Qin Gong

Chapter 421 Bai Bo Bai Yan's Mistake

Time flies, more than ten days have passed.

In Bai's mansion, Uncle Bai and Bai Yan were chatting in the gazebo, suddenly a figure hurried towards the gazebo not far away, under the watchful eyes of Uncle Bai and Bai Yan, Bai Ping came to the two of them out of breath.

"You are not in Luoyin, what are you going back to Xianyang for?"

Uncle Bai looked at his eldest son, Bai Ping, and frowned slightly when he saw that he looked like he had lost his soul.

It was agreed that Bai Ping would stay in Luoyin in the future, to help Bai Yan gain a firm foothold in Luoyin, and also took the opportunity to spend more time with Bai Yan, why now it is only half a month, and Bai Ping ran back to Xianyang.

"Father, money, money!! A lot of money!"

Panting heavily, Bai Ping said to Uncle Bai, holding a roll of bamboo slips tightly in his hand, trembling slightly.

At this moment when Bai Ping mentioned the benefits of Luoyin City, his expression 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, so terrifying that Bai Ping Can't believe all this is true.

"money?"

When Uncle Bai heard what his eldest son said, he turned his head and looked at Bai Yan. Both of them didn't understand what Bai Ping wanted to express.

money?what money?Where is the money in Luoyin?
thought here.

Both Bai Yan and Bai Uncle couldn't help but think of Bai Yan's previous reckless behavior, worry and melancholy appeared on their faces. In the eyes of the two, perhaps in Luoyin City at this moment, the property of Bai Yan's mansion may have already been exhausted.

I am afraid that it will not be long before trouble and disaster will follow.

"During this period of time, can you transfer how much money to the General's Mansion?"

Uncle Bai sighed, looked at his eldest son Bai Ping and asked, before leaving Luoyin, Uncle Bai had told him that if the property of the General's Mansion was squandered, all Bai's properties in Luoyin City and the surrounding cities would do their best to help the General government.

So right now, when he saw the bamboo slips in the hands of his eldest son Bai Ping, Uncle Bai's first reaction was that there was too much deficit in Luoyin City, and all Bai's properties had been closed.

Bai Yan also had the same idea as Bai Bo.

Everyone knows how reckless Bai Yan's actions were before. Behind the simple regulations, it means that tens of thousands of money are spent every day. No matter how big the family is, it will not be able to support it sooner or later.

"No! Father, there is no need to transfer money to the General's Mansion. Father, take a look!"

Hearing his father's words, Bai Ping quickly shook his head, hurried forward, opened the bamboo slips in his hands tremblingly, and placed them on the wooden table in front of his father.

"Huh? No transfer of money? How is this possible?"

When Uncle Bai heard Bai Ping's words, he looked at the bamboo slips with a puzzled expression.

However, when he saw the contents of the bamboo slips, almost instantly, Uncle Bai widened his eyes and got up immediately.

"This is impossible!!!!"

Uncle Bai opened his mouth, his eyes were full of horror, as if he saw something unbelievable.

"It's impossible!"

Uncle Bai raised his head in a daze, and glanced at Bai Yan. When he saw Bai Yan's suspicious eyes, Uncle Bai came back to his senses, knelt down quickly, and quickly picked up the bamboo slips on the wooden table with both hands to read carefully.

Uncle Bai watched every word very seriously.

But at the end, Bai Bo held the bamboo slips and was completely dumbfounded.

Inside the gazebo.

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, after a while, under Bai Yan's curious gaze, Uncle Bai came back to his senses and looked at the bamboo slips again, then looked at him with a dazed expression, and reached out to hand the bamboo slips to him.

Bai Yan took the bamboo slips with both hands, and looked at the contents full of 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 changed drastically, and he shook his head slightly in disbelief.

"how can that be?"

Bai Yan looked at the figures on the daily income of Bai's industry in Luoyin City, and almost doubted his own eyes.

How is this possible? In Luoyin City, the Bai family's properties are no more than [-], and they are all small businesses. They are either small houses or tea shops and restaurants. ! ! !

And this number, looking at the accounting date above, is increasing almost every day.

"It's a human!!!"

Bai Yan suddenly thought of the merchants in Luoyin City who came from other places because Bai Yan ordered to cross the river for free.

This money is all the money of those merchants! !
thought here.

Bai Yan vaguely felt that Bai Yan's previous edict was far from being as simple as it appeared on the surface.

Looking down at the bamboo slips in his hand, Bai Yan's face was full of solemnity, and his breathing became short of breath.

"Inviting merchants to cross the river from Luoyin! Bai Yan's purpose from the beginning was to get merchants to gather in Luoyin!"

