"General Yang, don't mind, the three of them used to be the iron-blooded secret guards beside the former emperor, and they were only loyal to the emperor of the Great Zhou, and they would not reveal their identities to anyone until they got His Majesty's will."

Liu Bowen naturally saw that Yang Ye's face was a little unpleasant, and also, if these three wealthy businessmen had come out to help Yang Ye earlier, maybe the situation in Jinling City would have stabilized a long time ago.

When Yang Ye heard this, his little caution was seen through by Liu Bowen, and he was a little embarrassed:

"My lord, the lower officials themselves are incompetent, and they can't fulfill His Majesty's trust, how can they blame others, now that your lordship is here, and these three brothers are helping, I Yang Ye will definitely do my best to make up for it."

Liu Bowen laughed and said:

"General Yang, don't say anything incompetent, it's not your duty to govern local government affairs, let's not talk about this, let's talk about what to do next, you three, let's introduce yourself to General Yang first."

Zhang Yaozu seemed to be the eldest of the three, and took the lead in bowing down and saying:

"My lord, although the villain is not a leader in the Jinling salt merchants, but he is also qualified to participate in the pricing of private salt, Jiangnan is mainly based on sea salt, the production cost is very low, but it is a huge profit, at the beginning of our three brothers came here together, to support each other, this is the situation today, now, Your Majesty finally sent troops to recover here, I am very excited, looking forward to it day and night, I hope that Your Majesty can let us return to the sequence of iron-blooded secret guards."

Zhang Yaozu, Xue Lin and Gao Guirong are all in their early forties, and they have always been proud of this as the iron-blooded secret guards who once served the emperor's side.

"My lord, the villain is in the food business, and the villain's business has been in contact with our Hundred Battles Heroes Hall as early as half a year ago, and at least half of the food needed for brewing in the Hundred Battles Heroes Hall is provided by the villain." Xue Lin said proudly.

"My lord, the villain is the most unproductive, with the help of the two brothers, he has now opened a small money bank in Jinling, doing a usury business without capital."

Gao Guirong was a little embarrassed, what he did was actually an underground money bank specializing in usury.

Guo Zongxun has long had the concept of the Great Zhou Royal Money Village connecting the world, but he thinks that the time is not ripe, so it has not been launched.

"After the three of you retired from the iron-blooded secret guard, it is indeed commendable to be able to support each other to achieve today's achievements, and tell you a good news, your former brother Zhu Jinliang is now the first royal merchant envoy of the Great Zhou, specifically responsible for trade with the Khitan Kingdom, and now, Zhu Jinliang is a noble man of the Khitan royal family, and the entire Khitan Kingdom has to snort, isn't it very majestic?"

Liu Bowen told Zhang Yaozu in detail about how Zhu Jinliang and his son were trapped in the Khitan and how they were loyal and courageous, and said with a smile:

"The first emperor Shengming, Your Majesty is wise, the brothers of the iron-blooded secret guard are all iron-clad good men, the three of you sneaked into the Southern Tang Dynasty, you can do this, Your Majesty knows, and is very happy, and specially issued a decree to commend it, Zhang Yaozu, Xue Lin, Gao Guirong, accept the order."

Zhang Yaozu and the three of them hurriedly knelt on the ground, and the mountain shouted long live.

"Long live my emperor, long live it, grass people Zhang Yaozu, Xue Lin, Gao Guirong, take the order."

Guo Zongxun heard that there were actually three former iron-blooded secret guards who went to Jiangnan to do business, and they were doing quite well, and he admired his father Guo Rong more and more.

came by himself, and was favored by Guo Rong, a cheap father, and even Guo Rong had clearly seen that Guo Zongxun had a problem, but he kept holding back.

Due to the arrival of Guo Zongxun, Guo Rong knew in advance that he was suffering from a hidden disease, and his time was short, if he was willing to follow the advice of the old lady doctor Guo Wanche, maybe he could live for three more years and five years.

However, in order to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, in order to return Yanyun Hanmin to a bright future, Guo Rong drove the expedition regardless of his illness, what a heroic spirit this is.

It wasn't until Guo Rong died of illness in Youzhou that he used a secret letter to express his doubts about Guo Zongxun in his heart.

