Chapter 50: The Deepest Hidden Secret

"Today, if anyone recognizes me as iron-clad, then stand aside, and if anyone doesn't know whether they are alive or dead, then don't blame me for being rude."

The people brought by Deng Kai were all military households from Dark Village Fort, and although these people came with them, most of them were wall-riding factions. Now that Tiemo is letting out cruel words, many people are beginning to hesitate.

Tie Mo didn't let them ink down, and said with a cold face: "Deng Kai teamed up with the Mantou Mountain Bandits, intending to attack our department, and our department had no choice but to fight back......."

Listening to Tiemo's words, Deng Kai's eyes widened and he was frightened. Crazy, Tiemo, the mad dog, is really going to die.

"Stop him, stop him" Deng Kai waved his hand to let others rush up, but he turned around and fled backwards with two people.

Tiemo thought it was funny, but he just glared, and the bluffed soldiers cowered and got out of the way.

Deng Kai, an idiot, if he stayed to supervise the battle, the soldiers would still be able to fight, and he turned around and fled, who would pay attention to his orders?

Tiemo led people to chase slowly, while Deng Kai took Ma Miao and Ruan Sangou to escape down the mountain with their lives. At this time, Deng Kai's heart was full of regret, and he knew that he would not be in a hurry to go up the mountain. But who would have thought that Tiemo was a dumbfounder, and he dared to kill his colleagues in front of everyone.

Seeing that he was about to go down the mountain, Deng Kai didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, when he heard a muffled snort behind him.

Looking back, Ma Miao was lying on the side of the road covered in blood, obviously out of breath. Next to the corpse, Ruan Sangou held a short knife and sneered.

"Three dogs..... What are you doing...... You killed Ma Miao....."

Ruan Sangou pursed his lips, but he didn't deny it, he didn't say anything, clenched the short knife, and stabbed Deng Kai in the abdomen.

Everything came too suddenly, Deng Kai only felt a pain in his abdomen, and then fell to the ground softly.

"Why..... Why ....."

"Why?" Ruan Sangou smiled coldly, "Haven't you figured it out yet?" Brother Tie needs to know your every move, so I fell out with Brother Tie. ”

"You..... It's so enduring, I didn't even do it until now...... No wonder Monk Wang's matter leaked so quickly, it turned out to be your ......"

"Yes, it's me, but I only know that you have planted a spy, and I don't know that it is Monk Wang. It's no wonder that Monk Wang didn't hide it well, and you, you can go to see Yang Dayong! ”

Squatting down, Ruan Sangou pressed Deng Kai's head, aimed it at his neck, and stabbed it without hesitation.

As soon as Deng Kai died, Ruan Sangou held the short knife behind his back, slashed it on his left arm, and then threw the short knife into the pit next to him.

Hearing the footsteps behind him, Ruan Sangou held on to the stone wall and cried, "Tie Ye..... Help me...... Monk Wang was ambushed here, Deng Ye and Ma Miao..... Woohoo......"

Tie Mo slapped his thigh hard, and pointed to Deng Kai's corpse very depressedly, "I told you to search down the mountain, I have to take credit from Lao Tzu, you see, you will be punished!" ”

Looking at the scene in front of you, as long as you are not a fool, you know what is going on.

Ruan Sangou is the spy who hides the deepest, everything is calculated by iron ink, from the beginning, he never thought of letting Deng Kai leave alive.

But what do you know?

The more this is the case, the more you have to pretend not to know. Tiemo killed Yang Dayong in the same way, and then killed Deng Kai, if he wanted to kill a certain military household in Dark Zhuang Fort, wouldn't it be as simple as crushing an ant to death.

Deng Kai's death made the military households of Dark Village Fort understand one thing thoroughly. From now on, there can only be one voice in Dark Village.

I don't know who led the way, and all the hundreds of military households knelt on the ground.

"Tie Ye, my brothers will listen to you in the future, I only hope that you can take your brothers to avenge Deng Zongqi."

"It's easy to say, revenge for Deng Zongqi is a matter within Tie's responsibility, brothers get up quickly!"

.......

The next day, the military report about Mantou Mountain was circulated to the capital division and Huai'an office. Of course, Deng Kai's death, this black cauldron was also thrown on the head of Monk Wang.

Huai'an reacted immediately, Gu Chengliang and Wei Xiang led their troops to go up the mountain, but they were stopped at the intersection by Tiemo.

Wei Xiang and Gu Chengliang were unwilling to give up the iron ore and copper mines, so they were bent on snatching them back, but Tiemo naturally refused to back down. The two sides launched a fierce fight at the fork, and the result was that Wei Xiang and Gu Chengliang returned to Huai'an with a disgraced face.

As soon as Wei Xiang's soldiers and horses retreated, Tiemo occupied Mantou Mountain and did not leave, and issued an official document that it was necessary to station soldiers and horses to suppress bandits for a long time on the grounds that there were still bandits in Mantou Mountain.

Tiemo has made it clear that he is in charge of Mantou Mountain, Wei Xiang and Gu Chengliang have no rut at all, who makes his fists less hard?

Saying that there are copper and iron mines on Mantou Mountain? If these words are said clearly, won't they involve the Kang family and the major forces?

Tiemo dared to blatantly occupy Mantou Mountain, just to see that no one would poke the matter of Mantou Mountain to the open.

