Liu Bancheng said, "Old man, look at what you do, you can eat too, don't clip him, it's not good for his children to eat too much meat!" ”

The old man smiled at Liu Bancheng.

At this time, Meihuaer entered the door.

Pushing open the west wing, there was no one, and then came to the east wing.

When the old man saw the plum blossoms coming in, he hurriedly took a pair of chopsticks and a bowl for the plum blossoms.

The plum blossoms are like they haven't eaten for a long time, and they are not polite, so they take it and eat it, and take a big mouthful.

"You're here, there's something wrong!" Liu Bancheng asked.

"Something!"

"But it's not a big deal!"

"Say, don't sell it, it's a trivial matter, you won't come!"

"Tomorrow, Lin Zongren will organize a new bidding!"

"Wedding company? Why, what is the bidding law? ”

"Yes, it's a matter of the wedding company, he said, tomorrow, in addition to the two companies of Caihui and Dilan, there is also a company called Xiangyin to participate in the bidding, and the three will be introduced at the same time, fair competition!"

"Sanjia, isn't that a joke? There are enough troubles for two families, so why find one? ”

"Didn't you say that it's difficult to operate? Is there a lot of contradictions between playing and going off, and one more game will cause more trouble. ”

"I told him, and he said that all the sessions of the year will be redistributed, and the three will be one-third each."

"What about the equipment?"

"It's free to use for all three!"

"Does the Dilan Company agree?"

Dilan agreed, which means that he did not withdraw, and it is still cost-effective overall. And the bidding will start tomorrow, and when it is said to be a bidding, it is actually a direct signing of the contract. ”

"Behind this matter, it is by no means that simple, Lin Zongren suddenly made such a move, he must have a reputation?"

Liu Bancheng asked the plum blossom again,

"Do you know the background of the last company that came in?"

"This, I don't know, Lin Zongren said, I don't need to understand. He said he understood! ”

"Then this bid, you made it yourself, or please ask Lord Shangqing to guide!"

"No, Lin Zongren arranged for someone to do it?"

Liu Bancheng lost his appetite, put down his chopsticks, and breathed a long sigh of relief,

"Then you just listen to Lin Zongren, after all, he has experienced a lot of things, and King Liang Mu will give him absolute support, does the prime minister have any opinions?"

Plum Blossom said, "Prime Minister has no opinion!" He may believe that Lin Zongren is smart and will handle it! ”

Xiao Lidong was not interested in what the adults said at all, just eat, and half of the pot of vegetables was almost finished for him.

After eating and drinking, he wiped his mouth and said,

"I'm done eating, uncles and grandpa, in this way, I'll go back, and I'll come back another day."

The old man came back after sending the child to the door, and said to Liu Bancheng,

"In the future, talk less in front of this child. This child will say this and that in the palace, and sometimes it will not have a good impact on us. Our ancestral hall is a place to talk about purity, in the future, plum blossoms, you should try not to talk about the affairs of the dining hall here, to keep us clean here, okay!"

Plum Blossom said, "Okay, okay, grandpa, I'll remember!" ”

After that, the plum blossoms went back, and the children did not come to the ancestral hall for a long time.

The plum blossoms didn't come, and the children didn't come, so Liu Bancheng felt so bored.

He could only play in the sun, or in the corner of the yard, with the rats peeking out of their holes.

Because the rats would often sneak up on the windowsill and eat all the small grains of rice that Liu Bancheng had prepared for the pigeons.

There are hundreds of pigeons raised by the old man in the ancestral hall, and on a sunny day, they will circle in flocks over the courtyard.

This is the old man's favorite.

One day, the old man pointed to a pigeon pecking in front of him and said,

"See, it's a hero of our Liang Kingdom."

"I always give it these plump and dry grains."

Liu Bancheng saw this gray-headed pigeon, with a little pattern on his neck, no different from other pigeons.

"Really?"

Liu Bancheng didn't believe that there was any magic in the pigeon in front of him.

"What a hero, old man, tell me about it!"

"Once, our King Liang led his troops to fight and was surrounded by Mexican troops in a mountain col.

Around the mountain pass, although the mountain is steep and easy to defend and difficult to attack, there is no food and grass in it, and there are no rescuers outside, and it cannot last long. ”

"Fortunately, the old king of Liang led his troops to fight and was used to bringing my pigeons."

"So, in a hurry, he tied a strip of cloth with the local geography and the deployment of the other party's troops to this guy's leg and flew back to report the news."

"The defenders in the city immediately increased their troops to relieve the siege when they learned the information, and they should cooperate with the outside and turn defeat into victory."

That time to complete the mission, it flew for two days and two nights, and encountered eagles in the air. In the fight with the eagle, the boy was still missing, but he did not forget the direction in which he flew back. ”

"When it finishes its task, I feed it water, and it just leaks straight down the water! But I stitched it up, and it got a life back. ”

Liu Bancheng listened to the story of this heroic pigeon and picked it up.

This little guy is very sensible, his eyes blinked, he looked at Liu Bancheng, and then chattered about the rice grains in Liu Bancheng's hand that were not full.

The old man said to himself again,

"In the past two days, why haven't plum blossoms come!"

"Isn't this what your old man said, didn't you come to disturb this quiet place!"

The old man smiled,

"I'm talking about fun, don't take it seriously, it's all for your good!"

Liu Bancheng nodded and said:

"It's okay, I don't know what's going on over there!"

