Now the two of them can only hope that Liu Min is really a bribe-taking maniac, and as long as he takes the benefits, he will not meddle in other people's affairs, otherwise things will become a big deal. />
However, seeing Liu Min's behavior, the two of them accepted the jade seat. They just wanted to get some benefits and spend money to avoid disasters. Although it hurt, it was nothing. Anyway, compared to the money earned from such a big project, it was just a drop in the bucket.
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The two of them couldn't help but resent Liu Min for taking this trip. They estimated that with Fan Lixiang's status, the benefits they would get would be much greater than what they had to worry about running around. It was simply unreasonable.
Outside, Li Cai was asked by Liu Min who was from the Huang family. He felt awe-struck, but after having said so much, it was impossible not to say it in the end: "This time, it is Huang Lan and Huang who are interested in this project."
"Huang Lan." Liu Min pondered in his heart. He knew that Huang Lan was from the Huang family in Shuzhong. Huang Lan was the cousin of Huang Quan and the cousin of Liu Zhang's wife, Huang Yue, because she had been with him since childhood.
Huang Quan has a good relationship, and after Huang Quan and Huang Yue were re-employed one after another, Huang Lan naturally became one of the core members of the Huang family.
"Now we are in some trouble." Liu Min thought to himself that the Huang family in Shu must be the most powerful people in the world now. Although Huang Quan was only a shepherd in Yizhou, he was obviously the most important civil servant in the Sichuan army.
Huang Quan followed Liu Zhang from the Battle of Fucheng. The Battle of Fucheng was arranged by Liu Zhang in advance. Huang Quan arrived with Dongzhou soldiers and won a decisive battle. After that, he continued to take care of Yizhou and did not surrender when the Jingyi clan rebelled.
Based on Huang Quan's achievements during Liu Zhang's rise, after Liu Zhang became emperor, Huang Quan would definitely be the highest-ranking official in the imperial court.
What's more, Huang Yue is still the royal wife.
Liu Min felt a little solemn in her heart. She did not expect that it was the Huang family who framed the Qu family. This directly involved Liu Zhang. Will Liu Zhang handle it? You must know that touching the Huang family before he has become emperor will definitely chill the hearts of other heroes.
. Maybe there is a suspicion that the cunning rabbit was cooked by the lackey.
In fact, there are two Huang families, one is the Shuzhong Huang family, and the other is the Jingzhou Huang family. Which one is more aggressive? The Jingzhou Huang family only has one Huang Yueying, which is already on an equal footing with the Yizhou Huang family.
However, in comparison, the Jingzhou Huang family seems to be too low-key. Until now, the strength of the Jingzhou Huang family cannot be compared with several big families in Shu. At most, it is only higher than other ordinary families. I don’t know if Huang Yueying deliberately
suppress.
From the moment she heard it was the Huang family, Liu Min felt that the matter was serious. Now she felt uneasy, but she still couldn't show it. She couldn't leave either, so she continued to ask some questions with her head held high.
Liu Min wanted to know if Huang Lan was really behind the scenes, and if there was someone behind the scenes who was more powerful than Huang Lan. After some insinuations, she couldn't find anything.
Liu Min also believes that there is nothing left. If there is anyone behind Huang Lan, it can only be Huang Quan and Huang Yue. It is impossible for these two people to intervene in such a project.
"When the Huang family gets the project, don't forget to inform me. I will go to celebrate."
After Liu Min finished speaking, he stood up and left. As soon as he walked outside the courtyard, two people behind the screen, one of them stood up with a groan: "Fan Lixiang is so arrogant. He actually knew that he was from the Huang family. How dare he be so arrogant, almost blatantly asking for bribes."
.What does he think Fan Lixiang is in front of the Huang family?"
"Okay, Su Wen Fan Lixiang is good at playing power and is ruthless. How can the people under his command be good? Let them be proud this time. When the King of Shu ascends to the throne and Mr. Huang Quan enters the core of the court, we can slowly deal with Fan Lixiang.
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If the person behind Liu Min had not been Fan Lixiang, they were afraid that Liu Min would not let it go after her death. The two of them even wanted to kill Liu Min directly, or find a crime and throw her into jail, so that she could die slowly and unexpectedly.
That person was right. If Liu Zhang hadn't been behind him this time, Liu Min would not have dared to be arrogant in front of the Huang family. No matter what the political form of a regime is, there will always be a powerful class.
What's more, the Sichuan Army was directly derived from the Han Dynasty. The concept of power class is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. One person can ascend to heaven. Liu Zhang's heroic generals and some businessmen who first followed the Sichuan Army. It would be strange if their families did not follow the rise of the Sichuan Army.
