My life skills in Daming Liver

Shen always set out from Nanjing, but did not go directly to Guangzhou to meet Annan's envoy.

Shen Yiguan took his subordinates, Chi Hongmo, a Jinshi who was assigned to Xingren Si Guanzheng, and left Nanjing city covered in dust.

Chi Hongmo was having a good tea at Xingrensi, but he accidentally met Tang Xianzu at Honglu Temple the day before, and was then dragged by Shen Yiguan on a clipper boat to Hangzhou.

Tang Xianzu went to Tongrensi to find someone to translate Western arithmetic works, but he accidentally chatted with Chi Hongmo for a few words, and Chi Hongmo's leisurely days were completely over.

This reminded Chi Hongmo of a legend circulated in the circle of Guanzheng Jinshi - "Don't come into contact with Tang Xianzu, you will become unfortunate."

All the Guanzheng Jinshi who had contact with Tang Xianzu were beaten to death by their superiors. The worst case was that Gu Xiancheng, the top scholar in Jinke, was kicked out to Guangxi by the officials.

Chi Hongmo regretted why he took the initiative to say hello to Tang Xianzu when he was at Honglu Temple and provoked this "dirty guy".

After Shen Guanyi arrived in Hangzhou, he immediately invited celebrities in Hangzhou to attend the banquet in the name of his uncle Shen Mingchen.

Shen Mingchen and Shen Guanyin were both from Zhejiang. At that time, Shen Mingchen also formed a gang with Xu Wei and formed the Seven Yuezhong Sons, which was very influential in Zhejiang.

Shen always used the banner of his uncle and indeed invited many celebrities to the banquet.

Mr. Yu Er, who lives in Hangzhou City and is the richest man in Zhejiang, is naturally among those invited.

Nowadays, who is the richest in the entire Southeast has become a hotly discussed issue in many tabloids.

But no matter which tabloid, among the top ten richest people in the Southeast, there must be Yu Zongyuan ahead of the Second Young Master.

The only one who can compete with Second Young Master Yu may be Second Young Master Xu Kun, who occupies half of Huating County in Songjiang.

Compared with Xu Kun, who focuses on cotton fabrics, Yu Zongyuan has been featured in newspapers in Zhejiang for a long time because of his "philanthropy".

Countless young people with entrepreneurial dreams regard Yu Ergongzi as their idol and hope to get his investment.

And because of his "excellent" investment vision, Mr. Yu also became the leader of Zhejiang businessmen.

This time, the special public offering bonds of Susong Railway were sold out in Hangzhou precisely because Mr. Yu took the lead in subscribing.

When Shen Yiguan hosted a banquet for Hangzhou celebrities this time, he wanted to invite Yu Zongyuan, the God of Wealth in Zhejiang.

Shen has always been aloof. He was sorting out his clothes and asked his assistant Chi Hongmo coldly: "Do you understand everything that will be done at today's dinner?"

Chi Hongmo said quickly: "All my subordinates understand that they must serve the second young master Yu well and ask him to take the lead in forming a business group to invest in Annan."

Shen Yiguan nodded and said: "As long as Mr. Yu is willing to invest, businessmen in Zhejiang will invest with him."

Shen always didn't like to have physical contact with others, but he patted Chi Hongmo on the shoulder and said, "You are better at this than me. Today it's up to you."

Chi Hongmo forced out an ugly expression and could only agree.

At the banquet, Chi Hongmo surrounded the second young master Yu and gave him a rainbow fart, and he was very happy to praise the second young master.

Zhejiang celebrities who were able to attend the banquet soon discovered that the protagonist of the banquet was Yu Zongyuan, and they all started to flatter Yu Zongyuan.

Not to mention Yu Zongyuan's wealth, just looking at his status as a hero in the southeast and his personal relationship with Su Ze, no one would support him on weekdays.

When Yu Zongyuan was completely coaxed into the clouds, Shen Yiguan cleared his throat and said:

"When Shen was studying in Zhejiang, he heard that Mr. Yu had great vision and was good at investing."

"Before Shen set off from Nanjing, he was summoned to the mansion by the governor for a detailed discussion."

Everyone present's ears perked up when they heard the Grand Governor's words.

Even Yu Zongyuan sobered up a bit.

Shen Guanyi said: "The Governor said that although Annan is not peaceful now, it is a good place for investment."

"Annan's cane sugar is large in quantity but of poor quality. This is because Annan's cultivation and sugar refining standards are not good enough. If our southeastern merchants can open plantations in Annan and produce high-quality white sugar, they can directly use Annan's port to sell to Nanyang and South Asia. , will definitely become a pillar industry second only to cotton trade."

"The Governor appointed me to contact the Annan envoy to discuss the development of the Annan sugar industry."

