The news that Zhang Xiao was driving the cart with hundreds of ghosts and starry nights spread like wildfire.

There is no wind and waves in Fengyang River.

It was haze for several days, and it seemed that a storm and weather was brewing. At this time, snowflakes suddenly fell, and people couldn't help but sigh: The sky in the north has changed too quickly.

At noon, Bai Lingxiao rushed back from Guangde Academy and suddenly found that there were many people standing in the alley in front of his home.

In front of the crowd, the goose stood alone at the door, and several more or less disabled men mixed in the crowd. Anyone who tried to approach the goose was quietly approached and persuaded to leave the crowd.

"What's going on? What are they going to do?" Bai Lingxiao quickly walked up to him and asked.

Xiaoe said: "They are all fellows sent by the raw stone merchants in the 16 cities of the North. I don't know where they heard rumors that the government is using troops in the southwest. There was a problem with the supply of raw stones, and our channels can't get in. They are talking nonsense that the high-ranking officials took their deposit and ran away overnight, which made other buyers and sellers come to join in the fun."

Bai Lingxiao asked: "How many of these people have account transactions with us?"

"I don't know. They don't listen to what we say at all. They just kept clamoring that the Eighteen Lines were about to be finished. Some of the buyers and sellers in the city put their money in our money house, and some of them prepared the goods for us but had not yet cashed out. Anyway, they all started to make a fuss."

With so many people coming together, there must be someone behind the scenes.

Bai Lingxiao remembered what Zhang Xiao told him before leaving. He had already expected that the city would be very lively these days, and also told him to inform Xu Lu'an and Cao Mengxiong to restrain the brothers who were in the yamen and not to rush forward to make meaningless sacrifices.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly called a member of the Tiger Guard who helped maintain order and ordered him to go to the security office immediately to convey Zhang Xiao's meaning.

Although the door was messy, with the brothers from the Tiger Guard secretly helping him, there was no big deal yet. Bai Lingxiao took Xiaoge back to the house. The people outside shouted lively, but no one dared to break into Zhang's house.

Bai Lingxiao first gave Xiaoe a reassurance and said, "It's okay, don't worry, everything is expected by the officials. This is someone's planning for the Bai family and our 18 companies. They just want to make the business reputation established by the 18 companies, and ultimately they want to replace us with the raw stones of Sang Kingdom."

"The great official has a solution?" Xiaoe is busy with eighteen things all day long, and the seriousness of this kind of thing is deeper than Bai Lingxiao's. Seeing that Bai Lingxiao did not answer immediately, he was a little anxious and said, "Oh, when is it now? Don't you tell the truth to me, are we really not able to get in?"

"The southwest military service is real, and the limited supply of raw stones is also real. The officials are trying to solve it, but something happened in the middle, and we need time." Bai Lingxiao said: "There is someone who came from Heilong City and named Zhang Jun. He may be his cousin of our family. He is trying to snatch the raw stone merchants from the Sixteen cities from us."

"That's all things." Bai Lingxiao then said: "Your responsibility now is to stabilize the internal situation of the Eighteen Banks. Those who follow the urge to recover the payment will immediately clear the money and goods with them, register them, and then settle the accounts later. Don't say that the money shop will not exchange it. If you say that there are too many gold and silver coins, you can only pay them with raw stones for the time being. They need to bring their own gold coins to cash out."

Speaking of this, I can't help but admire Zhang Xiao's foresight and have prepared countermeasures long ago.

Xiaoge had a backbone and nodded repeatedly when he heard it, saying, "It's still the best way for the high-ranking officials. Those people just believed the rumors and thought there was something wrong with the eighteen lines. If they saw the raw stones in our inventory, the rumors would be self-defeating."

Bai Lingxiao urged: "If you know, why don't you go and do it quickly."

Xiaoge was a little worried, "Is there any problem outside?"

"You can do it, will I not do it?" Bai Lingxiao said toughly, but in fact he was not very confident. But at this time, the mistress of Zhang Zhai, who else can she hope to stabilize the morale of the army if she doesn't stand here?

......

