Wang Qin was sitting behind his desk, holding a pen and writing something on a piece of paper.

At this time, there was a knock on the door from the outside, and then a man's words came: Xiangye, are you inside?

Wang Qin hurriedly stopped his pen, turned over the paper on which he had written, turned it over and buckled it on the table, and then said outward: I'm here, come in.

The door was pushed open, and a subordinate walked in, came to Wang Qin and said: "Xiangye, someone sent a letter to Xiangye just now.

With that, he handed a letter in his hand to Wang Qin.

Wang Qin was stunned for a moment, hurriedly opened the letter, took out the letter and read it.

I saw that the letter said, Wang Xiang, our master is here, I want to have an interview with you, please ask Wang Xiang to come to the Taibai Restaurant Drunken Immortal Pavilion to meet, and he will not wait.

After seeing this, Wang Qin jumped up from the seat, grabbed the paper that was buttoned on the table and stuffed it into his arms along with the letter, and then pulled his legs and hurriedly walked out.

Zuixian Pavilion is the largest private room in Taibai Restaurant, and the large round table inside can seat more than a dozen people, but at this time, there are only two women drinking tea sitting in the room.

One of these two women is Xiahou Yinglan, and the other is Xiaolan, the third lady of Long Haitao, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

A sound of footsteps came from outside, and then there was a knock on the door, and the words of the runaway came from outside: Madame, your guests have arrived.

Xiaolan said outside: Please come in.

The door was pushed open, and Wang Qin walked in from the outside.

Xiaolan stepped forward with a smile on her face and saluted Wang Qinyingying: Wang Xiang is here?

Then he pointed to Xiahou Yinglan with his hand and introduced: That's my master.

Xiahou Yinglan stood up and smiled faintly, then pointed to the chair opposite with her hand and said, "Prime Minister Wang, please take a seat."

Wang Qin nodded and sat down on the chair, and after Xiahou Yinglan also sat down, he asked: I don't know what Mrs. wants to talk about when she asks Prime Minister Benxiang?

Xiahou Yinglan was very straightforward and said directly: Talk about the cooperation between Wang Xiang and us.

Wang Qindao: You are ------

Xiahou Yinglan smiled faintly: This seat is the person of the king of Luoyang, and he came to talk to the king about cooperation on the order of the prince.

Wang Qin pretended not to understand and asked: I don't know what Benxiang can cooperate with the prince?

Hearing this, Xiahou Yinglan's face sank, and she said coldly: Wang Xiang, are you really confused or are you pretending to be confused, don't forget, the secret letter sent to Wang Xiang by the Great Liao Kingdom is still in our hands, do you want to take it out and read it to Wang Xiang.

Hearing this, Wang Qin's face changed suddenly, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said: Madam misunderstood, what does the prime minister mean, what do you princes want to cooperate with the prime minister.

Xiahou Yinglan said: Our prince is going to raise troops to attack Bianjing, but the strength is not enough, and we need the support of your Great Liao State.

Wang Qin was shocked: What, your prince is really going to raise an army!

Hearing this, Xiahou Yinglan was very surprised and asked: Why, does the prince already know that our prince is going to raise troops?

Wang Qin smiled: This is already a secret that is not a secret, let alone I know, I am afraid that the high-ranking ministers of the court already know it, otherwise, the emperor would not have hurriedly transferred back 300,000 troops from outside to be stationed on all sides of Kyoto City.

Hearing this, Xiahou Yinglan nodded and said: Yes, it is impossible for such a big action not to leak the news.

After a pause, he continued in a changed tone: The king has not yet answered the matter of cooperating with our prince.

Wang Qin asked: I don't know what your prince wants our Great Liao Kingdom to do?

Xiahou Yinglan said: At the same time as we raise troops, your Liao State will also send a large army to attack the border pass.

Hearing this, Wang Qin nodded: Sending troops is not a problem, but why should we send troops, as the saying goes, no profit is not early, what benefits can our Great Liao Kingdom get?

