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Chapter 70: The Abandoned Chai

"This time, that time!" Hou Mo Chen Qianhui sighed leisurely and said: "Our Guanlong nobles and Shandong nobles are already mortal enemies, and there is no way to reconcile at all. It's just a pity that Guan Long's fellow Daoists have long been detached, and they are not as unanimous as the Shandong aristocracy. On the surface, now our Hou Mo Chen clan and the Fenzhou Chai clan are fighting, but behind the Fenzhou Chai clan, there is the entire Shandong aristocracy......"

Chen Ying somewhat understood, it should be Hou Mo Chen's family who suffered a loss: "Hou Mo Chen's can't fight the Shandong nobles, it doesn't mean that he can't fight the Chai family!" ”

"Ugh!" Hou Mo Chen Qian looked at Chen Ying in surprise: "Do you have a way?" ”

"I'm not sure, but I can give it a try." Chen Ying laughed softly: "The Shandong aristocracy may not be monolithic, and the Fenzhou Chai clan does not represent the Shandong aristocracy, even if he can, the Shandong nobles may not be with the Fenzhou Chai clan, inseparable, sometimes not correct, the so-called loyalty, but because the betrayal of the bargaining chips is not enough, if you have enough interests, people's left hand will betray the right hand, not to mention a vague and ethereal unclear, intangible, relationship network?" ”

Hou Mo Chen Qian was surprised and delighted: "What can you do?" ”

Chen Ying said without thinking: "There is not only one Chai clan in Fenzhou, right?" ”

Hou Mo Chen Qian would nod: "Fenzhou is located in Taiyuan, it is the county of the Taiyuan Wang family, and most of the Fenzhou families are vassal families of the Taiyuan Wang family...... Suddenly, Hou Mo Chen Qian will have an idea: "Do you want to start with the Taiyuan Wang family?" ”

Chen Ying nodded.

Li Jiancheng's first confidant Wang Qi is the Taiyuan Wang family, and he is also a descendant. Chen Ying wanted to talk to the Taiyuan Wang family, but in fact it was too easy. Chen Ying learned about Li Yuan's bottom line from Hou Mo Chen Qianhui, and he had a plan in his heart.

When it comes to doing things, doing things vigorously and resolutely is Chen Ying's characteristic.

At noon, Chen Ying hurriedly had a meal at Hou Mo Chen's mansion, and then set off for the East Palace to see Li Jiancheng. Chen Ying has a thousand years of knowledge and a thousand years of insight.

The Wang family of Taiyuan is the leader of Taiyuan, and the surrounding clans of all sizes are headed by the Wang family, advancing and retreating together. Generally speaking, as long as the support of the township tyrants is obtained, they can quickly control the place through the human, material and financial resources they control.

Just like the Wang family, as long as they get the support of the Taiyuan Wang family, there is no problem at all in controlling Taiyuan and even the entire Hedong, in the Hedong Rebellion, in fact, only the Li Tang court and the Taiyuan Wang family have a slight rift.

At the beginning of Li Yuan's army, in order to win over the Taiyuan Wang family, he used Pei Lin as a matchmaker to ask Wang Yuan Wang's family for his fourth son, Li Yuanji. However, the Taiyuan Wang clan directly and without hesitation rejected Li Yuan's request. The reason, in fact, is also a well-known problem, that is, the Taiyuan Wang family thinks that they are descendants of the Han family with pure blood, and Li Yuan has Xianbei blood.

Li Yuan was very angry, but he couldn't move the Taiyuan Wang clan until Li Yuanji became the governor of Bingzhou and sat in Taiyuan. Li Yuanji, who held Taiyuan in his hands, was filled with righteous indignation whenever he thought of the humiliation of the Taiyuan Wang's refusal. Li Yuanji is not Li Yuan, Li Yuan because of his concerns, he didn't dare to turn his face with the Taiyuan Wang family, but Li Yuanji is only sixteen years old, and in later generations, he is a junior high school student at the age of Li Yuanji, and it is the rebellious period of youth, so Li Yuanji raised his eyebrows and raised his eyes at the Taiyuan Wang family.

None of the clan's butts are clean, and each of them has a glamorous appearance, but also has the unspeakable squalor and sinfulness of the bamboo. Just like the officials of later generations, there is no problem if they don't check, they are all models, and there are problems in nine out of ten checks. After Li Shimin defeated Xue Ju in the first year of Wude, Li Yuanji became even more Bengali.

Seventeen Taiyuan officials below the fourth rank of the Taiyuan Wang clan were successively dismissed, and as for the seventh, eighth, and ninth ranks, there were even hundreds of officials who did not enter the stream, and Li Yuanji investigated not only the corruption of Wang Yuan and the Wang clan, but also investigated their violations of law and discipline. Although Li Yuanji is a guy who can't do things, he is very smart. He dealt with the Taiyuan Wang clan quite skillfully, first made the reputation of the Taiyuan Wang family's children stink, and then dealt with it according to the law.

