"As the saying goes, if you lose your land, you lose both people and land; Save people and lose land, and people and land are both saved. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info is just a pendulum clock, and I'll get one more powerful than the one in Buddhism when I go back. Wang Mai saw that the atmosphere was a little cold, and said to defend himself.

"Save people and lose land, and people and land are both saved; Saving land and losing people, people and land are lost. Several people pondered the meaning of this sentence.

Wang Mai looked at a few people proudly, and was bluffed by himself in a few words, which is called IQ crushing. After a closer look, I found that the faces of several people were getting colder and colder, and they were drumming in their hearts.

"Soft bones!" Lao Xu took the lead in attacking.

"No integrity......" Zheng Ying sighed and commented.

"The eldest husband can't bend ...... might," Lu Deming looked at Wang Mai with disdain.

Only Kong Yingda's expression is the most direct: "Phew! ”

Wang Mai touched the spittle on his face, come on, these old stubborns, we don't have a common language. was scolded again, which made a few people angry.

"Seeing that it's noon, I wonder if a few upright gentlemen have Yaxing and me, a shameless villain, drinking and having fun?" Wang Mai looked at the few people who didn't want to take care of him, "The fairy brew that has been in the cellar for almost two years is ...... How to describe it, it's really mellow. ”

A few old drunkards moved their index fingers when they heard this, and since Wang Mai was not there, they hadn't tasted the wine of his filial piety for a long time, but they were angry at this moment, and it seemed that they were a little too cheap to go down the stairs like this.

"It seems that a few of you are not interested in this excellent wine," Wang Mai shook his head, "Then I have to drink with Liu Da and them, what a pity." After saying this, he didn't mean to get up, still staring at the expressions of several people.

"That ......" Lao Xu Wenyan looked at a few people, "Such a good wine, let these rough men eat it, isn't it a pearl in the dark?" I'll take a look at it and taste it for you. After speaking, he glanced at a few people.

Lao Zheng and Lao Lu both got up with a smile: "That's it, you can't let these people who don't know how to drink be ruined." ”

Only Kong Yingda still refused to get up, and Wang Mai quickly helped him up from the table: "My Lord Sacrificial Wine, you can enjoy the light, and then scold when you get to the banquet in a while." ”

Kong Yingda tilted his head and ignored him, but his feet moved with everyone.

went downstairs and asked the shopkeeper to go to the restaurant next door to book a private room, but the shopkeeper said something to Wang Mai: "Why don't we also have some snacks such as snacks and fruits in our teahouse, so that we don't have to bother the guests to eat at the side of the restaurant, wouldn't it be wonderful?" ”

"Not good!" Wang Mai shook his head and denied the shopkeeper's opinion, "You remember, our teahouse is an elegant place, nominally selling tea, but actually selling elegance." As soon as your snacks and sweets come up, the literati who come here to consume will eat with their mouths, how can there be any elegance at all? In the end, for the sake of a little profit, it will lose these upper-class consumers, and the gains outweigh the losses. Don't bring it up again, understand? ”

"Understood." Only then did the shopkeeper come to his senses. The owner is the owner, I see it thoroughly, and I have been a shopkeeper for more than ten years, which is really incomparable.

"I don't see you reading my Confucian scriptures, but you have studied this business thoroughly." A few people came out of the teahouse, and Lao Xu said something that Wang Mai couldn't tell whether it was good or bad.

"I'm not proficient in business, but I only know a little bit about it." Wang Mai said modestly. This little thing of oneself will not be on the table at all in the future generations, and it is simply a world different from those business strongmen, and it can just bluff you ancients.

"Don't do your job...... Kong Yingda said.

This old man took gunpowder today, and he was not familiar with him, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a person sitting outside the study building, turned to several old men, and said: "I will introduce you to a person, who is young and has a deep knowledge, and must be to your liking." After saying that, he led a few people and walked towards the man.

Ma Zhouzheng was flipping through the notes he had made in the morning with one hand and nibbling on a cold steamed bun with the other, when he suddenly felt a dark cloud floating overhead, and the light on the paper became much darker. Hurriedly raised his head to inspect, and Wang Mai, who he saw this morning, was looking at him with a smile, followed by several old men, one of whom seemed to be the owner of this library. Hurriedly swallowed the steamed bun in his mouth, stuffed the remaining half of the steamed bun in his hand into his arms, and got up to salute a few people.

The old men didn't know why Wang Mai would introduce them to such a young scholar, presumably this person should have something extraordinary, so they greeted him. Wang Mai introduced a few people on the side, and Ma Zhou was surprised when he heard the names of the few people in front of him, especially when he arrived at Kong Yingda, his face was full of the word worship. These guys are famous Confucians, but I didn't expect to have the opportunity to meet them.

Wang Mai took Ma Zhou's hand: "Brother Ma, I happened to meet these old men below...... Ah, how about you go to drink together? ”

Even if Ma Zhou is arrogant, in the face of these people, he is also excited, and naturally he has no reluctance: "I am fortunate to be with a few gentlemen in the next three lives." ”

It's good now, with this kid joining, you don't have to worry about the siege of a few old guys for a while.

