After the city head reading and hanging the plaque, Li Gongde led Xu Fengnian to the general mansion near the south gate, the main royal road runs through the north and south, and the civil and military offices in the city are located on both sides of the mansion, along the way as one of the two governors and city officials, Li Gongde gushed endlessly, talking about the height of the main city wall of the border Guanxiong City, the length of the city bridge, the number of crossbows in the city head, the inventory of arrows and armor, etc., which can be called like a number of treasures, and it is as accurate as reporting how much silver is placed in a certain box and how many copper coins are placed in a certain cabinet.

The old man was able to blurt out even the details of how many Beimang catapults could withstand the concentrated bombardment of any one side of the main city wall, how many Beimang soldiers and ants were attached to the siege of the city, as well as the mobilization of troops on the central axis of the people under his feet, how to build a second line of defense once the main city gate was breached, and how to assist the small-scale cavalry at a critical moment. Not to mention that Xu Fengnian was impressed, Chu Lushan and Yuan Zuozong looked at each other a little, and many generals such as Zhou Kang the Jin Partridge and Gu Dazu, the deputy marshal of the infantry army, were even wide-eyed.

Approaching the general's mansion that had not yet been fully built, Li Gongde suddenly smiled and said: "A city that rejects the north, has used up the giant trees collected from the deep mountains and old forests of the southern Zhao of Western Shu, and then stored in my Beiliang for many years, and the huge stones needed to build the city have almost chiseled the Lantau Cave to the bottom of the sky. From the first garrison in the Guannai to be transferred north to build a city outside the Guan, and then most of the border troops took turns to join here, and the people in the Guannai are countless......"

At this point, the old man stopped talking and smiled.

Li Gongde, a civil official who was originally in the Beiliang military generals with an extremely unbearable reputation, at this moment, that kind of undisguised spirit, where is there still the shadow of the Xu family's ministers in the Qingliangshan Council Hall in the early years?

At that time, I am afraid that except for Chu Lushan, who was "out of the same school" and was not of high rank at that time, no one was willing to deal with Li Gongde, the chief official of a state, and Yan Jiexi, a famous man in the Qingliu Dynasty, naturally disdained to be with him, and even Tian Peifang, who has now resigned from his post and stepped down from the former Liangzhou Thorn Shi, has never been able to pull his face and call this person a brother and brother in his early years. At the beginning, Beiliang was determined to build the Beicheng City, and everyone mistakenly thought that the young vassal king did not really intend to let Li Gongde preside over the overall situation, but to send this Lingzhou officialdom to the miasma of the scriptures and envoys to the outside of the customs, and hide it in the snow. Chen Xiliang or Chang Sui and other henchmen paved the way, but they didn't know that Li Gongde really had a firm foothold here in Beicheng, Song Changsui, Tian Peifang, Wang Linquan, the deputy governor in charge of the three specific directions, only the slightest envoy made the adults look ahead, there was no intention of setting up Li Gongde at all, and Li Gongde also lived up to expectations and quickly entered the role, I have to say that the guy who can be the leader of the civil affairs in Beiliang Dao really has to be pragmatic, unambiguous, and must bow down to himself, in the words of Li Gongde's emotion when he chatted with Song Changsui in private, it is" Put an end to the career of the tour, and the soldiers and craftsmen eat and breathe with it, in exploration, rammed earth, materials, soldiers, grain and other things, all have experience, although I dare not say that I am omniscient, but I am not a layman, I can finally bow to the command, become a bamboo in the chest, do not miss the big thing".

Li Gongde suddenly continued in a cunning manner: "Lord Wang, tonight's celebration banquet, all the expenses, Qingliang Mountain can't be saved!"

