Chapter 213: Inside the Council Hall

Spread the piece of paper on top of several cases, only to see that there was information about Wang An, Wang Fu and Wang Yan written on it in dense small letters.

Please say in the newspaper that this Wang An is the chief steward of the North House and is usually busy, but every three days, this Wang An has to go to Qingxu County. There is a woman raised by Wang An on his wife's back, and she has given birth to a boy for Wang An.

As for that Wang Fu, he has no bad habits, but he has a good hobby, that is, he loves books. Perhaps influenced by the scholarly family of the East Room, Wang Fu has loved books since he was a child. Note that this love of books is not a love of reading, but a simple love of books. Every day at dusk, Wang Fu always went to a study called "Dichen Xuan" in Taiyuan City and chatted with the owner of that study for a long time. What is talked about is nothing more than the content of the book, which is quite like the talk of the Wei and Jin dynasties.

As for that Wang Yan, although there is an introduction in the intelligence, Zhang Yunwen has already had direct contact with her today, and he also has a preliminary impression of this eldest sister. Looking at her usual activity pattern, she is at home in the morning, leaves the house in the afternoon, and returns home in the evening, almost every day.

Seeing this, Zhang Yunwen lowered his head and slowly pondered how to use this information

On the second day, it was the day when Li Daozong and Zhang Yunwen went to visit Wang's house. This visit was in the name of comforting the fathers of the Northern Capital on behalf of the Son of Heaven. Under the opening of the road brought by Li Daozong's personal soldiers, the carriages and horses were sparkling and walked towards the Wang family's Beifang mansion.

The Wang family has mansions in the east, west, north and south of Taiyuan City, among them, the mansion in the north room is the largest among the four rooms.

As soon as Li Daozong's car arrived at the street where Wang's house was located, he saw that the street was full of people standing at the gate of Wang's house. Especially at the gate of the Wang family, several second-generation children of the Wang family, who are not much different in age from Li Daozong, are greeting them.

Seeing Li Daozong's brows furrowed slightly when he saw those people, and an inscrutable smile was picked out at the corner of his mouth, Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but think, couldn't these people have fought with Li Daozong back then?

When the car arrived at the door of Wang's house, Li Daozong got out of the carriage, and Zhang Yunwen also turned over and dismounted.

"Xiaomin has seen the prince and General Zhang!" The people of the Wang family who greeted the two saluted at the same time.

Li Daozong smiled "hehe", and helped up the Wang family disciples who greeted them one by one: "What are you doing, what are you doing!" Brother Fujie, Brother Banshan, Uncle Young, what are you doing here! Do our brothers need to bow like this? ”

The three of them got up, and the rest of the Wang family also got up.

After Li Daozong and a few people greeted each other, several people made a "please" gesture: "Hehe, Lord Wang, General Zhang, please inside!" A few old men are waiting for you! After saying that, several people walked in front to lead the way.

As soon as you enter the royal mansion, you will be greeted by a side of the wall. The wall is carved with a sea of deep mountains and clouds, the unicorn steps on the clouds, and the sun rises in the east, but it is used to ward off evil spirits in the town.

Bypassing the wall, you will see a road paved with white bricks and stones, looking at this width, I am afraid that it can accommodate four horses in parallel. The avenue is lined with tall trees and shrubs, and it is now green. At the end of the avenue, a tall and majestic building stands. Looking from afar, I saw that the plaque of the building reads "Council Hall".

"Two of you, please!"

Under the leadership of the three of them, Li Daozong and Zhang Yunwenlai walked all the way to the end of the avenue and came to the outside of the council hall.

Approaching this meeting hall, Li Daozong and Zhang Yunwen saw that this meeting hall was extremely tall and majestic, and it was splendid. Although it is not as good as the imperial palace in Chang'an City, it is comparable to the buildings in Jinyang Palace in Taiyuan City.

When I entered this hall, I saw that it was already full of people. The leader is the four major houses. Seeing Li Daozong and Zhang Yunwen coming in, everyone sitting in the hall got up and saluted.

Li Daozong and Zhang Yunwen returned the salute with fists. Li Daozong said: "Everyone is polite, most of you are elders of Xiao Wang, how dare you do this!" ”

At this time, Wang Qiong, who was sitting on the upper seat, spoke: "Don't be polite to us!" You were a child when you fought with them, and now you're that old! It's really a time flies, and time flies! Come, sit down!

Li Daozong stepped forward and sat down with Wang Qiong.

"Dao Sect! Well, I don't know if the prince wants the old man to call you like that? After Wang Qiong finished calling the Dao Sect, he asked, which was obviously a little false.

"The old patriarch is my senior, so it's natural to call him like this!" Li Daozong replied with a smile.

Wang Qiong stroked his beard and laughed twice, and smiled at Li Daozong and Zhang Yunwen: "Daozong, well, and this general, come, the old man will take you to meet everyone present!" ”

Saying that, Wang Qiong stood up and introduced everyone in the audience one by one.

"This is Wang Ang in the east room, this is Wang Jin in the west room, and this is Wang Qu in the outer room. They are the same generation as Emperor Gaozu. This is the dog Wang Heng, who is now in charge of the north room. ”

When Wang Qiong introduced Wang Qu, Zhang Yunwen looked at the thin old man in front of him and couldn't help but smile slightly. Wang Qu also smiled.

After introducing a few house owners, Wang Qiong introduced the people in the field according to their seniority. Among them, the second generation of the Wang family is mostly middle-aged people in their thirties and forties, and the third generation of the Wang family is mostly half-aged children in their teens.

