readx; China is too concerned about face since ancient times, as early as the time of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang Guang in order to boast of the prestige of the Sui Dynasty, he sent the important minister Pei Ju to the Western Regions to lure the Hu into the court, the Hu people in the Western Regions saw that it was profitable, they rushed to Luoyang, along the road counties to entertain and send off, the cost was great, not only that, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty also ordered to set up a grand hundred opera venues on the street outside the end gate of the imperial city on the night of the Yuan Dynasty, which was specially designed for the people of the Western Regions to play a hundred operas, the musicians were as many as 18,000 people, the sound was heard for dozens of miles, the lights were shining like day, and the performance was not stopped until the end of the first month. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

People from the Western Regions entered Luoyang Fengdu to trade, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty ordered the merchants of the city to decorate the city, accumulate treasures, the merchants' costumes were gorgeous, even the vegetable sellers also used dragon beard mats to pave the ground, and the major wine shops invited the people of the Western Regions to sit down, let them get drunk and not take a penny, and the beautiful name said: The Sui Dynasty was rich, and the wine and food did not charge money as usual.

There are even more winners, even the trees in the market are wrapped with silk satin, and the Hu people are not stupid, so they sneered and asked: "The poor people of the Sui Dynasty who do not cover their bodies abound, why don't they cover their own people with cloth, but use them to wrap trees to show off their wealth?" ”

The merchants were speechless.

The same is true of Li Longji today, the dedication of Mansur, the prince of the Great Food, greatly satisfied his vanity, when Mansur begged for the release of the prisoners of war and let them go home to reunite with their wives and daughters, Li Longji and the Xiangguo immediately moved their hearts of compassion, and agreed to Mansour's request without hesitation, and immediately ordered Li Qingan to release the prisoners of war, and even almost forgot that there were more than 1,000 prisoners of war from the Tang Dynasty in the Great Food, and it was Li Qing'an who reminded Li Longji to remember.

However, Mansour also made a mistake that he regretted, and after signing the peace agreement, he proposed that he hoped to learn the papermaking skills of the Tang Dynasty and spread the culture of the Tang Dynasty to the West, and Li Longji agreed.

But Mansur's heart was empty, and he didn't even propose to learn Datang's armor-making and bow-making techniques, and he reacted afterwards, he could use the excuse of fighting the Western Turks for Datang to get these two military secret skills, because Datang didn't regard them as equal powers at all, it was a gift to them, if so, Datang would most likely teach them these two techniques.

It's a pity that he didn't make this request, causing him to waste such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in vain, and when the enthusiasm of the Tang Emperor cooled down, he might not be willing to agree.

The singing and dancing feast held by Xingqing Palace for the Great Food Prince did not end until the afternoon, Li Qingan sneered and left Xingqing Palace, he didn't know how long the friendship contract signed by Chen Xilie, the left minister of the Tang Dynasty, and personally stamped by the Tang Emperor Li Longji could last? Even if the big cannibal didn't want to break the contract, he, Li Qing'an, would tear it to pieces with his own hands.

The carriage was driving unhurriedly on the street, and Li Qingan was half-leaning on the cushion and closed his eyes to recuperate, when he suddenly heard several guards talking in a low voice about the Tang Dynasty's permission to release the prisoners of war.

"I let them go for nothing, it's too cheap for them, I really don't know how to explain to the brothers who died on the battlefield?"

"That's it, these civil officials in the imperial court are too soft-hearted, and they all pretend to be high-minded, and the saints are also a little old and confused, so they promised to let them go in vain, at least let them take money to redeem them!"

Li Qing'an's knock! Boom! When Li Longji ordered him to release the prisoners of war, Li Qingan did not raise any objections, on that occasion, he could not sweep Li Longji's happiness, but he would not let go of the 20,000 prisoners of war so easily, or the old saying, the decision on whether to release people or not is up to Li Longji, but how to release people is up to him Li Qingan, so let people go so easily? Mansour couldn't help but think things were too simple.

The carriage went out of the Mingde Gate, at this time Li Qingan suddenly remembered the refugees in the morning, he opened the curtain and looked into the distance, only to see that hundreds of tents had been set up in a vacant land a few miles away, and there were several large porridge sheds around the tents, all of which were lined up in a long line, and there were only a few thousand people in the morning, but now it seems that there are tens of thousands of people.

At this time, he suddenly saw a few people riding horses rushing to this side, but it was Cui Guangyuan, the county commander of Chang'an County, who also saw Li Qing'an's team and hurriedly ran up.

Since the last meeting in the military camp, Cui Guangyuan began to dream of going to Anxi to be an official, he is now the county commander of Jingxian County, if he goes to Anxi, he should at least be a thorn history, a little luckier, maybe he can mix a governor of Xiazhou, Cui Guangyuan's biggest wish in life is to join the army as a general, as early as his youth, he is the rebellion of the Cui family, brave and ruthless, is a famous ranger in Chang'an (that is, the Tang name of the street hooligan), and later went to Jiannan as an official, did not enter the military, but became a civilian official.

