Chapter 406: Zhao He's treacherous plan
Liu Xian's intelligence system is also equivalent to Liu Xian's business system, which is actually almost all over the entire county seat of Julu County.
Liu Xian has already worked out how to open a restaurant, inn and some shops, especially in terms of the intelligence system, Qian Kuan has already helped to preside over and train some intelligence personnel in a specific way, so many things do not need Liu Xian to worry about personally.
In Julu County, Liu Xian can indeed grasp some of the main situations in various places at any time.
Therefore, within the scope of Julu County, Liu Xian does not use it for too many stays, and can just leave directly, which is quite guaranteed in terms of safety.
However, leaving the confines of Julu County, it is difficult to say what the situation will be.
Liu Xian's development is very fast, but no matter how fast it is, there will be a limit, and it is impossible to keep expanding endlessly.
Now you can buy some properties in various parts of Julu County, and open some restaurants, inns, shops, etc., which is basically the limit of what you can do at present.
If you want to do more, it's unlikely for the time being.
Let's put it this way, in this ancient era, it was really extremely difficult to operate and conduct business in a completely unfamiliar place with no roots.
In this day and age, the law on business can be said to be completely blank. There is no law that can provide effective protection for a serious trader. Without protection, the main thing is that the merchants are inferior and more despised than the ordinary common people.
To put it mildly, if an outsider goes to a place to do business, if he does not have enough self-protection ability, then he will be killed and seized every minute, and even if he does not kill people, he will have nowhere to redress his grievances.
Come to think of it, it is a very risky thing to do business, and when you go to a strange place, an ordinary businessman, there is no safety at all.
Therefore, in this era, ordinary people, if they want to make a living as merchants, they really have to be mentally prepared to hang their heads on their trouser belts.
It is not very easy for Liu Xian to send people to other towns to carry out business activities.
Because in all localities and all walks of life, they are basically in the hands of local people, and it is difficult for outsiders to squeeze them in. If an outsider wants to do the same or similar business in the local area, he will definitely be suppressed and excluded by his local peers, and you will not be able to run it at all.
Peers are enemies and enemies.
Liu Xian's business, whether it is a restaurant or an inn or a store that sells other goods, actually has peers, because these are not Liu Xian's alone, others have been doing it. And Liu Xian's business, after it is launched, will definitely be better than the original business, which will invisibly affect the interests of the original peers.
If they don't have a background foundation, it is impossible for them to run a store, so they still have many ways to get Liu Xian's business. It is completely impossible to make Liu Xian's plans go ahead at all.
Therefore, Liu Xian wants to expand his own development in this area, and among the guidelines formulated, the first point is that he must have enough manpower and talents. With enough manpower and talents, Liu Xian can also talk about developing elsewhere.
Then, when a certain town was selected as the destination for development, in the absence of Liu Xian, the people below were in the name of Liu Xian, in the name of Liu Fu in Liulin Village, and first got involved with the local government. In other words, it is necessary to obtain the support of the local government.
This government support is one thing, after all, for the time being, especially within the scope of Julu County, the influence of the government has been extremely limited, and the local government, in its local area, the majesty of the government has dropped to the freezing point. The prestige of the government in the local area may not be as good as that of a local magnate or nobleman.
Under such circumstances, the people sent by Liu Xian to expand their business, after obtaining the property through the government's purchase, want to really operate it formally, then they have to have a good relationship with the local powerful and wealthy landlords.
This was whether it was to gain the support of the government, or to obtain the consent of the powerful and wealthy landlords to carry out planned business in their places. This has to be a certain concession.
Once everything is cleared, you can officially start your business. Hire someone to build a restaurant or renovate it, etc. After all preparations are made, it is possible to officially open for business. Smooth business and on a normal track, this can carry out a certain amount of intelligence gathering.
Anyway, every time you go to a place for development, you have to invest a lot in the early stage, and manpower, material and financial resources are indispensable. In addition, there must be a problem of durability and stability, and there must be a certain degree of protection for these operations in various localities. Otherwise, if some rogue hooligans are allowed to destroy their business, then there is still a need to carry out these operations?
