Chapter 348: Selling Personal Favors

After Li Chengyun entered Beijing, he found that Emperor Wu was becoming more and more lazy about the government. He was more irritable and irritable, and avoided medical treatment. Now he has found a Taoist priest to enter the palace, in a vain attempt to obtain the art of immortality.

Emperor Wu has no children, and in terms of blood and strength, King Teng and King Jing are the most optimistic. King Fu's branch, the bloodline is long gone. Their fiefdom is in the south, and there is no help in the capital, so there is no delusion.

If King Teng does not rebel and chooses a son to help, there is still a lot to be done. What Li Chengyun didn't expect the most was that King Teng actually rebelled for the throne, and he was afraid that he would be extinct.

Then there is only the vein of King Jing.

Li Chengyun can think of it, and Li Chengen can also think of it, and the two of them invariably fell in love with the position of Emperor Wu.

So far, the two are evenly matched.

Li Chengyun and Xie Huiling are good friends, and they can be regarded as having the blue eyes of the queen's mother, and Emperor Wu also appreciates him. His uncle is King Cheng Zhou Dingkang, known as the god of war in Yongding.

Li Chengen, but set the niece and granddaughter of Empress Dowager Wen as his wife, and after the Liu family enters Beijing, he should be married.

The Wen family, because it is the queen mother's family, the people in the family are competitive, and they have a lot of power in the court.

When Shen Xuan hurried from Mingzhou to tell Li Chengyun about the grain, Li Chengyun felt that this opportunity was good. If he can become famous in one fell swoop, at least he will win in the hearts of the people.

But this food is not Shen Xuan's alone, and half of the Yan family's brothers and sisters. Li Chengyun can't take it by force, he doesn't care about the brothers and sisters of the Yan family, and he has to take care of Zhou Ming.

Now, Yuxiu understands the righteousness and proposes to hand over the grain to him for disposal.

In fact, Yuxiu handed over the grain to Li Chengyun, in addition to wanting to sell his favor in exchange for Li Chengyun's support in other businesses, the most was because the amount of grain was too large for their brothers and sisters to eat.

They have four brothers and sisters, who started in business, and their brothers' fame is not obvious, and their foundation is too shallow. When the court is short of food, if she makes this country difficult to make money, she is afraid that the court will criticize her. At that time, Yudong and Yuliang's fame will be damaged or light, and they will be taken advantage of the opportunity to fill the treasury.

At that time, when she wanted to buy grain, she was counting on making a fortune. Time has changed, and when she passed through the siege of Runzhou, and then heard Zhou Ming say that the imperial court could not allocate grain and grass, she changed her mind.

There is no grain and grass in the imperial court, how can the little Yan family be able to sell grain?

Shen Xuan has the Shen family as the backing, and he has a wide range of contacts. But who can they rely on if they are four brothers and sisters?

But she couldn't donate grain in the name of the Yan family, and in the same sentence, how could the Yan family exceed the national treasury? Therefore, she decided to leave a warehouse of grain for sale, so that the capital to buy grain would be saved. The rest of the grain, she sold her personal favor and handed it over to Li Chengyun.

Li Chengyun can speak in front of the emperor, and he is not like a person who crosses the river and demolishes the bridge.

The most important thing is that Li Chengyun is Zhou Ming's cousin, and if he takes the grain, he will definitely give it to Zhou Ming.

Yudong enlisted in the army in danger, risked his life to defend the city, and now followed Zhou Ming to fight in Shuzhong. In the future, he will definitely become a general. Yuliang may also embark on a career as an official, so he will take this grain himself and pave the way for them.

Yuxiu wants to understand this, of course, she will not be stingy with money.

After hearing Shen Xuan's statement, Li Chengyun asked Yuxiu with a smile, "Yudong is not here, this matter is ......"

"Our brother and sister are of the same heart, and that's what my brother originally meant. Even if my family is a junior, although he is young, he will approve of it. ”

"Okay, then I'll take the grain. Li Chengyun agreed, and then said to Shen Xuan, "You go and discuss with Wang Bin how to act." ”

Wang Bin beat Jin Yuanzong back then, and followed Li Chengyun to Beijing, and now he is the first strategist by Li Chengyun's side.

