Great Tang Southern Emperor

"It's ready." Seeing that he was talking about business, the professionalism in Sun An's bones immediately made him recover from the previous state: "There are a total of [-] cargo ships, [-] passenger ships, and [-] horses and horses. Boat."

"Why is there only so little?" Li Zhen frowned. The carrying capacity of river boats was far inferior to that of sea boats. With so many things, how could three hundred boats be enough?There is also a passenger ship, the largest passenger ship on the canal, which can hold 500 people at a time, and 1 ships can only hold [-] people, so I can bring [-] people.

"No way, the subordinate has ordered the people below to recruit as much as possible, but..." Sun An hesitated to speak.

"But what?" Li Zhenqing knew that something was different, and she was terrified: "Did someone sabotage?"

"That's right." Sun An nodded and said, "Everything went smoothly when I first started collecting ships, and I could collect dozens of ships every day. A sufficient number of boats is perfectly fine.

But the problem came three days later. After collecting the ships for three days, the subordinates found that the ships were not so easy to collect.

After a detailed investigation by my subordinates, I found that when my subordinates started to collect ships, several forces suddenly appeared in Hangzhou, and they also collected ships under the same conditions, and the methods were very violent. Not only will the boat owner be beaten, but even the boat will be forcibly taken away—according to the investigation of his subordinates, in the past half a month, the Hangzhou Governor’s Yamen has accepted hundreds of such cases, but despite the Hangzhou Governor’s How to investigate, did not find any clues. "

"It seems that someone is against this king." Li Zhen didn't even need to think that the man behind the scene must be the governor of Hangzhou - Cui Yongxing.It's not that Li Zhen's judgment is too arbitrary, it's that apart from him in the whole of Hangzhou, Li Zhen really can't think of anyone other than this person who can steal business with Sun An.

"Your Majesty is not doing well, please forgive me."

"It's okay, this is my king's mistake." Li Zhen waved his hand indifferently: "Fortunately, this king was well prepared, otherwise I would really be in their way."

Hangzhou has always been the private land of the aristocratic family. The official circles in Hangzhou have long been thoroughly managed by the aristocratic family. Although the aristocratic family has lost power now, their soft power has not suffered much damage. People from aristocratic families still occupy more than [-]% of the positions in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty.

"Have you prepared?" Sun An asked suspiciously, "What does your Highness mean?"

"It's nothing. When I left Yuezhou, this king was worried that you would not be able to collect enough ships, so I ordered the Dengzhou Fleet to help collect ships in advance. Calculate the time. If the order of this king is successfully conveyed, board Zhou should have already set off." Li Zhen's words were really not to comfort Sun An, he did issue such an order, just to worry about problems on Sun An's side - Li Zhen dare not forget that he came to Hangzhou before At that time, Wu Meiniang shot and exploded the balls of a second-generation official, and the second-generation official's father was related to Cui Yongxing...

So the enmity between the two sides has already been forged, and it would be even more strange if Cui Yongxing didn't add trouble to himself.

Li Zhen guessed wrong this time, and it wasn't Cui Yongxing who caused him trouble this time - Cui Yongxing himself was a disciple of the Cui family, and he took the position of governor of Yizhou, so he is not an idiot.

How could he not see that the current aristocratic family has reached the point of precarity?

What the aristocratic family needs now is time to lick their wounds. They wish the court would not pay attention to them. How could Cui Yongxing take the initiative to provoke Li Zhen at such a time?

Isn't that courting death?

Although the battle for Silver Island only destroyed half of the family's power, half of the power that was destroyed was the family's armed forces, and the remaining half was just soft power.

But how useful is soft power in a world where fists speak?

If the imperial court is reasonable with you, soft power can naturally play a role, but if the imperial court is ready to be tough, so what if you are reasonable?

There is a saying that is true, there will never be a shortage of people who want to be officials in this world. If the imperial court is really determined to rectify the aristocratic family and use strong means to erase the influence of the aristocratic family's officialdom, the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty will certainly usher in a wave of turmoil. , but it was only a burst of turmoil. As long as the successor had some courage, it would not be a problem to stabilize the situation.

But the aristocratic family is about to suffer, without armed forces, and losing the right to speak in the officialdom, who cares what you are?

Chapter 681 Wu Zhaolong

Chapter 44 Wu Zhaolong

It is impossible for Cui Yongxing to use such an unwise method. This time, the one who really made a move to hinder Li Zhen was actually the second generation of officials—Wu Zhaolong.

Li Zhen doesn't remember his name, but Wu Zhaolong remembers Li Zhen to death--Wu Meiniang not only abolished him, made him a eunuch, but also shot his father, former Hangzhou Biejia Wu Yusheng died.

Although this matter was caused by Wu Zhaolong, Wu Yusheng's death was also to avenge Wu Zhaolong, and he was shot and killed by Wu Meiniang's guards, but Wu Zhaolong couldn't control these things. In his eyes, the hatred of killing his father was irreconcilable. As for the original reason, He has already ignored it.

However, after this incident, this Wu Zhaolong's temperament has changed drastically. After he recovered from his injury, he changed his previous dandy atmosphere and studied poetry and books hard-this Wu Zhaolong is also talented and intelligent, and he has made great achievements in poetry and books in just over a year , directly became Cui Yongxing's confidant and staff, and helped Cui Yongxing do several major things.