After Shen Guanyi finished speaking, he looked around, but no one present said anything.

Shen Yiguan sighed secretly, it was really not easy to fool him.

Today there is an overwhelming discussion about the Annan issue. Smart people in Zhejiang have long seen that the governor is going to use troops against Annan.

Who would rush to invest in a place where a war is about to begin?

Although our army in the southeast has been victorious in every battle, Ming Chengzu's martial arts was also very strong. Didn't he withdraw from Annan in the end?

If we fail to capture Annan, or if we capture Annan and then withdraw, wouldn’t these investments be in vain?

After a moment of silence, Yu Zongyuan shouted: "Okay! I invested in this investment!"

Everyone looked at Yu Zongyuan, wondering if he had any inside information about the Governor's Mansion?

Thinking of this, several workshop owners present also stood up and said: "We are also willing to respond to the governor's call to develop Annan!"

It was rare for Shen Guan to smile. This time he came to Hangzhou at the right time.

After Shen Guanyi organized the business group in Hangzhou, he continued south to Guangzhou.

Guangzhou, in the Guest House.

Annan's envoy has been waiting here for a month.

Now Annan is competing for hegemony between the north and the south, with the Houli Dynasty in the south and the Mo Dynasty in the north competing for hegemony.

The Mo Dynasty was a country founded by Mo Dengyong, a powerful minister of the Hou Li Dynasty. When it was first established, it was about to annex the entire Hou Li, and it was about to replace Li with Mo.

However, in the later Li Dynasty, there happened to be a famous "Zhongxing" official named Ruan Gan.

Nguyen Gan was dissatisfied with Mo Theng Yung's usurpation of Le, and started a rebellion in his hometown of Thanh Hoa under the banner of restoring Hou Le. He quickly gained momentum and recruited a large number of forces who were dissatisfied with Mo Theng Yong and gathered under the command of the old master of Hou Le. , and within more than ten years, they actually formed a situation of rivalry with Mo Dynasty.

Ruan Gan supported Hou Li's old master, perhaps because he wanted to follow Cao Cao's example and wait for his next generation to usurp Hou Li.

But historical scripts are so dramatic.

In the first month of 1540 AD, a struggle for the throne broke out within the Mo Dynasty. Ruan Gan seized the opportunity and marched into Nghe An, surrendering wherever he went.

In 1542 AD, Emperor Li Zhuang ordered Nguyen Gan to attack Thanh Hoa, Nghe An and other places.

In 1543 AD, Li Zhuangzong also personally led troops into the Western Capital. Yang Zhiyi, the chief magistrate of Qinghua Town of the Mo Dynasty, surrendered. Ruan Gan personally accepted Yang Zhiyi's surrender. At this time, the Mo Dynasty had retreated to the northern mountainous area. Seeing that Ruan Gan was about to complete the great feat of conquering Mo Chao, he was just waiting for the next time he could use Ruan to usurp Li.

But history is inevitably full of accidents.

In 1545 AD, the Li Zhuang clan led the soldiers to conquer Shannan and camped in Anmo. On May 20, Yang Zhiyi, the surrendered general of Mo Dynasty, invited Ruan Gan to his camp. Due to the heat, he put poison into the melon and Ruan Gan died of poisoning. Yang Zhiyi betrayed Hou Li again and returned to the Mo Dynasty.

Ruan Gan died violently, but his son stayed in Xidu, the capital of Hou Li. Zheng Jian, the son-in-law of Ruan Gan who accompanied the army, immediately mobilized and took control of the army led by Zheng Jian. He also immediately controlled Li Zhuangzong and replaced Ruan Gan as Hou Li's leader. The new powerful minister.

Zheng Jian inherited Ruan Gan's official position and took control of the military and political power of the Later Li Dynasty. He was awarded the title of "Capital General, Controller of Water Bu and Camps, General of Pingzhang, Military and State Affairs, Grand Master, and Duke of Liang".

After Zheng Jian replaced his father-in-law and took control of Houli, the Ruan family was still a powerful family in Annan, and he was very afraid of the Ruan family.

In the year when Ruan Gan died, Zheng Jian found a reason to kill Ruan Gan's eldest son, his brother-in-law Ruan Wang.

It is now the third year of the New Calendar in the Southeast (AD 1565), and Zheng Jian has replaced Ruan Gan in charge of Houli for 20 years.

The Mo Dynasty relied on the northern mountainous areas to survive, while Hou Li occupied the most elite Red River Delta impact plain in Annan, which was the Jiaozhou area established by the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Originally, there had been peace between Annan, Southern and Northern Dynasties for a long time.

