Chapter 129 – Cloth Clothes and a Single Sword Toward the Son of Heaven (III)

Warm cotton clothes, sitting on the kang and drinking refreshing yet fiery liquor. In spring, the waterwheels in the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River were slowly running, and the seemingly insignificant water conservancy facilities were playing their role in silence. In summer, large leaf fans fanned the breeze in the homes of the rich and powerful, and various fleets of ships left the various workshops to deliver those goods to those who needed them in the world.

The basic water facilities in the fields of Qing, the glass and porcelain in every house, and the smell in every space are all related to the inner treasury. The inner library is not only the Minbei of the three large workshop, in fact, throughout the entire country, such as the western mountain book workshop and other marginal industry, the inner library of the output is not only about the armament and other relations between the national livelihood of the big industry, but also includes those with the folk life of the small things, these small things berth to the end of the sea, sprinkled in the world, seemingly inconspicuous, but succeeded in coalescing for the Qing Dynasty, a jaw-dropping wealth.

The inner treasury for the Qing dynasty to build a strong division of armaments, the three major naval division of the warships, but also with these sources of wealth, to support the Qing dynasty around the expansion of food and grass funds needed, more importantly, the Qing emperor ruled this country, the need for these riches to stabilize people’s livelihoods, and to maintain the effective functioning of the official system of the imperial court.

The hundreds of millions of people in Qing might have gotten used to the inner treasury being in their lives long ago, so much so that habit became nature, and they all gradually faded away the importance of the inner treasury, or at least underestimated its importance. But Emperor Qing will not, all the officials in Qing who have a brain will not, and the Northern Qi court that has been drooling over the inner treasury will not even more.

Otherwise, Qing will not set the elite in the northern Fujian, in the three major workshops outside the arrangement of the Kyoto more tightly guarded, all of this is to prevent the secret of the inner library of the craft leaked.

And today the fire in the palace, has clearly to the emperor of the Qing dynasty, the biggest secret of the Qing dynasty for Fan Xian, is not a secret, or even just in his hands can play with the chips, once the inner library process is destroyed, those old craftsmen died, the three big workshops and then destroyed, the foundations of the Qing dynasty will be devastating blow.

However, the emperor’s indifferent face showed that he was not worried about the inner library being destroyed by Fan Xian just like that, because he knew that Fan Xian also cared about the inner library, and it was impossible to tear this gem of the human world apart just like that. He believed that Fan Xian would make a move in Jiangnan at this time, destroying that one copy of the Inner Vault’s craftsmanship, but he was equally confident that Fan Xian must have already blocked a copy of this craftsmanship before doing so.

Only things that were still useful could be used as bargaining chips.

Emperor Qing coldly withdrew his gaze from the black smoke, glanced at Fan Xian, and said, “Indeed, you are heartless, and as a Qing, you have done such a thing.”

Fan Xian was silent for a moment and then said, “I just thought that this is ultimately between you and me, and once the scourge spreads to the world, it’s really not something I wish for.”

This was then made very clear. His Majesty controlled the world, if Fan Xian did not have enough chips in his hand that he cared about, how could His Majesty be so focused that he would confine this war to the Imperial City, he had enough means to clean up those who were dependent on Fan Xian, but Fan Xian was trying to force His Majesty to refrain from making a move against those people.

This seemed like a very childish, childish request, like playing house. Your Majesty, I’m going to rebel soon, and if I fail in my rebellion, you mustn’t make it difficult for those subordinates who are following me……. However, there was a deathly silence in the snowy palace at this time, and both Fan Xian, who made this proposal, and His Majesty, who was calm, didn’t treat this as a child’s playground, because Fan Xian did have a big killing weapon in his hand that was enough to harm the foundation of the Qing Kingdom. killing weapon.

His Majesty the Emperor was not someone who could be threatened, even though Fan Xian was holding the seven inches of the inner treasury in his hand, he gave Fan Xian a cold look and said, “Continue.”

