Three Kingdoms: I, the eldest son of Cao, a loving father of a great man!

Chapter 319 The East Sea lacks a white jade bed, the Dragon King invites Mi Jialang

Xia Houyuan looked at Cao Ang with a complicated expression.

Although he is a general.

But he is also literate and understands some truths.

Cao Ang's remarks fundamentally negated the Confucian doctrine that the court should not compete with the people for profit.

After all, the real people have never had any benefits, whether the court fights or not, the benefits will not reach them.

It's nothing more than standing on the top, leading these people with ropes, and switching back and forth between the imperial court and the big clans and merchants.

These peoples are only products of being represented.

As for Cao Ang's deep meaning.

Xia Houyuan was even more faintly aware.

Through the ages.

Anyone who can truly take the people of the world as the basis, rather than confine their vision to the middle and upper class, is a Ming lord whose name will be recorded in the annals of history.

With his nephew swallowing mountains and seas with arrogance, he has a thousand things hidden in his chest, and he has the posture of the universe in his heart.

In addition, his literary and military achievements, his vision is far-sighted, and his means and courage are far beyond ordinary people.

It's hard to say that he is not a future Mingjun and hero!

thought here.

Xia Houyuan couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat.

He has never had any loyalty to the so-called Great Han court and the Han family surnamed Liu.

What he is loyal to and fights for has always been the Cao family, the Xiahou family, and the two clans merged into one.

So it seems to him.

If Cao Ang really has the opportunity to take another step in the future, he will step up to the ninth-fifth position that cannot be seen directly.

Wouldn't the Cao family and Xiahou's family be going to soar into the sky because of this, and become a big family that has been passed down for thousands of years?

However, Xia Houyuan quickly suppressed these thoughts, and will talk about things in the future. Some things can be thought or not said at this stage.

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And just as Xia Houyuan's thoughts were racing.

Soon, Cao Ang's voice came again.

It's just that it can be clearly felt.

At this moment, Cao Ang has calmed down emotionally and calmed down a lot in terms of words compared to when he was standing by the window before.

"The reform of this dynasty has given these Qilu aristocratic families and merchants too much convenience. They have been controlling the mining of sea salt for a long time, and even the price of salt in the world is almost determined by them. decision."

"In this land, I don't know how many small clans have become big clans because of this, and the big clans have become prominent clans. Ordinary businessmen have become rich because of this, and they have become extremely rich in the world. The prosperity of money and land is more valuable than princes!"

"It is a great blessing for them to lie in the salt mine and enjoy it for so long. They have been operating here for generations, but they take it for granted and think it is a gift from God."

"Representing the imperial court, I regard the move of taking all the salt farms back to the official camp as a plunder, and I really don't know what it means. Thinking about it makes people laugh!"

After a faint mocking tone.

Cao Ang turned back to the house from the window.

After walking quickly to Xia Houyuan's side, he immediately gave him instructions with a serious face and a solemn tone.

"Uncle, no matter who comes to the door from now on, they will all be turned back. Unless his status is special enough to be seen, otherwise the door will be closed to thank guests."

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While talking about these.

Cao Ang compared two fingers.

Then he spoke non-stop.

"The court collects taxes from local governments. The rule is that the stronger the court, the more taxes will be paid. On the contrary, the weaker the court, the more taxes will be stolen and missed."

"And the salt tax is a special tax. It just happened that the world has been in chaos in recent years. Qingzhou has been displaced. The salt officials set up by the court have long gone. Therefore, the salt that these families and salt merchants stole Taxes can be described as countless, and this cannot be covered up."

"So the first thing to do next is to take advantage of this. Anyone who does not cooperate with the sale of the salt farm to the government will be punished according to the laws issued by the state government. At the same time, they will go through the old accounts to check the tax they missed. I will see how they run away!"

This is one.

And after folding down a finger.

Cao Ang showed a rare smile again.

"When dealing with these people, there must be both harsh and gentle methods."

"Anyone who resells the saltworks before the specified deadline should be as much as five baht, and we don't have a penny. Even if it is the day before the decree is promulgated, we take over at a very high price, and we will take it over intact, so as not to Some people say we take advantage of it.”

"Then get ahead of the others, and the first batch of people who abandon the saltworks and choose to leave the saltworks without making a fuss will not only eat as much as they want, but will also be given an extra reward. Uncle, you can figure out the amount."

"Such rewards and punishments are carried out at the same time, and if there are those who are stubborn and stubbornly resist the state government's decree, then they can only blame their lives, and they must try my knife!"

While intimidating and luring.

Directly disintegrate the team of opponents.

As long as the number of people is small, then Cao Ang will be able to act without any scruples.

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mid March.

In a luxurious mansion located in Zhihuang County, Donglai County, several middle-aged people dressed in rich clothes and looking extremely wealthy are having a secret meeting in the study.

Matching with this luxurious mansion, the area of ​​the study is quite wide, and it looks full of magnificence from the outside.

And after entering, it is even more unique.

There are not many real collections of books, on the contrary, there are delicate and seemingly valuable objects, which are piled up on one shelf after another.

