"Master Dong, the villain has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, please forgive me for the offense just now." Qiao Xuan knelt in front of Kang Peng, trembling like an autumn leaf in the wind, and stammered: "Taishi, the villain really doesn't know that you are the imperial master, otherwise he would not dare to offend the Taishi by borrowing a hundred guts from the villain." ”

"Forget it, those who don't know are not guilty, all of you get up." Kang Peng patted the dust on his body and said: "You are a guest from afar, you don't know the identity of the old man, and you see the old man talking to your daughter, how can the old man blame you?" Kang Peng was talking to Qiao Xuan, but his eyes were staring at Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao who were kneeling on the ground, although the southern sister was petite than the northern beauty, her skin was white and delicate, but she was superior, and she swallowed saliva when she saw the bad students.

Qiao Xuan knelt down and knocked nine times before he got up, but he saw that Dong Zhuo's eyes were not looking at him at all - he was staring at his two beautiful daughters and swallowing saliva, and he was immediately overjoyed, and said in his heart No wonder Dong Zhuo, who is known as the Demon King, is so good at talking, it turns out that he has taken a fancy to my daughter. Qiao Xuan coughed twice, "No snow, no frost, return to Master Dong as a gift." ”

Qiao Xuan shouted three times, Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao woke up from the shock, slowly stood up, and was deeply blessed, Xiao Qiao said: "The people's girl Wushuang has seen the Taishi, I didn't know that the Taishi was coming just now, there was a lot of offense in the words, and I hope the Taishi will forgive the sin." Da Qiao didn't say a word, but the skin on his neck was red with shame, and his head was almost in his arms.

Kang Peng shook his head, trying to get rid of his addiction to women, he already has so many wives, and his biological age is so old, if he wants to try something new, he will secretly forget it once in a while, and don't harm these innocent and innocent girls anymore. Thinking of this, Kang Peng nodded and said, "No need to be polite, it's because the old man doesn't want to reveal his identity, and it has nothing to do with you." "I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, Kang Peng said the word 'old decay' very seriously.

Kang Peng turned to Qiao Xuan again and said to him: "Gong Qiao will take Ling Ai back to the pavilion to rest, and the old man will meet Gong Qiao alone another day to discuss the opening of Gong Qiao's jewelry store in Chang'an." Kang Peng hugged his fist at the father and daughter of the Qiao family, "The old man is on official business, so he will leave first." ”

Kang Peng also waited for Qiao Xuan's father and daughter to speak, and turned around and left surrounded by a group of guards, but unexpectedly, someone among the onlookers in Chang'an suddenly opened his throat and shouted, "Master Dong, forget it?" At least let the person who dares to beat you pay your daughter to you! It caused the people of Chang'an to burst into laughter. Kang Peng, who came from later generations, never cared about any rebellious words, so in Chang'an under his rule, the people could speak freely and slander the emperor and scold the officials without worrying about being punished.

Hearing this, Qiao Xuan's thin face smiled like a flower, Xiao Qiao was so angry that he scolded, but Da Qiao was so ashamed that he couldn't find a crack in the ground to get into, and Kang Peng, whose face was as thick as the corner of the city wall, also had a fever on his face, and waved his hand: "You don't talk nonsense, what should you do, otherwise when you starve in the future, don't expect the old man to help you again." ”

Who knew that Kang Peng's words of shame actually caused a burst of laughter, and the onlookers shouted in a mixed manner: "Taishi, don't pretend, you have more than a dozen wives, do you care about two more?" "Will the Taishi ignore us? Will watch us starve to death? I was the first to disbelieve? "Taishi, let's treat them as little wives, you add an extra penny of taxes to us, enough to feed them, so that they can ......" "Taishi, I followed you from Luoyang to Chang'an, do you like beautiful women, you don......'t know when we don't know"

Laughing and laughing, the people of Chang'an still love this ugly on the outside and kind on the inside, and they dispersed one after another, each going to busy their own lives, Dong Zhuo's own soldiers also hugged Kang Peng and left, leaving only the father and daughter of the Qiao family standing there alone.

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Accompanying the Qiao sisters to go shopping, delayed for a while, Kang Peng arrived at home, it was already evening, Jia Xu, Lu Su and others had been waiting in his house for a long time, as Kang Peng expected, Cai Wenji was holding his almost one-year-old child at the gate waiting for him to return, looking at Cai Wenji's tired look, she should have waited for a lot of time.