Fan Xian made an extremely sincere bow and said, “Your Majesty’s genius is overflowing, now that Qing’s treasury is full, the people’s energy is available, the men of armor are brave, and although famous generals have perished, yet looking at this son of Ye Wan, it is evident that within the ranks, Qing’s talents are extremely numerous, and even if the inner treasury is destroyed in my hands, it is unlikely that the whole thing will crumble in a short period of time. With your majesty’s ability, no matter how resilient the Emperor of Northern Qi and the Uesugi Tiger are able to resist, I, Daqing, will swing my army northward and swallow the four wilds with the force of tigers and wolves, and in your majesty’s lifetime, you will be able to realize your grand wish of unifying the world.”

“No one can stop this one process, and even though I hold the key points of the inner treasury, I must admit that it cannot threaten you, and that you could care less about it all.” Fan Xian lowered his head and calmly said word by word, “However, …… your majesty’s vision is far reaching, and is it not between a moment and a place?”

He raised his head and calmly looked at Emperor Qing’s eyes, “Your Majesty wants to unify the world, to create a great empire, to end the long succession of wars on this continent, to seek a peaceful future for the millions of people, and to leave a thousand years of imperial prowess and valor in the annals of history……. Therefore, what you are seeking is the A thousand generations after the Qing Kingdom has unified the world.”

“If you live, you will annex Northern Qi and Eastern Yi, suppress resistance with the power of iron and blood, and collect the hearts of the people with genius wisdom, and you will be able to determine the unification of the world, yet if you die?”

Fan Xian’s lips curled up slightly and smiled, “There is no more Your Majesty in the world, and where will the Daqing court, which initially annexed the world, look for an amazingly talented ruler? Northern Qi has a vast territory, many talented people, a large population, and inherits the spirit of Wei, and has always claimed to be orthodox, if no one is able to suppress it, and those hundreds of millions of foreigners rise up in revolt, who will be able to withstand it? Who will be able to resist the hundreds of millions of foreigners who will rise up against us and kill us with our great army? The initial unification of the world is afraid to fall into the fire of war again, at that time my Daqing can not guarantee the unification of the territory is another story, I am afraid that the world group against, my Daqing Kyoto is also in danger.”

“Your majesty read history books, naturally know, to iron blood to control people, the end does not last long, there was a conspiracy Shi Huang kill all the world, but the end but the second and died.”

“Three years, thinking about your majesty’s greatness, since you have to rely on the internal treasury under the unending source, to ensure that the center of the court of the South Qing dynasty for the new and the land of the absolute national strength advantage, deterring the new land of the remnants of the people. The advantage of national strength for time, in the name of exchange for the integration of the trend, and thus push, over several generations, the previous dynasty is forgotten, the new people return to the heart, the beginning of a true unification.”

“However if the inner treasury is destroyed, who will guarantee my Daqing’s consistent advantage of national strength and military power? If you are alive, there is no essential change in all of this, and if you are dead and there is no inner treasury, who will maintain the pattern of this continent?”

“And people always die.” Fan Xian quietly looked into His Majesty’s eyes and said, “Even those like Your Majesty cannot escape old age, sickness, and death. Looking at the court’s planning over the past three years, His Majesty has also been thinking about the future.”

“You are a man who is extremely confident and qualified to be confident, and you simply don’t think that the Emperor of Northern Qi and the Uesugi Tiger will be able to resist your determination to sweep across the Six Heavens.” Fan Xian said calmly, “Today, even without the existence of the inner treasury, you will still be able to accomplish the grand ambitions that you have been working towards for decades.”

“What you want is not a world of incomparable splendor to bloom, and then Daqing to fall in defiance of the storm, because the history books are always written by the victor, after the unification of the world, if Daqing can’t be a thousand generations, the history of the world is great if you, but also can only leave a tyrannical and no far-sighted name.”

Fan Xian smiled slightly, “You want me Daqing …… to have a thousand generations, so you need the inner treasury in the palm of my hand.”

“And what can you promise me?” His Majesty the Emperor suddenly laughed, extremely pleased in his laughter. It was obvious that this unfathomable Emperor’s Majesty delighted in his favorite son, word for word close to his heart that was hard for anyone to get close to, and ironically close to his grandiose intentions.

