Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 665 Wei Jiansu's Choice
The next day, King Qi came to Wei Jiansu's mansion. Wei Jiansu, the former prime minister, Xichuan Jiedu envoy bit the bullet and met King Qi.

Just as Wei Jiansu thought, it really wasn't good for King Qi's visit.

"Do you want to release the seizure of the Zhang Family Racecourse?"

Wei Jiansu took a deep look at King Qi and took a deep breath. He didn't expect that King Qi would be involved in such a crucial matter just after he arrived in Shuzhong.

At this time King Qi said with a smile: "To tell you the truth, Wei Jiedu, this racecourse also has my shares, and the Zhang family has always operated in accordance with the law, and has never committed any crimes."

King Qi also has shares!

When the Zhangjia Racecourse was being built, King Qi was still in Chang'an, so how could he have shares.

This share is probably given to him by the Zhang family in order to cling to King Qi after he came to Sichuan.

Wei Jiansu's complexion was not good. The Xichuan Army in the middle of Sichuan and the First Zhongyong Army were fighting openly and secretly. It was an undercurrent. King Qi actually plunged into it and stood by Zhang's side.

This matter is difficult to handle. Wei Jiansu remained silent, and the king of Qi said again: "Wei Jiedu, you have to come up with a regulation to seal up the Zhang family's racecourse. Which law did you violate? The Zhang family's The horse betting license was bought from the government."

Now Wei Jiansu stopped talking, King Qi was right, the seizure of the Zhangjia Racecourse was indeed a mistake.

King Qi was secretly proud, and Wei Jiansu could only say:
"Your Highness, this is one of them."

Wei Jiansu was about to tell the inside story, but King Qi said unexpectedly, "Wei Jiedu, I don't want to ask more about the matter in Sichuan, I just want to know when the racecourse will open?"

Wei Jiansu sighed and said, "Then the seizure of the racetrack will be removed."

King Qi returned to the palace triumphantly. The Zhang family saw that the officers and soldiers of the Jiedu envoy's mansion had withdrawn, and knew that King Qi had played a role. The Zhang family sent congratulatory gifts again. This time, King Qi didn't refuse at all and accepted them all .

The Zhang family racecourse reopened, and Zhang Ao invited King Qi to watch the race at the racecourse.

After watching a few games, King Qi became very interested in horse racing, and spent several days in the racecourse.

The Zhang family played the banner of King Qi again, and it really attracted a lot of new customers.

At this time, a strange scene appeared in the city of Chengdu.

Obviously, the Nanzhao army was already less than a hundred miles away from the city. The Xichuan army defending the city, from the envoy Zhang Bin to the ordinary Xichuan army soldiers, all soaked in the racecourse.

The Zhang family was reluctant to part with the racecourse because it was so profitable to make money at the racecourse.

Even if half of it is given to King Qi now, the daily profit is still quite a terrifying figure.

Even King Qi was startled by the horrible dividends. How could this horse race earn more money than he made by making fake money in Chang'an?
Although other officers in the Xichuan Army cannot receive dividends from the racecourse, they can also lend money in the racecourse.

When encountering those gamblers who lose their eyes, these moneylenders will surround them. Gamblers always think that they can get back their money, and they can readily accept high interest, and then lose everything again.

What?Do you dare to be in debt?
The officers of the Xichuan Army specially summoned their soldiers to collect debts in the city, and no one has been able to escape the debts of these army leaders.

Those low-level military officers were unable to get involved in the operation of the racetrack, so they began to embezzle soldiers' rewards, or falsely report non-existent soldiers to receive monthly salaries, and then use the money to gamble at the racetrack.

The military camp is full of myths about getting rich overnight. Even ordinary soldiers at the lowest level will rush to the racetrack after receiving their monthly salary and rewards.

The combat effectiveness of the entire Xichuan army was even worse, which is why it was defeated in the first battle with the Nanzhao army.

An organization like the army, once corrupted, will collapse very thoroughly.

Because soldiers need to fight with their lives to kill the enemy.

Whether it is a cold weapon or a hot weapon, the battlefield is a place with a very high mortality rate.

Officers can't lead by example, and they don't have the prestige to let soldiers go all out, so the upper echelons are thinking about how to make money, how can they bring out a good army?
This is also the reason why the armies in the late Qing Dynasty used good equipment and the officers all came back from overseas, but they still couldn't fight well.

On May 25, the Nanzhao Army defeated the Xichuan Army again in the first [-] miles of Chengdu City. The [-] Xichuan Army faced the [-] Nanzhao Army and was almost defeated in World War I. They quickly dropped their heavy weapons and fled the position.

The Xichuan army all withdrew into the city of Chengdu, while the Nanzhao army set up camp under the city of Chengdu and began to besiege the city.

However, after such a defeat, the entire Xichuan Army still felt that Chengdu City was strong, and they only needed to defend the city.

On May 26, the Nanzhao army began to attack the city. Those warriors in the Nanzhao army who had lived in the mountains for a long time climbed up the city wall with their bare hands, and almost killed the city wall.

If Wei Jiansu hadn't been patrolling the city wall at that time, and let his personal guards go up to block the gap, he would have held the city wall.

This incident completely crushed the dream of safety in Chengdu, and even King Qi panicked.

Climbing up the city wall, King Qi looked at the continuous Nanzhao camps below the city, and saw the densely packed Nanzhao army, he was completely panicked.