Therefore, Liu Xian's establishment of his own secret intelligence system through commercial activities is a long-term matter that cannot be done lightly.
And when it comes to intelligence gathering, most of them can only get information from what they have seen and heard, as well as from the mouths of some customers who come to patronize. It can be said that their temporary intelligence came extremely passively. It's really hard for them to take the initiative to get some really useful information for the time being.
In Liu Xian's plan, if you want to get really useful and timely information, you can't rely on this alone. In the future, when they have enough manpower and talents, the people who are in charge of the commerce of various places will have to find a way to buy some local officials or those of the local noble families and local lords by means of bribery or placement, so that they can provide some really useful information at any time.
And to do these things, it is not just talking, it also takes time and means to implement. Liu Xian didn't have much available manpower in this area, so he couldn't carry out this idea at all.
It takes a long time to go from simple intelligence gathering to active intelligence acquisition.
In the words of later generations, a good spy and intelligence officer is not so easy to buy or cultivate.
mentioning these means that after Liu Xian left Julu, there was nothing to rely on all the way to Luoyang Capital, and there would be no protection from the government along the way, and everything had to be protected by the Liu Mansion caravan itself. Of course, it also includes Liu Xian himself.
Liu Xian entered Beijing with great fanfare, but the goal of the Liu Mansion caravan was indeed too big, and it would inevitably attract many people to prying eyes. Even if the Liu Mansion caravan did not reveal what the goods were escorted along the way, there were thousands of oxen and carriages, full of them, no matter what they were, this was a huge fortune.
Therefore, the Liu Mansion caravan was very careful, and the speed of travel was not fast, and every time he went to a place, he had to clearly know whether it was safe ahead, and Liu Xian would let the Liu Mansion caravan pass.
Be careful to make the 10,000-year-old ship, which is a matter of concern for the cargo and personnel of the entire caravan.
Of course, it may seem too careful, after all, Liu Xian's trip to the capital this time has a certain amount of chance and suddenness. The Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro will definitely not have time to make a move against this caravan.
However, as mentioned earlier, the current Jizhou, the entire land of Hebei, and the governments in various places, they can only barely ensure the safety of the city, and they are really powerless to do anything outside the city. In fact, some cities that are too close to Montenegro or Taihang Mountain, they dare not say that they can ensure the safety of the city, unless there are a large number of officers and soldiers to defend it, otherwise, they are all trembling, and some villages and towns that do not have strong cities, they are really helpless.
From Julu County to Handan, more than two hundred miles, the Liufu caravan walked for two days.
Along the way, along the official road, some wild forests and mountains, I did encounter many thieves who blocked the road and robbed.
However, the general thieves and the people in the dark camp are cleared out first, but some of the larger bandits hiding in the mountains have no way to do it.
It's just that the Liufu caravan is indeed too large, and the bandits and robbers with a general size of only three or few hundred people don't dare to provoke them at all, at most they just hide in the mountains and watch the Liufu caravan pass slowly, and they don't dare to jump out and loot.
Occasionally, some bandits and robbers who did not know whether they were alive or dead had the courage to block the road and ask for tolls, but they were naturally exterminated or driven away.
This way, it's safe for the time being.
Handan was the capital of Zhao during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it was very famous. However, it is not so good now, and it is certainly far less prosperous than it was hundreds of years ago when it was the capital of Zhao.
But the ancient capital is the ancient capital, and Liu Xian has not yet entered the city, but he can still feel the vicissitudes of history precipitated.
Liu Xian didn't know if the city wall was still the city wall at that time, but it seemed that this city was still quite large, and the city wall was estimated to be taller and more majestic than Julu City.
The mighty Liufu caravan came to Handan City, but Handan was not as close to the enemy, because Liu Xian or Zhao He, who was with the Liufu caravan, had already sent people to Handan in advance to report.
Minister Qincha, Handan Taishou does not dare to slack off.
He had already led the officials of the Handan government and some powerful people in Handan City to wait.