Bai Yan lowered his head and murmured, suddenly realized, then turned his head and looked at Bai Ping hastily.

"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 under his father Bai Uncle's astonished gaze.

"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 is full of traffic and pedestrians. Walking on the streets is extremely crowded. There are not enough small houses, shops, and restaurants in the city. Yes, not only the Bai family, almost all the alleys in the city are full of vendors, and many people even went to build wooden houses outside the city to sell after getting permission!"

Bai Ping told the truth about the situation in Luoyin City like Bai Yan, and when he talked about the scale of vendors in the city, 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 with only tens of thousands of people could have so many merchants, hawkers, and pedestrians in such a short period of time.

"Compared to our Bai's shop, the original gentry in Luoyin and the restaurants controlled by the Lu family earn a lot of money every day! I don't know what Yan said to those gentry, but now those gentry pay taxes almost every day. The money will be handed over to the General’s Mansion, and the General’s Mansion will use the money to pay for the ship.”

Bai Ping looked at his father and said, after he finished speaking, he found his cousin Bai Yingxue walked by with two maids carrying fruits.

"That is to say, the money for crossing the river now does not need to be paid by Bai Yan's mansion?"

Uncle Bai also came back to his senses at this moment, after listening to the words of the eldest son Bai Ping, he immediately thought of the current situation in Luoyin, and there was no need to ask Bai Yan to pay any more.

"Yes, father, but speaking of it, the money is still 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 is even deeper. When he was very young, Bai Ping left home with his father to go to the business to see the world, but Bai Ping has never met such a merchant as Bai Yan, not only The most important thing is that in the eyes of outsiders, Bai Yan paid for crossing the river in Luoyin, but only few people know that in fact, Luoyin has always paid for it. The gentry in Yin City.

And all the money of those gentry 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 any more money later on.

wooden table.

Bai Yan and Bai Bo looked at each other after listening to Bai Ping's narration, their eyes were full of wonder and surprise.

"I never expected that there are so many plans behind the simple edict!"

Bai Yan sighed.

Bai Yan, who seldom expressed emotion, couldn't help but feel wonderful because of what happened in Luoyin at this moment.

Thinking back to the young man in his mind, Bai Yan couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Time and time again, that young man kept surprising him, from martial arts, courage, to leading troops to fight against the enemy and destroying the country. What happened in Luoyin now happened again It is eye-catching.

Thinking back to more than two years ago, in Bai's mansion, when he first saw the young man in tattered clothes and with a sword hanging from his waist, Bai Yan never imagined that the young man who appeared in front of him would be in two years. , surprising again and again.

Inside the gazebo.

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 blushing, and she didn't know why. When she learned about the situation in Luoyin City, she also became very happy after listening to her father's evaluation. Happy, it seems to be something else, in short, at this moment, her small eyes are full of joy, which is completely different from the expression on her face when she heard the news from Luoyin some time ago.

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In Xianyang City.

Due to Mr. Hu's suggestion some time ago, Yingzheng actually led the civil and military officials of the Qin State to hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to the heavens, but this is understandable. Indeed, sacrifices should be held.

Sacrifice is extremely important in this world, not only for Yingzheng, but also for ordinary people and farmers.

No matter rich or poor, people in the world will offer sacrifices on relevant festivals, and this is especially true for the kings of other vassal states, and even some ministers seem to think that they have to do divination even when they travel.

Fortunately, once it is an ominous hexagram, the ministers who say anything about divination will not go out, and it is useless for anyone to come, even the king. Compared with later generations, today's scholars, even rangers, who doesn't want to die in the hands of a king, and when the time comes, his name will be passed down through the ages, wouldn't it be great.

Therefore, in many cases, if a minister becomes stubborn, it is not the minister who is really afraid, but the monarch.

For veterans who are talented, well-known and qualified, they should not be discarded. After all, if they are talented, once they go to other vassal states, it will be a strong resistance to other vassal states.If you use it, then you can endure it honestly. If you don't want to endure it and order it to be killed, the troubles in the future will be enough to make a country's monarch scalp trouble.

First of all, it is a question of whether to kill the family, and then the ministers of the court want to appease, and they have to endure the stink of reputation. unwilling to come to serve...

All kinds of troubles add up.

In the end, even the monarch will regret it, it is better not to kill him!

The former King Wei Hui is the best example.

And this custom is prevalent in Chu State.

Among all the vassal states, Chu State is very strange, so wonderful that it is difficult to describe it in words. If it is said that the Chu people are not united, but later generations will refute this point of view, but if it is said that the Chu State is united, but in the history of Chu State , There was a particularly outrageous thing that happened, that is, all the forces of the Chu State watched other countries attack the King of Chu without sending troops to rescue them, and even the Chu State was defeated and remained indifferent.

