Wang Pingchuan took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Don't worry, nephew, let's talk about this matter after the New Year." ”

Tang Feng knew that he was trying to delay, this was to delay this year and next year, so he shook his head and said: "This is the responsibility of my City Lord's Mansion to protect the land and protect the city, let's not talk about the previous things, but now the City Lord's Mansion has enough ability to guard the Wu Acropolis, what are the family owners waiting for?"

Wang Pingchuan still laughed and said: "It's October now, and it's the New Year, at this time, things are coming in and out of the city, guests and businessmen from all over the city are coming and going, and the people in the city lord's mansion are not familiar with it, so let's wait for the New Year to discuss this matter." ”

Wang Pingchuan shirked softly like this, anyway, he just didn't talk to you about things. Tang Feng didn't have the heart to talk to him, if it weren't for the fact that Tang Che might have met and would have spoken directly, then he would have had the opportunity to play haha. Now this Wang Pingchuan obviously treats Tang Feng as an ignorant child, avoiding the important and trivial.

"Master, I'm afraid you're not worried about these things. Tang Feng looked at Wang Pingchuan with a smile.

"Then what am I worried about according to what the city lord sees?" Wang Pingchuan's eyes were half-narrowed, and his address to Tang Feng became official.

Tang Feng didn't treat him as an elder at the beginning, and now it doesn't matter what he calls him: "Are you thinking about the city gate tax during the New Year's Festival?"

"Haha!" Wang Pingchuan squinted his eyes and smiled and said: "Okay, since you have said this, I won't hide it, that's right, the annual income of this city gate is a lot of income, how can I let go easily?"

Tang Feng nodded: "Yes, you are very enthusiastic about this income, but I must tell you a fact, it is the tax of the imperial court." ”

Wang Pingchuan pouted: "I don't care whose taxes he is, as long as it goes into my Wang family's pocket, it will be difficult to take it out." ”

Tang Feng chuckled: "The reason of the head of the family is a little ridiculous, there are many things in this world to make money, do you have to put your Wang family in your pocket? Don't you know that a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way." ”

Wang Pingchuan waved his hand: "Don't tell me any big truths, it's useless, I only look at the strength, if you Tang Feng wants to have an army of a few thousand, I may still be afraid of you, but you just have a few hundred people, and my Wang family really doesn't care about them." ”

Tang Feng also squinted: "The head of the family really doesn't care about the result afterwards?"

Wang Pingchuan-for-tat: "That's an afterthought, it's too early to say." ”

Seeing that the two of them were in a hurry to talk about Liangshan, Ye Chenglong hurriedly talked to the mud: "Both of them are angry, we are all from Wuweicheng, why bother to make things so ugly?"

"Yes, Deputy City Lord Ye's words are reasonable, there is indeed no need to get out of control, but the current situation is that the city lord will tear off the flesh of my Wang family, how can I sit idly by?" Wang Pingchuan is retreating and advancing, and he will speak to Tang Feng.

Tang Feng also felt that he was not calm just now, no matter how this matter was solved, he couldn't mess up first, so he also said with a soothing face: "I said that the Wuwei City in the future will definitely not be comparable to today, and you will definitely not be able to look down on that little bit of city gate tax at that time, do you believe it?"

"I don't believe it!" Wang Pingchuan replied to Tang Feng dryly: "I only believe in the benefits I see in front of me." ”

Tang Feng was no longer as excited as before, he spread his hands and said: "Whether you believe him or not, this matter is true, and we must solve the matter of city defense today, I don't want to see bloodshed and death, but when I have to do that, I won't be soft-hearted." ”

Wang Pingchuan looked at the young man in front of him, looked at the firmness of his eyes, and knew that today's things could not be good. He is not stupid, he knows that it will definitely not end well to work hard with the government, but in the past, it was those city lords who bullied the soft and feared the hard, and even a few words could make them give up, anyway, there are a lot of taxes and filial piety that should be paid, and they are also happy to be idle, but this Tang Feng in front of him is a little soft and hard.

Since Wang Pingchuan didn't want to work hard with the imperial court, he had to find another way, thought about it, Wang Pingchuan said: "Your Tang family and my Wang family are also considered martial arts families, how about we use the rules of the rivers and lakes to resolve disputes?"

Of course, Tang Feng can not agree, he knows that the so-called rules of the rivers and lakes are martial arts, but if he wants to convince the Wang family, he can defeat them in the way they are good at, not to mention that Tang Feng is still confident in his own martial arts, he also knows that although the Wang family is only a third-rate family in the rivers and lakes, their four-elephant array is still somewhat famous.

The Four Elephant Array is a kind of combined attack formation that imitates the evolution of certain characteristics of the four phenomena of wind, rain, thunder, and electricity, and it is much more powerful than the simple combined attack technique. Although the Wang family has only been a third-rate family in the rivers and lakes over the years, few people have provoked them, just because of the merits of these four elephant arrays.

Sure enough, Wang Pingchuan said: "I know that the Tang City Lord is strong in martial arts, as long as you can compete with the Four Elephant Array and a stick of incense, I will promise to hand over the city gate to the City Lord's Mansion, and I will not covet it in the future." ”

"Good. Tang Feng agreed without even thinking about it, it's really not that he was too hasty, it's just that this major city defense matter can be decided by them with a small gamble, if you win today, the Wang family will be handed over safely, if Tang Feng loses, it will be a big deal that in two days, he will really call thousands of garrisons to come over and ask for it, anyway, Tang Feng really doesn't want to see the bloody conflict of Wuwei, even if the Wang family says that he doesn't talk about credibility, it doesn't matter, anyway, Tang Feng has never felt that personal face is more important than national affairs.

Seeing Tang Feng's gambling with the Wang family that he agreed to without thinking, Ye Chenglong was afraid that Tang Feng would not know the power of the Four Elephant Array, so he pulled Tang Feng's sleeve and reminded: "City Lord, you better think about it, this Four Elephant Array is not easy to deal with." ”

Ye Chenglong came out of the Central Plains faction, naturally he had more knowledge than Tang Feng in these complex formations, and he also happened to see the relevant descriptions of the Four Elephant Arrays in the classics of the sect, Ye Chenglong said in a low voice: "The four elephants in the Four Elephant Arrays are divided into wind, rain, thunder, and electricity, which are controlled by four people, of course, the strength of these four people is related to the power of the entire Four Elephant Array, but I heard that the Four Elephant Arrays composed of four people from the Third Realm are enough to be comparable to the masters of the Fourth Mirror or even the Fifth Mirror." ”

Tang Feng didn't know much about the so-called Four Elephant Array, he frowned and asked, "The Four Elephant Array is so powerful, then why is the Wang family just a third-rate family?"

Ye Chenglong continued to whisper: "The drawbacks of this four-elephant array are also extremely obvious, and generally better sects will not use it, but only small families like the Wang family will use it. ”

"Oh?" Tang Feng was a little curious: "What are the drawbacks?"

Ye Chenglong thought for a while and said: "Just like Wang Pingchuan just said, a stick of incense is the limit time of the Four Elephant Array, and because of the large consumption of the Four Elephant Array, its great power can only last about one stick of incense. In addition, the Four Elephant Array has a lot of sequelae for the controller, as long as the Four Elephant Array starts the controller, the controller will inevitably be drained of internal force, and he will not be able to make another move for at least three months afterwards. ”