A few days later, in Yizhou City, Ren'an Fang, the depths of the Ye family's mansion. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In a spacious courtyard, there was a middle-aged man sitting in a wheelchair, looking at the peach blossoms in front of him expressionlessly, quietly listening to the voice of a young man not far behind him. Although he looked like he was disabled, there was a terrifying light in his eyes, and he could see that this person was not an ordinary person.

This person is Ye Sanlang's uncle, his father Ye Tianzheng's younger brother, and the current head of the Ye family, Ye Tianfang. He was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life due to his crippled legs, but he has no regrets. In order to seize the position of the head of the family, he did not hesitate to poison himself, so as to impeach the eldest brother, the elders of the family finally underestimated his ambition, and did not expect him to do that, although he saved his life and drove away the eldest brother, but also fell the price of lifelong crippled legs.

However, speaking of which, in fact, all this was under his control, according to his plan, although he walked before the ghost gate was closed, he could be healed back unharmed. However, he didn't count the old slave who had followed him for many years, and he actually read about the love with Ye Tianzheng, and changed the antidote he secretly configured without authorization, although he found it in time, but it took a lot of time to configure the antidote again, delaying the best treatment time, so although he saved his life, he paid the price of two legs. This price is not heavy, but on the other hand, he also got the Ye family, and he can only comfort himself with this.

A few years ago, he knew that if the Ye family continued like this, the pharmaceutical industry alone would not be able to develop at all, and at most it could only continue forever, and there would be no further improvement. Therefore, a few years ago, he also considered running a business, but the Zhao family, another prominent family in Jiannan Province, did not allow them to sit big, and ran them out in business in various ways, causing his business plan to declare bankruptcy, and he could no longer put his hope in business.

He thought that the Ye family would decline, but he didn't expect the eldest son Ye Dingtian to meet the youngest son of Tubo Zampu by chance, both of them are the kind of people who like pleasure, and they feel superior to others, so they are extremely similar. It was through this relationship with the little prince that Ye Dingtian found a shortcut to make money.

Although the Ye family has not improved in business, it can be said that the medical industry in Jiannan is almost controlled by the Ye family, and even Jiangnan Province and Shannan Road also have the industry of Baiyetang, and the Ye family's medical skills are also famous in the world, and many local dignitaries and nobles in Chang'an have been treated by the Ye family. Therefore, although the Ye family has a route to transport medicinal materials on the Yangtze River, no one has ever checked it, and the little prince has also taken a fancy to this route, which is close to Ye Dingtian. Of course, Ye Dingtian readily agreed, when he first heard about this, Ye Tianfang was of course heartbroken, and even wanted to dispose of Ye Dingtian's family law, but when he knew the remuneration offered by the Tubo side, he was silent, that reward, the remuneration for each transaction, was the sum of his Ye family's income for five years, how could you let him refuse this matter.

Therefore, the Ye family began the treasonous trade with the Tibetans, and at the beginning of spring, the Ye family's fleet transported medicinal materials along the Yangtze River to various branches, all the way to Yangzhou and then anchored. If you come as usual, the ship will generally be useless when it returns, that is to say, if you come as usual, although the boat will charge money for two trips this time, but in fact, the Ye family will only use one trip. But since then, every time the Ye family's fleet returns to Jiannan, it is full of loads, and ordinary people don't know what it is carrying.

In fact, every time the fleet returned, the waterline was much higher than it had been, because of the cargo it carried, cast iron. Yes, although Tubo and the Tang Dynasty are at odds every year, and there is no shortage of men, but weapons are extremely lacking, and due to the problem of terrain, there are not many iron mines on the plateau where Tubo is located, and there are very few cast iron, and the weapons that can be refined every year often cannot catch up with the new army recruited, so Tubo's eyes look at the Tang Dynasty, and every year they import cast iron from different channels to cast weapons, why don't you buy weapons directly? First, because although cast iron is more common in all states of the Tang Dynasty, there are not all places where weapons are cast, and every weapon shop is recorded in the Ministry of Industry, so of course it is impossible for Tubo to export weapons, so Tubo can only find a way to cast iron.

Moreover, just smuggling cast iron to Tibet, this is a great crime of treason, which ordinary people dare not think of, and those who secretly maintain transactions with Tibet are making money with their own families.

Every time the Ye family's fleet arrived in Yangzhou with the remaining medicinal materials, it became an empty fleet after unloading, and then Liu Zhao, the Taishou of Yangzhou, would use his official duties to transfer the messengers on the dock for various reasons, and King Qing's subordinates were responsible for carrying the countless cast iron that had been prepared long ago to the fleet, and then when they returned, they would be diverted to the dock near Yaozhou, and the Tubo people who had been on standby for a long time would unload the goods, and then this batch of cast iron would pass through Nanzhao and be transported back to Tubo, and ordinary people would not know about it at all. And even if King Nanzhao knew that someone was smuggling cast iron from the Tang Dynasty into Tibet, he would generally not care, which was a tacit understanding between him and Tubo Zampu.

That is to say, on such a smuggling route of cast iron, a total of three forces were involved, one was the Ye family, who was responsible for transportation, the other was Liu Zhao, the assassin of Yangzhou, who was responsible for covering and ensuring the passage of the fleet, and the third was King Qing. Speaking of which, a figure like King Qing actually didn't have to rely on such a crime as treason to make money, so how could it be that today's son Li Longji has never cared about him and loved him, and even the crown prince is not his own, so why not rely on such a transaction to obtain money? Yangzhou has his considerable power, and even his righteous son, Li Li, the king of Bohai County, has been stationed in Yangzhou's manor for a long time, and it is not difficult for him to secretly collect a certain amount of cast iron every year.

It wasn't until he got Liu Zhao's account book that Ye Sanlang knew that Li Linfu had already known about it, but he didn't tell Li Longji, but secretly let his son-in-law Li Huaiyuan mess around, and he really couldn't figure out his intentions.

And after the incident in Jiangnan, Liu Zhao subdued the law, King Qing and Ye Tian were frightened, and they were silently waiting for Li Longji's punishment during that time, but there was no movement for many days, which made them a little relieved, maybe Liu Zhao had already dealt with the account books and other objects before he was subdued. Just when they thought that the matter was over, there were rumors that Ye Sanlang was likely to come to Jiannan after leaving Yuanzhou, which made Ye Dingtian more vigilant. He knew that because of the dispute between the head of the family back then, Ye Tianzheng had always held a grudge against him, and the killers he sent several times were also blocked by the people of the Xian Yu family, he had long known that there would be such a day, but what worried him was what kind of way Ye Saburo would take revenge on the Ye family.

After so many days of probing, monitoring and collecting intelligence, he already vaguely felt that there was something wrong with the identity of this second son of Li, but at this time. His second son came to report that Ye Sanlang was in Jiangzhou at the moment, and he led the official army to exterminate several gangs of bandits near Jiangzhou, and he was holding the gold medal given by the emperor, which should not be wrong.

At this point, he realized that he might have underestimated his nephew.

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