"Is your brother dead?" Ouyang asked.

"Pooh"

Ouyang was prepared for a long time, blocking his saliva with his hand, and then rubbed it on Wanyan Lan's clothes: "I'm very puzzled, your brother is dead, why are you asking me for trouble?"

Wanyan Lan said angrily: "If it weren't for the things you gave to the Khitans, how could my brother die?"

"Oh, that's a problem. Bai Lian, turned around and notified the blacksmiths of the two crossbow arrows, and told them that they were the culprits of the capture of the princess of the Jin Kingdom and asked them to escape quickly. We had eaten in the village, and they were also the culprits, and what was selling clothes, they were all the culprits, so let them run away quickly."

"Yes, sir." Bai Lian replied with a smile.

"Hold a carriage and take it away." Ouyang ignored Wanyan Lan who wanted to eat him and waved his hand to order. The robber theory is like this. If you slaughter so many people, you don't feel guilty. If you die, your brother will take revenge everywhere. It's too unreasonable.

...

Wanyan Lan was secretly escorted back to Yangping and was sent to the prison for retaliation. This prison was not a big wooden stick, but a prison built by Jingti. It was completed for more than a year. It was used to detain vicious and powerful criminals, but it has not been used. Jingti started to rust, and now it has welcomed its first guest.

Ouyang gave the letter envelope to Shen Me in the study: "Tell this letter to Wanyan Aguda."

Shen Me asked curiously: "Sir, what weapon are you selling this time?"

"Nonsense, am I like a person who is so untrustworthy? This is a blackmail letter." Ouyang said: "Don't worry, he will never dare to hurt you. After the matter is done, there will be a 20% dividend."

"Good" Youdao means that people die for money, birds die for food, and no business is done without money. Shen Mei picked up the good news and said, "Sir, wait for my good news."

"By the way, tell him that if you want that mine detector, it can be negotiated."

"...Okay," Shen Meekhan was still thinking about it. Ouyang Ze replied in his heart, nonsense, his ceramic landmines have been studied, and Wanyan Agu will not buy his own mine detector, so the Liao Kingdom will not buy his own ceramic landmines.

Shen Mee just went out and a female yamen runner reported: "Sir, the prisoner has been on a hunger strike for three days."

"Fill"

"Yes" Ouyang is good at imitating it. This is the inspiration obtained by farmers feeding ducks. The scientific name is cramming. Ouyang is not worried that Aguda will not agree to the conditions. After all, his requirements are not high, and he is just a three-ship cargo. He was extorted by Zhao Yu and did not find someone to blackmail him. He was really unbalanced in his psychology. Even if everything is instructed by you, Wanyan Aguda, you will naturally have to pay for all this. Yangping, including most of the yamen runners, did not know who the woman in the prison was. The guardian of Wanyan Lan, were all yamen runners who participated in the roundup except for the two female yamen runners.

Although Wanyan Lan was stubborn, she stopped her hunger strike after a dumpling. The taste was not something that people felt. She pinched her cheeks, stuffed rice, poured water, and then stuffed it into the esophagus with hard objects. Some of the food could cough up bleeding when it entered the trachea. Since she couldn't die, why bother so much? After learning that Wanyan Lan's secret detention, Liu Huilan made some side dishes and sent it to her in person. Zhan Ming and Liang Hongyu were also with her.

Although Wanyan Lan ended her hunger strike, she only had one meal a day. Ouyang told her that in order to avoid self-harm, she had to control her physical strength. Liu Huilan looked at her and was dissatisfied with Ouyang: "Sir, too, at least she has some feelings, so why don't you even have enough food?"

Zhan Ming said, "What kind of feelings? That sword was stabbed by her. I feel that the adults are a bit of a woman's kindness."

"You go" Wanyan Lan was so angry that she was having lunch. Because she heard that Liu Huilan would come over and was worried that she would feed her too much, she would save her lunch meal.

"Sister Lan, eat a little bit better. I don't want to make things difficult for you. As soon as your emperor's ransom comes, I'll send you on the boat."

Wanyan Lan said coldly: "He still has the face to blackmail."