Xiahou Yinglan smiled: Our prince said that if the Great Liao Kingdom can help him successfully gain the world, he will assign all of Hebei, half of Shanxi, and half of Shandong's land to your Liao Kingdom as a reward.

Hearing this, Wang Qin nodded: This condition is very tempting, I miss us

Empress Dowager Xiao will agree to cooperate with you.

After that, he paused for a moment and asked: So, when will your prince raise troops?

Xiahou Yinglan vaguely said: Soon, it will be within these ten days, and I will inform you when the time comes.

Wang Qin nodded, thought for a while, and said: By the way, your prince must notify me in advance when he starts his army, otherwise I won't have time to inform us there, and it will take three or four days to ride a horse from the capital to Youzhou at the earliest.

Xiahou Yinglan said: I will inform you five days in advance, but your army should be assembled and waiting in the area around my border now.

Wang Qin was very cheerful: That's no problem, I'll write to our Empress Dowager Xiao as soon as I go back.

Hearing this, Xiahou Yinglan smiled with satisfaction, and suddenly she said: Wang Xiang, there is one thing you don't seem to have done well.

Wang Qin was stunned and asked: What is the matter?

Xiahou Yinglan reminded in a reminding tone: Our prince sent a message to Wang Xiang more than 20 days ago, asking you to do one thing.

Hearing this, Wang Qin thought for a while, and suddenly seemed to remember: Mrs. is talking about Li Yinglong, the acting prefect of Kaifeng Mansion, right?

Xiahou Yinglan nodded: Yes, it's him, this is a very powerful and dangerous person, we must find a way to get rid of it before we get into trouble, otherwise he will be a great threat to us.

Hearing this, Wang Qin gritted his teeth: Even if Madam doesn't say it, Benxiang will do everything possible to get rid of him, I believe Madame should have heard about the enmity between Benxiang and him.

Xiahou Yinglan nodded: I know your affairs.

After that, he got up from his seat and walked out, saying as he walked: There is still something to do in this seat, so we will take the first step, and we will contact you later.

Then he walked out with the third lady Xiaolan.

Wang Qin didn't move, looking at Xiahou Yinglan who walked out, with a gloomy smile on his face.

Kou Xiang and Yang Liulang were talking with seven men in various costumes, the seven men were very unsightly, and from time to time some people stood up excitedly and pointed and scratched, while Kou Xiang and Yang Liulang smiled and said a few words to persuade the excited people to sit down.

At this time, Li Yinglong walked in from the outside.

Kou Xiang pointed to Li Yinglong with his hand: The Li Governor you are looking for has returned, if you have anything to say to him, go to him.

Hearing this, a man in a yellow robe who looked to be in his thirties jumped up from his seat and asked angrily: Are you the prefect of Kaifeng Mansion?

Li Yinglong grinned: It's not like it, in fact, I don't look like it myself, I look like a big prefect, right, at best, I'm a gangster.

By the way, who are you?

Kou Xiang continued: You kid really has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, why don't you even know the third prince.

Li Yinglong pretended not to understand and asked: Who is Wang Sanpa? The one who opened the pancake shop opposite my mansion seems to be called Wang Sanpa, is that him?

He deliberately said that the third prince was the third father of the king.

Hearing this, Kou Xiang made an angry look and said: It's the third prince, not the third father, why are you becoming more and more silent, the third prince is the third brother of the emperor today, how did he become a pancake shop.

Li Yinglong made a sudden look: It turned out to be the third brother of the emperor, disrespectful, disrespectful.

Then he turned his head to look at the other six men and asked: These are probably some of the emperor's brothers and sisters-in-law, right?

Hearing this, Yang Liulang was amused and said: Lord Li, what kind of eyes do you have, why don't you even distinguish between male and female, don't you see that they are all men, where did you come from?

Li Yinglong patted his head and smiled: Yes, yes, look at my eyes, how can you see a man as a woman, offended, offended.

After that, he paused, and then asked: May I ask a few royal brothers, what are you doing in my Kaifeng Mansion?

A fat white man in a purple robe stood up and shouted to Li Yinglong: Hey, you are so bold, you dare to arrest the head of our house, do you still take us in your eyes.

