Hei Niu's sister-in-law finally walked to the door of the house, and almost half of the gifts brought to her parents in the car were given out by Mrs. Xiao.

As soon as she entered the door, Hei Niu's sister-in-law blamed Mrs. Xiao, "Mother, the prince asked us to bring the things to your second elder, look at you, send more than half of them." ”

Mrs. Xiao smiled from ear to ear, "It's okay, it's okay, anyway, there are so many things, and the family can't eat them, so it's good to send some to your relatives in a hurry." ”

"What to send?"

Hei Niu's sister-in-law was unhappy again, "How can they be relatives like that?" When our family was unlucky, we didn't see them come to comfort us, and one by one they thought that our family had embarrassed them, and a lot of rumors came out of their mouths.

And the mothers-in-law just now, when they were counted as the most fierce in our family, you are good, and give them things, will you think they will miss your favor? In the future, I don't know what they will make up and spread out there. ”

Mrs. Xiao turned her head to see her son-in-law and Mrs. Xiao talking, and when she turned around, she pinched Xiao Butterfly, "Look at what you can, my mother will dare to talk back, if you want to do this in the future, I am not afraid that your mother-in-law will tear your mouth." ”

Xiao Butterfly was pained and said unconvinced, "My mother-in-law is kind to me, so she is not like you...... Yes! ”

As a result, I took another pinch.

According to the etiquette at this time, men eat, women don't serve at the table, Yang Huairen divided half of the dishes he brought to Mrs. Xiao and they went to the back hall to eat, leaving half to drink with Brother Hei Niu and Old Man Xiao.

Yang Huairen felt weird when he first started drinking, but later found out that according to his official position, Brother Heiniu, who is a son-in-law, is taller than his father-in-law, so it is not good for Xiao Lao'er to pretend to be his father-in-law in front of him.

And Brother Hei Niu didn't dare to pretend to be big in front of his father-in-law, so the two of them twisted and pinched, and the wine was not happy.

Yang Huairen had no choice but to oppose the guest, and persuaded the two of them to eat wine one by one, and gradually everyone had wine in their stomachs, so they slowly opened the chatterbox.

Xiao Lao'er was promoted, although he was happy, but he was responsible for more affairs, and he began to feel a little powerless, after all, he was not young, and his physical strength was a big problem.

Therefore, in his words, he revealed the intention of retreating bravely.

"Lord Wang, since I was a child, I was promoted to an official by the light of the prince, and I was really happy in my heart, the official positions promoted in the past few months have been more than the previous thirty years of officialdom, and the little old man is like living in a dream.

But I was promoted, and things were not as easy as Xiao Lao'er originally thought, the errand of Honglu Temple seemed easy, but in fact, it was not easy to deal with those foreign clans in Fanbang, and I was tired.

No, since our Great Song Dynasty destroyed the Western Xia, many states have to come to pay tribute. But everyone understands in their hearts that the tribute is fake, and the benefits are real, and even the small countries like the Three Buddhas who can't fight so far with eight poles come to calculate and ask for benefits, can I not be tired?

This is nothing, but the angry Ali Gu knows that our Great Song Dynasty is going to reorganize the business routes from the Great Song Dynasty to the Western Regions, and immediately sent people to pay tribute, in fact, to get a piece of the pie from this matter. ”

Yang Huairen was originally not interested in Xiao Lao'er's complaints, but when it came to the business road in the west, it was related to his interests, so he thought about it seriously.

It turned out to be a small country in the west of Western Xia. In fact, in terms of area, this country is quite large, but the population is actually hundreds of thousands smaller, and it does not have much sense of existence.

However, the geographical location of the country is very important, and the trade road from the Western Regions to the Great Song Dynasty also happens to pass through their territory.

In the past, they were suppressed by the Western Xia, and they had never heard of them taking the plunge, but now that the Western Xia was destroyed, they knew that the court of the Great Song Dynasty loved face and was easy to talk to, so they sent envoys to enter the court in the name of tribute, in fact, they wanted to ask for some benefits from the Great Song Dynasty.

Yang Huairen asked, "What conditions do they have?" ”

Xiao Lao'er replied, "The trade route from the Great Song Dynasty to the Western Regions is too old, and it is necessary to re-plan and build a large section of the official road to facilitate the travel of merchants from all walks of life.

Therefore, the king of the Gang proposed that they could help the Great Song Dynasty to eliminate the remnants of the party, and in the future, they would retain a hundred percent of the benefits from the commercial tax of Shangdao. ”

The benefits of Yicheng do not sound like much, but in the future, if the commercial and trade exchanges between the Great Song Dynasty and the countries of the Western Regions increase, the commercial tax of Yicheng is not a small amount, and it is likely to be tens or even millions of dollars per year.

Yang Huairen wanted to make money in the commercial center, and it was also because Zhao Xu and the imperial court saw that foreign trade could earn a lot of commercial taxes for the imperial court, so they gave Yang Huairen this opportunity.

But if they also come to intervene, then things will be complicated, and if they get rich in the future and the national strength gradually becomes stronger, will they become the next Western Xia, who dares to guarantee it?

Since this is the case, then the best way is to teach them a lesson by the way, let them know that not you can eat any meat, and if you want to bite the meat from me Yang Huairen and eat it, you have to think about whether you have a good pair of teeth.

Yang Huairen was very worried that the Sven bigwigs in the court would pretend to be a big country and sell benefits according to their original urine nature, so he really agreed to the request, so he planned to secretly write a letter to You Shixiong and ask him to think of a way to deal with it first.

However, Xiao Lao'er smiled again at this time, "Little Lao'er knows what the prince is worried about, so he didn't do it for them, and he has been dragging the envoys sent by Ali Gu before, just not letting them see our official family."

Later, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Household came to ask the opinion of Honglu Temple, and Xiao Lao'er exaggerated the disadvantages of this matter and told them about it, and they went back to Zhang Xianggong to say, Zhang Xianggong directly rejected the matter. ”

Yang Huairen immediately laughed, "Zhang Xianggong is good, I still remember the friendship between the two of us, haha." ”

Xiao Lao'er said again, "Zhang Xianggong's work is really good, a few days ago, I condescended to Honglu Temple to meet the envoy sent by Aligu, and I didn't give that kid a smile from beginning to end."

The kid also wanted to express some dissatisfaction, threatening that if the Song Dynasty did not agree to them, then if the Song Dynasty wanted to dredge the trade route in the future, it would not want to go out of their territory. ”

Xiao Lao'er paused deliberately, and hiccuped before smiling and continuing, "As a result, Zhang Xianggong was domineering, and replied directly, where does our Great Song Dynasty's business road go from, and where is our Great Song Dynasty's territory."

He also pointed at the kid's nose and scolded, if you are not convinced, go back and tell you King Aligu, after the Song Dynasty's million-strong army destroyed the Western Xia, everyone was rewarded, but there are still millions of troops who have not fished on the battlefield to earn military merits, if you think that you can threaten the Great Song Dynasty, then we will practice. ”