Sun Ce looked at the lively scene in front of him, thought for a moment, and claimed guilty to Lu Kang and Sheng Xian.

"So Situ Yang Gongwen arrives first, I want to go and welcome me, so that I can lose my companion."

When they heard that Yang Biao was coming, Lu Kang and Sheng Xian were both surprised. Is Yang Biao coming to promulgate? They were confused, but they didn't ask many questions, so they had to agree. Although it was a bit disappointing to throw so many people here, they could not stop the etiquette. The Yang family of the fourth generation and the third generation of Duke still cannot be ignored in their eyes, not to mention that Sun Ce's wife came from Yuan, and in terms of generation, Sun Ce was still Yang Biao's younger generation.

Sun Ce asked Yu Fan to accompany Lu Kang and others to talk, and Zhang Hong accompanied him to meet Yang Biao. As soon as they turned around the corner, the Wu Hui family surrounded Yu Fan and loudly argued that the next ship should be built. Among them, the representatives of several Wu County families had the greatest voice, accusing Yu Fan of being unfair and being biased towards Kuaiji people. Hearing the momentum, he almost ate Yu Fan. Sun Ce could hear it clearly and couldn't help laughing.

"Zhongxiang has to spend some time."

Zhang Hong smiled and said, "It's okay, Zhongxiang is a civil and military genius, no one can be the one. If it were me, I'm afraid I would have to ask the general to arrange a few tiger guards to protect him."

Sun Ce laughed. "Yes, I am a brave man in Jiangdong. If I really want to be anxious, it is not impossible to draw my sword to fight. So if you want to be an official in Jiangdong, it is really impossible to have no martial arts skills." He saw Cai Mao standing in the corner, like frost, and his heart was like a mirror. He waved his hand and called Cai Mao over. "I thought you had been talking to your sister and hadn't seen you for a long time. What are you doing here?"

Cai Mao squeezed out a smile on his face. "General, you're so right. The Wu Hui people are too tough. I'm really a little afraid of them. It's safer to hide here. General, you are..."

"Mr. Yang is here, I'll go and welcome him. Oh, by the way, I'll tell you in advance so that I won't forget it again after a hurry." He asked Zhang Hong and others to wait first, and pulled Cai Mao aside. Cai Mao was a little nervous, not knowing what Sun Ce wanted to say to him, he was nervous, his heart beat faster, and his palms were covered in sweat. He looked at Sun Ce's expression secretly, but saw that Sun Ce's eyes were calm and calm, and he could not see any clues. The two walked to the side and stood still, and Sun Ce whispered: "Degui, don't do it, you, the prefect of Wu County."

"Ah?" Cai Mao's face turned pale when he heard this. He opened his mouth to ask the whole story. He swallowed it again, but he just responded in a silence. He swallowed the aggrieved words, but he couldn't hide his depressed mood. Not only did the corners of his mouth droop, but his back was bent, as if his spine was removed, he might slump to the ground at any time.

Sun Ce looked at him and couldn't help but smile and said, "Do you know where you are wrong?"

"I know." Cai Mao's head lowered. He was not as good as Sun Cegao, so he bowed his head and bowed, which was almost the same as kneeling on the ground.

"Where was wrong?"

"Well... the cost of printing plates was set too high, which affected the printing of "Lunheng" and delayed the general's major event."

Seeing that Cai Mao avoided the important things, Sun Ce secretly despised him, but did not expose it. "In fact, it's not your fault alone, I'm also wrong. You are suitable for business and not suitable for such official business. You have also seen that Jiangdong people are unkind and cannot hide their words. You are also wronged as the prefect. I have arranged another important task for you, and this time it should be suitable for you."

"Oh." Cai Mao responded subconsciously, then he felt it over and raised his head suddenly, as if he was injected with chicken blood. His originally pale face instantly turned red, and his eyes were almost glaring out. "High task?"

"Yes, a very important task that is related to decades of stability this year." Sun Ce patted Cai Mao's shoulder. "You are familiar with business and should know what the consequences will be if there is too much goods and little gold. The war in the Central Plains was decided and the southeast was peaceful, and there will be more rapid development in the past few years. The gap between gold and copper will be larger. If there is gold overseas, I want you to go overseas to grab gold."

As soon as he heard about money, Cai Mao's mind immediately became flexible. He nodded repeatedly. "Yes, yes, I'm worried these days. I have too little cash in my hand and I can't pay a lot of money. If I don't solve it, the profits of the seaship will drop, which is equivalent to vain. Is there gold overseas?"

