Chapter 381 – The World is Divided into Xu Family

North Liang Road, Lingzhou, a crowded and bustling shipping dock.

This dock in the hands of the former governor Xu Beihuan greatly expanded, Lingzhou officialdom is not without complaints of labor and injury, in addition to the dock, there are also those not inferior to the size of the Liyang A huge grain silo, this buy rice governor during his term of office can be said to be a big construction, but who does not know Xu Beihuan known as the “spoils of the Northern Liang”? In addition, there is no custom of impeachment in Northern Liang, at most, it is just the official scribes and generals who are privately slandering, so naturally, no one is happy to go to that Qingliang Mountain to touch the nail.

Probably because Xu Beihao’s official reputation in Lingzhou is really bad, the new assassin Chang Sui’s rest and recuperation after his arrival made the whole Lingzhou, which was prepared to continue to be blindly tossed around, feel like a spring breeze, and was full of praise for this scholar from the sages of the Shangyin Academy.

Today, at the pier, escorted by two hundred of Lingzhou’s most elite cavalry, two carriages slowly arrived, and two elegant men in official clothes walked down, they were the favorite disciple of literary master Han Guzi, Lingzhou’s Assassin Chang Sui, and today’s new King Liang’s old man, just promoted from Liangzhou’s Assassin to the position of deputy strategic ambassador of the Northern Liang Road, “the Central Plains Lu Breaking Kok” Lu Dongjiang, who was the first to be promoted to the position of deputy strategic ambassador of the Northern Liang Road. Lu Dongjiang was the most powerful man in the country in just one year.

Lu Dongjiang in just one year to sit on the North Liang Road, the third chair of the civil officials, although it is typical of the father by the daughter of the noble, but the North Liang official field pragmatic, not good reputation, no Liyang court those whether or not the scholar’s degree, whether or not to serve as a large and small yellow door of the Hanlin Academy of the red tape, Lu Dongjiang now and Song Dongming rank the same official rank, but Lu Dongjiang sub-lead the two states of the Yu Ling state affairs, Song Dongming sub-lead the two states of the Liang Li, some of the division of resistance to the meaning of the word. Meaning, so not long ago there is a son of their Qingzhou Lu family at the family feast, said the words, “Tai’an City had Zhang Lulu Gu Lulu of the fight, we now also have Lu Lulu Song Lulu of the pattern, but also the gentleman of the fight, as for that Wang Linquan, full of the stink of the merchant only, what is the thing,” this slipped into two meanings, both let the The two meanings in this sloppiness, both make the belly full of anachronisms after entering the Northern Liang Lu Dongjiang, thought deeply.

Now Lu Dongjiang on the ruthless daughter Lu Chenyan although there is still some mustiness, but after this kind of green clouds, far-reaching, for the eye of this bad thing, but also gradually let go, Lu Dongjiang know that the Lu family wants to flourish, even if Lu Chenyan really break with the Lu family, can be Qingliang Mountain side there is no Lu Chenyan, Lu family in the Beiliang official field of encounters will be very different, and the Lu Chenyan can not sit firmly! If you can’t get the position of the Northern Liang Wangfei, the status of the Lu family will also be overturned.

Lu Dongjiang recently thought of this year’s Spring Festival, is not to invite his daughter and son-in-law back to the Lu family trip, this is a family in times of trouble, you Xu Fengyen even if you are a noble vassal king, can accompany us to have a New Year’s Eve dinner together in harmony, it is not too much, right?

With the Deputy Secretary of the Lord’s brand-new official clothes different, the official clothes on the assassin Chang Sui looks old and wrinkled a lot, the original fair face has also become dark, the two stood together, the age of the longer but well-maintained Lu Dongjiang, on the contrary, to be more youthful, although from the second-grade brocade chicken official patch and the third-grade peacock patches, not much of a difference between the two officials, also belong to the Liyang well-deserved official, but the former is already the real thing, but it’s a good thing. The former has been a genuine court center minister, the latter is a powerful minister of the pastoral side, from the former, there is still a line of separation. However, Lu Dongjiang is a famous scholar in the Central Plains for many years, if other assassins are accompanied by him, he will still take the official authority frame, on the literary master Han Guzi senior disciple, famous in the dynasty and field of the Shangyin Palace of Mr. Jik Shang, but also Xu Weixiong’s senior brother of the Chang Sui, Lu Dongjiang naturally regarded as a person of the same kind of people, and the conversation is warm and friendly, very warmly.