Once the matter of Mantou Mountain is clarified, then according to the rules, iron ore and copper ore will be under the jurisdiction of the imperial court. As long as the matter of the mine is not clarified, everyone can still discuss. used to be the Kang family, but now it's Tiemo, whoever occupies Mantou Mountain, let's talk to whomever we want.

The Kang family is powerful, but they will not risk the anger of the public and make things clear.

Mantou Mountain changed hands, and the only ones who really suffered losses were the Kang family, and the other families did not lose at all, but they may still get a lot of benefits.

Two days later, Chang Minyue came to Mantou Mountain.

Although Chang Minyue came alone, she was on behalf of the Chang family and several other Jin merchants.

For cooperation, Tiemo is surprisingly refreshing. Tiemo did this, but also to send a signal to several other Jin merchants, I Tie someone is better to talk than the Kang family, as long as everyone sincerely cooperates, the benefits will only be more than before, not less than before.

After another four days, the detailed cooperation plan was finally decided.

The profits of the Mantou Mountain Mineral Institute are divided by the iron and ink in 30%, and the rest is shared by the Chang family and several other Jin merchants.

Tiemo was very generous, and almost gave most of the benefits to a few Jin merchants. But it's all worth it, because only interests can hold both sides together.

This is just the beginning, and it will slowly bring Jin Shang step by step to his own interest group. Hmph, as long as you get on my thief ship, don't think about going down.

In fact, the idea of winning over the Jin merchants has long been there, instead of letting the Jin merchants support the Houjin of Liaodong, why not win them over to their own side and use them for my own use?

How can I say that I am also an authentic Ming person, a native of Shanxi, as long as the interests of the Jin merchants can be guaranteed, the Jin merchants will still support the Houjin? Unless it's a donkey kicking in the head.

In the past, I always couldn't understand why the Jin Chamber of Commerce in the late Ming Dynasty supported the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and thought that this thing was incredible, isn't this a traitorous act?

When I really came to this era, I gradually understood the helplessness of Jin Shang.

Since the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse and Zhu Youzhen's assumption of power, the eunuch party has suffered a devastating blow. And those Jin merchants who supported the Jin party officials also became outliers in the eyes of the imperial court. A few months ago, the Jin merchants were exempted from the right to supply arms to the nine sides.

And these are just the beginning, in the future, the Jin Chamber of Commerce will continue to be suppressed, and the rights and interests in their hands will slowly be transferred to the hands of the Jiangnan gentry.

There is a good saying, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, and the court continues to suppress Jin merchants, do you still expect Jin merchants to work for the Ming court?

The Jin merchants didn't want to sell the country, but they had to find a way out, and in the north, there was only Houjin left to go.

In this world, whatever patriotism is, it is all idealism, used to fool fools. What really determines the direction is only interests.

And what Tiemo wants to do is to open up another way for Jin Shang, he believes that as long as there are enough interests to guarantee, no one will be stupid enough not to support their own people, but to support outsiders.

For the emperor Zhu Youzhen who was sitting in the Forbidden City, Tiemo had only one evaluation.

A young and energetic angry young man full of ideals!

Zhu Youzhen is too young, he thinks that if the folk reputation is good, it must be good. As soon as he came to power, he pulled the Donglin Party to exterminate the eunuch party. The factory guards are the eyes and ears of the emperor, and the eunuchs check and balance the Qingliu officials and maintain the balance of the court.

The technique of balancing the eunuch party and the court based on the factory guard has been used by successive emperors since the period of Zhu Houzhao of Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty and has continued until the Tianqi Dynasty. As a result, it was destroyed in the hands of Zhu Youzhen.

The factory guard was dealt a fatal blow, and the factory guard will do his best for the emperor in the future? The eunuch party was almost wiped out, who will check and balance the Donglin Party in the future? Now Zhu Youzhen doesn't feel anything, and he will know how serious the consequences will be in the future.

The most important of them is taxation, the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River is the land reserved by the Donglin Party, and the Donglin Party is expected to collect its own taxes?

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were years of famine, but not all places were poor, and there were three places where there was still money and food. The money bags in the hands of the Jin merchants and the Jiangnan gentry, and the grain bags in the hands of the Qilu Hao clan.

But the Jin Party and the Qi Party were suppressed, and even the Jin Shang and Qilu gentry were also suppressed, and these two would still give blood transfusions to the imperial court? The Donglin Party does not collect its own taxes, where does the tax of the Ming Dynasty come from?

The three families of the Ming Dynasty who had money and food did not give blood transfusions to the imperial court, and they were forced to be helpless, and finally all the pressure was transferred to the people, so it further aggravated the civil unrest at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen's heart is actually good, but he did bad things with good intentions, and as soon as he came to power, he made a fatal mistake that the emperor should not make, and no matter how many things he did in the next ten years, it was just in vain.

The emperor, pay attention to the balance, and the court needs to have party struggle. The emperor is not afraid of party strife, but of forming a party and rebelling for personal gain. There is no party strife, no balance, no checks and balances, and there is one nostril under his hand, what else can this emperor do, he will slowly become a puppet.

Tiemo will not follow Zhu Youzhen to the point of no return, let alone watch Jin Shang be forced into Houjin's arms.

Since we have come to this era, we can't let the Ming flowers fall into the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.