"Yes, there is gold overseas, so I'm going to form a navy to grab it. There are many candidates for combat. There are hundreds of students in the martial arts lecture hall every year, but the business school is still being built. Even if it is built, you can't find a suitable teaching. I think you are the only one who is suitable for this matter. Degui, there are two candidates for this first business school priest, you are one of them. I thought I'd just let you lead the team. What do you think?"

"Okay." Cai Mao rubbed his hands excitedly, his face flushed, his eyes lit up, and he said something, and felt that he should be more modest, so he quickly added. "Then I... will it be difficult for me?"

"What does it mean to be reluctant to do it? You should take it as your own." Sun Ce looked around, lowered his voice, and approached Cai Mao. Cai Mao looked at it and immediately came over. Sun Ce said: "Originally, he should have given you the identity of a Grand Secretary or a Shaofu, but now his status is not yet determined. I will first aggrieved you for a while and be a lieutenant in the guild, how about it?"

Cai Mao was overjoyed and agreed quickly. "Okay, okay." The prefect of Wu County is just a prefect, a senior farmer, and a young mansion are all the positions of the Nine Ministers. Sun Ce himself is just a general in Zhenbei and a prefect of Kuaiji. He will definitely not be able to give him such a position. The lieutenant of the gold-touching school is in line with his mission and the identity of Sun Ce's subordinate. He thought it would be the most appropriate. When Sun Fu and Cai Ke passed by Wu County, he said about asking Sun Ce for an official position. He thought that the lieutenant of the gold-touching school was good at it. He didn't expect that it would fall on him now. It was simply a surprise. Going to sea to grab gold is much better than doing business, so he would just grab money.

Sun Ce patted Cai Mao on the shoulder. "Degui, work hard!"

"Here." Cai Mao straightened his back and replied loudly.

Sun Ce turned around and left, Cai Mao looked at him with bright eyes, and was so excited that he couldn't help himself. He stretched his head and looked at the Wu Hui family who was still arguing around Yu Fan. He sneered disdainfully and turned to find his sister Cai Jue. These Wu Hui locals still look down on me. When you look up to me in the future, you will know that shipbuilding and doing business, and Wanshihai Ship. If you come back with a ship of gold, you can sleep in gold in your life.

Cai Mao came to Huang Chengyan's cabin and knocked in. Cai Jue was leaning against the bedside reading a book alone. She was indifferent by nature and did not like the excitement. Huang Chengyan and Huang Yueying were pulled over to introduce them to the Wu Hui family by Sun Ce, and she came back alone. Seeing Cai Mao coming in with a blush on her face, she was a little surprised.

"Degui, what happened?"

"Sister, something big happened." Cai Mao pulled a seat, sat in front of Cai Jue, and told him about Sun Ce's request to go out to sea to grab gold. Cai Jue was not as excited as Cai Mao. She frowned. "There is gold overseas, do you know where it is?"

"I don't know, Bo Fu knows." With Cai Jue, Cai Mao naturally remembered that he was Huang Yueying's uncle and would soon become Sun Ce's uncle, and he felt more close. "Otherwise, how could he let me go to sea? Is it a waste of time? Going to sea is not a joke, it's dangerous."

Cai Jue gave Cai Mao a angrily glance, too lazy to talk to him. She thought about it and felt that Sun Ce was unlikely to joke with Cai Mao. After all, going to sea is very dangerous. Even if he doesn't like Cai Mao, he wouldn't have to die. Moreover, it wouldn't be Cai Mao alone. It's not like he could do that so many people accompany Cai Mao to die. Although Sun Ce knew that there was gold overseas, it sounded a bit incredible, but there were too many incredible things in Sun Ce, and it was not bad for one or two things.

This is good, but it can be considered a matter of letting go. Although Sun Ce visited Cai Zhou before leaving Xiangyang and saved Cai Feng's face, she had not let go of her heart, for fear of doing something that Cai Mao could not accept.

"What are you doing here? Is there anything else?" Seeing that Cai Mao was not leaving, Cai Jue said angrily.

"Then what...what am I doing?" Cai Mao stood up embarrassedly.

"There are so many people and so many things outside, there is nothing you should do? Mr. Yang is here, you can arrange a reception banquet." Cai Jue couldn't help but scold Cai Mao. "If it really doesn't work, go and hand over to Mr. Zhou. Leave the prefect of Wujun early and go back to Caizhou to spend the New Year with his father. What's the point of staying with me? I'm deliberately annoyed me?"

