Sitting in a house, Peng You smiled slightly, and the corners of his mouth showed a slight smile.
He is one of the three major generals under Zhuo Wangsun, and he is also the great demon king of the Southwest Yi countries.
Since the third year of Yuande, he has been active in the mountains of Southwest Yi, as long as it is profitable, there is nothing he dare not do.
The souls of the dead under his command, thousands of them, are in the southwestern kingdoms, and his name is enough to make a child stop crying.
But now, he is still unknown in this grassland.
No one had heard of his deeds, not even his origins, few people knew.
This is simply the most wonderful thing for an arms dealer and war maniac.
He can do whatever he wants, without concealment, and do whatever he wants.
"Ming Gong", a man dressed in regular clothes, wearing a Confucian crown, looking like a gentleman and a gentleman, bowed to Peng You: "This time, how should you and I divide the labor?"
Peng You glanced at this person and smiled: "Why is Mr.
Zhang so anxious, sit down, taste this year's new tea, and see how it tastes."
When Mr.
Zhang heard this, he smiled slightly, and hurriedly confessed: "It's rude."
Then he found a place, sat down, picked up the tea served by the maid, and tasted the tea like a scholar, not admiring: "Good tea and good tea must be this year's Jiangnan new tea" Peng You glanced at this person coldly, and didn't want to deal with him much.
Even, if it were possible, Peng You would find someone to kill this guy.
The reason is very simple, he is Peng You's biggest opponent, Cheng Zhengying's adopted son Zhang Wen.
It is said that the father of this son used to be the housekeeper of Cheng Zheng's family, and once died to protect Cheng Zhengying, because Cheng Zhengying regarded it as his own, not only carefully cultivated, but also spent a lot of money more than ten years ago to send him to Guanzhong, worship the Changling people Wang Ju as a teacher, and learn the Analects of the Book of Changes and the Book of Laws.
Originally, the trajectory of his life should be to succeed in his studies, then worship under a nobleman, and finally be recommended as an official, climb to a high position and then come to take care of Cheng Zheng's family and feed him. but Seven years ago, a new monarch ascended the throne and changed the whole world.
First of all, Zhuo Wenjun and Cheng Zhengxuan have both changed from the concubines of the prince to the concubines of the Son of Heaven.
The Zhuo family and the Cheng Zheng family have become relatives of the royal family, backed by the royal family, so naturally there is no need for someone to be an official to protect the family.
Moreover, as a businessman, or a relative of the emperor, and send an adopted son to the officialdom, even if others don't gossip, there will be people in the palace who chew their tongues.
Naturally, this article returned to Shu County.
Then along the way, he became the head of Cheng Zheng's affairs in the Southwest Yi region.
As an old rival, Peng You knows very well what kind of character this smiling and seemingly gentle friend in front of him is.
The word well-dressed beast was tailor-made for him Among the countries of Southwest Yi, Zhang Wen's name is even enough to make people frightened.
So much so that the nobles and kings of the nations and even the common people, when they saw the people wearing Confucian crowns, were trembling and cautious, and they did not even dare to come out of the atmosphere.
It's really what this person has done, it's too brilliant.
He was the first to invent the model of selling ordnance first, buying population later.
Today, more than seventy percent of the contradictions between the countries of the Southwest Yi were provoked by him and his subordinates.
What frightened and frightened the nations even more was that he had always done things openly and straightforwardly.
For example, he once told the king of Dian Kingdom, a powerful country in the southwest of Yi, "My lord, your neighbor King Qiong has bought 3,000 bows and crossbows from me, and I feel the need to tell him."
This is naturally true, and King Qiong did buy a large number of ordnance from him.
Although the number is not so exaggerated.
But the problem is that the Dian Kingdom and the Qiong Kingdom are feuding.
At that time, the first king of the Dian Kingdom marched to the southwest on the order of the king of Chu, and fought with the Qiong people, and for hundreds of years, the enmity and enmity of the two can add up to write a book.
How dare the King of Dian not pay attention to this information.
There was no choice but to pour everything he had and buy 4,000 bows and crossbows from Zhang Wen.
Then, after getting the weapon, the King of Dian felt that the opportunity had come, although King Qiong actually did not want to start a war with the Dian Kingdom at all.
However, after getting sophisticated weapons, the government and the opposition felt that it was necessary to fight and did one.
As a result, the army of the Dian State waged war against the Qiong State, and it took half a year to destroy the Qiong State, swallowing up all the people, nobles and wealth of the Qiong State.
