"Do you believe in slaves now..."

A plum blossom fell on the white quilt, and Li Pingcu leaned slightly on Ang Lee's chest and asked softly in Ang Lee's ear.

"I believe...but I feel even more worried after I believe. Can you tell me how huge the Huangpu organization is?"

Ang Lee hugged Li Pingcu tightly and asked about his concerns.

"Huangpu is very big. They have their own halls in the thirteen wealthiest states in the Tang Dynasty, and each hall has its own profitable transactions in the prefectures and counties of the Tang Dynasty. Relying on these transactions, Huangpu has established good relations with officials in the prefectures and counties.

In addition, Huangpu also sponsors poor scholars to gain future returns.”

"It's very far-reaching... Are these all my father thought of?" Ang Lee looked at Li Pingcu.

"Yes...!" Li Pingcu nodded.

"What is the biggest industry in Luoyang... Huangpu?"

"Barrels and flower buildings...! Because in Luoyang, restaurants and flower buildings not only make money, but also get a lot of information."

"Which two seats?" Ang Lee asked.

"The Swallow Building, one of the four major restaurants in Luoyang, is the Chunhua Building... Among them, Swallow Building is the largest intelligence concentration place. Our Huangpu has many old relationships in Swallow Building, and these old relationships will send us information regularly.

Of course, because I am not the person in charge of Yanzilou, even I don’t know how these messages are delivered...!"

"You Huangpu is really amazing... Apart from restaurants and flower buildings, what is your biggest way to make money?"

"Silk..." Li Pingcu looked at Li Anduan and said: "The most profitable thing in Huangpu is silk. Huangpu can make tens of millions of dollars in silk every year, or even more...!"

"Hiss..." Ang Lee took a breath. He really didn't expect that this silk could make so much money.

The silk industry in the Tang Dynasty was very powerful. During this period, the division of labor in various silk production departments became more refined, the fancy varieties were more abundant, the colorful silk production areas were more protected, and the fiber technology was greatly improved. The silk weaving industry in the Tang Dynasty was also divided into two parts, just like in previous dynasties, mainly divided into private and official.

The forest weaving production run by the Tang Dynasty government was managed by the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau.

The Weaving and Dyeing Department has established twenty-five "works" under the Weaving and Dyeing Department, each with its own special division of labor.

These twenty-five "made" are ten works of weaving (weaving silk is called lying): cloth, silk, and plaster [a relatively rough and thick silk], yarn, silk, brocade, silk, silk, brown (coarse cloth).

Group of ribbons [poly (same strip, also a ribbon), rope, tassel (decoration on hat).

Glaze, thicker silk] four works of thread: glaze, thread, and stylus [used as strings], nets and six works of dyeing: green, crimson (red), yellow, white, soap, and firewood.

From these many "works", you can imagine the huge organization and the precise division of labor. The above are directly affiliated to the central government, and there are brocade weaving workshops belonging to local leaders in various places, etc.

There are many names and novel tribute silk... In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the country was divided into ten roads (which are an administrative region, equivalent to the current province). Each road had to pay a certain amount of tribute to the court every year, and silk fabrics were a very important one in tribute.

At that time, the silk fabrics submitted to the court as tribute tribute were numerous and novel in terms of fancy. For example, the square patterned silk of Henan Road, Xian and Huazhou, the chicken and poison silk of Yuzhou, the double silk silk of Yanzhou, the crystal flower silk of Yanzhou, and the fairy silk of Qingzhou; the peacock Luo, Chun Luo, and the two-knot glazed silk of Dingzhou (the two nests are the silk woven with two large balls of flowers on the format); Shannan Road [Note 4] Jiaosuo Guzi in Jingzhou, the heavy lotus silk of Langzhou; Jiangnan Road, Shuibo silk, and Wu silk of Yuezhou; Jiannan Road, Basin, Shuzhou single cake Luo.

More importantly, these silks are exported abroad. Do you know the Silk Road? It is a path that is taken by exporting silk, and making money is conceivable.

"Huangpu is not only a private business... In fact, many of the official business have been captured by Huangpu's private business... Because of this, Huangpu has made a lot of money over the years, but these property should have belonged to the king. Who knows that Zhou Zhengtao is ambition."

After saying that, a hint of hatred appeared on the corner of Li Pingcun's mouth.

