"It seems that the emperor is also short of money to spend!"

Yuzhang City, in the small courtyard of the teenagers, Xu Chen held the information that had just been transmitted back from Chang'an in his hand, and said with emotion.

Since he couldn't get information about Chang'an from his teacher Xu Fan, Xu Chen's understanding of Chang'an was much weaker, but fortunately, Peng Ze had already opened the warehouse to Chang'an City, but the news that could be found was not high in time.

As a result, Xu Chen could only rely on the superficial information in his hand to roughly analyze it, but fortunately, the plan was designed by him single-handedly, and it was not too difficult to guess the reactions of all parties.

Zou Run did not convince the two sides of the fight in Yangzhou, although he was the direct superior of the city's ship, but in terms of rank, he was not as high as Tong Yu, and his power in the court was not as good as those wealthy families in the court.

But he still chose to send the problem to Chang'an and leave it to the officials of the DPRK and China to decide, Zou Run is not stupid, and he also knows the current situation very well. Just because he thought it was the right thing to do, he did it.

For the people, Zou Run's idea is naturally right, asking for the people's life, this is the criterion of being an official, this is the case when he reads hard in the cold window, and the same is true when he is titled on the gold list, and later the ups and downs of the Huan Sea did not erase his true colors, so he will not care about the gains and losses to mention the construction of such a dangerous yamen as the city ship, just because he felt that it was beneficial to the court and the people, so he did it without hesitation.

That's why he's being used. From this point of view, he can be regarded as a good person and a good official.

It's just that people who are both good people and good officials often don't do much. Therefore, when encountering great resistance, you can only hand over the power to make decisions to others, that is, entrust your own destiny to others.

It is a pity that those who are higher than him have failed to live up to his trust and ruthlessly crushed his hopes, because these officials have long ceased to judge things by good and bad, good and evil.

What's even more helpless is that Xuanzong Li Longji is also short of money to spend, so he also wants to come to the south to do a business under the "Jianyì" of the palace people, so as to buy a few more outfits for his newly married concubine and practice a few more songs and dances.

Anyway, it's not a robbery, it's a business!

"If he doesn't report the matter to the imperial court, but drags it down, even if the Yangzhou gang reports the matter, Yangzhou is thousands of miles away from Beijing, and the senior officials of the court and the saint will naturally ask him in advance for the opinion of the chief official of the city. Lu Hao on the side immediately said.

"It's useless, it's just a few more days, I have drawn out the greed of these people, they have the strength and desire, if they want to control not eating more than two bites, they really need inhuman concentration!" Xu Chen shook his head, with a hint of bitterness in his eyes.

"Yes, the key is that they have such a reasonable and legal way to rob other people's money, and this method is much faster than deducting a few buckets of grain and rice from the small people!" Lu Hao said on the side, the expression on his face was flat, and he couldn't see the taste of mockery.

Xu Chen turned to look at him and asked, "Do you regret it?"

Lu Hao looked at him calmly, shook his head slowly, and said, "No, it's just that I will inevitably feel a little uncomfortable." ”

Xu Chen smiled and said, "This shows that your blood is not cold yet." ”

Lu Hao frowned, looked at his eldest brother who was the same age as him in great confusion, and said, "Big brother, what have you experienced?"

Xu Chen smiled slightly and shook his head silently.

Seeing this, Lu Hao knew that he couldn't ask anything more, so he didn't ask again, changed the topic, and said with a hint of relief: "Fortunately, it's going to be over." ”

Hearing this, Xu Chen nodded and said, "Yes!

Another sentence in my heart was not spoken: "I thought there would be three or two years, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly!"

What should come will always come.

Yuzhang City, ten thousand homes.

Wan Dezhao looked at the official document in his hand silently, and the word "Yuzhang" mixed in a row of place names now seemed so dazzling.

"It's finally coming!" Wan Dezhao said calmly, without joy or relief, all of them were just plain.

Maybe at the beginning, Wan Dezhao was still anxiously thinking about how to avoid this catastrophe, but when it was really unavoidable, he was not a person who felt sorry for himself.

Come on, come on, I've lived for most of my life, what kind of wind and waves have I never seen?

Because it can't be avoided, he can only deal with it calmly, which seems unreasonable, but for a person like him, these are the biggest truths.

"How are you preparing?" Wan Dezhao asked Wan An beside him.

Hearing this, Wan An bowed slightly, and said: "The copper coins have been taken out of the cabinets in Wuyue Town, and now they are being shelved in shops all over the city, ready to be used at any time, but now I don't know where they will start." ”

"Buy land. Wan Dezhao said flatly.

When Wan An heard this, he asked suspiciously: "Yuzhang is not Yangzhou, there are not so many small and medium-sized merchants, and the vast majority of the land in the city is in the hands of the big families, as for the scattered merchants in the city, even if they add up their houses and shops, these quantities may not be able to speculate the land price." Moreover, although the affairs of Yangzhou are still short and ordinary people may not know about them, it is impossible for those businessmen not to know about them, and if they know what is happening in Yangzhou, where will they sell the land in their hands? If the land is not traded, it will be difficult for the land price to really be speculated!"

