Zong Xiu remembers very clearly: On the first day of the autumn exam, An Boyi, Shi Congwen, Le Zhengyang, and Jie Jingyi wore the same clothes.

And yesterday, when An Boyi and Shi Congwen came over, they also said that the four of them were because they were embarrassed by each other's talents, and after cherishing each other, they worshiped their sons and became brothers of the opposite sex.

Now three of the four people took the initiative to give up Qiuqiu in order to get close to him.

An Boyi is just that, he has a demon in his heart, and he is willing to give up Qiufu in order to make bamboo paper.

Studying under Wen Ke, he went back to think about it for a night, and then brought Le Zhengyang here.

Zong Xiu didn't believe in 'Le Zhengyang and Shi Congwen gave up Qiuyu', and the interpretation of the scriptures didn't know.

But the interpretation of the scriptures still hasn't come, so there's a problem!

Interpreting the scriptures disdains fame, and even refuses the recommendation of the Confucian family in Qufu. But the three brothers all gave up the exam, and he still chose to continue the exam, if he didn't come with Le Zhengyang and Shi Congwen, there would definitely be a problem!

Benefit!

It must be that the benefits given by Cui Xianwen are too great, so Xie Jingyi would rather part ways with the three brothers than die with Zong Xiu to the end.

Zong Xiu is not worried about the interpretation of the scriptures, he is worried about Cui Xianwen behind the interpretation of the scriptures. This product has been too abnormal lately, and he didn't even participate in the Chang'an Poetry Club, maybe he was making something behind his back.

Anyway, the hatred between the two is irresolvable, instead of waiting for Cui Xianwen to succeed in his plan, it is better to strike first and take the initiative to make a 'chance', a chance to get rid of Cui Xianwen, and save you from worrying all day long.

In the kitchen, Yi Chengqing had already boiled the water, scooped the hot water into the wooden basin with a gourd scoop, added the warmth of the well water, and then pressed the golden tiger in the basin to bathe.

The little guy is not afraid of water, he sits in the basin and plays, and from time to time he learns to use his front paws to pry the water, and he gets it everywhere.

Zong Xiu looked at it, got up and said with a smile: "Girl, you clean up for the golden tiger first, and I'll go to the village." ”

Hearing this, Yi Qingqing got up, grabbed the paw of the golden tiger splashing water with one hand, and asked, "Isn't the son eating at home?" ”

"I'll go to the village to eat, if you are too lazy to make a fire, you can also go to the canteen to eat later, I may not come back in the evening."

"Ah......h

Yi was shocked, after Zong Xiu entered the Qujiang courtyard from the main house, it was the first time that he might not return at night.

Zong Xiu smiled: "Don't worry, just deal with some things." After all, Chai Shao's shop has been vacated, so he always has to find someone to take over. So many shops are idle for a day, which is a huge loss. ”

Yi poured affection at this time, and reluctantly watched Zong Xiu leave.

After Zong Xiu left, Yi looked at Jin Hu, who was still playing with his hind paws, and muttered in a low voice: "Jin Hu, when do you say Gongzi will be free?"

The golden tiger screamed 'mm

Jiangjia Village.

When Zong Xiu arrived, An Boyi, Shi Congwen, and Le Zhengyang were eating at the gate of the paper mill.

The meal was brought from the cafeteria, and there was a table that had been moved from nowhere, and the three of them sat around each other, with mountains of bamboo and half-dug ditches behind them.

Seeing Zong Xiu coming, the three of them hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks in their hands and got up.

"Master."

"Don't get up, you keep eating, I'll just take a look."

Zong Xiu pulled over the stool and sat down.

Being watched eating, or his top boss, An Boyi was also a little embarrassed, took out a handkerchief and touched his mouth, and said, "Master, this paper-washing pond is almost dug up, but we still lack tools and everything." ”

"Don't worry about the tools, it'll be there soon." After Zong Xiu finished speaking, the words changed again: "Master Gongzi and Le Zheng Gongzi ......"

