Rebirth of the best emperor

Chapter 808 Show Your Majesty Happy

The horse training method of Yiqu country?
Lu Yi's eyes are about to pop out. As the patriarch of the Lu clan, he controls [-]% of the war horse trade in Yiqu Kingdom. No one in the world is more aware of the huge profits of Yiqu Kingdom's war horse trade than Lu Yi, and the biggest reason is Yiqu Country. The war horses of the Qu country are excellent, and the Yiqu war horses are excellent because of the secret horse training method of the Yiqu country. Because the Yiqu Kingdom is very aware of the importance of their horse training laws, and they keep them extremely strictly, and there is almost no possibility of leaking any secrets.

Looking at Wang Mang's consciousness, it is clear that he has already figured out the horse training method of Yiqu Kingdom, otherwise he would not say such a thing. Lu Yi was very moved by this. It's easy to be satisfied, what Lu Yi wants is all the war horse deals in the Yiqu Kingdom, although the Lu family has always been stable, but for the pies sent to their door, Lu Yi would be a fool if he didn't eat it.

Wang Mang knew that Lu Yi's heart was moved just by hearing Lu Yi's slight panting, he took a sip of tea, and then saw Lu Yi kowtowed: "Your Majesty, I have something to confess to Your Majesty."

"What's the matter?" Wang Mang said.

"A few years ago, when a disciple of the Lu family was traveling in Yiqu country, he happened to befriend the prince of Yiqu country. At that time, the prince was planning to seize the throne and continue to spend money, so he made some The trade of Yiqu's war horses is all war horses that are not on the surface, and when the prince became the current king of Yiqu, this kind of trade did not stop but continued." Lu Yi kowtowed: "This The minister has always wanted to confess to His Majesty, but because there is no chance, now His Majesty is coming to the minister's house, I will inform His Majesty of this matter, and I am willing to accept His Majesty's punishment."

Wang Mang smiled, shook his head and said: "You are worrying too much, I already knew about it, it's not a big deal, in this position, relying on the Yiqu country, people say you rely on mountains to eat mountains, rely on water to eat water, your Lu family is another family If you have a big cause, it is perfectly normal to have something to do with the Yiqu country, after all, I believe that when the time comes, you, the Lu family, will definitely cut ties with the Yiqu country and fight for the interests of Great Qin."

Lu Yi looked moved, and said: "Your Majesty, I have a gift to give to Your Majesty."

"What gift?" Wang Mang asked.

"Your Majesty, Rong Chen, please go out first."

"allow."

Lu Yi stood up and left, and got the housekeeper to whisper, then went into the room and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, wait a moment, the minister has already made arrangements, and the gift will be delivered later."

Wang Mang's eyes flickered, and he had already vaguely guessed what Lu Yi was going to give him, but it was not easy to say it directly at this time, so he said, "You really have a heart."

"I am Your Majesty's subject, and everything I own belongs to Your Majesty. Your Majesty's visit to my home is a blessing in my life. Even if I want you to dedicate all my family wealth to Your Majesty, I am very willing, but I am not willing to give it to you." Knowing that money and other vulgar things can't impress His Majesty, I specially prepared a gift for His Majesty that His Majesty is absolutely satisfied with after seeing it." Lu Yi said.

"Hehe." Wang Mang nodded with a smile, and said, "We'll talk about the gift later, I'm here mainly for the affairs of Yiqu Kingdom."

As he said that, Wang Mang stretched out his finger to Lu Bu and said, "I know that every month the Lu family sends a batch of timber to Yiqu country. This time, when the Lu family sends timber to Yiqu, I want Lu Bu to bring some people along with him. .”

Lu Yi's eyes flashed, and he said hastily, "It's really a blessing for the Lu family to have this general accompanying us."

Lu Yi has one blessing on the left and one on the right, which made Wang Mang a little embarrassed. Wang Mang never expected that Lu Yi, as the head of the most powerful family in the north of Great Qin, would be so tactful and sophisticated. The patriarch of a big family looks like a shrewd businessman. Although the Lu family is indeed a family of merchants on the mainland, fundamentally speaking, the Lu family is still a noble family and a nobleman of the Qin State. As a nobleman, some face is still needed.

You don't want any face like Lu Yi, Wang Mang has never seen it before, but Wang Mang is also thick-skinned, since you Lu Yi is thick-skinned, then I will be thick-skinned and listen.

