Chapter 146: Summoned by the Assassin
After sending away a group of troublesome ghosts, Li Tang's happy mood suddenly deteriorated a lot. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoAt this time, his subordinates reported something, which made Li Tang suddenly happy again.
It turned out that after some hard work, Ye Li finally opened up Xu Xuan's door and got the opportunity to be summoned by Xu Xuan.
On this day, Li Tang came to the gate of the state capital early to wait.
After touching for about an hour, a middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper walked out of the state capital and walked straight to Li Tang. Ye Li, who was next to Li Tang, saw this person, and immediately pulled Li Tang's placket, indicating that this was the housekeeper of the Xu Mansion contacted by Ye Li, also surnamed Xu.
Li Tang hurriedly took three steps and made two steps to catch up.
This Steward Xu is naturally an understanding person, and kindly took Li Tang's hand and said:
"But the Ye City Lord of the Starting Point City?"
Li Tang nodded yes.
Steward Xu sighed again:
"City Lord Ye is really young and promising, he is already the lord of a city at such an age, and his future in the future is limitless!"
Li Tang naturally knew that it was this Steward Xu who was polite, and said busily:
"Steward Xu killed the kid! The kid is just a coincidence, it's nothing, where can he compare to Steward Xu, he can accompany Lord Thorn Shi, his vision is 108,000 miles higher than that of the kid, and he will have to take care of Steward Xu in the future! ”
Steward Xu said again:
"Look at what you said. By the way, Master Thorn Shi summoned here, I liked you as soon as I saw you, and I almost forgot about the business, so I will take you there. As for Little Brother Ye Li, I'm afraid I'm going to be waiting here! ”
Li Tang hurriedly said:
"It's okay, Ye Li, you can wait here!"
Then he took out a letter of gold, about 10 taels, and stuffed it to Steward Xu:
"Steward Lao Xu personally led the way."
This Steward Xu pretended to excuse himself:
"This is not appropriate, it's all for Lord Thorn Shi, it should be!"
Li Tang said again:
"Not for anything else, it's just that I see Steward Xu that you are as kind as my uncle, so I offer a greeting gift. This is just the filial piety of the younger generation to the elders, if you refuse, you just don't recognize me as a junior, then I will put it away, and I won't dare to come to Steward Xu for help next time. ”
When Steward Xu saw Li Tang behaving like this, he reluctantly accepted it:
"In that case, it's really inappropriate not to take it. But don't take it as an example, if there is something to do in the future, just come to you Uncle Xu, Uncle can help, there is absolutely no second word. Let's go! Don't let Lord Thorn wait. ”
Li Tang followed Steward Xu into the mansion, and then transferred to a study-like room, which was very spacious.
As soon as I entered the door, through the screen, there was a middle-aged man kneeling in front of the desk reading the official documents, and it seemed that he didn't see Li Tang come in.
Steward Xu and Li Tang could only wait quietly on the side, not daring to greet Xu Xuan at all.
This Xu Xuan only looked at the official document, and did not mean to greet Li Tang at all, Li Tang could only observe this Xu Xuan secretly.
Speaking of which, this Xu Xuan has not appeared a few times in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and he has been an obscure local official from beginning to end, and he should be a real hero.
Some people may say that what kind of heroes are the obscure herdsmen, and those who fight bloody battles are heroes.
In fact, for the common people, reckless heroes like Liu Bei and others, for their own selfishness, did not hesitate to drive the people to fight for themselves, and they gained fame and fortune, but the dead and disabled were all ordinary people, and the bitter and injured were all relatives of the people.
It can be said that the glory and wealth of these heroes and their prestige through the ages are all based on the blood and tears of the common people. In total, what do they contribute to this society? I'm afraid, if you don't say that there is, it's a mess!
What benefit will it do to the people? Ten rooms and nine empty rooms are not an exaggeration!
And people like Xu Xuan, in fact, they were the first to control the human resources and war materials of this society. However, they were able to resist the temptation not to claim the title of king and hegemony, but to govern the local area in a down-to-earth manner, and strive to make the common people in the jurisdiction get a shelter in the troubled times, and retain a trace of vitality for the entire Han nation.
Therefore, they are absolutely worthy of the people, the nation, conscience, and heaven and earth. In front of these people, Liu Bei and others are not even worthy of lifting shoes for them.
This Xu Xuan has a short figure, a plump body, and a kind face. However, he is also in his early forties. But seeing him reading the book, he felt it for about half an hour before he put the book in his hand on the desk, turned to Li Tang, and said:
"The young man is very patient, calm, very good. The anger of the people in this world is too heavy, and they are impatient, you can be quiet, wait for my old man for so long, you are in a hurry! ”
Li Tang hurriedly replied:
"If you stab Lord Shi back, the kid sees that the adult is busy and has every opportunity, so he naturally doesn't dare to disturb."
"You're in a hurry to see me this time, but what's the matter?"
