On the Longshou Mountain in the southeast of the Taiye Pond, in the Ayaqi Palace.

Li Yi, the son of Xiantong, smiled and helped Wang Zhaoyi up, and said: "Zhaoyi still has a way, this song is very cheerful, attracting many people in the palace, and I can't help but come in." How are you doing these days?"

Wang Zhaoyi said with a smile: "The reason why the minister sings such a cheerful poem of Du Gongbu is also because of the incident in Chengdu, and suddenly thought of a plan to make everyone up and down happy, anxious to play tomorrow, and can't go out." Let's be happy with myself first, and then talk about the rest. ”

Li Yi was very surprised, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "What is Zhaoyi's plan to be happy with everything?" ”

Wang Zhaoyi gave a deep salute and said, "Your Majesty, when the minister looks at the accessories on his body in his spare time, he thinks of the pearl merchant Jieke. From this and that, the minister thought of a plan to break the enemy, but it was just two words - withdrawal, which would inevitably make Nanzhao no longer use force against the Tang Dynasty. Wouldn't you be happy that Datang's wealth has skyrocketed and that it can achieve a complete victory?"

Hey, I'm really smart Zhaoyi, and I actually have such a unique strategy. Li Yi was secretly happy, couldn't help shaking Zhaoyi's shoulders, and asked, "Zhaoyi's plan to withdraw capital is explained in detail for me." ”

Wang Zhaoyi took the emperor's hand, sat on the mahogany chair, and said loudly: "The minister thinks that there are four aspects of withdrawal, one is to strictly order the giant merchants to withdraw from Nanzhao within a time limit, and empty the source of Nanzhao's taxes.

"Second, all the treasures that the previous dynasty had rewarded to Nanzhao were all recovered.

"All the concubines, generals, reinforcements, craftsmen, and expatriates sent to Nanzhao by the previous dynasty will be recalled and rewarded when they return to the Tang Dynasty.

"The four ordered the state of Bi, the queen, and the state of Tubo that those who dared to support the Southern Zhao would be regarded as attacking the Tang Dynasty and withdrawing all rewards and capital from the giant merchants. This is called the fourth plan to withdraw the edict. ”

When Li Yi heard this, he stroked his palms and laughed, and he grabbed Wang Zhaoyi and praised it: "Wonderful, wonderful! Above the court, one by one, quoting scriptures, Lao Zhuang's grandson, Wu Kongmeng, and talking endlessly, but no one can think like this." Zhaoyi is indeed a descendant of the god of the peddler, unless the former bamboo and wood dealer god Wangyun can have such a plan outside the world. ”

Wang Zhaoyi lay in the emperor's arms, and suddenly burst into tears: "The minister watched His Majesty anxious for Nanzhao, angry everywhere, deeply afraid of affecting His Majesty's dragon body, thinking day and night, because of Jieke's pearl and came up with a plan to withdraw capital." ”

Li Yi, the son of Xiantong, immediately said: "Isn't Jieke the second brother of Concubine Jie, it is necessary for me to summon him and ask him to talk about the situation of the giant merchants of Nanzhao Kingdom and set a specific plan for withdrawal." After the success, there will be a generous reward. ”

Wang Zhaoyi said yes, stood up from the emperor's arms, and said: "Concubine Jie and her second brother must have letters back and forth, and it is not difficult for Your Majesty to summon Jieke." I have heard that the children of Yongyang County Gong Jiehuang and Yongyang County Lady Song Qiao are all full of tricks, and His Majesty will have a lot to gain when he summons Jieke. ”

Li Yi laughed: "Okay, let's just say that, I won't leave tonight, Zhaoyi will accompany me to talk about it." Come on, set a few plates, bring the best wine, and I and Wang Zhaoyi will not get drunk or sleep. ”

That night, the emperor and Wang Zhaoyi feasted until late at night before they both went to bed. In the middle of the banquet and drink, when gossiping, the matter of a son and two daughters was resolved.

