Zhou Zong narrowed his eyes and looked at Li Yuan, who had a bitter and vengeful face, and then stroked his long beard and laughed, "The old man guessed that you will have to mention this stubble sooner or later. Hey, the old man is also helpless! You are my son-in-law, and your majesty's most valued general, do you think that the old man will oppose you?

If the old man was still the right minister when the emperor was in power, how could I deduct your reward and give you those rags? What's more, Xu Xuan and his group, but with His Majesty's clear will, all the money and food should be supplied to the Zhennan Army as needed, what can the old man do? I've done my best to give you that."

Li Yuan then grinned and said, "Hehe, father-in-law, the son-in-law is just joking! I know you've always treated me very well, and this time it must have been done by Seo Hyun and his gang, but I never blamed you. If you don't believe it, you can go back and ask Emperor E, I haven't complained about this matter once, and I want whatever you give me."

Zhou Zong nodded, but suddenly smiled in a low voice and mysteriously: "Virtuous son-in-law, the old man asks you, did you deliberately propose to Your Majesty to attack Jingnan, in fact, so that the imperial court can justifiably allocate you money and food?"

You really guessed it?! Li Yuan's old face turned red, scratched the back of his head and smiled: "Father-in-law is really clever, but you can see that the son-in-law is thinking about this."

Zhou Zong smiled and said: "The old man might as well tell you clearly, in the morning I took over the will of the imperial court, and when I learned that His Majesty allowed you Wuping to attack Jingnan in response to the Northern Expedition, I still couldn't figure it out, after all, your Wuping is expanding the army and preparing to go south to recover Guiguan, and almost everyone in the court knows about it, and the old man wondered at that time, even if my son-in-law is a natural general, how can I be distracted and attack the two countries at the same time?"

After you revealed the matter of the salt well, the old man immediately understood. If it is to defend the salt well, as the governor of Langzhou, who controls the Chu land, you can make a decision on the spot, but you are just attacking a few small cities in Jingnan, why do you have to run back from thousands of miles away to ask Your Majesty?

But you calmly told Your Majesty, isn't it just to take the opportunity to mix the private matter of attacking Jingnan into a public matter in response to the Northern Expedition? In this way, you can justifiably obey the court and ask for some money and food, haha, virtuous son-in-law, good means, really good means!"

Li Yuan was speechless, and his heart was greatly touched, Zhou Zong was worthy of being a veteran of the two dynasties, and he had eaten more salt than he had eaten rice, and he saw his intentions clearly in a few words, which was sincerely admirable.

"Father-in-law, you have said everything, the son-in-law is speechless, I am deeply impressed!" Li Yuan sighed seriously.

Zhou Zong laughed a few times, and after the old man took a sip from the wine cup, he waved his hand again and again, "You don't have to worry about the money and food this time. Your Majesty has issued an order, your Wuping Army is regarded as the standard supply of the Zhennan Army, you can rest assured, the old man will naturally arrange it properly, and you will definitely return with a full load."

Li Yuan hurriedly saluted and said, "Then thank you father-in-law!"

"The family doesn't need to be polite. What's more, you earned it yourself, and the old man just pushed the boat down the river. Good boy, the court owes you, and it took a long time for you to go back again......" Zhou Zong blinked his eyes and smiled.

"Father-in-law praised it."

Zhou Zong nodded and said, "Now that the money and food are available, let me ask you again, how sure are you that you can quickly end the Jingnan War?" Don't let the army fall into Jingnan at that time, you won't be able to get the salt, but you will lose your strength, and you will miss the major event of recovering Guiguan, don't forget how many people in the court can keep an eye on you."

Li Yuan said with a smile: "Okay, I'll give my father-in-law a reassurance, I'm 100% sure that it will end in half a month from the date of sending out the army." If I break my promise, I won't have the face to see my father-in-law......

"What's that called?" Zhou Zong frowned and reprimanded, "No matter what, you are my Zhou Zong's son-in-law."

"Oh, anyway, I absolutely believe my son-in-law's words. Who is our son-in-law, that is a famous general known to everyone in the entire Tang Dynasty, let's just say how difficult it was to crusade against Dongxi recently, it was not taken by him in one fell swoop, and after returning to the division, he defeated the Han army several times one after another, who can match this kind of ability? Right now, it's just a little Jing Nan, Lang Jun, you don't believe him, aren't you confused?" Xu muttered dissatisfied.

"Aren't I relieved to ask......" Zhou Zong couldn't laugh or cry, so he thought about it

"That's it, you are an expert in war, and the old man doesn't ask, in short, the sooner you take it, the better, you can control it yourself, and you don't need to say more about it. By the way, if after the war, the old man can sell these salt gods for money without knowing it, how can we divide the account?"

Li Yuan knew that this was the point, even if it was his father-in-law and mother-in-law, he naturally couldn't let them suffer if he made such a big effort to help, so he hurriedly responded: "Forty-six accounts, I will divide the account with four and six."

"What?" Zhou Zong's old face sank suddenly, and he took the wine cup and drank it all, the majesty of which was chilling.