Kang Peng felt guilty, although Cai Wenji had a strange temper and did a lot of wrong things, but she was indeed the only woman who sincerely loved herself, recently, she went to the workshop more than 20 miles away three times a day to deliver food to herself, rain or shine, the hard work can be imagined, and today, she almost had to mess with flowers and grass again, which made her heartbroken.

Kang Peng greeted him and said, "Madam, it's so windy outside, why did you come out again?" Kang Peng asked these words a little weakly, when he used to steal fish, he was dressed up on the street, but today he is obsessed, and he took Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao to swagger through the market without makeup, and the news is hard to guarantee that it did not reach Cai Wenji's ears.

Seeing Kang Peng come back, Cai Wenji's somewhat thin pretty face showed a happy look, "Master, it's good for you to come back, I heard that you have already returned to Chang'an, but you have never returned home, so I am waiting for you here." ”

Cai Wenji's words made Kang Peng even more guilty, and took Dong Peng to kiss him, "Madam, I encountered something on the road, so I delayed for a while." Kang Peng walked in with Cai Wenji again, and explained the matter of meeting the Qiao sisters on the road 1510, so as not to make Cai Wenji sad when she found out in the future.

Cai Wenji listened quietly, pursed her lips and smiled, "Just be honest outside, Master Jia and they have been waiting for you for a long time, go and handle official business." Cai Wenji smiled again: "I didn't expect you to be a beautiful man in the hearts of Jiangnan girls, and when you go to Jiangnan in the future, I have to be careful." “

Cai Wenji was so reasonable, Kang Peng couldn't help but be a little surprised, and was moved to grab Cai Wenji's little hand and kiss it, "Good, wait for me in the room at night, I'll go find you." Cai Wenji's face was flushed, and she slapped him: "Go quickly, it's a big deal." ”

After Kang Peng left, a few little girls suddenly rushed out of the porter behind Cai Wenji, it was Cai Wenji's little followers, Sun Shang asked in a huffing voice: "Sister, why don't you teach the bad master a lesson?" The news that he took the two fox spirits shopping has spread all over Chang'an, do you still want the bad master to ask for a few more concubines? ”

Cai Wenji shook her head, "Xiang'er, as long as he didn't bring those vixens home, and confessed his relationship with those two vixens, it proves that he really cares about big things, and he really didn't have the idea of fighting those two vixens. ”

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Jia Xu, Li Ru and Lu Su and other strategists had been waiting for Kang Peng in Dong Zhuo's study for a long time, and when they saw Kang Peng coming in, they hurriedly saluted Kang Peng, Kang Peng waved his hand and said, "Excuse me, you haven't eaten yet, right?" Ask someone to get some wine and rice, and let's talk while we eat. ”

After a while, the servants of the Dong Mansion quietly retreated after delivering a table of exquisite wine and food, Kang Peng beckoned the strategists to sit down, Jia Xu and the others knew that Kang Peng did not like to be polite, they were all used to it casually in the Dong Mansion, and they did not need servants to serve, so they shook off their cheeks and gobbled them up. After the hunger was slightly subdued, Lu Su reported the results of the trip to Kang Peng.

"When Su left Jiujiang, the fleet led by Sun Jian himself had already marched to Hulin, and the materials to support Yuan Shu were also sent to Yuan Shujun, it is estimated that Yuan Shu can last until winter, if Sun Jian secretly supports it, Yuan Shu will have no problem until next year, and our army's strategy of encircling the Central Plains has been successful The first step." Lu Su sighed and said: "It's a pity that Lu Su is incompetent and failed to persuade Zhou Yu to come to Chang'an to join the Taishi, and that Pang Shiyuan was not found, so please punish the Taishi." ”

Kang Peng tore off most of the chicken leg in one mouthful, and said vaguely while chewing: "It doesn't matter, as long as the father and daughter of the Qiao family are in the hands of the old man, they will not be afraid that he Zhou Yu will not be obedient in the future, as for that Pang Tong, he is still young, and it is not strange that he can't be found." Kang Peng said again: "Xianjia, Zijing has just returned to Chang'an, you can introduce the situation of the princes and us to everyone, and discuss our next strategy." ”

