In the Bai family's mansion, Uncle Bai and Bai Yan were chatting in the pavilion. Suddenly, a figure not far away hurried towards the pavilion. Under the gazes of Uncle Bai and Bai Yan, Bai Ping came to the two of them panting.
"If you are not in Luoyin, why are you going back to Xianyang?"
Uncle Bai looked at his eldest son Bai Ping and frowned slightly when he saw that he seemed to have lost his soul.
It was originally agreed that Bai Ping would stay in Luoyin in the future, help Bai Yan establish a foothold in Luoyin, and also take the opportunity to spend more time with Bai Yan, but why now, only half a month later, Bai Ping ran back to Xianyang.
"Father, money, money! So much money!"
Bai Ping gasped and said to Uncle Bai, holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand, trembling slightly.
At this moment, when Bai Ping mentioned the profits of Luoyin City, his face was completely different from before, and his eyes were full of shock. In all his previous knowledge, Bai Ping had never seen such a terrifying thing. It was so terrifying to Bai Ping.
I can't believe this is all true.
"money?"
When Uncle Bai heard what his eldest son said, he turned and looked at Bai Yan. Neither of them understood what Bai Ping wanted to express.
Money? What money? Where is the money in Luoyin?
Think of this.
Both Bai Yan and Uncle Bai couldn't help but think of Bai Yan's reckless behavior before, and their faces showed worry and melancholy. In the eyes of the two of them, perhaps the property of Bai Yan's mansion in Luoyin City at this moment has been exhausted.
I'm afraid that trouble and disaster will follow soon.
"How much money can you send to the General's Mansion during this period?"
Uncle Bai sighed, looked at his eldest son Bai Ping and asked, before leaving Luoyin, Uncle Bai had told him that if the general's wealth was squandered, all the Bai family properties in Luoyin City and surrounding cities would do their best to help the general.
Mansion.
So now, when he saw the bamboo slips in the hands of his eldest son Bai Ping, Uncle Bai's first reaction was that the deficit in Luoyin City was too great, and all Bai's properties had been closed.
Bai Yan also had the same idea as Uncle Bai.
Everyone knows how reckless Bai Yan's previous actions were. Behind that simple order, it represents tens of thousands of money spent every day. No matter how much money he has, sooner or later he will not be able to support it.
"No! Father, there is no need to transfer money to go to the general's mansion. Father, please take a look!"
When Bai Ping heard his father's words, he quickly shook his head, hurriedly stepped forward, opened the bamboo slips in his hands trembling with excitement, and placed them on the wooden table in front of his father.
"Huh? No money transfer? How is this possible?"
When Uncle Bai heard Bai Ping's words, he looked at the bamboo slips with confusion.
However, when he saw the contents of the bamboo slips, almost instantly, Uncle Bai's eyes widened and he stood up immediately.
"This is impossible!!!!"
Uncle Bai opened his mouth and his eyes were full of horror, as if he had seen something unbelievable.
"This is impossible!"
Uncle Bai raised his head in a daze and glanced at Bai Yan. When he saw Bai Yan's confused eyes, Uncle Bai came back to his senses, knelt down and quickly picked up the bamboo slips on the wooden table and looked at them carefully.
Uncle Bai watched every word with great care.
However, at the end, Uncle Bai was holding the bamboo slips and was completely dumbfounded.
Inside the pavilion.
When Bai Yan saw Uncle Bai's appearance, he was full of curiosity. He didn't understand what was in the bamboo slips, which made his eldest brother show such an expression.
Fortunately, a moment later, under Bai Yan's curious eyes, Uncle Bai came back to his senses and looked at the bamboo slips again. Then he looked at him with a dazed look on his face and reached out to hand the bamboo slips to him.
Bai Yan took the bamboo slip with both hands and looked at the contents with curiosity.
However, it was no different from Uncle Bai. Almost as soon as Bai Yan looked at the first column of words in the bamboo slips, his expression suddenly changed and he shook his head slightly in disbelief.
"How can this be?"