Now that he has taken refuge in Li Qing'an, he has begun to dream of being a general again, Cui Guangyuan galloped forward, turned over and dismounted and said, "See the general!" ”

Li Qingan smiled and asked, "Cui Yuanjun, how is the resettlement of refugees?" ”

"Back to the general, now the refugees in Hedong have reached 18,000 people, it is said that there are still a large number of refugees are rushing to Chang'an one after another, at present, Chang'an County and Wannian County are in charge of one side, I have sheltered nearly 10,000 refugees, and began to give porridge in the morning, and now it is the second round, I estimate that there will be nearly 100,000 refugees to Chang'an in the end."

"Is there enough food?" Li Qingan asked again.

"The food is definitely not enough, there are 30,000 stones of grain in the official warehouse of Chang'an County, but Xianyu Jingzhaoyin only allowed us to use 3,000 stones, saying that the military rations should be requisitioned, and we are not allowed to use them for disaster relief without authorization.

This is indeed a dilemma, Li Qingan is not optimistic about the results of the book, Li Longji is determined to go to war, he can't take care of these victims anyway, Li Qingan thought about it and said: "I'll give you an idea, to mobilize the rich households in Chang'an to open a porridge shed, there should be someone to get this reputation, in addition, I have a manor in Weinan County, and I have accumulated 8,000 stones of grain in the past two years, and all of this grain can be handed over to you for disaster relief, in addition, you go to the Juhaixing Cabinet Workshop in Dongshi to withdraw 3,000 yuan, just say it's my order, it's still the same, Use the money to buy food for disaster relief. ”

Cui Guangyuan was greatly surprised, if the cheapest brown rice was bought at the market price of 60 yuan, then the 3,000 yuan could buy 5,000 stone brown rice for disaster relief, that is to say, Li Qingan alone took out 13,000 stone rice, which is a big deal, he was extremely moved, and hurriedly thanked: "Thank you for the general's donation, these grains can be supported by me for a long time." ”

"You're welcome, besides, I have something I need your help with."

"General, please do not hesitate to give orders."

Li Qing'an pondered for a while and said: "I can buy another 10,000 stone of grain, but this 10,000 stone of grain is not for disaster relief, but you recruit 10,000 families of refugees who are willing to settle in Anxi for me, these grains can be used for food consumption on the road, in addition, I will give each family a consistent money, you tell them, when they arrive in Anxi, there will naturally be officials to respond." ”

Cui Guangyuan also knew that the imperial court would move 300,000 Central Plains immigrants to Anxi, and since the imperial court had agreed, he could implement this matter for Li Qingan, but 10,000 refugees were nearly 60,000 people, and it was estimated that not so many families were willing to go to Anxi.

Cui Guangyuan was a little embarrassed: "I'm worried that there won't be as many as 10,000 refugee households!" ”

"It doesn't matter, as much as you want, I will send someone to assist you, and I will tell the refugees about the benefits of going to Anxi."

Speaking of this, Li Qingan saw that the soldiers next to him wanted to speak and stopped, as if he had something to report, so he said to Cui Guangyuan: "Then you go and get busy first, and I will send someone to contact you with the specific arrangements." ”

Cui Guangyuan bowed and left, and when Cui Guangyuan walked away, Li Qingan turned around and asked the guard: "What's the matter?" ”

"Back to the general, the owner of Atami said that he had something important to report to the general."

"Changjin?" Li Qingan was slightly stunned, what was the matter with him?

"Bring him up!"

After a while, Chang Jin was brought up, and when he saw Li Qing'an, he said, "Envoy, I discovered the secret of a big cannibal at noon today. ”

"What's the secret?"

"There are officials of the imperial court who want to sell military secrets to the big cannibals."

．．．．．．． Yang Wang thought about it all night, Huang Cancan's gold finally made him decide to take a risk, and sold the most advanced armor-making and bow-making techniques of the Tang Dynasty to the big cannibal, it stands to reason that Yang Wang is the son of Yang Quan, one of the 'five Yangs' in Chang'an, and the family should not be short of money, but he never thinks that he has a lot of money, although the family has thousands of money, but the gold of the big cannibal still makes him difficult to suppress.

He earned two hundred taels of gold for just one paper-making technique, which is only half, and the other half will be given after the completion of the matter, but Yang Wang heard a news in the morning that the saint has promised to teach the paper-making technique to the big cannibal, which means that his other half of the gold will be gone, maybe the big cannibal will have to ask him for the two hundred taels of gold that he has already obtained, this possibility is quite large.

In order to keep the two hundred taels of gold in his hand, and in order to obtain more wealth, Yang Wang finally decided to sell the two skills of armor and bow making to the Great Cannibals.

