Li Gu arrived at the alley near Pu's house, and there were fewer and fewer pedestrians, in addition to the big house here, many shops and shops on the street were bought by his family, and the entire alley was almost occupied by the Pu family.

A hundred years ago, this Tianfang family came to Fuzhou, and the Great Wei people accepted these outsiders with an attitude of embracing all rivers.

They do business, do business, and do their duty, plus Tianfang is also a strong country, but also the most important trading partner of the Great Wei, many Tianfang people settled in Guangzhou and Fuzhou, and the Pu family did not show any special features, after settling in Fuzhou, they kept their peace, accumulated virtue and did good, paid taxes, and there was no abnormality.

Decades later, this foreign family gradually showed its true colors, and it was only a trivial matter to put money in print, colluding with pirates, smuggling goods, and interfering with justice, all of which the Pu family was good at doing. They are rich and powerful, and the small people can only swallow their anger when they are bullied, and they dare not confront this kind of behemoth at all, and the officials from the center of the court to the local government are rarely bought and used by the Pu family.

In the case of Pu Shougao, what he said to Prime Minister Han Zhong before was an ally of Liu Zhiyuan, the chief staff member, in Fuzhou, and in the center, many court officials had a friendly attitude towards the Pu family, and the same was true in the local area.

But after meeting Xu Zixian, Pu Shougao was disgraced in several things, especially when the Jingshi became chaotic, Pu Shougao almost got involved and got killed.

After this incident, Pu Shougao was shocked, Xu Zixian grew strong enough to be able to work with King Zhao and Lin Douyao, Pu Shougao not only did not dare to look for trouble anymore, but also had to be careful to guard against Xu Zixian secretly attacking him.

In the past six months, this once in Fuzhou, the prominent big businessman suddenly disappeared, as if it no longer exists, its sense of existence has become extremely low, if a person who has just arrived in Fuzhou, do not inquire carefully, I am afraid that there is such a person in Fuzhou City, such an alien Tianfang family.

The strength of the Pu family has also been greatly damaged, the prestige has been suppressed, the amount of raw silk has been reduced, and the foreign heavenly merchants no longer regard it as the reliance of the Great Wei, and the loss of many intangible interests has caused a lot of harm to the Pu family.

Pu Shougao didn't say anything, although his family had more than 100 merchant ships and thousands of serious armed guards outside, and it was still a considerable strength to concentrate in one place, but he didn't have the idea of concentrating on fighting with Xu Zixian at all.

This kind of cowardly performance has made there a lot of controversy within the Pu family, if it were not for Pu Xingfeng's external support, Pu Shougao's position as the patriarch of the family may not be kept.

After the war in the Eastern Domain was over, the news was transmitted, and those clansmen who had questioned Pu Shougao were suddenly speechless, and even extremely happy.

Tens of thousands of Luzon thieves are not opponents of the Nan'an Fu army, and those guards of the Pu family are fighting with the Nan'an Fu army, isn't it just to give credit to the other party and give them heads?

The Pu family became more cautious and cautious.

At least in the city of Fuzhou, the Pu family is no longer a concern.

When Li Gu arrived at the alley where Pu's house was located, there were few pedestrians, and no one noticed him at all.

Of course, the shop of the merchant house had long been closed, and only some of the shopkeepers of the fire shop were patrolling, yawning, looking listless, and when they saw a person like Li Gu on horseback, they would not come forward to interrogate at all.

Although the Pu family is a deep house compound, there is no singing and dancing, the Heavenly Sect does not allow people to drink, and some Heavenly nobles do not abide by the rules, they are the same mellow and beautiful, and enjoy it excessively. But ordinary Tianfang people should be cautious, especially those who live abroad, but they are much more cautious than at home.

Li Gu dismounted in front of the dismount stone, a few people from the Pu family came forward, after seeing that it was Li Gu, the people who came up did not say much, bowed down, and led Li Gu to the side door and walked forward along the sandwich road.