Li Ru's mouth was full of oil, and he said while eating: "Luoyang, because my father-in-law paid tribute to the Han Emperor's god seed auspicious Rui has not sprouted so far, the court has become a mess, and the people are panicked, and they all think that this is a sign of the dying of the Han family, especially those old stubborn, crying and mourning every day to the land where the god seed is planted, and want to beg those steamed god seeds to sprout, Luoyang's folk economy continues to deteriorate, because the autumn grain has not yet been harvested and the relationship between the war, Luoyang and the princes are completely cut off from commerce, and can only rely on gold, As long as we cut off trade with Luoyang, we can let the Luoyang court run out of food within a month, and Luoyang will be completely in chaos. ”

Kang Peng shook his head and said: "The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, although the civil economy of Luoyang has been completely destroyed, but there is still some gold in the hands of the scholars, and there is also a large amount of hidden gold in the imperial court. ”

Li Ruqi said: "Father-in-law, you said that there is a large amount of hidden gold in the hands of the imperial court, why don't I know?" ”

Sima Lang was also very strange, "Taishi, we are short of gold when we mint a large number of gold coins, if there really is, we should have gotten our hands on it a long time ago, and when the territory expands in the future, we can also ensure that new money is issued." ”

Kang Peng said lightly: "Gold is in the imperial tombs of all dynasties. In fact, as early as when he was evacuating Luoyang, Kang Peng was thinking about learning about Dong Laoda's robbery of the imperial tomb, but he refused to bear his notoriety, and second, the money he looted from Luoyang was enough to maintain, so he didn't take action. Now that Chang'an's economy is developing rapidly, the people need a large number of coins to maintain turnover, and a large amount of gold is needed to mint money, and a large amount of gold is needed to develop the economy after the expansion of the territory occupied in the future, so Kang Peng started the idea of imperial gold again.

If Kang Peng said this kind of thing to others, others would definitely be furious and scold him for his lack of morality or rebellion, but Jia Xu, Li Ru, Lu Su, Sima Lang and Fa Zheng who were present were all anti-thieves who regarded the court as dung, not only did not object, but they all applauded.

Li Ru said with a smile: "When we evacuated Luoyang before, why didn't we expect that Luoyang would bury a lot of money? Otherwise, they will dig it together and bring it to Chang'an. But it's not too late, Luoyang doesn't have the military strength to protect the imperial tomb at all, just send a team of sergeants to dig it up. ”

Jia Xu shook his head and said: "It's not good, if we dig directly, the Taishi will inevitably have a bad reputation, and it will be tiring to the reputation of the Taishi, so it's better to dig up secretly in the dark." ”

Kang Peng shook his fat head, "We don't need to make a move, now the people of Luoyang are almost poor and crazy, as long as we let out the rumors, saying that someone stole a large number of gold and jewelry from the imperial tomb, in exchange for a lot of food and women, and then let the merchants of Chang'an go to Luoyang to secretly buy gold and jewelry, we are not afraid that no one will take risks." ”

After admiring it, Li Ru continued to introduce: "In terms of the princes, Yuan Shaojun and Gongsun Zhan's army continue to confront each other in the Zhuojun area, but Gongsun Zhan's defeat has been revealed, and Yuan Shaojun bought a large number of weapons from us last month, just waiting for these weapons to be transported to the front line, it is estimated that Gongsun Zhan will say goodbye to us; Liu Biaojun and Liu Beijun's attention was on Yuan Shujun's side, and they did not pose much threat to our plans; Only Cao Cao's traitor is really treacherous, although Mr. Zao is here, he still recruits displaced people in the Chenliu area, and temporarily gives up expanding to Qingzhou. In addition, he learned from the Taishi's method to encourage the local scholars to develop farming, and also uniformly stipulated the land rent and taxation to protect the interests of the local scholars and tenant farmers, and his ambition was not small. ”

Kang Peng frowned, the people he was most worried about were Cao Cao and Liu Bei, now Liu Bei's military strength was restrained by Yuan Shu, and he couldn't develop at full strength, so he could rest assured a little; But Cao Cao, the old fox, was not fooled, and refused to take advantage of Liu Bei and Yuan Shao's inability to take care of Qingzhou to seize Qingzhou, just to accumulate strength, and now he can't go to the Central Plains to settle accounts with him.

"Is there any way for Cao Cao to attack Qingzhou?" Kang Peng said to himself: "At least we can't let him develop with peace of mind and consume his potential." ”

"Cao Thief is treacherous, and his advisers Guo Jia and Cheng Yu are also very human, it is difficult for them to fall for the scheme." Jia Xu, who had not spoken, spoke, "But why do we need him to attack Qingzhou Kong Rong?" Can't you let Kong Rong attack Cao Cao? ”