There was no objection from the officials, and no one came out to ask for a performance. The attendant shouted "Retreat".

Baiguan Mountain bowed, Emperor Jingcheng got up and waved his sleeves, and strode away.

After the dispersal of the court, Liu Xiuliang greeted the military attache he knew, and when he saw that Liu Xiuyong was going down the steps, he followed.

"Big brother." Liu Xiuliang shouted enthusiastically, "Don't go so fast, wait for the little brother."

Liu Xiuyong slowed down, he glanced at Liu Xiuliang sideways calmly, and went down the steps and said, "Xiuliang, aren't you busy building the building that your father gave you these days? You don't look like a busy person."

"The wood that my uncle brought still needs to be sorted out, but it's okay these days." Liu Xiuliang followed with a smile, "Big brother, today I mentioned in the court the matter of buying grain on credit from large households. The younger brother admired, but the younger brother was surprised, even if the interest was calculated according to the principal, but those big families were all businessmen, would they be willing?"

Liu Xiuyong smiled and said, "Second brother, big families are also people, and people will have difficulties. Whether you want to see how it goes."

Liu Xiuliang smiled harmlessly and asked, "How do you want to talk about it?"

"Me?" Liu Xiuyong glanced at him, "I don't talk about it, I have to find someone to talk to."

Liu Xiuliang followed him down the steps, along the flat avenue towards the forbidden gate, Liu Xiuliang walked side by side with him, and asked, "Who is the eldest brother looking for to talk to these big families?" These businessmen are all rats and insects who drill for money, and their small profits cannot satisfy their appetite. Not as well." He rolled his eyes, "I'll send some people to the eldest brother and have a good talk with the merchants."

Liu Xiuyong looked at him sideways with a wry smile and said, "The knife frame neck talks about business, how can you talk about this?"

"The knife holder and the neck know that they are afraid." Liu Xiuliang's smile became more and more easy-going, "You can talk about it as much as you want."

Liu Xiuyong stopped in front of the forbidden door and said, "Sometimes a knife is no better than a person's mouth."

Liu Xiuliang raised his hand to signal the guards who stepped forward not to speak, and he asked tentatively, "According to what the eldest brother likes, there are still people whose mouths are faster than knives?"

"Yes." Liu Xiuyong looked at Chen Jinqiu, who was being helped into the carriage by the servants, and he turned to Liu Xiuliang with a toothless smile, "There are many people here. I'll go back to the house first, and you and my brother will be in Syria another day, goodbye."

After he finished speaking, Gu Zi walked away, and then was helped into the carriage and left.

Liu Xiuliang looked at the carriages that left one after the other, and led to different places.

With a slight smile, he said, "The people who use me don't greet me yet. Hey~ You're welcome."

Chen Jinqiu came back after nightfall, and he ate wine, and the corners of his eyes were red.

His steps were cramped as he dismounted from the carriage, and he was honestly helped by the servants to enter the palace gate, after the gate was closed. He nudged and shook his sleeves to return to normal, and walked towards the study with steady steps.

Chen Jinqiu walked and said, "Go and tell the kitchen to make a bowl of decanting soup, you star, and send it to the study when it's ready."

nodded honestly, and walked briskly towards the kitchen.

The door of the study was pushed open, Chen Jinqiu walked into the room, he raised his eyes and swept the room, and saw Bai Yiju sitting in the side corner of the desk, so he turned around and closed the door, and then turned around and sat on the main seat.

"Ate a lot of bars." Bai Yi held a fan and fanned him, "This smell is heavy, it seems that King Jin's alcohol is extraordinary."

"He drank less, hum. The newcomers in Shangshutai are here, and they're crazy." Chen Jinqiu propped his elbows on the desk, his chin was supported by his palms and his head tilted, and he said wistfully, "Oh, this golden palace is in the limelight, and it is he who is favored, and I am the one who bears the sin behind him. Tell me, what's it called?"

"It's disaster relief, isn't it?" Bai Yi stepped on the edge of the stool with one foot, holding the teapot and pouring himself a cup, "You owe love when you eat people's mouths." Besides, your eldest brother is in custody in Yanzhou, and you are willing to watch you?"

"Yes, I have to think about paying it back, but this has to arrange grain and grass for Manhongguan, and there are Yanzhou and Menzhou in between. I also have a head and two hands, how can I have so much ability?" Chen Jinqiu's cheeks slid down his sleeves a little, "Trouble, trouble, this thing is not easy to do."

"If it's not easy to do, you have to find a way. I, I asked someone to inquire about the situation in Tongzhou and Panzhou. Those big households did have grain, dozens of big ones

warehouse, only in but not out." Bai Yi raised the pot to pour him tea, "There is food, but it is indeed a little difficult to pay on credit."

"Don't mind, I ordered the decanting soup." Chen Jinqiu waved his hand to signal not to fall, he raised his hands high and stretched his body, "Those big households, the food in their hands is tight. At present, the price of grain and grass in Kyushu is different, and it is all one price per day. If I were a big deal, I wouldn't want to."

Bai Yi put the teapot down, chuckled and said, "Now that the matter has been taken into your hands, do you have a way?"

"I've been thinking about it since he invited me." Chen Jinqiu leaned back in the chair and rubbed his face, "The price fluctuates, they will not give the current price, and they will not believe it if they give the high price. I think, then I will raise the interest, and I will get 50% of the income in two quarters."

Bai Yi was shocked and said, "Half a year and fifty percent profit? Chen Sanye, what you want is food for the whole summer, and the two states will be filled with red customs. If this account is left on credit, you will not be able to pay it back even if you are bankrupt."

"I don't have to pay it back. King Jin asked me to do it, so naturally he opened his waist bag and spent it with me." Chen Jinqiu put his big hand on the armrest, "Besides, the official word has two mouths, which businessman who does business with the official in this world can make a lot of money?"