Only suitable for building gorgeous and exquisite interiors, the faces of the few people who participated in the secret gathering were particularly ugly, and they sighed one after another.

If this scene was changed to a different era, I am afraid that the room is already filled with smoke, and the ground is already full of cigarette cases and cigarette butts.

"Ugh!"

With another sigh sounded.

The silence in the study was suddenly broken, as if some clear signal had been given.

When someone answered, "Brother Li, don't sigh anymore, we are headed by you, and we and other clans are all looking at the Li family in Huang County."

"If even you are helpless and can only sigh and sigh here, then this time the Cao family will take away our saltworks, everything will be a foregone conclusion!"

This person's words were immediately agreed by everyone, and soon someone beside him followed suit.

"Brother Wang is right! The state government set a deadline for us at the end of March, and now it is mid-March, and there is only half a month left before the deadline. Such a short period of time can be said to have passed by in a flash. "

"If we don't do anything, and there is no effective way, we can only watch helplessly, and even offer our family's foundation with our own hands!"

"Brother Li, and all of you, can you just sit still and endure?"

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This person's yelling was immediately unanimously recognized by everyone in the study, and the powerful voices of the first words can be described as one after another.

After all, if he could really sit still and endure it, he wouldn't have come to this secret gathering.

It's just compared with the excitement of the crowd.

The Li family of Huang County, who was promoted as the head of all the families in Donglai County, and its representative Li Xu, who attended the secret gathering, couldn't help but rolled his eyes, and then shook his head vigorously.

"I can't sit still, and I can't bear it, but what can I do, I really can't do anything!"

"You should know that in the past half a month, I have gone to see Cao Zixiu many times, just to meet in person and intercede."

"But every time I was blocked, I couldn't meet him, not to mention him, I couldn't even meet his general Xia Houyuan."

"You know, I go there every time. I really broke my legs, but it didn't help. What do you think I can do?"

Speaking of which.

Li Xu paused for a while.

Then he was a little worried, raised his head and half looked at the ceiling, and said bitterly.

"The people's meaning is clear enough, that is, they don't show affection and treat everyone equally."

"The most terrible thing is the salt workers in those salt factories. They were sent home because they couldn't dry the salt due to the freezing of the sea. They couldn't get together in a short time."

"In this case, I have no choice. If there is no other way until the end of the month, I will just prepare to hand over the saltworks."

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They saw the Li family who they regarded as the leader.

At this moment, under Cao Ang's iron fist, there is nothing he can do, and he is ready to surrender.

There was a sense of frustration in the study.

After all, the leaders have all fallen, so what else can they resist, just surrender.

Just when everyone was at a loss.

A person next to him suddenly said: "Brother Li, you said that our family joined forces and arranged for our subordinates to disguise themselves as those ordinary people and salt workers and make trouble in the county government and other places. Can you delay a little bit?"

"Gah!!!"

The voice just fell.

What awaited him was not the enthusiastic response from the rest of the people, as well as the sound of discussions one after another.

Instead, everyone stared at them with horrified faces, and people who were close to each other dragged their seats and desks away one after another, as if they were worried that blood would be splashed on them soon.

"Brother Xu, I admit that you are more courageous, but try not to do things like courting death."

"Even if you want to die, don't drag us down. I just want to protect my wealth, but I don't want to risk my life. If compared with saving my life, then I would rather give up these saltworks, these so-called foundations."

"That's right, brother Xu, you've been staying at home for the past few days, right? Whenever you go to the streets, government offices, and outside the city, you'll know how serious the situation is right now."

"The soldiers and horses of the Cao family stationed in this city, in my opinion, are as large as several thousand or even tens of thousands. If you can really mobilize the people, it's okay, rely on the few people under your hand to disguise, then don't splash blood on the ground. On us."

Listen to the unanimous rebuttal of everyone.

The person surnamed Xu, Qi Qiran, retracted Cai's words just now, and shrank back to his original position honestly.

The scene of the Cao family leading troops into the city.

Of course he has seen it.

Good guy, they are all elite soldiers, all of them are wearing armor and holding weapons in their hands.

On the first day of entering the city, all the confidential locations such as the county government and the county government were controlled, and a military camp was set up outside the city, with a large number of soldiers stationed there.

The situation is indeed as it tells people.

Once you dare to have the courage to attack by force, you have to be mentally prepared to lose your head, or even ransack your family and family after being investigated.

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The guy named Xu came up with a bad idea.

But what was rare was his words, which broke the silence in the study and tore apart waves of frustration.

Soon someone took the conversation and asked.

"Brother Li, is it possible that our family is the only one still insisting on resisting? What is the situation of the other ethnic groups? What is the attitude of the princes and princes in Mouping County and Yeguo County?"

Li Xu obviously has a good grasp of the situation.

He just recalled it a little bit.

He answered decisively and simply.

"The ones that appear here now are the ones that I can contact, and the ones that haven't given up struggling."

"Most of the remaining small and medium-sized families, as well as those wandering merchants, have given up resistance and obediently sold the salt farm to the government. I even heard that some people were rewarded by the above for selling quickly."

