"Brother Xu, don't be so reckless!" Only then did Li Feihu realize that Xu Shiyang's first proposal just now was sincere: "The big shopkeeper ......"

"That's Brother Li's big shopkeeper, not mine."

Xu Shiyang interrupted Li Feihu with a smile:

"In this case, if Brother Li sees him again, please convey my dissatisfaction to him on his behalf: First, we had a covenant - a verbal covenant is also a covenant, and if I achieve the goal of cutting off the canal, he should give me 20% of the profits from Liaodong's trade! If he wants to break the contract and refuse to give it, then I will take it myself! ”

"Second." Xu Shiyang put away his hippie smile and said seriously: "Please let him see the current situation clearly!" Don't fall around like a wall grass, forget your righteousness when you see small profits, and cherish God when you encounter big things, this is not what a big husband is called! ”

Previously, the Li family relied on bribing the lord and sending officials.

When Xu Shiyang was born, the Li family, who was constantly disappointed, began to follow the path of the Lord and Pai Wen Xianggong through the Xu family - this is already a change of court.

When the Xu family cut off the canal, the main battle faction could only take a fancy to the Li family, who controlled the sea power, in order to complete the New Year's coin, so Li Feilong, the fool, turned around and knelt down under the main and faction......

It's just stupid.

Doesn't this just confirm the traditional scholar's view that "businessmen value profit over righteousness"?

No matter who will be in charge in the future, which faction in the court can tolerate such repeated villains?

Not to mention the scholars, even in Xu Shiyang's eyes, this is also a manifestation of the Li family's lack of a clear strategy, the so-called "five uncertainties, lose cleanly", Li Feilong's current performance can even be said to be embarrassing.

"Brother Li, Li Feilong is really disappointing."

Xu Shiyang continued:

"I hope you can stick to your heart, don't follow your family's big shopkeeper, and be sure to see the situation clearly!"

Li Feihu lowered his head, as if he was hesitating about something.

After a long while, Li Feihuang, who was a little impatient, pushed him, and the pirate leader hesitated to ask:

"Brother Xu, ...... over there, can Xianggong Wen really come to power?"

It turned out that he was a fool who couldn't see the situation clearly. ’

Xu Shiyang thought disappointedly:

'Fortunately, he knows what he can't figure out and should listen to other people's opinions......

"I wouldn't have dared to say that until I had it."

Xu Shiyang patiently replied:

"But now, I can tell you clearly that it's hard to say whether the Lord and the faction can last until the fifteenth year of Jianxing!"

Before, the Lord and the faction were in power, and they could not cross the Yangtze River completely dependent on the Tartars, Jiangnan was able to guarantee peace, and the development of overseas trade could inject a lot of wealth into Jiangnan, ensuring that the lives of ordinary people in Jiangnan would not be too bad.

The days of peace are so accustomed that it is really unrealistic for them to pay for and send people to recover the almost uninhabited Jiangbei.

But now it is different, under the blow of the Mugultures, the Jurchens, who cannot grab enough loot, and their own production capacity is very weak, is rapidly weakening.

They could only supplement themselves by forcibly oppressing the government of the Lord and the faction to obtain more coins, which in turn forced the Lord and the faction to satisfy the huge appetite of the Jurchens through roots, thus causing the originally stable Jiangnan society to fall to the brink of collapse.

In this case, in addition to the temporary support of the emperor, they were actually spurned by all classes in the entire Jiangnan and became loners!

Let's take a look at the current situation in Gangnam!

If there is no root, how can Fang Lana's rebel army, which is dominated by Jianghu people, roll into a snowball of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses?

If there was no such thing as the Lord's Harmony faction forcing the 5,000 forbidden troops to go north in order to protect and pro-ship fleets, and leading 150,000 troops, how could Tong Guan, who was originally considered a marginal figure of the Lord's Harmony faction (he was a eunuch, was actually a royalist faction, and Emperor Jianxing supported the Lord's Harmony faction), become a neutral faction?

He's a rabbit dead and a fox is sad!

It can also be seen through Tong Guan that the 60,000 forbidden troops led by the die-hard lord and Pai Gao Yu are really so loyal to him?

"There will be a showdown over there soon."

Xu Shiyang said seriously:

"The Lord and the faction will surely be defeated."

"Then there will be a decisive battle with the Tartars on my side, and my side will definitely be able to stop the Tartars' attack. Then Jiang Nan will understand that the Tartars are not so strong at all, year after year, the coins, the relatives, and the roots, are all the lords and factions cooperating with the Tartars to blackmail! ”

"Even if the crown prince is in charge, the court will definitely not blame the emperor. Then all the responsibility belongs to the Lord and the faction! ”

"Who is responsible for this? This time, it is definitely not resignation, exile and other punishments can be justified, I am sure that Qin Hui's gang will die without a place to be buried! Whoever gets involved with them now will be in the same party when the time comes. ”

"Brother Li, you have to think carefully! Don't learn from your masters, or it's too late to regret it! ”

……

In the end, Li Feihu was persuaded by Xu Shiyang.

He agreed to secretly convey the information of the New Year's coin fleet to Xu Shiyang, and if necessary, directly help the Xu family intercept Li Feilong's fleet of ships transporting the New Year's coins from the sea to Liaodong.

Li Feihu is completely out of the way, even if he takes the initiative to turn his face with his brother!

It's just that after turning his face, Li Feihu hopes to hide in the port of Qi Province for a while - he really can't beat Li Feilong, so he can only rely on the Xu family, shrink for a while, and quietly wait for the changes in the current situation in Jiangnan.

Of course, before that, Li Feihu needed to send the princess and the more than 2,000 forbidden troops who wanted to return to Jiangnan back to Jiangnan, which was not a difficult task - with Li Feilong's courage, he didn't dare to intercept the princess.

went to Jiangnan along the way, as well as Xu Shisong, who was responsible for fulfilling the requirements of Wen Xianggong and commanding the people's army instead of Xu Shiliu; I also have to express the opinion of the Xu family, and ask Wen Xianggong to agree to the marriage of the Wen and Xu families.

On the Xu family's side, the man is Xu Shiyang, and the woman is Xu Shizhen, both of whom are the sons and daughters of the eldest son of the Xu family.

As for intercepting the fleet......

Li Feihu said that Qin Xianggong did not trust Li Feilong very much, and it was not too easy for Jiangnan to gather another New Year's coin, so this New Year's coin transportation was not like the last time when millions of treasures were transported at one time.

Instead, it was divided into ten times and transported in batches, and the second fleet would depart after the first fleet arrived at the port.

In this way, even if Xu Shiyang intercepts halfway or Li Feilong has the malicious intention to swallow the New Year's coins, the Jiangnan side can stop the loss in time and lose a batch of New Year's coins at most.

One batch is one batch, and there are more than 200,000 two horses.

Finally, in order to strengthen Li Feihu's confidence and increase some necessary material reserves before the war, Xu Shiyang handed over the task of urgently purchasing materials in Jiangnan to Li Feihu.

He made it clear that the 100,000 yuan that Li Feihu and Li Feihuang should give themselves this year can be delayed until the situation stabilizes - that is, this purchase will be completely paid by the Xu family themselves, and the Li family will only be responsible for transportation, and they can also earn some freight and price difference from it.

For this reason, Xu Shiyang paid Li Feihu 200,000 pieces of silk—all of which were fine tribute silks from the New Year's coins, which were used to purchase steel, saltpeter, sulfur, iron products, grain, coarse cloth and other materials.

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