Yangzhou City, Drunken Immortal Building, the top floor belongs to Cao Yi's elegant seat, Liu Baiqing looked at Cao Yi and was silent, and after a long time, he said: "Okay, son, when is my side leaving......

"The sooner the better, in the afternoon! Mu Hong is very important for our next development, although through Taibai drunk and Qinglian wine we are tied to the salt gang, but the salt gang can only be said to protect our money and income to a certain extent, but it is not directly related to the development of the power and the expansion of the scale, but the Cao gang is different, the transportation of our goods, the business, and even the establishment of the dart bureau to carry out the dart, in the water transportation piece, the Cao Gang said the second, no one dared to say the first, so our Taibai Chamber of Commerce in the early stage can rely on the Cao Gang, which is of great significance. Cao Yi looked at Liu Baiqing and said with a serious face.

Liu Baiqing nodded, and then said worriedly: "That son, I'll leave in the afternoon, but ...... Seven days later, Zuixian Building opened, and the manpower here in Yangzhou ......"

"So today's departure, from Yangzhou to Xicheng is only two days at most, so it will take four days to throw back and forth, if you open quickly, you can reach it in three days. Therefore, the people who came over in the afternoon only have three days at most in Xicheng, and if you go for three days and there is no progress, then come back with Brother Yun. Cao Yi thought for a moment and responded.

"Yes! Childe, I'm going to gather the people! Liu Baiqing clenched his fists with both hands and said goodbye to Cao Yi.

"Go ahead, find Red Sleeves and get some money, the food and drink of fifty people is not a small amount."

"Got it, Childe!" Liu Baiqing finally clenched his fists again and then pushed the door and left.

Cao Yi also paced to the window, opened the window and looked at Yangzhou City outside the window, at this time it has entered the warm spring, the sun is just right, and all the scenes are under the bright sunshine, so that Cao Yi also has a kind of Taibai Chamber of Commerce like the plants in this season, thriving and thriving.

Cao Yi was still in a daze, and there was a knock on the door and the sound of a red-sleeved "childe" behind him.

"Come in!" Cao Yi didn't look back, still looking at the scene outside the window, and the footsteps of the red sleeves gradually approached.

"Childe, Brother Liu took away five thousand taels of silver, saying that he would immediately take fifty people to Xicheng......"

"Well, I asked him to go to your side to get it, and Brother Yun sent a letter saying that he needed support, so I asked him to bring fifty people over."

The rhythm of Red Sleeves' breathing suddenly became sluggish, and he asked in a slightly worried tone, "What's the situation over there in Xicheng?" ”

"Not really, the letter is on the table, you can see it when you read it." Cao Yi turned his head and smiled at Red Sleeves, and tapped his chin to the note on the table.

Red Sleeves walked over and stretched out his slender hand to pick it up and look at it, and after a while, he put it down, his brows that had been frowning loosened slightly, and he said softly: "Childe, is Mu Feichen's father really on the side of those two hall masters?" ”

Cao Yi scraped his red-sleeved nose and said with a smile: "Although Childe is a great talent, but Childe is not a great god, he can't be an unpredictable prophet, even Brother Yun in Xicheng He doesn't know, let alone me in Yangzhou, you, don't think too much about Childe." ”

Red Sleeves' face was slightly red, and he said in a somewhat coquettish tone: "But in Red Sleeves' heart, Childe is a great talent who knows everything and understands everything!" ”

"That's it!" This is a small head that suddenly poked in outside the door of the elegant seat, and when you look at the hair accessories, you can know that it is the little girl from Tanyun.

"Childe is the most powerful in our hearts." Tan Yun's voice with a little milk is still very recognizable, and Red Sleeves and Cao Yi can hear it as soon as they hear it. Moreover, in the Drunken Immortal Building, only Tan Yun, a girl, dared to interject when Red Sleeves and Cao Yi were talking.

Today, because Cao Yi was going to see Chu Mingxuan, he only took Liu Baiqing with him, and did not bring Tan Yun, who had been promoted to Cao Yi's "personal little maid", so he asked Tan Yun to follow the red sleeves to the Drunken Immortal Building in the morning.

Cao Yi glared at Tan Yun and said with a smile: "This place is not comparable to our Jiangning, and the Drunken Immortal Building has not yet opened, and it is still at the stage of making ends meet, so there are no fruits and preserved fruits you like in my seat, and you can't eat anything this time." ”

"Huh!?" Red Sleeves covered his mouth, let out a burst of exclamation, and then showed an embarrassed look at Cao Yi, and said glutinously: "Childe, it's all Red Sleeves that didn't do well, I didn't prepare these ...... for you"

"No, no, I'm ridiculing Tan Yun, I don't come much, and I come a few times occasionally, but I basically don't eat, and in the end, it's all in Tan Yun's stomach." Cao Yi shook his head and said.

