Chen Yizhong thought that his plan was very smooth. He took advantage of the opportunity of the Empress Dowager's rescheduling in Fuzhou and sent a letter to the people on the way. He also called for injustice outside the Empress Dowager's palace for three consecutive days, saying that the young emperor slaughtered old ministers and cruelly persecuted the gentry and scholars, confiscated their property and land. He was also in a state of war. After recovering Jiangnan, he forced 300,000 people to be soldiers. At the same time, he wasted the country's construction of cities and weapons, but refused peace talks from the Yuan Dynasty, which caused the people to complain, and the scholars and Confucians to be panic.

It is said that after receiving Wan Min's letter, Empress Dowager Yang was very angry. Lu Xiufu and other ministers in charge could not persuade him to re-superate the government after returning to Beijing, take back the power of the little emperor to supervise the country, and at the same time dismissed Wen Tianxiang, a slander. Chen Yizhong had to do more than this. He arranged manpower in all major ports along the way. As long as the imperial boats that the queen mother was riding on, someone would stop the sedan chair and call for justice. In Beijing, he was going to take action personally, lead everyone to beat the drum of the crow, denounce the little emperor in the hall, and ask the empress dowager to dismiss the little emperor.

However, everything Chen Yizhong planned was destroyed by Zhao Mengqi. In the hall, he was fooled by the little emperor, and the idiot leaked his plan, resulting in Yao Liangchen and Wei Tianzhong being confined, and he was also confined in the mansion. Zhao Mengqi's poor performance in the ministers made it difficult for him to succeed the throne, but even his identity as the royal family was questioned. Without strong help, there was no hope. However, this accidental incident caused Chen Yizhong to be passive and not to say it, but also caused him to fall into a financial crisis.

At this time, Chen Yizhong deeply realized the importance of money. Although he did not have three thousand guests, there were always three hundred. Although these people walked together because of the "common goal", they both needed money to eat, drink, defecate, sleep, and even asked for information and bribed officials. In addition, there were many people who stopped driving and shouted for justice along the way, but who would take the risk of doing thankless things without money. In short, the expenses are huge now, and it is impossible to get through without a thousand eight hundred guan a day, but the wealth path was cut off by the little emperor one by one.

It was at this time that the little emperor issued an edict to offer a reward to find the disc score. A group of disciples under Chen Yizhong thought of a bold plan. They didn't know which channel they found a disc score hidden in Chen Qing's home, so they wanted to use it to perform assassination, so as to solve the problem once and for all. However, Chen Yizhong did not agree with the assassination, because he knew the result of the failure. He should know that this was no longer protected by the family law of the ancestors of the Song Dynasty. It must be the crime of raiding the family and extermination of the clan, and even the empress dowager would not tolerate it.

Now the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable to them, but the guests can no longer stand their spirits. You should know that once the "revolution" is successful, they are all heroes; if they fail, they will also become a loser. But now their lives are not much stronger than dogs, so the temptation to be prosperous and wealth is difficult to resist. So he gave Chen Yizhong a decisive action and then to force him to move forward.

It should be said that this plan was very thorough. They first controlled the master and servant of the Chen family, forced the whereabouts of Dipu, and then selected a disciple from the mansion with a figure and appearance similar to Chen Qing. This person was a Chameng native. He had traveled to Southeast Asian countries as a merchant ship guard. Later, he was rescued by Chen Yizhong because he was seriously ill and returned to his country. This time he returned to China with him. The weapon he used was the "tiger claw" obtained from India, which also gave him the nickname "saying tiger".

"Sai Menghu" is also a loyal person. In order to repay his past grace, he knew that it would be difficult to escape whether he succeeded or not. He also understood that being killed on the spot was lucky, but what was difficult was torture after being captured alive. So in order to avoid torture, he received the guarantee of treating his family well, and then went to the palace to assassinate after taking the poison of slow movement. After Chen Yizhong was assassinated, he had already gone to the palace and it was too late to stop it.

As a result, everyone has seen that the little emperor is still alive and the "Saifenghu" was captured. Although he put the blame on Meng Yuan, Chen Yizhong still couldn't feel at ease. After all, dead people can shut up forever, and living people may speak at any time. Even if he did not participate in this assassination, who would believe it...

"Lord, I think the 'Saifenghu' is dead. The little emperor is just a pretentious act of mystery and exposes us!" Just as Chen Yizhong was furious, someone came in from outside and said.

