Wang Ze walked with Qu Liulang while asking him what had happened.

After Qu Liulang explained the matter as it was, Wang Ze realized that it was Zhu Rui and Zhu Sanshu who led the fleet back from the Southern Dynasty.

It's just that when Zhu Rui went, there were less than ten large and small ships, but when he came back this time, there were eight large sea ships of 2,000 stones, and there were as many as 12 other small sea ships.

As soon as Zhu Rui came back, he hurriedly said a few words to Wang Yong, and then Qu Liulang was sent by Wang Yong to ask Wang Ze to come to the cottage hall.

"Father didn't wait for me at home, but told me to go directly to the council hall?" Wang Ze must have something important now, otherwise Wang Yong would not have waited for him in the council hall.

The council hall is a hall rebuilt after Wang Yong and others came to the cottage, and it has been in use for less than two months, and it is usually here when Mr. Lu and Wang Yong and others discuss major matters.

As soon as I entered the lobby, I saw Wang Yong and a strange middle-aged man sitting side by side on the chief officer, and two groups of people were seated on both sides.

Under Wang Yong were Lu Wen, Cheng Chong, Zhu Rui and others, on the other side were several men dressed as businessmen, and finally a beautiful Taoist priest who was forty years old in Taoist robes.

"The child has seen his father, and you have followed his father," Wang Ze hurriedly saluted to the elders before he could look at it, and then saluted to the people on the other side, "Wang Ze has seen all the gentlemen!" ”

At this time, the man next to Wang Yong smiled at Wang Yong and said, "Brother Wang, Ling Gongzi is really smart, and he will definitely be a blockbuster in the future." ”

Wang Ze only had time to look at this man at this time, but it was very different from the clothes of Northern Qi.

Although Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty forced Xianbei people to wear Hanfu and speak Chinese, since Gao Huan came to power, he respected Xianbei people, so he formed an atmosphere of Shanghufu.

The man in front of him was wearing a crown on his head, and his body was an orthodox Hanfu style with wide robes and large sleeves, and the silk was the famous Shu brocade of the Southern Dynasty, and the clothes were also sewn by tailors with 'fine' craftsmanship.

Wang Ze thought to himself, since he came back with Uncle Zhu, and he was afraid that he was a prominent member of the Southern Dynasty, so he didn't know what this person was doing here!

Thinking of this, Wang Ze faced Wang Yong and asked, "I don't know what happened to my father and the sixth brother looking for a child here?" ”

"Ze'er, this is Mr. Xiao from the Southern Dynasty, and he is a friend of your third uncle in the Southern Dynasty during this time." Wang Yong smiled and introduced the middle-aged man beside him to Wang Ze, "Mr. Xiao heard about your strange things from your third uncle, so he came here to visit." ”

Wang Ze turned his head to face Mr. Xiao and asked suspiciously: "Mr. Xiao, although the kid is a little smart, I'm afraid that Mr. Xiao can't work and run in person, right?" ”

Mr. Xiao was still kind to Wang Ze, and said with a smile: "Xiao Langjun, why make a fuss, my Southern Dynasty is orthodox in China, and the most important thing is to be literate. And His Majesty is wise and martial, and attaches great importance to the prodigy, if Xiao Langjun comes to my Southern Dynasty, it will not take thirty years to be among the nine Qings. ”

Mr. Xiao's words immediately shocked Wang Yongcheng Chong and his group: Among the nine Qings, you can become a prince before the age of thirty, so isn't it the hope of the third prince?

Wang Ze directly ignored this sentence and sneered at Mr. Xiao: "Mr. Xiao didn't deceive me into being young and ignorant?" I am afraid that Mr. Xiao himself may not believe it! ”

As soon as Mr. Xiao heard Wang Ze's words, his warm smile disappeared, and he was about to speak but was interrupted by Wang Yong.