These Tianfang people are wearing white robes, and they are holding the knife at their waists when they walk, they have a strange smell on their bodies, which is not very good, and there is nowhere to hide in the middle of the road, Li Gu can only frown and endure it, and there is a strange feeling in his heart, as if he has come to a foreign country.

Fortunately, Pu Xingfeng's residence is not far away, and the Pu family did not build a national style building in Fuzhou, everything is according to the customs of the Great Wei Dynasty, but there are different caves inside, which is very different.

For example, the main house of the deep hall of the heavy gate, which is the main hall of the Wei nobles, is usually closed and not used, and is only used for important occasions, but here in the Pu family, it is a place for the clansmen to gather and eat and drink every day.

The high-arched and far-reaching room was covered with precious carpets from the heavenly realm, and all the celestial people were sitting around a large pot smoking hookah, and the room was full of smoke and dim lights, and it looked like a ghostly building.

Li Gu took off his boots and went inside, stepping on the carpet and feeling sunk deep in his feet, a soft and smooth feeling made him feel quite comfortable, the carpet under his feet was embroidered with quite beautiful patterns, and he knew that it was unusually precious at a glance.

After entering the house, Li Gu made a hand gesture to Pu Shougao, and the other party understood, and also waved his hand to his people.

A dozen or so celestial people went out together, and Li Gu suddenly felt that his breath was smooth.

Pu Shougao smiled knowingly and said to Li Gu: "The smell on their bodies, if it weren't for the incense, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to stand it." ”

Li Gu laughed and said, "Brother Pu laughed. ”

These Tianfang people are tall and healthy, white skin and blue eyes, and they are better than the black, short and thin Fujian people in terms of appearance, but the body odor is a big joke on Fujian Road, which is really smelly.

"Brother Li, is there any good news here?"

"Nope." Li Gu sat down cross-legged on the carpet and said calmly: "It's not bad as we expected, His Royal Highness King Zhao can't make up his mind to make such a decision." ”

"Expected." Pu Shougao's eyes dimmed for a moment, and soon became bright again, he smiled slightly, and said: "King Zhao looks forward and backward, sometimes impatient, sometimes slow, the real right decision, he can't make it, he shouldn't make a decision, but it's easy. ”

"With the same virtue as the Son of Heaven, he is worthy of being his own father and son."

Li Gu sighed and said: "It looks like the King of Zhongshan is really heroic, and this time he has been awarded Jinbao, which is really the posture of a dragon and a phoenix, and he is worthy of being a close relative." At the time of the canonization, although Li Han had a straight face, he was obviously moved by the posture of the king, and did not dare to make a mistake, and respectfully finished the etiquette, and after conferring the treasure, he visited again, and called the king. I was also shaken. To be honest, I now feel that I am not the master, if I want to achieve anything big in this life, I might as well switch to the king of Zhongshan. ”

"This royal title given by the Son of Heaven is really awkward." Pu Xingfeng first chuckled, and then said, "Mr. said he was joking, right?" ”

"It's a joke...... Li Gu smiled bitterly, walnut-like wrinkles appeared on his face, and he said: "I'm too involved, and His Royal Highness King Zhao and Lord Pu have been in contact for many years, King Zhongshan won't accept me, even if he is willing, his subordinates will not be willing." ”

This is the truth, which shows that Li Gu has really thought about it.

Compared with the cowardly and incompetent King Zhao, Xu Zi first thought deeply, planned far, calmly and calmly encountered things, and made decisions quickly and decisively, which Li Gu had never seen.

Forget about others, Li Gu, a strategist who has been in King Zhao's mansion and has observed Xu Zixian for many years, found that Xu Zixian's rise in the past few years is really flawless, according to the general trend, follow the trend, do not give others a chance, and decisively seize any opportunity to climb up.

From a prince who has not been knighted to a prince of worship, how many years has it taken?

