The eldest princess is obsessed with rebellion, but there are six male protagonists

As the future head of the Pei family, Pei Yu was taught since childhood that people who act on their emotions will not be able to accomplish great things.

Gentleness and affection are his disguise and weapon; his true joy and anger will never be easily shown in front of others.

He has seen many people who are sentimental and indulge in love. Today, he finally met someone like him. This person can see the essence of the problem through his touching story.

Pingliang.

Pei Yu did not answer but asked:

"What do you think, Your Highness? Why Pingliang?"

Pei Yu asked this, which means that Pingliang was indeed not a coincidence, but was intentional by the Pei family.

Su Fengyi asked again:

"That letter, was it you who wrote it?"

Pei Yu was finally surprised:

"What letter?"

Since Pei Yu has admitted the matter of Zhou Yucheng, there is no reason for him to simply deny the letter. Therefore, the letter written by General Shen to the little prince of Beilu has nothing to do with the Pei family.

Before, Su Fengyi couldn't understand why Pei Yu was invisible and did nothing in the early part of the original book, but now she understood.

There is no border trade between Damu and Beilu, but Beilu does not produce salt and tea, which are necessities of life. If Beilu wants salt and tea, there are only two ways: robbery or smuggling, whichever is more cost-effective.

With the Shen family guarding the border, the northern barbarians did not dare to rob the border on a large scale. After all, the price of exchanging lives was too high, so the demand for smuggling was inevitable.

Most of the money used by King Pingliang for his rebellion came from the profits from smuggling salt and tea to the Northern Tartars. The tribe of the little prince of the Northern Tartars was basically the biggest customer of King Pingliang.

As a vassal prince, the King of Pingliang had his own salt permit, so he could smuggle salt without making any noise.

But half of the tea mountains in Jiangnan are in the hands of the Pei family. The fact that the King of Pingliang transports so much tea out every year must have escaped the Pei family's eyes.

Pei Yu might have discovered the Prince of Pingliang's intention to rebel long ago, and he asked a Pingliang person to submit a memorial just to see what the current emperor is capable of.

He hinted so clearly, but the King of Pingliang was not in any trouble and even received more rewards by offering the auspicious sign of the white tiger.

However, the current emperor cut off his own arms and put the unrelated Shen family into prison.

Pei Yu was quite impressed to be the emperor like this.

Therefore, based on just one letter, Pei Yu concluded that the current emperor would not be in office for long.

Even if Pei Yu did nothing, as long as the emperor stepped down and the eldest princess lost power, the crisis he faced would be resolved.

In that case, why not just sit back and enjoy the results?

This is why Pei Yu did nothing, because there was no need.

Therefore, for Su Fengyi, it would be more difficult to win over the Pei family than the Shen family.

Because of the Pei family's ancestral genes, there is a tradition of changing the emperor when things go wrong. As long as King Pingliang can ascend to the throne and as long as the benefits are sufficient, there is no pressure for the Pei family to support King Pingliang.

Therefore, in addition to the position of the second assistant of the cabinet, Su Fengyi also needs to have deeper interests tied to the Pei family, so deep that the Prince of Pingliang can no longer pry it open, and so deep that the Pei family must protect the interests of the eldest princess for their own interests.

The Pei family's foundation is tea. If you want to tie your interests to the Pei family, you naturally have to start with tea.

Su Fengyi decided to learn Pei Yu's Spring and Autumn style of writing and said:

"The King of Pingliang sent Qiao Gui an aide and 100,000 taels of silver. Qiao Gui wants to abolish the tea permit system in Damu and implement the tea monopoly system. In the northwest, the King of Pingliang will preside over the tea monopoly."

Every word Su Fengyi said was true and could withstand Pei Yu's investigation.

She just changed the order of her speeches and the cause and effect of the incident. The truth was that Qiao Gui first wanted to restore the tea monopoly system, and then the King of Pingliang gave him the silver in order to obtain the tea monopoly rights in the northwest.

The tea monopoly business is a monopoly business that prohibits other families from doing so, and only the Wang family is allowed to do so.

The tea permit system required tea merchants to spend money to buy tea permits from the government and pay taxes, then they could buy tea freely. The government had no say over how much the tea merchants sold the tea for or how much the people paid for it.

The tea monopoly system means that the sale of tea is taken back by the government. No matter how many tea plantations the Pei family has, the tea can only be sold to the government, and the government naturally has the final say on how much the tea is sold for.

The common people could only buy tea from the government, and the government naturally had the final say on how much to spend.

This official is Qiao Gui.

Since ancient times, monopoly business has been the easiest way to make money. Qiao Gui was tired of confiscating money from every household, but the money came too slowly, so he found such a way to make a lot of money from a pile of old papers.

The original tea permit was only one-tenth of the profit. Now, under the tea monopoly, as long as the purchase price from tea merchants is halved and the selling price to the people is doubled, the money earned will increase fifteen times.

How could Qiao Gui not be tempted to earn fifteen years' worth of money in just one year?

In the original book, the emperor fled to the south but could not get the support of the southern gentry. The biggest reason why he was defeated so quickly was that Qiao Gui's tea monopoly system offended the entire southern gentry.

If the original engagement between the princess and Pei Yu ended Pei Yu's future, then Qiao Gui's tea monopoly system ended the future of the entire Pei family.

Now Su Fengyi wants to use the writing style of the Spring and Autumn Period to turn the person behind the tea monopoly into the King of Pingliang.

Trying to stop the boiling by adding more water only makes the boiling worse. Saving General Shen only temporarily slowed down the rebellion of Prince Pingliang. The biggest support of Prince Pingliang in the rebellion was his wealth. Su Fengyi wanted to remove the fuel from the fire.

Kill the little prince of the Northern Tartars, alienate the relationship between the Pei family and the King of Pingliang, make it impossible for the King of Pingliang to sell or buy, make it impossible for his smuggling business to continue, and cut off his way to make money.

Moreover, she just couldn't believe that after labeling the Prince of Pingliang as a person who promoted the tea monopoly system, the Pei family would still dare to support a person who would cut off their roots to become emperor. The two families would definitely turn against each other.

Sure enough, after she said this, Pei Yu's spring-like gentleness was accompanied by a hint of winter's coldness:

"The previous dynasty was destroyed by the tea monopoly. He is going against the trend. How can he last long?"

Su Fengyi smiled and said:

"People with short-sightedness will do whatever it takes to get things done, so they won't consider the long term.

This palace and the Pei family have common enemies, why don't we join hands to kill the enemies together and share the wealth? "

Sentence after sentence, linked together, Pei Yu really admired the eldest princess's smooth technique.

Let me first explain my feelings to you. Although I love you, I want to cancel the engagement with you and help you have a better future.

If you can persuade me with reason again, and if you can help me solve the problem of the emperor leading the army in person, I will give you the position of the second-in-command of the imperial court. It will be mutually beneficial.

Then they threatened them with disaster. The tea monopoly was a disaster for the Pei family, and the people who fanned the flames behind the scenes had to be eliminated.

Finally, lure them with benefits and bring up the words wealth and honor. Who wouldn’t love wealth and honor?

This method was completely in line with Pei Yu's aesthetic taste, and he couldn't help but shout:

"Your Highness is truly my soulmate!"

Because of admiration, even though this method was used on him, Pei Yu also felt a sense of sympathy as they were both deceitful people.

Pei Yu smiled sincerely:

"May I ask, Your Highness, where does wealth and honor come from?"

Su Fengyi took down the map and pointed directly to the border:

"I want to reopen the border trade of tea and horses. Is the Pei family willing to share a piece of the pie with me?"