The entire Tang Dynasty has had a few days of peace, including Lu Dongzan, the prime minister of Tubo, and he has not been looking for trouble in these days, and he also heard the news that Li Xiang is going to fight with several big families, and it is said that this time he lost very badly, so he rarely had a quiet few days.

The other major families are celebrating the victory, they think that they have finally won the first victory with Li Xiang, haven't you often calculated us before? Now it is finally calculated by us, although you have a lot of good salt in your hands, but you don't have salt to lead, then there is no way to sell it, if you dare to break the rules, then we will start a full-scale war in all aspects in the future, and the court may not be able to control it.

Unlike the happiness of the major families, the three members of the Cui family basically did not go out, except for Cui Yunzhu who went to the Yamen on an errand, these three people were all at home to figure out a way, or how to choose.

Li Xiang's ultimatum has come down, according to what they know about Li Xiang, there must be a result in the next few days, if there is no result, then the kid is estimated to have new actions, and we may not be able to stand it at that time.

"Our Cui family is really wronged, in this matter, we are purely a subordinate position, and the main force is not us, but why did His Royal Highness Taisun find us? It's not clear if you really jumped into the Yellow River. ”

After thinking about it for a long time, Cui Yunzhu's head was about to explode, but he didn't know how to choose, both options seemed to have drawbacks, and it was best to maintain the current situation, but Li Xiang personally came to the door to make such a big move, can he let you maintain the current situation?

"It's normal to find us, if I were him, I would also choose to negotiate with the strongest, among the five surnames and seven hopes, our strength is the strongest, even if he finds other collaborators, if we raise our arms, their cooperative alliance will also collapse, only our combination with them can deter the old family."

Cui Yuncheng's words are tenable, although he also wants to cooperate with Li Xiang, but there are not many people in the family at the moment, after Li Xiang left that day, they wrote a letter back to the family about the situation here, and the three of them also wanted to see what kind of attitude the family had, and estimated that the letter should be sent back.

"Are you inclined to work with him? But didn't you say that before? If you cooperate with him, you will have to swallow all the bones by him in the end. ”

Cui Yunzhu said cautiously, in terms of brains, the whole family is not as good as his cousin, Cui Sanye is the brain of the previous generation, and the brains of the Cui family are here.

"But if you don't cooperate with him, I'm afraid you'll have no bones before that day, look at these things he does, is there one thing that is soft-hearted?"

After Cui Yuncheng's words were finished, Cui Yunzhu also nodded, anyone who is an enemy of Li Xiang will not end well now, first Li Yuanchang, the king of Han, and then Li Tai, the king of Wei, and then even the emperor's people were beaten, you can imagine what kind of character this kid is, if we don't cooperate with him, his olive branch has been stretched out, and if you don't pick it up, it's your fault.

"Third master, someone from the East Palace sent a letter, saying that His Royal Highness the Taisun asked you to go outside the city for a while."

When the three of them were thinking about the problem, Li Xiang's second move was made, and they originally thought that there would be results in the next few days, but there were no results here, so they had to put some pressure on them.

Going out of town?

The three of them all looked at each other a little puzzled, a man and a woman made an appointment to go outside the city to go on horseback riding, this is a normal thing, what are we people going to do?

If you want to talk about hunting, then you have to arrange it in advance, if there is no one to round up, you can't even find a hair outside Chang'an City, how can there be so many beasts for you to fight, someone caught it in advance, and then released it.

"To go or not to go?"

Cui Sanye looked at his two nephews.

"We should go, we have limited information now, follow him out, whether it is what he says or what we see, it can add more basis for us to judge."

Cui Yuncheng also reached a consensus with Cui Sanye, Cui Yunzhu next to him didn't say a word, and immediately arranged for the strong man in the family to follow.

In Chang'an City, everyone didn't dare to mess around, after all, there were rules and regulations, but if they were outside the city, those good players around Li Xiang were not joking, plus these people had gone to the battlefield to practice, and there were many cases of killing people if they didn't agree.

Originally, Li Xiang didn't want to expose his trump card so early, but if it wasn't exposed, the people of the Cui family would not be able to reach an agreement in such a short period of time, and it would be impossible to cooperate with him.

Li Xiang did this for another reason, he also knew that it was impossible to raise the heads of the major families in the matter of salt, but he had to crush their will to fight, let them know that there was no good result in fighting against him, from this incident, maybe these people have a consciousness in their minds, that is, they do not regard Li Xiang as an enemy.

In order to achieve this result, Li Xiang was ready to take out the trump card, and let the people of the Cui family see clearly what cards they had in their hands.

The Grange of the East Palace?

When they arrived at the meeting place, Cui Sanye and the three of them glanced at each other, not to go to any place with beautiful mountains and rivers, but to the largest grange in the East Palace outside the city, part of which was given by the emperor, and the other part was bought by Li Xianghua at a high price, so that this grange almost reached 30,000 acres.

The trump card in Li Xiang's hand is grain, almost all the major families have their own strong industry among the five surnames and seven hopes, the Cui family's strong industry is food, and the people take food as the sky, although the Cui family knows that the profit of food is not high, but it has the greatest right to speak.

"Your Highness."

Cui Sanye is still the same, bending down a little is considered a salute, Cui Yuncheng's angle of bending is a little deeper, Cui Yunzhu naturally has to kneel as a court official, otherwise Li Xiang will use this as an excuse to dismiss his official at any time, which is also a reason why the core children of major families do not enter the court as officials.

"We didn't talk hard enough that day, but today I have time, so please visit my grange."

Li Xiang pointed to the grange behind him, which was like a military fortress......