When the children and grandchildren of the local wealthy businessmen were successfully redeemed, Zheng Juzhong quickly gained the letter.

On the one hand, he felt that it was a rich businessman's questioning of his problem-solving ability, a denial of his wisdom and a resolute betrayal of him, and he was angry and ashamed of it. On the other hand, he felt a sense of relief from the bottom of his heart, or rather a kind of hope.

How can kidnappers, such a vicious fanatic, be trustworthy?

Then, if the ransom is paid, my family will probably be able to redeem it, and this sudden disaster may be quickly over.

Zheng Juzhong thinks so, it's not that he is naïve.

When people encounter unsolvable problems and fall into unsolvable predicaments, they will have some unrealistic fantasies and luck psychology, which is a kind of spiritual sustenance and comfort under despair. Many times, people rely on this fantasy and luck to get through the predicament.

Zheng Juzhong lives in the capital, and has been playing with a soft knife in his sleeve to kill people in his political career, and has never experienced the sinister of directly and brutally underhanding the black hand, and his essence is a cowardly and incompetent literati, and he is helpless, so how can he make an exception and not have the illusion of a quick escape from the predicament.

Zhao Yue has experienced both democracy and feudal society, and he knows better that it is useless for you to explain the law and reason with corrupt officials and ruffians and evil forces.

The more you argue with him, the more he despises you, and the more he will unscrupulously bully your dignity and infringe on your rights and interests. There is only one most effective and fastest way to deal with this kind of people, to fight back with more ferocious and powerful strength, so that such people become miserable and weak people who are trampled on and are also helpless, and these guys will restrain their ferocity.

Zhao Zhuang has to continue to quietly emigrate, and the dock can't let Zheng Ju and others keep an eye on him; Cangzhao's interests cannot be violated step by step by the self-righteous Zheng Juzhong; Cangzhao Group has too many things to do, and it doesn't have time and so much thought to be dragged and consumed by Zheng Juzhong.

Therefore, after encountering Zheng Juzhong and returning home, Zhao Yue immediately ordered to counterattack by force.

Li Zhu, Liu Wen, one is the head of Zhao Zhuang's armed forces, the other is the head of the spy, strictly controlling the Cangzhou base camp is an important part of their daily work, they have been closely monitoring the affairs of Zheng Juzhong and others, and they have already deduced a variety of countermeasures, but they used to watch Zheng Juzhong play a one-man show coldly, and they didn't use it.

Zhao Yue was annoyed and wanted to teach a lesson to counter Zheng Juzhong, and with an order, the kidnapping plan was immediately and beautifully implemented.

Zheng Juzhong and his accomplices personally made a mess of Fucheng and further facilitated the kidnapping case.

At this point, they are still clueless about the kidnapping case, blind in both eyes, and have endured the pain of paying a huge amount of money, but nothing has been found, which has added more suspicion and worry, and now they are only left with endless shame and fear that cannot be vented in their chests.

In this bad mood, Zheng Juzhong naturally hated the betrayal of those rich businessmen.

This official can't catch the kidnappers, and he can't cure this group of bold strongmen, but he can't cure you businessmen who are rich and unkind.

If you dare to betray your own officials, you must be prepared to pay the price.

Zheng Juzhong immediately ordered people to forcibly summon all the wealthy merchants and the children who were released back to the government for severe interrogation.

From the hasty and messy answers of the wealthy businessman and his children, Zheng Juzhong formed a picture in his mind.

These children were kidnapped and unconscious in various escapes that day, and were put on a sea boat and sent to a small island.

When floating on the sea, a few children with good physique woke up from a coma, blindfolded and tied to see nothing, fortunately they were not stupid, although they were extremely frightened, they did not shout and scream, and continued to pretend to be unconscious, so they overheard some conversations of the kidnappers.

One of the kidnappers asked the captain, "Head, this fat sheep is fat enough." But I heard that the ransom is all over there, and we have no share of the island. People are tied up by us, things are done by us, but the benefits are not our share, why? ”

The captain snorted and scolded, "Confused. You know the. I only see the benefits in front of me. ”

The minions complimented the captain for a while, but they wanted to hear the explanation.

The captain said triumphantly.

"Our king waved his army to attack the state capital, and he is working hard to open up the territory and cut the land in the Song Dynasty, and he wants to vigorously expand the army and strengthen his strength, and he needs military salaries, money and food support. There is no shortage of food and clothing on the island, so naturally we have to give in to the benefits first. ”

However, the minions are all small people who have no overall view and only care about their own interests, and they are still unwilling to get benefits.

The captain scolded again and explained: "Confused. A sucker. ”

"The king wants to overthrow the Great Song Dynasty as the emperor. Even if it can't occupy the entire Great Song Dynasty, at least it must occupy the northern territory and split the Great Song Dynasty with other forces.

