Steel Dynasty - Chapter 832

[Chapter 831 Changes in Chu State]

Li San continued to sort out the information sent by the secret guards, his brows furrowing deeper and deeper.

According to intelligence, Cao Zhengyang’s recent behavior has become more and more suspicious, and now he can basically confirm that the Cao family’s real purpose is to transfer money.

“Fortunately, the secret guard has kept a special person to keep an eye on Cao Zhengyang, otherwise something big would have happened this time.” Li San’s forehead was sweating slightly.

Although the Secret Guard was established by the imperial court to collect intelligence and monitor officials, with the increasing number of countries and officials, the Secret Guard’s manpower is now quite stretched.

For this reason, the secret guards gave up part of their supervision of civilians, and instead focused on supervising important officials and generals of the imperial court. He was not even willing to send someone to keep an eye on people like Cao Zhengyang.

After all, compared to high-ranking officials, Cao Zhengyang is just a small figure.

But this little guy is obviously going to do something big now.

“Cao Zhengyang has boarded the merchant ship heading to Dengzhou. He immediately notified the guards to arrest Cao Zhengyang and let them control all the Cao family’s business in the north.” Li San ordered that if no action is taken, Cao Zhengyang will run away. .

“Yes.”

The secret guard commander beside Li San responded and immediately led the three people out of the secret guard house.

“You go to Jinling City immediately and let the Jinling City defenders intercept the silver.” Li San said seriously. Judging from the news from other six states, Cao Zhengyang secretly transferred the money from all the banks in the nearby counties.

If this batch of money reaches the Chu region, it will have a serious impact on the industrial and commercial development in the north. Although Qingzhou Bank can now compete with the Cao Family Bank, there are still many businessmen who deposited their family assets with the Cao Family Bank under Cao Zhengyang’s deception. Bank.

After issuing one order after another, Li San stood up and walked towards the palace. He wanted to report this situation to Xiao Ming.

All the way to the palace, after waiting outside the city for a while he was asked to go in.

When he arrived at the imperial study room, he saw Pang Yukun and Fiji also there.

“Your Majesty, Mr. Fei Ge, Chief Pang.” Li Sanyi saluted.

When Feiji and Pang Yukun saw Li San, they both smiled broadly. This former servant of the royal family has now become the leader of the secret guard of the most mysterious organization in the Chongqing Kingdom in the blink of an eye.

It can be said that every official did not dare to offend him, for fear of being caught by the secret guards.

“Coming over so quickly, it seems that something really happened to Cao Zhengyang this time.” Xiao Ming said.

Li San said bluntly: “Yes, Your Majesty, your subordinates have found out that Cao’s banks in the surrounding counties of Qingzhou are transshipping money, and Cao Zhengyang is preparing to go to Dengzhou. This is very unusual. In order to prevent accidents, The lower official has ordered the seizure of the Cao family’s bank and the money that was intercepted by the Cao family. “

This Cao family is really crazy. How dare you dismantle the emperor at this time?” Pang Yukun snorted angrily.

Fiji always looked indifferent. He said: “In fact, it is not difficult to understand. It is just the nature of a businessman. As the emperor said, this businessman is similar to the nomads. The nomads live for water and grass, while this businessman lives for money. Ju, the Cao family originally defected to the emperor to preserve the Cao family’s foundation, and now they defect to the King of Chu for the sake of the Cao family’s foundation. After all, the current King of Chu is very active, and he has great momentum to rule the country together with the merchants.”

“Feige Laosuo. It is absolutely true, but this King of Chu also sought medical treatment in a hurry. Businessmen have always been short-sighted and only pursued immediate huge profits. Perhaps allowing businessmen to take power can achieve commercial prosperity for a period of time, but in the long run it will inevitably lead to conflicts of interest among businessmen. Do nothing on major national affairs,” Pang Yukun said.

Since Xiao Ming opened the Emperor’s School, officials like them have often gone to attend. Now they have a deeper understanding of the political system in the books and no longer stay in the backward feudal ideas of the past.

Xiao Ming let the pen spin in his hand. His eyes paused on Fiji and Pang Yukun for a moment, and he was very satisfied with their current progress.

He said: “I have to admit that the King of Chu is also a tycoon. In order to defeat me, he is willing to give up anything. According to Wang Xuan’s news, Lin’an now has a different prosperity from Qingzhou. It is said that it is following the example of the West. The parliament is being formed, and the speaker of this parliament is Cao Kun. “

“It’s strange that the Cao family is willing to sacrifice their lives for the king of Chu. This king of Chu can really do it. If this parliament is equivalent to the Western parliament, wouldn’t it be Chu. The king’s rights must also be restricted by the parliament. Will King Chu agree?” Fiji was surprised.

“The Golden Horde was defeated. King Chu knew that the emperor’s next target was him. Compared with life and power, which one do you think he would choose? What’s more, even so, King Chu can still inherit the throne and enjoy glory and wealth forever.” Pang Yukun He frowned.

After a pause, he continued: “Your Majesty, the south is rich, and the King of Chu has always been more influential than the royal family for a long time. If a war really breaks out, the people may not stand on the side of the royal family. Last year, the emperor requested Xiaoxiang The move to Kuan Township has not been successful, and many people are unwilling to come to the north. For this reason, many people have violently resisted. “

Li San nodded in agreement after hearing this.

Xiao Ming stood up and walked to the map, looking at the area south of the Yangtze River. “I did underestimate King Chu’s ability to accept Western culture. In the past two or three years, King Chu has impressed me a bit.”

Fiji smiled, “Your Majesty The Han people in the south have another name, the Hakka people. The origin of the Hakka people began when the Qin Dynasty conquered Lingnan and merged with Baiyue. After thousands of years, they have formed a stable large family. These Hakka people mostly do business with overseas people, and even Proliferating in Luzon, Malacca, Annan and other places, these countries established by the Han people once paid tribute to the Great Chongqing Kingdom, but in the past hundred years, they have never done so again. This Chu King Li was originally from Fuzhou, and later followed Gaozu He just settled in Lin’an, but the king of Chu has always been closely connected with Fuzhou and other places. “

The old minister was also confused before, but now that I think about it, these countries established by the Han people were occupied by Westerners,” Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming naturally understood the Hakka people. They were indeed a group of people who were good at pioneering, but even so, he could not dispel his will to unify the Chongqing Kingdom.

Now the King of Chu and the Cao family are conspiring to attack the industrial and commercial development of Qingzhou Prefecture with the purpose of delaying the development of Qingzhou Prefecture. He must now crush the Cao family’s plan.

What made him a little regretful was that the King of Chu was very smart and did not leave any evidence for him to catch. If the Cao family bothered him this time, it would be the Cao family’s business. On the surface, he was still a loyal vassal king, so he had no reason to send troops. .

However, sending troops in the name of reducing the vassal status would cause a chain reaction among the King of Huainan, King Yong, King of Ruyang and others, which he did not want to see.

(End of chapter)