Waiting for the tooth army to retreat, Tian Qian asked the female Qingmo to invite Li Mao, and the female Qingmo looked at the sky and said, "It's too late, you lonely men and widows, aren't you afraid of people gossiping?" After saying that, he ate and snickered.

Tian Qian also felt that it was too late, so he said: "I'll go back first, you go and say hello and tell him that I will have a treat tomorrow." ”

Li Mao learned that Tian Qian had returned home, and he was stunned, and when he heard that Tian Qian was going to have a treat on the second day, he wanted to refuse, but he hesitated, Qingmo replied on his behalf: "We will go to the appointment on time tomorrow." ”

Soon after returning to the public office, Tian Congcong sent someone to send the Taoist priest over, although he didn't understand why Li Mao was in a hurry to see the Taoist priest, but from his eyes, Tian Qian read the special value of the Taoist priest.

Only then did he take advantage of his strength to give Daoist Yu to Li Mao.

Li Mao got a treasure like a Taoist priest, and talked with him all night, and early in the morning of the second day, the Taoist priest happily embarked on a journey to Chang'an with Zhang Qi.

Li Mao instructed Zhang Qi to hand over Daoist Yu to Xiaoru and temporarily place him in the house in Jing'anfang to wait for his follow-up arrangements.

Tian Qian heard that Li Mao sent Zhang Qi to send Yu Taoist to Chang'an, he was taken aback, Yu Taoist came to Weizhou soon after the name of half an immortal, the people said that he could refine the elixir that made people soar, Tian Qian secretly inquired, and found that Yu Taoist in addition to being able to send the Dan furnace to the sky, in fact, there is no special ability.

The story of his admiration for the girl next door that he talked about when he met people, Tian Qian suspected that he made it up at all, and it was a means for him to win sympathy and then accumulate wealth and alchemy. Such a big talk, notoriety, and no fart skills, what attracted Li Mao.

Rao is very intelligent, and she can't understand the trick.

I can't figure it out, I really can't figure it out, Li Mao's body hides too many secrets that she can't understand.

As soon as they met on the second day, Tian Qian asked about it. Li Mao was a little uncomfortable with Tian Qing's straightforwardness, and after a little hesitation, he still told the truth: "Daoist Yu's Dan furnace can blow up a mountain, if it is used to blow up the city wall pass......"

Tian Qi's eyes lit up suddenly, and she asked excitedly, "Do you think this thing is very useful?" Li Mao asked rhetorically: "Aren't you optimistic?" Tian Qing's eyes dimmed, and she lowered her eyebrows and sighed: "This thing is so fierce, if it is popular in the world, won't it harm countless people?" Also, do you think Daoist Yu will have a way to subdue it? ”

Li Mao said: "Although I was born in Buddhism, but I also know a little about alchemy, this thing is called gunpowder, there are only three ingredients, saltpeter, phosphorus, charcoal, according to the ratio of one to two to three, it is the gunpowder used daily, if you want to blow up a small mountain, you need to improve it." Naturally, I don't know how to improve, and this needs to be explored slowly by Taoist priests. ”

Tian Qing's eyes lit up again: "How sure is it of success?" ”

Li Mao said: "Strictly speaking, Daoist Yu has succeeded, but the nature is still unstable, I think as long as the manpower and material resources are sufficient, give him more time, it should be effective." ”

"So, how long will it take?" Tian Qiqiang pressed the excitement in his heart.

Li Mao smiled: "It's hard to say, it's three or five years fast, ten or eight years slow, or one hundred and eighty years." ”

Tian Qian glanced at Li Mao and said: "I think you are too optimistic, he blew up Cangzhou City before he came to Weizhou, and he has only been here for two years, and he has blown up several Taoist temples. At the beginning, both the marshal and the old lady had the idea of you, hoping that he would be able to submit this thing and use it for military purposes. Unfortunately, he did nothing but disturb the people every now and then. You also saw yesterday's situation, the Dan furnace said that it would be fried, and it was impossible to control it at all. ”

Li Mao smiled faintly and said, "Or maybe I looked away." ”

The two did not bring up the matter again.

