"Meet Childe!"

Gong Qianbai said unhappily: "Why is the situation in Suzhou City so bad? ”

The merchant envoy said: "The main reason is that the wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan are deeply rooted and have an inextricable relationship with each other. Originally, they took away their land and wealth, but only gave them the right to do business, thinking that this would restrict them. Who would have thought that they were too powerful, and it only took two or three months to force the people of Jiangnan to only do their business, and then many Jiangnan literati became officials, and the situation has been out of control since then. The two palaces in the southeast and the Ministry of Administration and Commerce are already discussing countermeasures, and General Zongda has rushed back from Yizhou Island with his army, preparing to exile all these people to Nanzhou and let them go to Nanzhou to open up wasteland. ”

Gong Qianbai asked again: "It only took two or three months for your wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan to re-establish their business network?" Do wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan have such great ability? ”

The merchant envoy said: "Listen to the news of the Ministry of Planning, the rich merchants in Jiangnan have an organization called the God of Wealth Temple, and the leader has not yet been found out, but the means are quite powerful, whether it is the court officials, local rich businessmen or masters of the rivers and lakes, they are not willing to provoke, and even have to obediently obey orders; But wherever the God of Wealth Temple touches, even the half-immortal masters have to retreat! ”

"So powerful?"

Gong Qianbai felt that he couldn't accept it for a while, there was such a dangerous hidden force in his country, this was simply a time bomb!

"Indeed it is! This is also the main reason why adults dare not act rashly! Otherwise, you can just send troops! ”

"I see! Are you in any danger in Gangnam? ”

"There is danger, there was a period of time when there were successive attacks, hundreds of people were killed and wounded, and as a result, the generals mobilized a large army to kill 20,000 or 30,000 people, and no one dared to provoke us since!"

Gong Qianbai nodded: "It's okay!" It's time to leave! ”

The merchant envoy took Gong Qianbai and Zhao Gao out of the back room and separated outside the store. At this moment, Li Mi and Zhang Hao also rushed back, and Gong Qianbai took seven people to find an inn in the Ministry of Commerce to stay.

Gong Qianbai asked Li Mi about some information, which was not bad from what the merchant envoy had told.

"Now basically everything is clear, only this God of Wealth Temple is not clear! Childe, the God of Wealth Hall can make the half-immortals afraid, so that these local famous factions are willing to be eagle dogs, it must not be as simple as just having money, it is very likely that there is a figure who has cultivated more than the peak of the ordinary half-immortal realm! So these must be identified before proceeding to the next step! ”

"Cultivating to a character who is more than a half-fairy?"

Hearing Li Mi's words, Gong Qianbai's heart was slightly touched, and he hurriedly asked again: "Where are the forces of the God of Wealth Palace?" ”

Li Mi said: "The main thing is Jiangnan, followed by the Central Plains; However, the Central Plains has been completely abolished by us in the Song Dynasty era, so now there is only Jiangnan! ”

"It seems that our plan to go to Shencheng next has to be postponed, mainly to deal with this God of Wealth Temple!" Gong Qianbai thought for a while, "From this year on, my name is Lu Shibai, I am Lu Sicheng's son and nephew, and I came to Jiangnan to do business, and you are all my guards!" Li Cunxiao: They were sent by Yandu City to support Zong Ze's army. ”

"Got it!"

Yandu City is the capital, originally renamed Beiping, and after conquering the Korean Prefecture and Dongyingzhou, it was changed to Yandu City, as the capital of the East Temple. However, in order to eliminate the influence of the Mongols in Yandu City, a large migration of non-poor people within a radius of thousands of miles has been carried out, and all parts of the southeast, northwest, and west are the target areas. Now the people inside and outside the Yandu City have slowly regathered later.

Li Mi said: "Gongzi has killed so many people with a tough style today, and there are military forces intervening, as long as Gongzi is in Suzhou City, I am afraid that the God of Wealth Temple will take the initiative to find the door. ”

"Yours right!" Gong Qianbai said, "Today, the Suzhou prefect ended too simply, without the slightest hesitation, I always feel that it is not just the reason of the business envoy, there must be other people on the scene to convey information to the Suzhou prefect, the Suzhou prefect forgot to disguise under the heavy pressure I exerted, so this flaw was exposed." But it's not enough to get them to pay attention to me, and we have to keep pushing them! ”

"It's easy to do!" Zhao Gao continued, "While the other party has not fully reacted now, let's disguise ourselves and buy some things separately in the dozens of shops in the most prosperous and largest in Suzhou City, and then compare them with the shops of the Ministry of Commerce, and use the name of inflated prices to find trouble, lead them to do it first, and then we will fight back, how about it?" ”

"Feasible!"

Gong Qianbai and Li Mi looked at each other and nodded at the same time.

"We still have too few people, and it's easy to be targeted by others if we borrow others, otherwise it can be faster, it's a pity!"

Li Mi shook his head again and again in regret.

"It's okay! Mobilizing a large army as soon as possible to move all the people in Jiangnan except for the poor can also force them to jump over the wall in a hurry. What is the composition of the population in Jiangnan? ”

Li Mi thought about it carefully and replied: "I read the details about Jiangnan in Luoyang last month, a year ago, the total registered population was about seven million, but the actual population is estimated to be about thirteen million, of which more than nine million are civilians and about four million are non-poor people. ”

Gong Qianbai asked, "Why is there so much difference between the actual population and the registered population?" ”

Li Mi explained: "Seven million are only the permanent residents of Jiangnan, and there are a large number of untouchables, tenant farmers, and slaves under the rule of Mongol Rao, almost six or seven million!" These people have no freedom, but they don't have to pay taxes, they just work for the landlord's family! ”

"So what's going on now?"

Li Yu replied: "Since the South Temple pacified Jiangnan, all the seven million people who did not have a household registration have been given household registration by the South Temple, and they are full-time working to cultivate fields for the court, and they are currently only paying 30% of the rent. As for the other 7 million people who were registered as immigrants, they were not given land leases in order to have to agree to the migration. ”

Gong Qianbai sighed: "No wonder the God of Wealth Temple is in the south of the Yangtze River!" For the civilians of Jiangnan, he is the master of Jiangnan, and now that the master of Jiangnan has become a former slave, he doesn't want to drive away and go to a foreign country, it's strange that he can be happy! As for the wealthy merchants in Jiangnan, it is not to mention it, it makes them more uncomfortable than killing them! ”

"Childe is so good to them!" Zhao Gao was a little disapproving, "The rich businessmen in Jiangnan originally became rich businessmen by relying on the Mongols to oppress their compatriots, I think I fled all the way north from Jingjiang Road and met too many people who are rich and unkind, these rich businessmen in Jiangnan, and the accomplices of the rich businessmen in Jiangnan are really not worthy of sympathy!" ”

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