Chapter 61: Make General Li, meet Emperor Gao
"Okay, let's live together." After coming out of Lu Qing, Wukong jumped up happily and slapped Zhixing. "We should go get the money left."
"On ordinary places where wealthy families put money in, Junior Brother Wukong." Pusheng asked next to him, "What should we do if the accountant doesn't give us money at that time? If the battle starts, will there be a little fewer people?"
"Don't worry, there is absolutely no problem." Wukong raised his chubby little hand and compared it with an OK gesture. "I am definitely good at reimbursement and other things. We can't get this note, but other people don't have to get the money. The key is that we want to create an opportunity for others to get the money with the note!"
"An opportunity, where can we find the opportunity you mentioned?" Zhixing interrupted.
"The opportunity is not just the skin on the wall, it is peeled layer after layer." Wukong smiled and pointed at a white and tender servant of the Lu family who came to the left with his hands. "Did you see it? Here comes an opportunity. Hey, come here, yes, you are talking about you, come here quickly."
After hearing the shout, the servant looked around first, then pointed himself with doubts, and walked towards Wukong and the others.
"Hey, this opportunity, what's your name?" Wukong asked with a smile.
"Young Master, are you asking my name?" The servant asked hesitantly, and then replied, "My name is Lu Di, and it is now purchased by the inner court."
"It's very hard to purchase the inner court." Wukong asked again with a naive look on his face, "Where are you responsible for purchasing what?"
"It's nothing, it's just the rouge and water powder used by the lady." Lu Di replied respectfully.
"Oh!" Wukong suddenly realized, "Why are you so hurrying to do what you are going to do?"
"Go to the account to make some money. Because the wife is about to come back, the eldest son told us to prepare all these things in advance."
"Oh, my sister-in-law is coming back." Wukong poked his little fat face with his finger, and then asked cutely, "Why don't you buy a lot of things this time?"
"Yes!" Although Lu Di didn't know what Wukong wanted to do, he still answered honestly, "There are probably more than 100 cents of things. The shops I bought have already delivered them, and I have already counted them. Now I just come to the account office to pay the money and pay the bill."
"Oh, that's right, I won't bother you anymore. Go and pay the money!" Wukong stretched out his fat hand and waved.
"Where, young master, I'll go and do it first." Lu Di, who was confused, greeted Wukong politely, then nodded to several monks, and then ran towards the account room quickly.
"I saw the fallacy and the opportunity appeared." Wukong snapped his fingers, "This is what I call wishing come true."
Just when Wukong was taking Zhixing and others to find an opportunity, a grand banquet was being held in the distant city of Kuizhou, the official residence of Prince Zhao and the head of Kuizhou. In addition to Prince Zhao and Li Xiaogong, the hosts of this banquet were Li Jing, who had just begun to emerge, and some officials in the head of the Kuizhou head of the head of Prince Zhao.
The guests at the banquet were Li Gang, a famous minister of the Great Sui Dynasty who had just moved to Kuizhou in Chengdu and planned to go to Chang'an to meet Li Yuan!
This Li Gang was neither the father who drove to hit someone, nor was it a famous official who had a relationship with Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty. He was a standard native of the Sui and Tang dynasties, from Hebei. When he was young, he was named Li Yuan. When Emperor Wen of Sui reigned, he was once the teacher of the crown prince Yang Yong for a period of time.
Of course, everyone knows that Yang Yong, the useless man killed by Yang Guang, is not a good bird. In order to train this rotten wood, Li Gang talks about it every day, and says it with great sincerity.
But the reason why Yang Yong is called a rotten wood is that these conventional methods are completely ineffective against him. This idiot is not only unhappy with Li Gang, but also joins the Tiantian and a group of treacherous people to isolate him and attack him. At the end, even Li Gang himself had to admit that Yang Yong was indeed helpless.
But just when Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian was about to depose Yang Yong, the rotten wood discovered that among the people around him, only Li Gang, the old man, resolutely stood up for him and accused his father, saying, "Yang Jian, have you taken the wrong medicine and actually wanted to depose his son? I know this child very well. He is still a good person. If you hadn't had a lot of brain-dead stuffed around him, would he be like this? Do you understand the fault of a son who is not a godfather?"
This is not what I call this. It is so magnificent! Even Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian was scolded by Mr. Li Gang and was ashamed of his words. He kept saying that you were right and you were right. Although Yang Yong was dead, Li Gang was not punished and was promoted to the right prime minister of the Shangshu.
Of course, it is impossible to have no price to do such a kind thing, so not long after, Yang Guang joined forces with Yang Su and Su Wei to start to mess with him. Of course, Mr. Li Gang is extremely smart, how could they get it? So just when Su Wei and Yang Su thought they could kill Li Gang, they suddenly found that Li Gang ran away.