Ang Lee patted Li Pingcu's slim waist indifferently and said, "It's okay... I didn't know the opponent before, so we were worried about him, but when we knew the opponent's structure, all we had to do was to dismantle him step by step, so... Let's start with the recent one. Isn't Yanzilou the largest intelligence collection station in Huangpu in Luoyang... Haha... Then we will kill it directly."

"Crack down the Yanzi Tower?" Li Pingcu looked at Ang Lee in surprise.

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In the Crane Control Bureau, a banquet is being held. Zhang Yizhi, Zhang Changzong's brothers and the male pets in the Crane Control Bureau are serving Wu Zetian, using dice to gambling to get fun, sometimes mocking and slandering the Duke, Hou and Qing, and openly doing crazy things, without any shame or fear.

Because at that time, a villain said that Zhang Changzong was the prince of King Ling of Zhou, the immortal prince Jin, and became a concubine. Wu Zetian smiled and asked him to put on a feathered clothes, blow the flute, ride on a fake crane, and fly back and forth in the courtyard, as if an immortal riding a crane ascended to heaven. The attendant literati rushed to recite poems to please Wu Zetian with this title.

The scene is luxurious.

However, in this luxury, there was something else. After being tired of playing, Zhang Yizhi leaned on Wu Zetian's arms and said, "Your Majesty... tell you something troublesome."

Wu Zetian fed a grape and entered Zhang Yizhi's little mouth and asked with a smile: "What's wrong with my baby Yizhi?"

After eating the grapes, Zhang Yi sighed: "It's not my mother yet... Because my elder brother asked her to separate from the prime minister, my mother had already made trouble with me for three times and was not happy about anything. There were also those slaves, big houses, money... and they were still thinking about getting it back.

But how dare I? That was what my elder brother said, so during this period, she can only make trouble."

"Oh..." Wu Zetian looked at Zhang Yizhi with a smile and said, "Or, I'd better give an order to let your mother live a better life...!"

Who knew that before Zhang Yizhi finished speaking, Zhang Changzong, who was pretending to be an immortal, had already flew over and shouted: "No, no... We must do what the elder brother said, but it would be bad if he made him angry."

"Why do you trust your elder brother so much..." Wu Zetian was a little surprised.

At this time, Zhang Yizhi said: "Because my elder brother is our only relative, our mother treats us very badly. She not only beats and scolds us, but also sells us.

In fact, we have more or less complaints about our mother.

But what if you complain? She is our mother. This is an eternal thing, so we must take care of our mother. Just the elder brother, we still have to listen to it.

So we will definitely give our mother a stable but not extravagant life. After her mother dies, we must also set up a card for her to enjoy the incense."

After saying this, Wu Zetian was slightly stunned: "Your mother sold you and beat you up and scolded you. You will still set up cards for your mother and let her enjoy the incense... Can you tell me why this is?"

"Your Majesty, there is no reason for this, because she is our mother. No matter what my mother does to me, we will choose to forgive, because our life is given by our mother."

After Zhang Yizhi finished speaking, Wu Zetian fell into deep thought.

Wu Zetian began to miss his son Li Xian. In December of the first year of Hongdao (683 AD), Emperor Gaozong of Tang passed away in Luoyang and ordered the prince Li Xian to ascend the throne in front of the coffin.

However, Li Xian was trained by Wu Zetian as the crown prince and was very timid and cautious.

Now, although he has not yet reached the end of his father's return to heaven and ascended the throne, Li Xian still only followed his mother and did not dare to step beyond the line.

One day, Zhongzong was about to promote his father-in-law Wei Xuanzhen to be the one who served as the prime minister. After the edict was issued, another prime minister Pei Yan firmly disagreed and argued for a while.

After Wu Zetian learned about this, she immediately summoned all ministers to Qianyuan Palace to discuss matters in the name of Queen Tian, ​​and ordered General Cheng Wuting and others to lead troops into the palace.

Wu Zetian announced his decree to depose Li Xian in public.

In this way, Wu Zetian said that the Emperor of Tang Dynasty, Li Xian, was demoted to the King of Luling and sent to Fangzhou for surveillance. At this time, Li Xian had been emperor for less than two months, and the ministers had not yet recognized it. It was because of a selfish personnel case that the emperor said it would be abolished.

After leaving Chang'an, Li Xian should have been relaxed, but unexpectedly, he was trapped by his wife Wei again. Just five days after Li Xian was sent to Fangzhou, he was transferred to Junzhou. In March of the following year, he was moved back to Fangzhou, and then he worked hard in Fangzhou for fifteen years.

