Pei Xingjian brought twenty or thirty carts, although the front cars were tightly wrapped, but it could still be seen that they were pulling all kinds of goods, but the last few cars were all pulled by people, and all of them were young girls, with the help of the lights at the city gate, it could be seen that these women were good-looking, and General Song and his soldiers who were guarding the gate looked straight one by one.

"These are...... Silla maid? Li Xiu vaguely guessed the identity of this woman from the clothes on these girls, after all, in the human market, you can often see Silla maids being sold, of course, most of them are counterfeited by Goguryeo women.

"Ahem, the horse guessed well, these are authentic Silla maids, and they are definitely not fake by Goguryeo women!" Pei Xingjian coughed dryly at this time, and then replied a little embarrassed.

"No, didn't you go to Goguryeo, how did you catch so many Silla maids?" Li Xiu couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, and asked rhetorically, the carts in front of him may be Su Dingfang's trophies, which Li Xiu can understand, but the source of these Silla maids is a little incomprehensible.

"I don't know about it, these Silla maids were sent to our army by the king of Silla, especially General Su, the Silla people gave him ten at a time, but General Su's family is strict, and he doesn't like Silla women very much, and there are some other people who have the same idea, so they let me bring Chang'an together and sell them with the loot in front." Pei Xingjian said with some embarrassment again.

Although he is young and old, he is a young man who is less than twenty years old, and he is not married, and he is also quite conservative in terms of women, such as the woman given to him by the Silla people, he did not move, and this time he brought it back not to sell, but to send it home to take care of his mother.

"Why did the Silla people send women to you?" Li Xiu couldn't figure it out at this time and asked again.

"The Silla people are also unprofitable, didn't we enter Goguryeo in the autumn, but after the Silla people knew about it, they began to send people to contact us frequently, hoping to follow us to pick up cheap, after all, Silla and Goguryeo were originally feuding, these women are used to bribe us, General Su felt that we would not accept it for nothing, so let us laugh and accept it, anyway, there will be a time when the Silla people will be used in the future." Pei Xingjian explained with a smile again.

"I see!" Li Xiu also nodded thoughtfully when he heard this, the Silla people are really ambitious, and at the same time they are also very shrewd, and they will not let go of every possible opportunity, if they don't travel to the Tang Dynasty by themselves, I am afraid that they will really be like in history, after the Tang Dynasty worked hard to defeat Goguryeo and Baekje, but finally made a wedding dress for Silla.

"Donkey, in addition, I'm afraid I have to ask you for a favor this time, the cart in front of me is indeed the things we caught in Goguryeo, speaking of which Goguryeo is much richer than the poor ghosts in the party, this time I brought all the good things, and it was too much of a loss to sell them directly to those profiteers in Liaodong, so General Su asked me to escort people to Chang'an and sell them to the bank." At this moment, I saw Pei Xingjian speak again.

The last time the loot brought from the party was sold to the bank, and it also made them taste the sweetness for the first time, after all, compared to those profiteers, the price given by the bank is too fair, and if they are replaced by those profiteers, I am afraid that they can only give a fraction of the price in the end, so this time after the loot was seized in Goguryeo, the soldiers under Su Dingfang strongly asked to sell it to the bank, so there was this Pei Xingjian's trip back to Beijing.

"Haha, this is a trivial matter, in fact, you don't have to look for me, now the bank has separated the pledge warehouse, specializing in the business of pawning this item, and the bank will accept these things, but you have run a lot of wrongful ways, because the bank in Luoyang has also opened." Li Xiu immediately laughed when he heard this, now is not the beginning, the bank is already fully operational, and it is not difficult to eat these goods from Pei Xingjian.

"Is there already a bank in Luoyang, if we had known, we would have sold these goods directly in Luoyang!" Pei Xingjian couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard Li Xiu's last words, the last time they left Chang'an, the bank was still unique to Chang'an City, but he didn't expect that in just a few months, the bank in Luoyang had already opened.

"Not only Luoyang, but also a bank will be opened in Taiyuan next year, which is closer to Liaodong, and if you need a bank, you can go directly to Taiyuan." Li Xiu smiled again at this time, in fact, he didn't want to see the spoils that the soldiers desperately brought back were exploited by a profiteer, so he was naturally willing to help if he could.

"When will the colt get the bank to the frontier so we don't have to run back and forth!" Pei Xingjian heard that Taiyuan was also going to open a bank, and asked excitedly again, it is indeed much closer to Taiyuan from Liaodong than to Chang'an, but he prefers that the bank will be opened in the frontier, so that it will be more convenient.