“If I were to die, the copy of the process that blocked the record would be returned to the court, and the destructive work in northern Fujian would cease at once. As you know, I always have some more loyal subordinates.” Fan Xian responded sincerely, he did not say defeat, because today, a single person entered the palace and turned this imperial city into a battlefield, whoever loses is naturally dead, where is the second path?

As he spoke, Fan Xian turned around and stood side by side with His Majesty, looking at the snowy ground in front of him, which had become a piece of broken silver in the barren long grass, and his eyes fell to his left hand side, saying, “Under Your Majesty’s blows, the single lord in the grassland has no power to rise again, but under the westernmost mountain, there are still 7,000 barbarian riders who have migrated from the snowy plains, a group of raw strength that is very powerful! If Your Majesty agrees to my request, I can guarantee that this group of barbarian riders will never come near Xiliang.”

The emperor’s gaze along with his gaze fell to the left hand side of the piece of residual snow, frowned slightly frowned and said: “This time the Qingzhou great victory, speed Bida royal court all out, but only brought two or three thousand barbarian cavalry, according to the palace codex return, these barbarian cavalry fighting strength is indeed not bad, if not the heavenly fairness is not unfair, hard to give the northern snow plains three years of snow, they are also not far away from the grasslands of western Hu. So it seems that back then, Uesugi Tiger was able to resist the barbarians for a number of years at the Northern Gate Tian Guan, this person is really outstanding.”

“But ultimately, the number is too small to affect any pattern.” The emperor’s brows stretched and he shook his head indifferently, clearly refusing to accept this bargaining chip from Fan Xian.

“We’re talking about a thousand generations.” Obviously this day, Fan Xian’s tone was frivolous, and even the word we, which was so treacherous, came out of his mouth, as he said with a smile, “The youthful men are 7,000, but they are of extremely high quality, and there are quite a few women, and coupled with the fact that the Western Hu have suffered such a heavy blow, this group of northern barbarian riders will surely become an important force on the grasslands, and if they want to go to the tribes to capture the Hu women, who will be able to stop them? Your Majesty, you also know that the Hu people are all extremely fertile, after a decade or two at the most, this tribe will be very impressive.”

“If no one is able to suppress or control or guide it, will this one rising tribe not be a second royal court?” Fan Xian looked at the snowy ground to his left and shook his head, “The people of the Western Liang Road are extremely miserable, do they still have to survive for another few decades?”

The emperor smiled slightly and said, “I just don’t understand, your subordinates in Xiliang Road and the grassland have been killed by me almost, where do you still have any power to influence those barbarians?”

“The Songzhi Immortal Order.” Fan Xian said with a smile, “Although she is the queen daughter of the late clan, her status is honored but she doesn’t have too much of a practical role in ordering, but after all, her status is here, and she has a high status in the grasslands nowadays, and her ability is also very strong, and she has already been able to gather most of the power in the barbarians, so as long as she is controlled, that would be the same as controlling those barbarians as well.”

“Could it be that if you can control her, I cannot control her, and the court cannot control her?” The emperor said with slight sarcasm.

Fan Xian sighed and said, “The Songzhi Immortal Order is Haitang Duo Duo. This is my woman, so of course only I can control her.”

The Emperor was slightly stunned, and after a long moment of silence, he finally couldn’t help but laugh, shaking his head without saying anything else and directly dropping his gaze to the southeast corner of the snowy ground in front of the two of them. The emperor pointed to that place and said: “The inner treasury process you send back with both hands, there is no other? Jiangnan can’t be chaotic because I have already let him be chaotic first, the degree of loyalty of those subordinates of yours to you, it really makes me a little surprised, but Xia Qufei can’t pop up for two days, Su Wenmao even if he hides someone in the inner treasury, he himself can’t do it.”

“I have transferred Cheng Jialin back as well, and that clan brother of Ren Bo’an has also been transferred back from the army of the three major squares.” The emperor said calmly as he put his hands behind his back and watched the snowy ground that did not have any lines with Fan Xian.

