Chapter 800 Guo and Li Make Trouble in Chang'an

Huangfu Chaobo was very surprised by the sand ship construction drawings that Gu's family gave him. Since Gu's family had the sand ship drawings, why didn't they open a sea trade route to the north by themselves, but gave it to him instead.

Perhaps he had seen the doubts in Huangfu Chaobo's heart, so Gu Quan explained to Huangfu Chaobo.

Jiangdong's water transportation is well developed, but the noble families are interested in inland trade routes, but not in sea transportation. There are several reasons for this. One is that the risk at sea is too great. The weather at sea is unpredictable, and the waves are huge. Once they hit, the entire caravan will suffer a catastrophe.

The second is that there are countless pirates in the sea a little further away from the coast, making the sea trade route full of risks. This time, Huangfu Chaobo went all the way south, and there were thousands of naval guards along the way, so that he could safely reach Jiangdong. There were dozens of pirates of all sizes that were destroyed along the way. Although the Jiangdong noble family was quite powerful, it was not enough to form thousands of naval forces.

Therefore, even for Jiangdong big families like Gu and Zhu, although they only have the blueprints for making sea vessels, they do not have the spare capacity to open up the sea trade route. Now that Huangfu Chaobo has the ability to communicate between the north and the south by sea, after several families discussed, they presented all the blueprints of the sand ships in their hands to Huangfu Chaobo.

These two blueprints plus the three people of Guo Laotou and his son who have been recruited are enough to make Huangfu Chaobo's sand ship craftsmen reach four or five people, which will greatly enhance the strength of Huangfu Chaobo's navy.

As for the other plates, there is nothing else that can attract Huangfu Chaobo's attention. The second plate contains three upgrade blueprints for special buildings, and there is no designated building. This kind of thing is indeed not urgently needed for Huangfu Chaobo.

The third plate contains a withdrawal certificate for 50,000 stones of grain, which can be used to withdraw 50,000 stones of grain from the Gu family's rice shop in Dantu City.

The fourth plate contains some ordinary treasures.

The things in these plates are worth thousands of gold, especially the drawings, which are priceless. In addition to those treasures, all other things are what Huangfu Chaobo needs, so after a little consideration, Huangfu Chaobo accepted them all.

After accepting the gifts, Huangfu Chaobo said: "Since you are so polite, it is impolite not to return the favor. I don't have anything else to give you. Let's do this. When the caravan arrives in Jiangdong next time, I will bring you one or two fine horses."

Originally, Huangfu Chaobo was not going to sell high-end horses such as good horses and fine horses to Jiangdong, but since he had already accepted such a valuable gift from the other party, he decided to let someone send them a few good horses, which was also a return gift to them.

Seeing that Huangfu Chaobo happily accepted these gifts and was ready to give everyone fine horses, everyone in Jiangdong was very happy.

He Huai, the head of the He family in Piling, said, "I wonder if the Marquis can order that more good and fine horses be sold to Jiangdong from the horses transported by the next caravan?"

Huangfu Chaobo glanced at him and thought, "I really don't know if you are really stupid or not. It's already very good for me to sell ordinary war horses to Jiangdong. I also sell a large number of good and fine horses. Isn't this making myself uncomfortable."

Thinking so in his heart, but unable to say it out loud, Huangfu Chaobo smiled slightly and said, "Let you know that there are not many good war horses in my army now, so there are not many surplus horses to sell to Jiangdong. The fine horses sent to you this time are the few good horses accumulated by this Marquis over the years."

As soon as He Huai's words came out, Gu Yong realized that something was wrong, but the words had already been spoken, and he was thinking hard about how to resolve it, but he didn't expect Huangfu Chaobo to not care, and he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

In the following time, everyone consciously did not bring up the topic in this regard, so the atmosphere of the banquet quickly returned to its original state.

After the banquet, Huangfu Chaobo, under the guidance of Gu Quan and his son, walked around their manor again, and then led everyone back to the building ship outside the city.

When Huangfu Chaobo led his wife to travel around the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, the city of Chang'an, thousands of miles away, was in chaos.

The reason for this is that Huangfu Chaobo withdrew Xu Rong's army from Guanzhong last year.

After Huangfu Chaobo's army withdrew, Li and Guo recaptured the Weishui Water Fort, so Guanzhong completely became the world of Guo and Li, with Tongguan in the east, Wuguan in the south, Dasanguan in the west, and no forces in the north that could threaten the two.

Without external threats, the contradiction between the two became more and more intensified, and Li Jue and Guo Si fought for power and profit. The two armies fought each other every now and then, making Chang'an City full of smoke and camphor, making the officials and people in the city miserable.

In December of the second year of Xingping, Fan Chou wanted to lead his troops to the east and asked Li Jue for more soldiers. Li Jue was worried that Fan Chou was brave and popular, and because Fan Chou had always been dissatisfied with him, he asked someone to invite Fan Chou and Li Meng to attend the banquet, and planned to instruct his nephew, the cavalry commander Hu Feng, to stab Fan Chou and Li Meng to death at the banquet, and then annex Fan Chou and Li Meng's troops after the success.

Who knew that Fan Chou and Li Meng had been prepared, and fought a desperate battle with Li Feng and others at the banquet, killing several people and escaping. The two did not have time to escape back to their barracks, so they had to flee to Guo Si's army and surrender to Guo Si, and most of their troops were annexed by Li Jue.

Afterwards, Li Jue often hosted a banquet at his home to entertain Guo Si, and sometimes invited Guo Si to stay at his home. Guo Si's wife was afraid that Li Jue would give Guo Si a maid and concubine to take away her love, so she wanted to sow discord between them.

Once, Li Jue sent Guo Si wine and food, and Guo Si's wife said that the fermented black beans in the dish were poison. Before Guo Si ate, Guo Si picked out the fermented black beans and showed them to Guo Si, and said a lot of bad things about Li Jue, which made Guo Si suspicious.

A few days later, Li Jue hosted another banquet for Guo Si and got him drunk. Guo Si suspected that Li Jue wanted to poison him, so he quickly drank feces to induce vomiting and sober up.

Afterwards, Guo Si led his troops to attack Li Jue. The battle lasted for more than a month, and tens of thousands of people died. Li Jue asked Jia Xu to be the general of Xuanyi, hoping that he would persuade Zhang Ji to help him, but he failed.

During this period, Emperor Xian of Han sent people to persuade the two men many times, but all failed. In desperation, he had to order Zhao Rui to lead the Yulin Army to guard the imperial city tightly to prevent the chaotic army from attacking the palace.

In the following period, dozens of princes and ministers took their families and servants to hide in the imperial city to avoid the chaos between the two men. Among them, the strong men were selected by Zhao Rui and recruited to strengthen the Yulin Army.