Chapter 389: Li Yousheng

When the weather turned cooler, Li Shimin dragged his family back to Chang'an.

Because Li Shimin was in Jiucheng Palace and took away the crown prince Li Chengqian, the court meeting was not held during that time, and the affairs of the DPRK and China were decided by relevant officials gathered in Zhongshu Province to discuss and decide, and then reported to Jiucheng Palace for approval. The three provinces, six ministries, five temples and nine Qing departments are operating in an orderly and orderly manner, passing one decree after another to every corner of the Tang Dynasty, so that this huge empire can run at full capacity.

In the fall, Wang Yan was finally diagnosed as pregnant, which made Zhang Yunwen overjoyed. The long march has finally come to an end, and it's not easy! He knew that in order to get pregnant as soon as possible, Wang Yan secretly didn't know how many home remedies she had drunk, and even her whole face turned slightly blue, which made Zhang Yunwen feel distressed for a while.

Wang Qu, who was in Liyang, heard that his granddaughter was pregnant, and despite his advanced age and weak health, he made a special trip from Liyang and brought a large cart of supplements.

Looking at Wang Qu Zhang Yunwen, who had silver hair, trembling and majestic, and could hardly even walk steadily, suddenly had a lot of emotion, remembering the situation when they met in Luoyang, and remembering the situation of selling the natural residence to him in Chang'an, he sighed for a while.

Wang Qu's mental state is excellent, and he is happy all day long, even Zhang Yan and Zhang Ji like this white-bearded grandfather very much. Of course, this is also inseparable from the gifts that Wang Qu brought to them and bought snacks for them every day.

Now, Wang Qu has gradually been pushed down from the position of the head of the Liyang Wang family, and his body no longer allows him to continue to serve as the head of the family. Now the position of the head of the Wang family is held by Wang Xu, the second person in the outer house of the Taiyuan Wang family, and his son Wang Pan is the key figure in Zhang Yunwen's split of the Wang family. However, after Wang Pan experienced the split of the Wang family, he gradually became old, and he was not as impetuous as before, which made Wang Xuan happy.

With the support of Li Shimin, now, the business of the Liyang Wang family has spread all over Guanzhong Henan, and is thriving and flourishing.

When Wang Yan got married, Wang Qu was even more generous and took out a caravan of thirty people as a dowry. Although many people within the Wang family opposed it at that time, Wang Qu said: "Since my Wang family moved here, you also know what Wang Yan's contribution is." Besides, the husband she married is the lord of the county, there is a princess, and the lord of the county is his wife, if the dowry is too thin, won't my Wang Yan be bullied? Besides, as long as it has the support of Zhang Yunwen and His Majesty, it is worth it if it is a caravan, even if it is a caravan! ”

Today, this caravan is still under the royal family, and all the income obtained every year is used in Zhang Yunwen's mansion.

And when Wang Qu came to Chang'an to visit Wang Yan, he also brought bad news. This bad news is about that caravan.

The director of this caravan is called Wang Tong, who was originally a servant of Wang Qu's family, who grew up in Wang Qu's family since he was a child, and is witty and sensitive. Therefore, Wang Qu passed on all his years of experience in business to Wang Tong. Wang Tong's performance also made Wang Qu very pleased. At the age of thirty, he became a caravan steward.

After the Wang family moved to Liyang, Wang Tong served as the chief steward of the Wang family, in charge of the Wang family's shop in Liyang City. And when Wang Yan got married, Wang Qu gave the king together with a caravan as a dowry.

Zhang Yunwen has seen the same two sides of the king, and his first impression of him is that he is shrewd and capable, knows how to advance and retreat, and is a capable person.

This Wang Tong took this caravan to travel in Guanzhong, Henan, Shandong and other places, and could obtain a lot of profits every year. And Zhang Yunwen also knew that there must be brave men under serious injuries, and took one-tenth of the annual profit as the remuneration of the caravan members, as for Wang Tong, he took another three percent. Under this reward system, the size of the caravan has expanded from 30 to 80 people.

However, while doing business in Qizhou, the caravan ran into trouble.

Qizhou was the fief of Li You, the fifth son of Li Shimin. This Li You, whose mother is a concubine, has been a violent person since he was a child, and he is good at traveling and making friends with treacherous people. In the early years, when Li You was twelve or thirteen years old, he had a deal with Zhang Yunwen. That time, Li You took a fancy to the carriage that Zhang Yunwen put in the post station and took it away directly. Then, Zhang Yunwen and Li Yuyou asked for it back.

Now, this Li You is in his twenties!

When the caravan was loaded with Goryeo goods bought from Dengzhou and was about to go to Guanzhong to sell and pass through Qizhou, the caravan was stopped by the guards of the Qi Palace.

The leader is called Liang Mengbiao, this person is born a fierce god, on both arms, muscles bulging, after stopping the caravan, carefully inspect it for a long time, saying that the goods of the caravan are all the things needed by the Qi Palace, hoping to buy them all. As for the price, this Liang Mengbiao did not mention it at all.

Wang Tong looked at Liang Mengbiao's expression and movements, and knew that this person was probably trying to empty the gloves of the white wolf and obtain this batch of goods for nothing! stepped forward and softly moved Zhang Yunwen's name out.

As soon as he heard this name, Liang Mengbiao couldn't help but hesitate, but looking at the goods in the convoy worth at least 30,000 yuan, his heart was like a cat. In the end, he asked the caravan to be watched, and he went to the palace himself and told Li You about it.

