- "Why do you have to show the token even to the host?"

Xiao Yixiu strode over, and when he saw Wei Shaotang looking back, he smiled unabated, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he sneered at the masked strong man in Xuanyi: "Is this the rules that the West Pavilion taught you?"

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On the contrary, Wei Shaotang explained to him: "Xiao Xian's nephew misunderstood, the host this time is not an old man. ”

"Oh?"

"It's the lord. ”

Xiao Yixiu looked at Wei Shaotang with a straight glare, both surprised and delighted: "The lord is also here?"

"No," it was Du Yan who solved his puzzles this time: "The lord and the pavilion master are not in the capital." ”

Wei Shaotang nodded, signaling that this matter was true, and arched his hand to Du Yan as a greeting.

Then, he went straight inside the door.

Xiao Yixiu followed, but was stopped by a strong man. He frowned, and had no choice but to take out his token.

It was a token of the same material, style and size as Wei Shaotang, except that Xiao Yixiu's carving was a koi.

And on Du Yan's token, there is a green eagle.

"Such a young koi," Du Yan glanced at the relief koi with overflowing eyes, patted Xiao Yixiu's shoulder, and said with a smile: "It's really a tiger father without a dog." ”

"Master Du praised, the 'Eagle Crane' under your command is young and promising. ”

The smile on Du Yan's lips did not decrease, looking at the back of Wei Shaotang in front of him, and there were words in his words: "The 'begonia' of the master of the dangerous hall is worthy of the 'terrible afterlife'." ”

……

At that time, the night is as cool as water.

Deep on the east side of Shang Chengxing, there is an exquisite courtyard surrounded by apricot trees.

The black lights and black fire here, no one could have imagined that at this moment, in the underground secret room below this courtyard, there were seven people with different identities, and the things they planned were enough to affect the situation of the entire Great Song Dynasty.

- "Casting Ah......

The news brought by Du Yan should have been a secret that only officials with a grade three or above would know, however, under the different expressions of everyone, they were all expected to be indifferent.

Xiao Yixiu sat on the delicate rosewood circle chair, groaned for a while, stretched out his index finger, gently tapped on the coffee table on the side, and said: "The causes and consequences of rising prices and lack of money, the "Bianjing Journal" has already explained it in detail, even if it is a person like me who is not from the Song Kingdom, I can guess that your official family will probably increase the casting, right?"

What he said was the voice of everyone present.

After speaking, Xiao Yixiu raised his eyebrows and teased the person next to him: "Master Xin, if you can't do it, you can ask the elders for help and help, why bother to support it? ”

Sitting next to him was none other than Xin Ji, the young man of the Xin family.

His deep dark eyes looked directly at Xiao Yixiu, and the light that was deep in his eyes made it difficult to guess what was going on in it.

- "The affairs of the Marquis of Anguo Mansion are really tricky, there is a way to be a 'rat thrower', Xin Ji must also have his difficulties......"

For Xin Ji, there was an old man sitting opposite them, shriveled and thin, with snow-white eyebrows hanging down to his temples, and his eyes habitually half-squinted.

Ye Mingcheng, who was not far away, also echoed: "What Hall Master Yang said is very true. ”

The "Yang Hall Master" he called was Yang Xianmao, the head of the palace service bureau, and the eunuch from the fourth grade.

Du Yan asked by the way, "What news is there in the palace?"

Yang Xianmao shook his head: "The official family doesn't seem to have any plans to set up a prince, but there is something ...... it."

After that, he glanced at Ji Zhuyi next to him.

Ji Zhuyi is the Shang Palace of the Shang Food Bureau in the palace, and she is a female official of the fifth grade.

She said: "Lu Zhaoyi is pregnant again. ”

"Oh?" Xiao Yixiu couldn't help but be a little curious: "Lu Yijian's granddaughter?"

"Exactly. ”

"I heard that your official family favors this one the most. ”

Yang Xianmao replied: "She looks ...... It's a little similar to the little lady, but it's a pity that the first two were born daughters. ”

Xiao Yixiu suddenly said: "I see...... However, if she gives birth to a boy this time, there will definitely be ministers in the DPRK who are unhappy. ”

Du Yan bowed: "This is exactly where the topic can be used." He asked Xiao Yixiu again: "What's the situation in Liao?"

Xiao Yixiu stretched her waist and said leisurely: "The old pious woman is finally going to deal with the Xiao family." ”

The old pious woman he said was the Empress Dowager Xi Yebeshi of the Liao State.

Unlike Empress Dowager Zhao's ignorance of court affairs, Xi Yebe's clan is very good at playing political games, and has devoted himself to eliminating political enemies one by one for more than ten years.

Just as Du Yan was about to inquire carefully, the masked strong man who was checking the token outside the door held a brocade box eight or nine inches long and wide to everyone.

At the top of the brocade box, there are four palm-sized, sunken squares, all of which are irregularly shaped.

Wei Shaotang first took out his token and placed it on one of the lattices, and the peony relief of the token fit perfectly into the recess.

Du Yan and Xiao Yixiu also put their respective tokens in turn. It's just that Xiao Yixiu did not place a koi token this time, but a carved shark pattern.

In the end, Yang Xianmao also put the token of his scorpion relief on it.

With a "click", the mechanism of the brocade box was activated, and the lid was automatically lifted, and inside, there was only a page of rice paper, on which the word "Ninety-Fourth" was written.

Ninety-four?

Everyone thought for a while, and heard Du Yan say: "Or jump in the abyss." ”

He said the Qiangua of "Zhou Yi", and the penultimate line is ninety-four, and the hexagram says: "Ninety-four, or jumping in the abyss, is not to blame." ”

The dragon either leaps into the sky or stays in the abyss, indicating that as long as it advances or retreats according to the needs of the situation, there will be no mistakes.

Yang Xianmao grinned and said with emotion: "The lord uses this hexagram as a new code, which seems to have a deep meaning. ”

"Exactly. ”

Xiao Yixiu also rubbed his hands lightly and said: "'Don't use the hidden dragon' for so long, it's time to act." ”

……

The study room of the South Garden of the Marquis of Anguo.

The light, through the folded carved window lattice, illuminates the porch half-bright.

There is only one window in the room at the moment.

Looking out of the window, you can see the black branches and green leaves of the cold plum in the garden.

"Financial budget?"

Chai Jue asked puzzled but with interest.

All night tonight, he and "Le Lang" were reviewing the accounts handed in by Zheng Youliang.

After reading it, "Le Lang" suddenly put forward such a suggestion.

"What is a budget?" he asked.

"Whether it is Babao Teahouse, "Bianjing Magazine", Yucai School or the bookkeeper office, the current operation is too casual, and when you make money, you spend it everywhere, and you don't have enough money to rush to raise it, which is too passive. ”

"So what?"

"So, have a clear goal, for the time being, for a year, on the basis of forecasts and decisions, there must be detailed estimates and arrangements for how to make money, how much to spend, where to spend it, and how to spend it. ”

"Makes sense. Chai Jue agreed.

Le Lin said: "Is there an editorial review meeting in the editorial department tomorrow afternoon?"

"Well, one last check on the matter of the debate the day after tomorrow. ”

"Can the editorial review meeting be suspended for a while?" said Lelin.

Chai Jue guessed what "he" was going to do: "Is it because of the 'financial budget'?"

"Yes," Le Lin nodded: "I want to hold a financial report meeting tomorrow, if Liu Gelao and Wen Shaobao can attend, it will be the best." ”

……