Xiao Zhao invited Lao Li to dinner, and the two of them served on the table.

The maids and servants around him circled around, a total of 36 dishes, as well as a variety of auxiliary dishes and good wine, what Laotan sauerkraut, Hedong old vinegar, daughter red corn high brew (in fact, sorghum wine), the color and flavor are complete, and they are almost not on the singing troupe.

Lao Li was full of wine and food, so he deduced that he was old and wanted to rest as soon as possible, and he would go back to fight with the two concubines of Mu Wei for another 300 rounds, so as to calm the emotions that were stirring today.

Before Lao Li left, he made an appointment to talk again tomorrow.

Nima, what are you playing?

After the labor story is told, and the dinner is over, you are going back to fight the concubine without saying a word?

Why haven't you decreed yet? Is this to be hung up and sold?

Xiao Zhao was about to get angry, but after pinching his fingers, he had a new idea.

He put on an understanding smile again, and said that Lao Li should rest early, and wished Lao Li success tonight and a proud spring breeze.

Officialdom reception must be done in accordance with the rules of officialdom. Judging from the level of being an official, Lao Li's "Privy Counselor" is much bigger than Xiao Zhao's "Zhenwu Patrol Envoy", so Xiao Zhao had no choice but to give up the Tang family's mansion and enshrine the white-bearded old man to rest overnight, and he rushed back to "Zhenwu New Town" with his men and horses overnight.

The location of "Zhenwu New Town" is about 60 miles away from Langu County, near the county seat of Wuzhai County, Shanxi Province in later generations. In the post-Tang Dynasty, this place was still a sparsely populated prairie, with only a small Hujiazhai.

During the Tang Dynasty, there were people stationed here, and after the army withdrew, some military dependents were left, and this place became a paradise for horse bandits. More than 100 years have passed, this small walled fort has gone through several ups and downs, and finally a horse bandit surnamed Hu has gained a firm foothold, and has a good relationship with the government and other villages, and has become a good people's village.

He Daxian chose this place as the garrison of the main force of the Zhenwu Army, and prepared to build a city here, naming it "Zhenwu New Town".

The reason for the selection of the site is very simple, this is the central location of the "Zhao Revolutionary Base", and it is an hour away from the three key locations of Shenchi Pass, Langu County and Sancha Town. Moreover, it is backed by Luya Mountain, facing the prairie, with abundant river water and prosperous vegetation, and it is a natural and abundant pasture.

In the future, the Zhenwu army will rely on cavalry for its livelihood, so it must provide a good base pasture for the feeding and cultivation of war horses.

Coupled with the complex terrain and the vast Guanshui Mountain and Luya Mountain, if something really happens, hiding in the mountains to find another way out is a backup route for a comeback.

Early the next morning, Lord Li received an invitation from a cavalryman of the Zhenwu Army, saying that tonight was the wedding day of General Zhao Ping and Zhao, and he would marry the two daughters of the Li family in Taiping Villa in Zhenwu New Town.

There is no way around this, Li Zhuanmei originally wanted to beat Zhao Ping again in Langu County today, and then send him a letter of appointment of "recruiting envoys from all sides" when it is almost over. Now that people are going to get married, no matter how big your official Li is, if you don't go over to congratulate you, it will be a loss of face.

Fortunately, the terrain of this place is flat, and the quality of the road is not bad, and it is more than sixty miles to grunt and hurry up, and when it arrives at Zhenwu New Town, it is almost noon.

Zhenwu New City is built on a hillside, and there is only one uphill road into the city. From a distance, the area is quite large, next to the small Hujiazhai, the city wall has not yet been built, but it is just enclosed with a wooden fence, most of which are military camp tents, and some brick and wood buildings have begun to be built.

He Daxian's concept of war has long surpassed the people of this era, he said that he was building a city, but he never thought of building a city wall.

For He Daxian, the key to defense is the terrain and depth, not a thin city wall, besides, since this is set as the last main base of the Zhenwu Army, if the enemy has hit the city here, it means that the general trend has gone, and at this time, it is purely a brain problem to defend the lonely city. Therefore, the defense of this place is to find a way to delay the enemy army and give our army enough time to retreat to the Luya Mountain behind.

It doesn't matter if you fail, you know how to preserve your vitality in order to make a comeback, and you are the real heroes.

Because Zhenwu New City has not yet been built, Hujia Village temporarily serves as the main venue for weddings. When Lord Li arrived, General Zhao Pingzhao and another middle-aged man with kind eyebrows came out to greet him, and after a few words of greeting, he said that he was busy and asked the owner of Hujiazhai next to him to entertain him.

