Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 4

[Chapter 4 The contempt of the rich]

“Liu Fu, take this king’s letter and invite the rich family of Yan County.”

Zhao Xu returned to the bedroom, Feng’er and Luan’er brought pens, ink, paper and inkstone.

As the saying goes, what is taken in advance must be given first.

At the moment, his fist is not as big as that of the rich family of Yan County, so he can’t do it by force.

After all, in this chaotic frontier, they have a hundred ways to kill themselves.

So on the surface, it is necessary to pretend to have a good relationship with them and paralyze them.

Of course, his most important purpose is to take out the wealth that Yan County has looted from their pockets.

At the same time, this is also a kind of temptation. He wants to see how the different wealthy families in Yan County treat him, so as to win over and divide.

Although he is passionate, he is not reckless. As the great man said, he must make many friends and deal with real enemies.

“Yes, Your Highness.”

Liu Fu was waiting beside him.

After Zhao Xu finished writing, Feng’er went to the gatehouse in the front yard to fetch the seal of King Yan, which had been occupied by Zhang Han, and stamped it on the handwriting.

After taking the written order, Liu Fu turned to leave.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of fighting outside the palace.

Zhao Xu’s heart tensed up. As soon as Zhang Han was imprisoned, someone called his door. It must be that someone in the mansion colluded with each other to spread the news.

I want to take advantage of his unstable foothold and control him.

After all, everyone in the world knows that he is a mad king. As long as he is imprisoned again, even if he is not crazy, he can continue to declare that he is crazy.

“Your Highness…”

Luan’er was timid, she was instinctively afraid when encountering such a thing, she couldn’t help putting her hand on Zhao Xu’s arm, Feng’er pinched her waist, her brows stood on end.

“You stay here, I will come whenever I go.” Zhao Xu was furious.

What he stepped on was his seal, and what was beside him was his beauty.

Since he came to this world, he must guard all of them!

Make a fist.

He ordered Liu Fu and more than a dozen servants to take their swords and go out with him.

He has no way back, but can only go forward bravely.

Come to the main gate of the palace.

At this time, a group of servants in black were seen fighting with the palace guards with swords. There were more than ten servants in black and some guards lying on the ground.

“Whose servants are you? How dare you break into the palace.” A tall general in brown armor shouted.

“We came in the name of Zhang Wangfu. Someone in the mansion murdered Yan Wang. I will come to the rescue. If you are sensible, get out of the way, or you will be punished for treason.” The leader shouted.

“Fart your mother, I was going to guard the palace, why didn’t I know about this!” the general yelled, “I think you guys want to rebel!

” If you don’t retreat, you will be sentenced to death for conspiracy!” Zhao Xu stepped forward.

“King Yan!” The

general turned his head and saw that it was Zhao Xu, his face turned pale with shock, and the servants were stunned at the same time.

“Let’s go!”

Yan Wang appeared, their plan was exposed, and the servants in black immediately scattered and retreated.

The guards were about to chase, but were stopped by the general.

There were not many guards on duty in front of the palace, and more than a dozen people were injured. If they went after him at this time, they were afraid that they would be tricked into diverting the tiger away from the mountain.

“Chang Wei.”

Zhao Xu found this person’s information in his memory.

This person is the commander of the guards that Emperor Zhao Heng chose for him in the Imperial Guard Army, and is responsible for commanding the 100 guards in the palace.

From the fact that Feng’er threatened him with Chang Wei when he was bullied by Zhang Han, it can be seen that this person is not the same as Zhang Han, which made him a little lucky.

It was with this in mind that he decided to act boldly.

“The last general, Chang Wei, see Your Highness.” At this moment, the general came in front of Zhao Xu and clasped his fists heavily.

Armor jingled metal.

“Excuse me.”

Zhao Xu’s gaze was still on the fleeing servant.

These people looked like domestic servants raised by the wealthy family.

He couldn’t imagine that these powerful families in Yan County were so rampant, and dared to collude with Wang Fu of the palace to deal with him.

“I just heard that His Highness’s madness has been cured, and now it seems to be true.” After saluting, Chang Wei looked Zhao Xu up and down, and spoke indifferently.

According to regulations, guards are not allowed to enter the palace without orders.

So he couldn’t enter the palace to congratulate.

“Indeed.” Zhao Xu frowned.

The commander of the guards had a very indifferent expression, not as happy as Feng’er and Luan’er,

but it was true, from the capital all the way to Yan County, he had no intersection with the commander of the guards.

Zhang Han communicated with him about everything.

