Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 416 Prelude to "Battle of Qianzhuang"
After a long time, Yu Daoxiang, who had her eyes closed, frowned, as if she had encountered some strange situation.

Ye Chen didn't feel anything at this time, he just felt warm and comfortable all over his body. After a clear stream of true air dispersed behind his waist, it quickly spread throughout his body, like taking a wooden barrel bath or like Basking in the sun in spring, the spirit of the whole person is extremely relaxed, and it seems that he is about to fall asleep.

Suddenly hearing Yu Daoxiang groaning softly behind him, Ye Chen didn't even think about it, his eyes were still unopened, he yawned and asked, "What's wrong?"

Yu Daoxiang flattened her panting chest, and looked at Ye Chen with a weird look: "I still remember last summer, when we first met in Yongle Border Town, what happened to you in the deserted temple ?"

Ye Chen was startled when he heard the words, and said: "Of course I remember, but my mind was a little confused when I was tortured by the two heavens of ice and fire. I really don't know what happened."

Yu Daoxiang's face was brimming with joy at this time, and said: "Your body is special, this Taiyi Sutra can't be practiced by normal people, but you can."

Yu Daoxiang first traveled thousands of miles to the south of the Yangtze River, and later, Ye Chen was almost buried alive by the explosion of the holy temple on the Yixian peak. In a rage, he chased and killed Feng Haonan, the seventh elder Feng Haonan who had the closest relationship with the elder Yufeng in the holy hall. In a month, the two fought dozens of times. In the end, Yu Daoxiang seriously injured Feng Haonan. Just as he was about to kill him, a large number of experts from the temple rushed over. After some fighting, Yu Daoxiang was slightly injured and forced to retreat. Feng Haonan survived down.

Therefore, Yu Daoxiang was actually extremely tired these days. After she found out that Ye Chen could practice the Taiyi Mantra and healed the hidden dangers in her dantian, she relaxed, lying on the bed and soon fell into a dark dreamland.

And Ye Chen couldn't wait to start practicing the Taiyi Mantra directly.

Liu Fang's poetry meeting went on for more than an hour after Ye Chen left in a hurry, and it didn't end until midnight.

At this moment, the carriage was driving on the bustling street that was fading away, the speed was still very slow, the crowds were still crowded, and the firelight came in from outside the carriage. Liu Jinyu thought of the song "Qinhuai Night Park" last night, and felt very sad. Satisfied, it is still a bit of a drop in price to participate in the Liu Fang Poetry Club with his status.It's just that there is a reason for being able to come in person tonight.

Of course, on the surface it was just because he couldn't get in the way of the Liu family's face.But in fact there is another main reason.

The Wuyue Kingdom is gone, but the Wuyue Bank, which has been controlled by the Wuyue royal family, is still in the hands of Wuyue King Qian Zhiyin.Whether it is because of the long-standing competition between Jiangnan Bank and Wuyue Bank, or because of the worry that Wuyue Bank will be used by Song Dynasty.The Holy Church cannot allow Wuyue Bank to continue to exist.

Therefore, recently, the Holy Church is planning to take action against Wuyue Bank and several businesses behind it.But this action is not to use force, but to use the Jiangnan Bank and Jiangnan Commercial Bank in the hands of the Holy Church to defend the commercial means, or annex or crush the Wuyue Bank.

Although Wuyue Bank and the major commercial firms behind it still have a certain gap compared with Jiangnan Bank and Jiangnan Commercial Bank, their power and financial resources are also extraordinary, and they are even giants compared to ordinary businessmen.If you want to eat it, it is not so easy to do.As one of the real principals of Jiangnan Bank, Liu Jinyu will be fully responsible for this matter.

These days, on the basis of inquiring a lot of information from Wuyue Bank and several major commercial firms behind it, Liu Jinyu gathered his confidants and staff after careful consideration, and finally formulated an extremely careful plan.This plan is very feasible, but requires a lot of liquidity.Even with the wealth of the Holy Church, the country cannot afford so much real money in a short period of time.

Originally, in the past, he could have secretly mobilized the Southern Tang treasury money, but since Lou Yanming, the leader of Maitreya, gradually controlled the court, the leader Li Yu, under Lou Yanming's instructions, sent many newcomers to the Ministry of Finance come over.He knew that it was Lou Yanming who had doubts about his identity, but at this time he absolutely couldn't touch Ku Yin.

Therefore, in order to be able to take over the Wuyue bank without fail, he needs to mobilize a large amount of cash from a wealthy businessman like the Liu family.And this is the real reason why he made an exception to attend Liu Fang's poetry meeting tonight.In fact, when he separated from the head of the Liu family, Liu Yueze, when he went ashore just now, the two had already discussed this matter, and the Liu family agreed to give 15 taels of silver.And also willing Liu family to borrow 10 taels of silver from Wuyue Bank.At the same time, Liu Yueze also promised Liu Jinyu that he would go to various merchants to collect no less than one million taels of silver for him in the name of attracting investment and hoarding goods.

