Guo Song said lightly: "Don't worry, Zhu Jun is only strong at the beginning, and his stamina is insufficient, I know him too well, as long as he enters the siege war, the civil war between him and Qiu Jingzhong will inevitably enter a confrontation period." ”

Guo Song took a few steps with his hands in his hand, and said, "The Ding plan I told you before can be started." ”

"I understand the humble position, and I will arrange it immediately, what else does Your Highness have to order?"

"And the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce, what progress is there now?" Guo Song asked.

"The lowly handed over the investigation of the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce to Deputy Commander Zhou, and yesterday the lowly also asked him about the situation, and he said that now the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce is like suddenly disappearing, and there are no clues, he is just a little suspicious."

"Suspect what?" Guo Song asked.

"When Deputy Commander Zhou interrogated the Sogdian subordinates surnamed Kang, although he did not get any valuable information, several of his subordinates said that this old Sogdian man had lived in the grassland for 30 years, and Deputy Commander Zhou suspected that the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce might have something to do with the grassland."

Guo Song nodded and said: "It's okay to be bold and doubtful, but don't be mistaken by doubt, go in the wrong direction, don't expand one person's special experience to everyone's experience, this must be remembered!" ”

"Humble, remember!"

"Go ahead! Don't put pressure on Deputy Commander Zhou, let him investigate patiently. ”

"Retire from your duties!"

Wang Yue said goodbye and left, Guo Song paced back and forth, he was thinking about the civil war in the Central Plains, at this time, his eyes fell on a framed painting on the wall, this is a double bull wrestling diagram that Han Rong gave him a few days ago, two buffaloes wrestling in the field, holding each other, this is painted by Han Rong many years ago, and the two big characters on it are still Yan Zhenqing's handwriting.

Guo Song understood the deep meaning of Han Huang's gift of this picture, the art of the emperor lies in the way of balance, not only the balance between the forces of the imperial court, but also the balance of all parts of the world, and the balance of the forces outside the territory.

Zhu Zhu's civil war also lies in the word balance, to maintain their internal friction, it is necessary to maintain the balance of power between Qiu Jingzhong and Zhu Zhu, when Qiu Jingzhong was in the limelight, he took Xuzhou, so now Zhu Zhu is strong and Qiu Jingzhong is weak, what should he do?

Thinking of Liu Sigu, he hesitated a little in his heart.

...........

Luoyang business is now in a depression, the original thousands of shops in Nanshi, now less than one percent is still in business, are all necessities of life, such as grain, salt and oil, cloth, medicinal materials, etc., and the fur shop 45 shops, now only one shop remains.

Yang Mi rode a donkey from the medicine store in the north, he bought a few packs of medicine, of course, this is his cover, always running to the south market, after a long time, it will make people suspicious.

From the medicine store is the fur shop, the first one is the old Lin Ji fur shop, Yang Mi jumped off the donkey and walked directly to the store. Several of the men were already familiar with him and didn't care about him, and one of them pointed inside, indicating that the proprietor was inside.

Yang Mi walked into the back room, but saw Jiang Min sitting there in a daze with a sad face, Yang Mi smiled and said, "What's wrong with Jiang Dongzhu?" ”

"Business is bleak!"

Jiang Min sighed, "It hasn't been open for five days, Yang Shangshu, you're okay, let's open a show!" ”

Yang Mi smiled dumbly, "Dong Zhu Jiang is teasing me!" Do you still need to open? It's not impossible for me to sell things, just with your three words 'Yang Shangshu', I won't pull out a dime! ”

Yang Shangshu is a joke, the scholars of the imperial court have long been set up by Liu Feng, and a group of Liu Feng's staff are the real real power of Shangshu and real power, everyone calls them Shangshu, Yang Mi is naturally called Yang Shangshu.

"Let's get down to business!"

Jiang Min said solemnly: "I invited you here today to tell you that His Royal Highness the King of Jin has decided to implement the Ding plan, and you have to convince Liu Feng in this matter." ”

The so-called Ding plan is to eradicate the military adviser Liu Sigu, how Liu Sigu plays in the military, Guo Song did not put him in his eyes, he acted politically, Guo Song can also tolerate it, but he persuaded Zhu Zhu to envelop the family, which undoubtedly made Guo Song intolerable.

Especially this time to exterminate Qiu Jingzhong, Guo Song needs to weaken Zhu Jun's strength, so it is logical to attack Liu Sigu.

Yang Mi looked at King Jin's warrant, nodded and said, "Liu Feng has long had this intention, but he has never been able to find a suitable opportunity. ”

"Isn't it the best opportunity for him to preside over logistics in Chenliu?"

"Okay! I went to persuade Liu Feng. ”

Yang Mi hugged his fists and saluted, and walked out of the room, he remembered something, turned around and smiled: "Since business is cold, I'll open it for you!" Send 2,000 sheepskins to Xiangguofu and give me the biggest discount. ”

Jiang Min was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "It is guaranteed to be the lowest preferential price!" ”

........

