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Chapter 760: The Queen Mother's Anger

Zhou Heng came back in the evening, his face was a little tired, his steps were heavy, but his spirit was good, and he went to the study with great interest, Shen Ao was picking up the lamp to copy the "Book of Music", seeing that Zhou Heng came in, he sighed, put the pen into the pen holder, and let the book on the table do it by itself. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Cousin, I've got something." Zhou Heng took out a piece of money and handed it to Shen Ao.

250,000 yuan is a lot, and the payment is naturally Zheng Shuang, the son of Zheng Shuang.

Zhou Heng is the one who entrusts the chicken seller, and the decisive fang is just helping to sell. No one will go out with 250,000 yuan of money, no matter how swaggering Zheng Shuang is, it is impossible to carry a box of money with him. What's more, it takes at least a day or two to raise 250,000 yuan, especially for the person who does business, no matter how big his business is and how rich he is, but he doesn't have much money left. Only the rich man of the country would keep a jar of silver and money and put it on the head of his bed.

Therefore, Zheng Shuang wanted to take the chicken away, of course, he had to leave an IOU, which naturally fell into Zhou Heng's hands.

Zhou Heng smiled and said: "A chicken is 250,000 guan, this deal is really worth it, I should only sell it for a few hundred guan." ”

Shen Ao shook his head and said, "This chicken is worth five thousand yuan at most to those gentlemen. However, for Zheng Shuang, what he bought was not only chickens, but also his prestige and face, the Zheng family is a relative of the emperor and the richest man in Jiangbei, and his face is almost 250,000 yuan. ”

Zhou Heng, as the young master of the Qiguo Mansion, couldn't help but smack his tongue, 250,000 yuan to buy a face, in his opinion, it was like a dream.

"Cousin, what's next?"

Shen Ao stuffed the "Book of Music" back on the bookcase and said, "The Zheng family may not be able to come up with such a large sum of money, even if there is, it is impossible to let Zheng Shuang mess around like this." You see, the IOU says that the money will be delivered in three days, and in three days...... Hum! Shen Ao sneered, and said coldly: "If he Zheng Shuang can't come up with this money, this king will come to collect the debt in person." ”

Zhou Zheng's eyes lit up and said, "Let the Zheng family lose face once?" ”

Shen Ao shook his head and said: "Losing face is secondary, the important thing is to slap him in the face and provoke your cousin, and you still want to be free?" We'll see. ”

Zhou Zheng smiled bitterly: "It's a pity that I can't save my father." ”

Shen Ao smiled faintly: "Your father will come out sooner or later, go to Taiyuan, find out the matter, and the people will come out." But before going to Taiyuan, this thing must be done. First, it is related to the king of Jin, and he can't let the backyard catch fire. The second is to give them a dismount, which is like two armies fighting, first to defeat the morale of the enemy, and then to uproot them with one drum. ”

Zhou Zheng thought for a moment and said, "What my cousin said is definitely not wrong. ”

The two talked for a while, and Shen Ao finally said: "Ask someone to secretly send 30,000 Guan to Wuqu Hou's house." Rest early, I'm going to the palace tomorrow, and I can't miss the early morning court. ”

The next day, Shen Ao hit the horse into the palace, there was nothing unusual in the palace, Li Bangyan saw Shen Ao still greeted with a smile, Shen Ao's attitude towards him was warm, after the end of the court, Zhao Ji made a look at Shen Ao, Shen Ao understood, and went straight to Wenjing Pavilion with Zhao Ji, now the weather is cold, a few pots of charcoal fire in Wenjing Pavilion are endless, there are special carbon attendants to serve, as soon as he enters from the outside, he immediately feels that the remains are full of warmth, Zhao Ji smiled lightly: "Yesterday somehow, the Queen Mother suddenly became angry, Does this have anything to do with you? ”

Shen Ao said: "Weichen is wronged! ”

Zhao Ji smiled bitterly: "You just don't let me live." His lips trembled slightly, shook his head and said: "King Jin, this guy, I don't know what I said in the harem last night, even I didn't hear any news, this King Jin is your future Weng family, you must always persuade him, I and he are old, and we can't be disrespectful to the old." ”

Shen Ao nodded and said, "I will definitely persuade him well." But I was thinking in my heart, should I add another fire to him?

Zhao Ji immediately said: "The latest news, the Jurchens have broken the Khitan border pass and taken Jizhou, and now 100,000 iron horsemen have been directed at Youzhou, and the Khitan 300,000 army is trapped in the area of Youzhou, and it is about to fight a decisive battle with the Jurchens." ”

Shen Ao couldn't help but be moved, the Khitan people had lost the desert and Liaodong, and now there are only three provinces: Zhongjing, Nanjing, and Tokyo, and this Youyun Sixteen Prefectures can be regarded as the core position of the Khitan State, once lost, it is only a matter of time before the Khitan perishes. Youzhou is the core of Tokyo Road, and this battle is too big.

