Chapter 1: Founding Emperor【05】
Jeju Prefecture.
Sincere palace.
A middle-aged man in his thirties in a dark blue robe sat in front of the desk in the study: "Have you read the news from Yongzhou Prefecture?"
Several staff members standing in the study said respectfully: "My lord, we have all seen it."
One of the staff wearing a feather crown said: "But this Riyuelou, we have never heard of it in our information before, it seems that it appeared out of thin air."
Another aide continued: "My lord, my subordinates believe that the origin of the Riyuelou is mysterious and should not be underestimated. The black-armored cavalry that the Song family invited to serve as guards is comparable to the elite of the lord's Hufeng battalion! The elite soldiers of the city can be easily hired, which means that there are many such black-armored cavalry in Riyuelou."
King Cheng pondered for a while, then said, "You guys say, can this king also pay someone from Riyuelou to help me?" For example, assassinating an opponent, or using the elite of Riyuelou as cannon fodder to help him fight.
"My lord's remarks are reasonable. It's just the contact information of Riyuelou. We haven't found it yet. We can only contact Riyuelou through the Song family."
"My lord, this subordinate thinks that the Song family in Shunyi Prefecture should not simply hire the elite cavalry from Riyuelou to be their guards, otherwise why can't we find any information about Riyuelou, but the Song family in the mere Song family can contact Riyuelou. Where is the building? The Song family must be the chess piece that the Sun Moon Building placed on the bright side."
King Cheng, who originally wanted to arrest Song Yuanjia directly to interrogate the Sun Moon Tower information, immediately dismissed the idea. He felt that what his staff had just said was very reasonable, and the Song family could insist on not being annexed for so long under the covetousness of King An. There must be Riyuelou behind him.
The Song family without Riyuelou as their backer is just an ordinary wealthy businessman. They have money but do not have the strength to protect this family wealth. They are a big piece of fat in the eyes of many forces.
But now that the Song family is on the mysterious Sun and Moon Tower, even a vassal king as strong as King Cheng has no choice but to be afraid.
Then the Song family can't move for the time being...
King Cheng instructed: "Then send someone to invite Song Yuanjia to come to Prince Cheng's mansion, remember, don't offend!"
Not only can't offend, but also try to show kindness. After all, a mysterious organization like Riyuelou, who knows how much power it hides?
Moreover, it is said that the assassin encountered by King An was the assassin of Sun Moon Tower. If such a powerful assassin who disappeared and disappeared without a trace was staring at him, King Cheng thought that he might not be able to sleep day and night.
Therefore, King Cheng sent someone to invite Song Yuan Jiashi, and at the same time sent someone to help the Song Family Chamber of Commerce branch in Jeju Prefecture to solve the trouble, which is equivalent to showing goodwill to the Song family from the air.
Not only King Cheng, but other forces also did the same.
After leaving Yongzhou Mansion, before Yuan Jia's motorcade arrived at the next Song Family Chamber of Commerce branch, he received news from the major Chamber of Commerce branches.
Yuan Jia couldn't help laughing after reading the letter: "This is an unexpected joy!"
The local forces in the Song Family Chamber of Commerce branch took the initiative to help solve the trouble. Yuan Jia was a little surprised at the beginning, but after thinking about it, he guessed that he must have been frightened by the sun and moon building that he casually talked about like An Wang. In addition to showing goodwill, it also means temptation.
Yuan Jia replied to the major chambers of commerce branches one by one, so that they could accept it without fear. Anyway, he can act as confidently as he can, and bluff to bluff those forces.
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Because of the unexpected situation, Yuan Jia didn't need to solve the problem one by one in the Chamber of Commerce branch, he only needed to send a few people to clean up the moths instead of him.
He himself took Li Shen and the others back to Shun Yifu.
He had just returned to Shunyi Prefecture, and before he could sit down and take a breath, he received a visit from Mr. Zhang, the prefect of Shunyi Prefecture.
In the past, only the Song family gave Zhang Zhifu money to pay bribes. Where would Zhang Zhifu take the initiative to visit?
