Chapter Eighty-Three: Don't Think Hard
"Li Lang will be really young and promising!" When everyone saw each other and sat down in the private room, Chen Xiaoyi said with an appreciative face.
Li Yin said: "It's true to be young, but you dare not be promising." ”
Chen Xiaoyi laughed, "I didn't expect Li Langjiang to be a funny person!" ”
"Haha, haha!" Pan Renhai and the others in the private room also laughed, Li Yin really didn't understand where the laughter was, so he felt very embarrassed.
Chen Xiaoyi nodded to the shopkeeper of Huiyanlou who was standing in the distance, and the shopkeeper of Huiyanlou immediately understood, and went to direct people to put the food up one by one.
"Finally able to eat?" Taishou Qiu Xingshan opened his eyes, wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and said.
On the way here, Li Yin had already heard Zhou An say that this Taishou Lord seemed to have a bad brain, and now it seems that he has Alzheimer's disease.
While eating, everyone chatted awkwardly with Li Yin, and after three rounds of wine and five flavors, Chen Xiaoyi looked at Li Yin with a smile again, "There are no good cooks in Saizhi County on our side, and the dishes we cook are only far from the Central Plains." ”
"Okay." Li Yin replied casually.
Chen Xiaoyi felt a pause in words, since Li Yin came in, he had never had a chance to say the words he had thought of in more euphemistic words, and at this time he simply stopped sparing the bend, so he clapped his hands, and several men immediately walked in with a box of things.
The chest was opened, and it was full of white silver.
Li Yin glanced at the silver expressionlessly and asked, "Chen Juncheng, what does this mean?" ”
Chen Xiaoyi said with a smile: "These are all the tributes expressed by all colleagues to Li Lang's arrival in our Yanmen County, and I hope that General Lang must accept it!" ”
Li Yin said: "No merit is not lost, I understand everyone's wishes, let's take these things back!" ”
Chen Xiaoyi's face suddenly became not very good-looking, and he stared at Li Yin and said, "Lang will do this, won't it chill everyone's hearts?" ”
"Yes, yes, Lang will take it!" Others followed.
Li Yin excused himself again before he said, "Since this is the case, then I'll take it, Liu Hong, take the things down!" ”
After hearing this, Liu Hong, who was standing behind Li Yin, immediately stepped forward and carried the box of silver on his shoulder, and walked downstairs "rubbing". This box of silver was brought in by two strong men just now, but I didn't expect Liu Hong to get it away alone, and many people were stunned when they saw it.
"General Li Lang's subordinates are really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon!" Chen Xiaoyi flattered that because Li Yin received the money, he would do those shady things with them, so he was in a good mood.
Liu Hong, who went downstairs, quickly returned and stood behind Li Yin like an iron tower again.
Chen Xiaoyi coughed, and finally said the purpose of the banquet for Li Yin: "Yanmen County is short of materials, and the soldiers are living very hard, so those of us who are Shangguan are just like businessmen, doing business, of course, everyone earns money together, Li Lang will see how much money we will earn for you?" ”
Li Yin, as one of the most important officials in Yanmen County, couldn't hide it from him, so he simply invited him to join the gang.
After Li Yin listened to Chen Xiaoyi's words, he was slightly surprised, no wonder he always thought that these people were weird, but he didn't expect that they were doing this kind of thing.
Jun Cheng and General Huben are not petty officials, and they can make a risky business, but they are afraid that there are amazing profits in it.
Li Yin asked quietly, "What are you all doing?" ”
Chen Xiaoyi was about to answer, but when he saw Wang Seng distinguishing a look at him, Chen Xiaoyi had no choice but to smile and said, "This...... This, uh, Li Lang will not ask in detail, wouldn't it be better to sit back and wait for the money to be collected? ”
Li Yin nodded thoughtfully. When everyone saw this, they all felt that they had achieved something that they were happy about, and their expressions relaxed.
After the banquet, Wang Seng looked at Li Yin's departing back by the window, frowning slightly.
Chen Xiaoyi asked, "General Wang, is there anything inappropriate?" ”
Wang Seng said: "I'm afraid that he is saying one thing and doing another." ”
"So what are we going to do?" Chen Xiaoyi said and walked back and forth.
Wang Seng discerned: "Don't act rashly now, wait for me to send someone to observe them for a while!" ”
Chen Xiaoyi's eyes showed a cold light and said: "If he Li Yin really has any other thoughts, don't blame us for being ruthless!" ”
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After Li Yin returned to the Yingyang Mansion military camp, he just sat down and said to a relative soldier beside him, "Go and call Fu Ying to me." ”
Fu Ying was the person who was in charge of intelligence matters in the "Lu Gong" Guo Fang's pre-army before, and during the Battle of Jishui, he saw that Guo's army was bound to be defeated, so he took the lead in escaping, but in the end he was captured by Li Yin's subordinates.
Li Yin had studied the battles of Guo Fang's pre-army in Jiyin County, and knew that a big reason why they were able to win many battles in Jiyin County was that they seemed to know the reality of the county soldiers, so he left this Fu Ying in his army.
Fu Ying soon came to Li Yin's camp, "Lord Lang Jiang, are you looking for me?" ”
Li Yin nodded, "The officials of Yanmen County don't know what to do, you go and find out, be careful not to be discovered." ”
Fu Ying took the order and left, without saying a word of nonsense.
Zhang Liang on the side said: "General Lang, in my opinion, I can guess what those people are doing." ”
Li Yin said: "Oh? Then you might as well talk about it. ”
Zhang Liang said: "With their status, they can't look down on ordinary trading, what can enter their eyes must be something forbidden by the imperial court, and the profits are big enough to make people take risks, and this place is the Beisai frontier, so I guess they must be selling salt, iron and other things to the Turks to make huge profits!" ”
Li Yin was silent for a while after hearing this, and then nodded: "What you said makes sense, if they do exactly this, then it will be bold." ”
Salt was forbidden by the imperial court for private sale, and iron, as a military material, naturally could not be sold, let alone sold to the Turks?
At this time, the strength of the Sui Dynasty has gradually weakened, and the Turks in the north are eyeing each other, and it is only a matter of time before they go south, and Yanmen County will definitely bear the brunt of the attack.
If the officials of Yanmen County really sold iron to the Turks, wouldn't they be giving weapons to the enemy?
"Let's hope they're not so short-sighted!" Li Yin thought so.
However, Li Yin will soon find out that he really overestimates the bottom line of some people's behavior.