If Li Gu is attached, it is very likely that he will be among the high-ranking civil officials of the Zhongshan Palace, but he has planned many conspiracies against the Nan'an Hou Mansion, and his deeds have long been exposed, everyone knows that Li Gu is the confidant of King Zhao, even if the King of Zhongshan is magnificent, he can accept it, how can Li Yi, Kong He, Fu Qian and others be allowed to join in like Li Gu? This is not that Xu Zixian can't control it, nor is it that he can't accept people from the hostile camp, but for the core strategists of the hostile camp, this is almost the treatment.

Ordinary staff, Qing guests, including military generals, civil officials, and officials, can all be accepted. And a confidential staff like Li Gu knows too much, participates too deeply, and plans too much, and Li Gu himself understands that such an enemy is difficult to be contained and accepted by other momentum.

His cooperation with Pu Shougao began more than ten years ago, even if Li Gu stepped on two boats, in fact, it was just a secret song, it was nothing more than selling some news to Pu Shougao, asking him to please King Zhao and the Son of Heaven when he did what he liked, and the previous cooperation was nothing more than that.

And when King Zhao was powerless, the Pu family was suppressed, and Li Gu felt that King Zhao had no choice but to take Xu Zixian, his cooperation with Pu Shougao became closer.

At this time, if Li Gu and the others are secretly connected with Pu Shougao, strictly speaking, they are traitors, if King Zhao knows, he will definitely not have Li Gu's good fruit to eat, but the situation has reached this point, Li Gu thinks that King Zhao will soon be difficult to protect himself, and King Zhao's perception is no longer too important.

"What does Mr. Li think?" Pu Shougao said casually: "King Zhao doesn't dare to do it, should our Pu family do it?" ”

"The Pu family doesn't do it," Li Gu said with a smile: "Is the owner of Pu waiting for the death of the clan?" ”

"Even if Xu Zi becomes an official first, he has to take into account the laws of the Great Wei." Pu Shougao said: "My Pu family has stopped a lot of business, and they are not secretly colluding with bandits. ”

"Lord Pu laughed." Li Gu Zhengse said: "If it is just the old account before, the Pu family surrenders and pays tribute to the Zhongshan Palace, and it will be safe and sound in the future." But the proprietor of Pu also understands that there will be a big war between Pu Xingfeng and Zhongshan Wangfu in the future, how can the Pu family stay out of the matter at that time? Whether it is successful or not, determines the layout of the Heavenly Fang in the Nanyang countries and the Great Wei, and it also involves the war between the Heavenly side and the Taixi countries, am I right? ”

Pu Shougao was quite shocked, the short and fat middle-aged man in front of him, his face was dark and fat, with some redness, his two small eyes were full of shrewd light, and he gestured, and he had a bit of a pretended reserve, at first glance, he was the kind of staff figure who spoke in the core power circle, but his status was not very high.

However, this person was able to guess the most important task of the Pu family in Fuzhou, the contact with Pu Xingfeng, and the layout of Tianfang's interests in Nanyang and Great Wei, and he really deserved to be one of the top figures in Great Wei.

Li Gu has been in the area of Fuzhou and Quanzhou, knows many Tianfang merchants, and has also been to the South Seas, and is quite familiar with the Tianfang Kingdom's support for the Manchurian Kingdom to conquer Srivijaya and fight for Malacca.

This is quite obvious, the Celestial Marine's infantry cavalry has been dragged down by the Taixi countries, and its real national strength has actually been declining.

is such a thief as Pu Xingfeng, who is also a nobleman from a heavenly family, maybe he has a background of official support.

The greater the power of Pu Xingfeng, the stronger the ambitions of the Heavenly Noble Class in the countries of the South Seas.

In the past few decades, the Taixi people have desperately built ships and gone to sea, a large number of immigrants have left the country, a large amount of gold and silver has been transported back from the colonies, and then their ships have begun to trade around the world, and a large number of Taixi ships have also begun to go to the Nanyang and the Great Wei.

