On the way back to Beijing, Yuan Shao showed enough closeness. Liu Tao was not estranged, but he was not overly close, and chatted from time to time, as long as it did not involve the position of the Han family, then he talked about it.

After getting along for a few days, Yuan Shao almost understands Liu Tao's position. So after he was named the general of the feather forest, he didn't take the initiative to look for it. After all, the interests of the two sides are in different directions, and even slightly conflicting.

It is said that the relationship has cooled down like this, but now the eldest brother ...... With such an attitude, I feel that you are trying to calculate me.

"Brother Ben, I haven't seen you for a long time." Liu Tao muttered in his heart, and he had to smile on the surface. Anyway, this time the cultural meeting was held in someone else's house, and it was still a straight face, so it was better not to come and forget it from the beginning.

"It's also Yuan's fault, after returning to Beijing, there are many official affairs, and you can't invite the virtuous brother out for a gathering." Yuan Shao took the initiative to compensate, at least Liu Tao really can't see the ingredients of acting.

Yes, it's busy, strictly speaking, everybody is busy......

"Each other, Liu just came to Luoyang, he is not familiar with the place, and he doesn't know where to go, so it's not good to invite casually, and I hope that the first brother will not be surprised." Liu Tao had to be polite.

The two of you say a word to me, as if they have suddenly become friends who have not seen each other for many years, and there is almost no direct worship. The surrounding guests are naturally very strange, who is this young man?

Fortunately, most of them came with their elders, and the young ones didn't know that the big guys at the level of the Three Princes and Nine Qing must have recognized Liu Tao. looked at his son with a puzzled look, so he whispered an introduction.

Han clan relatives, military meritorious officials, Lu Zhi's protégés, these three identities are indeed a bit shocking. Don't look at the number of big achievements in half a year, and countless small achievements, but from a white body to a general in the feather forest, this is the performance of hard power.

Look at them again, they are basically Lang officials, and some of them haven't even been out yet, after all, they haven't reached the crown yet.

"Isn't it just a little luckier, taking advantage of the Yellow Turban Thieves to make trouble...... there must be one or two sour, I just think that Liu Tao is lucky and has caught up with a good time.

The key is that people with this kind of thinking, as long as there are more than two, they will form a series, and for a while, a small team was vaguely formed, and they planned to make it difficult for Liu Tao at this meeting.

After all, although Liu Tao is Lu Zhi's protégé, he is an official with military merits, and Wen Tao doesn't know how.

Of course, Liu Tao didn't know this, he was still thinking at the moment, what was Yuan Shao's plan to be so enthusiastic. It is estimated that he will not have this kind of brainless idea of winning over himself, and after getting along for so long, he must know that he is on Liu Hong's side.

Then it is to deduct the benefits of political positions, for example, business profits......

Thinking of this, Liu Tao knew that there was a high probability that Yuan Shao should have come to the papermaking workshop. After all, under the name of the Yuan family, there are actually two papermaking practices, which are larger in scale than the royal ones, and the key is the acquisition of raw materials that are almost monopolized.

It is the crowding out of these two workshops that the royal workshop has been in a state of loss, otherwise how could Liu Hong have waved his hand and directly transferred it to himself?

So, is Yuan Valve interested in the profit of toilet paper? Liu Tao couldn't help but maliciously speculate, is this planning to ask for craftsmanship, or directly buy shares? Then again, this concept should have been proposed first, right?

Strictly speaking, the concept of shares should have only started in the Song Dynasty, right?!

Yuan Shao didn't just want to receive Liu Tao, but also seemed to be responsible for receiving other guests. At the same time, there was another young man who was a little like him, who should be his younger brother Yuan Shu.

Originally, one was the elder brother of the concubine, and the younger brother of the concubine. But with Yuan Shao's succession to Yuan An, the eldest son of Shu became the eldest son of the collateral lineage, and the half-brother became a clan brother.

Cai Yan was already mixed with other female relatives, so naturally it was impossible to come over to say hello. Liu Tao doesn't talk nonsense, the three righteous brothers, according to Yuan Shao's arrangement, sit down in the position and wait.

Each building has two seats, and more than 20 guests are invited, plus female dependents, to say the least, there are 60 or 70 people. It's just that the ladies don't seem to be dining here.

"Ladies are not allowed to eat at the table?" Liu Tao asked in a low voice.

"Men and women don't sit at the same table." Lu Yan didn't know where Liu Tao heard about it, so he explained in a low voice.

From "The Book of Rites: Internal Rules": For seven years, men and women did not sit at the same table and did not eat together. Confucius advocated this, and the sovereign ones were Confucian protégés, so in some more formal banquets, the female dependents arranged to drink the banquet in other places, separate from the men.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, a man can talk about women's topics in ten sentences, and when the time comes, it will be embarrassing to talk about which girl in Qinglou is talented or something. Don't talk about it, the atmosphere can't be up, and it seems boring.

"That is, there are ......few female hooligans in these years," Liu Tao sighed a little when he heard this.

As the guests arrived one after another, the morning food was also served one after another. What made Liu Tao cry and laugh was that what came up was actually white-flour steamed buns, steamed buns and soy milk fritters. In front of yourself, the 'creator', is it embarrassing to bring this thing?

The key was surprised, or he hadn't seen these things, Liu Tao looked left and right, and found that there really didn't seem to be. Now you can see ghosts, these things, maybe they have become known to everyone unconsciously?!

Meow, you haven't paid me the royalties yet, okay? Liu Tao made it out by himself to satisfy his appetite, and then he was afraid that Liu Hong would be greedy, so he dedicated it to the palace by the way.

According to this logic, it is said that the palaces of each dynasty are a sieve, and it seems that this sentence is fine. It may not even be a sieve, it is simply a funnel!

"It's not as delicious as my brother'......" Zhang Fei ate a few bites of the bun and then muttered in a low voice.

The key is that the atmosphere is very bad, in the past, in the army, such buns were eaten in three or two bites, and then poured a bowl of soy milk, that feeling is called cool! But here, if you eat too fast, it looks too rude, and if you chew it slowly one or two, it's uncomfortable to watch!

Fortunately, it's not 'food without words', and there are chats with each other, otherwise it feels weird to eat quietly like this.

More officials are talking, talking about nothing more than the situation of the Han dynasty. Chatting and chatting, it is difficult to talk about the deficit of the national treasury, and the deficit of the treasury is because of the eunuchs' chaotic administration, which leads to the poor livelihood of the local people, and the survival of the people is still a problem, how to pay taxes.

is still lamenting, every time taxes are levied, I don't know how many people are forced to sell their children and daughters, and their families are ruined......

Liu Tao looked at them silently like this and said, secretly said: Criticism, despite criticism, when I don't know that this people are having a bad life, it is the pot of the landlord annexing the land.

The real culprit is the weather, the last ten years, drought and flooding. The people themselves are on the subsistence line, and those who can survive in a few years must have been rich peasants a few years ago. A few years ago, it was estimated that the peasants would either die or be sold.

Don't speculate for more than half a sentence, in the end, the position is different, Liu Tao simply kept silent, and let them say whatever they like......