The old land of the Xi people is still far away from the White Wolf Water, at first the Xi tribe is still in the east of the Xibu department, and then the Turks perished, so they migrated to the real river. Tong Jin also secretly called himself Khan, and called himself King Xi in the northwest of Liao, and wanted to be on an equal footing with Goguryeo, and he also made people run Chang'an and wanted to mix a set of drums.

As a result, Li Shimin didn't bother to pay attention to them, and these deflated three people had no bright spots except for interbreeding with the Khitans.

After Zhang Gongjin took office as the governor of Dingxiangdu, the Xi people returned to the primitive tribal form from the loose alliance. There is the slightest hint of the social structure of slavery, and it burps in the long river of history.

Even their in-laws, the Khitan Dahebu, hurriedly dissociated themselves, saying that such people who rebelled against the Celestial Empire were really beasts.

Then Xi Ren deleted the number.

The imperial court took advantage of the situation to take the real river White Wolf Water, set up a camp state, and sealed the White Wolf Mountain. After finishing the Langya princess Li Ko, she went to a certain river with a bow and set up a monument.

The Khitan Zahu Goguryeo people did not react, and the wealthy families of Youji also did not react, because Zhang Gongjin's position at that time should be the northernmost military power of the Tang Dynasty. All the places in Hebei are still south of the Dingxiang Governor's Mansion, and it is normal for the handsome Uncle Zhang to show off his handsomeness on the grassland, and Hebei people don't know.

After controlling the eastern grasslands, the Northland clan felt awkward, because it was equivalent to saying that the trade with the grasslands was all under the supervision of the imperial court.

And Zhang Gongjin is not so easy to woo.

Uncle Zhang, who is three times more handsome than Xu Gongshuai in the north of the city, was not married for a while, and said slowly that the Lu family, who is from Qinghe, was also wondering whether to dump the daughter of the Cui family who was only raised by the family, and to see if the handsome Uncle Zhang would take the bait.

The result...... The car shook and killed people.

But in any case, the profits of white sugar are extremely high. In particular, the trade of small countries in the East China Sea is extremely profitable. Rely on pearl fur alone to trade with each other. Lu's profit in the estuary can reach 600,000 guan a year.

But the Lu family is a big family after all. How is it possible to meet mere profits.

They did not let go of the land, and after having new financial resources, with Zhang Gongjin providing border security guarantees, they took advantage of the situation to expand their fields in Jizhou, Pingzhou.

Then it skyrocketed to more than 1.5 million acres.

The core descendants of the Lu family are only a few hundred, the main family is about 30,000, and the total number of separate families is about 300,000. These do not include servants, hired peasants and slaves, if they are counted as long as they are people, the population influenced by the Lu family in the Northland can exceed one million.

The total population of the year of Zhenguan. There are not even 20 million on the books, and the five doors and seven surnames affect a quarter of the world's population, so it is conceivable how the Li Tang royal family could tolerate such a monster.

However, the five families and seven surnames not only rejected the marriage of the imperial family Li, but even attracted the team of the two emperors. The traditional aristocracy chose to fight and unite with the nouveau riche, but never had anything to do with the royal family.

If you eliminate the wealthy by force, it is not impossible, but first of all, it is the turmoil caused by the giants. It will sweep the entire Central Plains region. Secondly, there are also children of wealthy families and in-laws in the emperor's team, and they will resolutely oppose it, which involves political interests and social benefits. In the end, if you do it, the moral bottom line of a wealthy family. I'm afraid they won't hesitate to collude with the Turks, Khitans, Goguryeo or whatever.

What the family shouts in the mouth is the family and the country, the country can die, and the family must survive. Don't say anything about the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Let's just say that the powerful Han Dynasty is also in such indifferent eyes. Collapsed with a bang.

But anyway, since he sat on the throne of the emperor. Li Shimin has to look at things with the eyes of an emperor. In addition to internal stability, the external threat is the Khitan and Goguryeo, after the Khitan is eliminated, the next targets are two, Goguryeo in the east and Tuyuhun in the west.

Because of the relationship between wool, Fu Yun went to Shanshan for a long time and did not return to the east, so the focus naturally shifted to Liaoxi.

As the old saying goes, you can't let others snore on the side of the couch. Fifteen hundred years later, this sentence is summed up in four words: geopolitics.

The emperor had to think about geopolitics, but the family did not.

In order to reduce the constraints and necessary losses in the process of killing Goguryeo. Li Shimin had to strengthen the control of Youji, and naturally weakened the strength of the family in Youzhou.

The first to bear the brunt is naturally Lu's.