Fan Xian’s gaze also fell on the southeast corner of the snow, smiled and said, “Jiangnan can still be chaotic, the inner treasury side has promised his majesty, I naturally won’t go to the trouble again, and Jiangnan to commercial prosperity, even the inner treasury within, altogether to support the imperial court about 40% of the tax, if Jiangnan is chaotic, the imperial court how to hold up?”

Today’s conversation from the beginning, Fan Xian’s tone of voice in the calm with a frivolous, naked and unrestrained, this frivolous, this unrestrained, can be said to be the words if the cold front, inch by inch with the emperor in the negotiations, which is related to his bottom, but also with his state of mind today.

As said earlier, he couldn’t find any method that could be perfectly controlled, so he had to choose the simplest one, which was lethal because of its directness.

He asked the emperor very directly, Jiangnan is in chaos, how will the court hold up? The emperor smiled and asked directly in return, “If I directly kill all your people, how does Jiangnan …… mess up?”

“I have Merchants Money Bank.” Fan Xian calmly responded: “Jiangnan to business industry, the most deadly is the circulation of the silver link, investment bank in Jiangnan has been a few years, secretly is also regarded as the hold of the Ming Sun bear three big some of the industry lifeline, money bank once out, Jiangnan really want to mess up, and is not a difficult thing.”

“Merchants of silver money has long been transferred a lot away.” The emperor looked at Fan Xian with slight sarcasm, not directly pointing out that the amazing amount of silver returned to the royal family of Northern Qi, said, “But it’s just some paper, I’m a wave of the royal pen, what are these?”

“Can’t say that, after all, nowadays Quanzhou hasn’t played the intended role, the handover of the oceanic port is still handled in Dongyi City.” Fan Xian did not budge and said directly, “The silver bills and debits are all paper, and with a stroke of His Majesty’s royal pen, all of them are null and void? Then without the Merchants Money Bank doing anything more, I’m afraid Jiangnan will be in chaos first.”

The emperor does not understand business, in fact, Fan Xian does not understand much, about Jiangnan’s commercial activities, exactly to what extent depends on the actually only embryonic, not developed financial credit, who also does not have an accurate grasp, but Fan Xian believes that everything in the world has its own laws, especially Jiangnan business more than a hundred years of commercial activities, if his majesty really do that, Jiangnan will certainly be the first chaos.

The fact that Emperor Qing and he didn’t know anything about commerce didn’t mean that the court officials and Fan Xian’s subordinates didn’t know anything about it, and they had all done their homework beforehand. Fan Xian only knows that a very important part of business is liquidity, as if the blood flowing in the veins, if the money changers are really subverted, the blood in the veins withered, business activities will become very difficult and dry.

“I will take back the Hua Yuan from Yang Jimei’s hands.” The emperor reminded indifferently, this emperor his majesty can actually really be considered as a bright ruler, he doesn’t understand the business operation in Jiangnan, it doesn’t mean that he will come blindly by virtue of the authority of the son of heaven, he will leave the professional things to the professional officials to operate, he knows that that Merchants Money Bank in Fan Xian’s hand has the ability to shake the business map in Jiangnan, so last year in the fall, when the first chaotic storm rose in Jiangnan, the imperial court was already prepared for it. The court was already prepared for it.

The most abundant silver in the whole world, the least need to rely on the money changers for transactions, is those large and small salt merchants in Jiangnan. Previously the emperor mentioned Yang Jimei is one of the largest salt merchants in Jiangnan, the court has long been on the alert for the money changers to draw silver, and will be included in the system of salt merchants, is to see those salt merchants hide is full of the world’s real silver, re-constructed a system of exchanges, although a little difficult, but at least do not have to be really stifled by the Fan Xian to death.

“Salt merchants alone are not enough.” Fan Xian slightly lowered his eyes and said, “I still have …… Taiping in my hands.”

Taiping Money Bank! The number one money bank in the world, it was unknown how many years it had been in operation and how many people’s lives it was able to influence. This money bank had always been in Dongyi City, his proprietor had always been mysterious, no one had ever seen his true face, until Fan Xian took over the position of the Sword Lodge Sect Master in Dongyi City, only then did he realize with horror that the original Taiping Money Bank had always been under the control of the Sword Lodge, under the control of the Four Guards Sword.

