On the morning of the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, Yang Jue received Zhou Zhe and Tianshu's brothers who had returned to Beijing at the gate of Tianshumen.

"Little junior brother, you're finally back. ”

Zhou Zhe punched Yang Jue in the chest, "Senior brother, congratulations in advance, a few of us are idle." Stay in the gladiatorial arena all the time. Under Yang Jue's guidance, everyone walked and chatted.

"Hey, there's not much to be busy with, Princess Xiao Jiu'er is used to living in the Princess's Mansion, although His Majesty has given her a garden again, but she still decided to live in the Princess's Mansion. It's all the people of Ouchi and the master who are running it, and there's nothing to do. Invitations will be sent. Yang Jue scratched his head, he didn't have to be busy with getting married, he seemed to have picked up a big bargain.

"You really hurt Senior Sister Jiu'er. Chen Zui was careful and teased Yang Jue.

"Hehe!" Yang Jue smiled, walked to the door, and did not directly push the door open, but looked at Zhou Zhe, "Little junior brother, guess who's coming?"

"Zhou Zhe, get drunk, are you back?" Hearing this voice, Zhou Zhe was stunned, it was Lao Chen, Lao Chen actually came back.

"Master!" Zhou Zhe was overjoyed, too surprised.

The door was opened by Chen Yuanhou, still dressed in a white scribe's suit, just smiling and looking at a few people outside the door.

"Dad!" Chen Zui was surprised.

"Uncle Shi!" the Yuan Fang brothers said in unison.

"Come in, come in!" Chen Yuanhou led everyone to the door. Zhou Zhe also entered the door, still carrying a box in his hand, and inside was the cry of a fierce bird.

Lao Chen patted Zhou Zhe's shoulder and looked this little apprentice up and down. smiled and said, "Thin, I thought the capital would make you fat." But now it's okay, it's home. ”

Chen Yuan looked at Zhou Zhe, and Chen Zui on the side seemed to be ignored, how could he have the usual lady image, and sat on the stool angrily. How could Lao Chen not see it, and smiled at Chen, "I saw you, and I was still jealous of your little brother's vinegar, my father didn't forget you, and the medicinal materials in the two rooms were in the medicine warehouse at the back." ”

"The master happened to return to Beijing this time to report on his work. So you're back, junior brother, what are you holding in your hand? and open your eyes to us?" Yang Jue asked knowingly, and he didn't let go of it yet!

Zhou Zhexiao raised the box, looked at Yang Jue and said, "Senior brother, you guess, I will give it to you if I guess." ”

Lao Chen turned his head and looked at it, "So it's mysterious." ”

Zhou Zhe smiled and put the box on the table, opened it, and the white jade wrench and the fierce bird screamed quietly in the box.

"This... Is this Shen Deyin's bow?Fierce Bird Wailing?" Yang Jue's eyes widened, his news naturally came from Li Jiuyang, and at this time, the thing was in front of him, which still shocked him, this was an artifact.

"Demon Bow Judge Deyin, have you found his tomb?" Chen Yuanhou was also surprised, if it weren't for the fact that the Book Pavilion of the Book of Heaven had a record of ancient things, even if the bow was placed in front of him, he might not be able to guess the calendar.

"It's the senior's bow, master! Do you remember Wang Rui? That's where they got the inheritance of Shen Deyin's predecessor and this bow. But the group of soldiers I brought with me are all used to being poor, don't mind, senior brother. Zhou Zhe's rhetoric can be regarded as taking over the previous matter, and he did not hide his secrets.

Chen Yuanhou picked up the bow, like a child found the best toy, looked at it again and again, and groped for a long time.

"How is it?master?, can you still get into the eyes of the law?" Zhou Zhe said as if offering a treasure.

"Look what you can do. Chen Yuanhou raised his hand halfway, looked at the laughing Zhou Zhe and frightened him twice.

"Senior Uncle, what Senior Brother Yuan Yuan and I have studied is definitely an artifact, and the one on it is the divine array of four runes, which is exactly the same as that of the Spirit Medium Mountain. Fang Fang opened his mouth to confirm.

"Bow, it's indeed a good bow, it's a pity, it's a pity!" Chen Yuanhou sighed while admiring this outstanding divine weapon thousands of years ago.

"Master, is it a pity that there is no suitable person to use him?" Yang Jue understood that if the artifact did not have a suitable candidate, it would not be able to exert his maximum power.

"That's right, Shen Deyin's mastery is a heavenly change, and the soldiers under your junior brother have been inherited, but it will take time to exert the power of this bow. "Lao Chen can see clearly, such an artifact is best used by his own people, if it is not entrusted to people, the harm will be very great.