Most of the Taiyuan Wangs are civil officials and control public opinion, but no matter how much they control public opinion, they have no way to reverse the fact that the Taiyuan Wang family has lost the hearts of the people in Taiyuan. If Li Yuanji is allowed to make trouble, I am afraid that the thousand-year-old foundation of the Taiyuan Wang clan will be ruined.

So, in this case. The Taiyuan Wang clan colluded with Liu Wuzhou and gave Taiyuan to Liu Wuzhou. Li Yuan stood tall and could see clearly, so he ignored the opposition of the government and the opposition, raised Li Yuanji high, and put it down gently, just to dismiss the official and go to the knight. Because of what Li Yuanji did in Taiyuan, he had a very good appetite for Li Yuan.

In this case, the Taiyuan Wang clan was afraid that Li Yuan would settle accounts with them.

……

When Chen Ying arrived at the East Palace, Li Jiancheng was not in the East Palace, and Pei Ju received Chen Ying.

Pei Ju looked at Chen Ying, and the wrinkles on his face smiled even deeper: "I heard that Pei Shi owes Chen Lang a favor, if there is a need in the future, just open your mouth." ”

Don't look at Li Jiancheng's appointment of Pei Ju as the secretary of the East Palace, nominally Pei Ju is one of the three secretaries of the East Palace, but this is not a good official position, after the Middle Tang Dynasty, this secretary order will be specially held by eunuchs, and there will no longer be scholars. Pei Ju would rather serve as a five-grade priest than be a third-grade Donggong secretary.

However, because Pei Ju was new and he was too old, he didn't dare to refuse Li Jiancheng's expedition like a madman.

At this time, Chen Ying recommended Pei Ju as the envoy of the Guanjun, although this was an errand for the supervising army, but it was Li Jiancheng, the prince of the supervising state, who inspected the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion and was very easy to achieve.

Chen Ying took the opportunity to say: "Hou Mochen has some old grievances with the Fenzhou Chai family, can Wen Xi Pei's family stand by and watch?" ”

If Chen Ying opened his mouth and asked Pei Ju to deal with the Chai family, Wen Xi Pei's family really couldn't do it, after all, Pei Ju was not the only one who could say it. The hottest person in Pei's family now is actually not Pei Ju, but Pei Lian.

Let Wen Xi Pei sit on the wall and watch, Pei Ju didn't think about it at all, and agreed to it.

……

Chen Ying didn't wait long in the East Palace, and Li Jiancheng came together with Wang Qi.

Shanxi was a major resource province in China in later generations, and Chen Ying could name many large coal mines in Shanxi even with his eyes closed, and of course, Taiyuan was not short of steel resources. Looking at the crown prince Li Jiancheng and Wang Qi, Chen Ying said his thoughts: "There is a large amount of coal in the Taiyuan Basin, and there is abundant steel. ”

Li Jiancheng said: "It's okay for charcoal to be used for fire heating, but it's ...... steelmaking."

Coal contains a lot of sulfur, which is a pile of useless phosphorus pig iron that can be used to make steel directly from coal. This kind of thing can be broken by hand and has no value at all.

Chen Yingdao: "Chen has this technology, you can first desulfurize the charcoal, and then use the desulfurized charcoal to make steel, this kind of coke is higher than charcoal, the effect is better, the key is to have an inexhaustible supply." ”

Wang Jue's heart was instantly moved: "There is no free lunch in the world, I'm afraid Chen Lang won't take out this technique in vain, right?" ”

Chen Ying nodded very frankly and said, "Yes, there is a small condition!" ”

Wang Qi said: "I want to hear it in detail!" ”

The corners of Chen Ying's mouth hooked, and said: "The Fenzhou Chai clan and the Hou Mo Chen clan have old grudges, and I want the Chai clan to admit defeat." ”

"......" Wang Jue was silent.

Li Jiancheng suddenly realized that he finally understood the real reason for Chai Shao's death. Li Jiancheng looked at Chen Ying and sighed in his heart, Chen Ying really took great pains for Li Xiuning.

"The meat is only so big, if you have one more bite, I will have one less, Fenzhou is frequently in Taiyuan, once this business is done, Chai's will inevitably have a piece of the pie, right?"

Chen Ying looked at Wang Qi and still frowned, so Chen Ying reminded: "The Fenzhou Chai clan no longer exists, and the Taiyuan Wang clan can take advantage of the situation to take over all the Chai clan's forces." Whether it is a person or a thing, it is the safest and most secure only by grasping it in your own hands......"

Wang Jue's clenched fist slowly opened and nodded thoughtfully.

Chen Ying, Li Jiancheng, and Wang Qi directly decided the fate of the Fenzhou Chai clan in a few words.

Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat dried shrimp, and the weak eat the strong, this is the eternal law of nature.

Fenzhou Chai's may be a behemoth to others, but in front of Taiyuan Wang's family, Li Jiancheng, and Chen Ying, Fenzhou Chai's is just a small shrimp that can be sacrificed anytime and anywhere.

Today eight thousand two, ask for support,