I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 259, The End of the Merchant
Yang Biao persuaded Dong Zhuo: "Successful order will make the entire Han Dynasty angry, and if it continues, I'm afraid it will cause the whole world to be in turmoil!"

But Dong Zhuo sneered, "Do businessmen have the ability to rebel?"

Yang Biao said: "Although this generation does not have the ability to rebel, the world will fall into turmoil if they are killed!"

You also need to pay attention to the method of killing pigs. How can you kill all the pigs of the whole big man in one go?Who dares to be a businessman after this!

Dong Zhuo sneered: "Forcing the people to rebel will cause anger and resentment, and will cause the world to be in turmoil. It's just a few businessmen. If they want to rebel against the truth, they will be cut off! How big a storm can be. The court used to give them too much face. All of them rely on how much money they have, and they really regard themselves as superior people."

Dong Zhuo was often bullied by merchants back then. After all, his trophies were still sold to merchants. In this era, those who do military business with a sense of the times have a lot of backstage. All the big businessmen looked down on Dong Zhuo, a barbarian from Xiliang, but there were quite a few of them that he couldn't afford to offend.

Moreover, when Emperor Ling bought and sold officials, many businessmen spent money to buy official positions. At that time, the big businessman Meng Tuo presented Zhang Rang with wine that was scarce in the Central Plains at that time, so he was promoted to become the Governor of Liangzhou.But Dong Zhuo had been fighting for decades but failed to take this position, and it was this Meng Tuo who forced the entire Xiliang back, so that Xiliang has not yet returned to the imperial court, Dong Zhuo naturally has a bad sense of them!

"You are also well-educated people. Please tell me the truth. We should force the grassroots people who have the ability to rebel, or force the merchants who have no ability to rebel, or you are willing to cut your flesh and lend tens of millions of stones to the court. Food! Anyway, this is the case of a big man, this knife is inevitable, it depends on who cuts it on!"

Yang Biao pleaded again: "But enough is enough, we can't let all the places wantonly kill! Prime Minister, now all the local officials are not letting go of even ordinary small businessmen, they wantonly create unjust, false and wrong cases, and enrich their own pockets. Now the whole big man dare not Some people claim to be merchants, but without these merchants, it is impossible for a big man to transport supplies from various places, and the goods cannot be exchanged, and the world must be a stagnant pool!"

But Dong Zhuo said: "Wen Xian, I have been an official in the local area for 30 years. How can I not know these things in the local area, but now the court wants them to do things, so I have to feed them, as long as they don't affect the truth. The battle with Lei Gong can even raise enough money and food, and we will be the heroes of the court! We can settle the score with them after the fall after we have eliminated Lei Gong."

"But if Lei Gong cannot be defeated, Youzhou will definitely not be preserved, and Jizhou cannot be preserved if Youzhou is not protected. At that time, the imperial court will be in danger of overthrowing. Compared with the overthrow of the imperial court, the life and death of these merchants is nothing. Now the truth is just the lesser of two evils!"

"Although the businessman suffered heavy losses this time, the imperial court has enough money and food to fight against Lei Gong. Now the truth is that we need to discuss with Zhu Jun to attack Taiyuan County. This time we will dispatch an army of 10. Without these money and food, old man This army can't be dispatched at all! The big man has reached the point where he has to make a choice today, you can't make a decision, let the truth make the decision!"

With what Dong Zhuo said, Yang Biao could only agree with Dong Zhuo's actions. Although Dong Zhuo killed their dogs, he did it to eat and deal with the robbers who wanted to kill them!Think of it as Dong Zhuo's labor fee.Yang Biao can only comfort himself in this way, the world has become more and more incomprehensible to him!

The situation in the world is becoming more and more unfriendly to their elite clan. The rebels of all generations fought against the imperial court, so they can watch the fire from the other side and sit and watch the success or failure. Who knew there would be a rebellion like Lei Gong, who would bring The rebels in the world are fighting against the nobles. Now it is not the court that needs the nobles, but the nobles need the court to help them eliminate the rebellion headed by Lei Gong!Now they can only let Dong Zhuo slaughter their dogs to deal with Lei Gong!