Yizong officially named Zhaoyi's son, ten-year-old Li is still King Xiao, and his two daughters are Princess Zhenyang and Princess Zhenyuan, who are eight and six years old respectively. King Xiao was fiefdom in Xuzhou, Princess Zhenyang fief was in Yuzhou, and Princess Zhenyuan fief was in Bozhou.

Within a few days, the pearl giant merchant Jie Wensheng arrived in Chang'an with the internal supervisor. When I arrived, it happened to be an afternoon, and I first went to the palace of the imperial concubine, met with the concubine, and said something considerate. Concubine Jie told the cause and effect of Wang Zhaoyi's recommendation, and asked him to play a duet when he visited the Son of Heaven.

After the brother and sister finished speaking, Jieke said goodbye and left the palace, went straight to the eldest brother's Chaohou mansion, and met Jiexing. At this time, at the age of fifty-six, the official worshiped the protector and the general of the right military guard, and was canonized as the marquis of Chao. The fiefdom Chao County is under the jurisdiction of Luzhou, Huainan Province.

His father, Yongyang County Gong Jiehuang, died at the age of 76 after serving as Fengxiang Festival for ten years, and has been dead for 13 years. Her mother, Mrs. Song Qiao of Yongyang County, was six years younger than her father and had passed away for five years.

When the brothers met, they said that the internal eunuch of the Son of Heaven had summoned him from Chengdu, and he had already met with his sister Concubine Jie, as well as the various situations on the front line in Chengdu and the internal situation of Nanzhao.

Chaohou Jie Zichong of course knows everything about the Chengdu front, but when the second brother mentioned the domestic situation in Nanzhao, not only did he not understand it very well, but even the prime minister did not know it very clearly.

He immediately said: "Summoned by the Holy Lord, your recital is focused on how to drain the state assets of Nanzhao. You can ask the Holy Lord to ask the household department to allocate a sum of money, gold, silver and jewelry to you, and take away all the major wealthy merchants of the Nanzhao Kingdom. Wang Zhaoyi's plan to withdraw the four edicts focuses on drawing salaries from the bottom of the cauldron against Nanzhao. ”

Jieke thought that he had seen each other slightly, and immediately drew up a list of the main wealthy businessmen of Nanzhao State, a total of twenty-five, including two of the two major prefectures and two of the six major jiedu mansions, and nine people in the capital of Yangtho Bacheng, all of whom had mansions in Yangtho Bacheng. I also have a mansion in Yang Tho City.

These 25 wealthy merchants of Nanzhao basically covered a little more than half of the country's various goods transactions. There are three main families that the wealthy merchants of the Tang Dynasty trade with them, one is themselves, the other is for lacquer carving, and the third is the whole city.

Lacquer carving is the grandson of Pingchang Marquis lacquer carving, the son of lacquer carving. Lacquer carving was born in the first year of the treasure calendar (825), belonging to the snake, and is now 45 years old. It mainly sells Nanzhao herbs, and is the king of large southern medicines.

The lacquer carving is already ninety-four years old, and he still guards the Rongzhou Spring Wine Workshop in Qingzhou.

Qi Diaogu is also sixty-five years old and has been living in his hometown in Yandao County, Rongzhou. He was mainly responsible for purchasing and transporting Rongzhou spring wine to Qingzhou, and during his stay at home, he accepted apprentices to teach martial arts.

Especially for the teaching of the family martial arts Wujin Bangyunji, he is tireless, and he is never afraid of hard work in teaching his disciples. There are countless apprentices in several states and counties near the left of the square circle, and they are well-known, and people send a large golden dad.

As many as 54 of his disciples have formally worshipped the teacher, and these people are known as Xichuan Fifty-four Branches. If you count the nominal disciples who have never worshipped the teacher, I am afraid that there are more than a hundred people, all over the states and counties of Xichuan Province in Jiannan.