Lu Yi carefully waited on Wang Mang, just like a servant. He didn't have the demeanor of the patriarch of a big family. Even Lu Bu and Lu Yi were nice and nice. He served Wang Mang like a leader, and Lu Bu had no embarrassment. , in his eyes, except for Wang Mang, everyone here is trash. Lu Bu regards Lu Yi as trash, so naturally he doesn't care about Lu Yi's service at all. Through observation, Lu Yi discovered the arrogance in Lu Bu's heart, and he didn't know Lu Bu's origin After all, seeing how Lu Bu followed Wang Mang, he was clearly Wang Mang's absolute confidant. In this world, the emperor's confidantes are more terrifying than the emperor himself.

After a while, the butler of the Lu Mansion appeared at the door holding a box, knelt down on the ground and crawled all the way to Wang Mang's feet, holding the box high above his head, Lu Yi pointed to the box and said, "Your Majesty, this is what I gave to Your Majesty." one's gift."

Wang Mang's nose moved slightly, he smelled a bloody smell, and knew that the box might be the same as he had guessed, so he nodded and motioned for Lu Yi to open the box.

Lu Yi stepped forward to open the box, and inside the box was a human head that had just been cut off and died. Wang Mang's expression remained unchanged. He had already guessed that there was something like a human head inside, and said calmly, "What does this mean?"

Lu Yi looked at Wang Mang's expressionless face, and a strange look flashed in his eyes. He pointed to the head and said, "Your Majesty, this is the brother-in-law of King Yiqu, who is in charge of the horse trade between Yiqu Kingdom and the Lu family. Permanently stationed in the Lu Mansion, I used to be greedy for small profits and he was somewhat entangled with him, but now His Majesty has decided to conquer Yiqu. As His Majesty's subject, I should set an example and kill this person to show the relationship between my minister and Yiqu. Cutting the gown to judge righteousness is irreconcilable."

"Why do you come to this?" Wang Mang shook his head and said, "After all, you and him have been friends for many years, so why did it get so bad that you wanted to kill someone?"

"Your Majesty, this is my determination." Lu Yi kowtowed and said, "I am your majesty's subject, your majesty is my heaven, and your majesty's words are my guidance for doing things. In fact, I have long wanted to cut off contact with Yiqu all these years ago. After all, as a subject of His Majesty, it is not good for the minister and Yiqu to spread the word in private, but it is a pity that there has been no chance. This time, His Majesty is going to take action against Yiqu. It is a pity that this person resisted before he died, otherwise he would be captured alive and sent to the battlefield to sacrifice the flag for my army."

Wang Mang looked at Lu Yi, and thought that Lu Yi was really cruel. This brother-in-law of King Yiqu had lived in Lincheng for many years, and now he was beaten and killed by Lu Yi just because he was useless. It was really sad, but this man However, the head of the Lu family was also a certificate given to him by Lu Yi. As Lu Yi said, if the person is killed, the connection between the Lu family and the Yiqu country will be broken. It was also the purpose of Wang Mang's coming to Lincheng this time, but Lu Yi thought about the front, and killed Wang Mang's target as soon as he found Wang Mang's target, so as not to offend Wang Mang. It may be necessary to give some certificates to Wang Mang.

Sure enough, without keeping Wang Mang waiting for a long time, Lu Yi continued: "Your Majesty, in order to support the imperial court in attacking the unrighteous country, I am willing to donate all the proceeds from the horse trade between the Lu family and the Yiqu country to the imperial court. Please be sure to accept it, Your Majesty, this is Lu's loyalty to the imperial court and to His Majesty."

"Why is this so?" Wang Mang sighed, "How much?"

Lu Yi was still thinking about how to deal with Wang Mang's refusal, how to stage some advances and retreats with Wang Mang, but he didn't expect Wang Mang to ask him how much money he had after sighing, which made Lu Yi stunned, thinking Why is your majestic Emperor Qin so eager to know how much money it is? When did the court become so short of money? Lu Yi opened his mouth a few times, and finally said slowly: "The relationship between the Lu family and the Yiqu country The transaction did not last for many years, and the income obtained was roughly estimated by the minister before. It was about 200 million silver. The military salary, this is Lu's loyalty to the imperial court, please accept it."

Does this mean that if I don't accept it, I won't accept Lu's loyalty to the court?

Wang Mang looked a little weird, and thought to himself that if you doubled the money, maybe I still believe that you, the Lu family, are really loyal. Unfortunately, it is only 300 million silver, but it is the profit of the Lu family selling war horses for more than ten years. I really don't know. What you Lu family did in private failed, Wang Mang was about to get angry, but he heard a burst of laughter from outside, but it was Lu Yao who ran over lightly, knelt down on the ground, and said with a smile: "Minister Lu I have seen Your Majesty from afar, long live Your Majesty."