In the middle of November of the first year of Chuping (AD 190)!
Although the Northland is covered in silver, Mayi, a commercial city, is just as prosperous and bustling. Even because of the warning order, businessmen, big and small, have fled to the land of Bingzhou.

Although Lei Gong collects high taxes, he is desperate. Now in other places in Dahan, as long as they show up, they will definitely be massacred by officials. They no longer dare to go out to Bingzhou to do business!
The merchants who fled to Mayi made the rest of the Han extremely fearful, and even many caravans of powerful and noble families did not dare to go out of Bingzhou and return to their families. They were also worried that they would be killed by officials on the way The massacre, this time, not only small businessmen with no background died, but also caravans of such aristocrats as they were also within the scope of the massacre!Under such circumstances, no one dared to leave Bingzhou!Bingzhou seems to have become an isolated island for the entire Han merchants to flee for their lives.

The largest hotel in Mayi was taken over by the chamber of commerce. The big businessmen from the entire Bingzhou and the big businessmen who escaped from the big man gathered here, and they also wanted to resist their injustice!
"We businessmen can't survive anymore, this damn world will kill us!" Wei Chang, the businessman who escaped from Sili, said with lingering fear.

He is a member of the Wei family, a top clan in the Han Dynasty, and he is also well-known in Hedong County. Of course, he is only the steward of the caravan, helping the Wei family to make money.Originally, he thought that his family background's disclosure order would not affect him at all, at most it would be unlucky for those businessmen without background.

But he didn't expect that those soldiers were unreasonable at all. They sent troops to surround the market. Sending troops directly was robbing. If they dared to resist, they would kill people. They still killed the whole family. Or escaped by pretending to be a beggar!Later, he fled back to Wei's house, wanting the owner to help him avenge him, but the owner told him to hide at home to recuperate for a period of time, ignoring the outside affairs.

But Wei Chang was unconvinced, his buddies and even several of his brothers died in Hedong Shifang. This is the army of the big man, and the bandits are not so unreasonable and come directly to massacre the city.

He was dissatisfied and wanted to help his brother keep the guard, so he ran to Bingzhou, hoping to find Lei Gong to avenge himself!

"The butcher Dong Zhuo is simply crazy. He is killing us, but our patriarch doesn't bother Dong Zhuo at all!"

Zhen An sneered and said: "Now the big man is fighting with the Tengjia Army, and the strength of both sides has exceeded one million. The consumption of such a battle can be imagined. The Tengjia Army is rich and can withstand the consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops, but The treasury of the imperial court has been empty for more than ten years. It was difficult for the first emperor to buy and sell officials to maintain the conquest of 10 troops, but Dong Zhuo, a butcher in his heart, mobilized 40 troops in one go. Keep an eye on us merchants!"

Tian Zhong said strangely: "But it's not true, we are not businessmen without backers, this is a family caravan, one or two families are afraid of Dong Zhuo, it's fine, is it true that all powerful families in the world are afraid of Dong Zhuo? Taxes, no matter how much the court raises taxes, it will only be imposed on the people!"

Tian Zhong was lucky. Now that the entire Youzhou had become the rear of the war, Dong Zhuo naturally did not dare to bring the warning order to Youzhou.

Not only can Youzhou not be in chaos now, the imperial court even has to transport money and food from all over the country to Youzhou. Because of the prosperity of the war, the whole Youzhou can now be said to be prosperous in all industries, and the 20 army is a huge consumer market. In just these three months, the entire Han Dynasty Just invested billions of money in Youzhou to buy various logistics materials, and the powerful and powerful families represented by Tian Zhong naturally made a lot of money.

Of course, although they make a lot of money, they are also afraid. They also know Lei Gong’s policy. finished.

Therefore, in order to maintain the stability and inheritance of the family, many noble families in Youzhou sent people to Bingzhou. They cannot buy land here, but it is good to open a factory. It's one of our own.

Therefore, there are a lot of noble families in Youzhou in Bingzhou. They came to the territory of the Tiejia Army and are familiar with various policies and laws of the Tengjia Army. There are even many families who want to join the Tengjia Army. The strength of the army is just to diversify investment in such a troubled world, so that the family can continue in the troubled times.