And then the surrounding countries were scared to death.
While uniting, he cried and shouted to Zhang Wen to buy weapons.
After annexing the Qiong Kingdom, the Dian Kingdom also swelled, and the King of Dian even arrogantly declared that he wanted to unify the southwest.
Then, the seemingly powerful Dian army was violently beaten by the allied forces of the Southwest Yi States.
There has always been a legend that in that war, 2,000 Han soldiers disguised themselves as soldiers from the Southwest Yi countries and joined the battlefield But in any case, the Dian Kingdom suffered heavy losses at that time, not only the land of the Qiong Kingdom that had just been snatched back was gone.
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Large territories were also lost.
There was no way, the king of Dian could only find Zhang Wen again, begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother, took out the last bit of the coffin book of the treasury, and bought a batch of armor and swords to stabilize the battle situation.
And after tasting the sweetness of war, all countries have their own different hearts.
Before the war was over, they started fighting each other.
After three years of fighting, originally in the south and east of the Dian Kingdom, there were more than a dozen large and small countries and dozens of tribes.
By the sixth year of Yuande, there were only three countries left.
Yunnan, Baima and Zuo.
These three countries are still at war today.
And the culprit of all this is Zhang Wen, who grew up reading Confucius's articles.
Originally, Peng You didn't know why it ended up like this.
But then he finally figured it out.
The answer is human nature The special environment of the Southwest Yi region has amplified this human nature.
For hundreds of thousands of years, the local people have lived in a mixture of ethnic groups, countries of different sizes, scattered sand, and close to each other's strength.
Even powerful countries such as Yelang, Yuguo, and Dian did not have the strength to crush the surrounding countries.
At this time, when the power of a country skyrockets because of external forces, the balance is immediately broken.
Therefore, in order to protect themselves, the nations had to seek the help of this external force, buy weapons, or defend themselves, or expand.
But the problem is that if you buy it, others will buy it.
Moreover, the price of weapons is not cheap.
Even if it's for self-defense, you have to find a way to rob someone.
As a result, countries are caught in a vicious circle.
Because the enemy country bought weapons, you must also buy them, because weapons are expensive and you can't afford them, so you have to find a way to fight others, exchange the prisoners and wealth of other countries for weapons.
And when other countries see that you buy weapons and destroy the enemy, they will be afraid, and fear will have to buy, and if you buy it, you will have to fight.
In the end, the wealth, population, and labor force of the Southwest Yi countries all flowed into Zhang Wen's hands.
In order to curry favor with him, the king of Dian sent his army to explore the south every year, in exchange for a reward for finding a land route to the poison; In order to curry favor with him, the servants went to great lengths to destroy a nation, and the most beautiful princess in his kingdom was taught, taught, meek and well-behaved, and then given to him as a gift.
And Peng You was actually forced to learn Zhang Wen's methods to do those things.
There is no way, if you don't learn, then the wealth, population, and especially cheap labor of all countries in Southwest Yi will become Cheng Zhengying's family.
That's not good.
Besides, who can't get along with money?
It's a pity that they may have gone too far in the southwest, or it may be because they have squeezed too hard.
Therefore, since last year, the countries of Southwest Yi have begun to connect in series.
The kingdoms of Yunnan, Yu, Zuo, Yelang, Baima, and even further afield began to prepare to send envoys to Chang'an at all costs to make a pilgrimage to the Son of Heaven and request to attach it.
Zhuo's and Cheng Zheng's, although they can temporarily stop one or two, delay one or two.
But they know that their era of rebellion in the Southwest is over.
Besides, the land in the southwest is barren and the population is sparse, and they have tossed it to this point, and the oil has run out, and they can no longer squeeze too much oil and water.
Therefore, as early as the fifth year of Yuande, both Zhuo and Cheng Zheng began to transform.
Of course, just to transform the input area of the labor force.
The South Vietnamese were all taken by them, and they desperately caught the wild people in the jungles of Jiaozhi County and Rinan County, and sent them to the mines and smelters of Linqiong.
But in the jungles of South Vietnam, there will be a day when there will be no one to catch.
What to do Only body poison can relieve Zhuo's and Cheng's growing appetite.
But the road to poison is distant and mysterious.
From the south of the Dian Kingdom, there have been more than a dozen expeditions now, and the farthest ones have even trekked thousands of miles into the primeval jungle, but they have found nothing.
Of course, it is also possible that someone has found the body poison.
