On the top of the Golden Palace, after Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji sat down on the throne, the ministers immediately shouted long live, and then stood in two columns, civil and military.

"I haven't seen you for half a month, how are you doing this year?" Li Longji seemed to be in good spirits, and the first meeting of the new year was a bit homely.

The emperor's words were asked to the hundred officials, but the only one who could stand up and answer was Li Shizhi, the left minister of the court!

"Thanks to the Shengshang Longen, this year, my Tang Dynasty Quartet is peaceful, the treasury is full, and the country and the people are safe, this qiē is the credit of the saint!"

After all, it was the first day of work in the new year, so why should we say something festive? Therefore, our Zuo Xiangsan selectively forgot the "small battles" fought by Wang Zhongsi and Huangfu Weiming in the west this year.

Who says that honest people can't make sycophants? Honest people are more straightforward and more comfortable when they pat their ass!

"Haha, when did you learn to be so slippery?" Li Longji laughed heartily, but there was not the slightest reproach in his expression.

Li Shizhi bowed slightly when he heard this, with a reserved smile on his face, which was regarded as a response.

After the greetings and polite words are over, although the ministers of the Manchu court have spoken to the emperor one by one, you can't let the emperor go to condolences one by one, right?

So, let's get to the point.

After Li Longji finished laughing, his eyes glanced at the civil and military officials and nobles in the hall.

The ministers in the store all felt the two unfathomable gazes on the throne, the king and the ministers, everyone knew what was going to happen next.

"Okay, I've seen the song on Zou Run's hand a few years ago, and I'm going to let all the secretaries discuss it together in this hall! Zou Run, you come first! Tell the big guy about your recital again!" Li Longji raised his hand and gently pointed to the back of the civil official queue on the left-hand side, and said flatly.

"Yes!

Zou Run immediately walked out of the queue and bowed down to tell Li Longji and the ministers of the palace what he had played.

The Golden Palace is very large, but when it was built, it was handled by skilled craftsmen, although Zou Run's voice was not loud, and the speed of speech was also very slow, but the ministers in the palace could also hear it, and besides, his letter was broken, and the ministers who cared about it were estimated that they would have been able to recite it backwards!

Zou Run spoke very carefully, and once again deduced and perfected every article conceived in the compromise, so that the Holy Lord and the ministers present could understand it.

Those ministers who were calm in their hearts naturally listened carefully, and they were really considering whether Zou Run's construction was feasible, and those ministers who had some plans in their hearts listened more carefully!

After all, if there are any loopholes in Zou Run's plan, this group of people will be very excited!

Those who oppose it are elated, and those who support it must quickly find a way to remedy it!

It's just that Zou Run's idea originated from Xu Chen's memories of the well-established maritime trade management yamen in the Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, coupled with Zou Run's many years of practical experience in the household department, and now Zou Run's idea has long been perfected and impeccable, at least it is difficult for these ministers present to contact for the first time to find any loopholes.

In this way, it makes those who support it secretly happy, and those who oppose it anxious!

Zou Run said for half an hour before he explained his idea clearly, although the time was long, but none of the civil and military officials present were impatient, not to mention those who were concerned about this, even those noble generals who had nothing to do with it, had long known that there was a good show to be staged today, so they had already raised enough spirit to wait there!

Zou Run, after returning to the court, Li Longji opened his golden mouth again and said, "Presumably, you should have heard it very clearly this time!"

"Let's start talking now!"

This time, the three prime ministers didn't speak again, but the old god was sitting there, and he could be more active when he spoke, but when he wanted to express his position, the prime ministers, who were big guys, naturally spoke last.

As soon as Li Longji's words fell, a crimson shadow flashed, and a thin middle-aged man in a light crimson official robe stood up! Seeing this, the other officials who had just wanted to stand up had no choice but to take a stupid step back.

It's just that this person who can't wait to succeed in grabbing the position is not a person from either side of the fight, to be precise, he is a speculator!

"The minister is too Chang Cheng Zhu Xuan has a book to play!"

"Speak!"

"If you return to the Holy Heavens, taxes are the foundation of a country, and the collection of taxes by the imperial court is a matter of destiny! This re-determination of the commercial tax can not only increase the revenue of the national treasury, but also reduce the excesses and miscellaneous taxes on the people, which is a great good thing! Even the ghosts and gods cannot oppose it!" Zhu Xuan said with a natural expression.

"Haha, Zhu Aiqing must have already taken a hexagram when she went out today, right?" Li Longji asked with a smile this small official in charge of the sacrifice.

Taichang Cheng is a subordinate official of Taichang, and Taichang is an official who is in charge of the heaven and earth, gods, human and ghost gifts, auspicious and evil military gifts, and jade silk bells and drums and other powerful cultural relics, and is one of the nine Qings.

