Chapter 672: Prince of Qi
After carefully inquiring about the origin of the gold coin, the Li Merchant Bank, Labi Lasi and others led people straight to the outer city.
Dashaoer Liquor Shop, Liu Yourong successfully rebelled against Longe Dingli and withdrew from the Ganzhou defense line, which can be regarded as completing the prince's explanation. Therefore, he privately sold some of the property in Dayuan to prepare for the subsequent return to China.
He had already thought about it, and when he returned to China, he asked the prince to resign. So as to bring his family and spend the rest of his life in Dayuan.
For this reason, he has secretly bought a few shops in Ghor province. As for the land, as long as he is naturalized, Dayuan will allocate it to him to cultivate freely according to his wishes.
This is also the reason why he is willing to take his family to Dayuan to live.
Compared with the fact that the land of the Xia Kingdom is expensive and there is no place to stand, the land of Dayuan is as cheap as straw. The only bad thing is that the land is state-owned and not allowed to be bought and sold.
In addition, the Xia Kingdom has frequent wars, and it is really not a place to live in peace. In the past, he joined the king of Qi and worked for him to survive. Now I want to leave King Qi and live the life of an ordinary person, but also to survive.
After all, during the three years he stayed in Dayuan, he saw that Dayuan was powerful, like the sun rising in the rising sun. And the Xia Kingdom is like the sunset on the horizon, and the destruction of the country is only in the evening.
Originally, the liquor store was a fig leaf to hide people's eyes, but now it is simply not doing business. I watched the drama in Malu City all day long, drank milk tea, coffee, and a few melons and fruit snacks. Don't think about anything, don't do anything.
It's the most relaxing time ever.
But good days come to an end!
On this day, outside the Dasauer liquor store, which had been closed, a group of uninvited guests suddenly came.
"The hoe and traitor handle the case, and the idlers retreat!" , the small leader of the Supervision and Inspection Division said loudly. Immediately, someone put a seal on the outside of Dasauer's wine shop, and kicked the door open.
The guys inside included ordinary guys recruited locally in Dayuan, and there were also their own people brought from the Xia Kingdom.
It's just that with the imminent closure of the Dasauer liquor store, almost all the ordinary guys in the liquor store have dispersed. Therefore, the people of the hoe and traitor division rushed in with a fierce momentum, and the Xia Guo guys who heard the movement immediately wanted to escape.
But the hoe is not prepared!
So as soon as those guys escaped from the backyard, they were caught by the hoe and traitor.
"Commander Qiqi, the shopkeeper is not there?" ,
"Huh?"
"Looking for someone who can speak, I want to know where the shopkeeper has gone?" ,
Immediately, the screams of the guys being tortured into confessions were heard in the backyard.
And the meat shop across the alley, Liu Yourong looked at all this with some horror. He's just returned from the Seongnam Theater! It's also a coincidence, when I was halfway through the play, someone who met the hoe and rape department came to the theater to investigate.
Because the shopkeeper of the Seongnam Theater moved from Damascus, many Damascus people were recruited in the theater. After a series of attacks and assassinations, new immigrants from outside the country became the object of suspicion.
In just two days after its establishment, the hoe and traitor division investigated nearly 100 businessmen related to new immigrants. Such a resolute and resolute act also made many businessmen can't help but raise their hearts to their throats.
So I couldn't watch the drama that I should see, so when I came back, I just happened to bump into the wine shop and was seized.
Under normal circumstances, the inventory of the hoe company will only be investigated, and the store will not be closed. Unless something is really found, this store will be blocked like now.
Although he wasn't sure what the traitor had found, the details of the liquor store weren't innocent. Therefore, he did not dare to stay for a long time, and hurried to the inner city.
After a detailed examination and search, he was able to enter the inner city. Although the best thing to do is to leave Malu as soon as possible. But he couldn't let go of his family, so he had to come to the inner city and inform Li Dewang, the son of King Qi, to leave together.
This is a proton deliberately sent by King Qi to show his surrender to Dayuan.
In terms of age, he is more than ten years older than the current Emperor Li Chengji. But human life is different. Some were born nobles and became emperors and made immortal achievements. And some people can only become protons who cannot make decisions for their own destiny and come to a foreign land as prisoners.
On the official side, Dayuan also accepted Xia Guo's sincerity. In the expensive inner city of Malu, Li Dewang was given a mansion, and he was named the Duke of Xia County, with 1,500 households. The fief is in the border wasteland of Kipchak, and Li Dewang will only have the ability to open it up in the future.
In addition, Li Chengji chose a cousin from the young women of the Xiao family who was good-looking and not stupid and named the county lord and married.
On the bright side, it has deepened the interest connection between King Qi and Dayuan.
Because he has been here a few times, Liu Yourong is no stranger to the way to the county government. Compared to the outer city, the inner city is much quieter. When I walked to the mansion like this, I didn't meet the hoe and traitor who was interrogated.
knocked on the door, and the little guy inside only glanced at Liu Yourong and let him in.
Inside, Li Dewang's family was watching the shadow puppet show with great interest.
This is a new thing that has emerged in the past two years in Dayuan, and it first appeared at the annual banquet of Dayuan. The tools for making shadow puppets are not complicated, and the performers are easy to cultivate. Especially after the development of the drama industry in the past few years, more and more operas have emerged.
