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Chapter 192 The Power of the Merchant

Summer means abundance and harvest for the grassland tribes.

When the pasture is plentiful, the cattle and sheep will be fat.

"I don't like the food of people from the Central Plains."

"It's actually not bad."

"Wahai, you haven't eaten it. The food from the Central Plains is too strong, not as good as our beef and mutton."

"Maybe."

Hua Zhuo and Wa Hai are eating.

"Thanks to the blessings of the gods, the weather is smooth this year, and there are no natural disasters. It looks like another good year."

Hua Zhuo swallowed the mutton in his mouth and prayed devoutly.

After a while, he felt that the gods should have heard his prayer, and then he said comfortably: "This time the Jibo Department has suffered a lot of bad luck."

Wa Hai was meticulous, "He Lianchun ordered Wynn to attack, but he didn't let him attack Jiancheng."

"Wynn also has ambitions." Hua Zhuo stroked his shiny beard with his oily hands, "If Zhangyu County is captured, the Jibo Department will have thousands of male and female slaves, and there will be a lot of gains. Tang people are hardworking and always let us get something for nothing .”

He smiled very proudly.

Wahai stood up, "I'm going to practice."

"If you want to find a woman, go there, don't keep practicing." Hua Zhuo said with concern: "There are two ways for a man to die, either on the back of a horse, or on a woman's belly, just don't waste time on it. Let's practice."

Wa Hai shook her head and said seriously: "Hua Zhuo, don't forget Yang Xuan."

Hua Zhuo nodded, "Do you know that Beiliao has dispatched elites recently and wiped out several large tribes in one fell swoop, and there are 6 warriors who surrendered alone. Wahai, Beiliao is getting stronger and stronger, but Datang is all together Falling. We just need to wait, Beiliao will attack naturally. When the army of Beiliao goes south, what is Chenzhou? What is Yang Xuan?"

Wahai shook her head, "I prefer to take revenge myself."

"So that's why I can be a Khan."

Hua Zhuo smiled, "Yesterday I slept with a woman, it was very interesting, try it today."

"Khan."

See you outside.

"Come in."

The friendly smile dissipated, and the majesty descended on Hua Zhuo again.

A man enters.

"Khan, the Asan tribe has been wiped out."

"Who did it?"

Ben Khan lost another herd of cows... Hua Zhuo asked angrily.

This is not a small matter, he must uphold justice.

"They said that three days ago Yang Xuan led hundreds of cavalry to raid the Yasan Tribe, killed all the people in the tribe who dared to hold a sword, and even took away most of the women. Now there are only dozens of old and weak in the Yasan Tribe. "

"Yang Xuan?" Wahai stopped walking, his eyes became more stern.

"How dare he...why?" Hua Zhuo didn't think that Yang Xuanping dared to rush into the grassland to kill people for no reason.

The person who came said: "It is said that the people from the Yasan tribe killed several businessmen. Yang Xuan threatened to avenge them, so he led the army to destroy the Yasan tribe."

Hua Zhuo said angrily: "The Yasan Department is poor and crazy, and they went to intercept and kill Datang merchants."

"Khan, he is a grassland merchant."

Yang Xuan is crazy... Hua Zhuo: "Why?"

"Taiping said that the two merchants who were killed paid taxes in Taiping and were protected by Taiping. Whoever kills them is Taiping's enemy."

Hua Zhuo was furious, and threw the sheep bone in his hand, "On both sides are my clansmen of Vase, he has such a big face!"

Wahai said: "Brother, he wants to show his prestige!"

"I know." Hua Zhuo said with a sullen face, "He hit me in the face in front of many people. It's interesting, interesting!"

Khan smiled kindly, but everyone knew that such a Khan was very dangerous.

"Let's send out troops." Wahai didn't understand military affairs, but was eager to take revenge.

Hua Zhuo clapped the case and said, "Let people go to the various ministries to gather people, Ben Khan wants the horse to go to peace!"

