On February 1, 2012, the new calendar of the gods, the beginning of spring,

After a smooth winter, Chrysanthemum City welcomed the first spring after Li Xie became the master,

Spring is the season when all things sprout, symbolizing the arrival of beauty,

Chrysanthemum City is all steaming, it seems that the beauty is not far away,

The "Chrysanthemum Academy" is about to be completed and is scheduled to be put into use after the Spring Festival, and registration has already begun; the spring harvest is in full swing, and the benefits brought by the land contract system have increased the cultivated land several times, and the Chrysanthemum City no longer needs to worry about the food problem, and there will even be a lot of surpluses; the new officials in various posts have become familiar with their work, and everything is carried out in an orderly manner; commerce is gradually recovering and moving toward prosperity because of the solution of the people's food and clothing and the reduction of tax revenues......

Everything in Chrysanthemum City is indeed moving towards beauty,

"Hey......" a discordant sigh seemed to destroy this harmony,

City Lord's Mansion, Study,

Li Xie put down the pen and sat on the chair, with a sad face.

The so-called people have no foresight, but they must have near-term worries,

Li Xie is near and far away,

The distant troubles, since when the Great Dynasty attacked the Tudor Dynasty, and the calm of the Sunflower City, made Li Xie feel uneasy.

And what else can be the near-adversity,

Money,

The year is approaching, the salaries of all personnel must be doubled, and even more benefits will be given, thousands of officials, large and small, will have a salary of about 20 million, the 100,000 evil army, counting welfare, rewards, etc., each person will be issued an average of 1,000 gold coins, which is 100 million gold coins, and the taxes of the dynasty are also given, Li Xie, the lord of the three cities, each city will give a tax of 20 million gold coins, which is 60 million, plus the rest of the large and small expenses, about 20 million gold coins have been spent,

There is no tax in Chrysanthemum City for the time being, and there is almost no profit, and these expenses are all in Li Xie's pocket.

As soon as February arrived, Li Xie's pocket shrank by two-fifths of the gold coins, leaving less than 300 million gold coins.

Don't look at the money, if it goes on like this, Li Xie is really going to beg on the street,

Therefore, it is not easy to be the head of the family,

Li Xie can only spend more energy on his own practice,

"Evil brother, what's wrong with you, sigh so dignifiedly. Xiao An, who was watching Li Xie practicing words next to him, asked,

In the study, Zeenard, who doesn't like to be lively, and the little cat Meow, who is almost inseparable from Li Xie, as for Li Xie's other two entourages, Kano and Fan Di, are busy teaching soldiers to practice martial arts, and now they are mostly in the barracks.

In addition to Ze Enard and Meow Meow, Xiao An is the one who comes to the study most often, she will spare an hour every morning to teach Li Xie to practice calligraphy, but recently, Xiao An often drags one hour to two hours, it is said that it is because the affairs of Chrysanthemum City are gradually stable, and she does not need to worry about it.

Li Xie didn't want her to be too tired, so he didn't care.

"It's nothing, it's just a little stuffy. Li Xie exhaled again and said, "I won't practice calligraphy today, Xiao An, accompany Brother Evil to go around the city." ”

"Oh. ”

"Zeon, go and tell Lily to order the horses, and tell Zixiao to wait outside the house. ”

As soon as the few people walked out of the study, Kano rushed over, and after saluting, he said, "My lord, the envoy of the Dabang Dynasty asks for a meeting, this is a letter from the lord of their 'Pyongyang City' to your lordship." ”

"Oh. Li Xie took the letter, opened it and looked at it, which roughly meant that Kim Zhi, the lord of Pyongyang City, wanted to establish diplomatic relations with Li Xie's Chrysanthemum City, and hoped to meet directly with Li Xie.

"It turns out that Lord Kim Ji wants to establish political and economic relations with us, Pyongyang City, isn't it in the adjacent area to the south of us, hehe......"

Li Xie's eyes lit up, the corner of his mouth on the right side was raised high, revealing a small white fang, and the little cat reading the letter on his stomach on the top of his head also showed the same sly smile as Li Xie,

This is not the establishment of diplomatic relations, this is someone who wants to send us money,

Xiao An looked at Li Xie's smile, and couldn't help but feel a little worried, and said weakly: "Brother Evil, you are smiling so scary." ”

"Nonsense, how kind my smile is, hehe......" Li Xie waved his hand: "Let's go, Duke Ben will personally go out of the city to meet our dear stick messenger." ”

"Ahh Xiao An hurriedly grabbed Li Xie and said: "Brother Evil, you are the great lord, their envoy, you don't need to greet him personally, just let him come in and pay a visit, if you go out like this, it will make them look down on you, and if you establish diplomatic relations in the future, you will be passive." ”

Next to him, Kano was accustomed to Li Xie's smirk, and even Yanjing's experience, and unconsciously showed a somewhat god-like smirk with Li Xie: "Sister Xiao'an, you don't understand, the adults will definitely go out of the city to greet them in person, and the adults greet them, not the messengers, let alone people." ”

"Ahh Xiao An didn't understand at all: "It's not a messenger, it's not a person, what is that." ”

"Money. ”

Li Xie left a word, and strode out with a smile on his face,

Zixiao, the king of thunder and war horses, has been completely subdued by the kitten, and now he is extremely obedient to Li Xie, especially when the kitten is present, Zixiao is simply a good baby without a temper,

Li Xie rode on Zixiao's back, and couldn't help but have a sense of superiority, especially when he was walking on the street, when the people saw the evil duke, they all knelt down and saluted, praising one after another, making Li Xie cloud foggy and fluttering,

The praise of the people is not a compliment, or from the heart, you can see this from their eyes full of respect, the people are a lovely and simple type of people, who is good to them, they will inevitably return with their respect, Li Xie brought Chrysanthemum City an impossible life in the past, how can the people of Chrysanthemum City not love him,

Li Xie rode Zixiao, holding the kitten, all the way to the south gate with Zeenard, Kano, Xiao An and a group of guards.

