Until this time, Guo Yun didn't know the severity of the matter, and said: "You wait, my uncle Guo Kai is the Xiangguo of Zhao State, and he will never be able to get away with you." ”

Gao Yuan snorted and said, "Don't say it's you, even if Guo Kai comes, I will also slaughter him." As he spoke, he slashed his fat face with his saber, and blood flowed down immediately.

Guo Yun was a little scared at this time, and said in a trembling voice: "Luck, don't kill me." ”

Gao Yuan smiled coldly and said, "It's too late to ask for a fluke now." "Saying that, the saber skirt uàn cherry frequency bag stagnation punishment phoenix Shen lawsuit Lu Lai stirred up and said that it was scarce

Li Yinghong let out a "ah" and said, "Why did you really kill him." Although when mentioning Guo Kai, Li Yinghong always uses words such as "never let him go" and "can't get away with him", but this is just talking, Li Yinghong is not unclear, what is Guo Kai's identity, if he kills him, Li Mu will be tantamount to officially announcing a rebellion, so seeing that Gao Yuan killed Guo Yun without hesitation, Li Yinghong was also very surprised, Gao Yuan is not such a reckless person.

Gao Yuan put the saber back in his sheath and said: "This is a warning to Guo Kai, at this point, there is no room for recovery between the general and Guo Kai, is it difficult for us to let Guo Yun go, will Guo Kai stop here?" Since it is irreparable, then simply do it thoroughly, kill Guo Yun, that is, sue Guo Kai, we will not have any scruples in this action, and we will never have any mercy. If you want to continue to fight against us, then Guo Yun will be the end. ”

Li Yinghong actually didn't understand it, but she had absolute trust in Gao Yuan, so she nodded and said, "Okay, just do as you say." ”

Gao Yuan immediately ordered to clean up the battlefield, and at the same time brought Guo Yun's head back to the warehouse, and the steward and others guarding the warehouse saw Guo Yun's head, and they were immediately frightened, and fell to the ground one by one, kowtowing like a chicken pecking rice, shouting for their lives.

Gao Yuan said: "You don't have to be afraid, I won't kill you, now you take Guo Yun's head and hand it over to Guo Kai, let him wash his neck in the mansion, and wait to be beheaded." ”

The steward and others left with Guo Yun's head, and the statistical results of the battlefield also came out, a total of 37 of Zhao Cong's private soldiers were killed and 12 were captured, while the army on the plateau was not killed, only five people were injured, and none of the injuries were serious. Gao Yuan was also very satisfied with such a result, but he didn't expect that the first battle of the Mandarin Duck Array would actually be fought in Handan City, and it was also a civil war in Zhao State.

Then Gao Yuan ordered that the prisoners be imprisoned together with Zhao Bing, who had previously guarded the warehouse, and these Zhao soldiers saw that Gao Yuan really dared to make a move, and they were ruthless, and they were all shocked.

At this time, the convoy carrying grain also returned, and at the same time brought 500 carts, which increased the carrying capacity more than ten times, and it only took two or three trips at most to transport all the grain.

And the subsequent transportation was very smooth, and there was no more obstacle, although Guo Kai's mansion and the warehouse were only separated by a wall, but he also kept silent about it, as if he didn't see it.

Gao Yuan and the others returned to Li Mu's mansion with the last batch of grain, and after checking, they brought back a total of more than 352,700 stone of grain, which was more than 50,000 stone more than the original 300,000 stone of grain. It turned out that the extra grain stored by Yunjie Society at this time, which was actually the grain stored in Guo Kai's own home, was also pulled back.

At this time, the five merchants who jointly organized a group to buy grain in Qi also gathered in Li Mu's mansion, except for Lin Wenqing, the other four were Zhuo Donglai, Zhao Ye, Feng Kui, and Zheng Pi's father. Accompanied Li Mu in the lobby to talk.

After listening to the report of the plateau, Li Mu also nodded and said to the five merchants: "Everyone, the grain has been taken back, so you can transport it back according to your own purchase." This time it's a real loss for you. ”

Zhuo Donglai said: "There, there, this time Guo Kai is from it, and it has nothing to do with Wu Anjun, and it is all because of Wu Anjun's help, and it also involves Wu Anjun and Guo Xiangguo, so we are also grateful to Wu Anjun." ”

Li Mudao: "Now that the price of grain in Handan City is high and the people's hearts are unstable, I hope that you will be able to open a warehouse and sell grain tomorrow, and make Handan City recover and stabilize it." ”

Zhuo Donglai said: "Wu Anjun, please rest assured, stabilize the situation of living in Handan City." The stability of Handan City is also our responsibility, if Handan City is in chaos, it will also cause huge losses to our business, so we have discussed, this time the 300,000 stone grain, half of which will be allocated to help the victims, and the other half will be opened and sold tomorrow, and the price of grain will be set at 120 yuan, only the cost will be recovered, first of all, the price of grain will be easy to come down, so that Handan can restore order. It's just that I'm afraid that Guo Xiangguo will get in the way tomorrow. ”

