The first-class concubine of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 328
The man from the capital is a fat man, very fat, very fat.

Sweat dripped from the fat man's face, and he rushed up immediately when he saw someone coming: "Master Bai, something serious happened to the Cao Gang in the capital."

Master Bai's name was Bai Guan, and he was quite calm at this moment, looking at the person coming, he asked, "Who are you?"

"The younger one is the teacher of Cao Jin, the leader of the Cao Gang. His name is Hong Pang. Because the younger one is very fat, everyone calls me Fatty Hong."

Bai Guan nodded slightly: "Tell me, what happened to the Cao Gang?"

"Since the Holy Majesty left the capital, the Martial King Zhao Dezhao who I met has shut down many of our businesses one after another, and many brothers have also been imprisoned. Our Cao Gang is about to be disbanded. Chief Cao doesn't know what to do. Only the younger ones were sent here."

Bai Guan frowned slightly. The funds of their Dark Ones organization were all from the transport income from the Bianhe Canal Gang. Without that money, how could they support so many dead soldiers?
Of course, the reason why they got such a thing in the capital was also to be able to get the news of the capital in time.

"Who did Cao Jin offend?" Baiguan felt strange. A large part of the credit for the prosperity of Bianjing, the capital of the Song Dynasty, is due to the large amount of daily trade in Bianhe River. If Cao Jin hadn't offended someone , How could the imperial court trouble the Cao Gang for no reason?

Fatty Hong smiled wryly: "The main reason why Chief Cao dared to offend the imperial court is because our supervisor, the king, can't understand the profits our Cao Gang has made and wants to take these things away from us. He is determined now. If we want to destroy our Cao Gang, otherwise Chief Cao wouldn’t let the little one come here to beg Master Bai.”

After listening to Fatty Hong's narration, Bai Guan somewhat understood that Zhao Dezhao, the King of Wu, was not as good-looking as Zhao Kuangyin. He only looked at the immediate interests but did not consider the consequences. Did he think that the interests of the folk are so active?

After a cold snort, Bai Guan said: "This matter is easy to handle. After you go back, you tell Cao Jin that the Cao Gang will be temporarily disbanded and will not do any business."

"This... I'm afraid this is inappropriate. How can we do it without business? We employ a lot of coolies there. How can they live without business..." At this point, Fatty Hong suddenly understood, and he patted himself The forehead: "Oh, the little one is stupid, the little one is stupid, why didn't the little one think that the coolies we hired were ordinary people, and they all made money by moving goods at the pier. We didn't give them work, they If you don't have a livelihood, you don't want to trouble the court."

Bai Guan smiled coldly: "Besides, there is another reason. There are goods to be transported on both sides of the Bian River. If we don't do it, how will they transport them? Those merchants can't afford to delay. Let's see how they quarrel with the court. You just have to watch the fun."

Fatty Hong nodded repeatedly after listening to Bai Guan's words, and then hurried to the capital again.

And not long after Fatty Hong left, Baiguan called someone, whispered something in his ear, and finally asked, "Do you understand everything?"

The man nodded: "I understand, please rest assured, Lord Bai."
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Beijing.

Wu Wangfu.

Since Zhao Kuangyin left the capital, Wu Wang Zhao Dezhao's words were similar to the imperial decree. He finally experienced the joyful feeling of power, which made him very comfortable.

For example, in the case of Caobang.

He sent someone to investigate and found that the Cao Gang hired a lot of coolies in the capital, but they paid the coolies very low wages.

He mentioned this matter in the court, although many officials objected, but most of them still supported him, King Wu Zhao Dezhao, so he ordered him to go down together, and their people immediately restricted some trade activities of the Cao Gang. , and even imprisoned some members of the Cao Gang.

Recently, the arrogance of the Cao Gang has suddenly calmed down a lot.

However, no one in the court dared to stand up to oppose it, which made him feel that all the officials in the court still supported and trusted him as a supervisor, which made him full of confidence in becoming the prince and eventually the emperor.

But when King Wu Zhao Dezhao thought this way, Xia He showed a slight smile, and asked: "Now that the Cao Gang is half dead, what does the prince plan to do? Don't you think that the matter of killing the Cao Gang is over?"

King Wu Zhao Dezhao shrugged: "How is this possible? This king is going to take the business on the Bianhe Wharf back to the imperial court and let the imperial court be responsible for these businesses. In this way, the wages for those coolies will be much higher, and no one will dare Lost the wages of those coolies." Speaking of this, King Wu Zhao Dezhao sighed: "This king is not a reckless person, let alone a selfish person. Everything I do is for those who live at the bottom of me. The people of the Great Song Dynasty, those Cao gangs wantonly oppressed the coolies, as the supervisor of the country, how could I not do something for them?"

