The remaining few scholars couldn't bear the pressure, and picked up the tea that was already half-cooled under the leadership of the Xiao family, Li Yong looked at these slightly funny old men with a smile, and waited for them to drink the fragrant tea, or bitter tea.

"Very good, it seems that you are all sensible people, come here, serve food, a few of you, let's eat and talk together, I believe that tonight will be a pleasant evening, please."

Li Yong stood up and stretched out his hand to Changle very gentlemanly, Changle gave him the sweetest smile, and then put his slender jade hand on Li Yong's hand, and then the couple walked to the large round dinner table together, and the elders also followed, they naturally sat opposite Li Yong and his wife, and Chunlan and Xiaoxue sat next to Li Yong and Changle alone, and soon all kinds of delicacies were on the table one by one, these elders were also considered to have eaten everything, but it was the first time they had seen these delicacies made so exquisitely, You don't have to eat, they are all ready, and after all the dishes are served, the door of the Tiangong room is also closed, and there are Li Yong and his wife left, and the six clan elders who left to negotiate, and of course, there is a waiter who specializes in pouring wine service, Li Yong picked up the wine glass and said to those people.

"You are all wise people, and in the future, you and your people will rejoice in your choice, and this glass of wine is a tribute to you by my husband and wife."

Li Yong took Changle, Chunlan and Xiaoxue to pick up the wine glass together, those few people after the confrontation just now, knew that the young man in front of him was not so easy to deal with, although they didn't know what would happen next, and they didn't know what Li Yong's choice was, what they could only do now was to follow Li Yong's rhythm, they also picked up the glass wine glass on the side, the liquor in it was as clear as clear water, but it was not clear water, because the wine glass exuded a fragrant aroma of wine, under the leadership of Li Yong, everyone drank the wine from the wine glass, The spicy liquor burned from the throat to the lower abdomen like fire, this feeling was like a molten slurry going down, as for Changle, the fruit brew they drank was naturally sweet and sweet, and naturally it would not be as high as the wine they drank, they still drank it in the first line of the West Mountain, but it was the first time they drank such a mellow wine like tonight, and they all said in unison.

"Good wine~"

"Everyone, eat the food, I'll talk while eating."

Li Yong said while a long music pick-up of dishes, seeing that Li Yong has begun to put down chopsticks, such a fragrant and beautiful delicacies, several clan elders also picked up chopsticks to hold the delicacy on the round table, each delicious dish has been carefully cooked, the soil buns eaten are all shining in their eyes, the dinner table looks peaceful, no longer as tense as at the beginning, as if nothing happened just now, in fact, everyone has their own thoughts, no matter how good the delicacies at the dinner table are, how good the mellow wine is, The clan elders secretly looked at Li Yong opposite, only to see him and Changle in the main room, and the two concubines showing affection, and they didn't mean to say anything at all, and Li Yong also found that they were secretly looking at their eyes, Li Yong said with a smile.

"Ladies and gentlemen, is the food and wine here not to your liking?"

"No, the food and wine here are the last we've ever eaten and drunk in our lives."

"Then why don't you seem to eat much, if you really feel bad, I'll let them do it again."

"Huatinghou, no need, it's already very good, it's just that the purpose of our coming today ......"

"Well, it seems that there are some things that you should say before you eat."

Li Yong wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and said, and these clan elders also put down their chopsticks and wiped their mouths with a towel on the side.

"Actually, if you don't come to me, I'm looking for you, because you know that I have a lot of property, and Jiangnan has your territory, and I have some unhappiness with those family lords, Longxi nobles, and even with your Jiangnan Shi clan in Chang'an, and many of you have also received orders to deal with me, but you don't have a good way to deal with me, for you, you just want to have more wealth, and I, but I want more people to get rich, the market in Jiangnan is very large, not you or I can eat, But my goods are incomparable to you, I believe you have to admit this, because those small families who cooperate with me have been constantly using my goods to encroach on your territory, I believe that soon, your industry will be squeezed out of the market, because I have come, not I scare you, you can also not believe what I said, just like those who left just now, you will naturally bear the consequences. ”

"Hua Tinghou, you also know that you have offended so many people now, aren't you afraid that we will do something to you?"