After experiencing the time of Yangzhou, Wan An, a martial arts master with a keen mind, quickly studied the way of merchants who speculated on the land very thoroughly.

"Without the land in the city, they can still speculate on the land outside the city. Wan Dezhao replied.

"The land outside the city?" Wan An was puzzled for a moment, then suddenly woke up and said, "The master is talking about cultivated land?"

Wan Dezhao nodded silently.

Wan An was still shocked and said: "Impossible! These cultivated land in the countryside outside the city are basically in the hands of all families and ethnic groups, and besides, the most important thing for farmers is the cultivated land at home, unless it is when they can't survive, no one will sell their land!"

Wan Dezhao was shocked when he heard this, and people are not people who do not understand the sufferings of the people, so they naturally understand what the land means to the peasants.

"You're right, if the land is still in the hands of the farmers, they won't be able to buy much land no matter how much money they spend. But how much land in the countryside now really belongs to the peasants?" replied Wan Dezhao.

Hearing this, Wan An nodded dejectedly, and then spit out a few bitter words in his mouth: "Land annexation." ”

Wan Dezhao nodded silently, and only said after a while: "It is because most of these lands have now been in the hands of a few big families in the countryside, and in the face of huge interests, you and I know what kind of virtue these people will be." ”

Wan An nodded, what the master said was very right, because the Wan family was the largest family in Yuzhang, and in front of the interests of the family, the rest were trivial matters, so where would they not be clear about this family style?

No matter how people in Wanjia guess and sigh, what should happen will still happen.

A few days later, that is, three days after the official document of the city department was issued, the two brothers Lu Zongtai and Lu Zongbao returned to Yuzhang City after dealing with the Yangzhou incident.

As soon as they returned to Yuzhang, the two brothers went straight to Wang Xian's mansion, and the plan went to this point, if the people of the Wan family had not noticed it, the Lu brothers would never believe it, because that kind of Wan family was not worthy of being their opponent at all.

Therefore, they came with a swagger and came to the forefront.

Wang Xian's house, in the study.

"That's right! This time Yangzhou's affairs are doing a good job!" Wang Xian said in praise of Lu Zongbao.

Lu Zongbao smiled reservedly and didn't say anything.

Wang Xian then asked, "So what should we do next?"

"It's better to buy land!" Lu Zongbao said confidently in an unquestionable tone.

When Wang Xian heard this, he was a little puzzled, and said: "Do you still use this old method? It is impossible for the people in the city not to know about Yangzhou!"

"Whether it's an old method or a new method, the method that can be used is naturally a good way!" Lu Zongbao said with a smile.

Looking at Wang Xian's still inquiring gaze, Lu Zongbao then explained: "The matter of Yangzhou has indeed spread, and it is naturally useless for us to use Yangzhou's set, so we use Yangmou this time." ”

"Yangmou?" Wang Xian said in surprise.

Lu Zongbao nodded and replied, "That's right!

Even if you are allowed to see it, you still can't escape, and to put it bluntly, you are beaten without discussion.

"As soon as the news of Yangzhou spread, although we lost the suddenness in Yuzhang City, it is impossible for us to have no one in the court with the strength of the Wan family, so it was impossible for us to hide from them in our previous plan, and now we are just back to the first step. But now it is different from before, before only our side to fight against the Yuzhang giants, now it is different, as soon as the news of the city is spread, the wealthy families and wealthy businessmen around Yuzhang and even further away will never give up such an excellent opportunity to get involved in Yuzhang City, not to mention that there is a Wuyue Town outside Yuzhang City. ”

"Therefore, when the time comes, there will be a lot of people coming, bringing a large amount of copper money, just like we did in Yangzhou, and crush the Yuzhang wealthy family, after all, the temptation of money is too great. Moreover, these people are not in their hometown, so they naturally will not show any mercy to Yuzhang's people, and they will naturally be ruthless enough. ”

"Of course, the most important thing is that the local families in Yuzhang are not iron-clad, after all, there are only a few treacherous and cunning people like Wan Dezhao, and most of the people can calm down when they see the wealth at their fingertips?"

"The embankment of thousands of miles is destroyed in the anthill, once someone can't help but make a move, we can seize the opportunity, break through each one, clean the periphery first, and finally fight a decisive battle with Wanjia. ”

Lu Zongbao talked eloquently, but Wang Xian just asked quietly: "How to do it?"

"Don't move the land in the city first, after all, the merchants in the city are very shrewd, let's start with the countryside first. Lu Zongbao said.

"Buying and selling farmland?" asked Wang Xian with a frown.

Lu Zongbao nodded, and saw a trace of unbearability between Wang Xian's eyebrows, so he hurriedly opened his mouth to persuade him: "Uncle, those who achieve great things are not informal, besides, how much arable land is left in the hands of farmers now!"

Wang Xian was born in a family, so he naturally knows what land annexation means, and their Taiyuan Wang family is a thousand-year-old family, and there are very few lands around Taiyuan that are not surnamed Wang.

Thinking of this, Wang Xian nodded silently.

