It is freezing cold in Luoyang City. Even though it is the prosperous Xijing of the Song Dynasty, in this cold winter weather, the streets and alleys are also in a state of depression.
Although the dripping water turned to ice outside, the flower hall outside Yue Yuan was as warm as spring, and the fragrance overflowed. Eight white copper braziers were burning the best quality animal charcoal, and the heat was surging in the room. Yue Yuan outside was called Yue Jinhua, and there was a shop.
A house can be praised as a member of the Communist Party of China, but Yue Yuanwai is a real member of the Communist Party of China. He is a wealthy businessman in Luoyang City, and more than half of the shops on the three most prosperous streets in Luoyang belong to him.
In Luoyang City, he talked about ordinary people, merchants, wealthy gentry, etc. who met him and treated him with respect. Even to the magistrate, he was a figure that could be spoken to. Such a figure should have been a big shot who would stomp his feet and make the nine cities tremble. At this moment, he was
In his own home, he was standing respectfully in the corner of the flower hall. Even in front of the prefect, he was not so docile and polite. His head was drooped, as if he was being taught a lesson by his father.
But the old man looked much younger than his age. He had a body like a black iron tower and was thick and strong. Although he was wearing a scribe's uniform, he didn't have any elegance at all. If it weren't for the light flashing in his eyes, which was as shrewd as lightning,
It is easy for people to classify him as a reckless man who only knows how to use a pair of giant iron fists like a bowl.
This reckless man was furious. He was sitting in the back room of Yue Yuanwai's home. The target of his rage was not Yue Yuanwai, but Yue Yuanwai seemed to be swept away by the wind and did not dare to breathe.
The angry man sitting at the top is none other than Cui Dalang. In front of him, three women are standing, one standing tall and tall, wearing a black fox fur coat, the soft and bright fur coat shines with purple.
The black light shines through, and there is a chinchilla skin cloak over the fur coat. There is a snow-white fox tail around the long neck, and a pair of deerskin boots. If an expert looks at it, he will know.
This expensive outfit is all made by famous artists.
The fur-clad woman's eyebrows are like distant mountains, her eyes are like autumn water, and she is so beautiful and beautiful. Wearing this noble dress, she really looks like a fairy in the sky. But this fairy is wearing fur clothes, and standing here is as warm as spring or even as early summer.
In the flower hall, there was faint sweat between her brows, so she looked a little embarrassed. As soon as she entered the flower hall, before she took off her coat, she was frightened by the angry Cui Dalang, and stood there without daring to move.
After a while, the temperature in the room will naturally become unbearable.
Standing behind her were two maids with buns in buns. They were both beauties with bright eyes and white teeth. Each wore a rabbit fur coat, which made them look pink and beautiful.
"It's unreasonable to keep me in the dark about such a thing. If I hadn't suddenly stopped purchasing silk, tea, porcelain and jewelry, raised a large amount of food, and disrupted their plan, I would still have known nothing. Yu Heng, this
You cannot absolve yourself of the blame for this incident."
The beauty hurriedly bowed her head and said: "The slave family is aware of the crime. The slave family has never been able to interfere with Master Zheng's activities. Over the years, the two sects have always been getting along well with each other, so... the slave family has been careless, please punish me."
As the beauty spoke, she lifted her fur coat and knelt down. Seeing this, the two pretty little maids behind her knelt down in a hurry.
This beauty is called Shi Yuheng. She was a woman specially selected and cultivated by the Cui family since she was a child. When she was a child, she accompanied Cui Dalang to study, practice martial arts, and learn business. When she grew up, she became his concubine. Cui Dalang was able to live freely.
Traveling around the world freely, making decisions only about the development direction of such a huge force, there is naturally a clear division of labor and an extremely efficient execution team around him. Many details are completed and implemented by them. Several of his
The concubines are all very important figures in this team.
Cui Dalang waved his hand calmly and said: "Leave the matter of raising food to the Li family. From now on, you will closely monitor every move of the Zheng family, whether it is personnel transfers or money transfers, no matter how big or small.
Everything must be reported to me promptly."
Shi Yuheng hurriedly responded yes. Cui Dalang thought for a moment and then said: "The ones sent by the Zheng family to Hexi to take charge of their affairs are Xia Xia and Tang Ran?"
