On the second day after returning to Gushan Town, Li Mao rode on a horse early in the morning and took the magic power to inspect the city.

Most of the income from the sale of land is handed over to the military academy for military use, but the intercepted part is also very considerable, plus the income from the wharf outside the city, the four markets and the factories in the city, the city bureau is now rich.

Li Mao is not an old-fashioned person, he has money in his hands, he first improves the welfare of his department, and those who serve in the city bureau, even the most ordinary city defense battalion soldiers are treated quite well, and as for those who have an official and a half-job, they are all tied to their waists.

Although there are still many dissatisfaction with Li Mao's arbitrary style, for the sake of money, the city bureau has great respect for Li Mao. Li Mao took the city bureau to sit on the ground to make money, make a fortune, but the external image is still honest and fair, in Gushan Town, his popularity is really good, riding a horse to patrol for a week, others only need three minutes of planting, but he turned around for more than two hours, seeing the time to eat lunch, Li Mao turned around and went to the Jiminsheng Hospital of the medical school on West Street.

The hospital has a door to the street, which is undoubtedly a big event in the Tang Dynasty where the pattern of the market is unusually strict, the gate of the street is simple, tidy and atmospheric, after entering the door is a quadrangle, the main hall is five, hang the gold plaque, the book "Ji Minsheng" three big characters, the word is Ziqing celebrity Guo Yu inscription, Guo Yu studied medicine in his early years, although he has learned from the literature, medicine has not been discarded, he heard that Gushan Town founded a medical school, taught by the nominal Ge Rixiu and his wife, felt very novel, and rushed from Yunzhou, after a detailed investigation of the inside situation, He praised Li Mao's establishment of a hospital and Guangji's people's livelihood, and then waved the three words of helping the people's livelihood.

Guo's calligraphy inherited Yan Zhenqing, neat and vigorous, very to Li Mao's appetite, so the newly founded hospital was named Jiminsheng, and Guo Yu's inscription was made into a plaque, hanging at the door of the hospital clinic.

In the clinic, six young people who have achieved academic results occupy a seat and are giving the pulse to the patient. So many doctors sit in the hall to diagnose, in Gushan Town, in Caozhou, and even in the whole Ziqing is the first one. When the hospital first opened, there were many doubts, and conservatives reprimanded a group of hairless young people for sitting around and fooling around, reprimanded Ge Rixiu for having a false name and misleading people's children, and accused Li Mao of falling into the eyes of money and using people's lives to make money.

However, after half a year of running-in, even the most conservative people also accepted this model of collective consultation, and the hospital's consultation fees and drug fees were very fair, and it became famous for a while.

In Caozhou, few Lang Zhong and medicinal herb dealers who practice medicine dare to come to Gushan Town, it is not Li Mao's hospital that bullies and dominates the market, but they can't compete with others.

After a round in the hospital, I chatted with Mrs. Ge who was sitting in the hall, Li Mao returned to the city bureau and dealt with a few urgent matters, Li Mao called the officials together, held a short meeting, explained a few things, and saw that it was not early.

The chaos in Caozhou has spread to Gushan Town, and all kinds of news are flying all over the sky, and the official caliber is that Mi Rulong is plotting to rebel, and Liang Chengdong, the general of the state army, has raised troops to quell the chaos. The mainstream view of the people is that Mi Rulong is an official who is corrupt and tyrannical, deducting military salaries, arousing the dissatisfaction of the soldiers, and Liang Chengdong launched a mutiny, which was coerced by the soldiers and had to do it.

There is another popular view in the officialdom, they believe that the Caozhou Rebellion originated from Mi Rulong's ignorance of the times and offended people, Wang Zhibang took a fancy to his favorite concubine Mingzhu, and wanted to take it and dedicate it to Mizhou, but Mi Rulong refused to let go, which led to the disaster of killing. This argument is well-founded, and people cannot believe it.

Wang Zhibang's flower name has long been resounding in one city and four counties in Mizhou, and the lustful name of Mizhou is even more resounding in the twelve states of Ziqing. Mi Rulong is Li Shigu's confidant, and Li Shidao took him under the knife, in addition to winning love, but also to avenge the seizure of Haizhou and Yizhou.

