Chapter Seventy-Nine: Unknown
"Your Highness, if you offend King Wei this time, you are not afraid that the world will be in chaos in the future, and King Wei will send troops to attack Your Highness?"
At the south gate of Qingzhou, a group of officials in Qingzhou watched King Wei's palanquin disappear at the end of the official road, and then Qian Dafu asked. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"That's a good question, if you don't offend King Wei this time, won't he attack this king in the future? The world says that King Wei is as timid as a mouse, and from this matter, this uncle of the Three Emperors is not only not cowardly, but also extremely shrewd, and I am afraid that there are many people who have been deceived by him, including his father. Xiao Ming said.
"Your Highness means that King Wei has been secretly accumulating strength and waiting for the opportunity?" Qian Dafu said.
"I'm afraid it's true, the war horses purchased by King Wei over the years have far exceeded his father's promise to him, and he has secretly intercepted and killed other chambers of commerce with different surnames who buy horses on the grassland, and his ambition is not small, and he is not as simple as buying horses to win over the Huyantuo tribe in this way, I am worried about ......" Xiao Ming frowned.
"Worried about what?"
"I'm just guessing this, let's take a step at a time, the most important thing now is our fiefdom's own affairs, the four wealthy families must be castrated." Xiao Ming said categorically.
Now he wanted to completely control the military and political affairs of the fiefdom and use slaves to earn enough war capital, and it was precisely because of this that he asked the king of Wei for 100,000 slaves.
The purpose of these slaves was to provide artificial power, and these 100,000 slaves were not many in number, but they brought in enough labor to rival thousands of hydraulic hammers, and these slaves were vital to his industrial development at a time when machinery was far from universal.
As for why he doesn't want 300,000, 500,000, or 1 million, it's very simple, and he can't afford to raise it if he wants it.
Even so, he still asked for two million stone of grain, which was enough for 100,000 slaves to eat for half a year.
As for why he didn't impeach King Wei, it was very simple, King Wei, who jumped over the wall in a hurry, would be the first to take out his anger on him, and even if King Wei was punished, King Wei was imprisoned, and he couldn't take advantage of the cheapness of Wei, but only his brothers and brothers.
Rather than this, it is better to make some pure profits.
At this time, at the Tuojiang Wharf, King Wei got on the boat surrounded by his personal guards, looked back at Qingzhou City, and King Wei sneered: "Xiao Ming, what can be given to you, this king can still take it back, wait, I will let you return it tenfold." β
At this time, a young man in white walked up to King Wei and shouted respectfully, "Uncle Third Emperor." β
When King Wei saw the young man, the anger on his face suddenly dissipated, revealing a doting look, and he said, "Yu'er, your body is weak, why did you come out, why don't you go back and rest quickly." β
The young man smiled and said, "Uncle Sanhuang, if you don't come out and walk around, I'm going to get moldy, now that I'm in Qingzhou, why do I have to go into the city to have a look?" β
"You went to Qingzhou City?" King Wei was surprised.
The young man nodded, "I also went to the workshop area outside Qingzhou City, but it is heavily guarded, and it is difficult for outsiders to enter. β
Cao Yu said at this time: "His Royal Highness, what's so difficult about this? Five thousand armor soldiers are enough to level Qingzhou City, and I will lead people to open the way for His Highness! β
"General Cao must not be reckless." The young man's expression was serious, "King Qi is certainly weak, but he is a prince after all, and it depends on the master to beat the dog, not to mention that he is the body of a prince." β
When King Wei heard this, he looked at the young man sadly and said: "Yu'er, in my eyes, Xiao Wenxuan has never been the emperor of the Great Yu Kingdom, and those princes are not the princes of the Great Yu Kingdom, the throne originally belonged to your father, and you are the prince of the Great Yu Kingdom." β
"Uncle Sanhuang, the king is defeated and defeated, this is the battle for imperial power, why should you bother, now the real enemies of the Great Yu Kingdom are the barbarians, they are the most powerful enemies of the Han people for thousands of years, if my father is still alive, he will not want to see brothers kill each other." The young man in white persuaded.
"Yu'er, your idea is still too naΓ―ve, and the Huyantuo tribe has been interacting for so long, from all aspects, today's barbarians are already a dynasty whose national strength is not weaker than that of Dayu, but now you look at Dayu Kingdom, there are many vassal kings, each fighting for itself, a plate of scattered sand, the gate lord clan controls the government, and the local wealthy clan divides the township, if the whole country of Dayu cannot work together, how to resist the iron cavalry of the barbarians." King Wei said loudly.
After a pause, King Wei continued: "I think about it, the only thing that can wipe out the Gate Lords is not politics, but war, a complete purge. β
The young man in white was silent for a long time, and finally sighed, "Uncle Sanhuang, your words are exactly the same as what my father said back then, but you and I can just talk about it, don't tell outsiders, otherwise it will be a group attack, and my father will be a lesson from the past." β
King Wei looked at the rolling river, his eyes were far away, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
It seemed that he didn't want to mention such a heavy topic anymore, and the young man in white suddenly smiled and said: "Uncle Sanhuang, this King of Qi is interesting, I have seen a lot of interesting things in Qingzhou City, the Chamber of Commerce, the Patent Division, the army of Tuntian, this King of Qi is really different." β
"It's different, he just blackmailed me with 100,000 slaves and 2 million stone of grain, although I am rich in Weidi, but there are a lot of these things."
The young man in white became more interested, "I didn't expect Uncle Sanhuang to also suffer a loss in his hands, but with these transactions, it's not that you don't have to worry about the secret letter being exposed, after all, after the transaction is completed, he is also an accomplice." β
"Well, that's exactly what I promised him, and I still scared him, but this kid has changed a lot, and he even said that although the Qingzhou soldiers are weak, they dare to fight, haha, it's bloody, I really like this kid a little." King Wei laughed.
The white-clothed young man smiled: "This King of Qi is different from other princes in my opinion, maybe he can bring us other different things." β
King Wei smiled and smiled, his face gradually turned cold, "But no matter what, he is our roadblock, and now he is still useful to us, but if one day we fight against each other, we can't show mercy." β
The white-clothed young man nodded, he looked at Qingzhou City, the huge fleet began to move slowly, but he always had a feeling that this King of Qi would be their fierce rival in the future.
On the shore, a cavalry galloped south, and he passed the order of the king of Wei to mobilize slaves to Wei, and 100,000 slaves gathered from various cities in Wei to Jinling, and began to march to Qingzhou in batches by boat.
On the tenth day of the departure of the king of Wei, the first batch of slaves and grain arrived in Qingzhou, a total of 10,000 men and 500,000 stone grain.
Looking at the huge warship from King Wei's fiefdom, Xiao Ming sighed in his heart, this King Wei's naval army is really extraordinary.