"There will definitely be such a day, but I'm afraid it's not right now, after all, the bank needs a lot of talents, I don't know if you are interested in coming to the bank, with your ability, you can definitely help me speed up the expansion of the bank!" When Li Xiu said the end, he couldn't help but smile and say tentatively, he also admired Pei Xingjian very much, and it would be best if he could dig up the bank.

"This ......" Pei Xingjian didn't expect Li Xiu to suddenly recruit himself, and he couldn't help but show a hesitant expression at the moment, but soon he smiled regretfully and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but I'm still young, mainly learning something, and I've always been interested in the art of war, so I plan to study with Mr. in the past few years, and then enter the military academy, and I may embark on the road of a military general in the future." ”

Hearing Pei Xingjian's words, Li Xiu couldn't help but show a somewhat regretful expression, but Pei Xingjian is indeed a rare all-round talent in civil and military affairs, both in administration and military affairs, and now he chooses to take the road of military generals like his father and brother, Li Xiu is not easy to persuade again, so he can only encourage him a few words, and then he said goodbye to the other party, after all, it is already dark, and Pei Xingjian and they have to find a place to live when they enter the city.

Speaking of Pei Xingjian, they are all soldiers in the army, if they come to Chang'an for official business, there must be people from the court who are responsible for receiving them, for example, the last time they came back from the party, they lived in the barracks outside the city, but this time they came for private matters, so they naturally have to be responsible for food and accommodation, which is also the reason why Su Dingfang sent Pei Xingjian, after all, he is thoughtful and more reassuring than others.

After saying goodbye to Pei Xingjian, Li Xiu also returned home, but at this time it was almost two watches, and the children in the family had already slept, after Li Xiu ate the dinner he left for himself, he went to see Princess Pingyang and his son, and learned that Lizhi had gone back, after all, the health of the eldest grandson queen was not good, and she was already sensible, so even if she was unhappy, she still had to go back to take care of her mother.

Li Xiu couldn't help but feel some sympathy for the child Lizhen, she was born sick from birth, but she was born in the royal family, maybe in the eyes of others, she is a princess, but who knows the pressure she bears, and even Li Xiu is worried that Lizhi has lived in the palace for many years, which will lead to the deterioration of her already improved condition, and it turns out that she died at the age of only twenty-two in history.

Li Shimin finally let Li Tai move out of the Wude Palace, and the matter slowly subsided, plus the New Year is coming soon, so the streets and alleys of Chang'an City are filled with a festive atmosphere.

Speaking of which, in the era of the Tang Dynasty, the Spring Festival is not the most solemn festival of the year, and the real most solemn festival is actually the Shangyuan Festival after that, but because the Spring Festival and the Shangyuan Festival are too close, the two festivals are actually merged together, especially last year because of Li Yuan's death, resulting in the Shangyuan Festival not being completed, but this year has not yet reached the Spring Festival, and some people have already begun to prepare the lanterns needed for the Shangyuan Festival, it seems that this year's Shangyuan Festival will be the most lively Shangyuan Festival in recent years.

Others like the Yuan Festival, but Li Xiu still retains the habits of the later life, prefers to celebrate the Spring Festival, especially on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve eating dumplings, always reminds him of his relatives and friends in his previous life, whenever this time, he always feels a little sad, calculate the time, he has passed through the Tang Dynasty for fourteen years, and he has also changed from a teenager to a middle-aged man, although the family and career are very happy, but it always makes him feel that something is missing.

However, before the Spring Festival, there was one thing that made Li Xiu's family very happy, that is, Shangguan Yi and Hate Er came back from the south, speaking of Shangguanyi's term of office in Haiyan County has expired, and his political achievements in Haiyan are very good, under his efforts, Haiyan County started with canned seafood, vigorously developed the fishing industry, and later even the salt industry was re-done, so that Haiyan absorbed a lot of people, and the people were also very rich, and in just a few years, it developed from Xia County to Shang County.

With such political achievements, after Shangguanyi's term of office expired, the people of Haiyan County were reluctant to let him go, but the imperial court wanted to transfer him back to Chang'an to serve, in addition, he and Hate Er also considered that Ma Ye and the lord of Guanghua County were old and needed someone to take care of them, so they also accepted the imperial court's order to return to Chang'an.

Originally, Li Xiu really wanted Shangguan Yi to come to the financial supervision to assist him, but considering that Shangguan Yi had already served as a county magistrate, the starting point was higher than Pei Xingjian, and the financial supervisor already had two talents, Liu Renliang and Xu Jingzong, it would be difficult for Shangguan Yi to arrange a suitable position when he came to the financial supervision again, so he had to give up in the end.

Time flies quickly, and it is the Shangyuan Festival of the year that is coming, which is also the most anticipated day for young men and women in the Tang Dynasty.