Lu Dongjiang, as the Deputy Secretary General of Lingzhou and Youzhou, of course heard about the Liyang Transportation, and knew that the court originally promised to guarantee one million stones of grain to enter Beiliang before the fall, but now even half of the 500,000 stones is less than half, and there are three successive sets of sporadic and hidden, which is only 400,000 stones. Liyang canal transportation has horizontal and vertical two lines, horizontal line to the main trunk of the Guangling River, is regarded as the Central Plains waist brawn of the city of Xiangfan Qingzhou, is the food transit center, just who did not think that the young feudal king Zhao Xun, surprisingly, followed the Yan Zhi Wang Zhao Bing and Shu Wang Chen Zhi Bao together with the revolt, and is said to be elected as the new emperor, in this way, Zhao room court lost half of the seat of the jurisdiction of the Jing’an Road, the canal food will be delayed again and again by the trend of the Lu Dongjian! Lu Dongjiang can only lament the bad year.

Chang Sui accompanied Lu Dongjiang to the shore of the ferry, the river above the boat continuous pile, almost as if walking on the level of the trend, the pier on both sides of the hot, which let Lu Dongjiang some surprise.

Chang Sui said, “The Liyang court declared that before the fall, it would supply 500,000 stones of grain to Beiliang Road, in fact, our king and the minister Qi Yanglong agreed to one million stones, in fact, this fall, under the personal supervision of Qi Yanglong and Huan Wen, there are nearly 800,000 stones of grain transported to our grain silo in Lingzhou, only to take care of the face of Liyang, we also said that we only received the grain, so we have to take care of the face of Liyang. However, in order to protect Liyang’s face, we said that we had only received 400,000 stones.”

Lu Dongjiang was pleasantly surprised and relieved to see that his territory was in good weather condition and the government was clear, but then he realized that the high ranking governor of Lingzhou beside him didn’t seem to be in a good mood.

Chang Sui blandly said: “Lord Lu just took office, some things may not be clear about the insider, Liyang court in addition to the promise of one million stone grain into the cool before the fall, in fact, also promised to bring in two million stone after. But with the current situation, it seems that it is a long way off.”

Lu Dongjiang wondered, “The Central Plains are in chaos, and Jing’an Road is under the jurisdiction of Zhao Xun, a rebellious feudal lord, so it makes sense that the court is unable to control the transportation of grain into Liang, right?”

Chang Sui shook his head, “not so, Jing’an Road’s main force, or Jing’an Wang Fu jurisdiction of the elite, has long been consumed to Zhao Xun, the current Jing’an Road Hong Lingshu is one of the leaders of the Green Party, when so many years of high-powered Tai’an City, the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry, seniority is very thick, the section of the deputy ambassador of the Ma Zhongxian is the son of the great general Ma Fulu, the two join hands, if the fall after the subsequent If you say that after the fall, there are some changes in the two million stones of grain, not all of them can not be honored, barely can be considered reasonable, but by no means to even that 200,000 stones will be postponed not to the northern Liang. In the final analysis, it is because they have reached a tacit agreement with the Zhao clan and the nobles in the capital who have been holding the transportation of Liyang for twenty years, and they do not want us to get the two million stones of grain in the latter part of the country for nothing. To know two million stone grain, means that in the peace and prosperity is also a large sum of dividends, not to mention nowadays the war in the Central Plains, but also can ask for sky-high prices, perhaps with the court lion’s share of the money, not to mention that may also be involved in the rebellion of the three feudal lords. Shengshi collection, chaos gold and silver, gold and silver to do what, but also not to buy that soldiers, horses, grain and grass.”

Lu Dongjiang was filled with consternation.

Chang Sui suddenly smiled, “I think when Lord Lu came here, he also saw those big and small stores on both sides of the main road, their business is booming to a degree that even the city of Lingzhou Prefecture can’t compare to, so he’s not curious?”

Lu Dongjiang nodded, “Chang adults just said that the collection of the world of gold in chaos, since ancient times, chaos will come, this official from Liangzhou rushed to before, I heard that now Lingzhou rich and powerful families are selling all kinds of antiques and paintings, and even many of the heirloom treasures that are regarded as having disappeared and annihilated in Hongjia Beiben that havoc, have reappeared in the world for the Central Plains is amazing, so much so that many of the news come here Jiangnan Road merchants come here to buy at low prices, and then return to the Central Plains to sell at sky-high prices, everyone earns a mountain of gold. Lord Chang, truth be told, this official is also very moved ah.”

Chang Sui smiled playfully and slowly said, “Oh? Then Lord Lu should really go and take a look. Since the Dafeng Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Nine Kingdoms, Lu Gang’s jade, Lu Aishui’s gold, Zhu Bishan’s silver, Bao Zhiran’s rhinoceros, Zhao Liangbi’s pewter, Wang Xiaoxi’s onyx, Jiang Baoyun’s bamboo carvings, and Yang Zhao’s porcelain, people who occasionally get a piece of artifacts will be treasured as curiosities. Nowadays, in this nameless street of Lingshu City in Northern Liang, there are no curiosities, otherwise, how could the current Liyang dynasty and the countryside all say that ‘all the masters of the Jianghu in the Central Plains go to the Wudang Mountains, and the Liyang literati and elegant people are concerned about the Lingshu City’?”

