Before the decree of the Son of Heaven Li Shi was promulgated, the Yuan family quickly got the news, and the head of the family, Yuan Xuanhu, immediately convened the important people of the Yuan family to discuss how to deal with it.

There were a total of seven family representatives who participated in the discussion, and a total of eight people including Yuan Xuanhu.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Chang'an is likely to be turbulent in the near future, and I have already arranged for you to gradually transfer your wealth to Hedong. I would like to know now, are you still having any difficulties? ”

An old man in his sixties raised his hand and said: "My son Yuan Youzhi is now a member of the household department, not only him, but there are more than ten children of the Yuan family who are officials in various temples of the imperial court, more than 20 people in the army, and many of them are guards in the palace, what should they do?" ”

Yuan Xuanhu said slowly: "They will not be too risky, in fact, the risk of all the children of the Yuan family is not great, our Yuan family will not come forward so early, maybe they will use a roundabout strategy, the key is property and food, we must try to transport it away." ”

Another old man said: "Since the last request of the head of the family, almost all the money in the family's inventory has been transported to Taiyuan, but we still have a lot of businesses, especially several large cabinet shops, and the money stored is as high as one million yuan, how to ensure their safety the most?" ”

This is indeed a very tricky problem, commercial wealth is not easy to transfer for a while, like the money of the cabinet shop, most of which is stored for guests, once there is a rebellion, the soldiers will rob it no matter whose money it is.

Yuan Xuanhu pondered for a long time and said: "Transporting them to the manor outside the city, if you really can't take them, you will put them in the underground stone vault and take strict care." ”

There are some secrets that Yuan Xuanhu can't tell his clansmen yet, for fear that someone will secretly tell them.

"Head of the house, when are we going to evacuate?"

All eyes were on the head of the house, and this was their primary concern.

Yuan Xuanhu said slowly: "I just said, transport the valuable wealth away, and then evacuate, tomorrow night there will be a fleet to leave Chang'an for Pujin Pass, a total of more than 30 ships, all of them are thousand stone cargo ships, I will give each room four ships, everyone pack up the valuables and move them onto the ship, follow the ship out of the city tomorrow, remember, only bring personal servants, ordinary subordinates should not be brought, and remind everyone that this matter must be kept secret and must not be passed out, have you heard?" ”

Everyone agreed in unison, and each went back to prepare, Yuan Xuanhu returned to the back house, and the eldest son Yuan Jin said: "Father, Zhu Jun can use this person, but he can't believe it, I think he still has something to tell us the truth." ”

"I know that this person is a wolf's ambition, as long as we don't place too high hopes on him, there will be no problem, in fact, I am more worried about Li Man, this woman is not simple, there are many capable people under her command, I suspect that she and Zhu Jun have long been in collusion."

"How did Father find out?"

Yuan Xuanhu sneered and said: "It's the assassination of Zhang Yi, I told her that night, but Zhang Yi was poisoned by the maids around him at noon the next day, in terms of time, it is impossible at all, it can only show that she has already arranged it, except for Zhu Jun, who else will arrange it for her." ”

"Father is right, her roots are in Chang'an, and she will definitely cooperate with Zhu Jun."

After a pause, Yuan Jin said again: "Do you want to go out of the city and talk to Zhu Jun." ”

"I'm sure I'm going to go, in addition, you tell Li Man that Guo Song will assassinate him directly, and this matter will be arranged by her."

Yuan Jin was stunned, "Isn't it necessary to let Guo Song be ruined?" ”

Yuan Xuanhu said with a smile: "I planned to force Guo Song to rebel, in fact, it was just to let the Son of Heaven pay attention to Hexi, after Liu Wenxi's rebellion, the Son of Heaven paid too much attention to the Jingyuan Army, at this time Guo Song was suspected of rebellion, and the Son of Heaven would reduce his attention to Jingyuan, so that there would be a black effect under the lamp, in fact, Guo Song only needs to die, and it doesn't matter how he dies." ”

"I'm afraid that Li Man will blame her father for deceiving her."

"I didn't deceive her, in the matter of killing Guo Song, our interests are the same, and I promised her, and finally handed over Guo Song to her to be executed, and now she can act at will."

After a pause, Yuan Xuanhu said again: "I still have to have a good talk with her, no matter what, she is also surnamed Yuan, the last step, I hope she can go right!" ”

"The child understands, the child will go see Zhu Zhu now."

