It was only once Gu Yuanbai returned to the court that all of them calmed down.
The people who were secretly keeping an eye on the assassins delivered a message to Gu Yuanbai that the group of assassins sent by the A-Shen Society had left quickly after inquiring about the news in the capital before the gates of the city closed yesterday.
Gu Yuanbai listened to the news as he washed and smiled slightly as he said, "The new batch of people coming out of the Supervision Office have already arrived in both Jinghu South and Jiangnan."
The large force of the A-Shen Association is in Jinghu South, because Jinghu South is chaotic, easy to hide. And the small part is in Jiangnan, Jiangnan is different from Jinghunan, treating Jinghunan, the rebel army will directly step on the ground, treating the rich Jiangnan, the vast number of powerful people, they are afraid that they have to choose to bully and seduce.
Gu Yuanbai threw the paddle in the water basin, his gaze skimmed over the people in the surrounding area, even Xue Yuan did not make his gaze stop for a single minute or second, and finally, Gu Yuanbai's gaze settled on the topographical map on the wall.
It was a map of the Daheng Dynasty that he had just had put up.
In the lower left corner of the map, there is Jinghu South and Jiangnan.
Gu Yuanbai's gaze was fixed here as he sighed and said, "It's finally time to begin."
He had been eyeing the various mines in Jinghu South for a long time.
The terrain of Jinghu South has a heavenly danger, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only one side open, directly facing Jiangnan.
It is bordered by the south of Guangdong Province and the east and west of Guangdong Province, both of which are places of exile for serious criminals of the imperial court. For example, Feng Chengzhi, the former Minister of the Imperial Household, was exiled in Guangsi.
Such a place has a heavenly danger, and such a heavenly danger is the main reason why the local intricate and powerful forces feel that the Emperor can't send troops to suppress them.
Jinghu South's local powerhouse, being in Huainan's Lv's also ranked here in the ability to say that the big head of this place, that is to the Chen family as the head of the five local powerhouse.
The Chen family is the biggest and the first. Their ancestors were officials, and behind their backs they were inextricably linked to the officials; they were flamboyant and arrogant, and they even dared to tear the local officials down and beat them up in the street because they rode their horses on the street and bumped into them.
Murdering and killing people, controlling the government, and collecting taxes privately, the people are not happy under the heavy taxes.
And as time lengthened, as the power grew larger and larger, the Jinghu South had formed a regime headed by the Chen family.
And these magnates are all the ills left behind when Lu Feng held the dynasty.
The patriarch of the Chen family is called Chen Jin Yin, Chen Jin Yin is old and the shrewdness of his youth has been replaced by greed. He no longer has the energy to work hard, began to enjoy his own success, he does not care about other people in the family, but when it comes to his mines, it will not.
People old, also learned to enjoy the extravagance. He used the porcelain is the official kiln burned out of the most exquisite batch of porcelain, he used the fruit north of Yongxing, east of Zhejiang, is the world's freshest batch of fruit. He ate rice is good rice, eat meat, is the most tender piece of meat on the animal.
Extravagance anesthetized Chen Jingyin's thinking, as well as the thinking of the entire Chen family. If the Chen family was so extravagant, who was willing to be worse than the rest of the powerful?
The people at the bottom are even more distressed when the top is paper-drunk.
Back then, when Gu Yuanbai had sent his men to track the people of the A-Shen Society as they fled all the way to Jinghu South and Jiangnan, he had followed the trend and planted his own men in those two areas. At the beginning of April, he had had his people pose as merchants and played a trade war in the Jinghu South region.
This trade war he played very high-profile, the pipe Zhong's scheme completely moved over, just the pipe Zhong smashed money to buy deer a behavior replaced by smashing money to buy mines.1
Mines are a major geographic advantage of Jinghu South, Gu Yuanbai sent a fast horse to send the head to the Kashin meeting when it was also in April.
At that time, spring sowing was underway, and the people who pretended to be a merchant caravan according to the words of Care for Yuanbai stayed here in the south of Jinghu Lake for two months. They completely brought out the bravado of a merchant caravan in a prosperous region, stating, "We only want ore, whatever ore is available, as much as we can get. As long as we can find the ore, then we can take the ore and exchange it with us for money."
The caravan begged for ore while spreading money, and as long as the ore was immediately delivered with one hand and paid with the other, it succeeded in making the peasants in Jinghu South forget about the fields that hadn't been sown yet, and carried their hoes to the mountains to dig and find mines every day.
This matter also spread to the ears of the Chen family as the leader of the local powerful, they are even more direct, all the family servants tenants stopped working, let them days and nights on the mountain to find minerals, and then sold to Gu Yuanbai's merchant fleet.
Two months later, when the spring sowing period had passed, the fields of Jinghu South were deserted, and Gu Yuanbai's caravan had left. The people had no choice but to continue mining and use these to sell to passing merchants, and many of them actually earned more money than they did from farming.
And half a month ago, the people of Jinghu South actually dug up a gold mine!
The people of Jinghu South, from the powerful to the people, were all excited, and the daily mining was even more enthusiastic. The gold mine was rightfully occupied by the Chen family, and with this gold mine, it was a mountain of gold, Chen Jinyin had completely lost himself in the mine, and all of his domestic servants and tenants were sent to dig the mine.
Hundreds of people see really dug out the gold mine, the previous ore also changed hands and sold, who still cares about the food ah, they dig the mine to earn money, the money is not to be able to buy food?
