Liu Xing was digging a pit in the layout, but Zhong Xiang was arrogant and complacent in front of him.

At the water's edge, when Liu Xing's new order arrived, Zhong Xiang looked at the generals beside him with a wicked smile.

After finally setting his eyes on his son Zhong Ziang, Zhong Xiang said: "Ziang, what's the matter, it's not wrong for the father, right?" Hehe, even if that Liu Xing is a flying immortal outside the sky, what if he is a genius in the sky? Aren't you going to be led by your father and me by the nose and ordered me to focus on the Quang Nam West Road? ”

When Zhong Ziang heard this, he smiled slightly and said, "Does my father really think that Guangnan West Road can be used as a new foundation for my Zhong family to take root in the future?" ”

Nodding, Zhong Xiang said: "The land of Guangnan is high and the emperor is far away, which is different from our hometown. As long as I take Guangnan West Road, I will be the king of myself, and he will be beyond the reach of Liu Xing. At that time, I will be able to unite with King Nakang and form a three-legged momentum. ”

Hearing his father's words, Zhong Ziang smiled again and said, "Father, is it just because the mountain road of Guangnan West Road is rugged and far away from the Central Plains, are you really sure that Liu Xing will not be able to attack?" Don't forget that Han Youma Fubo, Tang Youli Xiaogong and Li Jing all sent troops to defeat the king of Guangxi. Therefore, my son thinks that you should think twice before acting. ”

"What the young marshal said is true." Zhong Ziang had just finished speaking, and Huang Zuo, the general standing on the other side, also opened his mouth.

He looked at Zhong Xiang, seemed to think for a while, and said: "It's a good thing that the elder brother of the Zhong family wants to establish himself as the king, but if he wants to become a three-point world, this Guangnan West Road is not the best place to base it!" Although there are mountains in the north here, you can go to Annan in the south to avoid its front, but the Shu soldiers and Hunan soldiers can come down to attack at any time. Besides, if you are self-reliant, will that King Kang be willing to share the country with you? ”

"I can't help but let him go, and he is willing to share this flower with me."

Hearing his words, Zhong Xiang laughed again and said: "As long as you take Wuzhou, you will first take King Kang's Yuanfeng Prison, and then Xunzhou Guangsheng Prison, Rongzhou Pufeng Prison, and Guizhou Longfeng Prison will be the three coinage prisons." Plus the four prisons that our army has now controlled. Half of King Kang's twenty-one prisons fell into my hands. Hehe, he doesn't share the country, I make him have no money to use. ”

It turns out that the reason why Zhong Xiang blindly wanted to storm Guangnan West Road was to go to the five coinage prisons set up by King Kang on Guangnan West Road.

At the beginning of the Great Song Dynasty. Originally, there were only about 20 coinage prisons. However, with the development of society and the progress of the times, the original 20 or so coinage prisons could no longer meet the needs of the people of the Great Song Dynasty for currency.

The coinage was not enough for circulation, and since Song Zhenzong began to establish new coinage prisons in various places to meet the needs of the increasingly tight currency circulation.

Under the continuous expansion of successive dynasties, it reached the end of Xuanhe. It is no longer just the Central Plains coinage prisons everywhere, but the coinage prisons of the Great Song Dynasty have expanded to Guangxi in the south, Hebei in the north, Shandong in the east, and Sichuan in the west. Its prisons are located in almost all the places where copper mines have been found, and the total number has reached forty-five.

Among the forty-five coinage prisons, twenty-six swept Shanxi from Liu Xing and entered the customs. After Wu Jue returned with Shu and conquered Shandong, he fell into the hands of the Northern Dynasties.

Of the remaining 21 coinage prisons, five are in Guangxi, two in Guangdong, four in Hunan, two in Jiangxi, three in Fujian, and three in Huaixi. The four coinage prisons in Hunan have long been firmly controlled by Zhong Xiang, and now he is eyeing these five coinage prisons in Guangxi.

If you have money, you will have food, and if you have money, you can recruit troops to fight against Liu Xing in the future, this is Zhong Xiang's idea. There is another reason that makes him more convinced of this idea, that is, now that Wu Jue has captured Hubei, he is immediately advancing towards Huaixi.

Once the three coinage prisons in Huaixi were taken away by the Northern Dynasty, Zhong Xiang believed that with the remaining five coinage prisons of King Kang, and at most two in Guangdong, there were only seven coinage prisons of one million guan per year. It is simply impossible to compete with Liu Xing for long.

If he wants to continue to compete with Liu Xing, King Kang obviously has no ability to defeat him Zhong Xiang, so in the end, he naturally has to negotiate peacefully to ask Zhong Xiang to help him mint more money to meet his own needs......

Ideals are always beautiful. The reality is often brutal.

When Zhong Xiang successfully tempted his generals to bravely lead his troops to launch a new round of general attack with the benefit of the five eunuchs, he did not know that King Kang was not a fool and had already sent out his elite forces to rush to the land of the five eunuchs. All the instruments that could be transported were taken away, and all the craftsmen who could be taken away were taken away, and the five prisons were turned into ruins before Zhong Xiang.

What made Zhong Xiang even more unexpected was that he planned by the waterside of Linhe. That night, he was sent to Liu Xing by a secret report of Eagle Yang.

After receiving the secret report, Liu Xing sat in the carriage and looked south, and said with a deep gaze: "This Zhong Xiang! It seems that he doesn't want to give the master a chance to educate him, so he really made up his mind to rebel against the master and play self-reliance. Wow, good. It will rain, his mother will get married, and he will be self-reliant, so he will let those reckless speeches become dense stumbling blocks. Fall him all over the ground and find his teeth! ”

"Brother Liu, can't you take away the military power of Zhong Xiang and not give him a chance to stand on his own?" Liu Xing finished a sentence in a daze, and Zhao Jinzhu, who was sitting in the carriage, asked with a smile.

Seeing Zhao Jinzhu's puzzled look, but she asked a little weirdly, and Chong Yanling, who was sitting opposite her, stroked her nose: "Silly sister, that Zhong Xiang's soldiers are not my soldiers, and Zhong Xiang's generals are not the generals sent by my minister." He has always been nominally our army, but in fact he is his private soldier! ”

"Of course I know it's his personal soldier." Zhao Jinzhu, who was stroked by the wild goose, pouted, rubbed his nose and said: "It's really a husband and wife, I always like to stroke my nose, it's so helpless!" ”

"Haha......"

Seeing the helpless look of the little princess, including Liu Xing and Chong Yanling, everyone around couldn't help but laugh in unison.

In the laughter of everyone, Zhao Jinzhu kneaded his nose a few times, then looked at Liu Xing again: "The same is a private soldier, Yang Qi is also a private soldier, why does Brother Liu Xing have a way to make him obey orders all the time and dare not think about change?" Couldn't the strategy of Yang Qi to Zhong Xiang prevent him from rebelling and standing on his own? ”

Hearing his words, Liu Xing first smiled bitterly and said: "Yang Mi is different from Zhong Xiang, Yang Mi is a person who was trained by Tiance's secret camp and is absolutely loyal to me and Da Song in his heart. No matter how many soldiers he has, he also understands that once he rebels, he will be destroyed. The bells are different! But, hehe, as long as he dares to rebel, you will know that there will be a little bit of the same in the future. (To be continued.) )