It is said that Taichang Cheng is great because he has a lot of power, and once the emperor wants to sacrifice, such a person is always indispensable, and the communication with the gods depends entirely on him! If a few people with ulterior motives say something through the mouth of ghosts and gods, they all have to rely on Taichang Cheng to "translate"! Such a key position is naturally not a petty official!

It is said that it is small, but it is also small! Only from the official position under the five grades can it be qualified to enter the main hall, and as for those officials who are even smaller, they all stand at the door to blow the wind!

"If you go back to the saint, Weichen did divinate a hexagram today!" Zhu Xuan immediately followed Li Longji's words and said, anyway, no one can prove this thing, it all depends on its two mouths, and he is not afraid of being exposed.

"Oh, what about the hexagram?" Li Longji said with great interest, although he already had the answer in his heart, the other people present also had to listen to it for themselves, right?

Zhu Xuan was naturally not a stupid person, and hurriedly said: "Back to the saint, auspicious hexagram!

"Haha, that's good! Yes, Aiqing has a heart!" Li Longji got the answer he wanted, and said with a laugh.

Li Longji was not the only one who was happy, Zhu Xuan, who was kneeling there in the main hall, heard the words "have a heart" that Li Longji said in person, and he was already excited and about to mix up, but he still endured his trembling hands and feet, got up tremblingly, stood back to his original position, and kept shouting in his heart: "The bet is right! Haha! Finally, let me bet right!"

After this short, almost farcical performance, the real drama is just about to begin.

Before the big drama begins, let's turn our eyes back to Yuzhang City, which is thousands of miles away.

Yuzhang City, the courtyard of the teenagers, Xu Chen stayed in the warm room, calculating the next steps with Lu Hao.

"Today's court meeting has begun, I'm afraid it's already noisy at this time, right?" Xu Chen looked at the small sundial next to him and muttered.

Although the plan is very thorough and the certainty of success is also great, this time the plan is too important for Xu Chen!

If he can't take this opportunity to scrape together a large amount of copper money, he will not be able to carry out the next plan, and if so, when the unknown danger comes, he will still have no ability to resist at all, and his life is at stake, and he cannot be left alone!

Lu Hao could also feel the faint apprehension in his eldest brother's heart, but he didn't know the real reason for Xu Chen's apprehension, and just attributed it to some uneasiness about this monstrous plan.

"This hour, it should begin!" Although Lu Hao was also anxious in his heart, he tried his best to calm his tone.

Xu Chen tilted his head and pondered for a moment, then he cheered up again, grabbed the charcoal pen in his hand, and calculated it on paper, fortunately, the mathematics in high school was not returned to the teacher, and he couldn't use higher mathematical equations, so he could only rely on stupid methods, little by little statistics and calculations.

Although Lu Hao has been taught mathematics by Xu Chen for a few months, he has only learned binary equations now, and he is still far from Xu Chen's level, so he can only play on the side.

The two brothers calculated little by little in this room, and after each calculation, Lu Hao would copy it in small characters, using special ink, and put it into a slender bamboo tube, then walked to the door, lifted the curtain, and reached out to hand it to a teenager waiting outside the door.

Take out one, tie the bamboo tube to the pigeon's feet, and then take it to the yard, reach out and release it, the carrier pigeon in the air, and fly along the fixed track towards the next contact point, just like that, the slender bamboo tube will be transferred to Yangzhou or Yizhou, thousands of miles away, before and after only two days, which is twice as short as the time consumed by the clipper or the horse!

In Yuzhang City, Xu Chen is not the only one who is worried about the affairs of Chang'an!

In the wealthy area in the northwest of Yuzhang City, in the mansion of the Lu family, Lu Zongbao was anxiously walking around the eldest brother's study, looking up from time to time to see the delicate copper kettle in the house.

"Second brother, don't you sway around anymore, don't you, my head is so big!" Lu Zongtai, who was sitting at the desk, said with a frown.

"Big brother, I'm not in a hurry! At this hour, the debate at the court meeting should have begun! I don't know what the final result will be!" Lu Zongbao said to the eldest brother with an anxious face.

"Alas, since the court meeting has begun, it's useless for you to dangle around here! You might as well sit down and read the book!" Lu Zongtai said as he knocked on the table with the book rolled up in his hand.

"How can I still have the heart to read!" Lu Zongbao also stopped walking around and sat down when he heard this, but if he wanted to make him as chaotic as his eldest brother, he really couldn't do it!

"Big brother, you're really amazing! You can still read books at such a time!" Lu Zongbao laughed softly, his face showing sincere appreciation.

"Hehe, big brother, my brain is not as fast as yours, I can only use this stupid method, slow down and think more, slow work and careful work!" Lu Zongtai said with a smile.

"Haha! So our two brothers move and move, fast and slow, and the cooperation is seamless!" Lu Zongbao laughed.

Lu Zongtai looked at his younger brother with a smile, and then lowered his eyes to read the book again.