"Master, I found a contestant who cultivated the Heavenly Transformation in the gladiatorial arena, and the person was already in my courtyard, I couldn't see for sure. She wanted to go to Longquan Pass to join the army, the purpose was to find Mongeby to test her archery skills. ”

Zhou Zhe explained Wei Lan's matter, and Lao Chen and Yang Jue's eyes lit up.

"Yuan Yuan, Fang Fang, Xiao Drunk, have you seen that Wei Lan, you should have been together for a while, and you should have talked to me about it, what is your sensory impression?"

"Uncle Shi, she is a female soldier ruffian. Fang Fang spoke first, "A few days ago, I passed by their courtyard, and a group of sergeants were all thrown down by him, and Zhou Zhezhao's subordinates saw that her legs were trembling, but she was very generous, and invited them to go down to the restaurant, as for the money for the restaurant, it was all won from Lin Xiaoer. ”

"Well, one thing to say, she is very strong, and she wants to come to Longquan Pass to join the army, in order to find Menggeby's archery, which is not bad. It's good to compete with people, and the soldiers in Longquan Pass are like this. Lao Chen held up a finger and pointed out the merits.

"She doesn't like to bathe, and I once saw lice in her hair. "Chen Zui is a girl, and she is very ladylike, and when she says this, she has goosebumps.

"This. Lao Chen was stunned for a long time and didn't know how to describe it, he couldn't wash it in vain.

Zhou Zhe added, "She once said that she was from the Tianqing Sect, but I verified that I hadn't heard of this sect, but she did know that her inheritance came from the Ancient Dragoons, could it be the descendants of those Dragon-armored Cavalry of Shen Deyin?"

"The source is unknown. Old Chen raised a second finger. "Anything else?"

Zhou Zhe scratched his head and thought about it, "She and Lin Xiaoer often go to the casino, but Lin Xiaoer rushes to lose, because losing money makes him happy, but then Wei Lan didn't go with him, and felt that winning was dishonorable and guilty, which made me feel that she was okay." ”、

"Well, it's okay, he acts openly, he can't rub sand in his eyes, he is a character. Lao Chen raised his third finger, "Positive." ”

Yes, dignified, isn't this the most intuitive feeling of a rock girl, sitting on a stool with her legs spread like a man, and speaking straight and never hiding it. Even if she wins, she doesn't want to bully Lin Xiaoer, the fool in her eyes.

"Master, if you don't come back, I'm going to wait for her to finish fighting and send him to Longquan Pass, and when you return to Beijing this time, I'll hand over the man and the bow to you." ”

What did Zhou Zhe say, his eyes were still nostalgic for the cry of the fierce bird, after all, the artifact, but in his hands, it was indeed buried.

The artifact, just hand it over, Yang Jue suddenly felt that this little junior brother could afford to take it and put it down,

If it were him in the other place, would he be able to give up the bow?

Chen Yuanhou squinted at Zhou Zhe, "You are so willing, what the hell is your idea?"

It is said that Jiang is still old and spicy, Lao Chen understands Zhou Zhe too well, from Longquan Pass to the capital, he has been paying attention to this little apprentice, saying that he is doing loss-making business, Lao Chen does not believe it.

Zhou Zhe looked flattering, and she rolled her eyes when she saw Chen Zui, the first time she saw such a Zhou Zhe, she didn't expect him to have such a side.

"I want food. ”

"Grain?" everyone wondered.

"Lots of food. Zhou Zhe is sure.

Yang Jue knew that Zhou Zhe had collected a lot of grain from Liu Taoren through Xin Chai's hands, and had also built warehouses in various critical transportation fortresses or big cities. And now, it made him a little confused.

Yang Jue spoke, "Little junior brother, you have already stocked up so much grain, there are nearly 10 million taels of silver, and the granaries of many grain merchants have been bought out for you, and Liu Taoren is still harvesting, what do you want to do?"

10 million taels of silver, everyone gasped, the current price of grain is about 200 catties of one tael of silver, and the price is higher in some places, Zhou Zhe is almost collecting grain at any cost.

Chen Yuanhou's face was solemn, and he remembered that some of the plans that Zhou Zhe had said used to hit the sect with grain prices and draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle. Now, most of the military rations in the northern plains can be replaced with dragon spider meat. Nearly 3 million people except for food and drink reserves, if a family of three plants three acres of land, two seasons a year, but evenly out nearly 500 catties of grain, a year is 50 million catties. It seems to be a huge number, but if it is to implement Zhou Zhe's plan, I am afraid it will be overstretched.

And once it is implemented, what will happen under the skyrocketing grain prices? Chen Yuanhou's hand in his sleeve trembled, his apprentice's methods were too vicious and too dangerous.

"Have you thought about it? Don't talk about me then, I'm afraid no one will be able to protect you. Chen Yuanhou lamented.