Outside the gate of Zhang's house, a green cloth caravan parked at the entrance of the alley, with curtains raised. Zhang Jun and Chi Song Zhuangliang, who were sitting in the car, were paying attention to the movements of Zhang's house.

"It's still far from enough." Zhang Jun frowned slightly: "At most, only two hundred people are really making trouble, and they are all scattered small households. This scale of action cannot shake the foundation of the Eighteen Lines. Money houses are the core foundation of the Eighteen Lines to control the economy of the North. If you want to defeat Zhang Xiao, dismantling this foundation is the fastest and most effective way."

"It's really hard to understand." Chi Song Zhuangliang shook his head, looked confused, and said, "The news is true, and the representatives of the raw stone merchants in the Sixteen Cities of the North are also true. Our people have been clamoring inside. The franchise merchants in the Eighteen Corps are unmoved. The only ones that can be used to leverage are always these small peripheral suppliers."

"Su Huanzhen told me that I should not underestimate that waste. I didn't care too much. I always felt that everything was Bai Zongyuan secretly opposed Heilong City. Now it seems that he is really a big mistake. If he can lead a chamber of commerce organization like an army, my cousin is really worthy of my master's strong rival."

"Su Huanzhen is still actively contacting those big franchise merchants. The raw stone trade is related to the credibility foundation of the Eighteen Banks. As long as you can confirm the news from the southwest, I believe that with Mr. Su's ability, those merchants will be persuaded soon."

"We have to speed up the progress." Zhang Jun said: "The defense line of Gunlong River is not enough to be a screen, and there is little hope of defending Yulingfan Mountain Pass. If I were King Sang, I would rather bring my young and strong people to Heilong City, combine troops and retreat to Baitouling. As long as I can persist until spring, the wind and rain will bring the insects and barbarians underground to sleep for a full half year. This long is enough for us to take down the northern country."

"The young master is far-sighted and admires me very much. Your opinion coincides with the king. The family has been mobilized, but our advancement speed has not reached the expectations. Bai Zongyuan and Xu Xiaojie have left one after another. The biggest difficulty now is Guangde Academy. If the academy does not express its opinion, our Shenyoufan dares not act rashly."

"Yes, so far it's all commercial means. Killing Bai Zongchang is just to satisfy the Prime Minister's Mansion. It means little to us." Zhang Jun nodded and asked, "How is the contact between the Bai family?"

"Bai Zongnian is very cunning. Su Huanzhen is right. He is not a shrewd and powerful hero like Bai Zongyuan, but he is a complete rogue. He is backed by the Prime Minister's Mansion. There is a way to advance and retreat. There is no need to cooperate with us." Chi Song Zhuangliang said with a hint of anger: "The gifts given to him may become useless."

"It's not useless. At least the Bai family will not stand out for that son-in-law." Zhang Jun said: "This is very important. Chi Songjun must not underestimate the Bai family. When I was studying at Cangqiong Academy, I heard a legend about a strong woman in the Bai family. If that person takes action, at least no one in the country of Sang can defeat!"

"You are talking about Bai Yujing." Chi Song Zhuangliang sighed and said, "Go back to the truth with the Tao, half-step into the saint, is fascinating."

Zhang Jun said: "Bai Yujing alone suppressed the four powerful men in Shenyoufan, including you. This constraint is too unfavorable for us. If the Bai family cannot make it, then find a way from the Lin family in Yeyang and other aristocratic families in the Sixteen City to unite everyone and put pressure on the academy."

Chi Song Zhuangliang said: "I'm afraid I don't have enough weight. After all, the core strength of the academy comes from the Bai family, and the rest are all intrigues."

"The inside of the academy is not a monolithic piece. The news provided by the Second Prime Minister's Mansion said that the three old guys from the Academic Elders' Court brought Bai Zongnian out, on the surface, wanted to surrender to the Prime Minister, but in fact they just threw away their pawns and protected the carts, using Bai Zongnian as a guise, nominally reduced their identity to join the Prime Minister Wang Xie family. In fact, they would never surrender to the camp belonging to the Han Dynasty."

