Chapter 193: Rick's Compromise
"That's nature, I really can't help it at the moment!" Cai Cong spread his hands and said helplessly, in his opinion, paying money is not a problem at all, he already had this plan, the key is that he wants to see what these two foxes are singing double reeds for.
"The tax collected in the autumn has been put into the treasury, and I originally said that I wanted to pay you back 70,000 guan, but in this case, the 70,000 guan will be offset, and the treasury still owes you 140,000 guan, and the rest of the mess will be cleaned up by the imperial court. But the old man wants to remind you that if you dare to do such a thing in the future, don't say that it is only 70,000 guan, even 140,000 guan will not be able to change your life, and the old man will definitely beat you to death in the court. ”
Wei Zheng kept talking, and he was holding a teacup as a threat, Cai Cong understood that the purpose of these two old things today was not for any justice at all, but for the smell of copper in the sky.
"Isn't that okay? My family is counting on this money to have a fat year, and if you take it away like this, you won't be able to live this day. ”
Cai Cong pretended to be difficult and said, and Wei Zheng's forehead was bruised. Gritting his teeth, he said: "The old man has never seen such a person who destroys humanity, hundreds of families are waiting to be fed, many colleagues have no fixed residence, and your 70,000 yuan of money is just a fat year, can you rest assured?" ”
Cai Cong picked up the already cold tea, looked at it for a while, and slowly poured it on the ground, as if he was paying tribute to someone.
"Lord Wei is so heartbroken by this, why haven't you seen it?" Cai Cong raised his head and said with a cold light in his eyes.
Wei Zheng's cold eyes for no reason startled him, and after thinking about it, he didn't know who was so cold-blooded, so he could only look at Cai Cong with a calm face.
"Isn't this Cui family enough to destroy human nature? Could it be that Lord Wei doesn't know anyone from the Cui family? Cai Cong said expressionlessly, then got up and left. The soft persimmon is not pinched like this, if Cai Cong falls today, how many people have died in Chang'an, he Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling will never dare to go to the gate of Cui Mansion to ask for money.
It's nothing more than that Cai Cong is so easy to talk about, and his family has no background, so he will make compromises many times, but once out of kindness, twice out of sympathy, and three times people take it for granted, he Cai Cong is not a fool, nor is he a bad person who can be at the mercy of others.
"That's right! I'm tired of the two old men, and I took the time to send 70,000 taels to my house, and I won't go to the household department. ”
Cai Cong said and walked straight into the mansion, looking at the closed door, Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling had solemn faces, and the two were silent in the heavy snow. I knew that I was bullying honest people, but I didn't expect that this time I was turned back by honest people and cut out the 70,000 taels, and the court was afraid that it would be sad this year.
"That's it, that's it, it's better to go back." Wei Zheng said ashamedly, picked up the teacup and drank the tea mixed with snowflakes in one gulp, the cold air entered his body, and the cold to the bones made him tremble, dragging his rickety body, stepping on the wind and snow and walking away slowly, leaving Fang Xuanling to slowly taste the cup of cold tea in the ice and snow, without saying a word.
When he returned to the house, he hurriedly put on his clothes and put hot soup on him, and the two old men in the winter did not know if they were sick, and they did not stay in the warm house, and they had to suffer from the wind and cold in the heavy snow, and they were not afraid of freezing.
Cai Cong drank a bowl of ginseng soup, warmed his body, and waited for a while, Fang Yuan walked in.
"Master, the brothers are back, and they all have lingering palpitations, they said that after inciting, they can't control the scene at all, they can't stop it, it's like crazy. Although they repeatedly stopped it, they still burned a lot of houses and killed a lot of innocent people, the people in Chang'an were like crazy, although Brother Xu drank and ordered all the foxes and rats in the city to not move, but they couldn't stop the people from going crazy. ”
"Alas, I didn't think that Ben Hou still underestimated the inferiority of human nature. Take my post and ask the envoy of the Western Turks to come, Benhou wants to see him. ”
Cai Cong really has no money, so he can only find a way to get some money from other places.
