Pang Xiao's face was still a little tense, but when he faced Qin Yining, his expression involuntarily slowed down, and he first admitted with a sigh, "I was really pissed off, that's why I'm so impulsive."
Qin Yining sighed with understanding, no matter who he was, he solved a problem with his hands in the field he was best at, only to find out later that he had been tricked by someone who did it on purpose. kind of humiliation.
Qin Yining stood behind him, wrapped his arms around his neck around the back of the chair, and pressed his face to his profile.
"I understand. This time, it's obvious that you were deliberately calculated and unintentionally. It is very likely that these people have already set up the plan before they learned that we are about to come to the old capital. When we first arrived in the old capital, we were only busy thinking about how to stand. When I got my footing, I had no choice but to get into the trap."
Qin Yining's voice was as gentle as water, and it rang in his ears. Pang Xiao's body and mind were relaxed because of this, and he couldn't help but turn his head and gently kiss the corner of her mouth.
Qin Yining smiled and let him move, and said: "This Sitong number, it is impossible to say who is behind it, otherwise why would they plan to target us early? In the old capital, who hated us the most, the answer is no longer clear. It's a metaphor."
"Yuchiyan doesn't have such great skills. I suspect that these are all the work of Gu Shixiong. As expected of the old emperor teacher of the three dynasties, his methods are still the same as before."
Pang Xiao said with emotion: "If Yuchiyan didn't have Gu Shixiong by his side, he would probably have rested his mind long ago, and quietly became a wealthy idler, letting the sage take care of him, while he stayed in the cage and studied calligraphy and painting."
"That's not necessarily a bad thing for him." Qin Yining was also a little emotional.
Although her relationship with Yuchiyan was not close, she even sinned against Yuchiyan for refusing to marry. But Yuchiyan is a person of integrity and integrity, ten million times stronger than his father, who is a fool. Not a bad guy.
But now, he has embarked on the road of fighting for power and profit. As early as he was persuaded by Gu Shixiong to leave his wife and concubines to search for treasures, he is no longer the sympathetic king who was sympathetic to the common people and failed simply because he was powerless. .
Qin Yining said: "Yuchiyan is sure about us. Since Sitong can follow Yuchiyan's orders to do this trap, we should also let them hand over a repair."
"Fellow repair?" Pang Xiao looked back at Qin Yining.
Qin Yining leaned close to Pang Xiao's ear and whispered his own way.
A smile gradually hung on Pang Xiao's face as he listened, and finally he gently scratched her very upturned nose.
"You little bastard. That's why you stopped me just now?"
"yes."
"That shopkeeper Liu is still grateful to you. If he knew that he would be trapped, he would have to cry again."
Qin Yining smiled a little embarrassedly.
"If I have to, I don't want to do it. It's actually a bit disgraceful. But it doesn't make sense for people to harm us, so we can't fight back. Is it moral for them to harm people? This time is not about morality. At that time, I was not a kind-hearted person, no one hit me on the left cheek, and I still smiled and stretched out the right cheek."
Seeing that she was very angry, Pang Xiao couldn't help but smiled and patted her shoulder comfortably, stretched out his long arms, put his arms around her and sat on his lap around the back of the chair, wrapping her arms around her in front of him. , went to peck her forehead first.
"You don't have to feel bad, because you did nothing wrong. If you hadn't stayed calm, I might have missed my best chance to fight back."
Having said that, Pang Xiao felt more and more that it was indeed his luck to have such a smart inner helper.
"Sister Yi, why are you so nice?" Pang Xiao's low voice confided in Qin Yining's ear, "I like you, I really like you more and more."
His qin-like voice and warm breath were in his ears, Qin Yining was surrounded by him with a familiar refreshing breath, and his whole heart was so soft that it was about to melt.
With a blushing face, she leaned against Pang Xiao's arms and buried her face in his quiet nest. Qin Yining's heart was unprecedentedly peaceful and calm, as if no matter what happened now, as long as Pang Xiao was with her, she would not be able to scared.
According to Qin Yining's method, Pang Xiao immediately ordered people to go to the city to publicize it. Tomorrow afternoon, in the big square outside the porridge factory, Prince Zhongshun has something important to tell everyone.
Although not all the people in the old capital were so poor that they needed to go to the porridge shed to eat, the influence of the refugees was still very large. Qin Yining asked Lu Dehan to continue to open the porridge shed to cook porridge since the beginning of the new year. Help these poor people survive the harsh winter. Although these people come to receive porridge regularly every day, they also have to go home when they return.
They live in different parts of the city, and the neighbors have heard a lot of good words from the refugees from Prince Zhongshun.
Some people even chatted their teeth in the streets and alleys, and they told the story of how Prince Zhongshun turned the tide, punished the wicked, and killed the wicked Gao Wenyao into a wonderful book.
