Early the next morning, the army marched out, and outside Shanyang City, there was another picture of the deputy people sending each other in tears, hoping that the emperor would return early after victory, and Sun Xiangfu officially got the position of the crown prince and young master, and in the future, he will be a teacher who can discipline Li Chengqian.

Li Shimin was in a good mood when he went out on the expedition, with 20 million yuan in the account, his future war reserves will be more sufficient, money, can always give birth to a lot of materials, with enough money, the confidence will be enough, and confidence will naturally be high.

On the second day of the expedition, the Anbei Metropolitan Protector Yamen released a news that due to the war on multiple fronts of the imperial court, the military expenditure was huge, and the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, which was mainly responsible for supplying the logistics of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, was on the verge of financial exhaustion, so at a price of 20 million guan, it sold 15 million guan of land around Shangqi City to the Wang family.

As soon as this news came out, the sons and stewards of the various families staying in Shanyang were in an uproar.

"The Wang family is not satisfied with Shanyang and Dingxiang, and wants to make a move to Qicheng, 20 million yuan, what a big deal!"

After receiving this news, Lu Wenzhong immediately summoned the remaining four to discuss, and now, the Taiyuan Wang clan and the Qinghe Cui clan have completely withdrawn from the previous family alliance circle, and the other five families who have focused on the development of Shangqi City have actually begun to compete with each other, however, because Shangqi City has not yet been built, their trade competition has not yet reached the white-hot stage.

Therefore, at present, they only maintain harmony on the surface, and in this situation where everyone's interests are jointly damaged, they will get together to discuss countermeasures.

Li Bin, Li Qi, Cui Yu, Zheng Song and other sons-in-charge of each family on the guest seat of Lu Mansion were all worried, before coming, they all discussed with the elders of each family, and there was no good countermeasure, but there was one item, which was almost unanimously approved by their families.

Although Shangqi City will be able to control the trade between the Tang Dynasty and the countries of the Western Regions in the future, if the five families share the profits equally, they may not be able to catch up with the Qinghe Cui clan, which has the only city, and the Taiyuan Wang clan, who occupy the land of the two cities.

With the strength of the Wang family and the Cui family now, they already have the potential to surpass the others, they can no longer defend passively, they must join forces and take the initiative to attack.

In fact, before this, they already had some plans, and after the development of the Qi Dynasty, they would be close to the nearest and monopolize all the trade exported to the Western Regions, so that the output of the Wang clan, which is thousands of miles away from the countries of the Western Regions, could not be sold, and could only be resold to them at a low price, so that they could make a profit from it.

Therefore, since they replaced the land, they have been desperately building Shangqi City, with the combined power of the five families, the construction of Shangqi City is even faster than the speed of Tai'an City, which was built one step earlier, however, their city has just been established, and the Wang family took the lead in attacking them.

Fifteen million acres of land! More than the existing land of several of them combined, it seems that their estimate of the strength of the Wang family is wrong, the Wang family is not only able to maintain the development of Shanyang and Dingxiang, but also has a large amount of surplus wealth and manpower to expand outward, they estimate that they also take into account the future trade to the east and west, which may be strangled by others, so they want to open up their own trade channels!

"Childe, the person who went to the yamen to inquire about the news has returned."

Soon, the steward of Lu Wenzhong's mansion came to the living room with a drawing, and after the drawing was unfolded, all the sons looked at it, and their faces suddenly darkened.

The drawings clearly indicate the location of their existing land, and the Wang family's land, like a brace brace, encloses their field in the center, it seems that the Wang family not only wants to open up their own trade channels to the west, but also limit the development space of their several families.

"Wang Xu's son is hateful, we must come up with a countermeasure, otherwise, not only will the Wang family share the interests of Shangqi City, but also cut off the space for development and expansion."

"Yes, can't they let the Wang family play like this, or let's jointly fund and buy the land around Dingxiang, and include the Wang family's fields?" Li Bin thought of a way to treat others in the way of others.

However, when everyone heard this, they shook their heads, and the price of the land around Dingxiang was only higher than that of Shangqi City, after all, when Shanyang auctioned, where the price had already been set, and now, everyone saw the output of these fields, as long as they were developed, it would be profitable, and the imperial court would not be in a hurry to sell it. If you want to take it down at a high price, you are afraid that the money spent will be tens of millions, but even if you win it, the Wang family will not suffer any losses.

Because, you can't impact the Wang family in trade, everything else is in vain, blocking the way for his field expansion, he doesn't need to pay attention to you at all, as far as their current fields, the hired workers under the Wang family may not be planted, and they rely on temporary hired workers in a large number!

As long as the Wang family can develop land in Shangqi, it will break their monopoly on Wang's business in the future, and it will also greatly divide the profits in their hands.

"In my opinion, I still have to talk to Sun Zhengming. At the beginning, a few of us, but because they fancied the trade to the Western Regions, they were willing to exchange the fields in the Guannai to Shangqi City, and now, he can't watch our interests be damaged in vain! ”

Following Li Bin, Li Qi also said his proposal, however, the big guy still shook his head, because, the matter of replacing the field, but several of them took the initiative to put it forward, you go to Sun Zhengming, he can ignore you, now, the change has changed, you don't have the ability, the damage is still yourself.

