"Your Majesty, the new charter has been drafted according to your wishes. Please take a look."
Liu Mingzhi smiled and nodded, first patted the melon seed crumbs on his hands twice, then directly took the document in Zhang Kuang's hand, lowered his eyes and carefully read the contents.
Seeing this, a group of people relaxed their movements one after another and waited silently.
After a long time.
Liu Mingzhi closed the document in his hand with a smile, looked at Zhang Kuang with a satisfied look on his face, nodded lightly a few times, and handed the document over with a faint smile.
"Uncle, the matter of establishing the Joint Chamber of Commerce will be carried out according to the current regulations. You and Uncle Nangong are ready to seal it."
Seeing the satisfied expression on Liu Mingzhi's face, Zhang Kuang's heartstrings relaxed slightly, and he quickly took the document into his hands.
"Yes, I understand."
After Zhang Kuang responded loudly, he immediately turned around, walked to Nangong Ye's side, stopped, and then gently placed the document on the table.
"Brother Nangong, please."
After Zhang Kuang finished speaking, he turned around and walked straight to the table a few steps away.
Nangong Ye smiled lightly and nodded, then stood up from the chair, stretched out his hand and gently opened the handsome seal box that had been prepared on the table.
Immediately, he first opened the last page of the document in front of him, and then directly took out the seal of the Marshal of the Right Army from the seal box, and stamped it on the document lightly.
In the blink of an eye, the commander-in-chief's seal of the military commander on the right wing appeared on the paper.
When Nangong Ye finished stamping his handsome seal, Zhang Kuang came back holding his own seal box.
When Nangong Ye put the handsome seal back into the seal box, Zhang Kuang followed closely and took out the handsome seal of his left army commander, and stamped it straight on the last page of the document.
In a moment.
Zhang Kuang raised the handsome seal in his hand and carefully put it back into the seal box.
Immediately, he happily turned around and hugged Young Master Liu.
"Your Majesty, the two veterans have already stamped their handsome seals."
Liu Mingzhi turned slightly sideways and casually glanced at the documents on the table, and cheerfully picked up the jade fan that had been placed on the corner of the table.
"Uncle, I will not ask you about the following series of issues to be discussed with Krich. You can just decide for yourself.
Whether you send someone to invite Krich to the palace as a guest, go to Krich's home as a guest, or find a restaurant to sit with us, it's up to you."
After hearing Young Master Liu's answer, a look of surprise appeared on the faces of Zhang Kuang and others.
"What? I'll just wait and see what I do?"
"Your Majesty, aren't you going to meet with Krich?"
Liu Mingzhi gently shook off the Wanli Jiangshan engraved jade fan in his hand, looked at Zhang Kuang and others with a smile and nodded.
"Uncle, uncle, uncle, I have some other things to do today and need to leave the palace.
Therefore, I will not accompany you to meet with Creech.
After you meet with Creech, you can only negotiate according to the regulations in the document.
Having said that, it’s time for me, young master, to leave the palace.”
After Young Master Liu finished speaking, he waved directly to Liu Song without waiting for Zhang Kuang and others to react.
"Liu Song, let's go."
"Hey, here we come."
"Du Yu, Ming Feng, I will leave it to you to clean up the tables, chairs and benches outside the hall."
"The general will obey your orders."
arrogantly, Nangong Ye and the others looked at the figures of Young Master Liu and his servant who were gradually retreating. They all pursed their lips gently, as if they wanted to say something.
However, in the end no one spoke.
After the figures of Liu Mingzhi and Liu Song disappeared around the corner of the palace, a group of people withdrew their gazes one after another.
Zhang Kuang frowned slightly and breathed out silently, then directly picked up the paperwork on the table.
Then, he turned his head and looked around at Song Qing, Nangong Ye, Yunchong, Hu Yanyu, Cheng Kai and others standing beside him, and finally raised his feet and walked towards Wanyan Chiezha.
"Brother Wanyan."
"Huh? Brother Zhang, what's the matter?"
Zhang Kuang slowly stopped, and with a complicated expression, he held up the document in his hand and gestured to Wanyan Chizha.
"Dude, that's it.
