"Where are your people?"
"My people are all my confidants, and they know everything about me." Li Hong shrugged his shoulders and said relaxedly in the face of Saleh's dissatisfaction with Yu Tuqi.
When Saleh was on the boat, he was annoyed by Wei Tu Qi who stayed with him all night. Now he took advantage of the opportunity and wanted to get along with Wei Tu Qi, but he was easily resolved by Li Hong every time, leaving Saleh with no other choice. He gave Captain Tu Qi a helpless look, as if to say, wait for me, I will deal with you sooner or later.
On the contrary, Yu Tuqi ignored him. Only when their eyes met occasionally, he glanced at Saleh who warned him with his eyes, and then looked away calmly. Regarding the relationship between the two It seems that the festival has been completely forgotten.
"What on earth is going on and why it's so mysterious? Can we talk about it now?" Saleh no longer argued with Wei Tuqi. Of course he knew that Hua Meng and Cheetah, as well as the black iron tower, all belonged to Li Hong. Absolute confidant.
"Pay attention to your attitude. I don't want to say anything with your attitude. And... I have suffered a heavy loss because of you! Such a big gold box is filled with all kinds of rare treasures. But because of you, I was cruelly rejected. Don't you think you should compensate me?" Old Li Hong laughed at Saleh calmly, not looking anxious at all.
"You have seen all the other nobles that I have feasted on in the past few days, big and small. Let's not talk about how much gold and silver you have collected. Even this beautiful woman, you have collected eighty if not a hundred. "Your Highness, the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, can you please stop being so greedy! You can't bring this wealth out of my country, and it will all come to nothing in the end!" Saleh glanced at Li Hong with disdain and warned: "Also. Yes, Yeyue already knows that you have collected many of my favorite beauties!"
"So what? These women will follow me back to the Tang Dynasty and then serve Yeyue. After all, Yeyue will live in the Tang Dynasty in the future, so she must have a few maids from her hometown around her. This way she won't feel uncomfortable. Being alone in a foreign country makes me feel homesick." Li Hong didn't care whether Ye Yue knew it or not.
Even if Ye Yue knew that, given Ye Yue's character, she wouldn't think that she would fall in love with those women. After all, Ye Yue was extremely conceited about appearance, and believed that no one in Dashi could take Li Li away from her. Hong's heart.
"This is 10,000 dinars in gold coins. If converted into silver for your big meal, although it is not enough than 100,000 taels, it is not much different. If the news you are telling me is useful to me, and I don't know the news, , I don’t mind giving you another 90,000 dinar gold coins, even if it is Yeyue’s dowry,” Saleh calmly took out the money order that was only circulated among the nobles and was learned from the Tang Dynasty and placed it between the two of them. Said on the table in the room.
"It's a good idea, but it's a pity that you will be disappointed." Li Hong gave Saleh a thumbs up, then handed the money order to Hua Meng, and said calmly: "Go and see if it's true or false, and cash it if you can." Use these gold coins to pave the floor, and I will be rich."
Saleh's face was covered with black lines. These were the gold coins of his palace, which he had saved through all his hard work, and yet someone was trying to take them away and pave them into the floor under his feet.
"You have to tell me that I don't know the information before I will give you the money." Saleh was not stupid, or in other words, he had no intention of giving the money to Li Hong.
Li Hong also saw through this, so he gave him a thumbs up and praised him for his good intentions.
Because no matter what news Li Hong said for a while, Saleh could pretend that he already knew about it and then take back his gold coins.
Therefore, the gold coins placed on the table are, to Li Hong, an invisible opener that can be seen but not eaten.
"It was your father who sent people to assassinate Ali of Khawalij. This is a secret that all nobles know, right?"
"So what? But obviously Ali died in a military riot under his own control and had nothing to do with my father." Saleh's eyes tightened, and the hand on the gold coin unconsciously loosened.
"Of course, you can deny that other nobles who stand on the side of your royal family can also help you tell the ignorant people of Dashi that Ali died in a riot by his own army. This is understandable, but... Khawalij Does the family think so?" A sneer appeared on the corner of Li Hong's mouth, and then he continued: "Your direct competitors in Dashi are mainly two people, one is the Sultan of the Hashim family, and the other is the Khawalij family. After Ali's death, Ali's eldest son quickly took charge of the family: Hassan."
"What do you want to say? Did they meet with you? What on earth did you talk about?" Saleh tightened his hand, but had to loosen it weakly, watching 10,000 gold coins being taken away by Li Hong.
