Man Tanghong

Chapter 829 Zheng must die!
The elegant room is on the edge of Jiulongtan Mountain, close to the Longya Wall of Jiulongtan Mountain. Half of the elegant room is inlaid in the stone wall, and the other half is built of wood. breath.

In fact, it is indeed outstanding outside the Tanshan Wenguan. Few people settle here, and few people linger here. It is very quiet, and you can enter and exit from the door on the other side of the stone wall without going through the Wenguan. the gate.

In the elegant room, Li Gaoqian had arrived early, and was quietly lighting incense and cooking tea, which was quite elegant.

When Li Yuanji walked into the elegant room, Li Gaoqian hurriedly got up to salute.

"My minister Li Gaoqian..."

"Okay, don't be too polite, sit down and talk."

Li Yuanji interrupted Li Gaoqian without waiting for him to finish speaking, and then found a cushion in the private room to sit down on his own, and signaled Li Gaoqian to pour tea.

Li Gaoqian crawled to the tea table, and started cooking tea soup in a fancy way, Li Yuanji was dumbfounded.

It's not that he has never seen Cha Baiyi, but he is surprised by Li Gaoqian's series of operations.

Anyone who has a reputation in and around Chang'an City, who doesn't know that he doesn't like tea soup? !

Li Gaoqian used to be in Lingzhou, so he didn't know his preferences, but now he's in Chang'an, and he has settled down for a long time. If he doesn't know his preferences, then it can't be justified!

Seeing Li Gaoqian put a foaming cup of tea soup with various spices and goat's milk in front of him, Li Yuanji looked at Li Gaoqian in astonishment.

Li Gaoqian finally noticed Li Yuanji's gaze at this time, he was slightly stunned, and asked tentatively: "But the tea art of the minister is not in the eyes of His Highness?"

Li Yuanji couldn't help but said, "No one told you that I don't like tea soup?"

"what?!"

Li Gaoqian looked astonished, as if he was lying, and then said awkwardly: "This... I really don't know..."

When he came to Chang'an this time, he brought a son with him, and stayed in Zhang's Zhuangzi pretending to be Zhang Liang. There were many people staring at him, and he dared not go out casually, let alone inquire about Li Yuanji's preferences.

So he really didn't know that Li Yuanji didn't like drinking tea soup.

"Okay, it's fine if you don't know, just grab a handful of tea leaves and make me a cup of tea."

Since Li Gaoqian really didn't know, then Li Yuanji couldn't care less about it. After all, those who don't know are not to blame.

As for ordering tea instead of tea soup, it is also telling Li Gaoqian what he likes to drink.

Hearing this, Li Gaoqian hurriedly brewed a cup of tea and brought it to Li Yuanji.

Li Yuanji took a sip of it, and it tasted terrible.

The tea leaves used in running tea soup and running tea water are completely two kinds of tea leaves, one is roasted and the other is fermented, and the taste is completely different.

In addition, tea soup is made of tea foam, so the tea leaves used in tea soup also have a lot of foam, which not only tastes strange, but also full of foam.

Li Yuanji spit twice, and talked to Li Gaoqian about the business, "Before I asked you to pretend to be Zhang Liang, to deal with the Zheng family in Xingyang, because other wealthy families supported the Zheng family, and the success was on the verge of failure.

Now that the gust of wind has blown over, I need you to take another shot to deal with Zheng Shi. "

This, Li Gaoqian has already guessed.

After all, if the imperial court let the Zheng family go under the attack of the wealthy family, then it is impossible for Li Yuanji to let him stay in Zhang's Zhuangzi and continue to pretend to be Zhang Liang.

So it's bound to be repeated.

It's just that he didn't expect this repetition to come so quickly.

It's only been a few months and it's time to start again.

He hesitated for a moment and said, "Are you in a hurry?"

Fighting against aristocratic families, especially when the people from aristocratic families accounted for the vast majority of the court, fighting against people from aristocratic families had to be done step by step, and there was no rush.

Once you are in a hurry, show your flaws, or get caught, it will easily cause all the wealthy families to target you.

In that case, even the Li family who has become a royal family will not have a good time.

So he is more inclined to wait and then make a move.

"I was in a hurry, but now is a good time. As long as we operate properly, the Zheng family in Xingyang will definitely look good."

Li Yuanji did not deny Li Gaoqian's statement.

Now that the limelight has passed, they continue to target the Zheng family of Xingyang. It is easy for the Zheng family of Xingyang to guess something and counterattack.

But right now is a good time.

Now everyone's attention has been attracted by the war between Jieli and Suni, and Datang has made a lot of money from it. Datang's two border markets in Daizhou and Lingzhou now have no small transactions. They're all big deals.

While Jieli scolded Tang for going back on his word, he secretly sent people to exchange all kinds of Turkic specialties such as cattle, sheep and horses in the border market for everything that was useful to him.

While receiving military aid from the Tang Dynasty, Suni was also buying all kinds of goods that were useful to him in the border market.

Now the royal family with a share in the border market, as well as the wealthy families with business in the border market, are almost making money. The eyes of the other royal families and wealthy families who have no shares and no business in the border market are red. They all rushed to Li Xiaogong's mansion, begging Li Xiaogong to find a way to open an opening for them.

Under such circumstances, how many people would care about Zheng's life or death?

