Chapter 835: The Transformation of the Chu State
Li San continued to sort out the information sent by the secret guards, and his brows furrowed deeper and deeper. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
According to the intelligence, Cao Zhengyang's recent whereabouts have become more and more suspicious, and now he can basically determine that the real purpose of the Cao family is to transfer the silver taels.
"Fortunately, the secret guard has always asked someone to keep an eye on Cao Zhengyang, otherwise something big would happen this time." Li San's forehead sweated slightly.
Although the secret guard was established by the imperial court to collect intelligence and supervise hundreds of officials, with the increasing number of land and officials, the secret guard is now quite overstretched.
For this reason, the secret guard gave up part of the supervision of the people, but focused on supervising the important officials and generals of the imperial court, and even he was reluctant to send someone to keep an eye on people like Cao Zhengyang.
After all, compared to high-ranking officials, Cao Zhengyang is just a small person.
But this little man is clearly going to do something big now.
"Cao Zhengyang has boarded the merchant ship bound for Dengzhou, and immediately notified the guard to arrest Cao Zhengyang, and let them control all the Cao family's business in the north." Li San ordered that if he didn't take action, this Cao Zhengyang would have to run away.
"Yes."
The commander of the secret guard on Li San's side responded, and immediately led the three people out of the secret guard station.
"You go to Jinling City immediately and let the defenders of Jinling City intercept Yinliang." Li San Zhengse said, judging from the news from the other six states, Cao Zhengyang secretly transferred the silver of all the money houses in the nearby counties.
If this batch of silver arrives in Chudi, it will have a serious impact on the industrial and commercial development of the north, although the Qingzhou Bank can now compete with the Cao family money village, but there are still many merchants who have deposited their family assets in the Cao family money village under Cao Zhengyang's flicker.
After issuing one order after another, Li San got up and walked towards the palace, he wanted to tell Xiao Ming at this time.
All the way to the palace, waiting outside the city for a while he was asked to enter.
When he arrived at the imperial study, he saw Pang Yukun and Fiji also there.
"Your Majesty, Fei Ge Lao, Pang Shoufu." Li Sanyi saluted.
Fiji and Pang Yukun both smiled when they saw Li San, and this former royal family member has now become the leader of the secret guard of the most mysterious institution in the Great Chongqing Kingdom in a blink of an eye.
It can be said that every official did not dare to offend him, for fear of being caught by the secret guards by the pigtails.
"Come over so soon, it seems that Cao Zhengyang really had an accident this time." Xiao Ming said.
Li San said bluntly: "Yes, the emperor, the lower officials have found out that the Cao family money village in the surrounding states and counties of Qingzhou has the behavior of transferring silver, and Cao Zhengyang is preparing to go to Dengzhou, which is very unusual, in order to prevent accidents, the lower officials have ordered the seizure of the Cao family money village and the interception of the Cao family's transfer of silver." ā
"This Cao family is really dizzy, and at this time he dares to dismantle the emperor's throne." Pang Yukun snorted angrily.
Fiji is always indifferent, he said: "In fact, it is not difficult to understand, the nature of the merchant is only, as the emperor said, this merchant is similar to the nomad, the nomad is chasing water and grass, the merchant is living for money, the Cao family originally defected to the emperor to keep the foundation of the Cao family, and now the king of Chu is also for the foundation of the Cao family, after all, the current king of Chu is not small, and there is a great momentum of governing the country together with the businessman." ā
"What Fei Ge Lao said is very true, but this King of Chu is also sick and rushed to the doctor, businessmen have always been short-sighted, only pursuing the current huge profits, maybe let the businessmen in power can achieve commercial prosperity for a period of time, but in the long run, it will inevitably be due to the conflict of interests between businessmen that lead to inaction in national affairs." Pang Yukun told the story.
Since Xiao Ming opened the Son of Heaven School, these officials have often gone to audit, and now they have a deeper understanding of the political system in the books, and no longer stay in the backward feudal ideas of the past.
Xiao Ming let the pen spin in a circle in his hand, his gaze lingered on Fiji and Pang Yukun for a moment, and he was very satisfied with the progress of the two now.
He said: "I have to admit that the king of Chu is also a hero, in order to be able to defeat me, he can put down anything, according to Wang Xuan's news, the current Lin'an is also showing a different prosperity from Qingzhou, it is said that a parliament following the West is being formed, and the speaker of this parliament is Cao Kun." ā
"It's no wonder that the Cao family wants to throw their heads and spill blood for the King of Chu, this King of Chu can really do it, if this parliament is equivalent to the parliament of the West, isn't it that the rights of the king of Chu are also restricted by the parliament, will the king of Chu agree?" Fiji was amazed.
"The Golden Horde was defeated, and the king of Chu knew that the emperor's next target was him, compared with his life and power, which one do you say he would choose? What's more, even so, the king of Chu can still inherit the throne and enjoy glory and wealth forever. Pang Yukun frowned.
After a pause, he continued: "Your Majesty, the south is rich, and for a long time, the influence of the King of Chu has always been greater than that of the royal family, if there is really a war, the people may not stand on the side of the royal family, last year, the emperor's request to move the narrow countryside to the wide township has not been effective, many people are unwilling to come to the north, for this reason there have been many incidents of violent resistance of the people. ā
Li San nodded in agreement when he heard this.
Xiao Ming got up and walked to the front of the map, looking at the area south of the Yangtze River, "I really underestimated the ability of the King of Chu to accept Western culture, and in the past two or three years, the King of Chu has made me a little impressed. ā
Fiji smiled, "The emperor has another name for the Han people in the south, called the Hakka people, the origin of the Hakka family began when the Qin Dynasty conquered the Lingnan Rong Baiyue, and after thousands of years has formed a stable big family, these Hakka people do business with overseas people, and even multiply in Luzon, Malacca, Annam and other places, these countries established by the Han people also once wanted to pay tribute to the Great Chongqing State, but in the past hundred years there has been no more, this Chu King Li was originally from Fuzhou, and later followed Gaozu to settle in Lin'an, But for a long time, the king of Chu and Fuzhou and other places have been in close contact. ā
"In the past, Lao Chen was also confused, but now that I think about it, the kingdom established by these Han people is occupied by Westerners." Pang Yukun said.
Xiao Ming naturally understands the Hakka people, this is indeed a group of people who are good at pioneering, but even this cannot dispel his will to unify the Great Chongqing Kingdom.
Now that the King of Chu and the Cao family are conspiring to attack the development of industry and commerce in Qingzhou Mansion in order to delay the development of Qingzhou Mansion, he must now crush the Cao family's plan.
It's just that he has some regrets that the king of Chu is very smart and didn't leave any evidence for him to arrest, and this time the Cao family tosses it again, and on the surface he is still a loyal vassal king, so he has no reason to send troops.
Sending troops in the name of cutting the feudal domain will cause a chain reaction of King Huainan, King Yong, King Ruyang and others, which he is also unwilling to see.