Immediately, messengers spread out, Wang Ting's army was assembled, and scouts headed south in wave after wave. The atmosphere was very tense.

The trusted envoy was called back not long after he was about to leave.

"Yang Xuan not only avenged those two businessmen, but also gave those two families a lot of money. Those businessmen were ecstatic. Now the name of Yang Xuan's benevolence is widely spread in the Vasie tribe. Khan, this is his poisonous plan .”

The leader of a tribe below came in a hurry.

Then came more chiefs.

"Khan, those merchants are praising Taiping. Many people are loading their cars and preparing to trade in Taiping."

"..."

……

"This attack is a provocation, and Hua Zhuo will go crazy." Because he brought a lot of prisoners and captured, the return journey was relatively slow, like traveling in mountains and rivers.Li Han expressed his worries: "It's okay to defend the city, but this year's crops will probably be gone."

"They dare not come." Yang Xuan said firmly.

"Can Hua Zhuo still swallow this breath and let himself go?"

"He couldn't stop."

"Your determined appearance is really hated."

"Ha ha!"

"Why?"

"You all underestimate the merchant."

"I don't underestimate the businessman, but can the businessman still make Hua Zhuo change his mind?"

"You have underestimated the power of merchants. Merchants value profits, and talking to them about friendship is playing the piano against the cow, but if you talk about interests with them, they promise to respect you like gods."

"What does this have to do with Hua Zhuo not sending troops?" This time it was King Wei who asked.

"The difference from the Beiliao is that the three tribes are relatively loose and formed by the gathering of countless small tribes. These small tribes are under the control of Huazhuo. They pay cattle, sheep and warriors every year, just like cows that produce milk. What does Huazhuo offer?"

"Protect."

"That's right, protection. But what can Hua Zhuo do when their merchants are intercepted and killed? What can Hua Zhuo do in the past when small tribes fought and killed people? Is it to deal with it impartially, or to turn a blind eye?"

"Wuda, tell me." Yang Xuan pointed at Wuda.

Uda said: "The big clan won't care about the small clan, unless the clan is wiped out."

"Will it be taken care of after the genocide is exterminated?" Wei Wang felt that this kind of governance was a bit rough.

"It must be taken care of." Uda said: "If there is one less tribe, the Khan will lose a sum of taxes and slaves."

This is not governance, but exploitation... King Wei feels that this is not a long-term solution.

"This is the grassland." Yang Xuan felt that compared with Datang, the grassland was more like a jungle, where there were only Chi Guoguo's interests and killings.

"Huazhuo doesn't care, Taiping doesn't care, what do you think those businessmen will think?"

Li Han said: "Businessmen seek profit...they will think that Taiping is their confidant, while Hua Zhuo is just a robber who extorts their money. Zitai, you want to buy people's hearts!"

Queen Wei realized it later, and realized it, "Wuda, what is the status of those merchants in the tribe?"

The two nobles naturally disdain to understand the situation of those merchants, let alone what the merchants mean to the grassland.

Wu Da said: "There are rules in the grassland. Anyone can be killed and everything can be plundered, except for merchants. Without merchants, there would be no tea from Tang Dynasty, no cloth from Tang Dynasty, and our stomach would have problems. We can only Wearing animal skins..."

"Businessmen spread the news everywhere. If Hua Zhuo summons his people to prepare for war, these merchants will be behind in the dark, hiss!" Li Han's eyes became more solemn, "Can merchants also turn clouds and rain?"

"Of course, I'll tell you a story."

"There is a country that is probably worse than Datang. That country has established a national policy since its founding to suppress the status of businessmen, but it does not suppress business."

"It's similar to the Tang Dynasty." Li Han nodded. "In the past, officials were not allowed to go through the market, let alone do business, but now it's all loose. Don't be afraid of your jokes. My family's business is quite large."

Ha ha!

