Bingzhou, Gu family, everyone in the world's wealthy families today knows that the Gu family has two hills, one is in Liaodong, and Gu Tianyang of the Gu family in Jiangnan is the head of the Gu family in Liaodong.

The other Gu family is in Bingzhou, and the head of the Gu family is Gu Zhilun, known as Gu Houye. The legend about Gu Zhilun has spread a lot in Lianghe, mainly saying that Gu Zhilun was originally just a small bookseller in Yangzhou, because he met Lu Zheng when he was in Yangzhou by chance, and later Lu Zheng followed all the way from Yangzhou to Jinling, and finally grew from a small bookseller to the richest top businessman in Dakang.

I have to say that Gu Zhilun's life is legendary, and he now controls the trade routes in the north and south of Dakang, and at the same time he is the only legendary businessman who can achieve trade in the current divided Dakang.

It is said that Gu Zhilun now has business in Gyeonggi, in Jiangnan, in Shandong and other places, including Lingnan and Huainan. You must know that the relationship between Lianghe and Gyeonggi is very delicate and sensitive, and the relationship between Lianghe and Shandong is even more tense.

There is even a saying in Lianghe that Lu Zheng's Hanging Mirror Division may not be able to compare with the Shang Jia Army controlled by Gu Zhilun, and it is also a collection of intelligence, and the place where the Hanging Mirror Division cannot reach may be able to reach Gu Zhilun's Shang Jia Army.

Because any place, especially a prosperous place, those wine shops, chicken houses, teahouses, bookstores have unimaginable flow of people, and those places have Gu Zhilun's tentacles.

Don't talk about other places, let's just say Jinling in Jiangnan, there is Gu Zhilun's place of fortune, his layout in Jinling is very far-reaching, Jiangnan has changed hands countless times, and when he arrived at Long Zhaohuan, Long Zhaohuan made up his mind to cut off Lu Zheng and purge Lu Zheng's forces in Jiangnan over and over again, it is obvious that Long Zhaohuan did this to make Lu Zheng no longer influential in Jiangnan.

However, no matter how Long Zhaohuan cleared it, he still couldn't make the Gu family's business clear, the entire Jinling, especially the place in Liuhe, that piece of land was still the Gu family's business, and Gu Zhilun still firmly controlled that side of the world.

"Lord Hou, just came from Lianghe, saying that someone vigorously slandered the prince in front of the prince, saying that the prince is the cancer of Dakang, for his own selfish interests, in the fish and meat township, he violated the law and violated the law, and regarded the Dakang law as child's play!

Also, some people say that Hou Ye has been building a lot of construction in Bingzhou in recent years, working hard and hurting money, arrogant and lascivious, they asked the prince to strictly investigate the powerful and wealthy families, saying that the scourge of the powerful lords has harmed Dakang, and now they want to harm the prince, in this case, Hou Ye, you can't help but guard against it! "The strategist reported the information from Lianghe to Gu Zhilun very seriously.

Gu Zhilun squinted his eyes and listened quietly, he didn't speak for a long time, and said: "I, Gu Zhilun, have scattered my family wealth for the sake of the prince!" How have I ever lived a day of peace all these years?

But now it seems that nothing good has fallen at all, those people are jealous of my power, no, they are now coming to me with tricks, to attack me! Hmph, they're all villains! ”

"Master Hou, it's good that there are many villains in the world, but there is a way to die of a cunning rabbit, go to the dog to cook, the birds are exhausted, and the good bow is hidden! Master Hou, at this time, we should keep a low profile, and we must not bump into the muzzle of the prince's gun, if that, the gains outweigh the losses! ”

Gu Zhilun's brows furrowed, and after a long while, he suddenly stood up and said, "I know what you said, it is said that there has been a group of officials here in Bingzhou recently, and what is the name of a new magistrate?" It's called Chen Xuandu, isn't it? It's this person, you must give me a good lookup, I heard that this person is the genius selected by Enko this time......"

"Master Hou, this person is the arrogant scholar who made a lot of nonsense on the palace of the prince, and now this person is in Renzhi County, Taihe County! Taihe is the throat of our state, and the prince also has a lot of layouts in Taihe, this Chen Xuandu took office after saying so wildly, I'm afraid it's not good! ”

Gu Zhilun put his hands behind his back and paced slowly, he pondered Lu Zheng's mind repeatedly, as if he wanted to guess Lu Zheng's heart. From Yangzhou to the present, Gu Zhilun has been reborn, and he is not the bookstore owner of the day at all.

It is no exaggeration to say that the current Dakang Gu Zhilun stomped his feet, and the whole country would tremble. It is no exaggeration to say that in the process of Lu Zheng's conquest for hegemony for himself, Gu Zhilun's contribution is huge!

At least he Gu Zhilun thinks that his credit is incomparable, and his credit is huge!

"The heart of the army is unpredictable, don't look at the age of the prince, but his mind is very smart, and his intentions are often very deep, not easy to guess!" Gu Zhilun muttered.

