Li Tai can take Li You in, of course, it is impossible for him to eat a bite, but Li You doesn't know what to think, so he has to exchange his money and refuse to eat Li Tai's. In desperation, Li Tai had no choice but to take him to the Four Seas Casino to exchange chips.

One year after the birth of the glass chips, it has completely penetrated inside and outside the Tang Dynasty and has become a real hard currency. Nowadays, the highest denomination is not only 1,000 yuan, but there are also large chips of 10,000 yuan, but the number is scarce and the number of people who use it is few. The most commonly used chips are 1,000 pieces.

Ergou knew Li Tai, he knew that Li Tai was not good at gambling, and he rarely came to the Four Seas Gambling House. The Four Seas Gambling House in Chang'an City received the most after the nobles, and these second ancestors had a unique taste. Although Li You is a phoenix that is not as good as a chicken, the innate second ancestor aura on his body for many years is still recognized by the second dog at a glance.

Usually, when Ergou sees such a person, the four words that come to mind are "people are stupid and have a lot of money", if it wasn't for the people brought by Li Tai, he would have surrounded him a long time ago.

"Lord Wang, this is-" Ergou and Li Tai were already familiar with each other, and they were not overly respectful, but they bowed slightly, and Li Tai raised his hand to let him get up. Cast an inquiring look, Li Tai was just about to introduce him, Li You himself said: "Ordinary people, "

Li You said this himself, and Li Tai didn't explain, and said, "This friend of mine wants to exchange chips." ”

"Well said." Ergou's current shopkeeper, such a trivial matter as exchanging chips, naturally he will not do it in person, he raised his hand and called a small servant, took the chips from Li You's hand, and exchanged them in the blink of an eye.

The Four Seas Gambling House is open, and at least 50,000 yuan in cash is prepared, isn't it just a thousand yuan to take it casually?

"Do you want to send an escort to the house?" Ergou asked enthusiastically, of course others don't have this preferential treatment, but Li Tai is not an outsider after all. He is the emperor's favorite son, and he is also the apprentice of his master.

"No need, let's go." Li Tai said that he was about to take Li You away, but Li You didn't move, but asked Ergou and said, "Can you help find a place to live, how much does it cost, and take it from here." ”

"This-" Ergou looked at Li Tai's eyes, and Li Tai could see how firm Li You's heart was from scratch, so he said, "Then help my friend, buy a small courtyard." After a pause, he added: "Closer, how much money is used, not enough to come to the house to get it." ”

Li You didn't even say no, so he had to take chips out of the baggage. Ergou hurriedly stopped and said, "Enough, enough, no more, five hundred is enough." ”

"Give you six hundred," Li You said, "and help me hire a housekeeper who is familiar with the local area." ”

"Okay," Ergou smiled and responded, he hadn't seen Li You with his own eyes, and he didn't know his origin, but who didn't like it?

Li Tai asked Li You, "You're not going back home with me?" ”

Li You looked at Ergou and asked, "How long will the house be purchased?" ”

Ergou thought for a while and said, "It will take two or three days at the earliest." ”

"Then stay in the Fourth Brother's Mansion for two or three days." Li You said: "The housekeeper has found it, let him come, I have other things to do, I want him to help." ”

The second dog responded, and Li You left the Four Seas Gambling House with Li Tai. Ergou stood at the door, watched the two leave, frowned and thought for a while, and muttered to himself: "This person, it shouldn't be Li You, the king of Qi, otherwise how could he call the fourth brother of King Wei?" ”

"He is Hou Ye's opponent, should I help him?" Ergou was a little drumming in his heart, and wanted to ask, but he was worried that he would disturb Li Mu, and then thought about it, Li Tai is Li Mu's apprentice, Li Mu came back for the past few days, and went to ask for peace almost every day, if this matter can't be done, Li Tai won't do it. Since the person was brought by Li Tai, and he didn't say his identity, he could pretend to be confused.

"It's rare to be confused," Ergou muttered, and called a little guy under his hand to get things done. These little guys are all newly acquired by him after he came to Luoyang City. has the experience of gathering this group of people in Chang'an, and after coming to Luoyang, they are also familiar with the road.

……

Because of Li Mu's move of wanting to take the child out of the door, he was temporarily deprived of the right to be alone with his son. Li Mubai was bored, so he had to pick up the unfinished work.

In fact, Li Mu didn't want to work in his heart, he wanted to rest. But he couldn't stand Gongsun Kang, Dou Ren and others guarding endlessly, watching them pile up in the front yard day by day, Li Mu panicked, and finally, after lunch, Li Mu came to the front yard lobby and began to deal with the things left behind and listen to their reports.