"Donald Cai said there was a fraud?" Chen Yizhong glanced at the visitor and said in confusion. This person could also be regarded as an old minister of the Song Dynasty. He had been a magistrate of a government, and later defected to the court, and then ran to Chameng with him. Such an inconspicuous old man showed his talent outside the territory. He was not only skilled in planning, but also good at handling relationships with all parties and managing civil affairs, and gradually became his right-hand man. This time, he returned to China and relied on him to run around and make suggestions to achieve the current situation. His disciples regarded him as "military advisors".

"No," Cai Rui stroked his gray beard and said, "The medicine he took to Sai Menghu that day was the same pill as the one he gave to Chen's master and servant. They were all poisoned and died. How could they survive alone? The little emperor was just doing his own things through the mouth of the dead to achieve his goals."

"Mr. Cai should know that it was on the main hall of the palace. Not only did the imperial hospital in the palace have the Apricot Forestry, but the young emperor was also skilled in medical skills. He rescued the dying people several times. Maybe they detoxified them!" Chen Yizhong said uneasy.

"Lord, it's impossible." Cai Rong smiled and said, "I calculated the time that day. I personally watched him take the poison before starting the book. It should have occurred within a quarter of an hour after the assassination. At that time, the medicine had already attacked and penetrated into the internal organs. If he could save him, unless the gods descended to earth, I concluded that he had already died of poison."

"Well, Mr. Cai's magic tricks." Chen Yizhong breathed a sigh of relief after hearing his analysis, and felt much more at ease. "In this way, the little emperor took this opportunity to frame the Mongols to refuse peace talks and thus destroy our plan."

"What the lord said is right, but I think it's not the only one. The little emperor wants to use this to find out who was assassinating." Cai Ruiyan said.

"Oh, what do you mean?" Chen Yizhong asked in confusion.

"Master, our plan is extremely thorough this time. Chen Qing's identity is real, and his family's collection of discs is also real. The master and servant have been silenced. The house was burned to white ground by fire, leaving no clues. As long as Sai Menghu died, all the clues will be cut off. This case is a headless case." Cai Ruiyan said, "The little emperor is really smart. He used a trick of killing two birds. After he found that the assassin died, he immediately blocked the news and claimed that he was still alive and had confessed. One could blame the Mongols; the other could catch a real assassin."

"How did he fish?" Chen Yizhong asked anxiously.

"If the planner learns that the assassin is not dead, he will definitely panic and be busy determining his life and death or preparing to silence him. Therefore, as long as we keep our troops in motion, there is no way. Therefore, we must not panic now, but wait and see what happens and don't fall into his tricks." Cai Ruiyan said.

"Yes, yes, Mr. Cai is really a wise and wise Zhuge." After hearing this, Chen Yizhong felt the haze in the sky dissipate instantly and said with a smile.

"The lord is just a mystery to the authorities, how dare the disciples take responsibility?" Cai Rui retreated and said, "It was the fault of the disciples. I didn't expect that the little emperor was so cunning. After being assassinated, he was still quick-witted and calmly set up a trap. I went over and underestimated him."

"Yes, he was only five years old at that time, and I had tried several tricks and survived by him. Now he is full of wings and is even harder to deal with." Chen Yizhong said angrily.

"Don't worry, lord, although the little ghost took the opportunity to smash the Mongol Yuan mission's inauguration this time and wanted to incite public opinion to refuse peace talks, it may not be a bad thing for us. In this way, the Han strategy will depend more on the lord, so we can take the opportunity to make conditions without worrying about not submitting." Cai Rui said as if he was in control.

"Mr. Cai, have you read the tabloid today?" Chen Yizhong was not happy after hearing this. He took a few tabloids from the desk and handed them to Cai Rui and smiled bitterly.

"What... what does this mean? They not only issued a statement saying that they had never assassinated the little emperor, but also sent the prince to show their sincerity in peace talks!" Cai Rui took the tabloid and looked at it with a look at it. He found that each headline was full of this content, and he was not calm and sweated from the tip of his nose.

"After the incident, the little emperor sent Xu Zongren to the inn, moved them to the Tongwen Hall, and held a banquet to suppress their shock. He didn't know what they talked about during the meal, but his attitude changed drastically today. Could it be that he was afraid of it!" Chen Yizhong sighed.

