The king behind the empress

Chapter 162 Reaction
The new official took office three fires, and Yang Yanzhang promulgated the law of continuous sitting, although it was strict, but because Yuzhisi originally had many regulations, which were even worse than the law of continuous sitting, so the soldiers of the Yuzhi Army did not take this order too seriously. There was a lot of resistance, but they responded in unison.

When marching and fighting, it is naturally impossible to have only punishments without rewards, so after talking about the continuous sitting system, Yang Yanzhang also talked about some incentive measures, which greatly mobilized the morale of the Yuzhi army.

Afterwards, taking advantage of the high morale, Yang Yanzhang took advantage of the situation to train the soldiers of the Yuzhi Army. As a result, he found that the Yuzhi Army with all members was stronger than he imagined.

There are nearly 2000 people, and it is nothing if they are strong alone. The most terrifying thing is that they are strictly disciplined and cooperate neatly. The uniform actions of nearly [-] warriors seem to be too shocking.

"With this army here, why not be invincible in the world?"

Yang Yanzhang's heart was surging when he watched the drill of the Yuzhi Army. Now these Yuzhi Army are just entering the refinement realm. If they improve their cultivation and become masters of refinement, or even the bone refinement realm, He didn't believe that there was any army in the world that could stop the iron hooves of the Yuzhi Army.

"The position of the God of War is within your reach!"

At this moment, Yang Yanzhang seemed to have seen what happened after he led the Yuzhi Army to rule the world and left his name in history. He even imagined that later historians would hold his materials and argue there whether he was the world or not. First Army God,

"It's over, stupid again."

Looking at the silly Yang Yanzhang, Lu Song who was standing behind him couldn't help but pouted helplessly. If he didn't know this, he would think that he was following a fool.

……

While Yang Yanzhang was training the Yuzhi Army, the news that Mo Zizai had imprisoned all the merchants finally spread.

This news immediately caused quite an earthquake among the officials.

In the residence of Zhao Baiyang, the right servant of the household department, Zhao Baiyang, the right servant, sat at the desk and listened to the news from the servants, his face was very gloomy.

"All the more than a hundred merchants in the capital were arrested by him, and the priest was also imprisoned by him."

"Okay, okay...it's really good!!!"

Having said that, Zhao Baiyang could no longer restrain the anger in his heart, and pushed the desk suddenly, and all kinds of precious pens, inks, papers and inkstones were immediately swept to the ground by him.

All businessmen in the entire capital had to give him filial piety as long as they wanted to do business, so these arrested businessmen were more or less connected with Zhao Baiyang.

And a small half of the money he has accumulated over the years comes from these businessmen.

Now Mo Zizai has arrested all these people, and also arrested the priest who collected money below. This is undoubtedly cutting off his money, and he can't help being angry.

What made him most angry was that he couldn't do anything now, and he didn't dare to do anything.

On weekdays, even if the emperor arrested all these businessmen, he would dare to go to the Golden Luan Hall to argue hard, and in the name of righteousness, force the emperor to release these businessmen.

But not now, now he dare not say anything, because Mo Zizai is the one who arrested him, and Mo Zizai is fucking unreasonable! ! !

He had no doubts that if he dared to intercede for these businessmen, Mo Zizai would kill him without any hesitation.

In the eyes of that lunatic, he, a third-rank official, is no different from the wild dogs on the roadside. He can kill him if he wants to, without any estimate at all.

Thinking of this, Zhao Baiyang felt even more resentful. He was the servant of the household department of the third rank, and he was backed by a family from the south of the Yangtze River. Mo Zizai was just a waste born in the emperor's family. Why can he control his life at will!

"Mo Zizai, Mo Zizai..."

Zhao Baiyang gritted his teeth and said these three words, thinking that if Mo Zizai suddenly appeared in front of him now, he would go up and eat his flesh without hesitation.

"Patriarch, Mo Zizai didn't touch all the merchants."

Seeing Zhao Baiyang's appearance, the housekeeper, who was worried about his anger, quickly spoke to comfort him: "The people on the water transport side, he didn't move a single one, we still have a certain income to keep."

"He didn't use the water transport?"

Hearing this news, Zhao Baiyang calmed down a little, "It seems that this trash is not crazy enough yet, water transport is the lifeblood of the capital, if the water merchants are captured, then the capital will not be able to have it."

The water merchants that Zhao Baiyang mentioned to the steward did not refer to the merchants who bought and sold through water transportation, but specifically those who were in charge of water transportation. The business transactions on the canal were all transported by them.

In some periods, when they were united, they were also called the Cao Gang, but the several gangs that formed later were disbanded by the government. Later, these people in charge of water transportation went their own way, and never formed a gang again.

Therefore, people nowadays call them Cao merchants.

Most of these water merchants have close ties with officials, so they basically control all the transportation business on the canal. In many cases, even the government's goods are paid for them to transport.

Therefore, they asked for extremely low prices. Basically, half of the profits of a shipment of goods were taken by them.

Therefore, all of them are very rich, and at the same time they give the most filial piety to officials.

Originally, Mo Zizai planned to arrest these people as well, but because these people were extremely scattered, and most of them lived on the boat, even if they were invited for a banquet, they would not be able to gather for a while.

In addition, there are many masters among them. If you want to deal with them, you have to use the Habayashi Army. The movement is too great, and because they are really important to water transportation, Mo Zizai thought about it and decided to let them go temporarily.

Knowing that the Cao merchants are still there, Zhao Baiyang's mood is a little better. After all, the money that the Cao merchants give each year is the bulk of the money. As long as there are Cao merchants, he can still receive a lot of tribute every year.

Just thinking of those businessmen caught by Mo Zizai, and the inexplicable loss of so much filial money in the future, Zhao Baiyang felt like a knife was piercing his heart.

"No! I'm going to discuss it with Qian Min."

Zhao Baiyang stood up suddenly, "He has so much money every year, and now something happened, he can't just ignore it, he must come up with a plan for this matter."

"Otherwise, who knows if that lunatic Mo Zizai will aim his knife at the Cao merchants tomorrow."

"This……"

The butler knew a lot of things, so when he heard what Zhao Baiyang said, he couldn't help hesitantly saying: "Master, it's not like that, is it?"

"Then Mo Zizai is relying on the empress's favor, and now he is in the limelight. If he is dealt with now, it will be easy to fold himself in."

"What do you know!"

Zhao Baiyang yelled, "Mo Zizai seems to have seen a meaty cat now, and he has already tasted the fishy smell. Do you think he can stop? He can't tell when he will aim the knife at the Cao merchants. When the time comes, you What can I do?"

"So, we must stop his behavior, and at worst, put some pressure on him so that he can't act recklessly."

"not to mention……"

Speaking of this, Zhao Baiyang's face was a bit cold, "I don't need to be in the front of this matter, even if it offends Mo Zi, it's Qian Min who got involved, what does it have to do with me."

"If he goes down, I just happen to be able to go one step further."

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