This situation is normal, the internal servants of the DPRK and the Central Committee are really powerful, and ordinary local officials really can't afford to offend. Regardless of whether they will be asked for bribes or take the initiative to give bribes, they will at least show respect to the court's inner servants on the surface, especially the inner servants who are the imperial messengers, so as not to suffer from their flattery.
For Handan City, Liu Xian really doesn't know too much about the situation, after all, Liu Xian's tentacles are not so long, and he can't understand the situation here.
But Liu Xian is naturally a celebrity in Julu, in fact, I believe that the entire government offices in Jizhou have heard of Liu Xian's name. In addition, Liu Xian has a good relationship with the former Jizhou Muhuang Fu Song, which is actually not a secret. As local officials in Jizhou, they will definitely know something about the officials above them.
Now, even if Huang Fu Song has been dismissed and transferred, they generally will not target people who have some friendship with Huang Fu Song because Huang Fu Song has been transferred. Not to mention Liu Xian, who is also famous.
Therefore, Handan Taishou was also extremely polite to Liu Xian, and while welcoming Qin Cha Zhao and respectfully into the city, he also invited Liu Xian to enter the city together and went to Handan Taishou's Mansion together.
As for the Liufu caravan, Handan did not leave any difficulties, and could enter the city directly, but it was a little difficult to settle it.
After all, there are more than a thousand oxen and horse-drawn carts, and there are thousands of people and horses. The post station in Handan City could not be accommodated. However, there was no big problem, Liu Xian took the money directly and asked Handan Taishou to help vacate a military camp in the city and let the Liu Mansion caravan settle temporarily.
Liu Xian didn't plan to stay in Handan for long, and he would leave the next day after one night.
Handan Taishou prepared a banquet in Taishou Mansion, intending to wash the dust for Zhao He and Liu Xian.
But what surprised Liu Xian was that Zhao He said goodbye to Liu Xian and Handan Taishou. He planned to rush back to Yecheng overnight and go back to his hometown to have a look, and then he didn't plan to join Liu Xian and enter Beijing again, but he would wait for Liu Xian in the Tiger Prison.
Zhao He is not with him is his freedom, Liu Xian naturally will not have an opinion, and it is even more unlikely that he will keep him with his Liu Mansion caravan.
In this way, Zhao He, under the escort of his hundreds of people, hurried across the city again.
There must be a demon when this thing goes wrong, Liu Xian feels that Zhao He's move may be a move against himself. But Liu Xian didn't care too much.
It's just that Liu Xian didn't know that Zhao He was not going to Yecheng at all, but speeding up to Hanoi.
Zhao He was already determined to put Liu Xian to death. He was one step ahead, in fact, to set everything up.
The speed of the Liu Mansion caravan was indeed too slow, Zhao He couldn't wait, and he felt that he couldn't do anything at all if he followed the Liu Mansion caravan. Therefore, he decided to rush to the front of the Liu Mansion caravan first.
He hurried with the caravan of Liufu, and after seeing that there were really bandits and robbers blocking the road, he had a flash of inspiration and thought of a way to seize the goods of Liu Xian's caravan. is even a way to put Liu Xian to death.
What was the emperor's purpose in summoning Liu Xian to the capital? Isn't it just to put Liu Xian to death? And now, Liu Xian took the caravan of Liu Mansion into Beijing together, but it gave him an excuse to destroy Liu Xian.
That is to mobilize soldiers and horses, in the name of plundering the caravan of Liu's mansion, seized Liu Xian's goods, and killed Liu Xian by the way. Of course, he only needs to let the mobilized soldiers and horses do it in the name of bandits and bandits.
Liu Xian died at the hands of bandits and bandits, so no one could say anything, and it would not be contacted that the emperor wanted to put Liu Xian to death.
In this way, Zhao He felt that he might also be able to please the emperor because of this, and when the time came, his status in the palace would be further enhanced, even if it was not as good as the ten permanent servants who now controlled the government, but I believe that it would not be too different.
The Taishou in other places in Jizhou does not have a good relationship with him, but the Taishou in Hanoi has a close relationship with him.
Zhao He planned to transfer the officers and soldiers of Hanoi and turn them into bandits.