Chai Yan added: "I asked my mother about helping her, but my mother didn't say it. I didn't think much at that time. If I had known this, I would have asked carefully. But don't worry, I have already compiled a book and sent it to my mother. Please wait a few more days."

Yan Xuehuai never expected that this matter would have a breakthrough so quickly.

Originally, she thought that even if there were clues, she would not be able to find out in one or two years. People with the same status as Zhou Dazhen’s boss could not speak casually.

Moreover, Zhou Dazhen is in the south, while they are in the north, one in the south and one in the north, and it is difficult to have any intersection.

But, at the same time, Yan Xuehuai became more and more sure of his previous speculations.

If Chai Yan's family was just an ordinary royal family, it would be a blessing to be able to protect himself in this chaotic era, so how could we talk about cooperation with the Cao Gang?

With this qualification, Yan Xuehuai can only think of one family, Prince Yu’s Mansion!

Just yesterday, Zhenzhu briefly introduced the situation of the Cao Gang to her. In fact, this is what many ordinary people know, but Yan Xuehuai doesn't know.

There is no need to mention the previous life. In this life, the memories left by the original owner were limited to the fragments of the Yan family’s back home.

The Cao Gang has been around since ancient times. The imperial court had to transport rice and grain. At first, it used official ships, but after several accidents, it had to use civil fleets. These civil fleets were composed of people from the martial arts world. Compared with official ships, they were not only familiar with each river channel, but also knew all kinds of water bandits along the way.

The rice and grain transfer transportation department of the Great Wei Dynasty was not located in the old capital, but in Kaifeng, the Central Plains. The millet in the south of the Yangtze River entered the Huai River through the Bian River and entered Kaifeng; the millet in Shaanxi transferred from the near Sanmenxia to the Yellow River to the Bian River to the Kaifeng; the millet in Shaanxi transferred from the Huimin River to the Cai River to the Bian River to the Kaifeng; the millet in Jingdong went from the land of Qilu to the Wuzhang River to the Kaifeng.

Among them, the Jiangnan millet from Southeast Sixth Road accounted for the main position.

During the Taizu period, there were four gangs in the Jiangnan area that relied on the canal transportation to make a living. Before Emperor Gaozong, Li Changxi led his brothers to gather three other gangs and founded the Jiangnan Cao Gang.

Li Changxi is Zhou's father-in-law. He is the first leader of the Jiangnan Cao Gang, and Zhou's second.

Thinking of this, Yan Xuehuai looked at Chai Yan: "Tell me about this Zhou family. You can say as much as you know, or you can talk about the Cao Gang."

Chai Yanba couldn't say a few more words to Yan Xuehuai. Yan Xuehuai was lukewarm to him. Now that there was such a chance, Chai Yan was too happy.

He told Yan Xuehuai what he knew about the Cao Gang and the Zhou clan.

After the Zhou family led the Jiangnan Cao Gang, they reached an agreement with various transport departments that any grain transport transport that through the Huaihe River and Bianhe River would be transported by the Jiangnan Cao Gang. In this way, the four rivers were transported, and the Jiangnan Cao Gang occupied two rivers. Moreover, the Shaanxi-Cai Cao Gang had to go from the Cai River to the Bianhe River to reach Kaifeng. Invisibly, the Cai River canal transportation also had to get a piece of the cargo to the Jiangnan Cao Gang.

During the Renzong period, the Zhou family's relationship with the imperial court once again deepened. In addition to grain, grain, gold, silk, salt, tea, cloth and other goods, it was also carried by the Jiangnan Cao Gang. The second year after Emperor Baokang ascended the throne, the Caihe Cao Transportation was in trouble, and the tributes of ten ships were robbed, and the remaining ships were burned to pieces by a fire.

The head of Caihe Caoyun apologized for his death. Zhou was ordered to go to Caihe to supervise Yun in person. This incident made the Empress Dowager know that there was a person like Zhou. Zhou was a widow and a native of the martial arts world, so he could not be granted an official position, so he gave the Li family a seventh-rank official position.

It was just that the favor was given, but the Li family had no children to accept the favor. After a while, even the court forgot that something happened.

Although no one in the Li family became an official, the Zhou family officially took the lead in the world's Cao Gang.

The Zhou family had already taken charge of the three rivers in the canal transport. With the grace given by the court, they took the initiative to show goodwill to the Zhou family in Wuzhanghe, hoping to marry the Li family.

But Zhou did not agree. Just as Chengen, a son of the Li family, was not appointed as an official, she did not agree to the Zhong family's request for marriage.

Anyone with discerning eyes knows that the reason why Zhou did not do this was to give him a balance. She and her two sisters-in-law had no children. The Li family tried every means to adopt their descendants to them. Due to the Zhou family's strength, the Li family maintained a harmonious situation on the surface, but in private they had already become black-eyed chickens.

For Zhou, whether it is choosing children to be officials or choosing children to marry the Zhong family, it all means that the barely maintained peace situation will be broken, and the closeness and alienation between Zhou and the Li family will be revealed.

Yan Xuehuai interrupted and asked, "But it will be a matter of time before the Li family fights. Zhou might as well get close to one of the house heads and promote the children of the house heads. In this way, the other tribesmen will be able to deal with the house heads at full capacity, and Zhou can free up his hands but cultivate his true heirs."

Upon hearing this, Chai Yan was stunned. His eyes at Yan Xuehuai were full of playfulness or pride.

Look, this is the person I like, I really have vision.

Yan Xuehuai saw him looking at him, touching his face, and asked, "What, do you think I'm wrong?"

"Yes, everything is right, you're right." Chai Yan quickly responded, "The character is like a scholar, and he is not a scholar, so he wants to do whatever he wants to do, and what kind of character he talks about in front of his wife.

"What happened later?" Yan Xuehuai was fascinated by the ears. This Zhou family was simply the local version of the heroine.

"Later, the Zhong family failed to marry the younger generation of the Li family, so they made a fool of themselves. Zhong Huixian, the head of the Zhong family, wanted to marry Li Yunpan for his younger brother Zhong Erlang. It would be fine if he invited the matchmaker Zhengda and proposed to marry him, but he just asked Zhong Erlang to go south and wanted to have a love relationship with Li Yunpan first, which forced Zhou to agree with this marriage." Chai Yan said this, and he laughed first.

"Wait, who is Li Yunpan?" Yan Xuehuai asked.

"Li Yunpan is Zhou's sister-in-law and Li Dalang's younger sister. Li Dalang has three sisters, all of whom are not married. They are Zhou's right-hand men. Li Yunpan is the youngest. When Zhou broke into the wharf and killed his clan uncle, Li Yunpan was only eight years old. You may not believe it. When Li Yunpan was eight years old, he dared to take a knife to avenge his father. It can be imagined that this is not an ordinary woman. Then Zhong Huixian should be so confident that he would think that Li Yunpan could fall in love with his younger brother." Chai Yan explained.

"What about it later? Did Zhong Erlang meet Li Yunpeng?" Yan Xuehuai asked.

"I met him, but he mistakenly regarded a female manager under Li Yunpan as Li Yunpan. But the female manager still had a husband. Zhong Erlang was caught and raped when he was with the female manager. Zhong Erlang was beaten and had to tell his identity. This matter caused a lot of controversy. Zhong Huixian would only send people to redeem people. In the end, Zhou's family occupied 20% of the water transportation business in Wuzhanghe."
Chapter completed!