marquis of jingan

Chapter 745
This afternoon, a painting boat on the Qinhuai River suddenly caught fire when it was docking.

Afterwards, a dozen Qi people with bare bottoms hurriedly escaped from the burning boat.

Among the dozen or so Qi people, only the leader Zhu Man and a few other people pulled down some curtains and wrapped themselves in bedding and other things. Most of the others ran naked on the street.

These Qi people were all red-faced, but their basic sanity was still there, and none of them lost their sanity and turned into Teddy, but because they had no clothes, they were flushed with shame and ran around on the street.

Master Shen stood on the second floor of the Shibazi Building, quietly looking at these barbarians running around by the Qinhuai River downstairs, thoughtfully.

According to his expectations, if these barbarians can lose their minds and flirt with people when they meet them by the Qinhuai River, that will be the best effect. Then Shen Yi will directly notify the people in the Jiankang government office to take these people and tie them up Demonstration on the street.

But looking at it now, it seems that there is indeed no magical medicine in this world that can directly turn a person into a "Teddy". Basically, all medicines can only be used for fun.

Things like Hehuansan are still a bit too illusory.

But that's enough.

This time the streaking incident on the Qinhuai River has already made these Qi people "show their faces".

Master Shen Shi Shi ran down the Eighteenth Building and came to the bank of the Qinhuai River.

At this time, several barbarians had already been stopped by others. These barbarians covered their vitals and cursed at the crowd of Dachen people who were watching, feeling very emotional.

Among them, Zhu Man, who had snatched a quilt and wrapped himself in a quilt, was surrounded by several loyal Hu people. As an official of the Ministry of Rites in the Northern Dynasty, he still felt ashamed and did not come out to speak at this time.

Master Shen jumped over the crowd and came in front of several barbarians, he was taken aback.

"Ah, isn't this the Northern Dynasty envoy Zhu Manzhu?"

Because of surprise, Master Shen's voice naturally became louder.

He frowned and said, "Why does your envoy look like this?"

Zhu Man was furious, and gave Shen Yi a vicious look.

At this moment, if he hadn't needed to grab the quilt with both hands, he would have rushed up and punched Master Shen in the face with his fist.

Shen Yi rubbed his chin, and suddenly said: "Could it be Zhu Lizhen, are there any customs that I, the Han people, don't know about?"

Zhu Man finally couldn't bear it any longer, glared at Shen Yi, and shouted loudly: "Shen Yi, you are the one who plotted against us!"

Master Shen was full of doubts.

"I was drinking tea nearby just now, and I just came down to watch the excitement. What does it have to do with me?"

Zhu Man yelled angrily: "You treacherous southerner, you must be planning to harm me!"

"Just wait!"

Zhu Man shouted loudly: "When I get dressed, I will settle the score with you!"

"What an unreasonable barbarian."

Master Shen shook his head slightly, and said with emotion: "I didn't ask you to come to Qinhuai River, how can you have anything to do with me?"

"Besides, maybe..."

Master Shen chuckled: "It's because it's hot, you guys took off your clothes."

After saying this, Master Shen turned and left, and said lazily: "Everyone, stop watching, these are envoys from the Northern Qi Dynasty, and they have a very bad temper."

"Watch out, they're going to bite."

These words once again revealed the identities of these Qi people, making Zhu Man and the others even more annoyed.

Zhu Man snorted angrily, turned his head and led several subordinates, broke into a shop facing the street, and forcibly closed the shop door.

At this time, he had already sent people back to the guild hall to pick up the clothes, and within half an hour, they would no longer be in the current embarrassment.

But the face that should be lost has already been lost.

After entering the shop, although Zhu Man was still angry, he was not too stupid.

He already figured it out, what Shen Yi said just now.

Who brought him to the Qinhuai River?

It's Pei Yuan!
Thinking of this, Zhu Man's face turned red again, he clenched his fists angrily, and gritted his teeth: "What a treacherous southerner!"

