"Tuyezhuo is trading with Shali?". Hearing Asdezhi's words, Tang Cheng's hand that was stroking on the teacup suddenly stopped, "Tell me carefully, how did you show up?" ”。

Although the voice was still calm, even Tang Cheng himself could feel the dryness in it.

"It seems that he really doesn't know about this, it was Tu Yezhuo who did it quietly", seeing Tang Cheng like this, Ashdezhi's heart suddenly relaxed, for the time being, his nine surnamed Hu's merchant trade has been tightly tied to Longmen Xi, the basic division of labor on the one is responsible for the northern transportation of goods to the north, and the other is responsible for the southern transportation of goods, and the two have monopolized the merchant trade on the northeast border of the Tang Dynasty to a large extent after the close combination of the two, and there is no need to say much about how high the profits of the monopoly business are, the more so, the more urgent the Asthide branch is about this merchant trade alliance.

The reason why this businessman trade alliance with a monopoly on wealth in front of him can be formed is all due to the former Longmen County Commander Tang Cheng, the core figure in front of him, who is holding Longmen Xi in one hand and Jiu surnamed Hu in the other, and tightly carrying the Tiancheng Army of Hebei Province to observe the yamen and control the border passes, which constitutes the current alliance and makes this alliance operate efficiently.

When Young-Men Xi was quietly trading with Shali, the first thought that came to Ashdezhi's mind was not anger but fear. The trade embargo on Shali was something Tang Cheng had repeatedly emphasized. Why does Longmen Xi dare to do it? And it's still so secretive? Stumped...... Is this deliberately going to hide my nine surnames from Hu?

From this thought, the more Asthide thought about it, the more worried he became, in the face of such a strong Tang Cheng, Longmen Xi should not have the courage to do such a thing against his will, then the current situation is likely to be that Tu Yezhuo's old thief has obtained Tang Cheng's will, as for acting so secretly, he naturally wants to hide it from himself and others on the other side of the alliance.

If this is the case, it means that Tang Cheng has made up his mind to drive his nine surnamed Hu out of this monopoly feast of wealth, after all, this business is too profitable...... As soon as he thought of this, Asthide Zhi, who had quietly developed a layer of fine white sweat on his forehead, no longer had the heart to take care of Shang Jia's affairs, and rushed to Tang Cheng with a group of people related to this matter.

In any case, this was a major matter related to the livelihood of thousands of families surnamed Hu, and he had to ask Tang Cheng in person. Unexpectedly, when he came, he heard that Tang Cheng had already gone south.

Going south, is it to go to Hebei Province to observe the yamen? Tang Cheng's sudden trip and the sneaky actions of Longmen Xi made Ah Shidezhi's heart cold for three points, and how uncomfortable the days of waiting in the past few days were, it is not an exaggeration to say a word about cooking ants in a hot pot.

All the previous worries and anxieties finally disappeared at this moment, and in the face of Tang Cheng, whose face was extremely dignified, Asthide Zhi's mood was like thousands of spring flowers blooming together, and it was extremely brilliant.

Ashide tried his best to restrain his relieved good mood, and recounted the original story, "There is a caravan in my clan that specializes in running to Xingzhou, Hebei Province, and a few days ago, I happened to see some northern leather goods from Raole in Xingzhou City, and the leader of this caravan is a knowledgeable old caravan, not only recognizing that these leather goods were not sent by their caravan - my lord should also know that most of the shipping business of Beidi leather goods on the ground in Hebei Province is now in the hands of my nine surnamed Hu, especially the leather goods produced by Raole- And this old man also recognized that these things were a specialty only in the Raole Grassland, and then contacted the ban on Shali repeatedly issued by adults. This old man has become more and more moved."

"How can he be sure that only Shali is from those things?"

"The tightness of the leather goods, especially the patterns on it, there will always be some differences between the things that come out of different pastures, and these differences are certainly not visible to others, but in the eyes of the old goods who have eaten this bowl of rice all their lives, they are clear and unpleasant."

Tang Cheng nodded in agreement with this statement, "You go on."

"Subsequently, this old man also moved his mind ......", Tang Cheng quietly listened to Ashdezhi's Chen, although there was no expression on his face, but he believed it in his heart.

The context of the whole incident is clear, and Ashide even made the black hand arrest two Longmen Xizhong who specifically handled this matter. Speaking of which, I should really thank these two fools, if they didn't have the heart to be greedy for money and quietly do a small batch of goods to sell in Xingzhou, but carefully follow Tu Yezhuo's instructions to send all the goods to Huainan Province and even Jiangnan East and West Provinces, at least in a short period of time, they will not be able to show up at all.

With Asdezhi's Chen saying, the anger in Tang Cheng's heart also accumulated deeper and deeper.