Shi Wen and Le Zhengyang hurriedly said: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, since we have defected to the master, we are the master's students." The Master can call me by name. ”

"Okay." Zong Xiu was also not polite, and said: "Since you are here, I will always arrange something for you to do, if you are doing chores in the paper mill like ordinary guys, it will be too condescending." I wonder what will happen to the two of you? ”

What will happen?

This stopped the teacher Wen and Le Zhengyang.

They also understand that they are full of wealth, and the titles of the gold list are all at their fingertips. Although I'm here to defect to Zongxiu now, if I don't take care of things or something, I'm really sorry for my knowledge.

However, they just came to defect, and they haven't built an inch, so they are naturally embarrassed to mention it.

In addition, the people in the village didn't know each other, so they followed An Boyi to help.

Seeing that the two of them were silent, Zong Xiu smiled: "It's okay, say it boldly, I think you have also read the newspaper, my 'World Club' is going to get involved in all walks of life, eating, drinking, playing, playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, what is good at what to say." ”

Zong Xiu's concept of 'Tianxiahui' and welfare benefits have been promoted in the newspaper for several issues, and almost everyone in the world knows about it. Studying under Wen and Le Zhengyang, I really saw it.

"Master......" Shi Congwen was a little apprehensive, and said: "When students are at home, in addition to studying, they also help the family's shop settle accounts. My home is in Yuhang, and there are dozens of shops, and I also have some experience with accounting, can I use it? ”

"Yes, yes. It just so happens that there are more than 100 shops in Chang'an City to take over, and they will open for business in the future, and there is still a lack of a general ledger for account checking, if you don't dislike it, take it first. But whenever the account books of the shops under the name of the world are transported to the village, you have seen it. ”

"Thank you, Master."

Shi Congwen hurriedly thanked him.

The general ledger!

In charge of the accounts of all the shops of the World Club, although he is tired, he is famous.

Zong Xiu looked at Le Zhengyang again, and the eighteen or nineteen-year-old young man in front of him was a little shy.

"Master. I, when I was at home, in addition to reading, I liked to hunt, although the family also had a business, but I still have a few brothers, but I don't need my help. ”

Zong Xiu: "......"

Yes, reading and hunting, he is really a child of a rich family.

Seeing that Zong Xiu's face was different, Le Zhengyang was even more ashamed: "Shuzhong is boring, the mountains are continuous, and it is not as prosperous as the Central Plains." I can only hunt and play eagles in my spare time from studying, and Jia Yan has also said a few times, but ...... in the next place"

Without waiting for Le Zhengyang to finish speaking, Zong Xiu suddenly asked, "Playing with eagles?" How's your eagle playing? Obedient? ”

"Forehead ......"

Le Zhengyang was stunned for a moment, and quickly said: "Obedient and obedient, but obedient." I have dozens of eagles at home, mostly used when hunting, and I can help catch a rabbit to see if there are jackals, tigers and leopards or something. This time I came to Chang'an to try, I was afraid of loneliness on the road, so I brought one, do you want to see it? ”

Before the crossing, the eagle was a protected animal, and ordinary people really couldn't play it, but Zong Xiu had seen the video screen of playing with the eagle, but he hadn't seen it with his own eyes.

nodded immediately and asked Le Zhengyang to bring the eagle.

Le Zhengyang hurriedly ran away, and after a while, he led Mu Gang over.

Mu Gang was carrying a cage in his hand, which was also surrounded by a black cloth.

When he arrived in front of Zong Xiu, Le Zhengyang lifted the black cloth: "Master, please take a look." ”

Xu felt the light, and the eagle in the cage opened his eyes suddenly, a pair of golden eyes were blazing, his wings were fluffing, and he made an attack posture.

"Well, yes, what does it do?"

Zong Xiu looked at the majestic King of the Sky and wanted to touch it, but when he saw the inch-long sharp beak, he quickly gave up the idea of being injured.