Bai Yan looked at the daily income figures of Bai's industry in Luoyin City and almost doubted his own eyes.
How is this possible? In Luoyin City, the Bai family has only more than thirty properties, all of which are small businesses. They are either small houses or tea shops and restaurants. How can they make a daily income... more than ten thousand dollars!!!
And this number, looking at the accounting dates above, is increasing almost every day.
"It's human!!!"
Bai Yan suddenly thought of the merchants who came from other places in Luoyin City because Bai Yan ordered to cross the river for free.
All this money is the money of those merchants!!
Think of this.
Bai Yan suddenly felt vaguely that Bai Yan's previous edict was far from as simple as it seemed.
Looking down at the bamboo slip in his hand, Bai Yan's face was solemn and his breathing became rapid.
"Introduce merchants to cross the river from Luoyin! Bai Yan's original purpose was to get merchants to gather in Luoyin!"
Bai Yan lowered his head and murmured, with a look of sudden realization, then turned his head and looked at Bai Ping hurriedly.
"What's the situation in Luoyin City now?"
Bai Yan asked.
Bai Ping heard Bai Yan's words at this time, and swallowed his saliva in the eyes of his father, Uncle Bai, who had not recovered from the shock.
"Now in Luoyin City, before I left with my father, there were more than ten times the number of merchants in the city. The city was full of cars and pedestrians. Walking on the streets seemed extremely crowded. All the small houses, shops, and restaurants in the city were not enough.
Not only the Bai family, but almost all the alleys in the city are full of vendors. After getting permission, many people even went to build wooden houses outside the city to sell!"
Bai Ping told Bai Yan everything about the situation in Luoyin City truthfully. Afterwards, he mentioned the size of the merchants in the city now, and his eyes were full of admiration for Bai Yan.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Bai Ping would never have imagined that a city that originally had only tens of thousands of people could have so many merchants, vendors, and pedestrians come to it in such a short period of time.
"Compared to our Bai's shop, the original nobles in Luoyin and the restaurant controlled by the Lu family can earn a lot of money every day! I don't know what Yan said to those nobles. Now those nobles pay taxes almost every day.
The money is handed over to the general's office, which then uses the money to pay for the ship."
Bai Ping looked at his father and said. After he finished speaking, he noticed that his cousin Bai Yingxue was walking by with two maids, carrying fruits.
"In other words, Bai Yan Mansion no longer needs to pay for crossing the river?"
Uncle Bai also came back to his senses at this moment. After listening to the words of his eldest son Bai Ping, he immediately thought of the current situation in Luoyin, and there was no need for Bai Yan to pay anymore.
"Yes, father, but speaking of it, the money still comes from the General's Mansion. When the people in the city mention Yanzhi, they are all grateful!"
Bai Ping nodded and then explained.
Speaking of this, Bai Ping's admiration for Bai Yan deepened. When he was very young, Bai Ping left home with his father to go into business and see the world, but Bai Ping had never seen any businessman who could compare with Bai Yan.
Not only did he make the people rich, but he also gained the love of the people. The most important thing is that in the eyes of outsiders, it was Bai Yan who paid for the crossing of the Luoyin River, but only a few people knew that in fact, it was always Bai Yan who paid.
The nobles in Luoyin City.
And all the money of those noble families came from merchants.
From the beginning to the end, Bai Yan only paid a lot of money in the first few days, and basically didn't need to pay anymore later on.
In front of wooden table.
After listening to Bai Ping's narration, Bai Yan and Uncle Bai looked at each other, their eyes full of wonder and surprise.
"I never expected that there are so many plans behind a simple edict!"
Bai Yan sighed.
Bai Yan, who rarely expresses emotion, couldn't help but feel wonderful because of what happened in Luoyin.
Thinking back to the young man in his mind, Bai Yan couldn't help but sigh. Time and time again, the young man kept surprising him, from his martial arts skills and courage to leading troops in battles and destroying the country against the enemy. Now what happened in Luoyin has happened again.
It's eye-catching.