In fact, the four or six accounts are the division that Li Yuan has thought of a long time ago, he thought that Zhou Zong would gladly agree, but the result was unexpected, at this time Li Yuan was helpless, could it be that he didn't understand the rules, and the old father-in-law was too little? So he hurriedly changed his words and said, "In this way, father-in-law, I will be three and seven. I understand that if you can't sell this salt for money, it will be waste, and it will not be suitable to pave roads and fill holes, and I know that if you want to include illegal salt in the official salt sale, you will have to take a huge risk, after all, it is a crime of beheading."

Seeing that Zhou Zong was still silent, Li Yuan had no choice but to speak again: "Father-in-law, you can say a number, and I will agree."

Xu Shi couldn't hold back for a long time on the side, and after glancing at Zhou Zong, who was pretending to be deep, he said angrily: "The virtuous son-in-law is so bad, don't care about your father-in-law, we are a family, why bother with sharing things here, but bargaining like a person in the market, it's really embarrassing."

Virtuous son-in-law, how much do you want, I agreed for your father-in-law, as for what risks there are, we should share them. Of course, you don't have to worry, our husband and wife still have a bit of weight in Jinling, and nothing can happen."

Zhou Zong said coldly: "The old man hasn't opened his mouth yet, what are you involved with a woman's family?"

Xu Shi didn't give up, and squeezed Zhou Zong's arm fiercely and said, "Why don't you think about it, our son-in-law still has to go to the battlefield to fight, and after the fight, he has to send troops to defend there. No one is much less than the other. Besides, this salt well was discovered by my son-in-law, and according to me, he can do as much as he wants, and we are not short of money."

Zhou Zong seemed to be pinched by Fang Cai's own wife, his face suddenly distorted, and he had been pressing the sore spot tightly at this time, and hissed: "It really hurts, alas, I have told you how many years have you been, you can't be so rude, your son-in-law is still here......

Madam, my madame, you really misunderstood, I was just joking on purpose, I am over the age of six, do you think I will really care about these things outside his body? If I really want to care, how can I buy war horses and iron horses from merchants for him every month, and then hire a ship to send them to Langzhou?"

Xu Shi still said dissatisfiedly, "Are you kidding? Are you kidding that?"

Zhou Zong ignored Li Yuan's dumbfounding, tightly covered his arms but childishly moved his position to his wife, and said with a smile: "Hehe, what Mrs. said is that this matter is just a whim for me, I did it wrong, don't be angry......

This time it was Li Yuan's turn to cry and laugh, the good guy had been making trouble for a long time, was this a joke? No wonder Fang Cai couldn't figure it out, obviously as Zhou Zong said, his father-in-law, who can pay a large amount of money every month to give his war horse and iron horse, why is he so concerned today, so it is, but why bother......

Li Yuan coughed lightly and said, "Father-in-law and mother-in-law, I know that you are good to me, but even if I take advantage, I can't take advantage of my own family, so it's better to just give four or six points." After all, the transportation of carriages and horses from Langzhou to Jinling still needs to be provided by my father-in-law, and I really don't know how to transport freight transportation, as for the salt dug up, it has to be transported out of the salt well, and it has to be purified and boiled, and the cost of these artificial firewood camels and horses——"

"Stop, stop, stop." Zhou Zong saw that Li Yuan was really counting the accounts at a glance, thinking that his son-in-law was more serious, so he hurriedly waved his hand to stop it, and then smiled awkwardly: "Virtuous son-in-law, the old man is really joking with you, don't take it seriously, don't take it seriously......

In this way, the old man will be in charge of the account split, so let's split the account for 28 or 28?"

Seeing that Li Yuan was stunned, Zhou Zong hurriedly added, "I'm two, you're eight. That's it." Then he immediately turned to Mrs. Xu, and when he saw her smiling, the big stone in Zhou Zong's heart had just fallen, and he was afraid that he would never dare to make this kind of joke casually in the future.

Li Yuan almost couldn't believe his ears, but his heart was extremely warm, and he even felt a little guilty, he was too superficial, and felt that he would succeed in persuading Zhou Zong with the huge profits of the salt matter, but he didn't expect that this father-in-law didn't want to make a profit at all, and he was simply thinking about Li Yuan himself.

Because if Zhou Zong really divides the accounts like this, even if these two percent are not a small amount, Zhou Zong will still suffer a loss in the end, and it is very likely that he will not be able to make a profit. Open up the channels of the imperial court and revitalize the joints between the officials, don't give them a little gagged? Don't give money to the people who do some secret things below? In the end, whether Zhou Zong can really get two percent, this is really not certain......

All in all, although Li Yuan tried to persuade many times, due to the repeated insistence of the two elders of Zhou Zong and the Xu family, in the end, Li Yuan could only accept it cheekily, and formally reached an agreement on the matter of Yanjing, and the two sides divided the account between the two sides after the profit.

Zhou Zong first took out one million yuan to pay the upfront expenses, Li Yuan was responsible for transporting the salt out of the salt well for purification and packaging, and Zhou Zong ordered people to set up a carriage and horse shop in Langzhou, which was specifically responsible for transporting the finished salt back to Jinling, and the rest of the things were handed over to the old father-in-law to sell through the salt monopoly channel of the household department.

The moment the agreement was reached, the excitement and emotion in Li Yuan's heart could not be expressed in words, so he could only get up and toast three cups to the two old men in front of him who were like reborn parents, and then listen to the two cordial nagging and admonishment......