The light of the sword is like the moon reflecting on Kyushu

Mr. Zhang was almost in tears.

Haven't we been waiting for this day for so many years?

He looked at the young master in front of him with mixed feelings!

It was a baby in swaddling clothes in the past, but now it has grown into a towering tree. I wish the late emperor would be happy in heaven!

Lord Zhang said, "Young Master, why did you suddenly make up your mind?" As a veteran of three dynasties, he must ask the young master about every step of his thoughts. He doesn't want the young master to fall into the abyss!
Liu Miezhou said calmly: "I suddenly figured it out!"

Lord Zhang sighed, "It's a pity that it's not too late. If you had figured it out earlier, it would have been great! At that time, many heroes were fighting for power. We took advantage of the chaos to start a rebellion, and our chances of success were very high!"

Liu Miezhou said: "Now the chances of winning are great." You don't want Lord Zhang to know that you decided to start a rebellion just to avenge your wife! Every word he said was to show his strong self-confidence!

Lord Zhang said, "Now that the country has been settled, the Song cavalry has almost conquered the world. It would be very difficult for us to start a rebellion now! But don't worry, young master. We have never given up the cause of restoring our country over the years. We have been training soldiers in secret and can send out 5,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry at any time!"

Liu Miezhou's eyes flickered as he said, "Five thousand cavalry... although not many, it's better than nothing!" If five thousand cavalry are used well, they can play a big role! It is said that one of the adopted sons of the Demon Lord once relied on five thousand soldiers to cause chaos in Western Shu, turning the world upside down!
Lord Zhang echoed, "Yes, it costs a lot to feed the soldiers and horses! It's really not easy to support all these soldiers!"

"Thank you for your hard work over the years!"

"It's not hard! Our lives were given by the late emperor, so what's a little hardship? What I'm most worried about now is that the troops of the Song Dynasty are now stationed throughout the entire territory of Dashu, and we must be fully prepared when we start our business! In addition, these soldiers are checking the details of all merchants. Once they find out about our business, we will probably be charged a large sum of money!" Before the Dashu Dynasty was destroyed, local government officials turned a blind eye to some shady businesses for the sake of Liu's destruction of Zhou. But now that Dashu has been incorporated into the Song Dynasty, some military dignitaries will inevitably take the opportunity to "divide the fruits". They dare not rob openly, but they will certainly not let go of some industries in the gray area!

They may not eat it all raw, but they will definitely not be able to escape if they eat the majority!

The business that Mr. Zhang was talking about was naturally the salt and iron business that was monopolized by the imperial court! If you want to recruit soldiers and expand your strength, you need money! A huge amount of money!

How to make huge amounts of money? Of course, it’s in the highly profitable industry!

Which industry has huge profits?
There are only two types!
One is the industry monopolized by the imperial court!

One is the industry that is monopolized by the private sector!

Mr. Zhang once considered monopolizing private industries such as tea, silk, and porcelain, but later he found that it was impossible!

Ordinary people's consumption of tea, silk, porcelain and other products is really too small! Those who can really afford them are all rich people!
There are few target customers, but many businesses in the same industry. As the saying goes, there are too many wolves and little meat! Moreover, those businesses have the background of the imperial court. Whether it is fair competition or shady means, it is impossible to effectively suppress the opponent! The competition is extremely cruel, and there is basically no money to be made!

So everyone decided to take a risk and started to get involved in the business monopolized by the imperial court!
Once they started, they immediately tasted the benefits!

The consumption of salt is beyond imagination! There is no family in the whole of Dashu that does not need salt. It has nothing to do with poverty or wealth. Everyone needs it! With such a huge market demand and no bargaining allowed, the profit margin during this period is absolutely attractive!
In addition, they can suppress their competitors to their heart's content! Because selling private salt is a capital crime, not many people dare to do it. The few salt smugglers who dare to do it are suppressed by high officials such as Lord Zhang, and they are simply enjoying it! The only big smuggler surnamed Wei who has become a force to be reckoned with secretly relies on the support of a military general in the court, but he was also secretly framed by Lord Zhang for treason and thrown into prison to solve the problem! After all, Lord Zhang is not fighting alone! Back then, they were a group of people who came to Dashu with hundreds of millions of wealth and have been deeply involved in the government and the country of Shu for nearly 30 years. How could those upstarts shake them? It turns out that they didn't move you because the benefits were not big enough, and they were reluctant to spend a lot of money to deal with you! The benefits are so great now, why don't they kill you and let you steal their own business?

In addition to selling illegal salt, they also resell ironware and war horses!
They imported war horses from Khitan and sold them to the former Southern Tang, Southern Han, Wuyue, and even the Song Dynasty. They also purchased ironware from the Song Dynasty and other dynasties and sold it to Khitan and other countries, making a profit from the difference!
Nowadays, these dynasties in the Central Plains have basically been annexed by the Song Dynasty. The demand for ironware and war horses has obviously dropped compared to before, but they have prepared for the future and opened up the Western Xia market in advance. They have even established contacts with the countries in the Western Regions, and the business network has begun to be laid out!

