Chapter four hundred and ninety-six the eve of the mutiny
Before Emperor Li Shi's decree was promulgated, the Yuan family quickly received the news. The head of the family, Yuan Xuanhu, immediately summoned important figures in the Yuan family to discuss countermeasures.
There were seven family representatives participating in the discussion, including Yuan Xuanhu, there were eight people in total.
"Everyone, Chang'an is likely to experience turmoil in the near future. I have arranged for you to gradually transfer your wealth to Hedong. Now I want to know, do you still have any difficulties?"
An old man in his sixties raised his hand and said: "My son Yuanyou has been serving as a member of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Not only him, there are more than ten children of the Yuan family serving as officials in various ministries and temples in the imperial court, more than 20 people in the army, and
Many of them work as guards in the palace, what should they do?"
Yuan Xuanhu said slowly: "Their risk will not be too big. In fact, the risk of all the Yuan family's children is not big. Our Yuan family will not take the lead so early. Maybe we will use roundabout strategies. The key is property."
and food must be transported as much as possible."
Another old man said: "Since the last time the head of the family made a request, almost all the money in the family's inventory has been shipped to Taiyuan, but we still have a lot of businesses, especially several large cabinet shops, and the money stored in it is as high as millions. I
What worries me most is how to ensure their safety?”
This is indeed a very thorny problem. Business wealth is not easy to transfer for a while. For example, most of the money in the counter shop is stored for customers. Once a military rebellion breaks out, the soldiers will steal all the money no matter who it is.
Yuan Xuanhu pondered for a long time and said: "Transport them to the manor outside the city. If you can't take them away, put them in the underground stone warehouse and keep them under strict guard."
There are some secrets that Yuan Xuanhu cannot tell his tribe members, for fear that someone will secretly inform them.
"Master, when will we evacuate?"
Everyone's eyes are looking at the head of the family, this is their biggest concern.
Yuan Xuanhu said slowly: "What I just said was to transport the valuable wealth away and then evacuate. Tomorrow night there will be a fleet leaving Chang'an for Pujin Pass. There are more than thirty ships in total, all of which are Qianshi cargo ships. I
Four boats were allocated to each room. Everyone packed up their valuables and put them on the boat. They will follow the boat out of the city tomorrow. Remember, only personal servants will be brought with them, and ordinary servants will not be brought with them. In addition, I would like to remind everyone that this
This matter must be kept secret and must not be spread out, do you hear this?"
Everyone agreed in unison and went back to prepare. Yuan Xuanhu returned to the back house, and his eldest son Yuan Jin said: "Father, Zhu Si can be used, but he cannot be trusted. I think he has something else that he has not told us the truth about."
"I know that this person is ambitious. As long as we don't place too high hopes on him, there will be no problem. In fact, I am more worried about Li Man. This woman is not simple. She has many capable people and strangers. I suspect that she and Zhu
Si has already colluded."
"How did father find out?"
Yuan Xuanhu sneered and said: "I told her about the assassination of Zhang Yi that night, but Zhang Yi was poisoned and killed by the maid next day at noon. In terms of time, it is impossible. It can only mean that she was early
The arrangements have been made, and besides Zhu Si, who else will arrange them for her."
"Father is right. Her roots are in Chang'an and she will definitely cooperate with Zhu Si."
After a pause, Yuan Jin said again: "Let's talk to Zhu Si if I want to go out of the city."
"I have to go. Also, tell Li Man that Guo Song will be directly assassinated. She will arrange the matter."
Yuan Jin was startled, "Don't we need to ruin Guo Song's reputation?"
Yuan Xuanhu smiled and said: "I planned to force Guo Song to rebel, but it was actually just to make the emperor pay attention to Hexi. After Liu Wenxi's rebellion, the emperor paid too much attention to the Jingyuan Army. At this time, Guo Song was suspected of rebellion, and the emperor would pay less attention to it.
Jingyuan's attention, thus creating a dark effect. In fact, as long as Guo Song dies, it doesn't matter how he dies."
"I'm afraid Li Man will blame her father for cheating on her."
"I did not deceive her. Our interests are consistent in killing Guo Song. Moreover, I agreed to her and finally handed Guo Song over to her for execution. Now she can act as she pleases."
After a pause, Yuan Xuanhu said again: "I still have to have a good talk with her. Anyway, her surname is Yuan. I hope she can take the right step in the last step!"
"My child understands. My child will go see Zhu Si now."