Thinking back to more than two years ago, when he first saw the young man wearing tattered clothes and a sword hanging from his waist at the Bai family's mansion, Bai Yan could never have imagined that the young man who appeared in front of him would turn out in two years.
, surprising people again and again.
Inside the pavilion.
After Bai Yingxue put the fruit on the wooden table, she lowered her head and turned to leave.
At this moment, Bai Yingxue's face was red. She didn't know why. When she learned about the situation in Luoyin City and listened to her father's comments, she became extremely happy. She seemed to be happy for her eldest sister, and also seemed to be making her own judgment.
Happy, but it seems to be something else. In short, her little eyes are full of joy at this moment, which is completely different from the expression on her face when she heard the news about Luoyin some time ago.
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Inside Xianyang City.
Due to Mr. Hu's suggestion some time ago, Ying Zheng actually led the civil and military officials of the Qin State to hold a ceremony to pray to heaven. However, this is understandable. After all, Yan Dan attempted to assassinate Ying Zheng and turned danger into disaster.
Sacrifice should indeed be held.
Sacrifice is extremely important in this world, not only for Ying Zheng, but also for ordinary people and farmers.
Regardless of whether they are rich or poor, everyone will make sacrifices on relevant festivals, and this is especially true for kings and ministers of other vassal states. Some ministers even have to do divination when traveling.
Fortunately, if it is a bad divination, the ministers who say divination will not go out, and it will be useless for anyone to come, including the king. This is not a joke. The status of kings and ministers today is far from being as humble as that of later generations. It is even more true.
, compared with later generations, among today's scholars and even knight-errants, who wouldn't want to die in the hands of a king? Wouldn't it be great if his name would be passed down through the ages?
Therefore, many times, if a minister becomes stubborn, what he is really afraid of is not the minister, but the king.
For veteran ministers who are talented, famous, and qualified, you should not abandon them. After all, you are talented. Once you go to other vassal states, it will create strong resistance for other vassal states. If you use it, then be honest and endure it.
Well, if you don't want to endure the order to kill him, the trouble in the future will be enough to trouble the scalp of the king of a country.
First of all, it is a question whether to kill the clan, and then the ministers of the court have to appease, and they have to endure the bad reputation. In the future, as long as you are the king, someone will insult you with this, which will lead to more talented people.
Not willing to come and serve...
All kinds of troubles add up.
In the end, even the king will regret it, it is better not to kill!
The former King Hui of Wei is the best example.
Moreover, this custom is particularly popular in Chu State.
Among all the vassal states, the Chu State is very strange, so strange that it is difficult to describe it in words. If it is said that the people of Chu are not united, but every incident in later generations will refute this point of view, but if it is said that the people of Chu are united, but in the history of the Chu State
, a particularly outrageous thing happened, that is, all the forces of the Chu State watched other countries attacking the King of Chu without sending troops to rescue him, and even the Chu State was indifferent even after the Chu State was conquered.
This can also be seen that in fact, many of the powers of the King of Chu in the Chu State were scattered, not like those in the Qin State.
After the Xing Shang Martingale Reform, Qin's laws restrained all officials in the court, and during the two Qin kings, Qin Xiaogong and Qin Huiwen, they had already dealt with most of the old nobles in Qin. Therefore, no matter how chaotic it is, even if the relatives are
Interfering in politics, but the monarch will not lose power like the Chu State.
Under the sacrificial altar.
As the sacrifice ended, Bai Yan followed the officials and waited for Ying Zheng to leave before preparing to leave.
Today's sacrifice, a lot of things are waiting for Ying Zheng to arrange, because the sacrifice not only requires worshiping heaven, but also worshiping ancestors, and the Ying family's ancestral temple is not in Xianyang, but in Yongcheng, which also makes Bai Yan rare
Free day.
More than ten days passed in the blink of an eye. Bai Yan was different from all other officials. Basically, after going to court every day, Bai Yan had to stay in the palace and could not leave until dark. Even Bai Yan had almost forgotten that kind of going to court.
It feels like you can leave the palace.
Next to the carriage.
