Just when Mu Chunsheng and Mu Xiayan were discussing the secrets of the Mu family, Li Yi and Mu Junhe had already analyzed all the major forces in the city at this time.

"Senior brother, just now we have sorted out all the forces in this Jinling City, and the forces in this Jinling City can now be roughly summarized into four shares, the first is the Mu clan headed by Zongzheng Temple, the second is the official power dominated by the Jinling Imperial Court, the third is the local gentry class in Xinzhou, and the last group is the merchants in this Jinling City."

"Although the merchants in Jinling City are considered to be the top merchants in the Dayu Dynasty, the merchants are just merchants, and they are not worth mentioning at all compared to the other three forces."

Mu Junhe said disappreciatively.

"Maybe their strength is far inferior to others, but the more inconspicuous they are, the more dangerous they may be."

Li Yi drew a large area on the ground in a heavy circle.

"You mean that Emperor Shengheng is likely to hand over the task of secretly plotting the grassland army to these people?"

Mu Junhe frowned and thought carefully about this possibility.

"I think it's very likely, after all, these guys don't have a bottom line and persistence like the other three forces, and the businessmen only focus on interests and don't pay attention to benevolence, righteousness and morality."

Although there is a suspicion of overturning a boatload of people with a rod, the fact is that most businessmen only care about profits.

And this time it is the current emperor who gives the benefits.

This is an explanation for businessmen that in addition to economic benefits, they can also obtain political benefits.

"If Yang Ping hears what you say, he probably won't be happy."

Mu Junhe said with a smile.

"Yang Ping is a businessman on the surface, but in essence he is a child of the Mo family."

For Yang Ping and Li Yi, he has some special opinions.

"You're right, Yang Ping doesn't have the kind of philistine drill camp of a businessman in his bones."

Because he has been with Yang Ping for a while, Mu Junhe also has a deep understanding of Yang Ping.

"According to what you said, senior brother, the merchants in Jinling City are now divided into three branches, namely the Southern Business Alliance led by the Shengkui Chamber of Commerce, the Xinzhou Business Alliance led by the Xinzhou Chen family, and the Longyou Business Gang dominated by the Northern Long Family, senior brother, who do you think is most likely to be the internal response arranged by Emperor Shengheng?"

Since Li Yi didn't know the specific situation of these businessmen, he could only analyze it through Mu Junhe's narration.

"These three forces are actually possible, after all, if they can do business so big, they must have the government behind them to support them, first of all, the Southern Business Alliance, behind them is the uncle of the dynasty."

Mu Junhe told what he knew about the Southern Business Alliance.

"Most of the voices of the Southern Business Alliance led by the Sheng Kui Chamber of Commerce are concentrated in the south, and it stands to reason that they should take refuge in Zongzheng Temple, after all, behind Zongzheng Temple is a group of feudal kings in the south?"

Li Yi is a little incomprehensible about this Southern Business Alliance, you must know that if the Southern Business Alliance takes refuge in Zongzheng Temple, then their current development will definitely be much stronger than now.

"It's not that they don't want to take refuge in Zongzheng Temple, it's just because the owner of the Shengkui Chamber of Commerce had a relationship with Uncle Liu Guo from the beginning, and later he was able to expand his business thanks to Uncle Liu's support, so even if he wants to take refuge in Zongzheng Temple, he has to take into account Uncle Liu's attitude."

"In this way, this Southern Business Alliance can be regarded as a person in the rivers and lakes, and he can't help himself."

Although it is said that businessmen chase after profits, there are some things that are not easy to touch, such as the Shengkui Chamber of Commerce, because they started with this Uncle Liu, so he is bound to Uncle Liu.

Even if someone wanted to buy this Shengkui Chamber of Commerce, this Shengkui Chamber of Commerce would not dare to betray it easily.

This is not to say how grateful the Shengkui Chamber of Commerce is, nor is it that they are not good at finances.

It's just because they know that the biggest reliance of a chamber of commerce like theirs is reputation, and once the reputation stinks, then their Shengkui Chamber of Commerce will be completely finished.

Therefore, maintaining the reputation of the Shengkui Chamber of Commerce is one of their top priorities.

"In this way, it is very likely that this Shengkui Chamber of Commerce will obey the orders of Emperor Shengheng and suddenly attack at a critical time to assist the grassland army in attacking Jinling City?"

After understanding the relationship between the Southern Business Alliance and Uncle Liu Guo, Li Yi immediately felt that the suspicion of the Southern Business Alliance was very big.

