Chapter 151: Calculation at Every Turn
Xue Yutang looked a little helpless: "Emperor Qin, the Thirteenth Prince, didn't you just say it, this Zhang family can feed this 800,000 army for half a year, this half a year is enough time to do a lot of things, this royal family rashly stopped the army's military salary, do you think of what the consequences are?"
Xue Yutang said this, Yingren and the Thirteen Princes glanced at each other, and they both felt that cold sweat broke out on their backs, if they directly stopped the military salaries of the 800,000 army, this Zhang family would definitely make a fuss inside, they were taking out some money to appease the official army, and the official army would inevitably follow the Zhang family with all their hearts, and when the time came, the 800,000 army would occupy several cities, and this military salary would naturally be there, they were colluding with the chaos inside and outside the world, wouldn't this pre-Qin Empire be dangerous!
"Huh......" Yingren and the Thirteen Princes both exhaled a long breath.
"I understand that you are creating unfairness for them everywhere, only unfairness can make people have contradictions, you are doing this step by step, making the Zhang family tired of coping, and this unfairness will make some people completely fall to the royal family, which is equivalent to indirectly controlling the army!
Xue Yutang smiled: " Emperor Qin, this is not over, if this is the case, the Zhang family will not be able to use money to make up for this unfairness, and can even use the unfairness created by the royal family to really collect a part of the complete loyalty, so that the 800,000 army wants to be recovered unscathed, it is simply impossible, and we are targeting junior officers, real generals, who are not interested in this point of the royal family, so these containment of them is still limited, so if you want to maximize the effect of this matter, you also need to mess up the Zhang family, so that they have no time to take care of the army!”
Yingren laughed and said, "Xue Yutang, how about coming to me, I'll make you the minister of the capital!"
Xue Yutang said with a smile: "I'm used to being idle and unrestrained, so it's better to look like this now!"
Yingren is just joking, Xue Yutang's current power is not big, but it is not small, how can he be subservient to others!
The Thirteenth Prince looked at Xue Yutang in a daze, and said: "Brother Xue, you have a trick and a deadly move, I now hope that you and I will never meet on the battlefield!"
Xue Yutang laughed and said: "The Thirteen Princes are really joking, who in the entire Hezhou Continent dares to confront the Pre-Qin Empire head-on, the Chaotian Diagram is not good now, and I can't do it!"
Regardless of whether Xue Yutang is modest or not, at least it makes Yingren and the Thirteen Princes feel a little jealous in their hearts, but fortunately, the two of them have a very large pattern, so they will not calculate Xue Yutang for this.
"Xue Yutang, can you tell me how to mess up the Zhang family?" Yingren was also a little curious, when he summoned Xue Yutang and the Thirteen Princes, he also thought a lot in his heart, but there was no very safe way, but this Zhang family had to move, and after thinking about it, he felt that this Zhang Wentian had to die!
Xue Yutang didn't approve of Yingren's method, to put it bluntly, Zhang Wentian is a weak scholar, although his eloquence is good, but in this world full of cultivators, he can't do it by lip service alone! The real person in charge of the Zhang family behind him must be someone else, Xue Yutang understands this, Yingren understands even better, he even knows who the Zhang family is in charge all along, and the reason why he wants to kill Zhang Wentian is also to give a warning to the people behind this and let them restrain themselves, but the effect of this is debatable!
Xue Yutang smiled: "The foundation of a family is nothing more than two things, one is money, the other is martial arts, with these two things, the right will naturally come, the Zhang family's industry is their economic pillar, if you want to attack the Zhang family, you must first cut off his economic pillar! As for force, as long as the Zhang family is not stupid, they dare not use force against the royal family, otherwise the 800,000 army in his hands alone will be enough for them to rebel!"
Yingren smiled: "What you said is not bad, but now that the industry of any family in the Pre-Qin Empire has spread throughout the Pre-Qin Empire, it is not easy to fight at all!"
Xue Yutang smiled and said, "I don't know if Emperor Qin has deceived people?"
