Before the Duanmu clan and other four major families had time to make trouble, they were destroyed by Yuncheng's tactics, which surprised many people, including Ming Gaochi and Cao Yafang.
The governors of Jingzhou and Jinzhou were released, but they have become the original governors.
At this time, they have become ordinary people without any power and only have the status of a royal family.
However, their status as a royal family cannot bring them any convenience, but instead makes them restricted everywhere.
They were directly sent to Liangzhou and other places for hard labor and could never set foot in the center of the Zhou Dynasty.
This was the best ending they could get. Bai Yutian took into consideration the blood relationship and did not drive them all away.
Seeing that something was wrong, Ming Gaochi quickly summoned Cao Yafang and Liu Zhen to discuss countermeasures.
The three of them came to the mansion where Zhang Cunxian and Zheng Kaiji were imprisoned, and at the same time they called Bai Yuxiao over.
They are all on the same side, so they often get together.
"What should we do? After this batch of grain is shipped, our plan will be in vain." Zheng Kaiji said anxiously.
Everyone gave him a blank look. None of them knew about this situation. The most important thing now was how to solve this problem.
"Don't worry. After all, there is still a locust plague in Jiangbei. Even if food can be transported there, their situation may not improve much."
"Moreover, I have also arranged a backup team in Jiangbei. It will be good if 10% of the food can be delivered in time." Ming Gaochi said with a sneer.
The locust plague in Jiangbei is undoubtedly their masterpiece.
A locust plague broke out in Jiangbei, causing a food shortage. Then the Zhou court was short of food, so it was necessary to go to other states to buy food.
When the time comes, Bai Yutian will have to bow to them.
As long as Bai Yutian lets go of the governors of Jingzhou and Jinzhou, Ming Gaochi and the others have every reason to force Bai Yutian to release the other governors as well.
In this way, it is equivalent to the court bowing to them and unable to take action against them in a short period of time.
Moreover, whatever the court does depends on their expressions.
As for Ming Gaochi and others, they can naturally rely on the support of the governors from various places to keep the family prosperous.
"However, I remember that His Majesty said that he would study ways to eliminate the locust plague. If they really find out, it would be a disaster." Cao Yafang said worriedly.
Hearing this, Min Gaochi glanced at him disdainfully, "The locust plague has been raging in the Zhou Dynasty for hundreds of years. All the monarchs in the past dynasties wanted to eliminate the locust plague, but they all failed."
"How can it be so easy for Your Majesty to eliminate the locust plague now?"
Ming Gaochi's expression was quite disdainful, and he looked very confident.
Cao Yafang looked thoughtful and nodded slowly.
What Ming Gaochi said is very reasonable.
"Are we just going to wait like this?"
Zhang Cunxian has been staying here for more than a month. All three meals a day are light tea and light rice, which is incomparable to his previous days in Huaizhou.
He is getting more and more anxious now and can't wait to return to Huaizhou immediately.
Ming Gaochi was quite dignified among the people. He glanced at everyone and said, "Of course not, we must take action now."
"First, I will instruct the people on the other side of Jiangbei to intercept the grain. At that time, we will need the cooperation of the two of us."
"Second, create some rumors in Jiangbei, saying that His Majesty abused the governors of the two states in Jiangbei and ruled cruelly."
"Third, let the 50,000 troops stationed in the two Jiangbei states be forcibly integrated into the 100,000 army to create chaos for them."
These three actions are each more vicious than the last.
Moreover, every plan requires the strength of the Zhang family and the Zheng family.
The Zhang family and the Zheng family have been in business for hundreds of years. In terms of their familiarity with Jiangbei, they are definitely second to none.
Moreover, all the 50,000 troops in Jiangbei were under the orders of Zhang Cunxian and Zheng Kaiji.
They refused to move, and the 50,000-strong army did not dare to move.
However, such a move would be quite detrimental to the Zhang family and the Zheng family.
First of all, Ming Gaochi was perfectly tied to them by intercepting grain, and he was also able to figure out the methods they deployed in Jiangbei.
In addition, these 50,000 troops will inevitably suffer heavy losses after this battle, which will greatly weaken their military strength.
Although they knew they were taking advantage of them, Zhang Cunxian and Zheng Kaiji had no choice but to nod.
At this time, they were imprisoned in Tailin City and had no way of knowing the news from the outside. If they wanted to leave Tailin City alive, they could only rely on Ming Gaochi and the others.
Although I don't want to, there is no other way.
Once everyone has decided on the plan, they can start taking action.
Only Liu Zhen seemed a little hesitant, but he actually regretted it.
But he doesn't dare to show it now, otherwise, I'm afraid he will definitely die first.
Liu Zhen may not be very capable, but he has a wide network of contacts. Nowadays, many students in the academy will respectfully call Liu Zhen "senior" when they see him.
Although Liu Zhen is very low-key now, he once had a very brilliant time.
He now knows too many secrets about Ming Gaochi and others. If he chooses to quit, he will definitely be the first to die.
Unless, he directly chooses to join Bai Yutian.
On the other side, Bai Yutian was also nervously urging everyone to conduct research on eliminating the locust plague.
In order to develop a poison to deal with locusts, he specially asked Long Wei to capture a batch of locusts from Jiangbei for testing.
This kind of locust is the most common locust, but it cannot sustain large numbers.
Farmers can catch and kill them, but with little success.
The locust plague Jiangbei is facing this time is a rare occurrence in a century, and is even more serious than the locust plague in Longxi and other places.
It can be said that farmers have almost no harvest.
Because Bai Yutian planned to combine the art of alchemy with the art of poisoning, he also invited the poison doctor over.
But it is said that since the poison doctor obtained the method of refining the poison, he hid in Tiangongyuan every day to refine the poison as if he had found a treasure.
In order to cooperate with the poison doctor, Bai Yutian also asked people to find many poisonous insects from around Tailin City and gave them to the poison doctor.
Although these poisonous insects are just the most common poisonous insects, and some poisonous insects are not even toxic, they are enough for poison doctors.
Many Gu insects are refined from the most common insects.
After dealing with the Tianjia assassins, Bai Yutian also discovered a strange insect from the bodies of the rebel soldiers.
This kind of bug is a kind of poison that hides in human flesh and blood and controls human behavior.
The bugs that refine this kind of Gu bug are the most common bugs.
"Yes, yes, spray this decoction on the leaves, and then when the locusts eat it, they will be poisoned to death immediately." The poison doctor said excitedly.
He is both good and evil, and will never take orders from anyone. If Bai Yutian hadn't used the poison technique to threaten him, I'm afraid the poison doctor wouldn't have listened to him.
However, Bai Yutian really doesn't have any good ideas for poison doctors at the moment.