Sitting down in the private room of the restaurant, Ma Zhou realized that Wang Mai was originally the assistant teacher of Guozijian, no wonder those scholars just now called him "Assistant Teacher Wang". However, when he first came to Luoyang, he didn't know that Wang Mai had already become a popular figure in Luoyang's Shilin.

Ma Zhou's performance was also greatly unexpected by Wang Mai, who thought that he was young and his knowledge was not deep. I didn't expect that I really couldn't judge people by their appearance, this kid actually talked eloquently in front of several famous Confucians, without stage fright at all. And listening to what he said, it was all about words, not nonsense, running trains with his mouth full. It is also extremely rare for a young man who is less than twenty years old to have such a unique insight.

Not only that, but this person also drinks quite a lot. One or two white porcelain cups, one bite and one dry, this is not the kind of low-alcohol liquor. Several old men are old, but they have only tasted it, and only Wang Mai can keep up with his drinking.

After a pound of wine, Ma Zhou's face remained unchanged at all, and even his eyes were clear, without the slightest intention of being drunk. Just this amount of wine, Wang Mai sighed to himself.

"How's this kid?" Taking the opportunity to help Lao Xu go to the toilet, Wang Mai asked proudly on the side. I didn't expect a passer-by who was casually pulling over to raise his face like this.

Lao Xu trembled, tied up his clothes and said: "This son is indeed a young man on the way to learning, and he can pinpoint the disadvantages of the times, and he will become a pillar of talent one day, but his temperament is a little frivolous." ”

"Young man," Wang Mai said as he walked with the old man, "after two years of mental maturity, he will naturally lose this impetuousness." ”

The meal lasted for nearly two hours, and when I went out, the sun was setting in the west. Wang Mai staggered and took Ma Zhou's hand: "Brother Ma, if you have any difficulties in the future, just go to my house." ”

said goodbye to Ma Zhou, and sent a few old men back to the house one by one, at this time it was already dusk, and finally came to Song Laosan's house.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time, why did you come so late?" Song Laosan complained. As soon as he smelled the smell of wine on Wang Mai's body, he knew that he had drunk a lot at noon, so he hurriedly asked someone to make a cup of tea.

Now the method of making tea is prevalent in Luoyang, Song Laosan knows that this is a new gadget made up by Wang Mai, although he is a big old man, but now his family is rich, and he also learns from those upper-class people to be vassal.

Wang Mai took out a clockwork cart the size of two matchboxes from his arms and asked Song Laosan to play with the two children. He is not short of money now, and the wine in the winery is his own and not rare, so he has to send some novelty to the two children to express his heart. These clockwork toys were made by Wang Mai out of boredom when he was making a pendulum, just to pass the time, and now he is out of trouble and gives it to children, which is a novel gift.

"I can move myself!" Song Laosan looked at the clockwork toy in his hand curiously, a man who was almost forty years old, and he was having a lot of fun.

Wang Mai drank tea and told him about his experience during this time.

"It turns out that the Buddha treasure of the White Horse Temple was also made by you," Song Laosan was a little surprised when he heard the news, but he was already accustomed to his magic, "If we also get some pendulum clocks to sell, we will definitely make a fortune." ”

Although the pendulum clock is not easy to make, it is not impossible to mass-produce, but it is just ...... "If it were in normal times, it would really be possible to do this business, but now Luoyang is about to fall into war."

"What's wrong?" Song Laosan looked at Wang Mai's expression and asked suspiciously.

"I'll tell you the truth......" After hesitating again and again, he still told him the news that the Tang Army was about to attack. The friendship between the two of them shared weal and woe, and Wang Mai really didn't want to hide it from him. And this news is estimated to be known all over the city in a few months at most, so tell him in advance and make plans early.

"Where did you get the news?" Song Laosan asked with a frown.

Wang Mai shook his head: "Old Song, I can't disclose the source of the news, please be sure to keep it a secret, otherwise if you are not careful, we will all suffer." ”

Song Laosan was silent for a while when he heard this, although he was no longer in the army, he also knew some of Zheng Guo's current situation. The two sides continued to friction on the border, and the Tang State had just eliminated Liu Wuzhou's forces, and the next goal was bound to win the Central Plains, but he didn't expect the Tang Army's actions to come so quickly. Wang Maiyi will never deceive himself, and this statement should not be false.

It's time for a war, Song Laosan sighed. He is a person who has been on the battlefield several times, and has experienced two wars to defend Luoyang, and he can deeply understand the cruelty of war more deeply than Wang Mai.

"The last time Wagang besieged Luoyang, there was a famine in the city, if it weren't for Yu Wenhua and going north, I'm afraid most of the people in Luoyang would have starved to death." Song Laosan recalled, "The best way is to go out of the city, but now ......"

Although Wang Shichong's harsh method of sitting together caused anger and resentment, it also had a great effect, and whoever dared to flee would mean that the neighbors, relatives and friends in the city were all finished. Unless you are a homeless person with no relatives and no reason, no fixed home. But now the two of them are big families and have a lot of friends, so they definitely can't just leave.