Chapter 56: Trends and Doubts
"Have you heard?"
"What did you hear?"
"Raid the royal family! That Shouchang County, Hou Youlong, General Wu, General Right Yulin, Xiao Quai, took people to raid the mansion of the traitor Wang Gong. ”
"Hey, I thought you were talking about something, who doesn't know about this in Chang'an City?"
The restaurants and restaurants in Chang'an City, all the bazaars but places with many people, all the things we talked about in the past two days were the battle between Xiao Quzhi and Wang Jie, and finally ended this topic with Xiao Quai's big victory.
Xiao Qubing came to Chang'an alone, and was immediately regarded as an enemy by the powerful Jingzhao Yin Yushi Dafu Wang Jie, and was suppressed by Wang Jie, together with Li Linfu. The battle between the two sides began with Xiao Quai's assassination in Xishi (they also believed that Wang Jiao did it), to Pingkangfang's lesson to Wang Jie's son Wang Zhun, and then to Xiao Quai's grounding, and the Axe Gang besieging Xiao's house.
Just when everyone thought that Xiao Quai's illness was over, like all Li Linfu and Wang Jie's opponents, they were either killed or degraded. What no one expected was that Xiao Quai, who had been bullied so badly the day before and couldn't even buy food, was miraculously reversed the next day.
Although this matter is essentially Wang Jie's own rebellion, after many inquiries by people, people also learned that Xiao Quzhi made great contributions again in this matter, and almost climbed to the current high position by stepping on Wang Jie.
All of a sudden, people's views on Xiao Qu's disease changed dramatically.
Before this, even if Xiao Quai's illness was spread by Hu Shang from the Western Regions, he was alone after all, even if he recognized Yang Guifei as his sister, he still had no roots and no foundation. Compared with Wang Fei and Li Linfu, it is like a child facing a giant, and few people will regard Xiao Quzhi as a player of the same level as Wang Jie, Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong.
Therefore, He Keer's father, He Jian, knew that Xiao Qubing was targeted by Wang Ji at the first time, and immediately refused Xiao Qu's illness to have any more contact with his daughter. Although Xiao Quzhi's official rank is more than ten levels higher than him, and he is a celebrity around the emperor and concubine, he is still very optimistic about Xiao Quzhi.
He Jian's opinion is also the opinion of most Chang'an people, but who would have thought that Xiao Quai, a child, would send one of them into the abyss of no recovery in just a few days under the joint attack of the two giants, and at the same time let the other giant respect him.
By this time, no one in the entire Chang'an, or even the entire world, dared to despise Xiao Quai. At the same time, the origin of Xiao Quai's deeds and the joy of fighting Wang Ji have become the only theme of Chang'an City in the past two days.
Speaking of these two things, everyone's emotions are excited with a lot of excitement. Wang Jie searched the world to invite favors, and while gaining power, he naturally complained all over the world, and Xiao Quzhi was rightfully regarded as a hero and was praised and preached.
If someone mentions these two things and doesn't know about them, they will immediately be laughed at by the people around them. On the other hand, if someone knows the inside story that others don't know, they will receive a lot of compliments and save face.
The middle-aged rich man in his thirties in front of him was inquiring about a news that no one else knew at the moment, and deliberately sold it to people at a restaurant with the most people in Xishi at noon.
"Do you know how much property you copied out? And yesterday afternoon, a small official in Chang'an County was found by General Xiao's personal guards because he took three pieces of jewelry privately, and ten taels of gold collars were later reported to General Xiao was ordered to be beaten to death on the street? ”
"Then tell me how much has been confiscated?"
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, many diners on the tables on the side immediately stopped their chopsticks and looked at this person and waited for the next step.
"Listen, my seventeenth lang happens to be the chief bookkeeper in Chang'an County, and he told me in person yesterday that the gold, silver, jewelry and copper coins have not yet begun to be counted; Let's talk about the bulk first, there are twelve large warehouses used to store silk silk, and it is roughly estimated that there are at least 10 million horses, and there is also a warehouse of four or five thousand catties of pepper......" Seeing that it attracted the attention of almost all the diners in the restaurant, the middle-aged rich man began to speak loudly with interest.
The monetary system of the Tang Dynasty was both money and silk, and silk was legal tender (gold and silver were not), and it was better than copper money, according to the market price, an ordinary silk silk was worth about 400 and 450 Wen. In other words, Wang Jie's family does not count anything else, and the silk silk in these twelve warehouses alone is almost more than 4 million yuan, which is more than 10% of the annual income of the Tang Dynasty.
As soon as he said that, the surrounding diners who were drinking and eating immediately burst into a loud buzz.