Seeing Lu Yao, Wang Mang put down his hand that was about to be raised, glanced coldly at Lu Yi, and said, "Who's voice sounds so familiar to me? But I haven't seen you for a while, I saw Lu Yuan before, and I heard that you have returned to Lincheng, I originally planned to meet you this time, after all, I was also a comrade in the same trench back then."

"Your Majesty can remember the Minnv, it is the Minnv's blessing. The Minnv never thought that the wise and martial young man would be the emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty. He can fight with His Majesty, no, he can fight for His Majesty." It is Minnv's lifelong blessing, she is so happy to see Her Majesty again this time, if there is any disrespect, Your Majesty must not punish Minnv." Lu Yao said with a smile.

"One girl at a time, I don't feel comfortable listening to you. You don't need to be so restrained in front of me." Wang Mang said with a smile: "This time I came in a hurry, and I didn't bring you any gifts. Yi just wanted to give me a gift, so let him make it up for me."

Lu Yi had a wry smile on his face. Where did he owe Wang Mang any gift? It was clear that Wang Mang felt that he had given less money. He originally planned to ask him for more money. It happened that Lu Yao came to disturb everything. Now Wang Mang wants him to come out. Money to buy gifts for Lu Yao, this is an opportunity to beat him.

Lu Yi understood in his heart but said with a smile on his face: "I will definitely pass on the gift to Lu Yao. It is Lu Yao's lifelong blessing to get the gift from His Majesty."

The blessing of a lifetime?
Wang Mang shook his head in his heart. He had heard this sentence many times, and his ears could almost hear cocoons. Wang Mang's eyes fell on Lu Yao again. Now Lu Yao was dressed as a little girl at home, with a beautiful and delicate appearance. Pretty, although her makeup looks simple, she has carefully tidied it up. It seems that this girl came to see him after a lot of tidying up. Wang Mang knew in his heart that Lu Yao had already had a secret love for him when he was in Nanyang, but Wang Mang was too lazy to provoke too many women, and didn't want to delay Lu Yao, so he kept pretending that he didn't know. This meeting was originally expected by Wang Mang. Wang Mang originally planned to make it clear to Lu Yao, but seeing Lu Yao's current behavior Son, I guess I can't tell.

Sighing secretly, Wang Mang looked at Lu Yi and said, "My lord, I haven't seen Lu Yao for a few days, and I happen to have something to say. Lu Bu talked to you about the things I arranged before, and I agreed to everything else."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Long En." Lu Yi kowtowed, and finally he was relieved with a sigh of relief in his heart, knowing that the Lu family had escaped with the help of Lu Yao, if Wang Mang hadn't looked at it for Lu Yao's sake Lu Yi felt that Wang Mang was going to bite off a piece of flesh from him.

As for whether it is appropriate for Wang Mang and Lu Yao to be alone and widowed in the same room, Lu Yi just pretended not to see it, and he didn't have the sense of shame that a noble family should have. After Lu Yi withdrew, Lu Yao looked at His Majesty with some sadness on his face, and said: "Does Your Majesty think that Lu Yao appeared too quickly?"

"How could it be?" Wang Mang said with a smile.

"Actually, Lu Yao has already heard what His Majesty and Grandpa said outside. Lu Yao didn't want to come out at first, but he had to come out because Lu Yao didn't want the relationship between His Majesty and the Lu family to become too rigid." Lu Yao looked Wang Mang said seriously: "Lu Yao knows that His Majesty may think that with His Majesty's ability, the Lu family is no more than mediocre, but Your Majesty, it is not without background that the Lu family has been able to establish a foothold in Lincheng for countless years. Lu Yao knows that His Majesty is powerful. But I don't want any accidents to happen to His Majesty, and I hope His Majesty can forgive Lu Yao for his presumptuousness."

Wang Mang looked at Lu Yao. He knew that Lu Yao was a smart girl, and he had vaguely guessed that Lu Yao might deliberately interrupt his conversation with Lu Yi. Now that Lu Yao was so honest, Wang Mang shook his head and said: " You worry too much."

"No." Lu Yao shook his head and said, "Your Majesty doesn't know, the people from Cihang Jingzhai are in Lincheng now, if your majesty and grandpa fall out, grandpa will definitely turn around and agree to Cihang Jingzhai's conditions. Afraid of His Majesty..."

"Is this Lu Yi asking you to tell me?" Wang Mang's expression suddenly turned cold, and he stared at Lu Yao coldly, as if looking at a stranger.

"No, none of this has anything to do with grandpa." Lu Yao looked at Wang Mang with a sad face, pulled off his sleeves suddenly, revealing a large area of ​​white snow, and cried: "If your majesty doesn't believe me, break my heart now and give me a hand." Look, Your Majesty."

(End of this chapter)