In times of strife and turmoil, all countries ostensibly respected the Confucian people-oriented doctrine as the right way to govern the country, but in fact, they attached great importance to the role of merchants, although the political status of merchants was low, but compared with the peaceful and prosperous times, the social status was higher.

Southern Chu seems to have a vast territory and abundant products, but in fact, at that time, Yunnan, Guizhou and Liangguang were still wild places that had not yet been developed on a large scale, and the grain endowment that really supported the national strength was only the land of Lianghu, eastern Sichuan, Jiangxi and southern Anhui. In addition, the monarchs and ministers had no intention of ruling the country, and the court was still extravagant, which provided an indispensable environment for the Qin clan to gain a foothold in Southern Chu.

Qin Changfeng did not hesitate to spend a huge amount of money and spend ten years of effort to lay down a huge network of intertwined relationships for the Qin family in Southern Chu. Even so, once you face the danger of annihilating the country, there is no need to call it a crime such as "financing the enemy and collaborating with the enemy", and directly identify you as a spy, that is, an enemy who is ordered to hide, and you can uproot the Qin clan overnight! What's more, did he still wronged your Qin clan?

This is also the reason why Qin Gong repeatedly told Yang Zhi to let Qin Changfeng abandon all his assets and industries and save his life first. As the war progressed, Qin Changfeng and Qin Ruju's situation became more and more dangerous, and the two of them knew this as well as a mirror.

The economic strangulation of wages at the bottom of the kettle will eventually lead to soaring prices and difficulties for people's livelihood. It is conceivable how credible the alliance under the city that was fanciful and forced to make it out of desperation. In order to cope with the cost of the war, it can only intensify the exploitation of the people by exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which will lead to boiling public resentment and confusion.

According to Zhang Bohu's intelligence, it is impossible not to even have this bit of foresight, and he should see this very clearly. But when Yang Zhi heard Qin Ruju say this, Zhang Bohu obviously saw through the mystery. But it seems that he deliberately allowed the Qin clan to smuggle a huge amount of gold out of Chu. If you talk about a capital enemy, this is called a real capital enemy! …… Do you want to leave a way back for yourself? I have to understand it this way.

I only heard Qin Ruju continue: "Changfeng decided to take a risk. I took it in one go. Of course, Tan Chongyuan would not issue a release decree to grant people a handle, but gave a pass token to the Prime Minister's Mansion. Changfeng and I are both worried. In order to prevent other accidents, it was decided to stay in Changsha together to deal with it, and only ordered an absolutely reliable deacon shopkeeper to escort him. ”

"Surprisingly, it was a very smooth journey. Later, when I went to the Prime Minister's Mansion to restore my life, it was still the middle-aged scribe who came forward to receive me, and only said three words to me: I know! ”

Which one are Tan Chongyuan and Zhang Bohu singing? Yang Zhi was also a little confused, and asked: "Then when you come this time, does Nanchu have any explanations and what conditions do you want to convey to me?" ”

Qin Ruju shook his head and said, "No." Quite the opposite. The Prime Minister only ordered me to come and send a message to ask Yang Shuai when he could start peace talks, where the place of peace talks would be, and what conditions there were on the part of Great Xia. ”

Yang Zhi couldn't help but smile and said, "Interesting, really interesting!" ”

After thinking about it for a while, he instructed: "In any case, you and Changfeng are the first principle of life first. Gold is a trifle, don't rush to ship. It's not me boasting, you just put tens of thousands of taels of gold in the palace of Emperor Chu. Someday it will have to fall into my hands. ”

Qin Ruju immediately took a bite back: "My life was given by the Qin family, and the master is my reborn parent." In any case, I will sacrifice my life to protect the long wind. ”