Wang Yong hurriedly shouted at Wang Ze: "You kid, Mr. Xiao has a lot of kindness, but you are so rude!" Don't apologize to Mr. Xiao soon! ”

Wang Ze shook his head, ignored Wang Yong, and continued to say to Mr. Xiao: "Mr. Xiao, I heard that a few months ago, the 'chaos' of Hou Jingzhi of the Southern Dynasty had been quelled by the army led by Chen Baxian, the general of the Gui Dynasty, but His Majesty of the Gui Dynasty continued to stay in Jiangling, and did not go to the location of the Beijing Division. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Ze glanced at Mr. Xiao and continued: "When Hou Jingzhi was in chaos, the 'gate' lords of the Jiangdong Shi clan were basically swept away by the 'chaos' army. It's just that Jiangnan (that is, Hunan and Jiangxi on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and Jiangnan in later generations is now called Jiangdong) still have some scholars surnamed Qiao, and I don't know if Mr. Xiao's clan is more loyal to His Majesty of the Gui Dynasty, or is it loyal to others? ”

Hearing Wang Ze's words, Mr. Xiao's face changed, and he asked Wang Ze with a little bitterness: "Xiao Langjun is really smart and very human, I don't know how Xiao Langjun can see it?" ”

At this time, Wang Yong and others also knew that they had been fooled, and Zhu Rui couldn't wait to slap himself twice, vainly thinking that he was resourceful, but he didn't expect that he had been deceived by his long-term partner.

Cheng Chong looked at Mr. Xiao and his party with an unkind face, it seems that if Mr. Xiao doesn't give a reasonable reason, he is afraid that the fish and shrimp in this sea will be opened.

Mr. Xiao walked to the table, looked deeply at Wang Yong and the others, and said: "In fact, my real name is Xiao, my name is respectful, and my words are Wangzhi, and I am sorry to deceive you, because I really have no choice." ”

Speaking of which, he apologized to Zhu Rui, after all, Zhu Rui brought them over.

"Since the second year of the Taiqing Dynasty (548 AD), Hou Jing colluded with the clan to make 'chaos', the first emperor suffered a tragic disaster, 'suffered' strange injustice, Jiangdong Sanwu's hometown, thousands of miles of smoke, inaccessible, white bones gathered, like Qiulong!" Speaking of this, Xiao Jing couldn't help but show his face.

It turned out that Nanliang had been in turmoil since Hou Jingzhi's 'chaos' five years ago. Hou Jingyuan was a soldier in Huaishuo Town of the Northern Wei Dynasty (now Inner 'Mongolia' Guguyang South), and later gradually promoted to the town of Cao Shi because of his military merits.

During the Six Towns Uprising in the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Hou Jing led his troops to take refuge in Er Zhurong, the chief of the Qihu tribe, and participated in the suppression of the uprising.

After Gao Huan, the founder of the Northern Qi Dynasty, destroyed the powerful minister Zhu Rong, Hou Jing saw the wind and betrayed Gao Huan. Hou Jing's 'sex' personality is cunning and changeable, cruel and cruel, but he is very good to his subordinates, and all the treasures are rewarded to the soldiers, so his subordinates sell their death force in battles, so they win more battles every time.

After Gao Huan's death, Gao Cheng was ready to deprive Hou Jing of his military power because Hou Jing had always been disrespectful to him, but Hou Jing saw that the situation was not good, betrayed the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and took refuge in the Western Wei Dynasty.

Who knew that the Western Wei Dynasty also felt that Hou Jing, the second and fifth boy, was an unreliable guy, and also asked Hou Jing to relieve the military power, and finally Hou Jing turned around and sent a letter to Nanliang.

Originally, after the split of the Northern Wei Dynasty, from the Eastern Wei and Western Wei at the beginning to the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou at the beginning, they pinched each other to the death and fought each other for more than ten years.

Because of the endless war between the two countries in the north, the southern dynasty no longer had to face the strong military pressure of the northern dynasty, and has been honestly sitting on the bench to watch the two countries fight each other, and Emperor Wu of Liang also has the time and money to worship Buddha in a big way.

Who knew that as soon as Hou Jing's book arrived, Emperor --- Liang, who had been promoting Buddhism, was unwilling to live in peace.

At that time, the Xiao Liang regime was in crisis, the politics of the scholars were dark and rotten, and various social contradictions were extremely acute. Hou Jing's envoy came to surrender, and the ministers were all opposed to accepting it, but the mediocre Emperor Wu of Liang could not see the crisis of his rule, but thought that if he got the scenery, the north could be cleared, and the opportunity was rare. It was decided to accept Hou Jing to make his northern expedition in order to expand his power.

So Emperor Wu of Liang appointed Hou Jing as the king of Henan, the general, and the governor of the military forces in the north and south of the river, and ordered Sizhou to assassinate Shi Yang Yaren and others to lead 30,000 'elite' soldiers to the north to meet Hou Jing.