"This is not necessarily, Uncle Liu Guo is not like other relatives who chase fame and fortune, he is a person who is called indifferent to fame and fortune if he speaks well, and he is called unambitious if he says it badly, so although the relationship between him and Emperor Shengheng is very good, Emperor Shengheng does not want to reuse him."

Mu Junhe told Li Yi some things about Uncle Liu Guo.

"Maybe all this is just a play that Uncle Liu Guo pretended to make, after all, there is no shortage of people in this world who can know how to make a big move."

Although Li Yi hadn't heard too much about Uncle Liu, he knew that Uncle Liu was the most favored person by Emperor Shengheng among his relatives.

And how could a person who was so favored by Emperor Shengheng really be a fool with no ambition and no ability?

"Senior brother, you don't know about it, if this matter is put on someone else, there may indeed be such a possibility, but you don't know Uncle Liu, if you have the opportunity to see you in the future, you can understand."

Mu Junhe smiled bitterly and shook his head and said.

"Since Senior Brother you said that this Southern Business Alliance is unlikely, then the possibility of the Second New State Business Alliance does not seem to be very likely."

Now that Mu Junhe ruled out the Southern Business Alliance, Li Yi shifted the target of his suspicion to the Xinzhou Business Alliance.

But after thinking about it, he felt that the possibility of the New South State Business Alliance was not very large, after all, most of the merchants of the New South State Business Alliance were natives of New South Wales.

Once the grassland army broke through Jinling City, the first to suffer was these local merchants.

After all, most of their belongings were stored in NSW, and the Prairie Army would not let these people go.

Even if Emperor Shengheng would give them some compensation afterwards, they might still suffer heavy losses.

"Senior brother, you don't know, in fact, the war has nothing to do with these merchants, they have money, once the war comes, they can take their belongings and run to other places, so you can't see these merchants with ordinary eyes."

Mu Junhe saw that Li Yi completely denied the possibility that they were internal just because the merchants of the Xinzhou Business Alliance were natives of Xinzhou, so he immediately reminded Li Yi.

Regarding this issue, although Taijizi told them something about business, Taijizi did not talk about it in depth at that time.

However, after Mu Junhe traveled the world alone for several years, he also came into contact with many merchants, especially the Dayu merchants in the north who were close to the grassland tribes, and their actions made Mu Junhe have a long and deep understanding of the bottom line of merchants.

"If you say that these people will escape at a critical time, I may believe it, but to say that they will help Emperor Shengheng to assist the grassland tribe in attacking Xinzhou and attacking Jinling City, this is basically unlikely."

Li Yi still felt that this was unlikely, after all, escaping and assisting the opponent to slaughter his fellow villagers were completely different things.

"In any case, we still have to pay more attention to this new state business alliance."

Mu Junhe saw that Li Yi insisted on his own ideas, and he could only remind Li Yi to pay more attention.

"The last one left is the Dragon Merchant Gang, and I feel that they are the most likely."

Li Yi immediately drew two horizontal bars under the four characters of the Dragon Merchant Gang on the ground.

"That's right, I also think they are the most likely, after all, they are different from the Southern Business Alliance and the New State Business Alliance, and the structure of their Youlong Business Gang is much looser than the first two."

On the issue of the Youlong Merchant Gang, Mu Junhe and Li Yi's views are basically the same, and they both believe that this Youlong Merchant Gang is very likely to be the internal response arranged by Emperor Shengheng.

"Senior brother, you just said that the person in charge of this Dragon Merchant Gang is the Long family in the north, who is this Long family?"

Li Yi had never heard of this Dragon Merchant Gang before, let alone the so-called Dragon Family.

"Speaking of this, the Long family has to mention the previous dynasty."

Mu Junhe couldn't help but show a look of reminiscence on his face as he spoke.

"Is the Long family related to the previous dynasty?"

Li Yi couldn't help but ask curiously.

"That's right, this Long family is actually the queen of the royal family of the previous dynasty."

Mu Junhe said a result that surprised Li Yi. ”

"What? Is the Long family the royal family of the previous dynasty? Didn't the history books say that the royal family of the previous dynasty was wiped out by those rebellious rebels after the destruction of the country? ”

Li Yi had read about the ending of the royal family of the previous dynasty in the history books before.

At that time, Li Yi still felt that the ending of the royal family of the previous dynasty was too tragic.

Although the emperors of the previous dynasty were mediocre, there were not no innocent people in the royal family.

But the rebels who rebelled were merciless, and they completely wiped out anyone with royal blood.

"No matter how careful those rebels are, based on the number of royals in the previous dynasty, there will always be people who can survive."

Mu Junhe said with a long sigh.

