When he returned to the mansion after the discussion in the imperial study, Zhang Rang informed Ji Qingchen that Tang Yifu was waiting for him in the study. During this period, Ji Qingchen handed over all the banking affairs to Tang Yifu, but handed over the power of money to Zhang Rang, and he was very relieved to Tang Yifu. Now when he heard that Tang Yifu had come to see him, he hurried to the study.

Tang Yifu was about to salute when he saw Ji Qingchen, but was stopped by Ji Qingchen and said, "No need to be polite, sit down!" ”

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Tang Yifu arched his hand and sat down again.

"Tell me, I heard that Huitong Bank has opened? How's business going? Ji Qingchen asked.

"Back to Your Highness, the development of Huitong Bank is very good, although we have only opened one store in King's Landing, but the business is very prosperous, and at the same time, it has not received the attention of Shangzhou Wei." Tang Yifu said excitedly, "Shaw is thinking, putting a large amount of money in the vault of Huitong Bank is really a bit of a tyrannical thing - Shaw has thought about using this money to do other business, I wonder if His Highness Lu Dao will be able to tolerate it?" ”

"How much money does the bank have now?" Ji Qingchen asked.

"I have saved 100,000 yuan, but I have loaned nearly 300,000 yuan." Tang Yifu said, "But we have 20 million silver in Huitong Bank, as long as we take out 10%, which is 1 million taels, we can do a lot of business, and it will not affect the normal operation of the bank, please rest assured in this regard." ”

"If you have faith, do it!" Ji Qingchen had different business problems, but he believed in Tang Yifu's ability, so he didn't make a decision, but he still reminded, "However, no matter how you embezzle the money in the bank, our principal in the bank cannot be less than 10 million taels of silver." ”

Seeing that Tang Yifu was a little puzzled, Ji Qingchen continued to explain, "No matter what time it is, we must ensure that the bank can operate normally. There was a pause, and he continued, "Do you know why the Wei clan of Shangzhou is ignoring Huitong Bank now? ”

Tang Yifu did not speak, waiting for Ji Qingchen to analyze.

"Because Huitong is still too small now, it is not worth their attention, and it is not worth their efforts to deal with." Ji Qingchen said lightly, "If our Huitong Bank is targeted by them now, they just want to deal with Huitong, how much can we lose?" But when Huitong grows and grows, it will be different, at that time, Huitong involved a lot, and then they will find the opportunity to strike a fatal blow to us, I am afraid it will be the most fatal time. ”

"Your Highness's meaning Shaw understands, please rest assured Your Highness about this." Tang Yifu assured, "Business is just our side business, and our main business is still Huitong Bank." However, there are a few operations that involve the future development of the bank, and Shaw has only thought about controlling them in his own hands in advance, so as not to cause us chaos when the time comes. ”

"Well, you said a lot, it's right to take precautions, and strangle the danger in the cradle, which this king agrees with." Ji Qingchen said with a smile, "Since you are so confident, then rest assured to do it, this king will let Zhang Rang fully support you, if there is anything that needs to be dredged, you can figure it out yourself, if you really can't solve it with money, go to Zhang Rang, and he will come forward to help you get it." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Tang Yifu was moved, "As soon as His Highness said this, Yifu was relieved and could do it with confidence." ”

"Yes!" Ji Qingchen nodded slightly.

At this time, Zhang Rang strode into the study, Tang Yifu had already finished reporting the problem he had reported to Ji Qingchen, and seeing that Ji Qingchen had nothing to say to him, he said goodbye and left. After Tang Yifu left the study, Zhang Rang handed an invitation to Ji Qingchen and said, "Your Highness, this is an invitation sent by Cui Fu." ”

"Cui Jingsheng will invite this king to a banquet?" Ji Qingchen didn't accept the invitation but said mockingly, "He is very disdainful of this king——"

Zhang Rang didn't speak, but put the invitation on the table in front of Ji Qingchen. Seeing the beautiful Xiaokai study on the invitation, Ji Qingchen suddenly understood whose invitation it was - Cui Yingying, the eldest lady of the Cui family. He seemed to remember that when he was competing in polo with the eighth prince Ji Qian on the school field, Cui Yingying had invited him and asked him to feast on her poetry party, but he didn't expect that there had been no movement before, and when he returned to King's Landing this time, this invitation was put on his table.

"Zhang Rang, do you say that this poetry club is going to the king, or is it not going?" Ji Qingchen didn't open the invitation, but wanted to ask Zhang Rang.

"Your Highness, this poetry meeting gathered among the scholars of this year's imperial examination, and there are many talented people among them, unlike usual, it is a poetry competition between the children of some rich families, and the slaves think that they can go." Zhang Rang replied.

"Yes!" Ji Qingchen nodded, then picked up the invitation card on the table, opened it and looked at it, and handed the invitation to Zhang Rang, "You can arrange this matter, and then inform the king." ”

"No!" Zhang Rang took the order and bowed down and exited the study.

The next day, Ji Qingchen came to his uncle Ye Qingchen's house, and the two chatted for a while before leaving. came out of his uncle Ye Qingchen's Ye Mansion, and he came to the mansion of his uncle Ye Qingzhi in the south of the city again. This mansion was given to him by Emperor Yan when Ye Qingzhi took up the post of Guozijian after Ji Qingchen left King's Landing City. However, the current Ye Qingzhi is no longer the business of the Guozijian, but the sacrificial wine of the Guozijian. Because of the previous sacrificial wine, Yu Qing has already returned to his hometown.

