After a hundred years of friendship, they have all married each other, and it stands to reason that the Dugu family and the Dou family should be on the same boat, but since the Yu Chaoen incident, Dugu Qiu found out that the Dou family was very scheming, and it turned out to be an undercover agent of the Son of Heaven, which made Dugu Qiu a little reluctant to believe the Dou family.

Especially today, it was Dou Yi who took the initiative to invite herself, and Dugu Qiu even wondered if the Son of Heaven asked him to touch his bottom.

Although Dou Yi scolded fiercely, Du Yiqiu didn't dare to follow, he smiled and said: "I proposed to the Son of Heaven to put Zhao Chongwen's family back, and you want to collect money from the Guan Long family, at least you should have some attitude!" He still reacted quickly to this, and issued an amnesty in the afternoon, which was quite good. ”

Dou Yi shook his head, "You are wrong about this, after the news of Guo Song's amnesty decree came, the Son of Heaven had plans for amnesty, and it had nothing to do with your advice, he just made you a favor." ”

Dugu Qiu groaned and said: "It's not exactly, at least in terms of pardoning Li Yi, he still listens to my advice, otherwise Xue Xun will not come back." ”

"He is actually still for himself, Guo Song does not send troops, and he will not be able to return to Chang'an at all."

Speaking of this, Dou Yi said in a low voice: "Brother Dugu, Guo Song is your son-in-law, do you think he will send troops to Guanzhong?" ”

"Frankly, I really don't know, I don't want to ask about this kind of thing, and he won't tell me easily, telling me will only increase my risk, and nothing else will do me good."

"It's true, some things are known, and it's not a good thing."

Dou Yi took a sip of wine, lay on the soft couch and said with a smile: "Old friend, did he give you any good advice?" Let me share it too. ”

Dugu Qiu smiled slightly, "We are in-laws, if you want to know, how can I not say it, probably the year before last, he wrote to me and suggested that the Dugu family reduce the manor and turn to business, and I followed his advice." ”

"Dugu's land has been sold?" Dou Yi asked in surprise.

"How can it be sold, he didn't let me sell it all, just let me reduce the land estate, he means that the land should be held in moderation, so the Dugu family only kept the largest manor in the south of the Yangtze River, and several other manors were divided and sold one after another, at the same time, the Dugu family went all out to enter the business and handicraft industry, our family has more than 5,000 looms in various places, and there are cabinet shops, I now find that the cabinet shop is really a big business to make money."

Dou Yi asked with interest: "How does the cabinet shop make money?" ”

Dugu Qiu smiled mysteriously and said, "Brother Dou is interested? ”

"Who is not interested in making money, hurry up and listen!"

"It's more complicated, I'll give you an example, Chengdu's security cabinet is opened by Dugujia, many big businessmen dare not store money at home, all handed over to the cabinet, like valuables, we will be specially stored in the underground vault, we will collect a custodian money every year, if copper money or gold and silver are stored, we will not collect any custodian money, and then I take out the money to lend, the security of the cabinet to earn profits, a year of interest is there, put out 100,000 yuan, we can earn 10,000 yuan."

"Wait!"

Dou Yi hurriedly interrupted him, "What if the depositor wants to use the money?" You've lent all your money out. ”

Dugu Qiu laughed, "Can't the Dugu family even come up with this money?" If he wants to raise money, I will give it to him, 100 people save money, 10 people withdraw money, and 90 people don't mention it! Maybe it will be stored in the cabinet for decades and left to his children and grandchildren. ”

"But what if the borrower doesn't pay it back?"

Dugu Qiu picked up the wine glass and said leisurely: "Does anyone dare to borrow the money of the Dugu family and not pay it back?" ”

Dou Yi was suddenly moved, and said with a smile: "Can you let a little bit of it be given to the Dou family, and let the Dou family also make money." ”

"With the wealth of the Dou family, do you still need to follow the Dugu family?"

"Nonsense, if Guo Song were my son-in-law, I would look for you?"

Dou Yi's words immediately reminded Du Gu Qiu that the Dou family would never stand in the wrong line, and his son-in-law was Guo Song, at this critical moment, how could the Dou family betray themselves for Li Shi.

Thinking of this, Du Gu Qiu put down a hanging stone in his heart, he took a sip of wine, and said unhurriedly: "Let's talk about the topic!" This fundraising, I estimate that all the Guan Long families will not be able to run away, let me tell you, I pledged 200,000 yuan. ”

This is a very important point, the Guan Long family must communicate with each other, otherwise they will be slaughtered by Li Shi, and Dou Yi's appointment to meet Dugu Qiu is actually for this reason.

