Two days passed in a flash. More than 200 miles south of Xiuyan Mansion, in a huge city built along the river, accompanied by the morning light, the number of people on Fucheng Street gradually increased.

This is the hometown of Shangyefu, Yang Dingyuan.

The format of Shangyefu is no different from other prefectures in Lu State. It is also a layer of gentry and wealthy families who control everything. In Shangyefu, the strongest one is the Liang family. Liang Zhenzhong, the head of the family, used breakfast and rinsed his mouth with tea. He then went into the study and grabbed a book, which made him look at it with a pleasant taste.

After watching for a moment, he was interrupted by the butler who entered the house, "Master, Fang and Niu are visiting."

Liang Zhenzhong was in a bad mood. "The two immortals got together yesterday afternoon to discuss for so long. They came to disturb the people's purity early in the morning. It was just for the people's chaos in the prefecture area."

Shangye Mansion is located in the south of Xiuyan Mansion, and its status is closer to Yunzhou, and it is also very fast to Yunzhou. But to be honest, the top powerful family here still does not know about Li Yuanshu in Xuecheng, Yunzhou.

To be precise, they had heard the rumors long ago and had not sent people to confirm in detail. This was not surprising. It was less than a week since Tang Huailan and other elite children from top wealthy families in a state went to Dayue City to confirm the authenticity of Li Yuanshu's affairs.

At present, Xiuyan Prefecture is the largest and most worthy of attention to the gentry and powerful people. It is the rebellion between the two thieves of Han and Zhang! Just like Zhang Shun, who was entrenched in Pinghui County, went down the river and could insert the military peak outside the Shangyefu City in less than a day.

The civil unrest is so close that even though they have heard of Li Yuanshu, they still speculate based on old-fashioned ideas, thinking that it was Li Yuanshu who created auspicious events for him and fooled the common people.

Even though theoretically, Zhang Shun's bandit army could not give up the threat of Xiuyan Prefecture City and suddenly sent troops to Shangye Prefecture, no matter how low the probability of this theory is, it is impossible to deny that Zhang Shunjun's ability to go down to Xiuyan Prefecture one day!

Having this ability is enough to make the entire Xiang River and Zhucheng, the county government located along the river, feel uneasy.

How did Zhang Shun conquer Pinghui? How did Han Jianzhou conquer Anguang County? It was all sneak attacks, and during the battle, the private soldiers of gentry and private soldiers composed of countless lower-level civilians directly rebel and surrender to the thief.

During these days, Liang Zhenzhong, Fang Daochuan, and Niu Xinghai, the three largest gentry leaders of Shangyefu, have basically never slept too hard. They have proposed countermeasures of iron locking the river more than once.

The problem is that it is not okay to seal the river with iron ropes? Zhang Shun's troops were not navy at all. As long as they drove the ships near Shangye Mansion and disembarked, they could attack the city from land. If the iron ropes were sealed, the cheapest thing was that Shangye Mansion went south and downstream to the county government, which could give those prefectures enough comfort.

The iron cable seals the river, but in fact, many prefectures and cities in the upper reaches can ensure the safety of Shangyefu. For example, in the south of Pinghui County, the closest is Luo County, then Xiangfu City, Zhongdu County, Linguang County, Pingzhe County, and then Shangyefu City. Theoretically, as long as Luo County blocks the river channel, everyone can sleep peacefully from Xiangfu City.

If you can't stand it, the upstream prefectures will not be sealed!

How would the local tyrants in Luo County be so kind? I used iron chains to block the river, you are all safe, what about me? I will become the only two target of Zhang Shun's thief army.

If the river is blocked and Zhang Shunruo attacks along the river, he can only choose the two cities of Xiuyan Prefecture and Luo County. I won’t block the river. Good guy, there are many targets along the Xiang River. Zhang Shun chooses casually. My safety guarantee will naturally be greatly improved.

This mentality has enabled the lower reaches of Xianghe to maintain the same attitude. No one has closed the river channels, but there are troops stationed in each city and city, guarding them day and night.

The Shangyefu contributed the most, namely the Liang, Fang and Niu families.

Mr. Liang Zhenzhong, who has always loved purity and advocated decentralization of power and governance against his family, has been gathering together in the past few months. He racked his brains to prevent thieves and had various parties to quarrel, which made him exhausted.

So when he heard two old friends coming together, he was so angry that his head hurt.

No matter how much he complained, Liang Zhenzhong quickly asked the butler to welcome the two people into the mansion in the next moment.

A moment later, the maid had just put a few cups of tea here. Fang Daochuan, Niu Xinghai entered the study. Fang Daochuan was forty-five years old, and he was a year old. He had a fair and handsome face, but he was impatient. He stepped into the door and said, "Brother Liang, the thief in the prefecture is in chaos. It seems that some accident happened. Today, there was a large ship from the city of the city, and a group of elite soldiers were visiting the Yang family."

Liang Zhenzhong was stunned, "Which Yang family?"

"Yang Dingyuan, that old handsome man is still alive." Niu Xinghai was not polite, and walked to the desk to pick up the tea and the cow started drinking it.

Liang Zhenzhong was a little messy, and he said strangely after breathing a few times, "There is a boat in the palace to come to my job, but I just went to visit Yang Dingyuan's relatives? Whose soldiers?"

Fang Daochuan said with a wry smile, "It is my King Xiuyan Tang family's banner, and it is indeed a big ship of Tang. But didn't Pinghui tie the iron chain to block the river? How did this big ship come down?"

"At this critical moment, what's the use of Tang sending people to find Yang Dingyuan's still alive relatives? The family is just living in business, and the medium-sized family income does not have to worry about food, clothing and expenses."

Yang Dingyuan was attracted by countless gentry and wealthy families when he was still alive, and naturally, including several major families in Shangyefu, everyone is familiar with him.

After Yang Dingyuan's death, only five months later, the mansions where his wife and children lived, the fields in Fucheng, and even the shops in Fucheng were swallowed up by the gentry. Those things were not done by Liang, Fang and Niu families.

No matter what, as the top wealthy family in the mansion, they are not so disgusting to eat. After all, Yang Dingyuan is a recognized century-old famous general and was awarded by the court after his death. In just a few months, if they personally took over the property and bullied the orphans and widows, their reputation would be completely ruined and it is known to the whole country.

Besides, when Yang Dingyuan was alive, there was not much business to discuss. The mansion in a mansion covers an area of ​​one or two acres, not even one-tenth of the three ancestral homes. It only has hundreds of acres of fertile land outside the city, and only two or three shops. That little bit of oil and water is not worth looking at by those present.

That was just done by a group of small and medium-sized gentry.

Liang Zhenzhong, Fang Daochuan, and a top wealthy family like Niu Xinghai just sits and watches things happen, not stopping them, just treating them as having fun.

Looking at the mentality of the fun, there is also anger. You are so arrogant when you are alive, and you ignore you for so long. Now you know what it feels like to have no one to protect you, right? If Yang Dingyuan really defected to a wealthy family back then, let alone it would be impossible to be cheated so badly on the battlefield, even if he died in battle, the other party’s family would be protected by the wealthy family.

Do you think that wealthy families don’t need to set a benchmark and let other servants watch it?
Chapter completed!