Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 312 Grain Storm II

As the sun sets, as the remaining sunlight is covered by overlapping clouds, the sky and the earth begin to lose their color, leaving only a dark patch everywhere, and the night has come.

Taifu's mansion, Jingping Courtyard.

In the bookstore, oil lamps and candles were lit one after another, lighting up like daytime.

Mu Jing sat cross-legged, holding a pen in his right hand, dabbing ink, and then began to draw and write along a piece of white paper on the desk. His brows sometimes stopped and sometimes stretched according to the speed of his writing.

"What are you thinking?" Hu Zhao sat up, his eyes skipping over the white paper on the desk.

"Thinking about the emperor!"

Mu Jing put down the brush and replied.

After meeting Xin Zhao, his mind was full of the late emperor and today's emperor Liu Bian. Some things, no matter how he thought, he couldn't figure out why. He just added some information, which made him a little distressed.

The fact that Zhao Zhong was alive made him uneasy.

But more importantly, what Zhao Zhong wants to do, is he serving the current emperor, or someone else?

These questions kept asking automatically in his mind.

"Emperor?" Hu Zhao was silent for a while, and said, "When the emperor?"

"The former emperor and today's emperor!" Mu Jing replied, "I'm thinking about them!"

"The first emperor was a very capable king. His only flaw was that he was not ruthless enough to break the old system and rebuild the order. Moreover, he was not born at the right time. The great man has been weak for decades, forming a situation in which the master is weak and the servant is strong. Even if he has the heart, he can't change it, so let him be aggrieved all his life!"

Hu Zhao thought for a while, and then said: "As for the current emperor, I have only seen him when he was young, and I can't see anything. I don't know the emperor's temperament very well, and the emperor has not been on the throne for a long time. Moreover, he is above the imperial court, so he does not seem to have any courage to govern, so he is easily overlooked, standing between the Taifu and Yuan Sikong, he is like a puppet!"

"you're right!"

Mujing had a flash of inspiration: "He is just a puppet, so easily overlooked!"

He had met the emperor, and the emperor Liu Bian was not much different in age from him, but he was by no means a wimpy young emperor who died like in history.

"The easier it is for a person to be ignored, the easier it is to bite us to death!"

Mu Jing said in a deep voice: "I've seen him before, so I know him a little bit. He is not a emperor who is willing to be a puppet. One day, he will attack anyone who disobeys his rule!"

"So you think that Wang Yue's assassination of you was instigated by him!"

Hu Zhao looked at the paper on the table of Mujing's case. On it, Mujing wrote more than a dozen names, connected left and right, trying to form a relationship diagram. There are several names in it, one is Zhao Zhong, and the other is Wang Yue , these two names are surrounded by circles, and then connected by a straight line, and finally connected to Liu Bian's name.

Mu Jing figured it out, they were Liu Bian's people.

"I was a little uncertain before!"

Mu Jing nodded: "But now, I want to understand that although Wang Yue is a knight-errant, he is also a general of Huben conferred by the late emperor. Leaving Luo Yang directly has proved one thing, he doesn't want to leave!"

"Grafting the crime on the head of the Wei family is to cause a struggle between the gentry and the Mu family?"

Hu Zhao's eyes flashed, and he continued speaking.

"It's more about wanting my father to lose his mind!"

Mu Jing said in a cold voice: "My father, Nanyang Violent Bear, is known throughout the world for being violent. When he becomes violent, he will be desperate!"

"Today, is there such a city?"

Hu Zhao couldn't believe it.

"Don't underestimate him!"

Mu Jing smiled and said: "Although he is about the same age as me, he was born in the palace and is very intelligent. He has been with the late emperor for many years, and his political ability and city government cannot be underestimated. "

"It seems that the Han Dynasty has ushered in a capable monarch again!"

Hu Zhao sighed.

But he wasn't excited, he didn't have much hope in this Han Dynasty.

"In my opinion, when we are fighting with the gentry, we must also be careful of someone stabbing us in the back!"

Mu Jing's voice was cold and stern, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, a wicked smile hung on his face, and his deep voice echoed in the bookstore: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry to have kept you behind for so long. Let's do it!"

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While the storm of seeking meritorious decree was still covering the imperial court, a new storm was quietly brewing on the land of Guanzhong.

Chang'an City.

Although this former capital city of the Han Dynasty is not comparable to the status of Luoyang City in today's world, it is not bad at all in terms of economic prosperity, and as the most important city in the entire Guanzhong land, it is also the link center connecting the Central Plains to Xiliang, Bashu, Caravans come and go frequently, and there are countless merchants coming in and out.

Most importantly, it is also the starting point of the Silk Road.

The transportation of grain and cloth is a transit point here, and it is one of the most important markets in the Central Plains. It connects the east and the west. The grain and cloth from the east are transported here, and the caravans from the west will buy them from here.

Therefore, Chang'an City is also the place where the most grain is stored in the entire Guanzhong land.

There are many fangshi in Chang'an, but there are only three main fangshi. One is the market on Baqiao.

The second Fangshi is the Longshi next to Longshouyuan, the most important market.

The third Fangshi is naturally the Chengbei Market. The Beishi is relatively mixed. Many caravans outside the customs and Mobei caravans stop trading here.

Just east of the water market, there is a house with a plaque on it, Mi Mansion.

The mansion is square and square, with several courtyards in and out, covering an area of ​​about two or three acres.

On the main hall of the mansion, two men sat facing each other, one was about middle-aged, wearing a long robe, with a calm face, and the other was very young, but a mature-looking young man with a gloomy look on his face.

"Master Zhang, we have already completed the preliminary testing. The grain market in this pass is too big. I spent [-] gold to enter and won so much grain, but I can't even shake the grain market. Now I feel a bit fear!"

The young man raised his head, glanced at the older man, and said with a wry smile.

"indeed!"

The older man is the chief executive manager of Jingping Commercial Bank, Zhang Heng. He looks calm, but he is also worried: "It's too difficult for you and me to shake this market!"

The strength of Jingping Trading Company is not bad. It gathers merchants of all sizes from Nanyang, and they consider themselves wealthy merchants. However, facing the market in Guanzhong, even Jingping Trading Company is not strong enough.

"Then shall we continue?" The young man is the head of the Mi family, Mi Zhu.

After the First World War in Yanshi, Beijing, as a wealthy businessman among the merchants, the Mi family benefited a lot, and established an alliance with Jingping Trading Company. collaboration.

(End of this chapter)