(I'm not feeling well this month, I'm spending more time in the hospital than at home, I'm really sorry, 55!)

Qingzhou is the fief of the vassal king, the geographical northwest, called one of Kyushu, in fact, together with Yuzhou and Jizhou, it is almost a country within a country. It is not that they support the army and stand on their own, but that the ancestral system determines that the tax revenue in the fiefdom and the establishment of the government are basically determined by the vassal king, and they only pay a symbolic tribute to the imperial court every year.

The vassal kings had great autonomy, and it was rare that several generations of vassal kings passed down the line, and they were all loyal to the imperial court, and there were no second thoughts. When the imperial court was killed, troops were also sent to help - but with the destruction of Li Hengwei's entire army, the situation became delicate, and people's hearts slowly changed with the situation.

The Meng family chose to migrate to Qingzhou, firstly because of its proximity, and secondly, because they thought that the Yan King of Qingzhou was easy to deal with.

Now, Chen Sanlang met and asked about the Meng family's situation in Qingzhou, and Meng Qingyan's face was bitter, which was intriguing, at least revealing clues: It seems that the Meng family is not doing so well in Qingzhou!

Lu Jing next to him observed the color, and his heart froze: He thought that the Meng family was homesick, so he wanted to return to Yongzhou, but it didn't seem to be the case, could it be that the Meng family encountered difficulties in Qingzhou?

Think about it, and think it's possible.

The situation is different, the world is turbulent, the order is broken, in such a situation, the power of money begins to weaken, and the hard fist is the real truth. The Meng family has been in business for generations, good at business, and has accumulated countless wealth, but these, when the troubled times came, became the bane.

Because the Meng family itself did not have enough strength to protect these wealth, when they arrived in Qingzhou, who knew if King Yan would covet the annexation?

Meng Qingyan looked at Chen Sanlang with a hesitant expression.

Chen Sanlang said: "Steward Meng, in fact, Qingzhou is really not far from Yongzhou, and a lot of news can be easily passed back." But don't worry, no matter what, I welcome the Meng family back. ”

Meng Qingyan sighed: "I heard that Chen Zhuangyuan was benevolent and righteous, and I thanked you below." ”

Saying that, it's a big gift.

Before facing Chen Sanlang, he had thought of many ways to face it, and he was unwilling to expose his own vulnerability too early, so as not to lose the initiative in negotiations. But as Chen Saburo said, there are many things that cannot be hidden, even if they can be hidden for a while, it will not help, and when it is decided to move back, it is meat on the chopping board - if Chen Saburo is destined to be another butcher knife. That being the case, it is better to get straight to the point and show the city, but it is better to talk about it:

"Lord Chen, I can't hide it, when I first entered Qingzhou, everything was fine, but in winter, with the death of the emperor, the new emperor was on the throne...... It's a little different. ”

Chen Sanlang raised his eyebrows: "Have you ever seen King Yan?"

"When I followed the head of the house, I met him twice. ”

"As far as you can see, how is King Yan?"

Meng Qingyan's face was embarrassed, he thought for a while, and said, "Don't you dare to talk about such words?"

In the end, he is just a common man, and if he criticizes King Yan, it is a trespass, which is a big crime.

Chen Sanlang didn't force him, and said to himself: "The world is in chaos, although Qingzhou is in a remote corner and is not affected by the scourge of war at present, but King Yan must be worried, so he will take precautions and make some preparations." Steward Meng, you said it wasn't. ”

Meng Qingyan nodded and said, "That's true." ”

The so-called preparation is nothing more than military armor, military supplies, grain and grass, etc., all of which are money, but where does the money come from? The vassal king sits on a state, a country within a country, has a lot of resources, and has a lot of harvest. It's just that the consumption is not low, the royal family of the vassal king is huge, and the children and grandchildren, who are a little more extravagant, the silver is spent like flowing water. As for the rule of the government, if there is any calamity or calamity, there is more place to use the money.

The land of a state, to some extent, is similar to the land of a country, and the treasury is often scarce and empty, let alone the state treasury?

If the world is peaceful and the feudal king's fiefdom is stable and peaceful, there is no big problem, but now that there is turmoil, it will be different if you want to make a big move.

War is always a bottomless pit that consumes resources, once a war starts, it means a steady stream of consumption, and the warring parties, the side that is not prepared enough, is doomed to be the loser.

Although the three vassal kings don't have much ambition, these are extraordinary times, and even if they don't have the will to fight, they have to hold on to their fiefdoms.

As a result, a large number of troops were mobilized one after another, and batches of resources began to be transported in a centralized manner. When spending is tight and money is insufficient, the best strategy is to raise taxes and develop some targeted new policies.

King Yan set his sights on the Meng family who migrated, the Meng family is rich, the world knows it, since there is, it should be donated to go to the difficulties together.

In the past month, in order to buy peace, the Meng family has donated more than one million taels of silver, and there are many other materials, including rice, grain, cloth, etc......

Even if the Meng family is rich in the world, such a method is unbearable.

At this stage, Yan Wang is still quite harmonious, but no matter how harmonious he is, he will also knock on the bone and suck the marrow, isn't it? When all the assets of the Meng family are absorbed, it is impossible to be a rich man.

Seeing this, the head of the Meng family hurriedly sought countermeasures and wanted to find a way out. There is no need to think about the fiefdoms of the three major feudal kings, being pitted by King Yan once, it is equivalent to being bitten by a snake, and it is impossible for King Zhao and King Jin to go again. Looking at the world, I think that the world is so big that there is no place for it.

You can't go to Manzhou, Yangzhou, Zhongzhou, Mingzhou, Liangzhou...... It was difficult to pinpoint it, and in the end, there was only one place left in Yongzhou, and there happened to be information back, saying that Yongzhou had been decided.

When he heard the news, the head of the Meng family was in good spirits, and he carefully asked about Chen Sanlang's condition, and then wanted to go back to Yongzhou. First, it was the ancestral land, and the people in the family hoped to return to their hometown, and second, the head of the Meng family keenly felt that there were many advantages to defecting to Chen Sanlang. The most fundamental one is that Yongzhou, which is in ruins, needs the Meng family, which is completely different from King Yan.

If there is a need, there will be a place to help.

However, the family is big and the business is big, and it is not easy to move once. It is necessary to clarify Chen Sanlang's attitude, and at the same time to escape from the control of King Yan......

This is the mission of Meng Qingyan to return to Yongzhou first.

Meng Qingyan travels from south to north, is good at receiving people and things, and is very good at dealing with people, but in the face of the young Chen Sanlang, there is a feeling that he has been seen through and has nothing to hide. Every time Chen Sanlang asked, he could always ask the key points, which made the words that Meng Qingyan had prepared for a long time useless.

Chen Sanlang doesn't like to hide things for others, since the Meng family is coming back, and he has to rely on the other party, it is better to get straight to the point and directly spread out the conditions. Anyway, when Yongzhou is now employing people, the most important thing is the post, and after a pause, he immediately said: "Steward Meng, I am about to build a commercial house, which is responsible for business transactions, buying and selling." If the Meng family can come back, this position will be yours. ”

"Commercial property?"

Meng Qingyan was stunned when he heard this, what is this?