As soon as Yuan Jia heard Zhang Zhifu's unprecedented initiative to come to the door, he knew that there must be another plan.
He got up and went to greet him. Zhang Zhifu was a man in his forties with a big belly and an oily and round appearance. His moustache was up and down when he spoke: "Nephew Song! Today, this official came in a hurry, and I didn't disturb Xian. Nephew?"
Bad visitor! This thought flashed through Yuan Jia's mind quickly, and a warm smile appeared on his face: "Master Zhang is joking, you are the parental official of Shunyi Prefecture. If you have anything to do, just tell me, how can I not disturb you?"
Zhang Zhifu was sitting opposite Yuan Jia, but Steward Song served hot tea at the right time, Zhang Zhifu took a sip from the teacup, and finally got down to business: "My nephew, this official is here today to meet you Song Dynasty. The Riyuelou behind the house is talking about employment..."
The Sun Moon Building behind the Song family?
Yuan Jia was stunned for a moment. Before, he just talked nonsense about a sun and moon building to fool King An. Now this news has spread to Shunyi House? Even Zhang Zhifu thought that the Sun Moon Building must exist, or was it the backer behind his Song family?
Even if there were turbulent waves in his heart, Yuan Jia calmly listened to Zhang Zhifu's words on the surface.
It turned out that Zhang Zhifu took the initiative to come to Songfu to find Yuanjia, because he wanted to hire the elite cavalry from Riyuelou to clean up the robbers' cottage outside Shunyifu.
Zhang Zhifu has been the governor of Shunyi Prefecture for ten years, and he has not moved his nest. It is because he is greedy for pleasure and accepts bribes and has no political achievements. This person is based on nepotism and is a member of the current Empress Dowager Zhang.
However, Yuan Jia felt that it was too coincidental that Zhang Zhifu came to him at this time to hire mercenaries from Sun Moon Tower to brush up his political achievements. The coincidence made him have no choice but to suspect that Zhang Zhifu might have been pushed out to test Song Song. Home and Sun Moon Building.
Yuan Jia said with a smile: "Master Zhang, of course there is no problem if you want to hire Riyuelou's cavalry, but the price of Riyuelou's cavalry is very expensive..."
With a wave of Zhang Zhifu's hand, he looked like he was not short of money: "Price is not a problem!" If spending money can lead to promotion, he can't wait for the gold to rise to the sky!
It is a pity that Zhang Zhifu is a foreign relative and is not tolerated by some civil servants and parties in the DPRK. Even if he spends money on management, he cannot rise from the prefect position without any political achievements.
Yuan Jia casually quoted an astonishing price, Zhang Zhifu's eyes twitched, but he still pretended to be calm and agreed: "Then when will the people from Riyuelou come?"
Yuan Jia said with a smile: "Don't worry, Master Zhang, when it's time to come, I will naturally find you."
Zhang Zhifu left a deposit and was sent away by Yuan Jia.
Yuan Jia came back and sat in front of the deposit, stared at the deposit for a long time, and sighed deeply: "Inadvertently insert willows and willows!"
Does it make money? Of course you will earn it! While making money, fool those forces and win more development time for the Song family, so happy!
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In the name of Riyuelou, Yuanjia sent out the Song family troops who were trained by his subordinates to suppress the bandits, and Song Zhiyuan later found out.
Song Zhiyuan came over and asked him, "Brother, won't this reveal our details?"
Yuan Jia said calmly: "Just let them train soldiers." Of course, he wouldn't really just go for money, this is also an opportunity to train soldiers in an open and honest way. No matter how well-trained an army is, it needs to see blood in order to prevail on the battlefield.
Song Zhiyuan asked again: "Brother, I heard about the Riyuelou... What's the matter? When did our family take refuge in the Riyuelou?"
I couldn't find anything from Yuanjia, so someone was attacking from Song Zhiyuan. Song Zhiyuan was very strange. When did the Song family take refuge in Sun Moon Tower? What kind of organization is Sun Moon Building?
