The two entered the study one after the other, and Cai Cong asked lightly, "What is the specific situation?" ”

"Back to the Hou Ye, only 236 of the 4,000 people under the command of the bearded guest left with him, and the rest were all exterminated, our army lost 684 people, 1,239 people were seriously wounded, and the lightly wounded were not counted."

The knight hurriedly said, Cai Cong nodded, it was beyond his expectation that the bearded guest left in the end, originally he thought that the bearded guest would be a hero, but he didn't expect to retreat in the end.

"Well, what about Songwen?"

"Back to the Hou Ye, we have walked all over the South China Sea in the past three years and have not seen any trace of Songwen, General Yan Tong suspects that Songwen has gone ashore to hide."

"Impossible! Now Songwen's head is worth 10,000 taels of gold, and his hiding place is also worth 500 taels of gold, in the past three years, there has been no news of him in all parts of the Tang Dynasty or in Fusang, he is not on the ground, not in the South China Sea, it must be in other seas, the order goes down, the four seas and the barbarian land are all publicized to Ben Hou in the past, be sure to let the whole world know that I Datang wants Songwen's head at any cost, you also go down to rest! Tomorrow, the Hou will be rewarded. ”

Cai Cong did not hesitate to interrupt the knight's words, if Songwen was in the territory of Datang, he would have been dug up a long time ago, 10,000 taels of gold! That's a moving mountain of gold!

"Minister Cai Cong kowtowed, thirteen nights and eighteen nights rode to buckle the city gate, the South China Sea was already empty, for my Tang Dynasty sailors were rampant, but those who were not ministers have been swept away. Only the bearded guest went to a foreign land, and there was no trace of Songwen, and the minister asked His Majesty to send an edict to migrate all the people to fill Yangzhou, and when the business road was opened, I was the time when the people of the Tang Dynasty were rich and the country was strong......"

Cai Cong sat in the room and licked his pen and wrote unhurriedly, as soon as the South China Sea trade road was opened and Lingnan complemented each other, it would be difficult for the Tang Dynasty to be poor in the future, if it could erase Baekje and several peninsula countries, the wealth of the Tang Dynasty would be immeasurable.

The fifteen-page recital contains all of Cai Cong's whimsical ideas, and the same eighteen horsemen galloped towards Chang'an in the early morning with a crisp tapping sound.

Cai Cong's sleepy eyes were full of dark circles, and he slept for an hour, and then he had to get up to participate in the cheers of the whole city, and the two of them stood at the head of the city in full costume to accept the cheers of the people.

The whole city fell into a blind carnival, and Cai Cong and his family followed everywhere they went. Those officials looked at Cai Cong's eyes with fanaticism, although Songwen had not yet been found, but in the past few years, they had slaughtered one or two hundred thousand pirates, and they also felt that the stone in their hearts had become a little lighter.

In the Assassin's Mansion, Tang Yi covered his ears with a quilt, and he really didn't want to hear the laughter outside, which seemed to be mixed with screams.

"It's time to eat, your Lao Tzu is not dead, Hou Ye let him go to the big food country. If you cry like this again, Lao Tzu will chase him and kill him. ”

The rooms creaked and were pushed open, and someone threw the food on the table and said coldly.

When Tang Yi sat up abruptly to see who that person was, the person had already gone out, Tang Yi chased it out, it was empty outside, there was no one, if it weren't for the food in the room still warm, he suspected that it was his own delusion.

At night, the lights of the Assassin's Mansion were brilliant, and Cai Cong invited officials and squires of all sizes to a banquet, that is, if a person is not dead, he must arrive. The past does not forget the teacher of the future, and the smell of blood of the three families has not dissipated! Who would dare to refuse Cai Cong's banquet?

"This first cup is my Datang drink, the second cup is my Yangzhou countless good boys, and the third cup is the upcoming brilliant drink."

Cai Cong was very happy, and he drank three cups in a row when he spoke, and everyone hurriedly raised their glasses to drink together, not daring to have a trace of slackness.

"This cup is to pay tribute to the Hou Ye, if there is no Hou Ye, I am afraid that the big feud of the family will be difficult to repay forever, and the next official wishes the Hou Ye and the Hou Wan Dai."

George Liang said loudly, and drank the wine in one gulp. When he took office in Yangzhou, he unfortunately killed everyone, and he George Liang was also sinned, and his wife and daughter were taken away, otherwise this little daughter would not have been taken from his hometown to Yangzhou to raise.

"I won't drink this wine." Cai Cong spilled the wine as he spoke, and George Liang held the empty wine glass with an embarrassed face, which was really a dilemma.

"Old Qiao, don't get me wrong, Ben Hou doesn't drink your wine not because of what's wrong with you, but because Songwen's culprit hasn't been caught yet, I feel uncomfortable drinking your wine, and when I catch Songwen one day, don't say that you are holding a small wine glass, even if you come with an eighteen catties of wine jar, Ben Hou will also accompany you to the end."

Cai Cong said with a gloomy face, as long as he talked about it, it would be uncomfortable.

"Master Hou, the lower officials shouldn't say this at this time, it's really regardless of the occasion, the lower officials should be punished."

George Liang said in a panic, and the good festive atmosphere was disturbed by him at once, and anger and sadness stimulated everyone.

"It's time to talk about it, if you don't talk about Benhou, I'm afraid that I will forget that day. But as the days go by, don't indulge in sadness, offer a reward of 10,000 taels of gold, Songwen will be caught in front of Ben Hou sooner or later. ”

Cai Cong said loudly, this happiness cannot be forgotten, but the pain cannot be escaped, otherwise when the midnight dream returns, the heart-eroding pain will make people unable to breathe.

"That's how you guys grind, come! All drinking. This king tells you that this Songwen is dead! Brother Cai was busy with his hands before, but now that he is free, this king doesn't believe that he can still let Songwen get away with it? ”

Li Tai said with a big grin, holding the wine glass and drinking it in one gulp. The crowd hurriedly drank the wine too, and it was too quick to get up! Today, the three bigwigs are drinking urgently, could it be that they want us to spit out the truth after drinking?

"Your Highness's words have made me ashamed, and now I really can't spare my hands. I invited you to a banquet tonight to celebrate, and secondly, to specify the next step of government affairs. ”

Cai Cong joked, everyone was thinking about what could be so busy, don't drive this broken habit of holding a poetry meeting is famous, at least half of the time is spent in the poetry meeting for a month.

"Haha...... Hou Ye is looking down on the lower officials, no matter how busy he is, it is still okay for the lower officials to pull a few people to chant poems during the dinner time! ”

"Then wait and see, Ben Hou has asked His Majesty to open a trade road, migrate the people to fill Yangzhou, for the rapid development of the business road, Ben Hou will expand the Yangzhou city, along the Grand Canal to build three more acropolis, Hailing will also be expanded, and from Yangzhou to build a cement road, up to Chang'an to the sea, right to Lingnan, left to Liaodong. Your Majesty's will will soon come down, and if anyone has time to recite poetry, he will definitely be hated by other officials. ”

Cai Cong said with a smile, everyone was so shocked that they didn't even notice that the chopsticks fell to the ground, and a map in their minds slowly spread out, sending out four lines from Yangzhou, one of which soon extended to the harbor and stopped, and the remaining three lines meandered on the map, and finally reached a distant place.

(End of chapter)