Prodigal Goro-kun

The last ones to step into the hall of the painting boat were all important people, so Yuan Xu symbolically and loudly announced his name, and then retreated to the door with Xu Lei.

The people who had already sat down in the hall and had gone through two rounds of verbal battles immediately turned to the door and saluted the prince and the ninth prince.

Naturally, Yan Qiu'er followed the crowd in prostrating ceremony. As soon as the body was pressed down, the silver thread on the back of the cloak would emit a dazzling cold light under the sunlight, and those who had already bowed their heads would naturally not notice it. This shining silver light caused Chu Yu and Yan Sheng, who were standing at the entrance, to be dazzled by this light, and turned their heads to look over.

After squinting his eyes to see the pattern blurred by the light, Yan Sheng's heart trembled. Warm emotions gushed out from his heart, instantly spread to all limbs and bones, and the emotions continued to surge, forcing Yan Sheng's eyes to turn red. Realizing that his eye sockets were hot in time, Yan Sheng lowered his head and hurriedly adjusted his mood.

Different from Yan Sheng, when other people saw the embroidery of Yan Qiuer's cloak, they only felt that the pattern was very exquisite, and there was a kind of low-key luxury. Wearing it on this kind of occasion, Yan Qiuer was really high-profile enough.

"You don't need to be polite, get up." Prince Chu Yu slightly raised his hand, motioning everyone to get up.

As soon as Chu Yu finished speaking, Yan Sheng took half a step forward, raised his finger to point in a certain direction, and said to Chu Yu, "His Royal Highness, please."

"Thank you, Patriarch Yan." Chu Yu nodded to Yan Sheng to express his gratitude, and then led Zuo Ning to the leader.

Today Chu Yu only took Zuo Ning with him. Zuo Ning was very moved by this trust, but at the same time he was also uneasy.In the past few months, he refused to meet with anyone from the Zuo family, and today was the first time he met with the Zuo family after the assassination of the prince.

Zuo Ning followed Chu Yu with his head down, not daring to raise his head at all, he was afraid that he would see the Zuo family when he raised his head, and he was even more afraid that his expression would show flaws in front of the Yi family.Now the Yi family also belonged to King Huai'an, so he had to be more careful.

Raising his eyes and carefully looking at the newly made clothes on Chu Yu's body, he felt apprehensive.I don't know if I can successfully confuse it...

When the last five people who entered the arena were seated, the maidservants carefully selected by the Yan family entered in a file, and swiftly replaced the tea and tea sets in front of everyone with new ones, and when the group of maidservants left After the hall, today's meeting has officially begun.

However, after the meeting officially started, Yan Qiuer was idle.As a newcomer in the business world who can only sit in the fourth circle of the outermost circle, Yan Qiuer has almost no right to speak on business matters today, and can only listen.So Yan Qiuer, who was free, leisurely admired Yan Sheng's serious discussion.

In the past, when discussing matters in the Yan Mansion, Yan Sheng would always bring him along, so he rarely had the opportunity to watch like this.After calming down and observing carefully, Yan Qiuer actually discovered some small details that he didn't usually notice, for example, when Yan Sheng agrees with someone's opinion, the tip of his left eyebrow will shake first, for example, when Yan Sheng disagrees with someone's opinion When, I will lower my eyes first...

Because Yan Sheng always looks expressionless, these subtle changes are very interesting to Yan Qiuer.

But Yan Sheng, who was the subject of observation, was very depressed at this time.

It's rare for Qiu'er to look at him with such passion and love. If this is still in the imperial mansion, he can stop the discussion and directly pull Yan Qiu'er back to the idle house to talk about love, so it hurts Qiu'er. It's a pity that during today's discussion, he can't even have a bit of self-willedness. Unexpectedly, today Qiuer looked at him with unprecedented enthusiasm, and he just saw the embroidery on Qiuer's cloak. But being hooked made my heart itch.

No wonder Qiuer refused to reveal to him what the embroidered picture on the cloak looked like before, but just put the embroidered picture in an envelope and stuffed it to the person who was going to deliver the letter to the embroidered mother, so as to prevent him from being very defensive. His surprise.But to surprise him on the day of the Chamber of Commerce, did that kid deliberately trick him?

"Master Yan, I heard that the Yan family has made some moves in the southwest recently, but they want to develop in the southwest?" Feng Yu waved a folding fan and looked at Yan Sheng with a bright smile.

Yan Sheng withdrew his mind, turned to look at Feng Yu, and said, "No."

Finally looked over.The corner of Feng Yu's mouth raised, and he continued to ask: "If the master of the Yan family has any plans, he should tell us in advance, otherwise he will run into the Yan family, and the other family will have no way to survive."

Hearing this, Yan Sheng frowned slightly.Why does Feng Yu always like to mock him?What do you mean if you collide with the Yan family and you have no way out?What he said made his Yan family seem to cover the sky with one hand.When did he do such an unkind thing?Or did he ever do anything that harmed the interests of the Feng family?

"Patriarch Feng is worrying too much. The Yan family will still focus on merchants in the future. In terms of business, my Yan family is really not good at it."