With this territory and strength as the foundation, if you want money and money, you want people to have people, and you want to be powerful, our overseas foundation will also have to rely on, and we no longer have to just look at the face of the demon king with low eyebrows. ”

The minions shouted, "That's good." The demon king has taken root overseas early, his strength is greater, and he has to listen to him for any action, and he has to take care of him first for any benefit, and Lao Tzu has already had enough of this bird's anger. ”

The captain said triumphantly: "We have our own country in the Song Dynasty, and our strength is stronger, when the time comes, contact other pirate forces such as Han Chinese, Japanese Kou, and Koreans, and work together to destroy the demon king, and redivide the island territory, our strength is the largest, you say, by that time, how much benefit can we get from these overseas forces?" Well?

There are thousands of islands overseas. Some of us have brains and merits, but I'm afraid that everyone can be the owner of the island. Just thinking about the joy of life can kill a person. really became a fool, regardless of the size of the island he was assigned, he didn't live in vain in this life. ”

"So, raise your damn eyelids, look farther, don't worry about the small profits in front of you. All his mother works hard for the qualifications of the island owner, and if she makes more meritorious contributions, she will have everything. ”

As soon as they said this, the kidnappers on the ship were happy and did not complain that the oil and water of the kidnapping were not their share.

The minions were given guidance and enlightened, and the captain and elder Qi praised him for his knowledge and knowledge.

The captain was even more interested, boasting that he was a son of a family of cultivators and heirlooms, both civil and military. If the Great Song Dynasty was not rotten and would have fallen, he would have gone to participate in the martial arts examination and become a general.

Some minions were curious and asked, "The richest in the Great Song Dynasty is the Cangzhao family, right?" ”

Immediately, a minion answered: "Yes, Cangzhao is so rich, why don't we try to kidnap Cangzhao's children and grandchildren to kill more oil and water?" ”

The captain laughed and scolded: "To say that you are a mallet is really ignorant." ”

"Cangzhao has already boiled into an empty shell, how can there be any money?

I know my own difficulties. They just gritted their teeth and tightened their belts to live an embarrassing life, but their reputation was outside, and people in the world only knew that everyone was the same, and they had no brains to analyze the inside, and they were just envious and greedy. ”

The kidnappers pressed for the reason.

The captain explained, "A few years ago, Cangzhao's ship was intermittently robbed by the Demon King and other pirates. The most profitable ocean-going trade fleet first became our pirate fleet, and ocean-going commodities became the most profitable smuggled goods sold by our pirates to the Great Song Dynasty; Then the ship that took Cangzhao's own goods became our pirates.

Cangzhao paid a lot of money for shipbuilding and buying ships to facilitate trade. A large sea ship is tens of thousands. Their family used to have so many big ships, and the capital accumulated in the early years was all consumed. As a result, we took possession. This directly collapsed most of Cangzhao's financial foundation.

Anyway, Cangzhao sent it. The dog officials of the Great Song Dynasty were red-eyed.

That Marquis Wen Cheng is really a capable and good official, and those powerful ministers and dog officials who can only deal with their own people can only harm the Great Song Dynasty are not all the way, which makes the dog officials who are already greedy for Cangzhao's wealth have more reasons to deal with Cangzhao.

Hehe, first a bullshit prime minister and a big eunuch made calculations, and then they aroused the greed and guts of other bureaucrats.

Cangzhao's family's restaurants and shops all over the country were rectified and closed down by dog officials. The trade route was also cut off by our pirates and the Great Song Dog Officials. Even if it is in stock, it will not be sold smoothly.

The Cangzhao family lost its overseas trade income, and lost the main income of its own goods, and suffered heavy losses, and the foundation of its wealth was almost lost.

But this family is really kind, really admirable, the restaurant and shop closed down, and the guys were unemployed and went home to farm. The master of Cangzhao couldn't bear to treat these loyal and meritorious people who had also made great achievements, and squeezed out money to settle and repay these guys.

Cangzhao has a lot of land, but how much can the land have?

The family is sympathetic to the tenant farmers in the family, the land rent is not high, and when the year is not good, or there is a disaster in any family, not only does not collect the land rent, but also sticks it upside down.

The most interesting thing is that Cangzhao is already so miserable, but even the dog emperor began to stretch out his hand, and he actually disregarded the dignity of the king, nor did he care about his own stability and national plans, and he also thought about the family business of the pillar of the country like Marquis Wencheng. In addition, the conspiracy of the traitors to rectify Cangzhao made Cangzhao even more miserable, forcing Cangzhao to hand over many secret recipes such as papermaking, advanced printing, and advanced agricultural tool manufacturing to the emperor for his own profit.

Cangzhao is so self-defeating and foundational, it is nothing more than being loyal to the country and being loyal to the ancestors, so that the emperor is less suspicious and can give Wencheng the opportunity to do more for the country and the people.

But even so, the Dog Emperor was still not at ease, and he didn't trust the only young and promising minister who could support the Great Song Dynasty to live for a few more years.

The current prefect Zheng Juzhong, that dog thing was sent by the emperor to Cangzhou to continue to rectify and loot Cangzhao.