Yang Mi returned to Xiangguo's mansion and happened to meet Liu Feng's study boy Tuan'er, Tuan'er was anxious to stomp his feet, "Xiangguo has been looking for Mr. for a long time, and he is angry!" ”

Yang Mi's heart jumped, and he hurriedly rushed to Xiangguo's room, walked to the door of the room, and heard Liu Feng slapping the table in the room and scolding, "Where did he go?" Hurry up and get him, go! ”

Several guards ran out in a panic, and when they saw Yang Mi head-on, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said, "Mr. Yang is here!" ”

Yang Mi walked into the room and saw Liu Feng's face full of anger, and asked in surprise, "Why is Xiangguo so angry?" ”

Liu Feng glared at him fiercely and asked dissatisfiedly, "Where have you been?" ”

"Humble... I went to buy medicine. ”

"It's just a trivial matter like buying medicine and letting your subordinates do it for you, so why do you have to go in person?"

"Xiangguo is angry, there are some hidden diseases in the lowly position, there is an old famous doctor in the pharmacy in Nanshi, and the lowly position is actually looking for him to see a doctor."

Hearing that he was going to see a doctor, Liu Feng's dissatisfaction calmed down a little, and he said: "The Holy Lord sent someone back to urge the money to pay the army, asking for 300,000 yuan, but Zuo Zangku's money is less than 200,000 yuan, I want to know what's going on?" What about taxes this year? ”

Yang Mi sighed and said: "Xiangguo, now we only have three states and one government left, and all their taxes last year were sent to Beijing in April, or the salt tax, but now the price of salt has risen to 680 wen per bucket, and the price was only adjusted at the beginning of the year, and it will rise again, and the people will riot." ”

"What about the liquor tax? How much can be collected from the shelf tax and household tax? ”

"Xiangguo, the year before last, I collected ten years of shelf tax, this can no longer be collected, the household tax has been collected at the beginning of the year, and there is still a wine tax to collect, but there is not much! At most, a few thousand yuan, and last year I only collected eight thousand yuan! ”

"Don't tell me this, hurry up and think about what other ways to make money, the saint has four gold medals in a row to urge money, if you can't get money, you and I don't want to have a good life."

Yang Mi thought for a while and said: "Not long ago, I went to the Zuozang Library to see, it seems that there are still some good things, and that agarwood pavilion can be sold for at least hundreds of thousands of yuan." ”

Liu Feng's face sank, "That agarwood pavilion is a thing of Xingqing Palace, and even the saint doesn't dare to use it, don't fight its idea." ”

"Otherwise, sell the gold! 320,000 taels of gold, take out 30,000 taels and solve the problem. ”

Liu Feng didn't say anything, the 320,000 taels of gold in the Zuo Treasury was their last pressure on the box, and they had to agree to use it before they could use it, if the Son of Heaven knew that they actually started to use the gold at the bottom of the box, he would definitely question his Liu Feng's ability, and his evaluation of Xiangguo was undoubtedly an extremely bad stain.

Liu Feng sighed, "Is there no other way than gold?" ”

"Xiangguo, there are two more ways, one is to sell the field house, and now there are more than 30 official mansions in the hands of the imperial court, all of which are mansions of more than five acres, and there is no problem in selling some of them and raising 300,000 yuan."

"What else?" Liu Feng asked.

"There is also the raid of the house, find a few wealthy criminals and raid their homes, this is the fastest way to get money, such as Qiu Jingzhong's house, such as Yu Taiwei's house, such as Zhang Situ's house, copy the three of them, 300,000 yuan is at your fingertips!"

Liu Feng's eyes lit up, this is a good way, of course, Qiu Jingzhong's family needless to say, Taiwei Yu Sheng's daughter married the abolished prince Zhu Sui, Situ Zhang Wuxun is Qiu Jingzhong's in-laws, these three families are all powerful people in the court, Yu Sheng's wife and Zhang Wuxun's wife also fought skirts a few years ago, and they are all rich and powerful people.

"Xiangguo, the dozen or so restaurants, shops, and manors that are loyal to each other add up to a lot of money, and they are sold to those rich merchants at a high price, and they have to buy if they don't buy them, so they can be considered as contributing to the army! Then the extra money will be used as a surplus to prepare for the next time to raise military expenses. ”

Liu Feng pondered for a moment and said, "Just do it!" ”

But Yang Mi and Liu Sigu didn't say anything! He really didn't know how to speak, these were two things, it was brought up so suddenly, it was a bit abrupt, Liu Feng was not stupid, he couldn't have connected this matter with his going to Nanshi.

Yang Mi pondered for a moment and decided to wait a little longer and wait for the right opportunity.