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Two days later, news came from the palace that the emperor of Wei was in poor health and needed to rest for a while. King Yong was temporarily asked to supervise the affairs of the country.
As soon as this news came out, Yongwang Hongyu's momentum in Daliang rose again. Many aristocratic families who had clung to the East Palace changed their families one after another, hoping to join Yongwang's camp.
Although Yongwang Hongyu has not yet occupied the position of Prince of the East Palace, he assists in "supervising the country" and in a sense, he is already a prince in name only.
For those aristocratic families who changed their families and defected to him, Yongwang Hongyu generously decided to let go of the past. This made the Yongwang Party's power suddenly replace the former Donggong Party's power.
Of course, in the days when Prince Zhao Hongli of the Eastern Palace fell, it was not only Yongwang Hongyu who was trying to win over people's hearts. In fact, both the Xiangwang Party and the Qingwang Party were sparing no effort to win over the dignitaries and aristocratic families who were originally attached to the Eastern Palace, including
King Supress Party.
Of course, the King Su Party mentioned here refers to Zhao Laiyu, the third uncle of King Su Zhao Hongrun, rather than Zhao Hongrun himself.
The third uncle, Zhao Laiyu, recommended himself to Zhao Hongrun. Whether he was good at making opinions or speaking his own words, he took over the task.
It has to be said that the Prince of the East Palace, Zhao Hongli, suffered a huge setback this time and was unable to recover.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, King Yong, King Xiang, King Qing, and King Su all took a share of the pie.
Let’s not mention the other three princes for now. Even Su Wang Zhao Hongrun, who has the best reputation among the people but the worst reputation among the aristocracy, has some aristocratic forces supporting him gradually appearing behind him.
This aristocratic force does not refer to outsiders such as the Yangyu clan, Nanmen clan, and Gong clan in Shangshui County, but to the local aristocrats of Wei State.
I remember that in the past two years, the only person behind Zhao Hongrun was the "Huangyi Shen Family" of Concubine Shen Shu, a middle-class noble who could not be said to be very prosperous. But now, behind Zhao Hongrun, a group of people named "Anling" have appeared one after another.
The aristocratic force linked to the Zhao family has some influence in the domestic aristocratic circle.
But to be honest, Zhao Hongrun is not happy about this, because he knows very well why those noble families support him. There is only one reason: profit!
It is true that King Su is a cold leader because he does not fight for the throne, but he controls the "Sichuan-Luo Alliance" and "Shangshui County". The former is an important city of "Weichuan Trade", while the latter is the "Wei-Chu Alliance".
A transit point for trade.
It is actually inappropriate to say "trade between Wei and Chu". After all, Wei and Chu had just fought a war, and neither Wei nor Chu recognized the existence of trade between the two countries.
Therefore, the so-called "Wei-Chu trade" is actually smuggling between "Pingyu" and "Shangshui". It is a private trade between Su Wang Zhao Hongrun and Chu Yangcheng Jun Xiong Tuo, which cannot be put on the table to explain clearly.
But it is undeniable that the share of smuggling is huge. If anyone knew the profits, I believe they would be jealous.
In fact, if you think about it, you will know that there must be problems with Shangshui County's Chu State specialties - the reason why Shangshui County has developed rapidly is because there are many caravans in Wei State purchasing Chu State's specialties here, such as bronzes.
, lacquer ware, pearls, etc. The merchants purchased these things and either transported them back to China for sale or shipped them to Sanchuan County. Pearls from the Chu State sold best in Sanchuan County and have long become a favorite item among the girls of the Yi ethnic group.
But the question is, where did Shangshui County come from so many Chu country specialties?
The reason is simple, smuggling!
Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu is the person in charge of this smuggling route.
He was responsible for transporting Chu's specialties and ores to Shangshui County, exchanging food and weapons and equipment eliminated by Wei from Shangshui County, and arming Yangcheng Jun Xiong Tuo's army, making Yangcheng Jun Xiong Tuo's influence in Chu His strength has greatly increased, no less than that of Guling Lord Xiong Wu, Liyang Lord Xiong Sheng and other Chu princes.
I believe that King Xiong Xu of Chu is also having a headache at this moment. After all, the three sons are very powerful and have connections with foreign countries. Xiong Tuo, the king of Yangcheng, fell in love with Zhao Hongrun, the king of Wei, because of Mi Jiang. , Guling Lord Xiong Wu is said to have corresponded with Nangong Yao of the Song Dynasty, and Liyang Lord Xiong Sheng is said to be secretly selling old weapons to him within the Qi State.
In addition, the Qu family was exiled to Gulingyi. Under the instruction of King Su Zhao Hongrun, Shangshui County also secretly transported some contraband to Qu family. It was heard that Qu family had secretly formed an army.
In short, Chu State's internal problems are quite serious.
Of course, all this has nothing to do with Zhao Hongrun. He naturally hopes that the Chu Kingdom will be as chaotic as possible. Unless Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, is sure to take the position of King of Chu, he will spare no effort to secretly support Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, and his The internal strife among those brothers, through the internal strife among the princes of the Chu state, internally destroyed the Chu state's foundation, and bought time for the Wei state to become strong.
Having said that, Zhao Hongrun does have many channels at his disposal now, and he is easily jealous of others.
"Weichuan Trade", "Business Water Smuggling", "Bolangsha River Port", "Xiangfu Port", and the "Lianglu Canal" being built by the Ministry of Industry. It is undeniable that although Su Wang Zhao Hongrun has not yet formed a force in the court, But he controlled these trade channels, and this was why the Ministry of Revenue acquiesced in allowing him to take on huge debts on credit.
