There is only one conclusion, some people are absorbing the national strength of this country for personal interests, to resist the rule of Zhou Qing, and these national forces are the basis for Baili Yu to use to conquer the barbarians in the north and establish the ideal country of "unification of nine continents". He had to dig this man up! Fortunately, he had a fairly reliable ally, a man who had accurate information on the flow of money and goods in the Eastern Continent. This person is, of course, Jiang Di.

During these months, Jiang Di gathered the best account offices and arithmetic scholars of the Jiang clan in Wanzhou, and used his personal research of the "son-mother to yuan arithmetic" to calculate the total amount of transactions and the amount of goods and goods of the Eastern Continent vassal states in the past few years in the Jiang clan's scroll hall. The amount of calculations was so appalling that it exceeded the limits of manpower, and every day there were arithmetic scientists who fell ill due to exhaustion, and even fell ill and finally died, and a total of seventeen arithmeticians who could be called masters died in this calculation.

There were also academic reasons why these arithmetic masters were willing to serve Jiang until their deaths, and during this period, almost all the arithmetic scholars in Wanzhou gathered under the banner of Jiang, and made every effort to research new algorithms and overcome arithmetic difficulties to ensure that this impossible figure was completed on time. Almost every day, optimized algorithms are put into use, and for the masters of arithmetic, this is a rare opportunity for their lives, and their lives need to burn, even if the oil runs out, and they are satisfied to see a glorious eruption of the mountain of arithmetic.

In the end, Jiang's arithmetic scientists derived the algorithm of "Tianyao Jiuxi Algorithm" that ordinary people look like the book of heaven, which can solve a set of nine-element equations at a time, and later generations continue to study this set of algorithms, and in the middle of the Shang Dynasty, just the book of analyzing this algorithm can fill a wall of bookshelves in the "Ancient Mirror Palace" of the Great Shang Official's collection of books, and this set of algorithms has been studied and put into application within a month, which shows that under the pressure of Jiang Di, Jiang's arithmeticians are really crazy, and there are geniuses in madmen. Some academic problems that could not be solved in the past few decades have been solved. In the past few months, the great development of continental arithmetic in the Middle East has almost exceeded the accumulation of nearly 100 years in the past century, which can be regarded as an unexpected gain. Jiang Di lived up to his allies, and the final calculations were delivered to the imperial capital, Zhou Qing and Bai Liyu's table on time. The calculation results showed everything, Bai Li Yu completely compared the strength of his and the enemy, and clearly saw the flow of the huge wealth that was embezzled.

He wants to kill a man to calm the world, and he has found this man. Baili Yu locked his target - Zhisu Temple Ping Zhun Order, Qingwang, Zhou Li. "Emperor Master" Baili Yu is a person who has never killed ants, and every time he makes a move, he has to cut off a very noble head. In March of the fourth year of Zhenyuan, according to the transaction records of the Jiang family in Wanzhou at that time, Jiang Di had transferred all the liquidity that could be mobilized to the imperial capital to support his emperor friends, and began to sell some properties under the Jiang family's name. With the wealth of the Jiang family in Wanzhou, it was not a problem to raise the royal family for a few years, but the trouble was that the huge assets of the Jiang family were difficult to suddenly convert into gold baht. Jiang's golden ticket passes through the entire Eastern Continent, and Jiang's ticket number is also the most important business. And the ticket number cannot be sold, and no one can afford it.

At this time, it is not a question of whether Jiang Di wants to save the emperor, but whether the emperor wants to save him. No matter how righteous he is, he can't find much gold baht in the pockets of a generation of super-rich "Yuntian Yike". In this case, it should be Jiang Di's suggestion, Zhou Qing and Bai Liyu considered opening up all the merchants in the ten cities of Wanzhou. If a Jiang clan can't afford to raise the imperial capital, the entire Wanzhou is still okay. On the third day of the fourth month of the fourth year of the North Departure, Zhou Qing finally stepped out of the secret meeting hall of the imperial party, and entertained the envoys sent by various countries to cry poverty in the Taiqing Pavilion. The envoys were surprised to find that their efforts to cry poor were completely useless, this time the emperor came to comfort them, Zhou Qing clearly told them that he had understood their hardships, and knew that the princes' treasury was also very difficult, but what to do?

