Yang Biao persuaded Dong Zhuo: "This order will make the whole Han Dynasty angry and resentful. If it continues, it will probably cause turmoil in the whole world!"
But Dong Zhuo sneered: "Do businessmen have the ability to rebel?"
Yang Biao said: "Although this generation has no ability to rebel, the world will fall into turmoil if we kill them!"
You also need to pay attention to the method of killing pigs. How can you kill all the pigs in the Han Dynasty in one go? Will you have to live in the future? Moreover, the way the officials of the Han Dynasty are doing it now, they have to kill all the piglets!
Who will dare to be a businessman after this!
Dong Zhuo mocked: "Forcing the people to rebel will only make the world angry and turbulent. They are just a few businessmen. If they want to rebel, let others kill them! How big a storm can there be? In the past, the court was too disrespectful to them.
Just because they have a lot of money, they really think of themselves as high-ranking people."
Dong Zhuo was often oppressed by merchants back then. After all, his trophies still had to be sold by merchants. In this era, those who do military business have high backends. They are basically caravans of powerful noble families, and many of them are
All the big businessmen looked down upon Dong Zhuo, a barbarian from Xiliang, but there were many of them whom he could not afford to offend.
Moreover, when Emperor Ling was buying and selling officials, many businessmen spent money to buy official positions. At that time, the great businessman Meng Tuo gave Zhang Rang wine that was scarce in the Central Plains at that time, so he was promoted to become the governor of Liangzhou. Dong Zhuo was fighting for this position.
They haven't sat down for decades, and it was this Meng Tuo who forced the entire Xiliang to rebel, and Xiliang has not returned to the hands of the imperial court. Dong Zhuo naturally has a bad sense of them!
"You are considered to be well-educated people. Please tell me the truth. Is it better for us to force common people who have the ability to rebel, or to force businessmen who have no ability to rebel? Or are you willing to cut off your flesh and lend tens of millions of dan to the court?
Food! Anyway, that’s the situation of a big man. This cut is inevitable, it just depends on who it is cut on!"
Yang Biao once again implored: "But it must be stopped in moderation, and we cannot allow mass killings in various places! Prime Minister, now officials in various places are not sparing even ordinary small businessmen, and wantonly making unjust, false and wrong cases to line their own pockets. Now the whole Han Dynasty no longer dares to
Some people claim to be merchants, but without these merchants, it is impossible for the Han Dynasty to transport materials from various places. If goods cannot be exchanged, the world will definitely be a stagnant water!"
But Dong Zhuo said: "Mr. Wen, I have been a local official for 30 years. How could I not know these local things? But now that the imperial court wants them to do things, they must be fed, as long as they do not affect me."
You can even raise enough money and food by fighting against Thunder Lord, and you will become a hero of the imperial court! We can settle the accounts with them after we kill Thunder Lord."
"But if Lei Gong cannot be defeated, Youzhou will definitely not be protected. If Youzhou is not protected, Jizhou will not be protected. At that time, the imperial court will be in danger of overthrowing. Compared with the overthrow of the imperial court, the life and death of these merchants is nothing.
Now the truth is just the lesser of two evils!"
"Although the merchants suffered heavy losses this time, the court has enough money and food to fight the Thunder Lord. Now the Prime Minister wants to discuss with Zhu Jun to attack Taiyuan County. This time, 100,000 troops will be dispatched. Without this money and food, I will
This army cannot be dispatched at all! The big man has reached the point where he has to make a choice today. If you can't make a decision, let me make this decision!"
After Dong Zhuo said this, Yang Biao could only agree with Dong Zhuo's approach. Although Dong Zhuo killed their dogs, he did it to eat to deal with the robbers who wanted to kill them! It was regarded as Dong Zhuo's labor fee. Yang Biao also
He can only comfort himself in this way, this world has become increasingly difficult for him to understand!
The situation in the world is becoming more and more unfriendly to their noble family. The rebels in the past generations have fought against the imperial court, so they can watch the fire from the other side and watch the success or failure. Who knew that there would be such a rebellious Lei Gong, who would actually bring him with him?
The rebels in the world are fighting against the nobles. Now it is not the imperial court that needs the nobles, but the nobles who need the court to help them eliminate the rebellion led by Lei Gong! Now they can only let Dong Zhuo slaughter their dogs to deal with Lei Gong.
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Mid-November of the first year of Chuping (AD 190)!
Although the Northland has been covered with snow, Mayi, as a commercial city, is still prosperous and lively. Even because of the order, all the Han merchants, large and small, fled to Bingzhou.
