"PS: Mom and Dad are here today, and I will play mahjong with them at night, so I won't add more for the time being, I hope you will forgive me. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ』

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Two days later, news came out from the palace, saying that Wei Tianzi was not in good health and needed to rest for a while.

As soon as this news came out, King Yong's reputation in Daliang rose again, and many aristocratic families who had climbed the East Palace changed their doors one after another, sharpening their heads in the hope of joining the camp of King Yong.

Although King Yong Hongyu is still not sitting in the position of the prince of the East Palace, he assists the "prison country", and in a sense, he is already a nameless prince.

For those aristocratic families who changed their courts and defected to themselves, Yongwang Hongyu generously decided not to blame the past, which made the power of the Yongwang Party suddenly replace the power of the Donggong Party.

Of course, in the days of the fall of Zhao Hongli, the crown prince of the East Palace, in fact, it was not only Yongwang Hongyu who was buying people's hearts, in fact, the Xiangwang Party and the Qingwang Party were sparing no effort to win over those powerful people and clans who were originally attached to the East Palace, and even including the Suwang Party.

Of course, the Suwang Party mentioned here refers to Zhao Laiyu, the third uncle of Suwang Zhao Hongrun, not Zhao Hongrun himself.

The third uncle, Zhao Laiyu, recommended himself to Zhao Hongrun, whether he was good at advocating or talking to himself, in short, he took over this task.

I have to say that Zhao Hongli, the prince of the East Palace, made a big mistake this time and collapsed.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, King Yong, King Xiang, King Qing, and King Su can all be said to have a piece of the pie.

The other three princes are not mentioned for the time being, and even Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, who has the best reputation among the people but the worst reputation in the aristocratic circle, has also appeared behind him one after another Some aristocratic forces supporting him have appeared one after another.

This aristocratic force does not refer to the outsiders such as the Yangyu clan, the Nanmen clan, and the Gong clan in Shangshui County, but refers to the nobles of the Wei State itself.

I remember that two years ago, Zhao Hongrun only had Shen Shufei's maiden family "Huangyi Shen Family" behind him, a middle-level aristocrat who was not very prosperous, and now, behind Zhao Hongrun's body has successively appeared a noble force linked by "Anling Zhao Family", and it has some influence in the domestic aristocratic circle.

But to be honest, Zhao Hongrun was not happy about this, because he knew very well why those aristocratic families would support him, there was only one reason: interests!

Indeed, King Su is a cold stove, because he does not fight for the throne, but he controls the 'Sichuan Alliance' and the 'Shangshui County', the former is an important city of the 'Wei and Chu trade', and the latter is the transit point of the 'Wei Chu trade'.

It is actually inappropriate to say that "Wei and Chu trade", after all, Wei and Chu have just fought a war, and neither Wei nor Chu recognize the existence of trade between the two countries.

Therefore, the so-called "Wei Chu trade" is actually the smuggling between "Pingyu" and "Shangshui", which is the private trade between Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, and Xiong Tuo, the king of Chu Xuancheng, and cannot be put on the table to explain. However, it is undeniable that the share of smuggling is huge, and if anyone knows about the profits, I believe they will be blushing.

In fact, if you think about it, you know that there must be a problem with the specialties of the Chu State in Shangshui County - the reason why Shangshui County has developed rapidly is because there are many caravans in the Wei State that buy the specialties of the Chu State here, such as bronzes, lacquerware, pearls, and so on. The merchants bought these things, or shipped them back to China to sell, or shipped them to Sanchuan County, the pearls of Chu State, the best land to sell in Sanchuan County, has long become a favorite thing for the girls of the Qiang tribe.

But the question is, where did Shangshui County get so many specialties of the Chu State?

The reason is simple, smuggling!

Pingyujun Xiong Hu is the person in charge of this smuggling route.

He was responsible for transporting the specialties and ores of the Chu State to Shangshui County, exchanging grain and weapons and equipment eliminated by the Wei State from Shangshui County, and arming the army of Xiong Tuo, the Jun of Xucheng, which greatly increased the strength of Xiong Tuo in the Chu State, which was no less than several princes of the Chu State such as Guling Jun Xiong Wu and Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng.

I believe that Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, is also quite a headache at this moment, after all, the power of the three sons is very large, and they all have some connections with foreign countries - Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, caught up with Zhao Hongrun, the king of Wei, because of the relationship between Mi Jiang, and Xiong Wu, the king of Guling, is said to have correspondence with Nangong Yao in the Song Dynasty, and Xiong Sheng, the king of Liyang, is said to be secretly selling old weapons to him within the Qi State.

In addition, the Qu clan who was exiled to Gulingyi, under the instruction of Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, Shangshui County also secretly transported some contraband to the Qu clan, and I heard that the Qu clan had secretly formed an army.

In short, the internal problems of Chu are quite serious.

Of course, all this has nothing to do with Zhao Hongrun, he naturally hopes that the more chaotic the Chu State is, the better, unless Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, has been able to sit in the position of the king of Chu, otherwise, he will spare no effort to secretly support Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, and his brothers.

Having said that, Zhao Hongrun does have quite a lot of channels in his hands now, and he is also easy to be looked down upon.

"Weichuan Trade", "Commercial Water Smuggling", "Bolangshahe Port", "Xiangfu Port", and the "Lianglu Canal" being built by the Ministry of Industry, it is undeniable that although Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, has not yet formed a power in the imperial court, he has mastered these trade channels, and this is why the Ministry of Household acquiesced to his huge debts on credit.

