Wu Rulin, the chairman of the Tianzhu Cotton Association, walked in quickly to pay his respects: "Your Majesty, the clues have been cut off. Only a few corpses were found in the city."
Wang Yuan asked: "Who do you think is plotting?"
Wu Rulin said: "The hundred elders of the Tianzhu Association probably don't know anything about it. Yi Chen guessed that the major shareholders of the Cotton Association were already planning to destroy Tianzhu's fish scale book before His Majesty arrived in Tianzhu. His Majesty summoned the elders to go there.
During the discussion at Malangang, the chief officials of all the yamen were not in the royal city, so they took advantage of the opportunity to take action."
"You are very thoughtful." Wang Yuan said with a smile.
Wu Rulin said: "Wealth and silk touch people's hearts."
Several of the shareholders of Tianzhu Cotton Association have purchased more than one million acres of land. If Wang Yuan asked them to pay taxes according to regulations, how much money would these people lose every year!
Therefore, as soon as the edict naming Wang Yuan as the King of Tianzhu came out, the real major shareholders began to discuss countermeasures. And because they were worried that Wang Yuan had eyes and ears in Tianzhu, they even hid this from their own shareholder representatives and sent people to lurk in the royal city to wait.
Good opportunity to take action.
Does Wang Yuan have eyes and ears in Tianzhu?
He had already decided to develop in Tianzhu twenty years ago, so how could he not make preparations in advance.
Wu Rulin is considered the most conspicuous one, and has become one of the hundred elders of the Tianzhu Cotton Association.
Wang Yuan asked: "The land in Peizhou and the capital must be completely controlled. Which places are the most important?"
Wu Rulin said: "There is a Bellary town in the south. There are gold, copper, and iron mines in the surrounding mountains. This town is to Tianzhu what Foshan is to Ming Dynasty. Your Majesty should send officials to manage it as soon as possible."
Wang Yuan asked: "Who owns the mine there?"
Wu Rulin said: "The gold and iron mines used to belong to the king, but later belonged to the Cotton Society. The copper mines were originally owned by the nobles of Tianzhu, and were later seized by the Tang family of Guangzhou. As for the blacksmith shops in the town, most of them were owned by wealthy merchants in Foshan.
By operating, we can already build our own firecrackers and artillery."
Wang Yuan was startled: "Can the blacksmith in Bellary Town make firearms?"
Wu Rulin said: "Only Han craftsmen can do it."
Wang Yuan asked again: "Besides this town, where else is important?"
Wu Rulin said: "Donge... Peishui flows north and merges into the main stream of Krishna River. At the intersection of the two rivers, there is a Krishna City. With this city as the center, the river flows westward and continues to flow countercurrently.
Going up, you can reach a large lake, and there is a river 200 miles west of the lake, which can reach the western seaport. The river flows eastward, and flows into Bangladesh and the sea. The river flows northwest, and can reach the border of Bijapur. There are official buildings to the north of this city.
Road, leading all the way to the northern border."
Wang Yuan understood clearly that this Krishna city has developed land and water transportation, is a trade center, and is also a strategic location.
Wang Yuan asked: "Is this city also occupied by the Tianzhu Cotton Association?"
Wu Rulin shook his head: "The lord is a Tianzhu general. When he first attacked Ananda, this man was leading troops to fight on the border. Although he surrendered later, he still refused to hand over his army. Instead, he gathered his troops in Krishna City. Tianzhu
The Mianhui attacked twice, but this person always stayed in the city and defended it, but later he was too lazy to fight again."
Those merchants were indeed very short-sighted. They actually left a strategic location and a trade center untouched, and this place was very close to the capital.
But then again, businessmen come to Tianzhu to make money, and they will definitely not do anything unprofitable.
The other side has been unable to hold out, so is it possible that they still besieged the city for a year and a half?
How much military spending will it cost?
As long as the other party does not cause trouble, the Tianzhu Cotton Association does not bother to spend money to fight, and it has remained amicable and friendly for so many years.