Yang Xuan continued: "In the mid-term, those gentry and dignitaries saw that although the status of the merchants was not high, they made more money than themselves, and they enjoyed extravagance more than themselves, so they started to do business in the name of domestic servants."

He glanced at Li Han with strange eyes, "The rich and powerful gentry have a huge advantage in doing business. They don't pay taxes, and neither customs nor local tax collectors dare to collect their taxes, so they earn more than businessmen."

Li Han coughed dryly, "You're deliberately arranging my house, aren't you?"

"You are seated on your own account." Yang Xuan smiled viciously, "So the merchants merged with the officials and dignitaries, they evaded taxes, they annexed fields, they robbed...until the emperor found out that the tax revenue received by the household department was increasing every year. few."

"Ahem!" Li Han became more and more uncomfortable, he felt that Yang Xuan was mocking Prince Liang's residence.

"The emperor made an investigation and couldn't help being surprised. It turns out that the merchants in the world have long been integrated with the officials below. Even the prime minister is the spokesperson of the merchants."

"I'm afraid the throne is not safe." The eldest nephew was very happy, and Yang Xuan even felt that this guy wished for his father's bad luck.

"The emperor was furious, but the courtiers below had already been united as one, and he could do nothing. In the end, he could only send his servants to collect taxes and crack down on those gentry and dignitaries who evaded taxes."

"After those servants arrived at the place, the place suddenly erupted. Countless people went on strike and marched, broke into the residence of the servants, and attacked them in groups."

"This...can't be?" Zhao Youcai was dumbfounded, feeling that this was too magical.

"A few servants were beaten to death, and the rest ran all the way back to Beijing, crying and complaining."

"Is the emperor going to send someone to suppress it?" King Wei fantasized for a moment. If the current emperor handles this matter, there is a high probability that he will send troops to suppress it.

"No."

"Why?"

"Because the army was also infiltrated by those people."

There was a sound of gasping around.

"There is no reason for this country to be immortal."

"Afterwards natural disasters and man-made disasters continued, the people were displaced, and starvation was everywhere. Someone climbed up and shouted, so there were beacons everywhere."

"Just at this time, there are tribes outside the Great Wall who were submissive after being suppressed. Seeing Daming...seeing the civil strife in this country, they took advantage of the situation and made rebellion. The leader clamored for some great hatred, and used this as an excuse to raise troops."

"With internal and external troubles, this country is afraid that it will disappear."

"No." Yang Xuan shook his head, "A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Even if the big empire is about to fall, it cannot be wiped out by a single tribe."

"The internal turmoil is intensifying, and the outside has to fight with that tribe. The worst thing is that the household department has no money."

"And at this time, there was a small town in the frontier, which was originally deserted. A group of merchants bought off the frontier defenders and started selling goods to that tribe."

"From the tea and cloth at the beginning, to the iron and copper materials later, and even the key news of the country, they will give whatever the tribe wants."

Everyone looked solemn, feeling that Yang Xuan meant something.

"The tribe relied on these merchants to transport supplies and continued to grow, relying on these merchants to pass on the news of the frontier military equipment, they were invincible. These merchants even acted as guides, leading these alien races to take shortcuts to invade the country..."

"That tribe invaded frequently, and every time they robbed a lot of money. They used the money they robbed to pay those merchants. That is to say, those merchants smuggled countless military supplies to foreign tribes, but their own country was paying. .They continued to make domestic money in another way, it was just bloody and shameless."

"Under internal and external troubles, there are others digging the wall, some betraying the country... This country finally collapsed. It is ridiculous that just after the news of the emperor's suicide and martyrdom spread to the place where peace was achieved with singing and dancing, the gentry and businessmen cheered and held a grand banquet and a rally to celebrate it."

This story is too heavy, even the most heartless Wang Er Er sniffed, "It's so miserable."

King Wei felt that this was a story, "If the businessman of the Tang Dynasty is just like this, he should be executed!"

