The seventh year of Zhide was the most peaceful year in the last ten years of the Great Liang Dynasty, and there was no war.

The people's food was finally enough, and a new atmosphere of prosperity followed.

When people began to be able to eat enough, their favorite was all kinds of entertainment, and various sports such as singing and dancing, chess, sumo wrestling, and wrestling became crowded places.

In winter, people look forward to the New Year, and a gust of cold wind blows, but it can't blow the smiles on the faces of the people, and almost every family has enough food.

For so many years, the people have been really hungry and scared, and they don't even dare to have children.

Afraid of being born and starving to death, the double blow makes people even more uncomfortable.

Lin Qiao'er's belly is getting bigger and bigger, but Tang Yuan can't come back to see her often, and after leaving the capital for more than half a year, Tang Yuan rarely inquires about Luoyang, and gradually snubs the news of the emperor, and at the same time, he rarely hears news from Tang Qi.

Now the Queen Mother completely controls the military and political power, and the emperor and the so-called Jiuxi 8,000 years old are basically two ornaments.

What is surprising is that Tang Zhenzhen is a long-lived person, not only did his stroke not continue to worsen, but it got better, and his walking was only slightly uncoordinated, but this old gentleman didn't have to walk by himself at all, and many people went on poles to help him.

Now Tang Yuan sees Tang Xiao almost every few days, because Tang Yuan was appointed by Tang Xiao as the general of the Chang'an Garrison Army, with four divisions under his command. The general of the garrison is Tang Xiao, but he rarely cares about military affairs now, and all the idle things are handed over to the deputy generals, superintendent Liang officers, and staff generals.

The deputy generals Dian Han and Tang Yuan are old acquaintances, and they fought together in a division on the battlefield in Hebei, how many times were they in the same camp, shoulder to shoulder against the enemy.

The comradeship that survived on the battlefield made people feel extraordinarily sincere, and Dian Han was as serious as ever, but he had an obvious shortcoming, he loved money.

As the general of the Tang family, he is still a high-ranking official, and it is nothing to be greedy for money, Tang Xiao is too lazy to care, but when he stretched out his tentacles asking for money to the army, this matter has touched Tang Yuan's bottom line, and this is also Tang Xiao's bottom line.

Now Tang Xiao didn't know that Dian Han was so bold, so Tang Yuan planned to talk to Dian Han and persuade him to stop in time.

"Dude, you've been making a lot of money in recent years, right?" Tang Yuan invited Dian Han to drink, and brought Chen Bao, Tang Hu, and Nalan Xin.

Dian Han knew that these three people were Tang Yuan's absolute cronies, so he didn't care, and waved his hand and said: "It depends on who you compare with, if you compare with our brother, I have made a small fortune, but compared with those high-ranking families, I only have a few dollars?" ”

Tang Yuan stretched out three fingers and asked fraudulently, "Is there such a number?" ”

Tang Yuan just stretched out three fingers, and didn't say the unit of quantity. Whether it is 30,000 taels, 300,000 taels, or 3 million taels is simply a vague statement.

Dian Han looked at Tang Yuan, and he stretched out two fingers.

Tang Yuan was confused and asked, "Twenty thousand?" ”

Dian Han shook his head and said, "What is 20,000 enough?" ”

"Two hundred thousand?" Tang Yuan simply felt a chill down his spine, 200,000 yuan, what kind of concept is that, now one tael of silver can buy two pigs, a standard three-entry courtyard in Chang'an City costs five hundred taels, a three-entry standard courtyard in a good area of Luoyang City costs one thousand taels, and the suburbs also cost five hundred taels, many people can't afford to buy a house like this in their lifetime, but it only took him a year to buy 200 good houses in Luoyang City.

It is no wonder that during this year, the price of houses in Luoyang City skyrocketed, and it exceeded 1,000 taels when I saw a set of standard three-entry courtyards. Even Tang Yuan's previous house in the northeast corner of Luoyang City had doubled, so Tang Yuan was still complacent, but compared to this money scraper, it was simply a drizzle.

"My brother, where did you get that much money?" Tang Yuan was surprised: "It's hard to get 200,000 just by buying and selling officials." ”

"Oh brother, it seems that you don't know anything about the market, you know, how much money can I get if I give a little activity to the place? We don't have the right to seal the thousands of military households in the county, but we have the right to transfer. If you transfer him to a poor place, or to the border at all, that person will immediately sell the pot and sell the land to send me money. Do you know how much it costs to move a thousand households? Dian Han snorted coldly: "At least this number." ”

Norihan held out a finger.

Tang Yuan was confused, and he didn't know what this finger meant, whether it was a thousand or ten thousand.

But now he was in no mood to ask any more, so he simply went straight to the point and said: "I don't care how you move the people in the county, but how much money can they have in their hands when you move the people in the army?" ”

"Oh, it's been a long time, you kid is here to find me." Dian Han patted his stomach and said: "Actually, if you don't look for me, I will also look for you, last time I promoted a few captains, I took some favors in, and it won't work if I don't promote, and I also collected a little money." As you said, the money for being a soldier is not much, so I will collect three or four thousand taels, and I don't even bother to weigh them. This money should have been divided into half for you, but I think the amount is too small, and some can't take it, so I'm waiting to make up enough 10,000 yuan, and we will divide it again. Now that I'm talking about it, I don't think there's any need to wait. and I will give you all the three or four thousand pieces of silver. ”

"Second Brother Dian, I didn't mean that."

"Oh, between our brothers, if you don't say it, you can accept it." Dian Han said heroically: "When I was in Dizhou, I said, don't forget Gou Fugui. Ours, so how did my brother become a dog when he is rich today? Yes? Hahahahaha! Let's brothers, get rich together! Come, drink! ”

"Wait, Second Brother Dian, I can't ask for this money."

"Huh?" Dian Hanla said with a heavy face: "Brother, what do you mean by this?" Are you blaming your brother for not talking to you at the beginning and entrusting you with face? ”

"No, no, no, what face is there between you and me, I just want to say that this is a violation of military discipline, if you let Chang'an Gong know, I'm afraid it will ......" Tang Yuan wanted to speak and stopped.

"What else can he do if he knows?" Dian Han glared at him with the strength of the wine: "My eldest brother was punished, led 60,000 troops to garrison the Hexi Corridor, and was harassed by those Turkic wandering tribes all day long, his place was poor and he couldn't get money, and I, the second brother, didn't make some money in Chang'an, a fat place?" Our Lao Xing family sold it to the old Tang family? ”

Tang Yuan suddenly stopped talking.

Dian Han didn't speak anymore, the air in the room was dull, only the sound of Chen Bao drinking wine and Tang Hu eating meat.

"Brother, don't you want your brother to make this money, do you?"

"The second brother of Dian Han wants to make money, I don't stop it, and I don't plan to share the money from the second brother, but no matter how you make money, you shouldn't fight the idea in the army."