Jiangnan is the land of fish and rice, the rice grown is fragrant and sweet, they transport grain to Jinghu South, open a grain store, take money to buy it can also not have to plant their own land, the rest of the time all go to mining to make money, which does not have to plant the land well?
So until now, Jinghu South's grain is bought with money. They couldn't catch up with the spring sowing, and the whole Jinghu South was invested in the passion of digging mines, so under such circumstances, this trade war was so easy and simple for Gu Yuanbai to take control of the initiative.
On this day, Chen Jin Yin was sunbathing and eating iced tea in his mansion.
Outside a sweaty youngest son came over to sit down on his butt, picked up the ice has not melted on the mouth a plug, casually complained: "Those in charge of the really troublesome, but is the Jiangnan transported over the rice and grain higher, have to drag me over to discuss once again."
Chen Jinyin said, "I've never seen a man with a mountain of gold and silver, ah, who takes advantage of even these small profits."
The youngest son hemmed and hawed and smiled, "My son thinks it's also true that we can't afford to raise the price, so it's not like we can't afford it. I guess it's the people over in Jiangnan who envy us and think that our family has dug out a gold mine, so they specially raised the price."
Chen Jinyin's heart has been covered with gold golden light, his old eyes dim, can not think of anything, listening to his youngest son said so, also think yes, cursing: "Jiangnan people poor only engage in these small actions! They raised the price, is recognized that we will buy. We do not buy, I have a gold mine, I want to eat where the grain where the grain, the emperor did not eat my good. Didn't you buy some good rice earlier? Eat that first."
"Aye," the younger son responded, "I'll get on with it, son."
But this rising, violently facing the sun directly, the youngest son was in a trance for a moment, and a terrible and absurd thought suddenly rose.
He turned his head to look at Chen Jin Yin and said in a muffled voice, "Father, with this gold mine in our hands, will the imperial court send soldiers to fight us?"
This ridiculous statement made Chen Jingyin laugh out loud, even bursting into tears as he blurted out, "Let him come and fight! I'll see what the imperial court will send to beat me! I've got all the officials in Jinghu South in my hands, I'm the emperor of the land here, the court sends soldiers to fight? He should send ahahaha."
Hearing him say this, the younger son also felt that he had overthought things. So he hurriedly went out and went to refuse to buy those Jiangnan merchants who deliberately inflated the price of grain.
So half a month later.
Ningyuan County Koshien Society.
Xu Xiongyuan was talking to Liu Yan, his look was very intimate, obviously he had trusted Liu Yan very much.
Zhao Zhou asked from the sidelines, "In the first half of the month, the Chen Family dug out a gold mine, and the entire Jinghu South set off a passion for digging, Brother Liu, why did you stop the people from the A-Shen Society to keep them from digging?"
Liu Yan sighed: ''Why hasn't brother Zhao thought about it? Although the gold and silver mines are very coveted by us, but this is Jinghu South, the power is very chaotic. On those local powerful, even the emperor can not help them, we A Shen will secretly hibernate is already difficult, and how can than the emperor can also suppress them? In this situation, even if we also dig out the gold mine, in the end it will still be snatched away by the Chen family."
Zhao Zhou had to admit that what Liu Yan said made sense.
Xu Xiong Yuan also felt that it made sense, but the hidden meaning in this sentence that he was no match for the Emperor still made him very unhappy. His smile at Liu Yan also faded, "Are these magnates really that powerful? They have soldiers and horses too?"
Liu Yan naturally laughed, "They don't have any soldiers or horses, but the household servants and tenants in their homes add up to more than two to three thousand people, and the relationship between them and the officials behind them is intricate and inextricably linked, so it's just a matter of relying on the power to bully people and make a big deal out of it."
Xu Xiongyuan was dissatisfied, "How can two thousand household servants compare to my Xu Xiongyuan's five thousand elite soldiers!"
He couldn't help but think in his mind, that small merchant can dominate a gold mine, then he Xu Xiongyuan's 5,000 elite soldiers out of this, seize this gold mine is not an easy thing?
As if Zhao Zhou knew what he was thinking, he gave a word-for-word account of what Xu Xiongyuan was thinking in his mind.
"How can that be!" Liu Yan was surprised, and then he stopped, "These local strongmen are all related to each other, if General wants to take over the gold mine, then all the people who are related to the Chen family will rise up and attack us! The government also knows where the general is, and may send troops to surround us, not to mention that if we act in this way, will it not be the same as bandits?"
Xu Xiongyuan and Zhao Zhou looked at each other and thought together, this Liu Yan is good at everything, but he is too scholarly and pedantic.
How can this be called a robbery? Even if the gold mine did arrive, it would only be the Chen family's filial honor to them.
They coincidentally skipped over this topic, smiled to appease Liu Yan, in fact, the heart has been wondering, that gold mine, in the end, is it worth it to risk the risk of them being discovered by the government to rob.
If the people sent to the capital to assassinate the emperor succeeded, that would be good. Xu Xiongyuan thought with full of devotion, if Buddha really exists, it is him, the true dragon, who should be blessed, let the people in the capital city succeed in their assassination, it would be best if the dog emperor could die like this.
As long as the dog emperor is dead, the court will not have the time to care about the A-Shen meeting. The emperor has no heir, and those clansmen, Xu Xiongyuan doesn't believe that they can't be in chaos.
And once chaos ensues, it's time for him, Xu Xiongyuan, the true dragon, to rise.
At that time, not to mention the Chen family's gold mines, the entire world's gold mines would be his, Xu!
Hahahahaha, quick!