The whole place was silent.
In the brothel that was so noisy just now, everyone's movements stopped, and everyone's eyes looked over.
"I know who he is!"
Suddenly, Jiang Xuan was beside Liu Zheng and said angrily in a low voice: "Xie Kai, the son of King Wu!"
King Wu?
Liu Zheng narrowed his eyes slightly and almost laughed.
No wonder.
King Wu is a relatively special existence in Long Yan. Why? Because the King of Wu is in charge of the land of Wu, which is the land east of Jiangsu, including Jiangsu and Zhejiang. where is this place? The land of plenty, even in Liu Zheng's previous life, and in modern society, this was the richest and richest place in China. Similarly, this is also a place that the scholar-official group has always controlled. Therefore, King Wu should have been a scholar-official.
It is also the source of funding for the entire scholar-bureaucrat group. In the previous life, during the Ming Dynasty, the main financial revenue came from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
Even the fiscal revenue exceeded the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty royal family.
One can imagine how developed this area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is.
At that time, King Wu and the scholar-bureaucrat group were still in the honeymoon period.
However……
All this began to change quietly last year. Why? Because of the previous closed-door policy and sea ban policy, they were able to conduct various operations behind closed doors. All kinds of secret smuggling and even cooperation with Japanese pirates allowed them to make a lot of money.
However, when Xie Tianyao issued a decree, shipping was officially opened.
At this time, King Wu was stunned.
What will happen to his smuggling group once shipping opens? Wouldn’t these interests disappear and all be taken over by the imperial court? As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. King Wu, who was used to making a lot of money, felt very unhappy. But what can he do? So they started to attack the scholar-bureaucrat group.
Aren’t you scholar-bureaucrats?
Aren’t you in charge of the government?
How can we allow shipping to be opened?
The scholar-bureaucrats were equally helpless. Xie Tianyao personally ordered it, so he had to give it this face. So, this pull affects the whole body, that's what I'm talking about. Once the shipping industry opened up, the imperial court set up a shipping department in Wudi. Suddenly, the whole of Wudi was in a state of panic.
The distribution of benefits needs to be re-planned.
The power levels of each group must be overthrown and started all over again... The impact of a single sea transport on the Wu land is quite large. And more importantly, it made King Wu feel cold towards the scholar-bureaucrat group. This made him want to break away from the scholar-bureaucrats, a power group that had been sucking his blood...
The contradictions began to become complicated and acute.
Even the King of Wu had to follow the decree and start to kill the Japanese pirates who had cooperated with Wu for nearly a hundred years, as well as the fake Japanese groups...
Heartache!
Heartache!
Who wouldn't be heartbroken when so much money is gone all at once?
All of this, all the spearheads are naturally pointed at Liu Zheng!
What made King Wu collapse even more.
Tea trade.
In the past, almost all of Longyan's tea trade came from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas... The Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas were the largest bases for growing, producing and selling tea. But since Liu Shilang took the tea trade into his hands, he gave up a lot of tea in Jiangsu and Zhejiang!
He promoted the cultivation of tea throughout Longyan!
What about the north, Liangzhou, or even the southern barbarian land...
Only for the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, I don’t have too many thoughts!
Angry!
How unreasonable!
The unsaleable tea in Jiangsu and Zhejiang this year has caused him to lose profits that ordinary people cannot imagine!
Therefore, King Wu has always held a grudge against Liu Zheng!
This time the prince was buried, and all the vassal kings from all over the country were present. Liu Zheng did not deliberately observe the King of Wu in this team. Unexpectedly, his son could no longer bear it.
but.
If it were Liu Zheng before, he would naturally not care about this. The mere King of Wu could get down if he wanted to. Whether it is military strength or economic sanctions. He was able to play the King of Wu in all kinds of ways.
But now, his thoughts are different...
The death of the old man Xie Tianyao left him with a problem.
A question worthy of his deep thought and study, the method of checks and balances. Rather than simply crushing and killing.
This is not the art of the emperor, the art of the king.
This is the art of dominance.
But since ancient times, emperors who persisted in the art of domination could not last long. How strong was Xiang Yu back then? It’s also not like he committed suicide in Wujiang River. King Wu's hatred for him, Liu Zheng, at this time, was just a microcosm of the many forces and vassal kings in Long Yan. One can imagine how many people hate Long Yan now.
How many people love him.
How many people hate him.
He never wanted to be a saint, but at this time, what he had to consider was the entire country, the entire community, the entire Longyan, and all the people in the world.
He needs to learn Xie Tianyao's method of checks and balances from these things, instead of blindly killing. His current status and perspective should be how to balance the interests of the old aristocracy, the new aristocracy, and the scholar-bureaucrat group. Instead of blindly replacing them. Long Yan couldn't stand that kind of torture.
A short time.
Liu Zheng has thought so much.
Here, the excitement continues.
Do you think that if Xie Kai, the eldest son of King Wu, gives out two pieces of gold, others will be moved, and the guests in the private room will be eager to give up the private room?
Not really.
This is Jinghua.
There are many nobles here, especially in the brothel, where people only care about face.
as expected.
"Hmph! Who did I say it was? It turned out to be the crown prince of King Wu. What a big arrogance!"
A cold voice came from the private room on the second floor.
When everyone heard this, the discussion started to get heated again.
Prince Wu?
No wonder you are so arrogant!
You must know that before the rise of Longyan and Liangzhou, this King of Wu was the richest vassal king in the entire Longyan, and this Wu land was the richest territory in the entire Longyan! Even King Wei, who was the first vassal king at that time, had to give a little less favor to King Wu.
In a word, you have money!
Get rich in a low profile!
Wu's military strength is not very strong, which is also a kind of wisdom of King Wu. He is already rich enough. If he continues to improve his military strength, it will definitely arouse Xie Tianyao's fear.
balance.
Everyone is playing with balance.
But this does not mean that King Wu will be afraid of King Wei. Each has its own strengths.
When Xie Kai heard this voice, he couldn't help laughing: "Whose young master is he from? Do you dare to speak out?"
Other people are also very curious.
There are indeed few people in the world who dare to ignore the son of King Wu.
"You don't deserve it!"
Who wants to.
The people in the elegant room just said this.
The whole place was in an uproar!
Liu Zheng also looked curious.
It's just...this voice sounds so familiar?
Unexpectedly, I wanted to come to this brothel and see such a good show.
It's getting better and better.
Ping ping ping pong!
Ping ping ping pong!
From the private room on the second floor, a servant came out, carrying a plate.
There are ingots of gold on that plate!
Then……
I saw him tipping the plate down.
The sound of ping-ping-pong-pong resounded throughout the entire venue.
The whole place suddenly fell silent again.
