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One day at the end of December, Liang Xu, the head of the sect guard of Xiangwang Hongjing, was in the study of Xiangwang Hongjing, and said to Xiangwang Hongjing.

Hearing this, Xiangwang Hongjing's face was full of surprise, and he asked suspiciously, "Who are you asking?" ”

"It's Lord Shangshu Li Liang." Liang Xu, the head of the sect, said.

Xiangwang Hongjing frowned slightly when he heard this.

In all fairness, the relationship between Zhao Hongjing and Shangshu Li Liang of the household department is still good, the reason is that Zhao Hongjing did not rush to seize power from Shangshu Li Liang after he became the head of the household department, on the other hand, Zhao Hongjing respected Shangshu Li Liang's management of the household department very much, and never pointed fingers, at most, he occasionally exploited the loopholes of the household department, and used the trading ships of the user department to transport some of his own private goods, or to help his maternal family "Zhongyang Liu Clan" - anyway, the household family has a big business, and it is not a big deal to occupy a few large transport ships.

At least Li Liang, the head of the household department, also thinks so, in the eyes of this lord of the book, as long as Xiangwang Hongjing does not seize power and occupies some of the resources of the household department a little, Li Liang does not care about this.

After all, the household department is no longer as embarrassed as it was back then.

In the case that each other's well water does not interfere with the river water, Xiangwang Hongjing does not think that Li Liang, the head of the Ministry of Households, will deliberately conceal him, since this Lord Shangshu said that the Ministry of Industry did not pay the Ministry of Household Affairs, then it means that the Ministry of Industry did not.

"This ...... What's going on? Could it be that the eighth is going to raise that money on his own?"

Xiangwang Hongjing frowned, thoughtful.

The eighth of the brothers, Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, is a man of the year in Daliang, and his every move is under the attention of the Daliang government and the opposition.

Therefore, a few days ago, Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, hosted a banquet in his palace to entertain officials from the Ministry of Industry, the Smelting Bureau, and the Military Casting Bureau, and the next day it spread in the court, and everyone could guess that His Royal Highness King Su seemed to have made some big moves.

Although it is said that the officials of the Ministry of Industry are very strict-mouthed, they can't stand a lot of personal opinions, no, the matter of "His Royal Highness King Su is preparing to lay a national road network" finally came out.

Even, even the first batch of four routes ready to start construction have been excavated - "Daliang to Hedong Fenyin", "Daliang to Sanchuan Yucheng", "Daliang to Shangshui", "Daliang to Hedong Shanyang (including Tianmen Pass and Tianmen Mine)".

When they learned of this, the officials of the DPRK and China were amazed, they really did not expect that the ambition of His Royal Highness King Su was so huge that he would start the paving of four roads at the same time in one go.

After learning about this, Qingwang Hongxin sent someone to ask Xiangwang Hongjing for one thing - the approval of the card work department.

The reason is very simple, although the dispute between the marquis of Yuanling and other domestic nobles and the king of Su, Zhao Hongrun, was temporarily suppressed by the Vertical Arch Palace, but the grievances between King Qing Hongxin and King Su Hongrun have not been resolved, and Zhao Hongrun used the excuse of making the military casting bureau move away from the beam, and he was still stuck with the batch of armaments that King Qing Hongxin prepared to give to the Northern Second Army and the Northern Third Army.

In fact, in the eyes of Xiangwang Hongjing, this matter is very easy to solve, it is nothing more than a matter of Qingwang Hongxin bowing his head and admitting his mistake - if it were him, he would have personally come to the palace of Su Wang to ask for the guilt.

What is face? Can I eat it?

It's a pity that Qingwang Hongxin couldn't pull this face, so he had to let the batch of armaments of the War Casting Bureau drag it.

And now, suddenly knowing that the Ministry of Industry was about to start a huge project, Qingwang Hongxin's brain suddenly became active - you Zhao Hongrun can card my armament, and I can also card your road construction funds.

So, Xiangwang Hongjing got into this troublesome matter.

Of course, although this matter is troublesome, it is not unsolvable in the eyes of Xiangwang Hongjing.

He saw very clearly that the contradiction between the fifth and the eighth was caused by the ownership of the "Four Orders of Hedong" - Zhao Wu hoped to get at least one city from it to use it to entrap the big domestic nobles such as the Marquis of Yuanling.

And now, the troublesome matter of "Hedong Four Orders" has been easily resolved by their father, that is to say, there is no conflict of interest between the fifth and the eighth, at most it is just a gain or loss in face - the eighth resents the fifth child for stabbing him in the back, and the fifth resents the eighth for mixing up his feast and making him lose face in public.

To put it bluntly, all that remains is a battle of wills.

Therefore, in the view of Xiangwang Hongjing, as long as he is a peacemaker, the dispute between the fifth and the eighth may not be unresolved.

Therefore, he decided to take a little card on the approval funds of the Ministry of Industry, let the eighth come to the door by himself, and then take this opportunity to let the fifth and eighth brothers have a meal together, drink a few glasses of wine or something, just the gains and losses on the face, and it is not the enemy of life and death, and a few glasses of wine should be solved.

But what I didn't expect was that the Ministry of Industry had not submitted the funds for the construction of the four official roads to the Ministry of Households, what was the reason?

Although because of the relationship between the old eight, the Ministry of Industry has already had its own treasury, and it is not necessary to submit each project to the Ministry of Household for approval, but the construction of four official roads at the same time is a huge project, and it stands to reason that it should be reported to the Ministry of Household in advance.