At present, it is only Sanchuan and Chu, and when the "Lianglu Canal" is completed, the trade circle will be even more terrible, and the Lu and Qi countries in the east will also join the ranks of Wei's trade partners.

The Sichuan Alliance, surrendered to Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su.

Shangshui County, that is the fiefdom of Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su.

Bolangsha River Port, which was built by the Metallurgical Bureau.

Xiangfu Port was also repaired by the Metallurgical Bureau.

Liang Lu Canal was proposed by Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, and was jointly built by the Ministry of Industry and Lu Guo, and the relationship between the Ministry of Industry and the Smelting Bureau was so good that he could wear a pair of pants.

As long as you start from these points, Zhao Hongrun's third uncle, Zhao Laiyu, is really not a problem to persuade some aristocratic families to defect to the Su Wang party, after all, the water trade composed of these places, the profits behind it are too huge.

But then again, since those aristocratic families came to take refuge, it means that Zhao Hongrun at least has a little soup from others, and he can no longer be as ruthless and secretly bad as he was at the beginning of the Sanchuan trade. Otherwise, why let the other party take refuge?

On the ninth day of the seventh month, Zhao Hongrun was recommended as a lobbyist by Zhao Laiyu, who was recommended as a lobbyist, for a long time, and finally responded to the matter.

It's not that Zhao Hongrun was persuaded by Zhao Laiyu, but he was thinking about a question: he strongly supported the civilian merchants in the "Sanchuan Trade" at the beginning, but why did the civilian merchants fail?

I have to say that Zhao Hongrun has always hoped to strengthen the power of private businessmen in Wei, but what disappointed him is that there are really few private businessmen who can grow.

I remember that at the beginning, he intended to let Zhu Hai, the general of Chenggaoguan, refuse the domestic aristocratic businessmen to go to Sanchuan, gave the private businessmen a development opportunity for almost a year, and even persuaded the household department to support the private businessmen, but as of now, how many private businessmen have become large-scale?

Not a few.

In response to this matter, Zhao Hongrun once sent the green crows to investigate, only to learn that the original group of profitable businessmen have insisted on very few today: there is a "Tao Hong", which has now become a huge wealth in Dingtao County, and there is also an Anling Wei man "Wen Shaobo", who has also become a huge wealth in Anling County.

But what else?

The waves are sweeping the sand, and there are very few left, and more are still famous families in various places.

This situation is equivalent to a failure, and it is a fiasco.

In fact, Zhao Hongrun also considered this possibility at the beginning. After all, most of those private businessmen used to have poor family backgrounds, and when these people who were used to suffering in the past suddenly got a huge amount of money, they would naturally be lost, inflated, arrogant, greedy for pleasure, and used the money that could continue to be used as the principal to expand their financial resources, buy mansions, add maids, and be keen to enjoy, but when they looked back at the city, there was no room for them to exist.

"Note: In fact, many popular uprisings have historically been defeated by this point. They did well at first, but almost every time they hit the halfway point, the rebel leadership began to follow the example of the person they were meant to defeat, and it was completely finished in the second half. Let's say the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In fact, there were many uprisings, all of which were lost in the second half. Why? This is because many people only think about "overthrowing" but do not think about "what to do after overthrowing the old forces", and this is the limitation of the so-called peasant uprising."

I have to say that almost ninety percent of those people stumbled at this step, thinking that they had made a huge amount of money, but they didn't know that this so-called huge money was still a drop in the bucket for the real rich; They had the opportunity to become the richest and richest of the country, but the momentary loss made them miss this opportunity.

To be honest, this disappointed Zhao Hongrun.

Because of his favoritism, he only made a very small part of the commoners rich, but it could not change the overall situation of the civilian merchants in the Wei State.

This incident made Zhao Hongrun realize a negligence: he let those ordinary businessmen make money too easily, so that these people forgot their hearts and lost themselves in Antu pleasures; And after these people had enjoyed themselves, they found that there was no place for them in the Sanchuan trade.

The most fundamental reason is that there are very few people among the ordinary businessmen who are truly broad-minded, so that most of them just want to "make a big profit", but they don't know how to make full use of it after making huge fortunes and maximize the money.

To put it simply, civilian businessmen need a signpost to guide them forward.

And those aristocratic forces who defected to the Suwang Party, Zhao Hongrun felt that these people should also be given a rule that could restrain them and restrain them.

『Chamber of Commerce ......』

Suddenly, a thought came to Zhao Hongrun's heart.

In mid-July, when the Daliang government and the opposition were still lamenting the fall of the East Palace, or speculating about the wrestling between King Yong, King Xiang, and King Qing, Zhao Hongrun quietly bought three small shops on the street in the west of Daliang, and after asking the craftsmen of the Construction Department of the Ministry of Industry to paint and decorate, he hung a plaque, "Su's Chamber of Commerce".

Many neighbors in the neighborhood did not know what this so-called chamber of commerce was for, and they made speculations.

And just when they were secretly speculating, the aristocratic forces behind the Suwang Party, the Huangyi Shen clan, the Anling Zhao clan, the Shangshui Yangyu clan, the Yanling Gong clan, etc., quickly twisted into a single force, and jointly invited the construction department of the Smelting Bureau to build dozens of merchant ships, and after completion, they were put into the stable trade route of "Sichuan-Wei-Chu".

At the same time, the Yongwang Party recruited local nobles and commoner merchants to join the Su Chamber of Commerce in various places and set up shops in the local area.

This line gradually formed a huge transportation and trade network, as if to cover the entire Wei State.