The army still has to be raised, the imperial capital can only be settled by spending money, and the Northern Barbarians can only be pacified by spending money, so the princes can borrow money to pay the sect tax and slowly repay it later. The princes and envoys looked at each other, who could afford to lend money to the kings of the Eastern Continent? Zhou Qing gave the answer - Wanzhou businessman. Jiang Di's inference was very accurate, and the merchants looked forward to lending money to the emperor and the princes, although they did not hesitate. There is no merchant who does not want to accept the powerful, and there is a guarantee of repayment of loans guaranteed by the state. However, the premise is that it must be guaranteed by the royal family, and the joint loan of all the princes, otherwise it is difficult for a single prince and a wealthy merchant to have a say in the repayment of the loan transaction, and it is difficult for the wealthy merchant to find a mediator and arbitrator if necessary. Therefore, the merchants held a huge amount of money in their hands and watched this huge opportunity, and some of them even expected that the money would be used for the Northern Expedition and open up a huge business opportunity for the unification of Kyushu. All at once it seemed that all the problems had been solved, and it seemed that the emperor, Bai Li Yu, and the cadres of the imperial party were all elated, and the envoys of the countries who had not yet figured out the situation could only express their joy and gratitude.

So the emperor ordered the big cup to drink, directly in the Taiqing Lord roasted the pig and sheep, the singers and girls sang and danced, drank to the hearty place and inscribed poems to each other, echoing the singing and singing, the text is extremely high-sounding, the future of the emperor is bright. The next day, the envoys who sobered up each received an edict, telling them to bring it back and contact their lord as soon as possible, and prepare to set off to participate in the "Wanzhou Yishang Sect Tax Special Loan Conference" held in Huai'an, Wanzhou on July 15, the fourth year of Zhenyuan.

Only then did the envoys find themselves on a thief ship, and they could not help but participate in this special tax loan meeting that they did not know how to organize. The ancestral hall party shook again. The Maison's system was running at high speed, gathering information for urgent discussions, and they had to make decisions as soon as possible. If Zhou Qing gets the money, he will also get the support of the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce, and it will be easy to solve the problem of the mutiny of the Yulin Heavenly Army, and no one will be able to stop his chariot from now on. The person who stood at the front desk and was in charge of the operation received the decision, and the person behind the scenes only put forward a response plan, this time the special loan meeting in Huai'an, Wanzhou, the royal family representative was led by Qingwang Zhouzhi. Zhou Qing couldn't resist this proposal, first of all, King Qing, who was the order of the Zhisu Temple, was indeed an official who had always been responsible for collecting taxes from the princes, and the existing information after Ye Cheng's death could not grasp the handle of King Qing at all; Secondly, King Qing has arrived in Huai'an, Wanzhou, and Zhou Lizhi, who has traveled to various countries, happened to be in Huai'an to inspect the salt and iron tax like heavenly help at this time, and it was really difficult for him not to be the head of the mission. The cadres of the Imperial Party were once again sniped by the old guys of the Ancestral Party, Wanzhou is the territory of the Great Zhou, but it has actually escaped the control of the royal family.

Anything can happen in Wanzhou, where the majesty of the emperor has no absolute effect. If the head of the mission was Qingwang, then what would he do in Huai'an? Jiang Di at the venue was no longer enough to order the Ten Cities Chamber of Commerce, let alone fight. No one can solve this problem, and none of Zhou Qing's generals can deal with such a complicated situation. It was an unusually silent meeting, and at the end, Bai Li Yu stood up, and his proposal surprised all the members of the Imperial Party, he wanted to obtain Zhou Qing's full authority to take all cheap actions without asking Zhou Qing for instructions, and then he was to organize himself into this mission to observe the largest official and business transactions and economic negotiations in the Eastern Continent. Baili Yu obtained Zhou Qing's authorization as he wished, because Zhou Qing had no choice. Bai Li Yu asked to bring Ye Wang with the mission, and Zhou Qing completely agreed, in the free city of Huai'an, Wanzhou, a warrior who was invincible to thousands of troops was necessary to protect Bai Li Yu's safety.

But what Zhou Qing didn't know was that Bai Liyu, the mastermind behind the scenes, decided to fight in person because he had already made a determination that he could not inform anyone in advance. His decision was that the Qingwang's journey around the world would end in the beautiful and rich city of Huai'an! If the Qingwang wins, what will be ended is Baili Yu's life and ancient deeds. At this time, neither Ye Wang nor Bai Liyu suspected that Ye Cheng's death and the huge case of the royal treasury were manipulated by King Qing, who was waiting for this opportunity to turn the tables, and he had already waited too hard. For Baili Yu, he began to regret that he didn't kill this tricky enemy on a rainy night in the Taiqing Palace at that time, so that it would remain until today to become a scourge that can subvert the political situation.

