"How is Zhou Lirong now?" , Tang Cheng picked up a red apricot fruit from the porcelain cup on the table and asked. Seeing the sweetness of Tang Cheng's eating, Zheng Lingyi also grabbed one and threw it into his mouth and said vaguely: "He! Now the porcelain that is squatting in the prison behind the Yangzhou Mansion is real."

"Huh?" , even if Wu Sansi is dead, but Yangzhou Mansion is too fast, and it is a little unreasonable.

"His cousin, who is one of the five dogs under Wu Sansi's sect, also died with his master in the mutiny", Zheng Lingyi took a preserved fruit and stuffed it into Tang Cheng's slightly open mouth, and said with a smile: "Killing people on the street, Zhou Lirong did too much last time, and the impact on the market was too bad, and he had already angered the Yangzhou Mansion." Later, when Yangzhou Mansion asked him for questioning, this Zhou fat man was also very arrogant, and this time he went back, can he still have a good son now? As soon as the news of the mutiny in Chang'an came back, he was arrested, and I am afraid that he will never think of it again."

Thinking about Zhou Lirong's style of wrapping up the entire happy building, this person is indeed too flamboyant, and it is not wrong to be flamboyant in the Tang Dynasty, but if a businessman is too flamboyant, it will make people unaccustomed to it, especially the official scholar who despises the affairs of the businessman, not to mention that he is so flamboyant that he doesn't take others in his eyes at all.

Thinking about the acquaintance and interaction between the two, and then thinking about Zhou Lirong's spending of money and spirit when he came to Yangzhou last time, Tang Cheng couldn't help but sigh a few words, "It's easy to rise and fall!" I didn't expect Zhou Fatzi to be the first person who was unlucky because of the Chang'an Mutiny."

After all, such an exclamation was just an episode, and Tang Cheng's mind quickly turned to business, "Zhou Lirong used a market price higher than 20% some time ago to attract a lot of tung oil merchants from all over the world. ”。

"It's been fried early, especially those tung oil merchants in Shannan West Road, after promising to give the oil to Zhou Lirong, these people originally went back, and now they have to rush to Yangzhou in a hurry, although these people didn't say it clearly. In private, he scolded Zhou Lirong a lot, and even the Yangzhou Mansion and Li Chongjun were brought in." At this point, Zheng Lingyi turned his face with a smile, "But this is a good thing, as soon as Zhou Fatzi was arrested, the Wu Yujun who came with you is now on the rise, and listening to the reports of the people in the market, he is now the best in the market." I don't know how many tung oil merchants are waiting to visit him with famous thorns. There were seven or eight days in the Happy Building, and he was the guest of honor at the banquet."

"Now he has what he deserves", seeing Zheng Lingyi smiling strangely, Tang Cheng suddenly understood after thinking about it for a while. Reached out and pinched Zheng Lingyi's nose, "You don't know who I am, so start being careful!" ”。

"It's not okay to tease", Zheng Lingyi made a grimace, "Actually, it's nothing if you are really like him, it doesn't matter if it's a literati gathering or a businessman talking about making a living, but if the men get together, can you miss this?" Ah Cheng, you are now in the yamen, and you will enter Beijing by imperial examination in the future. If you want to be an official, if you are too old-fashioned, you don't have to be underestimated! This is especially true after arriving in Chang'an."

"Why is that?". These words came out of Zheng Lingyi's mouth, and Tang Cheng was really embarrassed when he heard it, "Isn't it that step yet!" We'll talk about that then."

