Whether you are an emperor or a common man, you can't live without food in your daily life. Wealthy families eat five meals, ordinary families eat two, and they still have to eat. Since people want to eat, then they can't do without food; And as long as food is mentioned on Youbei Third Road, and even on the Huayu Continent, everyone's first reaction is the Dongyou Li family outside the East Customs. This is a famous family with deep roots, monopolizing all the business related to grain on Youbei Third Road. It can also be said that whether you love rice or noodles, whether you are farming or doing business, whether your social status is noble or humble, as long as you are alive and as long as you still need to eat, then a small half of every copper plate in your hand will have the surname Li.

This is not only a basic issue of buying and selling grain, but also a monopoly industry and clever management methods in terms of wealth skills. The current Li family can already secretly absorb the blood of every person in the northern part of the world, and everyone is unavoidable.

Of course, it is not that the Li family is morally corrupt, but it is just the result of the interdependence and nurturing of the power of capital and Li Deng, the head of the prime minister's family.

All the people of Youbei understand the power of the Li family, some people hate it, and some people envy and envy it. And the one with the deepest experience is the prince Yan Tian of Youbei Third Road.

The position of the prince seems to be above 10,000 people under one person, as long as you have patience and can not die, then it is simply the best and most promising seat. But most people also take it for granted that "they only see thieves eating meat, but they don't see thieves being beaten". Except for Yan Tian, no one understood what he had to endure.

The Yan family's original clan territory was on Guanbei 1st Road, occupying the advantage of a favorable geographical location, and becoming a "broker" family on Youbei 3rd Road. It can also be said that the industry that the Yan family started in the beginning is the middleman of the tooth industry led by Qi Hui now, but the two are not the same in terms of volume.

Yan Hunt has the blood of the Yan and Li families flowing in his body, and he can be described as a natural businessman. In his view, this inheritance is no different from doing business, and it is necessary to be cautious and cautious in order to keep the situation firmly in his own hands. In the end, you just need to wait until the day when the fruit of victory is ripe, and then pick it with your own hands. At that time, what I need to pay attention to is nothing more than the distribution of interests among the forces of all parties, and the spoon of dividing the 'porridge' is already in my own hands, so it is not enough to rely on it at all.

But what he ignores is that what the merchant sells in business is a commodity, a dead thing; But he who is the master of man is the ruler of the people, and he is the living. And the human heart is often the most complex and unpredictable.

Yan Tian is addicted to gambling, which is a vice that Yan Hunt, Li Lian, and even his maternal uncle Li Deng know. These "parents" have helped them pay off countless gambling debts, although they are all out of family affection, but he thinks it is more to save the face of the Yan and Li families. However, getting benefits is the most important thing, and the starting point is not important to Yan Tian at all. And there is one most important thing, which these big people don't know - the two-day gambling house that he frequents is actually his own industry! And those gambling debts naturally fell into my pocket.

Of course, he deliberately created a gambling weakness for himself, and there were no side effects at all except for making his mother and uncle a little worried. After all, his father Yan Hunt is a gambler, or every big broker and big businessman is a natural gambler.

The gambling house he established, in addition to making his own character and image appear more full of humanity in his father's heart, is more important is the large gray income.

You must know that even the money bag of his father, Emperor Yan Hunt, is tightly held in the hands of his uncle. Except for some official sales of salt, iron, wine and tea, the royal treasury did not have any other income at all. encountered a natural disaster in a famine year every three or five days, and Yan Hunt had to pay out of his own pocket in order to show that he loved the people like a son. Lao Tzu is so poor, and his son's "pocket money" is even more shabby.

Make friends with internal and external officials, cultivate their own forces, raise hidden eagle dogs, and rely on themselves to take out a large sum of money to mediate the layout. The so-called Son of Heaven is not bad for hungry soldiers, no matter what the identity of the other party is, as long as it is beneficial to his future career, the silver that should be spent is not less. What's more, although his current position as the crown prince seems to be extremely secure, after all, there is a younger brother who is not a weapon, and an uncle surnamed Niang who controls half of the country in the northern part of the country.

Whether it's business or the position of the prince, once you have another choice, there will be the possibility of accidents.

And the large amount of silver taels that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince earned through his two-day gambling house has now been spent. Among them, there is the credit of Li Deng, the head of the inner court, and the contribution of Zhang Huangling, the commander of the Flying Tiger Army. However, among the many "moths", the one with the greatest appetite is a woman from Nankang codenamed "Huangli".

