Li Tong's small team, although the sparrows are small, they have all kinds of organs, and they can basically be said to cover civil and military affairs.

is like Wang Renjiao, even if he doesn't talk about the background of the Taiyuan Wang family, he is still a veteran of Guanzhong for several generations of government soldiers. Huan Yanfan is the bottom of the forbidden army who has been in the Southern Health Department for a long time.

Shi Sizhen is not only a representative of the Hu people who are sinicized, but also a nobleman and a high-ranking official, and has a reigning father, and there is no shortage of connections.

Zhang Jiazhen and Liu Youqiu, one Mingjing and one Jinshi, are all from a poor family. Zhang Jiazhen is a famous minister and has the potential to be slaughtered. Liu Youqiu successively planned and participated in the Tanglong coup d'état and the congenital coup, and he was in danger of bad luck.

As for Wang Hewang, who is suspended, it means that the three kings have a direct channel bridge to Fengge, which is of great symbolic significance. And the reason why Zhang Jiazhen, Liu Youqiu, including Hu Shi Sizhen, is willing to commit to the palace, Li Tong feels that it has a lot to do with it.

If it is deduced according to the ideal state, the team carefully selected by Li Tong can basically be extended and absorbed from all aspects of manpower by virtue of this.

From this point of view, their brothers' exit from the cabinet is also a crisis, although they are completely exposed to the eyes and ears of their old enemies, but the social level they can access has also been greatly expanded.

If they are still in the ban, it will be very difficult for any of these people, Li Tong to have any contact and substantive development. This can be seen from the incident of Zhong Shaojing of the Inner Literature Museum earlier.

If you can't provide a tangible possibility of progress, why should you ask people to treat you with courtesy? Even if you are lonely and loyal to serve the Tang Dynasty, it will not be your turn to pick and choose between the three lonely and weak young kings!

But now, more than half of the Li Tang clan has withered, the emperor Li Dan's family is detained, the deposed emperor Li Xian is far away in Fangzhou, and the rest of Gaozong's sons are in danger. The three of them were allowed out of the cabinet, just in time for such a window period, I am the most beautiful cub of the Li family, who is against it?

Now that the team has been established, the next step is team building and running-in.

After the service, after the face is familiar, it is time for the group to offer food and gifts. Li Tong is very interested in this etiquette, you come to work for me, and you have to give me gifts and invite me to dinner first, which is a good arrangement.

No wonder there will be a system like the roast tail banquet in the future, if you can't do it, why should you be promoted and given a salary increase?

The hall is full of more than a dozen people, and even if there are only three or five colors offered by each person, it is still filled with half of the hall.

Among them, Shi Sizhen, the second generation of officials, is the most conspicuous food, and there are more than 500 staple foods such as Hu cakes, Bi Luo, and steamed cakes, which are stacked in baskets and carried by their own slaves. There are also five roasted whole sheep, three roasted deer, steamed goose, duck breast, fish and the like, or a large plate, or an urn box, which should be carried up, and the whole hall is full of food and fragrance.

Seeing this posture, everyone in the hall, including Li Tong, looked at Shi Sizhen with different eyes, I take you as a subordinate, and you come to my house to show off your wealth? Continue to give, say that I will lose!

"The ugly food in the field is far less than the delicacies and delicacies in the forbidden food, but it is only favored by quantity, so as to show that the palace scholars are eager for the affection of the king."

Shi Sizhen really doesn't look like a Hu man, although he shows off his wealth, he has no arrogant posture at all, and he is still respectful and polite, which also makes other mansions who are secretly prejudiced against him feel better.

Compared with Shi Sizhen, the meals offered by other mansions are much shabby.

In particular, Liu Youqiu only offered two cans of pickles, a jar of sauce made of celery leaves, and a jar of garlic sauce, which were packed in two crockpots the size of a human head.

It can be seen that it is not easy to be Luo Piao, and Li Tong does not think that Liu Youqiu deliberately fell on his face, a dignified jinshi, and whenever the economic situation is better, he must seek a better way out and will not commit to the palace, probably he is really hungry and can't be summoned immediately.

For example, Chen Ziang, a big tyrant in Sichuan, was also unknown and unappreciated back then, spending a million dollars to buy a huqin and breaking it in public, and shouting that no one appreciated my article so good, what is there to pity about this music! With this strange move, he gained the attention of the times.

Even Zhang Jiazhen was recommended by Li Qiao because she was familiar with Li Qiao, so she was summoned to the palace.

As for Liu Youqiu, he is just an inconspicuous member of the list of guards sent by the ministry, if it weren't for Li Tong recognizing this name, knowing that this guy is quite deadly, he probably can't even mix this kind of royal lowly position, and he doesn't know how many years to drift in Luoyang, the capital of God.

In order to avoid Liu Youqiu's embarrassment, Li Tong got up again and said with a smile: "All the gentlemen have dedicated their talents to me, and I have enough to remember them because of Xiao Wang and others' shallowness." Gather together to celebrate this strange fate, give it away, and just help the fun! ”

Hearing King Hedong say this, the expressions of all the people in the hall also improved, especially Liu Youqiu. These people are committed to the palace, and they are also worried that the lord of the mansion will be greedy and stingy, and they only know how to ask for it without giving anything in return.

In addition to the food, the gifts of all the people also have their own characteristics, which are quite in line with their respective backgrounds.

