Chapter 33
Li Shimin walked into the door, bypassed the wall, and bumped into his younger brother Li Yuanji, only to see him standing in front of the door of the main hall with a wooden bucket full of water on his head.
When the latter saw him come in, he sneered: "I said second brother, can you have a little bit of talent? It's not good to mix with anyone, but if you want to be friends with the vicious dog of the Po Yetou family, you won't feel ashamed?"
When Li Shimin heard this, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly: "Did you see it?"
"In the afternoon, I saw you get into the carriage of the Scribe. ”
Li Yuanji's eyes were full of ridicule: "Our children of the Kansai Shilord, only you are the only one who has made friends with him, you are not ashamed, I am still panicked,"
Li Shimin smiled dumbly, he was really lazy to argue with Li Yuanji, and after shaking his head, he walked past Li Yuanji leisurely.
His fourth brother is not disgusted with Yu Wenshi for no reason.
It is necessary to know that Yu Wenshi and although his surname is Yuwen, this family has nothing to do with the Great Zhou Imperial Family.
The ancestor of the Yuwen family was just a slave, and he was originally the surname of Po Yetou, and he changed his surname to Yuwen with his master. Until Yu Wenshi and his grandfather Yu Wensheng, because of his outstanding force, gradually emerged in the army, in the Northern Zhou Dynasty was named the pillar country, in charge of the army of a town in Woye.
Later, Yuwenshi and his father Yuwenshu won the appreciation and favor of today's son, making the Yuwen family the top military heroes in the world.
But in the eyes of many Kansai generals, this family is a slave who betrays their masters, but they can be placed alongside them, or even surpass them, which is really a great humiliation for their Kansai clan.
And because today's Yuwen family is the most trusted henchman of today. Therefore, whenever the children of each family talk about the Yuwen family, they call it a vicious dog with a broken wild head, and do not regard it as one of them.
Therefore, in that year, Emperor Daye gave the Xuanjia Yang Core to the Yuwen family, which also caused a great wave of noise in Kansai.
But this is only the insight of young people, and some wise and far-sighted people in the Kansai Gate are already trying to make friends and accept this clan, and borrow their strength.
For example, his father Li Yuan, the reason why he was able to avoid the suppression of Nayan Suwei, the sworn enemy of the DPRK and China, was able to successfully return to the Eastern Capital, won the trust of His Majesty, and became the general of the left guard of the court, Yu Wenshu, made great contributions.
Li Yuanji saw that Li Shimin ignored him, but he still refused to give up, and said loudly: "I have heard people say that things gather by likeness, and people are divided by groups! I am a nobleman of the Li era in martial arts, and a descendant of the emperor. And that Yu Wenshi is just a descendant of a wicked slave. In this world, is there a reason for a dragon to have a relationship with a snake? Do you know that you have a friendship with a Yu Wenshi? People will laugh at me?"
Li Shimin suddenly stopped and glanced at Li Yuanji: "Then you should also know that Mencius has clouds, and the acquaintance of people is important in knowing each other, and the acquaintance of people is important in knowing each other, and the knowledge of people is important in knowing each other, and how can you distinguish friends by being noble and low?"
But before he finished speaking, he saw Li Yuanji's face, which was full of dissatisfaction. He then gave up his efforts, and only asked with a smile: "Are you being punished by your father for standing?" Father, he should let you stand on this thing, right?"
"Yes, what are you asking for?"
Li Yuanji frowned, and inexplicably had a bad premonition in his heart.
And in the next moment, he saw Li Shimin's face showing a devilish smile, and shouted loudly: "Someone for me! The second son does not obey his father's teachings, and is lazy and slippery here, don't you blind people see it?"
Li Yuanji was suffocated, and his nose was almost crooked by his brother.
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Li Shimin was extremely tired that day, and when he returned to his residence, he fell asleep for a while, and did not wake up until noon on the second day.
At this time, Tiger Warehouse had already arrived, and sent the power furnace he had purchased to the door. In addition, there is also a jade pendant with a strange style, engraved with a tiger, and 20,000 silver coins.
The former symbolizes the VIP status of Tiger Roaring Hall, which can only be held if you spend 200,000 yuan in the Tiger Warehouse. And Li Shimin is now just reaching this limit.
In the future, if he holds this jade pendant, he can not only get a discount of ninety percent and five percent in the tiger warehouse. He can also send the people of the Tiger Roar Hall to run for him.
As long as it's not too embarrassing, you only need to pay a certain amount of money, and you can ask this family to do it on your behalf.
This was originally very tempting, but when Li Shimin knew that behind this house was the Duke of Chu, he was not interested.
As for the 20,000 yuan, it was a convulsion fee given by Tiger Cang. Yesterday's battle frightened many of the guests present, and some were even injured. As a landlord, Tiger Warehouse naturally has to be expressed.
And Li Shimin, as one of the big buyers that night, was also among the compensation of Tiger Warehouse.