When reaping huge fame, he also gets multiple the income of ordinary people. However, Dayuan's tax rate on the entertainment industry is also high! But this still can't stop the income of the famous people from rising. Correspondingly, there are more and more actors who are engaged in the theater industry.
However, the renewal of the drama industry is very fast, and it is getting longer and more difficult to become famous. Therefore, actors with good voice actor conditions and performance advantages will have a much greater chance of success if they invest in shadow puppetry.
Especially in the early stage of this kind of shadow puppetry, there are not many excellent shadow puppet performers. Some dramas change careers, and the industry competition is much smaller.
In addition, theatrical performances also have high requirements for the stage, and generally if you want to watch more outstanding drama programs, you can only go to the theater. But some wealthy dignitaries with good net worth don't like to join in the fun, so they can only invite the troupe to perform at the house.
In this way, the appearance fee is naturally high. And compared with the perfect theater stage, the private stage is always inevitably a little less tasteful.
So the appearance of shadow puppetry just made up for this regret.
First, the number of shadow puppet performers is small, and secondly, the requirements for the stage are also average. Some not-so-wealthy families invite actors to perform shadow puppets every once in a while, and they are still within the scope of affordability.
This is the case with Li Dewang's county government.
Although there is the help of Yulu on the side of Dayuan and the help of Xia Guo, plus some industries in Dayuan, life is much better than that of ordinary people. But compared with those big businessmen whose industries are all over the province, it is still far from enough.
This troupe can't be invited every day, but shadow puppets can be watched from time to time.
At the moment, the performance is "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong made trouble in Huaguo Mountain. As the four great masterpieces that transcend time, they will never go out of style in any era. In particular, this kind of mythological drama is more acceptable.
Li Chengji ordered the "Dayuan Business Daily" under the Department of Culture and Propaganda to set aside a special page to publish "Journey to the West". This is a big deal, and the sales of "Dayuan Business Daily" immediately reached the point of 'second kill'.
Later, because the popularity of "Journey to the West" was really unexpected, "Dayuan Business Daily" had to increase its layout in order to publish more content. Although the price of the newspaper has also risen by a copper plate, it still can't dispel the people's enthusiasm for 'spikes'.
It was at that time that the news of the bidding advertisement was published in the "Dayuan Business Daily". And through bidding, the advertising space of 20 dinars per square foot was auctioned, bringing unimaginable income to the "Dayuan Business Daily".
This also pointed out a new way for other newspapers to make money.
Because the newspapers were all officially supported by Dayuan before! In the spirit of opening wisely and guiding public opinion, the price of newspapers is extremely low. Almost every newspaper sells at a loss of three points. The more you sell, the more you lose.
Although he also made a great contribution to the propaganda of Dayuan, there are countless dinars that have been supported for this purpose every time. Therefore, not only is the government not enthusiastic about the distribution of newspapers, but the people are also not interested. If it weren't for Li Chengji's insistence, the household department would have shut down all newspapers other than "Dayuan Daily".
But now after such an impact of "Dayuan Business Daily", everyone knows that the newspaper is a money-making tool. In addition, the Ministry of Rites has liberalized the threshold for non-governmental newspapers, and some small non-governmental newspapers have also been established.
Nowadays, the development of Dayuan's media industry can be described as a rapid progress.
This has nothing to do with Li Dewang, but it has something to do with the shadow puppet show he watched. After living in Dayuan for nearly three years, he gradually developed Dayuan's living habits. For example, reading newspapers, drinking milk tea and coffee, and yogurt to consume. In the afternoon, when you're in a good mood, have some snacks and pastries such as melons and fruits and biscuits, cakes, and bread.
For entertainment, listen to books and watch plays. Sometimes when a new play is staged, go to the theater quietly. Sometimes, when it is on the market, I go to a bubble tea shop, bakery or teahouse to listen to the storyteller. When you feel that your body has not moved for too long, you can go to the suburbs and bow immediately.
There are also more elegant sports activities such as golf and badminton.
It can be said that such a variety of forms of entertainment and pastime really broadened his horizons. In the Xia Kingdom, the favorite pastime of nobles like them was to drink and watch the beautiful dancing girls dance.
But after Da Yuan went to Qinglou, he lost interest in dancing in general.
Because compared to those dancing girls who are dressed in costumes and can only twist their waists and move. Those Qinglou women's steel guan dance, deyi dance, and electric tun dance are really interesting.
It's just a pity that such a dance can't be on the stage in Dayuan. Generally, only the dignitaries' families will invite the girls of the Qinglou to dance privately at home!
Of course, Li Dewang wants to do the same. However, the wife of the family, Li Xiao, has always been disgusted with the girl in the Qinglou, so such a fox is not allowed to enter the house no matter what.
As a result, he often invited actors to perform shadow puppetry, which became his most frequent pastime.
"Eat my grandson!" , Sun Wuqi in the shadow puppet show shouted menacingly. Li Dewang's son sat on his lap and clapped his hands with joy.
At this time, a subordinate ran over and said a few words close to Li Dewang's ear.
Li Dewang, who was still happy, immediately changed his face. put his son in Li Xiao's arms, saying that he had something to deal with.
Watching Li Dewang lead his subordinates to leave quickly, Li Xiao glanced at the personal maid who was waiting, and then the other party quietly retreated.
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