"By the way, tell him to take a shower before coming, I am afraid that I will be smoked to death because of the smell of flesh and irritability." Cai Cong added with a smile, these Turkic people have not taken a bath for most of their lives, and the smell on their bodies is unbearable for ordinary people.
"The little one understands that if he doesn't wash it, the little one will press him into the water and shave him like a pig's hair." Fang Yuan said with a smile, this time is different from the past, the Turkic civil strife is too strong, it is starting to be weak, in the past, he used to show off his might in Datang, but now both sides are waging their tails and begging for help from Datang.
Fu Yi in Honglu Temple covered his head and looked at the scene of the brawl in pain, today is already messy enough, the Cui family was killed by the Hou Ye, and it made Chang'an chaotic, if the emperor knew that Honglu Temple was also in chaos and killed people, he would definitely be furious.
"Master Fu, you're quite lively!" Fang Yuan walked in, looked at the intersection of swords in front of him, the sound of whirring and shouting, clasped his hands in front of him, and said to Fu Yi with a smile.
"The Fang guards came too timely, hurry up and help the old man stop them, this group of barbarians is really hateful, they actually fought openly in the official office, and killed people, they really should be beaten."
Fu Yi shouted happily when he saw Fang Yuan, his subordinates were just for decoration, it was okay to face the soldiers of some small countries, but in the face of the Turkic warriors who had experienced a hundred battles, they were not enough to see at all.
"Well said, well said!"
Fang Yuan waved his hand, and the people under him went out to sea like dragons, and after a while, they separated the two waves of people, all of them were Turks, one by one with knife wounds, looking at each other's people angrily.
"Who is the messenger of the Turki Khan?" Fang Yuan asked proudly with his hands on his chest, and then couldn't help but cover his nose with his fingers, he didn't expect that what Hou Ye said was really right, this smell was almost choking to death.
"Who are you? What's the matter with looking for Ben-sama? A big man with a bearded face and a fleshy face was holding a knife and looking at Fang Yuan in awkward Chinese.
"The lost dog is embarrassed to call himself an adult? Let me tell you, my lord wants to see you, come here! Take him to the bath, put more spices to soak, it stinks to death. ”
Fang Yuan covered his nose and frowned, Fu Yi's face was a little ugly, no matter what, Rick was also an envoy of a country, what did Fang Yuan think of the envoys of other countries by doing this?
What's more, Lik is not such a good person, the people on the grassland live in the vast world, and they themselves are fighting against the sky, so they will be humiliated? Although the wound was still bleeding, he raised his knife and slashed at Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan smiled disdainfully, drew his knife to block, only to hear a sound, Rick's knife broke into two sections, and Fang Yuan's knife didn't matter.
"How so?" Rick looked at the broken knife in his hand and said in disbelief, it was the sword he fought bravely, and the Khan rewarded him!
"My knife is a treasure knife rewarded by the Hou Ye, and it was taken out of the treasure house, and you dare to fight with me with this broken knife? It's strange that it's constant! ”
Fang Yuan said disdainfully, since Gan Xinda's death, Hou Ye specially ordered people to refine chain mail and divine weapons to share with those close to him, but he didn't want anyone to be pierced by sharp arrows in the heart, Fang Yuan was also fortunate to get it, naturally he was extremely proud.
"The Hou Ye you are talking about is the Marquis of Chang'an?" Rick said with a bitter face, as a messenger, he is naturally not a person who blindly relies on brute force, and his brain is also very good, and he knows everything about the imperial relatives and important ministers of Chang'an.
"Even if you have a little knowledge, go and change quickly, and then follow me to see Master Hou." Fang Yuan nodded proudly and said.
Rick's face changed several times, and finally he put down his knife and rinsed it down with the guards. He once paid a generous gift to visit an important minister, hoping that he could persuade the Tang Emperor to help the Tuli Khan.
The man accepted the gift, but he kept silent about persuading the emperor, and finally drank too much before he lost his mouth and told him that the emperor had the intention of sending troops, but because of the strong opposition of the Marquis of Chang'an, he finally died without a problem, and if he wanted to send troops, he had to have the nod of the Marquis of Chang'an.
(End of chapter)