If it weren't for the truth of the matter that he saw with his own eyes, Li Mao would be willing to accept the third point of view, which is boo-shhhhh

Diagonally opposite the main entrance of the clerk's house is the military courtyard, as one of the few mansions in Gushan Town that opens the door on the street, the front gate of the literary house has always been an endless stream of cars and horses, and the flow of people is like a tide. However, the few friends of the clerk usually go in and out through the back door, and the back door of the Wen family is hidden in a secluded guillotine alley in the middle of the fang, which is ordinary.

After entering the back door, Li Mao found a horse and a donkey tied to the courtyard, the donkey's hooves were stained with mud, but the back was covered with a beautiful brocade mat, Li Mao speculated that the value of this brocade mat was far more than this donkey.

The housekeeper of the Wenfu knew that the relationship between Li Mao and the head of the family was extraordinary, and hurriedly introduced tea in the side room of the inner hall. When Mrs. Wen Tian heard that Li Mao was coming, she specially asked Yahuan to bring a plate of peach shortbread, but she didn't see it.

Li Mao held the dim sum plate, admiring the calligraphy and paintings collected by the clerk while eating, and about half a cup of tea, the manager came to invite. followed him to the study room of the clerk in the inner courtyard, but saw that the Wu family was also there, and the two maids were preparing tea. As soon as Li Mao entered the door, he felt that Wu's gaze at him was a little strange, as if he was smiling, hiding a needle in his cotton, seeing that he was very uncomfortable, he carefully observed himself, and there was nothing out of order, so he asked with a smile: "Sister-in-law looks at me like this, it makes me panic." ”

Wu shook the small fan, sighed slowly, and said: "I can't complain, you avoided our family's Wen Fei, it turned out that you have already had a sweetheart, Maohua, you are not an authentic person, you really have a favorite, why not tell us directly, let us Wen Fei look forward to you." ”

Li Mao was dizzy and felt ridiculous when he said this. The clerk did intend to match his relationship with Wen Yuan, and the Wu family also specially arranged a beautiful encounter for this purpose, but unfortunately neither of the two people took a fancy to anyone, and the couple did not mention it again when they saw that the matter was not harmonious.

The clerk smiled and persuaded the Wu family away, and then said to Li Mao: "Mrs. Dingtao has come here for your business." ”

Li Mao listened to it and casually joked: "She is an old lady of the county and is still pulling fiber for lovers in the world, her spirit is commendable, and it is commendable." "I said, I don't care. It's not the first time that Mrs. Su has kissed him, when she was a gold catcher in Chengwu County, she looked for Xue Rong and his wife, and wanted to match the daughter of Zheng Changshi's family in Jiyin County to him, but he politely declined.

After Xue Rong and his wife returned to their hometown, she saw that Li Mao was familiar with the clerk and his wife, and sent someone to find the Wu family, and continued to express concern about Li Mao's lifelong events. However, with her age, she ran in person regardless of her identity, which still surprised Li Mao.

"Oh, don't be hippie, you have to take this seriously." The clerk knocked on the table and said, a smiling face instantly became solemn: "This time she is protecting Su Zhen's youngest daughter, the famous Su San Niang in Chengwu County." ”

Li Mao was stunned, Mrs. Su braved the scorching heat and ran more than 60 miles to Gushan Town, which turned out to be to protect Su Qing. With her current status, it seems that she is determined to come forward to protect the media in person. As for the Su family, they must have made a bloody effort to promote this marriage.

Just, why is that?

Just three days ago, the Su family wanted to put him to death, if it weren't for the fact that he had practiced martial arts since he was a child, his physique was extraordinary, and he had specially strengthened the training to resist attacks after he practiced, and his ability to resist attacks was superhuman, but he was afraid that he would have been buried in the fire.

It's only been three days, and the Su family has forgotten everything about the past and wants to recruit themselves as sons-in-law, and this change is too fast.