The owner of Hujiazhai, Hu Lao, whose name is Hutong, is a mixed race of Han Uighurs and Dangxiang.

This place is a mixed ethnic group, people of all ethnic groups have lived and intermarried here for hundreds of years, and it is difficult to find people of pure blood, basically as long as you think you are of any race, it is what kind of race. Although the Han people are not good at fighting, the Han culture is the representative of the world's advanced productive forces and advanced culture in this era.

If a local tyrant can't even write Chinese characters, he will really be ridiculed as a "local old hat", and if everyone thinks that you are a Han tyrant, then the attitude will immediately be much more authentic, and you will have a very lofty title: "Master".

Therefore, as soon as Master Li heard that this person was called "Master Hu", he knew that this was a "Han man" who respected the Central Plains court.

Sure enough, Master Hu heard that Master Li was a bigger official than General Zhao, and he was a super official by the emperor's side, so he was very respectful, and his bent waist almost never straightened up!

There is no way, when Old Master Hu was a horse bandit, he was indeed a pure-blooded Han from Hanzhong, although his great-grandmother and grandmother, as well as his mother were from different Hu ethnic groups, and the Han blood had long been diluted to less than 15%, but Master Hu still firmly believed that he was a pure-blooded Han Chinese.

Now that the ancestors have accumulated virtue and whitewashed their identity as horse bandits, the Hu family has occupied a piece of land for three generations, spread out its branches, and become a family of scholars. One of Master Hu's sons studied in Luoyang, the eastern capital. God bless the Hu family, now is the time for the Hu family to study hard and make progress, there is actually a big civil official of the imperial court who came to this place where birds don't, how can Master Hu not be surprised and serve wholeheartedly?

Almost rolling and crawling, he led Lord Li to the courtyard of his most luxurious guest room, and served the best Huzhou Gu Zhu purple bamboo shoot tea, which is the top three famous teas in the world in the "Book of Tea" written by Lu Yu, a tea master in the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, Master Hu also knew from General Zhao that Lord Li liked young women, especially exotic women, so when he led Lord Li into the specially prepared courtyard of the independent guest room, the two beautiful golden silk cats were already sitting on their knees and waiting inside.

In these years, Persian-looking Hu women are more common, but pure-blooded Germanic white women with snow-white and transparent complexions, and even the subcutaneous blood vessels can be seen clearly, are very rare.

Sure enough, Master Li was stunned for a moment, his face was red, and his heart couldn't help but beat up.

There's no way, although Master Li is old and his physical strength is not very good, it's just that he prepared too hard for the battle last night, took too much medicine, and his combat strength is still there. Now that his physical strength has recovered slightly, he can't help it a little and begins to look left and right.

"Master Hu is an elegant person, I don't know if there are clansmen doing things outside?" Although Master Li is in a hurry, Jiang is still old and spicy, and he knows that there is no free lunch in the world.

"Back to Master Li, the dog Hu Yuan, is currently studying hard in Jixian Academy in the Eastern Capital, and I look forward to making a difference in the big exam next year."

"Oh, Hu Yuan, the old man remembered, and he had time to test his knowledge when he went back."

"With the guidance of Master Li, that's the blessing of the dog's three lives. Lord Li, please rest, and please feel free to tell me if necessary. ”

Master Hu was so happy that his tears were about to fall, he kowtowed again and again, lay on the ground and went out backwards.

It's not that those two white women can ask Master Li to help Master Hu's son open the way to his career, where can the dignified privy councillor be so cheap to buy it? The main reason is that Master Hu is rich, and his family has the need to be an official, everyone makes friends and is mutually beneficial, and in the future, Master Li's family will have one more way to make money.

Not to mention the absurd things of Li Zhuanmei's old cow eating tender grass, let's take a look at what He Daxian is doing.

He Daxian wasn't perfunctory to Master Li Zhuanmei just now, he really had something.

He was going to greet another guest of honor who had come to congratulate the wedding, the secretary of King Shi Jingjiao of Jin, Sang Weihan.

Sang Weihan is a well-known historical figure, he is Shi Jingjiao's henchman military adviser, and he also asked Shi Jingjiao to ask the Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang for help, calling himself "Emperor Er", and after the establishment of the Later Jin Dynasty, he served as the prime minister, single-handedly managed to cede the sixteen states of Yanyun, and paid 300,000 yuan to the Khitan people every year.

A big traitor behind a standard big traitor!