It was a mistake, and now he's going to make up for it! This mistake has stopped him from stepping on the iron hooves of the North Continent, which is absolutely intolerable for a power gambler like Bai Li Yu who reigns over the world like an emperor. As for Ye Wang, Baili Yu chose him for only one reason, for Ye Wang, it was a perfect opportunity for revenge! Baili Yu and Ye Wang entered Wanzhou Town in May of the fourth year, and a small delegation went to Huai'an, nominally to bring the appointment edict and give assistance to the real envoy Qingwang Zhou Li, but the wind and rain of the imperial capital had already spread to the ground, and even people who were not very keen on smell could see that this was the imperial party's manpower used to control Qingwang.

In the list of missions, there are three people targeted by the ancestral hall party - Lin Fangye, Ye Wang and Baili Yu. Lin Fangye, Zhou Qing's earliest follower, the son of a tooth merchant, is now in charge of the city division where Zhou Qing stayed back then, a rare person in the imperial party who is proficient in commercial affairs, in the eyes of the ancestral party, this person's threat is far from being comparable to the group of stunned young people who can only fight in Xuantian Pavilion. Ye Wang, the new head of the Ji family, a thorn in the side of the ancestral hall, when he learned from Baili Yu that Qingwang was the mastermind behind Ye Cheng's suicide, Ye Wang's target was tightly locked on Qingwang. And what made the envoys and important ministers incomprehensible was Bai Liyu, the titular deputy head of the mission.

As Li Zesi's protégé, Bai Li Yu maintained the same mystery and low profile as his teacher before this, but being sent by Zhou Qing at this juncture made it impossible for anyone to underestimate his existence. Among them, of course, it also includes the Qingwang Zhou Li. Ye Wang's arrival had already made him secretly a little nervous, and Bai Liyu, a mysterious guy, made him instinctively feel dangerous. The ancestral hall party is not easy to deal with, in Tian Yuan's intelligence network is intertwined, and the rumors about the night of the Greedy Cup Pavilion have also reached Zhou Li's ears through some channels, and he knows that the cold young man has a thunderous method. Of course, Zhou Lizhi is not a weak hand, otherwise he would not have been able to live until now, on the battlefield of business and politics, he has absolute self-confidence, and he decided to strike first.

On May 17 of the fourth year of Zhenyuan, Zhang Zhong, the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple of the Tang Kingdom, and several servants and guards were found dead in the post house by the Xijiang River. The tragedy of the death quickly spread all over the streets and alleys of Huai'an. The envoys of a country were brutally killed in Huai'an, which shook the entire Wanzhou, but Jiang Di was secretly complaining, this assassination was obviously targeted, and as soon as he made a move, he was looking for the powerful Tang State, which could be said to have been mad to a certain extent. At this time, the city lords of the ten cities and the envoys of various countries have the intention of leaving Huai'an to avoid trouble, and the people in the city are also unstable in the city.

While Jiang Di felt the pressure of the mountain, Baili Yu was facing a direct threat. After Baili Yu entered Huai'an, he did not directly meet with King Qing, nor did he note the lord of Pingguo, but first lived in the Yunsheng Inn next to the Huai'an Mansion. Suddenly, there was a loud crowd downstairs, and Lin Fang peeked through the window, but found that more than 100 soldiers and horses had surrounded the Yunsheng Inn. Ye Wang stood alone at the top of the stairs, with the momentum of being a man and not opening it, and the soldiers downstairs did not dare to go up, so they had to confront Ye Wang in a circle. At this time, someone arrived in a hurry, and even called for a misunderstanding, and ordered all the soldiers to retreat. Ye Wang recognized the person as Li Jinglong, one of the main funders behind Xuantian Pavilion.