“Congratulations, Your Highness. It is a happy event for His Highness to recover. It is a good thing for a villain like Zhang Han to be taken down. In this case, can Your Highness make up my three-month salary?” Not enough to eat, too hungry to hold a sword, otherwise how could these thieves hurt them.”

This kind of thing shouldn’t be mentioned at this time, but he couldn’t bear it anymore.

It doesn’t matter to him whether Zhao Xu is crazy or not, he just doesn’t want to see his brothers protect Yan Palace with hungry stomachs.

His temperament has always been like this, straight and explosive, and he has never been liked by his superiors in the Guards.

That’s why he was calculated, recommended to the emperor, and sent to King Yan.

Coming to Yan County was not what he wanted.

But now that he’s here, he can only accept his fate, thinking that he can fight against Beidi and show his ambition as a man.

What he didn’t expect was that after arriving in the fiefdom, not to mention beating Beidi people, he and his guards didn’t have a penny of salary for three consecutive months.

They all came with their families.

Now, every family can’t uncover the pot.

In the past, when he asked about Zhang Han’s salary, Zhang Han used his words to manipulate him, making him bow his head and obey him.

He naturally refused to agree, and since then, Zhang Han has been refusing.

Now that he saw Zhao Xu and the guards were injured a lot, he couldn’t bear his violent temper.

“Salary?”

At this moment, Zhao Xu remembered that there was no record of paying these guards any salary in the past three months.

This money seems to have been swallowed by Zhang Han.

“To be honest, Zhang Han has stolen all your salaries, and there is no money in the palace account.” Zhao Xu sighed.

When Chang Wei and the guards heard this, they immediately felt like a cat whose tail had been trampled on.

They were already annoyed at being owed wages.

Now they were injured again in order to protect the palace, and King Yan said that the palace has no money, which completely chilled their hearts.

“We risked our lives to protect His Highness, His Highness is really hard-headed.”

“No money? Liar!”

“It doesn’t matter if this is a poor job.”

“…” The

guards were excited, and Chang Wei became even more angry.

In the ears of the imperial army, he heard and saw the generals in the court, the nobles and embezzlers, embezzled and cheated, and deducted the soldiers’ salaries.

In my heart, I no longer have a good impression of Dasong’s dignitaries.

Instinctively think that Zhao Xu is no different from them, he just wants to deduct their military salary, so he said sharply:

“Your Highness, don’t joke, the palace has such a large family property that we can’t even pay our salary, is it possible that His Highness is the same as Zhang Han , just don’t want to part with the money?”

Zhao Xu thought to himself.

As the saying goes, being a soldier eats food, and arrears of military pay lead to mutiny abound in history.

If the guards turned against him, he would lose his only power.

Therefore, at the moment he must stabilize the guards.

“That’s absolutely not the case. If you give me three days, even if I sell the palace, I will still give you salaries.” Zhao Xu was resolute.

When interrogating the old accountant.

The old accountant said that Zhang Han smuggled the greedy money back to the capital a few days ago.

Therefore, now the palace really only has a few dozen taels of silver, and there is no way to pay a salary at all.

And these dozens of taels of silver have to be used for the things he planned.

The only hope now is that his plan can succeed.

“The last general will wait for another three days.” Chang Wei clasped his fists together, “Your Highness, the soldiers are not greedy for money. Today, they risked their lives to protect His Highness. I hope His Highness will not let me wait in the cold.”

Zhao Xu glanced at the lying moaning on the ground. The guard felt guilty for a while.

In the case of being owed wages, these guards are still so desperate, all of them are honest men.

“This king will do what he says.” Zhao Xu looked solemn, he was definitely not fooling Chang Wei.

Comparing his heart with his heart, if he wanted to gain the respect of these guards, he had to look like King Yan.

Chang Wei nodded and told the guards to disperse.

At this moment, Zhao Xu gave Liu Fu a wink.

Liu Fu understood, and took the handbook to invite the nobles of Yan County, and first went to the Zhang family’s mansion in Yan County.

…

“King Yan has recovered from his madness?”

In Zhang’s garden, three middle-aged men were drinking tea and talking and laughing.

After Liu Fu reported his intention, the man sitting in the main seat showed a look of feigned surprise.

He is Zhang Qian, the patriarch of the Zhang family, the most powerful family in Yan County.

“Please tell Your Highness that I’m not feeling well, and I’m afraid I won’t be able to go there in person. I will send a man from the house to visit in the afternoon.” Zhang Qian gently blew on the hot water in the teacup.