After Zheng Jian took the power of Houli, he no longer needed military achievements to prove himself, and he was no longer interested in the conquest of the Mo Dynasty in the north. Anyway, what he conquered were barren mountainous areas, and it took a lot of effort to digest them, so he might as well manage them well. The land in hand now.

The Mo Dynasty had constant problems with its throne, relying on the mountainous terrain in the north to survive, and it had become a small force that ruled on one side.

The two sides have maintained peace for nearly ten years, but now the balance of peace has been broken.

What broke the balance was the rise of Southeast Asia.

Annan is a small place that is constantly influenced by the Central Plains.

When Hou Li attacked Thanh Hoa and was about to unify Annan, the Ming court took action from behind and declared its support for the Mo Dynasty as orthodoxy.

This was the incident where Yang Zhi first rebelled against Mo Chao and then Hou Li, poisoning Ruan Gan.

After that, Zheng Jian stopped organizing large-scale attacks against the Mo Dynasty and began to keep in contact with the Ming court, hoping to get the Ming court's approval.

Emperor Jiajing, who was good at using power, took advantage of Annan's problem and used the Ming court's canonization as bait to balance the power of Annan's southern and northern dynasties.

However, with the decline of the Ming Dynasty and the rise of Southeast, the troops from Southeast entered Guangxi and quickly solved the Tengxia rebellion, killing the heads of the rebel leaders in Guangxi who participated in the Yao rebellion.

Mo Chao and Hou Li once again realized the power of the Central Plains dynasty. Now the southeastern army is already in Guangxi. If this army intervenes in the battle in Annan, it may break the current fragile balance of power.

Mo Chao and Hou Li both sent envoys, hoping to contact the Southeast and obtain the canonization of the Southeast to become Annan orthodoxy.

The Hou Li envoy who sailed to Guangzhou was the brother-in-law of Zheng Jian, the powerful official of Hou Li who is currently in power, that is, Ruan Huang, the second son of Ruan Gan.

After their father died suddenly and the power of the family was inherited by his brother-in-law Zheng Jian, the two sons of the Ruan family reacted differently.

The eldest son Ruan Wang immediately gathered the forces left behind by his father and raised an army to fight against Zheng Jian, but was finally defeated and died.

After his brother launched an army, Ruan Huang did not follow his brother to deal with Zheng Jian. Instead, he rushed to the front line to inform Zheng Jian, assisted Zheng Jian in defeating his own brother, and handed over the remaining rights of the Ruan family to Zheng Jian.

Then relying on his sister's pillow, Ruan Huang survived after his brother was executed. Although Zheng Jian was still very afraid of his brother-in-law and imprisoned him in Xijing City, he never killed him.

Now that Zheng Jian has been in charge of Houli for twenty years, he has almost digested the power of the Ruan family and is no longer afraid of Ruan Huang.

This time Ruan Huang took the initiative to request a mission to the southeast, and Zheng Jian agreed without hesitation.

However, regarding such an important matter as negotiating with Southeast, Zheng Jian did not completely trust his submissive brother-in-law. He also sent his second son Zheng Song as a deputy envoy, and actually controlled the envoy to Guangzhou.

On the other side, the envoys of the Mo Dynasty entered Guangxi from the land and asked to see Wang Daokun, the governor of Guangxi, and asked to submit to the southeast.

After getting the news, Su Ze recalled Shen Yiguan from the capital and asked him to serve as the chief of the pedestrian department of Honglu Temple. He led the southeastern envoys to Guangzhou and met with Houli's envoys first.

In the guest house at the port of Guangzhou, Ruan Huang, the envoy of Hou Li, was talking flatteringly to his nephew, Zheng Song, the deputy envoy of the mission.

Although he is Zheng Song's uncle, and although he is the nominal envoy of the mission, Ruan Huang has been pretending to be a grandson in front of his brother-in-law Zheng Jian for twenty years, and he does not care to continue to pretend to be a grandson in front of his nephew Zheng Song.

Ruan Huang said: "Tomorrow the envoy from Southeast will arrive in Guangzhou. Tomorrow we must show our sincerity and let Southeast can canonize me, Hou Li, as orthodox."

Zheng Song had just drank wine, and he said in a drunken voice: "Uncle, don't worry! I have prepared gold, silver, jewelry and beauties. I just need to wait for the southeast envoy to come and send them up immediately. Southeast will definitely come by then." Canonize our Queen Li!"

Ruan Huang immediately said: "You can give away gold and silver, but don't give away beautiful women. I think the officials in the southeast are honest in government. What if it backfires and offends the envoy from the southeast?"

Zheng Song said nonchalantly: "Who doesn't like beautiful women? Officials in the southeast are also human beings. Uncle, please stop talking. Let me arrange this matter!"

Ruan Huang immediately softened, nodded and said, "Then I'll listen to you!"