Time flies, and more than ten days have passed.

In the Bai Mansion, Bai Bo and Bai Yan were chatting in the pavilion, and suddenly a figure not far away hurriedly ran towards the pavilion, and under the gaze of Bai Bo and Bai Yan, Bai Ping came to the two out of breath.

"You are not in Luoyin, why are you going back to Xianyang?"

Bai Bo looked at his eldest son, Bai Ping, and frowned slightly when he saw that he looked like he had lost his soul.

At the beginning, he said that Bai Ping would stay in Luoyin in the future, help Bai Yan gain a firm foothold in Luoyin, and also take the opportunity to get along with Bai Yan a lot, why is it only half a month now, Bai Ping ran back to Xianyang.

"Father, money, money!

That's a lot of money! ”

Bai Ping gasped and said to Bai Bo, holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand, trembling slightly.

At this moment, Bai Ping mentioned the benefits of Luoyin City, his face was the same as the original judgment, and his eyes were full of shock, in all his previous cognitions, Bai Ping had never seen such a terrifying thing, so terrifying that Bai Ping couldn't believe that all this was true.

"Money?"

When Bai Bo heard his eldest son's words, he turned his head and glanced at Bai Yan, neither of them understood what Bai Ping wanted to say.

Money? What money? Where is the money in Luoyin?

Come to think of it.

Whether it was Bai Yan and Bai Bo, they couldn't help but think of Bai Yan's reckless actions before, and their faces showed worry and melancholy, in the eyes of the two, maybe at this moment in Luoyin City, the belongings of Bai Yan's mansion had already been consumed.

I'm afraid that it won't be long before trouble and disaster will follow.

"During this period of time, how much money can be transferred to the General's Mansion?"

Bai Bo sighed, looked at his eldest son Bai Ping and asked, before leaving Luoyin, Bai Bo instructed that if the wealth of the General's Mansion was squandered, all the Bai family's industries in Luoyin City and the surrounding cities should do their best to help the General's Mansion.

Therefore, right now, seeing the bamboo slips in the hands of his eldest son Bai Ping, Bai Bo's first reaction was that the deficit in Luoyin City was too big, and all the Bai family's industries had been closed.

has the same idea as Bai Bo, as well as Bai Yan.

Everyone knows how reckless Bai Yan's previous approach was, behind that simple order, what is represented is the daily expenditure of thousands of money, even if there is a large number of funds, it will not be able to support it sooner or later.

"Nope! Father, you don't need to transfer money to the General's Mansion, father, take a look! ”

When Bai Ping heard his father's words, he hurriedly shook his head, hurriedly stepped forward, and trembled excitedly and trembled to open the bamboo slip in his hand and put it on the wooden table in front of his father.

"Huh? Didn't adjust the money? How is this possible? ”

When Bai Bo heard Bai Ping's words, he looked at the bamboo slip with a puzzled expression.

However, when he saw the contents of the bamboo slips, almost instantly, Bai Bo's eyes widened and he immediately got up.

"It can't be!

！

”

Bai Bo opened his mouth, his eyes were full of horror, as if he had seen something unbelievable.

"It's impossible!"

Bai Bo raised his head in a daze, glanced at Bai Yan, and when he saw Bai Yan's puzzled eyes, Bai Bo came back to his senses, quickly knelt down and sat down, and hurriedly picked up the bamboo slips on the wooden table with both hands and looked at it seriously.

Every word, Bai Bodu looked at it very seriously.

However, at the end, Bai Bo took the bamboo slip and was completely stupid.

Inside the gazebo.

When Bai Yan saw Bai Bo's appearance, he was full of curiosity, and he didn't understand what was inside the bamboo slip, so he actually made the eldest brother show such an expression.

Fortunately, after a while, under Bai Yan's curious gaze, Bai Bo came back to his senses, looked at the bamboo slip again, and then looked at him with a daze, and also reached out to hand the bamboo slip to him.

Bai Yan took the bamboo slip with both hands and looked at the contents with curiosity.