Because when Emperor Wu of Zhou Qing ascended the throne, in order to thank Li Jinglong for his funding, Li Jinglong entered Tianyuan, and was unprecedentedly allowed to watch the ceremony as a friend of the Son of Heaven. During Li Jingrong's stay in Tianyuan, the four of Tianxuan spent a few days with him, and they were very familiar with each other. It turned out that in the name of the assassination of the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple in Huai'an, the Tang State sent 10,000 troops to Huai'an, and asked the lord of Qingshi City to leave Xunye to borrow a road, and Lixunye rejected Tang's request with an agreement on the common defense of ten cities. Under the consultation, the three armies of the Tang State unloaded their armor and camped on the spot, limiting Huai'an to solve the murder case and arrest the murderer within 10 days, otherwise they would have to fight each other, step on the bluestone, and then go down the Xijiang River to Huai'an. Xiao Xunye then passed a letter to Huai'an and Qinyang of the content of the agreement, asking Huai'an to solve the murder within ten days, and asked Qinyang to send soldiers and horses to Qingshi to assist in defense.

Jiang Di did not dare to slack off when he received the letter, and ordered Li Jinglong to take full charge of the investigation matters. Li Jingrong soon discovered that although Zhang Zhong had suffered numerous knife wounds, he was covering up the fatal blow - a huge blood hole in his chest, and only an extremely sharp and ferocious spear technique could cause such a terrible wound. Therefore, the city defense of Huai'an was like a great enemy, and anyone who saw anyone carrying a spear was immediately seized and interrogated. And Ye Wang's spear was very conspicuous, they stayed on the front foot, and the innkeeper sent a fast-legged guy to the Huai'an Commercial Office to report on the soldiers and horses on the back foot. Liu Haitao, the deputy envoy of Huai'an's soldiers and horses, hurriedly ordered 500 city soldiers to arrest him. At that time, Li Jinglong was dispatching soldiers and horses with Feng Gu, the envoy of soldiers and horses, to assist in the defense of Qingshi, and when he heard the news, Pegasus immediately rushed to take the town. I didn't expect to see the old man as soon as I entered the inn.

So he stepped forward to relieve Ye Wang. Li Jinglong sent his soldiers and horses back and greeted Ye Wang. Baili Yu was also inconvenient to continue to hide at this time, so he invited Li Jinglong upstairs to meet, only saying that he was here to assist Qingwang to attend the meeting, so as to facilitate the success of this tax special loan meeting. Li Jinglong is also a very smart person, if he said that Baili Yu wanted to make a concerted effort, he was convinced, but if it was to cooperate with Qingwang, he would first discount it in his heart. When Bai Li Yu said this, he also asked Li Jinglong to take him to visit King Qing and settle the mission matters. He also pointed out that he would meet with the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce at the same time, and Li Jinglong naturally complied with them one by one.

In the afternoon of the same day, in the annex of Ping Guogong, Qingwang and Baili Yu had their first official meeting. Baili Yu has a holy decree, although the green king is rebellious, he has to bow his head to receive the decree. The holy decree itself is Baili Yu's substitution, on the surface, Bai Li Yu came to assist the Qing King, but the secret meaning is to put the Qing King and Bai Li Yu in at least a considerable position. After reading the holy decree, Baili Yu stepped forward to salute Zhou Li, and at this moment both sides remained polite. Representatives of other chambers of commerce also came to greet them, most of them were extremely shrewd businessmen, and even if they saw that there was a different sign in the emperor's mission, they did not dare to offend either side, but they were just a general envelope. Baili Yu was also noncommittal, but just kept these people's performances in mind one by one.

King Qing invited Bai Li Yu and his party to live temporarily in the annex of Ping Guogong, but Bai Li Yu just declined and went to Li Jinglong's mansion instead. This broke the face of the Qing King again, although Baili Yu was scheming, but there was some shadow of Qin Tianjian in his thinking. But this is not just to confront Qingwang, Baili Yu arranged some joints between Lin Fangye and Li Jinglong overnight, and these things did not reveal their sinister nature until the end. On the second day, since the mission had already gathered, they took Zhou Qing's talisman and went to Pingguo's father-in-law Luo Jianyi under the leadership of King Qing to officially meet the ceremony. Although Zhou Lizhi has already made a contract with the Duke of the Kingdom, he is not the head of the imperial legation, but this time he met officially.