Yan Wenluan, the veteran commander of the infantry army, who had probably never chatted with Li Gongde in his life, answered for the first time: "Lord Li is not too much to fight the autumn wind this time. ”

Xu Fengnian stretched out his hand and pointed to the Beiliang Dao transfer envoy beside him, and said with a smile: "Our big shopkeeper in charge of money is here, and he is more effective than me now." ”

Xu Beitong hesitated for a moment, then nodded and smiled: "That's good, originally I left a box, there are probably two calligraphy and paintings of the Great Feng Dynasty painting Saint Sui Ying, a green-end Buddha's hand Tiancheng inkstone made by the old Southern Tang Emperor, and a 'Wang Wu' jade seal in the last years of the Great Qin, scattered fifteen or six pieces, it is not difficult to sell five or six thousand silver." After the celebration banquet, if you refuse Beicheng, you will first go to the Qingliangshan Lord Song to move some out, and I will sell this box of items when I turn around, and I should be able to fill this hole soon, and I can have some spare time, and it will be handed over to Lord Li when the time comes. ”

As soon as Xu Beitong's words came out, everyone tacitly turned their heads to look at the young vassal king.

Xu Fengnian rolled his eyes.

The audience burst into laughter.

Probably now who dares to assassinate our Xinliang King so clearly, Xu Beitong is also the only one in the world.

After that, there were three major celebration banquets, and the generals were divided into two groups, Yan Wenluan, Chen Yunchui, He Zhonghu, Liu Yuanji and Lin Doufang, a group of meritorious old men who have experienced the Spring and Autumn War, the youngest Yuan Zuozong is also involved, for the Xu family of Qingliang Mountain and the Beiliang Border Army, this Yuan Baixiong is an indispensable existence, after all, it is above the military, Yuan Zuozong is the only one who can compare with the white-clothed soldier Chen Zhibao, although there are many famous generals in Beiliang, but the person who can really make Chen Zhibao sincerely admire is probably only Yuan Zuozong, Chen Zhibao has said frankly many times that Yuan Zuozong is the most underestimated military merit in Liyang in the Spring and Autumn War。

And Chu Lushan, the protector of Beiliang City, personally led the other group, including Wang Zhi, Cao Xiaojiao, Hong Xinjia and Hong Bi, and Yang Shenxing, the deputy section of Beiliang Road, also appeared at the banquet.

The third scene was a literati banquet jointly held by Li Gongde, Huang Shang and Tian Peifang, most of whom were scholars and scholars, and many Lu children were also involved.

Xu Fengnian drank one by one, although it was all a glass of green ant wine, but in fact, it was only two pots of small after three games, mainly because no one persuaded him to drink, which is not surprising, Xu Xiao said when he was alive that the guy with the worst character in the world is those who like to persuade wine because of their good drinking. Of course, Xu Xiao said so, but as long as you catch the guy who drinks worse than yourself, and persuade him to drink without ambiguity, the guy who was persuaded to drink said that how many battles you won back then, you had to drink a cup of it, and how many games you lost, I Xu Xiao will help you remember it, if you don't want to be put on small shoes, and if you don't drink a few glasses of fine wine today, you won't be able to go, right? Who else has heard that your grandson has just started to study, and this wine has to be drunk, and I heard that your son has beaten his nose and face with a bruised nose and swollen face when he robbed a woman? You are so aggrieved as a father, you have to drink to relieve your sorrows! However, although Xu Xiao's ability to persuade wine is invincible in the world, as long as he drinks with people in Qingliang Mountain, no matter how many people he drinks with, he himself has no one who is not drunk, it can be said that he will vomit every time he drinks, so in this way, the wine is so-so.

Don't think that martial artists who are accustomed to life and death are more presumptuous when they drink, in fact, literati drink and drink, that is called heroic and uninhibited, Xu Fengnian almost couldn't get out of the banquet, for example, Huang Shang, the mountain master of Qinglu Cave Academy, had to pull him to drink three cups each, and then Tian Peifang, who resigned from his official position and stepped down from office, also began to fall into the ground, saying that three cups were too much, and he only drank two cups with the prince. If it weren't for Xu Beitong being present to help stop him, Xu Fengnian estimated that even if he had seven or eight catties of green ant drinking, he would have to lie down obediently. In the end, Xu Fengnian and Xu Beitong, who were full of alcohol, walked out of the general's mansion and walked slowly north on the main road.

Xu Beitong said softly: "Before Li Gongde got drunk, he bought something with me. ”

Xu Fengnian was a little surprised, and quipped: "The sun is coming out in the west? ”

Xu Beitong laughed and said, "It's a small private seal, since it is the library of Tingchao Pavilion, of course the material is not bad, in my opinion, it has been passed down from generation to generation, and because of its frequent use, the color of Zhu Mo is excellent, but these are secondary, do you know what the seal is?"