However, it was no different from Bai Bo, almost as soon as Bai Yan looked at the first column of words in the bamboo slips, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he shook his head slightly in disbelief.

"How is this possible?"

Bai Yan looked at the daily income figures of the Bai clan industry in Luoyin City above, and almost doubted his eyes.

How is this possible, in Luoyin City, there are only more than 30 Bai's industries, all of which are small transactions, either small houses or tea shops and rice shops, how can they be getting in day by day...... More than 10,000 dollars!

！

And this number, looking at the accounting date on it, almost every day, is increasing.

"It's people!

！ ”

Bai Yan suddenly thought of the merchants in Luoyin City, who had come from other places because Bai Yan had ordered to cross the river for free.

All this money is the money of those merchants!

Come to think of it.

Bai Yan vaguely felt that Bai Yan's previous edict was far from being as simple as it seemed.

Looking down at the bamboo slip in his hand, Bai Yan's face was full of solemnity, and his breathing became short.

"Attract businessmen to cross the river from Luoyin! Bai Yan's original purpose was to let the businessmen gather with Luoyin! ”

Bai Yan lowered his head and muttered, with a sudden realization, then turned his head and hurriedly looked at Bai Ping.

"What is the situation in Luoyin City now?"

Bai Yan asked.

Bai Ping heard Bai Yan's words at this time, and swallowed his saliva in the stunned gaze of his father Bai Bo.

"Now in Luoyin City, before leaving with my father, there are more than ten times the number of merchants in the city, the traffic in the city is full of roads, pedestrians are endless, and walking on the streets are extremely crowded, all the cottages, shops, and restaurants in the city are not enough, not only the Bai family, almost all the alleys in the city are all vendors, and many people even go to build wooden houses outside the city to sell things after getting permission!"

Bai Ping told the situation in Luoyin City like Bai Yan, and when he talked about it, he mentioned the scale of the vendors in the city now, and his eyes were full of admiration for Bai Yan.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Bai Ping would never have imagined that a city with only tens of thousands of people could be flooded with so many merchants, hawkers, and pedestrians in such a short period of time.

"Compared to our Bai family's shop, those Luoyin's original scholars and the restaurants controlled by the Lu family are the daily income! I don't know what Yan said to those scholars, who now pay their taxes to the general's mansion almost every day, and the general's mansion uses that money to pay for the ship. ”

Bai Ping looked at his father and said, after finishing speaking, he found that his cousin Bai Yingxue walked past with two maids carrying fruits.

"In other words, the money for crossing the river now doesn't need to be taken out by Bai Yan's mansion?"

Bai Bo also came back to his senses at this moment, and after listening to the words of his eldest son Bai Ping, he immediately thought of the situation in Luoyin now, and there was no need to let Bai Yan pay any more money.

"Yes, father, but speaking of which, the money is still from the General's Mansion. When the people in the city mentioned Yan, they were all grateful! ”

Bai Ping nodded, and then explained.

Speaking of this, Bai Ping's admiration for Bai Yan is deeper, when he was very young, Bai Ping left home with his father to go to business and see the world, but Bai Ping has never seen that businessman, comparable to Bai Yan, not only made the people rich, but also loved by the people, the most important thing is that in the eyes of outsiders, Bai Yan paid money to cross the river in Luoyin, but only a few people know that in fact, the people who paid the money have always been the scholars in Luoyin City.

And all the money of those nobles came from the merchants.

From beginning to end, Bai Yan only paid a lot of money in the first few days, and in the future, he basically didn't need to pay again.

In front of the wooden table.

After listening to Bai Ping's story, Bai Yan and Bai Bo looked at each other, their eyes full of amazement and amazement.

"I never expected that there were so many plans behind the simple edict!"

Bai Yan sighed.

Bai Yan, who rarely sighed, couldn't help but feel wonderful at the moment because of Luoyin's affairs.

Thinking back to the young man in his mind, Bai Yan couldn't help but sigh, time and again, the young man was constantly surprising him, from martial arts, courage, to leading troops to fight, destroying the enemy and destroying the country, and now Luoyin's affairs are once again eye-catching.