However, Song Zhiyuan is also a black-bellied man. When others mention the relationship between the Song family and Riyuelou in front of him, although he himself is extremely confused, he has a mysterious and mysterious smile on his face. People have made up a lot of their own brains.
Of course, Yuan Jia would not fool around with his own people. He suddenly smiled and said, "Isn't there a wooden building for sentry purposes over the training base? I think that the wooden building can see the sun in the daytime and the bright moon at night, so it is called the Sun Moon Building. how?"
Song Zhiyuan: "..." He understood, it turns out that this Riyuelou is what his brother lied about and fooled people.
Song Zhiyuan nodded and gave a serious thumbs up: "What a good name!"
Then, when Song Zhiyuan went out to chat and brag with his former friends, he pretended to unintentionally reveal a little bit of Riyuelou's mysterious and powerful forces, which stunned people for a while.
With the mysterious and unpredictable Riyuelou as the backing, none of those vassal kings dared to be the first bird to reach out to the Song family, but they took good care of the Song family's business.
Several years have passed, the situation in the imperial court has become more and more severe, and the party struggle is severe.
There is a severe drought in the northeast, countless people have no grains, the imperial court has no reduction or exemption, selling children and daughters is not easy, countless refugees, starving and dying, changing children to eat, like a **** on earth.
Even though Shunyi Prefecture is still far from the land of severe drought in the Northeast, Yuanjia heard about the hardships of the people in the disaster-stricken areas.
He sighed in his heart: "The world is going to be in chaos!"
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the largest civil uprising in the northeast, and several cities were looted by the influx of rebels...
The chaos in the world begins here.
The court was still arguing over who to send to suppress the rebellion.
Because some people reported that King An kept private armies, in fact, many officials were well aware of the fact that the vassal king kept private armies, but no one cared about the tacit understanding, because the little emperor was a puppet, and behind these courtiers there was a certain vassal king. shadow.
But when someone brought the matter of King An's private army to the public, how could Empress Dowager Zhang not be afraid of King An? So the foreign relatives and eunuchs, headed by the Empress Dowager Zhang, demanded that King An be sent to quell the rebellion.
This is obviously to weaken the power of King An. King An is not a person who can tolerate it. His most powerful adviser, Mr. Xu, was assassinated by Yuan Jia. The King An who was not discouraged directly lifted the table and pulled the flag of rebellion. He quickly controlled Yongzhou Mansion and captured a nearby Mansion City, officially rebelling.
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In Shunyi Prefecture, Yuan Jia was a little surprised when he heard that King An had rebelled directly. He bought someone to go to a censor to report that King An had kept a private army, so that Queen Mother Zhang could deal with King An and weaken King An's power. An Wang couldn't hold his breath so quickly.
He originally thought that Prince An would endure one more time, until the chaos in the world became more obvious, and then he would raise his flag to rebel.
However, it would be better for King An to rebel in advance.
Yuan Jia received news that King An sent someone to hire Riyuelou cavalry. Obviously, King An wanted to use the strength of Riyuelou to help him fight.
This is different from Zhang Zhifu's hiring of Sun and Moon Tower to clear up the robbers. Yuan Jia could not agree to such a request, so he decisively took Song Zhiyuan to the training base in the mountains in the name of going out for business.
The people sent by King An could only throw a punch.
In the training base, an exquisite three-story building was actually built with a plaque of 'Sun and Moon Building'. Yuan Jia and Song Zhiyuan stood on the third floor of the Sun and Moon Building and looked down at the recruits who were training on the training ground. .
After the world is in chaos, it is easier to secretly expand the army, and even some vassal kings blatantly recruit troops on their own fiefs.
The Song family is just a small family of wealthy merchants, and its name and power are far less than those of the vassal kings.
Therefore, when you grow up and grow up, building walls high, accumulating grain widely, and being king slowly is the kingly way, and the one who laughs last is the winner.
Song Zhiyuan watched the recruits undergoing physical training, "Brother, you trained batch after batch of Song family troops, certainly not just for self-protection, right?"
Yuan Jia said softly, "Naturally."
