Wenyi disdains it in his heart: It seems that Dongying's guy is not too stupid, and he knows that we will definitely have a bad idea after telling the matter of the silver mine. But you didn't expect me to be that Jack Paira! Wenyi nodded and said, "Well, how many troops have you sent in total?" The officer should also see how many reinforcements he will send over. ”

Su Buxiang said truthfully: "My country has carried out a total of 6 purges, and the number of people is increasing each time, and the total number is about 80,000. ”

Wenyi pretended to be dignified and said: "I didn't expect this group of pirates to have such a high combat effectiveness, although the ** team is invincible, it has suffered a lot of losses in successive battles. It's okay to send troops, but the consumption of grain and grass and the pension of the fallen soldiers must be paid by your country. ”

Su I didn't agree with a mouthful: "No problem, this is how it should be, I don't know how much the prime minister is going to send troops?" ”

Wenyi thought for a while and said: "This official should think about it carefully, Brother Xiangxiang, you should go back to Honglu Temple to rest for one night, and the official will give you an answer tomorrow morning." ”

Su I don't have a good remark after getting a positive reply from literature and art. Literature and art asked Wen Erba to invite people with five surnames and seven hopes to come to the house for a banquet. He wants to take this opportunity to tighten the relationship between them and the royal family again, and he is about to fully launch the Datang construction plan, but there can be no internal problems.

Except for the extremely arrogant Xingyang Zheng family, who refused on the grounds that the head of the family was unwell, the other six families came as promised. Literature and art have already set up a banquet, and when everyone arrives, they can see at a glance who is their own person and who is a perfunctory existence. Among the six who came, the Li family in Longxi was a royal family, so Li Chengqian came over to count people; The Li family of Zhaojun came to Li Shousu, the first room of the Eastern Ancestor, as the eighteenth bachelor of the Qin Palace, he didn't know if he could survive the death next year, and Li Huaiyuan of the first room of the Western Ancestor, he was originally the prime minister of Tang Zhongzong, and now he is just a young man, who should be sent out by the family to see the world; Cui Mingan, the head of the Boling Cui family, was present in person, and now that Li Shimin has ascended the throne, he and Li Shiji have changed their name to Cui Gan and Li Ji, and they can be seen from his political consciousness that he is a smart person; Qinghe Cui's family is also a hairy boy, I heard Cui Gan introduce that it is the second son of Qinghe Cui's family, what is Cui Hong's name, anyway, I haven't heard of literature and art; Fan Yang Lu came to the head of the family, Lu Chengqing, who is currently the public of Fanyang County, and also serves as the squire of the military department of the inspection school, and he is a proper person; The Taiyuan Wang family came after all, it was Wang Renyou, the father of the future queen Wang!

Wenyi couldn't help muttering in his heart: The five surnames and seven wangs are not so arrogant, just if the Zheng family in Xingyang dares not to give him face, everyone else is here, and it will be easy to do.

Wenyi raised his glass to everyone and said, "Thank you uncles and uncles for being willing to come to this banquet, the kid feels very honored." I'll give my uncles and uncles a glass first! After speaking, he raised his glass and drank it all.

Others have a drink with them, and the traditional culture of the Chinese wine table drinks first and then talks about things. Wenyi followed this principle well, and after a few rounds of drinking, Wenyi said: "The boy took the liberty of inviting uncles and uncles to come tonight to earn extra money with everyone. The oil and water are quite sufficient, I wonder if the uncles and uncles are willing? ”

Cui Gan was the first to speak: "Everyone knows that Prime Minister Wen is the God of Wealth of the Tang Dynasty, and he has a bit of the ability to turn stone into gold, how can we refuse the invitation of the God of Wealth?" Please also talk about it in detail, and I'll go back and step up the preparations. ”

Wenyi arched his hand and said: "Uncle Cui is outside, isn't it, it's just a matter of calling me Wenxiang in the officialdom, why is it called this in private?" Uncles and uncles don't mind, just call me Xiaoyi. This matter is actually very simple, that is, Dongying wants us to send troops to help them clear out a group of pirates. ”

Li Shousu said at this time: "To clear the pirates, you should find a military general, Xiaoyi, what's the use of you calling us?" ”

Wenyi shook his head and said: "The reason for this matter is this, when the kid was building a ship in Shanghai three years ago, he accidentally found a silver mine when he went to sea, so the kid disguised himself as a British pirate and occupied it." This time, Dongying just wants us to send troops to destroy the British pirates. ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help laughing. After a while, Lu Chengqing said: "I see, no wonder Your Majesty's silver has not been spent in recent years, it turns out that there are mountains of gold and silver at home!" But Xiaoyi, we shouldn't need to intervene in this matter, right? ”

Wenyi nodded and said: "Uncles and uncles naturally don't need to take action to simply clear pirates, but this time we are sending troops to help the vassal country, how can we go in vain?" I don't think we need to send real troops, let's temporarily recruit some villagers, and get together 50,000 or 60,000 to go over and mess around. When the time comes, you can casually ask Dongying for tens of millions of military salaries and pensions, and we can all live happily for a while. ”

Wang Renyou stroked his beard and said, "Xiaoyi has a heart, but what if Dongying doesn't admit it at that time?" ”