Brother, after listening to what His Majesty said to our brothers and others not long ago, I suddenly felt a strange feeling in my heart.
Brother, I always feel that the joint chamber of commerce that your majesty asked us to establish with Krich is definitely not just a chamber of commerce for small and large caravans from various countries to conduct their own trade.
Brother Wanyan, I wonder what you think?"
Wanyan Chiezha listened to Zhang Kuang's question, raised his right hand and stroked the gray beard above his chin, narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhang Kuang and Nangong Ye and chuckled a few times.
"Hehe, hehehe.
Brother Zhang, you and Brother Nangong are solely responsible for establishing the United Chamber of Commerce.
You two main people in charge can't figure out what's going on. How can I, an old man who has stayed out of the situation, know what His Majesty is thinking in his heart?"
Seeing Wanyan Chizha's eyes slightly narrowed and a smile on his face, Zhang Kuang raised his hand and stroked the gray beard on his chin a few times.
Then, he glanced doubtfully at Wanyan's pair of eyes that looked cloudy, but were actually shining brightly from time to time.
Based on his understanding of Wanyan Chiezha, he was very sure that Wanyan Chiezha's words just now were just perfunctory to him.
"Brother Wanyan, I have a vague hunch that Your Majesty must have another purpose behind establishing the United Chamber of Commerce.
Brother, you are the oldest and the most knowledgeable among our group of brothers.
I’m going to venture to say that based on your life experience, brother, I think you should be able to see some clues, right?”
Wanyan Chizha lowered his head and glanced at the documents in Zhang Kuang's hand, and let out a sigh of relief silently.
"Brother Zhang, you think too highly of me, an old man like me.
There are some things that you can’t see clearly only when you are older!”
After Wanyan Chiezha sighed in a deep voice, his eyes intentionally or unintentionally glanced at Song Qing, who was eating melon seeds a few steps away, minding his own business.
"Brother, as the saying goes, those who are close to vermilion are red, and those who are close to ink are black.
For some questions, finding the right direction is far better than making random guesses without thinking.
Haha, hahahaha.
Brother, what do you think?"
Zhang Kuang heard Wanyan Chiezha's rhetorical questions, and saw his eyes glancing at Song Qing from time to time, and instantly understood the meaning of Wanyan Chiezha's words just now.
"call."
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After letting out a breath of turbid air with a hesitant look on his face, he immediately followed Wanyan's commanding gaze and turned to look at Song Qing, who was minding his own business a few steps away, eating melon seeds.
"Qing'er."
Song Qing heard the sound and quickly spit out the melon seed shell on the tip of his tongue, raised his head and looked at Zhang Kuang.
"Hey, the child is here, uncle, what's the matter?"
He arrogantly put his hands on his back, raised his feet and walked straight towards Song Qing without hesitation.
"Qing'er, when I was talking to Brother Wanyan just now, I didn't deliberately lower my voice, nor did I mean to avoid you, old and young brothers.
Therefore, I am very sure that you must have heard clearly the conversation between us.
Not only did you, Qing'er, hear it clearly, but all the brothers, young and old, present also heard it clearly.
Brothers, you should have heard it."
"Brother Zhang, I heard you clearly."
"Old man, I heard you clearly too."
"Shuai Zhang, the last general also heard clearly."
"Commander, I heard every word without missing a word."
The answers given by a group of generals directly stopped Song Qing from pretending to be confused.
After all, there were several generals standing behind Song Qing!
They stood behind Song Qing and could hear clearly. There was no reason why Song Qing couldn't hear clearly what Zhang Kuang and the two were talking to each other just now.
Seeing this situation, Song Qing's mouth twitched involuntarily.
"Uncle, this, this, you, you."
"Qing'er, my uncle knows very well that the brotherhood between you and your majesty is even deeper than some brothers from the same mother.
To put it lightly, in terms of trust, His Majesty's trust in you, the eldest brother, may have exceeded his trust in one of his own sons.
Qing'er, uncle, I have a question to ask you.
However, I can assure you, uncle, my problem will never embarrass you.
Son, is it convenient for uncle to ask?"