But, none of these people will come back.
At least for now, the road from Dian to Poison is still a thorn.
Of course, the information that there was once a drug merchant Jia and a monk who came to China from the sea was naturally taken seriously.
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The Zhuo clan and Cheng Zheng clan would hire merchant ships every year to sail out of the ports of Jiaozhi and Ninan County, and explore the south and southeast winds.
On the vast sea, there are many crises, and it is often half a year to go to sea.
Moreover, those who returned, even if they were lucky enough to make a return, only reported that there was no end above the sea, and that they rarely saw land except for the islands.
Thousands of miles to the south, it is all barren land, except for seabirds and flying fish, there is no shadow of human beings.
This really made Zhuo's and Cheng Zheng's panic.
Without cheap labor, their industry would be unsustainable and it would be impossible for them to expand their operations.
What's even more troublesome is that if there is no glorious industry, the status of the two imperial concubines will also be damaged.
At all costs, maintaining the status of the two imperial concubines and the princesses and princes produced by them is the highest goal of the Zhuo family and the Cheng Zheng family.
At this time, the battle of Yan Ji broke out, which made both Zhuo and Cheng Zheng overjoyed.
The vast prairie is known as having thousands of countries and thousands of ethnic groups.
From the south of the Makuto to the north of the Maku, as well as the entire Western Regions, the people and tribes who live are not counted clearly.
At least, it's so much more populous than the Southwest Yi that I don't know where And here, it's a whole new world.
There are enough sources of cheap labor for the Zhuo and Cheng clan's industries to continue to flourish.
Therefore, as the number one thugs of the two families, Peng You and Zhang Wen were sent to Dragon City to preside over the plan related to the rise and fall of the family.
To put it simply, it is to sell arms.
But how to sell arms is a more complicated matter.
"It's been half a month in this Dragon City, my brother can find his target," Peng You asked while drinking tea.
Zhang Wen naturally knew what the other party meant.
The situation of the grassland is not as good as that of the southwestern Yi, and the southwestern Yi countries are basically in a closed environment, and their land and people will not run.
But the grasslands are different, and the nomadic migrations of various tribes often run for thousands of miles, or even thousands of miles.
Moreover, it is difficult to ensure the monitoring and control of these tribes.
Therefore, it is important to choose a suitable person.
This object must be strong enough, at least, stronger than other tribes, otherwise, there will be no way to make trouble Second, it must have a feud, and it must be ensured that this feud is equal to its power.
Last but not least, it must be ambitious enough and its leader must be the kind of person who is confident and strong.
Otherwise, it will be difficult to play with the effect.
Just like the story of the Southwest Yi Kingdoms, if it weren't for the ambition of King Dian and the same ambition of King Qiong, Zhang Wen would not have been able to do so well back then.
Of course, after many years of tempering and training, Zhang Wen's methods and abilities have also improved a lot.
Naturally, Zhang Wen has an object.
But, how could he tell Peng You about these things Just as Peng You would not have told him that this afternoon, he had sold five hundred bronze crossbows to a clan.
Yes, Zhang Wen just smiled, then changed the topic, and said: "This meeting in Longcheng, I heard that not only the Western Xiongnu sent a number of representatives, but even the Juli Lake in the north also sent people to buy grain, silk and rhubarb, and even, I heard that some people are secretly buying all kinds of books and literati."
Nowadays, both the Western Xiongnu and the Northern Xiongnu are engaged in a Sinicization movement in order to save the country and survive.
This matter, if reasonable, should be a matter of embroidered clothes.
But what's the matter As long as there is a profit to be made as a businessman, there is nothing they cannot do.
Now, the Huns have come to the door, how can they not make a profit But the problem is that this money is earned, but you can't put your life into it.
Therefore, when Peng You heard it, he immediately understood what the other party meant, and said with a smile: "I am going to sell some Lu Ru's books This time I came from Chang'an, and I specially asked hundreds of sets to be printed."
Nowadays, the Huns are willing to buy books as long as they are books, and the price is quite high It's a fool not to make this money What kind of Lu Ru, Gu Liang, and even Ram's books, the imperial court did not restrict the outflow.
However, it is necessary to prevent malicious competition, so as not to smash the sale.
Therefore, it is necessary to communicate in advance and be prepared.
"In that case, then I'll sell some of Gu Liang's books," Zhang Wen laughed when he heard it.
As for whether the Huns will take it back and do what the book says What does that have to do with them?
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