Chapter 695: Keep the money

Tong Guan said goodbye and went out. Someone came over in front of him and said, "Prince, the Marquis of Yiyang is asking for a meeting."

Chen Ao couldn't remember this person for a moment, but the Marquis of Yiyang stayed in the capital honestly, why did he run here to do?

Chen Ao was silent for a moment and said, "Please come in."

The person who came was a young man older than Chen Ao, dressed in decent clothes, holding a wooden box, with a smile on his face, came over from afar, and bowed with his fists and said, "Xiao Hou has seen the prince."

Chen Ao asked him to sit down, holding the teacup, and slowly said: "Marquis Yiyang looked at him with some face. Can the name Gao be reported?"

The Duke and Marquis in Bianjing City have dealt with Shen Ao, and they have never seen this Yiyang Marquis. I don’t know if it was a founding Marquis or a relative of the foreigners. Chen Ao thought in his heart, could this Yiyang Marquis have something to do with Huaizhou?

The Marquis of Yiyang smiled faintly and said, "I am Peng Hui, who has long admired the name of the prince, and has never found an opportunity to get close to him. This time I came to Xihe, I didn't expect to encounter him."

Peng Hui... Chen Ao roughly knew that the man surnamed Peng was also considered a founding marquis. It is said that his ancestors were posthumously named Prince during the reign of Emperor Taizong, but their family had long been declining and they were not considered a noble family.

Chen Ao smiled faintly and said, "Marquis Yiyang will not go to the Three Treasures Palace for nothing, let's talk about it, what's the matter?"

Peng Hui smiled and said, "Just give me some gifts, please accept them with a smile." He paused and said, "If the prince is too little, if he thinks it is too little..."

Chen Ao heard the three words of 800,000, and he was full of energy. It was not easy to make money these days, so the money was really not small. Then he laughed and said, "Marquis Yiyang is so polite. How can I accept so much money?" But his eyes fell directly on the box held by Marquis Yiyang.

Peng Hui smiled and said, "Your Majesty, don't be polite." As he said that, he put the box on several tables, sat down on his own, picked up the teacup and said, "Actually, Xiaohou did have one thing to ask the prince to help him. The prince is a nobleman from Qing, unlike Xiaohou. Xiaohou's friend has done some small business in the border town. Haha, it's just a life, but he was taken by the border army. Tong Guan has never been enlightened. The prince knows it, but Tong Guan is nothing, just a eunuch. The person who keeps his word in the border town is not the prince? If the prince can stand up and say something, Xiaohou will be grateful and will be filial to the future."

At one time, it's 800,000 yuan, which is enough! Chen Ao has so much business, he may not make this surplus in a year. This shows how much huge profits this Yiyang Hou has. But then again, these 800,000 yuan are just for Chen Ao. If Chen Ao stands up and speaks, the filial piety that is closed behind can be cut off, but in a few years, it will not be a loss.

Chen Ao smiled faintly and said, "Who are the friends of the Marquis? Can you tell me about it?"

Peng Hui said, "Your Majesty will know when he asks Tong Guan." He thought to himself that Chen Ao has always regarded wealth as his life, as it is in Honglu Temple and in Quanzhou. It is said that Chen Ao also created a good hall in Quanzhou, which is about doing good deeds, but how to operate this money is not the matter of the King of Pingxi? Today, he has no choice but to take such a large sum of money. This trip was really related to the things that went out of seclusion. It took countless effort to get the three cannons to get it out. It involves dealing with the Jin people in the future. If it goes smoothly, it will naturally be a huge profit. If it doesn't go smoothly, it is still unknown how much money it will cost to open the joints.

Chen Ao said lightly: "What you said is a group of Huai Businessmen who were arrested a few days ago?"

Peng Hui pretended to be surprised and said, "So the prince knows it too?"

Chen Ao smiled and said, "They are so brave, how can I not know?"

Peng Hui was calm and smiled calmly, saying, "It is because the matter is too big that he asked the prince to come. With the prince's ability, it is naturally a slight effort."