Li Yinglong looked at him and asked: Which royal brother is this?

Kou Xiangdao: He is the fourth prince and the fourth brother of the emperor.

Li Yinglong said: It turned out to be the fourth brother of the emperor, what's the matter, was your chief manager arrested by me, what is his name?

The fourth prince said: The name of the chief manager of my house is Zhang Datong.

Immediately after that, the third prince answered: There is also the chief manager of my mansion, his name is Feng Ming.

Then another man about forty years old, also wearing a yellow robe, stood up and said: The head of my mansion was also arrested by your Kaifeng Mansion.

Kou Xiang introduced: This is the second prince, the second brother of the emperor.

A man in his twenties stood up and said, "Jiang Ping, the chief manager of our house, has also been arrested by you."

Kou Xiang introduced: This is the sixth prince and the sixth brother of the emperor.

A man of twenty-four or five years old stood up and said: Lu Youfu, the chief administrator of my house, was also arrested by you, and I heard that he was beaten by you.

A man of thirty-five or six years old, dressed in a navy blue satin robe, stood up and said: I am Zhao Rui, Marquis of Jinghai, and Wang Chaozuo, the chief administrator of my mansion, is locked up in the prison of your Kaifeng Mansion.

A man about forty years old, wearing a toad green satin robe, stood up, and then made a very angry look and shouted: I am Zhongshan Hou Zhao Fang, the head of my mansion Wanda Pu has been arrested by you, release me quickly, otherwise I will not be finished with you.

Li Yinglong muttered with his fingers: Zhang Datong, Feng Ming, Landing Sheng, Jiang Ping, Lu Youfu, Wang Chaozuo, Wanda Pu.

He shook his head while muttering: These names are so familiar, I seem to have heard them somewhere, where are they? Oh, no, I remember wrong, I guess I saw it somewhere.

As he spoke, he reached into his arms and took out a stack of papers, looked at them one by one, and then nodded: Yes, there are so many people, there are so many people.

After that, he raised his head and looked at the seven people, and then asked seriously: Why, are these seven people the chief steward of the house of your seven kings, monkeys?

The third prince was angry: Nonsense, didn't we all say it just now.

Hearing this, Li Yinglong immediately made a very serious look and said: Really, are you sure? This has to be said accurately, and there can be no ambiguity.

The fourth prince said sharply: Of course it's confirmed, hey, little prefect, Benima's ramblings, let people go.

Who knew that Li Yinglong's face sank, and then he shook his head and said very resolutely and simply: These seven people can't be released, and they can't be let go, if you seven princes and marquis can't say it clearly today, you don't want to leave my Kaifeng Mansion.

Hearing this, the seven of them were furious, and they raised their hands together and slapped them on a table and shouted angrily: You are so bold.

Li Yinglong also raised his right hand and slapped it on the table: You are so bold, you dare to come to the court who has committed the great crime of extermination, don't you want to live?

Hearing this, the seven people were stunned, and glanced at each other inexplicably, and then the third prince asked: What did you say, what kind of court is going to commit, what crime has our chief manager committed?

Li Yinglong said: Let me ask you, what are the chief managers of your seven prefectures doing in my Kaifeng Mansion?

Without waiting for the seven people to speak, Li Yinglong continued: It's here to ask for the eight helpers who were arrested by me, right? But do you know why I arrested those eight gang leaders? Because they are doing things for Zhao Xiaowangye, the son of the king of Luoyang, do you know what Zhao Xiaowangye does? He secretly built a black coin workshop and privately minted a large number of fake coins, do you know what kind of crime this is? This is a great sin of extermination.

After a moment's pause, he said in a very stern tone: Let me tell you a few more news, Zhao Xiaowang's father, that is, your uncle, the king of Luoyang is about to rebel, which is another big crime to destroy the family.

Your seven chief managers actually came to bail out the eight gang leaders who were closely related to Zhao Xiaowang Ye and worked for him, and also swore that they were good friends with those eight gang leaders, and you said for yourself whether they had committed serious crimes.