At the moment, it's just Sanchuan and Chu, but when the "Liang-Lu Canal" is completed, the trade circle will be even bigger. Lu and Qi in the east will also join Wei's trade partners.
The Sichuan-Long Alliance surrendered to Su Wang Zhao Hongrun.
Shangshui County was the fiefdom of King Su Zhao Hongrun.
Bolangsha River Port was built by the Smelting Bureau.
Xiangfu Port was also built by the Smelting Bureau.
Liang Lu Canal was proposed by King Su Zhao Hongrun and built jointly by the Ministry of Industry and the State of Lu. The relationship between the Ministry of Industry and the Metallurgical Bureau was so good that they wore the same pants together.
As long as we start from these points, it is really not a problem for Zhao Hongrun's third uncle, Zhao Laiyu, to persuade some noble families to defect to King Su's party. After all, the profits behind the water transport trade composed of these places are too huge. It's huge.
But having said that, since those aristocratic families have come to seek refuge, it means that Zhao Hongrun at least has to gain some support from others, and can no longer be as ruthless and secretly evil as he was at the beginning of the Sanchuan trade. Otherwise, why should he let the other party come to seek refuge? ?
On the ninth day of July, Zhao Hongrun was persuaded by Zhao Laiyu, who recommended himself as a lobbyist, for half a day, and finally agreed to the matter.
It's not that Zhao Hongrun was convinced by Zhao Laiyu, but that he was thinking about a question: When he strongly supported civilian merchants in the "Sanchuan Trade", why did the civilian merchants fail?
It has to be said that Zhao Hongrun has always hoped to strengthen the power of private merchants in Wei State, but to his disappointment, there are really not many private merchants who can grow.
I remember that at the beginning, he deliberately asked Zhu Hai, the general of Chenggaoguan, to refuse domestic aristocratic merchants to go to Sanchuan, giving private merchants almost a year of development opportunities, and even persuaded the Ministry of Household Affairs to provide money to support some private merchants, but as of now
How many large-scale private businessmen are there now?
Not many.
In response to this matter, Zhao Hongrun once sent the Qingya people to inquire about it, and then he learned that only a few of the initial batch of profitable businessmen persisted to this day: there was a "Tao Hong" who has now become a giant in Dingtao County.
Wen Shaobo, a native of Anling Wei, also became a wealthy man in Anling County.
But what about other than that?
After the big waves washed away the sand, there were only a few left, and most of them were still from famous families in various places.
This situation is tantamount to failure, and it is a disastrous failure.
In fact, Zhao Hongrun also considered this possibility at the beginning. After all, most of the private businessmen were from poor family backgrounds. When these people who were accustomed to hardship in the past suddenly get a huge sum of money, they will naturally become lost, inflated, and arrogant.
, greedy for pleasure, used the money that could have been used as principal to expand their financial resources, purchased luxury mansions, purchased maids, and were keen on enjoyment. However, when they looked back at Luocheng, there was no room for them to exist in Luocheng.
"Note: In fact, many civil uprisings have failed at this point in the past. They did well at the beginning, but almost every time when they hit the midfield, the leaders of the rebel army began to imitate the people they wanted to defeat and enjoy themselves. As a result,
The second half is completely over. Take the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for example. In fact, many uprisings were lost in the second half. Why? Because many people only think about "overthrowing" but do not consider "what to do after overthrowing the old forces." This is
The limitations of the so-called peasant uprising.』
It has to be said that almost 90% of those people stumbled upon this step. They thought they had made a huge amount of money, but they did not know that this so-called huge amount of money was still just a drop in the bucket for the real rich; they originally
They had the opportunity to become a rich man who could rival other countries, but they were temporarily lost and missed this opportunity.
To be honest, this disappointed Zhao Hongrun.
Because of his favoritism, he only made a very small number of civilians rich, but it could not change the overall situation of civilian merchants in Wei.
This incident made Zhao Hongrun realize an oversight: he made it so easy for ordinary businessmen to make money, so that these people forgot their true intentions and got lost in Antu's enjoyment;
Later, they discovered that Sanchuan Trading no longer had their place.
The most fundamental reason is that there are very few civilian businessmen who are truly broad-minded, so that most of them just want to "make a big fortune" but do not understand what to do after making huge wealth.
How to make full use of it and maximize your money.
Simply put, civilian businessmen need a roadmap to guide their progress.
As for the aristocratic forces who defected to the King's Supress Party, Zhao Hongrun felt that these people should also be given regulations that could restrict them and restrain them.
"Chamber of Commerce……"
Suddenly, an idea emerged in Zhao Hongrun's heart.
In mid-July, while the Daliang court and everyone was still lamenting the collapse of the East Palace, or speculating on the struggle between Yong Wang, Xiang Wang, and Qing Wang, Zhao Hongrun quietly bought three large rooms in the west of Daliang City.
After the shop facing the street was painted and decorated by craftsmen from the Construction Department of the Ministry of Industry, a plaque was hung, "Su's Chamber of Commerce".
Many neighbors nearby didn't know what this so-called chamber of commerce did, and they all made guesses.
And just as they were secretly guessing, the aristocratic forces behind the Su Wang Party, including the Shen family of Huangyi, the Zhao family of Anling, the Yangtou family of Shangshui, the Gong family of Yanling, etc., quickly formed a joint venture and invited the Smelting Bureau's
The Construction Department built dozens of merchant ships, and after they were completed, they were put into use on the stable trade route of "Sichuan-Wei-Chu".
At the same time, the Yong Wang Party recruited local nobles and civilian merchants to join the Su Chamber of Commerce and open shops locally.
These lines gradually formed a huge transportation and trade network, which seemed to cover the entire Wei State.