"Back to my lord's words, the kid came here this time just to exchange the official seal."
"Oh? Ordinary official seals can be handled by people outside. If you want to exchange my official seal here, the upper limit of the prestige required is at least 500,000. Are you sure you can redeem it? ”
Li Tang didn't know that there was such a restriction. But fortunately, now that Li Tang has captured many cities, the upper limit of 500,000 prestige is still there.
Of course, this is not to say that you must have 500,000 Fame, but you must have accumulated 500,000 Fame before you can exchange for the Official Seal.
This is also the reason why so many cities cannot be upgraded to state cities. Because ordinary people can't get so much prestige at all! Even if you get it, it is estimated that it will take a while.
"Report to your lord, the kid is by chance, the upper limit of his reputation has exceeded 500,000, you can check it, my lord."
"Oh? How can your reputation reach 500,000? You must know that many people have approached me, hoping to exchange the official seal, but unfortunately, their prestige value cannot be reached, and they cannot be exchanged. ”
Xu Xuan didn't seem to expect that such a little-known little person would have such a high reputation.
However, since Li Tang said so, he would not lie. Because, there is no need to lie, and this lie will be immediately exposed when the official seal is exchanged.
"My lord, this young man is young and promising, he already owns a city at a young age, and he is the lord of a city, and although this city was newly built, the business is very prosperous, and he pays a lot of taxes."
Steward Xu seemed to see that Xu Xuan was a little confused, and was busy introducing Li Tang's situation to Xu Xuan.
Of course, Xu Xuan was naturally not interested in knowing Li Tang's situation before. However, at this time, since Xu Xuan was interested in Li Tang's prestige, he naturally introduced Li Tang's other situations to Xu Xuan, which was regarded as a reward for Li Tang's bonus.
"It turned out that it was still for young talents, young and promising! By the way, what's the name of your city? ”
"Returning to my lord, the boy city is called the starting point city, not far from Jingzhou City, but it is only ten miles away. Commerce in the city is quite prosperous, which is also a blessing for Jingzhou City! ”
"The prosperity of the starting point city is also heard of in the history of this thorn. This city has developed so rapidly in a short period of time, it seems that you have a very good set of management of the city. Moreover, this starting point city has also contributed a lot of profits and taxes to Jingzhou, and you are a meritorious hero of Jingzhou! This history of thorns should really support you, I don't know what you think? ”
After listening to Xu Xuan's words, Li Tang felt a sigh in his heart, and he was courteous when he had nothing to do, and it was an eternal truth that he was either a traitor or a thief!
If a person who is not related to you shows favor to you, nine out of ten is basically a matter of other intentions.
Ordinary people are still like this, let alone those unscrupulous officials! What they are best at is to say that black is white, and to show the ugliest malice in the most beautiful way.
For example, they snatched grain from the people's burdens, saying that they saw that the peasants were working too hard to carry the burdens, and they helped to reduce the burden. They cut your flesh with a knife, saying that it is good for your health, and it will help you lose weight!
Although, it is said that this Xu Xuan's virtue is acceptable. However, crows are born black, and white can't be white, so it's certain that this Xu Xuan must have a plan.
However, now that Li Tang's true net worth can be said to be unknown, even if this Xu Xuan wants to play Li Tang to death, it is estimated that he is only staring at this starting city, and he will definitely not stare at the city behind Li Tang.
Therefore, for Li Tang, no matter how big he plays, what he loses is just a starting point city, and it is not that he can't afford to lose. However, if you can beat the fire, you may be able to have a lot of surprises!
So Li Tang hurriedly replied:
"Thanks to the love of the assassin, the boy is grateful! No matter what the assassin has in the future, the kid will definitely go to the soup and fire, and he will not give up! ”
When Xu Xuan heard Li Tang's answer, although the preface did not match the afterword, he still nodded with great satisfaction.
Xu Xuan's questioning was naturally not the literal meaning of his inquiry, but the question of whether he was willing to exchange interests with Xu Xuan. If he could, Xu Xuan would have lifted Li Tang.
Li Tang was able to comprehend Xu Xuan's intentions so quickly, it seems that he is definitely not a person who has lost his name, otherwise he would not have managed the starting point city into such a situation, at least this Xu Xuan, according to this, he glanced at Li Tang.
"Huh! The children can be taught! There is no limit to what you can achieve in the future! ”
Xu Xuan paused, lowered his head and pondered for a while, and suddenly said:
"What does Diaosi think of the way of the world today?"
Xu Xuan's sentence without a beginning or end basically asked Li Tang for a while. Moreover, Steward Xu on the side also felt that this Xu Xuan was a little strange today, and even glanced at Li Tang apologetically.
Li Tang didn't know how to answer, Li Tang knew the general trend of the world, but he couldn't say it, once he said it, Xu Xuan couldn't hear it or say it, and the system god would punish Li Tang. Because, this is the so-called heavenly machine in the mouth of the aborigines, and the heavenly machine cannot be revealed.