Chen Ao stood up, paced in the hall for a few times before saying, "Architecture, how did you get it?"

Peng Hui was stunned for a moment, then smiled dryly, "Prince forgives the crime. The little marquis cannot say such a thing. As long as the prince knows, the relationship here is very important."

Chen Ao pursed his lips and smiled. He walked to Peng Hui's side and opened the brocade box. The dense piles of money were exposed. Although it was not as dazzling as gold and silver, it still exuded a breath of temptation.

Chen Ao covered the lid of the brocade box, knocked the box with his knuckles, and said slowly: "I want this thing."

Peng Hui was overjoyed.

Chen Ao continued, "But as for you and your friends..." He smiled coldly, then raised his hand and slapped Peng Hui in the face.

"Pa"! Crisp and neat.

Peng Hui was stunned at first, then his cheeks felt the scorching pain, and he covered his cheeks and said, "Prince...you...you..."

Chen Ao retracted his hand, held his hands, looked at him condescendingly, and said, "Go back and tell you the people behind you that no one of these people will want to live. As for the gates of the town here, don't come again. Have to play, be careful to pay your life to you, you can't afford to play!"

Chen Ao looked at Peng Hui coldly, and finally he said a word coldly: "Get out!"

Peng Hui covered his cheeks and wanted to hold the brocade box, but Chen Ao pressed the brocade box on the table with one hand and was about to leave, but he was unwilling to give up. At this time, he tore his face apart and said, "Chen Ao, do you know who is behind Xiao Hou?"

Chen Ao smiled faintly and said, "Do you know who is behind me?"

Peng Hui was stunned for a moment and asked, "Who is it?"

Chen Ao held down Shangfang's sword and said, "Son of Heaven!"

Peng Hui swallowed, and his calm aura became distracted, so he had to say, "Okay, I want to see when you can seal the pass!" After that, he covered his face and ran away.

Chen Ao picked up the brocade box and asked someone to call Han Shizhong to hide it for him. He smiled and said to Han Shizhong: "I have it collected it, this is my private money."

Han Shizhong smiled bitterly and said, "Prince, since he doesn't join them, why do you want their stinky money?"

Chen Ao said with a stern face: "It's the same thing as if you are with them, but the money is not bad. Why don't I want it? Let's take a break early and you will have to come out of seclusion tomorrow." Then he called out and left.

Han Shizhong shook his head and held the brocade box bitterly, but he went back to rest obediently.

Early the next morning, the border army had already taken a group of merchants from Huaizhou to Caishikou, and at the attention of many people, the border army killed people differently from the yamen. There were no such rules. The sky was high and the emperor was far away. If the emperor was slaughtered, maybe these heads could be cut off and they could be used to repay the merits.

When the news reached Chen Ao, Chen Ao just smiled faintly and said to the person who came to report the news from Tong Guan: "Tell Eunuch Tong that this is just the beginning. From now on, any person who dares to bring these things out of seclusion will be dealt with according to this. Let him not be afraid, as the sky falls, I will bear it."

Then he packed his luggage, took five hundred lieutenants out of the pass, and rushed towards the depths of the grassland.

More than 30 Huai Shangs and the heads all cut their heads. In the big mansion, a man hurriedly reported the information to Peng Hui. Peng Hui sneered: "Chen Ao really thinks that the Song Dynasty is the final word he has on his own? He doesn't know how to be proud of the dog."

A chief brought him tea carefully and said with a smile: "Honor was relieved, and the matter that could not be investigated thoroughly is not necessarily what King Pingxi instructed Tong Guan to do. Since King Pingxi was going to make things difficult for us, we would have to take the Khitan path at most."

Peng Hui shook his head and said, "Now the goods are all pressing on the border army. If you don't send this important thing, will the Jurchens give us a good look? Everything else is easy to say, and the one you fear the most is this."

The head of the official said: "If it really doesn't work, why not write to the capital."

Peng Hui shook his head and sneered: "No, I can't do this little thing well. Wouldn't it be a joke? You ask someone to transport a few trucks of things out."

