Chapter 36: Yuan's Scheme
The news of Longwei Mansion, Yuan Shao already knew.
As early as the early spring of last year, he got the news from the imperial capital Hu Shang Niu Er at a high price, and of course, he also bought the news that Longwei Mansion was funding Taiping Dao.
However, he kept an eye on it, and did not truthfully report this shocking news to the head of the family, Yuan Kui, but reported the Taiping Dao information given by Hu Shang as the main information, and successfully reimbursed all the expenses......
Yuan Shao did not have any foresight in withholding the information of Longwei Mansion at that time, it was just a revenge on Yuan Kui.
To retaliate against him is to favor that fool Yuan Shu, to retaliate that he never paid attention to his contributions, and to retaliate that he wanted to make Yuan Shu the heir of the Yuan family with his own strength!
But it was precisely because of this that he now had such a good and important reason to divert Yuan Kui's attention.
Seeing that Yuan Kui was no longer the calm and calm expression he had before, and was shocked by the various situations in Longwei Mansion that he had described, Yuan Shao was secretly proud.
At that time, the information of Longwei Mansion given by Hu Shang was naturally not so detailed, but the keen Yuan Shao realized its significance after learning this news, and through a year of digging by himself, he came up with more detailed information now, and many details were discovered after he launched his own forces to investigate, which can be regarded as first-hand information.
Therefore, he was not surprised by Yuan Kui's current change of attitude, just the information that a Huaxia wine shop in the Han Dynasty was opened by Longwei Mansion and was also the fulcrum of their intelligence network, it was enough for Yuan Kui to be shocked.
After all, every state and even every county in Dahan has a Huaxia wine shop, what does this news mean, he doesn't believe Yuan Kui can't figure it out.
However, Yuan Shao thinks that this information seems to be less exciting than his recent major discoveries......
So he chose to throw out a soon-to-be-outdated, less important one in exchange for hiding a new big discovery.
This major discovery was also discovered by himself with his keen sense of smell, of course, Yuan Shao thought that many people might have touched the door, but he had all the details at the first time!
For example, Cao Cao, who had not left Luoyang at that time, had some vague speculations about it when the two were chatting last year, which made Yuan Shao admire his political acumen very much.
For example, Taifu Yuan Kui, who is now sitting in front of him, as a bystander of the party dispute in the state, it is normal for him to have all his suspicions about His Majesty, which is probably the reason why this uncle of the head of the family summoned him today.
Yuan Shao thought that Yuan Kui just wanted to get intelligence assistance from him, so as to support some of his judgments.
Now it seems that this intelligence work is still very important, and Yuan Shao is ready to start further improving his intelligence network next.
After all, like Hu Shang, he sold all kinds of intelligence at a high price, or even a sky-high price, and Yuan Shao said that he was willing to do it.
Isn't it equivalent to selling information to Yuan Kui now? The only difference is that he is his own uncle......
What? Mistracked?
Not...... Back to Yuan Shao's major discovery......
This news was learned by him from Gao Wang and Han Kui, the two ten-standing servants rescued from the prisoner exchange.
They have been doing things "wholeheartedly" for their masters for many years, but now they are extremely angry when they are sold, so after being rescued, they naturally know everything about Yuan Shao's inquiry.
Yuan Shao also figured out through a secret conversation with the two of them that the dim son of heaven in the imperial palace was so powerful!
In the past ten years, he has been playing a faint king, playing a fool, and deceiving people all over the world......
It turns out that the eunuchs are just a bunch of targets thrown by His Majesty today to attract firepower, of course, this target will not only be beaten, the Son of Heaven used them to clear the Shi clan in Bingzhou, and then in turn let the Shi clan get rid of them.
It seems that both sides are balanced and there is a draw, but it is Your Majesty who actually makes money!