Since the Lu clan was carnival in the sugar trade, Li Shimin didn't mind wielding a knife and chopping it down.

As for whether you die or not, it doesn't matter, even if it's just cutting off a hand, it's a victory.

In early summer, after last year's gray sugar was processed into white sugar, the whole winter and spring are the off-season for processing. However, the volume of fur transactions has risen sharply, so the Lu family chose to sell and buy empty.

What was given to the barbarians was the Hebei white sugar ticket, because the white sugar in some places in Shandong was directly bought by them, so the Hebei white sugar ticket was added a lot.

Through Fang Xuanling's relationship, Chang'an printed twice the sugar ticket.

Those barbarians who were holding a three-month delivery contract, they didn't see a bag of sugar, but the fur, deer antlers, ganoderma lucidum, pearl ginseng, were all taken out in real terms.

And the border tyrants also purchased sugar aggressively. Among them are the sons of the nobles headed by Li Desheng and Li Dezhi, when they were in the wool business, they also accumulated a large number of skins from the barbarians, and they also exchanged them with the Lu family.

In mid-April, Uncle Tan returned to Huaiyuan from Chang'an and told Zhang De that the workshop had stopped. Then half of the goods in Jiangnan Province were not transferred to Lu's, although Lu's raised the price by a full 20%.

"It's going to begin."

Zhang De was trembling all over, a person who killed his brother at the age of twenty-eight and was happy to do so, is it easy to provoke?

At the wharf at the mouth of the Zhanghe River, the exchange built by Poly suddenly boiled.

"Delivery! Delivery! You're going to give me my goods today! The boats in Suzhou are all docked! You told me there was no stock! ”

"You Han people are so bad! They took our skins, our herbs, and our pearls, but there was no sugar! You guys...... Are you trying to kill us?! ”

"That's the Lu family! What nonsense are you! Aren't we Han Chinese? Haven't we taken your advantage too?! ”

Then the grassland man in the deerskin grabbed the mink hat and stared at the steward of the Lu family with blood-red eyes: "If you don't give me the goods, I will be skinned when I go back, instead of dying like that, it is better to kill you and die together!" ”

"Stop! No knives here! ”

"Where's Young Sun Lu?! Let Young Sun Lu come out! Entering the mother, Lao Tzu walked thousands of miles, and his feet were about to break when he walked to Wutai Mountain. I can't even see a single fucking hair! This is also a person?! ”

"Hidden, call Lu Yousun out!"

The exchanges are about to be overturned, the Hu people who are smashing and robbing are everywhere, and I don't know who spread the rumors again, the Lu family doesn't even have much cash on hand, not to mention sugar.

"Return the money! Refund the money—"

"I don't want sugar, this boat is empty, and it's better to go to Silla to load a boatload of women than to come to Zhanghe!"

"I sold all the houses in Pingzhou, just to collect some sugar and sell Goguryeo, but now there is no goods, no money, I don't live anymore-"

Then some people ran to the Lu family and committed suicide in front of the yard of the wharf at the mouth of the Zhanghe River, some hanged themselves, some disemboweled, some hit the wall, some swallowed arsenic, and some wiped their necks......

The person who spoke to the Lu family at the mouth of the Zhanghe River was Lu Yousun, he was a descendant of the Lu family, his face turned pale at the moment, and his lips trembled and asked the young man next to him: "Wen Yuan, has the person who went to the Governor's Mansion to inquire about the news come back?" The sugar in Li Desheng's hand, would you like to transfer it to us first? ”

Lu Wenyuan's face was also ugly, and he said, "My father went in person, and there is no news yet." ”

"...... the Cui family's side"

"This is not something that the Cui family can support, we finalized the red and white double contract, and it is in Chang'an. The goods of the candy man are all placed there. As for white sugar, only Zhang Caozhi's workshop has production in the whole world, but now it has been seized by the imperial court and stopped working. Zhang Caozhi himself is in Huaiyuan, I'm afraid ...... He can't protect himself, right? ”

Lu Wenyuan took a deep breath, and then said, "Raise money first!" ”

"The head of the family has already said that now Fan Yang's sect is about to bottom out, unless he uses food to ......"

"Grain?"

Lu Wenyuan suddenly laughed, and then shouted, "Do you use food to feed the dogs this year-"

The price of grain has become so cheap that it can no longer be cheap, and there is a fart for storing grain! Who will ask for food? Barbarian? Even if the barbarians buy Shandong's grain, it's better than theirs!

Lu Yousun was drenched in cold sweat by the yell, and then said, "That...... Selling land? (To be continued.) )