I'm a marquis in Datang

Pei Qingzhi heard the news, so he immediately notified everyone to come and see him.

Xia Guo responded, and they should also respond.

Time passed little by little.

Not long after, a businessman stepped in. The visitor was smiling, with a Maitreya-like smile on his chubby face.He cupped his hands and bowed to Pei Qingzhi before taking a seat below.

Immediately afterwards, another businessman entered.

In the end, there were 36 people seated in the lobby.

These are all members of An Le Tang.

They were all people who were doing business in the imperial capital of the Tang Dynasty and even in the Xia Kingdom, and these were all powerful businessmen.In fact, in the Imperial Capital City, there are still many ordinary merchants of the Tang Dynasty. These people are not even qualified to enter the An Le Hall because of their small businesses.

Pei Qingzhi looked around, nodded and said: "Everyone should be here. Now, let's talk about the incident of the emperor arresting the businessmen of the Xia Kingdom in the Tang Dynasty. You should all know about it.

Okay. "

"understood!"

Everyone answered in unison.

After all, the government issued a notice, especially in Xia Guo's official newspaper, which also published it specially.Under this premise, as long as it is a business person, there is no one who does not know.

Pei Qingzhi's eyes were sharp, and he continued: "The officials of the Xia Kingdom have already given a clear answer. They said that the Xia Kingdom will not target the merchants of the Tang Dynasty. As long as we abide by the laws and regulations in the Xia Kingdom, we will be protected. The arrangement of the Emperor Xia, the old man It is very appreciative."

"Now Xiaguo and Tang Dynasty are at war. It started a few years ago and has actually been going on until now."

"Only intermittently."

"Up to now, the situation of this fight has become extremely complicated. The methods of both sides have also become more ruthless. For example, the emperor Li Shimin directly arrested the merchants of Xia Kingdom. This move may be beneficial to everyone. Don, but actually, put us in a corner

, once the Emperor of the Xia Kingdom arrests people like this, none of us will be able to escape. "

"Emperor Xia is kind, but we can't take it for granted. So I think we should do something now to thank Emperor Xia for his arrangement."

Pei Qingzhi continued: "So the old man's plan is to call all of you here to talk about how to deal with this matter now. Only by handling this matter properly can we have a long and prosperous life in Xia Country." bad."

Everyone thought about it when they heard the words.

Because Pei Qingzhi's plan is actually very simple, it is to help Du Qi, this is the starting point.

Among the crowd, a businessman from the Zheng family in Xingyang said: "Pei Gong, if you want me to say that under the current circumstances, it is definitely impossible for us to directly help Xia. Once we do this, we will easily be dealt with by His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty." So I think that even if we want to help Du Qi now, we should do it from the side."

Pei Qingzhi said, "How do you make a move?"

The businessman of the Zheng family said: "We don't know for the time being. After all, dealing with Du Qi is not an easy task. This kind of thing requires everyone to plan together.

Pei Qingzhi looked around at the crowd and said, "If you have any thoughts, speak out directly, even if you speak freely. You are all smart people, and you should all know that our interests are tied to Du Qi's. If Du Qi is really affected If the Xia Kingdom's national system is damaged, then our business income will also drop a lot."

"Pei Gong, I have a plan."

At this moment, a young man sitting at the bottom of the crowd spoke.

The youth is only in his early twenties.

All the businessmen present were either in their 60s or [-]s, or came from big families, but without exception, they all made a name for themselves, so the young man saluted the rest of them again.

The young man's name is Li Xi.

Born in the Li family of Zhao County.

The Li family that Li Yuan was born in was the Li family in Longxi, and there was still a certain difference between the two sides.

Pei Qingzhi smiled and said, "Li Xi, what suggestion do you have?"

Pei Qingzhi spoke highly of Li Xi.

Because although Li Xi is young, he is a good hand at running restaurants.He only operates restaurants and hot pots, especially the hot pot base developed by Li Xi, which is not inferior to Du Qi's industry, so Li Xi's restaurants are very popular.In terms of business, it is actually better than many people present.

It's just that Li Xi is young and has a low seniority, so he sits at the bottom of the table.

After all, in An Le Tang, seniority is still a matter of seniority.

Li Xi said seriously: "Pei Gong, we are all businessmen, and what we can do is actually very limited. So I think there are two things we can do now."

Pei Qingzhi said: "Say it directly."

Li Xi said: "The first thing is that we send a letter to each

From the family, please use your own strength, not to go all out, but at least use the power of the family to incite public opinion, create pressure on the emperor in Chang'an and even in the Tang Dynasty, and implore the emperor to give up arresting the merchants of Xia Kingdom. "

"The second thing is that all of our Datang merchants who were doing business in the Xia Kingdom wrote a joint letter and directly wrote the Wanmin Letter. This Wanmin Letter is to state that our Datang merchants did business in the Xia Kingdom. Many people of the Tang Dynasty made it possible for the people of the Tang Dynasty to have something to do. Countless people, Chen Qing, begged the emperor directly, asking the emperor to release the merchants of the state of Xia."

Li Xi said, "This is my suggestion."

After hearing this, Pei Qingzhi stroked his beard, nodded and said, "Li Xi's arrangement is very good. The old man thinks that Li Xi's suggestion can be adopted, what do you think?"

Following Pei Qingzhi's statement, the others nodded in agreement.

All agree.

Seeing that the opinions reached a consensus, Pei Qingzhi continued: "

In addition to Li Xi's suggestion, do you have any other suggestions? "

Everyone shook their heads.

They all said that they would follow Li Xi's suggestion.

Pei Qingzhi said in a deep voice: "Li Xi's suggestions are feasible, but these suggestions are only applicable to Datang. But when we do business in Datang, we still have to express our position. Our statement is very simple, that is, we are only Merchants are only engaged in business, not involved in politics, and will not participate in wars. Whether it is the Xia Kingdom or the Tang Dynasty, we will not interfere."

After a pause, Pei Qingzhi said: "The war belongs to the war, the two countries belong to the two countries, and we are just businessmen, only responsible for doing business. By making such a statement, one is to show Du Qi that we are definitely willing to abide by the law. On the other hand, It is to show the country that we are people from Datang, and we will not fall to Du Qi's side just because of a war."

"Pei Gong, I'm afraid this is inappropriate."

At this moment, someone spoke again.

The speaker was named Gao Shi.

He is about the same age as Pei Qingzhi, and he is also good in business, but he lacks

No background, just an ordinary businessman.With a calm expression, he said, "Pei Gong, the Tang Dynasty is now targeting Xia's businessmen everywhere. It can be seen that the emperor is already a little impatient, and even wants to target Du Qi."

"Especially the emperor lost to Du Qi again and again. Although we express our position to show that we are from the Tang Dynasty, in reality, the emperor may not appreciate it or agree."

"So at the moment, I don't think it's appropriate for us to issue this statement. We just need to play the Manmin Book and ask our respective families to work hard to stir up public opinion."