Now the Song Dynasty began to rule over Shu. As the saying goes, a new emperor appoints new ministers. All the officials in the government are from the Song Dynasty. Facing these new dignitaries, they have to consider the issue of re-managing things! I just don't know whether these Song Dynasty officials have big or small appetites!
Liu Miezhou said: "It doesn't matter if I extort a large sum of money! You will spit out as much as you take from me in the end! By the way, I heard that the situation in Northern Han is unstable now?"

Lord Zhang was startled. He didn't expect him to say, "There is also a new king ascending the throne. His position is indeed unstable! Why are you asking this?"

Liu Miezhou's eyes shone with a strange light, and he said in a deep voice: "They are also a branch of my Liu family, I think..."

Lord Zhang immediately shook his head and said, "No! If you go to Northern Han, you will never come back!"

Liu Miezhou frowned and asked, "Why?"

Lord Zhang said earnestly: "Don't you know that there is no room for two tigers in one mountain? If you go to Northern Han, even a fool will know what you are going to do. They will never give you a chance to leave alive!"

Liu Miezhou groaned, "If that's the case, I should go! If their foundation is solid, why would they be afraid of me? This just shows that their people are unstable and their foundation is not solid! They have been looking forward to me as the orthodox bloodline!"

Lord Zhang said worriedly, "But after all, that is the territory conquered by their ancestors! More importantly, they have the support of the Khitans behind them!"

Liu Miezhou thought it didn't matter, and said proudly: "The Khitans support them just to rule the Han with the Han. They don't care who the Han in the Northern Han palace is! If the emperor of the Northern Han was replaced by me, they would definitely turn around and support me. Do you believe it?"

Mr. Zhang recalled the past.

In the third year of Qianyou, Liu Chengyou, the Emperor Yin of the Later Han Dynasty, was suspicious of General Guo Wei and slaughtered all his family members who stayed in the capital. He also sent an expert to assassinate Guo Wei who was leading troops outside the city! Unexpectedly, the assassin had received great favors from Guo Wei and actually revealed the whole story to Guo Wei! Later, some people said that Guo Wei had no ambition to be the emperor, but was forced to rebel by Emperor Yin of the Han Dynasty!
Guo Wei eventually raised an army in Ye City. On November 21 of the same year, Emperor Yin was killed, and Guo Wei proclaimed himself emperor and established the Later Zhou Dynasty.

Liu Chong, the younger brother of Liu Zhiyuan, the founder of the Later Han Dynasty, the governor of Hedong and the prefect of Taiyuan, immediately occupied the twelve states of Hedong and proclaimed himself emperor, still using the reign title of Qianyou of the Later Han Dynasty. At that time, there was also a Liu Han regime in Lingnan, so people called them Southern Han and Northern Han respectively.

Now that the Southern Han has been destroyed, the Northern Han seems to have further established its orthodox status as the bloodline of the Han royal family!
"Young Master, the current emperor of Northern Han is Liu Jiyuan, so he should be of the same generation as you!"

"Humph, what do you mean by peer? He is Liu Jun's adopted son and has no bloodline of the Liu family. With such an identity, he dares to steal the throne of the Liu family?"

"What did you say? He is Liu Jun's adopted son? How did you know that?"

"I have a friend who is the deputy commander-in-chief of the Imperial City Department of the Great Song Dynasty. Could his source of information be false?"

He once chatted with Feng Jiuxiao about the relationship between Southern Han and Northern Han, and accidentally mentioned the story of Liu Jun, the emperor of Northern Han at that time. The reason why he mentioned him was because Liu Jun was very unlucky and had no offspring! He did have a nephew named Liu Jie'en and an adopted son named Liu Jiyuan.

It is said that Liu Jun died at the hands of Liancheng, who actually served as emperor of Northern Han for a short period of time.

Later, Liancheng died and Liu Jie'en succeeded to the throne as emperor.

Unexpectedly, Liu Jie'en died just a few days later.

But now, everything is just right for Liu Mie Zhou!

"I just don't believe how an adopted son of a side branch can compete with me, a legitimate and orthodox bloodline, for the throne of the Han Dynasty."

Lord Zhang pondered for a moment, "If the news is true, then our chances of winning are even greater! Without further ado, I will contact Lord Li and the others!"

Liu Miezhou said, "You should first notify everyone to gather at the border of Northern Han, and wait for my order to enter the city at any time! Then we will use Jinyang as the starting point to conquer the world!" Lord Zhang said, "Young Master, do you mean to enter the city first?"

Liu Miezhou said: "It's easy for me to sneak in alone. When the time comes, it will be easy to kill a few city guards! Don't forget, I am one of the top ten masters in the world of Dashu!"

Lord Zhang disagreed and said, "A son of a rich family should not sit in the hall. How can you take risks now that you are worth tens of thousands of dollars?"

