People, all sorts. Some are beautiful, some are ugly; Some are short-tempered, some are gentle and virtuous; Some are industrious, some are lazy. Su Ren does not belong to the long beauty, nor does it belong to the long ugly; It does not belong to the irascible people, nor to the sages; It is not a model of diligence and thrift, nor is it a representative of laziness. He is just an ordinary person, who always wants to steal and play tricks, and live his comfortable life.

However, there is no ordinary person in the world who can live a good life, even if you have 2,000 years of knowledge, wisdom and foresight beyond all people, and even more views that others cannot match. As long as you live in this environment, the environment will come and affect you, for better or for worse. Lu Xun has a good saying, if you don't explode in silence, you will perish in silence, let's change it, don't disappear in the crossing, just go up in the crossing.

Su Ren didn't want to go up, but in order to live well, he had to work hard. When he first found himself in Dahan, he spent three days and three nights thinking in Lao Junguan's room before he understood this Taoist ideal. This is Su Ren's transformation, since he walked out of that room, in fact, Su Ren in his previous life has died, and he has become another person.

The current Su Ren is a strange person, he is actually very confused, he wants to do something for the Han or the Han nation, but he doesn't know if he can do it well. So I let others do a lot of things, and I hid to the side and watched coldly. The Shaping construction site has a master father; Jianghuai has Cui Jiuming; Even Lingnan was given carte blanche to Li Danghu, Wei Qing and Gongsun He.

Sitting under the porch in the backyard of Cuixiang Building, watching Huang Shisan and Manniu wrestling in the courtyard, Su Renle laughed. Huang 13 has brute force, and so does brute bull. Huang 13 has martial arts, and Manniu has experience. When the two of them fell for a stick of incense, no one put anyone down, and Su Ren lost the fun of continuing to appreciate.

"Stop, stop, you will use brute force, inch strength, four or two thousand pounds, do you know the skills?"

Huang Shisanyi sat down: "Don't fall, we are not monkeys, just the little color you took is not enough for Cuixianglou to eat, don't fall." ”

Manniu wiped the beads of sweat on his head, sat beside Huang Shisan, and nodded solemnly: "Hmm! ”

Su Renle was happy, threw the ten coins in his hand a few times, and made a rattling sound: "I've only eaten a full meal for a few days, and I forgot when I was hungry before?" Ten dollars is also money, whose money is not saved one by one? ”

Huang Thirteen turned his head away.

Su Ren groped around himself for a while, and only then did he realize that although he was very rich, had no worries about food and clothing, and had a huge caravan, and had a house and land in Hengshan, he had nothing more than these ten money.

grabbed the copper coin: "If you don't fall, I won't give it yet, and Lao Tzu will have these ten coins left." ”

The guys in the courtyard of Cuixiang Building were not surprised by this scene, laughing and busy with their own things. Lao Jia came in with Wei Qing talking and laughing, and as soon as he passed the moon gate, he made a gesture of please, turned around and went to the front yard to work.

Su Ren was bored, and was about to find someone to talk to, when he saw Wei Qing coming in, he immediately greeted him with a smile on his face: "Oh? Go to the front door, it seems that Liu Ci asked you to come? ”

Wei Qing smiled: "I was ordered to come and persuade Mr. to send an envoy to Huainan for King Hengshan." ”

"Ahh Su Ren was frightened: "Whose idea is this?" Are you trying to kill me? ”

Wei Qing sighed: "It's out of the bottom, now Huainan has serious domestic consumption, most of the officials are wise to protect themselves, there is no one who can show their hands, and persuading the king of Huainan to go to Chang'an to meet such a big thing, ordinary people can't do it." ”

"You're going to hurt me?" Su Ren motioned for Wei Qing to sit down and poured Wei Qing a cup of tea: "Liu Ci can agree to this kind of thing?" Xi Ci, that old thing, didn't stop it? ”

Wei Qing shook his head: "Presumably, people have already discussed and want to let Mr. leave Lu'an as soon as possible." ”

"Looks like I've become a plague god." Su Ren also poured himself a glass of water: "It's okay if you want me to go, it depends on whether the things Liu Ci took out are worth my risk." ”

"Sir, just speak!"

"What a big breath, can you call the shots?"

Wei Qing shook his head: "I'm just a messenger." ”

"Understood, then I have to open my mouth, otherwise the price of returning it will be too low."

After listening to Wei Qing's return, Liu Xiao, Xi Ci and others all grew their mouths in surprise. Liu Xiao was even more furious, pointed at Xi Ci and said, "This is the condition offered by Su Ren?" According to what he said, send him the entire Hengshan Kingdom, and he really dares to speak! ”

Xi Ci frowned: "If you want money, it's easy to do, but he wants to be the Taishou of my Jianghuai land?" Those places are all to him, and if they are made to be guarded, will they not become a kingdom within our kingdom? ”

Wei Qing said: "Su Ren also said that although the Jianghuai prefectures govern themselves, the annual tax can be increased by one percent. ”

"What about the defenders?" Zhang Guangchang is still most concerned about soldiers and horses, and this sentence also asks the point.

