Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 220

[Chapter 220 The Secret of the Liang Family]

“Your Majesty, no!”

Liang Kai’s face turned red in the Golden Palace.

This morning, Zhao Heng proposed two things.

The first was to grant the Yan County Commercial Bank the status of an imperial merchant, and the second was to allow the King of Yan to conduct maritime trade.

Dou Wei’s face was gloomy.

At the banquet that day, he had just united with the powerful clan to wear small shoes for King Yan in business.

Now Yan Wang is ready to fight back, after all, these two points are aimed at business.

However, given King Yan’s status as an imperial merchant, they couldn’t stop Zhao Heng.

Imperial merchants, imperial merchants, this is a matter of the royal family.

But in the case of Haimao, he couldn’t make Yan Wang happy.

So he said: “Your Majesty, pirates at sea are rampant and have repeatedly invaded the coast. I worry that King Yan’s going to sea will not only be useless, but will attract pirates’ attacks. Yanzhou is already facing the threat of Xiliang and Beidi. Add another pirate.” , Aren’t they of no use.”

“Exactly, the Forbidden Sea is the royal ancestral precept, and the ancestral precepts must not be violated, Your Majesty.” Han Zheng came out.

Regarding the matter of containing King Yan, except for the Ma family’s ambiguous attitude, the other seven families are all of one mind.

Naturally, he also wanted to help Liang Kai.

Dou Wei and Han Zheng helped him speak one after another, Liang Kai breathed a sigh of relief.

Haimao is the lifeblood of the Liang family, how could he allow King Yan to intervene.

Zhao Heng’s expression was calm. He had expected that the influential people would object.

In fact.

As long as it involved King Yan, it was impossible for them not to object.

“No, the sea can be banned, and it can be opened naturally. Why did the royal ancestors say that the sea should never be opened?” At this time, an official came out.

Dou Wei looked at the official and frowned.

He is none other than Uncle Yanwang, Uncle Mi Heng.

Now, he is a celebrity in front of the emperor.

Glancing at Liang Kai, he continued: “Also King Yan can defeat Beidi people, but mere pirates can’t defeat them? In my opinion, it’s your Liang family who wants to monopolize the sea trade, and it’s at the expense of the public and private interests.”

“Nonsense, What evidence do you have, don’t spout blood.” Liang Kai was furious when he heard this.   Looking at Zhao Heng

, he made an aggrieved look, “Your Majesty, the Liang family has been loyal to the Emperor all these years without any second thoughts. They have contributed countless rare and rare treasures. Please be careful with the Emperor.”

Immediately softened.

Among the eight powerful families in recent years, it seems that the Liang family treats him the best.

“Your Majesty, after the turmoil in Yanzhou, it was corrupted. His Royal Highness King Yan’s business is just to earn some money to keep Yanzhou running.” Seeing that Zhao Heng’s expression was wrong, Ma Yuan immediately reminded him.

Zhao Heng nodded slightly, his expression became firm again.

Relatively speaking, Yanzhou is the most important.

Furthermore, the Liang family has monopolized the sea trade for so many years, so they really thought that the Great Song Sea belonged to his Liang family.

Why can’t King Yan be allowed to go to sea.

But the Liang family treated him well after all, and he didn’t want to completely offend the Liang family.

So he said: “Well, King Yan is about to send a batch of artillery over. Zhezhou has been invaded by pirates all year round, so I will send two doors to your Liang family to defend against the enemy. How about it?”

“Ah?” Liang Kai was stunned suddenly.

Not only Liang Kai, but even Dou Wei, Han Zheng and others were all stunned.

Now the most discussed in the DPRK and China is artillery.

Hearing all kinds of rumors about artillery, he was already itching in his heart.

These days, he proposed to Zhao Heng to send craftsmen to Yanzhou to learn how to cast cannons in the court, but Zhao Heng ignored them.

“How?” Zhao Xu was very satisfied with Liang Kai’s reaction.

For him, this cannon is undoubtedly the treasure unique to the royal family.

Liang Kai frowned, but didn’t speak.

Dou Wei glanced at Liang Kai, thoughtful.

He had always suspected that Liang Kai knew about artillery.

