Yang Huairen guessed that Yelu Dian was a Khitan, but he never thought that his background strength was so deep. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The news that the internal guards inquired about was indeed a little surprising to Yang Huairen, this horse-faced Yelu Di Ao was the son of the Liao envoy Yelu Didi.

In other words, Yang Huairen used to just think that Yelu Diao was just a big Khitan businessman who came to the Great Song Dynasty to do business and make money, and his influence was only to make the Khitan beef dealers not sell beef to Suiyuan.

But now it seems that Yang Huairen is thinking a little simple. Although it was very funny that Yelu Diao's father and son gave the name of two brothers, Yang Huairen was not in the mood to laugh at them.

Yang Huairen actually doesn't pay much attention to the affairs in the court, anyway, they are all blind and painful, but he cares more about diplomatic matters.

For example, this Yeludidi is a new Liao envoy who only came this year. His identity is not ordinary, speaking of which, he is also the cousin of Emperor Yelu Hongji of Liao, and he is also a nobleman at the level of a county king in Liao, and he is the first in the diplomatic history of Song and Liao to be an envoy of Liao at such a high level.

At the beginning of this year, a relatively coincidental thing happened in Song and Liao, Zhao Xu's sixteenth birthday, will soon be married in April, according to the promise of the Empress Dowager Gao, will return to the little emperor.

Similarly, this year, Yelu Hongji turned sixty, and only one son under the knee of Emperor Liao has passed away, leaving only a grandson Yelu Yanxi, who has just turned eighteen this year.

The two things of the little emperor of the Great Song Dynasty recovering power and the establishment of the prince of the Great Liao don't seem to have much to do with the mountains, but after the New Year, the Liao envoy was replaced by a county king with a transcendent status, and things were not so simple.

The Liao envoy also put forward the request of the Great Song Dynasty to increase the annual tribute to the Great Liao, and now the court is still arguing about this matter.

Yeludidi's statement seems to be very reasonable, when Song Liao signed the Tanyuan Alliance, the Great Song Dynasty was not long after the founding of the country, coupled with the impact of the long-term war, the imperial court's financial revenue was only a few million, and the standard of annual tribute at that time was 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk.

If calculated according to the purchasing power, these years of tribute at that time were equivalent to more than ten times the current one, but nearly eighty years later, the purchasing power of this standard is too low, like Yelu Diao opened the Juyuan, it cost more than 30,000 taels.

The annual coin given to Daliao by the Great Song Dynasty was only enough to open three or four medium-class restaurants, and the Great Liao court naturally felt that this money was too little, and it was logical to put forward a request to raise the annual coin.

But this request has been raised more than once or twice, and in recent years, this has basically been something that the Liao envoy has been talking about all the time.

Opinions in the court of the Great Song Dynasty were not unanimous, and some people felt that Liao's request was reasonable, and the Great Song Dynasty currently earned tens of millions of silver, and took out one percent in exchange for the continued peace of Song and Liao, and it was nothing to increase the annual coin by one or two times.

Some people feel that it was a helpless move to sign the Tanyuan Alliance at that time, and this kind of agreement itself has already lost power and humiliated the country, and now the Khitans are simply insatiable to increase the price.

For the first time, the Liao State sent a Khitan royal family to be a Liao envoy, also to express their importance. The Great Song Dynasty is also facing tremendous pressure, whether it is Empress Dowager Gao or Zhao Xu, although they are dissatisfied with the Khitans' request for a new love, but they are unwilling to cause friction between the two countries because of this incident, so the pressure has been strong enough recently.

Yang Huairen actually doesn't want to take care of the affairs of the court, because he can't manage it if he wants to, he is a marquis who has no ministry, and it sounds quite good to the people, but above the court, he really doesn't even have the qualifications to speak.

But what makes Yang Huairen strange is that people like Yeludidi, what is the reason for him to open a restaurant in Tokyo City, and to oppose him?

No matter how Yang Huairen thinks about it, it doesn't make sense, since Yelu Didi's task is to ask for money, and now he has opened a restaurant that doesn't make money and loses money, is it so simple to take revenge on himself?

If he can help Da Song share some firepower, Yang Huairen feels that it is nothing, like the method of cutting off the supply of beef in Suiyuan, although it is poisonous, but he feels that relying on this alone is like destroying Suiyuan, it is too naïve for the two wild donkeys.

Yang Huairen didn't understand the reason for a while, but he also strengthened his sense of prevention, maybe cutting off the supply of beef in Suiyuan was just the first link in their conspiracy.

In fact, even if it is really in this kind of business competition, Juyuan can defeat Suiyuan, Yang Huairen himself will not be good, it is just a big deal to lose some money, not to mention that Yang Huairen feels funny, just relying on his defeated general Wei Cai and the Khitan people who don't understand food culture at all, it is simply fun.

Sure enough, soon the Khitan merchants who were active in Tokyo City stopped selling beef, and when Wang Mingyuan went to ask, those Khitan merchants casually gave a reason why the number of cattle had declined due to the snowstorm on the grassland that had not been encountered for ten years last winter, and there was no excess beef to be sold to the Great Song Dynasty.

Since it was expected, Yang Huairen and Suiyuan were not so panicked, the inventory in the cellar was enough for five days, so they were still selling beef noodles step by step, and the gate of Suiyuan was still full of people waiting to take a skewer to enter the door to eat beef noodles.

Because the price is lower and more affordable, the business is also very hot these days, although it is not as popular as Suiyuan, but it is also full.

Yelu Dian likes to wear the clothes of a scholar in the Great Song Dynasty, and he always likes to drag a few lines of poetry that he doesn't understand the meaning of, but after all, he is a rough man without much culture, and seeing that Suiyuan's business is still booming as usual after they cut off the supply of beef, he is inevitably a little irritable.

Wei Cai could only continue to coax this impatient behind-the-scenes boss like a child, "Yelu Gongzi, don't worry, there will always be some prepared beef in a restaurant as big as Suiyuan, I heard that I bought some from the Mongolians at a high price a few days ago."

However, according to their current consumption, it will not take three days to use up the storage of beef, and then their beef noodles can only become Yangchun noodles, and the guests are all for the delicious taste of their beef.

When the guests gradually began to choose our Juyuan beef noodles, it was the time to abandon Suiyuan, and the surname Yang had great ability, and he couldn't make beef in Tokyo, unless, haha......"

Wei Cai's smile was very treacherous, an old face with a smile full of folds, Yelu Diao saw this smile but liked it very much, thinking about Yang Huairen three days later when he fell for their tricks, he also laughed loudly with "hehe".