The eldest disciple, Lu Ziyan, was only four years younger than his master Qi Diao Gu, and he was already sixty-one. The current envoy of Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu is besieged in Chengdu by the Tubo soldiers.

The youngest disciple, Qi Shaoyan, was thirty years old and followed the lacquer carving branch of the king of bamboo shoots in Rongzhou to engage in the sale of square bamboo shoots.

This Lu Ziyan, with his words and deeds, is Lu Zhengyan's cousin. Who is Lu Zhengzhen?

Isn't Lu Zhengzhen the son-in-law of Feng Chenghou Youtong, the child of Wen Lie's sister-in-law, who once served as the envoy of the Wuning Military Festival in Xuzhou. Lu attacked Zhen, also with the word line, famous, this word is not easy to recognize, so it is basically not used in public.

Lu Tan was related to his brother Lu Ying, and he learned to sell under the ancient door of lacquer carving, mainly to learn martial arts. It is said that Lu Yu is the cousin of Qi Diao Gu, and Lu Tan came to apprentice with him, but Lu Tan didn't care about this, he couldn't be begged, so he had to accept this big disciple.

Lacquer carving is used in the ranking of the disciples of his father's lacquer carving Gu, and it can only be ranked more than twenty.

The whole city, is the son of the eldest brother of the eight swords of the song Quan Deng and the second brother Chen Yu, who is the same age as the lacquer carving, but the birth moon is small, and the wood fish stone of the song is sold. Chaoge Muyu Stone is carved and polished, showing the red sandalwood grain, also known as sandalwood stone, or sandalwood, is the treasure of the world. Therefore, the city's tuba is also called the sandalwood dealer.

The two of them and Wang Hammer, a wealthy jade merchant in Yang Tho City, are the three heroes of Erhe.

Wang was forty-three years old. They were all nine to eleven years younger than Jieke. The jadeite he sells is also called jade and jade, so his large size is a jade dealer. Jade is mostly produced in the country of Bi, so the Tang Dynasty is called Juyu, and the edict is the meaning of the king. The edict of the jade dealer means the king of the jade seller.

Speaking of this Wang Hammer, he is the son of Xinfeng Tiger Wang Xun. Wang Xun is the sixth brother of the Nine Envoys, and he is now sixty-two years old. Wang Xun was nineteen years old and got his son Wang Hammer, why did he get mixed up in Nanzhao Kingdom?

In detail, the story is long. To put it simply, it was just to get the wife of Princess Nanzhao, and when I caught up with Nanzhao, I didn't leave.

A lover eventually became a family, and the former King of Nanzhao persuaded Feng You to marry his second daughter, Princess Shiya, to Wang Shui. He is an authentic concubine of the Southern Zhao Kingdom, and the second brother-in-law of the current Dali Emperor Shilong.

Jie Wensheng also has righteous brothers in Yang Tho Baa City, and even he is four, known as the four elephants of Nanzhao.

The eldest brother, Jie Wensheng, is fifty-four years old and sells pearls.

The second brother Xiang Chong is fifty-one years old, the grandson of Yun Anbo Xiang Chunshan and his ex-wife Wang Yuan, and the eldest son of Xiang Kuan, who sells Luoyang soap needles.

The third brother has Bo Fu, forty-six years old, is the son of Youhang, a well-known tea merchant in Zhaozhou, and Ran Li, a swordsman, who sells Nanzhao Sanqi.

The fourth brother Li Zhan, forty-five years old, is the son of Li Bu, the fifth brother of the ninth envoy of Chongxin, Lishan Ying, and sells calligraphy tablets in Chang'an.

Xiang Chong was sent by the Son of Heaven with his father Xiang Kuan since he was a child to help Nanzhao conquer the country of Pi, and married the daughter of the army general of Yang Tho Bacheng Pavilion, and he had already become an old household of Nanzhao and enjoyed high prestige among the wealthy merchants of Nanzhao. Even if the king hammers it, he has to give three points to it.

