xingtai was founded in Jingkou, which gave many people the illusion that they could enter the center with a single leap and complete a big leap in their family history. In such a situation, political progress can easily outweigh the demand for profits, thus providing a possibility for people to divide and disintegrate.

Shen Zhezi's current calm is not a pretentious gesture, or hindsight, when he decided to place the platform in Jingkou, he had already expected the current situation. Earlier, because he was busy with the war and grabbed the merits, he just planned the middle division of Yangzhou in Jingkou and left in a hurry, and did not make deeper changes to the Yinjue and the Shang Alliance, in fact, he also left a pit, hoping to get more people involved.

Shen Zhezi did not feel that it was ungrateful for those hermit families to strive for political advancement, and it was instinct for people to choose greater interests in the right situation, and he was also happy to see these people show their political ambitions. Many things cannot be measured by morality in the first place.

History has its contingencies as well as its inevitability, and there will be a process in the development of everything. In the original history, except for a few families like the Yu family, the Chu family, including the Xi family, these overseas Chinese families in Jingkou found a prominent position in the current situation for a while, and jumped into the political arena as a whole with political ambitions, which would be decades later.

But now the situation in Jingkou shows that these people have their own political intentions and are working hard for them, of course, there are those shadows of Qingxu Qiaomen, but the rise of these families is bound to carve up the inherent political resources. Those high-ranking men thought that they could encourage these people to achieve their intentions, but in fact, they had already reached the edge of the grave that Shen Zhezi had dug for them!