Cui Dalang's eyes flashed for a while, and he gradually showed a hint of murderous intent, and sneered: "If you don't follow the rules, you won't be able to follow the rules. It seems that I have indulged them too much in the past."
Shi Yuheng said hurriedly: "Please tell me what you want to do, Master. I will arrange it right away."
Cui Dalang glanced at her, breathed out and said: "Forget it, I still need to think about this matter. You just arrived and it's too cold to travel, so you can stay for now to change clothes, take a bath and rest.
one time."
After hearing this, Shi Meiren knew that he had calmed down and could stay by his side again. She was not without joy in her heart. She quickly agreed and glanced at him with a mixture of joy and anger. She was so charming that she stood up and took the two with her.
The little maid retreated. When she turned around, the corners of Shi Yuheng's lips curled up slightly, and the timid look she had just pretended was replaced by a faint smile.
She reunited with her husband after a long separation. When they first met, she was scolded by him first. How could she not have any temper? Since the young master asked her to stay... Humph! Now she was angry, in front of the servants,
You have to give your man face. You have to act coquettishly and act coquettishly in the first hour of your stay. You have to let him humiliate you and accuse him, and then you can get the situation back, and then you can be affectionate with him.
Shi Yuheng has been serving Cui Dalang since he was a child. He and he were childhood sweethearts, and now they are his bedfellows. To say that they are afraid of him, unless they touch his inverse scale,... they will not really be afraid. Otherwise.
Why did the prude Confucius say that women are emotional animals who "are not inferior when they are close, and resent when they are far away"? This great scholar obviously has more than enough knowledge, but lacks emotional intelligence, and is a bit unbalanced in the relationship between men and women.
Then he complained angrily.
"Master..."
As soon as Beauty Shi left, Yue Yuanwai came up to her. Cui Dalang waved his hand and ordered: "You can go down too, I want to be alone for a while."
"Yes!" Yue Yuan was relieved. In front of this leader whom he rarely saw, there was always an invisible heavy pressure in his heart, especially when he was angry, whether it was Mr. Cui or the Zheng whom Miss Shi just mentioned.
Ye, they are all the top figures in the "Ji Si Tang". They can be wiped out with just a flick of the little finger. It would be best to stay away from them.
Seeing Yue Yuanwai retreating on thin ice, Cui Dalang breathed a sigh of relief and sat down with a headache. Yang Hao suddenly proclaimed himself the emperor, and he had done a lot of work to keep it secret beforehand. Even he was made very passive. However, since Yang Hao unified Hexi
, he already had this premonition and psychological preparation, and it was not that he was in a special hurry. Unifying Hexi and standing on a foothold with Song and Liao was the situation he had longed for when he originally encouraged Yang Hao to return to Hexi. In the past two years, his
Although the investment has not been fully recovered, the benefits brought by the unification of Hexi have been huge. His investment was one-time, but the benefits are endless. This business is naturally a great success.
As for Yang Hao being wary of his huge potential power, he would avoid him if possible, but he didn't take it to heart. He was a businessman, and he didn't want to have political power at all, nor did he have the ability.
Having huge financial resources does not necessarily mean that you can be the one to rule the world. Otherwise, there would not have been so many wealthy gentry and wealthy businessmen in the past and present who want to control power or get the protection of power in order to achieve long-term peace and stability.
, he had to spend his family wealth to support a potential hero who may not be stronger than him at the time.
The Tang Dynasty was so glorious in those days. It could only be strong for three generations, and it perished immediately. Since Zhu Wen destroyed the Tang Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor, which hero has not pointed his sword at the world, and no wealthy family can resist it? However, these huge empires,
These emperors, generals, and ministers are as brilliant as a flash in the pan, disappearing without exception. The actors in the opera are all singing after you sing and I will appear on the stage, but the drummers and strings in the backstage will not be affected.
What Cui Dalang is determined to do is to be the musician playing cymbals and drums behind the scenes, and the waves to wipe out the heroes. I will not be the boat on the top of the waves, but only the waves that push you to the top. This is also the summary of hundreds of years of Jisitang history.
Out of survival experience.
However, if the boat is not picked up and the boat capsizes, the new generation of powerful people may not be willing to accept you as a wave. What will you do then? Emperors, generals, and dynasty hegemony always change in turn, and the same always happens.
