"As the saying goes, scarcity is expensive. The reason why orchid madder is worth thousands of gold is because it is rare and rare, but if the quantity is too small, it is difficult to become a trend. According to the opinion of the ministers, the people under the current rule know that this thing can make money, so it is better to hand over these twenty plants to the Yibu who is good at planting to cultivate, and after the number has increased more than ten times, then sell them at a price in the country. Xiangye only needs to sell seedlings, and he can sit for tens of thousands of gold. Let's talk ...... again."

He leaned in front of Huaiqing's case and whispered, "Xiangye is in charge of the government alone, and he has offended a lot of people in the court, the first one is that Gongzi Kun. If you know that Huai Xiang has this entry, he will definitely go forward to slander you, rather than this, we might as well take precautions. So and so ......."

As soon as he spoke, Huaiqing's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he slapped the case categorically: "Okay, let's do it, although Mr. is a business traveler, he is many times stronger than those strategists in the old man's mansion!"

Out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Yi Gong boarded his luxurious bronze chariot and breathed a long sigh of relief.

Although he was a merchant traveler, the identity of a trading company or caravan has never been so simple since ancient times, and many of them have the mission of "fighting and diplomatic relations". The fact that a trading company is a diplomatic relationship is carried out only by the relevant leaders who are actually officials, and it does not prevent the trading company from being able to integrate the functions of private business travel, but in fact it is both official and private. Nanlin Society has an official leader like Rong Yi, and relies on the Yi family trading company to spy on the internal situation of the state, divide the enemy country by in, and do everything possible.

In ancient China, it was not uncommon for wars to have diplomatic relations between countries, and every country regarded "inter-state relations" as an important aspect of diplomatic relations. The actual meaning of the word "jiao" is that there is a war between wars and states, and its essence is still war, and it is a war that serves the war. In the eyes of the world, the reason why the combination of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the later generations is thrilling and treacherous, its essence lies in the all-round nature of the war and diplomatic relations.

At the very least, there are four aspects to the actual content of such warlike relations:

First, the envoys mediated at the top with persuasion of the other country's monarch and ministers as the axis, which was a "lobbyist" diplomatic relationship, which was a positive manifestation of official diplomatic relations. For example, Yi Gong used his own trading company's monopoly operation of the Hubei Salt Road to successfully break into the core decision-making level of the Hubei country, and exerted its tongue effect.

Second, heavy money and rumors are used as the main means to divide the enemy camp. For example, this time, in Rong Yi's plan, he took advantage of the contradiction between the Hou Yufang and the eldest son E Kun, which was bound to create a situation where the father and son were suspicious and the brothers were fighting, so as to divide and disintegrate the fighting will of the Hubei country.

Thirdly, when a minister of celebrity and a man of different skills enters a country, it is said that the country implements some kind of policy of self-weakening, which is called "inter-minister". Yi Gong took on the role of "courtier" this time, and the prop used was Orchid Madder. This thing was originally meant to be dedicated to Huaiqing, but if it was too easy to obtain, I was afraid that it would make the other party suspicious. It happened that Huai Qingli wanted to be consumed, and he actually raised a private army to attack Langu, which can be said to be in the middle of the heart.

Fourth, the secret assassination of the assassins with the clever swordsman as the assassin was carried out, and the most dangerous and direct and indistinguishable hostile characters were cut off. There is no shortage of skilled swordsmen in the Nanlin Society, but there is no such plan at the moment.

However, this kind of "inter-war war" is completely different from the conspiracy politics of later generations. The fundamental point is that this kind of interwar is not for internal affairs, but only for foreign affairs; Later conspiracy politics used covert power to spy on subordinates and political opponents. In other words, inter-state relations are only used externally as a means of the state, not as a political force within the state; The conspiracy politics of later dynasties was the opposite, using secret power as an internal political tool.

The Art of War. "You can't use it without wisdom, you can't use it without benevolence and righteousness, and you can't get the truth without subtlety." Wow! Wow! …… Whoever can use wisdom as a means of superiority will accomplish great things." It can be seen that the use of inter-war is only in the two aspects of war and diplomatic relations, and the goal is extremely pure, so it is regarded as a high-end battlefield for the "sage and wisdom", and it really does not have the background of conspiracy in later generations.

The integration of the war and the war between the wars and the war shows the three links of step-by-step forcing the destruction of the enemy country: heavy money bribery - sword assassination - the army follows. In other words, weakening the enemy country with warlike relations and destroying the enemy country with elite armies is an organic overall strategy.

This time, Yigong people entered Echeng as a business traveler, which was a major plan for the war relations between Rongyi.

Zhou Wang Jihu and Rong Yi secretly discussed, and the two monarchs and ministers agreed that the Hu soldiers were strong and strong, and at the beginning of Daqingze's victory over the Eighth Division of Zhou, morale would inevitably be high.

It is not possible to use military means to fight hard. Efforts must be made to effectively weaken the power of the country before the war begins.

Rong Yi also thought about it behind closed doors for several days, and finally came up with a subtle plan: first, take advantage of the opportunity of King Zhou's wedding to make the newly cultivated orchid madder in Langu famous, and attract madder, orchid paste, especially the situation that it is difficult to find a madder, orchid paste, especially orchid madder; Then, set up a bureau to lure the greedy Hubei Minister Huaiqing to take the bait, and used the monopoly of orchid madder plants as bait, so that the nobles of Hubei rushed to buy it, and the common people also competed to plant it for profit. In this way, it only takes a year or two, and the whole country does not produce, and everyone pursues grass planting for profit, and it is best to give up farming by cultivators and nets by fishermen. At that time, the Yishi trading company only needs to close the net lightly, and the agricultural economy of Hubei will collapse in an instant.

"Wow!" At that time, after listening to Rong Yi's plan, Zhou Wang Jihu couldn't help but praise it: "It's so exquisite, one ring is one ring, why worry about big things?"

Rong Yi was not so optimistic: "The king, the minister is worried that there are wise men in Hubei who can see the minister's situation. Others don't say it, it's just that Gongzi Kun......

"Sir, I'm worried." Ji Hu waved his hand confidently: "The father and son of the E family are deeply suspicious, although the E Kun is both wise and brave, but he must not be trusted by his father, so there is no need to worry!"

As soon as the words were settled, both the monarch and the minister laughed.

In the weaving workshop of Chen Gonghou, Mrs. Chen Hou is bending down to carefully inspect a pottery jar, and the purple dye in the jar exudes a faint fragrance......

After sniffing for a long time, Chen Huan's well-maintained white face finally showed a rare smile: "Not bad, it is indeed a rare treasure, the value of these six thousand golden flowers!"

"Then you don't need to ask!" Yu Ze behind him smiled flatteringly: "It's also Madame's unique vision, if it weren't for this orchid madder, this purple dye would not be able to be both fragrant and not clumpy."

"That's natural, the goose yellow that I dyed before, you just need to put blue paste into the dye. But now with such a deep purple color, treasures like non-orchid madder can't succeed." Speaking of his proud work, Chen Huan is quite arrogant.