Thinking back to more than two years ago, in the Bai Clan's mansion, the first time he saw the appearance of the young man in tattered clothes and a sword hanging from his waist, Bai Yan could not have imagined that the young man who appeared in front of him at the beginning would surprise people again and again in the past two years.

Inside the gazebo.

After Bai Yingxue put the fruit on the wooden table, she lowered her head and turned to leave.

At this moment, Bai Yingxue's face was flushed, and she didn't know why, when she learned about the situation in Luoyin City, listening to her father's evaluation, she was also very happy, it seemed that she was opening a trip for the eldest sister, and she seemed to be happy in her own judgment, and it seemed to be something else, in short, her little eyes were full of joy at this moment, which was similar to the face when she heard the news of Luoyin some time ago.

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Inside the city of Xianyang.

Due to Hu Lao's suggestion some time ago, Ying Zheng really led the civil and military officials of the Qin State to hold a ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens and praying, but this is understandable, after all, Yan Dan plotted to assassinate, and Ying Zheng turned evil into good fortune, and it was true that a sacrifice should be held.

Sacrifice is extremely important in this world, not only for Yingzheng, but also for ordinary people and farmers.

Regardless of whether they are rich or poor, the world will sacrifice on relevant festivals, and the kings of other vassal states are even more so, and even some ministers have to divinate when they travel.

Fortunately, once it is a bad hexagram, what is the divination of the ministers will not go out, no one is useful, the king is no exception, this is not a joke, now the status of the monarch and the minister, far from the humble in later generations, and even to be true, compared to later generations, those scholars today, even rangers, who does not want to die in the hands of a king, when the time comes, the name will be passed down through the ages, is it not happy.

So many times, if a minister is stubborn, it is not the minister who is really afraid, but the king.

For talented, well-known and qualified ministers, you can't give it up, after all, you are talented, and once you go to other vassal states, it will be a strong resistance to other vassal states. If you use it, then endure it honestly, if you don't want to endure it and order it to be killed, then the trouble in the future is enough to make the scalp of a country's monarch troublesome.

First of all, it is a question of whether to punish the people, and then the ministers of the court and the central government have to be appeased, and they have to endure the disgrace of their reputation, and as long as they are the king for a day in the future, there will be people who will be insulted by them, causing more talented people to be unwilling to come to serve......

All kinds of troubles add up.

In the end, even the monarch will regret it, it is better not to kill!

The former King Wei Hui is the best example.

Moreover, this custom is prevalent in the Chu State.

Among all the vassal states, the state of Chu is very strange, so strange that it is difficult to describe it in words, if it is said that the people of Chu are not united, but later generations will refute this point of view, but if it is said that the state of Chu is united, but in the history of the state of Chu, there has been a particularly outrageous thing, that is, the forces of the state of Chu all watched other countries attack the king of Chu and did not send troops to save them, and even the state of Chu was indifferent when it was broken.

This can also be seen that in fact, many of the rights of the king of Chu in the state of Chu are scattered, not like the state of Qin.

After the Qin State changed the law, the Qin law restrained the hundred officials in the court, and during the tenure of the two Qin kings, Qin Xiaogong and Qin Huiwen, they had already disposed of most of the old scholars of the Qin State, so no matter how chaotic it was, even if the relatives interfered in politics, it would not be like the former Chu State The monarch lost power.

Under the sacrificial stage.

With the end of the sacrifice, Bai Yan followed the hundred officials and waited for Yingzheng to leave, and then prepared to leave.

Today's sacrifice, a lot of things are waiting for Ying Zheng to arrange, because the sacrifice is not only to sacrifice to the sky, but also to worship the ancestors, and the Ying family temple is not in Xianyang, but in Yongcheng, which also makes Bai Yan rarely have a day to spare.

More than ten days passed in the blink of an eye, Bai Yan was different from all other officials, basically after going down to the court every day, Bai Yan had to stay in the palace until it was dark, and even Bai Yan was about to forget that the feeling of being able to leave the palace at one time.

Next to the carriage.