According to the first-come-first-served rule in the morning, the first person to report is Gongsun Kang. Gongsun Kang's matter is relatively simple, more than half a month before Li Mu returned to Luoyang, the road has been passed. Now from Chang'an to Luoyang, there is no need to go to Sanmenxia, but to level the avenue through the train, which can save at least half a day's time. Because of the convenience of transportation, the exchange of materials is easier than before, I don't know how much, the price of rice in Chang'an City has fallen, in winter, it was the time when the price of rice grew the most ruthlessly, but this year's rice price, did not rise much. The difference between the price of rice in Chang'an City and Luoyang is only three wen, which is basically not bad.

But Li Mu listened to it for a long time, but his brows furrowed, he only heard Gongsun Kang say how good the Chidao repair, but he didn't hear a word about the 'bridge toll', so he interrupted and asked: "Who is collecting the bridge toll of Chidao now?" Is the court collecting? ”

"Bridge tolls?" Gongsun Kang said blankly: "No one mentioned the matter of the bridge toll?" Master Hou, do you have to charge for it? ”

"Fart!" Li Mu said angrily; "No charge, does Lao Tzu spend so much effort to do public welfare?"

Li Mu ordered; "From tomorrow - forget it, after the year, you can hurry up these days, get stuck at the joints of the gallop, repair a few bayonets for me, and charge in sections. In addition, I informed the household department that the tax department would come to collect the tax in a hurry, and all the goods that passed through the bayonet would be confiscated without the tax payment documents, which was something that my Majesty and I had agreed on a long time ago. ”

Gongsun Kang hurriedly said: "But Master Hou, this Chidao has never confiscated fees, once it starts to charge, I'm afraid-"

"Afraid of what? If you don't want to go, don't go, you can continue to go around Sanmenxia, and I didn't stop it, did I? Li Mu snorted coldly and said, "Pedestrians don't need to pay, but those who do business must pay." How can there be anything in the world that takes advantage of nothing, and Lao Tzu doesn't need to cost to build roads? If I'm not mistaken, this gallop was still repaired with money, right? At the beginning, I promised that I would make money by recovering the cost. ”

"Master Hou, no one has ever mentioned that you want to collect money."

Li Mu sneered: "Naturally, they won't mention it, it's the most beneficial for them." But this money must be collected, and there are no rules. According to the original agreement, the money will be collected after the year, when the cost and surplus will be recovered, and when the bayonet will be dismantled. ”

"Next year, Longyou, Taiyuan, Yangzhou, each section of the road will be completed one after another, our gallop is a sample, if there are no rules, the traffic will not be managed, a road is not much money, but in the future there will be more and more roads like Chidao, the burden of construction is getting bigger and bigger, if there is no money to fill in, just rely on the court or just rely on a few people, a few families, sooner or later it will collapse."

Gongsun Kang said yes again and again and made a record. But when he finished writing, he suddenly felt that this didn't seem to be my business, wasn't it just a foreman?

But Li Mu didn't say it, and he didn't dare to ask. Anyway, just do the things that have been explained, and do it well.

Next is Dou Ren, when Li Mu left, let him and Li Tai take charge of the affairs of the Foreign Affairs Office. I didn't think he could do much better, but I saw Li Tai in the past two days, and learned from Li Tai that this Dou Ren was really working hard, although things were not so brilliant, but there were no major mistakes, and what was even more rare was that not only did he not take advantage of his position to be greedy for money, but he took a lot of money himself, started a business at a loss, and his spirit was commendable.

Li Mu flipped through the summary handed in by Dou Ren, and then listened to his own debriefing, which was quite like a thing.

didn't hear a big problem, so Li Mu didn't speak. But Dou Ren's heart was a little hairy, Li Mu didn't say anything, he just thought that he hadn't done a good job, and looked at the others in the lobby beggingly, wanting to find someone to help say a few good words. But the others themselves haven't passed the test yet, who dares to pretend that this big-tailed wolf will say good things to him, and they all bow their heads one by one, and they just don't see it.

"It's okay, it's not meritorious." Li Mu finally gave a comment and said: "Even if you leave the bottom behind, it depends on how much profit you can make next year." ”

Li Mu looked at Dou Ren and said, "To do things, you can't do it with your own money." You can afford this amount of money now, but what about later? This is the Foreign Affairs Office of the Tang Dynasty, not a small business of anyone's family, after it is officially on the right track, if there is a mistake, how much can you put in? When you find out that you have lost money, don't always think that I will fill in the hole, but think seriously about whether something is wrong. ”

Dou Ren wiped his sweat again and again, this invisible pressure made him more uncomfortable than being scolded directly.

