In Yuzhang City, in the small courtyard of the teenagers, a carrier pigeon with a red ribbon tied to its foot fluttered and fell to the ground, and was quickly picked up by a teenager after being seen and sent to Xu Chen's room.

The speed of the red carrier pigeon is much faster than others, it only took a day and a half to fly from Yangzhou to Yuzhang, these pigeons are naturally the best of the best, in hundreds of carrier pigeons selected out of the boutique, both speed and sense of direction are much better than the ordinary, the flight radius is also large, there are a few less transfers in the middle, this letter is naturally sent quickly.

The young man took out the bamboo tube on the pigeon's feet, put the pigeon into the birdcage where the water rations had already been prepared, and then ran to Xu Chen's room with the bamboo tube.

Since the start of the plan, Xu Chen and Lu Hao have hardly been out of the courtyard for half a month, and they have stayed in the room every day to send and receive letters, and use guò carrier pigeons to remotely control every move in Yangzhou City.

Lu Hao took the small bamboo tube from the young man's hand, carefully peeled off the wax seal, took out the slender note without words, opened a glass bottle on the table, lightly dipped the white liquid inside with a brush, and smeared it on the paper note carefully, and in an instant, rows of curved earthworm-like words appeared on the note, and then Lu Hao took out a small book full of irregular Chinese characters from the dark compartment of the table, and then checked them one by one, and wrote one on the white paper on the side.

After a while, nearly 100 Chinese characters were written on the white paper, and after checking that it was correct, Lu Hao handed the white paper to Xu Chen.

"Big brother, there's a letter from Tie Niu, something is going to happen in Yangzhou City!"

Xu Chen took the blank paper and read it quickly, then sighed lightly and said, "It seems that I still underestimate the desires of these people!"

"Then do we still have to come according to the original plan?" Lu Hao asked after staring at Xu Chen for a moment.

Xu Chen lowered his head and pondered for a long time, and finally the confusion and unbearability in his eyes were gradually replaced by perseverance, raised his head and looked straight at Lu Hao, and said: "No need! Originally, our plan was to withdraw from the next round of price increases after this round of price reduction, and then put cash into the shantytown outside the south gate of Yangzhou City. ”

The place Xu Chen said was where Luocheng in Yangzhou would be located decades later.

"After making another sum of money there, I will stop, and I think it will be almost enough!" Xu Chen seemed to be explaining and convincing himself.

"And now?" Lu Hao asked with a straight stare at Xu Chen.

"Alas!" Xu Chen sighed again and said helplessly: "Now...... Let's get the word out!"

"But we already have nearly 20 million yuan! The imperial court has not paid so much taxes in two years, and I am afraid that the wealth accumulated by a family that has been inherited for hundreds of years will not have this amount!" Lu Hao stared at Xu Chen, raised his voice slightly, and said.

"I know!" Xu Chen raised his head and looked at his sworn brother, said with a firm look in his eyes, and then sighed helplessly after looking at it for a while: "But...... It's really not enough!"

"However, big brother, do you know that once the news spreads, the turmoil that has occurred in Yangzhou now may spread to the entire south, can you still expect the wealthy families in other places to curb their greed?" Lu Hao's voice was already very loud, and there was a hint of questioning.

Originally, I only planned to get a vote in Yangzhou City, and when they moved the battlefield back to Yuzhang, they would sell the reclaimed land, which was almost enough, but now the people here in Yangzhou are ready to dry up and fish, and they want to empty all the money of those retail investors at one time, so who will dare to follow up, the market is broken, and there is no hope of making money, who will come?" Xu Chen's feelings were also a little excited, as if he was explaining and as if he was making an excuse for himself.

"Heh, what about the fourth? Why did you send the fourth to Yizhou in the first place, is it just for that inn that can't make a few dollars?" Lu Hao said with a hint of sneering.

When Xu Chen heard this, he couldn't speak for a long time, and his shoulders collapsed, as if the strength of his whole body had been drained.

"Big brother, we make some money from merchants and families, no matter how much I have, I won't object, but once this turmoil spreads, it will be ordinary people who will suffer!" Lu Hao then comforted.

It's just that Xu Chen's is still silent.

"Big brother, who are the people you have to guard against? With the current money, even the thousand-year-old families of the Seven Sects and the Five Clans will not dare to take action against us lightly, even if the seven of them join forces, we are not without the possibility of winning, and besides, most of these thousand-year-old families are in the north, even if you turn the south upside down, you won't be able to hurt their bones!" Lu Hao still refused to give up and continued to persuade.

Lu Hao can be regarded as an orthodox literati, and the education he received from his father since he was a child is also the Confucian idea of taking the world as his own responsibility. Now it's different, especially after participating in this plan, Lu Hao really feels his ability, and those childhood dreams of ruling the country and the world are no longer far away from him. But the more this is the case, the less he wants his most respected brother to do something that may harm the people of the country.

