Because of the background of the Yinhai Commercial Bank, Wei Xiangyuan and the others did not encounter any obstacles, and crossed the Yangtze River by cargo ship very smoothly and left Jinling City, and they still pretended to be employees of the Yinhai Commercial Bank, and followed the material transportation fleet of the Yinhai Commercial Bank to Suzhen County, the garrison of the Eastern Route Army!

At this moment, Xiao Yao had also been driven out of the palace by Chen Xu, but he returned to the general casino with a relaxed and smug smile!

Zu Yuan is also smiling like a flower now, because he counted all the luggage, goods and valuable things left by Du Youxin and those merchants of Qi State, adding up to tens of thousands of taels of silver, and this windfall of course went into Xiao Yao's private pocket, because this was extorted back by Xiao Yao, or it was the spiritual loss fee that Qi Guo paid Xiao Yao!

"Young Master, this Du Youxin has already planned this ambush, and even moved all his belongings away from the General Casino in advance, and scattered and hid in the various strongholds of these Qi people in Jinling City! But now all of his belongings have been seized by me and brought back, plus the luggage, goods and property left here by the merchants of the Qi Kingdom who were driven away by us, these materials are worth at least 10,000 taels of silver! Zu Yuan said with a smile.

"If the people of Qi dare to assassinate me, then they will have to pay the price! And I believe that the Du family will not hand over Du Youxin, so those Qi people can't take these things back! Xiao Yao also said with a sneer.

"But to be honest, we are indeed a little unfortunate in our conscience to detain their goods and property so domineeringly, but when we think that they dare to ambush so many people to assassinate the young master, it is really an unforgivable sin, and it is more than innocent! And when we went to collect such materials, the people of Jinling City were all applauding, and they all agreed with our treatment of these Qi people! Even the government is very supportive of our approach, and those Qi people who want to report to the official have been driven out by our officials of Chen State! Therefore, the will of the people cannot be violated, even if doing these things is against business ethics and damages the reputation of our general firm, but for the sake of the country's righteousness, we still did it decisively! Zu Yuan pretended to have a very helpless expression, but said gloatingly.

"The two countries are at war, what morality is there to talk about! We didn't take their heads to sacrifice the flag, but just confiscated their money and goods, and gave them some travel expenses to return to Qi country, which is considered our benevolence and righteousness! Moreover, His Majesty also acquiesced to me doing this to them, so the official government, even if they are from the prince's side, usually do not deal with our general trading firm, and now they dare not help these Qi people seek justice! Xiao Yao explained.

"It turns out that the government doesn't dare to help these Qi people come to trouble our general trading house because of His Majesty's instructions! Since Your Majesty acquiesced in our drive out the Qi people, and secretly summoned the young master into the palace just now, is it for the Northern Expedition? Zu Yuan asked.

"That's right! Taking advantage of the opportunity of the death of Hu Luguang, the general of Qi, to make the Qi army feel in turmoil, I believe that Your Majesty will soon send troops to Huaibei, ready to capture the Huaibei region in one fell swoop, plus Wu Mingche has always been complaining about me, and strongly requested that our official be reinstated, without my firearms troops, it is difficult for them to successfully capture the city and conquer the city on the Huainan battlefield! But now His Majesty doesn't want to pay for me to rebuild the Forward Brigade, but wants me to contribute to him and return to the army! He also said that today I was assassinated by the people of Qi, and he could avenge me, and sent troops to Huaibei for this lame reason that the people of Qi assassinated the people of Chen in Jinling City, which was a major part of Gyeonggi, and provoked the prestige of Chen's country! Hmph, I won't go on this trip to troubled waters, so I directly rejected Your Majesty, saying that now that I have been demoted to a commoner, I don't want to participate in the affairs of the peace army, and now I just want to do a good job of the poetry conference held in the palace on August 15! Xiao Yao said with a sneer.

"Without the young master and those powerful firearms, I think even against the Qi army in turmoil, the Chen army may not be able to win, compared to the Huaibei side of the river is getting fewer and fewer, our Chen country's proud warships and sailors are also difficult to play their due strength, the soldiers got off the boat, how can they get those Qi army in those who are powerful in the world!" The well-informed Zu Yuan also nodded and said. sweet potato

"So I won't participate in this battle against Huaibei! No matter whether Your Majesty sends that general to attack, whether they win or lose, it has nothing to do with us, we just watch the show on the side, and while everyone is paying attention to Huaibei, we must also restore our own strength as soon as possible! Xiao Yao commanded.

"Young master, rest assured, today we got so much money and materials from the hands of the Qi people, and we don't need to enter the account books of the commercial house, it is all our own money, so I immediately arranged for all kinds of materials to be transported to Jiangzhou, and fully supported Master Zhou to make cooperative weapons for the young master!" Zu Yuan also took the order and said.

Xiao Yao was assassinated by the people of Qi State, resulting in those Qi people who lived in the General Casino, all their belongings were seized by General Casino, and they were driven out of Jinling City, but the officials of Chen State acquiesced to the behavior of General Firm, which was no different from robbery, which made other Qi people in Jinling City all endanger themselves, and within a day, they all sold their goods and fled from Jinling City with all their property, which suddenly reminded everyone that although the two countries of Chen and Qi are temporarily suspended, in fact, the Northern Expedition order issued by Chen Xu, the emperor of Chen State, is still in effect, and the two countries are still at war!

However, the people in Jinling City were worried and nervous because they were in the war period for only a few days, and it was replaced by another kind of excitement and anticipation, because the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 has finally arrived, and the final of the poetry conference that people are looking forward to will finally kick off in the palace!

On the fifteenth day of August, early in the morning, Zu Yuan had already taken all the staff who organized the poetry conference, and after layers of searching, he was able to enter the palace and carry out various organizational preparations!

And those ten talented people also entered the palace with great excitement, ready to leap into the dragon gate, and show their talents in front of the emperor's ministers and envoys of Chen State!

Only Xiao Yao and Ren Yuanyuan, after accompanying Xu Miao and Song Keer, the two beauties who were nervous and excited, but also looking forward to worrying, had afternoon tea before boarding the carriage and setting off, walking leisurely towards the palace.

"Yuanyuan, are you ready? The makeup I designed for you today, I believe that none of those concubines in the palace can compare with you! As long as you wait for the poetry conference, seize the opportunity, and show a little eyebrows in front of Chen Shubao, that lustful Chen Shubao will definitely be fascinated by you! Xiao Yao smiled treacherously.

And Ren Yuanyuan, who already had a martial artist makeup on her face that was popular all over the country in later generations, also nodded, and smiled confidently: "Young master, please rest assured, I have rehearsed this performance countless times these days, and I will definitely show my best state tonight, and then present a perfect performance to everyone, and of course, it will definitely make Chen Shubao fall under my pomegranate skirt!" Ren Yuanyuan smiled semergingly.