Shen Xuan agreed, and hurriedly said goodbye to arrange first.

"Xiuxiu, you invited me here, it wasn't for food, right?" asked Lee Seung-yoon with a smile.

"My housekeeper has taken a fancy to two shops and wants to open a silk village and a carriage and horse shop in the capital. Yuxiu hurriedly said her original plan.

"If you want to open it, just open it, and find Ding San if you have something. When Li Chengyun heard Yuxiu say that he wanted to give himself dry shares, he said funny, "I can't accept this dry shares, if Zixian knows, don't blame me? You might as well give this dry stock to Zixian, he is short of money now." ”

Jingzhong laughed and talked that in order to save money, all drinking and meeting guests can be exempted, and if you can't avoid it, you must follow it lightly. Moreover, even giving tips is not as generous as before.

Li Chengyun didn't know that Zhou Ming was saving a dowry for Yuxiu, but after he took the errand, the expenses in the house were even greater. Their house is not like other people's houses, and several shops in the family are married by aunts. The income of the Chengwang Mansion is all the property of the grange.

Hearing that Yuxiu was going to give himself dry shares, thinking of Zhou Ming's defensive strength, he didn't dare to accept it. Besides, he just received the grain from the Yan family brothers and sisters, and he was embarrassed to collect the dry shares anymore.

Yuxiu saw that he insisted on not wanting to, so he stopped mentioning this stubble, and heard that Zhou Ming won in Shuzhong, Yudong is now a fierce general in the army, and his merits have been mentioned in several battle reports.

"Don't worry, Zixian won't let him suffer. Li Chengyun said a word at the end.

Yuxiu looked at him with a clear expression, and couldn't help blushing.

After a few words of gossip, Lee Seung-yoon said goodbye and returned home.

A few days later, news came out: Li Chengyun, the eldest son of King Jing, heard that the imperial treasury was tight, so he sold the dowry of the former princess He to buy grain and grass. He also asked the steward to go to Mingzhou to contact the wealthy families in Mingzhou to raise food for the country.

The eldest prince is famous in Mingzhou, and he responds to every call. The Shen family, Shen Xuan and the Yan family in Mingzhou took the lead in responding, and other families followed. In just a few days, everyone worked together to raise funds and buy 12 warehouses of grain.

After Li Chengyun reported to Emperor Wu, Emperor Wu was happy.

The war in the north, the rebellion in Shuzhong, and the movement of the army is Jinshan Yinshan, Mishan Mianshan. Under the drought in the north of Shuzhong, natural and man-made disasters, the treasury was emptied.

Emperor Wu listened to the household call for poverty every day, and the war report in Shuzhong urged food again, and his head was big.

The twelve warehouses of grain raised by Li Chengyun solved the urgent need.

After weighing the grain in Mingzhou, Emperor Wu ordered all the twelve warehouses of grain to be transported to Shuzhong as military rations to quell the rebellion.

And Li Chengyun shared worries for the monarch, cared about the society, and received rave reviews from the government and the opposition.

Shen Xuan and the Yan family of Mingzhou Mansion are also famous in Beijing.

Shen Xuan is still there, the four brothers and sisters of the Yan family, I heard that they are all still young, and of course everyone is more interested.

After inquiring again, the two brothers of the Yan family, Yan Yudong is now serving in the army, and Yan Yuliang was ordered to dedicate a book on the Wanshou Festival. Talent and virtue, this is the image of prosperity.

And Xie Huiling, the Xie family, even brought Yan Yuliang to attend the meeting, praising his little brother for his young age, deep understanding of righteousness and incomparably smart, and the name of Yuliang's prodigy gradually spread.

Yuxiu and Yushu also received invitations from many ladies in the boudoir. But Yuxiu only said that the sisters were concerned about their brother An Wei and wanted to pray for their brother, so they turned down all invitations.