In August of that year, Emperor Wu of Liang ordered Xiao Yuanming, Marquis of Zhenyang, to lead an army of 100,000 to attack Pengcheng (now Xuzhou City, Jiangsu) by land and water.

In September, Xiao Yuanming led his army to Pengcheng Hanshan (in the southeast of present-day Xuzhou, Jiangsu), and built a Hanshan weir according to the order of Emperor Wu of Liang, and the weir Qingshui (that is, Surabaya, the first major tributary of the lower reaches of the Huai River) flooded Pengcheng.

Twenty decades later, the Hanshan weir was completed, and the Liang army flooded Pengcheng with great water, and Wang Ze, the defender of Wei Pengcheng, led his army to hold on. In November, Gao Cheng sent Gao Yue, the governor of Southwest Province, to lead an army of 100,000 to rescue Pengcheng. Xiao Yuanming, the commander of the Liang army, had no talent to lead the army, he couldn't strategize, he couldn't give orders, and he repeatedly lost his chances. Soon, the Eastern Wei rescue troops entered Pengcheng and broke the weir to release water. The Eastern Wei general Murong Shaozong launched a fierce attack on the Liang army, and Xiao Yuanming was too drunk to get up. As a result, the Liang army was defeated, tens of thousands of soldiers were lost, and Xiao Yuanming was captured.

After Murong Shaozong defeated Xiao Yuanming, he turned to attack Hou Jing. Hou Jing retired to protect the city of Wuyang (now Meng, Anhui) and held the Eastern Wei army in the north of the Wushui (now Wuhe).

Hou Jing saw that the general trend had gone, and collected 800 scattered soldiers to retreat south, and captured Shouyang (now Shou County, Anhui), which was guarded by Liang general Wei An.

After Hou Jing occupied Shouyang, he recruited soldiers, expanded the army, and asked Liang Ting for weapons, armor, staffs and other things, but Emperor Wu of Liang was unwary of him and obeyed his request. After the Eastern Wei Dynasty defeated Xiao Yuanming and Hou Jing and recovered the lost land in Henan, they expressed their willingness to make peace with Xiao Liang in order to drive a wedge between Hou Jing and Liang.

Emperor Wu of Liang saw that Hou Jing had lost his land and had no use value, so he agreed to make peace with the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Hou Jing saw that the negotiations were not conducive to him, and repeatedly opposed the peace talks.

Emperor Wu of Liang neither ignored nor guarded against it, and 'wanted' to exchange Hou Jing for Xiao Yuanming, who was captured by the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Hou Jing saw that he would die if he sat and listened, and he would die if he did a big thing, so he rebelled against Liang. At this time, Emperor Wu of Liang's ambitious nephew, Xiao Zhengde, premeditated the throne, colluded with Hou Jing, led Hou Jing into the city, and then besieged the imperial city for several months.

At the beginning, the imperial city was commanded by the general Yang Kan, and it was also well organized, defeating Hou Jing's attacks many times, but a few months later Yang Kan died of overwork, and Hou Jing then entered the imperial city and captured Emperor Wu of Liang.

Emperor Wu of Liang was later imprisoned by Hou Jing and died, and soon Hou Jing killed Xiao Zhengde and set up another clan, and in the following years, Hou Jing and Xiao Liang clan, Xiao Liang clan fought non-stop.

At this time, the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty were in a period of power transition due to the death of Gao Huan and Gao Cheng successively, and in order to relieve the military pressure after Gao Yang ascended the throne, they continued to use troops against the grassland forces in the north, such as Shanhu, Kumoxi, Khitan, Rouran, and Turkic, and were unable to go south with all their might.

Yuwentai of the Western Wei Dynasty took advantage of Hou Jingzhi's 'chaos' to continue to rob the Southern Liang, and at this time he had already obtained the Jianghan region of the original Southern Liang, as well as Hanzhong, Jian'men and other places, and the two states of Yiliang could be said to fall into the hands of the Western Wei Dynasty in an instant.

People have to admire Yuwen Black Otter, the humble Huns, is not simple.

In March this year, although Hou Jing's forces were pacified by Chen Baxian and Wang Shengbian, the power in the hands of Emperor Liang Yuan, the new emperor of Xiao Liang, was extremely weak, and he wanted to recruit troops and expand the army, but he had no money and no food in his hands.

In the winter of last year, Zhu Rui went south for the first time and met Xiao Jing in Jianghuai, when Zhu Rui only brought more than 30 catties of snow sugar in addition to other goods.