"What about the steps?" asked Wang Xian.

Lu Zongbao shook his head with a smile and said: "There is no need for any steps, the news has spread, and tomorrow we will go to all the dental stores in the city to hang up the list of high-priced land purchases, and naturally there will be some fools who can't wait to stand up and contribute to us." ”

On the second day, according to what he said yesterday, Lu Zongbao quickly ordered people to put down a large number of land purchase orders in Ya Shops all over the city, and the price was extremely high, according to the market price, it was suddenly increased by ten times.

Then, as Lu Zongbao predicted, when the news of Yangzhou City came, the major merchants in Yuzhang City really tightened the title deed in their hands for the first time, and now they see these large quantities of acquisition lists, where will they not know what is going to happen.

As a result, the big businessmen did not want to sell their land, but only waited for the appreciation of the land to increase their family property. And none of those small merchants even refused to sell, and they all fantasized about the wonderful prospect of getting rich overnight.

The smarter a person is, the more confident they are, or the more conceited they are!

When danger comes, the first thing these smart people think of is not to retreat, but to think in their hearts whether they can turn this crisis into a rare opportunity, so as to seek more benefits for their own families.

But I don't know that conceited people often end up not very well.

After another three days, none of the lists sent by the Lu brothers received a response, which means that they have not bought a single piece of land in the city for three days.

Lu Zongbao didn't care about this, he didn't have hope, so he naturally couldn't talk about disappointment. And his purpose in doing this has been achieved, with the help of all the smart people, the land in Yuzhang City has soared, and now the land price has risen more than ten times before, and it is still rising.

So, next, he once again released a large number of lists, still to buy land, still high prices, but now the scope has been greatly expanded, no longer limited to Yuzhang City, but to include the entire Yuzhang County, and even to Jiangzhou in the north.

But, even so, no one responded to him, after all, in the eyes of smart people, Lu Zongbao's behavior is clearly the well-known Sima Zhao's heart, how can they be fooled by these smart people?

If it continues like this, maybe the land price of Yuzhang will still rise, and it will last for a short period of time, but just like the source of water, there is no physical transaction, the price is just a good-looking mark, and it will not be long before the dust will be dropped.

Of course, in fact, this is not bad, after all, no one will have a loss, the title deed is still in their own hands, and if it is not sold, it is not possible to talk about whether it is a loss or a profit, and it is really good to feel a feeling of being wrapped in a thousand dollars in vain!

It's just that changes always happen inadvertently, like the wind, starting at the end of Qingping.

It has been six full days since the official document of the Municipal Department of Shipping expanded its jurisdiction was issued.

In these six days, the entire Datang fell into a kind of madness.

As the events of Yangzhou gradually spread, and some of the merchants who had stayed in Yangzhou to the last day were rendered, the idea of getting rich overnight soon spread all over the country.

Although the wealthy families in Yangzhou are the main force, it is undeniable that there are still a large number of small and medium-sized businessmen in Yangzhou City who have successfully avoided the robbery of the wealthy families by virtue of their tenacity and keen vision that they have experienced for many years in the shopping mall, but have used the same method to earn sky-high remuneration for themselves.

And making money is addictive, and it is the most tempting fruit, especially after actually eating a bite, it is even more unforgettable.

So after these people got the news of the expansion of the city's shipping division, they immediately sold all their surplus wealth, pulled a cart of copper coins, and went to the areas under which the city's shipping division had expanded.

And the actions of these people naturally inevitably led those who did not participate in the battle of Yangzhou before, those rich people, and those wealthy families in other places.

They also want to make a profit, or grab a sum, anyway, it is reasonable and legal, and they don't rob for nothing.

No, even the eunuchs in the imperial city of Chang'an also put on two beards one after another, and went to various parts of the south under the command of a group of disguised forbidden army guards.

And then, there are the nobles in Beijing, although they are already very rich, but who would be afraid of having a lot of money? Besides, wouldn't it be too boring to do such a fun thing without intervening?

So, from the mansions of those high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Chang'an City, a convoy full of silver money also drove out, and rushed to the south under the leadership of the Jiading Nursing Yuan.

To say that a relatively quiet place can only be regarded as the desolate northwest, after all, it will take two or three months for the official document to pass through the long yellow sand to the Western Regions, and even if the rich people there know that such a popular way to make money is emerging in the south of the Tang Dynasty, they are also powerless, and they want to see through the autumn water!

Therefore, in the entire Tang Dynasty, except for the Western Regions blocked by the Gobi Desert, most of the wealthy families and wealthy businessmen in other places have invested more or less a sum of money in the south.

The specific number cannot be counted, and no one dares to count it, but Xu Chen, as the initiator, has some guesses, or estimates, in his heart.

"At least 20,000 thousand!" Xu Chen calmly said his guess to Lu Hao.

When Lu Hao heard this number, he was stunned for a moment, his eyes were round, his face was incredible, and he was speechless in shock.

Seeing this, Xu Chen smiled and said: "If the court has no money, it is the business of the court, and if the emperor has no money, it is the emperor's business. ”

"So, the emperor, in fact, is a poor man!"