Although Lei Gong collects high taxes, he is at risk of his life. Now in other parts of the Han Dynasty, as long as they appear, they will be massacred by the officials. They no longer dare to go out of Bingzhou to do business!
The merchants who fled to Mayi made other places in the Han Dynasty extremely fearful. Even the caravans of many noble families did not dare to leave Bingzhou and return to their families. They were also worried that they would be arrested by the officials on the way before they returned.
Massacre, this time it was not just small businessmen with no background who died, but the caravans of noble families like them were also killed! Under such circumstances, no one dared to leave Bingzhou! Bingzhou seemed to have become the entire
The Han merchants fled to an isolated island.
The largest hotel in Mayi was rented by the Chamber of Commerce. All the big businessmen in Bingzhou and those who escaped from the Han Dynasty gathered here. They also wanted to resist their injustice!
"We businessmen can't survive anymore, this damn world is going to drive us to death!" Wei Chang, a businessman who escaped from Sili, said with lingering fear.
He is a member of the Wei family, the top family in the Han Dynasty, and is also famous in Hedong County. Of course, he is just a steward of the caravan, helping the Wei family make money. Originally, he thought that the order to tell his family background would not affect him, at most, those who
A businessman without a backing is unlucky.
But he didn't expect that those soldiers were unreasonable at all. They sent troops to surround the market. If they sent troops, they would rob. If they dared to resist, they would kill, and they would kill the whole family. The blood of those who were killed in all the markets in the east of the river flowed like rivers. He
He escaped by pretending to be a beggar! Later, he fled back to the Wei family and wanted the owner of the family to help him get revenge, but the owner asked him to hide at home to recuperate for a while and ignore what was going on outside.
But Wei Chang was not convinced. His men and even several of his brothers died in the Hedong market. Here and there were Han armies. The robbers were not so unreasonable and came directly to massacre the city.
He was dissatisfied and wanted to help his brother to protect him, so he ran to Bingzhou, hoping to find Lei Gong to help him avenge himself!
"Dong Zhuo, the butcher, is simply crazy. He is simply massacring us, but our head of the family doesn't bother Dong Zhuo at all!"
Zhen An sneered and said: "Now the big Han is fighting against the Tengjia Army. The strength of both sides has exceeded one million. The consumption of such a battle can be imagined. The Tengjia Army is rich and can withstand the consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops, but
The imperial treasury has been empty for more than ten years. During the late emperor's time, it was difficult to maintain an army of 100,000 by buying and selling officials. However, Dong Zhuo, a butcher in his heart, mobilized an army of 400,000 in one go. Wherever the imperial court had the money and food to fight, it would naturally
They’re targeting us businessmen!”
Tian Zhong said strangely: "But that's not right. We are not businessmen without a backing. This is a family's caravan. It doesn't matter if one or two families are afraid of Dong Zhuo. Could it be that all the noble families in the world are afraid of Dong Zhuo? It's not like we didn't add it before."
Taxes, no matter how much the court raises taxes, they will only be imposed on the people!"
Tian Zhong was lucky. Now that the entire Youzhou had become the rear of the war, Dong Zhuo naturally did not dare to bring the warning order to Youzhou. Otherwise, there would be chaos in the rear and there would be no need to fight this battle.
Not only can there be no chaos in Youzhou now, the imperial court even has to transport money and food from various places to Youzhou. Because of the war boom, all industries in Youzhou can now be said to be prosperous. The 200,000 troops are a huge consumer market. In just these three months, the entire Han Dynasty
Billions of dollars were invested in Youzhou to purchase various logistical supplies. Naturally, the noble families represented by Tian Zhong made a lot of money.
Of course, although they make a lot of money, they are also afraid. They also know Lei Gong's policy. If they really want Lei Gong to army in Youzhou, no matter how much money they make, they will only help Lei Gong to keep it. They don't even believe that the whole family's lives will be at risk.
Finished playing.
Therefore, in order to maintain the stability and inheritance of the family, many noble families in Youzhou sent people to Bingzhou. They could not buy land here, but it was good to open a factory. In this way, they would be connected with the Tengjia Army.
It's one's own.
Therefore, there are many noble families in Youzhou in Bingzhou. They come to the territory of the Tiejia Army and are familiar with various policies and laws of the Tengjia Army. There are even many families who want to join the Tengjia Army. It is not that they look at the Tengjia Army.
The strength of the army is just to diversify investment in such troubled times, so that the family can continue in troubled times.
