Wang Huaqiang's voice became higher and higher, and the expression on his face became impassioned: "Miss An, money is a trivial matter, but we can't accept this kind of extortion from others, and we won't acquiesce to the five-percent rule that if any goods enter his warehouse, they have to pay five percent." ”

An Suiyu was also a little anxious, shook her head, and her pigtails shook for a while: "Brother Wei Chi, don't be angry." You Han people have a good saying, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, not only a family in Guzang, they are with the Li family, the Cao family, the Liang family, several hundreds of years of big families together to control the city, you must also know their ability to these rich businessmen, why challenge this current unspoken rule? ”

Wang Huaqiang smiled: "Unspoken rules? What are unspoken rules? If you can't do it in broad daylight, this is called the unspoken rule. I know that the families you mentioned in Guzang City have enough financial resources and strength, but this does not mean that they can cover the sky here, the old thief's Da Sui still has enough ability to suppress these local snakes, and if he sends a cool official, he can govern these big families.

Miss An, you should know that the most rich people are not money, but problems. ”

An Suiyu let out a long sigh: "Brother Wei Chi still doesn't know enough about the details of these Gu Zang's rich people, what you see their industry and strength, including their connections in the Central Plains, are just the tip of the iceberg of their strength, I'll tell you about their real strength now." ”

Wang Huaqiang has long wanted to find out the details of these rich people in Guzang City, and in the depths of his heart, it is also a great wish to one day avenge the bankruptcy of his grandfather, but before that, he must find out the real strength of the enemy, especially to know the mystery of these rich merchants controlling the government, monopolizing trade, and forming an independent kingdom.

When the An family and the Li family dealt with themselves, the tone was very tight, Liu Fucai, a mediocre material, had been in Guzang for two years, and he didn't inquire about anything, and today when he heard An Suiyu say that their brother and sister had an extraordinary relationship with these local tyrant families, Wang Huaqiang made up his mind, and he must provoke this girl to tell the secrets of these local tyrant families in person, and sure enough, under his repeated temptation and teasing, An Suiyu was about to vomit.

Wang Huaqiang suppressed the excitement and excitement in his heart, and said coldly: "Hmph, it's nothing more than two stinky money, this kind of thing of spending money to buy high-ranking officials and nobles, my brother Liu has done a lot, what's so strange?" ”

An Suiyu shook his head and said, "Brother Wei Chi, do you know how much money the four major families of the Li family, the Liang family, the Cao family, and the An family have in this city?" The money of each of their families is only a lot more than that big brother Liu of yours. ”

Wang Huaqiang was secretly taken aback in his heart, and his face changed slightly: "No, although they do business, each family is richer than Brother Liu?" I'm not convinced. You must know that Brother Liu's family has a fortune of hundreds of millions, and half of the shops in Daxing City have to pay him protection money. ”

An Suiyu smiled contemptuously: "Do you know, how many years have these families been on this Silk Road?" From the Western Han Dynasty to today, there are five or six hundred years, Liangzhou has not experienced so many melee like the Central Plains, just when the five chaos was in China, there were so many families in the Central Plains because they left their hometowns and became nothing.

The four I mentioned, the first three are the first Liangzhou wealthy families who settled here from the time of the founding of the city, and even the latest to settle down has been here for more than 300 years, you can imagine their strength. ”

Wang Huaqiang's heart moved, and said: "Wait, didn't the Northern Wei Dynasty move all the rich families in this city to Guanzhong when they attacked Beiliang?" So how did these people stay? ”

An Suiyu nodded: "You know this, it's not simple." At that time, Liangzhou was in turmoil for many years, and the Later Qin, Southern Liang, Northern Liang, and Hu Xia, one after another, barbarian countries attacked Guzang as the national capital.

From Later Qin to Hu Xia, after these countries conquered Guzang, the rich would secretly take out some of the money from the treasure and present it to the new conquerors as a sign of respect, so that the new conquerors were also happy to sit back and enjoy their success, anyway, the rich people had to pay taxes to them for doing business on the Silk Road, and everyone earned.

Only the Taiwu Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Tao, the barbarian, in order to start a war with Rouran, raised military funds, and did not hesitate to threaten forced migration to force the rich people in the city to hand over half of their property.

Tuoba Tao was furious, and moved all the more than 10,000 wealthy families in the city to Guanzhong, but these people still secretly controlled the business of the Silk Road with the servants and housekeepers who stayed in Guzang, when the Northern Dynasty was first established, it needed a lot of money from the Western Regions trade to maintain the operation of the country, so even a generation of barbarian kings Tuoba Tao was helpless against these people.

When Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty revitalized Buddhism and built Buddhist temples nationwide, these wealthy people who moved to Guanzhong took the opportunity to send a large amount of gold to Emperor Xiaowen, and the Northern Wei Dynasty court no longer supervised these rich people, so they returned to their hometowns and re-controlled the ancient city of Liangzhou.

In the decades that these wealthy families have been in Guanzhong, their business has not been affected at all, since the Later Liang period Lu Guang reconquered the Western Regions and opened the Silk Road, their business has been getting better and better, and it is getting bigger and bigger.

For hundreds of years, the only truly new family that has risen here is the Hu Ren An family surnamed Zhaowu Jiu, and it is also a branch of our An family! Although the ancestors who moved to this Guzang City back then were from our An clan, now they have taken root here for hundreds of years, and there is not much blood relationship except for having a common surname An with us. Brother Wei Chi, now do you understand how powerful this rich man is? ”

Wang Huaqiang laughed, he is now completely relieved of these local tyrants in Guzang City: "I have been doing it for a long time, but they are just some frogs at the bottom of the well who hide money and treasure in the mountains outside the city, they can only survive in Liangzhou, in this Guzang City, they can't enter the Central Plains, and it is impossible to seize the world, this kind of person is not worthy of being our friend." ”

An Suiyu was slightly stunned, she didn't expect Wang Huaqiang to be so unkind to see these local tyrants, and said strangely: "Brother Wei Chi, why are you so confident?" ”

Wang Huaqiang's voice was very calm, and the speed of his speech was not fast, but he revealed a sense of confidence: "These rich people in Liangzhou have controlled the trade of the Silk Road, and have accumulated such amazing wealth for hundreds of years, but they have no ambitions, they just want to be their rich men behind closed doors in this Guzang city."

They think that money can buy a qiē, but in fact, in my opinion, as long as they really hold power, their money is like a mirage in this desert, looking magnificent, and when the wind blows, it will be over.

It's like the old thief Yang Jian, if he really wants to move these rich people and directly raid their homes and kill people, or ban the Silk Road trade like banning trade with your Turks, what tricks can they toss? Just like when he bought Rouran to attack the Northern Wei Dynasty, he bought the Turks again to attack the Great Sui? ”

An Suiyu never thought of such a possibility, and when he heard it, he was slightly stunned, and after a while, he shook his head: "I'm afraid it's impossible, today's Turks have been divided, and they won't send troops for money." ”

Wang Huaqiang nodded and continued: "Even if they can buy off the Datou Khan, who has a relatively good life, and create some trouble for the border pass of the Great Sui, it will not last long.

Moreover, in the name of guarding the border passes, the imperial court can transfer a large army to be stationed here for a long time, implement military control, and move these rich people to the interior. ”

An Suiyu smiled slightly: "But Brother Wei Chi, you are not the imperial court, don't use these ideas, even if you look down on these rich people in Guzang, but after all, they are here after all, the reality of the deposit, now that our gold is in the warehouse of the An family, do you want to officially turn your face with them and challenge their actual rule here?" ”