Chapter 146: The Horse Farm is Completed
"I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you." Bai Qiaoqiao said worriedly.
"What's the disappointment, it's just a deal, it's just a big deal to lose some money, your husband and I make so much money, I'm worried that I have no place to put it." If you can pay for me, it's too late for me to be happy. Li Mu grinned and said, "As for the name, we can change one." Qiaoqiao only calls at home, and when you are outside, you ...... Hmmm......"
Li Mu thought for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said, "Aren't you named the lady of Wupinlu County?" In the future, we will change our name to Bailu, Your Majesty's decree, I see who dares to chew the root of the tongue. ”
"Deer?" Bai Qiaoqiao read it again, smiled, and said, "This name is good, it sounds good, and it's easy to remember." And it just so happens that when I was a child, my mother told me that I was born when I was in Bailu. ”
"Isn't that right," Li Mu took Bai Qiaoqiao and kissed him, and said, "I didn't know before, but I'll remember it in the future, every year when Bai Lu is in the morning, I will celebrate your birthday." ”
"Nonsense, I'm an ordinary woman, what kind of birthday to celebrate, I'm not afraid of losing my birthday, it's good if you can remember."
"Well, I can't forget it." After chatting for a while, Li Mu also 'recovered' a lot, and was about to try again, when Li Zhien's voice suddenly sounded outside the door: "Master, madam, lunch is ready, is it eating outside, or in the house?" ”
"Get up." Bai Qiaoqiao pushed Li Mu and begged. Although Li Mu was unwilling, he also responded and said, "Go out and eat, wait!" ”
Li Zhien, who was outside the door, couldn't guess what Li Mu was doing, his pretty face was slightly red, and he stomped his feet and left. As soon as he got out of the door across the courtyard, he saw Cheng Yanjin rushing in in a hurry, and hurriedly ran back and shouted, "Master, get up quickly, that bearded man is here again." ”
"Bearded?"
"It's Uncle Cheng." Bai Qiaoqiao hurriedly reminded, picked up the clothes and handed them to Li Mu, while he fled to the bed, urging: "Hurry up and greet him, if you bump into him, you won't survive." ”
"Oh, it's really ......" Li Mu hurriedly put on his clothes, but thought in his heart, he must set a rule for Cheng Yanjin, it's okay to go straight to the back house.
Complaining in his heart, Li Mu got dressed and came out of the house, just in time to bump into Cheng Yanjin. As soon as Cheng Yanjin saw Li Mu, he immediately came over and grabbed him, and dragged him out without saying anything: "Virtuous nephew, I can be regarded as having found you, the horse farm you asked me to repair was completed in the morning, hurry up, hurry up and follow me to have a look!" ”
Li Mu was dragged to his feet, and said continuously: "Uncle Cheng, you first loosen, loosen, loose!" ”
Li Mu struggled to break free of Cheng Biting Jin's iron arm, and stood still: "Uncle Cheng, I have something to say." The little nephew respects you uncle, you come to give the little nephew face, but my marquis's mansion is not a place to come and go at will. Especially in the back house, after all, there are female dependents. Uncle Cheng goes straight to the back house like this every time he comes, but he doesn't take his little nephew seriously. ”
Cheng Yanjin was stunned for a moment, looked at Li Mu, frowned slightly, and quickly relaxed, and said, "Okay, okay, whatever you kid says, the old man listens to you." Next time, the old man is waiting at the door, and let the porter inform him before entering, okay? ”
Li Mu said: "No need, Uncle Cheng is waiting in the lobby, as long as the little nephew is at home, he will definitely come to see you immediately." ”
"Oh, you have a lot of rules, let's go!"
"The little nephew hasn't eaten yet......"
"After reading it, there is something delicious for you!"
trotted all the way to the door, Li Mu called Li Chongyi, followed Cheng Yanjin and his party, and came to the horse farm that Cheng Yanjin built in ten days.
When he arrived at the place, Li Mu knew why Cheng had completed the construction of the horse farm in ten days, because he had mobilized the forbidden army to work for him. That's why he dared to do this, if he had another general...... Nor is that likely to happen.
It can be seen that Cheng Biting Jin has put his mind into it, and the whole horse farm is generally the same as the picture painted by Li Mu, but it is slightly different from the part of the stands. Three of the four stands are open-air, and only the north side of the stand has a canopy to shelter from the sun and rain, and it is also separated by an elaborate wooden fence, which is obviously a 'private room'. I didn't expect Cheng Yanjin to have such a thought, and he had to impress Li Mu.
"This is next to the Hibiscus Garden, during the Wude period, it was originally going to build a workshop, and later because of His Majesty's meritorious service, the Emperor Taishang planned to build the Qin Palace's Mansion here to give it to His Majesty today, but it didn't take long for His Majesty to ascend the throne, and it was not built here. Lao Cheng, I put my face out and begged Your Majesty to give me this land and build this horse farm, what do you think? ”
"It's very good, it's really unexpected that it can be built to such an extent in just ten days."
Cheng Yanjin saw that Li Mu approved, so he said, "Then let's open tomorrow!" ”
"So fast?" Li Mu asked: "Did you do the propaganda you said before?" ”
"Propaganda is easy to do!" Cheng Yanjin said indifferently: "Later, I will send a general to deliver posts to various prefectures, and just tell me no." ”
Li Mu said: "This is not good, what is the use of just having people racing horses, the important thing is to make the people like it." If the people don't like it, prosperity will be for a while, and they should not buy or sell. ”
"Then what do you say, what kind of propaganda, if you didn't talk about it, the old man would never have heard of this word!"
"Okay, leave the publicity to me, it will open in three days, you can also prepare in the next few days, select a few good knights, this first game, can't be too embarrassing."
"Good! Just wait another three days! "Cheng Yanjin is good at this, and if he doesn't understand something, he will never be good at making claims. Recently, he has also seen Li Mu's ability, and he no longer regards him as a child like before. And he is not afraid of any gate valve family, he is one of the few people in this court who can be left and right, he is not only a new upstart from the dragon, but also has a relationship with the gate valve, his wife is the daughter of the Qinghe Cui family, both ends are related, and neither end dares to offend him.
Li Mu took a fancy to this point, so he tolerated Cheng Biting Gold several times to take advantage. In the final analysis, they all use each other, and Cheng Yanjin also took a fancy to Li Mu's ability to make money. The net profit of 100,000 yuan a year of Bashang Distillery made him red-eyed.
After a walk around the horse farm, Cheng Yanjin invited Li Mu to a military dinner. Cheng Yanjin doesn't pick the door in this regard, today's big meal in the army is on the meal. I don't know where he got ten sheep and found Turkic captives to roast them, which has a steppe flavor.
Li Mu asked, only to know that this was a gift from Jieli. After knowing that Jieli was captured, his scattered tribes also gathered together and returned to the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin gave pasture to his people, these sheep were sent to Chang'an by his people, Jieli is also a good person, all the princes' mansions have sent more than ten or twenty, Cheng Yanjin got a total of these twenty, and one was not left to be rewarded, which can also be called generous.