Chang'an, the center of everything in the Tang Dynasty, not only lives Li Shimin, the first emperor of the ages who looks down on the world at this moment.

Chang'an also lives in Wei Zheng and Li Jing, such ancient military generals.

Chang'an still lives in the seven families of Li, Cui, Lu, Zheng, and Wang, that is, the top wealthy families of this era, with five surnames and seven sects.

After nearly a thousand years of development and continuous mutual marriage, the current five surnames and seven sects directly and indirectly affect half of the world's population and land.

Even in the court, the voice of the seven families is very important, after all, even if Li Shimin is just a person from the Li family of the five surnames and seven sects.

In this quiet winter day, there are some situations in the Cui family today, a few dusty people came on horseback in the early morning, and soon there were more than ten horsemen, escorting a carriage away.

After the Cui family's carriage left Chang'an, there were knights along the way, and more people followed in batches.

Lantian County, only 100 miles away from Chang'an, all the way in a hurry, the Cui family's carriage rushed to the county government in Lantian County before noon.

A letter of worship was handed out of the carriage, and after being handed over several times, it appeared in the hands of Zheng Yuansheng, the commander of Lantian County.

Zheng Yuansheng opened the worship sticker and hurriedly read it, his face changed greatly and he walked out of the county government quickly, came to the carriage, bowed deeply and bowed:

"Greeting the head of the Cui family, I didn't know that the head of the family was there, and Zheng Yuansheng was deeply frightened to greet him. also asked the head of the family to sit inside, so that Zheng Yuansheng could serve tea to make amends. ”

The man in the carriage did not come down, but a voice came out: "There is no need to go in, just say a few words to you here." ”

Zheng Yuansheng bent his waist lower, "Please also ask the head of the family to instruct, Zheng Yuansheng will definitely do it." ”

"Hmm."

A voice came from inside the carriage and said, "First, you didn't send the news back to the Zheng family immediately, but chose to deal with it yourself, no matter what your intentions were, and in the end you have delayed the matter."

Second, since I have come in person, I prove that this matter is no longer something you can mix.

So, forget about it, or you won't get any good, and you'll get yourself in.

As for how you will deal with the Zheng family in the future, prepare yourself in advance, that's the way it is, how to choose and consider it yourself. ”

After the people in the carriage finished speaking, they took their entourage inside, and they didn't even show their faces, but Zheng Yuansheng kept saluting respectfully, and only got up after the carriage was far away, and then returned to the county office with a long sigh.

The carriage continued to drive and soon came to Cui's house.

After the carriage stopped, an old man in his fifties with a dignified face came out of the carriage.

Cui Yuan, Cui Cha, father and son, who had been waiting here for a long time, hurriedly came to the middle-aged man after seeing the middle-aged man, and greeted them separately:

"I've seen my uncle."

"I've seen the Great Ancestor."

The old man kindly touched Cui Cha's head and said, "Cha'er has grown taller again, what have you been reading recently?"

Cui Cha looked up and replied innocently: "My grandson has been studying poetry for the past two days." ”

"Okay, okay, can you read it?" The old man looked pleased.

"I can read some of them, but there are some words that my grandson doesn't recognize yet."

"Okay, good, worthy of my family's Qilin'er, grandpa is old, and the Cui family will rely on you in the future." The old man was a little happy and sentimental.

"The ancestor is not old, and there are uncles and fathers who can share your worries, and the grandchildren are still young."

"Your uncles are only middle-class, and your father."

Speaking of this, the old man turned his head and glared at Cui Yuan, "Look at the good things you have done, you have to have half of your father's ability, and you don't have to worry about me." ”

scolded Cui Yuan, the old man picked up Cui Cha and walked inside, and said with a sigh: "Fortunately, there is Cha'er, who can inherit the wisdom of my second brother." ”

Cui Yuan could say anything, so he had to follow behind with a dark face.

Entering the study, the old man sat down with Cui Cha in his arms, and said to Cui Yuan, who was standing on the side: "Let's talk about it carefully, from beginning to end." ”

So Cui Yuan told him how Yang Wenhua came to sell treasure mirrors, how he traded with Yang Wenhua, and how he came out of the basket.

The old man had been listening quietly, and when he finally heard that Yang Wenhua could make rock salt, he finally showed an interested look and asked, "Oh, did he really say that he could make rock salt?"

Cui Yuan nodded, "I don't look like a lie, and that kid knows a lot of things, uncle, should we imprison him?"

"That's all you can do."

The old man glared at Cui Yuan, and then asked Cui Cha, "If it was Cha'er, what would you do?" ”

Cui Cha thought for a while and said, "If it were me, I would do the things that Uncle Yang explained quickly, and then ask him to give me the secret recipe as soon as possible." ”

The old man continued, "Well, what about after you get the secret recipe?" ”

"If you get the secret recipe, you will make a treasure mirror, go to a distant place to make a treasure mirror, and sell it to a distant place first, so that the other families will not know that we will make a treasure mirror." Tritsa replied.

"Good, good." The old man smiled with satisfaction, and then asked, "What about the other recipes?" ”

"Buy it for Uncle Yang, Uncle Yang likes money, just give him some money."

"Then your Uncle Yang will become stronger, so why don't you sell the secret recipe to us?"

Cui Cha said curiously: "Why don't you sell it to us, we just give us more money, even if you don't sell it to us, you can cooperate, didn't the Great Ancestor say that powerful people are our allies?" ”

"Okay, good, that's good."

The old man praised Cui Cha, turned to glared at Cui Yuan and said, "I heard it, it's better for a child to be sensible, give you ten days to help that kid build the house at any cost."

Now the glass is not so important, salt making is a big deal, no matter what the kid wants, promise him, get the secret recipe for salt making, and then send it to Chang'an for me quickly. ”

Cui Yuan hurriedly lowered his head and responded: "The child must be done, but it will take ten days to repair the house, and the movement is bound to be very big, when the time comes, will the other families do anything?"

The old man said confidently: "Don't worry, I will send some family guards over, they may not even know what to do in ten days." ”

"Then it'll be fine."

When Yang Wenhua handed over the drawings to Cui Yuan, he was surprised to learn that his house could be completed in ten days.

"It's not a tofu scum project, is it?" Seeing that Cui Yuan didn't understand, Yang Wenhua explained: "That is to say, if you repair it in ten days, you have to meet my requirements, but what I want is an all-stone house." ”

"Brother Xian's rest assured that after the house is built, even if Brother Xian inspects it, he will never shirk any problems."

Hmph, it won't work out when the time comes, you have rebuilt it for me.