The head of the company was so scared that his face turned pale and said with a bitter face: "Mr. Marquis, the current turmoil is so tight. Wouldn't it be a death to bring the goods out?"

Peng Hui said terrified: "I didn't ask you to bring the forbidden items out, just transport some ordinary silk and salt. If you leave the pass and go to Hengshan, isn't the Xixia king about to die? The Pingxi King has long been jealous of the Xixia tribes. There will definitely be movements on the five tribes of Hengshan. We still have a batch of goods outside the pass, so we will give them. Abandon Chen Ao, it's no problem to a small Tong Guan. Tong Guan can only act as a hero in the border town. When he arrives in the capital, he is nothing."

After hearing this, the head of the director said with a little hesitation: "Do you want to discuss this with the prince and the others?"

Peng Hui shook his head and said, "No, I have my own opinions."

The head of the company had to nod and said, "The villain is going to do it now, but what should I do with the current business?"

Peng Hui said angrily: "What else can I do? I can only find a way to go to the Khitan side. Wait for the artillery matter, and ask someone to go to the Jurchen side and tell my friends there, and we said we were in some trouble here and asked them to take care of it."

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When I revisited the old place, there was a different atmosphere outside the border. It used to be a wasteland, but now I look at the past, but there are merchants along the way. Further away, you can see the herders from Xixia driving cattle and sheep out. Some Song people also set up tea sheds on the only way for some caravans to serve as a specialty for merchants to drink tea to relieve fatigue.

Although it was only a small change, in Shen Ao's view, it was just the beginning of the change. The fertile land on the border of Songxia is as large as thousands of miles, and it was abandoned because of the war. If the Western Xia can be completely resolved, the changes here will continue.

The Five Hundred Cavalry Team stayed day and night, but they set up camp for two hours and continued to move forward. Tong Hu was still the one who led it. This time, it was the most relaxed. They rode their horses fiercely and rode their horses in front of them and drove their way. If they encountered a tea shed, they would get off the horse and rest in the tea shed and wait for the team to come over.

Along the way, I would occasionally encounter some Western Xia merchants. When the Xixia merchants heard that they were the King of Pingxi, they actually blocked the way to come to see him. Most of these Western Xia merchants and Han people were Han people. Without Chen Ao, there would be no hard-won border trade, so naturally they were grateful to Chen Ao. Besides, anyone with a discerning eye knew that Chen Ao would have to master the Western Xia government sooner or later. Everyone was Han, and they felt a little close to him.

It was about to arrive in Longzhou, but a caravan in front stopped Tong Hu's team and said they wanted to meet King Pingxi. These merchants were all anxious and wanted to report anything. Tong Hu rode his horse back and reported it. After a stick of incense, Chen Ao had already come over. He looked at several merchants. They all looked at the Han Dynasty and were dressed in decent clothes. They were led by a few servants to pull the camel, and the camel was loaded with goods. However, the identity of the merchant was undoubtedly. Chen Ao turned over and dismounted and hugged the merchants: "You want to see me, but what do you have to say?"

A short and fat businessman in the lead said, "Is the prince going to Longzhou?"

From Xihe to Longzhou is the closest road, Chen Aohe nodded.

The short and fat businessman said, "Prince, we have just come out of Longzhou. We have to cross Xihe to Xijing to sell some furs. When we came out, we found something strange in Longzhou, so we came to report a message to teach the prince to be careful."

Chen Ao invited them to the side of the road. Several lieutenants brought stones and sat down separately. The short and fat businessman continued: "Last night, the border troops in Longzhou suddenly became nervous. Even the city gates were strengthened. Not only that, it was said that since the prince was coming, he must prepare for entertainment, but there was no movement at all on the Longzhou Prefecture Yamen. But he heard that the prefect of Longzhou Prefecture and the military envoys in the border town seemed to be making noise. Later, many border troops appeared around the Yamen."

Chen Ao raised his eyebrows and asked, "What other news is there? Is there any news from Longxing Mansion?"

The short and fat businessman shook his head and said, "I don't know this, I just know that Longzhou looks different from usual. The border army and the follower army are waiting for each other."
Chapter completed!