In fact, Gu Zhilun can rely on the Jiangnan Gu family, but he himself feels that a small Jiangnan Gu family can no longer fully accommodate his behemoth-like existence.

When he lived in Shengjing, the Gu family in Jiangnan specially opened up a large compound for him, and every time this large compound was full of traffic inside and outside, it can be said that all the powerful lords in Shengjing, all parties surrounded him, and his door was much more lively than the General Military Mansion and the Yamen of the Governor of Bingzhou.

Gu Zhilun originally enjoyed this feeling very much, because he was so utilitarian and tossed in his life, didn't he just want to soar to the sky one day? Now that he has done something, isn't this a symbol of prosperity?

However, there is one thing that makes Gu Zhilun very annoying, that is, every day people from the Gu family's family will put pressure on him in various ways, and this invisible pressure is to let Gu Zhilun provide various conveniences and resources to the children of the Gu family.

Although the Gu family is a powerful person in Jiangnan, the existence of the Gu family is not profound in Lu Zheng's impression, and Gu Tiansheng and Gu Tianyang's education of the descendants of the Gu family is mostly to make them famous, so these children of the Gu family have to find Gu Zhilun every once in a while, Gu Zhilun is sometimes annoyed and wants to push them away, every now and then there will be people in the Gu family who are noisy, talking about Gu Zhilun's side branch, saying that Gu Zhilun, as a member of the Gu family, is not for the benefit of the family at a critical time. If you don't think about the Gu family, how can such a person occupy so many resources of the family?

Gu Zhilun simply didn't live in Shengjing in a fit of anger, he built a lot of construction in the state and set up his own door, and then the state became a place where fish and dragons gathered, and now because of the existence of Gu Zhilun, there are many businessmen and magnates, and it is no exaggeration to say that there is a history of thorns and a general army in the state, but all of these people can only live under the pressure of Gu Zhilun.

Because it is no exaggeration to say that Gu Zhilun now controls too many resources, and all the forces in the DPRK and China, officials at all levels, Gu Zhilun has unparalleled influence on them, in this case, Gu Zhilun is in the state, how can the state not be prosperous?

Gu Zhilun walked alone in his garden, did not stop for a long time, countless thoughts were disturbing in his mind, for the first time in so many years, today he felt uneasy, this uneasiness came from his heart, from his understanding of Lu Zheng.

He still remembers the first time he met Lu Zheng, at that time Lu Zheng was just a teenager under the fence, it was from that time that Gu Zhilun got a turn in his fate, and later Gu Zhilun stood on Lu Zheng's side without hesitation in many decisions, which helped him become the first businessman in the world, and now he has been made a marquis.

No one is perfect, no one is perfect, Gu Zhilun has good wealth and power in his life, people are in the rivers and lakes, he can't help himself, Gu Zhilun suffered a lot of discrimination when he was a child, and suffered a lot of grievances, so once he has the opportunity to control power, his fanaticism for power and wealth is difficult to control!

So he himself knows very well how many things he has done over the years, and it is no exaggeration to say that why the wealthy lords of Lianghe have come to this point now is actually a factor behind this.

Because in a few years, especially when Lu Zheng was in Liaodong, Liaodong's grain and grass basically depended on Jiangnan and Lianghe for supply, and the controller of these two lines was Gu Zhilun, it is no exaggeration to say that Gu Zhilun held Lu Zheng's life in his hands, in such a situation, who of all the powerful lords did not rely on Gu Zhilun's snort?

And Gu Zhilun in order to further seize power, the powerful and wealthy families carried out all kinds of co-optation and differentiation, he rewarded those who were obedient, and viciously punished those who dared to oppose him, sometimes he didn't do it himself, and secretly let people do it behind his back, so that the vices and bad habits of the powerful lords soon broke out, and to this point, Gu Zhilun has become the second person in the two rivers after Lu Zheng.

The rise of the power of the powerful has seriously affected the security of Dakang and the political stability of Lianghe, and Lu Zheng has felt this situation in many major decisions, especially in the process of Song Wensong's use of troops in Liaodong this time, why did Li Xiu in Liaodong lose?

It is not so much that Li Xiu was defeated by his youth and naivety, but that Li Xiu was defeated by the powerful and wealthy families who poured into each other and demolished each other.

The force behind Li Xiu pushed this Li Xiu's general to be outside the king's life. There are too many people in Shengjing who make small calculations, so that Lu Zheng's will cannot be implemented. And this time, in the process of recuperation and recuperation of the two rivers, Lu Zheng had to show his attitude towards Jiangnan, Northwest, Gyeonggi, Shandong and other places, and in this process, more than half of the strategists and generals under his command were not considered for the interests of the two rivers, but they each had small abacus, each had their own interests entangled, and the overall situation of the two rivers was left behind by them.

So it is no exaggeration to say that the situation in Lianghe has reached the point where he has to do it, Lu Zheng can't bear it anymore, he has to do it!