He deliberately tried that day, but to no avail, this time he will take the opportunity to force Liang to open.

“Your Majesty, Rong Chen think about it.” Liang Kai said.

Dou Wei and Han Zheng looked at each other, Dou Wei said: “Your Majesty, I have admired King Yan’s cannon for a long time, I hope your Majesty will not discriminate against one.”

He deliberately showed that he wanted it, but the fact is that he really did.

It’s just that if you can get it from Liang Kai, it’s better than getting it from Yanzhou.

“This…” Zhao Heng looked embarrassed.

He is not pretending to be generous, but King Yan is very confident in his cannon casting method.

It is asserted that even if other companies imitate, they will not be able to reach the level of the artillery he sent.

Thinking of this, he came up with a plan to use this to silence the powerful family.

After all, it would be annoying if they stalked this matter.

Moreover, as long as King Yan’s artillery is sent to the capital.

They will definitely try to reach out.

Sending or not sending, there is not much difference.

“Well, I’ll go back and think about it for a few days before discussing.” Zhao Heng deliberately manipulated them.

After speaking, the officials were ordered to disperse.   After Zhao Heng left, Dou Wei came to Liang Kai’s side and said, “Liang Shangshu, why do you lose your mind

because of the two cannons?”

I’m not lying, the danger at sea is not inferior to Beidi’s southern invasion. Although my Liang family has gained a lot in maritime trade these years, it has also lost a lot in battles with pirates, and even encountered warships loaded with artillery .”

“In the face of these threats, my Liang family did purchase some artillery from the sea to escort, and also imitated a batch of artillery, but the effect is not as good as King Yan’s artillery.

” There are so many, you really have artillery.” Dou Wei said angrily.

Seeing Dou Wei’s displeasure, Liang Kai said: “Prime Minister Dou, don’t be angry. I have thought a lot since that day, and I will share the art of casting artillery with you, but I hope you can help me with this matter of maritime trade rights.”

“Hahaha , That’s easy to say.” Han Zheng did not hide his joy, “If you can get the method of casting artillery, it is a trivial matter.” The

battle of Yanguan shocked everyone, and no one wanted to get artillery.

Just like Dou Weiwei, he didn’t expect the Liang family to hide so deeply.

Dou Wei looked at Fan Xinglun and the others again, seeing that they were all excited, obviously very interested in Liang Kai’s suggestion.

Moreover, they made a fuss about business affairs, which meant to force King Yan to hand over the method of casting cannons.

Now that the Liang family has artillery, this business power can be used to blackmail King Yan in exchange for other things.

They benefit from both sides.

Thinking of this, he said: “In this case, next time we go to court, we will work together.”

Liang Kai was overjoyed when he heard this, and he said: “Since King Yan has artillery, there is no need to hide the artillery of my Liang family. Let King Yan know generously, so that he will not keep his cannon as a treasure, and when he takes it out, let’s compare who has the best cannon.”

Everyone nodded, but they could see Liang Kai seemed a little unconfident about the artillery he imitated.

In this case, it is still necessary to see King Yan’s artillery.

As far as they were concerned, he didn’t want King Yan to monopolize the artillery, nor did he want the Liang family to monopolize the artillery.

The two compete, they are profitable.

After deciding on this matter, they left one after another.

Another six or seven days later, on this day, Zhao Heng ordered all officials to go to court early again.

Since Yanguan was stabilized, Zhao Heng returned to the way he was before, going to court early when he remembered it, and not going to court early if he couldn’t remember it.

Baiguan has long been used to it.

However, when they came to the court hall, they received a piece of news that horrified him.

The Beidi envoy arrived last night.

When they were shocked, three Beidi people walked up to the main hall and presented their credentials.

On the dragon chair, Zhao Heng looked gloomy.

Last night he learned the purpose of the Beidi envoy and did not fall asleep all night.

Obviously, northern Xinjiang is in serious trouble this time.

Under the steps, Dou Weiyi’s face was slumped.

Zhao Heng called him into the palace last night to discuss this matter.

Beidi came here for an impure purpose, so he dared not mess around with this matter.

Otherwise, if one is not good, Da Song will be in danger of destroying the country.

He believed that all officials in the court had the same idea.

(end of this chapter)