My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 333 Who can defeat Jia Xu, Zhuge and Li Ru together?
After the heavy rain, there was drizzle for three consecutive days, and frogs croaked urgently from the pond in the atrium of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

There are water curtains hanging on all sides of the pavilion, and two scribes who appear to be about forty are playing chess in the pavilion.

"Wen He first caused countless casualties in the dispute between Wu and Yue, and then asked His Majesty to openly and covertly support Wu and Yue in the fierce war. I am afraid that many people will die in the past two years. The land of Qi and Liang in the northwest is barren and trade has been cut off. I don't know how many families have been destroyed. This If we go back to the Central Plains to implement the plan, I am afraid that many people will die, which will be too harmful to the world."

"In the past, Xu was afraid of harming Tianhe and bringing harm to his descendants, but now you and I are both resurrected from the dead and have no heirs, so why should we be timid anymore... Haha, I have to make up for the regrets of my previous life in this life. "

"Haha." The scribe over there shook his crane fan and laughed: "This is the first time that I can talk to Wen He like this. If you and I could do this in Shu, the Central Plains would have been settled long ago."

"...Why didn't the Prime Minister say that he came to the Central Plains? There would be nothing wrong with the Sima family."

Jia Xu and Zhuge Liang looked at each other, and then burst into laughter. After a moment, someone came quickly outside the pavilion holding an umbrella. He was also a scribe. He had a short half-foot long white beard, a mustache on his lips, and a silk scarf wrapped in his bun. The soap-colored, dark green robe and coat were none other than Li Ru. He was thrown to the Prime Minister's Mansion by Dong Zhuo to serve as Cao Cao's servant.

When he came over, Zhuge Liang and Jia Xu also bowed their hands to him.

"Wen You also came over and sat down together. It's quite pleasant to have a hand-to-hand chat on a rainy day and talk about the general trend of the world."

"Haha, Confucianism is disrespectful."

Li Ru returned the favor to Zhuge Liang and Jia Xu, then sat down on the stone bench next to him, watching the moves on the chessboard in their hands, and listening to their next words.

"This is not your Majesty's northern land. Its reputation and foundation are unstable. It will take six or seven years for your slow efforts to achieve results. However, if your Majesty wants to complete the great cause within two years, the only way is to rush to do it."

The wind blew raindrops into Jia Xu's beard. He raised his face, and the black stones held between his fingertips fell onto the chessboard. He seemed to be looking at the chess situation intently, "... Sit down in the Central Plains, either win over the wealthy families, or completely eliminate them all again." Dependence is like playing chess. If you don't remove all the other pieces, how can the chessboard be clean?"

Zhuge Liang had a faint smile on his face, shook his feather fan, and dropped the white seeds casually.

"Liang Liang has mentioned this matter to Your Majesty earlier, and we should get rid of it as soon as possible. However, the word 'destroy' should be as blood-free as possible, so that the people will not be panic-stricken. The people's rules are what they are."

On the opposite side, the hand that was twirling Heizi stopped and Jia Xu said: "If you don't get blood, you must get rid of the roots to avoid future troubles!"

Then, there was a snap on the chessboard, cutting off the atmosphere that Bai Zi was gradually forming, and his light tone seemed to have pinched the lifeblood of thousands of lives.

Zhuge Liang looked at the sunspots he had dropped, stopped his feather fan and pressed it on the chessboard.

"Where are you going to start, Lieutenant?"

Li Ru listened quietly beside him. In fact, he was not familiar with the Jia Xu in front of him. He had only heard his name. He was just a captain under his father-in-law, so he did not like him at all. Later he found out that he was a captain. The little captain has become the captain of a country. He listens to his plans, the plans he lays out, and the things he plans are much bigger than him.

Just as he was thinking about it, Jia Xu on one side took the warm wine from the small stove, poured a glass with Li Ru and Zhuge Liang, and also poured a glass for himself.

"Let's start with the Wang and Li families who first attached themselves to Your Majesty, and let them be used as bait." Jia Xu took a sip of green plum wine and let out a comfortable "tsk", not forgetting Li Ru next to him, and looked at him asked:

"Wenyou, what do you want to say?"

