In the mansion, Diao Chan, who was playing the piano, raised her head and looked at Zhu Biao, who was staring at her intently, and asked.
"What does Mrs. Yuan mean by giving you to me?" Zhu Biao asked straight to the point.
Diao Chan's hand that was playing the piano couldn't help but pause for a moment, and her voice sounded a little soft and she said: "The slave family doesn't know what the general means?"
"Nujia is just an ordinary singer."
"Yeah?"
"Then do you know someone named Wang Ping?" Zhu Biao asked, squinting his eyes.
"Boom...!"
Upon hearing this name, Diao Chan's hand on the piano couldn't help but tighten, and she immediately broke one of the strings.
"Wang Ping, nineteen years old, from Jingzhao Mansion, married for two years, has a son and a daughter."
"Unfortunately, their family was attacked by gangsters on Chang'an Road..."
When Zhu Biao said this, he paused deliberately, and sure enough, Diao Chan's breathing began to become a little rapid involuntarily.
Zhu Biao smiled and then continued: "It happened that one of my men encountered this scene. When they saw an injustice, they drew their swords to help and helped them get out of the crisis. Now their family is being brought here from Chang'an by my people. I think it won't take long.
arrive."
"I wonder if the girl knows them?" Zhu Biao said with a smile.
"No... I don't know the slave family." Diao Chan said with a trembling voice.
"oh……!"
"So that Wang Ping lied to me?"
"He also said that he is your brother. Well, I have never been deceived since I was a child. I didn't expect to be deceived by this person. It is really disgusting. I will kill their whole family now to relieve the hatred in my heart.
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After Zhu Biao said this, he turned around and walked out.
When Diao Chan heard this, she was so frightened that her face turned pale, and without caring about anything else, she knelt down in front of Zhu Biao with a thud.
"General, spare your life. The little girl lied. That's the little girl's brother. I beg the general to spare their lives." Diao Chan said sobbing.
"oh……?"
"Then why did you lie just now?" Zhu Biao sat back in his chair and asked with a smile.
"Is it true that my brother is already in the hands of the general?" Diao Chan raised her head and looked at Zhu Biao and asked.
"Look what this is?" Zhu Biao put a hairpin into Diao Chan's hand.
Diao Chan believed Zhu Biao's words after just one glance.
This hairpin was a token he left to his brother. Only her brother and her knew its significance. Now that the hairpin appeared in Zhu Biao's hand, it was obvious that the other party had indeed captured his brother and even gained his brother's trust.
"The Nujia was originally a distant relative of the minister Wang Yun. He was taken into the Shangshuling's family as a singer since he was a child. When he was seven years old, the Nujia awakened a magical power. This magical power made the Nujia more and more beautiful and made everyone who saw the Nujia
Men unconsciously fall in love with slaves."
"When Wang Yun found out, he kept me in a boudoir. He even recognized me as his goddaughter and named me Diao Chan."
"When I was twelve years old, I awakened my second innate magical power."
"This innate magical power allows the slave to use his mind to influence and even control the other person's mental will when he has sex with someone for the first time."
When Diao Chan said this, she looked very calm, without the usual shyness of a little girl.
"Damn it, it's still dual talents!"
"And these two talents look like they match well!"
"This woman is amazing!"
Zhu Biao exclaimed secretly in his heart, but continued calmly on his face: "Then what instructions did Wang Yun have in sending you to me?"
"The general controls the imperial guard and has extremely strong force. They want the slave family to influence the general so that the general can assassinate the Taiwei at the right time."
"As the prince's son, he will definitely not be wary of you."
"What a vicious plan!"
Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes slightly: "Who is planning this matter?"
"I don't know the specific slave family, I only know that Wang Yun is there."
"It stands to reason that it is impossible for them not to notify Yuan Wei about such a big event!"
"And if Yuan Wei is notified, it means that Zhu Yuanzhang and himself know about it, but he has only just found out about it."
"Isn't it possible that the Yuan family was behind this matter?" Zhu Biao touched his chin and couldn't think of a clue, so he decided not to think about these things.
Ever since Zhu Yuanzhang occupied Luoyang and forcefully replaced the emperor, the entire clan in the world has become their enemy.
Because they are now standing at the highest level, it is extremely cold at high altitudes, and they need to beware of all the open and hidden arrows from all directions.