Luo Jianyi, the monarch of Pingguo, was forty-seven years old at the time, and because of proper maintenance, he looked like he was thirty-seven or eighteen years old. Perhaps because the power in his hands is shrinking, Luo Jianyi has lost the aristocratic spirit of the king and grandson, and replaced it with a humble gentleman. He was not only respectful and courteous to Qingwang, but also very polite to Baili Yu. Luo Jianyi held a grand banquet, and all the senior officials of Pingguo and Huai'an businessmen and celebrities were present to feast on the feast. The next day, Bai Liyu and his entourage rushed with Li Jinglong to the mortuary for an autopsy. The bodies of the Tang envoys have been sent back to the Tang State for burial in the starry night, and only three bodies of the reception officials of the Huai'an Chamber of Commerce remain. The deceased was pierced through the chest with sharp objects, the wounds penetrated the chest, the diameter of the piercing entrance was more than two inches, and the puncture exit was less than an inch, and the ribs, heart and lungs were almost strangled out.

He said that based on his twenty years of experience, he deduced that the wound was caused by the spear passing through the chest, so he went around the city to hunt and check the man who carried the spear. Lin Fangye was busy arguing for Ye Wang, saying that Ye Wang's spear peak was only one inch, and the piercing of the wound was more than two inches, which showed that the murderer was not Ye Wang. Ye Wang, who had been silent, suddenly interjected, if you use the circle strength of the spear technique, that is, let the spear rotate at high speed, the circle strength plus the power of the stabbing can be broken with one shot, let alone a living person. So Li Jinglong found a death row prisoner, issued weapons and armor, and promised that if he could take Ye Wang's shot, he would be released on the spot. Ye Wang acted above board, and with one shot, the death row prisoner was killed instantly, and the wounds on his body even exceeded those on the Tang envoys. Lin Fangye secretly scolded Ye Wang in his heart for being brainless and not knowing how to be flexible, isn't this his guilt. However, Baili Yu came to another conclusion, if the deceased died of circle strength, the spear was heated by friction when it penetrated the chest, and the blood veins near the wound should be relaxed; The wound in front of him, the surrounding skin is slightly purple and blue, the blood veins are contracted, and the body is passing through, which should be a strange cold thing, so it is inferred that the cause of death is the ice pick passing through the body, so the murderer should be a secret warlock who is good at the secret art of the seal pool. cleared Ye Wang's suspicion in one fell swoop.

Back at Li Jinglong's mansion, the family was already in a mess. It turned out that the Jiang family sent the big housekeeper Jiang Ping to pass the word, asking Li Jingrong to take Bai Liyu and his party to the Jiang family immediately to discuss matters, and they had been waiting for half a time. Bai Liyu and his entourage hurried to Jiang's house, and it turned out that the Chu Weiguo delegation had all been killed last night. Since the death of the envoy of the Tang Kingdom, Jiang Di has sent city soldiers to guard the places where the envoys and secret envoys of various countries stayed, one is to monitor his whereabouts, and the other is to protect his safety. When the Chu State delegation was killed, the more than 100 soldiers who were on duty last night were all unaware. At this time, the envoys of various countries were already panicking, although they tried their best to block the news, but they believed that the news of death would reach the Chu State within two days. Baili Yu knew that Jiang Di meant to ask Tian Yuan to mediate in order to ease the situation, but at this time, Chu Nai was one of the two vassal states that most actively supported the Northern Expedition, and he was also the leader of the Gongwei Imperial Capital, so Tian Yuan relied on him very much.

Tian Yuan's mediation at this time was tantamount to giving the Chu State the opportunity to blackmail Tian Yuan and the Chamber of Commerce. In the end, Bai Liyu decided to contact the envoys of the vassal states and the lords of the cities while assisting Li Jinglong in detecting the murderer. The two decided that no matter whether they were ministers or secret envoys of various countries, they would directly expose their identities and forcibly move them to the Chamber of Commerce Post to send troops to protect them. For a while, the envoys of various countries and the lords of the cities who came one after another gathered together, and the scene was very embarrassing. At this time, the Qingwang was still free to enter and exit the Pingguo Annex, and there were no restrictions, some people thought that this was a special courtesy to the Qingwang, but some people felt that Baili Yu was deliberately reducing the protection of Zhou Li. Due to the successive assassinations of the ministers, the first meeting of the Chamber of Commerce City Lords Conference was forced to be held early. As to whether to support Emperor Wu of Zhou's Northern Expedition, the city lords were inconsistent.