Xu Fengnian smiled dumbly, "Where can I guess this." ”

Xu Beitong waved his sleeves, I don't know whether to dissipate the wine or to wave away the sorrow, "It is the four words 'the heart of the minister is like water', that is, the meaning of honesty and self-control, innocence is like water." If Yan Jiexi didn't leave Beiliang back then, he came to buy this small seal, and even Tian Peifang, who has a good reputation, I wouldn't be surprised. But Li Gongde came to buy these four words, isn't it a little funny?"

Xu Fengnian frowned.

Xu Beitong smiled and asked, "Then guess again, how much silver did Li Gongde use to buy these four characters?"

Xu Fengnian said suddenly: "This celebration banquet, it is inconvenient for Li Gongde to pay out of his pocket openly, otherwise he will be suspected of overstepping his bounds, so he used this method to help us put money on Qingliang Mountain?"

Xu Beitong stretched out two fingers and shook them.

Xu Fengnian couldn't help but laugh and said: "Twenty thousand silver? In the early years, the only hero in the world who could pull out the silver from Li Gongde's hand was Li Hanlin." At that time, the money for drinking flowers and wine was all from Li Hanlin, but every time he went home, his father was indispensable to clean up and complain. ”

Xu Beitong shook his head and smiled, "Two hundred." ”

Xu Fengnian was stunned, "Two hundred taels of silver, this Uncle Li!"

Xu Fengnian laughed heartily, and it was also the first time that he called Li Gongde Uncle Li. In the final analysis, the two generations of the Xu family, Beiliang, Xu Xiao, Xu Fengnian, and the two generations of the Li family, Li Gongde and Li Hanlin, all have great incense. To put it mildly, when Yan Jiexi rebelled from Beiliang, Xu Xiao actually intended to make it a little difficult, not too much, but he would definitely not let Yan Jiexi go so lightly. However, Li Gongde, there was news from the Yang court very early, the old head assistant Zhang Julu once intended to let this person serve as the head of the household department, and govern the taxation of Guangling Road and Jiangnan Road, you must know that Li Gongde was just a state assassin at that time, although it was the same as a squire rank, but Liyang Jingguan has always had a high grade, not to mention the real power of the servant in front of the Son of Heaven? Therefore, the departure of Yan Jiexi, a scholar and literati, was just an unexpected joy for Liyang, but it was Li Gongde's stay, which is incredible. As for the friendship between Xu Fengnian and Li Hanlin from childhood to adulthood, not to mention it.

Xu Beitong smiled and squeezed out a word from between his teeth, "Ten thousand!"

Xu Fengnian thought he had misheard, "What?!"

Xu Beitong exhaled lightly and said with emotion: "It's two million taels of silver." ”

Xu Beitong continued: "At that time, Li Gongde told me that he had worked hard to accumulate this great business in his life, and originally wanted to let his son Li Hanlin have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life, but now he doesn't need it. ”

Xu Beitong turned his head to look at Xu Fengnian, raised his arm, clenched his fist and patted his chest, "That's how the old man patted his chest and told me before, he said that I am Li Gongde's son, Li Hanlin! What else do you need his father's silver?"

Xu Beitong stopped, turned to look at the mansion, and repeated the old man's last words, "My Li Gongde can be looked down upon by anyone in my life, but I can't be looked down upon by my son!"

Xu Fengnian rubbed his cheeks with both hands and asked softly, "Tangerine, do you think I should remove Li Hanlin from Liuzhou?"

Xu Beitong suddenly said angrily: "Fart!"

Xu Fengnian smiled and looked up in the direction of Liuzhou to the west, "Li Hanlin will definitely say the same." ”

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To the north of Qingcang City in Liuzhou, Kou Jianghuai and Xu Longxiang had already launched a second frontal resistance battle against the Huang Song Pu army.

Of the 1,200 Liangzhou white-horse crossbowmen who rushed to Liuzhou, only half remained.

Captain Li Hanlin had six hundred robes left.