Northern Dynasties

There were more than 20 merchants in the hall, and Li Tai arranged for them a unified task, that is, to do their best to decorate the halls of this mansion beautifully and beautifully, and make a promise, whoever makes a good effect, will be Priority is given to buying the goods he brought into Beijing so that he can return home as soon as possible.

More than half of these businessmen are from Qinzhou, and they all have some understanding of Li Tai's behavior style. After hearing this, Dang Li began to carefully look at the layout of the hall and conceive how to arrange it.

There were also Hu merchants from Hexi and even the Western Regions, who seemed a little distrustful of Li Tai's words, probably because they suspected his lack of financial resources.

"Li Kaifu is one of the most powerful figures in the country. It is your honor to summon you for something in the family. You must do things well, and you don't have to worry about the rest."

Seeing that these people were not enthusiastic enough, Linghu Yanbao spoke from the side.

Hearing what he said, those Hexi people and Hu merchants hurriedly joined in. Obviously, the words of Linghu Yanbao, a local tyrant in Guazhou, still weighed a bit more than Li Tai in their eyes.

"The villagers are stupid, and the gentleman laughs at him."

Only then did Linghu Yanbao walk up to Li Tai, and said with some embarrassment.

Li Tai waved his hand to show that he didn't care. In order to make room for these merchants, he simply called Linghu Yanbao to sit down in another hall, and then asked curiously: "General Linghu Stay in Beijing, or go and return?"

Before Linghu Yanbao came to Beijing with him from Longyou to participate in this year's grand parade, he was also implicated by himself and was made things difficult by Zhao Gui, but after that Li Tai led his troops to leave, and did not have time to pay attention to Linghu Yanbao's whereabouts , so we have this question when we meet again today.

"After the former Xianyang parted, Mr. Lang led his troops to go north, and his servant was sent by the Taiwan government to return to his hometown to preach. After returning to his hometown, feeling the hardship of the country's fortune, he gathered more than [-] villagers and invited them to serve in the court. Not long after returning Hearing that Mr. Lang has made great achievements and returned to the country, the servant also feels very honored. I was afraid that after Mr. Lang entered Beijing, there would be too many people and he didn't dare to come to disturb him, so he came to see him only now..."

After Linghu Yanbao heard the words, he quickly told Li Tai about his experience in the past six months, and looked at Li Tai with eyes full of admiration.In just a few months, he traveled back and forth on the way, but Li Tai's achievements have reached a new level!
"General Linghu, who made great achievements in Bianzhou before, and now he enlisted his family to serve in the imperial court, is indeed a great righteousness in the Western Land, admirable!"

After Li Tai listened, he smiled again and said: "I also need to stay in the country for a while today. If there is any difficulty in personnel matters, General Linghu will send someone to report it."

As soon as his words fell, Linghu Yanbao got up from the table again and bowed in front of his table, and at the same time said in a sincere tone: "I do have one thing to ask your lord, that is, when we met in the past, Longyou begged you to join me. The old story of walking under the gentleman's door. Today, more than [-] villagers are asking again, begging that Lord Lang can protect the disciples from the power!"

"General, hurry up!"

Seeing this, Li Tai hurriedly got up to pull Linghu Yanbao up, but Linghu Yanbao still paused, and at the same time said in a sincere tone: "The former feels that he is ugly, although he offered himself, he didn't dare to ask for it. But today, the lives of the peasants are handed over to each other, and the servant always needs to choose a kind and compassionate lord for them to follow and serve, so as to live up to the expectations of the peasants. Certain people in the western lands may not be as magnificent as the people in the Central Plains, but they are loyal and brave. I implore Your Majesty takes it in!"

Seeing Linghu Yanbao's sincere attitude, Li Tai also said: "The reason why I shouldn't be invited by the general before is because I am afraid that my power is still weak, my foundation is shallow, and I can't help myself, so I really can't bear to miss the general's future. But now The general made another request, which shows that his heart is sincere and touching. If I refuse again, I will be lonely and disgusting. From then on, no matter whether it is good or bad, we will help each other and help each other, and we will never abandon them!"

"Yanbao pays homage to the lord!"

Linghu Yanbao was overjoyed when he heard the words, and after kowtowing again, Li Tai pulled him up and sat down at the table, with a contented expression on his face that his wish was fulfilled.

Now that Linghu Yanbao was formally accepted as his disciple, Li Tai was of course also responsible for his troops, and soon after he asked where his troops were currently stationed, he learned that his troops were still stationed in the outskirts of western Beijing , and Chang'an did not provide corresponding supplies.

In fact, such a frontier army was in an embarrassing situation when it entered Beijing. The order to let Linghu Yanbao lead his troops into Beijing was issued by the Bafu, and Chang'an naturally did not have the obligation to provide him with supplies.However, there are a lot of military affairs in the Overlord's Mansion, and Linghu Yanbao's department is only his private song, not the registered Chinese army or the state, county and township regiment, and there is no ration share.

Although Linghu Yanbao is a local tyrant in Xizhou, with a wealthy family, and can afford to support his own private soldiers even without going through the imperial court and hegemony, but the surrounding areas of Gyeonggi are different from Hexi, and many resources cannot be bought with money.