Li Jinglong's life Long before he met Zhou Qing, Baili Yu laid out a chess piece in the Chamber of Commerce. Li Jinglong comes from a family of lawyers, and his family has a long history, even dating back to the middle of the Shang Dynasty. Since the beginning of the dynasties, the Li family has held countless important positions in institutions such as Dali Temple and Tingweifu, and has often participated in the compilation of legal classics in previous dynasties. Since the Zhou Dynasty, the Li family has gradually declined, and by the generation of Li Jinglong's father, there is no longer any official position. Li Jinglong is the eldest son of the Li family, elegant and handsome, well-versed in the law, and is the hope of reviving the Li family. For unknown reasons, Li Jinglong suddenly ran away from home when he was eighteen years old and was never heard from. A few years later, Li Jinglong's father was critically ill, and Li Jinglong suddenly returned home and vowed in front of his father's bed that he would eventually restore the glory of the Li family. At the same time, Li Jinglong brought back a lot of rare treasures, if it weren't for these treasures, the Li family would have almost no money to collect his father.

According to legend, the Shang Dynasty reached the peak of the pre-Zhou period in both material and spiritual civilization. The great flood of the Han Dynasty destroyed the entire Shang Dynasty almost instantly, and there are very few written materials left behind, so that the history before the Han Dynasty is almost empty except for the songs and poems passed down by word of mouth. Legend has it that the Shang Dynasty's laws were beautiful and precise, and the idea was far-reaching, and the two laws of ritual and punishment were cast into bronze pillars twice, standing on the top of the mountain in the center of Kyushu at that time, in order to publicize the world. By comparing the map of ancient Kyushu with the map of Kyushu today, Li Jinglong deduced that the pillar was cast in the early Shang Dynasty, and the center of the continent as known to mankind at that time should be in present-day Yunzhou. The Pillar of Punishment was erected in the middle of the Shang Dynasty, when the territory of the Chinese people was expanded compared with the early Shang Dynasty, so the Pillar of Punishment should have been located in the Chuyan Sea, because it stood on the top of the mountain, it may not have been buried at the bottom of the sea with the flood.

Under the guidance of Baili Yu, Li Jinglong dug more than ten ancestral tombs in a row, and unearthed a number of gold and silver treasures and several chapters of commercial law. So he dedicated the fragment of the Shang Law to Tingwei, and asked Tingwei to show Emperor Ren that he was willing to go to sea to explore the two pillars, and Emperor Ren had always liked these anecdotes, so he readily promised that it was a bribe; He bribed the internal supervisor with rare treasures, and mixed into the palace to privately meet Concubine Yu, who was born in the Jiang family of the Huai'an giant, and Concubine Yu repaired a letter and strongly recommended Li Jinglong in front of his mother's family, Li Jinglong promised that the channel he explored would be shared by the Jiang family, so he obtained the financial support of the Jiang family, which was a bribe; In the end, he bribed the officials of the city with gold and silver treasures, which was a bribe for gold. But Li Jinglong has another plan in his heart, and the so-called exploration of Erzhu is just his excuse. Li Jinglong ran away from home in his early years, just to yearn for life at sea, went to sea with merchant ships for several years, and has been doing a half-businessman and half-thief business, Li Jinglong knew that there was a lot of oil and water to be made, so he did his best, even at the expense of digging his ancestral grave, stealing the burial goods of his ancestors to give away, all in order to obtain a precious permit to go to sea.

Later, when Li Jinglong discovered the two pillars of the torture ceremony, he "incidentally" opened up the eastern route to the western continent, and became the first Donglu person to set foot in Leizhou after the great plague of Leizhou for 1,500 years. Li Jinglong found more business opportunities in the coastal plains of the Western Continent. At that time, the phenomenon of land annexation by the vassal states was very serious, and there were a large number of idle peasants who had lost their land in various parts of Kyushu, and because there had been no war for more than 100 years, the population of the eastern land had exceeded the limit of what they could support.

Emperor Ren then set up a county in Leizhou and allowed the people to move to Leizhou to farm, and Li Jinglong became the shipper designated by the imperial court during this great migration. However, within a few years, Li Jinglong joined the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce with a net worth second only to the city lord of the ten cities. Baili Yu originally only planned to build a bridge with the Jiang family, but the thin seed had to be harvested widely, and Li Jinglong became an important economic pillar of Xuantian Pavilion. The success of this chess piece is even far beyond his imagination. In the eyes of the people of the Eastern Continent, the two states of Leiyun are a barren and barren land, and the sea route is difficult, especially in the western section of the Chuyan Sea, where reefs and whirlpools are dense, and pirates occupy the northern islands as strongholds, which has always been regarded as the road of death, and ordinary ships are reluctant to approach. There are rumors that Li Jinglong was a pirate in his early years, and he spent several years on a pirate ship, knowing the "safe passage" that only pirates know.