Zeenard and Xiao An both rode black-scaled horses, these two horses were brought down from Li Xie's carriage, and now Li Xie has Zixiao in and out, and the few cores that follow next to him naturally have to be equipped with good horses, and the thunder war horse needs to be equipped with the army, so Li Xie can only dismantle the carriage,

Outside the south gate, the envoy of the Dabang Dynasty is still waiting, without Li Xie's order, foreign envoys are not allowed to enter the city at will, this is a matter of etiquette,

The stick messenger came with five people, all on horseback, looking at their light clothes, obviously just to do a task of delivering information, handed in the letter, and then met the city lord with the surname of the ceremony, and it was over, and the official meeting still needed to be timed.

Therefore, when Li Xie rode out of the city on Zixiao, and a guard shouted "The city lord has arrived", these five envoys were all sincerely afraid,

As the lord of the city bordering the Dabang Dynasty, the Dabang Dynasty naturally has to know something about Li Xie, and Kim Zhi, the city lord of Pyongyang who is facing Chrysanthemum City, needs to understand what kind of person Li Xie is.

Therefore, Li Xie didn't know that his name had already spread in the Big Stick Dynasty.

The Evil Duke, the Gold Coin Harvester, the Ruthless Duke, the Noble Butcher...... This is the nobles of the Big Stick Dynasty, all kinds of names for Li Xie,

Although they all seem to be negative, the Big Stick Dynasty and the city lord of Pyongyang all know that Li Xie has a heavy army and countless masters around him, and his status in the Tudor dynasty is second only to Duke Rhine, the pillar of the Tudor dynasty.

This is the figure in the third position of the strongest dynasty,

He went out of the city himself to greet the messenger who had only come to deliver a message.

Where can this not make the five messengers sincerely afraid,

The five messengers hurriedly bowed, and the leader shouted: "The god of the forest is above, and the envoy of Pyongyang City, Kim Duoduo, pays a visit to the evil lord, and may the divine light shine on the evil lord forever." ”

"Master Sleep is on top. Li Xie hurriedly dismounted, walked over quickly, and helped Jin Duoduo up: "Excuse me, come, follow the master into the city, the luncheon has been prepared, and the master will treat a few people." ”

Jin Duoduo was led by Li Xie to the city gate, his face was full of horror,

He remembered the rumors about the evil duke that circulated in the Big Stick Dynasty, the evil duke could kill the nobles without mercy, and it was said that if he didn't agree, he would kill him, and he was once in front of the city gate, and a certain nobleman was disrespectful to the evil duke, and he was killed on the spot,

Now that the evil duke has such an identity, he not only greets him personally, but also gives a hand-holding gift, which is a etiquette that can only occur at the same level, and Jin Duoduo knows that his identity is not much lower than that of the evil duke.

Today's situation is too abnormal, too strange,

Why, where did I go wrong with my etiquette, could it be that I offended the evil duke,

The god of the forest is above, I'm still young,

The more Jin Duoduo thought about it, the more scared he became, and he trembled unconsciously.

Li Xie felt the sweat on Jin Duoduo's palms and the coldness on his hands, and showed him a harmless and friendly smile: "The golden envoy is very cold, the weather is cold, you have to wear more clothes, it doesn't matter, the lunch banquet will be warm after a while, and the master of the ability will order someone to send you a few clothes, Kano, and don't greet the other envoys." ”

"Yes, sir. Kano hurriedly dismounted, and ran over to lead the horses to several messengers, with a humble and enthusiastic expression,

He is now the quasi-deputy commander-in-chief of the evil army, and his status is also considered to be one of the top few in Chrysanthemum City, and he is not qualified to let Kano lead the horse and greet him, but Kano is willing and even happy.

why

As early as Yanjing, the evil duke told him that these are good people who send us money, and we should take care of them like our own fathers.

Don't talk about leading the horses, carry them into the city, Kano is willing, and what we carry is not the messenger, but money, Huang Cancan's gold,

All the way slowly, Li Xie was full of smiles, and several trembling envoys arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, entered the banquet hall, and sat down with each other.

Li Xie's side, Kano, Zeenard, Xiao An, and the little kitten accompanied, and the five envoys over there were all here, according to the etiquette, Jin Duoduo, who should be the leader, was qualified to enter the banquet, and Li Xie, the great lord, was present, he was not qualified to sit down, but now, but all five people sat down, and they were still VIPs.

"You Pyongyang City, do you have any money? ”

Li Xie looked at Jin Duoduo with a smile, and the first sentence of the opening remarks was like this,

Jin Duoduo was stunned on the spot,

What kind of trouble is this, meet with the envoys, say a few words of greetings, talk about the scene, and then talk about some etiquette details, introduce each other's lords, etc., where someone asks people if they have money in the city as soon as they open their mouths,

This problem, Jin Duoduo has been an envoy several times, and it is the first time he has encountered it.

Li Xie just smiled, looked at the stunned Jin Duoduo, and waited for his answer,

Put this question in the first place, that is Li Xie thinking about money crazy, of course, this is also the first criterion for Li Xie to determine whether to establish diplomatic relations or not.

I don't have any money, I just blast it out, and I still receive it,

ps: Jin Duoduo is coming, I wish you all good luck in the New Year, Jin Duoduo,