It can also be seen that in fact, many of the rights of King Chu in Chu State are scattered and scattered, not like Qin State.

After the Qin State implemented the commercial martingale reform, Qin Law restrained all officials in the court, and during the tenure of the two Qin kings, Qin Xiaogong and Qin Huiwen, they had already dealt with most of the old gentry in Qin State, so no matter how chaotic, even foreign relatives Interfering in politics, but the monarch will not lose power like the former Chu State.

Under the sacrificial stage.

With the end of the sacrifice, Bai Yan followed all the officials and prepared to leave after Ying Zheng left.

Today's sacrifice, a lot of things are waiting for Ying Zheng to arrange, because the sacrifice is not only to worship the sky, but also to worship the ancestors, and the Ying's ancestral temple is not in Xianyang, but in Yongcheng, which makes it rare for Bai Yan to have a 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 until dark. The feeling of being able to leave the palace.

Beside the carriage.

Bai Yan did not reply together with Bai Yu, but after saying goodbye to Bai Yu, he watched Bai Yu drive towards the mansion in a carriage, turned around and told his cronies to go to the embassy of Qi State.

An hour later.

Outside the gate of Qi State's embassy, ​​Bai Yan's carriage stopped slowly, and then Bai Yan got out of the carriage, and came to the gate of Qi's embassy alone.

However, to Bai Yan's surprise, before he could speak, it seemed that the maid in front of the mansion had been waiting for him, and when she saw him coming, she took him directly into the mansion.

"strangeness!"

Bai Yan muttered, then turned to look at the cronies beside the carriage outside the mansion, then followed the maid into the mansion.

And in a study in Qi's embassy.

The maid came to Tian Feiyan and whispered something, but Tian Feiyan nodded and told the maid to leave.

Bai Yan looked at the maid who left from the door, and then followed the maid who led the way to Tian Feiyan. Seeing Tian Feiyan, Bai Yan smiled.

"Go down!"

When Tian Feiyan saw Bai Yan, her beautiful eyes dodged a little, and she turned to the maid and said.

The maid leading the way for Bai Yan saw this, saluted Tian Feiyan, then turned and left the study.

"How did you know I was coming?"

Bai Yan looked at Tian Feiyan and asked softly.

"It's hard for the priest to have time to rest. Why do you go back to someone else's house? Looking at those people from the Bai family, you really think you are an elder?"

Tian Feiyan gave Bai Yan a 'sit down and talk' look, seeing Bai Yan scratching his head in a naive manner, he didn't continue to look at the bamboo slip in his hand until he came and sat down.

"Stop being serious about them in the future. If you don't have blood, you really treat them as equals? You are as stupid as you, and I don't know how you haven't been cheated until today!"

Tian Feiyan said softly, scolding Bai Yan in an unreasonable and unforgiving manner.

"It's just like returning favors!"

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 full of warmth.

Looking at the beautiful woman in front of him, in Bai Yan's eyes, she is someone in Bai Yan's heart who can be trusted with confidence just like his relatives.

"Where's your father?"

Bai Yan didn't explain the favor, because Tian Feiyan definitely knew what he meant, and seeing that Tian Ding was not present, he asked curiously.

But what Bai Yan didn't expect was that right after his words fell, Tian Feiyan raised his head and looked straight at him.

"Are you here for me? Or for 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 instead.

"After my father visited Mao Jiao some time ago, he learned from Mao Jiao that if he could bring a Qi man Qin Chen back, it would be no less than Shang Yang to the Qi State! So ten days ago, my father went to the palace and came back, so he pulled away and stayed. Investigate this matter."

Tian Feiyan glanced at Bai Yan meaningfully, then didn't bother to pay attention to it, and concentrated on looking at the bamboo slip in his hand.

Bai Yan was a little surprised when he heard Tian Feiyan's explanation, and then he couldn't hear the meaning in Tian Feiyan's words. Ten days ago, Tian Ding must have gone to the palace to divorce, in Tian Ding's eyes. It is already very stable, it only needs time to slowly settle, and it will definitely explode in the future, so Tian Ding concentrated on going to Xianyang City to use his network and power to find the person Mao Jiao was talking about.

"My father is too. He was smart all his life, but he was confused for a while!"

When Bai Yan was thinking, he heard Tian Feiyan muttering, and seeing Tian Feiyan muttering while looking at the bamboo slips, he felt very cute.

Turning his head to look out the window, Bai Yan also had an expression of emotion on his face.

"One day, I will return to Qi!"

Bai Yan's voice was quiet, but his eyes were extremely firm.

(End of this chapter)