Chen Yizhong thought that his plan was very smooth, and took advantage of the opportunity of the Empress Dowager to stop driving in Fuzhou, so that people intercepted the driver on the way and sent the Book of All People, and shouted injustice outside the Empress Dowager's palace for three consecutive days, saying that the little emperor wantonly slaughtered the former ministers, brutally persecuted the squires and scholars, and confiscated their property and fields. After recovering Jiangnan, he forcibly recruited 300,000 people as soldiers. At the same time, he wasted the country to build cities and weapons, but refused to negotiate peace with the Meng Yuan, so that the people complained, and the scholars and Confucian scholars were terrified.

It is said that Empress Dowager Yang was very angry after receiving the letter of Wanmin, and Lu Xiufu and other ministers could not persuade him to return to the government after returning to Beijing, take back the power of the little emperor to supervise the country, and at the same time dismiss Wen Tianxiang, a minister. And Chen Yizhong has to do more than this, he has arranged manpower in various ports along the way, as long as the queen mother's imperial boat docks, there will be people stopping the sedan chair to shout grievances, in Beijing he is ready to personally go out of the horse, lead everyone to beat the drum, reprimand the little emperor in the main hall, and ask the queen mother to depose the little emperor.

However, everything that Chen Yizhong planned was ruined by Zhao Mengqi, and he was tricked by the little emperor in the main hall, not to mention, the fool also leaked his plan, causing Yao Liangchen and Wei Tianzhong to be grounded, and they were also confined in the mansion. And Zhao Mengqi's clumsy performance among the ministers not only made it difficult to succeed to the throne, but even the identity of the royal family was questioned, and there was no hope without strong help. But it was such an accidental event that made Chen Yizhong fall into passivity, and also caused him to fall into a financial crisis.

At this time, Chen Yizhong deeply realized the importance of money, although he did not have 3,000 customers, there were always 300, although these people came together because of the 'common goal', they needed money to eat, drink, laze and sleep, and they also needed money to inquire about information and buy officials. In addition, there are many people who stop along the way and shout grievances, but there is no money for anyone to take the risk to do a thankless thing. In short, the expenses are huge now, and it is impossible to get by without 1,800 yuan a day, but the financial route has been cut off by the little emperor one by one.

It was at this time that the little emperor issued an edict offering a reward for finding the disc score, and a group of disciples under Chen Yizhong came up with a bold plan. They didn't know where they found out that Chen Qing had a set of disc books hidden in his home, so they wanted to use it to assassinate them, so as to solve the problem once and for all. But Chen Yizhong did not agree with the assassination, because he knew the result after the defeat, you must know that this is no longer something that can be protected by the family law of the ancestors of the Great Song Dynasty, it must be the crime of raiding the family and exterminating the family, even the Queen Mother will not tolerate it.

Now that the situation has become more and more unfavorable for them, those disciples have become impatient. You must know that once the 'revolution' succeeds, they are all heroes, and if they fail, they will also become lost dogs. But now their lives are not much stronger than dogs, so the temptation of glory and wealth is difficult to resist, so they gave Chen Yizhong a prelude and forced him forward.

It should be said that this plan was very thorough, they first controlled the master and servant of the Chen family, forced them to find out the whereabouts of the disc score, and then selected a doorman from the mansion who was similar in figure and appearance to Chen Qing. This person is a person who occupies the city, he has traveled to Southeast Asian countries as a merchant ship escort, and later because he was seriously ill and was rescued by Chen Yizhong and returned to China with him, and the weapon he used was the 'tiger claw' obtained from Tianzhu, which also gave him the nickname of 'Sai Menghu'.

'Sai Menghu' is also a righteous man, and in order to repay the kindness of the past, he knows that it will be difficult to escape from the assassination on the main hall, whether it is successful or not. And he also understands that it is lucky to be killed on the spot, and what is difficult is the torture after being captured. Therefore, in order to avoid torture, he received a guarantee that his family would be treated well, and he took the slow poison before going to the temple to assassinate him. After Chen Yizhong got the assassination, he had already gone to the palace, and it was too late to stop it.

As a result, everyone has seen that now the little emperor is still alive, but the 'Sai Menghu' was caught by mistake, although he put the responsibility on Meng Yuan's head. However, Chen Yizhong still couldn't feel at ease, after all, the dead can shut up forever, and the living can speak at any time, even if he didn't participate in the assassination, who would believe it......

"My lord, I thought that the 'Sai Tiger' was dead, and the little emperor was just playing tricks and leading us to expose!" Just when Chen Yizhong was furious, another person came in from outside.