Zhen An mocked: "Do you think the people of Han Dynasty are still the same as before? Don't look at how many Yellow Turbans there are this year. The news I got from Lei Gong Qushuai is that there are more than 3 million. These Yellow Turbans have broken through hundreds of Wubao.
After killing hundreds of noble families, you really think that the officials in the court will not be afraid. Now that the people have the ability to massacre them, they will naturally not dare to raise taxes on the people! But the money and food for the war must not be less, and it is impossible to increase the taxes.
Let’s go to the head of the official! So among the big men, we are the only fat pigs that can be slaughtered!”
Zhen An looked at the groups of well-equipped soldiers not far away and sighed: "It is because of the power of the powerful nobles that the court dare not touch them. The people of the world can rebel because of their numbers. They have even killed tens of thousands."
The officials and their relatives were killed directly and the court was afraid of them, and the court did not dare to touch them."
"Although we have a lot of money and wealth, we have no force, a poor reputation, and there are not as many people as we want to rebel. If we want to rebel, we are afraid that the court will suppress it with a battalion of soldiers and horses. The court will just take advantage of us.
Pigs are here to raise. Now the court is short of money and food. Who will die if we don’t die!"
Gongsun Fu said angrily: "Liu Yu was the one who caused all this. If it hadn't been for him, the Tengjia Army wouldn't have gone to war with the Han Dynasty, and we merchants wouldn't have suffered this disaster!"
The Gongsun family suffered the heaviest losses in this war. Gongsun Zan, the highest-ranking official in the family, was killed in the battle. Dozens of family members who followed Gongsun Zan also lost dozens of people. It can be said that all the elites of the Gongsun family were wiped out, even if they made more money.
Many, they will have to keep a low profile in the Han Dynasty for decades in the future. It is even possible that their family will fall from its current status and become as broke as Liu Bei. The next generation of elites can only start from petty officials!
And his cousin Gongsun Zan's killing of herdsmen in Bingzhou aroused the public outrage of the entire Tengjia Army. His caravan's business in Bingzhou has encountered explicit or covert resistance. It can be said that this time the Gongsun family has two sides.
Gongsun Fu resonated with Youzhou merchants. It is difficult for them to do business now. After all, the Tengjia Army is fighting against the Youzhou Army. These Youzhou caravans have aroused the hostility of the entire Bingzhou. Under such circumstances, how can Might be a good business!
On the contrary, the local caravans in Bingzhou began to rise rapidly. After all, the Tengjia Army emerged in Bingzhou. After several years of development, the local small businessmen have rapidly increased their strength, especially after the entire Bingzhou was occupied by the Tengjia Army. The powerful nobles began to submit to Thunder Lord.
Although they could not enter the Tengjia Army's government offices to become officials, the noble families who stayed in Bingzhou also had to eat, and the Tengjia Army did not allow them to buy land. These wealthy noble families began to do business and invested all their family property in construction. Among factories such as textile mills, they have local advantages and a lot of talents. After the small businessmen of Bingzhou joined these powerful nobles, they found the backbone and the power of the Bingzhou caravan expanded rapidly!
In recent years, the Han Dynasty has been experiencing constant natural and man-made disasters, and it has become increasingly difficult to do business. Many businessmen have flocked to the stable Bingzhou, and this time the Han Dynasty's warning order has even driven all the merchants from all over the world to Bingzhou. Competitors have become more and more popular. As more and more people come, they still cannot get help from the government, so it is naturally difficult to do business.
Xian Yuying smiled bitterly and said: "This war is going to make us a lot of money! But I would rather not have this money. Now the fierce battle between the Tengjia Army and the Han Dynasty's millions of troops, a war of this scale, will not happen for hundreds of years." I only heard about it during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In the past, the imperial court maintained an army of 100,000, which emptied the treasury. Now it has to maintain an army of one million, and the wealth consumed can be imagined. Dong Zhuo came to massacre us without money and food. If he didn't even have Thunder Lord After we had money and food, the army asked whether Guild Lei would also learn from Dong Zhuo and massacred us!"
Xian Yuying's words made everyone present break into a cold sweat. If Lei Gong also massacred them, then they would officially have no way to escape. Many businessmen felt that although the world was big, there was no room for them.
Because they discovered that what Xian Yuying said was very likely to happen. Dong Zhuo was still the minister of the imperial court, but he still robbed them for money. Lei Gong was a rebel, and his favorite thing to do was to massacre the nobles. Even the nobles Slaughtering and then massacring merchants was nothing to Lei Gong.