However, tonight at the Liu Fang Poetry Contest, there will be such high-quality poems as "Qinhuai Night Mooring", apart from tonight's business, it is a worthwhile trip.As for the scholar who wrote "Qinhuai Night Mooring", with his current status, it's good to meet him once, but it's nothing if he doesn't see him.A good poem alone can only attract some of his attention, but not enough to make him pay special attention.

At the same time, on another street, Liu Yueze, the patriarch of the Liu family who was also driving towards Liuyuan in a carriage, took another look at the poem "Qinhuai Night Mooring" on the rice paper in his hand. It will make the Liu Fang Poetry Club more popular, and he can't help being in a good mood.

Everyone in the world says that businessmen seek profit, and their status has always been at the bottom of the society. Even a wealthy businessman family like their Liu family can solve many problems and improve their status even though they have money, but all kinds of discrimination still exist. Every year there are major disasters and minor disasters, they contribute money and efforts, but they often fail to gain a good reputation.

Their Liu family even spent a lot of money to build a school, just wanting to produce a group of literati, even if they spend money, they can at least enter the ranks of scholars.However, the results in this area have not been good, and the highest member of the Liu family is Liu Zongyang.If it is placed in some middle-class merchant family like the Chen family, one person's weight is enough.But with such a top rich businessman as the Liu family, it can only be said that nothing is better than nothing.

But the Liu family spends a lot of effort and pays a lot of money every year for this Liu Fang Poetry Club, and now it has achieved certain results. Thinking about it, there is still a long way to go. Now that Liu Fang Poetry Club is mentioned by others, in the eyes of some truly great Confucian scholars, the first thing that comes to mind is that it is still an aura of nouveau riche.But if their Liu Fang Poetry Association produced an excellent poem, the benefits it would bring to Liu Fang Poetry Association and even the Liu family would be unimaginable for ordinary people.

As for the things that Liu Jinyu promised tonight, even though the money involved was based on their Liu family, they emptied out the cash, and they also asked their Liu family to guarantee the loan and gather money in the middle.To some extent, he bet most of his wealth on Liu Jinyu.But he was not worried, because Liu Jinyu asked the Liu family for help in the name of the Southern Tang court's plan to deal with Wu Yue's bank.He doesn't think there will be any problems in dealing with a Wuyue bank that has lost the support of the state with the power of the Southern Tang Dynasty on the border of the south of the Yangtze River.Even Liu Yueze regarded this matter as an opportunity for the Liu family to truly step into the top ranks of the Southern Tang Dynasty. In fact, Liu Jinyu also promised that he would find Liu Zongyang a real vacant position in the sixth rank afterwards.

After reconfirming that there was nothing wrong with agreeing to Liu Jinyu, Liu Yueze temporarily put the matter aside.After thinking for a while, he opened the curtains of the car, and said to a middle-aged man who looked like a butler who was riding beside him: "Now go and inform us of the seventeen brothels under the Liu family, and let the girls there sing this Qinhuai Yebo, and then tomorrow As soon as the day dawned, they arranged for people to publicize the comments of Qinhuai Yebo and Liu Gong who appeared at the poetry meeting tonight in Jinling. Also, let Zong Yang go to the Chen Manor tomorrow to visit Chen Qing and let him try Chen Qing. If this poem is really written by Chen Qing himself, then Chen Qing will be hired with a high salary to be Yuaner's guest teacher."

The housekeeper's expression was not surprised, he said yes respectfully, and then left.This is not the first time the Liu family has done this kind of thing. The housekeeper has been in charge of this matter, so he is familiar with it, but the quality of the Qinhuai Night Poem tonight is obviously several levels higher than those good poems in the past.

Every night in Jinling City, many newly released poems are passed around in the city. The Qinhuai Night Mooring is naturally a good work, but it is still impossible to cause a sensation or win the reputation of being the best tonight.The comments of Liu Jinyu at the Liufang Poetry Association have not yet been released. In the eyes of ordinary people, the top poems are almost the same. Speaking of it, maybe it is just similar, or because of the reputation these talented scholars have had in the past, and the Chen family's miserable scholar was not well-known before, so they may think that Qinhuai Yebo is a little worse, maybe Only those who are truly learned and learned can clearly perceive the meaningfulness and profoundness of this poem and return to the basics, and feel the obvious gap.

In the early morning, the white mist filled Jinling City again, and the bright sunlight was rising from above the mist, spraying out a magnificent morning light.

Ye Chen, who has practiced the Taiyi Sutra all night, feels refreshed. If people in today's Jianghu martial arts world know how much Ye Chen's true energy has recovered in one night, they will be surprised.Ye Chen's true qi cultivation speed is much faster than ordinary people. On the one hand, the Taiyi Scripture itself is the most top-notch inner strength method in the world, and on the other hand, it is naturally the reason for his special physique.As for the specific reason, Ye Chen himself couldn't explain it clearly.

During breakfast time, Ye Chen, Yu Daoxiang, and Yu Qingyan were sitting together drinking meat porridge. After Yu Daoxiang checked the true energy in Ye Chen's body, he was surprised at first, but then he figured it out. Things, on the contrary, feel as they should be.

(End of this chapter)