After hearing this, Li You couldn't help laughing and said: "When the king had not yet opened the mansion, when he was in Chang'an, he took a fancy to Zhang Yunwen's carriage, but he didn't expect this person to take it back, which made the king lose face!" Now that his caravan is detained, it is just a breath of the king's heart! ”

"But, Your Highness, that Zhang Yunwen is still your brother-in-law in name!"

When Li You heard this, he smiled mockingly: "What brother-in-law is not a brother-in-law, this king doesn't recognize him!" No matter how much, detain the goods first, what happened, this king is carrying! ”

Liang Mengbiao suddenly raised his eyebrows, clasped his fists and said loudly: "Oh! ”

As a result, the caravan was stopped in Qizhou. Although Wang Tong negotiated everywhere, it was fruitless. After being trapped in Qizhou for seven days, he left Qizhou empty-handed with eighty caravan members. As for the goods, they were bought by the people of the Qi Palace's Mansion at a price of thousands of times. And the carriage, Liang Mengbiao didn't mention it at all.

Wang Tong, who left Qizhou, felt ashamed of Zhang Yunwen, so he returned to Liyang with everyone, took out his family savings, and gathered 20,000 yuan with everyone, got off the carriage, and prepared to come again.

When Wang Qu told Zhang Yunwen the news, Wang Tongzheng led the caravan to Henan.

Zhang Yunwen listened to Wang Qu's narration, but sighed lightly: "Lao Wang, why bother! The cargo was only 30,000 yuan, as long as they could return safely, it would be the best, as for what goods, the kid didn't care too much. But this time, Li You has gone too far! Rest assured, the kid already has some thoughts in his heart, and Li You will look good when the time comes! ”

Wang Qu smiled with relief.

Zhang Yunwen said that the thoughts and thoughts he was referring to were a piece of information.

According to the intelligence, Li You, the king of Qi, has expanded the royal palace guard several times since May this year, from the original fifty to two hundred.

With this information, Lin Ran also smiled and said: "The Wei Wangfu is compiling books over there, the East Palace is spoiling the children, the Wu Wangfu is gambling money, and the Qi Wangfu is expanding the guards, alas, none of these highnesses are worry-free!" As he spoke, carefully file the information.

Now, Zhang Yunwen remembered this information about the expansion of the guards of the Qi Palace, as long as some other information was added, this Li You would be able to bear it.

So, the wanton and reckless behavior made Lin Ran focus on collecting information about Li You. Although Lin Ran was puzzled, he still complied.

Half a month later, the information was collected. Zhang Yunwen and Lin Ran couldn't help but be taken aback when they saw it.

In terms of intelligence, it is clear why Li You wants to expand the guard.

In the first month of this year, Li You came to Chang'an. When visiting his uncle Yin Hongzhi, the two talked secretly for half an hour. When Li You came out, there was a slight smile on his face.

Then, Yin Hongzhi's brother-in-law, Yan Hongxin, recruited rangers near Duling. When Li You left Chang'an, Yan Hongxin took more than 60 recruited rangers to follow Li You back to Qizhou.

Judging from the later situation, it is not difficult to guess that what Li You's uncle Yin Hongzhi said to him was nothing more than recruiting guards and training dead soldiers.

In addition to these, some other information clearly recorded Li You's actions in Qizhou, which were full of bad deeds, and there was no trace of brilliance.

After handing Zhang Yunwen the information, Lin Ran hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "My lord, is it because this King of Qi has detained the goods of your caravan, do you want to use this to attack the King of Qi?" ”

Zhang Yunwen smiled "hehe": "I thought you wouldn't ask, Lao Lin!" If I deny this, it will be hypocritical! Yes, that's part of the reason. But the bigger reason is this! Zhang Yunwen raised the information in his hand, "The matter of this vassal king can be big or small, small is not as small as the royal face, and the big one is the scourge!" Among the princes and county kings, only the king of Qi has the most bad deeds, so he should be a good student to discipline him, firstly, to save the people of Qizhou from harm, and secondly, to serve the princes and county kings. ”

After hearing Zhang Yunwen is reason, Lin Ran couldn't help but smile bitterly: "My lord can find a lot of excuses for everything, but my subordinates can't talk about you!" Since the adults think that this matter should be done, then the subordinates will fully cooperate! ”

Zhang Yunwen laughed, patted Lin Ran's shoulder, raised the information in his hand, and said with a smile: "Lao Lin, thank you for your hard work!" With that, he walked to the palace.

Arrested a few guards, eunuchs, and palace maids, inquired a few times, turned around a lot in the palace, and finally found Li Shimin who was admiring the flowers in the imperial garden.

It was the end of September, and the cold wind was about to rise, rolling up the leaves in the garden and swirling, flying in the air.

And what Li Shimin admires are clusters of blooming chrysanthemums.

I saw that the eyes were full of gold, and there seemed to be countless chrysanthemums swaying with the autumn breeze in front of me. Li Shimin was sitting in a pavilion, laughing and talking with the eldest grandson Wuji, and from time to time he stretched out his hand and pointed to the chrysanthemums among the flowers.

Zhang Yunwen approached the pavilion, stood on the steps under the pavilion, and bowed: "Your Majesty, Weichen has something to ask to see!" ”