A person controls such a big situation in such a complex situation as Rao Le, without the support of the imperial court, without his family by his side to relax his spirit, God knows how much pressure Tang Cheng has endured physically and mentally for such a long time, and what is more uncomfortable than the busyness of the body is the psychological pressure. Success is a great achievement that Datang has not achieved for decades, and failure is a failure. Naught. The current situation is just stuck in the time when success and failure are only a thin line, the hope of success is great, but the possibility of failure is also shadowy, not to mention other pressures, just a person has been tightly tense in this marginal state of hope and disappointment for a long time, how much torture does it have to endure psychologically and emotionally?

The left hand is flame, and the right hand is seawater, this is a real ice and fire! When I was in the Youzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion a few days ago, I shouldn't have been emotionally out of control, maybe it was rooted in this.

Psychologically under such pressure, he had just come back from the Youzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and he received the news that he had been stabbed by his own family, if Tang Cheng could still maintain a calm mind now, he would simply not be a human being, but a saint.

Treachery! The hot imprint of these two words continued to echo in Tang Cheng's heart, and its intensity was like someone slapping him in the face in public, and what added to his anger was that he was really not thin about Longmen Xi, since following him, Tu Yezhuo can be said to be a north-south eater these days, whether it is his status in the Rao Le Xi clan or the wealth and income of the entire Longmen Xi is explosive, why does this old dog still betray?

Tang Cheng's hand holding the tea cup was bruised, and it was so pale that there was no blood. In the end, just when Ashide had just finished speaking, the volcano that had accumulated in Tang Cheng's heart also completely exploded.

"Bang" The teacup fell to the ground and shattered piece by piece, Tang Cheng, who stood up, stared at Ashdezhi with his eyes, his face was extremely haggard, but the killing intent that burst out in his eyes instantly made Asthide feel cold, and he almost subconsciously lowered his head to avoid it.

Rao Lexi always prides himself on being the descendant of the wolf god, but Asdechi really felt what a real wolf-like look was just now.

If it weren't for his own experience, Ashide really wouldn't believe that Tang Cheng, who had been gentle and gentle since they met, still had such a ruthless side.

Now Zitu should be unlucky!

Tang Cheng's eyes were staring at Ashdezhi, but he was trying his best to restrain his anger with the last trace of clarity, thanks to the emotional out-of-control incident of the Youzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion that inexplicably flashed in his mind. If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, Longmen Xi is still useful now, at least their nearly 10,000 combat power is extremely important in the current situation of lack of troops.

After a long time, Tang Cheng's clenched hand slowly loosened, and the person slowly sat down again.

"Send the two people you caught here", Tang Cheng waved his hand to Ashdezhi, and then commanded outside the tent: "Go to two people, please Jia Duwei and the three patriarchs come over to discuss the matter."

Ashide walked out of the tent without saying a word, and when he walked out, his footsteps were so light that even ants couldn't hear them, and Tang Cheng, whose face was even more tired in the tent, closed his eyes in the boundless silence and fell into deep thought.

Jia Zixing and the others came and left, and after sending the two guys with their heads covered and trembling all over, Tang Cheng ignored them, just waited quietly, and waited for nearly an hour before he issued another order - to find Tu Yezhuo's father and son to meet.

Tu Yeji is helping to handle affairs under Tang Cheng, and his location is not far from here, so he will come quickly.

"My lord has just come back from a long trip, so I don't have to suffer so much, how can I finish things? If you break your body bones because of this, it's not worth it", Tu Yeji looked normal when he came in, and this slightly concerned tone sounded really natural.

Tang Cheng ignored his words, just looked at his eyes carefully.

Slowly, the light smile on Tu Yehei's face disappeared. The puzzled eyes also looked more at the two masked men.

For a while, the atmosphere in the leather tent was strange and solemn.

Tang Cheng just looked at Tu Yesi's eyes, staring at every change in his eyes, and when the atmosphere was at its tightest, Tu Yesi couldn't bear it anymore before he opened his mouth lightly, "Take a look."

Tearing off the black cloth covering the heads of the two people, Tu Yehei's expression was first surprised, and then angry, Huo Ran raised his head and met Tang Cheng's eyes and said angrily: "This is the head of the clan, what does this mean, my lord?" ”。

Tang Cheng quietly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it was okay. OK! At least sixty percent of the time there is a chance that this figure really didn't know about it.

After coming to Tang, after several years of officialdom experience, Tang Cheng is still a little confident in his eyesight, if Tu Yehei's eye changes just now are all acting, then he is at least the level of future actors.

At this moment, the figure also arrived.

Almost as soon as he entered the tent, Tu Yezhuo saw the two head men on the ground who were shaking like chaff. After a pause, his face inevitably changed after all.

"It's better for you to ask Ling Zun this question", although he was talking to Tu Yezhuo, Tang Cheng's eyes were only on Tu Yezhuo's face.

Tu Yezhuo didn't move again, nor did he speak, only the expression on his face was slowly changing, from shock to indifference to desolation in the end.