“Is the message accurate?”

"Do you know there are five members in the Elders' House?" Zhang Jun said: "Now there are only four on Siming Mountain, and the remaining one is in Chang'an." Zhang Jun said: "It is precisely because of the help of this elder of the Bai family that the Second Prime Minister's House will operate this matter at such a cost."

"The Bai family genius who wanted to marry his aunt was a wife, which caused a lot of controversy, almost caused the Bai family to be doomed and defected to the Prime Minister's Mansion?" Chi Song Zhuangliang was shocked and said, "This madman is simply unreasonable."

"Even if Bai Zhangping is a madman, he is also a genius madman." Zhang Jun said: "I met him when I was studying in Chang'an. At that time, he was a visiting professor at Cangqiong Academy to preach his equality of all beings. Human races should advocate nature and follow the principles of beasts and barbarians. Although I agree, I sincerely admire this person's eloquence and wisdom."

"I heard that Bai Zhangping was the son of a concubine, but was a genius. When he was young, he was excluded by his family and almost died several times. Fortunately, a woman from the Xu generation, who was also a concubine, survived. The woman was about the same age as him. After they fell in love, they decided to leave the Bai family, but were broken up by the third ancestor of the Bai family. The woman died in a bad life. Bai Zhangping was detained in the back mountain of the academy. One day after many years, he suddenly broke through the pass and broke out..."

"He was suppressed by the three ancestors of the Bai family at that time. He verbally agreed to join the Elders' Courtyard, and later made an excuse to leave the Bai family." Zhang Jun took the conversation and continued: "As someone who knows the background of the Bai family and the academy best in the world, his judgment of the Three Ancestors of the Bai family should have high accuracy."

"What the young master means is the third ancestor of the Bai family who really wants to surrender to the King of Chu?"

"The three of them offended the King of Han in their early years. Who dares to take them in except the King of Chu today?"

Zhang Jun said: "The Prime Minister's Mansion will not want them. Although the Wang Xie family is a descendant of the Shenhua royal family, they have long stopped the idea of ​​reviving Shenhua. What they want is that a queen among the Han Kings or Chu Kings can continue to rule the world with them. Therefore, they will only suppress the limelight of the Bai family, but are not interested in the Bai family's inner corps."

"Is this the message accurate?"

"The news comes from Chang'an. My sister is with the princess all year round. What do you think?" Zhang Jun was slightly unhappy.

"So their struggle is just waiting for a price?" Chi Song Zhuangliang quickly cleverly changed the topic.

"After all, they are three old monsters who are over 600 years old together. Their joint attack strength is comparable to that of a level seven saint." Zhang Jun snorted softly and said, "There is also the Guangde Academy's thousand-year-old heritage in hand. If the King of Chu doesn't give a suitable price, why are they willing to just invest it like this?"

"If they finally choose the Second Prime Minister's Mansion and Bai Yujing firmly opposes it, Guangde Academy will inevitably be cut off from the inside." Chi Song analyzed as he said.

"The question is how can we speed up this process." Zhang Jun said: "It is not enough to use the raw stone merchants from the Sixteen cities to put pressure on Bai Yujing. It is best to mobilize the three ancestors of the Bai family in the Presbyterian Church to stand here and put pressure on Bai Yujing together. As long as she can't stand it, it will be no problem to take down the Eighteen Lines and the North."

"Without Bai Yujing's move, those merchants loyal to Zhang Xiao can be killed directly by Shenyouban!" Chi Song Zhuangliang said murderously: "A quick knife can cut the mess, and it will take less than half a month to turn the North into a Sang Kingdom."

"Actually, there is another difficulty." Zhang Jun said in a deep thought: "But it probably won't be difficult now."

"Are the young master talking about the Northern Army?"

"I just changed to a coach named Ning Dongfeng. My sister sent a letter saying that this person was a useless nerd. She was born in the Musheng Ning family in the South. She was left by the King of Han for several years in Chang'an. My sister tried to ask the princess to recommend him to the Northern Army as the commander, but she didn't expect that the King of Han actually agreed."
Chapter completed!