Song Zhiyuan turned his head to look at Yuan Jia, and saw that Qing Jun's young man's profile was slightly sharp. He later realized that his brother seemed to have changed a lot since his parents died. Compared with the previous gentleness, the current brother is more Much tougher and indifferent.
But it also makes people feel more secure and dependent.
Song Zhiyuan smiled slightly: "Brother, I will help you with whatever you want, so..." He tilted his head, "Don't treat me like a child and protect me."
Yuan Jia turned his head and met Song Zhiyuan's eyes. Looking at his clear eyes, he couldn't help laughing: "Okay."
This little brother is really... kind of cute.
Song Zhiyuan took the initiative to ask for help. Naturally, Yuan Jia would not let an outstanding talent like the male protagonist's younger brother go to waste. He entrusted Song Zhiyuan with preparing the logistics for the Song family army.
Song Zhiyuan, who has already taken over the Song family's business, is still very handy in logistics. In the original plot, Song Zhiyuan relied on King Cheng, and it was only because of good logistics that he was awarded the title.
Yuanjia is starting to build a "high wall", at least to run Shunyi Prefecture into a nest of the Song family that cannot be splashed into.
Zhang Zhifu has already been sent back to the capital by him. The backing behind the newly transferred Wang Zhifu is not as strong as Zhang Zhifu. In this Shunyi Prefecture, it is like a statue of a Buddha. It is just a decoration. The turmoil pretended to be deaf.
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Three years later.
King An rebelled and drove straight into the capital, causing great chaos in the world. The vassal kings from all over the world sent troops to the capital under the banner of King Qin escorting them. In fact, they all fought with the same idea as King An.
There are only a handful of civil and military officials in the capital who are truly loyal to the little emperor, and the rest all find their way back.
Empress Dowager Zhang panicked with her son in her arms. Seeing that King An was about to enter the capital, she even issued an imperial decree in the name of the little emperor to let other vassal kings rescue him.
This directly gave other vassal kings the opportunity to be justifiable.
When all the vassals from all over the world were focusing on the capital, Yuan Jia had quietly brought Shunyi Prefecture under control.
Wang Zhifu became his puppet, and other powerful families who became the money bags of the feudal kings were either squeezed out of Shunyi Prefecture by the Song family or controlled by him, and since then the Song family in Shunyi Prefecture has dominated.
In the past three years, the Song family's business has also changed from bright to dark, especially the salt iron and foreign trade business. Such strategic materials cannot be sold out, and they are all quietly transported to Shunyi Prefecture for their own use.
When others were fighting to the death to fight for a justifiable title, Shunyi Prefecture became the territory of the Song family, Yuanjia began to 'widely accumulate grain' and silently developed the agriculture of Shunyi Prefecture.
At present, the logistics of the army are all supported by the purchase of grain and grass from the Song family's trade routes. Every day, large sums of money come in and go out.
If the food in Shunyi Prefecture is enough to support the Song family army, then the Song family army will not be afraid of being cut off from the food and grass and strangling the lifeline of the throat in the future.
When Yuanjia was developing, a team from Jeju Prefecture came within a hundred miles of Shunyi Prefecture.
As soon as the team approached within a hundred miles of Shunyi Prefecture, a scout reported the number and strength of the team.
Yuan Jia heard that this was a small army sent by King Cheng, and after a little pondering, he did not stop the people outside Shunyi Mansion, but asked them to let them in.
As for Shunyi Mansion, some things that should not be revealed to outsiders should naturally be hidden.
Therefore, when the team sent by King Cheng entered the city, at most, they felt that Shunyi Prefecture was quite prosperous, not affected by the war, and did not notice anything unusual.
The leader of this team is Fang, a young general under the command of King Cheng, known as General Fang.
After General Fang took the people into the city, he inquired about the location of the Song Mansion, and led the people to the Song Mansion with a clear purpose.
Yuan Jia, who had received the news long ago, sent someone to wait at the entrance of Song Mansion.
The cold-faced General Fang walked out of the Song Mansion with a stern look, and saw a group of burly soldiers wearing silver armor and holding long knives guarding the Song Mansion.