Lu Dongjiang’s heart moved.

Face slightly cold Chang Sui smiled and poured cold water and joked: “Only those large and small stores, before doing business have to look at the buyer’s road guide registration, the local people are only accepting real money, foreigners Well …… do not say it, I’m afraid that the uncorrupted Lord Lu will be disappointed.”

Lu Dongjiang laughed: “No harm, no harm, this official over the eyes or not, to accept or not in the bag is the second. This is just like treating those world’s most beautiful women, it is a beautiful thing to look at from afar and play with them.”

Chang Sui then led the Deputy Secretary General to a store near the pier.

The store was not big, not even comparable to a study room in a medium-sized mansion in Lingzhou’s general’s court, but Lu Dongjiang had only crossed the threshold when his eyes widened in shock.

The list goes on and on!

Lu Dongjiang’s appreciation of the eye, how old and spicy, quickly walked towards an ancient colorful waisted Qi teeth strips of animal legs kang table, on the side of the randomly placed more than a dozen kinds of curious objects, Lu Dongjiang carefully picked up a lacquered wooden bowl, surrounded by a series of square wins for the pattern, dark red color.

Hall of a deputy secretary, slightly trembling fingers turned over the lacquered wooden bowl, as expected, Lu Dongjiang saw the bottom of the bowl that thick gold filled with smeared “hanging collusion with the ou” four Zhengshu Yangwen!

Store handyman is a big hand young man, see is two men wearing official uniforms, but did not see their escorts to follow, also did not pay too much attention, in Lingzhou, the people are used to dealing with unruly and untamed will be seeded sons and daughters, for more than they are also subjected to the civil masters, is sympathetic to a very, talk about how to be afraid of fear. Furthermore, within the last half a year, this small store, they have come to many strange Chinese customers, the young servant who cleans the store and shouts the price, also began to feel that he has seen the world, a few steps forward, from the table casually pulled a gold pot of the slender spout, lifted it up, and laughed attentively: “Sir, not long ago, there was an old A short time ago, there is an old man in the Central Plains readers, fancy this thing, but unfortunately at that time he could not afford to pay the price, let us be sure to stay, said he went back to the Jiangnan Road, the old side of the operation, our store can not take care of him, the official master, or you palm eye, if you like, twenty silver can be taken away, of course, this is the price of our local people in Beiliang, the foreigners can not be!

Lu Dongjiang trembling put down the lacquered wooden bowl, both hands received this cloud dragon pattern gourd type gold pot, after carefully measuring, trembling voice: “This is the real thing of the old South Tang imperial products ah, even the high-minded Chu master Li Mi are on it as ‘wine and water together with the spirit, pouring a world’! How much silver, twenty taels?”

The young handyman smiled and said, “Twenty taels is enough. Silver bills are not accepted, only cash silver!”

Lu Dongjiang moved stiffly and turned his head to look at Chang Sui, “Lord Chang, do you have any cash silver on you?”

Chang Sui shook his head, “I do not carry any.”

Lu Dongjiang, with a look of remorse and pain, muttered, “No, I implore Lord Chang to find someone to lend me some silver today, one thousand taels, no! At least ten thousand taels! The more the merrier!”

Chang Sui laughed: “Lord Lu do not need to be so out of sorts, this kind of objects, this street everywhere, not only that, from this Lingzhou dock, along the river into the Guangling River, until the Qingzhou Xiangfan City, large and small shipping terminals, there are such stores opened.”

Lu Dongjiang snapped out of it and deplored, “Is this what the king meant?!”

Chang Sui nodded, “Here, half of it came from the Qingliang Mountain Xu family’s coffers.”

The Deputy Secretary General, who was half of the Xu family, couldn’t help but stomp his feet and shout, “Loser! Loser!”

Chang Sui laughed loudly, actually left Lu Dongjiang in the store and left alone.

Inside the store, Lu Dongjiang raised a white jade bowl, raised the bowl reflecting the cream candle, bright as ice and snow, bowl wall of yellow dots like dozens of chestnuts dotted with them, especially naive and lovely.

Lu Dongjiang every enjoyment of a thing, have to read a defeat.

Especially when I learned that the Northern Liang outsiders want to take the items, can only go to deal with the officials responsible for the Guangling River transport Liyang, with grain and grass to exchange, but also quite cheap, many of the original value of the desktop of the elegant play, but only one or two hundred stone grain and grass only!

Lu Dongjiang’s heart is bleeding.

And after returning to the dock, the assassin of Lingzhou, Chang Sui, stood on the shore.

The people of the world share the Xu family.

Qingliang Mountain Thousands of gold scattered and come back? Not come back!

Chang Sui did not know what that Deputy Secretary General thought, he only knew that he was willing to live and die for such a Northern Liang!