Yingren looked at Xue Yutang strangely, this royal struggle has always been a deception, and the means of deceiving people are even more endless, how can it be that he has not deceived people, and it can even be said that he is deceiving people all the time!
"What do you want to say?" Yingren didn't understand what Xue Yutang meant by this!
Xue Yutang smiled: "The most feared thing about doing business is the pit, if you want to distinguish the truth in this complicated business, it is not easy to distinguish the authenticity, if we set up a pit for him and pull him in, then the matter will be simple!"
The Thirteenth Prince was curious: "How to set up this pit for them?"
Xue Yutang smiled: "When I was more than ten years old, I almost grew up in the casino, this casino to put it bluntly, is to see who cheats smart, you see through the opponent's hole cards, and the opponent failed to see through your hole cards, a card time can make you bankrupt! So it is often said that ten bets and nine losses, you think you are smart, sooner or later you will meet a smarter opponent than you! In the end, it may be you who is bankrupt!"
Yingren and the Thirteenth Prince looked at Xue Yutang seriously, waiting for his next step.
Xue Yutang picked up the teacup again, only to find that the water in the teacup had been drunk by him, so he had to put down the teacup stupidly, Yingren smiled, turned around to the kang table and lifted the teapot to refill Xue Yutang, Xue Yutang took a sip of tea, and then slowly said: "The Zhang family has already swelled its ambitions until now, but it is not easy to feed 800,000 troops, in fact, Emperor Qin, you are wrong, you said that this Zhang family can feed the 800,000 army for half a year, and I want to see that he can't even hold on for seven days!"
Yingren frowned, and the thirteenth prince said: "This is impossible, we have understood the strength of the Zhang family, with their strength, it is absolutely no problem to feed 800,000 troops for half a year!"
Xue Yutang tilted his head and looked at the Thirteenth Prince: "Is your so-called understanding calculated through taxes and the income of the Zhang family's various industries?"
The Thirteenth Prince nodded: "That's right, and we have also removed their expenses, so the calculation should be correct!"
Xue Yutang laughed, and said for a long time: "What about me, although the family is not very big, but it is not bad, my family is not big, and the industry is not small in the local area, the annual income is about 500,000 taels of silver, and a group of guards are kept at home, do you know how much silver can be left in our family in a year?"
The Thirteenth Prince said, "How much?"
Xue Yutang shook his head: "It's not enough for five thousand taels of silver!"
The Thirteenth Prince was directly stunned, shook his head and said, "Impossible, how big is your family?"
Xue Yutang stretched out three fingers: "Less than three hundred!"
The thirteenth prince was stunned for a moment: "500,000 taels of silver...... Less than five thousand, this ...... It can't be!"
"Maybe ......" Yingren fell silent: "Old Thirteen, we missed something!"
The thirteenth prince looked at Yingren: "Something was missed?"
Yingren smiled: "People's hearts!"
The Thirteen Princes repeated: "The human heart is ......"
Xue Yutang said with a smile: "Yes, it is people's hearts, as the saying goes, people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants......"
Yingren finally showed a smile on his face at this time: "Yes, if the Zhang family wants to maintain the loyalty of the army, it is far from enough to rely on the appropriation of the pre-Qin Empire alone, so they have to take out a large part of their income every year to buy people's hearts in the army!" In addition, the Zhang family has more than 3,000 people, the expenses in this are a lot of expenses, from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, the Zhang family has existed for so many years, I am afraid that the interior has long been rotten, the poverty and luxury in this is also unimaginable, I now finally understand why Zhang Wentian's desire for money is so serious, I am afraid that this Zhang family has long been full of holes, leaking everywhere, Zhang Wentian wanted to plug this hole, but did not expect this hole to get bigger and bigger, which made him tired, and even the bottom line and principles were not wanted, only thinking about money, for the Zhang family, the risk is only one step away!”
Xue Yutang looked at Yingren appreciatively, he was fascinated by some things when he became an emperor, and someone gently touched the clouds!