In the box on the third floor of Lingxian Restaurant, Xue Jun raised his wine glass with a smile, "Abdullah, I never thought that I would meet you here!" ”

In the years of Tubo, Xue Jun's Tubo dialect was extremely fluent.

Abdullah looked at Xue Jun, but his eyes were a little sharp: "I didn't expect to see you here." ”

"I'm not your enemy, never have been." Xue Jundao: "On the contrary, we are all friends now, aren't we?" Like-minded friends. ”

"We're not friends!" Abdullah said coldly: "I know that you live in Lhasa, you are the largest merchant in the Tang Dynasty to Tibet, you sold weapons to Delhi Chinan, and the weapons you sold to him killed many of my brothers and sisters. ”

"I'm just a businessman." Xue Jun sighed: "As long as there is money to be made, I am willing to do it." As for what I'm selling, I don't care. And Abdullah, you've bought the weapons I transported, and the food, haven't you? If it weren't for the weapons and food I sold you, you wouldn't have survived this far, would you? Where is Delhi Chinan, even if I don't sell him weapons, he has enough to deal with you, and if you can't get weapons from me, it will be different, right? Moreover, I will sell you for a much lower price than I will sell to him. ”

Abdullah stared at him fiercely, and only after a while did he say, "Profiteer! ”

Xue Jun took a sip of wine with some sadness: "In Datang, I am a sinner. I offended Li Xiang, so I was sent to Tibet, and in order to be able to return to my hometown, I had to do something. Abdullah, we can cooperate sincerely in the future, you want to overthrow the great nobles who oppress and exploit you, and I just want to return to my hometown and return to my roots. ”

"Will you still sell weapons to Delhi Chinan?"

"Maybe, after all, my family is in Lhasa, I don't want them to die, but what about it, it must be the best to sell it to you!" Xue Jun looked at him and smiled. "You have now found a big backer, with Li Xiang's support, you will become stronger day by day, I will stay in Lhasa, maybe one day, when you attack Lhasa, I can still help you."

Abdullah took a deep breath, raised his glass, and said, "I don't like you. ”

"Then do you like Lee Sang?" Xue Jun asked with a smile.

"I don't like Lee Sang, either!" Abdullah said in a deep voice.

"Then you are still willing to cooperate with Li Xiang and be willing to drive him?" Xue Jun was a little puzzled, "You are different from me. ”

"It's the same in a way!" Abdullah hugged his big head and said, "All nobles are the same, whether they are from Tibet or your Tang Dynasty, in their eyes, we are just tools for them to drive." It's just that your Li Xiang can give me what I have always dreamed of. ”

"You believe him so much?" Xue Jun was a little surprised.

"There are people I don't like, but I know they can be trusted." Abdullah raised his head: "These people are really villains, even if they want to use me, they can make it clear, your Li Xiang is such a person." And along the way, I have seen that the people under his rule are living well, and you don't even have slaves here. I also heard introductions, saying that the maids and servants here also signed contracts with their masters, and once the contract arrived, they came and went freely. They can't even call them masters, they can only call them employers. This is the life I want, and this is the life my buddies want, now you get it? ”

Xue Jun nodded, "One thing you said is good, Li Xiang is a person who refuses to promise easily, but once he promises, he will definitely do it." And the life you want, I think it won't take many years to get it. Do you know, after I return to Lhasa this time, it is very likely that I will die and never come back, but I still gladly go back, because Li Xiang promised to arrange for my family's most talented children and grandchildren to come back first, as long as these children and grandchildren come back, my Xue family will still have the hope of making a comeback, for this reason, I Xue someone is willing to return to Tubo to receive death. ”

"I heard that you have a very happy life in Lhasa, and you are the guest of honor of the major nobles!" Abdullah Dao.

"The day when Datang and Tubo turn their faces, it will be my death." Xue Jun said lightly: "Come, let's drink one." For the sake of my future I will die under the knife of Delhi Chinan. ”

Abdullah looked at him for a moment, and finally raised his glass: "If there really is such a day, you can run away from me!" ”

"Sometimes, it's not that I can't escape, but I don't want to escape!" Xue Jun smiled.

"Why?"

"You don't understand, you don't understand!" Xue Jun shook his head and said. "Come, eat, eat, this Lingxian restaurant is opened by Li Xiang, the taste is absolutely the best in the Tang Dynasty, I don't know how many people are waiting in line to come here to eat? This time, I was able to book a place here in advance thanks to you. You know? Many wealthy officials and nobles have bags here, just to entertain the most distinguished guests, and we don't know whose bags are occupied today! ”

"Isn't Li Xiang the most powerful person in the Tang Dynasty? I heard that even your emperor has to listen to Li Xiang's words, such a person still needs to open a restaurant to make money? If he says a word, doesn't he want something? Abdullah was surprised and puzzled.