Generally speaking, the four elephants of Nanzhao and the three heroes of Erhe are the big leaders of the giant merchants in the capital of Nanzhao, and these two forces are often screwed together. Tens of thousands of yuan of goods are trafficked, and the largest trafficking once used 100,000 yuan of assets at a time.

Jie Wensheng talked about the intricate relationship between the giant merchants of Nanzhao Kingdom, and the eldest brother Jie Zichong was in high spirits and shouted: "This is a great relationship. Tomorrow morning, the Son of Heaven will be very happy if you come with me to face the saints, explain the situation in the business circles of Nanzhao Kingdom thoroughly, and explain your plan for how to evacuate these people. ”

After thorough deliberation, the two brothers negotiated a divestment plan. When it comes to late nights, they go to sleep.

The next morning, Chaohou Jie Zichong took Jie Wensheng to the court, and Jie Wensheng was a commoner, and was blocked outside the Xuanzheng Hall and waited for the Xuan Zhao to be seen. After listening to the report of Zai Zhi and the various ministries and guards, the Xiantong Emperor made a proclamation one by one. The report of the military department is still the same old-fashioned, the siege of Chengdu by the Southern Zhaoguo is very tight, and Lu Ziyan repeatedly asks for help.

Xiantong Tianzi went to the military attache class and saw the right military guard general, Chaohou Jie Zichong, took a step forward and whispered to the emperor: "Jieke is waiting for the order outside the palace." ”

Xiantong Tianzi pointed to Jiejiao: "Chaohou, after retreating from the dynasty, take your second brother Jieke to Zichen Hall to see me, and discuss matters such as Nanzhao giant businessmen." ”

Chao Hou Jie was busy and knelt on the ground: "The minister obeys the order, and thanks my lord Longen on behalf of the minister." ”

No more nonsense, just wait to retreat. This early dynasty lasted for a long time, starting from the beginning of the Mao period and not retreating from the court until the end of the day. It's noon, and it's time for lunch.

Yizong is a well-known arrogant and lascivious emperor, who rarely goes to the court in person, and is all those prime ministers who were arbitrarily appointed by him, and they are perfunctory in the court. Not only is it going to court today, why is there such a long early dynasty?

In fact, in the middle three hours, Yizong slipped out at least seven times. I can't say a few words about a thing, the waiter whispers, Concubine XX made a good tune again, Concubine XX made deer whip soup with her own hands, and Concubine XX developed a happy dispersion, all of which beckoned him away.

For three hours, they couldn't say anything at all, and the ministers were already cold to the bones. Finally waiting for the retreat from the dynasty, the Marquis of Chao hurriedly walked out of the Xuanzheng Palace, pulled up Jieke and walked to the apse.

As soon as he went around to the outside of the Xuanzheng Palace, the inner supervisor who went to Chengdu Xuanzhao Jieke ran over to greet him: "Your Majesty asked Chaohou and Jieke to go to the Ayaqi Hall to give a banquet." ”

That is, the morning dynasty got almost lunch, and then talked about the business affairs of Nanzhao, plus he never finished listening to a thing, so he didn't know how long it would take. Until then. Lunch is not ready. Your Majesty is wise, give a feast? I rub, for the businessmen who are rolling in the wind, frost, snow and rain, this is the highest honor.

When their brothers arrived at the Ayaqi Palace, they immediately kowtowed to the emperor sitting on the mahogany chair when they entered the door. The emperor shouted: "Excuse me." Bestow the seat. ”

Chaohou Jiefeng and his second brother Jieke got up and sat on the right side of the emperor, and then looked at the left head, and the left head was already sitting Linhai County Wang Wanglingtong, Zhaorong Wangyou Ling, and Hou Wangjun. Oh, it seems that this feast is to fully brew the plan of the four withdrawals.

The Son of Heaven asked the king of Linhai beside him: "Wangaiqing, how much is Gui Geng?"