In fact, King Qi had never fought a war since he was a child. After the Anlu Mountain rebellion, although King Qi recruited soldiers in Nanyang, there were no bandits in Nanyang at that time. King Qi's job was to patrol the city walls.

Before he went to the battlefield, King Qi always felt that as long as he commanded the army, he would be able to make the enemy surrender, and my Tang elite was invincible.

But when he stood on the city wall and saw the ferocious Nanzhao soldiers climbing up the city wall like ants with weapons in their mouths, fear overcame all beautiful fantasies about the battlefield. , turned into a real battlefield hell in the real world.

King Qi ran down the city wall and hid in the Jiedushi's mansion, as if the higher courtyard wall of the Jiedushi's mansion than other houses could bring him more sense of security.

Wei Jiansu's body and mind were in perfect condition, and the soldiers guarding the city wall saw King Qi's appearance, and word quickly spread throughout the city of Chengdu.

The majestic princes of the Tang Dynasty are like this, and there are rumors in the city that the Xichuan army guarding Chengdu is going to abandon the city and flee.

Wei Jiansu sighed, now that Chengdu is like this, it might not be for the Nanzhao army to attack for a few more days, and it would not even be able to defend June.

Wei Jiansu sent scouts out several times to seek help from Hu Yu, who led the First Zhongyong Army, but so far no Hu Yu's army has appeared outside the city.

The performance of Xichuan Army and King Qi today also made Wei Jiansu understand that Xichuan Army is completely unreliable now.

Wei Jiansu said to his subordinates: "Prepare presents, I'm going to see Mrs. Yang."

Mrs. Yang is Yang Zhen'er. Everyone in Chengdu knows that Yang Zhen'er is the wife of Hu Yu, the commander of the Zhongyong Army, but Yang Zhen'er does not call herself Mrs. Hu to the outside world, but insists on calling herself Mrs. Yang.

This Yang Zhen'er is also a strange woman. She manages such a large racecourse by herself. Today, the Zhongyongjun's racecourse is still the most powerful racecourse in Chengdu. Before the Nanzhao army attacked Chengdu, all the rich and wealthy businessmen in central Sichuan gathered in Chengdu. , Go to the racetrack to spend a lot of money.

In addition to the racetrack, Yang Zhener also has a reputation as a wealthy man in Chengdu.

She once posted a notice at the racetrack, as long as someone can come up with a business idea that catches her eye, she will immediately invest tens of thousands of dollars.

Those merchants in central Shu who had ideas but no way out found Yang Zhen'er and had a detailed discussion for a while, and they were able to get Yang Zhen'er's tens of thousands of dollars in investment.

The most amazing thing is that the merchants that Yang Zhener invested in went into business, and they basically made a profit. It is said that Yang Zhener's dividends during these days have recovered their investment, and they even made some profits.

Yang Zhener visited those big families in Sichuan one by one, and asked them to hand over the money to her for "management management". Yang Zhener promised [-]% interest, and successfully tied these big families into her property. Now If he wanted to do business in Chengdu, Yang Zhen'er couldn't get around it no matter what.

During this time, Nanzhao soldiers besieged Chengdu, and many wealthy people in the city fled. Yang Zhener bought another whole street. She ambitiously named this street "Taikoo Li", and was going to wait for the siege of Chengdu to be resolved. After that, it will be turned into a commercial street.

At this time, a servant informed Xichuan Jiedu envoy Wei Jiansu to visit.

"Wei Jiansu, the old fox, can't hold on anymore." Yang Zhen'er smiled. Jiedu envoys have the responsibility of guarding the land. If the city of Chengdu is really broken, the king of Qi can run away, the rich households in the city can run away, and even Xichuan The army can run away, but Wei Jiansu, the Jiedu envoy of Xichuan, cannot run away.

Yang Zhen'er did not neglect Wei Jiansu, the Jiedu envoy, and welcomed him into the house respectfully. Wei Jiansu couldn't wait to say:

"Madam Yang, the Nanzhao army is now besieging the city, this loyal army."

Yang Zhen'er laughed and said: "The Zhongyong Army is under Jie Shuai, and the concubine is just a girl, how can it be easy to talk about such an important military matter."

Wei Jiansu was stunned for a moment, only to hear Yang Zhen'er continue to say: "But I heard that there is a violation of the rules of manipulating horse races in the Zhang family's racecourse. Although I can't control the Zhang family's racecourse, this This kind of thing will always tarnish the name of the sport and affect our business."

Wei Jiansu heard the strings and knew the elegant meaning, and immediately said: "Madam, don't worry, this racecourse will be closed immediately for rectification!"

Seeing that Yang Zhener was still not satisfied, Wei Jiansu said again: "If it is verified to be true, the Zhang family's racetrack license will be revoked immediately!"

"I heard that King Qi has invested in the Zhang family."

Wei Jiansu was also filled with resentment when he heard King Qi, he sneered and said:
"Your Majesty sent the King of Qi to Sichuan, but only for the King of Qi to come to Chengdu to practice, and did not appoint any position for the King of Qi."

Wei Jiansu said coldly: "This is the government affairs of Central Shu, what has it to do with the King of Qi?"

At the same time, He Anguo threw down the cup, looked at the big ominous hexagram thrown out of the cup, and murmured:

"'Cong Zheng Ze Ji', if you don't do good deeds, it will be a disaster, King Qi, King Qi, don't blame me for being inaccurate in fortune-telling, it's because you don't follow the right path."

(End of this chapter)