During this period, the court had earth-shaking changes: Li Xian was deposed and his younger brother Li Dan succeeded to the throne for a few days, and then he abdicated and abdicated. His mother, Wu Zetian, walked up to the front from behind, ascended the throne of the emperor, and became an unprecedented queen.

However, it was strongly opposed by many ministers and local officials in the court. Xu Jingye, who was in charge of Yangzhou, and the members of the Tang Dynasty royal family took the banner of "restoring Zhongzong" and launched a series of troops. After Li Xian learned about it, he not only did not ignite the light of hope for restoration, but was frightened to his limbs. He was always worried that his ruthless mother would use it to kill him.

That's it. For many years, Li Xian has been in a panic all day long, unable to sleep or eat, and has nightmares and has the desire to die. But in the end, he has not died because he has a strong wife to support him.

Li Xian's wife Wei Shi, because Li Xian was in trouble, could not be the queen, so she had to follow Li Xian to fall into Fangzhou. However, Wei Shi is a woman who is both scheming and willful. She often encourages her husband to live a strong and brave life.

With the patient encouragement of Wei, Li Xian survived one stormy years after another. While being grateful to his wife, Li Xian knew in his heart that he had a new "mother queen" at this time.

Wu Zetian thought for a long time, thought of Li Xian, Li Dan, Wu Sansi, and his daughter Princess Taiping... Of course, he also thought of Ang Lee. After these people thought about it for a while, Wu Zetian finally thought of Li Xian.

She felt that she still owed her son Li Xian. As she got old, Wu Zetian began to remember the past. She felt that she was as hateful as the mother of the Zhang brothers. She had never been a qualified mother. She killed two sons with her own hands and placed two sons under house arrest. Compared with the throne, the mother-son family affection was not worth mentioning. Compared with the Li royal family, she was more willing to the Wu family to inherit her throne.

But now after hearing the Zhang brothers' remarks, Wu Zetian suddenly realized a little, so she wanted to change, so soon... Wu Zetian issued an edict to Li Xian, the King of Luling, immediately set off for Luoyang to recuperate.

But Wu Zetian did not expect that the pie that suddenly fell from the sky scared Li Xian. He thought that his mother was finally going to do something, but she collapsed on the ground and turned into a pile of mud. At the critical moment, Wei stood up, helped Li Xian up, received the order to thank him, and set off immediately.

But there was another bigger thing that Wu Zetian didn't expect, that was that her son would never come to Luoyang.

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Puta Tower... A carrier pigeon flew out of a manor in Luoyang. The final destination of this carrier pigeon was Yangzhou. A few days later, a manor in Yangzhou received the carrier pigeon.

The letter tied to the pigeon's legs was also delivered to Zhou Zhengtao.

When Zhou Zhengtao saw the letter opened, he saw that it said eight words: Kill Li Xian and blame Ang Lee...!

The content of the letter made Zhou Zhengtao smile slightly.

Fangzhou is Fang County, Shiyan City, Hubei Province today. It was called "Fangling" in ancient times. It was named after "a thousand miles away, with mountains and forests blocked by four sides. It is as if there is a high tomb." It is precisely because the transportation here is inconvenient, it is difficult to get out after entering. Moreover, in ancient times, the emperor was more at ease to lock them up here. Throughout the dynasties, there were many emperors, princes, and ministers who were demoted here.

Li Xian stayed in Fangzhou for fourteen years and was the only one who left Fangzhou. He had been out of Fangzhou for at least one month after leaving Fangzhou.

Zhou Zhengtao burned the letter directly and asked an old man around him: "Can our explosives be developed within a month..."

The old man showed a helpless expression: "It should be almost the same for a year, and a month, and the time is too tight."

At this time, Zhou Zhengtao shook slightly and said, "The movement is so slow... We have no time anymore, so why not take out the things left by my father...!"

"But you and Miss Li each have the keys, otherwise you won't be able to open them..."

"Hard drive... Anyway, I'm no secret. Huangpu is mine, no one can take it away. This time I opened my father's safe and just check out what's inside. And just see how many oppose me, and make these people clear at once, but...!"

"This...!" The old man showed a frowning expression slightly, but looking at Zhou Zhengtao who was very determined at this time, the old man had to agree.

Seeing the old man agreeing, Zhou Zhengtao smiled happily. He no longer wanted to hide anything. He wanted to inherit everything in Huangpu. He didn't want his own things to be inherited by a so-called young master.

He put so much effort into Huangpu, so Huangpu is his own, and this young master must die.
Chapter completed!