"Oh?" Feng Yu's smile was a little more ambiguous.Not good at it?In fact, just do not want to do it?Aren't the shops of his Yan family in Chang'an doing well? "Then Patriarch Yan found any business opportunities in the southwest?"

Yan Sheng became a little impatient, and said coldly: "There is no comment here."

Xiu Niang suddenly chuckled, looked at Feng Yu jokingly and said, "Patriarch Feng, it's too late."

Without waiting for everyone to understand the meaning of this sentence, Xiu Niang continued: "I heard that since the beginning of spring this year, pirates in Lingnan have become more rampant than in previous years. I wonder if you have heard of it?"

"The old man has heard about this too." Patriarch Cen sighed and continued, "In previous years, the bandits were only near Yazhou in the South China Sea. , I’m afraid they will enter the coastal area of ​​Jiangnan Road soon.”

"That's troublesome." Patriarch Wu also frowned, "There are often foreign merchant ships docking in the Suhang area. If they are disturbed by pirates, they may suffer a lot of losses."

Qin Jiu played with the teacup in his hand as if he was bored, but he listened to the conversation of several people with his ears up.

Chu Yu pondered for a moment, then suddenly said: "Shouldn't the local garrison come forward to solve the pirate matter?"

Several people involved in the topic did not expect the crown prince to suddenly interrupt, you look at me and I look at you, and finally looked at Luo Shi unanimously.Regarding the matter of pirates, the Luo family, which is engaged in shipping, has the most say.

Chu Yu also looked at Luo Shi following the eyes of several people, but Luo Shi did not rush to answer, but first glanced at Yan Sheng.

Such a question is very difficult to answer, if the Crown Prince and Ninth Prince are not capable people, then no matter who answers this question, it will be unlucky.Among so many people present, only Yan Sheng knew something about the two Highnesses.

Yan Sheng caught Luo Shi's gaze, then looked at the profiles of Chu Yu and Qin Jiu, and then nodded slightly.

Seeing Yan Sheng nod, Luo Shi thought about it, and then said: "It is the duty of the garrison to solve the banditry problem, but even the troops stationed in Lingnan Road are not very good at naval warfare.

In recent years, although the combat power has been enhanced in the back and forth with the pirates, it is still unsatisfactory.

However, the pirates will go north along the coast, which can also prove that our army's naval combat capabilities have been greatly improved, but the defense line cannot be stretched too long, and if one block is blocked, the other will be lost, which is really powerless. "

After hearing this, Chu Yu turned his head and whispered a few words to Qin Jiu, but he didn't seem to be able to get a serious answer from Qin Jiu, so he frowned, and after thinking for a while, he said: "You mean that the generals in the Lingnan Road garrison are not capable enough? ?”

Hearing this, Luo Shi was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer, he hesitated and said: "Please forgive me, Your Highness, this grassroots don't know much about it."

Yan Sheng suddenly shook his sleeves, and after attracting Qin Jiu's attention, he gave Qin Jiu a look.

The issues they discussed at the Chamber of Commerce are all troubles in the business world, and it is impossible to say who is fully responsible.They just talked about it at this kind of private gathering, even if it can't be solved, it's a reminder to everyone.However, if someone with the status of the prince hears some things, if there is any misunderstanding, it may lead to death.

If the generals of Lingnan Road were really bad, Luo Shi would not let him stay in office for so long, even if he was a merchant, he still had some connections.Since the general is still capable, he must be able to become a reliable person after enriching his experience. It would be disadvantageous to replace him at this time.

As soon as Chu Yufu opened his mouth, Zuo Ning became nervous. While listening to Chu Yu's words, he observed the changes in the expressions of the people around him, so Zuo Ning did not miss the exchange between Yan Sheng and Qin Jiu. , Zuo Ning probed into Chu Yu's ear, and said a word quickly.

After receiving Yan Sheng's gaze, Qin Jiu's gaze wandered among the wealthy merchants in the first circle, and after some calculations, he said, "Speaking of... Brother Emperor, the navy on the Lingnan side is now run by Who is in charge?"

"Commander?" Chu Yu was stunned for a moment, and then replied after thinking about it, "I remember it was General Xie, what's wrong?"

Qin Jiu recalled it for a while, and then suddenly realized: "So it's General Xie! I remember that General Xie is trusted by the emperor."

Chu Yu nodded and said: "That's true. General Xie is brave and good at fighting, and he is proficient in the art of war. He is a brave general of our Tianlan Kingdom."

Having said that, Chu Yu suddenly stopped, thought for a while, and then continued: "I will report to His Majesty about the pirates. As for any negligence in the navy, I believe His Majesty will send people to check it out. You don't need to worry. The court will give everyone an explanation on this matter."

However, after the merchants heard this, they just complimented Chu Yu politely. No one really thought that the court could solve the pirate issue, but everyone suddenly realized that with Chu Yu present, they really had no way to discuss the matter properly. ah.If every question they raised got Chu Yu's "accounted for by the court", then what's the fuss about this meeting?

What can we do now?