Eliminated the threat of Song Lu, Xuzhou settled down, because the imperial court had Zhang Rang's care, Li Qing's life was very comfortable, he asked Sun Ba to train soldiers and horses diligently, to prepare for the arrival of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the future, this time, Li Qing decided to take the lead, take Xuzhou as the foundation, establish a dynasty under his control, and then, and Hell Gate to have a head-to-head battle.

When Li Qing really wanted to control Xuzhou, he found that the relationship in Xuzhou was really complicated, and the various families colluded with each other, no matter what Li Qing wanted to do, there would always be people who jumped out to make trouble, and Li Qing could not really wipe out these families, after all, the power of the family was far stronger than the power in Li Qing's hands.

"My lord, the Chen family and the Mi family have begun to hoard grain and grass, and our people can no longer buy food in the world."

A county official came to Li Qing's side with a bitter face to report that Li Qing wanted to accumulate strength, and grain and grass were naturally the top priority, so Li Qing asked the county officials to go to various places to buy grain and grass, but what he didn't expect was that every time Li Qing's people went to a place, the grain in that place would be harvested in advance, which made Li Qing very angry, but helpless.

"The family, sure enough, are all tumors, if these families are not removed, I don't want to live in Xuzhou."

Li Qing couldn't help but scold, although Li Qing's temper is very good now, he is still angry enough by these annoying families, what they do is too disgusting, relying on the money saved by his family, he is against Li Qing everywhere, whatever Li Qing wants, he is taken away by the family in advance, he wants to buy it, not sell it.

Li Qing knew that it was not a way to go on like this, so he decided to find a way to disintegrate these families.

There is no monolith between the families, and there will definitely be conflicts if there are interests, such as Chen Jue's Chen family, they are hundreds of years old families, and many emerging families, such as Cao Bao's Cao family, Mi Zhu's Mi family, etc., although they seem to be harmonious with each other, they are actually competing in secret.

Li Qing decided to use Cao Bao as a breakthrough to break the alliance of the family.

Li Qing called Cao Bao, Cao Bao was still a little afraid of Li Qing's assassination history, after all, Li Qing and Sun Ba were ruthless people who dared to directly kill the children of the Chen family, although Cao Bao also cooperated with the Chen family to make trouble for Li Qing behind his back, but on the surface, Cao Bao still gave Li Qing enough face.

"Humble Cao Leopard, I have seen the history of thorns."

Cao Bao said respectfully, his eyebrows full of humility.

Li Qing smiled, he knew that Cao Bao was afraid of himself, and the reason why he dared to go against him was just because he had the support of the Chen family and other families.

Li Qing said: "Captain Cao, I heard that your Cao family has a lot of business in Pengcheng?" ”

Cao Bao didn't know what Li Qing meant, but he still nodded and said, "Yes, our Cao family has a small business in Pengcheng. ”

Li Qing smiled with satisfaction: "I don't know what kind of business they have?" ”

Cao Bao didn't understand what Li Qing meant, but these businesses were originally public, and there was no unsightly business, and Cao Bao didn't want to hide it, so he said directly: "Back to the history of assassination, my Cao family has a blacksmith shop, a cloth shop, and a grain shop in Pengcheng, all of which are legitimate businesses. ”

Li Qing said with a smile: "Captain Cao's business is naturally a legitimate business, so let's do it, Sun Zhonglang will be ready to buy a batch of equipment again, and he needs 10,000 long swords, Captain Cao, this matter will be handed over to you to deal with, and I will let someone send the money to build the equipment to your house later, but remember, if there is a quality problem with this batch of equipment, I will ask you." ”

Cao Bao was stunned, this is a great thing, 10,000 long swords, even if calculated according to the market price, Cao's can make a lot of money with this penny, which is equivalent to one-tenth of Cao's annual income.

Cao Bao was afraid that he had heard it wrong, so he asked with some hesitation: "Is what Li Tingshi said true?" ”

Li Qing smiled: "Of course it's true, anyway, this money is from the imperial court, who is it not earned, but Captain Cao, it's okay to earn money for you, but if something goes wrong with the weapon, you should know what kind of fate it is, right?" ”

Cao Bao patted his chest and promised: "Hahaha, Lord Thorn Shi don't worry, my Cao clan's weapon will definitely not have a little problem." ”

Seeing Cao Bao happily walk out, a strange smile appeared on Li Qing's face.

In the days that followed, Cao Bao felt that he was favored by God, and Li Qing placed a large order for Cao Bao's cloth on the pretext of re-making military uniforms for the army, and then spent a lot of money to buy high-priced grain from Cao Bao, and even bought Cao Bao's grain directly.

The Cao family saw that this kind of good thing could not be missed, so they immediately asked the Chen family and other families to buy grain, and then sold it to the Thorn Shi Mansion at a high price.

At the beginning, the Chen family and other families were also very happy and sold the grain to the Cao family at the market price, but when they saw Li Qing without blinking his eyes, letting people pull grain and grass into the warehouse in the city, Chen Qi felt that something was wrong, where did the Thorn Shifu get so much money to buy high-priced grain, there must be something wrong with this.

Chen Jue quickly put the target of his suspicion on Cao Bao, this Cao family has made a lot of money in just half a year, why does the Assassin Mansion care so much about the Cao family, it must be because of what agreement has been reached between them.

The more Chen Jue thought about it, the more he felt that his idea was correct, and he immediately asked the major families to stop supplying grain and grass to the Cao family, but the report he got was that the Cao family had emptied the grain and grass of the major families these days.

"Damn Cao Bao, come here, invite Cao Bao to the mansion for me."

Chen Qi was so angry that he gritted his teeth, this Cao Bao actually openly teased the major families, this is simply a traitor to the Xuzhou family.

Cao Bao learned that Chen Jue invited him to the banquet, and he didn't think much about it, and rode to Chen Jue's mansion on a horse.

"Mr. Han Yu, what are you talking about with me?"

Cao Bao came to Chen's mansion and arched his hand to Chen Qi with a big grin, Cao has developed rapidly recently, although it is still not as good as Chen Qi, an old family, but Cao Bao thinks that if he continues to develop like this, it will not take ten years for Cao to accumulate a large amount of wealth and be promoted to become a first-class family in Xuzhou, so for Chen Qi, Cao Bao has no respect for the past.

When Chen Qi saw Cao Bao's appearance, he couldn't help but snort coldly, and his eyes became even more unkind.

Cao Bao was slightly startled, and then realized that he was a little out of shape, although Cao Bao thought that his Cao family would soon be able to catch up with the Chen family, but after all, it had not yet reached the point where he could stand side by side with the Chen family, and if he made a bad deal with Chen Qi, it would be very bad for the development of the Cao family.

Cao Bao hurriedly apologized: "Mr. Han Yu, Cao Bao lost his temper, please Mr. Han Yu don't blame, I don't know what Mr. came to me for?" ”