After confirming his eyes, he is someone who cannot be beaten!
Can't be bothered! Can't be bothered!
General Fang lowered his voice and said to the Yinjia Army guarding the gate: "This general was sent by His Royal Highness Prince Cheng, please let me know!"
After one of the silver armored troops went to report, Butler Song opened the door and invited them in.
Yuan Jia sat in the main hall and waited for them to come in. He didn't say that General Fang's subordinates were not allowed to come in together, because he didn't worry about being assassinated at all. Look at the well-armed patrols in Song Mansion, let alone General Fang. More than a dozen people, even if you bring a hundred people, they will deliver food.
General Fang was very sensible himself. He only brought a lieutenant beside him, and the two of them went in.
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When Yuan Jia saw General Fang, the envoy sent by King Cheng, he stared at his young red face for a long time: "I don't know the general's surname?"
General Fang replied, "No need for your surname Fang!"
Yuan Jia was a little curious: "I don't know that General Fang under the command of King An..."
General Fang's face turned cold, and he said stiffly, "It's my father."
"The thief of King An, who killed Zhongliang unjustly, his father was such a hero, but he died unjustly at the hands of King An. Therefore, this general finds another Ming Lord and joins His Royal Highness Prince Cheng! His Royal Highness is the real Lord of the world..."
Yuan Jia was too lazy to listen to the rainbow farts blown by General Fang in the face of King Cheng.
No wonder he felt that General Fang's big red face was so familiar. He looked very similar to the red-faced general he saw in Prince An's mansion. It turned out to be his father and son!
General Fang praised how wise King Cheng is, and then came to the point: "Your Majesty is polite and corporal, loves good talents, and intends to recruit the two brothers of the Song family. I wonder when the Song family master can follow this general to Jeju House?"
Yuan Jia looked at General Fang, who was full of confidence and felt that no one would refuse when King Cheng asked for talent, and laughed, "Sorry, General Fang, Song and his younger brother are attached to their homeland and do not want to leave their hometown to go to Jeju."
General Fang Xiao obviously did not expect Yuan Jia to refuse. In the meantime, if the Song family wants to join the prince's command, the prince may not want to accept you."
Yuan Jia said in a low voice, "The general has been overly concerned. The Song family still has the power to protect themselves."
Just as General Fang was about to attack, he heard the sound of armor colliding and the sound of neat footsteps coming from outside the door. Looking back, the main hall had long been surrounded by a group of silver armored troops.
Cold sweat broke out on General Fang Xiao's forehead, and his tone immediately softened: "Since the Song family has no intention, this general will go back and report to the prince. The prince is magnanimous and will not care about the Song family."
Yuan Jia said with a smile: "Don't worry, it's not too late for General Fang to leave after having lunch in the humble house!"
Under the eyes of a group of silver armored troops, this lunch was very stressful for General Fang.
Yuan Jia also successfully found out from his mouth why King Cheng suddenly sent someone to Shunyi to recruit the Song family.
It turns out that King Cheng has a confidante who is eloquent and resourceful.
It is said that the confidante's surname is Yan.
It is said that the girl Yan made many suggestions for King Cheng to analyze the war situation, and was very valued by King Cheng.
It is said that the girl Yan has been accepted as a side concubine by King Cheng, and she is brought with him to accompany the army.
It is said that Concubine Yan side strongly recommended Song Zhiyuan of the Song family of Shunyi Prefecture in front of King Cheng...
Yuan Jia heard these rumors from General Fang Xiao, and immediately understood that the concubine Yan Fang of King Cheng was the reborn heroine Yan Siqiu.
Over the years, Yan Siqiu disappeared, Yuan Jia was also busy preparing for the great cause, and he forgot about people. As a result, he did not expect that this Yan Siqiu had the ability to get in with King Cheng, and successfully won the trust of King Cheng.
As for Yan Siqiu's strong recommendation of Song Zhiyuan to King Cheng, it is nothing more than wanting Song Zhiyuan to help King Cheng ascend to the throne as he did in his previous life, and then he will kill the donkey in the future.