Li Tong stood in front of the table and saw the two of them enter the room, so he motioned for them to take their seats.

Seeing Yang Xianzong dressed in splendid clothes, and Li Ge was like a short brown coolie, Li Tong couldn't help but be happy, pointed at the two and said with a smile: "The two of you have a clear division of labor, and the nobility is distinct." ”

Yang Xianzong laughed dryly after taking his seat, and sighed: "You are only expensive in this robe, and you still have to run around for these hard soldiers." ”

This is true, the two have their own division of labor. Yang Xianzong led all the brave warriors to enter the Shendu City under the cover of the Xingjia caravan, and the goods transported were mainly grain, which was used to supply the soldiers of the Former Clothing Society led by Li Ge.

There are a lot of people in this group of soldiers, and they have not yet been fully integrated into the transportation system in Jinei, so they still need to be provided by Yang Xianzong and Zhang Luo to a large extent in terms of food and clothing.

After chatting a few words, Li Tong motioned to Li Ge to make a report first.

"Now there are thousands of soldiers who have entered the city, and they will be transferred in succession. It's just that at present, the shops have not been completely completed, and the construction work is still being negotiated with the capital water supervisor, and there are only more than 500 people who actually work ......."

Although the imperial court let go of the rental and sale of mansions around Xintan, it did not allow merchants to privately recruit a large number of helpers.

One of the purposes of the imperial court's reform of Caoyun was to use work for relief, and organize those landless migrants around Heluo as soon as possible through administrative means, and place them in their posts, so as not to let these Ding Li idle in the wilderness, and also to provide them with a livelihood guarantee.

This task is currently under the responsibility of the Metropolitan Water Superintendent, surveying the stations needed for water transportation around Gyeonggi, and then recruiting Ding Li for allocation. Inside and outside Gyeonggi, there are tens of thousands of stations, most of which are canals outside the city. As for the city, one is that the imperial court itself has officials and slaves available, and the other is more vigilant about a large number of Ding Zhuang entering the city, so the scale of liberalization is relatively small.

Although the old man Tang Xiuzhong's envoy was the real direct leader, Li Tong did not dare to occupy all the workstations in the city unscrupulously, and basically recruited the soldiers of the old clothes society according to the ratio of three to one.

Li Ge first explained the situation a little, and also took out a map of the workshop and explained in detail: "At present, Lide Fang and Chengfu Fang, there are a total of seven Ding camps, and my old clothes are mainly arranged in the north and south of the west gate of Lide Fang. ”

Li Tong took the map of the fang and took a look, the west gate of Lide Fang is directly facing Hui'anmen Street, and after leaving the fang, you can reach Xuanren Gate in the east city of Ouchi for a short distance to the north, and then to the north is the most important storage place in Jinnei, including Jiacang City. The people of the old clothes society are concentrated here, and it can be said that it has been close to the inner Miyagi.

Li Tong also agreed with Li Ge's suggestion. Moving the old clothes society into the Shendu City in large numbers, although there is also a plan just in case, but the main thing is to arrange a livelihood for these old clothes society. If you really want to do things with knives and guns, it is not very reliable to rely on these righteous disciples alone.

These righteous followers have neither a strict organization nor a clear goal of struggle, and if they really want to make trouble, their combat effectiveness may not be as good as that of those street disciples in Nanya Jin Wuwei. If they fought directly against the forbidden army, it would be tantamount to looking for death.

In fact, there is no shortage of discussions within the imperial court about whether to recruit a group of soldiers from outside the city to be placed in the city.

However, due to the high heat of the land around Xintan, the voice of investment promotion still dominates, so it is appropriate for the resettlement of these forces for the time being. Once this limelight passes, the placement of these pawns will definitely have to be adjusted again.

But as long as people have entered the city, and then adjust it in the future, they can also have more room for operation, even if they do not rely on the palace defense, they can also ensure that they are placed in the city.

Li Tong did not give more instructions to these old clothes who entered the city, but only instructed Li Geqin to make visits, if there is any disease or famine, etc., and provide some help according to the situation, so that they can have an extra layer of protection, and even do not emphasize strengthening the organization.

After all, once people gather momentum, they will inevitably be bold and vigorous, and they may have to do nothing. Shendu City is far different from Fangye, once there is any collusion of popular forces that obviously exceed the ban, it will be absolutely harsh suppression, and there is no need to hesitate at all.

Therefore, the clothing society itself is just a society for the people to help each other, providing an object of help for the people when they are in distress, rather than controlling the people themselves. The purpose of such a guild is not prohibited in itself, and it is even officially promoted.

There are many guilds in the two cities of Shendu City, and merchants join these guilds according to the industry they are engaged in and the goods they sell, negotiate prices, and borrow goods, which are all within the scope of the rules, and can even be regarded as the subordinate management bodies of the city supervisors of the two cities, except that this is a non-governmental organization formed by merchants on their own.

Even if you don't talk about the guilds of these merchants, there are also many family chiefs and Hu chiefs who have settled in the city.