However, it was a pity for Ji Qingchen that his uncle Ye Qingzhi was lecturing in Guozijian and was no longer in the house, and this trip he was in vain, which made Ji Qingchen very depressed, so he could only go back to the house in a huff.

In fact, this time he came to find his uncle Ye Qingzhi to prepare for tomorrow's poetry meeting. Because he wanted to learn about the situation of several scholars who stood out in this year's scientific examination through his uncle's introduction, and wanted to see if he could accept a few people for his own use at tomorrow's poetry meeting.

However, his plan failed!

……

The next day, in the afternoon, Zhang Rang came to ask Ji Qingchen for his life, whether to prepare a carriage and horses to participate in the poetry meeting prepared by Cui Yingying outside King's Landing City.

"Yes!" Ji Qingchen groaned for a while, feeling that he had nothing to do now, so he agreed to him after thinking about it.

After a while, Zhang Rang was ready, and the two of them left the mansion together, accompanied by more than 100 guards of the cavalry battalion, and came out of King's Landing City to the Cui Mansion Manor outside the city.

Cui Yingying has been holding poetry meetings for six years, and except for one year in special circumstances, poetry meetings are held in manors outside the city. This made Ji Qingchen and his party arrive at the gate of the manor, and found that there was already a lot of traffic outside the door, and it was very lively.

When the scholars who had just arrived at the gate of the manor saw Ji Qingchen's frame, they didn't expect that the dignified King of Northern Liao would participate in this poetry meeting. Seeing the scholars at the gate of the manor, Ji Qingchen, who was sitting in the car, did not expect that so many people would participate. He didn't dare to hold it up in front of this group of scholars, so he immediately got out of the car and saluted everyone. Fortunately, at this time, someone had already notified Cui Yingying in the manor, and Cui Yingying knew that Ji Qingchen would immediately go out to greet her.

This relieved the scholars outside the manor.

It's not that Ji Qingchen puts too much pressure on them, but the hundred cavalry battalions around Ji Qingchen are all brave men who have experienced the baptism of war. The murderous aura exuded by these hundred guards beside Ji Qingchen was not something that a group of them who only knew how to read could bear.

Cui Yingying didn't expect Ji Qingchen to arrive at the manor so early, she was a little surprised, but she was very happy, and said with a smile, "Your Highness can enjoy the light and go to the banquet, which makes Yingying feel very honored!" ”

"This king is also idle, I just want to see how Miss Cui's poetry will be, whether there is a talent that this king wants, if there is, this king doesn't want to let go!" Ji Qingchen said that he did not hide his purpose for participating in the poetry meeting.

Cui Yingying was stunned, she didn't expect Ji Qingchen to say it so bluntly.

But looking at Ji Qingchen's face that didn't look like a joke, she was happy when she woke up, she didn't expect that this king of Northern Liao, who had long been rumored to be murderous, would be so upright, and the tension in her heart was reduced a lot, and then she said generously, "I'm afraid that I will disappoint Your Highness, I really don't have a great talent in His Highness's eyes, but there are a lot of small talents, it depends on whether Your Highness has such eyesight and whether you can subdue them." ”

"It's hard to say that this king will come forward, but if Miss Cui can help this king-" Ji Qingchen paused and said with a smile, "But you can say it!" ”

Cui Yingying blushed a little when Ji Qingchen said it, and was a little shy, but this added a little charm to her, and she whispered, "Your Highness, please!" ”

"Thank you!" Ji Qingchen nodded politely and said.

followed Cui Yingying into the manor.

However, because Ji Qingchen arrived a little earlier, and now the poetry meeting has not started, Cui Yingying can only arrange Ji Qingchen to rest in a small courtyard. And because Cui Yingying still had something to deal with, she could only say goodbye to Ji Qingchen and leave, leaving Ji Qingchen alone in the yard, but Ji Qingchen didn't mind much, he liked this small yard very much, the plum blossoms in the yard, bit by bit delicate and indigo, indescribably gorgeous.

He walked to the plum pavilion in the small courtyard, and found that there was an incense burner in the pavilion, and the furnace was burning with a faint sandalwood, and the smell of fragrance was wafting around, and then looked at the table of the pavilion with a few books and pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, Ji Qingchen sat down and looked through the books on the table, and found that in addition to a copy of "Ancient Literature and Views", the remaining three books were miscellaneous anthologies, namely "Lu's Spring and Autumn", "Suiyuan Poems", "Eight Great Anthologies" and half of "Plum Garden Poems".

For "Ancient Literature Guanzhi", Waiji Qingchen has read Lu's Spring and Autumn Period, "Suiyuan Poems" and "Eight Great Anthologies", but he has not read this half of "Plum Garden Poems", he opened it and read it carefully, and found that this half of the book was the exquisite poems left by the scholars and students when they participated in Cui Yingying's poetry meeting in the past, and he couldn't help but read it a little attentively.

This look is an hour.

When he finished reading half of "Plum Blossom Poems" in one go, he found that Cui Yingying was standing beside him at some point, looking at him a little curiously.

Seeing Ji Qingchen put down the book, Cui Yingying said, "Does Your Highness also like poetry?" ”

"Let's take a look once in a while!" Ji Qingchen said, but he had already gotten up and asked Cui Yingying, "I was a little fascinated by reading the book just now, I don't know when Miss Cui arrived, did this king delay your poetry meeting?" ”

"Your Highness was fascinated by what she saw just now, and Yingying didn't dare to disturb it, but Your Highness is now at the right time." Cui Yingying said with a smile, "Your Highness, please!" ”

"Yes!" Ji Qingchen nodded and followed Cui Yingying to the hall of the poetry club!