Li Han said indifferently: "As long as businessmen dare to spy on power, that will be their doom."

Zhao Youcai asked in confusion, "What are those businessmen planning?"

Yang Xuan said:

"People's desires are endless. When the domestic way of making money comes to an end, they will collude with powerful officials to seize power and go outside. In order to make money, they will do everything they can, even willing to give up the place where they raised themselves. In order to make money, they are willing to be with the devil."

"I said this, just to tell you to wait, businessmen can't restrain, but businessmen must restrain!"

"Businessmen can't be trusted." That's what King Wei has been taught since he was a child, "but that's not the case with Datang."

Yang Xuan said: "A wealthy merchant has no country."

"This is the word mentioned in the book "Bringing the Warehouse to Daming". Fang Xing will sue you for copyright infringement." The two green lights are like two eyeballs rolling.

"There are no exceptions?" Diao She thought thoughtfully.

"Have."

"what?"

"A wealthy businessman is the country."

King Wei thought about it carefully, "You are probably arranging someone."

I was always the one who got hurt. Turning around, I drank all the good wine that Zitai secretly hid, and then designed it to be Wei Wang who did it... Li Han smiled at Wei Wang.

Although Jianming said that his seniority was higher than this king, he was very kind, and he would keep [-]% of the good wine he hid in the dog hole... King Wei also smiled.

When he saw Taiping County, the scouts Yang Xuan arranged earlier came back.

"The envoys sent by the Ministry of Vache have been recalled."

"The leaders of many small tribes went to the royal court, I don't know why."

"There must be something wrong down here." Zhao Youcai was ecstatic, feeling that Taiping had passed another difficult time, and there was inevitably a little more admiration in his eyes when he looked at the boss.

King Wei's face was solemn, "Does the merchant have such power?"

Li Han felt that he had to think about the role of a businessman.

As soon as they entered the city, those men couldn't take their eyes off the hundreds of women.

Taiping is a place of exile, there are more men than women, and there are countless bachelors.

Someone salivated and asked the sergeant, "Are these women sent to serve the Ming government?"

Am I that licentious?

Even if there is, my waist is not that good...Yang Xuan is speechless.

He ordered: "Old thief, shout out."

The old thief shouted at the top of his voice: "The Ming government led the army to exterminate the clan, captured these women, and then distributed them to the wiveless men in the city."

"Oh!"

The people around burst into a collective exclamation.

"I don't have a woman!"

"Mingfu, the old man has been looking at his daughter and sighing for many years!"

"I haven't had a woman for ten years!"

"I have never touched a woman since I learned about men and women."

"The old man has never touched a woman in half his life."

"I've only touched men!"

One is worse than the other...Yang Xuan said: "Taiping Army soldiers are given priority."

A group of people froze.

The eyes of dozens of soldiers who followed to exterminate the clan instantly turned red.

The loyalty value soared by at least [-]%.

The other [-]% are bugs.

I thought those women would be a little sad, but when the hundreds of soldiers who had been selected by lottery stood in front of them, Yang Xuan felt that he saw the light.

"These women look at people with green eyes." The old thief smacked his mouth.

"These are from the Tang Dynasty, they are much better than those men from Vasie." Yang Xuan asked, "Choose one, old thief?"

Many times the superiors talk about fairness, but the fairness is often only outside their own family.

The old thief shook his head, and said firmly: "Your Majesty's great career has not been accomplished, it's not yet time."

"Old thief... woo woo woo!" As soon as Wang Laoer opened his mouth, the old thief covered his mouth.

"Come on, the old man just got a piece of beef jerky, it's hard." The old thief dragged away Wang's second child.

"Lang Jun."

Zhang Siniang's delicate voice came from behind.

"speak politely."

Yang Xuan turned around and saw Zhang Siniang's bottom line.

Is the gap so long?
(End of this chapter)