Cai Mao responded twice, turned around and left the cabin, asked Zhou Yi's cabin, and went to hand over to Zhou Yi.

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Yang Biao sat in the cabin, feeling restless. Although he was still sitting, his mind was up and down. He caught up with Sun Ce, but he didn't know what he could negotiate with Sun Ce. Sun Ce's request was clearly stated by Zhang Hong. He wanted Sun Ce to make concessions, but he had no conditions to take action. He just had a passionate and sold his old face. Whether it would be successful or not was successful or not.

How could the big man have come to this point? Yang Biao felt in a mess and was indescribable.

Mrs. Yuan and Yuan Quan sat aside, looking at Yang Biao with a tangled expression, and didn't know how to persuade her. Even Yuan Quan didn't know what would happen next. This matter was too sensitive, and Sun Ce made it very clear before. Yang Biao had no need to chase him, but he didn't give up and insisted on coming to interview Sun Ce, which made her very passive.

She told Yang Biao not to rush to get on Sun Ce's boat and wait on her boat. If Sun Ce did not come to greet him in person, it means that he had no interest in talking with Yang Biao at all, so he might as well find a reason to leave so as not to humiliate himself. But if this is true, she would be heartbroken. Yang Biao was over fifty years old and suffered such humiliation for the court, which was heartbroken. No matter what, Yang Biao was her uncle after all. If Sun Ce refused to meet him, she would not be able to save her face.

Mrs. Yuan's mood was not much better. She neither wanted Yang Biao to be humiliated nor did she want Sun Ce to agree to Yang Biao, and she was even more worried that her son Yang Xiu would be affected by this. Yang Xiu was valued by Sun Ce and her future was bright. If she affected her son's career for a dying man, it would be absolutely intolerable for her. If there was a conflict, even Yuan Quan would be affected.

Just as the three of them were feeling up and down, Zhang Jun walked quickly. "General Sun is here."

"What?" Yuan Quan was shocked. Sun Ce was meeting the officials of the Wuhui Association who came to greet him. How could the aristocratic family come here at this time? She was satisfied that he could send someone to inform him when he would meet.

Yang Biao and Mrs. Yuan were also surprised, thinking that Zhang Jun might have read it wrong. Zhang Jun looked back and confirmed again. "It's General Sun." Before he finished speaking, light footsteps sounded, and Sun Ce appeared outside the cabin. He glanced at the four people in the cabin. When his eyes fell on Yuan Quan's face, he showed a bright smile.

Seeing Sun Ce's smile, Yuan Quan's entangled mood suddenly became brighter, just like a drowning person suddenly became down to earth, and his whole body became extremely relaxed. She stood up to greet him and walked in with Sun Ce's hand.

"Uncle, aunt, he is Bofu."

Sun Ce bowed and bowed. "I have met my uncle and aunt. I have heard of the two great names for a long time. I have met for the first time today. I am very honored."

Yang Biao looked at Sun Ce, hoping to guess Sun Ce's thoughts from Sun Ce's expression, but Mrs. Yuan did not think so. She looked at Sun Ce, and the more she looked, the happier she became. When she saw Yang Xiu, she already felt that Yang Xiu was a little more heroic than when she left home, but when she saw Sun Ce, she realized that compared to Sun Ce, Yang Xiu's heroic spirit was simply a small thing. Sun Ce was half a head taller than Yang Xiu, but her appearance was more outstanding, with a straight facial features, broad eyebrows and bright eyes, and a heroic spirit, especially her eyes, which were both ostentatious and calm that was not very consistent with his age, and even a little bit of melancholy.

Although she still liked her son Yang Xiu more, she had to admit that Sun Ce had a good face. She glanced at Yuan Quan and raised an eyebrow. Yuan Quan understood and lowered his head shyly.

"The general is afraid that this is insincere." Mrs. Yuan said deliberately and lightly: "If you really want to meet, you can meet in Yuzhang. Why wait until today? The general passes through Yuzhou without leaving. If we hadn't chased you, we wouldn't have seen you in this life."

Sun Ce smiled and bowed. "My aunt doesn't know anything. The reason why she didn't see her in Yuzhang is that she doesn't want to see her. She is really a little timid and dare not see her."

"I dare not see you? Where do you start?"

"Of course it's because of uncle and aunt, a couple who are rare in the world."

Yang Biao and Mrs. Yuan became even more confused and looked at each other. "We... are rare in the world?"