Guo Rong left Guo Zongxun a strong country with fine martial arts, this is not a boast, looking at the neighbors, who dares to argue with Da Zhou?

Even the iron-blooded secret guards around Guo Rong are all elites, with Zhu Jinliang in the front, Zhang Yaozu, Xue Lin and Gao Guirong in the back.

Guo Zongxun sighed in his heart, it is precisely with the hard work of Taizu Guo Wei and his father Guo Rong that the current national strength of the Great Zhou has been created.

It is a pity that in the original history, Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao mutinied and seized the Guo family and established the Song Dynasty.

Throughout the three hundred years before and after the Song Dynasty, since the fiasco of Zhao Kuangyi Yongxi, the Later Zhou family that they had taken by ingenuity was completely defeated, and since then, the reputation of weak Song and cowardly Song has never lingered.

Now, he has crossed over, not only bringing a summoning system that can summon famous ministers and brave generals, but also discovering a lot of talents among the living beings in the Great Zhou.

Zhu Jinliang, Zhang Yaozu, Xue Lin, Gao Guirong, what ordinary names, but they are sitting in such an unusual thing.

Such loyal and talented people of the Great Zhou, I must be reused.

"Zhang Yaozu, Xue Lin, Gao Guirong, I have named the three of you as the imperial merchants of Jiangnan, in the Hall of Heroes of the Hundred Battles, you are just an ordinary shopkeeper, but in Jiangnan, you are the leaders of the Great Zhou business community."

Guo Zongxun's edict is actually quite interesting, he has no official and no title, just a name, but he represents a glory.

If you think about it carefully, it's not just glory, although the Jiangnan Imperial Merchant is not as grand as Zhu Jinliang's Great Zhou Merchant Envoy, but as long as it is stained with an imperial character, it is a status symbol.

What will it look like in a hundred years, Guo Zongxun can't think about it so much, he is a traverser, he always has a lifespan, how much change he can bring to the world in just a few decades, and whether his children and grandchildren can continue to carry it forward is still unknown.

Guo Zongxun only hopes that future generations will not be defeated.

But is this something he can control?

Therefore, breaking the current world pattern and bringing a new ideological concept and a broader vision to the people of this era is the most important thing Guo Zongxun should do.

Zhao Kuangyin's Song Dynasty wanted to be a big landowner, guarding the rich Central Plains and a corner of the south of the Yangtze River, and the final result was to be wiped out by the more powerful barbarian states in the north.

Guo Zongxun doesn't want to see such a situation happen, so what he is doing now has a long-term purpose.

Take the enshrinement of Zhang Yaozu, Xue Lin and Gao Guirong as the imperial merchants of Jiangnan, this is a major move to break the pattern of the Jiangnan business community.

Cultivating new nobles, replacing those old nobles, at least, the new nobles in the previous generations, to the Great Zhou Dynasty, to the Great Zhou Emperor, in terms of loyalty, basically do not have to worry.

Because, they know very well that the glory and wealth of their family were all given to them by the Great Zhou Emperor.

At least in the first few generations of them, in order to revitalize the family, they always had to work hard, desperately trying to surpass their predecessors, desperately wanting to become the richest family on the dominant side.

Those old aristocrats are not easy to say, Jiangnan businessmen who have always been known for their shrewdness, and they are also a group of people who do not pay attention to the laws of their home and country.

Keeping them is definitely a hidden danger, and sooner or later it will become a disaster.

This is Guo Zongxun's perception of reading history books and reading historical reviews in the era of 2020.

Overthrowing the old society and establishing a new society sounds particularly familiar.

Breaking the old order and establishing a new order is what Guo Zongxun has always wanted to do.

In the Central Plains, in Kaifeng, Guo Zongxun wanted to do it but couldn't do it for a long time, because he now more or less relied on these old gate valve families to help him stabilize the court.

But in the south of the Yangtze River, and even in the newly conquered land of the Great Zhou, Guo Zongxun could completely let go of his hands and feet, because this was the most suitable place for the Great Zhou to establish a new order.

Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me perish, this is the truth, who does not understand, who wants to challenge, must be suppressed.

The merchants of Jinling were completely blindfolded, they couldn't understand what the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty thought, why he treated Yanyun and the officials and merchants of the Northern Han Dynasty as a set of gentle methods, but when they arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, they completely changed their faces?