Yuzhang City walked out of the West City Gate and walked forty miles in the direction of the West Mountain, and there was a small town, which was the ordinary town that Chai Qi had explored that day and night.

At this moment, in the center of the town, there is an antique low building, and in a small courtyard with four entrances, a young man who looks to be in his twenties is sneaking around.

After seeing the silence around him, he pretended to straighten up and swaggered towards a hut in the northwest.

The doors and windows of the hut had long been sealed, and a heavy iron cable hung from the doorknob.

When the young man approached, he hurriedly whispered to the hut, "Childe!

"Fall...... Ice ......!hiss~Are you?" The voice from inside the house was a little weird, but the young man at the door could still distinguish it, because the only person who could be locked in the small black house of the ancestral house these days was Wan Shijun, the second son of his family!

After Wan Shijun was slapped in the mouth by his father a few days ago, he was only bleeding at that time, and the next day, his chin was swollen and huge, and now it takes a lot of effort to speak to send the voice out of those two thick lips, but in this way, it triggers the wound again, and from time to time there is a convulsive sound.

"Childe, it's me!" Luo Bin naturally could guess the current situation of their son-in-law, and his heart couldn't help but feel sour, and there was a trace of sadness in his tone.

It's just that Wan Shijun in the house didn't have time to care about this, he hurriedly put his head close to the only gap between the two doors, endured the huge pain, and said to Luo Bin outside: "Luo Bin, at this hour today, the great court meeting in the Chang'an Imperial City must have begun to fight!"

"These things are in charge of the old man, I want you to do a few things, you come with your ears!"

"Okay, Childe!" After speaking, Luo Bin also put his head to the gap.

"You hurry up and gather our people, and then hurry to the yamen with some copper coins that I had prepared before......"

"Well, the subordinates understand! The subordinates are going! Take care!" Luo Bin also knew the priority, although he was worried about his son, but he didn't stay for a moment, because he knew that for the current son, these things were far more important than the pain on his body!

As soon as Luo Bin left, Wan Shijun in the small black room breathed a sigh of relief, leaning against the wooden door and panting, the words just now had exhausted all the strength in his body.

So in order to maintain the authority of the order given by the head of the family under the wrath, this small black house in the ancestral house of the Wan family had a hole in the roof a long time ago, and a slender iron sheet was inserted on it, and the rain on a rainy day or the morning dew would flow down the iron sheet, and gradually it became a small depression in the dirt in the house, and there was some water in it, but this water ...... It's really not very clean! This can be regarded as another punishment for the children of the Wan family!

After Luo Bin left, in the room on the other side of the small black room, an old man slowly opened his eyes, shook his head, closed his eyes again, and began to continue meditating.

And the last person in Yuzhang City who is concerned about the Chang'an Dynasty is naturally too Shou Wang Xian!

The Taiyuan royal family is worthy of being a wealthy family for thousands of years, at least in terms of information transmission, it is not worse than Xu Chen's flying pigeon biography, and even better in long-distance transmission!

Wang Xian made a decision on the night of the Yuan Festival, and wrote a letter that night, adding Lu Zongbao's plan and his own ideas, and wrote it in, and a moment later, a thousand miles of good horses drove out of the Taishou Mansion.

Along the way, the horses are all first-class good horses! And the secret medicine of aphrodisiac has been fed in advance, which can burst out the explosive power of the horse in a short period of time! The essence of the thousand-year-old family is undoubtedly revealed at this moment, and the top good horses worth 100,000 gold have been exhausted and disabled in less than 12 hours from this Yuzhang to Chang'an! And the foundation building master of the imperial horse paid the price of crippled legs!

This is the highest level of the Wang family's letter transmission, and it is absolutely forbidden to use it until the moment when the safety of the family is endangered! Moreover, there are only three or two people in the entire Wang family who have this right!

It is by relying on this kind of investment at all costs that we can create such a miracle that the letter was sent from Yuzhang to Chang'an in less than a day!

It is precisely because of this that the Wang family, who moved later, was able to take down Yang Zhao before the Jiangdong Qian family, and also took a rare advantage!

It is precisely because of this opportunity that the wealthy families on the Yangzhou side did not expect that the seven clans and five surnames, as representatives of the northern families, would unite and unify their efforts at a meeting, which caught them off guard!

After Zhu Xuan retreated, an official in a dark crimson official robe standing in front of him secretly said in his heart: "It's so dangerous!"

This person is Qian Jingtong, a clansman of the Jiangdong Qian clan! He is also the representative of the Yangzhou Maritime Group at the court meeting this time!

After the head of the Qian family in Jiangdong came to Chang'an, he got in touch with Qian Jingtong, and the head of the Qian family went to Yang Zhao's mansion in Qujiangchi after visiting Li Linfu.

It's just that the poor master of our dignified family, because he has a real intention in his heart, he didn't notice the unusualness of Yang Zhao's unusually enthusiastic expression for a while, so that he laid the root of today's failure!