"Cai Gong is saying that there is fraud in it?" Chen Yizhong glanced at the visitor and said suspiciously. This person can also be regarded as an old minister of the Great Song Dynasty, who once made a general judgment, and then defected to the Xing Dynasty, and then went out with him to occupy the city, just such an inconspicuous little old man showed his talent in a foreign land. He is not only good at planning, but also good at handling the relationship between all parties and taking care of mundane affairs, and gradually becomes his right-hand man. And this return to the country has been relying on him to run around, and he has made suggestions to get to today's situation, and the guests regard it as a 'military advisor'.

"Not bad." Cai Rui stroked his gray beard and said, "The medicine given to Sai Menghu that day was the same pill as the one given to the Chen family's master and servant, they have all died of poison, how can they live alone." And the little emperor is just acting through the mouth of the dead to achieve his own ends. ”

"Gong Cai must know that it is above the palace hall, there is not only the Xinglin Holy Hand in the palace hospital, but the little emperor is also good at medical skills, and he has rescued the dying people several times, maybe they have detoxified them!" Chen Yizhong was still not at ease.

"My lord, it can't be." Cai Rong smiled and said, "I calculated the time on that day, and I personally watched it eat the poison before the book entry began, and it should have had a seizure within a quarter of an hour after the assassination." At that time, the medicinal properties had already attacked, penetrated into the viscera, and if it could be revived unless the gods descended to earth, I concluded that it had already died of poison. ”

"Well, Cai Gong is clever." Chen Yizhong sighed after listening to his analysis, and his heart calmed down a lot, "In this way, the little emperor is taking this opportunity to frame the Mongols in order to refuse the peace negotiation, thus sabotaging our plan. ”

"What the lord said is good, but I think it's not just that, the little emperor wants to find out who is assassinating." Cai Ruiyan said.

"Oh, what do you mean by that?" Chen Yizhong asked puzzled.

"Lord, this time we have planned very carefully, Chen Qing's identity is true, his family collection of discs is also true, and the master and servant have all been extinguished, and the house was burned to the ground, leaving no clues. As long as Sai Menghu dies, all clues will be broken, and this case will be a headless case. Cai Rui said, "The little emperor is really smart enough, he used a plan to kill two birds with one stone, and when he found out that the assassin was dead, he immediately blocked the news, saying that he was still alive and had confessed." One can blame the Mongols; Both can make a real assassin. ”

"How does he fish?" Chen Yizhong asked anxiously.

"If the plotters learn that the Assassin is not dead, they will panic and be busy determining his fate or preparing to kill him. Therefore, as long as we do not move at the moment, there is no way for them to do so, so we must not panic now, but wait and see what happens, and do not fall for its tricks. Cai Rui said.

"Yes, yes, Cai Gong is really Zhigao Zhuge ." Chen Yizhong suddenly felt that the haze in the sky dissipated in an instant, and said with a laugh.

"The lord is just a fan of the authorities, how dare he be a subordinate." Cai Rui returned to Shi Li and said, "Speaking of which, it's still the fault of the subordinates, I didn't expect the little emperor to be so cunning, and he was still quick and wise after the assassination, and calmly laid a trap, I really underestimated him in the past." ”

"Yes, he was only five years old at the time, and I tried to do it several times. Now that it has grown its wings, it is even more difficult to deal with. Chen Yizhong hated the authenticity.

"Don't worry, my lord, although the little ghost took the opportunity to smash the post house of the Mengyuan Mission and wanted to provoke public opinion to reject the peace talks, it may not be a bad thing for us. In this way, Liuhan will be more dependent on the lord, so we can take the opportunity to put forward conditions and not worry about not complying. Cai Rui said with a look of being in control.

"Cai Gong, have you read today's tabloids?" Chen Yizhong listened to it but was no longer happy, took a few tabloids from the bookcase and handed them to Cai Rui with a wry smile.

"This ...... What does this mean, not only did they issue a statement saying that they absolutely did not assassinate the little emperor, but also sent the prince as a hostage to show the sincerity of the peace talks! Cai Rui took the tabloid and read it at a glance, and found that the headlines of each one were this content, and he was not calm, sweating on the tip of his nose.

"The little emperor sent Xu Zongren to the post house after the incident, transferred them to the Tongwen Pavilion, and set up a banquet to suppress the shock, I don't know what they talked about during the banquet, today's attitude has changed greatly, is it because I am afraid!" Chen Yizhong sighed.

