Ji Fa waited for the voice of the ministers to slowly lower down, and without waiting for Ji Chang to ask again, he continued: "The three major families of Longyou colluded with Xirong with bad intentions. Fortunately, the Liu family led by Yuezhang refused to go along with it, so they could keep a corner of Longyou safe, so they designed to frame Yuezhang's family, wanting to borrow a knife to kill people and let me Xiqi destroy the city wall. ”

Ji Chang was already angry, but when he heard this, the anger in his heart was suddenly replaced by shock, and he was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.

Xijon, or the Western Regions as it was later called, was not actually a country, but a collective name for many tribes.

As we all know, there is a shortage of water in the Western Regions, and most of the tribes live nomadically. Since ancient times, nomads have one of the biggest drawbacks, that is, they are too dependent on the climate, and whether they can eat enough depends on whether God appreciates their faces, which is far less stable than the income of the Central Plains farming people.

If you can eat enough, you will be honest, and if you can't eat enough, you will come to the Central Plains to rob, which is also the consensus of the nomads around China for thousands of years.

For the Great Shang, the biggest role of Xiqi is to resist the invasion of Xirong, and in the past 600 years of the Great Shang, the successive Xibohou have also dealt with Xirong many times, of course, mainly on the battlefield.

In the past ten years, the climate in the Western Regions has been quite good, so Xirong has always been honest, but in the hearts of Xiqi people, they have always adhered to the idea that their hearts must be different from those of our race, so they have never lost their vigilance against Xirong.

And now that Ji Fa actually said that Xirong was plotting against him again, and he was also colluding with the big family of Longsanyou, it was no wonder that Ji Chang was so shocked.

This is actually Huang Xue's strategy for San Yisheng, since the three major families poured dirty water on the Liu family, they couldn't just think about how to wash it, and Ji Fa also splashed it on his side.

In general, in this case, whoever splashes the dirtier water will win. And Longyou is just close to Xirong, so this basin of water in collusion with foreign enemies is splashed over, but I am afraid that it will be dirty to the extreme.

It's just that such a sentence naturally can't win people's trust, Ji Chang was shocked for a moment, and hurriedly asked: "Fa'er, this matter is not trivial, do you have evidence?"

Ji Fa smiled confidently and said, "If there is no evidence, how dare the sons and daughters believe it? As he spoke, he took out three volumes from his arms and handed them to Ji Chang.

Ji Chang stretched out his hand to take the three volumes, and when he looked at it, there were three account books, which were from the Cui family, the Su family, and the Shi family.

Ji Changqi said: "This is just the account book of the three business dealings, what's so strange? Even if there are some business dealings with the Xirong people, I'm afraid it can't be regarded as collusion." ”

Ji Fa said: "Erchen didn't notice it before, but if you look closely, it's really strange. Father, please look at the account books of the historians, which clearly record that a pound of salt can be sold for 40 yuan, and a pound of coarse tea can be sold for 60 yuan, doesn't my father feel strange?"

Ji Chang frowned and said: "A pound of salt in Xiqi City is sold for six or seven yuan, and a pound of coarse tea is no more than ten yuan, such a price is indeed a bit strange." ”

Ji Fa said again: "Father looks at the account books of the Cui family again, an iron hoe can be sold for six hundred yuan, and a kitchen knife can be sold for six hundred and eighty yuan." As far as Erchen knows, none of these in Xiqi are more than eighty yuan.

There are also Su families, who buy livestock and horses from the Xirong people and sell them in the Central Plains. But the Central Plains sold thousands of good horses, but they only spent less than 200 yuan to buy them, and even more cattle worth 500 yuan cost less than 50 yuan. To this day, the three major families have profited far more than millions from the trade of Sijon. ”

At this moment, the ministers were all shocked, so calculated, the Xirong people were simply giving money to the three families for nothing.

Sure enough, Huang Xue expected nothing worse in this era of low productivity, business is still not developed enough, and everyone is not clear about the reason.

As the most important component of commerce in later generations, cross-border trade has always been several times more profitable than usual, but dozens of times. Since Longyou is close to Xirong, it is naturally difficult for the big families here to resist the interests of transnational trade, so these four major families must have business dealings with the Xirong people.

Naturally, it is due to the differences in people's living habits, production resources, and scientific and technological levels in different countries, and this truth is actually very easy to understand, but it is undoubtedly a fantasy for people in this era.

Due to the inconvenience of transportation and communication, coupled with the almost demonized reputation of the Xijon people, doing business with them was smuggling, and fools would take the initiative to tax the imperial court. I'm afraid that except for the people in these border cities, no one knows about the huge profits at all, even sages like Ji Chang and Zigan, I'm afraid they don't know it.

In fact, it is no wonder that they are just two thousand years later, in the seventies and eighties of the twentieth century, there are still many "inverted masters" in the northeast who will exchange soap and toothpaste with Russians for cars and other industrial products, which is also incredible to the vast majority of Chinese.

Speaking of which, in fact, it is estimated that even the three major families find it difficult to understand why doing business with the Xijon people is so profitable, of course, they must think that the Xijon people are stupid.

But this kind of thing fell into the eyes of Ji Chang and others, but it was a little different, everyone who engages in politics will have a habit, that is, to use conspiracy theories to explain their incomprehensible behavior. Since the Xijon people sent money to the three major families for nothing, there must be some intention, and as for their intentions, it is easy to think of the word "internal response".

Thinking of this, the eyes of Ji Chang and the ministers suddenly changed a little, and Ji Chang said to Ji Fa: "In this way, these three major families are really in some collusion with the Xirong people, then can you find out, is the Liu family in the same stream as them?"

Ji Fa smiled faintly, took out an account book from his arms again, handed it forward and said, "Father, please see, this is the account book of the Liu family, and there are no problems on it." ”

Nonsense, this account book was brought by someone he sent, and even if there is a problem, it has all been modified, so naturally there is no problem.

But objectively speaking, the Liu family is in the grain business, and grain is a rigid demand in the Central Plains, but it is not popular in Xirong. In recent years, Xirong has abundant water and grass, cattle and sheep have grown well, and people eat meat well, so there is really no need to spend a high price to buy your rice and flour that are easy to expire. Therefore, it didn't take much effort to revise the Liu family's accounts.

At this time, the situation is very clear, three of the four major families in Longyou have colluded with foreign enemies, and one family has no collusion, and the three families come to complain, it must be to eradicate dissidents. There is no need for Ji Fa to say more, at this time, Ji Chang and the ministers naturally have such thoughts.

At this time, the four major crimes sued by the three major families against the Liu family, as well as those human and physical evidence, are they really important?

The strategy that Huang Xue came up with was really vicious, and she stubbornly used the difference between her own understanding and that of the people of this era to frame the blame, and directly charged the three major families with a crime of treason.

In fact, she originally had unbearable feelings in her heart, although the three major families sued the Liu family, but in fact, the crime was not to death, and she was also a little hesitant whether this method was too cruel.

But at the moment, although it seems to be the dispute between Ji Fa and Ji Dan's son, it is actually the dispute between the court she represents and the Yuan Shi Tianzun, since she is involved in such a battle, if she is soft-hearted, she will cause the people of the world to suffer, and she can't blame Huang Xue's methods for being too vicious.

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