Li Mu said: "Everyone, please rest assured, since I, Li Mu, have intervened in this matter, I will take care of it to the end, although everyone is open for business, I will see who dares to make trouble from it." ”

Zhao Ye said: "Wu Anjun can manage it to the end, we are all grateful, but this 300,000 stone grain is only the first batch, the second batch of 500,000 stone grain, at most half a month later, it will be transported to Handan, and there will be grain from Qi to Zhao in the future, I am afraid that Guo Xiangguo will not succeed this time, but the future batches of grain will still be seized." ”

Li Mu nodded and said, "Don't worry, as long as I, Li Mu, am here, I will never let such a thing happen again, if Guo Kai dares to detain your food again, I will take it back for you." ”

In fact, these five merchants are all big merchants in Zhao State, and each person's private wealth can reach more than 10,000 Yi gold, and these five people together control more than 60% of Zhao State's business operations, which plays a pivotal role in Zhao State's economy. These 300,000 stone of grain, although it is not a drop in the bucket for these five merchants, even if they are all offered, it will not cause them much loss.

But this time Guo Kai blatantly broke the agreement reached between the merchant and the imperial court, but it was a very bad precedent, which greatly violated the interests of the merchants, so even if Li Mu did not intervene, these five businessmen also planned to take action and use the means of destroying the economy of Zhao to retaliate against Guo Kai, which was also a warning to the Zhao court, do not think that the merchant is a good bully.

However, if Guo Kai is determined not to abide by the agreement, these five businessmen really have no way to take him, after all, no matter how powerful the businessmen are, they still can't fight the imperial court in the end, even if the five people join forces can cause great damage to the economy of Zhao State, but at most, both sides will lose, so they don't have to do anything, these five businessmen don't want to use such an extreme approach, Bi Jing businessmen all hope to be able to make money in harmony.

And Li Mu intervened in this matter, which also allowed them to avoid direct confrontation with Guo Kai, so these five businessmen were very grateful to Li Mu. So he unanimously made such a decision to express his gratitude to Li Mu, and at the same time hoped that Li Mu could continue to come forward to protect him. After getting Li Mu's promise, the five businessmen were also completely relieved, so they said goodbye to Li Mu, escorted their own food, and went back to their homes, preparing to open an account tomorrow. Of course, the 150,000 stone of grain that he promised to stay behind to help the victims of the disaster was left in Li Mu's mansion.

After the merchants left, Li Mucai sighed softly and asked Yuan Xuan to take this batch of grain out of the city for relief to the victims. Then he gathered Gao Yuan, Li Yinghong, Zhao Xuan, Ning Qi and others to discuss the next countermeasures.

In fact, it is not difficult to snatch the grain back, but it is not easy to end up after it is done, after all, Li Mu's methods have far exceeded the scope of his ministers, even if it is said to be a rebellion. Of course, things are not completely irreparable. As long as King Zhao issued an edict, put the responsibility on Guo Kai's body, and said that the seizure of grain was Guo Kai's personal behavior, Li Mu's actions could only be a little excessive, but it was not a big deal. And there is also room for maneuver on both sides.

But in this way, Li Mu and Guo Kai will not be able to stand together, which means that Zhao Wangqian must choose between the two, but Zhao Wangqian's IQ has always been the biggest flaw of Zhao Guo, so he can't expect Zhao Wangqian to make any wise choices.

Faced with such a situation, Li Yinghong and Zhao Xuan were a little at a loss, so they couldn't say anything, and Gao Yuan of course had a draft, but he was just thinking about how to bring it up to Li Mu, and he didn't speak for the time being, and the hall fell silent for a while.

After a long while, Ning Qi said: "General, according to the following, the general now has three strategies to choose from. ”

Li Mudao: "What are the three strategies? ”

Ning Qi said: "The next strategy is that now the general will raise troops to rebel and establish himself as the king." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yinghong couldn't help but make an "ah" sound, looked at Li Mu, and only felt that his heart was beating away, although Confucianism in this era has not become China's orthodox thought, but the concept of loyalty and righteousness is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and rebellion is regarded as a big rebellion in most cases. Although in the Warring States Period, there were also three families divided into Jin, and the Tian family was in charge of Qi, but whether it was the Zhao, Wei, Han and Tian families, they all worked hard for nearly a hundred years, completely controlled the overall situation, and all the conditions were ready, before it began to happen. Therefore, Li Yinghong couldn't help but feel nervous, I don't know if Li Mu will choose this way.

Li Mu remained silent and said, "What about the middle strategy and the best policy?" ”

Ning Qi said: "The middle strategy is that the general in the name of the Qing monarch's side, now immediately raise troops to kill Guo Kai, Zhao Cong and others, and then set up the king and control the government." The best policy is for the general to lead his troops out, stay away from Handan, and enter Daijun, not to rebel against Zhao, not to stand on his own, but to occupy an autonomous area, and not to listen to the dispatch of the imperial court. ”

After Li Mu listened, he was silent for a long time before he said: "Okay, Mr. Ning, I have written down all your three strategies, tomorrow I will enter the palace to meet the king, and after I meet the king, I will make a decision." ”

Ning Qi was stunned for a moment and said, "General, don't do it." ”