Liu Min returned to the Fan Lixiang military camp and asked the other generals, including Xing Daorong and Chen Ying, to retreat. Liu Min recounted exactly what he had heard. While speaking, he looked at Liu Zhang anxiously from time to time.
Fan Lixiang also frowned. She originally wanted to hear what Liu Zhang had to say first, but turned around to see Liu Zhang frowning. Fan Lixiang thought that Liu Zhang was not easy to deal with the Huang family. It was no wonder that Liu Zhang was not the only one here.
According to Fan Lixiang's understanding of the main wife, Liu Zhang cares a lot about Huang Yue's feelings.
And this also involves actual politics. Huang Quan is the biggest contributor in the civil service system. If he has not proclaimed himself emperor at this time, and takes action against Huang Quan's family or his cousin who is close to Huang Quan, it will not only be heartbreaking for the Huang family, but also
Other heroes and generals were equally disappointed.
This is a big challenge to the stability of the subsequent regime.
Fan Lixiang thought for a while and said: "As far as I know, as a family, the Huang family's business is divided into several parts. There are responsible clan members for the Southwest Silk Road and the Western Silk Road.
As for the merchants in the Han Dynasty, it was Huang Lan who was openly moving around, so Huang Lan definitely had to take care of more than just Beiping. It was only because of the huge construction project in Beiping and the huge profits that Huang Lan directly intervened.
So I think the person who framed the Qu family this time is probably not Huang Lan. On the day of the bidding, the Huang family, Li Cai and other officials who came to bid were arrested, and they were all detained in collusion between the government and businessmen. There was no need to implicate innocent people.
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"Innocent?" After Fan Lixiang finished speaking, Liu Zhang spoke softly and took a deep breath: "Huang Lan is in Peiping now, and is personally supervising the Peiping construction site. Lixiang, you are not afraid of anything. When you were in Jingzhou
, in order to keep his power and position, even this king is involved in the conspiracy.
Why are there so many concerns now?"
Fan Lixiang paused. Of course he was thinking about Liu Zhang when he said this, and she also felt that she was about to become emperor and ascend the throne. She should not cause any trouble at this time.
If it were any other king who was about to face a major event like proclaiming himself emperor, he would definitely not care about it. He would turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye. A somewhat domineering king would just write it down. As long as the Huang family does
If it's not too outrageous, I won't mention it.
In the future, when we are proclaimed emperor and the throne is stable, we will settle the accounts together when the lackeys cook.
Fan Lixiang said that she would punish those who directly committed the crime, considering that Liu Zhang might not turn a blind eye, but judging from Liu Zhang's current tone, he actually wanted to investigate thoroughly.
The commotion was huge. It really shouldn't have happened before he proclaimed himself emperor.
"My lord, you don't really want to punish Huang Lan, do you? Now that the world has just been unified, we can't make such a big fuss. Even if you want to punish Huang Lan, you have to wait until you become emperor.
My lord, there is one thing you may not have thought about. Punishing Huang Lan will not only chill the hearts of some good generals, but also make the people doubt that the Huang family, as the largest meritorious family, has such a profit-seeking person. The people will be suspicious.
Our entire Sichuan Army."
"Punishment?" Liu Zhang sneered: "Huang Lan's head can still exist. That would be so sorry for the hundreds of thousands of people who died."
Liu Zhang was fully aware of the consequences of killing Huang Lan, especially what Fan Lixiang said at the end, one grain of mouse droppings ruined a pot of soup. If such a person was found in the Huang family, he would frame him for profit at the cost of killing the soldier's family of three.
Another businessman, this person is also the cousin of the chief civil servant of the Sichuan Army.
Then the common people will have doubts about the Sichuan Army regime. Sometimes this kind of doubt is fatal. Maybe in the future, the common people will think of this incident and say: "Look, the Sichuan Army is not a good thing. The top leaders have that kind of scum."
, let alone the lower classes.”
Generally speaking, if a political power wants to maintain its legitimacy, it must keep secret about high-level crimes.
Of course Liu Zhang hoped that nothing would go wrong before he became emperor, and of course he hoped that the court established by the Sichuan Army would have a glorious and holy image in the hearts of the people. The upper-level civil and military officials of the Sichuan Army were all flawless in the hearts of the people.
But Liu Zhang never thought that becoming the emperor and stabilizing his political power were his top priorities. If he had regarded being the emperor as his first priority, there would have been no massacre.
As a member of the royal family, and with the entire Yizhou, his starting point is much higher than Cao Cao's, so it would be much easier to conquer the world.
A stable political power was not what Liu Zhang pursued. As a later generation, Liu Zhang would not be as whimsical as Qin Shihuang.
Although Liu Zhang is now in trouble for the founding of the country, because the founding policies of the founding of the country are related to many generations, Liu Zhang never thought that his revitalization of the Han Dynasty could be passed down to thousands of generations.