Le Zhengyang looked left and right, and saw a foot-long bamboo pole on the ground, so he ran over and picked it up, put a leather mattress on one arm, and said with a show: "Why don't I give the master a fun show." ”

As he spoke, Le Zhengyang asked Mu Gang to open the cage door, and at the same time blew a strange whistle in his mouth.

The eagle seemed to have a spirit, and when it heard the whistle, it flew out of the cage door and stood on Le Zhengyang's shoulder.

"Go!"

Le Zhengyang threw half of the bamboo pole in his hand into the sky.

'Whoa......'

The eagle spreads its wings and takes off into the air.

Without waiting for the bamboo pole to land, he had already grabbed it with one claw, flew back again, and put it at Le Zhengyang's feet, fluttering his wings as if waiting for praise.

After Le Zhengyang touched the eagle's wings, he said proudly: "Master, my eagle not only knows how to hunt, but also can warn, and when it sees jackals, tigers and leopards, it will hover in the sky, even if it is released, it knows how to go home." Sometimes I go out hunting and don't want to go home for dinner, so I ask the eagle to help deliver slips to the house. ”

"Shhh...... So powerful? ”

Although An Boyi and Shi Congwen knew that Le Zhengyang was a fun eagle, they didn't expect Le Zhengyang to train eagles so well.

Zong Xiu had another thought in his heart.

What is the difference between warning and sending messages home and carrier pigeons?

Historically, didn't the Hu people like to train eagles and use eagles to deliver messages?

Eagles fly faster than carrier pigeons and fly at higher altitudes. It is also safer to use an eagle to deliver a message than a carrier pigeon.

In this era of backward communications, if there is a group of secret troops who can transmit information by air, it will be a huge communication network.

"Le Zhengyang."

Zong Xiu screamed suddenly.

Le Zhengyang, who was showing off the eagle, hurriedly put the eagle back into the cage and responded, "Master, what's the matter?" ”

Zong Xiu's eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked, "If I take your eagle away and then release it, will it be able to find you?" ”

"This ......" Le Zhengyang scratched his head and said worriedly: "It should be possible within a hundred miles." ”

"Really? Hehe, then we'll try. ”

Saying that, Zong Xiu said to Mu Gang: "You go to find Jiang Chen, let him lead the two horses in a while, and the two of you can go wherever you want, just walk thirty or forty miles, and then release the eagle." ”

Mu Gang didn't respond immediately, looked at Le Zhengyang, and got the consent of his young master before carrying the eagle cage away.

In late autumn, it gets dark early.

It was getting dark, but Zong Xiu had no intention of going back, and sat at the door of the paper mill that had not yet been fully built with An Boyi, Shi Congwen, Le Zhengyang and others.

An Boyi and his apprentice Wen also knew that this was Zong Xiu's test for Le Zhengyang - whether people can stay depends on whether the eagle can come back.

The four of them had their own thoughts, and they chatted without a word.

After about an hour, the sky was dark, and just when Le Zhengyang and the others were anxious, they heard a loud eagle chirping in the night sky, and then a black shadow swooped down from the sky.

"It's back, it's back, the eagle is back!"

An Boyi and Shi Congwen stood up excitedly.

Le Zhengyang also hurriedly got up, waving his holstered arm into the air, while blowing a strange whistle in his mouth.

The eagle returned, standing on Le Zhengyang's arm, and the swaying firelight showed even more miraculous.

"Well, I really didn't hurt you in vain. Hahahaha, add meat to you at night. ”

Le Zhengyang stroked the eagle's feathers and laughed vigorously.

Zong Xiu got up with a smile: "Yes, this eagle training is really good." Le Zhengyang, you will come with me in a while, and I will take you somewhere. ”

"Ah...... Master, isn't the third brother with us? "Amber Yi said, I have even found a place to live, and our three brothers still want to live together.