"Childe! What do you mean that it all fell into my stomach in the end, every time it was Gongzi you gave me food, and it wasn't Tan Yun who took the initiative to take it, you can't frame Tan Yun, Gongzi rewarded Tan Yun, no matter what it is, Tan Yun will gladly accept Gongzi's reward, so ...... You can't blame Tan Yun for being greedy! Tan Yun explained with a sly look in his eyes.

Cao Yi shook his head, then stopped caring about her, and said to the red sleeves: "If it is just two hall masters plus Mu Hong, I think it must be enough to rely on the fact that Brother Yun and ten Taibai Secret Guards have been there before, and now like I proposed reinforcements, mainly because of the more than 100 Liao people, I guess that Jing Zhe can successfully seize the Cao Gang from Mu Hong, who has been in power for hundreds of years, and the more than 100 Liao people must have helped a lot, and even this time from the power within the Cao Gang, the change of dynasty, it is difficult to say that there is the will and strength of the Liao State behind the manipulation. ”

Red sleeves opened her mouth slightly, to be honest, Liao is still too far away for her little woman, the only thing she has had contact with before is because the head of the Cao family is now in Xiongzhou, and outside the border is Liao, and her housemother, Mrs. Gao, and her good sister Qingzhao all went to Xiongzhou together, except that, she basically has no impression of Liao.

But because of Da Yan's propaganda for the Liao State, the Red Sleeves, who have never dealt with the Liao State, feel that the Liao State is a barbarian land, and the Liao people are all murderous people, people who eat flesh and blood, and people who drink blood, so when they heard that Mu Feichen's father was missing this time, the position of the leader of the Cao Gang was seized by Jing Zhe with the help of the Liao people and even the Liao State, which made the Red Sleeves feel that this matter became very tricky.

"Childe, are the Liao people all very powerful?" Red Sleeves looked at Cao Yi and asked.

"Yes, Childe, are they all barbarians like beasts?" Tan Yun blinked her big eyes and looked at Cao Yi with a cute expression.

Cao Yi couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, and said with a smile: "You all think of them too demonized, they Liao people are also normal people, just because it is cold over there, and they are nomads, so their figure is slightly burly and tall compared to our Dayan and Han people, and the others are the same as us, and they don't say that they have three heads and six arms, and they have infinite strength, and they eat a cow at a meal." ”

"Well, didn't they all say that the Liao people were barbarians, they would eat children, and they were particularly fierce and aggressive," Tan Yun stuck out his tongue and said.

Cao Yi's heart is dark, this is the public opinion propaganda of this era, demonizing the Liao country, and cultivating the concern that non-my race will have a different heart since he was a child.

"If there is really the power of the Liao State behind the power struggle of the Cao Gang this time, then the situation is not optimistic, Red Sleeves, with your current knowledge, you should know the strength of the Cao Gang in transportation, right?"

Redsleeves nodded, indicating that he was already aware.

"In your opinion, do you think that if the Liao people actually controlled the Cao Gang, through the so-called merchants, some of our materials in Dayan, especially strategic materials, were transported to the Daimyo's Mansion through the canal, and then transported to the territory of the Liao State through the Daimyo's Mansion, if this matter is really true, then as this matter continues to happen, will the national strength of the Liao State be greatly developed? Whether it's financial or material resources," Cao Yi looked at the red sleeves and said slowly.

"In that case......"

"In this case, the national strength of Dayan and Liao will not say that they will lose their strengths, but the gap between the two countries will definitely get smaller and smaller. The combat effectiveness of the Liao country's own army is stronger than our Great Yan, they are all soldiers, and there are war horses that we are far from being able to match, what our Great Yan can defeat them is nothing more than strategic resources such as iron weapons......"

"Now the imperial court itself prohibits trade between the two countries, but there are still private trade transactions, but because ironware, salt and the like are originally forbidden goods in Dayan, there are very few trades in Dayan, but with the cover of the Cao Gang, if Da Liao can transport these strategic materials to Liao in large quantities, then our Dayan is really dangerous." Cao Yi said worriedly.

As a modern person who has traveled through later generations, he is naturally familiar with the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, and knows that whether it is the Northern Song Dynasty or the later Southern Song Dynasty, it has always been a weak country that has been crushed by the northern nomads on the ground. After all, this is the only dynasty that did not perish in civil strife.

Moreover, Cao Yi, as a slight nationalist, did not have a good impression of the Liao, Jin, Western Xia, Yuan, and Qing dynasties in history, and often fantasized that he could lead troops to fight to drive those ethnic invaders out of the territory and recover the great rivers and mountains.

In fact, every man has more or less such thoughts and desires, but no one else has this opportunity, after all, the times are different, for them those have become history, and they are useless, but for Cao Yi, this is not the case.

In this life, he has the ability to snuff out the invasion of the Central Plains and massacre the Han people in advance, and even fight back against them. So this time, he found more than a hundred Liao people from the letters written by Yuan Qing, and even checked the affairs of the Cao Gang.

His first reaction was to destroy the conspiracy of the Liao people and even the Liao State, and even this desire to destroy had silently surpassed his original idea of wanting to rescue Mu Hong.

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