"Dad, what are you talking about? Why can't I understand?" Watching the two of them play dumb riddles, Chen was drunk and stopped doing it.

"It's none of your business, and no one is allowed to mention today's events. I'll think about it again. I'm tired, rest y'all y'am. Lao Chen flicked his sleeves and left.

Zhou Zhe lowered his head, and the rest of the people were also on the spot, feeling inexplicable.

Only Zhou Zhe knew that Lao Chen couldn't let go, and the price of grain skyrocketed, and the first thing to bear the brunt of it was the people who planted a large number of spiritual grasses, and they would definitely not be able to live, and then they could only flee the famine, which would inevitably be ruined. Those Spiritual Cultivator Sects will not perish at this moment, but they will not be able to have enough spiritual grass and spiritual liquid after losing a large number of people. This is the bottom of the kettle, but once such a strategy is used, Zhou Zhe will face the hatred of the people, and the counterattack of many sects, who can keep him? No one can either.

Chen Yuanhou talked to Zhou Zhe in Longquan Pass, and Zhou Zhe didn't have enough money and influence to do these things at that time, so he just regarded Zhou Zhe's letter as a good homework.

But now, this little apprentice of his has reached the halfway point, and all this is so fast that he is caught off guard.

"I'll go find the master. Zhou Zhe moved to follow Chen Yuanhou, and then looked back, "Don't come with me, I have something to say to the master." ”

One step, two steps, three steps.

Zhou Zhe's legs seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and he seemed to hear the song.

"Heaven and earth are not clear, I do not know. ”

"There was thunder in the sky, and I didn't listen. ”

"But because of the sun and the moon, I asked the sky to accept my life. ”

There was also a voice ringing in his ears: "Forget it! Isn't it nice to get by? ”

"What are you doing with me? Didn't I say I was tired. Lao Chen stopped Zhou Zhe and looked very angry.

"Master, listen to me. Zhou Zhe followed.

"Don't listen, I'm tired. Chen Yuanhou closed the door.

"Master!" Zhou Zhe shouted. Chen Yuanhou sat alone in the room, his expression gloomy.

"Master, you led me to this path, and we didn't do anything, so what is the path we take?" Zhou Zhe asked.

There was silence in the room for a long time, and he sighed deeply before he heard Chen Yuanhou's words, "Come in and close the door." ”

Zhou Zhe pushed open the door, entered the house, carefully closed the door, and walked in front of Chen Yuanhou.

Chen Yuanhou pointed to the chair opposite, "Let me ask you, if you do that, how many people will die?"

"A lot. But the long pain is better than the short pain, and it is better to let the people suffer under their rule, it is better to give it a go. Zhou Zhe's words seemed stubborn and lonely.

"yes! Chen Yuanhou's eyes were stern, "If you win, everything will be fine." What if you lose?"

If you don't win, you will lose first, which is the way to go. Zhou Zhe was silent.

"If you lose, it's not that you lost your silver, and it's not that you Zhou Zhe is killed, but Dasheng. Chen Yuanhou continued earnestly: "Dasheng can't stand it. Those guys can take the opportunity to unite and force Dasheng to sign the alliance under the city again, as a teacher, he has already made a mistake once, and he doesn't want you to be wrong again. ”

"Master, are you referring to sixteen years ago?" Zhou Zhe remembered that Xin Chai's Blood Moon Hall was in Dasheng to give the four major factions the right to manage and attack their fiefdoms.

Sixteen years ago, we thought that as long as we solved the sects that caused trouble to the world, we could deter the world. But what we think is too simple, not long after Your Majesty ascended the throne, the situation is unstable, the King of Qi in Longquan Pass is still at war with the orcs, and we attack and destroy the various sects to give the reason for the union of the four major factions, and the layout is just a matter of our hands. Their aim was to sign an alliance with the city and take the autonomy of their fiefdoms. ”

Zhou Zhe thought of a word, and subconsciously said, "Fake Jieyue." This is their purpose, and now the four major factions have a piece of the Iron Bucket of the Realm?"

Chen Yuanhou continued, "That's true, over the years, I have gradually understood a lot of things, it seems that back then, our four righteousnesses were infinitely beautiful, and we could wantonly exterminate the sect. This is just an illusion, and it is what the four major factions want to see the most. The top warbands of the four major factions back then were no worse than us, so why didn't they stop it? They deliberately gave us a chance, deliberately let us go, and finally succeeded in pushing us to the opposite side of the world's spiritual cultivators. Until they form an alliance, they don't hesitate to do it. At this time, they have become the party that upholds justice and order in the world. ”

Chen Yuanhou smiled self-deprecatingly: "Poor! We have lived for so many years, but we are just a gun in someone else's hand." ”

It turns out that Zhou Zhe understands the reason why Chen Yuanhou stopped him from using food prices to attack the sect, not only because he was afraid that Zhou Zhe would die without a place to be buried, but also because he was afraid that this would become a realignment of the four major factions and force Dasheng to sign an alliance under the city.

