What's different? He Li's words made Cao Yi's face show a puzzled expression, and then his pupils suddenly contracted sharply, and he suddenly thought of a person, it is possible that the person He Li saw last night was the one who killed Zuo Gao in the first place.

"Although the man's face was covered, I could see his long curly brown hair, and the man's eyes were different, whether they seemed to be cyan or blue."

"Blonde!?" Cao Yi blurted out.

He Li recalled for a moment, and said with a smile: "Cao Gongzi is really a cultural person, and in just four words, he describes that person's special outfit just right, unlike me, I have said so much verbosity, and it is not as good as the image you said Cao Gongzi." ”

Cao Yi showed a wry smile on his face, and secretly thought in his heart, how many blonde and blue-eyed foreigners can you see in your time, the most in the Western Regions is the later Uygurs, Hui and Tibetans, and no matter how far away they are, they have never seen anything else, let alone Russia and European countries, and the real blonde and blue-eyed Yanma over there...... Ahh

"In this way, it is really possible that the person who killed Zuo Gaoao that day, after all, the curly long brown hair was also found in Zuo Gao's room that day!" Cao Yi muttered in a low voice.

"Senior brother, I think it can be basically judged that Zuo Gaoao was killed by the Liu family now!" Fei Haomiao said in a deep voice.

Cao Yi turned to look at Fei Haomiao, waiting for his further explanation.

"Although this is not known by many people, some people from big families in Yangzhou still know that Liu Defa, the head of the Liu family, has always had a blonde and blue-eyed strong man like you said, called Huang Man'er by Liu Defa, a slave warrior bought from the Western Regions! Usually he has been hiding in the shadows, but he will deal with some things under the surface for Liu Defa......"

In this way, it's a high-level thug! Cao Yi was secretly in his heart, groaned for a while, stared at Fei Haomiao with his eyes, and asked, "Senior brother, this Liu Chengze, is he so active?" ”

Fei Haomiao also showed a solemn look on his face, as if he was thinking about how to answer Cao Yi, and after a while, he said slowly: "If it's just Liu Chengze, it's easy to move, if the Liu family must be protected, it's more difficult to ......."

Cao Yi had such a look on his face, paused for a while, and continued to ask, "Is there an umbrella or what?" ”

"Umbrella? What is it? Fei Haomiao asked puzzled.

"It's the people in the officialdom who protect their Liu family!"

"Protection...... Umbrella...... It's to say that you are sheltering them from the wind and rain, junior brother, your description is really appropriate! Fei Haomiao thought for a while and then showed an expression of amazement on his face, and then said: "Their Liu family is actually not simply a rich salt merchant, on the Yangzhou side, Yangzhou General Judge Guo Chao is the umbrella of their officialdom. ”

Cao Yi knows the relationship between the general judgment of a state and the governor of a state, so it seems that the senior brother will indeed be more sensitive! Since the establishment of the general judgment, the prefect of the prefecture has been at odds with the general judgment, and in the face of the person who monitors him, he will report to the emperor at any time, can he see it pleasing to the eye.

"That's not all, because the salt merchants still have to sell the salt to the Bianjing side of the capital, and transport it all the way through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, without salt, it is not possible, and now the prince is responsible for all kinds of forbidden commodities in the imperial court, so the relationship between their Liu family and the prince is also very close!" Fei Haomiao said in a deep voice.

"The prince again?" Cao Yi said with annoyance, why did he clash so much with this prince who had never met before, the previous Shen family was also, Shen Xing also had the support of the prince behind him, and he was in a relationship, why did he come to Yangzhou now, or is it related to this prince, why are his people such a person who has done all the things that have lost his conscience and is full of evil, it seems that this prince is not a good thing, Cao Yi complained frantically in his heart.

"Again!?" Fei Haomiao asked suspiciously.

"Well, when I was in Jiangning, I didn't deal with the sons of the Shen family, the richest man in Jiangning, and drove them to the capital, and they were related to the prince at that time, and they said that they were the prince's people...... I didn't expect to come to Yangzhou, and it was the same! Cao Yi hesitated for a while, but still said it, it was not something that could not be said, even if he didn't say it, with the characters of Shen Xing and Shen Yan, Cao Yi dared to bet that when they felt that the time was ripe, they would definitely come over to find trouble for themselves.