Not only has the land and years of accumulation of the state scholars been handed over to the state treasury, but the money and wealth that the Ten Standing Servants have been corrupt for many years have also entered His Majesty's pocket, and I heard that His Majesty has earned tens of billions of dollars just from this wave of operations!
This is not counting the income of the Imperial Salt Division over the years, and the scholars all thought that this Imperial Salt Division had long become a tool for the eunuchs to collect money, but who knew that it had been under the direct control of His Majesty.
In addition, Gao Wang also mentioned that it seems that there is a swordsman organization around His Majesty who is doing things for him wholeheartedly, collecting intelligence and secretly supervising officials is very active.
And Han Kui said that in this party dispute, it seems that the royalists have also been cooperating with His Majesty to act......
This is too terrible and incredible, Yuan Shao was also a little mentally prepared at the time, but after hearing the details, he was still so shocked that he couldn't speak!
Fortunately, he rescued these two eunuchs, otherwise all the warriors would still be kept in the dark......
Even the head of the crown family like his uncle was just a little skeptical and speculative.
But since this is the case, Yuan Shao will not easily leak this news, he wants to use this information to do a big thing!
Yuan Shao has always believed that the scholar clan is the hope of the country's prosperity, but since His Majesty not only does not rely on the talents of the scholar clan, but also is so determined to clear the foundation of the scholar clan, he naturally has to change his original strategy.
This is also the reason why he has been so busy lately that he can only perfunctory his uncle......
"Is there such a thing!? You said that the Taiping thieves also have contact with them, no wonder the Taiping Road has developed so rapidly, and it is really hateful that such a strong reinforcement has come to deceive me! ”
Yuan Kui heard that Longwei Mansion was also in contact with the Taiping Dao people, and suddenly said hatefully.
"Why did the Taiping Dao people contact my uncle?"
Yuan Shao keenly discovered the key point, so he asked tentatively, it seems that coming to act today is not completely fruitless.
"Naturally, I asked for supplies, this time I not only asked for weapons, but also armor, it's really hard to fill!"
mentioned such a straightforward request from Taiping Dao, Yuan Kui was still angry.
He just treated the other party as a hunting dog, ready to let it out to bite the opponent at a critical moment, but now he found out that this hunting dog's appetite is not small, and it seems that there is some risk of becoming a mad dog that he can't control......
This party struggle between the states made him understand that the future court disputes may have great changes from now on, and they are no longer limited to the quarrels in the court meetings and the ups and downs of several official families, but the real battles of the whole county and the whole state!
Didn't the scholar Qingliu lose the merger state unprepared this time?
Although the eunuchs also suffered heavy losses, only three of the thirteen of the ten permanent servants remained, and the protégés and righteous sons under them were all uprooted, but it was not considered to be cut down from the roots, and I heard that His Majesty began to promote some new little eunuchs......
How did this go!?
Yuan Kui is now starting to get closer to the thoughts of some other big clan heads, and he can't do anything to hand over the counterattack to those stupid royalists, and then he may be his turn to protect himself next time, and there will be no chance to turn over at that time......
Therefore, Yuan Kui began to speed up the layout, now that he knows that there are still the remnants of Long Wei, he can contact him, which is less risky than continuing to feed those dissatisfied Taiping Dao people.
After all, Longwei Mansion only relies on a wild island, and in the future, at most, it will threaten Jiangdong and the coast. And Taiping Dao has been developing in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and these places are where the fundamental interests of the Yuan family lie!
In addition, he also sent people to let Yuan Shu increase his expansion efforts in Yanzhou, and the power in his own hands was the most reliable.
"In that case, I thought I might as well get in touch with the people of Longwei in the first place......
Roughly having an idea, Yuan Kui instructed Yuan Shao.
"Well, Shao Zidang immediately tried to get in touch, but it took too much time for his subordinates to come in and listen to the news...... This ......"
Yuan Shao naturally agreed immediately, but since he reported such a big piece of information, Yuan Shao also felt that he was at a loss, so he expressed his difficulties in a roundabout way.