Tu Yeji was really suffocated by the strange scene and atmosphere in front of him, and asked Tu Yezhuo at an unprecedented volume: "Father, what the hell is going on?" ”。

"They ...... It was supposed to be in Huainan Province", Tu Yezhuo's words were extremely dry, at this moment he was really old, and Tu Yehei's impression of his father's lifelong upright waist also collapsed at this time, "They went to Huainan Province to sell leather goods for the Shali Department, buy salt and other things."

"What! Father, you ...... Good...... Confused", as soon as the complaining words were finished, Tu Yehei, whose face changed rapidly, had already turned his gaze to Tang Cheng, "My lord, ......."

Tang Cheng calmly raised his hand to stop Tu Yehei's words, looked at Tu Yezhuo and said: "You are not a stupid person, I don't treat you well, how much money has Longmen Xi made these days, and you are even more sympathetic to the change in the attitude of the nobles of Raole to you, I only ask you, why betray?" ”。

Tang Cheng's tone was very calm, even when he said the word "betrayal" at the end, but the more it was so, the colder Tu Yehei's heart became.

Tu Yezhuo ignored his son, and walked step by step to the stool not far from Tang Cheng and sat down, "It's all businessmen and traders, who are you doing it with?" The Shali tribe was controlled by others, and the Khitans exploited them too much, so I just helped Shali buy some livestock and skins and get some salt, and the weapons didn't ......interfere at all."

As soon as Tu Yezhuo said this, Tang Cheng's eyes, who had been calm just now, suddenly became cold.

With a twitch in the face of Tu Yehei. Tang Cheng, who stood up suddenly, had already pulled out the waist knife hanging on the tent behind him.

This waist knife is inlaid with gold and jade, it is extremely gorgeous, it was originally made by Ashdezhi in Hebei Province to find a master craftsman for the nobles in Rao Le Xi, a batch of twelve handles, this handle is specially given to Tang Cheng to enjoy and decorate the leather tent.

The waist knife was cold, and he took a touch of cold light and slashed straight towards Tu Yezhuo, and the next moment, I heard a loud sound, and the Nanmu hollow small few that were close to Tu Yezhuo's side had been smashed by Tang Cheng with a knife.

The edge of the waist knife was very cold, and Tang Cheng's face and voice were even colder, "You ungrateful old puppet dare to pretend to be stupid again, Lao Tzu will slaughter your entire clan today."

It seemed that in order to cooperate with Tang Cheng, the leader of Tu Yezhuo's guards suddenly shouted vigorously outside the leather tent, "Patriarch, the Tiancheng army and the three tribal armies have an abnormal assembly", accompanied by his voice was the sound of the leather tent guards blocking and pulling.

"Chen Lei, immediately drag this roaring idiot far away and cut it down, and report it!" After giving instructions outside the tent, Tang Cheng turned his head and stared at Tu Yezhuo's eyes again, "The three remnants have been blushing at your Longmen Xi's wealth for a long time, even if they kill the Tiancheng army slowly, three days is enough, after three days, I will let you see with your own eyes what it means to be bloody, corpses all over the field!" ”。

In front of Tang Cheng's naked killing machine, the last thing Tu Yezhuo wanted to maintain in his heart completely collapsed, and then this old man who had never bent over anyone in his life was soft, and bowed down in front of Tang Cheng's knees, "Longmen Xi is just a small clan, it is not easy to survive, and as the patriarch, I can't help but consider a way out for the whole clan."

Tang Cheng looked down at Tu Yezhuo who was kneeling in front of his lap and didn't say a word; Tu Yehei, who was in an extremely complicated mood and his face was extremely pale, wanted to say something, but his lips were open for a long time, but he didn't say anything.

The wordless silence didn't know how long it lasted, and Tang Cheng, who raised his head, walked in front of Tu Yezhuo without looking at Tu Yezhuo anymore.

"I'll leave this matter to you, I won't force you to kill your father, let's send him to Longmen City to be a rich man and enjoy his old age. Two days later, Longmen Xi mobilized 10,000 clan troops to follow me to aid Yusuo", after speaking, Tang Cheng walked towards the outside of the tent, and his body stopped when he walked to the door of the tent, "Don't forget that Longmen Xi's roots are in the Longmen grassland of the Tang Dynasty, I can only endure this betrayal, if there is a ...... next time."

Tang Cheng didn't say anything more, opened the leather tent and walked out.

The only thing left in the tent was the father and son who knelt down.

…………………………………………

That night, the elders of the Longmen Xi clan gathered in the leather tent to discuss the matter, Tu Ye Zhuo retired from the patriarchal position, and his third son Tu Ye succeeded him.

On the afternoon of the second day, Tu Yezhuo and seven wives and concubines left the Longmen grassland and moved to Longmen County.

On the morning of the third day, the new patriarch of Longmen Xi, Tu Yehei, led 10,000 cavalry to join the three coalition forces, and nearly 60,000 cavalry from all sides took the minister of Pingcuo, Lao Pingcuoda, as the commander and went to aid Yusuo.