Therefore, when the news that Prince Zhongshun was going to spread the word in the square of the porridge factory, many people were curious and decided to go and see what was going on.
And Yuchiyan and Gu Shixiong naturally got news here.
"My lord, the surnamed Pang is going to do something wrong this time. As usual, he should be in a bad mood by now."
Yuchi Yan put her hands on the painting case, and looked down at a beautiful picture on the paper that did not have her facial features detailed. Hearing this, she raised her head and said with a smile, "It's no wonder he's not in a hurry. A large amount of famine fell from the sky, where would he go? Can you pay it back? And the consequences of not being able to get the money this time are very serious. Those rough men in the army are not easy to deal with. If they don't pay when they should pay, who will follow him? It's all possible."
Gu Shixiong also laughed when he heard the words, "This time, we finally managed to win back a city. Don't let the surname Pang continue to be complacent."
Yuchi Yan used the mahogany paperweight to level the drawing paper carefully, and said with a smile, "I'm going to have a look tomorrow, what the hell is going on with the surname Pang."
With such a big crisis, Yuchiyan did not believe that Pang Xiao had the ability to solve it. If he could get money by talking to the people a few words, would he still be so embarrassed back then
At the same time, the study in the outer courtyard of Yang's residence.
Yang Zhifu sat sideways on the official hat chair by the window, with a somewhat teasing smile on his face, and said playfully, "I don't know what Pang Zhixi will do this time."
Qiu Feishan sat gracefully in the main seat, took the hot tea served by the maid, smiled and warmed her hands with a blue and white bowl, without saying much.
Seeing this, Yang Zhifu closed his mouth, put away his contempt and contempt, and said sternly: "Let's go and see tomorrow."
Qiu Feishan nodded and said with a chuckle, "After what happened last time, I was really curious about what he would do. Besides, I met Princess Zhongshun at the last banquet... She is really a beautiful and intelligent woman."
Yang Zhifu recalled seeing the princess looking like a delicate flower reflecting the water yesterday, and nodded in agreement, and then smiled and said, "Miss Qiu is also better than her. Although beautiful flowers are eye-catching, they are always better than red plums. A little bit less arrogant."
Qiu Feishan just laughed at this kind of flattery.
Qiu Feishan had already heard about the beautiful woman with a pair of very clear eyes, and she already wanted to make friends with her. It's just... Now it seems that the position between them is not easy to become friends.
At noon the next day, the people who heard the news gathered in the square in front of the porridge factory. As for Yang Zhifu, Yuchiyan, and the local tycoons, they had already reserved private rooms on the second floor of the nearby teahouse and tavern, waiting to see with their own eyes what Prince Zhongshun was going to do with such a big battle.
Qin Yining did not go to the private room, but was surrounded by Jinghu guards and silver-faced spies, and waited at the corner of the street in a carriage.
Pang Xiao, dressed in a python robe and a sable velvet cloak, walked to the middle of the open space, and cut to the point: "Folks. Today, this king called everyone here, and I have something to tell you."
Such an approachable tone made ordinary people very useful.
And his usual words, so that those people who do not know a few words can easily understand.
Pang Xiao said: "Everyone knows that this king came to take the post of Marshal of Pingnan by order, and he was here for the first time, and he was just beginning to understand everything here. Just yesterday, this king unexpectedly learned a shocking news. "
He deliberately paused here to rouse everyone's curiosity, even Yuchiyan, Yang Zhifu and others sitting in the box held their breaths curiously.
Pang Xiao said: "I only learned yesterday that the Pingnan Army actually owes three million taels of foreign debt!"
When this statement came out, everyone was shocked.
Some people never thought that Pang Xiao would say such a thing, such as Yuchi Yan. There were also people who were surprised to observe Pang Xiao's expression with interest, such as Yang Zhifu.
The people even fry the pot.
What is the concept of three million taels of silver? These ordinary people, they may never have the chance to see thirty taels of silver put together in this lifetime! Three million taels, that's how much they can't imagine.
That's an amazing amount of money for trees!
Everyone is talking about why the Pingnan Army owes so much debt!
Pang Xiao said loudly again: "Presumably, everyone wants to know what's going on? At first, when Yandi was just classified into the Great Zhou Dynasty, the sage considered the suffering of the common people and avoided it. The local ten-year tax. Everyone knows this.
"As for the Pingnan Army, these 100,000 soldiers must be stationed here in order to defend their country. Everyone knows that the Tartars in the north are not honest, and at the moment when we are talking here, the north is fighting. What. The Holy Master now pays attention to the fact that the people in the north will not be bullied by the Tartars, so he can only instruct the Pingnan Army to raise their own salaries locally. However, there is no tax, so where will the rations come from?"
Pang Xiao spread his hands, "At this time, Sitong took the initiative to stand up and borrowed 300,000 taels of silver to solve the problem of military pay for the Pingnan Army!"