"If you don't understand something, ask Changsun Chong more." Li Mu looked at Changsun Chong, who was in the middle of the lobby, and said, "My beloved apprentice, I have to go back to the Internal Affairs Office in the next year, hurry up, if not, take a note of the experience he gave you first, and slowly confirm it later." ”

Dou Ren hurriedly said: "I have memorized it, I have always remembered it."

Li Mu motioned for him to sit down, then looked at the Tubo prince Gemu beside Changsun Chong, and said, "I haven't seen you for half a year, have you made any progress?" ”

Gem stood up, wanting to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he felt as if he was bragging about himself, and reached out to stretch Sun Chong's sleeve. The two brothers stayed together day and night, and the eldest grandson Chong couldn't help but take care of it, and said: "Teacher, the junior brother has made considerable progress, and the Foreign Affairs Office is responsible for the affairs of Tubo and the Western Regions, and now he is also doing it together." ”

"That's good, you have learned a lot, I heard that your civil strife in Tibet has subsided, and after the New Year, you can go back."

Gem immediately knelt down and said, "Master, the disciple doesn't know what he has done wrong, and he asks Master to make it clear." ”

"I didn't do anything wrong." Li Mu didn't beat around the bush either, and said, "But you are the prince of Tubo after all." And the place where you work is my Datang Foreign Affairs Office. It is inevitable that there will be suspicions of melon fields and plums, and you have learned almost now, so it is better to go back to Tubo, with you in Tubo, when you interact with Datang in the future, it will be counted as a point. ”

"But Master, what hasn't the apprentice learned yet?" Gem said seriously: "The skills that the apprentice knows now are all learned from the senior brother, and the master has not taught me yet." ”

"Yo?" Li Mu laughed and asked Eldest Sun Chong, "Did I teach you anything?" ”

"Uh-" The eldest grandson Chongxin said, it seems that he has not taught anything seriously, but he is indeed better than before now, and his ability is greater, this is an indisputable fact, so he said sincerely: "Master teaches by word and deed, and the disciple has benefited a lot." ”

"It's hypocritical," Li Mu said mercilessly: "Actually, as a master, I know in my heart that I haven't taught you anything seriously." It doesn't matter, what matters is whether you have studied it yourself or not. There is a way that the master leads the door to practice in an individual, and I teach it by hand, maybe you can't learn it even more. What I'm best at is iron, would you like to learn it? ”

"Disciples can learn!" Gem would borrow the slope to get off the donkey, and said, "The disciple can carry the hammer, and he has beaten it a few times." ”

"Say you're fat and you're still panting," Li Mu said unceremoniously: "Self-taught, the rules of the door." You want to learn to strike iron, Ben Hou doesn't want to hand it over, in a word, striking iron is the secret skill of this sect, and the core disciple of the transmission, you have not reached that level, less delusional. ”

Gem was stunned, but he didn't feel any dissatisfaction. Li Mu's temperament, he had already heard what Changsun Chong said, and he expected what he was expecting, so he didn't feel lost.

"It's hypocritical," Li Mu said mercilessly: "Actually, as a master, I know in my heart that I haven't taught you anything seriously." It doesn't matter, what matters is whether you have studied it yourself or not. There is a way that the master leads the door to practice in an individual, and I teach it by hand, maybe you can't learn it even more. What I'm best at is iron, would you like to learn it? ”

"Disciples can learn!" Gem would borrow the slope to get off the donkey, and said, "The disciple can carry the hammer, and he has beaten it a few times." ”

"Say you're fat and you're still panting," Li Mu said unceremoniously: "Self-taught, the rules of the door." You want to learn to strike iron, Ben Hou doesn't want to hand it over, in a word, striking iron is the secret skill of this sect, and the core disciple of the transmission, you have not reached that level, less delusional. ”

Gem was stunned, but he didn't feel any dissatisfaction. Li Mu's temperament, he had already heard what Changsun Chong said, and he expected what he was expecting, so he didn't feel lost. Gem was stunned, but he didn't feel any dissatisfaction. Li Mu's temperament, he had already heard what Changsun Chong said, and he expected what he was expecting, so he didn't feel lost. Gem was stunned, but he didn't feel any dissatisfaction.