"There are so many! Wang Jie, this dog thief really deserves a thousand cuts! ”
"That is, all this money was scavenged from us......"
"This is called Heavenly Zhaozhao's retribution, who knows what will happen to this dog thief?"
"I heard my eldest brother say that it seems to be a matter of abandoning the city, that is, the matter of the past two days, and his younger brother Wang Weld and the leader of the Axe Gang, Xing Xuan, and Wanqi Guoyi Cao Yu were all slashed with eight knives, his son Wang Zhun was sentenced to death with a cane, and Xue Rongguang, the county governor of Wannian, was demoted to a concubine and exiled to Lingnan, in addition to this, many of Wang Jie's subordinates were degraded and imprisoned and exiled......"
"I didn't say it, when the time comes, everyone will go to see their family together, and they won't die well!"
The voice of discussion is getting louder and louder, and many people's eyes are shining, and it is always pleasant to be able to watch such a powerful and powerful corrupt official fall in an instant, and die and destroy his family.
In a corner of the second floor of this restaurant called Huayue Building, a red-haired Sogdian Hu man got up and closed the doors and windows, and the voice in the lobby below suddenly became much quieter.
He returned to his seat, his interest was obviously not high, and his tone was quite indignant: "I really didn't expect that Dr. Wang and Youxiang together have never fought this Xiao Qu's illness." ”
"This person is not simple, we were too light before." A black-haired man took a bite of the dish, and his brows furrowed slightly: "At first, we thought he was just a fierce general with better skills, but we didn't know that his skills were so good." We sent all the more than 20 first-class masters in Chang'an, plus more than a dozen second-rate masters, and they used a strong crossbow to sneak attack, and they were all killed and captured alive by him. This person's martial arts are so strong, I don't think even the Grand Commander is an opponent even if he goes out in person. ”
Sighing, he continued: "If it's just a good skill, this person is still proficient in the way of military training, how long has it been, and he has trained the two thousand Flying Dragon Forbidden Army into such a strong force that is not inferior to the Luoluo River." Now we have begun to rectify and train the two armies of Longwu and Yulin, and in time we will become our strong enemy.
In addition, he is also very good at making the concubine happy, according to the news from the palace's eyeliner, he can always make the concubine laugh every time he is with the concubine. Because of this, I recognized the concubine as my sister, what do you say this is called, the father-in-law is the righteous son of the concubine, he is the brother-in-law, and the father-in-law still calls him uncle, and we all have to call him grandfather.
That's not all, I heard that he also plans to do business, not only opened two of the largest and most luxurious restaurants in Xishi and Pingkangfang, but also wants to set up some trading company to do long-distance trafficking business, isn't this robbing us for business?
Even cooking he did better than others, I also went on the day of the opening of Pingkang Fang Zuixian Building, an ordinary mutton without spices can be made fragrant and tender, to be honest, I have never eaten such delicious mutton, it is said that he also taught. You say he's done so well in everything, is this still human? ”
The Khitan among the three was still a little disappreciative and said: "I don't think he's anything remarkable, it's just that he is stronger in force and luckier." If Wang Ji hadn't been implicated by his younger brother, how could he have fallen so quickly. Don't say anything else, let's just say that Xishi assassinated him before, wasn't he deceived by us and bit Wang Jiao? And this time he wants to track down the flow of ordnance, and it is not that we cut off all the clues in advance and finally can't do it, so it can be seen that he is actually very poor in terms of strategy and wisdom! ”
The Xi man nodded: "That being said, he can't deal with us, but we can't do anything about him, right?" Assassination can't kill him, and when it comes to being favored, he is on par with his father-in-law, and this time the Anxi army has made such a contribution, and once again brought so much gold and silver treasures, Gao Xianzhi is afraid that this time he will also be named the king of the county and be on an equal footing with his father-in-law. He has this strong reinforcement outside, the backer of the noble concubine Niangniang inside, and the emperor's favor, so I am afraid that it will be even more difficult to deal with him. ”
The red-haired Sogdian was not worried at all: "What do you want to do with this, anyway, my father-in-law will enter the court in the near future, just leave everything to my father-in-law and Mr. Yan, they will always have a way, hasn't the news been sent?" ”
The other two nodded and said that they didn't say anything more, and the three of them ate something with their hearts, and walked down the restaurant in three directions. The black-haired Khitan man was walking while studying Xiao Quai, and he always felt that something was wrong. But he couldn't say exactly where, and in the end, he didn't think about anything at all, and he came to the Persian Temple in Liquanfang and began to prepare for prayer.
ps: After the previous story is told, I am thinking about the next story, writing a detailed outline, and my brain is a little messy, so that's all for today.