It is no wonder that superstition was sent to Li Chi, but he did not do it for a long time. There is such a deep game in this.

But Zhou Zhe was not reconciled, he had already done half of it. Moreover, the dimensionality reduction blow of capital will unprecedentedly weaken the world's sects, which is the best opportunity. "Master, is there really no way?"

"Unless you're just targeting a certain family, or a certain force. Or it could make the four completely abandon the alliance. Don't look at the imminent marriage between Ling Xiao Pavilion and Dasheng, they won't dare to risk the world's condemnation at that time. Chen Yuanhou pointed out several prerequisites, which seem to be only a few sentences, but they are even more difficult.

Zhou Zhe was silent. The murderous punishment that was said to be good is now about to become a joke.

Think about his fame after fighting outside the capital, and the scenery in the gladiatorial arena is infinite, the more they pay attention to it, the more inflated Zhou Zhe is, the more laissez-faire they are, and the more crazy Zhou Zhe becomes.

To make it perish, it must first be inflated. That's what people are like in high positions, inflated, inflated, inflated, and then.

Bang, like a balloon.

Think about what he has? It's just three hundred cronies and those few disciples, and what really supports him is the title of deputy commander of the internal guard and the invisible tree of Tianshumen.

Chen Yuanhou looked at the silent Zhou Zhe and patted him on the shoulder, "Settle down." What did you look like before? Like a man who triumphed all the way and went on alone?"

Advancing alone, Chen Yuanhou has seen everything through, if there is no perfect backup plan, is it a lonely advance?

The road is the same, the road is thousands, but the road is the same. Chen Yuanhou's battle formation has been thoroughly studied, and one is universal, and his reminder is like an enlightenment. It can be said that a word wakes up the person in the dream.

Zhou Zhe understands that if he has no backup force and backup plan, no matter whether he succeeds or fails in the end, he will have to sacrifice for the so-called morality, and even the harmful Dasheng will fall into the water.

The room fell silent, Zhou Zhe was unwilling, he didn't want to miss this opportunity, "Master, if we move forward slowly, drag on for two more years, and wait until the accumulated food is a little more, and the sect in Dasheng is a little weaker, can this matter be done?"

Lao Chen looked at the ground and was silent for a long time before he spoke: "How many layers of certainty do you have?

"It's still being done, I don't know how many layers it is, and the follow-up plan is also being made, but what I want is to secretly hoard the grain first, the grain in Longquanguan is in Star City, and my grain will slow in and out, and I will get the pricing power first." Zhou Zhe's previous words made Lao Chen Zou Mei, but the latter had a pricing power, which made Lao Chen puzzled.

"Pricing power? What is that? What's the use?"

"There are only a few places in the Dasheng grain-producing areas, Hebei Province on the north side of the rootless river, and Shandong Province where the current situation is unstable, all of them are rich land, as long as we can control these two places, buy grain at a low price, and then transport it to the grain-deficient areas, sell it at an average price, crack down on grain merchants, and control the power to set prices in our hands first. I already have a large amount of food in stock, and as long as I can transport it from one main road to another when the road is easy, I can reduce the cost. Now the internal guards in various places are in Yang Jue's hands, as long as checkpoints are set up on the main roads in several production areas, there is a lot to be done for grain merchants. Zhou Zhe's words made Lao Chen start to think, and after a while, he spoke.

"How do you control the production area of Hebei Province, and Shandong Province? These two sects in Hebei Province are all first-class sects, although there are no wealthy families in Shandong Province, but there are many sects. In Lao Chen's words, this is exactly what Zhou Zhe is doing.

Zhou Zhe whispered about the gladiatorial arena's arrangement of the fight between Jasper Villa and Wanhua Pavilion, as well as the follow-up plan of Zhan Qili's horse gang.

After hearing this, Lao Chen squinted at Zhou Zhe, "How did I accept such an apprentice as you!" ”

Zhou Zhe smiled, and Lao Chen agreed with him to do so. "What about the food, Master?"

"I will let Lao Ling arrange for the grain to be set up, and you will get the pricing power first, and I will report this to Your Majesty, which is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people." The follow-up, wait and see. Don't be impulsive. Lao Chen gently patted the table.

Zhou Zhe let go of half of his heart, he could understand Lao Chen's hard work, the follow-up matter, there is no complete layout, and it must not be moved lightly, because Dasheng really can't afford to lose.

"Master Xie is complete. Zhou Zhe smiled, Chen Yuanhou also smiled, this little apprentice is amazing.