Dou Yi nodded, "I have counted, the Dou family will donate a maximum of 150,000 yuan." ”

Seeing that the time was almost up, Du Isolated Qiu smiled and said: "If you want to join the cabinet shop and go to my third son Qian'er, now he is in charge of this business, but your old man doesn't have to come forward, this kind of thing will be left to the juniors!" ”

"Good!"

The two chatted a few more words, and then took their own leave.

.........

Li Shi made full use of his wrists, and in just ten days, he got nearly one million yuan and 300,000 stone grain from the hands of the Guanlong nobles, which Li Shi used for the army, recruited and paid for the army, with this money and grain, the military department recruited 30,000 troops in a very short period of time, of which 20,000 were enriched in Jiannan Jiedu Mansion to defend against Tibet, and the other 10,000 troops were placed in Yuzhou to defend the Nanzhao army from going north.

The time soon came to September, and on this morning, a team of more than 100 people was entering Chengdu from the south city gate, there were several carriages in the procession, and the others were escorts, and they guarded several carriages very closely.

In one of the big cars, there was a middle-aged man, it was Xue Xun who had been in Banzhou for nearly a year, he was not in good health, the conditions in Banzhou were bad, and it caused great damage to his body, in just one year, his hair was half white, and his face was wrinkled, in fact, he was not yet fifty years old.

In the carriages in front of him were Li Yi, who was named King Qiong, and several of his wives and children, if it weren't for Xue Xun to come back, Li Shi, the son of heaven, would never let Li Yi return to Chengdu, and he could only spend the rest of his life in Banzhou.

However, even if Li Yi comes back, he will not be free, he will still be under house arrest in the palace, and when he goes out by chance, he will sit in the carriage as he is now, surrounded by warriors sent by Li Shi, and he will not have any contact with outsiders.

Although Xue Xun is nominally going to serve as the governor of Banzhou, he is actually exiled, and if he does not have a son-in-law who makes the son of heaven Li Shi fear, he will have to die in Banzhou.

Another high-ranking official who was exiled to Banzhou with him, Han Yun, did not return, but set off directly in Yuzhou by boat and went to Mingzhou to take office, his wife and children were not in Chengdu, and he had no nostalgia for Chengdu, so he left directly.

When the time came to break up, Xue Xun got out of the carriage and bowed to Li Yi's carriage from afar, Li Yi couldn't show up, so he could only wave his hand to him through the window screen, and the two said goodbye, as for whether they could see each other again, I don't know.

Xue Xun is still living in Zhang Lei's mansion, more than a dozen warriors from the Jin Wei Mansion escorted him back to the mansion, and it was the old housekeeper of the mansion who opened the door for him, and the old housekeeper suddenly saw the master standing outside the door, and immediately cried out with excitement, "Master, you are finally back." ”

Xue Xun patted him with a smile, walked into the door of the mansion and asked, "What about Madam and Qing'er?" ”

"Where did they go to my uncle, the people in the house either left with my wife or dispersed, and now only me and my wife are left."

Xue Xun heard that his wife and children had gone to his daughter's place, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to the housekeeper: "There are people protecting me outside the door, you arrange a room for them to live in, and I will rest for a while." ”

"The master will go to rest, I will let the old wife make tea, and I will arrange the people here."

Xue Xun returned to his study, his study remained the same as when he left, and a book of Du Fu's poems was still halfway over, with a thin layer of ash on it.

The tables and chairs were wiped clean, it seemed that the housekeeper came to clean up every day, but he didn't touch his own things, Xue Xun took out a piece of warm and flawless mutton fat white jade from the bookcase, this is a birthday gift from his daughter, it is said to be worth thousands of yuan, he was in a hurry when he left, and forgot about it.

Xue Xun gently held the jade to calm his mind, he needed to make a decision, if he wanted to leave Chengdu and go to Taiyuan, tonight was the last chance, after tonight, Li Shi knew that he was back, I am afraid there would be no chance to leave.

After pondering for a long time, he came out and said to the old housekeeper: "If someone from the court comes to me tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, you can tell them that I will go to Qingcheng Mountain to recuperate for a few days." ”

"I remember!"

Xue Xun found the leader of the Jinwei Mansion again and said to him: "I have decided, according to the method we discussed before, you can escort the carriage out of the city now!" ”

More than a dozen entourages escorted the empty carriage away, and Xue Xun then took an ox cart to Dugu Mansion, and that night, Duqiu personally escorted Xue Xun to leave Chengdu secretly.