There are two main shipping routes, one from Chile to Luzon and then to the Great Wei, and the other from Europe to the coast of India, and then to the countries of the South Seas, and then to the Great Wei.

In the next few decades, within a hundred years, it is conceivable how many ships will pass by, and mastering Malacca is to choke the throat of the other party, whether it is the Taixi people or the Tianfang people, how deep the desire for Malacca is, can be imagined.

Of course, the Tianfang people want to grab the front of the Taixi people, Malacca now belongs to the Three Buddhas, the former Three Buddhas are also a strong country, its dependence on the Great Wei, the Liang family is a Han family, the Han people account for three to forty percent of the population of the Three Buddhas, the economy and commerce are developed, with a strong sailor, and attached to the Great Wei, in the South Seas and Lan Fang and other Han countries are each other's horns, at that time the Manchu Thorn has not been infiltrated and controlled by the Heavens, and there is no fundamental contradiction with the Three Buddhas, the two sides have to work together to repel the Siamese who killed from the peninsula, and Siam defeated Zhenla at that time, beat the powerful Zhenla Kingdom to half cripples, defeated the Champa and Annam Kingdoms, and then defeated the full thorns, as if it was a local hegemon.

If it weren't for the mediation of the Great Wei, the Siamese would still be rampant.

The times are changing, and now the Siamese people are in deep contradiction with Manchu Thorn because they are a Buddha country, and they are irreconcilable, but they hope to join forces with the Three Buddhas and other countries to destroy Manchu Thorn and drive away the Heavenly People.

In fact, if it weren't for the Siamese people's containment, the Manchurian people would not have been able to spare the strength to support Pu Xingfeng, and I am afraid that the Srivijaya and Lanfang countries would have been unable to withstand it a long time ago.

In the past few years, the Taisi people have gradually begun to trade with Sriwijaya and Lan Fang, sold some weapons, and gave warships to Sriwijaya and Lan Fang, and these two countries have received the help of the Tessie people, and so on if there is an additional blood transfusion pipeline.

In contrast, the Great Wei ignored the situation in Nanyang, the envoys of the Three Buddhas, Lan Fang, and even the sons of Lan Fang went to Beijing, Jiangling, and Fuzhou, all of which were fruitless and could only leave gloomily.

On the side of the Great Wei, the obvious advantage is that Xu Zixian, who sits on the big island of the Eastern Domain, which is located on the key point, defeats the two pirate kings of Luzon, and the strength of the sailors will grow by leaps and bounds, and the development will be extremely fast.

What's more important is that Xu Zixian and Wang Zhi and Kang Tianqi are quite close to the relationship between the two pirate kings, and the relationship between the Wa State and Lan Fang is considered a quasi-ally, and the Han merchants of the Three Buddhas, the Han merchants of Luzon, Siam, Zhenla, Champong, and Annam will obviously support and attach themselves to Xu Zixian.

The Great Wei clan, the prince, the strong man who guarded the Eastern Domain, how the Han merchants would choose, there is no need to think about it at all.

This is the most serious threat to the Pu family, to Pu Shougao, Pu Xingfeng, and even to the layout behind him.

"We're not really going to get involved in this." Pu Shougao looked at Li Gu and said, "It's not that we don't want to interfere, it's not that we're timid. It is an internal matter of the Great Wei, and once we intervene in it, we will be suspected and even resisted. This is the psychology of your Wei people, they want to rebel, and even want to collude with pirates, but they want to be in charge and used, not used by others. Once my Pu family pays for them, those with bad intentions will only suspect that we are going to take advantage of them, and there will be unnecessary suspicions. I have prepared the money, as well as weapons, food, bows, crossbows, arrows, and armor. Once Mr. Li, you find the right person to start an incident and muddy the water on Fujian Road, this will be a great achievement! ”

Li Gu frowned, his strategy for King Zhao was to win in the chaos and make King Zhao gain the right to open the mansion. Even if he joins forces with the Pu family now, the ultimate goal is the same.