Bai Yan did not reply with Bai Yu, but after saying goodbye to Bai Yu, he watched Bai Yu ride the carriage towards the mansion, turned around and told his cronies to go to the embassy of the Qi State.

An hour later.

Outside the gate of the Qi State Embassy, Bai Yan's carriage slowly stopped, and then Bai Yan walked out of the carriage and came to the door of the Qi State Embassy alone.

But then to Bai Yan's surprise, before he could speak, it seemed that the maid in front of the mansion had been waiting for him, and after seeing him coming, she took him directly into the mansion.

"Strange!"

Bai Yan muttered, turned his head to look at the cronies beside the carriage outside the mansion, and turned his head to follow the maid into the mansion.

And in a study in the Qi embassy mansion.

The maid came to Tian Feiyan and whispered something, only to see Tian Feiyan nodding and letting the maid leave.

Bai Yan looked at the maid who left from outside the door, and then followed the maid who led the way to Tian Feiyan, and when he saw Tian Feiyan, Bai Yan showed a smile.

"Let's go down!"

When Tian Feiyan saw Bai Yan, her beautiful eyes were a little evasive, and she turned to look at the maid and said.

Seeing this, the maid who led the way for Bai Yan turned around and left the study after saluting Tian Feiyan.

"How did you know I was coming?"

Bai Yan looked at Tian Feiyan and asked softly.

"Finally, the sacrifice has time to rest, why are you going back to someone else's house? Looking at those people of the Bai family, are you really an elder? ”

Tian Feiyan gave Bai Yan a 'sit down and talk' look, and saw Bai Yan scratching his head and looking naïve, until he came over and sat down, he continued to look at the bamboo slip in his hand.

"In the future, I will be less serious about them, there is no blood, and they will really treat them equally? If you're as stupid as you are, I don't know how you haven't been deceived so far!"

Tian Feiyan said softly, and his mouth was unforgiving to Bai Yan.

"It's just like returning the favor!"

When Bai Yan heard Tian Feiyan's words, he looked at Tian Feiyan who looked down at the bamboo slips, and his heart was full of warmth.

Looking at the beauty in front of her, in Bai Yan's eyes, she is a person who can be trusted by Bai Yan in the bottom of her heart, like her relatives.

"What about your father?"

Bai Yan didn't explain what else he wanted, because Tian Feiyan definitely knew what he meant, and seeing that there was no Tian Ding at the moment, he asked with some curiosity.

But what Bai Yan didn't expect was that just after his words fell, he saw Tian Feiyan looking up at him.

"You're here for me? Or did you come to my father? ”

Tian Feiyan asked.

Bai Yan listened to Tian Feiyan's words and looked at Tian Feiyan with tears and laughter.

Fortunately, Tian Feiyan also deliberately teased Bai Yan, and when he saw Bai Yan's appearance, Tian Feiyan was not angry.

"After my father went to visit Mao Jiao some time ago, he learned from Mao Jiao that if he could bring a Qi man Qin Chen back, it would be no less than Shang Yang for the Qi country! So ten days ago, my father went to the palace and came back, so he took a break to investigate the matter. ”

Tian Feiyan glanced at Bai Yan meaningfully, and then didn't bother to pay attention to it, and looked intently at the bamboo slip in his hand.

Bai Yan was a little surprised when he heard Tian Feiyan's explanation, and then he couldn't hear the meaning of Tian Feiyan's words, if there was a meaning, ten days ago, Tian Ding must have gone to the palace to divide the time, in Tian Ding's eyes, it was already ten out of ten, it only needed time to slowly precipitate, and it would definitely explode in the future, so Tian Ding concentrated on going to Xianyang City to use his connections to find the person in Mao Jiao's mouth.

"My father too, a smart one, a lake for a while!"

When Bai Yan was thinking about it, he heard the sound of Tian Feiyan's dripping grunt, and looked at Tian Feiyan's appearance of dripping while looking at the bamboo slips, which felt particularly cute.

Turning his head to look out the window, Bai Yan also had an emotional expression.

"One day, I will return to Qi country!"

Bai Yan's voice was not loud, but his eyes were extremely firm.