Tell me, the Great Song Dynasty has such a shameless and stupid dog emperor and the traitors and thieves of the Manchu Dynasty who wantonly scourge the country, can the country not fall?

Brothers, let's unswervingly rebel against the Great Song Dynasty and follow the king. Da Song will be finished sooner or later. Our best days are yet to come. ”

Another minion asked: "Cangzhao only has land left that can't be taken, and it's really not worth grabbing."

But Marquis Wen Cheng is so capable, and he can support the Dog Emperor's country, isn't this a good thing that affects the great cause of our king and delays the brothers?

Why don't we kill Shang Zhao Zhuang and destroy Cangzhao, and want to destroy Wen Chenghou? ”

The captain laughed and said, "It's politics, you don't understand, do you?" ”

"Clean up Wen Chenghou, do you still use us to do it yourself?

The Dog Emperor and those traitors will damage their own strength and cut off their arms, and actively do it for us. Marquis Wencheng only knows how to be loyal, only knows how to serve the country and the people, and sooner or later he will die at the hands of these dog things with the dog emperor. Then it was the turn of the Great Song Dynasty to perish, and the Dog Emperor and the traitors of the Manchu Dynasty were themselves unlucky. ”

"Now we can't deal with Cangzhao, because there is Marquis Wencheng, but it is beneficial to our king."

The kidnappers were curious and asked why.

The captain teased and said: "Da Liao has hundreds of thousands of troops in Yanyunbu. If it weren't for the war with the Jurchens and the fact that many people were sent to fight in the north, the number of troops on the Song border would have been even greater. In the past, when Renzong was in the Dynasty, Renzong was diligent and thrifty, and he also had capable ministers like Pang Ji, Han Qi, and Bao Gong and military gods like Di Qing. On the surface, the two countries were peaceful and friendly, but in fact they were-for-tat, and a major war could break out at any time.

Liao Kou was afraid of the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty, especially of the powerful military gods like General Di Qing, and built a dense walled fortress on the border, with an army of millions of people, and has been strictly guarded against until the generation of the elder brother of the current Dog Emperor.

Now Jin Liao is fighting fiercely and fighting fiercely. The power of the Liao State was greatly damaged, and it was originally a heaven-sent good time for the Great Song Dynasty to take advantage of the situation.

But the dog emperor, a bear-wrapped soft egg, listened to the bad idea of the incompetent old traitor of the old Cai Jing to save money and supply the emperor's squandering, and also felt that the pressure on the northern border was lighter, and not only did not increase the troops to take revenge on the Liao Kou for regaining the heavy losses suffered for so many years, but instead disarmed a large number of people and abandoned their martial arts to show that they had no intention or threat to the Great Liao, and the two countries continued the so-called good-neighborliness and friendship, so that the army in the border key areas such as the Cangbei Fourth Military Prefecture was sharply reduced from 200,000 or 300,000 in the past to less than 100,000 today.

Not to mention attacking Liao, even defending the border was far from enough, forcing Wen Chenghou to desperately reorganize the army to attack and defend, and fiercely counterattack Liao Kou with a tough attitude, wantonly committing border looting year after year.

What would happen without Wen Chenghou blocking in the north?

Liao Kou can't defeat the Jurchens, but they can bully the Great Song Dynasty led by the Dog Emperor and the traitorous ministers, and they will definitely go south to loot and loot to make up for the huge deficit caused by the confrontation against the Jurchens and regain some of their former confidence, dignity and courage.

Cangbei, Cangzhou, and even Shandong in the interior will suffer.

Without the army led by Marquis Wen Cheng to contain a large number of Liao troops on the East Hebei Road, the West Hebei Road in the west would have to bear more military pressure and plunder. As for those armies in the west, which official can lead troops to block the Liao army?

Even if it is a strong army that belongs to one of the six divisions of the Western Army, the Zhejia Army is not good now.

In the past, the children of the Fold family who were brave and good at fighting are now a lot of people but a lot of waste, and some of them are either selfish and greedy, or they have become civilian officials who are not good at military affairs. The area of the town was ravaged by the Liaokou every year in the name of beating the grass valley in the south.

Even the Fold Army can't. Those soldiers in Hejian Mansion, under the leadership of the big turbans who only pay lip service to the people under their rule, are not the opponents of Liaokou.

The army of the Western Route could not stop the Liao Kou from going deep into the territory to plunder, and our hometown would also suffer. This directly threatens the great cause of our king's founding of the country. Our king's power is not strong enough, but he dares to fight but lacks war horses, and he can't deal with the Liaokou cavalry.

So, Marquis Wencheng, we can't kill him. ”

"In other words, although we are pirates, although we are rebelling, we can say with our conscience that Cangzhao Manmen is really a respectable good man and good official. It's a pity that this family is stupid to be loyal to the Dog Emperor, but sooner or later they will be killed by the Dog Emperor. (To be continued.) )