Seeing Li Mao's cynical smile on his face, the clerk said worriedly: "The Su family is not an ordinary family, and Mrs. Su is even more famously difficult, since she is out of the horse in person, I am afraid that you will not be able to hide from this marriage." ”

Li Mao smiled: "Why should I hide? Su Zhen is also a family with a head and a face in Chengwu County, doing good deeds in the township, and having a good reputation, Su Qing heard that the beauty of the person is good, and he is shrewd and good at keeping the family, such a good marriage, I can't ask for it. ”

The clerk stared at Li Mao with wide eyes, and asked in surprise, "You can also laugh at this kind of thing?" The Su family is a big family of Chengwu, he has a domineering brother named Su Dong, a son who is an official in Beijing, and he also has a daughter who is married to Wang Xun, a judicial member of the army in Caozhou. Wang Xun was born in the Hedong clan, and he was an envoy for three generations, and he also had an aunt who married the Uighurs with Princess Xian'an in her early years.

Princess Xian'an is the eighth daughter of the Son of Heaven, Zhenyuan four years away to marry the Uighur longevity of the heavenly khan, after the death of the longevity of the heavenly khan, according to the step-marriage system of the step-marriage, married his son loyal Khan, loyal Khan died, and then married his son Fengcheng Khan. In the eleventh year of Zhenyuan, Fengcheng Khan died of illness and had no children, and Tang canonized his prime minister as Huaixin Khan, and the princess married a new Khan.

In the past ten years, the Uighurs changed their lords four times and the princess did not lose the position of Kedun (queen), Wang Xun's aunt was the marriage companion of the princess of Xian'an, and also served two surnames, three generations and four khans, and raised several sons who were very promising, and one of them was also crowned king. ”

Li Mao was taken aback, he knew that Wang Xunzu had been an envoy, but that was forty years ago, and the Wang family has been going downhill since then, his father has been an official all his life, and he has only been the county master at the highest. Li Mao originally thought that Wang Xun could gain a foothold in Caozhou because of his behavior of being a lonely minister who was not recognized by his six relatives, and he was very unpopular as a lonely minister in the officialdom, but this kind of person was an indispensable right-hand man of Shangguan.

After seeing the other side of Wang Xun that night, Li Mao had a subversive understanding of this person's impression, and he suspected that Wang Xun was very likely to be attached to the copper tiger head, or even the hidden stake that the copper tiger head was planted in Caozhou.

As for his relationship with the Uighur royal court, Li Mao had never heard of it. The Uighurs and the Tang Dynasty were brothers, and the Uighurs (then the Uighurs) had made great efforts in the pacification of the Anshi Rebellion, and after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang State was greatly damaged, and the Hexi and Western Regions were lost one after another, and the western barrier was lost.

The Tang Dynasty was heavily armed in the western part of Beijing, and was unable to pacify the Hebei feudal towns, nor was it able to move westward to regain lost territory, so it could only use skillful diplomatic means to win over the Uighurs to fight against the Tibetans.

Li Shigu was ambitious, secretly accumulating strength to fight against the imperial court, devouring neighboring roads, Ziqing could not raise good horses, the military horses raised in the three towns of Hebei were never sold to the outside world, and the horses needed in Ziqing were purchased from the Saibei grassland, of which Turkic horses accounted for a large proportion, and the Uighurs were now the overlords of the grasslands, and the Tang Dynasty was both a brotherly state, and they were also wary of each other, and if they did not have a good relationship with him, it was impossible to talk about buying horses. Li Shigu needs this relationship with Wang Xun. Looking at it this way, Wang Xun's identity is not just as simple as joining the army in Caozhou, he is definitely a heavyweight in Ziqing, and he is definitely not something that a local tyrant like the Su family can offend.

Thinking of this, Li Mao suddenly realized that he had seen the Su family's eagerness to marry a daughter very thoroughly.

The Su family did not dare to offend this son-in-law, if Su Rong's loss of her son due to the Buddha was known by Wang Xun, he was afraid that he would fall out of favor from now on, and if the Su family lost this big backer, the family business accumulated in two generations and twenty years was likely to be lost. The Su family can change from a well-off family to the richest man in Chengwu in more than 20 years, on the surface, Su Zhen's father is diligent and thrifty, and is good at management, but the real reason for making a fortune is the sale of illicit salt and horses.

The Su family can't afford to lose Wang Xun's backer, this is the reason why Su Dong wants to kill people, and it is also the reason why he is in a hurry to marry his daughter today - people are not killed, they need to block Li Mao's mouth.

Thinking of Su Qing, a delicate face and surprised eyes appeared in front of Li Mao's eyes.

If you want the beauty to shut my mouth, okay, I'll take it.