Who said that loyal ministers must wait for death at their posts?
In the history before Wukong traveled through time, this old man Li Gang should have slipped into Shaanxi, and was captured by He Panren to take on any of Panren's chief historians, and then defected to Li Yuan when he was captured by Li Yuan in Chang'an.
But I don’t know if it was because of this little butterfly of Wukong or some other reason, but the old man did not go to Shaanxi, but went to Sichuan. As a result, he squatted in Chengdu and squatted for the fourth year of Wude. And if he hadn’t been discovered and requisitioned by Li Yuan, he would probably have planned to continue squatting in Chengdu.
But no matter what, in short, the days when Mr. Li Gang squatted in Chengdu have ended. Now he is the prince secretary chosen by His Majesty Li Yuan himself, and he is still doing what he did with Yang Yong back then.
Think about it, the emperor gave his son to you for discipline, which shows how favorable you are. Not to mention the rumors that His Majesty Li Yuan even planned to let Mr. Li Gang replace Pei Ji's current position and serve as a hall official in the Ministry of Rites.
In short, no matter whether this rumor is appropriate or not, one thing is certain that Li Gang is popular! And it is so popular! So even if Li Gang is just a redirect in Kuizhou, Li Xiaogong, the Prince of Zhao, still dare not neglect this distinguished guest.
The banquets in this era are still different from those in later times, because the banquets at this time were not the way in which a large table filled people and then served dishes at this table vigorously. Instead, each person had several tables, and in addition to the wine pot and glass, there were only three to five dishes on it, and then it was rotated regularly.
After persuading a few rounds of wine and changing the dishes twice, the banquet gradually became better. Everyone should have a good time. At this time, the center of the banquet shifted from eating dishes to chatting.
"Duke Wen Ji is a great talent in the world. This time, he went to Chang'an with the imperial edict, and his future is unlimited." Li Xiaogong, the Prince of Zhao, who was sitting at the master seat, picked up the wine glass and greeted the old man Li Gang in a distance. "I decided in the early Tang Dynasty that I need great talent like Duke Wen Ji to come and help me. Come and have a drink of this cup."
"You don't have to be so polite to the prince." Old Master Li Gang also raised his wine glass tremblingly, "I can't be considered a talent. The position of Prince Xima and the Right Secretary of the Secretary of the State Council is a mess, and I have no face to see anyone. If I hadn't had one thing to worry about, I wouldn't have embarrassed this old bone to Chang'an."
"Mr. Wen Ji was joking." A middle-aged man who looked forty or fifty years old sitting opposite Mr. Li Gang raised his cup to Li Gang, "Mr. Wen Ji, what did Prince Xima do back then? There are public opinions in the world. But I don't know what you have to worry about. Can you tell us juniors?"
"You are a pharmacist, are you?" Li Gang looked up at the person who was talking tremblingly.
“That’s right!”
"I remember you. I saw you in Yang Su's mansion before, but you were much younger at that time!" The old man narrowed his eyes, "'You should sit here after all'! How long ago did that happen? The handsome young man back then is now a famous general."
"Thank you for your praise from Wen Jigong!" Li Jing stood up and bowed respectfully. There is no way. Li Jing of this era was not the war god who defeated the Turks later and wiped out Tuyuhun. Strictly speaking, the current Li Jing's sequence in the army is probably not as good as Huang Junhan who just surrendered with a large group of troops.
After all, Li Jing is Li Shimin's confidant, not Li Yuan's confidant.
"This is not a compliment, pharmacist, you are really born at the right time." Mr. Li Gang twisted his beard, "What's the point of meeting General Li, when you meet Emperor Gao, what's the point of Marquis of Wanhu!"
"What Wen Ji Gong said is exactly what I want to say." Li Xiaogong picked up the wine glass, "Pharmacist, I will give you a glass to Mr. Wen Ji Gong."
"Thank you, Prince! Thank you, Duke Wen Ji!"
"The Master once said that when I was seventy, I could do whatever I wanted without overdoing my moral character. Now I am seventy-four years old, and the glory of the world is meaningless to me. The only thing I care about now is my surname Li. By the way, Pharmacist, I remember you are from Sanyuan, Yongzhou, right?"
“That’s right!”
"It's also considered a branch of my Guanlong Li surname. Now Your Majesty has become a powerful country and is just around the corner. However, the reputation of my Guanlong Li surname in the world has not increased because of Your Majesty becoming the emperor. This is what I worry about."
ps: The 6,000-word update for two chapters has been completed! By the way, Feng Chuan just discovered that there are any rewards in the current book review area. It seems that I have made a mistake in all of them before, but Feng Chuan still has to write at night, so if anyone is interested and time, he can help Feng Chuan manage the book review area and give a reward or something else!
Chapter completed!