Wei Qing glanced at Liu Ci. Liu Ci didn't get angry, he smiled: "Say, it's okay!" ”

"He said, since he is too guarded, all the soldiers and horses should be at his disposal, and the king should not bother!"

"Hahaha......" Liu Ci laughed: "Does he know how much land he has in Jianghuai now?" This king calculated for him, at first he bought about 100,000 hectares, and then this king successively sent about 30,000, and which unfilial rebel sent 100,000, I heard that he was still inciting the Yue people to mess around, driving those families away, and bought 20,000 hectares, so it is enough to calculate 250,000 hectares, which has exceeded the area of several counties around Lu'an. ”

Liu Xiao said again: "This Su Ren must have premeditated, from the very beginning he wanted to divide the territory from our Huainan country!" ”

Liu Ci smiled: "This is natural, the reason why Su Ren is trusted by the emperor is that he is loyal to the emperor, and he always thinks about how to benefit the emperor and the court. ”

"Father!"

"King!"

Xi Ci, Zhang Guangchang, and Liu Xiao were all anxious. Liu Ci waved his hand: "People have already occupied so much space, even if we don't agree, what can we do?" Those Yue people who have moved back only trust Su Ren's people, even if we send people, we can't govern it, so it's better to give it to him, hoping that Su Ren can remember the king's goodness. ”

Wei Qing returned to Cuixiang Building again and told Su Ren about the situation. Su Ren slapped his thigh: "Think about it well, but in the end, there will be less." ”

Wei Qing shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Two hundred and fifty thousand hectares of land is a lot, and Mr. is equivalent to cutting off a piece of meat from Hengshan Country for the imperial court." ”

"No, what more do you need to order?"

"What else is there to ask for? Mr. is not afraid of arousing Liu Ci's disgust? ”

"Humph! He has a request for me now, what do I have to worry about, Jianghuai is mine, there is no need for him to give favors, you go back and tell Liu Ci, just say that I will be exempted from taxes for ten years. ”

"Ten years? At that time, I didn't know if Hengshan Country was still there. ”

"Then I don't care."

Wei Qing sighed: "Okay, sir, think about it, if there is another request next time, Liu Ci probably won't agree." ”

Wei Qing entered the palace for the second time and conveyed Su Ren's request. The first one to be angry was still Liu Xiao: "Su Ren is an inch, father, you must not agree to his request again, if this matter spreads, other princes will not laugh at their father?" ”

"Ten years of taxation, if according to the current Jianghuai land is not much, but after Su Ren with 200,000 Yue people to govern, Jianghuai is likely to develop rapidly, think that when Su Ren was in Wenshui County, only with Lao Junguan can make the remote border become the richest place in Shu, Jianghuai will definitely surpass Lu'an in the future, so the king will have to collect a lot less taxes." Xi Ci frowned, shook his head and sighed.

"That's it! Father must not agree! ”

Liu Ci took a deep breath: "Is there any point in agreeing or not?" Su Ren is already Jianghuai Taishou, and with 200,000 Vietnamese people backing him, what else can we do? Can't grab it? That's it! However, Mr. Wei told Su Ren that this is the last time, and if he still has a request, the matter will be stopped! ”

On this day, Wei Qing ran back and forth between Cuixiang Building and Hengshan Palace. As a microphone job, it was a two-sided thankless job. But Wei Qing was not disappointed, but he was elated. Stepping into Cuixiang Building for the third time, Su Ren was eating. When Lao Jia saw Wei Qing coming, he hurriedly helped Wei Qing prepare one. Sitting opposite Su Ren, Wei Qing ate sweetly.

Su Ren held the dough cake in his mouth: "Liu Ci agreed, right?" After you left, I thought about it and still felt a little lost. ”

Wei Qing almost choked himself to death with a mouthful of food, and quickly turned his head and coughed repeatedly. Su Ren smiled: "Forget it, you are the middleman, I can't embarrass you, for your sake, this time I will let Liu Ci go, and next time if there is a chance, even his palace will be brought." ”

After coughing for a long time, Wei Qing eased up and wiped his mouth: "Back and forth three times, I was afraid that King Hengshan would not agree, and then I heard what King Hengshan said, I kind of understood, did you stare at the land of Jianghuai when you were in the meeting?" ”

Su Ren smiled: "Jianghuai is a good place, here is the Huai River and the river over the years of impact, the land is flat, the water network is vertical and horizontal, a little renovation is a good land, because the surrounding princes and kings feel that there are too many swamps in that place, and there are all kinds of man-eating water crocodiles, so it is desolate, I have sent Hawking, Li Kang, Shi Bao to take people to clean up the crocodiles in that place, and the meat in the plate in your face is." ”

"Poof!" Wei Qing, who had just eaten a bite of crocodile meat, squirted out the rice again, stood up and retched: "Can you still let people eat well?" ”

Su Ren picked up a pair of chopsticks and put them in his mouth: "It's delicious, you asked what it was a few days ago, I didn't say, you ate a lot that time, why ...... today"

Before Su Ren's words were finished, Wei Qing had already run away, covering his mouth with one hand and going straight to the thatched house.

"Hey!" Su Ren sighed: "I really don't know how to eat it, I wasted such a good thing in vain." ”