Chapter 317: Entanglement of Interests (1)
Uncle Guang's position is completely tilted towards the Liang State, so there is no doubt that Uncle Guang will not do anything detrimental to the interests of the Liang State, and at the same time, King Xian should inform Uncle Guang of the matter of Tuntian tonight, and if Uncle Guang wants to consider Liang State, he will inevitably accept the suggestion of moving Tuntian.
After all, after the Liang army moved to the Yongxing River, it was nominally closer to the Xian army, and the Black Turban rebels should always have some scruples. In this way, Zhao Xun can transfer more soldiers and horses for other places, which is a benefit for others and himself, and Uncle Guang has no reason to refuse.
And in the current situation, the lack of food in the Xian army is imminent, if the grain and grass cannot be obtained before next spring, even if Beihai County can hold it, but the people themselves will vote with practical actions, and it is true that there is no food at that time, as long as the rebels are lured by grain and grass, where do millions of people care about the national righteousness, it is true that they are hungry and have nothing to eat, and the national righteousness can be eaten as food? Nowadays, the ideological consciousness of the common people is afraid, and I am afraid that it is really not high enough to starve to death rather than bend the knee to seek perfection.
These words are not only for Ji Tong, but also for the rich lord here, as for whether it will be leaked, for the Black Turban Army, Gongsun Yue has already leaked everything that can be leaked, there is no secret to speak of, it is better to say it later than sooner, and when the Black Turban Army spreads rumors to create panic, the consequences will be more serious than now.
Ji Tong is angry at the moment, Baili Yanzhuo (Wei Xian) is grinding, I am afraid that Zhou Caidong's matter cannot be mentioned in front of him, and if he mentions it, I am afraid that he will also be able to do it as a matchmaker.
"Master Hou, I don't know where Gongzi Li is now."
Ji Tong thought to himself that Baili Yanzhun didn't have any good intentions, his nephew was born with a lack of heart, if he fell for Baili Yan's tricks, he would regret it, so he said:
"If General Wei has anything important to do with Yi's nephew, you might as well tell Ben Hou directly."
"Oh, it's not very important, it's Wei who has a personal matter to ask Li Gongzi, and it's not convenient to say at this time."
"Inconvenient?" Ji Tong thought, you are so thick-skinned, is it inconvenient to speak? "General Wei, is it inconvenient for you, or is it inconvenient for King Xian?"
"A private matter, a real private matter. If the king asks for something, how can he hide it from the Hou Ye. Wei Mou saw that today's matter was decided like this, and the Hou Ye figured it out in the future, but he could meet my king to discuss the specific matters in detail, what did the Hou Ye think. ”
"Okay, nephew Yi is in the inner house, General Wei, please."
"Master Xie instructs."
Ji Tong has been fooled several times, and now he is becoming more and more afraid to be sloppy, Bailiyan just left with his front foot, and his back foot makes people stare at it secretly, to see what the hell Bailiyan is doing.
Leaving the atrium, Bai Liyan went to the East Courtyard first, Wu Deng and his subordinates and young men lived here temporarily, and they were going out of the city in the afternoon, Sikong Nan, Su Hong, Bai He, Lu Zhao and others were still in Yongxing River, Lu Gao's people were too few, and they couldn't go to Guangxin without their own people, Wu Deng had four or five hundred people under his command, and there were just more than 2,000 people under Lu Gao's subordinates.
Lu Gao is now the governor of the right capital, and there should be 4,000 people, Bailiyan didn't dare to give him 4,000 men and horses in one go, first, Xianwangyun's vanguard battalion was 10,000 people, if Lu Gao accounted for 4,000, then how would Sikong Nan, Su Hong, Bai He, Lu Zhao, Fang Qian and others be placed.
The second is the Shao Ping First War, the vanguard battalion has more than 5,000 people, not counting Bai He, Lu Zhao, Fang Qian, and others, there are still more than 3,000 people left in the vanguard battalion, and the rapid expansion will lead to a sharp decline in combat effectiveness, and the extra 6,000 people will all enter the various formations, and more than 60 percent of the new recruits under the command of each centurion will seriously affect the display of combat strength and tactics.
After a detailed explanation with Wu Deng, Bailiyan did not forget to pity Xiangxiang and cherish the jade to visit Chunrou and Chunfang's two daughters. Bai Liyan has always been worried that the two of her are the eyeliner planted by Gongsun Yue, and when asked about King Xian today, King Xian is very sure that the woman from Tang is recruited by the secret agents of the Inner Chamberlain, and she is only responsible to King Xian, and the eunuch Huangmen Ling has no right to ask.
Speaking of the secret agents of the inner government, the inner government is under the supervision of the eunuch Huangmen Ling, and the secret agent is the inner security agency of the inner government responsible for the palace, but it has always only been responsible to King Xian.
The Tang woman is not only a means of rewarding King Xian, but also an eyeliner to monitor his henchmen. In other words, the Tang woman is the secret agent of King Xian and a beauty. No matter how capable Gongsun Yue is, it is difficult to infiltrate the internal government institutions.
However, Bai Liyan wondered, Gongsun Yue was such a big problem official, and the secret agents didn't find it at all?
Moreover, Jiang's secret agents also have a characteristic, they are all born in salt barons, and the newcomers of the family are attached to the king of salt from generation to generation, and generation after generation of king Xian, in order to consolidate their position, acquiesce in the sale of illicit salt by these salt lords, thus forming a family-like dependency relationship.
In other words, the families behind these spies are not ordinary rich, and their loyalty to King Xian is justified. Obviously, if King Xian falls, they will be finished. It was this kind of family dependence that greatly consolidated the position of King Xian.
At the beginning of the Liang Dynasty, after obtaining the franchise, the Beihai salt industry was rapidly expanded and monopolized, and the princes did not have Jiang's share, because the princes competed to monopolize the commodity trade and began to extend their hands to the salt industry, resulting in the impact of Jiang's salt industry.
More importantly, the Jiang family was not the first feudal prince, so in addition to the family soldiers, there was no armed force, and the inland princes were subject to the coastal salt by means of armed robbery, which led to heavy losses for the Jiang family.
In the end, they had to collude with the salt barons who sold smuggled salt, and then used the monopoly privilege of production and sales in their hands to make the armed forces of the salt barons willing to attach themselves to the Jiang family, and after decades of efforts, they finally dominated the Beihai salt industry, forcing the Liang Dynasty to have to assign Beihai to the Jiang family.
After the Jiang family founded the country, it was naturally impossible to continue to connive at the salt lords to sell illicit salt and impact the Jiang family's taxes, but if they were all wiped out, in the eyes of the time, it would inevitably fall into a notoriety of treachery, unkindness, and injustice. As a result, the Jiang clan co-opted the salt lords and acquiesced to their family's privilege of secretly continuing to sell illicit salt in exchange for the salt lords' loyal servants to the Xian king.
In addition to the secret agents behind the huge salt lord family, the reason why the forbidden army of the inner palace obeys Jiang Hai's orders is because of the composition of the forbidden army in the inner palace, a considerable part of which comes from the salt lord family, and the killed forbidden army general Wang Wen is actually the direct line of the salt lord family, and the prince's mansion protector Yanping is also the direct line of the salt lord family, Lu Gao is also, and even among the concubines of the harem of the salt lord, many of them are the pearls of the salt lord family.
All in all, the salt lord in the world is one family, and you can mix it with the salty king.
Cases such as this, in exchange for the armed loyalty of the family by giving away and acquiescing in a specific share of benefits, are not isolated cases, but are extremely common in the era of monarchy, and in a way, stabilize the state situation.