For example, the Goguryeo people who had a good relationship with Li Tong lived in large numbers between several squares near Jianchun Gate in the east of Luoyang City. And the Zunxian Fang of the late Prime Minister Yang Zhirou's residence, most of the residences are members of the Hongnong Yang clan. There is a Zoroastrian temple in the festival workshop, once any religious ceremony is held, there are tens of thousands of Hu people gathered in the workshop.

Even in the Forbidden Palace, there are some small groups. For example, Yang Chong, the old eunuch of Sigongtai, recognized his godson, and the palace maids also formed friendships and helped each other, helping each other, and even pooled money to dig caves in Longmen to worship Buddha, or raise funds to bury some old and dead palace maids.

Among these various organizations, the Clothing Society is not conspicuous. Unless Li Tong himself stands up and says that he is the head of the Former Clothes Society, which attracts the attention of the upper political forces, or the Former Clothes Society gathers every day to shout slogans and oppose the armed forces to help Li, and find his own death.

After Li Ge's report was completed, Li Tong looked at Yang Xianzong again.

Yang Xianzong stood up and said, "The grain purchased by Tian Weng and Bianzhou has been transported into Luozhou in batches and hoarded in the countryside outside the city to help the community. The warriors were also gradually obtaining their names, or village names, or temple names, and now there were 500 disciples in the city, and the rest were scattered in the countryside and looked after the various warehouses. Some car shops in the city are also gradually taking over. ”

Dare to fight is undoubtedly Li Tong's most reliable private armed force in the city, and the real critical moment needs to be organized to fight head-on, and naturally it cannot be stocked like ordinary old clothes and people.

The base camp of the Dare Warriors is located in the North City, but if necessary, it can be mobilized to most of the square areas of the city by boat, car, and foot force.

Of course, don't think about the Jishan Fang similar to Li Tong's residence, these real Guifang in the city are absolutely not allowed to suddenly influx a large number of outsiders. Even if a guest visits, the Wuhou and street disciples in the square will also be closely investigated.

When Yang Xianzong finished his report, Li Tong handed him a name post and said: "Take my name post and go to worship Zheng Ke later, he is the supervisor of the Right Shang Agency, and he is directly in charge of Shang Fang's supervision and warehousing." I have informed him that he will receive you when the time comes. ”

Although the relationship with the Zheng family is already close, Li Tong did not directly negotiate the purchase of warehousing goods. He is a dignified prince, but he personally interrogates the affairs of Shang Fangjian's subordinate warehouse, and anyone can guess that there must be something strange in it. There is still far from a tacit understanding between them to conspire, and it is also a cover for Yang Xianzong to come forward to contact.

He didn't need to arrange a special identity for Yang Xianzong, it was no secret that Yang Li was appreciated by His Majesty the Holy Emperor after entering the palace to face the saint. Yang Xianzong, as his cousin, took advantage of this relationship to buy and sell some palace affairs with the Shaofu Shangfang, which is also normal.

The imperial court itself has a large number of artisan households, and these artisans always have property, in addition to the consumption of the official family, there are also some overcapacity, some of which flow into the people through the palace market, which is also a phenomenon that has always existed, but has not yet formed a fixed group of imperial merchants.

After contacting each other, they first cultivated some tacit understanding, and then extended to the sale of some forbidden items, but they did not have to express their intention to steal and sell weapons at the beginning.

After Yang Xianzong took the name post, he took out a brocade box from his side, presented it to Li Tong's case, and said: "The things in the box were purchased by his subordinates from the city, and I feel a little strange, please appreciate it." ”

Li Tong opened the brocade box, and saw a two-foot-long sheathed short sword placed inside, he raised his hand to take out the short sword, and when he opened it, the sword body was short and dewed, and there was a cold light shining up, and the sword spine had its own fine cloud patterns, and there was a unique halo left by the fire.

It's just that after the sword body was all pulled out, Li Tong noticed the strangeness that Yang Xianzong said, the craftsmanship of the sword itself is extraordinary, but the blade is hard ground with sand and stone, making the blade uneven, densely notched, and like a jagged tooth. Guanjian Spine has a military standard, but looking at its blade, it is only the grade of a firewood knife.

He frowned and untied the knife at his waist, peeled off the tendons that were wrapped around the hilt, and found that there were obvious patchwork marks between the blade and the hilt. Seeing this, no matter how much he didn't know how to use weapons, he could see that this was a rudely modified forbidden army barrier knife.

"Where did you buy this?"

Li Tong put the sword back into the box, preparing to return to the mansion later and let Huan Yanfan and the others carefully examine it.

Yang Xianzong said the name of a shop in Beishi, and said: "Many of the utensils sold in that shop are of fine craftsmanship, not just this sword. ”

"Check it out and be careful not to expose yourself."

Li Tong also instructed that the people of the Tang Dynasty did not have too strict a ban on arms, after all, the government soldiers themselves had to prepare many weapons, and when the original government soldiers were in good condition, these weapons could still have a unified supervision.

However, with the gradual collapse of the government military system, a large number of military weapons flowed into the people, so it was not uncommon for the people to sell swords and other equipment.

But if the utensils sold by the shop are of excellent material but the craftsmanship is so-so, this is a bit strange, and it is not even ruled out that someone has already taken a step ahead of Li Tong and secretly sold the forbidden army equipment.