If the people of the Pu family intervene in it, plus Li Gu's contacts outside, the situation can be controlled, and if it is completely let go of those heroes who have come from the northwest, once the fire is lit, how to stop it is not something that Li Gu can decide.

Even if Li Gu was playing with fire for the sake of fame and wealth, he still shuddered at the thought of that terrible consequence.

Li Gu had already understood at this time that Pu Shougao was not at all to help King Zhao open a mansion, or to make the Pu family take advantage of the situation, the Pu family cooperated, and Pu Xingfeng took the opportunity to seize Fujian.

Pu Xingfeng can't get out of it at all now, and the Pu family doesn't have any other goals, that is, purely to make the Great Wei civil strife and the Fujian Road civil strife, so that Xu Zixian will not be able to develop and grow more easily, so that when Pu Xingfeng comes again, he will not have to face the more powerful Zhongshan Palace.

Pu Shougao is nothing more than such a goal, whether King Zhao can use it or not, he didn't think about it at all.

Of course, if King Zhao succeeds, the Pu family will have one more strong reinforcement, and King Zhao's ability is far below Xu Zixian, and there is no threat to Pu Xingfeng, which should also be a good thing for Pu Shougao to see it happen.

"One million yuan of money," Pu Shougao glanced at Li Gu and continued: "Armor is not easy to obtain, more than 1,000 collars, iron spears, long and short knives, five or six thousand handles, hundreds of shields, thousands of bows, and hundreds of thousands of arrows. Such military resources are enough for them to pull up a team of 100,000 people. ”

The core of the thief's team is generally a few thousand people, carrying tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of civilians.

The people who were coerced used the general inferior weapons, they could strengthen their momentum, and the hard battle was sent to death by the people first, and then rushed to the elite later, and the number of forbidden troops was not large, and when the army was beaten, such a method of warfare was invincible.

The hundreds of thousands of miners in Jianzhou, as well as a large number of poor mountain people, people without food and clothing, are like a barrel of explosives filled with gunpowder, a little spark can cause a big explosion, Li Gu understands this, Pu Shougao also understands, and King Zhao understands no matter how stupid he is. Therefore, King Zhao is hesitating and procrastinating, King Zhao also wants to get the opening of the mansion, include the Fujian Road in the bag, and isolate Xu Zi first in the Eastern Domain, but after all, the Son of Heaven is the eldest son of King Zhao, and the world is also the world of King Zhao.

"I'm afraid that in a hurry, I can't find a suitable candidate."

Pu Shougao smiled when he heard this, and said: "With Mr. Li's connections in Fuzhou, the news is far above me, and you contacted me a few days ago to prepare money, manpower, weapons, armor, and staff, is it unprepared?" ”

Li Gu said calmly: "His Royal Highness King Zhao was already preparing before, but without King Zhao's approval, those who were secretly preparing could not be dispatched if they were not ordered. In addition, there are some outsiders who have attracted my attention, but their number is too small, and without the help of our locals, these money and canes from your mansion alone cannot be transported at all. ”

Pu Shougao lay back very leisurely and said with a smile: "These things, trivial matters, are just small things, with Mr. Li's great talent, he will definitely think of a good way to solve them." I pay for things and don't care about the rest. ”

Li Gu smiled bitterly, stood up and arched his hand: "In this case, if you need to take it, I will send someone to pick it up with a private message." ”

"Just use the seal that we use every time we keep in touch."

"Yes, in the lower province."

Li Gu bowed, turned around, and only a few people came out from behind Pu Shougao, all of whom were Pu Shougao's close brothers, and they could be regarded as people who could speak in the Pu family.

One of them said: "Will Li Gu do it?" ”

Pu Shougao smiled and said, "I know how to do it, you don't see his eyes, there are ghosts in his eyes, he is the kind of ambitious ghost, he won't give up." ”