Wenyi said with a smile: "I can't help but he doesn't agree, I didn't want to slaughter him, but when I asked him what was in the mountain, the envoy told me that there was nothing in the mountain except herbs." So this time I'm going to send 200 old warships and 500 new Xuanjia troops over together, and if he dares not to pay for the military, I'll take it myself! ”

Wang Renyou wondered, "Why do you send so many ships over?" Also, isn't the number of this army a little small? ”

Wen Yi replied: "Now the Shanghai shipyard is stepping up the construction of new warships, those old warships are too backward, and I am ready to sell them to Dongying at a high price." There are also a lot of troops, this time the newly formed Xuanjia New Army is only 10,000 people in total, this time it is just to take them out to see the world, if you really want to destroy Dongying, it is enough for me to stay there to guard the silver mine with 500 people! Therefore, please prepare a lot of boxes and helpers with silver when you go back, and if nothing else, you will leave at the beginning of spring next year. ”

Everyone is the top nobles of the Tang Dynasty, how can they put Xiao Xiaodongying in their eyes, and this discussion is just a conversation after cooking, and soon everyone decided on the number of participants. After eating a meal, you can also earn extra money, not to mention how happy the owners of the family who rushed over this time, they all said goodbye after they were full of wine and food, and made an appointment to go to someone's house next time.

Only Cui Hong, the second son of the Cui family in Qinghe, was sullen, and at that time, the literary and artistic faction sent someone to inform his father, and his father Cui Zhiguo thought that the yellow-haired little two were too deceitful, and he dared to send someone to invite him to come over, even if His Majesty wanted to see him now, he couldn't be so hasty! But he didn't want to get too stiff with literature and art, so he sent his second son, and even his brother Cui Jin was not allowed to come. It's good now, everyone is divided evenly between five and five, and when he comes to him, "The Cui family's great business won't care about these small money, so let us be poor." He is the person with the lowest status in the audience, how dare he say the word "no"!

When Cui Hong returned home, he told his father the truth about what happened at the banquet. Cui Zhiguo said with an "ah" annoyance: "What a cunning boy! It's fake to go to Dongying to get silver, mainly to see our family's attitude towards Li Tang! This is a sign that we are going to be ostracized! By the way, where else did you say you hadn't visited? ”

Cui Hong replied: "Xingyang Zheng said that the head of the family was unwell, so he didn't send anyone over. ”

Cui Zhiguo breathed a sigh of relief this time: "Fortunately, someone helped us to come to the bottom, Xingyang Zheng, hum, we will be unlucky in the future!" Hong'er, you go and prepare a few cars of gifts, and tomorrow you will go to the Wenfu with your father to apologize. ”

In the afternoon of the next day, Wenyi, who easily handled official business, was stopped by Su Wuxiang again, and Wenyi put his arms around his shoulders affectionately and said: "Brother Buxiang, after my non-stop efforts day and night, I finally persuaded the bigwigs of the court to agree to send troops to aid you, eh, it's very hard to sleep all night!" ”

Su I don't smell how I can't hear the sound of literature and art, my waist is bent like a prawn, and I quietly took out a box from my sleeve and stuffed it into the arms of literature and art. Wenyi took out the box very generously and opened it to take a look, good guy! A full 36 pearls the size of a quail egg! Not only is it the same size, but it also glows with a light pink color, which is definitely a treasure in the pearl world!

Wenyi smacked his lips: "Brother Buxiang, you Dongying are already poor and can only use these little pearls to fool people?" Although the official is young, there are still a few boxes of pearls the size of goose eggs. Forget it, who let us have a fate, I will reluctantly accept it. After speaking, he closed the box and threw it to Wen Erba behind him, as if there were really several boxes of pearls at home, but Wen Erba almost didn't catch it, and he scared Wenyi so much that his original form was almost exposed.

Su I don't have blood in my heart, this box of pearls is the treasure of Emperor Shuming, and it is second only to the existence of the three major artifacts in Dongying, but the literature and art are still light gifts, and he said at the moment: "Wen Xiang is a first-class magnate in the Heavenly Empire, and he is well-informed, how can he be compared with the villains of our feudal kingdoms." Wen Xiang is a little restless, the villain has deeply realized his mistakes, so go back and reflect! After finishing speaking, he bowed ninety degrees to literature and art and slipped away in a hurry.

Wenyi tilted his head and touched his chin and smiled at Wen Erba: "Erba, study hard, you see how many people are on the road, and you don't see any gifts you gave to Benxiang when you are so promoted, and you almost dropped my pearl!" The next time there is such a thing, I will punish you to feed the horses! ”

Wen Erba said: "Young master, can the relationship between the two of us be comparable to that of him, a dwarf in Dongying?" I'll go back and let the sword make us a table of delicious food, and the right to make amends. ”

Wenyi was surprised: "Yes, didn't you have 'tracheitis' before?" When will it be time to revive the husband? ”

Wen Erba patted his chest and said proudly: "It was Lijian who was pregnant before, so I accommodated her everywhere, and now that the babies are weaned, of course I want to revive the majesty of the head of the family!" ”

Wenyi nodded: "Okay, I want to ask when I see the sword." ”

Wen Erba immediately coaxed down, and said pitifully: "Young master, you can't pit your brother, I'll just make a joke, don't take it seriously, don't take it seriously." Haha..."