Zhao Ji continued: "Then Wanyan Dashi has already sent a messenger to ask me to send troops to the Great Song Dynasty, what do you think?" ”

Shen Ao said lightly: "I can't save it." ”

Zhao Ji said: "You continue." ”

Shen Ao said: "The most powerful force of the Jurchens is the cavalry, what if my Great Song Dynasty sends troops, hundreds of thousands of troops are gathered, and the Jurchens besiege the city for reinforcements?" Therefore, we can only wait and see what happens, and dispatch the world's military horses to the Daimyo's mansion, form a corner with the Khitans, and confront the Jurchens. As for the three-way water division, it must also be prepared as soon as possible, so that the main forces of the water divisions can be gathered in the area of Penglai Harbor and practice day and night, of course, the imperial court had better issue a will, claiming that our Great Song Dynasty will transfer the world's military horses to fight a decisive battle with the Jurchens in Youzhou, so that the Jurchens do not dare to exert all their strength when attacking Youzhou. ”

Zhao Ji nodded and said: "You are right, go to the army to fight and strategize, I will discuss it with Li Men again, let the men draw up their will, and transfer elite and courageous people from all over the country." ”

Shen Ao said with a smile: "I can order the elite of the Western Xia Kingdom to assemble in the area of Qilian Mountain, so that the Jurchens have to draw their strength, even if they have three heads and six arms, they must also be unable to guard against it." ”

Zhao Ji smiled faintly, at this time his fear of the Jurchens had been reduced a lot, and the battle of Qilian Mountain finally made all countries pluck up their courage, letting people know that the Jurchens were not invincible,

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Zhao Ji suddenly smiled and said: "You go to the harem and walk around, go and say hello to the Queen Mother, I went over this morning, and I don't know why, I actually said to me with a cold face that she is not as good as a concubine." I guess which concubine made her angry, you go and persuade her. ”

Shen Ao agreed, went to Jingtai Palace alone, and said loudly outside the palace: "Shen Ao greets the Queen Mother." ”

"Come in and talk." The Queen Mother's voice seemed very displeased, mixed with three points of anger.

Shen Ao walked into Jingtai Palace, and saw that the Queen Mother was sitting on a stool, absentmindedly playing the finch cards in her hand, Shen Ao smiled faintly: "Is the Queen Mother short of people to play cards?" ”

The Queen Mother said with a cold face: "This palace is just playing casually. After that, he threw aside the finch card very uninterestedly, his eyes fell on Shen Ao, and said, "What kind of decisive workshop did you go to with King Jin yesterday, why don't you help out?" Let him suffer such a big loss? He is the brother of His Majesty's mother, and if he actually humiliates a son of the Zheng family, can you be indifferent? ”

Shen sat down arrogantly, and said with a smile: "What the Queen Mother said was about buying chickens? ”

The Queen Mother pursed her lips to show acquiescence.

Shen Ao said: "How can Weichen help with this kind of thing?" Zheng Gongzi is determined to get that chicken, if Weichen bids, will he have to spend a million yuan to buy a chicken to eat in the end? Shen Ao grinned and said, "I don't dare to eat this chicken, every bite will be very sad." ”

The Queen Mother was slightly stunned, and then smiled and said: "People dare, why don't you dare to be a king of Jin and a king of Pingxi?" It's a shame that you still claim to be rich, and it seems that it's nothing more than that. ”

Shen Ao defended: "The Queen Mother is angry, my money is different from that of Zheng Gongzi's money, my money was earned with my own blood, sweat and life, but the money of Zheng Gongzi's family was blown by a strong wind." ”

"Dafeng blowing?" The Queen Mother couldn't help frowning.

Shen Ao said with a smile: "Of course, Weichen's money was earned by risking a lot of money, going out of Qilian Mountain, and killing the Jurchens in the wilderness. But the Zheng family's money ......" he smiled and said coldly: "It's almost the same as the wind blowing, just like the Taiyuan landslide, their family hoarded countless grains, collected them for a hundred wen a bucket, and then sold them at a hundred times the price, this is not a strong wind, what is it?" ”

The Queen Mother said coldly: "It's no wonder, the emperor of the mourning family is really confused, so let them be so presumptuous?" ”

Shen Ao smiled bitterly: "Although Your Majesty is the Ninth Five-Year Honor, it is common for people to be deceived sometimes, people are not sages, and everything cannot go well." ”

The Queen Mother's face was blue, and she said: "All the expenses of the mourning family are simple, and they only take out one or two hundred thousand yuan of their own money every year, but the son of the Zheng family dares to spend two hundred and fifty thousand yuan to buy a chicken with his eyes closed." He snorted coldly and continued: "As for Concubine Zheng, it is even more amazing, it turns out that her family is so rich, in order to please the mourning family, she has to pretend to be simple, who is she doing it for?" ”

Shen Ao smiled silently.

The Queen Mother continued: "The mourning family is nothing, money is something outside the body, what's the use of keeping it?" It's just that he pity the king of Jin, his brother is rich all over the world, called a lonely widow, and he, the prince, only takes 30,000 or 40,000 yuan from the Zongling Mansion every year. She continued: "When the mourning family is there, he will still suffer the losses of others and be ridiculed; When did the mourning family go, what should King Jin do? He has never suffered any hardships or losses in his life. Is it possible that this poor child should be sulking by some people? ”

Shen Ao thought to himself, thirty or forty thousand guan is actually only repaid, and there are many people in the world who only live on more than ten guan a year, and they have not seen them starve to death. However, the queen mother's thoughts, he has figured it out, the two sons want a bowl of water to be flat, and one is the emperor, so naturally there is no need to worry about it; Compared with the emperor, the prince of his son is more and more loved by the queen mother, and he can't wait to send all the good things to the palace of the king of Jin.

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The first chapter was delivered, the second day of the Lunar New Year, Khan, a year older, sadly.