The once inconspicuous Li family is now a wealthy family, and those who want to enter it have to weigh how many catties and taels they have.

A parent official, Xu Jingliang, who has a lot of power, stands outside the gate of the Li Mansion.

Looking up at the closed door, I couldn't lift the weaker hand after trying to knock.

There was no official servant with him, Xu Jingliang was empty around him, dressed in civilian clothes, and his cheeks that had not closed his eyes for several nights were haggard like a down-and-out scholar, and he hesitated to go to a big family to ask for some entanglements, and go to Beijing to take the exam.

It was the Li family who was the first to open the door, and the Li family brothers personally greeted the door, giving the local parents enough face.

Xu Jingliang's intention is as simple as a three-year-old child can know, Li Mingtong looked embarrassed, and wanted to push it over, but this iron-hearted parent official let out his old face, and lost face in the Li family hall where there were no outsiders, which was better than in the public outside.

"The head of the Li family, the fire has burned his eyebrows, and he has been studying hard for more than ten years, and he may be ruined. There are old people and there are young people, if their heads fall to the ground, how will they live in the second half of their lives? Li Gongzi is famous in all directions, and his talent is extraordinary. I just ask Mr. Li to say a few more kind words in front of Lord Han, so as to ask for a way out. ”

Li Mingtong, who is completely out of his hands, just said that they can't make decisions about this matter, Li Xian has his own ideas, he is willing to do that, he doesn't want anyone.

asked people to call Li Xian, and Xu Jingliang almost knelt down on the legs of Jin Gui, an official of his imperial court, to pray.

"Lord Xu, don't worry about this matter. The gloom of Qingyang City will clear in a few days, and the adult's head will be stable on his neck. ”

Xu Jingliang touched the sweat on his head, and he didn't know whether to believe it or not, which didn't seem like a joke: "Li Gongzi's words are true? ”

Li Xian's eyes changed, and his voice became a little colder: "Since adults don't believe it, why do you come to me." ”

Xu Jingliang smiled awkwardly, and hurriedly said: "Where to speak, I naturally believe in Li Gongzi." It's just that at present, there is a shortage of food in Qingyang City, Liangzhou is too busy to take care of itself, and the Beiyang Dynasty is far away from water. Although there is a prince and a prince, who is a celebrity in Qingyang City, Lord Han is silent, and the lower officials can't speak at all, how can this be good?"

Li Xian was stunned to swallow the sentence "Either Lao Tzu will be the city lord of Qingyang City for you", and sat on the chair with a high-ranking appearance: "Lord Xu, there is no food, you can find it." ”

"Where can I find it? I can't let food fall from the sky. ”

Li Xian got up from the chair and walked towards Xu Jingliang and lowered his voice: "Lord Xu, why is it difficult to drop food from the sky. ”

Xu Jingliang stared at him widely: "Li Gongzi, please make it clear." ”

"Grain prices are skyrocketing, and you ignore them and let those profiteers hoard and push up food prices. ”

Xu Jingliang almost sat on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Li Gongzi, don't want to harm me, acting like this will provoke a civil uprising, which is a great crime of the Nine Clans." ”

Li Xian stepped forward and approached Xu Jingliang again: "Lord Xu, do you think, the price of grain in Qingyang City is high, and it is higher than anywhere in the Beiyang Dynasty. Merchants seek profits, and those grain merchants can not transport grain to Qingyang City. ”

Xu Jingliang, who seemed to have a little reason after thinking about it, swallowed his saliva: "But even if these people transport grain to Qingyang City, the price is so high, there will still be public resentment boiling, and it will not be the same result at that time." ”

"At this time, Lord Xu can issue a notice to restore the grain price in Qingyang City to the original level and raise it appropriately. At the same time, let Lord Han be your backer and fight against profiteers. This Lord Han came with the holy will of the Son of Heaven, and the success or failure of Qingyang City is also the merit of Lord Han in front of His Majesty today;

"This ...... When the price of grain drops, the grain merchants run away, and the grain is gone. Xu Jingliang spread his hands with tears and laughter.

"Lord Xu, the grain from all over the country of the Beiyang Dynasty is transported to Qingyang City without freight? If you are a businessman, what should you do at this time? Do you take advantage of a little profit and hurry up to make a move, or rot in your hands and suffer losses. Not long after, it was the season when the summer grain was on the market, and when the supply was sufficient, the price of grain was afraid that it would fall, and the loss would be even greater at that time. ”

Xu Jingliang finally had a feeling of sudden enlightenment, and said in his heart that some people's reputations are very watery, and some people's reputations are real, this Li Gongzi is really not a mortal, this kind of thing that violates common sense, he can't think of a few more heads.

Xu Jingliang, who grabbed the life-saving straw, did not let go of even a small accident, and he asked a question again: "Li Gongzi, it is indeed okay to do this, but when the food price rises at the beginning, it will be scolded, and the people will be very resentful." ”

Li Xianzhen didn't know how this parent official, who claimed to have studied hard for ten years, became the city lord of Qingyang City, and he said patiently: "Lord Xu, your future future depends on what you see in you, not on those dispensable voices below, otherwise, how can there be so many people in history who spit on but can call for wind and rain in the court; if you stabilize the situation in Qingyang City, a few words of scolding from others can affect the judgment of you from above? Lord Xu, you won't not understand this truth." ”

Xu Jingliang left satisfied, returned to the yamen and communicated with Han Shiqing about the current situation, and when the straw bale city lord in Han Shiqing's eyes said this feasible strategy, he couldn't help but be surprised.

Xu Jingliang is also sincere, to tell the truth, he said that it was a clever plan given to him by Li Gongzi.

Han Shiqing was relieved for a while, a dragon is a dragon after all, and a pig is still a pig.

......

The Li family was crowned marquis, and this was the longest sentence that the latest holy decree had arrived in Qingyang City two days later.

What is surprising is that it is not Li Mingtong, the head of the Li family, nor Li Xian, a person with a great future in the future, but Li Mingshan, who has a very low sense of existence in the Li family.

Accident is accident, and the people of the entire Qingyang City are surprised by the lightning-fast marquis of the Li family.

For many years, Qingyang City finally has such a decent character, and people from all walks of life who are "rich in the mountains and have distant relatives" who can't beat the eight poles have come one after another.

Li Mingshan's face is not like a person who has seen the world at the age of tens, all he wants in his life is to spend the rest of his life in the Li family, and his son will take the test to become an official in the dynasty, and he will be worthy of his deceased wife for the Li family.

That night, Xian'er said in front of the two of them that His Majesty would have a reward today, and if it was such a thing as a marquis, Xian'er said that he was not going to continue, but let him, the father, take this great reward.

Xian'er said that he was going to the sect, and the affairs of the Beiyang Dynasty were not in his consideration.

As soon as he and the eldest brother summed it up, if there was really such an opportunity, as long as it was the Li family, anyone could do it, so he agreed with Xian'er's opinion.

Li Xian will also have such a successful result after Han Shiqing's communication, which can be regarded as a good future for the Li family.

The Li Mansion was upgraded to the Hou Mansion, and Li Mingshan jumped up and became a rare Qingyang Hou in the history of Qingyang City.