………………

In the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, Pei Shilang was still arguing with Zhou Fu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites. He said: "Tang Zun, didn't you agree to ask the lower officials to talk to those Qi people? The lower officials talked to them two or three times. My God, we are about to talk about it, why did you call the lower official back all of a sudden?"

"talk?"

Zhou Shangshu put down the writing brush in his hand, glanced at Pei Yuan, and said lightly: "This time when the people of Qi came here, they just asked for money. From the eighth year of Hongde to the tenth year of Hongde, in three years, the people of Qi If you want to come from our Dachen, you need more than 30 taels of silver, not counting all kinds of silk cloth."

The Minister of Rites calmly asked, "How much can you talk about this year?"

Pei Shilang gritted his teeth and said, "At most, that's 30 taels!"

"The officials will torture them for a few more days, maybe 20 taels can be negotiated. The Northern Qi emperor celebrated his fiftieth birthday, and the two countries have in-laws. What is 30 to [-] taels?"

"Tang Zun, you should have heard that last year, the money collected by several city bureaus in the southeast amounted to several million taels. Two to three hundred thousand taels is not even a pain for the imperial court."

"Spend a little money, and you can get peace in the world!"

Zhou Shangshu snorted, and said, "The God of Wealth of the Ministry of Households did not get the money from the Shibo Department, but you are thinking about it?"

"Then what does the money from the Shibo Department have to do with our Ministry of Rites?"

Pei Yuan was a little embarrassed, bowed his head slightly and said: "Tang Zun, the money of Shibosi is His Majesty's money, the internal treasury is very fat now..."

"All right."

Zhou Shangshu frowned and said: "You have been an official for so many years, how come the more you live, the more you go back, no matter how much money, as long as it doesn't enter the household department or the national treasury, then it has nothing to do with the court, let alone the Ministry of Rites .”

Speaking of this, Zhou Shangshu raised his head and glanced at Pei Shilang standing in front of him. After he was silent for a while, he said: "Bozhi, you and I are also colleagues in many fields. We have some friendship. This matter, the old man will give it to you." You hand it over."

Pei Yuan hurriedly lowered his head slightly: "Tang Zun, please tell me."

"Today, the old man went to Zhongshu."

Zhou Shangshu lowered his brows and said: "The several prime ministers have ventilated with the old man. Your Majesty is very annoyed by the attitude of the Northern Qi envoy this time."

"By now, it's no longer a matter of money."

He looked at Pei Yuan and continued, "If you can convince those Qi people not to take back a copper coin or an inch of silk cloth, then you can continue to talk to them, otherwise."

"You don't need to waste your time."

Pei Yuan froze in place, staring blankly at Zhou Fu.

"Tang Zun, in the past few years, His Majesty always nodded happily, how about this year..."

"The previous years were the previous years."

Zhou Shangshu let out a foul breath, and said, "A few years ago, although the Northern Qi wanted money, there was no Qi envoy who was so arrogant."

"Moreover…"

Zhou Shangshu looked at Pei Yuan, and said lightly: "How do you know that His Majesty was not angry a few years ago?"

Pei Yuan was silent for a while, and was about to nod when suddenly someone knocked on the door of the public house.

Because this is Zhou Shangshu's public house, Pei Yuan didn't speak, Zhou Shangshu frowned and said: "The old man is talking to Pei Shilang, who is so unruly?"

"Tang Zun, it's me."

Hearing this voice, Zhou Fu frowned, and said slowly: "Come in."

Soon, a tall and thin man about 30 years old pushed open the door and walked in. After entering the room, he first bowed his hands to Zhou Shangshu, then bowed to Pei Shilang, and then walked to Zhou Shangshu's ear , said a few words in a low voice.

After listening to what he said, Zhou Shangshu couldn't believe it, and asked, "Really?"

The man nodded: "How dare a humble official lie to Tang Zun?"

"Um……"

Zhou Shangshu waved his hand and said, "Understood, you can go down."

Only then did the man back out cautiously.

After he left, Zhou Fu looked at Pei Yuan and sighed slightly.

"Bozhi, Qi has done something."

He paused and continued.

"This time, I'm afraid there is no way to talk about it at all."

(End of this chapter)