Bai Yan did not go back to the mansion with Bai Yu. Instead, after bidding farewell to Bai Yu, he watched Bai Yu drive towards the mansion in a carriage, then turned around and told his cronies to go to the Embassy of Qi State.
An hour later.
Outside the gate of the Embassy of Qi, Bai Yan's carriage slowly stopped. Then Bai Yan got out of the carriage and came to the gate of the Embassy of Qi alone.
But then what surprised Bai Yan was that before he could speak, the maid who seemed to be waiting for him in front of the mansion door took him directly into the mansion after seeing his arrival.
"strangeness!"
Bai Yan muttered, turned to look at the confidants beside the carriage outside the mansion, then turned to follow the maid into the mansion.
And in a study room in the Qi Ambassador's Mansion.
The maid came to Tian Feiyan and whispered something. Tian Feiyan nodded and asked the maid to leave.
Bai Yan looked at the maid leaving from outside the room, and then followed the maid who led the way to Tian Feiyan. When he saw Tian Feiyan, Bai Yan showed a smile.
"Get down!"
When Tian Feiyan saw Bai Yan, her beautiful eyes dodge a little, and she turned to the maid and said.
When the maid who led Bai Yan saw this, she bowed to Tian Feiyan and then turned around and left the study.
"How did you know I was coming?"
Bai Yan looked at Tian Feiyan and asked softly.
"Finally, the priests have time to rest. Why are you going back to other people's homes? Looking at those people from the Bai family, do you really think you are an elder?"
Tian Feiyan gave Bai Yan a "sit down and talk" look. Seeing Bai Yan scratching his head and looking naive, he didn't continue to look at the bamboo slips in his hand until he came over and sat down.
"Don't take them seriously in the future. If you don't have blood, do you really think that they will treat them equally? As stupid as you are, I don't know how you haven't been deceived today!"
Tian Feiyan said softly, with some unforgiving words in his mouth.
"Just want to return the favor!"
When Bai Yan heard Tian Feiyan's words, he looked at Tian Feiyan who was looking down at the bamboo slips, and his heart was filled with warmth.
Looking at the beauty in front of him, in Bai Yan's eyes, she is someone who Bai Yan can trust completely like a relative in his heart.
"Where is your father?"
Bai Yan did not explain what the favor was, because Tian Feiyan definitely knew what he meant. Seeing that Tian Ding was not around, he asked curiously.
But what Bai Yan didn't expect was that just after he finished speaking, he saw Tian Feiyan raising his head and looking directly at him.
"Are you here to see me? Or are you here to see my father?"
Tian Feiyan asked.
Bai Yan listened to Tian Feiyan's words and looked at Tian Feiyan dumbfounded.
Fortunately, Tian Feiyan also deliberately teased Bai Yan. Seeing Bai Yan's appearance, Tian Feiyan became angry.
"After my father visited Mao Jiao some time ago, he learned from Mao Jiao that if he could bring back Qin Chen, he would be as good to Qi as Shang Yang! So ten days ago, when my father returned from a trip to the palace, he left and kept going.
Investigate this matter."
Tian Feiyan glanced at Bai Yan meaningfully, and then he was too lazy to pay attention to it anymore, focusing on the bamboo slips in his hand.
Bai Yan was a little surprised when he heard Tian Feiyan's explanation. Then he couldn't tell what Tian Feiyan's words meant. If it meant something, it must have been the time when Tian Ding went to the palace to divorce ten days ago. In Tian Ding's eyes,
It was already a sure thing, it just needed time to slowly settle down, and it would definitely explode in the future, so Tian Ding concentrated on using his connections and power in Xianyang City to find the person Mao Jiao talked about.
"My father is the same. He is wise once in a while and confused sometimes!"
While Bai Yan was thinking, he heard Tian Feiyan's muttering voice, and saw Tian Feiyan muttering while looking at the bamboo slips. He felt particularly cute.
Bai Yan turned to look out the window with a sigh of relief.
"One day, I will return to Qi!"
Bai Yan's voice was not loud, but his eyes were extremely firm.