"You don't know that!" Xue Jun shook his head and said, "Li Xiang is also paid. Our Datang has one of the most fundamental national policies, that is, the land owned by each family cannot exceed 1,000 acres, and Li Xiang is no exception. And Li Xiang's expenses are also very large. Of course, there are many wealthy businessmen who hope that Li Xiang can take a stake in their industry, and they are willing to give Li Xiang half of the dry shares without Li Xiang's capital, but Li Xiang will never mix. ”

Abudu looked at Xue Jun attentively.

"Although Li Xiang's salary is high, and his two wives are also high-ranking officials in my Tang Dynasty, their income is difficult to support their expenses. Therefore, Li Xiang opened this restaurant to subsidize the family. Lee Sang's other industry is the manufacture of dry ice, which is the kind of ice that can be produced even on hot days. ”

Abdullah nodded and said, "No wonder the business of this restaurant is so good, it turns out that those people want to shoot Li Xiang's sycophants." ”

"So to speak!" Xue Jun laughed: "But eating here is indeed worth the money, and you generally can't enter here." Those who can enter this restaurant are either rich or expensive. This restaurant is a membership system, do you know what a membership system is? ”

"I don't know!"

"If you want to have a meal here, you must have an identity to be recognized by this restaurant. Such members are introduced to each other, and without an introducer, no matter how rich and powerful you are, you will not be able to have a drink here. ”

"But us?"

"You're a guest!" Xue Jun said: "So I said it was thanks to you, otherwise with my current status, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to come here for this meal at all." ”

"It must be expensive here, right?"

"Of course, the dishes here are exquisite, the delicacies of the mountains and the sea, as long as you want, there are here, no matter how rare things are, as long as you book in advance, they can prepare them for you." Xue Jun said: "Our banquet will cost about fifty silver dollars. ”

Abdul shuddered with his hand, almost dropped the chopsticks in his hand on the table, staring at the delicacies on the table, it was hard to swallow.

"When I was a slave, I couldn't save a single silver dollar in a year. Even now, my brothers can't save more than ten silver dollars a year. Abdullah said sadly.

"In the Northland, the average income of ordinary people is about 100 silver dollars a year!" Xue Jun said: "They can't afford to eat here." ”

"A hundred silver dollars?" Abdullah's eyes widened: "In the future, can we also earn a hundred silver dollars?" ”

"If your Tubo becomes the territory of the Tang Dynasty, there will be." Xue Jundao: "Each of you will own a large piece of pasture, you will own a lot of cattle and sheep, and the things you produce will be marketed to all parts of Datang." Do you know, where you are, there are many things that we don't have in Datang, and when those things are shipped out, they can have several times or even ten times the profit. Scarcity is expensive. How much does barley wine sell for in you? ”

"It's just a few pennies!" Abdullah Dao.

Xue Jun smiled: "I will transport your barley wine to Datang, and the first catty can be sold for a silver dollar." ”

"A silver dollar?" Abdullah shouted, he had to drink one or two catties of barley wine every day, and now he knew that this was equivalent to drinking one or two silver dollars a day, and his heart was suddenly full of bitterness.

"You don't know what is good about you. Do you know how much a snowdrop sells for with us? ”

"Snow Lotus? It's just an ordinary medicinal herb! ”

"Huh!" Xue Jun laughed: "A well-preserved fresh snow lotus can be sold for hundreds of silver dollars here with us. Even if it is dry, it can be sold for dozens of silver dollars. Sometimes something is worth a lot of money, it's up to you how you run it! ”

Abdullah's hand kept trembling, looking at that look, he was afraid that he had wasted a lot of snow lotus.

"I heard that Li Xiang asked Wang Mingyi, the head of the household department, to help you develop your business, and soon, you will have money." Xue Jundao.

Abdullah nodded heavily.

"In the future, we won't sell these things cheaply!"

Xue Jun smiled.

There was the sound of footsteps outside, listening to the sound, it seemed to be coming towards their private room, Xue Jun didn't care, because those who can enter the leading restaurant are either rich or expensive, and there will be no accidents.

Immediately, there was a knock on the door.

"Is General Abdullah in there?" Outside there was a question.

Xue Jun glanced at Abdullah, and said in his heart that he was afraid that the ministry was going to talk to Abdullah again, and this time, it was involved with Abdullah, but it involved all the yamen of the entire imperial court.

"Please come in and talk!" Xue Junlang said.

With a bang, the door opened, not pushed open, but slammed open.