Not to mention the Smelting Bureau, their stall is so big, although the money comes quickly, but the money is also spent quickly, as far as Zhao Hongjing knows, those crazy people in the Smelting Bureau don't take money as money at all.

"Could it be that it was delayed because of the Chinese New Year?"

Zhao Hongjing could only come up with such a result after thinking about it, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt unreliable.

However, patience and composure are his greatest strengths, so he is not in a hurry.

This is the New Year.

I have to say that the scale of Hongde's 22nd year celebration of the New Year by Daliang is definitely the largest since Wei Tianzi ascended the throne, because, first, last year, Wei defeated South Korea, a strong enemy that has always been pressing on his head; Second, because of the relationship between the "Four Orders of Hedong", a large number of domestic nobles stayed in Daliang.

And the nobles who stayed in Daliang were also quite knowledgeable, and they prepared a batch of tributes to Wei Tianzi, and finally had a reasonable excuse for their behavior of staying in Daliang for no reason - they came for tribute, not for anything else, such as Hedong Siling or something.

Of course, this kind of cover-up is just to deceive some ordinary people.

But in any case, at least on the surface, the various forces showed love and harmony with each other, and together created a scene of prosperity and prosperity of the Wei state.

It is worth mentioning that in the last days of December, the titular tribal patriarchs of the Sichuan Alliance, the patriarch of the Qingyang tribe, Amutu, the patriarch of the Baiyang tribe, Halegohe, and the patriarch of the Lun tribe, Lu Balong, also came to Daliang as representatives to pay tribute to Wei Tianzi, the leader of the alliance, and it is said that there are 99 ibohs, 10,000 war horses, 5,000 ploughing cattle, some strangely shaped bone carving vessels, and some strange beasts living on the grassland.

And the most precious of them are a complete white tiger skin and a white fox skin, I don't know where I got them.

I have to say that this tribute is really amazing, especially the ninety-nine ibochs, after all, in the culture of Sanchuan, the ibex is equivalent to the servants of the gods, and it will never be sent out easily, only when welcoming the distinguished guests, the tribe will slaughter a greeting with respect after the sacrifice and prayer, and use it to entertain the distinguished guests.

Sending out ninety-nine lambs in one breath like this one is absolutely unprecedented in the history of the Sanchuan people.

In the final analysis, Wei Tianzi's identity is somewhat special, because he is the leader of the Weichuan Alliance.

Compared with the tribute of great significance to the ninety-nine ibos, Zhao Hongrun was even more jealous of the 10,000 war horses and 5,000 ploughing cattle, I believe that others are the same, but unfortunately, this is a tribute, no one has the courage to do so, so he can only watch the eunuch of the inner chamberlain smile and put those tributes into Wei Tianzi's private treasury.

At first, Zhao Hongrun thought about discussing with his father to get 10,000 war horses and 5,000 cultivators to his Shangshuiyi, but after thinking about it, he still gave up, because as far as he knew, the Junshui Army was preparing to expand the cavalry army, and the 10,000 war horses would fall into the hands of the Junshui Army nine times out of ten, and the 5,000 ploughing cattle, based on the fact that the imperial court was vigorously promoting animal ploughing machinery to replace the original human ploughing method, these 5,000 ploughing cattle should be distributed to the counties and leased to the cooperative farmers who could not afford to raise ploughing cattle in the form of "official cattle". Or small landlords or something.

As the leader of the alliance, Wei Tianzi entertained the three patriarchs of Sanchuan City in the Zichen Palace.

However, in the night of the night, the patriarch of the Qingyang tribe, Amutu, the patriarch of the Baiyang tribe, Halegohe, and the patriarch of the Lun tribe, Lu Balong, followed Zhao Hongrun to the Suwang Mansion.

Una was happy because he had finally met his father and brother again, Amutu, the patriarch of the Qingyang tribe, and Wuwu, the young patriarch.

At first, others didn't care about this, after all, they also knew that there was a hostess in King Su's Mansion, who was born in the Qingyang tribe in Sanchuan, and King Su's father-in-law came to see his daughter, and there was nothing wrong with that.

But after that, when several other groups of distinguished guests were invited to Suwang's Mansion, people with a heart felt that something was wrong.

Because of these VIPs, there are Zhao Shen, King of Chengling, Zhao Tan, Marquis of Anping, and other princes who defected to King Su a while ago, and the mother family of Zhao Hongjiang, King of Yan, "Waihuang Sun Clan", Shen Shufei's brother Shen Xu, the head of the Anling Zhao family, Zhao Hongrun's third uncle Zhao Laiyu, and the head of the Shangshui Yang Tongue Clan, Yang Yu Tao.

After Una and Yangyu Xing each met their father and grandfather who had been separated for a long time, Zhao Hongrun invited these invited guests to the side hall, and after serving the wine and food, he said the real purpose of inviting you this time.

"Are you interested in contracting an official road? The Ministry of Industry has sent people, the Metallurgical Bureau has provided technology, and you have contributed funds to build four official roads from Fenyin, Sanchuan, Shanyang, and Shangshui to Daliang? ”

Yes, Zhao Hongrun never thought of getting funds from the household from the beginning, after all, he felt that the household department had suffered extremely serious losses in the national war between Wei and Korea last year, and if he could raise funds on his own, he could also reduce the burden on the country a little.

He believed that as long as he believed in the convenience of introducing direct access to official roads and railroad carriages, he believed that no one present would refuse the temptation to monopolize this trade route.