I am the cook, but I am Li Er's son-in-law

This is a great insult to him.

No matter how cute an animal is, can it be as important as him as a person?Not to mention his identity.

It's just... in this situation, it's not easy for him to yell at him. He is really afraid that even if his voice is louder, he will anger the other end.

That slap... It seems that the force is not small, and it is not something that a little old man like him can bear.

Yin Xuan patted Rolling's head again, took it and sat down on Zhou Xiaosan's right side, waved his hand, and said calmly, "Let's have a trial."

Zhou Xiaosan nodded, cleared his throat, squinted his eyes at a group of people kneeling on the ground, and sternly reprimanded: "The Cui family, I'm guilty."

The old man of the Cui family who was leading straightened his body with some difficulty: "Mrs. Yu... who conspired with Li Chengqian is only a blood relative of my Cui family. What does it have to do with my entire Cui family?"

As he spoke, he paused, took a deep breath, and raised his voice: "Is the court being too presumptuous for mistreating the Cui family?"

"Although my Cui family has not made great achievements for His Majesty like Zhao Guogong and Lu Guogong, it is also the backbone for the Tang Dynasty to be stable."

"If Your Majesty thinks that my Cui family is a thorn in my side or a thorn in my flesh, just say so. My Cui family is loyal and courageous, and the king speaks and obeys. If you say you want me to die, you don't have to dirty your majesty's hands..."

He is selling miserably, and he is manipulating righteousness.

Quite a few officials who were watching felt a little bit of sadness in their hearts.

They can't wait to get rid of the Cui family and eat a lot of fat after Cui's death, but... they also have to think about their own affairs.

At least...it can't be Li Shimin who wants to kill him, and he can kill him for any reason.

Zhou Xiaosan was unmoved, and sneered: "Is this official saying that it is related to Li Chengqian's conspiracy?"

The yelling old Cui family paused, and the rest of the words stuck in his throat, making his haggard, thin and yellow face flushed.

"Are you doing this, is it too much for 300 taels of silver here?"

Zhou Xiaosan glanced at him playfully.

The Cui family members were embarrassed and did not speak.

Zhou Xiaosan took out a few letters from his sleeve and gently placed them on the table: "I don't know if you still have any impression of these letters."

Several elders of the Cui family looked at each other in blank dismay. They wrote letters in this year, not to mention a thousand or eight, at least hundreds of letters.

How could they recognize it without seeing the contents of the letter.

"In the second year of Zhenguan, I communicated with Turkic Jieli Khan." Zhou Xiaosan picked up the top letter and read it softly.

The Cui family members who were kneeling in the hall froze, as if their minds had been blown up by Yin Lulu, they were in a daze.

The second year of Zhenguan?

It's been more than ten years, and it's a little inappropriate to mention it at this time.

Zhou Xiaosan continued to read: "In the second year of Zhenguan, he passed the Dahe family of Khitan He Dahe."

"Three years of Zhenguan, pass Nanzhao..."

"Three years of Zhenguan, connected to the Bohai Sea..."

The contents of each letter are scholars, the faces of the Cui family members are turning greener and greener.

They may not still keep these letters, how did Zhou Xiaosan get them?
After reading more than a dozen letters in succession, Zhou Xiaosan raised his head and looked at them coldly: "These letters...have you denied them?"

The old man at the head was trembling, and his body, which he could support with one breath just now, could not hold it at all. He crawled and fell on the ground, staring at the bluestone slab in front of him in astonishment: "You...how did you know this? something?"

Zhou Xiaosan's tone became frivolous: "Oh, that is to say, did you accept these letters?"

The old man was silent for a long time before he opened his mouth, his voice was weak as if he had soaked in Pingkang Fang for a month: "These letters are from the fourth year of Zhenguan at the latest."

"I'm waiting...I'm waiting...now I am loyal to Datang."

"It's just an occasional exchange of letters to show our friendship."

"If the court can't tolerate this kind of thing, I don't have to worry about my death. I just hope that the court can treat the orphans and children lightly."

Knowing foreign countries, at any time, is a top-notch crime.This card cannot be played easily, but if it is played... then it is doomed to life and death.

What is the content of the letter.

Zhou Xiaosan knew it, Li Shimin knew it, and Yin Xuan knew it. As the Cui family members who wrote these letters, they also knew it well.

The above content cannot be said to be very explicit, and it did not blatantly say how to take refuge in Turks and Khitans, it was just a gesture of goodwill.

This is a common problem of aristocratic families. When the size reaches a certain level, they will split, just like the Cui family is divided into two, into Boling and Qinghe.

The Cui family in Qinghe was divided into six houses.

To give another simple example, if you have a little understanding of the history of the Three Kingdoms, you all know that Zhuge Liang is a famous figure in the Shu Han Dynasty and the most loyal and courageous figure in the ages.

But his older brother, Zhuge Jin, was an important minister of the Eastern Wu, and he was highly valued by Sun Quan. He was appointed General and Zuo Duhu, which was equivalent to Li Jing's status in the court when he was still old and returned to his hometown.

And one of his younger brothers, Zhuge Dan, was from Cao Wei, and his talents were not as good as those of his two elder brothers, but he was also a capable man who received the title of Marquis in Cao Wei.

This is the ability of the aristocratic family to "survive" here, and never put an egg in one basket.

Datang is prosperous and prosperous, they want to put the most important eggs here.

But...the laws of history tell them that the Tang Dynasty cannot prosper for a long time, so they also try to put their eggs in the Turks and Khitan...these baskets may seem to be unable to hold eggs.

Anyway... there are a lot of eggs.

Zhou Xiaosan sneered again: "Is it just an occasional correspondence?"

"I don't know how to explain these things."

As he spoke, he took out some papers from his sleeve and put them on the table.

The old man was dazzled and couldn't see clearly what Zhou Xiaosan showed.

A slightly younger person with better eyesight whispered next to him, and reminded him: "Clan elder, that's a business contract."

Business contract?

The old man froze for a moment, but he was relieved.Their Cui family also runs some small businesses, but it is clear that the business contracts that Zhou Xiaosan presented cannot be the ones they operate in Datang.

Is that the land bought in Anxi and Turkic?

"It's just a normal business." The old man shook his head, and his tone became more relaxed. "Buy some land, so what?"

After speaking, he paused, raised his head with some difficulty, and looked at Yin Xuan: "Didn't Mr. Zhengyang also have a restaurant in Qiuci?"

"Could it be that only Mr. Zhengyang is allowed to do business when he is away from home?"

"And I'm waiting for these small families... Is it a dead end to do business outside?"

He threw the spearhead at Yin Xuan.

The other officials also subconsciously looked away and fell on Yin Xuan.

This Lord Zhengyang, as if he didn't care about the affairs of the court at all, was teasing and playing.