"In the eyes of Changfeng and me, more than 100,000 taels of gold is definitely not a trivial matter. As long as it's shipped out. That's Qin's. If it can't be transported, even if it will fall into the hands of Yang Shuai in the future, it can't be Qin's. If only there was such a day. Yang Shuai returned the gold to the Qin family, what would the emperor think? And how to block the mouth of the world? Changfeng once said. The day Yang Shuai succeeds is the time to step down. At that time, the rapids will retreat bravely without a single soldier. If you don't take a penny, Yang Shuai will definitely go down in history because of this! ”

"Changfeng has such an insight, I really underestimate him." Yang Zhi stubbornly emphasized: "But after all, life is more important than money, you better wait for my news with peace of mind." ”

"If you go back this time, you can return to your life like this: First, Nan Chukang is the anger of others, I don't accept this feeling. Second, peace talks can begin at any time. Third, the place of the peace talks was set up in my tent. Fourth, the two countries were bounded by the existing Line of Actual Control, and Southern Chu would pay Bactria 120,000 taels of gold, or 8 million taels of silver, plus 500,000 stone of grain. Under these conditions, Bactria could strike the war. ”

The more Qin Ruju listened, the more frightened he became: "Yang Shuai, if it is according to the conditions you proposed, this ...... Can this Nanchu still agree to peace talks? Do you dare to come to peace talks with you? ”

Yang Zhi smiled: "It's a shame that you're still a businessman!" Haven't you heard of asking for a sky-high price and paying back on the spot? You can rest assured, Nanchu will definitely send an envoy to the peace talks. ”

"Nan Chu counted all the gold taels claimed to be given to me on the Qin family's head, which is very interesting. They used this to express at least two meanings implicitly: first, the gold that the Qin clan brought to Xinyang last time, Southern Chu should have a rough number. I asked for reimbursement of the military expenses, and I may have used it to offset it. The second is to forcibly kidnap the Qin family as one of the bargaining chips in the peace talks. ”

Qin Ruju said depressedly: "How can the territory that our soldiers have worked so hard to return it? Naturally, the existing dividing line is maintained. If what Yang Shuai said comes true, wouldn't the price that Nanchu need to pay for this peace talks be very limited? ”

Yang Zhi said disapprerovingly: "In this era of survival in troubled times, how many stupid people can there be? Whether it is the emperor or the common people, the boundary between mediocrity and wisdom is not whether you can think of it, but whether you can think of it and put it into practice. Nan Chu was just forced by the situation and succumbed to reality, and what Great Xia had not yet obtained on the battlefield could never be easily obtained in peace talks. But no matter what, it's always me who has the advantage. ”

Yang Zhi was Wang Yangming's iron fan in his previous life, and in this life, he also regarded "the unity of knowledge and action" as his motto, and developed the habit of reverse thinking of empathy, so as to solve people and analyze things, and there are few big mistakes.

After Qin Ruju went this time, there was no news for more than ten days.

Yang Zhi speculated that the decision to strike the war and ask for peace may have come from Emperor Chu and Tan Chongyuan, and the forcible kidnapping of the Qin clan as a bargaining chip must have come from Zhang Bohu's handiwork. Anyway, the condition is to go out, to talk about it or not, how to talk about it, that is something that the monarchs and ministers of Southern Chu should consider.

The grain and straw expenditure of the imperial court should be allocated to the military budget, and it is still coming in an orderly and continuous manner. It can be seen that Yang Zhi still has the idea of playing a pole with or without dates, but Zhao Qi doesn't even have the idea of knocking on some bamboo poles, and he made it clear that he would wait until he was relieved, so he didn't hesitate to start fighting again.

If you want to fight, you can fight! Yang Zhi asked himself that the two pieces he had submitted earlier were selfless, not only for the long-term plan of Great Xia, but also for the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command.

In the afternoon of this day, Ma Yun, the newly appointed lieutenant of the Central Military Academy, reported that the Chu army had sent someone to inform the outpost troops of our army's Chen Zhun Department that the envoys of Southern Chu would arrive in Xiaogan in two days.

It's finally here! I don't know what kind of person the envoy sent by Emperor Chu is? (To be continued.) )