"Right now, Sun Zhengming and Wang Xu are already colluding together, it is better to talk to Wang Xu directly to him." Cui Yu thought about it for a long time before he said.

"What's the talk?" The crowd asked.

Cui Yu replied, "You say, we will exchange the land with the Wang family, will they agree?" ”

"Do you mean to exchange the land we bought in Shanyang to the Wang family?" When Lu Wenzhong heard this, he seemed to have figured out a little bit.

Zheng Song, the steward of the Zheng family in Xingyang, answered, "I'm afraid, this is the real plan of the Wang family, the output of these fields is quite rich, and you can make money immediately when you get it, even if it is one mu for two acres, we will lose a lot." If the Wang family is allowed to monopolize all the land around the two cities of Shanyang and Dingxiang, then the Wang family's right to speak here will be tsk."

Zheng Song didn't continue, but several other people had already made up that picture, a super family with tens of millions of acres of fertile land and two commercially developed county-level cities, it was really not at the same level as them, you know, after two rounds of returning farmland, the fields in the entire Guanzhong were only more than 10 million acres of fields, and the Wang family mastered more than 10 million acres of fields in the Hetao area, and the output was even greater than the output of one season in Guanzhong, how rich is this?

"Brother Zheng said this, I think that some talk about it, such a big benefit, the Wang family will definitely be moved, they are deliberately forcing us to exchange land with him, then, in terms of price, we also have our own bargaining chips." Lu Wenzhong thought in his heart for a moment before he said.

In fact, in the auction that year, the land that his Lu family got was less than one million mu, and if it was replaced by a piece of land of two or three million mu in Shangqi City, it would not be cost-effective in the short term, but in the long run, it would be advantageous.

As long as the Wang family is prevented from developing around Shangqi City, they themselves will speed up the construction of Shangqi City, and after a year or two, it will be time for them to counteract the Wang family. At that time, the output of more than 20 million mu of fields of the five of them will be enough to supply the countries of the Western Regions, and in terms of product output, they will have an advantage of nearly six or seven thousand miles away compared to the output area where the Wang family is located.

Therefore, as long as there is an article on the conditions for replacing the land, and the Wang family is not allowed to purchase land in the three thousand miles around Shangqi City, this transaction will be done, even if it may suffer a little loss now, in a year or two, they will be able to completely counteract.

Soon, the five of them, the invitation to talk to Wang Xu was sent out, how they talked about it, Sun Xiangfu didn't know, and he didn't bother to know, he just needed to wait to collect the money, and there was another thing that he needed to be busy with.

The Hu Shang team from the Western Regions is here again.

Due to the war in the Western Turks, they came nearly a month later than last year, but this year's scale is more than double that of last year, and the number of people alone is as high as more than 30,000 people, of which more than 10,000 are slaves and laborers who are going to be imported by merchants to the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, the volume of goods has also increased dramatically, in order to obtain the reward of the dressing mirror, there is a Tianzhu merchant called Anatuo, actually organized nearly 10,000 camels, to Shanyang to transport Uzi steel ingots, you know, a camel's load, but about 400 catties, 10,000 camels, that is four million catties of Uzi steel ingots, these Uzi steel ingots, but the best materials for building weapons, which can greatly alleviate the current situation of insufficient raw materials in Shanyang smelting workshop.

Sun Xiangfu personally met with Anatuo, and rewarded him with a big dressing mirror, and after careful questioning, he learned that this person was not a private businessman, but on behalf of the king of Tianzhu Jieri, he himself was a senior general under the king of Jieri, and only the army could have 10,000 camels and so many Uzi steel ingots.

It seems that Sun Xiangfu underestimated the popularity of novelty goods such as dressing mirrors, perfumes, and other novelties in the Western Regions, as well as Central and West Asian countries, and he could make a lot of money and get treasures.

The price of four million catties of Wuzi steel ingots is too high, and Sun Xiangfu can only use the goods to offset it, so he gave Anatuo dozens of faces, limited sales of perfumes, he also gave Anatuo 10,000 sets, each set of seven bottles, equal to 70,000 bottles, the total price is almost 700,000 yuan, and then there are countless other goods such as spirits, cotton, silk, ceramics, etc., and he alone has emptied most of Shanyang's various inventories.

You know, the price of four million catties of Wuzi steel ingots, at least is worth millions of guan, if it is processed into a good sword, the market price in Datang, can definitely reach one or two hundred million guan, the first two years of a dozens of catties of Wuzi steel war knife, Chang He is willing to spend a thousand guan to buy, it can be seen that after smelting and forging, its value can be increased more than tenfold.

Of course, this is not to say that other businessmen have no business to do in Shanyang this year, Sun Xiangfu told them not to worry, they can place orders in advance, whether it is perfumes, spirits, and other goods with strict export restrictions, they will increase their output this year, and the goods in Guanzhong this year will be updated and more sufficient, even if there are ten more big businessmen like Anato, they will not be exchanged.

He suggested that after everyone completes the transaction in Shanyang, they must go to Weinan New Town in Guanzhong to see, where they can not only buy all kinds of goods they want, but also find manufacturers to customize various exclusive goods that are not available on the market, as long as they bring enough money, they can get the goods they want to the greatest extent.