"What's more, only if the king has a heart of all people, the emperor will pay more attention to the king, and the reputation of the king among the people will be better."

What King Wu Zhao Dezhao said was not unreasonable. Xia He was very relieved after hearing it. Originally, she knew what King Wu Zhao Dezhao meant when she asked this sentence. However, after listening to Wu Wang Zhao Dezhao's words, she knew that her worries were unnecessary.

And Wu Wang Zhao Dezhao's ability to have such an awareness means that he has raised his glass to become the crown prince.

"My lord is right, but this matter must be handled properly. If you are not careful, it may lead to chaos. Moreover, although the Cao Gang has the behavior of squeezing the coolies, our court cannot snatch their property from the Cao Gang just because of this. Yes, the imperial court does not compete with the people for profit, let alone plunder the people’s property for no reason, this is clearly stipulated in the laws of the Song Dynasty, and no one can break it.”

Hearing Xia He's words, King Wu Zhao Dezhao frowned. He also knew about this matter. The people have the right to own their own things, and the court cannot take them at will. Otherwise, even if the emperor supervises the country, he will be condemned by all the officials. .

Now King Wu Zhao Dezhao is still just a supervisor of the country, how dare he be condemned by all the officials?
"Xiahe, what can you do?"

Xia He hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "There is one way, but I'm afraid it will take a little longer."

"Oh, how?"

"My lord can send people to build another gang in the Bianhe River to compete with the Cao Gang for business on the Bian River. The lord can increase the price for the coolies at that time, and those coolies will work for us. If there is no one in the Cao Gang, they will naturally not be able to." If we survive, the whole Bianhe River will not belong to the imperial court then?"

Xia He's method is actually very simple, which is to defeat the Cao Gang as a business competitor. In her opinion, it is very simple to defeat the Cao Gang in this way because they have the support of the imperial court.

After hearing this, King Wu Zhao Dezhao thought it was a good idea, so he hurriedly asked someone to discuss how to do it.
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Just when Wu Wang Zhao Dezhao was looking for someone to discuss how to establish another gang in Bianhe, Su Tongkan from Kaifeng Mansion showed a slight smile.

Originally, according to the discussion with King Jin, Su Tongkan planned to do it after Zhao Dezhao's hands and feet in the official assessment this year, but what he didn't expect was that King Wu Zhao Dezhao actually attracted the attention of the capital's Jianghu forces. He was a little surprised, but also a little excited.

He, Su Jiaojian, came from Jianghu, so he has a good understanding of the situation in Jianghu. Wu Wang Zhao Dezhao wants to destroy the Cao Gang, it is an easy thing to do there, when the people will be chaotic, let's see how he ends up.

This is also the reason why after King Wu Zhao Dezhao proposed to deal with the Cao Gang in the early court, the officials of King Jin's faction did not say anything. They were all waiting, waiting for things to go wrong, and waiting for King Wu Zhao Dezhao to be unable to clean up the mess.

From Su's point of view, Wu Wang Zhao Dezhao is simply an idiot. Since he became a supervisor, he just needs to maintain the stability of the court. The Lord of Conservation.

Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor, took full responsibility for the expansion of the territory, as long as his descendants could keep the family business of Song Dynasty.

It's a pity that Martial King Zhao Dezhao didn't understand this point, he wanted to show it, and even showed that he was farther away than Zhao Kuangyin, which was ridiculous, and in Su's eyes, it was a ridiculous thing.

It's just that when Su Tongkan thought this way, he found that Wei Wang's people were too calm, as if they were also waiting for the things launched by Wu Wang Zhao Dezhao to finally become out of hand.

He was very surprised that the king of Wei was not in the capital, and there was no one left behind him in the capital except Xue Juzheng. Zhao Dezhao, it's a pity that Wu Wang Zhao Dezhao didn't listen, because Xue Ju is the man of Wei Wang.

But why didn't any of the other forces in the Wei Dynasty speak up?
Could it be that although King Wei went to Chang'an, he left behind a resourceful man in Bianjing?
Thinking of this, Su Tongjian couldn't help shivering. If King Wei had a think tank he didn't know about, it would definitely be a terrible thing. The most important thing for so-called counselors like them is to know yourself and your enemy. Only by knowing who the enemy is and who the enemy's counselor is, can he come up with a solution for the opponent's enemy counselor, but the current situation is that Su Jiaokan doesn't know when King Wei has an extra counselor.

A feeling of fear came over, making Su Tong's frown deepen, and at this moment, he immediately sent his hand, applause fell, and another person came in the room, Su Tong looked at that person, and said: "You find a way to inquire about Wei Wang's mansion and see if there is an extra counselor in Wei Wang's mansion. If there is, you must investigate this person's situation for me. Do you understand?"

"Yes, sir, please rest assured."

(End of this chapter)