"I've been calculated by this little devil again...... Thinking about how arrogant the Mongols were back then, only we sent people hostage, how could they send the prince as a hostage, it seems that the Mongols were really afraid. Cai Rui twitched the corner of his mouth twice when the newspaper was still on the bookcase, and suddenly remembered something urgently, "The lord can't stay here any longer, the little ghost may have discovered us, so we must evacuate!" ”

"What? They found out! Chen Yizhong was taken aback and said.

"I'm not sure yet, but it's best to avoid it." Cai Rui pondered for a moment and said, "One is that Liumengyan betrayed us to the little emperor in order to clarify himself in order to save his life; Both, I thought I said that he wanted to use the dead to fish out the real mastermind, has the lord sent people around to find out the news these days, if he is targeted, it will be over. It's just that I don't know what kind of situation it is at the moment, but I still have to avoid it in case of accidents. ”

"Nowadays, the checks are very tight, and so many of us go out of the city together to be too conspicuous, and we can't help but show our whereabouts. Besides, you're just guessing, so I thought we'd better see. Chen Yizhong frowned and said. In fact, he also wanted to leave, but he had to find a new place to live when he moved again, but now he was too shy to afford to buy a house.

"My lord, it's better to be careful, at least you have to stay away for a while." Cai Rui persuaded again.

"Alas, I didn't expect me to have this day!" Chen Yizhong sighed and said......

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Chen Yizhong was trapped by money, and even life and death were put out of the way. And at this moment, Zhao Yu is not much better, he used to have tens of thousands of yuan in his pocket and felt that life could be better, but now even if the taxes in the treasury are tens of millions of yuan, he still feels that his hand is tight, and every time he approves money, the pen in his hand can be watered. And now it is not yet the time for the summer tax to be put into the treasury, the treasury has bottomed out, and it is all supported by the left treasury to ensure that the craftsmen's workshops and ordnance supervisors that are being built do not stop.

It is said that the Song army now occupies the four provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Huguang and Jiangxi in the south of the Yangtze River, which is the richest place in China at present. Unlike the Mongol conquest of the Jin Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty's conquest of the Southern Song Dynasty did not have a devastating impact on the social economy of the south, and the momentum of economic and cultural development in the south was not interrupted. Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province, which is composed of the original four roads of western Zhejiang, eastern Zhejiang, Jiangdong and Fujian, has jurisdiction over the Yangtze River in the north, Fujian in the south, the sea in the east, and Poyang Lake in the west.

There is a good summary of this Yuanren: Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces regard the provinces as particularly important, with wide land, people, and complicated government affairs, and the number of money valleys is also large, and the imperial court relies on it. Zhao Yu checked the old files of the Mengyuan Dynasty, and the number of money and grain households registered in the household department of this province is more than 12 million, of which nearly 6 million are in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, accounting for nearly half. The number of annual grain in the world totals more than 12 million stones, and there are 4.4 million stones in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, accounting for 30 percent; The three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River received a maximum of 150,000 ingots, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces accounted for one-third, which did not include the amount of money and grain retained by the feudal lords in various places.

But Zhao Yu still felt that it was not enough to spend, and he saw that his left treasury was also shrinking a little bit, and then he built a mausoleum for Emperor Jingyan, issued summer clothes for various armies, and distributed weapons to the new army and the imperial examination that was about to begin, etc., which were not something that could be sent with a few small money. But his biggest way to make money was to take a cut of the illegal salt, but with the recovery of Jiangnan, his salt smuggling business was also unsustainable, and most of the salt barons under the bureau were transferred to the inspection departments of the state capitals, becoming the main force in the investigation of illegal salt.

"Boss, how much money is there in the treasury that can be mobilized?" Zhao Hao thought that it was better to have money in the treasury than money in his pocket, which could be mobilized at any time and at ease, so he summoned Zhuang Shilin to see him.

"Your Majesty, in addition to those treasures, antiques, shops, land, etc., there are still 300,000 taels of gold, more than 6 million taels of silver, 300,000 taels of copper coins and hundreds of thousands of salt banknotes, worth about 12 million guan." Zhuang Shilin silently calculated.

"That's all there is left!" Zhao Hao said in surprise that he remembered that he had nearly 40 million taels of private money when he was in Qiongzhou, which cost more than two-thirds of it in less than a year.

"Your Majesty, this is all well documented, and my subordinates don't dare to act rashly!" Zhuang Shilin looked at the little emperor with a distressed look on his face, and said with a bitter face.

"I don't blame you, but I didn't expect to spend so much little by little, and it won't last long if it goes on like this, we can't sit back and eat nothing, but we have to think about making money!" Zhao Hao touched his chin and said......