"Of course I know, you wish you would let me be beheaded immediately, but maybe you don't know, why am I still alive in front of you? It's not that I'm lucky, it's that you don't know what my bottom is, and you must do stupid things, because I don't want you to die. ”

"Hua Tinghou, are you too confident? Our Jiangnan Shi clan is not as good as the family gate valve in the Central Plains, but if we want to deal with you, I believe it won't be very difficult, right? ”

"Hahaha~ You can try it, persuade each other with good words, then don't blame me, lady, let's go, this dish is really average, you have to give some advice to this shopkeeper."

I saw Changle and Chunlan Xiaoxue wiping their mouths with hand towels, and they all stood up, and then took Li Yong's arm and left, making those few people angry.

"Damn, I thought he had something to say about this Li Yong, but it turned out to be nothing more than that."

"Hmph, at a young age, you know how to pretend to be a ghost, Xiao Lao, it seems that we don't have to be polite to him"

"Yes, Old Xiao, you can speak."

"This is not the place to talk, let's go, go back and discuss."

A few of them immediately left Juxian Building, and after returning to Xiao Yan's Thorn History Mansion, Xiao Yan immediately welcomed them to the secret room in the backyard, and the representatives who left just now were also waiting early, one of the clan elders simply told those who left early what had happened, those people didn't take Li Yong in their eyes, and now they urged their leader Xiao Shi to make a decision, and after listening to their nonsense, the Xiao clan elder put down the tea bowl in his hand and said,

"It seems that this Li Yong doesn't take us seriously at all, the patriarch has already discussed with other family nobles, Li Yong's industry and other formulas must be in hand, I believe you also know the wealth that those things bring to our family, from tomorrow, inform your people, I don't want to see Li Yong's industry and commodities in Jiangnan, we want to drive him out of the market in Jiangnan, let him know that Jiangnan is our Jiangnan, not his Li family's Jiangnan."

"Understand, let's tell the family to go down, tomorrow let those small families who cooperate with Li Yong disappear, I see that there will be people in Jiangnan who dare to do business with him Li Yong in the future."

