Waves at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 61
Outside Luoyang city, the autumn wind is bleak.

Compared with the bloody and chaotic inside the city at this time, there is only a chill outside the city...

Sikong Wang Yun had only been on the throne for half a month, and he went to the government to ransack their homes overnight. There are already more than [-] families who have been convicted together in the city...

I heard that Taiyuan, Shangdang and other places are also taking action at the same time. It seems that the Wang family in Taiyuan is dying, and they might be uprooted this time...

The people in Luoyang didn’t really react much to this, they just had more conversations after dinner, for no other reason, they just saw more...

Residents of the imperial capital have been accustomed to various political struggles since ancient times. There are not too many examples of this kind of sudden rise or overnight collapse. No matter how fierce it is, it will not affect their lives...

What's more, in the mouths of many "sighted people", this is just a more intense party struggle. Although the Northern Army has been mobilized, it is only deterrence.

That being the case, it shouldn't be those who eat melons eat melons, those who throw eggs throw eggs, what should I do...

But for the Qingliu in Luoyang and even the gentry from all over the country, the situation is not so simple.

The families closed their houses tightly and stayed at home, as if they did not want to provoke disputes. In fact, secret news transmission and interest exchanges are going on all the time...

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In a small hidden bamboo pavilion in the Mangdang Mountains outside the city, there was such a secret meeting going on.

The three people present at the meeting are all little-known little people, but the content involved many core secrets of the great man...

In order to conceal their identities, the three of them were dressed as businessmen. If they were accidentally seen by others, they would probably think that several shops in the city were secretly negotiating a deal.

These three people have no prominent identities, but behind them all represent a big force.

One of the people dressed by Hu merchants is the most popular "news expert" in the capital. Whether it is Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangdong, Longyou, Liaodong, Sichuan, or Mobei and Western Regions, as long as you have money, he will can get some info...

However, these are all for small and medium gentry. For these two heavyweight customers who came today, he naturally prepared heavy dry goods, but the price must be heavy...

But what is even more important is that this mysterious businessman turned out to be a subordinate of Zhenxi General Liu Yan. To be precise, he should be Liu Ao, the younger brother of Liu Yan's father and an official prostitute...

In his early years, Liu Yan arranged for his younger brother Liu Ao to become a Hu merchant in the imperial capital under a pseudonym. The goods he sold were naturally the most sought-after news in the capital.

There was also an information cocoon in the Han Dynasty, so in order not to let their own family become a frog in the well, and to gain an advantage in the extremely introverted family rankings, the gentry's sensitivity and desire for various information are very crazy, and they are naturally willing to do so. spending huge sums of money...

However, the cost for Liu Ao and Liu Yan to obtain these "hot items" is not very high.

Except for some news from small gentry from all over the world that needs to be paid for, most of the other core secrets come from Liu Yan himself.

As one of the pillars of the official party's military on the bright side, a good disciple of the Xun family in the dark, and a trustworthy talent in Liu Hong's eyes, Liu Yan himself is a large source of information...

Of course, some other information comes from the intelligence network he instructed Liu Ao to set up in some important places in recent years.

This network has planted a lot of intermediaries in the current big forces of the Han Dynasty, such as some bases in Longwei Mansion, the camp on Taiping Road, the mansions of Yuan and Yang from the Guan family, and even the newly expanded northern territory. Smugglers...

However, since the establishment was not long ago, the personnel they placed were still in relatively marginal positions, so they could only get some corner information, and then Liu Yan and the two could infer from it.

The information obtained from this network itself is what Liu Yan needs, so he has the confidence to jump out of the whirlpool and become the biggest fisherman of the big man...

The smart Liu Yan is more than that. Through Liu Ao's trafficking, he also squeezed out huge extra benefits from his own information advantages, and also accumulated countless material and financial resources for him to secretly build a private armed force.

Of course, the news of these sales has been screened by Liu Yan. The purpose of the screening is naturally to ensure that his identity in the open and dark lines will not be exposed. It is best to help disrupt the major forces and obtain a lot of benefits...

For example, a few years ago, he sold the news of his upcoming expedition to the snow region to the Hongnong Yang family, and also lured the Yang family to find him, and agreed on a plan to exterminate the Faqiang, Bailangyi, and support the Yilangqiang...

For example, at the beginning of last year, he sold to the Yuan and Yang families the information that the Longwei Mansion secretly supported the Taiping Dao, which he learned from Xun’s correspondence, and urged Yuan and the Taiping Taoist to get in touch...

For example, today, he instructed Liu Ao to tell the two people who came that Liu Hong was about to lose trust in the eunuch, and he had secretly arranged for the Xun family to summon the royalist party to replace the eunuch in power...

Moreover, before selling this news, he had already expressed this idea when he met Liu Hong secretly, and explained that the purpose of this was to let the gentry relax their vigilance against the eunuchs.

After all, the emperor is already preparing to change people, so why bother fighting them... It's not their own family that is losing now.

After discussing with Liu Hong and Xun Shuang, they also agreed. Although they would definitely give up the eunuch party, it must not be now. After so long, is it just to create a Taiyuan Wang family?Is it just to clear up the mere Bingzhou gentry?

This is obviously impossible, and they still need eunuchs to play a greater role.

The meal had to be eaten bite by bite. If the real vigilance of the gentry was aroused in advance, their planning would encounter great resistance.

In addition, the Xun family's recent actions are also a bit big. It is estimated that the gentry are aware of it, and they need to give an obvious reason to hide it...

In this way, Liu Yan not only won the appreciation of Liu Hong and the others, but also benefited from the gentry, killing two birds with one stone...!
Liu Yan even suggested in the secret room that Xun Shuang lead some "upright" royalist party members to seek an audience with Liu Hong, so as to cooperate with the acting...

As for himself, he jumped out of the vortex smoothly... and set off to return to Dunhuang Town West General's Mansion.

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"Such a price is... simply unreasonable! So much gold and silver, what do you use it for!?"

Liu Yan is responsible for screening news and making transaction decisions, and Liu Ao is naturally responsible for negotiating the transaction price. He is a veteran in this regard.

But his asking price this time is indeed very excessive...

Because he understands the importance of this information to the two people on the other side, or to the forces behind them, and he also needs to leave some room for them to bargain, right...

At this time, the other two merchants in the pavilion, one was wearing Shu brocade and spoke with a Sichuan-Shu accent, but Liu Ao knew that he was actually a member of the Yuan family.

The other person pretends to be a wealthy Jiangdong businessman, but he is actually a member of the Chen Liucai family, and there is also the shadow of the Hongnong Yang family behind him.

Hearing the other party's remarks, Liu Ao smiled disdainfully. The price he offered was a bit high, but it was not worth mentioning for the family background of the Guan family. However, all he wanted was "cash", which was indeed a bit embarrassing for them.

Liu Ao has no other choice, this is what Liu Yan has already decided. Gold, silver and money are luckier after all. Wouldn’t it be too conspicuous if they were replaced by food, grass or other supplies...

When it was transported to Xiliang, Liu Yan could find some caravans going to and from the Western Regions at will and exchange for all the supplies he wanted.

"This is an extraordinary time, and it is also an extraordinary price. If you hear this news, you two will know that it is not expensive!"

(End of this chapter)