"When Confucianism first arrived, he didn't know much about the affairs of the Central Plains in this world."

A person like him would not be able to figure out everything about the Central Plains in more than ten days. It was just a new arrival and the things he had done in the past kept him in a state of fright, and he did not dare to stand out too much.Probably seeing Li Ru's mentality, Jia Xu rarely laughed out loud: "Wen You looks like this, just like when I first came here, I was cautious, but I made a joke to His Majesty. You, you don't have to be like this." Be careful, what you have done and what I have done would not have been tolerated in the current world, but in this world, your Majesty is ambitious and has the world in mind, so you should be able to speak freely and show off your talents."

"Confucian scholars are not as good as the princes and prime ministers. Back then, they made plans to depose the young emperor and install Liu Xie as the new emperor. They burned down Luoyang again. Now they don't even have the shame to go to the ancestral temple."

"Haha, according to what Wen You said, then Grand Master Dong can't go even more." Jia Xu laughed, and Zhuge Liang just smiled and did not participate in the discussion. After all, he was different from Jia Xu and Li Ru in his heart. They got along with each other and shared the same interests. They are two different things.

Li Ru was forced into a corner by Jia Xu's few words and couldn't help but say: "Ru is not as thick-skinned as the Grand Master."

Suddenly he raised his glass and took a sip in embarrassment.

Seeing that Jia Xu and Zhuge Liang were still staring at him, he had to put down his wine glass and think for a moment, "The prime minister and the lieutenant took the money out of the cauldron and bought grain from the rich people. The old money they received went into their hands, and new money was given to them. The old money was invalid." , or exchange it at a low ratio. Although the vitality is seriously damaged, it will not be eradicated."

Having said this, he paused for a moment: "Ru, I can still make up for it."

Li Ru looked at Jia Xu and Zhuge Liang, with a hint of sinisterness in his eyes.

"When buying grain, they used it as military grain. After exchanging it for new money, the whole clan was imprisoned on charges of adulteration of the grain they sold. If they wanted to survive, they exchanged the clan's fields, shops, and house deeds. No blood was needed, and their roots were cut off. Your Majesty stood firm in the Central Plains, obtained grain, and filled the treasury with gold and silver!"

If Jia Xu was vicious in his tactics, then Li Ru was ruthless.

The drizzle fell in the pond, creating ripples. Amidst the sound of frogs croaking in the rain, the three of them looked at each other and settled matters that affected thousands of people in an understatement.

The three of them joked and joked in the pavilion for a while and played a few games of chess. When the sky was getting dark, Li Ru and Jia Xu stood up to say goodbye and left. Zhuge Liang sent the two of them to the front yard of the government office. On the way, the three of them talked a few words and assigned their respective tasks. Responsible things.

Zhuge Liang was responsible for sitting in the middle, arranging the purchase of grain and planning the Wang and Li families, while Jia Xu was responsible for the direction of the strategy, checking for omissions and filling in the gaps, and beguiling the wealthy families on the list to take the bait.

Li Ru is responsible for the specific implementation. After all, only the cruel people dare to go into battle and implement it personally.

The two of them got on the carriage respectively, said goodbye to Zhuge Liang who was sent outside the house through the window, and then drove to different streets.

Zhuge Liang was like a kind old man standing on the stone steps, waving his crane fan, looking at the carriage driving away in the green rain curtain, thinking about the plan of the two poisonous men, sighing and shaking his head Turn around and walk towards the house.

Half a month after the military exercise between the three armies, news gradually spread that the emperor was quietly purchasing grain at a price much higher than the market price. At this time, the copper coins of the Wei State and the copper coins of the Yan State had not been abolished and could still be used in the north and south.

The Wang and Li families were the first to receive the news. They sold out the huge amount of food they had hoarded at home and purchased it from other wealthy families. If not for this, this surprising news would not have spread quickly in and around Gyeonggi. The news spread across the states and counties.

The public knew nothing about this news.

After all, such news only circulated among the wealthy clans. Almost everyone was shocked at first, and then unanimously speculated that the emperor was hoarding food this time in preparation for recuperation.

As everyone knows, a huge invisible net has been spread out.

(End of this chapter)