Brothers (fourth)

According to legend, those who put down the butcher's knife can become Buddhas on the spot. Therefore, the more severe the killing, the more Buddhist temples, the higher the status of monks. The murderer always hopes that before the retribution comes, he will wipe the blood on his mouth and then dress himself up as an enlightened or deceived person in order to find the next opportunity to draw the knife.

"Zen Master, please give me some advice to my disciples." Ashikaga Yoshiman bowed his head in front of the Buddha. The wonderful feeling brought by the soft and warm skin of the beautiful boy in the Akamatsu family in the Hanami Temple is still stuck in his hands. He doesn't want to see the beautiful boy's tears after going back tonight. Moreover, the Ishiyama Castle of the Akamatsu family is located at the throat of the Kitani and Sanyangdao areas. It is a critical port in the south and a downward point of Kyoto in the north. Once this city is lost, the entrance of Kyoto is opened and he can only abandon it.

The Zen master who burned incense next to him raised his drooping eyebrows and asked lightly, "Why is the general who relied on the Ouchi Navy? Didn't the Akamatsu family boasted that Ishiyama Castle Mountain is dangerous and can be protected for ten years?" The monks loved the disciples of the general in front of him more than complaints. Yoshiman inherited his father's business as a general at the age of ten, and at the age of twenty-two, he used the power of Sibo, Toki, Yama name, and Sasaki generals to dismiss the powerful Hosokawa and rely on him to rule. In addition to having the bad habits inherited by the Ashikaga family, he was almost an extraordinary talent. After taking power, he banned extravagance, frugality, suppressed atrocities, stopped bribery, and selected wise men. If there was no such incident today, Japan would have been unified in his hands within ten years. The monk watched him grow up step by step and secretly gave advice for him. The two were named masters and apprentices, but they were actually counselors and lords.

Yiman was choked and almost blew his anger. He cursed in his heart, "You have never taken a lot of dirty things when you are dirt, but you say sarcastic words when something happens." However, he dared not show any anger on his face, and he still said piously: "I know my mistake, please don't remember my disciple's faults, but I will be very compassionate to the people of the world."

The old Zen master sighed and complained in a dissatisfied tone: "I told you that the Central Plains has changed its master, which is very different from before. You are asking you not to anger him before your own wings are full, but you just don't listen."

"Disciple knows its mistake"! Yiman respectfully bowed to the Zen master, "After the Ming Navy began patrol in the 12th year of Hongwu, my disciples were strictly ordered not to rob the West again. Later, those bad things were done by the southerners and had nothing to do with the disciples."

"It's still the West, General Yiman, do you still think that our place is a kingdom of gods and the Ming Dynasty is a Western barbarian? It was this kind of delusion that harmed you. At that time, I advised you to compile a book to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and recognize it as the orthodox Chinese. Why don't you remember it?" The monks from the Wushan clan had a close relationship with the Central Plains temple and knew the changes there. The Ming Dynasty sent envoys to Japan, and the Southern Dynasties, who thought they were orthodox Japanese, withdrew from the envoys and cut off their supply. The envoy Zhao Zhi stayed in the temple and had a good relationship with the monk Chunwu Miaoba. Miaoba once sent his disciples to send letters in private.

When he arrived in the Northern Dynasty, he advised his junior brother Ashigaki Yoshima to seize the opportunity. Yoshima thought that the Mongols had higher combat power than the Han people, so he came to attack Shang Shayu and returned. Since the Japanese samurai could defeat the Mongols, their combat power was naturally higher than that of the Han people. What he owed was that the Kingdom of God could not be unified. If the Kingdom of God could be unified in his own hands, the Japanese warships must cross the sea to fight west and rule the rich land under their own name. If they did not wait for the war to start, their morale would inevitably be affected at that time, so they did not follow his master's advice.

"Master, Japan is separated from the Western Sea and is not in charge of each other. Moreover, they believe that the Southern Dynasties is orthodox. If I rashly take advantage of my subordinates and call me the Emperor of Houguishan as the name of the Ming Dynasty, the foundation of the bloody battles of several generations will be destroyed by my hands. At that time, the sins of disciples will not be redeemed even if they die." Yoshiman whispered to defend himself in a low voice, hoping to get his master's forgiveness.

The monk sighed again, "You have made some sense. Since you are unwilling to regard the Central Plains as orthodox, what else can I do?"

"I want to ask my master to persuade the Ming Dynasty to stop the army, and ask the Ming commander to loot the coastal areas and humiliate the envoys. As long as the Ming Dynasty does not force the Northern Dynasties to regard the Southern Dynasties as orthodox, the disciples are willing to be subordinates of the Ming Dynasty."

