"A gentleman does not take what others like. The Wei family's things are always the Wei family's. Even if I like it, I can't force it from the Wei family."

Although he could hear what Wei Zhe meant, the expression on Xiao Jie's face did not change at all, and he continued to keep his words vague on purpose.

Wei Zhe's eyes still stayed on Xiao Jie's face, paying attention to any changes in Xiao Jie's expression, and said in a deep voice: "There are only two people in the meditation room, the old man and His Highness, and the old man will stop beating around the bush, although there is nothing in the Wei family that is His Highness. You can see it, but His Highness has something that our Wei family wants."

Xiao Jie smiled lightly, and stopped pretending to be stupid: "Is Wei Shang Shuling talking about more than 1000 million taels of bank notes from Shengtai Bank?"

"Exactly!" Wei Zhe nodded without denying it.

Xiao Jie didn't speak, but picked up the teacup and took another sip, and said with a smile, "This tea really tastes better the more you drink it."

Wei Zhe sighed secretly in his heart, he could see that Xiao Jie didn't want to offer his own conditions, but was forcing the Wei family to make their own conditions, and then he could decide whether to agree or not.

But now that Xiao Jie holds tens of millions of taels of bank notes from Shengtai Bank, he has grasped the lifeblood of their Wei family. They are controlled by others, and they have obviously fallen into a disadvantage in the negotiation, so they can only be slaughtered by Xiao Jie.

"We, the Wei family, have discussed with the other five families. The six of us can collect about 700 million taels of cash, which can be handed over to His Highness first. Don't worry about the remaining several million taels of silver, Your Highness, Shengtai Bank There are still more than 1000 million taels of debt outside, and I must ask them to take back part of the cash as soon as possible so that they can be exchanged to His Highness earlier." Wei Zhe looked at Xiao Jie, and tentatively stated his conditions.

This is also the result of discussions between their Wei family and several other families, and it is also the best solution they can think of, and it will not hurt their six great families.

Xiao Jie smiled, shook his head lightly, did not speak, but picked up the teacup and took another sip.

He has been planning and planning for so long, how could it be possible to exchange these banknotes back and make a difference of [-]% of the price.

Although Xiao Jie didn't speak, Wei Zhe could see that the other party was not satisfied with the terms he offered, so he smiled and said: "I don't know if Your Highness knows that Master Shanyun, the abbot of Chongshan Temple, is very good at matching people. I have met the fifth prince in my residence, but he said that he does not look like a king, he does not have the appearance of an emperor."

Xiao Jie couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he heard the words, of course he could hear Wei Zhe's implication, which meant that their Wei family, and even the entire Guanzhong and Heluo families would no longer support Wei Wang Xiao Mao.

But all of this was within his expectation. After all, if they still wanted to continue to support Wei Wang Xiao Mao, Wei Zhe would not have spent so much trouble seeking reconciliation with himself.

But Xiao Jie didn't understand, things had come to this point, didn't the few of their aristocratic families ever think of taking refuge in him and making a contribution to the dragon?

In fact, what Xiao Jie didn't know was that Xue's family did propose to change sides and support Xiao Jie's entry into the East Palace, but Wei Zhe sternly rejected it without hesitation.In his opinion, the family has its own strength of character and integrity, Wei Wang Xiao Mao can no longer support him if he is incapable, but they must not turn around and support other princes, otherwise, how will the people of the world treat them, and their children will have no choice. He Yanmian gained a foothold in the officialdom again.

In Wei Zhe's view, apart from the fact that the Wang family did not know how to restrain themselves, Wang Chong controlled the government, and Wang Cheng's self-respect by supporting soldiers caused the emperor's dissatisfaction and fear. The important reason is that the Wang family is capricious. First they supported Qi Wang Xiao Jie, and now they are vacillating between Qin Wang Xiao Huang and Han Wang Xiao Xun, which made their aristocratic family feel disdainful and ashamed to be friends with them.

Naturally, Wei Zhe didn't want the Wei family to become such a capricious family. He could lower his face and show weakness to Xiao Jie for peace, but he could never abandon his family's dignity to join Xiao Jie.

In the end, Wei Zhe's opinion was also approved by several other families. The six major families unanimously decided to only reconcile with Xiao Jie, but never join the Qi Wang Party.

But even so, Wei Zhe saw that Xiao Jie remained silent, knowing that he was still dissatisfied with his conditions, so he could only sigh secretly, and said in a deep voice: "If His Highness is still not satisfied, our six families can also make up 700 million taels of silver will be given to His Highness, and the rest of the money can be paid off by Shengtai Bank, and the debt of more than 1000 million taels of silver loaned by the bank will also belong to His Highness."

The more Wei Zhe talked, the more his heart ached. This condition was really hemorrhaging. Not only were all the money they earned from Shengtai Bank over the years wiped out, but they also lost a lot of money.

Xiao Jie shook his head and smiled, finally stopped being silent, and just said a classic line of later generations: "Actually, I am not interested in money."

Wei Zhe was a little embarrassed for a moment, he dared to talk about the conditions for a long time, but he didn't say a word to the point.

"Whatever your Highness wants, you might as well say it bluntly. As long as the six of us can afford it, we will try our best to satisfy His Highness." Wei Zhe sighed a long time, this kind of feeling of being controlled by others is really uncomfortable.

Xiao Jie smiled slightly, and no longer concealed it, and said bluntly: "You six families are all famous families, with profound family knowledge and talented people. I have always admired them deeply. I wonder if you six families can lend me the classics in the ethnology. Once I read it, I will definitely return it in full."

Wei Zhe never expected that Xiao Jie would propose such a condition, and his face paled instantly.

Although the imperial examinations have been tried for nearly a hundred years, the children of their aristocratic families are still able to stand out, relying on the deep origin and heritage of their family studies. After all, every famous family has produced many great Confucian scholars in history, and they have many incisive and unique studies of Confucian classics. His views have been written and written in the world, but they are all treasured by their respective families and never passed on to the outside world. They are only for their own children and students of ethnology to read and study, and outsiders have no chance to see them.

Now that Xiao Jie is taking the initiative to borrow these classics, he will definitely not just take a look at them, but will most likely copy a copy and leave them for Luobei Academy. In this way, their aristocratic family has little advantage in the imperial examination Quite a lot.

"Your Highness, can you change the conditions? After all, these are the painstaking efforts of our ancestors. If we hand them over, it will be difficult to explain to them in the future." Wei Zhe cryptically stated his difficulty.

But Xiao Jie shook his head without hesitation and said: "Forgive me, Wei Shangshu made this statement wrong. The original intention of the ancestors to write books was to educate the world and promote the Dao, not to let people cherish it, but to make their own. Thoughts and opinions are unknown to the world.”

"What your highness said is somewhat reasonable. I can try to persuade the other families to lend you all the classics in Jiazuology." Wei Zhe sighed again. Persuaded, but he knew in his heart that once the talks collapsed, Xiao Jie would liquidate their families in the future, and they would not be able to keep these classics, so they might as well follow Xiao Jie's wishes and hand them over for favors.

Xiao Jie was very satisfied with Wei Zhe's attitude, smiled lightly, and continued: "There is one more thing, now an acre of fertile land sells for seven to eight taels of silver, I am willing to pay ten taels and an acre, I hope you guys will give me money All the bank notes were exchanged for fertile land."

Wei Zhe was dumbfounded for a moment.

In this way, how much fertile land will be lost by their families!

(Thanks to Ye Ning, who loves to eat quick-frozen peas, for providing ideas. Knowledge is indeed a great wealth.)

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