If a dynasty can promote a historical development, it must make its own contribution. For example, Qin Shihuang achieved centralized unification, the Han Dynasty laid the national foundation of the Han nation, the Sui Dynasty's imperial examination system, etc.
What I can do is to revive this dynasty and do what I can to advance history. As long as I advance the historical process, the Chinese nation can take a step forward.
It only takes one step, no need for eternal prosperity, this is what Liu Zhang wants to do.
It is good to have a stable political power, but it cannot go against one's original intentions, otherwise it would be putting the cart before the horse, and it is obvious that letting Huang Lan go now is going against one's original intentions.
To be honest, Liu Zhang was very angry after hearing Liu Min's report. Even though Liu Zhang knew that the dark side of any regime was unavoidable, Liu Zhang still felt sad and even scared when it was so completely exposed in front of him.
Liu Zhang feared that the Han Dynasty he was reviving was really just a decadent and mediocre dynasty.
If that were the case, Liu Zhang really felt sorry for those dead clans. Those clans were not useless. They had many things worth promoting, such as the values of loyalty and their contributions to Chinese culture.
It's just because as time goes by, the family continues to grow, and like a cancer, because of the selfishness of the family, the family that is strong enough starts to bite back the country and the people for the sake of the family's interests, so it has to be eliminated.
Liu Zhang used violence and painstaking efforts to get rid of the cancer of the family, but he would never allow himself to plant a cancer.
Liu Zhang knew very clearly that although the world was unified, the war was not over, and there were still many obstacles in order to achieve his goals.
First of all, there are those interest groups that have risen incidentally with the top leaders of the Sichuan Army. Interest groups are not scary. What is scary is that they, like the previous families, have begun to become arrogant and selfish. They feel that now that they have become a high-level person, they can be the same as the previous families.
Playing with power.
This is a common evil in the feudal era. A group of arrogant and powerful people fell, and those who pushed them down naturally lived the lives of those they had pushed down.
This was definitely not what Liu Zhang wanted, so Liu Zhang had to kill people, even if it made other civil and military officials feel chilled, even if it made the people doubt the Sichuan army.
If other civil and military officials are disappointed, you must express your attitude. Don't think that you are the hero, so I won't dare to touch you.
It's not scary for the common people to be confused. If we don't take a tough stance now, other upstarts will become more aggressive in the future, which will no longer be confused. The credibility of the Sichuan military regime among the common people will be rapidly lost.
Liu Zhang has always believed that the loss of credibility is the most terrifying thing, which is actually the loss of legitimacy and is irreversible.
So Huang Lan and Liu Zhang decided to kill him, at the expense of the soldiers and their families, just for financial gain. It can be seen that Huang Lan did not take the lower class people seriously at all. This is definitely the rise of a new dynasty, and the habitual arrogance of power of the new rich.
"I will kill Li Xiang and Huang Lan. You go and make arrangements." Liu Zhang believed that with Fan Lixiang's methods, these things would not be difficult.
Seeing Liu Zhang's firm eyes, Fan Lixiang responded with a yes and said to Liu Zhang: "My lord, I really admire you, not for anything else but because you can always maintain the same attitude as you did at the beginning.
Maybe the lord had this kind of mentality starting from the Jiangzhou massacre? After that, he experienced the difficulties caused by so many noble families and never gave up on his new policy. If other kings had compromised long ago.
Now, before becoming emperor, the other emperors were afraid of causing trouble, and the people below did not dare to report it even if something happened. If you reported it, you would definitely not be able to finish the meal and walk around, but you can still handle it as before.
Sometimes I feel that to the lord, the emperor is just an official position? An official position to fulfill your wishes?"
As Fan Lixiang talked about Liu Zhang, she thought of herself. When she followed Liu Zhang, she first promised Liu Zhang three things, and then surrendered with the entire Jingnan army and 20,000 troops, so that she could get an official position.
Later, in order to keep this official position, she calculated all the agencies, walked on the edge of the knife, and took Liu Zhang into account. Even if she knew the consequences, Fan Lixiang had to do this for the sake of her official position.
Because Fan Lixiang is afraid of not having power, she hopes to gain a minimum of self-esteem in this world where men are superior to women, and she does not need to be treated as a commodity by men.
Once, Fan Lixiang thought that this was her life's goal and it would never change.
But now, Fan Lixiang suddenly realized that at some point, she didn't even want to be a general anymore, and she still wanted to be a woman by Liu Zhang's side.
In other words, I have given up on my previous ideals.
But Liu Zhang still persisted. No matter the difficulties caused by the huge family or the temptation of the throne, it seemed that he had not wavered.