Liu Miezhou showed determination on his face, "If I fail, I will die! Don't try to persuade me!" But he was thinking in his heart: If I can't even save my wife, how can I have the face to live in this world?

Mr. Zhang thought about it and felt that he really didn't know how to refute, so he said: "Okay, we will act separately and wait for your order! Then the secret communication method between us will be implemented according to what we agreed before?"

Liu Miezhou said: "Okay!"

"There are quite a lot of symbols. Young Master, do you remember them all?"

"Yes, I remember. Don't worry, as long as I see those symbols, I know what they mean. I have also been practicing drawing symbols, so I guarantee that you can understand what I draw!
"Okay, I'll take action first!"

"Ok!"

The sun rose in the east, and the sky was bright. The gate of the Song Dynasty Palace opened, and Li Tianjun, dressed in brocade, hurried out, holding the testimony in his hand, ready to go straight to the Jin Palace. Before the second half of the night, five imperial doctors rushed to confess. If you don't confess, you'd rather die than live. This Li Tianjun is simply not a human being, his methods are too cruel!

In fact, after the first round of torture, more than forty imperial doctors held on, and not one of them confessed!

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But when Li Tianjun said he would have dozens of rounds tonight, the five doctors confessed on the spot! If they didn't confess, they might not even survive tonight, and they would be tortured by Li Tianjun to a point where they would rather die than live!

They are afraid of death and pain, but they are even more afraid of dying from pain!
When Zhao Guangyi saw that there were five confessions, he could hardly believe it!

He knew that someone would confess, and he believed in Li Tianjun's methods. But he didn't expect that five people would confess on their own initiative, which shows how cruel Li Tianjun's methods are! However, if this knife is used well, it can play an immeasurable role!
"Well done!"

"Thank you for the compliment, Your Highness!"

"Although those five doctors all admitted that they were negligent in dispensing medicine, they definitely had no ill intentions, so just put them in jail for a few years and then release them!"

"Your Highness is truly a benevolent and righteous king!"

"Stop talking nonsense!"

"Yes!"

"By the way, if I don't execute these five people, will others think I'm weak? If I don't even execute the murderer who killed the emperor, will it inspire courage in others? Will it cause misunderstandings and cause unnecessary chaos?"

"Your Highness, I think these five people cannot be let go! Only by killing them can your authority be maintained!"

"But I can't do it!"

"Your Highness, don't you still have me here?" Li Tianjun bowed and lowered his voice.

Zhao Guangyi was very satisfied with his performance, but his face remained calm and he said calmly: "If you take action, wouldn't it be the same as the Imperial City Bureau taking action? Or will there be a lot of misunderstandings?"

Li Tianjun whispered, "Your Highness, I said I would handle it, but I didn't say I would handle it in the capacity of the Imperial City Division."

"Oh?" Zhao Guangyi's eyes flickered, "Then in whose name are you doing this?"

Li Tianjun's eyes showed a hint of cunning, "Of course only bandits can do such a thing."

Zhao Guangyi didn't ask any more questions and just nodded.

The five imperial doctors were exiled back home, and then people were sent to rob and kill them on the way, and the blame was once again put on the bandits.

Good idea, reward!
On the top of Mount Shu, the sun is about to rise from the horizon.

Eight people stood on the edge of the cliff, admiring the sunrise together.

Feng Jiuxiao said: "After watching the sunrise, let's go down the mountain! To Qinghai Lake!"

Zeng Yong and others responded one after another: "Good! Good! Good!"

At this time, on an official road leading to the north, Liu Miezhou was riding a large chestnut horse, looking very leisurely.

The morning sun had not yet risen, the air was a little chilly, and there were almost no pedestrians on the road.

When he arrived in Chengdu again, the gatekeepers were all Song soldiers, and many people knew him. He was a friend of the deputy commander of the Imperial City Si Feng, a great master with four swords hanging from his waist. He followed the army all the way to the west and helped General Wang conquer Chengdu. Who didn't know this?

So Liu defeated Zhou and passed the city easily.

By the time General Wang found out, Liu Miezhou had already left for a while.

Wang Quanbin immediately scolded the soldiers guarding the city!
What a great opportunity it was to deepen the relationship with Deputy Commander-in-Chief Feng's brothers, but it was wasted!

At this moment, he was regretting missing the opportunity to host a banquet for Liu Mie Zhou, but he didn't know that several major events had happened last night.

One was that the emperor died because of mistakes made by several imperial doctors in dispensing medicine. He would receive this news in two days.

Second, the young master Liu whom he missed, his real identity was a member of the Later Han Dynasty royal family. He had decided to start the cause of restoring the country last night. He would receive this news in a month or several months.

Third, the deputy envoy whom he admired the most had decided to go to Qinghai Lake last night. Qinghai Lake was the territory of Tubo. Tubo was also a strong enemy of the Song Dynasty. He would also get this news soon. (End of this chapter)