There is a new aristocratic family that has correctly speculated and replaced the previous aristocratic family with the power of Conglong, becoming one of the most powerful families in the world. How can Jisi Hall remain undefeated?
The method Jisitang came up with was to divide the entire huge force into two parts: Qianzong and Xianzong. Xianzong was responsible for assessing the situation, following the strong to compete in the world, and seeking benefits with great achievements. Qianzong died down and was on the side of showing support.
When a hero is a hero, he is in a state of absolute silence. Once Xianzong's investment fails and he needs to support another party, or after success, he cannot retreat and is purged. The emperor needs another force to replace the one hand that supported him.
When you go to the Jisi Hall on the 95th Supreme Throne, the Qianzong, which has nothing to do with the Jisi Hall on the surface, will appear. The Qianzong will become the Xianzong, and the Xianzong will become the Qianzong. In this exchange process, it is guaranteed that the family
survival and prosperity.
Cui Dalang was the head of Jisitang's generation and the leader of Xianzong. When he took over the power, Jisitang had already established his own forces in the Tang, Song and remote areas after years of painstaking efforts, and the world was in chaos.
At the beginning, most of the big families in Jisitang had begun to be optimistic about the Song Dynasty and believed that it could unify the world. However, in the troubled times of the Five Dynasties, many talented and strategists failed in the end. Putting all the eggs in one basket, Jisitang is
Won't do it.
What's more, the Zhao family used military power to directly take over the power from the previous emperor. The successor hall did not regard Zhao Kuangyin, a general who was doing inspections in front of the palace, as a general when Chai Rong, the talented and strategist Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, was in power.
It was a hidden dragon, so it did not gain much benefit from it. This was the reason why the Tang family later moved to Bianliang. Because there were still a lot of opportunities to make money here, Jisitang did not control everything here early.
At this time, Cui Dalang discovered the potential of Yang Hao. The Western Region Trade Road was originally an important trade route for Jisitang, but the northwest has been in war for years. Even though generations of Jisitang family members have spared no effort to open up the Western Regions trade route since their ancestors,
, and got in touch with Talib, a big food businessman, and jointly created a secret business channel, but the cost was too high.
In addition, the situation in the Western Regions compared with that of the Central Plains during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period saw the emergence of princes and generals one after another. Jisitang paid heavily to bribe a local force. As soon as it was effective, this force was replaced by others, and they had to start all over again.
It’s not uncommon. Moreover, these ethnic minority regimes are far better at destruction than construction. Even if you spend a lot of money and establish relationships with them, it will be difficult to obtain more benefits from this local regime.
At first, Cui Dalang supported Yang Hao, just hoping to use him to improve the situation of Jisi Hall in the northwest. However, as they obtained more and more information about Yang Hao's potential power, and got to know Yang Hao as a person, they gradually discovered that
, Yang Hao, this person, Yang Hao's power still has great potential to be tapped, so the investment is getting bigger and bigger. With the rise of Yang Hao, they finally found that this person is fully capable of unifying the Western Region and completely solving the problem.
The problem of smooth trade routes in the Western Regions has troubled Jisitang for more than a hundred years.
By unifying the Western Regions, Yang Hao can ensure the unimpeded flow of goods from the East and the West. Silk, porcelain, tea from the East..., jewelry, spices, colored glaze from the West..., every round trip is worth ten thousand taels of gold. If the Hexi Corridor is not unified
, it is simply unimaginable that a large amount of property that is easily damaged and easy to be robbed can be safely transported back and forth.
The Hexi region is rich in salt mines, iron mines, sulfur mines, Glauber's salt mines, cattle, horses, sheep and livestock, cotton and linen products, and even the gold mines and gem mines in the Altai Mountains, the jade mines in the Kunlun Mountains and Khotan. Without a unified political power,
It was unimaginable for a businessman to mine, produce, transport, and sell. So after careful and careful analysis, Jisitang began to spare no effort to support him.
However, I did not expect that Jisitang's huge investment had just begun to produce results, and it came to a critical moment in the struggle between Yang Hao and the Song Dynasty. Once Yang Hao failed, the forces of various ethnic groups in Hexi who had attached themselves to Yang Hao were likely to immediately fall apart and return to their original state.