However, these "safe passages" are also full of dangerous routes, but it is difficult to explain why Li Jinglong's fleet has survived years of wind and rain, and has not been damaged in and out of the treacherous environment, not even major accidents, compared with the frequent news of ship destruction and death from other caravans, it is simply a miracle. Even when Li Jingrong was still alive, there were many good people who were either out of curiosity or hired to inquire about the mystery of the Li family's fleet, which was always smooth sailing, to find out the route, and from time to time secretly escort the fleet underwater, so they were able to make a fortune.

Some people even said in a tone that they knew the inside story and said that the Li family had to secretly purchase weapons in various parts of Wanzhou every year. Originally, large families have nursing homes, and there are also road protection businesses, it is not surprising to purchase weapons, the Li family sails on the sea, in order to prevent pirates, it is understandable to prepare more blades, but the Li family said after a drunken account room, most of the weapons purchased by the Li family every year do not know what to do, and this item will have to pay a lot. As if to prove the bookkeeper's words, a sailor in Li Jinglong's fleet also privately told other workers on the dock the secret story that the ship's boxes were thrown into the sea for no reason. Someone secretly counted the Li family's weapons trade, although it was not complete, but even if it was only based on some of the figures, the Li family's weapons replacement rate was indeed too high. Hence the legend again.

The relationship between Pingguo and the Ten Cities Chamber of Commerce Pingguo was once considered the most powerful and courageous country in the history of the Zhou Dynasty. Since the end of the Yu Fei period, the Chamber of Commerce moved into Pingguo, the Pingguo Gong Luo Zhongyan thought that it was an opportunity to strengthen the country, so he vigorously supported the Chamber of Commerce and adopted a series of measures to encourage commerce, such as building official roads, widening rivers, and reducing taxes. Wanzhou's agricultural products and handicrafts were continuously transported to Tianyuan and other vassal states by water and land in exchange for heavy gold and silver. At the same time, Luo Zhongyan believed that governing the country was like governing business, so he promoted some businessmen to serve as officials at all levels, forming a new social class - officials and businessmen.

Initially, these businessmen held mostly economic positions, but then they gradually began to infiltrate the political and cultural aspects. Luo Zhongyan was not completely unaware of this consequence, and it was impossible for him to abandon the family and minister class, which had lasted for hundreds of years, and completely trust the merchants who valued profit over righteousness. From the very beginning, he limited the political practice of merchants by various decrees, but the merchants had another weapon - money, which could do the work for them in areas that they could not penetrate themselves.

In the struggle against the Pingguo regime, the chamber of commerce finally won the victory, Hengyu, Suizhong, Qingshi, Hezhen, Liunan, Tongping, Huai'an, Zhoushui and Qinyang successively declared autonomy (except in the autonomous Lingyun of the Ming State), and successfully forced the Pingguo regime to promulgate a series of decrees such as the "Rectification of Armaments", and obtained the power to legally recruit private soldiers and city soldiers, so as to in fact control the domestic military power. Since Pingguo's economy is basically centered on nine cities, this is tantamount to emptying most of Pingguo's political power. However, there are some areas that the Chamber of Commerce has not dared to touch, and the core area is taxation. Because after all, the Chamber of Commerce still has something to fear, and that is the attitude of Tian Yuan and the other vassal states towards it.

Although the economies of Tian Yuan and the vassal states were more or less dependent on the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce's overthrow of the Ping State regime was still a challenge to the royal power. However, this kind of challenge is beyond the tolerance of Tian Yuan and the vassal states, and what awaits the Chamber of Commerce will be a catastrophe. However, just three years after Emperor Wu of Zhou ascended the throne, this final balance was also broken. As a result of the financial support for Emperor Wu of Zhou's accession to the throne, the Chamber of Commerce was promised to further escalate the Pingguo regime and split the entire tax system in two. The Chamber of Commerce controlled most of the commercial and agricultural taxes, including trade, roads and bridges, customs clearance, field tax, livestock tax, fishing tax, and tea tax, in the name of "collection on behalf of the court", while the Marquis of Ping retained only a small amount of taxes such as tribute taxes that were fully needed for the royal family's life.