Although his ancestor, Emperor Taizu Gao of the Dayu Dynasty, did not slaughter the royal family of the previous dynasty on the surface, no one knows how many members of the royal family of the previous dynasty died in his hands in private.

"Since this Long family is the royal family of the previous dynasty, how dare they come out to do business so openly, and even dare to set up an organization like the Dragon Merchant Gang? Aren't they afraid that the court will know about it and destroy them completely? ”

Li Yi felt very puzzled.

Although there are many later dynasties in history who treated the royal family of the previous dynasty well, most of them were deliberately put on show by later dynasties in order to stabilize the hearts of the people in the world.

Those royal families of the previous dynasties may still be able to live peacefully in the new dynasty for several generations, but when the new dynasty is completely stabilized, most of these former royal families will be slowly eliminated.

Therefore, the smart royal family of the previous dynasty will be unusually low-key after the establishment of the new dynasty.

Because they know very well that once they perform too well, their little life is estimated to be completely doomed.

"This has to say that this dragon family is smart."

When Mu Junhe said this, there was also a hint of appreciation in his eyes.

"Oh? Could it be that this Long family has thought of a special method? ”

Li Yi was very curious about this.

"That's right, the most important reason why this dragon family can be safely inherited for hundreds of years is that they are forbearant enough."

Mu Junhe immediately explained.

"Their Long family has been living in seclusion among the mountains and forests for hundreds of years since the establishment of the Dayu Dynasty, and in this way they have escaped many investigations by the imperial court."

"Then how dare they appear in the bright light later, and even have such achievements in the way of merchants?"

Regarding the forbearance of the Long family, this did not exceed Li Yi's expectations, he just didn't know how the Long family later transformed from a mountain village man to a giant wealthy businessman.

"After living in seclusion for hundreds of years, the Long family decided that their existence was no longer enough to attract the attention of the imperial court, so they moved out of the mountains and began to do business with the belongings left over from the previous dynasty a hundred years ago."

Mu Junhe continued.

"Didn't the imperial court notice it at this time?"

Li Yi did not believe that the Dayu Dynasty would give up the purge of the royal family of the previous dynasty after a hundred years.

He believed that there must have been some people in the Nansi at that time who specialized in dealing with these relics of the previous dynasty.

"You guessed right, not long after the Long family came out of the mountain, they were noticed by the local government, the Long family at that time was in danger, and the head of the Long family at that time made an amazing decision, he actually sent the daughter of the family to the imperial capital to participate in the draft girl."

Mu Junhe smiled coldly.

"In this way, there is someone in the current royal family surnamed Mu who has the blood of the Long family?"

Li Yi understood in an instant.

"Yes, there are now no less than ten vassal kings with the blood of the Long family, and the Long family has sent the women of the family to the palace many times in the past hundred years."

"The Long family is really courageous, good at scheming, they are deeply binding themselves with your Mu royal family!"

Li Yi admired the head of the Long family more than a hundred years ago.

"Yes, the emperor at that time was furious when he knew about this, he originally wanted to completely wipe out the Long family, but at that time, the daughter of the Long family had become his side concubine and had already given birth to two sons and a daughter for him······"

Speaking of which, Mu Junhe couldn't go on anymore.

Because from a normal point of view, it is impossible for any normal person to be ruthless to his wife and his family.

"This is human nature, sometimes human nature is dark and evil, but sometimes human nature is bright and warm."

Li Yi thought of what Tai Jizi said at this time: Human nature has two sides, there is no absolute good and no ultimate evil.

"Yes, but this trick of the Long family was too vicious in the eyes of the Dayu royal family, because their behavior was like that cuckoo, if the royal family didn't find out the details of the Long family at the beginning, it is very likely that the later emperor would have the blood of the Long family, so that the previous dynasty would undoubtedly be restored."

Mu Junhe snorted coldly and said.

"But even so, they still have the blood of your Mu clan, and if you calculate it carefully, this Dayu Dynasty is still your Mu clan!"

Li Yi has a different view.

"You don't understand, sometimes in addition to blood, the identification of the family is the foundation of the family's survival, if those people with the surname Mu who have the blood of the Long family agree that they are the people of the Long family, then they are the descendants of the Long family, not the descendants of the Mu family."

"Then how did the imperial court deal with the Long clan later?"

Li Yi then asked.

"The original emperor really couldn't bear to attack the Long family, but he was worried that the Long family would use this to restore the country, so he ordered that all descendants with the blood of the Long family should not inherit the throne, and the people of the Long family were not allowed to take the imperial examination and were not allowed to be officials."