"This is wrong," Liang Hongyu said: "Your emperor was assassinated first, so can't you blackmail? No wonder the officials said that the Jurchens, including you, did not treat foreign races equally. If you taste the sweetness because of plunder, you will inevitably continue to plunder."

"He said this to Jin Nian. How do you know the past when the Jurchens were bullied by the Khitans. The Jurchens were forced to pay a large number of horses, marten, pearls, and sea holly every year. Khitan officials went to the Jurchen tribe and saw that they were good-looking and forced to take them away, and then threw them at the tribe to let them die. The Khitans saw that our tribe was non-human, so why did our tribe treat the Khitans as humans?" Wanyan Lan said: "I don't blame him for my brother's death, but why did he treat the Jurchens like this? Are we destined to be bullied?"

"If the Jurchens are willing to join the territory of the Song Dynasty, they can not only move your tribe to the south, but also treat you like the Song people." Ouyang suddenly appeared and said, "Do you want to?"

"I don't want to see you."

"You can end your nomadic life, marry and have children with Han people. The court and I, Yangping, will also vigorously help you produce, and you can be free of taxes and taxes. I will give you farm tools, plow oxen, and give you land and houses. Teach you to read and understand etiquette and live like Han people. Are you willing? I have talked to the emperor about these, and they absolutely agree with them."

“…”

Ouyang said: "You were very willing before, but you don't want to do it now. Because you are doing well, you think the Jurchens are invincible, because you think the Jurchens can not only destroy Liao, but even Song. You must be the best, and you must all other nations lick your toes. Use and sell other people as animals at will. This is a kind of success and glory."

Wanyan Lan said angrily: "We don't want to fight with the Song people, we just want to avenge the Khitans."

"You may think so, but Aguda doesn't think so."

"Official, are you here?" Liang Hongyu greeted her.

"Yeah." Ouyang nodded and said, "So only by defeating you and then offering such conditions will you be willing to give up your force. Otherwise, the war will not end. You can also tell Aguda that as long as you put down your weapons and summarize them into the Song territory, all conditions are valid. We can even send troops to resist the attack of the Khitans."

Wanyan Lan shook her head: "I can't tell you. Otherwise, you would have been dead when you were in the Jin Dynasty."

"There is another point. I know that your supplies are barren. If you are willing to sell land, the Song Dynasty is willing to buy it. Of course, it is sold according to states. As for the price, it is easy to discuss." Ouyang said: "I have sent a letter to the Liao Kingdom. If you need it, we can also buy the land of the Liao Kingdom."

Wanyan Lan gritted her teeth and said, "When Jin and Liao wars are in war, you are getting a bargain."

"Haha, a state can be exchanged for three ships of arms. At present, you are qualified to exchange Chenzhou, Suzhou, and Kaizhou. After you go back, you can tell Aguda that it is really a good deal to exchange land for supplies. It not only includes mines, shocking cannons, but also thunderbolt cannons, burning cannons, and rocket cars. I believe he will also be tempted. Or just use money to buy a state of 500,000, and you need cash and silver notes."

"..." This is really a good suggestion, Wanyan Lan understood in her heart. What the Jin Kingdom lacks now is supplies, iron, salt, and food. If she can really exchange land for supplies, Wanyan Aguda may not be irresistible. For 500,000 jin of money, how much grain and iron can you buy? Wanyan Lan asked: "When will I let me go?"

"A month and a half later, wait for Chen Me to come back from Jinguo." Ouyang said: "I hope you don't have any hunger strikes or other incidents recently."

Liu Huilan hurriedly said, "Girl, eat some."

"Thank you Sister Huilan." Wanyan Lan really started to eat.

...

Liang Hongyu asked: "Officials, is it not appropriate to have land exchange money for you not reported to the court?"

"You officials don't need the money from the court. The three states together have one million and a half million, and I can still borrow this money." Ouyang said: "In the future, your officials will have so much money that they have no place to spend, so they won't be able to afford millions."

Liang Hongyu worried, "What if the gold man really agrees and then fails to trust and regains it forcibly?"

"Don't worry, as long as Wanyan Aguda dares to sell, I will dare to buy it."