"You are personally a subordinate of the Ming Dynasty, and the Emperor is still the Emperor. Do you think the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is so easy to deceive?" The monk questioned in dissatisfaction. But he also knew that this was the biggest concession that the Ashikaga family could make. The idea of ​​the Kingdom of God has been here for a long time. If you really want to completely submit to the Ming Dynasty, you will not be willing to worship the Central Plains culture, let alone the powerful General Ashikaga.

He reached out and helped the proud disciple up and looked up and down. The monk told him as if he had farewell: "You are already a general, and you have your own opinions in everything. I sent my disciples to benefit you from Ashikaga for generations, and I can't make you embarrassed. The Central Plains are too big, far beyond your imagination. If you refuse to surrender to him, aren't half of the shame there, and you will surrender to you in the future? I advise you to put aside your desire to be quick and instant profit and manage it slowly. It's not a few generations.

Kung Fu, we cannot climb that land, and even if we go up, we have to be driven back. The Emperor of Ming Dynasty once entered the temple to be a monk, so the people of his country respected the monks very much. However, the navy commander Cao Zhen was a famous murderous demon. When he was a teenager, he once killed thieves on the northwest road like mowing grass. The capital of Gao was destroyed by him, and the Li family North Korea was thus obtained. After his master, he could not say whether he could come back alive. What will happen in the future? Please do it yourself."

General Ashikaga looked sad and bowed deeply: "Disciples respect their teachings, Master is relieved. If you have the Ashikaga family for one day, the Five Mountains Sect will be the orthodox Zen Buddhism and will be worshipped forever."

The monk laughed, "I just appreciate your cleverness and dared to do the Buddha's business." He sorted out his clothes and went down the mountain. Ashikaga Yoshima watched the old monk out of the mountain gate with devout devotion, turned around and ordered his subordinates: "Please ask Sibo, Toki, Yamaname, Sasaki family quickly send troops to the king, send messengers to the south, let Imakawa gather troops from all over the country and prepare for emergency response. Once the situation changes, immediately take the main guild of Guchima Mountain in the Southern Dynasties as the main one."

The Emperor is just like the three magical artifacts of Mirror, Sword and Jade. It is just a sign, and the family interests are eternal. In Ashigaki Yoshima's heart, Lee Seung-kyu is the best role model. The Ming Navy attacked Goryeo, which instead cleared the obstacles to seizing power for the Li family. Now the Li family, whose country name has been changed to North Korea, is not still following the Ming Dynasty to show off their power. If Kyoto fell, Ashigaki Yoshima would never learn from the fool of Kumaki Masae to commit suicide by separatism. He had already prepared a way out for himself. Let Emperor Komatsu stay for the national disaster.

, if necessary, you can even send someone to kill Emperor Komatsu, to blame the Ming and the Korean army, and to use the people's loyalty to the emperor to launch a warrior rebellion from all over the country. The Ashikaga family can retreat to Kyushu calmly, and rely on the strength of Imakawa Sadae who has been operating there for many years to join Emperor Gokagayama, who has no trump cards. After the Ming army withdrew from Japan, the Ashikaga family was still the first family in Japan, and the shogunate was still in the hands of him, Ashikaga Yoshiman, but the puppet above changed its name.

There are no eternal enemies and no eternal friends, only interests can be called eternal.

Ten days later, Gao Deyong pulled the jade abacus in Peking and knocked down the Wang family, the toughest rival in the stock market. As expected, the Di and Bai families not only did not share the worries with the Wang family, but instead took advantage of the war at sea. The Wang family's funds were cut off from the crisis, and they stabbed Wang Qidi from the back and shared the Wang family's operations for many years with the strong men in Peking.

It was time. Wu Anguo grabbed a black piece from the chessboard, and seemed to be carelessly placed on the chessboard, "School"! Taking advantage of the gap between the Zhan brothers being stunned by the calculation of the steps, he turned around and ordered Zhang Zhengwen who was watching the game, "Use your name to make an appointment with Boss Di and Boss Bai, and said thank you for the happy cooperation. The Zhang family in Peking will set up a table in Mingdi Building tomorrow, and they are sure to enjoy the food."

Zhang Zhengwen was stunned for a moment. Knowing that his master was about to show off with the other party, he agreed happily, stood up and prepared to go downstairs. When he walked to the door, he was called back by Wu Anguo: "By the way, call the shopkeeper Li Laoshi of the dye shop and ask him to accompany him. This time he paid tens of thousands of taels, so it's time for everyone to show off."