"Go ahead! You have to remind him that I have allocated him half a million dollars, and I do not seek anything in return, but he owes me at least a great favor. ”

Yuan Jin hurriedly went, Yuan Xuanhu walked to the door, looked at the rolling black clouds in the sky, and whispered to himself: "The storm is coming." ”

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In the fishing manor, Zhu Zhu was engrossed in sitting on the wooden platform fishing, and there was another angler sitting next to him, this person was about fifty years old, with a thin body and fair skin, his name was Yuan Xiu, who was originally Guanglu Siqing, after Zhang Guangsheng killed the Hui envoy, the imperial court sent him to Hui Hui, hoping that he could repair the relationship between Tang and Hui.

But Yuan Xiu's envoy failed, almost killed by Hui Hui, has been detained by Hui Hui, and returned to Chang'an for nearly a year, Chang'an has no official position for him, plus his mission failed, Prime Minister Yang Yan was very dissatisfied with him, so he sent him home to relax.

He had a grudge against the imperial court and often expressed his inner dissatisfaction on various occasions, so Zhu Jun intended to befriend him, and the relationship between the two gradually became irreversible, and Yuan Xiu also became Zhu Jun's chief staff and gave him advice.

"Zhu Gong must first cut off the mouths of the people of the world, and let the people of the world feel that Zhu Gong came out of the mountain in order to quell the rebellion, and not make people feel that this matter was planned by Zhu Gong."

"So what to do?"

"It's very simple, Zhu Gong refused twice, and only reluctantly agreed the third time, and promised to come out to preside over the overall situation, that is, the soldiers must no longer loot the capital, and the hundred officials and the people of the capital must be grateful to Zhu Gong."

"And then?"

Zhu Jun smiled slightly and asked, "I heard that the imperial court hasn't paid salaries to officials for half a year?" ”

"It was two months before, and there are still four months to owe, and many officials are living very miserably, and they were swept out of the house by the landlord and moved to live outside the city, and Zhu Gong should be the most effective in encircling them."

Zhu Jun couldn't help laughing, "It's just that you have a lot of sour things, I have always looked down on money, if I can buy them with money, I will not be stingy." ”

At this time, the housekeeper stepped forward to report: "Taiwei, Yuan Jin and Li Man are here." ”

Zhu Jun was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "Did they come together?" ”

"Probably not, but I just happened to encounter it."

Zhu Jun thought for a while and said to Yuan Xiu: "Yuan Gong will receive Li Man for me, and I will send Yuan Jin away." ”

Yuan Xiu hurriedly persuaded: "Duke Zhu still don't underestimate the Guanlong nobles. ”

Zhu Jun said coldly: "I didn't underestimate the Guanlong nobles, but the Yuan family is really not important, but for the sake of the previous cooperation, I will not embarrass them for the time being." ”

Yuan Xiu reminded again: "There is also Bai Zhizhen, he is in charge of the 20,000 Divine Army, and it is all up to the Yuan family to fight for him, and he can't turn his face with the Yuan family now." ”

Zhu Jun nodded, "You reminded me that the Yuan family does still have a role." ”

Zhu Jun and Yuan Jin had nothing to say, and the purpose of Yuan Jin's coming was also to ask Zhu Jun to clarify his previous promise again, and after sending Yuan Jin away, Zhu Jun hurriedly came to see Li Man.

Li Man has long been in collusion with Zhu Jun, but this collusion does not refer to the relationship between men and women, but the sympathy between two ambitious people, Li Man is a woman, born weak, although Li Shi, the son of heaven, values her, but will not give her an open official position, and even the promised title has not been fulfilled, which makes Li Man very disappointed.

Although Zhu Zhu was still far away from his ambitions, his sincerity moved Li Man, and Li Man and he got closer and closer, completely bypassing the Yuan family.

"Let Pavilion Master Li wait for a long time!" Zhu Jun walked in with a smile.

Li Man stood in front of the window with her hands in her hands, wearing the Zhan Lu sword at her waist, she glanced at Zhu Jun, and said lightly: "The will of the Son of Heaven should know it!" ”

"Of course I know it's about to happen."

"Then according to the plan, my subordinates will open the Chunming Gate, what else do you need me to do?"

Zhu Zhu nodded, "There are two more important things for the Pavilion Master!" ”

Zhu Jun took out a note and handed it to Li Man, Li Man glanced at the note, and was really a little dissatisfied: "Isn't this a bit too much?" ”

Zhu Jun said coldly: "If you want to do great things, you must have extraordinary means, although I don't want to be Dong Zhuo, but I want to be Cao Cao!" ”

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