At this critical moment, Jisitang must give full support to the disorderly melee situation. At this time, Jisitang has no way to turn back. No matter Yang Hao proclaims himself king or emperor or is called Marshal of Hexi Longyou, in short, we must try to maintain the unity of Hexi's local government. Jisitang
Something happened internally again.
Decades ago, the Lu family tried to kill the other six surnames in one fell swoop and seize the supreme power of the Success Hall; a few years ago, the Tang family refused to obey the unified deployment of the Success Hall and brazenly moved from Hexi to Bianliang; now, the leader of the Qian clan, the Zheng family
Not willing to be lonely, I want to jump out and make waves.
The Zheng family secretly mobilized various resources to create conditions for Zhao Guangmei to run Guanzhong. Because the Zheng family is a Qianzong sect, they usually only carry out various normal business transactions. The Xianzong has no reason to interfere and supervise, and they are not aware of it.
It wasn't that Cui Dalang was forced to change the original purchase plan and raise a large amount of food and grass because Yang Hao suddenly proclaimed himself emperor. Because the situation was urgent and the Qianzong's reserves needed to be used, he still couldn't discover what the Zheng family was doing.
"His grandma is a bear!"
Thinking of this, Cui Dalang couldn't help but cursed: The Zheng family is so whimsical that they want to support Zhao Guangmei!
Zhao Guangmei? Cui Dalang looked left and right, up and down, but no matter how he looked, he couldn't see that Zhao Guangmei had the conditions and opportunities to replace Zhao Guangyi. The Zheng family's head was simply kicked by a donkey!
Yes, when I first supported Yang Hao, he was just a fire dean in Bianliang, Tokyo. Zhao Guangmei is now the prince, and his father-in-law is much higher than Yang Hao. There are rumors in the public that the Zhao family is the last brother in the world, Zhao Da.
The throne was passed to Zhao Er, and Zhao Er will pass it to Zhao San in the future, but does Zhao Guangyi seem like a person willing to give up? He has already established the crown prince!
Although Yang Hao was just a fire chief in Kaifeng Prefecture at the beginning, the people of Luzhou were brought out from the Han Dynasty by him. They only recognized Yang Hao and not the Song Dynasty court;
Surrender, with Li Guangcen, the legal heir of the Jiedushi Envoy, as his adoptive father, what does Zhao Guangmei have?
Dongshi imitates!
This is the conclusion Cui Dalang came to.
When he was angry just now, Cui Dalang was filled with hatred and really wanted to use the most severe means to punish the Zheng family. However, when he calmed down now, he realized that things were not that simple. First of all, although he was the head of Jisi Hall, he had no control over the people in Jisi Hall.
A large family, a very important force, and the leader of a potential sect who could compete with him was not something that could be easily touched. If he really had such great power, he would not have had no choice but to accept the fact that the Tang family moved to Bianliang.
Already.
Second, the Zheng family's move was not big, and their investment in Zhao Guangmei was still limited. The Qianzong had the right to support those they thought had potential, even if the two forces were fighting in full swing, and the Xianzong was in full swing.
Fully support one of the parties. If Qianzong deems it necessary, he can also contact the other party first. He can't wait until Xianzong fails and retreats into the background before Qianzong rushes out to cram for help. Therefore... the actions of the Zheng family will be followed by Heir.
It's not an outrageous behavior.
This was a marginal hit...
Sit back and ignore it?
No, after the Tang family withdrew from the northwest, Jisi Hall's resources in the northwest were limited, and all of these limited resources had to be used on Yang Hao. The 100,000 rebels of Scimitar Xiaoliu and Tieniu in Shu needed funding, and the Hexi region was in full swing.
The war is even more expensive. Ye Zhixuan is laying communications on the Bashu front line in Longyou, Hexi. Longyou Wang Rufeng, Di Haijing, Basa, Zhang Jun and others are recruiting troops. Money is not needed anywhere. Old man Zheng of Qianzong can no longer be like a blood sucker.
It seems like they are wasting these limited resources on that good-for-nothing Zhao Guangmei.
Cui Dalang gritted his teeth and smiled coldly: In the northwest, the plan to lure the enemy deep and cut off the enemy's food routes has initially achieved results. Pan Mei is in a dilemma. It seems that Yang Hao can hold it. I can't move this old man Zheng, then
Let’s take a step back and make sure the Zheng family ruins my big event!