"Brother Wu, we admit defeat." The Zhan brothers heard Wu Anguo's arrangements and had no intention of working on the chessboard anymore and abandoned their son in the middle. "Didn't we plan to deal with the Wang family before discussing the next move? Why did you suddenly act alone?"

Wu Anguo smiled. The two brothers attach great importance to their own rights and are not afraid of their own power at all. If they could do this to other officials, Guo Pu was right. Peking is indeed growing slowly in its own way. People who are not in it cannot feel the internal changes. "I thought of Fatty Gao when he settled the accounts. It is not within the scope of our plan, but is a personal tentative behavior. If we need to use the power of the business, we will definitely discuss it with everyone."

"See what I thought of when I settle the score," Gao Fatty was confused.

"Yes, it depends on what you thought of in the past few days of settlement," Wu Anguo explained to Fatty Gao politely: "We have fought with the Wang family for several months. The Di family and the Bai family and some southern small businesses have been standing behind the Wang family. Even though they know that the Wang family's money is not right, they still have to go all the way to the black. In fact, they think it is profitable to follow the Wang family. When the news of the first victory of the Ming fleet came, the status of the Wang family immediately plummeted. The Bai and Di families were even more ruthless than us. The small businesses behind the Wang family took the opportunity to backfire and had no sympathy. All the actions are just a word of profit. Since that's the case, I'll talk to them to let them know where the interests are. Maybe everyone can sit down and make friends."

"Make friends, you mean, you mean," Zhan Zhen hesitated for a moment, but finally couldn't help but ask the words in his stomach, "Mr. Marquis means we are compromising with them"?

Wu Anguo nodded, "Yes, compromise, to put it nicely, you are called peace, everyone sit down and re-formulate individual stock market rules and play again"!

"Then our losses are not in vain. The Marquis told Lord Guo some time ago that he wanted to settle the matter with them to the end."

"It turns out that I was staring at the Wang family and Xie family. They did not fall, and I was unwilling to accept it. I didn't expect that the navy was progressing so smoothly. The Wang family and Xie family were slaves of foreign invaders. We and them had no common interests at all. Although the backstage behind the Di family and Bai family hated the new policy to the core, they were still from the Central Plains. I want to see if everyone could sit down and talk. And this kind of negotiation is not without any benefit to us. If you don't believe it, please let the fat man analyze it. It's better to see if we fight to the death or make money with kindness." Wu Anguo explained patiently, from the bottom of his heart, he wouldn't want to forget it so quickly, but he knew from Guo Pu's advice that he didn't have much time. The smoother the progress of the surrounding war, the closer he would leave Peiping.

"Of course, it's good to make money." Fatty Gao reacted very quickly. He was an outsider and had not had much conflict of interest with the southern families. In his mind, peace talks were the best ending. "Our business has to be sold to the south, which will defeat them in one go. The revenge will become bigger. In the end, the richer the north and the poorer the south, the bigger the gap between the two sides, the less we can say together. Why not sit down and discuss it now, and they are all profitable. The Di and Bai families are led by others and opened

The head is here to make trouble. Now they are calculating the Wang family for money, which means that they now value interests more, rather than the conflict between the old and new Confucianism between you, Peking and those in the south. As long as those who want to make money, none of them hope that the stock market will become more and more deserted. I think the Wang family will lose, and what they lack now is a step. As long as they are willing to make money with us, you will have the opportunity to let them accept the new policy of Peking. The white money is more convincing than those small words."

Gao Deyong is a pure businessman, and interests are always first in his heart. Although the Zhan brothers are the most flexible among the people in Peking, they can't keep up with his ideas. After thinking for a long time, they asked quietly: "You mean that they can make money with us and gain equal benefits."

"That's the reason, which allows them to make money with us and have common interests, especially those small businesses, who will support us instead, and no one will be unable to get along with the money. When more people support us become more courageous, we will not have to work hard to break through the government problems. If they invest the money they earn to open factories and businesses instead of buying land, they will become the same people as us and will naturally stand on our side." Wu Anguo explained carefully to the Zhan brothers.

"We treat the same as them"? The name of the Urban Wolf is not for nothing. The Zhan brothers understood the benefits of cooperation. Although they were unwilling to give up, they decided to agree with Wu Anguo's opinion, but in the end they did not forget to ask for some benefits for themselves.

