Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

"Don't worry, they will agree."

Qin Ming spoke lightly.

"why?"

Chang Baishan saw clearly that Qin Ming almost killed Hua Yunhong with one shot.

Although they have received information that Hua Yunhong is still alive.

But can the other party let go of their hatred for Qin Ming and continue the oil mining transaction?

"Just wait."

Qin Ming seemed very confident about Hua Yunhong's behavior.

On the other hand, the people arranged by Hua Yunhong quickly found Chu Ying in the southern region.

His move this time was very big. He actually wanted to negotiate a deal worth millions of 200 silver coins with Nanbu in one go.

He said he was talking to someone in the south, but in fact, the target was not Fang Yuanjian.

But it was Chu Ying who controlled Tongbao Pavilion.

Shuiliancheng, in a quiet room on the third floor of Tongbao Pavilion.

Chu Ying and Sun Jinshan got together and exchanged the recent intelligence they had obtained about the south.

Sun Jinshan spoke first and reported the situation to the other party.

"Have you heard? His Majesty seems to have started searching for information about those old nobles. I investigated them and found some issues."

Sun Jinshan was originally from the south, and at this time he took the initiative to play a role and launched an investigation into those old aristocrats through various channels.

They wanted to restore their country, but after the unification of Shenmu Kingdom, the speed of its development clearly exceeded their imagination.

In this situation, they still hold on to a glimmer of hope, and there must be some unknown support behind it.

"What's the point?"

"check it out."

Sun Jinshan took out some papers from his arms and handed them to Chu Ying.

He also found out some of their transactions in previous years.

"This is their military spending in recent years. These people are very rich, but they have spent a large part of it. I doubt they have much left."

After reading it carefully, Chu Ying also frowned slightly.

"They do spend a lot, millions of taels of silver every year, but I've never heard of any way they make money."

After losing their homeland, these old nobles never regained any of their lost territory.

Even though they have been making noise all these years, their movements are actually getting weaker and weaker.

This is mainly due to the rapid shrinkage of the wealth in their hands.

"What should we do? Should we still fight them?"

The order the two had received before was to unite with the Wulin Alliance and Fang Yuanjian to attack these old nobles who were delusional about restoring their country.

But Chu Ying himself did not expect that things would develop to this extent.

Originally, he wanted to agree to Qin Ming's plan to launch a campaign against these old nobles to ease the pressure in the Western Regions.

However, during the process of encirclement and suppression, we must pay attention to input and output.

Generally speaking, if they participated in the encirclement and suppression, they had to give out part of their weapons, equipment and silver to reorganize the army.

This is the only way to get rid of the old aristocrats.

Every trip out costs a lot of money.

But now we know that after so many years of turmoil, those old nobles have become weak inside.

There is not much money left in my hands.

Then why fight?

As long as a war breaks out, there will be huge losses!

Even if you spend a huge amount of money to kill the opponent, there will be no benefit.

So after talking about this issue, he whispered to Sun Jinshan:

"Do you think we can still take action against them now?"

When it comes to this kind of issue, Sun Jinshan naturally doesn't dare to jump to conclusions.

After all, the current situation is not something he can control alone.

Then he whispered:

"Let's stop and ask His Majesty's opinion."

"These people are useless. Only Your Majesty can decide whether to deal with them."

There was nothing wrong with Sun Jinshan's judgment. After listening to his advice, Chu Ying also felt that it made sense.

So the two of them prepared to deliver the message to Qin Ming first.

And two hours before the two of them talked.

The person who came to discuss business with them also came here, and this time it was Du Zi again.

Du Zi has not been idle for a moment recently.

Some time ago, he helped Hua Yunhong and got Mu Liuming back. After that, Hua Yunhong started to have a clear understanding of the court.

On his side, there was nothing urgent that needed to be dealt with.

It just so happened that the major families started a new round of taking sides because of the deaths of Duanmu Jiang and others.

Many people chose to stand on Hua Yunhong's side.

Taking sides requires actual expression.

For example, offerings of benefits.

In order to show their stance, many of their newly mined oil mines were sent to Hua Yunhong.

This is also a way for them to show their loyalty.

Hua Yunhong was still very satisfied after getting it.

However, considering what they had done before, Hua Yunhong did not give them a good look this time.

It directly pushed down the price of oil production by 30%.

You have to know that when purchasing in large quantities, lowering the price by half a percentage is enough to make people lose a lot of money.

What’s more, it’s only 30%.

Originally, mining oil here was a thankless and unprofitable task.

Now they have to give it to Hua Yunhong at 70% of the price, which is equivalent to giving it away for free.

So naturally many people are unwilling to do so.

But since Hua Yunhong has spoken, there is nothing they can do even if they don't want to.

After all, the entire court is now truly controlled by Hua Yunhong.

Taking advantage of the time when Mu Liuming's troops returned, Hua Yunhong used the troops at his disposal to massacre three big families in one breath.

These big families were originally relatives of old ministers in the court.

But now they are dead, so the existence of these families is naturally of no use.

After gathering their resources, Hua Yunhong started large-scale trade with Daqian.

So he arranged for his confidant Du Zi to set out again on the journey to the south.

Today is the day he arrives.

As usual, Fang Yuanjian came to greet Du Zi.

The two exchanged simple greetings when they met.

He left the palace directly and rushed towards where Chu Ying and Sun Jinshan were.

On the way, Du Zi also spoke to Fang Yuanjian and asked him about a more important matter.

"Does Your Highness still hold the chariot?"

Everyone had heard before that Qin Ming drove the two chariots away and headed directly towards Shenmu City.

But now the chariot has not been seen by anyone.

This made many people wonder whether Qin Ming was afraid that the people of Shenmu City would dismantle it, or that the Shenmu Kingdom was in control of the chariot, so he went back on his word and transported the chariot back to Daqian.

But at this time Fang Yuanjian directly gave a positive answer.

"Of course it's in my hands, but it's in a safe place. If you need anything, you can tell me and I can take you there."

Hearing this, Du Zi's heart suddenly moved, and he quickly asked:

"It's not that I want to see you. I don't know much about mechanical engineering or Daqian's technology. I can even say I know nothing about it. I'm asking about this now mainly because His Majesty wants to see it."