"I was plotted by this little ghost again... I wonder how arrogant the Mongolians were back then. Only the matter of sending people as hostages, but how could they send their prince as hostages? It seems that the Mongols are really afraid." Cai Rui twitched the corners of his mouth on the desk and suddenly remembered something urgently, "The lord can't stay here anymore. The little ghost may have discovered us, so he should evacuate as much as possible!"

"What? They discovered it!" Chen Yizhong said in surprise.

"I dare not make up, but it's better to avoid it." Cai Rui pondered for a moment, "One, Liu Mengyan sold us to the little emperor to save his life in order to clarify his life; the other, I said that he wanted to use the dead to catch the real mastermind. Has the lord sent people around to find out the news in the past few days? If he was targeted, it would be over. But I don't know what the situation is at the moment, but I still have to avoid it in case of an accident."

"Now, the investigation is very tight everywhere. So many of us go out of the city together, and we can't help but reveal our whereabouts. Besides, you are just guessing, and I think you'd better take a look." Chen Yizhong frowned and said. In fact, he wanted to leave, but if he moved again, he had to find a residence again, but now he was short of money and couldn't afford to buy a house.

"Lord, it's better to be careful. At least you should avoid it for a while." Cai Rui advised again.

"Oh, I didn't expect that I would have this day!" Chen Yizhong sighed...

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Chen Yizhong was trapped by money and even put his life and death aside. At this moment, Zhao Bing was not much better. He used to have tens of thousands of guan in his pocket and felt that life would be better. But now even if the tax in the treasury was calculated with tens of millions of guan, he still felt that he was tight and could get out of water every time he made money. Now it was time for Xia Tax to enter the treasury, the treasury was about to bottom out, and it was all up to the support of the Left Canal Deposit to ensure that the craftsmen and military weapons supervision were being built were not stopped.

In theory, the Song army now occupy the four provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Huguang and Jiangxi in Jiangnan, which are the most prosperous places in China at present. And unlike the Mongolian conquering the Jin Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty's conquest of the Southern Song Dynasty did not have a destructive impact on the social economy of the southern Song Dynasty, and the economic and cultural development momentum in the south was not interrupted. The Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, composed of the four routes of the former western Zhejiang, eastern Zhejiang, Jiangdong and Fujian, have jurisdiction from the Yangtze River in the north, bounded Fujian in the south, and started from the sea in the east, and ended at the west to Poyang Lake. It is also the core area of ​​the former Southern Song Dynasty rule, and the social, economic and cultural development is the most developed.

The Yuan people have a good summary of this: Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces regard all provinces as the most important, with a wide land, a large number of people, and a lot of government affairs, and the number of money and grain is large, which is the remarks of the court. Zhao Bing has consulted the old records of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. The number of households registered in the Ministry of Revenue in this province was more than 12 million households, and there were nearly 6 million households in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, accounting for nearly half. The annual grain in the world was more than 12 million stones, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces had 4.4 million stones, accounting for 30%; the three provinces in Jiangnan invested the highest amount of 150,000 ingots of money and grain in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces accounted for one third, which did not include the amount of money and grain retained by the local lords.

However, Zhao Bing still felt that it was not enough to spend it. Seeing his left treasury shrinking little by little, he would build a tomb for Emperor Jing Yan, distribute summer clothes to the army, distribute weapons to the new army and the upcoming imperial examinations, etc., which were just in front of him. These were not something that a few small money could be paid. But his biggest way to make money was to take a commission from private salt. However, with the recovery of Jiangnan, his salt smuggling business was unsustainable. Most of the salt owls affiliated to the affairs bureau were transferred to the inspection departments of various prefectures and became the main force in investigating and anti-smuggling salt.

"The owner of the manor, how much money can there be mobilized in the inner treasury?" Zhao Bing thought that the treasury was not as rich as his own pocket. He could be mobilized at any time and was at ease, so he summoned Zhuang Shilin to see him.

"Your Majesty, the treasures, antiques, shops, land, etc. are removed from the warehouse, and there are still 300,000 taels of gold, more than 6 million taels of silver, 300,000 guan of copper coins and hundreds of thousands of guan of salt banknotes worth about 12 million guan." Zhuang Shilinmo calculated.

"That's all that remains!" Zhao Bing said in surprise. He remembered that he had nearly 40 million taels of private money when he was in Qiongzhou, and he spent more than two-thirds of it in less than a year.

"Your Majesty, this is all well-documented. I dare not make a rash statement!" Zhuang Shilin said with a bitter face when he saw the little emperor's expression of distress.
Chapter completed!