Hearing Tang Cheng's words, Zheng Lingyi became upright, "Ah Cheng, there is something I really have to tell you about it, you are good at learning and bearing, but you have been staying in a small place in Jinzhou, and your knowledge and vision are inevitably limited." ::-: Words and deeds on weekdays are always a little restrained and can't be let go. This is nothing at the moment, but once you arrive in Chang'an, it will not be possible. Imperial examination. Even in the future, when you should be publicized, you have to be public, or if people don't see that the little family is angry, who else is willing to associate with you? ”。

This made sense, but it was a little uncomfortable for Tang Cheng to hear, "What? If you don't mess with a prostitute, you're a little angry? ”。

"Am I wrong?" , Zheng Lingyi, who realized that he had made a mistake, held Tang Cheng's hand, but he didn't stop talking, "I don't mean this, but your whole person has to let go." Not to mention Chen Ziang, who wrestled the piano with the daughter of the previous dynasty, and now the most famous Wuzhong Sishi, Zhang Xu is crazy, and He Zhizhang is crazy, but the more crazy they are, the more famous they are, and you should also see from them what it is like for Chang'an to appreciate the literati."

Although Tang Cheng didn't want to agree, he had to admit that what Zheng Lingyi said was indeed right, the Tang Dynasty was very prosperous, the social atmosphere was already open, and the current national situation was on the eve of moving from the beginning to the extreme. And this kind of character is manifested in daily life, that is, it is uninhibited and uninhibited.

And often the more flamboyant and wild it is, the more respected and liked by the people of the time, for example, the arrogant Li Bai was allowed to be one of the three uniques of Chang'an by the people of the time when he opened the Yuan Dynasty; On the contrary, it is the calm character respected by later generations, and the cautious and courteous manners are not popular in this era, and the typical representative is Du Fu, who was born in the family of "Confucian officials".

Later generations of poets in the Tang Dynasty in which he lived were only regarded as second-rate poets, which is not only related to the style of his poetry, but also has a lot to do with his daily interactions.

In the poems of the same era, Li Bai is a friend all over the world. The poor generation of poets and saints were reduced to living in Chang'an for ten years without an official, and in the end, they even wanted to "detain the rich children's door and chase the fat horse dust at dusk" to make a living by fighting the autumn wind.

Character determines fate, not that Du Fu's character is not good, if his character and words and deeds are placed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, he will definitely be the object of Shilin's admiration, but unfortunately he was born in the Tang Dynasty, and most of his life has lived in the Tang Dynasty, so his character is not in line with the atmosphere of the times, especially the extremely open land of Chang'an Shilin. Character determines fate, and Du Fu has no ambition in his life, so it has nothing to do with it.

Tang Cheng understood the meaning of Zheng Lingyi's words, and this should be here. In short, in this era, at least in the literary circles where poetry is the mainstream, especially in the Chang'an literary circles, what is advocated is to show off personality, and low-key is not liked. And the evaluation of someone in the Chang'an literary circle directly determines whether he can be named on the gold list.

"Well, I understand what you mean", this matter is understood, Tang Cheng didn't say anything deeper, after all, he was not in that environment now, and immediately changed the topic and said: "What is the movement of the people sent by the two palaces recently?" ”。 ^^^^^^^

"Zhang Liang of the Prime Minister of Anguo's palace. and Xue Dong, the princess of Zhenguo's mansion, came to visit with a famous thorn, but I was asked to deal with it." Zheng Lingyi raised his eyebrows, "Didn't you say last time you left that these two people would be handed over to you to deal with."

"You did a good job", the big fish finally showed up, Tang Cheng was excited for a while, he had waited for so many days, wasn't it just for this. "The time for the ripening of the tung fruit is getting closer and closer, and they can't bear it anymore."

"It's not for this, the key is that Wu Sansi and the prince fought too hard some time ago, and both sides didn't want to get involved."

"Yes. It makes sense", after Tang Cheng smiled and praised Zheng Lingyi, he asked a question he was most concerned about, "Who will be responsible for such a thing?" ”。

"Prince An Guoxiang is a simple person, he doesn't like to worry too much, and it's not worth it for him to come forward in this matter. The fifth son of the prime minister, the eldest son Li Chengqi, disdains businessmen. The other sons are mostly fond of music and rhythm, and their temperament is very close to that of the prince. To be said. The most likely should be the most shrewd and capable third son Li Longji", Zheng Lingyi pondered for a moment, and said in an unusually affirmative tone: "Yes, it's Li Longji, I remember, this time the Prime Minister's Mansion sent to Yangzhou is Zhang Liang, and Zhang Liang's brother Zhang is Li Sanlang's confidant."