Compared with the indirect and hidden benefits that the Zheng family can bring to them, the direct benefits that the border market can bring to them are more attractive.

Whether Mrs. Zheng is dead or not, they may care, but they certainly don't care as much as before.

In addition, the profits of various aristocratic families in water transportation and sea transportation have also been settled. Although each of them did not make much, they also had a small surplus, and all of this was based on the large amount of money and food they invested in the early stage.

In the future, all they get will basically be profits.

The large amount has already caused some people to be jealous.

The aristocratic and wealthy families that participated in it guarded their members tightly, and guarded against outsiders coming in. Outsiders tried their best to squeeze in and get a share of it.

In this case, those who participated in it and those who did not participate in it have become deadly enemies.

And many aristocratic families who supported the Zheng family overtly and secretly all had a part in it, but the Zheng family happened to have no part in it.

Stimulated by money, some of them think that the Zheng family is no longer worthy to be listed as a top family with them.

So even if they have in-laws with the Zheng family, even if they don't want to see the Zheng family fall, they will not spare no effort to support the Zheng family as before.

So now can be said to be a good opportunity for the court to deal with the Zheng family.

Once the Zheng family is allowed to pry a hole in the border market or water transportation and sea transportation, then the Zheng family will become an alliance with other top families and wealthy families, and it will be difficult for the imperial court to deal with him.

"This……"

Li Gaoqian has been circled in Zhang's Zhuangzi, not knowing that there are so many ways in it, so he looks hesitant.

He was afraid that this time it would be the same as last time, and after causing a collective backlash from the aristocratic family, it would be anticlimactic again.

This kind of thing can be one or two.

If the Zheng family can't be tossed to death twice, then the Zheng family will definitely mobilize all possible forces to investigate this matter to the bottom of the sky. At that time, he will definitely be found out and bear all Zheng's anger.

After all, even if Mrs. Zheng found out that she was being targeted, no matter how angry she was, she couldn't show her teeth at Mrs. Li, so she could only vent all her anger on him.

With his small body and the clan behind him, he couldn't withstand the impact of the Zheng family.

If the Zheng family invites other aristocratic families to join in the attack, then the clan behind him will probably be removed from Datang.

This is not what he wants.

"Do what you are asked to do, don't do this and that. Since I asked you to do it, I am sure."

Li Yuanji stared at Li Gaoqian firmly and said.

Li Gaoqian has no room to refuse, to be precise, he has no qualifications to refuse.

Li Gaoqian also knew this, so he struggled and said, "Can the minister know what His Highness is going to do?"

Li Yuanji said without hesitation: "I have bought a son of the Zheng family who was expelled from the Zheng family because he fought for his mother's name. He will lead fifty soldiers in the name of the Zheng family to raid the Zhuangzi where you are.

At that time, my uncle's second son, Qu Tutong's nephew, and Qin Shubao's nephew will be invited by Zhang Liang's son to visit Zhuangzi.

Whether you can survive at that time depends on God's will. "

Li Gaoqian's eyes widened in horror.

Does this mean that she doesn't want to leave a way for Zheng Shi to survive? !
The number of private armors has reached fifty, which has exceeded the standard for rebellion. If you assassinate the nephews of Li Shentong, Qu Tutong, and Qin Shubao, you are provoking everyone in the military.

After this set up, Li Yuanji didn't need to speak up, and the important military officials represented by Li Shentong would take the initiative to ask Ying to pacify the Zheng family.

The most important thing is that the nephews of Li Shentong, Qu Tutong and Qin Shubao don't care about life or death.

Oh, and him and his son.

If they were really dead, then the military and the Zheng family would not stop dying.

And the military is the number one force in the Tang Dynasty. If the military decides who to fight to the death, everyone has to give in.

This includes those in power.

Even if the Zheng family paid a huge price to win over a large number of people from aristocratic and wealthy families to support themselves, they would still have to kneel down to negotiate with the military.

The military is not just the military, some people in the military also have wealthy families behind them.

Perhaps the background is not as deep as some top aristocratic families.

However, the generations of officials in the family have accumulated a lot of heritage.

Some representative figures of the military are related by marriage to other wealthy families, and sometimes act as the spokespersons of the wealthy families temporarily.

For example, Cheng Yaojin's original wife was the daughter of Sun Luer, a small county magistrate in the former Sui Dynasty. Historically, after the death of her original spouse, she married a woman from the Qinghe Cui family and became the spokesperson of the Qinghe Cui family in the court.

It laid a solid political foundation for the Cui family of Qinghe, and made many members of the Cui family of Qinghe gain a firm foothold among the middle-level officials.

After all the things that can be shown, those that should be shown, and those that shouldn't be shown in the Tang Dynasty are all shown, the Qinghe Cui family relied on this foundation to become a trend-setter in the Tang court.

From the middle of the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties, there were a total of thirteen prime ministers.

It can be seen from this that the people in the military are not without background, nor are they the opponents of the aristocratic family. On the contrary, some of them are also in the aristocratic family.

When they had a conflict with a certain wealthy family, the wealthy family related to them had only two options, either to help them or not to help.

As for helping other wealthy families, that's impossible.

Unless their brains were kicked by a donkey, it would be absolutely impossible for them to do such a thing of bullying their own people and pleasing outsiders.

(End of this chapter)