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Krishna City and Krishna River are both named after the same figure: Krishna Deva Raya.
Who is this person?
Kong Fu's father, Wang Yuan's cheap father-in-law.
This king was resourceful and resourceful, pushing Ananda's rule to its peak. He once defeated the coalition forces of four sultanates on his own.
Unfortunately, in order to consolidate his rule, he married the daughters of two local lords. Before his body was cold after his death, the two brothers-in-law began to fight for power and sent all the central elite to the border, because the generals in the army all supported the old king. After transferring the generals
, and teamed up to put the new king under house arrest, but the Tianzhu Cotton Society took advantage of it and invaded the royal city.
The current lord of Krishna City is a general who was transferred to the border. The thousands of soldiers in his hands are all elite troops.
"Father, we should surrender to the new king." Kapati said.
Rama said: "I have sent an envoy to express my loyalty to the new king."
Kapati shook his head and said: "There is an old Chinese proverb, no one is allowed to snore beside the bed. It means that no threat is allowed to exist next to a person in power."
Rama asked: "Will the new king attack us with all his strength?"
Kapati said: "Definitely. The opponent's guns are too powerful. We have no chance of winning in the field battle, so we can only choose to stick to the city. The Tianzhu Cotton Association is unwilling to besiege the city for a long time, but the new king is different and will do whatever it takes.
The cost. If we can defend the city for one year, can we defend the city for two or three years? The food reserves in the city cannot last that long."
Rama frowned and said, "I heard that the new king is a high-ranking Chinese official?"
Kapati sighed: "His name is Wang Yuan, the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, the real decision-maker of China. When I was studying in the Imperial College in Beijing, I met him several times from a distance. This man is more powerful than the great King Krishna.
It's awesome, he is invincible. Our territory is too close to his royal city. After he becomes king, with his character, the first thing he will definitely do is attack us."
Rama shook his head and said: "We can't surrender, the Han people are too cunning. Your uncle Wenta didn't listen to my advice and led troops to the royal city to surrender to the Han people. As a result, the Han people pretended to exchange gold and land for horses and took away his war horses.
Disbanded his cavalry and killed him a few months later. If we surrender to the new king and he takes away our army, how will we protect ourselves then?"
Kapati explained: "Officials are different from businessmen. Chinese officials value integrity and morality and will definitely not attack us afterwards."
Rama smiled and said: "Whoever becomes a king will no longer be honest."
Kapati said: "There is also a proverb in China, which is that a thousand pieces of gold buys a horse's bones."
"Where did so many Chinese proverbs come from? I shouldn't have sent you to study in China." Rama was a little impatient.
Kapati said: "Father, the Tianzhu Cotton Association is definitely not willing to honor the new king honestly. This king urgently needs someone's allegiance. Not false allegiance, but true allegiance. Hand over the city, hand over the army, true allegiance."
For him, he will not kill us, but will protect us and let us serve as officials in the royal city. Because we are horse bones, and he has to use thousands of gold to exchange for us."
Rama waved his hand and said, "Stop talking, let me think about it again."
Kapati is still advising: "Father, you should be clear about the situation. We have only two choices, either to resist to the end or to obey to the end. There is absolutely no third way. Our territory is too important, and we are too close to the king's capital.
No king with any merit will allow the city of Krishna to be in the hands of others. At the beginning, the great King Krishna named the river and the city after himself. How important is this place?
I must know."
Even fools know this truth.
It's like Wang Yuan became king in Beijing, but Tianjin was occupied by warlords. No one would be able to tolerate it!
Rama is not a fool, but is extremely smart.
There were so many generals who surrendered, but he was still alive and well, and he had tens of thousands of troops to occupy the fortified city. The other generals had long been killed by the Tianzhu Cotton Union.
After just one day of weighing the pros and cons, Rama said to his son: "On behalf of me, go to the royal city in person and dedicate the city, land and population to the new king."