At noon, he found Saif, one of the three deputy envoys of the Great Food Mission, who was eating here at Atami Residence, near Nishichi, and told him that he could get two techniques, armor-making and bow-making, and Saif was overjoyed, and immediately said that he was willing to buy these two techniques for 1,000 taels of gold, and if he could get the fire and thunder formula, he would add another 2,000 taels of gold.

One thousand taels of gold is 10,000 yuan, if this transaction can be done, he Yang Wang can get three thousand taels of gold, 30,000 yuan, Yang Wang is already dizzy, if he can really get this 30,000 yuan, even if he sells his Lao Tzu to a big cannibal, he will never frown.

It's a pity that the wall has ears, and their transaction was told to the proprietor Changjin by the escort orchid beside them.

In fact, the sense of secrecy of the Tang Dynasty is not strong, as early as the end of the Sui Dynasty, due to the chaos in the Central Plains, many Han people fled to the Turks for refuge, and passed the bow-making skills of the Central Plains to the Turks, so that the bow-making technology of the Turks has made great progress, and in the people, the Tang Dynasty officials did not prohibit bows and arrows, the Tang Dynasty was still martial, and there were countless people who carried swords and bows on their backs, and any blacksmith shop could learn the art of making knives and bows.

But what the big cannibal wants is not ordinary bows and swords, when Saifu gave Yang Wang the sharp weapon book of the Tang army captured from the battlefield, Yang Wang immediately understood that the big cannibal wanted a military crossbow and Mingguang armor, which is not available in the people, only the government has it, and the crossbow and armor making books representing the highest level of the Tang Dynasty are only kept in the Weiwei Temple, the Ordnance Supervisor and several major festivals.

In the afternoon, Yang Wang found Zhao Xin, the weapons officer of Weiwei Temple, the weapons department is responsible for collecting the weapons of the soldiers, and the order is just an eight-grade sesame petty official, and the official position is very small, but what Yang Wang thought of, Zhao Xin can get.

Zhao Xin is an ordinary petty official, he has no family background, and he is not from a professional class, he is from an official to an official, he is over fifty years old this year, and he has achieved the top of the eight-rank petty official, and there will be no more opportunities for promotion.

Zhao Xin has three sons, the marriage of the two sons has exhausted his life savings, and he owes a lot of debts, seeing that the younger son is getting married again, the family can no longer take out the money, even if he borrows money, no one is willing to lend him, not only that, the creditors heard that his youngest son is going to get married, lest he go to borrow usury, so they ran to force the debt two times in three days, making him anxious.

Zhao Xin's two married sons are not profitable, they are all working as partners for others, earning some hard money to support their families, and they can't help him.

The youngest son didn't study well, he wandered the streets all day long, stealing chickens and dogs, fighting and fighting, the mother was sick, and the whole family relied on Zhao Xin's fortune to get by.

Zhao Xinyue's income is meager, Yongye Tian is also divided into two sons, every month's income is used to pay off debts, he and his old wife and youngest son only rely on a little subsidy from the office, and when the damaged weapons are destroyed, a few pieces will be left in the warehouse, and he will use these weapons to sell them to get a little money.

Every year, Zhao Xin is most looking forward to the end of the year, these rice can let him live a good time, but what makes Zhao Xin very frustrated is that it is now the middle of February of the eleventh year of Tianbao, and the ten years of Lu rice of Tianbao that should have been sent two months ago have not been seen yet, making the small officials panic, it is said that the imperial treasury is empty, and there is a war, there is no rice to send to them at all, everyone is restless, no one has the heart to deal with government affairs, especially Zhao Xin is under more pressure, and he will give the woman's family a gift in three days, But his family is surrounded by walls, how can he have the money to send it.

The bell rang in the next dynasty, and the officials closed their doors and windows one after another, preparing to go home, and Zhao Xin also put away the key and prepared to go out with a heavy heart.

"Lao Zhao, have a drink!" The palace guard ordered Lao Sun to shout in the courtyard.

"He still has money to drink?"

Zhao Xin's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly rushed to the door and shouted, "Old Sun, I have something I want to discuss with you!" ”

"Nope! No! I don't have any money. ”

Lao Sun was so frightened that he turned around and fled, at the gate of the courtyard, he almost hit a person, Zhao Xin hung his head, these people were all afraid of him like a tiger, is it so difficult to borrow money?

At this time, he saw a person walking in the courtyard, who looked quite young, vaguely familiar, and said, "I have already gone down to the court, what is the matter, come back tomorrow!" ”

The person who came was naturally Yang Wang, and he had already turned around and heard about Zhao Xin's predicament, this was his chance.

"Zhao signed the order, under the Honglu Temple pawn order Yang Wang, a little trivial matter to find Zhao to order."

(To be continued)