Bai Yi sounded a little wrong, and he asked hesitantly, "Hearing what you say, there are thorns hidden in it?"

"Eh, you woke me up." Chen Jinqiu stood up, and then rummaged through the bookcase to find a dusty file, "This case has been sealed for some years, and it is a case of reselling military rations by gangs in the outer nine cities a few years ago."

Chen Jinqiu patted the dossier and blew it, and suddenly a large puff of dust was raised, and he frowned and fanned the air.

The white cloth danced a few times and fanned the wind, he coughed lightly twice, and said in a dumb voice, "Is it Heng Weng's son Heng Tian and Shang Jia to do the case?"

Chen Jinqiu turned around and sat down, he put the file on his desk, and said, "You know this?"

"Hengtian was killed by Yuanji." Bai Yi held the teacup to see if the tea had fallen to ashes, "As soon as Hengtian died, those merchants ran away."

"There are a few people who have caught, but they are all tails, and the main culprit is long gone." Chen Jinqiu picked up another roster and looked at it carefully, "This is the booklet that my eldest brother wrote at that time. He is like this, and he remembered it before the case was investigated. These are the names of the merchants who fled at that time."

"Show me." Bai Yi reached out and took the roster and flipped through it, and immediately frowned and said, "Why is this person's name so similar to the ones I inquired about?"

Chen Jinqiu was interested, and he asked, "Exactly the same name?"

The white robe looked at it carefully and said, "Not really, it's all the same. There are many words missing, but this word is exactly the same."

Chen Jinqiu's face froze slightly, and he asked, "Do you remember the appearance of the person?"

Bai Yi put aside the list and said, "It wasn't me who did the business at that time, if Yuanji was here, he would definitely be able to recognize people."

Chen Jinqiu immediately got up, he pulled the white clothes and hurriedly said, "Let's go, go to Yuanji and ask for clarification."

Bai Yi was dragged and dragged by him, so he had to say helplessly, "People are in Yanyun Pavilion now."

Hearing this, Chen Jinqiu shook off his hand, he took a wide robe from the hanger and put it on to cover his face, and then hurriedly said, "Go, go." Z.br>

As soon as the two of them went out, they honestly stood in front of the door with a decanting soup, and he said, "Third master, soup-"

"I won't drink it." Chen Jinqiu interrupted him, "Prepare the car at the back door, go out."

Honestly raised the food plate and said, "Third master, the old lady has orders."

Chen Jinqiu paused, he turned his head sideways and said suspiciously, "Old lady?"

He looked at the plate he was holding honestly, and found that in addition to the decanting soup, there was also a silver needle placed in a silk handkerchief.

Honestly repeating the original words: "The old lady instructed that the third master can use a silver needle to try this soup before drinking it, and it will not hinder drinking."

Chen Jinqiu stared at the food plate for a long time, and then looked up at the wing room in the inner courtyard, where the light had been extinguished. Immediately, he lowered his head to look at the food plate, and then without saying a word, he poked the silver needle into the soup, and after confirming that it was correct, he drank the soup down.

honestly put aside the food plate, and then rushed to the back door and picked up Chen Jinqiu and Bai Yi,

A car rushed to the Smoke Cloud Pavilion.

The wind is weak and the willow is weak, and the swallow is thin and fat.

As the only geisha green building in the inner city, Yanyun Pavilion is a place of singing and dancing fireworks all night long. Children, literati and writers, and even Tianheng nobles all spent a lot of money in it, smiling for Bo Hongyan.

All the rare treasures collected by the Chamber of Commerce in Kyushu and even outside the territory were gathered in the pavilion, and Zhen Kexiao became the helmsman of the Yanyun Pavilion at a young age.

As soon as the carriage arrived, she saw it from the railing, and then stroked the red sleeve and said, "Your Excellency has arrived, go and please."

The maids all wore double snail buns, and in the Smoke Cloud Pavilion, the different styles of the buns represented the classification and listing of geisha. The double snail is the second bun, and it is also the dress of the subordinate.

The maid responded softly, and then went downstairs, and led Bai Yi and Chen Jinqiu upstairs to the door.

Bai Yi seemed to know everyone well, and on the short way upstairs, he met geisha or talents, or dignitaries and dignitaries greeted him. And he also returned the salutes one by one, and from time to time he chatted with people.

Chen Jinqiu saw that these maids and geisha were all talking to him intimately, and some would blush when they heard him speak, while others laughed without reserve.

Chen Jinqiu asked curiously, "Do you know all these people?"

Bai Yi shook the fan and smiled freely, and said, "As long as you come here often, you will naturally know each other."

Chen Jinqiu pursed his lips in confusion, and then followed the maid into the private room.

The interior decoration of the private room is chic and elegant, and among the graceful light veils fluttering, Zhen Kexiao, who has red sleeves in his hand, is lazily leaning on the railing to look at the night view of the inner city.

Chen Jinqiu only saw her side face, but was already shocked by her exquisite beauty and temperament.

"Miss." Bai Yi stopped in front of the door and saluted, "Third Master Chen has arrived."

"Please come in." Zhen Kexiao stroked the fluttering gauze curtain, "Come on, watch the tea."

"It's a lot of trouble." Chen Jinqiu had long forgotten the purpose of coming here, he sat down crampedly, and then looked at Bai Yi, "Who is this?"

"Oh, this one." The white-clothed paper fan introduced, "This is the mother of this Yanyun Pavilion, Zhen Kexiao."

Zhen Kexiao glanced at the white clothes, and she said with a toothless smile: "Third Master Chen, forgive me, now that the slave family is incognito in Chongdu, Zhen Kexiao's name is no longer known to outsiders. Now everyone calls the slaves "not smiling."