Every time he thought of this, Fan Xian could not help but be horrified and admire the Four Gu Swords’ foresight, and probably only the master of Dongyi City could have realized the importance of the money bank from the growing commerce and trade, and left behind such a powerful weapon that was enough to shake up the world.

Upon hearing the word Taiping, His Majesty’s eyes narrowed and a chill crept over them, and it was clear that just as when Fan Xian first learned of this secret, His Majesty also felt a chill.

“The Taiping Money Bank, it was left to me by the Four Gu Swords.” Fan Xian added softly.

The Emperor suddenly laughed, his laughter filled with absurdity, probably because he had suddenly discovered that all of his respectable enemies in this world had actually handed over all of their last means of defeating them into the hands of their favorite son. Discovering this absurd fact, even this seemingly cold and heartless monarch was slightly shaken.

“Your Majesty, let’s take another look at Dong Yi City.” Fan Xian’s gaze shifted upward from the lower right corner of the snowy ground to the midsection of this lonely snowy ground, where there was a pile of weeds that looked like the East Sea in the summer, filled with large waves that pierced the sky like mountains.

The emperor gradually convergence of the smile, expression became calm and gentle up, said: “Dongyi city do not need to talk about, just the sword hut in a dozen or so boys some trouble, but in the end is not the enemy of the army.”

“Ninth grade powerhouses, it’s not useful at all to engage in construction, but when it comes to wreaking havoc, they’re always a good hand, such as engaging in assassinations, and wreaking havoc in the inner belly of my Daqing.” Fan Xian’s gaze was ghostly at the right center of the snowy ground.

The sound of the Emperor and him asking and answering questions continued, and the snowflakes in the Winter Palace were still falling, some on the strange father and son duo, some on the snowy, barren grass in front of them.

There were no lines, no borders, no separation of snowy mountains and green grasslands, not even shapes on this vast expanse of snow. However, Emperor Qing and Fan Xian, father and son, were looking at this silent and cold snowy land and discussing the world.

Their eyes fell on the left hand side of the grassland, fell on the right hand side of the East Barbarians, fell on the lower right corner of Jiangnan, fell on the slightly farther front is the north of the Daqi territory.

Where they see, where is the world.

The snowflakes gradually became bigger and bigger, fluttering in the dilapidated palace, gradually accumulating deeper and deeper. Fan Xian wore the green-colored clothes and the bright yellow dragon robe on his majesty began to whiten, and the remnants of the snowy ground in front of the two men’s feet were thickly covered with a layer of snow, so that they could no longer see any grass stains of the land, just like this world, the whiteness of which was really clean, and where, in their eyes, was there any possibility of man-made divisions?

“I have the strength to make this world in chaos, even if I die at this time, I can make your majesty’s grand plan for a thousand generations become this snow, to be turned into water as much as possible when the sun comes out, and never come true again.” Fan Xian stuck out his tongue and licked his parched lips, his mouth was a bit dry from talking so much today, and he said seriously to His Majesty the Emperor, “That’s why I demand a fair fight with Your Majesty.”

“What is fair?” His Majesty the Emperor narrowed his eyes and said.

“I ask Your Majesty to let Ruo Ruo out of the palace, I only have this sister left, I ask Your Majesty to allow Wan Er and my poor family to return to Tanyu to live a small life, I only have this family left, I ask Your Majesty to be lenient and not to engage in a great purge after my death, those officials and ministers who are loyal to me are in fact usable talents.” Fan Xian said with a bitter smile after a pause, “If I die, they will no longer have any reason to rebel against the imperial court, I ask your majesty to believe this.”

The world had been condensed into a small square of snow in front of the two of them, and the battlefield of Beacon had been turned into this quiet imperial city. Fan Xian had done and said so much, but it seemed that he only wanted to keep this father-son break as small as possible, and give those who were implicated in this matter a way to live.

The emperor put his hands behind his back, the snow on his shoulders rustling down, he was silent for a long time, slightly tired, said: “I just don’t understand, why do you want to do this.”