Wu Anguo laughed again. The two brothers' nature has been clearly understood since the first time they cooperated with the ambush of the Mongolians. People with this personality have more businessman qualities. No wonder they have developed so quickly in Peking. "You are different from them, the fifth brother, the Yang family, the Xu family, and the Chen family. You are all pioneers, and you will inevitably pay more when exploring the way. But you are also the makers of new rules. In order for you to not be overturned by others, you must attract more people to participate. I would suggest giving you the new rules of the stock market to you three. In the words of Fatty, if a gentleman cannot formulate these rules, it can block all loopholes under the premise of ensuring their own interests and make everyone accept them. It depends on your ability."

The three unscrupulous merchants smiled and looked at each other with a smile like robbers. The conditions given by Wu'anguo are tempting enough. No matter who formulates the new stock market rules, they will definitely be biased towards their own interests. After several forces bargaining and discounting, the benefits left behind can still be imagined. If the rules are well formulated and can be passed on forever, then the three of them will be the founders of the Ming stock market, and will be worshipped by later merchants like carpenters worshiping Lu Ban.

"Wuhou said the truth, you really want us to formulate this rule." Fatty Gao knocked on the corner of the brick and nailed the rule. For him, participating in formulating the rules means completely merging into Peking and being completely accepted as his own. As an outsider, what he needs most is non-discriminatory acceptance.

"I let go. You are more familiar with the current situation than I am. I will suggest that you three will take charge of the establishment of the new rules, but you must listen to opinions from all parties and weigh the interests of all shareholders. Just like the Liaomeng Business Rules, two-thirds of the people will count. Also, try to be fair and just. You must know that no loophole is left, not only one more way to seek benefits by yourself, but also leave the same opportunity for those who deal with you. We are dealing with the Wang family together. They also rely on these loopholes to plot against Peking. Today you are fishing, and tomorrow you will inevitably be caught by others. The way to not fall into the trap is not to set traps."

"I know, you can rest assured, one hundred of you," the Zhan brothers answered happily, and said to themselves: "Ninety-nine, don't worry, we are openly not calculating others, but we can't make any secret calculations. At least before the new rules are formulated, we can make all preparations according to the rules. At that time, hum..."

A rare non-professional smile appeared on Fatty Gao's fat face. His right hand habitually made the abacus louder. While he was planning to make a plan, he said: "Then we will invite Bai tomorrow. Di's family will have dinner. It depends on the expression of Wu Hou's face. If you ask us to dress up as Qingyi, we will dress up as Qingyi, let us dress up as clown, let us dress up as clown."

The people in the room were amused by Fatty Gao's habitual movements. After joking for a while, the second son Zhan Yi was more cautious and asked with a restrained smile: "If Bai and the Di family don't open a face, what should we do? Also, Marquis, what is that Li Zhenshi doing? Why is he so rich in a dyeing workshop that he actually took out more than 100,000 taels to support us at once?"

Wu Anguo calmed down the smile on his face. Regarding Li Hushi, he would rather this person not exist. However, people in this era must face the unique things of this era. Instead of hiding it from everyone, it is better to make everyone more prepared. "Boss Li of the dyeing workshop has been operating in Peking for many years. He came when we started working. At first I didn't pay attention to this person. After all, we have more small businesses like him. But this year he took the initiative to find me and took more than 100,000 taels to support us. The money is all good, which is even more good than the silver ingots of the Xu family business."

The word "management" is very serious, as if he was telling a tragic story. Wu'an Guo's dialect is full of depression. "The silver is marked with a number, all the official silver, and it was brought to us by the emperor."

"Ah"! All three businessmen were stunned on the spot, "Embroidered Uniform Guard"! Three big bloody words swayed in front of their eyes, and the air was so cold that the tea on the table solidified into ice.

Wu Anguo smiled helplessly and patted the three of them on the shoulders one by one, and his heavy hands almost knocked them down. "There is nothing to worry about. We happened to use this Li Hushi to demonstrate to the Di family and Bai family to see if they listen to the ministers in the court or the emperor."

"Does the emperor support us?" The voice is as thin as a mosquito.

"Don't worry, the opponent doesn't know our background anyway, and Li Laoshi's identity is the Jinyiwei Qianhu"!

Note: 1. Regarding the beautiful boys of the Akamatsu family, the characteristics of the Japanese shogunate period, in order to protect their own interests, daimyos from all over the country chose American and American teenagers from the family as generals, on the one hand, as hostages and on the other hand, as a means to consolidate their status. Among them, the more famous one is the male favorite of the Fourth Ashikamatsu family, who once ordered them to inherit the family business. This kind of asshole diplomacy is also a major feature of Japanese politics.
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