Song Qing put the few melon seeds left in his hand on the table with a sad expression, and then gently picked up the tea cup on the table.
"Uncle, the child heard clearly the conversation between you and Uncle Wanyan.
At the same time, my child also understands what kind of questions you want to ask my child."
As Song Qing spoke, he lowered his head and took a sip of the herbal tea in the cup, then immediately turned his head and looked around.
After he was sure that there were no outsiders around, he waved gently to Zhang Kuang, Wanyan Chiezha, Yunchong and others.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Kuang, Nangong Ye, Yunchong, Hu Yanyu, Cheng Kai and others hurriedly moved towards Song Qing.
"Uncle, uncles, and brothers, regarding His Majesty's establishment of the United Chamber of Commerce, do you want to hear lies or do you want to hear the truth?"
Zhang Kuang immediately frowned and asked in a deep voice: "Qing'er, what about lies? What about the truth?"
"Uncle, the lie is that as a minister, I dare not easily speculate on the king's heart. I don't know anything."
"Child, what about the truth?"
"Uncle, the truth is, speaking from the bottom of my heart, I have guessed the real purpose behind His Majesty's move more than once in private.
It’s a pity that I thought about it again and again, but in the end I still came up with nothing.”
As the words from Song Qing's mouth fell, a group of generals, big and small, all frowned in unison.
This, this, this.
What is the difference between this lie and the truth?
Song Qing saw the changes in the expressions of everyone around him, and without waiting for anyone to react, he uttered two words with a smile.
"but."
As soon as Song Qing said these two words, a group of people immediately opened their eyes wide, waiting for Song Qing's next words with curiosity in their eyes.
"Qing'er?"
"Qing'er, nothing more than what?"
"Child, what?"
Song Qing nodded and took a sip of the tea in the cup, then raised his eyes with a smile and looked at Wanyan Chiezha, who was standing in front of him to the left.
"Uncle, I will call you uncle as I follow my third brother and sister Wanyan.
Uncle Wanyan, it is good to be humble in life.
However, being too modest is not a good thing.
I can say with absolute certainty that uncle, you must have more or less guessed the real purpose behind His Majesty's move to establish the United Chamber of Commerce.
Uncle, there are no outsiders around, they are all our robes of life and death.
Between the life and death robe and the life and death robe, there is actually nothing worth hiding.
Therefore, the younger generation has a suggestion, how about we speak together and tell each other our respective speculations.
Uncle, I wonder what you think?"
As soon as Song Qing said this, most of the generals immediately turned their eyes to Wanyan's awesome face.
Especially Zhang Kuang, his eyes were instantly filled with unspeakable meaning.
Sure enough, it was just as expected!
Wanyan Chizha felt the eyes of everyone falling on him. He looked at Song Qing, who was looking at him with a smile across the street, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes.
"well."
"You boy, should I call you King Wuyi? Or should I treat you as a junior?"
Song Qing looked at Wanyan Chiezha's eyes full of helplessness and happily fiddled with the tea lid in his hand.
“Haha, hahahaha, hahahaha.
Uncle, even His Majesty calls you uncle in private. How dare I, a junior, be so angry with you that I call you King Wuyi?
Song Qing, Qing'er, boy, you name me uncle like this, you can call me whatever you want."
Wanyan Chizha listened to Song Qing's humble reply and remained silent for a while with a complicated expression, then happily put his hands behind his back.
"Boy, as far as I know, you often say in front of His Majesty that you are only suitable to be a general who charges into battle.
However, judging from your boy's current situation.
Your boy has long been qualified to be the Grand Marshal of the Armed Forces."
When Song Qing heard what Wanyan Chiezha said, his expression suddenly changed, and he immediately waved his hand to Wanyan Chiezha.
"Oh, uncle, that's so praiseworthy, so praiseworthy!
How can I, my junior, be so worthy of being so valued by you, uncle?
Uncle, I really don’t dare to think about the situation you mentioned.
No, no, no, no, no, this junior has never thought about it!"
When Wanyan Chiezha saw Song Qing, he immediately became embarrassed and uneasy. The expression on his face was slightly startled at first, and then he immediately realized what was going on.