"Report" a yamen runner said: "Sir, the official documents of the Privy Council."

"Yeah." Ouyang took the official document and guessed it was a weapon order. Among them, the highest amount of the hand-swinging cannon was 200,000. The minimum land mine was 5,000. The profit here was not as high as the Liao Kingdom. After taxes were used, the cost was only 30% of the money. The first batch of 30% of the goods was delivered before February next year, the second batch was May, and the third batch and the fourth batch must be paid before July. With the three thousand soldiers joining, the slack season is also time for farming, and the construction period is not a problem. Ouyang ordered: "Transfer the official document to Lord Zhan."

"Yes" the yamen runners took over the official documents. Zhan Ming had long focused his work on the military factory. He was equipped with three copywriters, responsible for finance, transportation, factory departure, construction schedule and other details. Now the development of gunpowder has further results. It is no longer used to grind artificial stone mills. The man grinds out gunpowder and half-sized rice grains. Experts have found that the grinding process is much more important than drying. It is started from Ouyang's hydraulic power, and it uses hydraulic impact to drive the grinding and can be crushed to powder.

The most important point is the generation of balances. Instead of using rough calculations of scale, the proportion of gunpowder is more accurate than before. And because of the balance, experts can use various proportions to test gunpowder. After repeated verification, the proportion of gunpowder that is the most powerful and least easy to absorb moisture is obtained. The emergence of accurate balances makes the combination of gunpowder more scientific. In addition to the purification process that cannot be solved at the moment, the gunpowder in the military has already had the prototype of modern gunpowder.

...

The two girls hired by the Ouyang family are indeed very capable and very loyal to Liang Hongyu. Ouyang didn't say it on his face, but he knew it. This family is much cleaner than it is, and the food is much more delicious. Liang Hongyu has already started to study reviewing manuscripts. She is not arrogant and does not make things difficult for reporters. But she is a bit stricter than Liu Huilan and has a good memory. She has followed up and reported it last month, but she has not published the manuscript in time. She is always in her mind. The reporters who have met can also call out their names. And she is as careful as she can read the water ratio of the news from the text. All the reporters are impressed.

In addition, Liang Hongyu also started on business trips, not far away, just around the four surrounding states, and she had to go there every month. But she had to go back and forth for half a month every month. When Ouyang was alone, she sighed that women are yellow-faced women who don’t like them, and women are strong-wed people in their careers, so why don’t they like them?

Wanyan Lan has been sent back to the Jin Kingdom, and the ransom worth more than 20,000 yuan in Jin Kingdom's fur, pearls, and ginseng was very satisfied with Ouyang. As Liu Huilan's work reduced every day, Liang Hongyu finally stopped going abroad and focused on the work of deputy editor-in-chief. The relationship between the two deepened day by day, from the original kindness to the current relationship between men and women.

Ouyang is not leisurely, and now the focus is on the military factory. Zhang Xuanming also inspects once or twice a month. The emperor also sent an inner guard to Yangping to see the progress of the military factory. All three parties attached great importance to this battle next year.

Everything went smoothly. Ouyang raised his feet above the court, and looked at the monthly regular documents with his left hand and his right hand. Now the door of the court is deserted, and the houses on the left and right yamen have been bought and converted into office locations. Basically, there is no money spent. The expansion of the new city is exchanged for land deeds, and the land deeds and nearby residents can adjust the houses. Soon the nearby industries are summarized into Ouyang's private industries. Of course, it is office-oriented, and Ouyang has not planned to rent them. This style has exceeded the administrative level of the two and three poles of China. There is a row of shops, a unit hanging at the door, and a sign clearly states the matters handled by this shop. Even if it is complained, someone will share the burden. Except for the head that has to come to knock on the drums of the yamen.

Of course, according to the rules, the yamen still has to be opened. Now the court is like Ouyang's private office. Except for the occasional chatting of the yamen runners on duty at the door, no one comes to disturb him. You can't blame Ouyang for being lazy, many cases of Ouyang are very inexplicable.