The smile on Liu Fu’s face froze and then stretched out.

Before coming, he expected this to happen.

Even among the folks, there are rumors that the rich people of Yan County despised King Yan’s Mansion.

For more than 200 years since the founding of Dasong, Yan County has always been dominated by the nobles of Yan County, who control the affairs of the county here.

Now that the king of Yan came suddenly and wanted to overpower them and take away their power, they were naturally not happy.

Moreover, now that Yanzhou is in turmoil, the people have to rely on the nobles attached to Yanjun to resist the encroachment from the Beidi people, which exacerbates the weakening of the royal authority.

“I will tell His Highness the truth.” Liu Fu didn’t say much, and turned to leave.

“Wait, let’s say that the Huang family and the Du family can’t go either, and someone will go there.” The other two middle-aged men showed teasing smiles.

Liu Fu snorted coldly in his heart, and left straight away.

He knew that the Zhang family in Yan County, the Du family and the Huang family were related by marriage, and they were the same breed.

“Hehe, King Yan thought he could order me to wait after he recovered from his illness? What a joke.” After Liu Fu left, Zhang Qian sneered.

The head of the Huang family, Huang Yu, echoed, “That’s right, his mother’s family is just from a humble family, with no power or power, and even when he is not crazy, he is not welcomed by the emperor. It is said that in the palace, because of his mother’s humble background, he is often bullied by other princes.” , and slipped through the crotch of other princes, hahaha…”

“It’s ridiculous, he’s probably the most humble prince since the founding of Dasong.” Du Ming, the Patriarch of the Du family, had a look of contempt on his face.

“Hmph, so at least you have to be self-aware. Which of the officials in Yan County is not from our family. If you are interested, he should be the one who came to visit us, otherwise he will not want to stay in Yan County.”

“Ha Haha, that’s true, and besides, the sixth prince has already greeted us, so what if he bullies him? If something happens, the sixth prince will support us.”

“It’s just that this madness healed itself. What’s the matter with us?

” Haha…” Zhang Qian laughed out loud.

Huang Yu and Du Ming laughed together.

“We traded fairly and didn’t break the law. He can’t do anything to us. If he is really ignorant, he can spend money to find some desperadoes and kill him.”

“Oh, yes, our people have withdrawn. The regular Wei is very good at fighting, if he missed the opportunity, otherwise this King Yan will be imprisoned to death.”

…

running all morning.

At noon, Liu Fu returned to the palace full of anger.

Tell Zhao Xu all the situation.

After Liu Fu left, Zhao Xu went to the concierge.

This is where Zhang Han handles government affairs.

Here he read a lot of official documents, and had a basic understanding of Wangfu and Yanjun.

“Your Highness, these powerful families in Yan County are too hateful.” Liu Fu complained.

He was a poor scholar, and his mother was seriously ill and had no money to treat him, so he sold himself to the palace for a few taels of silver to buy medicine.

Because he is well aware of the sufferings of the people, he doesn’t have a good impression of the Hao family.

This trip has pissed him off enough.

“Sit down and rest, sweating profusely.” Zhao Xu’s face remained normal.

Liu Fu’s heart warmed, but he didn’t sit down. He was flattered that Zhao Xu was so friendly.

After all, he was always bullied in the palace before.

“This is the reason why this king asked you to invite the rich family of Yan County, to roughly find out who is the enemy and who can win over.” Zhao Xu said while closing the household registration book of Yan County.

He is very clear that the palace is weak now, and the rich family in Yan County is powerful.

He deeply hated the powerful clan of Yan County for bullying him, but right now he doesn’t have the strength to deal with them, so he can only take it slowly.

So, as the great man said, we must unite all forces that can be united to deal with the real enemy.

It is right to rely on the people of Yan County, but it is also necessary to win over those who are available from the wealthy family and strengthen their bargaining chips.

Liu Fu had read books and was also a clever person, so he understood it instantly.

The wealthy clan in Yan County cannot be monolithic, and dogs bite dogs for the sake of benefit. After all, where there are people, there will be conflicts.

Those who have the upper hand in the rich family will naturally disdain the Wangfu, while those who are losing will naturally want to use the Wangfu to suppress their opponents.

In this way, the palace can win over some powerful families to fight against other powerful families.

Thinking of this, Liu Fu showed a look of admiration.

King Yan not only recovered from his madness, but now he also showed the resourcefulness that a prince should have.

He admitted that knocking the servant unconscious was part of a gamble, but obviously, he was right,

King Yan is not a stupid person.

(end of this chapter)