"Of course, my uncle and aunt are from the Yang family of four generations and three dukes, and the Yuan family of four generations and three dukes. Both of them are from the Three Dukes. Such a prominent and compatible couple, you are the only one in the world, and there is no second couple. If you are only a prominent family background, it is not surprising. But my uncle is both virtuous and talented, loyal and diligent, and capable, and is a gentleman who is a model, and his aunt is virtuous, chaste, heroic, and restrained, and can be a model for women. Even if you go back five hundred years, you may not be able to find a considerable one."

Yang Biao couldn't help laughing, and shook his head with a smile, but Mrs. Yuan couldn't help laughing. "I've heard that the general is unparalleled in eloquence. A three-inch tongue is better than a three-foot sword, which makes countless famous scholars confused. When I see him today, I am indeed a famous scholar, and I've learned it."

Yuan Quan smiled and said, "Uncle, aunt has been too rewarded. Although Bo Fu has scolded many fake names and hypocrites who seek fame and reputation, he respects the real gentleman. Besides, although he likes to joke, he never praises others easily. I think he is right. A couple like you will not be able to find a second couple within five hundred years. If you don't believe it, tell me, which couple can be like you?"

Mrs. Yuan looked at Yang Biao and smiled without saying a word. Yang Biao shook her head. "The general praised it, and he was ashamed of being aware of it. In addition to family background, our couple is actually no different from ordinary couples. It is worthy of such praise. Besides, even if our family background is more prominent, ordinary people may be a little nervous. You are A Quan and Aheng's husband, and you are the same year as Dezu, so you can be considered a family. Why should you be afraid of us? Are you afraid that we will make things difficult for you?"

Sun Ce smiled even brighter and thought to himself that you would never support me if you came after me. Family? The closer you get to me, the more you have problems.

"Of course, if it's just for this, I won't be afraid." Sun Ce turned to look at Yuan Quan and held her hand. "The reason why I dare not see him is because I am ashamed of myself. Even though I have a virtuous woman like A Quan, I can't live together like my uncle or aunt. How can I not be afraid of being timid?"

When it comes to this matter, Mrs. Yuan was indeed a little uncomfortable. In her opinion, it was already an unexpected blessing for Sun Ce to marry Yuan Heng, and with Yuan Quan again, he should be even more content. Even if Yin Wei and Huang Yueying were ahead, they could not refuse, but they should not have accepted Feng Wan again. For more excessive things, she heard that Sun Ce had just taken another concubine in Danyang.

"Since you know your mistake, why do you make it again and again?"

Sun Ce smiled bitterly. "People are in the world, and they can't help it. Just like the current situation, even if I want to look back, I can't go back. I can only bite the bullet and go forward."

Mrs. Yuan was speechless and her face became a little embarrassed. She was a smart person, so how could she not hear what Sun Ce meant? But she didn't expect that Sun Ce would suddenly jump from family to state affairs, which made her mentally unprepared. Before Yang Biao could speak, Sun Ce closed the door first. If Yang Biao insisted on speaking, it would be boring. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that Sun Ce was hateful, and she was hiding a knife in her smile. She smiled so brightly, but she was more cruel than anyone else. She was just sweet and just said something sweet.

Yang Biao sighed, feeling indescribable in his heart. He was really dissatisfied with old age and was too slow to react. He thought that the winner had not started yet, but he didn't know that the outcome had been decided. He reached out and gently pressed Mrs. Yuan's hand, so that she could not be restless. "The general doesn't have to blame himself so much. The Master said that food and sex are the most lustful people, and it's common for young people to be lustful. Just be restrained. If you can be virtuous and lustful, it would be good."

Sun Ce was stunned for a moment, and was about to speak, Yuan Quan quietly pinched his hand and shook his head calmly. "Husband, we have been on the road for a few days and have not been able to rest well. Uncle and aunt are not used to boats and are not in good spirits. It is better to go to Wu County and settle down. Besides, it is not too late. The officials of the Wu Association come to welcome you. Maybe there is something important to talk about, so you should go over and see them first."

Sun Ce shook his head and smiled bitterly. "Okay, then I'll go there first and wait until I arrive in Wuxian. By the way, this ship is too small and not stable enough. You can change to a building ship. Although it is not as good as land, it is worse than this ship."

Zhang Hong said, "General, I'll take Mr. Yang over there and talk to Mr. Yang. I'm afraid that something has not been explained clearly last time."
Chapter completed!