"You can owe the remaining 90,000 gold coins first, but once Ye Yue sets off for Datang, you must give her these gold coins immediately."
"Okay, I promise you. But what did you talk about with Hassan?" Saleh now doesn't care about one hundred thousand gold coins at all. Compared with gold coins, he cares more about his direct competitors. What on earth did you talk about with Li Hong? Something.
After all, if I could inherit the Great Food Monarch, wouldn't I be able to have as much as I wanted with just one hundred thousand gold coins? If that doesn't work, he can also send his army to continue the eastward expedition to plunder the huge wealth of the Tang Dynasty that makes him jealous and drives people crazy.
Even if he cannot plunder the new wealth of Taiyi City in the Tang Dynasty, as long as he can bring their silk, embroidery, tea, papermaking, porcelain and other craftsmanship back to Dashi, it will be a huge wealth for him.
Now these things of the Tang Dynasty are in Dashi, and the buying and selling of finished products is completely controlled by the people of the Tang Dynasty. The huge business opportunities and profits all belong to the Tang Dynasty. There is no way for the merchants of the Dashi to get even a small share of the pie.
Li Hong looked at Saleh, who looked a little impatient, and whispered: "They plan to return Jiling City to me in the Tang Dynasty. He told me that their army is currently guarding Jiling City. As long as I do not cooperate with the royal family, Just suppress them. We don’t need our help for anything else. Their family is enough to make the royal family pay a terrible price.”
"They said they didn't say what they wanted to do?"
"I don't know. I didn't say it. Because I didn't see Hassan. I saw his brother Husse. I can get some useful information from his words. That is, they plan to retaliate against you in kind. You know , Their family is very powerful. By the way, I am a little angry and you are angry at this point. Their family is very powerful, but the Hashim family and the Kordo family are not just decorations. They are not afraid of fighting with the royal family. Will the two major families benefit from the fight?" Li Hong asked curiously, looking at Saleh who looked uncertain.
Li Hong's words were also half-truth and half-false. They contained the conditions for Husse to negotiate with him, and also paved the way for the subsequent incident that Fang Zhan and Hengqiao would blame on the Khawalij family.
In short, after telling the truth of all things, true and false, Li Hong believes that Saleh estimates that unless he can communicate clearly with Husse face-to-face in this life, what he said today will have a negative impact on him for the rest of his life. Don’t even try to find out whether it’s true or false.
And he believed that since Husse's brother Hassan could become Saleh's successor rival, even more calm and powerful than Sudan, he must definitely not be a simple person.
Even when the heads of other families showed up in person to talk to him, he never showed up and remained hidden in the dark.
This shows that they must have secrets and powerful forces that they don't know about. It is definitely not what Husse said. Their family is like a harmless and gentle sheep, facing the royal family of big eaters. They had no power to fight back against the persecution, and instead relied on Datang as their shield.
"Even if you are not telling lies, if you dare to say that you have met Hassan, then I will not believe a word of what you just said. Hassan is not as simple as you think. He is aloof and noble, and always thinks that he is the real heir. He is even more lonely than his father Ali, but he is also extremely quiet, even terrifyingly quiet, so he rarely appears in front of others. Everyone knows that after Ali lost his throne as the King of Food, he also lost actual control over Khawalij's family, and his power basically fell into the hands of Hassan. Speaking of which, this is quite relevant to you. It's very similar. Being able to manage a family as an heir is something you can't just talk about." Saleh's eyes became a little distant, as if he was looking at the invisible Hassan, or recalling his impression. Hassan in.
"What you said, I don't know if you are praising me or hurting me." Li Hong smiled, and out of curiosity, he couldn't help but draw a dangerous symbol on Hassan.
"I envy you. Whether it's you or Hassan, compared to the power in your hands, the power in the hands of my prince, His Highness, is pitiful... Forget it, let's talk about the Khawarij family, Hussein Being able to tell you that their family is powerful is also telling you the truth. After all, in Hassan's eyes, the only ones he sees as a threat are the royal family. As for the Hashem family and the Kordo family, they are both. Maybe Hassan will look at them."
"So powerful? Then am I not...?" Li Hong was keenly aware of the burning ambition and unwillingness for power in Saleh's heart. He might not know that in the near future, Saleh will also seize the throne of the monarch. Challenging his father Aviya.
"You can try to cooperate with him. Although you are very smart, Hassan is more sophisticated. If you cooperate with him, I'm afraid you will just work for him."
"Could it be that he is your biggest threat?" Li Hong asked quietly.
(End of chapter)