"In addition, there are still a small number of families who are still on the sidelines. They neither chose to participate in the discussion, nor insisted on not agreeing to sell the salt farm."

speak here.

Li Xu remembered the second question the man asked.

A sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he snorted with some disdain.

"As for the princes you mentioned, what can they do? I don't see them taking less when they get benefits on weekdays. At critical moments, one shrinks faster than the other."

"At present, the imperial court is weak, and those with the surname Liu only dare to shrink their heads and be human. At this time, they are more afraid of the prestige of the Cao family than we are."

"There is also the Mouping Liu family, who can be regarded as the biggest prince in Donglai County. If they stand up and say a few words, maybe they can be useful."

"It's a pity that Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, was born in this family. Now Yanzhou is the territory of the Cao family, and Cao Mengde is the shepherd of Yanzhou. Although there is no enmity between the two families, who can say that after the Liu family of Mouping jumped out? , will it be targeted by the Cao family, and then have the idea of ​​​​killing the grass and roots?"

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These words can be described as extremely gloomy.

Conspiracy theories are taken to the extreme.

Immediately, everyone in the study shuddered.

Immediately stopped talking.

The blame can only be blamed on the bad luck of this Mouping Liu family, who finally turned out to be a powerful person, but he couldn't control himself and played himself to death.

Even the family didn't dare to raise their voices.

But what people don't know is.

The bad luck of the Liu family in Mouping will continue, and Liu Yao will soon succeed Chen Wen, the governor of Yangzhou, and be promoted to the post of Yangzhou Mu.

But Yangzhou is the place Yuan Shu has been eyeing, so how good will the consequences be for this one?
Regardless of these.

It's just that everyone can't make a plan, and they make another plan.

Immediately, someone pointed to the location of Changguang County on the table case map and asked tentatively and hesitantly.

"Then it's better to mobilize the strong man who is entrenched here. I heard that there is a man named Guan Cheng who seems to be a powerful man. Can you let him stand in the front?"

This is just finished.

Li Xu shook his head.

"What is a strong man? It's nothing more than gathering a group of disciples and young adults under his hands, claiming to be a local rich and strong family."

"But it's okay for these people to be domineering in the county and township on weekdays. If they really offended the Cao family's army, I think Cao Zixiu would be happy to treat these strong people as bandits and bandits. Let's kill one by one as an example to others. Be an example to others, break our courage!"

Local tyrants like Xu Chu's game is to defend their homeland, which is just.

But more of them are like Guan Cheng, with a bit of a black nature. In front of the regular army, such a person is really just an ant that can be crushed to death at any time.

Instigate such a person to jump out.

Not only has no positive effect.

On the contrary, it may anger Cao Ang.

So this is also a bad move.

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The next quarter of an hour.

People's thinking can be described as various jumps.

Brainstorm and work together, just to come up with a method that can be useful at the moment, but every time someone makes a suggestion, it will be rejected quickly.

Until someone figured out a way.

"Brother Li, and all the virtuous brothers here, I have an idea, you can see if it works."

"Didn't Brother Li say before that he went to visit Cao Ang many times, and was turned back without even seeing him? This shows that Cao Ang is determined to deal with us, and it also shows that our weight is still too light."

"If we can invite someone with weight to visit Cao Ang instead of us, and intercede for us, will it be useful?"

The voice just fell.

Everyone's eyes lit up immediately.

Many people had suddenly realized expressions on their faces, feeling that they had grasped the key point.

"It makes sense, it makes sense, I wonder if there is a suitable candidate in your mind?"

The person who offered advice immediately cupped his hands and said.

"The Mi family in the East China Sea may be able to do it!"

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As soon as the name comes out.

Thinking suddenly appeared in everyone's eyes.

The person who suggested it before even took the initiative to explain: "The Mi family in the East China Sea is the world's richest man. At the same time, I heard that Mi Zhu, the head of the Mi family, has now been appointed as the Xuzhou Biejia. Whether he is in business or official, he is more important than us. These guys weigh a lot more."

"Even if Cao Ang won't be persuaded by the Mi family, he definitely won't avoid it. It is absolutely possible to give them a chance to speak."

"At the same time, under the hands of the Mi family, there is also a business of mining salt. Although most of them are in Xuzhou and other places, we are basically on the same boat. After all, how can we know whether the official salt will spread to the north and south in the future?"

"So they naturally have the position to speak for us. This is our last chance to turn around. If we still fail, then everyone should stop racking their brains and just donate salt to the farm with peace of mind."

Such a detailed explanation.

Immediately, everyone applauded unanimously.

After carefully analyzing the feasibility of the matter and confirming that the Mi family is qualified, there is a high probability that they will be willing to help them.

Everyone should even plan to send someone to Mi's house on a fast horse to invite someone, this is the last chance to stand up!

As for whether Cao Ang will eat or not.

Then everyone can't control it anymore.

It's just a fight as best as possible, if even the Mi family comes out, there is no sympathy.

The big deal is to sell the saltworks, honestly return to the traditional practice of powerful landlords, buy fields and land, and presumably it can be passed down from generation to generation.

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