For example, a mother-in-law came to sue her daughter-in-law and said that she was plotting to murder her husband. She asked about the reason. It turned out that her son had not returned for two days, and had a quarrel with her daughter-in-law before. The mother-in-law recorded all kinds of things that her daughter-in-law had violently treated her son. So Ouyang took the yamen runners and washed the entire house with jealousy. There was no blood. The back mountain of the house was checked for new soil. Then the whole village visited the village, but the hair was not revealed. After two days of tossing, the man wandered home and turned out to be looking for a lover in the kiln. Ouyang asked her mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law admitted that the fact that her son was beaten by her daughter-in-law's family was purely false, and she made up these lies to ask the yamen to help find her son back.

There are also cases that made Ouyang laugh and cry, so he set up a criminal group and received a criminal report and someone immediately went to confirm. The injury case would be assessed and investigated, while the murder case would be investigated by Zhan Ming or Ouyang. In this way, Ouyang and Zhan Ming would be much more relaxed.

Most people don’t go to court to harass you now, but someone comes today. The yamen runner on duty reported: “Sir, there is a Luzhou businessman named Li Decai asking for a visit.”

Ouyang took a tea ceremony: "Business is looking for a business association, and was stolen and robbed to find a prison hall."

"Yes" The yamen runner went out and after half a cup of tea came back to report: "Sir, he knelt down there and didn't leave."

tmd disturbed his good mood, Ouyang said: "Let him in."

"yes"

The man named Li Decai knelt on the ground as soon as he came in, saying, "Sir, help me."

"..." Ouyang put down the official documents and asked: "Is it robbed or stolen? Or is there someone who wants to abduct you?"

"Sir, someone wants to harm the Sheepmen."

"Is there any intimidation letter? Is there any intimidation witness?"

Li Decai said: "It's Zheng Ping from Luzhou."

"Brother, do you come to Shouzhou for the case in Luzhou? Shouzhou is Northwest Road and Luzhou is West Huainan Road. The bosses are different. If you sue me, I suggest that you go and sue the emperor." Ouyang said mentally: You are nonsense. Do you think this official is handsome and handsome and ran over a hundred miles to visit? Or do you think that I, Ouyang, can you bully me?

"Sir, listen to me." Seeing that Ouyang did not let him get up, Li Decai knelt in the face and tears and snot and told the story. It turned out that Li Decai was in the textile business in Meixian, Luzhou. He also attended the Yangping Trade Fair last time, and he also paid a 10-yuan annual fee for the Yangping Business Association. Later, the business association took him to visit some factories, and after returning, he also learned to carry out reforms and expand business. He originally had a prospect, but he didn't expect that there was a businessman from a textile factory named Zheng Ping, who was the "Journey General of Huainan West Road" on behalf of the textile factory.

The nephew of the queen, seeing that Meixian had annexed the Luzhou market and threatened his territory, colluded with the Luzhou magistrate to seize Li Decai on false charges, and used his relationship to make all printing and dyeing factories in Luzhou not provide printing and dyeing materials, and the magistrate of Meixian refused to let him sell it on the market on the grounds that the textile tax was not clearly stated. Finally, after Li Decai came out, his goods were backlogged, and the workers were waiting for the salary to be paid, and he had sued the official. The Meixian County Magistrate had sealed the textile factory and soon the auction of the textile factory was used to pay the debt.

"Get up and sit there." This is not a local protection, but a typical official and business cliché. Ouyang thought about it and asked: "When you join the Yangping Business Association, why don't you go to the business association first?"

"I've found it. Mr. Su and the others said that if it was in Shouzhou, it would be fine, but they wouldn't interfere in Luzhou. Caomin was forced to do nothing, so they had to trouble the adults to make decisions for Caomin."

Mingzhe protects himself. Ouyang ordered: "Come here, take Manager Li down to rest, and inform him separately. The business association will hold a meeting tomorrow night."

"yes"

...

The next night, more than a dozen wealthy Yangping people from Yangping Business Association looked at each other when they heard Ouyang’s meeting on this matter. Mr. Su said first: “Sir, we know this. But first, the matter is in Luzhou, second, the matter involves fourth-rank officials, third, even if we want to help with this matter, there is no way. Fourth, Luzhou still takes good care of our Yangping Business Association.”
Chapter completed!