Zhen An sneered: "You think the people of the big Han are still the same as before. Don't look at how many Yellow Turbans there are this year. The old man got the news from Lei Gong Qushuai that there are more than 300 million. These Yellow Turbans have broken through hundreds of Wubao. Killed hundreds of nobles, you really think that the officials of the court will not be afraid, the people have the ability to slaughter them, they naturally dare not increase taxes on the people! But the money and food for war must not be less, it is impossible to increase Go to the head of the official! So only our fat pig can be slaughtered in the whole big man!"

Looking at the groups of well-equipped soldiers not far away, Zhen An sighed: "The nobles and gentry are so powerful that the imperial court dare not move them. The common people in the world can rebel because of their numbers, and they have even killed tens of thousands of them." Officials and their relatives were murdered, and they were directly afraid of the court, and the court did not dare to touch them."

"Only we have more money and wealth, but we have no military power, our reputation is poor, and we don't have as many people as the people. If we want to rebel, I'm afraid the imperial court will use a battalion of soldiers and horses to suppress it. The pigs are here to raise, and now the court is short of money and food, so we will die and whoever will die!"

Gongsun Fu said angrily: "It is Liu Yu who caused all this. If it weren't for him, the Tengjia Army would not have fought the big man in an all-out way, and we businessmen would not have suffered such a disaster!"

The Gongsun family suffered the worst losses in this war. Gongsun Zan, the highest-ranking member of the family, died in battle. The children of the family who followed Gongsun Zan lost dozens of people. It can be said that all the elites of the generation of the Gongsun family died. Many, they will keep a low profile for decades in the big Han, and it is even possible that their family will fall from their current status and become as shabby as Liu Bei, and the next generation of elites can only start from small officials!
And his cousin, Gongsun Zan, killed the herdsmen in Bingzhou, which aroused the public indignation of the entire Tengjia army. His caravan has already encountered overt or covert resistance in doing business in Bingzhou.

Gongsun Fu resonated with the merchants in Youzhou. Their business is difficult now. After all, the Tengjia army is fighting with the Youzhou army. These Youzhou caravans have already aroused the hostility of the entire Bingzhou. Under such circumstances, how can they Possibly good business!
On the contrary, the local caravans in Bingzhou began to rise rapidly. After all, the Tengjia Army rose in Bingzhou. After several years of development, the local small businessmen have rapidly improved their strength, especially after the entire Bingzhou was occupied by the Tengjia Army. The nobles and nobles began to surrender to Lei Gong.

Although they could not enter the government office of the Fujia Army to become officials, the nobles who stayed in Bingzhou also had to eat, and the Fujia Army did not allow them to buy land.These aristocratic families started to do business and invested all their family property in the construction of textile factories and other factories.They have local advantages and a lot of talents, and the small merchants of Bingzhou have found the backbone after the joining of these aristocratic families, and the power of Bingzhou caravans has expanded rapidly!
In recent years, the Dahan has been suffering from natural and man-made disasters, and it has become more and more difficult to do business. Many businessmen have flocked to the stable Bingzhou, and this time the Dahan's complaint order drove all the businessmen from all over the world to Bingzhou.There are more and more competitors, and they can't get help from the government, so it is naturally difficult to do business.

Xian Yuying smiled wryly and said, "We will earn a lot of money from this war! But I would rather not have this money. Now that the Rattan Armored Army is fighting with an army of millions of big men, such a large-scale war will last only a few hundred years. I only heard about it during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In the past, the imperial court maintained an army of 10, which already emptied the treasury. Now it is necessary to maintain an army of one million, and the wealth consumed can be imagined. Dong Zhuo came to slaughter us without money and food. The money is gone, let's talk about it, will Lei Gong learn from Dong Zhuo and slaughter us!"

Xian Yuying's words made everyone present break out in a cold sweat. If Lei Gong also slaughtered them, then they would officially have nowhere to escape. Many businessmen felt that although the world was big, there was no room for them.

Because they found that what Xian Yuying said was really very likely to happen.Dong Zhuo is still the Prime Minister of the court, but he still robs them for money and Lei Gong is a rebel, and his favorite thing to do is to slaughter the powerful and noble families.It is nothing to Lei Gong to slaughter even the nobles and nobles, and then to slaughter businessmen.

(End of this chapter)