The tax collected by the city business associations was divided into 10 parts, with Tian Yuan receiving 30% and Pingguo Hou receiving 20% (most of which was used to maintain the nominal official structure of Pingguo), and the rest was planned by the Chamber of Commerce and used to maintain the city's bureaucracy, urban defense, infrastructure and other expenses. After the special loan meeting was suspended, Qingwang did not stop his offensive, and it was not his style to wait for the opponent to die. In the struggle of the Taiqing Palace, he missed one of the most terrible opponents, and this time he wanted to return it with interest. King Qing clearly knew that now Zhou Qing could still sit firmly on his throne, completely relying on the support of the Jiang family, and the mutiny of the Yulin Army alone could destroy his fragile ruling base, not to mention the ancestral party and ambitious princes who were eyeing him from the sidelines. But what he wanted to do was not only to delay the process of the meeting indefinitely and let Zhou Qing, who had lost support, slowly rot in the Taiqing Palace, but to give a heavy blow and directly send Zhou Qing and his Xuantian Pavilion to the cemetery. Therefore, he firmly targeted Jiang Di, Zhou Qing's staunchest supporter, and he wanted to draw a salary from the bottom of the kettle, so that this pot that was not firmly in place would be shattered on the ground.

The Qing King did not hold the power of the army like Zhou Qing, and having failed once in the Taiqing Palace, he did not have much hope of being promised victory in the same field, so his weapons were more concealed and more deadly - money, ten million gold baht that disappeared out of thin air from the treasury of the Great Zhou Dynasty! It's hard to say how much of the gold baht that disappeared in the treasury went into Qingwang's pocket, and he couldn't swallow two or thirty million gold baht alone, not to mention how many people in the ancestral hall party shared the account, just the layers of people who came into contact with this matter needed a lot of money to buy, and even so, the amount of funds that Qingwang could mobilize was absolutely terrifying. Not only that, but the experience of being in charge of the Zhisu Temple has brought him a wealth of experience, information that even the heads of Wanzhou can't grasp, and subordinates who are proficient in this way, it can be said that Qingwang has chosen the field he is best at as the battlefield to fight an unprecedented victory, and his opponent is the leader of the newly emerging business monster - Jiang Di, the head of the Jiang family. The Jiang family would not be an easy opponent to defeat, and their ability to mobilize money in a short period of time in order to support Zhou Qing shocked the entire Donglu. But at the same time, Qingwang has roughly understood the Jiang family's family background by mobilizing the amount of gold baht, and the Jiang family does not know his - this is another advantage of Zhou Lizhi's choice of the mall as a battlefield.

This is a battlefield where the two sides do not have to meet, not only do the main generals not have to appear, but many times they don't even see the other side's soldiers. Not only that, the Jiang family sent to the imperial capital is cash, and the real money is sufficient, although this batch of money is a lot, but it itself does not have a lot of weight in the eyes of the Qingwang, the key is that this is almost all the liquidity that the Jiang family can call. Businessmen will know that the lack of liquidity in the mall can make it difficult to cope with unexpected situations, and only those with potential gamblers will put all their money into a project in a short period of time. Therefore, although the current Jiang family still has many industries under its name, it will only be an opponent with a huge body but clumsy actions, and even, in the eyes of the Qing King, its body may not be large enough. Facing the huge and clumsy Jiang family in his eyes, Qingwang chose a hidden angle for the first sword that had already been laid down - futures.

In addition to investing in various places in Wanzhou, Qingwang chose futures, not without reason. Because according to the regulations of the chamber of commerce in Wanzhou, when futures trading, only half of the price of the goods needs to be delivered as a deposit, so at the same price you can buy twice as much goods as the cash transaction, and the original market has been doubled. The futures market in Wanzhou is not large, and the goods traded are generally limited to grain and livestock, mainly grain, which is a very seasonal commodity, such as silk and jade, which have little price difference throughout the year, will not appear in the futures market. And Qingwang chose an uncommon cargo as his weapon, and the name of this weapon was "pork". As mentioned earlier, grain, as a highly seasonal commodity, is the most common futures trading object, compared to much rarer, but not non-existent, futures trading for livestock, which is largely unaffected by the season.

Qingwang saw this blind spot and began to buy various long-term and short-term futures in the Wanzhou market as early as three years ago, of which pork accounted for a large part. Originally, this was just part of the back road that King Qing had planned for himself: if he couldn't be an emperor, he could at least be a rich man. The Qing King had been operating this income normally, until a respected old man in the ancestral hall began to contact him and hinted that what he had lost would come back one day.