Chapter 191: Assassinate the King and Kill the Driver
Looking at the rat-faced Shu Sanlang, and then at the man in black in front of him, Yang Bin asked: "Are you from Dong Chong's house?"
Dong Hou, named Dong Chong, is an old nobleman of the Gaochang Kingdom and is now the leading wealthy family in Gaochang City.
After Emperor Taizong destroyed the Gaochang Kingdom, although he did not give these old aristocrats in Gaochang City the title of Tang Dynasty, he still retained their political treatment.
Now Dong Zhong is also the first family in Gaochang City, but after the player took control of Gaochang City, he never had a good impression of these old nobles.
The last slave lawsuit between Liulinli and Dong Chong's house also made Dong Chong's family feel that they had suffered a big loss.
But it was one thing to lose face. What worried Dong Chong even more was the continuous incidents of escaped slaves.
According to the decree of the Xizhou Governor's Office, slaves were purchased at market prices. As long as the slaves were willing to leave the master's house, the government would pay for the redemption.
Originally, Dong Chong was dismissive of this law. These mud-legged slaves sold themselves into the Dong Mansion as slaves because they could not afford to eat. They would not be able to survive if they were allowed to leave.
Sure enough, the slaves who escaped at first were all slaves who had some skills and could weave or blacksmith.
Dong Chong's Mansion strictly monitored these slaves, but there were not many skilled slaves in the first place, so it was enough to keep these slaves together in the manor.
But what Dong Chong didn't expect was that everything had changed since a group of King Jianning's tooth soldiers became the governors of Xizhou.
This group of players worked like crazy to cultivate the land, build roads, and open workshops. They even paid their own money to hire men to work. Some villages that lacked men even set up stalls in Gaochang City to find men to work for.
Accommodation and board are included, as well as monthly wages. Not to mention the treatment of slaves, many ordinary people in Gaochang City have been recruited.
Just by working hard, they could have enough to eat, and they could also get paid every month. Now the slaves in Dong Chong's Mansion finally couldn't sit still.
Who wants to be a slave like a cow or horse if he can support himself?
And if you become a slave, your descendants will also be slaves.
As long as they can escape from Dong Chong's mansion, the government will cancel their slave status and help them redeem themselves.
In the past, slaves did not dare to escape because they were afraid that they would not be able to survive.
But now I can get paid outside, and the treatment is much better than being a slave.
And his descendants are no longer slaves. Isn’t this exciting?
The player captains quickly noticed the increase in the number of escaped slaves. After talking with these slaves, the group of player captains began to jointly promote a plan to help the slaves escape.
Nowadays, the most affluent neighborhood in Gaochang City is naturally Liulin Lane where Zeng Mu lives.
Relying on the three leading products of horse-drawn carriages, bullets, and "Huare Mintong Pills", Liulinli became the most prosperous village in the entire Xizhou.
Zeng Mu built a large road in Liulin that could accommodate four carriages, and then purchased land and opened a shop in Gaochang City. He sold Liulin's specialties himself and recruited workers in the city.
Both the carriage workshop and the elastic workshop require workers, and the production of salicylic acid needs to be extracted from willow branches, which also requires a large number of workers to go to the willow forest to harvest fresh willow branches.
Zeng Mu also fell in love with the slaves in the mansion of his old enemy Dong Chong.
Nowadays, labor is money. Players in Xizhou held a meeting on the forum. Finally, Zeng Mu took the lead and issued a mission to "liberate the slaves" in Xizhou.
As long as the player can bring slaves from the old nobles and wealthy families in Xizhou, they can be rewarded with contribution points.
Leader players have also accumulated a lot of contribution points. The rewards of this mission are generous, attracting many ranger players to come to Gaochang to complete the mission.
In addition to mobilizing players, Zeng Mu also released news in Gaochang City. Whoever can help slaves escape to the holding point will receive monetary rewards.
Although the reward for helping a slave escape is not that much, it is not a small sum of money if you add up to it.
And those slaves who escaped spontaneously can also receive this reward.
After spending a lot of contribution points and money, the number of escaped slaves in Xizhou became more and more intense. Even if Dong Zhong sent additional servants to guard him, he still could not stop the slaves from escaping.
Those lawless rangers broke open the dungeons of the manor and helped the lowly slaves escape.
Under the heavy rewards offered by Zeng Mu and other players, there are also servants who cheat and help slaves escape in exchange for rewards.
There used to be thousands of slaves in Dong Chong's mansion, but more than 500 of them escaped in this month. In some remote manors, all the slaves even ran away.
Dong Zhong was naturally furious. To these old nobles, slaves were the "ancestral property" of the family.
Dong Zhong didn't like having dirty slaves around him, but it didn't stop him from being happy when he saw the number of slaves in the ledger.
Dong Chong's Mansion is the largest family in Gaochang City, and one factor is that Dong Chong's Mansion has the largest number of slaves.
Seeing his subordinates constantly reporting the news of slaves escaping, Dong Chong smashed several antique vases one after another and severely punished the stewards who were guarding the slaves.
However, it was still unable to stop the slaves from escaping. When Dong Chong was angry, the housekeeper Dong Zhong sneaked into his study.
Dong Zhong originally wanted to reprimand the director, but the director said: "Master Hou, the eldest young master has sent a letter!"
Dong Chong immediately stood up. His son was traveling in the Central Plains and sent a letter last year saying that he had defected to the Crown Prince.
The last time Dong Zhong wrote to his son, he told about the fact that after Xizhou was occupied by King Jianning, the Dong family was targeted by the governor's office.
Today, his son's reply arrived. Dong Chong quickly accepted the letter, but was stunned when he saw the content of the letter.
Dong Zhong's son Dong Xun traveled to Xijing and prepared to take the imperial examination in Xijing.
Unexpectedly, during the Anlushan Rebellion, Dong Xun decisively ran away to Lingwu with the new emperor.
After the new emperor ascended the throne, Dong Xun found a job as secretary-general in the East Palace of Prince Li Chu.
The secretary-general handles the documents of the prince's palace. He is just the official of the prince's palace. Although he holds a low-level official position, he can contact the prince Li Chu.
Dong Xun put all his chips on the crown prince Li Chu. If the crown prince ascends the throne, then he and other old men like him will be able to flourish.
But if the prince fails to ascend the throne, then Dong Xun's future will be ruined at least, and his fortune and life will be lost at worst.
Dong Xun naturally knew that King Jianning was also a contender for the throne, and when he heard that King Jianning was working hard to govern in Longyou, Dong Xun became even more uneasy.
However, he was just a secretary and not a close adviser to the prince, so he had no way to report this matter to the prince.
Dong Xun was also an ambitious young man, and he immediately wrote a letter to his father.
The front is still an ordinary letter from home, but in the last part of the letter, Dong Xun made a suggestion to his father.