The more these people talked, the more excited they became, as if they had seen Li Yong helpless and succumbed to them, but the entire Datang was so big, how could they be able to control it all, and Li Yong's plan was even bigger than them, because Li Yong knew that the biggest source of wealth for these scholars in Jiangnan came from the sea, because after they tasted the sweetness of maritime trade, they were like beasts that drank blood, plus the control of the Tang Dynasty on the sea was almost equal to zero, and there was a huge and advanced fleet, but at that time, at sea, There are sailors who fight against them, coupled with ignorance and ignorance, they don't know the huge wealth brought by the sea to the country, which leads to serious smuggling by the Jiangnan scholars, Li Yong is now waiting, waiting for his first fleet to come out, when the time comes, the sea smuggling of these scholars will become a thing of the past, so these scholars are still stupidly grabbing territory with Li Yong on land. On the second day of Li Yong, he took Changle and them back to Xinhuating County, not that he didn't want to play with Changle for a few days, but because it was really unsafe now, so they quietly left Suzhou City early that morning, Li Yong's quiet departure made those scholars think that Li Yong was actually a bluff, a person who had no ability at all, and a few people who were forced to drink tea by Li Yong were even more annoyed and angry. So all of them also left Suzhou City and returned to their respective territories, and began to coerce and lure the small family that cooperated with Li Yong, for a while, the goods of Xishan gradually disappeared in Jiangnan, and the goods of those scholars began to frantically seize the original market, as long as the goods of Xishan appeared in Jiangnan, they were confiscated by the government for various reasons, and even closed shops to arrest people, the whole Jiangnan was rumored, Li Yong naturally received information, but he felt that this was taken for granted, if these scholars did not fight back, how could it be better than the reputation of their scholars, He also sent letters to Wu Cao and Zheng Liwan, asking them to keep an eye on the situation in Jiangnan at all times, and if it is necessary to temporarily abandon Jiangnan and wait for the opportunity to fight back. Li Yong looked at the Admiral that had been completed as a whole, watched the boatmen tie safety ropes and apply tung oil to the huge hull, and there was a huge sail hanging on the mast, in the other two docks, smaller frigates were already being built, and there was also a large dock building a ship than the Admiral, which was just a battleship, but a cargo ship, the whole shipyard was full of excitement, everything was developing in a good direction, the old city wall of Huating County began to be demolished, and the city wall of Xinhuating County began to extend, But the city gate of Xinhuating County was not demolished, but let the entire Huating County become an outer city and an inner city, when the city was attacked, the people in the outer city could retreat to the inner city, and then the personnel were evacuated by ships, which was equivalent to double insurance, Li Yong knew that if he wanted to live at this time, he must make many preparations, he could think of things to become helpless, with the help of cement, the new city wall has been extended to the outermost part of the boundary, and the city gate is still built in the fortress mode of the inner city, and the marines have also sent additional manpower to patrol the periphery. And the Jiangnan Shi clan purged Li Yong's partners in Jiangnan, but Li Yong did not react at all, which further fueled their arrogance, they didn't know, Li Yong didn't have time to pay attention to them at all, because the industry in Jiangnan except for the restaurant of the Intelligence Bureau, there was no actual industry, and these industries of the Intelligence Bureau were also very secretive, and they couldn't be found at all, and after the famous Juxian Lou received the order to withdraw from the headquarters, those Juxian Lou were closed one after another, and those intelligence bureau agents also sneaked into the shadows, Although the loss of Jiangnan had a certain impact on Li Yong, it had little impact, because Li Yong's industry had developed abroad early, and not far from Chang'an, those people wanted to attack Li Yong's core industry, but they were also tigers biting hedgehogs, and they had no way to bite it. The hot summer passed little by little, and the autumn was slowly coming, those who thought that Li Yong was defeated and retreated, it was a small banquet in three days, a big banquet in five days, which can be described as a song every night, and Li Yong got up and exercised regularly every day, and then went to the reconstruction of Huating County to inspect the construction site, and then went to the shipyard to see the progress of his several big treasures, as for the administration of Huating County, he handed it over to Gouda to deal with, the population relocation plan has begun, some people in Xishan heard the conditions of Xinhuating County, and many people have signed up, After the final confirmation of the statistics, Liu Renliang led the fleet to secretly transport them by waterway, and in other places to get some people over, it is naturally more difficult, but it also allows the people of the Intelligence Bureau to get some homeless people, although there are not many people, but the mosquito master is meat, as for the military they are all handed over to Liu Renliang, those second-hand fighting ships go to sea once in half a month, mainly to be familiar with the tactics taught to them by Li Yong, and the use of various instruments, in fact, it is a sextant and a compass, After all, the speed measurement of wind speed is a primitive instrument, but it is enough for them to learn, and in addition to military exercises such as artillery bombardment on the surging sea, they also have to shoulder the task of transporting the population, it can be said that the entire Huating County is busy, as Li Yong's wife and concubine, every day I see that my husband is so busy, they also spontaneously go to the construction site to send tea to the people who work under the sun, and they will also go to Xinhuating County to visit some lonely and widowed old people, and even those foreign Tang people are also treated equally, For a while, the reputation of the three bodhisattva-like ladies spread in Huating County, and the people of the entire Huating County added them all next to Li Yong's immortal card at home, and Li Yong also supported Changle's actions, just let them pay attention not to be too tired, but they are going farther and farther in such public welfare undertakings, Li Yong is now racing against time, because he wants to start next spring when the monsoon comes, his combined fleet can officially set sail, and then it will be when he shows his fangs, at that time, These Jiangnan scholars knew that he was powerful, and what they said at the dinner party in the Tiangong room that night was not a joke.

"Laugh, when the time comes, when you cry, all those who stand in the way of my revival plan will have to pay the price."