Zong Xiu said: "His life is different from yours, and he needs a quiet place. There are many people in the factory here, what should I do if I startle the eagle? Rest assured, the place I arranged for him is not far from here. It's just across the river, and if you want to meet, it's easy to row back and forth. ”

Le Zhengyang was curious: "Master, what will I do in the future?" ”

"Haha, all you have to do is play with the eagle! Or a flock of eagles! ”

"Ah...... This, this ......"

Le Zhengyang's face was overjoyed, in addition to studying in his life, he was playing eagle. When I was at home, I was reprimanded by my parents for playing eagles.

Now not only can you follow the 'Tianwen Sect' and go down in history, but you can also play eagles openly, how can you not like it?

Zong Xiu didn't say much, led Le Zhengyang away, and said as he walked: "I'll take you to the household department to buy the land opposite and build a farm for you." In the future, he said to the outside world that the cattle and sheep he raised would be trained a hundred and ten eagles in private. ”

"Master, I can let Mu Gang go back and bring the eagles from the family first, they are all trained."

Le Zhengyang held an eagle in one hand and a lantern in the other. He suddenly found that he could raise eagles to raise doors, and he was also valued by the 'Tianxia Sect', and his waist was straight.

"Okay, then let him get another batch of eaglets."

Zong Xiu said that he would do it, and directly took Le Zhengyang, found a Zhuang man to put on a carriage and rushed to the city, and knocked on the door of the account opening department Shangshu Dai Xuan's house overnight.

Dai Xuan is also one of the founding fathers of the Tang Dynasty, who is rigorous and unsmiling.

In the middle of the night, as soon as he lay down, he heard the servant say that Zong Xiu was coming and was waiting in the front hall.

"Honglu Temple? What did he do? ”

Everyone is an official in the same dynasty, and Zong Xiu is a big celebrity in Chang'an City recently, so Dai Xuan has naturally heard Zong Xiu's name.

However, he is not familiar with Zong Xiu!

It's really unfamiliar!

The two have met twice: once is the Imperial Garden Tail Burning Banquet, and the other is when Zong Xiu went to the court to offer movable type printing.

However, I had only seen it, and I had never said a word.

So Dai Xuan couldn't figure out why Zong Xiu would come and knock on his door in the middle of the night.

"Well, please wait a minute."

After all, he was an official in the same dynasty, and he still got up and dressed and put on shoes.

When Dai Xuan packed up and arrived in the hall, before he said a polite word, he heard Zong Xiu shouting noisily: "Dai Shangshu, please trouble you, I want to buy some land, and please approve a document for me, how much money is needed, I will send it to you." ”

Buying land?

Dai Xuan frowned slightly, and scolded Zong Xiu half to death in his heart: If you buy land, you can buy land, can you use it to find me? I am the head of the household, not the official in charge of the sale of land! I came knocking on the door in the middle of the night, and I thought there was something urgent.

Angry, Dai Zhou still asked politely: "Buy land?" I don't know where Honglu Siqing wants to buy? If there is a lord's land, can you go directly to the owner of the land? ”

Zong Xiu hurriedly said: "The land next to the Qujiang River is around Jiangjia Village, and there is also the opposite side. I look at a large open space, and I don't know whose house, so I'm not looking for you. You also know that my identity went to those ordinary officials of the household department in the middle of the night to buy and sell, and if I didn't do well, I was rumored to be using power to oppress people. ”

“……”

Dai Xuan blew his beard and glared, and said in his heart: It sounds good, I don't think you know where their home is. It's not easy to find my house, so I came here.

Zong Xiu didn't know Dai Guan's thoughts, but when Dai Zhou didn't remember where Jiangjia Village was, he said: "It's just downstream of my house, well, out of the South City Gate, down the Qujiang River for ten miles is my house." ”

Dai Xuan waved his hand: "It's okay, it's okay, it's the land below Shanglin Yuan, and the official knows it." But it's a wasteland! ”

"Wasteland? Can't you buy wasteland? ”

Zong Xiu asked.