When Linghu Yanbao was summoned to Beijing, the Taiwan government still recruited as many troops as possible to prepare for the battle in Guanzhong based on the principle of strength in numbers, so the attitude was quite hospitable.

But when his troops arrived, the army of the Eastern Wei Dynasty had already retreated from Yubi, and Daxingtai's main concern turned to the adjustment of the post-war situation, and he no longer cared about Linghu Yanbao, a team that entered Beijing from Hexi. .Without the care from the top, the situation of Linghu Yanbao's headquarters is naturally even more difficult.

Li Tai knew the virtues of these military leaders in the country, and he was wary of the sudden emergence of a new force like Linghu Yanbao. He had restrained himself by not publicly suppressing them, and he would definitely not take the initiative to provide help.

After pondering for a while, he leaned over his desk and picked up a pen to write quickly, and quickly wrote a letter, and called his soldiers to come to him and said: "Send this letter to the Longxi Duke's mansion, and ask him to transfer it to an idle house in Kinki as appropriate in the near future." Bingcheng for use."

Li Hu is in charge of the defense dispatch of the Jingxi Kinki troops, so it couldn't be easier to ask him to help arrange a garrison.

Of course, Li Tai is not so arrogant that he thinks that he can order Li Hu at will with just a letter, and then said to Linghu Yanbao: "There are still some things in the household today. Let’s go to visit Duke Longxi once, and ask him to help take care of the military affairs of Buqu.”

After hearing the words, Linghu Yanbao quickly nodded yes, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that having such a powerful person take care of him really puts his mind at ease.In just a moment, the feeling of hesitation in his heart that he didn't know what to do was greatly eliminated.

At this time, those merchants also submitted their respective decoration plans one after another, some described in words, and some drew more vivid and specific sketches.

Li Tai and Li Licheng listened to the proposals together, and of course the final choice was left to Li Licheng.Li Tai's requirements are firstly to be beautiful, and secondly to be luxurious. In short, it must be full of amazing feeling that makes people unforgettable at first sight!

In addition to proposing decoration plans, these merchants also brought some samples, such as utensils such as gold and silver jewelry, exquisite tapestry carpets full of exotic styles, etc., regardless of the material and craftsmanship, they are very precious and impressive.

After browsing through the samples, Li Tai also found a rule, that is, the products provided by the merchants from Qinzhou were slightly inferior, while the products provided by the merchants to the west were more exquisite.However, the products provided by these merchants are not as good as those he got from Jinyang.

It's just that the brigade under his command to transport the spoils is still advancing slowly, and the destination is also Huazhou instead of Chang'an. Li Licheng's wedding is obviously not in time, so he can only buy part of it from these merchants for use.

In order to increase the enthusiasm of these people, Li Taidang even signed a valuable sales contract with each of them to purchase the goods in their hands.The common people of Shangyuan produce a large amount of cloth every year, and the purchasing power of these cloth can only be reflected when it is converted into other commodities.

As for the prices of these commodities, Li Tai did not allow these people to ask for prices randomly, but agreed to carefully estimate the commodities later in the transaction.Among the palace slaves he captured from Jinyang Palace, there are many people who specialize in trading with Hu merchants to buy goods, and they are naturally experts in market conditions.

These merchants are also very capable. Inspired by the huge order, they rushed to work day and night, and it took only two days to completely renovate Li Licheng's mansion inside and out.

When Li Licheng returned to this mansion again, he was so shocked that he couldn't believe his eyes: "This, this is really the previous mansion? Yaotai Immortal Palace is probably nothing more than that!"

Of course, this is just an exaggeration. After all, the size of the mansion is here, no matter how tidy it is, it will be difficult to make it look like a palace, but it has to be said that the aesthetics of these merchants is really online.

They are the most knowledgeable group, and because of the prosperity and development of religion from Hexi to Longyou, architectural aesthetics has also developed rapidly. Art crystallizations such as Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes can still amaze the world even after thousands of years.Now these people brainstorm, and spare no effort to decorate, making Li Licheng's house beautiful, making people linger and forget to return.

Not only Li Tai and Li Licheng were very satisfied with the decoration of this new house, but even the people who were sent by the Hongnong Yang family to measure the size of the house so that they could prepare the dowry after returning home were stunned and dumbfounded, but soon returned. Make a dumbfounding request.

"What? The wedding is going to be postponed? This, this is not good. All relatives and friends have already told everyone. If the date is rescheduled, it will inevitably cause inconvenience to the masses."

Hearing that Yang Su and his father, Yang Fu, came to ask to change the date of marriage, Li Tai's expression changed immediately, and he said with a look of embarrassment. Seeing that Yang Fu's eyes were a little dodgy, he asked again: "What is the reason? Will become a family, Yang Sima can't hide anything from me?"

"It's just, it's just... well, the family's work is not decent, and the dowry and other things that I bought before are not appropriate, so, that's why... I also know that this is embarrassing for the envoy, but, but..."

Yang Fu lowered his head, a little embarrassed to look at Li Tai.