The old man said softly,

"I've heard there's more and more trouble over there. Also, last night, there was a boss in Dilan's company who was stabbed on the way home! ”

"What stab? Is the person dead? ”

Dead, it is said that when the patrol arrived, he saw blood all over the ground, and a headless corpse, and the head was cut off! ”

The old man had to continue, and at this time the door "squeaked!" "I was pushed away, and the little winter solstice came.

Liu Bancheng immediately calmed down the tension just now and greeted the child.

It's been almost three months, and the child seems to have grown taller again.

Once a person grows taller, he looks less childish.

After Xiao Dongzhi greeted Liu Bancheng and the old man, he asked while sitting,

"What's going to eat at noon today? I'll eat your messy stew, it's delicious, I'm proud of it! ”

The old man stood aside very politely,

"No problem, kid, I'll make you another pot at noon, we haven't had some drink for a long time."

Xiao Lidong pulled the small stool and sat forward,

"What are you talking about? It's been a long time since I've been here, uncle, master, how are you? ”

"Well, I didn't talk about anything!" Liu Bancheng remembered the old man's reminder that he was not allowed to talk more here.

"I didn't talk about anything, I didn't talk about anything, I'm still so nervous, I don't need to be so nervous!"

Liu Bancheng felt that this child's eyes were very poisonous and his observation was very strong.

"There's really nothing to talk about, and there's nothing to be nervous about."

"That's good, if you don't get nervous. However, I guess you must be talking about the death of the Prime Minister's Wedding Company? ”

"Yes, dead man, how do you know?"

"Then there is no need to say it, everyone in the Liang Kingdom knows that in order to compete for interests, several of them assassinated each other, and everyone died, and they couldn't keep the secret!"

"Oh, is it, man dies for money, and birds die for food? There's nothing wrong with that!" Liu Bancheng should be reconciled.

"Yes, it really shouldn't be!"

Liu Bancheng asked, "Let me ask, child, how do you know?" ”

"It's all alarmed, how can I not know?"

"Ah, no, I heard it from the palace! Some of the ministers are involved! ”

"You said Uncle Liu, is there any good way to solve this kind of thing?"

Liu Bancheng did not have any guard against the children's questions.

"Let me see, there is no good way, because the cake always has to be eaten, someone has to rob, the more people rob, the less the profit, the less the profit, the easier it is to go to the extreme and die, this is a normal law."

"Uncle, you say, where is the root cause of this incident?"

Liu Bancheng smiled bitterly,

"If you want to say the root, it should be me!"

Xiao Dongzhi was very surprised, "Why? How can anyone make a mistake!"

Liu Bancheng said,

"That's because I started the wedding business of Sozendo! In the past, there were not many wedding services, and they were not standardized, and their reputation was not as big as they are now. ”

"You're right to start a wedding business, you have increased the income of Xiangcantang, and at the same time invigorated the economy of our Xuyang City, what's wrong?"

Liu Bancheng still smiled bitterly,

"The question is, if the court gives the prime minister's house, wouldn't it be over if the food expenses are allocated according to the head? The Prime Minister will not concentrate on earning money to support himself, not to mention, what kind of money does such a big yamen earn, and he does not pay taxes to the state after earning money. ”

Xiao Dongzhi said, "In fact, the state originally allocated money for food to the Xiang Canteen, but they endlessly recruited customers, trained slaves and cooks, and bodyguards, and some even used the money given to them by the state to repair the building and hall management office, expand the business, engage in those hospitality and gifts, and win over officials to eat and drink." The court saw that their power and influence were getting bigger and bigger, and they were so big that they cut off their offerings! ”

Liu Bancheng looked at this child in astonishment,

"How do you know so much as a child?"

"Ah, ah, I listened to them."

"Who are they, who said that!"

"Ah, don't ask, these people in the palace know, hey, I just heard it from the east and the west."

The old man next to him hurriedly stepped forward and poured water for the two of them, and said,

"If you don't give money, you have to operate independently, and if you give money, they will be free to do so, is there no way?"

Xiao Dongzhi looked up at Liu Bancheng and wanted to listen to Liu Bancheng.

"The solution to the problem is not nothing, but there is. Didn't you just say one thing, child, that is, the state allocates food expenses according to the capitation, standardizes the head establishment of each yamen, prohibits the government from operating independently, and gives the individual businesses in the market a fairness. ”

Xiao Dong Solstice nodded.

"Why are you pulling the closed merchants on the market again?" The child still didn't understand much.

"For example, if your imperial court yamen comes to hold a wedding banquet, do they not pay taxes to Xu Yangcheng when they generate income. The other restaurants on the street of that family are generally run by ordinary people, they have to pay rent or pay taxes, and at the same time, they have to use their meager income to support various related households of the imperial court, these related households eat in taverns, some pay money, and some eat overlord meals, and they are free to eat in vain! ”

"You think, the official family earns money without paying taxes, not being bullied, the common people earn money, and they have to be bullied after paying taxes, is this unequal competition, so that the people in society are resentful, and in the long run, something big will happen."

"Moreover, it is reasonable for the official family to make money, support their own guests or families, and expand their own power, but what is even more terrifying is that they also expand their own armament, if they are not stopped, this will be for the safety of the imperial court, sooner or later, something will happen!"

Xiao Dongzhi stood up and patted Liu Bancheng heavily on the shoulder.

This kid is not big, but the strength in his hands is very heavy.

It's really three days away, and it should be impressive.