"It sounds like you don't have much respect for Wang Yun?"
"Isn't he your adoptive father?" Zhu Biao asked curiously.
Hearing this, a sneer flashed across Diao Chan's face.
"The general doesn't know. Wang Yun has more than twenty daughters like me. We are just tools for him to raise. I have more than ten sisters who are used by him for political marriages, or like me.
He is plotting to murder his political opponents."
"We are just his tools from beginning to end."
"His method of controlling us is also to use our relatives."
"Now that my relatives are in the hands of the general, then I am naturally the general's man."
"The general can use me to achieve political goals, but please treat my brother and his family well." Diao Chan respectfully knelt in front of Zhu Biao and said.
"Get up!"
Zhu Biao understood Diao Chan's situation very well. In this world, everyone is a pawn involuntarily, let alone a weak woman like Diao Chan.
Zhu Biao believed that if she hadn't awakened these two talents, a beautiful woman like her would have been taken into a concubine by someone from a wealthy family, or even into a brothel.
"Then how did you contact Wang Yun? If you succeed, what will they do next?" Zhu Biao asked again.
There is no contact method, only a deadline.
As long as the Nu family can control His Highness to kill the Taiwei within three years, it will be considered a success.
As for the next plan, the slave family doesn't know, the slave family is just an insignificant chess piece.
"I see!"
Zhu Biao narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking about whether to use Diao Chan to lure Jiang Taigong's fishermen to the bait.
In the blink of an eye, another two months have passed.
In the past two months, Ming Dynasty's control over the imperial capital of the Han Dynasty has once again deepened.
As the trade route between Jizhou and Sili became unimpeded, all kinds of supplies began to become increasingly abundant in the city of Luoyang.
With such a material foundation, Zhu Yuanzhang had plans to do further things.
Soon a notice was posted in the streets and alleys of Luoyang City.
There is only one content in the notice: to call for workers.
There is no limit to the number of people, food and housing are provided, and wages are also paid.
The imperial court... to be precise, Zhu Yuanzhang's big move naturally attracted the attention of many forces in Luoyang City at this moment.
Both Yuan and Cao Cao began to try their best to find out the deep meaning of Zhu Yuanzhang's move.
Zhu Yuanzhang had no need to hide this, so Zhu Yuanzhang's plan soon surfaced.
"Is this Zhu Yuanzhang crazy?"
"He actually wants to build a Grand Canal that runs through the entire Han Empire, starting from Jizhou in the north and passing through Yanzhou, Sili, Yuzhou, and Yangzhou. This is simply a fool's dream."
After getting the news, no matter it was Guo Jia, Xun Yu or Cao Cao, Yuan Shao couldn't believe their ears.
Speaking of which, Zhu Yuanzhang had played this trick before.
The official roads from Sili to Jizhou, Qingzhou and other places were repaired.
But that's just repairs, and it can be completed in a month or two by tens of thousands of people.
Compared with the current Grand Canal project carried out by Zhu Yuanzhang, road repairs can only be considered trivial.
Since ancient times, building roads and dredging canals have been major tasks that cost people and money.
No ruler would dare to do such a thing with great fanfare. Even as powerful as the Qin Dynasty, it also perished due to such large-scale servitude of the people, not to mention the current crumbling Han Dynasty.
"There is no need to assassinate him now. In less than a year, this person will definitely pay the price for his ignorance. When the time comes, it will be effortless to eradicate him!" This was the disdain for Zhu Yuanzhang among all the people in Luoyang City, including Yuan Shao.
The idea of well-intentioned forces.
So what makes people a little bit amused is that as soon as this news came out, the city of Luoyang, which was originally full of undercurrents, actually became quiet because of it. Everyone was waiting to see Zhu Yuanzhang's joke.
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed it off.
He is still doing his own thing step by step.
Even after Zhu Biao reported Diao Chan's incident, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't pay much attention to it, and even warned Zhu Biao not to act rashly.
To be honest, this puzzled Zhu Biao.
This is not like my father who likes fishing?
In this day and age, recruiting workers is easy
Because in this day and age, there is a shortage of clothes, food, and everything except idle people.
Countless people died of cold and hunger every day outside Luoyang City. When they heard that the imperial court had once again begun to control food, housing, and recruitment of people to work, it took only three days for fifty or sixty thousand people to come.
