win the hairpin

After You Song entered the room, he took a look around and recognized Song Huiyue at a glance.

He was surprised, but calmly asked Xi Zhang to take the head seat amidst the welcome of the crowd.

Ouyang Bai walked last, asked the bartender to take down the refreshments, and brought up the food and drinks, and asked everyone not to restrain themselves, please sit down.

The banquet has already been arranged. A pig was burned, a sheep was slaughtered, and two barrels of wine were sold. Large bowls of wine were placed on the table with large pieces of meat. All faces.

Huang Xianjue and others sat in front of the table full of wine and meat, no one dared to do anything, and seeing Xi Zhang with a leopard head and eyes, a lion nose and a wide mouth, majestic and fierce, he was three points timid, and all the complaints discussed earlier were forgotten. Two clean.

Seeing them deer-headed rat-like eyes, Xi Zhang flinched and cringed, and his anger still persisted. He immediately said, "Why don't you eat?"

Ouyang Bai was ordered by the governor to be considerate of Xi Zhang, so he quickly got up and scooped a bowl of wine for Xi Zhang, cut a piece of mutton into the bowl, and asked everyone's servants to scoop the wine, don't be restrained.

With him moving around, everyone felt a little more at ease.

Song Huiyue bowed her head and stepped forward, cut pig's ears for He Jianghuai, and poured wine for him. He Jianghuai picked up the bowl, his hands were shaking.

Everyone ate and drank tremblingly, after drinking a barrel of wine, Ouyang Bai stood up, toasted everyone with a bowl, and said with a smile why he came, as expected, he came to ask for money.

Huang Xianjue was used to nonsense, so after drinking two bowls of wine, he couldn't hold back his tongue, and muttered: "Our business has been greatly affected by what we did last year. Just not much."

The others also nodded one after another, and looked at Xi Zhang cautiously, wanting him to tell the truth, they will try their best to get the money they need.

Xi Zhang stuck a piece of mutton with a knife, and stuffed the tip of the knife with the mutton into his mouth. After eating, he said simply: "Ten million taels."

He opened his mouth so suddenly that even Ouyang Bai was dumbfounded and speechless.

The merchants who received the invitation were also speechless.

They think that the city camp only needs a maximum of one million taels, and they have fooled the matter by paying one hundred thousand taels each, but this mouth costs ten million taels, where are they going to pay for the one million taels of silver? ?
Silver is not a stone, you can pick it up when you go out, and even if they have silver, they all have uses, if they take it out, they will immediately go to drink the northwest wind.

This is even scarier than Song Huiyue putting a knife on their necks.

Seeing them faltering and hawing, each of them said that they had no money, and they didn't even dare to look directly at him. Instead, they lowered their eyes and looked at the ground, as if everyone's shoes were all carved, and they became more ruthless.

He stood up with a boning knife in his hand: "You people, with rich clothes, fine food, fine clothes and fine wine, all you receive are the guards of our city camp, and our city camp turns a blind eye to what you do. , Now we just want you to do some small things, and you start pushing back and forth!"

Everyone said they didn't dare, and asked Xizhang to lower the price, and they would definitely get it together.

Huang Xianjue muttered again: "Even if we were taken advantage of, we couldn't get together ten million taels."

Xi Zhang raised the knife, shouted like thunder, and slammed the knife on the table. It was clearly a not-so-sharp bone-cutting knife, and he inserted it like cutting tofu in one stroke, with the blade exposed. under the table.

"I can't make it together, it should be like this table."

Huang Xianjue knelt down with a "plop", and the rest of them were all monkeys from Nanshan. They all slammed the ball, and they all fell limply to the ground and knelt together.

He Jianghuai and Xi Zhang were people all the way, and when they saw Xi Zhang's behavior, they applauded in their hearts. Seeing others kneeling down, they also knelt down, and at the same time wanted to ask Song Huiyue how much money he could give.

You Song got up and supported He Jianghuai: "Get up, you all think about it for yourself, how much money you can spend."

Everyone sat back tremblingly, becoming more and more silent. After a while, the rhino horn merchant Niu Yiqun said in a low voice: "Generals, there is a shortage of silver and food in the city camp. We should definitely contribute, but you want ten million taels , It’s really embarrassing us, and the military salary shouldn’t be ours.”

It was good that he didn't mention the word military salary, but when he mentioned the military salary, Xi Zhang immediately let out a cold look from his eyes, as if he was going to kill everyone present at the scene like a knife.

After being exploited by Shuai Division and Transshipment Division, less than half of the military pay was actually paid to them.

Even the food and grass issued by the imperial court were passed on by these people one after another, and in the end all the soldiers were fed were pig food.

You Song said politely: "Everyone knows what it was like last year. There was no harvest in the fields, no cattle and sheep were seen on the pastures, many war horses were killed to keep the soldiers alive, and the capital was defenseless against drought. , so that even the grain was not prepared. If the king of Jin hadn’t sent tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass, the generals in the barracks would have starved to death, and there would be no one to guard the city gate. How about something that can be taken out?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally Niu Yiqun spoke first: "When I came back from the south, I bought [-] stone grains, but I haven't unloaded them yet. My servant can lead you to unload them."

Xi Zhang looked at Ouyang Bai: "Go and see now."

Ouyang nodded, got up and followed the boy from the Niu family to the pier, and came back after a while, with a smile on his face: "Controller, I went on the boat to see it in person, and it's all good millet. unloaded."

Xi Zhang nodded, his expression softened a lot.

At this time, grain was more valuable than silver. If this ten thousand shi of grain was exchanged for silver, it would only be around ten thousand taels, but it was extremely rare to be able to actually send it to the city camp without being exploited by others.

Only these merchants who do not walk on the bright side can do it.

The government took advantage of them, and they went back and forth in secret, let alone ten thousand shi of grain, no matter how much it was, it would not attract attention.

Even the government will cover for them.

The rest of the people also realized that the main purpose of the city camp was not money, but food, and they all weighed their own family fortunes and showed sincerity.

When it was He Jianghuai's turn, without waiting for He Jianghuai to speak, Hu Jinyu suddenly said: "Dare to ask the military masters, military households can also do business like ours?"

The people who were discussing were all stunned when they heard this, and seeing that Hu Jinyu was looking in He Jianghuai's direction, they all moved their eyes there.

You Song couldn't help but clenched his hands, and at the same time frantically tried to conceal Song Huiyue's identity.

Military households can do business, but if they intervene in the underground market, they are suspected of collaborating with the enemy, and Xi Zhang will never tolerate it.

Xi Zhang's gaze was like lightning, and he shot at Song Huiyue and Tian Jiguang, but it fell on Song Huiyue in just a split second.

She looks weak, but she has eyes that devour everything.

Hu Jinyu immediately said: "Master Li, why hide your head and shrink your tail, and only let the people below come forward. Since I mentioned you, I invite you to come out and speak."

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