Although Wang Yan is a concubine, she is the oldest in the third generation and has excellent performance, so she is also standing in the hall at this time. When Wang Qiong introduced Wang Yan, a hint of surprise flashed in Li Daozong's eyes. And Zhang Yunwen looked at Wang Yan with frowns for a while, and then called out respectfully and softly: "Sister Yan!" ”

Although the sound was not loud, it could be heard by everyone nearby. In the surprised eyes of everyone, Wang Yanqiao's face turned red with shame, and she glanced at Zhang Yunwen fiercely, and finally overlapped the heroic general in front of her wearing a gorgeous leather armor with the scholar in a cloth robe yesterday, and couldn't help but exclaim: "It turned out to be you!" ”

This voice immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the hall.

Wang Qu couldn't help asking, "Yan'er, what were you talking about just now?" ”

Wang Yan hurriedly shook her head and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing!" It's me who lost my mouth! After that, he glanced at Zhang Yunwen fiercely with a shy gaze. The latter grinned slightly, turned around and followed Li Daozong and continued to walk down.

After the introduction, Li Daozong and Wang Qiong sat back in their places, and first said some irrelevant words, like something old and something, and kept talking about Li Shimin from Li Yuan. In the end, Wang Qiongcai said: "The edict from His Majesty the Emperor, my father has already read it!" The old man didn't dare to comment on the content, so he convened the four room stewards today and asked them to comment on the plan! ”

After hearing this, Li Daozong secretly scolded the "old fox" in his heart, but said with a smile in his mouth: "Since this is the case, then please give me advice!" ”

This plan to exchange livestock for military rations has been explained in detail as early as in the edict sent by Li Shimin to the three major families, so now as soon as Wang Qiong puts it forward, Sifang will know what he is talking about.

The first to speak was the son of Wang Ang of the East Chamber, a very delicate young man of twenty-seven or eighteen, who said slowly: "This matter needs to be considered in the long run. What is the difference between exchanging grain for livestock captured by the imperial court and doing business, if it is spread out, wouldn't it be insulting! ”

As soon as these words fell, Wang Qu in the outer room couldn't help but change his face, but he was a little angry.

Wang Ang glanced at Wang Qu, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then disappeared.

Seeing this, Zhang Yunwen suddenly woke up, it seems that the Wang family is not monolithic, and the contradiction between the east room and the outer room is very acute.

As soon as Dongfang's voice fell, the Xifang said: "Hmph, you Confucian scholars really don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are, do you know how much benefit this trade will bring to the Wang family?" What is the location of the Wang family each year? And how much is the income? Have you scholars ever counted it? ”

At this point, the east room was speechless, so he had to look at the north room.

Wang Heng from the north room saw the gaze of the east room, took a sip of tea slowly, and said softly: "The Wang family's annual income and expenditure are in charge of your West Room, and we don't know much." However, for the Wang family's grain surplus and annual grain harvest, my north room can be clear. According to His Majesty's intentions, my Taiyuan royal family will supply the rations of the 50,000 army for nearly half a year, even if each sergeant of the army brings half of the grain, then my royal family still needs to supply 300,000 stone grain and grass. If the war does not go well and the time is longer, then my royal family will supply more. But how much grain does my royal family have in store now? How much does it cost to spend on food and grass every day? Have you ever thought about it in the West Room? ”

At this time, Wang Qu said: "In fact, you can not use the Wang family's grain stockpile, you only need to send people to Henan and Shandong to buy grain and grass, and you can completely cope with the supply of the army." As for the silver money for the purchase of grain and grass, it can be paid by the Wang family for the time being, and only after the victory of the army, the livestock will come back, and then the livestock will be sold to Jiangnan and Shuzhong, and the profit will be several times that of the grain purchased. ”

When Xifang heard Wang Qu's words, he immediately clapped his hands and said, "Okay! The outer house is worthy of being a long-term manager, and this method is ingenious! ”

The east room and the north room suddenly glanced at each other with disdain, turned their heads, and looked at Wang Qiong.

Wang Qiong didn't look at the eyes of the two of them, and said to Li Daozong with a smile: "Daozong, look at it, my Wang family still has a lot of arguments about this matter!" The north and east houses did not approve of exchanging grain and grass for livestock, while the west and outer houses strongly agreed. Alas, this matter is not easy for the old man to do! ”

Li Daozong couldn't help but say: "Old patriarch, you are the patriarch of the Wang family, can't you still make a decision?" ”

Wang Qiong shook his head: "Daozong said that he was laughing!" Although the old man is the patriarch, he has four rooms. However, they have to decide the internal affairs of these four rooms. The patriarch of the old man is just coordinating the relationship between the four rooms! ”

Hearing such an excuse, Li Daozong had nothing to do, and was about to say something, when he suddenly felt that someone was pulling his shirt, knowing that it was Zhang Yunwen, he held back the words in his mouth at the moment and remained silent.

Suddenly, the lobby was quiet, and the needle drop could be heard.

Finally, Li Daozong couldn't help it, got up and said goodbye: "Old patriarch, elders, since you need to discuss, then Xiao Wang will not bother and leave first!" ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone stood up, looking like they were going to see them off. Li Daozong hurriedly said: "Don't work to send each other!" Xiao Wang is going to go! ”

After speaking, he walked out of the lobby with Zhang Yunwen.