As soon as Cao Rong and Ge Liyan came out of the camp, they took the reins handed over by the men waiting outside the camp, and the two of them turned over and got on their horses. Ge Li looked at the towering tent in front of the camp with hatred, and scolded fiercely, "This group of people dare to do this to me, if it weren't for the fact that my little ones are not here, otherwise I must make them look good!" ”

and to the silent Cao Rong, a trace of treachery flashed in his eyes, and he persuaded again and again, "Brother Cao, the red lady, they robbed more than 10 million taels of silver in Nanjing City alone, not to mention the robbery along the way, if you win, the money is all yours!" ”

I never thought that Cao Rong directly refused, "The strength of the red lady and others is not weak, and they broke fourteen cities in a month, that Cao Wenzhao was known as the first general of the Ming Dynasty before, and he defeated 100,000 officers and soldiers with thousands of iron cavalry outside Nanjing, although I am not afraid of them to attack, but even if I am afraid, I will suffer heavy losses!" If you want to wipe out the red lady, it is absolutely impossible, even if you win, the gains outweigh the losses, we just need to keep the Yangzhou family business, why go to the Ming Dynasty to exterminate the Liukou! ”

"Then Brother Cao, do you really want to promise them and give them silver?" Gary said dissatisfied.

"I can't do this here, I have to wait until I go back and ask the patriarch to decide! However, of course, it is better not to fight, after all, we are businessmen, and it is not cost-effective to fight this battle! Cao Rong shook his head and denied.

Ge Li was annoyed again when he heard this, but of course he wouldn't offend Cao Rong at this time, he just looked at Cao Rong and said: "Brother Cao, don't worry, when they return to Jiangbei and go to Hubei, Lao Tzu must make them look good!" ”

As soon as they thought of the amount of silver that Xiao Xuan and they had obtained on this trip, Ge Liyan was crazy with jealousy, that was tens of millions of taels of silver! Ge Liyan has decided that when the red lady and the others arrive in Hubei, he will release the news at that time, then they will have to obediently spit out all the silver, but unfortunately this silver has nothing to do with him!

"Then Cao Mou will thank King Geliyan!" Cao Rong thanked him. "King, there are a lot of people here, let's leave first!"

Ge Liyan nodded, he was still very jealous of Cao Wenzhao, who could easily kill him, and followed Cao Rong to leave.

This place is not far from Yangzhou City, and Cao Rong and Ge Liyan arrived in Yangzhou after riding horses for half an hour.

"It's the eighth master, open the city gate quickly!" The defenders guarding the city gate were the subordinates of the Cao family, and when they saw that Cao Rong was back, they hurriedly beckoned to open the city gate.

After Cao Rong and Ge Liyan entered the city, they rushed to Cao's mansion in the city. The Cao family is a hundred-year-old giant, not to mention the Zhuangzi outside the city, the mansion in the city alone is no less than 300 acres of land, unlike other businessmen who are extremely luxurious and eager to let everyone in the world know that they are rich, the huge Cao family can not see a trace of fireworks, but the value of the exotic flowers and plants in the garden is enough to make many immortals salivate.

And the most rare thing is that the Cao family understands that the biggest thing in this era is the official, and he specially ran a family study early, and invited the Jinshi who came to Zhishi to teach the students in person, and now he has already transformed into a gentry, and the family has been raised for three consecutive generations, and he is in the imperial court.

Today's Cao family not only has thousands of Ding cavalry under his hands, but also tens of thousands of outlaws outside the city, otherwise he will not subdue the remaining three families and integrate all the forces in Yangzhou together.

As soon as he entered the Cao Mansion, Cao Rong first sent someone to ask Ge Li to rest, and then rushed to the clan hall, at this time, the four patriarchs of the Cao, Shen, Han, and Jiang families should all be waiting for his news in the Cao Mansion hall.

"I've seen the patriarch, Cao Rong is late to come back, let you wait for a long time!" Cao Rong saluted the four of them.

"Cao Rong let you go on this trip, thank you for your hard work! The old man is worried about you, just come back completely! Cao Xingjian stepped forward and pulled Cao Rong and sighed cordially.

"The patriarch said seriously, there is no danger in this trip with the eyes of Geli! It's just that things are not going well, as the patriarch said, although Gao Yingxiang is the king of Chuang, known as the first strong robber, but he is just a stronger rogue, in the end, far from quenching his thirst, in the face of such a big interest, the red lady is not willing to listen to the order and withdraw directly! Cao Rong hurriedly told the situation.

"The wealth is moving, not to mention that they have already tasted the benefits, so they are naturally unwilling to retreat because of Gao Yingxiang, who is far away in Hubei. But my Yangzhou is not as good as the cities they attacked before, do they have any conditions? Cao Xingjian paced back and forth lightly with extraordinary bearing, and asked casually.

"The patriarch really knows everything!" Cao Rong bowed his hand respectfully, and then said with a smile, "That news is true, Xu Hongji and others spent fifteen million taels or three million stone grain, as well as the ordnance in Nanjing City, to buy off the Liukou so that they would not attack Nanjing." There is this precedent, and the rogues know that our strength is not weak, and of course they are not willing to fight us, but they just ask for 1.5 million taels of silver and 300,000 stone of grain! ”

"These rogues are self-aware! This amount of money and food is not much, but we can't easily agree, if it is too easy to agree, with their insatiable nature, I am afraid that they will regret it immediately, and the lion opens his mouth! Cao Xingjian said.

The rest of them all nodded yes, things that are too easy to get, and they always don't cherish them! Merchants know the truth that strange things are precious, and naturally they don't want to let the rogues easily blackmail.

"I also said so, saying that considering that they would not have enough food in Hubei, I could give them 800,000 stone of grain, but it was not the Red Lady and Cao Wenzhao who were in charge of the Liukou, but the people who were made by them as military advisors, that person's attitude was extremely tough, I was going to talk to them about the conditions, but I never thought that he would tell me directly, either according to his terms, or our two families will talk to the guy in hand on the battlefield! said that if the things they wanted were not delivered tomorrow, they would lead troops to attack Yangzhou! After that, they just kicked me out with Grimeye! Cao Rong mentioned Yang Su and smiled bitterly.

He thought that everyone understood the truth of opening prices all over the sky and paying back the money on the ground, and he had promised to send 800,000 stone grain was undoubtedly a step back, saying that everyone could sit down and talk about the conditions slowly. He didn't have time to do anything, and he was kicked out of the camp.

"The rogues are all unruly, not to mention those leaders who have heavy troops, and this kind of big thing will listen to that military advisor? What do they say? Cao Xingjian asked with a frown.

I don't understand why, a woman's mouth is so big! I thought of you as a friend, and I told you I slept with her. Who knows your TMD, as soon as you turn around, tell someone! If you can't get it, you have to destroy it? Hehe, now it's good! The whole world knows that I slept with Liu Yan, are you satisfied?