I hope they don't make stupid mistakes, otherwise when their power matures, no matter who is the prince behind you or who, they will be able to fight correctly. If the prince provokes himself, hum!

Cao Yi crossed over from modern times, I don't know how many time-traveling dramas and crossings I have watched, what prince will Xiangning have a kind of saying that there is no need for others to instill it at all, in Cao Yi's opinion, the prince's father Zhao Er's position is not right, and this Dayan founding emperor Zhao Da, not to mention, was taken from the hands of orphans and widows, and it is even more unjustifiable.

Cao Yi's own idea has already made the Taibai Chamber of Commerce bigger, covering the current Hexi Corridor, that is, the territory where the country of Western Xia is located, there are some branches of the Han nationality there, and there are enough war horses there, and it is a strategic location. It's really not good, Cao Yi himself took the people from the Taibai secret camp to go over there to claim the king and hegemony, you Yan Dynasty can't defend the country, Lao Tzu will guard it himself, and even when the time is ripe, it's not impossible to take people and horses to Liao, to Jurchen, Mongolia, Dali, and Tubo. Of course, these things are still a bit far away for Cao Yi at present, and he has only opened the Taibai Chamber of Commerce to Yangzhou so far, which is only the second city.

There were only five hundred people in the Taibai secret camp before, and now it is estimated that there are one or two thousand people, but they are still soldiers, and they don't even have a look, let alone pull them out to fight, but at least, the earliest batch of five hundred people is definitely elite, after all, even Uncle Wang and Yun Qing are full of praise for these five hundred people, and their combat power is comparable to the previous Molin Army's own soldiers, but this is just Cao Yi through modern training methods, training for less than a year, and already has such combat power, so many years of training, Or give Cao Yi a little more time and train a few thousand more people, at least then he can still occupy a piece of his own territory in the Hexi Corridor.

Fei Haomiao smiled bitterly and looked at his junior brother, this junior brother is good at everything, but he is too good, which leads to being always envied or hated by others, but after all, he is a mediocre talent who is not envied by others, and he is a genius like his junior brother, who is born a demon, and it is also appropriate to have so many enemies at present. It's just that according to the looks and talents of his junior brother, there should be many women like his junior sister in the future, so in this way, I am afraid that there will be more and more enemies of my junior brother in the future......

Fei Haomiao shook his head, shook off the messy thoughts in his heart, and said to Cao Yi solemnly: "Senior brother, I told you before that their Liu family is not simply a rich salt merchant, in addition to having a relationship with the prince, their family also has an identity, that is, the four major families of the salt gang. ”

"The Salt Gang? The Four Great Families? Cao Yi asked in a low voice with puzzlement and doubt.

"It's the Salt Gang, since the millennium ago when selling salt and transporting salt, the Salt Gang actually existed, but at the beginning it was only a loose alliance, and later because of the world's strife and war, the salt merchants were attacked and plundered by warlords and armed forces around the country on the way to the salt, and later they were in the Wuhu Chaos period, when the four largest salt merchants established the Salt Gang, that is, the current Salt Gang Four families, they advanced and retreated together, using their rich money to form armed forces, but they were not interested in the world's competition, They only want to earn more wealth, so the salt gang only forms a force to ensure the safety of their own salt transportation and salt sellers, and it has always been hidden under the surface, so it is neither like the army, nor like other gangs, it has always been hidden in historical documents......"

Cao Yi's face was heavy, if he said what his senior brother said, the power of the Salt Gang did not seem to be ordinary...... Then his heart moved: "Senior brother, if there is a salt gang, is there also a Cao gang?" ”

Fei Haomiao looked at Cao Yi in surprise, nodded and said: "Yes, and the power is on par with the Salt Gang, but there is no money in the Salt Gang, and the Salt Gang only transports salt for themselves, but the Cao Gang is responsible for all the Cao Yun, it is precisely because of the many things that are transported, so all kinds of characters in the three sects and nine streams have contact, and they will absorb all kinds of characters, although the number of people has always been much more than the Salt Gang, but in terms of cohesion, it is not as good as the Salt Gang, which is only in power by the four major families and managed in the form of a family......"

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