For example, Wang Renjiao offered ten white fox skins, which shows that these government soldiers have not been less troubled by those mountain and forest beasts in the pass. Zhang Jiazhen's dedication is the five volumes of "Dongguan Hanji" that he tried to annotate, which is in line with the correct way to open the scholars and the powerful. Huan Yanfan's offering is an ancient bow with unstrings, which is said to be a gift from his father's East Palace.

Shi Sizhen presented three pairs of good saddle dreadlocks, but this was certainly not the whole of the gift. His father served as a servant, and one of the most important items in his work was the country's horse politics. Li Tong never forgot his career as a bow and sword, and the reason why he chose this second generation of officials was also to hope that the Sifu Temple would choose a good horse for his own horse in the future.

However, after seeing Liu Youqiu's gift, Li Tong understood why this old boy had been admitted to Jinshi for several years and still couldn't become an official, this temperament was really unpleasant. What he dedicated is a collection of essays, the name is very atmospheric, called "Ten Strategies of Longshi", and the discussion is the views on the current political issues in Longxi.

Li Tong casually glanced at the content of the essay, then rolled it up quietly, and secretly sighed that it is not unreasonable for keyboard warriors to attract hatred, not to mention whether it makes sense for you, a little bastard who has not even been an official, the key is why you are showing me, the king of the salted fish sect, what are you doing here?

Obviously, this is the idea of using the palace as a springboard, hoping to dedicate these strategies to the prime minister under the hand of the fake young king.

Although Li Tong can understand this idea, the question is can you not be so eager? Lao Tzu just came out of the cabinet and entered the house, and his ass was not fucking hot, so you yelled and yelled at me to build a bridge, do you use me as a springboard or as a spring?

Although he was already a little unhappy in his heart, Li Tong still handed his plan to Wang Hewang in Fengge with a smile in front of Liu Youqiu.

However, he has already made up his mind in his heart, this batch of mansions, others don't say it for the time being, Liu You begged an old boy to get on the thief ship, and he would never let you jump out of the car halfway, honestly squat in the palace and give me a plan and conspiracy. You are my little night pot, and so on I will arrange a few dirty things for you to do, so that you can't wash them clean!

Wang Hewang took Liu Youqiu's strategy for the long matter, and rolled it up after a few casual glances. He is in charge of Fengge, and he doesn't know how many times a day he has been handed over to this kind of submission that is keen to show his superiority, and he is willing to look at it a few times to give the young king face.

Sensing that Liu Youqiu's gaze came up eagerly, Wang Hewang chuckled and said, "The ambition is commendable, but it still needs to be pondered." Although the government affairs are simple, they are also in the state affairs, and they can win this, and they do not worry about accumulating things. can be named Wang Qingyan, and there is no future. ”

After being beaten a few words by Wang Hewang without embarrassment, Liu Youqiu was silent for a moment, and only after a while did he have an aftertaste, turned his head to look at the young king who was talking and laughing with other mansions, opened his mouth and didn't know what to say, but silently retreated to the side.

The offerings of the mansion are not in vain, and the lord of the mansion also has to give rewards, basically based on the materials of their respective grades for a month, and it is not possible to reward more, because these rewards need to be recorded and left for the search and investigation of the Su Zhengtai and other divisions.

These officials do not have the basic treatment of officials such as Zhitian and Lumi, and although they are supplied by the state, they are still far from the treatment of formal officials.

This part of the gap needs to be filled by the lords of the houses they serve, so whether the lords are generous or not directly affects the respective income and treatment of these lords.

Regarding this point, Li Tong didn't have anything to worry about, he found a lot of goods from the big inside, and how much he could use, so he naturally scattered out to invite people to buy people's hearts.

As soon as it was dispersed, more than 200 pieces of money were scattered, and more than 600 horses of silk were scattered. One is consistent, a thousand dollars, and now the silk money should be between three or four hundred dollars, which is all the knowledge that Li Tong made up before leaving the palace. In this way, this time the reward is more than 400 yuan.

Taken on its own, it's not a big number. However, Li Tong, as the king of Yipin County, could not collect more than 500 taels of material a year, even if he added the money and miscellaneous materials to the Tianyi, the estimated annual harvest should be between three and five thousand.

The reason why the fluctuation is so big is mainly because the harvest of Tianyi depends on the sky for food, and the income from Yongye Tian and Tianyuan is mostly from the official market, and cannot be sold privately. In other words, if you are not pleasing to the eye and are directly forcibly recruited, you will not dare to stare.

In this way, if all the money is paid every month, Li Tong will have nothing left all year round, and if he is unlucky, he will have a deficit of several million dollars. No wonder Li Qiao suggested that he be a false official and a slave, and let the state help support people, but he really can't afford to raise them himself, and now the scale of this mansion has been reduced several times, and it is a little unbearable.

Of course, the same cannot be said for the accounts. Not to mention that the three kings each have their own food estates, and the income from the feudal state is the majority, and it is not uncommon for such a large reward alone, and only about one-third is required to be paid in normal times, and the rest is given by its own country.

Therefore, as long as the three kings are not accustomed to spending lavishly, their finances can also function well. However, it is impossible not to spend money, Li Tong is still doing things after all, not to live in peace.

With such a calculation in his heart, he felt that it was necessary for the three governments to manage the finances as a whole, and it was difficult to spend the money given to him by Li Shouli, so it was better to stay and recruit troops by himself.

Although brothers sometimes need to settle accounts, sometimes they still have to sacrifice their egos for the overall situation, and the interpretation is up to me anyway.