Early in the morning of the second day, the Jiedu Embassy suddenly sent someone to the public office to invite Li Mao to hunt in the suburbs, and the person who came gave Li Mao and Qingmo a set of light armor, and Li Mao found that the size was exactly the same after wearing it.

Qingmo exclaimed: "How the Bronze Tiger Head gang boast of themselves, I don't think it's enough to lift shoes for people." ”

Li Mao said: "There are people outside the world, there is heaven outside the sky, and you must not be complacent at any time." Qingmo said: "It's easier said than done, this is what you taught me, but yesterday, hum, didn't you also spit out wild words, you told the little lady of the Tian family that you know how to refine**, are you bragging, or do you really have this ability?" ”

Li Mao said: "Did I say this? ”

Qingmo said: "Just say it, what dare you not admit it, in fact, I can see that she is interested in you, and you are also interested in her." Qingmo's voice was very low in the last two sentences, and after saying that, he went out to walk the horse sent by the Festival Mansion, and what surprised Qingmo was that the horse's temper was the same as the horse he often rode in Ziqing.

After Li Mao dressed up, he repaired his face and rode to the western suburbs for an appointment. Tian Ji'an likes to hunt, and the entire west of Weizhou City was requisitioned by him as a paddock, and the people were not allowed to enter.

There are a lot of prey in the paddock, but Tian Ji'an is not a good hunter, his bow and horse are also strong, but after succeeding to the throne as the envoy of the festival, he indulged in wine, his body was completely hollowed out, and the arrows were more and more unstable. If he hunts alone, he will naturally get very little, but the Tianxiong army of Weizhou is the world's first-class lion, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, master like a cloud, the festival makes every arrow go out, and the arrows that follow behind will be as dense as raindrops.

Not to mention large animals such as deer and sheep, even a mouse cannot escape the doom of ten thousand arrows piercing the heart.

After the hunt, the feast is held in the Perfume Temple.

Tian Ji'an is two years younger than Li Mao, tall and fat, but the water color is much worse, his teeth are gray and black, his face is sallow, and at first glance he seems to be in his forties.

He pointed to the Perfume Temple and asked Li Mao: "I heard that you and my sister have had a few drinks here, what kind of person is she?" ”

Li Mao said: "Women don't let them shave their eyebrows. ”

Tian Ji'an shook his hand and said: "It's too broad, say specific, say specific." ”

Li Mao was bowing his head and pondering, and Tian Ji'an suddenly asked again: "What if I marry you?" ”

Li Mao said: "Thanks to love, Li Mao already has a wife. ”

"Your wife, hehe, it's okay to divorce."

"Wei Shuai shouldn't believe those nonsense, right?"

"Whether it's nonsense or not, you know best. Don't talk about my sister-in-law, talk about you, what did you come to me to ask for? ”

"Ask the marshal to lend me a piece of feng shui treasure land, and let me recruit the old department to go back to Caozhou to beg for thieves."

"What thief?"

"Wanderer He Sancai."

"A grass people, why don't you make a move from Liaodong."

"Otherwise, Caozhou is my home, and Mao doesn't want to fake others."

"That's a reason, but what's in it for me."

"In the past, Li Shizhong sent Huang Xiao to the north to invade Dizhou and occupied the five major salt ponds, and I heard that these salt ponds do not produce salt now."

"Li Shizhong's spicy hands destroyed the flowers, and the flowers were gone."

"Ziqing is full of salt."

"Selling illicit salt to Weizhou is to kill the head."

"Where the interests are, go to the soup."

"How can I trust you?"

"You can ask Wei Shuai to garrison to assist in the defense."