Li Shimin laughed at this, last night he spent his own money, and now although he still has more than 40,000 yuan in cash, he still owes Yu Wenshi and 100,000 yuan, which is the time when he is short of money.
For now, the only way to do this is to sell the magic armor in his hand as soon as possible in exchange for funds. Let's see if we can pick up some good things from the black market and assemble a complete armor.
As long as he can successfully complete a handsome rank, even the most ordinary kind, he can pay off his debts.
It's not easy, but now that he has the Divine Forbidden Diagram in hand, it's not hopeless. After all, his skills and craftsmanship have been honed for a long time, and his attainments are not shallow, and what he lacks now is only the knowledge of magic patterns.
It's a pity that yesterday's chaos brought his trip to the black market to an end in a hurry, and he couldn't go to the fourth floor to pick out those ancient parts.
And with this turmoil, the black market will never open again in a short period of time. The building ship in the Tiger Warehouse also needs to be renovated.
So on this day, Li Shimin simply stayed in his study and studied the five virtues and the forbidden picture of the Taimiao God that he bought.
It wasn't until the evening that Li Shimin walked out of the door, and together with the housekeeper Li Dai, he carried a large package and walked to the left side of the courtyard.
He had asked the latter to exchange the six thousand gold tickets in his hand for broken silver, and was ready to distribute the money to the soldiers who had gone to Luliang Mountain with him before.
In fact, the silver money they obtained from selling ink armor had already been distributed by him, and almost every one of these armor soldiers in Tang Guofu received seventy or eighty guan, and several unfortunate people who died in battle, and their families also received a pension of up to four hundred guan.
This number is actually quite large. Both the bounty and the bereavement pension are more than five times that of the army. In today's world, a family of five only needs about 30 copper coins to maintain a moderate standard of living.
However, according to common sense, after these people returned to the Tang Mansion, his father Li Yuan also needed to be rewarded with a sum of money to reward his troops for their hard work and escort.
It's just that after this return, Li Yan, the leader of the generals, was called by Li Yuan to be reprimanded, and these more than 100 parts were also thrown aside by Tang Guogong and ignored, and this reward was naturally gone.
Li Shimin knew that these people were affected by themselves. That's why I had the intention of paying out of my own pocket and rewarding my father. He didn't have much money this time, and he always had a heart.
This incident was also much unexpected by all the generals, and they were grateful to Li Shimin.
Waiting for the two of them to come out of the East Side Courtyard, Li Dai smiled bitterly: "This matter, Lord Guogong was in a hurry, and he really did a bad job." It's also a loss to you, the second son, who is willing to give up this money, otherwise these people below will really be angry. ”
"Where's the butler?"
Li Shimin shook his head with a ashamed expression: "In the final analysis, this matter is caused by me." You can't let these parts go centrifugal because of me. Promising money, just to make up for mistakes. ”
Their martial arts Li clan is based on military merits, and these people are really the foundation of their Li clan.
"What's more, there will always be a day when I will join the army, and at that time I will count on some capable men from these parts to follow. How can you lose trust and lose your reputation at this time?"
After he said this, he walked straight to the inner courtyard, whistling all the way, and his mood was relaxed and happy.
But Li Daiwu stood on his own, as if he was in contemplation.
"I sometimes think, if the next generation of the martial arts Li family head is the second son, how good would it be?"
The person who spoke was Li Yan, the general, who had come behind Li Dai at some point: "You don't know how much respect those soldiers in our martial arts manor have for this second son." ”
Li Dai couldn't help but lock his eyebrows and looked back behind him: "In this way, the second son is in Linfen County, leading you to break the bandits, is it true?"
"Can I still lie to you?"
Li Yan snorted coldly: "Guogong's side, I don't have a chance to say it, and I can only talk to you about it." When we were attacked in Linfen before, Gongzi broke almost ten times the enemy with less than 300 people, including some border troops. You doubt me, but the money that is given to each man will not be fake. When it comes to the art of war, no one in the younger generation of the Li family can stand out from the right; it is rare that the second son is never arrogant and arrogant, even if he is a pawn, he can treat each other sincerely, and it can be said that he has won the hearts of his subordinates. I think if the old lord is alive, he will definitely love him. ”
"It's not that I don't believe it, but—"
Li Dai shook his head and stopped talking: "A few days ago, Sima Liu Zhenghui of Yingyang Mansion in Longquan County sent a letter to Guogong with Xunying, which should be what he said, but unfortunately Guogong didn't even look at it. ”
"How could this happen?"
Li Yan couldn't help frowning, he didn't care about these dozens of rewards. This time, just those civilian ink armor captured after the war made him earn nearly a thousand yuan, and the reason why he said this at this time was just to hold grievances for Li Shimin.
This second son has been despised by the Lord Guogong for too long.
"Actually, I also tried to knock on the side, but Lord Guogong has a deep prejudice against the second son, and he can't listen to anything. ”
Li Dai sighed: "This matter, let's stop here." I think the second son is really talented, and he will have his own time to emerge in the future. ”