The people of the Southern Dynasty were already fond of sweets, and with the 'door' valve of many families in the Southern Dynasty, although the richest Jiangdong area was swept away by Hou Jing, there were still a large number of scholars in the Jiangnan area.

So at that time, Xiao Jing pretended to be a merchant of the Southern Dynasty and immediately bought all the snow sugar at a price of 5,000 yuan per catty, and 'paid' a deposit to pre-purchase a batch of snow sugar.

In the following months, the two sides traded a lot, and the cottage received a large amount of food, capital, and cloth, and the Liang Yuan Emperor also received a lot of money and grain support.

However, with the aggressiveness of the Western Wei Dynasty, Emperor Liang Yuan suddenly became more eager for the need for force, but the money and food in his hands were still a drop in the bucket.

This time, Xiao Jing led the fleet north to increase the amount of 'trade', and also wanted to buy the secret recipe of snow sugar. So Xiao Jing came up with the note just now, and was ready to exchange the official of the Southern Dynasty for the secret recipe of snow sugar.

Unexpectedly, Wang Ze knew about the affairs of the Southern Dynasty, and immediately exposed Xiao Jing, thinking that Zhu Rui would bring some news to the Southern Dynasty several times; Although Wang Ze is not very clear about history, he has also learned the order of Song, Qi, Liang and Chen in primary school textbooks, and knows that the dynasties of the Southern Dynasties are very short.

Wang Yong and the others still couldn't let go of Xiao Jing's explanation, and anyone who was almost deceived would not let go so easily.

Wang Ze shook his head and walked back and forth in the lobby, 'making' the whole hall staring at him, and walked dozens of steps, Wang Ze 'stiffened' his footsteps and looked up at Xiao Jing and smiled: "Mr. Xiao doesn't have to think about the secret recipe of white sugar, but Mr. Xiao can transport a lot of sucrose, and we will process it on our behalf, and we only need to charge 3,000 yuan per catty." ”

Zhu Rui thought to himself, 'This kid is ruthless enough, a pound of sucrose is about dozens of dollars in the Southern Dynasty, but now he has made a fortune!' ’

Xiao Jing didn't think so, it turned out that the price of Zhu Rui's transportation to the Southern Dynasty was 5,000 yuan, and it could be purchased in large quantities, so one entry and one exit was nearly double the profit.

But how can things be so simple, Wang Ze will not be so cheap Xiao Jing, "But we have made so many concessions to Mr. Xiao, I don't know if Mr. Xiao can meet our small conditions?" ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it!" Xiao Jing thought to himself, what else can you ask for a four-year-old villain!

"Now that I am short of food and clothing in the cottage, I want Mr. Xiao to send us a thousand boatwrights with 'fine' craftsmanship to help us make some fishing boats with thousands of stones, so that the people in the cottage can go fishing to supplement their families!"

"I'll it, I'm so black-hearted at a young age!" Xiao Jing's face did not change, but his heart jumped, "Xiao Langjun, although I said that the Southern Dynasty was 'fine' in shipbuilding, but those shipyards belonged to big families, I am afraid that I can't collect so many boatmen, and I am afraid that I can't use so many craftsmen to build fishing boats!" Xiao Langjun is obviously embarrassed by me. ”

"I have to go to the sea to fish, of course, I have to be able to withstand the sea 'waves'! If we don't have enough boatmen, we won't have enough snow sugar! Wang Ze had a look on his face that he was sure of you, obviously relying on his young age to be a scoundrel.

Xiao Jing was helpless, and after some bargaining, the two sides finally reached an agreement, first of all, the ships brought by Xiao Jing belonged to Wang Ze's side.

Then Xiao Jing had to send 100 'fine' Zhan boatwrights, 200 ordinary craftsmen who could build 500 stone fishing boats, including the families of these craftsmen, to the cottage within two months, so that he could sell the sugar to Xiao Jing in large quantities.

The two sides of the 'transaction' can finally set up a banquet and enjoy the reception banquet of Zhu Rui and others.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a newly bred grass in my cottage, it is very fresh, you don't need to be polite, hurry up!" As he spoke, Wang Yong began to feast on the wild ducks on his table.

Wang Ze, who was at the same table as his father, was very helpless, "I just said that the cottage lacks food and clothing, and all kinds of delicacies will be served like water, isn't this a slap in the face?" ’