Tian Ji'an laughed and said, "So the rumors are true, you are really a villain who eats the lord." ”

Li Mao lowered his face and said: "Mao did this to wash away the injustices. If Dashuai helps me occupy Caozhou, I will first cut off the business between those people and Xuanwu, and without a way to make money, they can only take risks to cooperate with Wei Shuai, which is a million profits. ”

Tian Ji'an said hesitantly: "Aren't you afraid that Han Hong will find you trouble?" ”

Li Mao said: "I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid." However, Han Hong claims to be a loyal minister, can a loyal minister not listen to the words of the imperial court? ”

Tian Ji'an shook his head and said, "Rabbits are in a hurry and have to bite people, and there is a limit to being a loyal minister." ”

Li Mao lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "Li Mao has Wei Shuai as a backer, and he is not afraid of him." ”

Tian Ji'an nodded and said, "I can lend you the land, and I can't help the rest." As for what kind of backing you say, it's better to rely on others than on yourself, I believe you have the ability. Haha, drink. ”

Li Mao raised his glass and thanked him.

Li Mao openly waved the banner of Liaodong's economic envoy in Weizhou, claiming that he wanted to recruit troops to Liaodong, and the news came out that many people gathered. The staff of the Liaodong shogunate based in Yunzhou set off for Weizhou one after another.

The Yajun in charge of detention did not dare to call the shots, so he asked Li Shidao, and Li Shidao asked Gao Mu, Li Gongdu and others.

Li Gongdu said: "He is acting above board, and it is unreasonable to openly obstruct him. There are a bunch of idle people on the left and right, so it's better to get rid of it and save it as an eyesore. ”

Li Shidao asked Gao Mu again, and Gao Mu said: "The matter has come to this point, I think they will go." However, his family should not be released for the time being, and he must stay in Yunzhou. ”

Li Shidao said with a smile: "That's nature, the bitter cold land of Liaodong, how can I bear his wife and daughter suffering." ”

Before Li Mao erected the Liaodong Economic Envoy Daxu in Weizhou, he sent an envoy to Chang'an to ask for a document to correct his name. The stakes are so high that Du Huangshang didn't dare to call the shots, so he found Li Chun in a hurry.

After Wang Shuwen came to power, Li Chun, in order to avoid suspicion, has been ignoring government affairs for a long time, and now he is studying behind closed doors, but he only entered the palace three times in the morning and evening to ask the emperor for peace, in order to fulfill his filial piety.

Listening to what Li Mao asked, Li Chun said lightly: "There is no fixed rule on where the Liaodong Economic Strategy Envoy is stationed, and after the change of commander in Ziqing, they will be disturbed one after another, and it will always be chaotic for a while, and it is not easy to recruit troops." Since Wei Zhou is willing to contribute to the imperial court, what reason do we have to refuse? ”

Du Huangshang got the idea, so he spoke for Li Mao at the court meeting, Wang Shuwen hated him for not informing him in advance, and he was unhappy, so he deliberately dragged it out.

Wei Zhiyi persuaded: "King Nankang is seriously ill at the moment, and there may be great changes in Sichuan, if Ming Gong has no financial power in his hands, how will he deal with it in the future?" ”

Wang Shuwen rolled his eyes: "What does this have to do with Wei Bo?" ”

Wei Zhiyi patiently explained: "Li Mao and Du Huangshang are good, Du Huangshang and Du You are good, if Ming Gong does not agree to Li Mao, I am afraid that Du Huangshang will secretly make a ghost." ”

Wang Shuwen wanted to take the financial power of the DPRK in his hands, and knew that he was not qualified, so he wanted to recommend Du You as the envoy of the Du Branch, and he served as the deputy envoy, using Du You's prestige to control the world, but Du You was unwilling to be a puppet, and he refused to comply.

Wang Shuwen sneered: "What are you talking about Du Huangshang, I think you Wei Zongren can't get along with the old man, right?" Wei Zhiyi was surprised: "Why did Ming Gong say this? A certain person who was promoted by Ming Gong to be the prime minister, how dare he go against Ming Gong? This must be instigated by a villain behind his back, please be aware of it. ”

Uncle Wang Wenpi smiled and said: "Wei Xiangcheng and Wei Guanhai were recommended by you to Li Mao, you judged that Li Mao had meritorious service from the dragon and had a bright future, and he would come back to be the prime minister when he returned to Ziqing for a gold, but he didn't expect this to happen, and now your two precious nephews are trapped in Yunzhou, you can't stand the noise of your relatives, and you are in a hurry to take them out, so you willingly become Li Mao's lobbyist." What did the old man say yes or no? (Dissertation College)