This "yellow bird" is not a stunning singer from Nankanglai, and secondly, he is not a luxury merchant. However, with only this weak woman's mouth, sixty percent of her "gambling house hard-earned money", plus the "gambling debts" that she lied to ask for from her "parents", can be digested by her.

This everything is bought and sold, and such a large amount of silver is thrown out, in exchange for the "God's blessing" that Yan Tian has been able to adjust the wind and rain for many years.

Of course, this woman codenamed Huang Li is the "Thin Ma Liniang" who is looking for Shen Guisi in Jincheng!

Just as the white-haired old man in the black market deduced, Li Niang was the person who listened to the Nankang organization. However, her identity is more noble than that of a spy - she is the connector appointed by Di Ting to serve Yan Day, and it can also be said to be the "exclusive key customer service manager" of the prince of Youbei Third Road!

With the many ears, eyes and killer organizations that Di Ting, as long as Yan Tian wants to know the news, as long as it is the person the prince wants to get rid of, the time limit will not exceed three days. It can be seen that the efficiency and charging standards of Diting are very reliable; Even for the confidentiality of customer identities, Diting is at the forefront of the times.

Occasionally, there will be a few small business accidents, and Liniang will also follow Yan Tian's instructions, or continue the task, or cancel and get a full refund. After years of cooperation, the two sides have also developed a certain degree of mutual trust between them. As the situation has become more and more chaotic in recent years, the "consumption limit" of Yan Day, a major customer, has also increased rapidly; Of course, the Diting organization also reciprocates, and occasionally holds activities such as "ask one answer and answer three, kill one person and send the door full" and other activities to give back to customers. Such a pleasant cooperation experience made Yan Tian gradually give up the idea of cultivating his own power: even if he spent several times more silver taels, he would not be able to cultivate so many subordinates who were quick and rigorous. And this is not only a matter of silver, but also a big section of the "talent reserve"!

The current prince has more than eighty percent of the "investment layout", which is used to maintain in-depth cooperation with the Diting organization; The other two percent were left to the court officials headed by Li Qing. In this way, from Li Qing's inner and outer listening, how can he still be invincible?

In fact, the crown prince Yan Tian used such a lineup under his command to guard against the second brother who put all the money on eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, which was indeed a bit overkill. However, in the prince's heart, guarding against his second brother is only incidental. And the most important imaginary enemy of this arrangement is his own maternal uncle Li Deng! Of course, that was all after he ascended the throne.

From this point of view, the prince still has some ideas of his own in terms of the height of his vision and the forward-looking layout.

Except for Yan Tian and the Di Ting Organization, no one can get a glimpse of the whole picture for the time being, even if Shen Gui, who has many eyes and ears, is only a glimpse of the door; And Yan Qinghong, who counted the revenge of killing his mother on the head of his eldest brother, is even more pure conjecture.

Today happened to be the day when the "Yellow Bird" met him, Yan Tian changed into an ordinary costume and walked out of the south gate of the palace, and under the secret protection of the spies of the Imperial Horse Supervisor's room, he walked slowly to the Shuangtian Gambling House for recreation. This is his routine, every month to take a few days of free time, come out to bet a few hands. Of course, except for one joint, the other few times are just a trick to hide their true intentions.

Until Yan Tian was opened seventeen rounds in a row on the treasure table and lost all the money he brought, the steward of the Shuangtian Gambling House did not come to ask him if he wanted to "use some snacks first." Yan Tian ran out of silver in his hand, and he didn't receive the signal for the start of the meeting, in addition to wondering, he was a little uneasy, and he didn't stay for a while, so he had to stand in front of the pai gow table, making an interesting appearance, and looked "one roll and two glare".

Until it was dark, a chubby young man came into the casino. The man looked left and right, and casually put down a few taels of silver, and scolded a few words with others, and then walked to Yan Tian's side without a trace, bowed his head and said:

"Your Highness, it's getting late, let's go back?"

The person who came was the closed disciple of Lu Xiangyin, the supervisor of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the little fat man Liu Zhi. Recently, Lu Xiangyin has been in retreat to recuperate from his injuries, so the affairs of the Imperial Horse Prison are naturally handled by his fat apprentice. Liu Zhi also heard the report of the spies, saying that the prince was already in the Shuangtian gambling house, standing and watching others gamble for two hours, but for some reason he was unwilling to return to the palace. In desperation, Liu Zhi personally left the palace and came to the gambling house to invite him.

"Okay, then I'll go back first. You go and tell the shopkeeper that if there is any new way to play, you should send someone to inform the king! ”