"It's good if it's Li Sanlang, God really helps me", Tang Cheng, who was excited, picked up Zheng Lingyi and turned a few *** on the spot. "Everything is ready. It's time for the city to take a stand."

Wu Yujun's days were not as moist as he imagined, and he saw that Tang Cheng had arrived. This guy rushed out of the house, "Ah Cheng, you are back."

"Your days are very moisturized", Tang Cheng let him not avoid Wu Yujun's hand, and simply let him put it on his shoulder, "Why is it still like this on the wall."

"Better? The grandson is better! Wu Yujun said viciously with the fat on his face trembling.

After listening to the details, Tang Cheng knew that the root of his sadness was actually on Zheng Lingyi. Some time ago, although he didn't make it clear, Wu Yujun vaguely released his words but he had a lot to do with the city, especially the city, and he was able to talk about the tung oil business.

It is precisely for this reason that Wu Yujun has become the object of friendship from all parties, otherwise with his original identity, he is really no different from an ant in today's Yangzhou, who will pay attention to him, let alone deliberately make friends?

At the beginning, his life was indeed moist, but as the time for picking tung fruit got closer and closer, these merchants who deliberately befriended other places began to be anxious. Okay, you said that you have a good relationship with the city, and now it's this time, so it's time to say something accurate.

Wu Yujun really wants to let go, but how can he put it and what will he take? At the beginning, this matter had been said a long time ago, and after Tang Cheng came, Zheng Lingyi, the envoy of the city, would personally speak. Wu Yujun didn't dare to violate this agreement in advance, and without Zheng Lingyi's cooperation, he just let it go in private, and he was afraid that no one would believe it.

Just for this, Wu Yujun, who waited for Tang Cheng to come on the left and Tang Cheng on the right, couldn't bear the pressure to go to Zheng Lingyi, but he didn't even see Zheng Lingyi's people once, "Ah Cheng, that woman is too ruthless, she doesn't see those maritime merchants, why don't you even see me, I'm the same as those maritime merchants?" We also swam with her at night", Wu Yujun's depressed breath can be clearly felt from eight feet away.

This head didn't hold the quasi-letter, and the other head was urged, Wu Yujun's life was really miserable, and in the end, he almost became a liar in the eyes of everyone, especially those small tung oil merchants who had never seen Tang Cheng, and they couldn't wait to point at his nose and scold.

"After Zhou Lirong was arrested by the Yangzhou Mansion, my life was better, those *** had no other way but to come to me to be a dead horse doctor, and the banquet was ......", Wu Yujun immediately blew up when he heard Tang Cheng mention this, "Is the banquet good?" It's all about asking for news, I have a ball news! I've heard a long time ago that those turtle sons from Shannan West Road have said that if this tung oil business can't make money this year, they will have to sink me in the Yangzhou Canal, which will also offset the expenses of inviting me to visit the Happy Building before, listen. Tang Cheng, listen, these grandsons are too tough. Even this dog ball ** account has to be turned out and calculated."

"These grandsons are not righteous, there is such a business there", Tang Cheng firmly followed Wu Yujun to defeat the tung oil merchant in Shannan West Road, and patted him on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry, the time to vent will come soon, I promise, at the latest tonight before the lamp." These grandsons have to rush to hold your feet."

"Did your concubine agree to let go?" , Under the excitement, Wu Yujun, who was speechless, almost cried happily.

"What a concubine! What you're saying is too unsophisticated. Okay, let's talk today".