At the same time, more refugees from all directions are rushing here after hearing the news.
To be honest, even if Zhu Yuanzhang didn't pay him, they would still be willing to do it.
The fact that the imperial court could provide food and shelter for them so that they would not die of cold and hunger was already a great kindness to them.
However, although Zhu Yuanzhang was stingy, he could not really deny them a penny of wages.
Of course, what was issued this time was not five baht coins, but Ming Dynasty treasure notes, thirty yuan a day.
Of course, this kind of treasure was like waste paper in the Han Empire, and no one recognized it at all.
But there are now more than 100 Ming Dynasty shops in Luoyang City. These shops were opened by Zhu Yuanzhang during this period. These shops recognize the role of this kind of treasure banknotes. No matter who goes to these shops with the treasure banknotes,
You can buy anything in China.
The goods in these shops include everything from grain and cloth to needles, threads, iron pots and hoes, and everything is sold.
There are even various books for sale.
In this way, the useless treasure banknotes had their own value and naturally began to circulate in Luoyang City.
In a short period of time, Luoyang City became more prosperous than before.
"How about I help him?"
"Let's see how long the food in his hands can last?" In a courtyard, Guo Jia and Xun Yu were sitting opposite each other, discussing Zhu Yuanzhang's governance policy.
The two of them are in a very special situation now. They were originally going to unite with the Yuan family.
But after contacting Yuan Shao, they keenly discovered that this man was a man of great ambition and talent, and Yuan Wei gave them a very strange feeling.
As the top civil servants of the Three Kingdoms, their intuitions were quite keen. They soon realized that the Yuan family was not a place to stay for a long time, so they gradually alienated the Yuan family.
After all, Yuan Shao is not a prince now, and the Yuan family is not a prince's family.
Strictly speaking, the current Yuan Shao, like Guo Jia and others, is just a son of an aristocratic family. Naturally, there is no such thing as a civil servant.
Of course, they no longer served Cao Cao.
They all clearly see Cao Cao's heroic nature. Such a person can only make a difference in troubled times. But now, after all, the troubled times have not yet begun, so naturally there is no need to seek refuge with Cao Cao.
After this period of visits and win-overs, the two of them, coupled with their own power, also win over some aristocratic families, so strictly speaking, Guo Jia and Xun Yu have now become the fourth force in Luoyang City.
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Upon hearing Guo Jia's suggestion, Xun Yu pondered for a moment and then nodded.
"It is said that the newly rising Zhu family in Jizhou is very rich, so let's see how wealthy this Zhu family is."
"Not only us, but also the Cao family and the Yuan family should be notified, asking all the noble families in Luoyang City to gather the refugees from all over the country and send them to Luoyang."
"Let's see if we can burst Zhu's belly..."
Soon the news that the number of refugees near Luoyang had increased reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears. He sent Jin Yiwei to investigate secretly, and soon found out that the matter was the fault of those wealthy families.
Even many of these refugees were slaves disguised as domestic servants of noble families.
After all, it is not the busy time for farming. You have to keep these slaves at home and give them food. If you send them here to work for Zhu Yuanzhang, they will not only cause trouble for Zhu Yuanzhang, but also save some rations. Why not do it?
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Zhu Yuanzhang naturally accepted this happily.
In the current Han Dynasty, population represents wealth.
It is easy for the wealthy families to release these people, but it is even more difficult to take them back.
Zhu Yuanzhang began to dispatch more management personnel from the Ming Dynasty to organize and register these refugees.
In just one month, the number of refugees has reached a terrifying 300,000 people.
To be honest, this number of refugees, and they were just under the city of Luoyang, would shock everyone. After all, if someone had evil intentions, these 300,000 people could quickly turn into a mob of 300,000 people.
At that time, the entire Sili family may suffer.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not panic at all, but was very surprised.
He began to increase infrastructure projects.
Mining and iron-making workshops began to be put on his agenda, as did the construction of cement roads and railways. Of course, the most important excavation of the Grand Canal was also in progress.
At the same time, a steady stream of food and various daily necessities began to flow into Sili from Jizhou.
The whole Sili began to get better day by day, and this good feeling was really visible to the naked eye.
Among them, the most eye-catching thing is the refugees. This winter, there is not even a single refugee left in Luoyang City.