This time, Wu Zhaolong used Cui Yongxing's name to order the underground forces controlled by Cui Yongxing to make trouble for Li Zhen.

And the matter is not over yet, preventing Li Zhen from renting a ship is the first step. In his plan, as long as Li Zhen follows his arrangement, there will be only one end-death without a place to die.

But what Wu Zhaolong didn't expect was that Li Zhen had prepared in advance for that person. From the very beginning, his plan failed.

So, when the fleet from Dengzhou arrived a few days later, Wu Zhaolong threw the table directly.

"Bastard." Because his younger brother was blown away, Wu Zhaolong is actually no different from an eunuch. If the evil and coquettish beauty is put into later generations, she will be a stunning fake mother who is admired and worshiped by countless homosexuals.

But obviously, Wu Zhaolong doesn't like his current appearance, it can even be said to be very disgusting - the concrete proof is the bright red bloodstains on both sides of his face, which proves everything.

Looking at the portrait of Li Zhen hanging on the wall, which had already been stabbed countless holes by a knife, Wu Zhaolong threw a throwing knife and hit the portrait between the eyebrows.

"Li Zhen, do you think I can't deal with you because you have a boat? You are doomed, and you must die in my hands." Wu Zhaolong's voice was filled with endless viciousness, which made people feel a wave of The cold air came out from the crevices of the bones, and I couldn't help shivering.

"Zhaolong." Cui Yongxing's voice sounded outside.

"..." Taking a few deep breaths, rubbing his face again, returning the muscles on his face to their original positions, and forcing a smile, Wu Zhaolong opened the door: "Uncle, why are you here?"

"I came to see you in ancient times." Cui Yongxing looked at Wu Zhaolong's face, and his heart skipped a beat. He knew that the person in front of him was a man, and he was his nephew, but he couldn't help but flashed a hint of amazement and excitement in his eyes. The passing was dark, but there was a look of regret on his face: "Why are you bothering? Things have already happened, so what can you do if you destroy this face?"

"Uncle, I don't want to talk about this." Cui Yongxing thought that his expression was well concealed, but he didn't know that as an accidental eunuch, Wu Zhaolong paid special attention to other people's attitude towards him. It's disgust and... endless hatred, and also a little fear - as a relative of Cui Yongxing, he knows that Cui Yongxing is not as decent as he appears on the outside, but he has a hobby that others don't know about.

Of course, this hobby was not considered a shameful bad habit in ancient times. On the contrary, this habit was still synonymous with flair in the eyes of some people-this hobby is Long Yang’s goodness, which is now homosexuality or bisexuality.

In ancient times, there were quite a few homosexual patients whose names were left in history, such as the masters of the idiom Longyang Zhihao-Longyang Jun and Wei Wang.

Wei Linggong and Mi Zixia, who are divided into Tao Duanxiu, and Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty and Dong Xian.

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty Liu Heng and Deng Tong, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che and Han Yan (male), Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty Liu Ao and Zhang Fang, and even Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty, all had a male favorite child—Wo Cao, it’s terrifying to think about it carefully. , It's terrible that so many emperors in the Han Dynasty liked this tune.

Not to mention the story of Li Chengqian and Xinxin at that time.

However, it can also be seen from this that such things were not uncommon in ancient times, and there were even things that were specially cultivated by brothels or big families. Although the people did not support them, they did not object to such things.

Originally, Wu Zhaolong didn't think it was a big deal for this kind of thing. Even when he was healthy, he used to play this secretly under the instigation of his friends. He just thought that men are not as good as women, so he played it once. After that, I didn't play anymore.

However, now that Cui Yongxing turned his ideas on himself, Wu Zhaolong couldn't accept it immediately-although he didn't have a younger brother, he still regarded himself as an authentic old man in his heart.

Now that some people want to mess with themselves, how can Wu Zhaolong accept it?

This is also the reason why Wu Zhaolong is afraid - he is working under Cui Yongxing's command now, and he is also Cui Yongxing's confidant, so he can't live alone on weekdays. What if...

Just thinking about it makes me shudder, okay?

It was precisely because of this gaze that Wu Zhaolong's heart suddenly became murderous.

If Cui Yongxing is killed, not only will the disaster be avoided, but the dark forces under his command will all be his own. With the help of this force, coupled with his own plan, killing Li Zhen should not be a problem .

The more Wu Zhaolong thought about it, the more he felt that this plan was feasible. Now Wu Zhaolong can only use Cui Yongxing's name to find Li Zhen's troubles, but because Cui Yongxing is on his head, he needs to do everything secretly, otherwise he will let Cui Yongxing know. Lost his trust.

Therefore, this time, I can only add a little bit of trouble to Li Zhen. If I can do my best this time, at least I can make Li Zhen feel ashamed, instead of the current situation, where people just wave their hands, and my plan falls short.

"Uncle is here, what's the matter?" Wu Zhaolong asked.

Although he wanted to kill Cui Yongxing in his heart, Wu Zhaolong also knew that this kind of thing needs to be done slowly, and it is best to pick himself out-in other words, isn't there a best person to take the blame right in front of him?

Cui Yongxing didn't know that in just a short while, his nephew had this thought in his mind, and when Wu Zhaolong asked, he said, "I held a banquet tonight, and I have invited Li Zhen, and he also promised to come. There is some rift between you and Li Zhen, I am going to take this opportunity to ask you to apologize to him and clear up the misunderstanding."

"what……"