Dai Xuan sighed: "You don't need to buy wasteland!" If you take the initiative to open up the wasteland, our household department will also give you free rent. ”

"Really?"

Zong Xiu couldn't believe that there was such a good thing, the wasteland was used directly, not only did he not have to give money to the household, but he could also be rent-free.

After thinking about it, Zong Xiu asked again: "But I want a lot of land." ”

"No matter how much it is, as long as it's wasteland, you can use it! The law of the Tang Dynasty states that whoever reclaims the wasted land has the right to use it. ”

As if he was afraid that Zongxiu would not understand, Dai Xuan explained: "Nowadays, farmers lack tools for land reclamation and have few cattle, so they would rather rent land for planting than cultivate wasteland. After all, it takes a long time to open up the wasteland, costs a lot of money, and the harvest is poor within three or two years. His Majesty made a law to encourage the cultivation of wasteland. If Honglu Temple is willing to open up wasteland, it can be used. ”

"What if I don't plant it? Don't you have to give money to the household? Zong Xiu asked again.

"Don't plant? Is Honglu Temple going to build a mansion? ”

Zong Xiu sneered: "Almost." As you know, I still live in the courtyard. The yard of the house is not as big as your living room. I don't have a little money to spare, and I plan to expand, open a breeding factory by the way, and raise some cattle and sheep or something. ”

As the head of the household department, Dai Xuan is in charge of the world's land property, taxes, population and other matters, and he also knows that the private use of wasteland to build houses is not big, but it is not small.

At worst, that's encroachment on land; At worst, it's not a problem. After all, Zongxiu's official position is there, and His Majesty has never rewarded the mansion, and there is nothing wrong with building a big house at their own expense.

Besides, most of the officials have occupied some land that does not belong to them these days.

After listening to Zong Xiu's explanation, Dai Xuan pondered for a moment, and quickly raised his head and said, "If that's the case, then it's no problem." How much land does Honglu Temple need, as long as it is ownerless wasteland, just take it. Go back and give me a number, as long as it's not too exaggerated, I'll give you a title deed. ”

"That's a good feeling. Haha, thank you so much Dai Shangshu. ”

Zong Xiu almost jumped up with joy, thanked him and ran away like the wind, leaving Dai Guan, who got up in the middle of the night, standing in the living room messy: "What's the situation?" Come to me to buy land, and you don't want to talk to me if you don't want money for the land......

Dai Xuan shook his head angrily and with a smile, he also knew that Zong Xiu had been favored by His Majesty recently, and His Majesty had praised Zong Xiu a lot in the past two days.

And he is also a literati, looking forward to the 'pinyin' and 'dictionary'.

Zong Xiu walked out of the gate, got into the car in a slippery manner, and said to Le Zhengyang, who was waiting: "It's done!" Let's use it as you like, do you recruit a group of people to help yourself, or pull people from the industrial park? ”

Hearing that the matter of building the eagle factory was completed, Le Zhengyang was also overjoyed: "Master, playing eagles is different from doing work, there are many doorways here, I plan to recruit a group of knowledgeable people by myself, and then let Mu Gang go back to bring the eagles, by the way, bring the servants who raise eagles, do you think?" ”

On the way here, Zong Xiu explained to Le Zhengyang: his task is to raise and train eagles, and he is a breeding farm externally, and an eagle factory internally.

And Le Zhengyang, who plays eagles all year round, also knows that eagles are not something that everyone can play, so he wants to recruit people by himself, and bring the team at home by the way.

Zong Xiu laughed: "Cheng, you can do the affairs of the Eagle Factory." You go back and talk to Uncle Jiang, and ask him to circle the land opposite Qujiang for you first, as for how to build it inside, you have your own ideas, I only need the result. ”

Le Zhengyang said: "Thank you for the cultivation of the master, the student promises not to disappoint the master." ”

"Haha, then I'll wait, half a year! Give you half a year, I want to see a news network all over the entire Kannai Road! ”