"Could it be...... Big brother, is your enemy the saint today?" Lu Hao saw that his eldest brother still refused to speak, and his imagination immediately rose, and his eyes stared at Xu Chen.

In Lu Hao's heart, his eldest brother is obviously not an ordinary beggar, and the knowledge he has covers all aspects of the world, even the most top-notch children of the thousand-year-old family are not as profound as the eldest brother in terms of knowledge, so Lu Hao took it for granted that Xu Chending is a son of a wealthy family, but after the destruction of the family, only the eldest brother remained, and even his name was changed, and now he is so eager for strength, he can only want to take revenge on the enemy!

However, Lu Hao really didn't expect that the eldest brother's enemy would be so powerful, and seeing that the eldest brother still refused to speak, Lu Hao thought that he had guessed the eldest brother's mind.

"Oh my God! I didn't expect it to be really a saint today! Yes! Only the emperor and the old man would be so difficult to deal with! Not good! Could it be that the eldest brother is a descendant of the royal family of the previous dynasty, or a member of the martial family? In this way, he first messed up the south, he had money in his hands, and the art of the military formation was so good, and the navy army was unparalleled in the world, this ...... This is clearly a rebellion!"

"This ...... Is this possible? The southeast has been peaceful for a long time, and the armament of the Central Plains is not very clever, and now the Tang Dynasty only has the strength of the border army to fight. Once the eldest brother rebels, it will not be difficult to take the south while the south is in turmoil, and then with the power of the navy, even if it can't do the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, it is still possible to divide the world into two parts!"

The more Lu Hao thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case, if it was just self-defense, the power of the mandarin duck array taught by the eldest brother was inevitably too great! With one enemy and ten, it was almost possible to achieve zero casualties, and not to mention that the navy, the turtle boat, the torsion spring ballista, and the mysterious black powder were all weapons of war! With these, it seems that there is no suffering in taking the south, right?

"Is this really the case?" Lu Hao became more and more frightened the more he thought about it, and finally he couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Big brother, are you ...... Are you trying to take away the Li family?"

Lu Hao leaned forward, his voice was like a mosquito, and while he was talking hesitantly, he was still looking left and right from time to time.

"Huh?" Xu Chen, who was silent, was also stunned when he heard the second brother's sudden question, and looked at him with stunned eyes.

"It's over! It's really true!" Lu Hao, who was a little uneasy, didn't see the confusion in Xu Chen's eyes, and when he saw that Xu Chen finally responded, he felt that this was the case.

"It's over! It's over......! This...... Big...... Big brother, no ...... Don't you have to discuss? Do you really have to do this?" Lu Hao straightened up from his chair and paced anxiously around the room, shaking his hands while his mouth kept chattering.

It was the first time Xu Chen saw such a cute scene for his second brother, and the idea of teasing the other party suddenly rose in his heart, so he also asked out in a serious voice: "What if the eldest brother is really ready to do this?"

"Ah!" Lu Hao froze in place like a thunderbolt from the sky when he heard this, and only after a long time did he start pacing again and muttered again: "This...... This...... We can't be in a hurry about this! We can't rush this matter! We must take a long-term view!"

"Although we now have 20 million guan, it is estimated that we will be able to have 50 million guan after another handful, which seems to be a lot, but the war is together, and the money is like flowing water! It costs money to recruit soldiers, it costs money to build weapons and armor, and there is also money for grain, grass and military supplies! There is also a need for careful planning for where to attack first and then where to take! After conquering the territory, it is also necessary to reassure the people, culture and education, and select and allocate talents, which ...... It's going to take a lot of time!"

Lu Hao kept chattering like a monk in the temple while spinning in circles.

"Hahahaha!" Seeing this, Xu Chen couldn't help laughing anymore, but there was a different kind of warmth in his heart, even if the second brother knew that he was going to rebel, he was still willing to be with him in his heart, and this friendship moved Xu Chen.

"You! Big brother, you still have time to laugh! Rebellion is a very time-consuming technical job! It takes a lot of time to make a careful plan, and if you make a wrong step, you will lose your head! You can't joke with the lives of your brothers!" Lu Hao said angrily, his voice was very loud, but the word "rebellion" was said as fine as a mosquito, and that anxious and frightened look really made Xu Chen laugh.

"Haha! Okay, okay! Big brother is joking with you! Big brother won't rebel!" Xu Chen said with a smile.

"Really?" Lu Hao still didn't believe it.

"Really!" Xu Chen said with a serious nod.

"Oh my god, it scared me to death!" Lu Hao breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and his whole person relaxed, but he didn't know how to make the plan just now.

"Then what are you going to do!" Lu Hao really had no choice, so he had to ask helplessly.

After Xu Chen listened, he was silent for a long time, and finally as if he had made up his mind, he raised his head and stared at Lu Hao for a long time, and then sighed: "Don't ask! If the eldest brother is still alive by then, I will definitely sue you, if the eldest brother is gone, the money will be left for the brother to settle down!"

After speaking, he ignored Lu Hao's surprised and confused expression, and walked out by himself......