"Go! You have to remind him that the money I have allocated to him has reached 500,000 yuan. I do not seek any return from him, but he at least owes me a big favor."
Yuan Jin hurried away, and Yuan Xuanhu walked to the door, looked at the rolling black clouds in the sky, and whispered to himself: "The storm is coming."
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In the fishing manor, Zhu Si was concentrating on fishing on the wooden platform. Next to him sat another fisherman. This man was about fifty years old, thin and fair-skinned. His name was Yuan Xiu, who was originally the minister of Guanglu Temple.
, after Zhang Guangsheng killed the Uighur envoy, the imperial court sent him as an envoy to Uighur, hoping that he could repair the relationship between Tang and Hui.
However, Yuanxiu's mission failed and he was almost killed by the Uighurs. He was detained by the Uighurs and spent nearly a year before returning to Chang'an. Chang'an no longer had his official position. In addition, his mission failed, and Prime Minister Yang Yan was very dissatisfied with him, so he
Send him home to have some leisure time.
He was resentful towards the imperial court and often expressed his inner dissatisfaction on various occasions, so Zhu Si wanted to make friends with him. The relationship between the two gradually became irreversible, and Yuan Xiu became Zhu Si's chief aide, advising him.
"First of all, Duke Zhu must silence the people of the world. He must make the people of the world think that Duke Zhu came out to quell the rebellion. Don't let people feel that this matter was planned by Duke Zhu."
"What should we do?"
"It's very simple. Duke Zhu refused twice and reluctantly agreed the third time. The condition for agreeing to take charge of the overall situation is that the soldiers are no longer allowed to plunder the capital. The officials and the people of the capital must be grateful to Duke Zhu."
"Then what?"
Zhu Si smiled slightly and asked: "I heard that the court has not paid officials for half a year?"
"I was paid two months before and still owe four months. Many officials are living in misery. They were evicted by their landlords and moved outside the city. Zhugong's win over them should be the most effective."
Zhu Si couldn't help but laugh, "It's just that you have a lot of troubles with Confucianism. I always take money very lightly. If I can bribe them with money, I will definitely not be stingy."
At this time, the housekeeper stepped forward and reported: "Taiwei, Yuan Jin and Li Man are here."
Zhu Si was startled and asked quickly: "Did they come together?"
"Probably not, I just happened to meet him."
Zhu Si thought for a while and said to Yuan Xiu: "Mr. Yuan, please receive Li Man for me, and I will send Yuan Jin away."
Yuan Xiu quickly advised: "Mr. Zhu should not underestimate the nobles of Guan Long."
Zhu Si said coldly: "I do not underestimate the Guanlong nobles, but the Yuan family is indeed not important, but for the sake of our previous cooperation, I will not embarrass them for the time being."
Yuan Xiu reminded again: "There is also Bai Zhizhen. He is in charge of 20,000 Shence troops. It depends on the Yuan family to win over him. We can't fall out with the Yuan family yet."
Zhu Si nodded, "You reminded me that the Yuan family does still have a role."
Zhu Si and Yuan Jin had nothing to say. The purpose of Yuan Jin's visit was to make Zhu Si clarify his previous promise again. After sending Yuan Jin away, Zhu Si hurriedly came to see Li Man.
Li Man had colluded with Zhu Si for a long time, but this collusion did not refer to the relationship between men and women, but the sympathy between two ambitious people. Li Man was a woman and was naturally weak. Although the emperor Li Shi valued her, he did not
She was given an official position and even the promised title was not fulfilled, which made Li Man very disappointed.
But Zhu Si promised to make her the Duke of the country, the Taifu, and the general manager of the palace. Although Zhu Si was still far away from his ambition, his sincerity moved Li Man, and Li Man got closer and closer to him.
Bypassed the Yuan family.
"Keep Pavilion Master Li waiting!" Zhu Si walked in with a smile.
Li Man stood in front of the window with her hands behind her hands, wearing a Zhanlu sword on her waist. She glanced at Zhu Si and said lightly: "You should know the emperor's will, right?"
"Of course I know that the time is coming."
"Then according to the plan, my men will open the Chunming Gate. What else do I need to do?"
Zhu Si nodded, "There are two more important things for the Pavilion Master!"
Zhu Si took out a note and handed it to Li Man. Li Man glanced at the note and was a little dissatisfied and said, "Isn't this a bit too much?"
Zhu Si said coldly: "If you want to do great things, you must have extraordinary means. Although I don't want to be Dong Zhuo, I want to be Cao Cao!"