"He also said that he was not a concubine. Isn't it a concubine, can he listen to you like this? I'm ...... day", Wu Yujun, who finally got the confirmed news, excitedly turned around the room, "It's out, it's finally out!" Damn, if you don't kill these ghost sons in Shannan Xidao, they won't know that Grandpa Wu is a hedgehog - they can't touch it! ”。

"Okay, you can rest for a while, the city boss will talk in the morning. The news will spread all over in the afternoon, and you will have to be busy then. If you want to be angry, you have to cultivate enough spirit before you can become it."

When the excited Wu Yujun walked to the door of the room, he suddenly stopped and turned around, "Ah Cheng, brother has to remind you, that Zheng Ya...... Adults are spider land, and they are very poisonous! ”。

"Just because she didn't see you?".

"That's what it's for there," Wu Yujun turned back as he spoke, "it was almost a month ago." The city port division suddenly mobilized a naval army to destroy seven sea ships from Silla and Fuso in one fell swoop. It is said that these sea vessels were unloaded on their own without reporting to the city for inspection and without tax relief. It is a smuggling deal. More than 500 people went up and down on the seven sea boats, all of whom were tied up and strung by Zheng Lingyi and led to Hulu Island", at this point, Wu Yujun's face was stunned, and he didn't speak again, but just made a downward gesture with his hand.

"Killed?".

"Kill them all! I didn't even leave the cook on the ship", Wu Yujun looked at Tang Cheng before continuing: "Because I heard that the seven sea ships were loaded with the tung oil accumulated over the years by Silla and Fusang, I also went to Hutuzhou with the others to see, more than 500 people, do you know who was the first to cut people with a knife?" ”。

"Zheng Lingyi?".

"That's her. In addition to these more than 500 people that day, there was also a subordinate of the Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion who reported the news, and the first person who was cut was this unlucky bastard, tsk, who would have thought that Zheng Lingyi would do it himself? A knife went down, the blood spurted out at once, her whole clothes were almost full, looking like a bloody man, it was a strong man like me who was dizzy to look at, but the little lady was stunned and didn't move, her hand was too small and the knife didn't kill the person, she made up two knives in a row, my mother! Ah Cheng, you don't know, the tung oil merchants and maritime merchants present at that time can keep their faces undiscolored! ”。

"Of course this is a good thing, she shows her hand like this, and our business is easy to do", Wu Yujun patted Tang Cheng on the shoulder, "But I still have to remind you to pay attention, a man who is an official is terrible enough, not to mention a woman who is an official, she came out of the palace and has been trained by Shangguan Zhaorong for so many years." Such a woman...... In short, Ah Cheng, you should be careful

In response to this matter, no one knows what Tang Cheng thinks in his heart. After Wu Yujun left, he also didn't sleep, and he lay down with his head upside down.

I slept until noon, and when the two were eating, they suddenly heard a commotion outside the door, and many footsteps were rushing towards this side.

After Tang Cheng and Wu Yujun glanced at each other, they said in unison: "It's coming."

"It's your name that shows out, these people are handed over to you, the most important thing is to find out the oil price they hide in their hearts, so that it can be compared with ours", Tang Cheng stood up and said: "If you see Xue Dong and Zhang Liang's famous thorns, let Chang Sui send them to me."

When he got Zhang Liang's famous thorn, it was almost dusk when the sun set, Tang Cheng dusted off the gold thorn in his hand, Tang Cheng smiled slightly, "The patience of two hours, not long or short, but a little bit of a desire to cover it."

Zhang Liangxu thought that the inn was too noisy, so he moved out and rented an elegant house with a single courtyard, and he didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, the house he rented was very close to the mansion of Hu Shang's head.

Knocking on the door gently, it was a young servant who came out to answer the door, and after looking Tang Cheng up and down, the very brightly dressed servant pouted a Shaanxi dialect "official language" and said lazily: "My master has an urgent matter today, and he will not see a guest."

After following his gaze and looking down at the slightly ordinary bamboo pattern shirt on his body, Tang Cheng understood the reason why the servants were arrogant.

"I'm not a guest, I'm the God of Wealth", Tang Cheng took the gold name back with his hand, and said word by word: "The God of Wealth that your master is waiting for."