Chapter 458 Real Estate Prosperity Part 1
In Chongzheng Hall, Han Zhongyan fought against Zeng Bu and An Tao, and finally won a party battle.
Wu Haogu was staying at home, quietly watching a woman preparing lunch for him.
The "home" he was in was not the Wu family mansion in Kaifeng City, nor the Lihua Villa outside the city, but in the simple small building near the Xiefang Tower.
Perhaps it is because the mentality of the dick in the previous life is still in play. Compared with the pear blossom courtyard where the moon is melting and the willow catkins pond is faintly breeze, this small building gives Wu Haogu a more home-like feeling.
Bai Feifei, a woman who always looks light and elegant, also made Wu Haogu feel particularly friendly - this is a feeling of living at home with an elegant beauty. It is indeed very comfortable and relaxing.
Wu Haogu came here early in the morning. Just like the head of a family, after enjoying the breakfast made by Bai Feifei himself, he instructed Bai Feifei to send someone to Duting Station not far away to invite Xiao Bao to come first.
Xiao Bao was first a person that Wu Haogu was not convenient to meet. He was an envoy of the Liao Kingdom. How could Wu Haogu, a bureaucrat from the Song Dynasty, meet him privately? However, Bai Feifei had a way to contact him because Bai Feifei was the leader of the brothel in Kaifeng Prefecture. Xiao Bao went to the Song Dynasty first to be He Zhengdan envoy, and he was not a monk. It was normal to find a prostitute to hold hands.
After Bai Feifei sent his maid to deliver the letter, he prepared lunch for Wu Haogu and Xiao Bao, who was about to visit, in the kitchen.
Today's lunch is flat food. In the Song Dynasty, the flat food refers to dumplings, pork stuffing, chopped stuffing, kneaded noodles, and flat food, all completed by Bai Feifei alone.
Wu Haogu wanted to help, but Bai Feifei didn't let him get involved, and he was really like a good wife and mother. However, he didn't drive Wu Haogu out of the kitchen, but let him watch him work.
The fire in the kitchen had already been lit, very warm, and snowflakes outside the window were wafting, very poetic.
Unfortunately, Wu Dalang, who had worshipped Su Dongpo as his teacher, still had no talent for poetry, otherwise he could recite one.
When the filling was prepared, the dough was mixed, and when I started to pack flat food, the sound of knocking on the door came.
"Official, a guest is here." Bai Feifei put down the work in his hand, wiped his hands with a clean cloth towel, and smiled, "You go to the hall and sit in the hall, and I'll go and open the door."
"Madam, I'm working hard." Wu Haogu also replied with a smile.
These two people are obviously dewy couples, but they play like real, and they are respectful to each other...
The visitor was not someone else, but Xiao Baoxian, the commander of He Zhengdan, Liao Kingdom, accompanied by Xu Qiqi, dressed as a talented woman. Xu Qiqi was carrying a paper umbrella with plum blossoms falling snow, while Xiao Baoxian, dressed as a scholar, was holding a folding fan in his hand. On heavy snow, what's the use of this fan?
"Xiao Liuzhao, do you still remember Wu Haogu in Kaifeng?" Seeing Xiao Baoxian and Xu Qiqi coming, Wu Haogu stepped forward and sang a fat look.
"How can you not remember?" Xiao Bao smiled first and bowed, "I heard that you have joined Sumen and become Mr. Dongpo's disciple?"
Xiao Daliuzou is a fan of Su Dongpo, and he is very familiar with the situation of his idol. Moreover, the incident of Wu Haogu's worship in Su's family was also published in the magazine "Wenquxing", so many people know about it.
"But this happened." Wu Haogu smiled and said, "It was my mentor who respected me, who was the last student."
When the two were talking, they had already divided the guests and guests and hosts to sit in a simple hall without any decoration.
Bai Fei flew with a blessing gift and said he would go to pack flat food, so he left with Xu Qiqi.
"That's yours..." Xiao Baoxian looked at Bai Feifei dressed as a housewife and was a little confused.
Is this Wu Haogu's home? Isn't he a super rich man? This house seems a bit dilapidated.
"A house outside." Wu Haogu smiled faintly.
"Oh." Xiao Bao nodded first, thinking: Wu Haogu's outdoor room looks really comfortable. Although he doesn't wear makeup and dresses very smoothly, he still can't hide the charm that comes from his bones. Suit and charm are perfectly combined... I will have to create such an outdoor room when I return to Xijin Mansion.
No, the outer house should be placed in Jiehe Market. It is best to find a woman from the Song Dynasty... This is how romantic it is.
"Leave it behind," Wu Haogu spoke again at this time. He didn't go around with Xiao Bao first, so he got to the point. "I met Wu Yanchong, a doctor of the Goryeo War Department, when I returned to Kaifeng Prefecture a few days ago."
"Oh?" Xiao Baoxian no longer had the heart to think about "a good family" and his expression suddenly became serious.
Although the long war between Khitan and Beishubu has come to an end, a greater crisis is approaching the Great Liao Kingdom - Emperor Yelu Hongji is seriously ill and may soon die.
The fierce struggle within Liao is about to begin!
When the internal strife was closed, I naturally had no time to deal with the rising girl and the moving Goryeo Kingdom.
Once these two aspects are decided, the Liao Dynasty will face a new powerful enemy.
"He said that Goryeo is about to start a war with Naoto," Wu Haogu said, "This is a battle between two tigers!"
"Two tigers?" Xiao Bao smiled first, "At best, they are just two dogs."
"Oh?" Wu Haogu smiled, "How do you really think about Liushou?"
Then I will report to our country’s officials truthfully.”
"Is this what the Song Dynasty officials asked the East Gate to ask me?" Xiao Baoxian asked with some uncertainty.
Wu Haogu smiled but refused to answer. At this time, Xu Qiqi had already brought the steaming flat food, and gave Wu Haogu and Xiao Bao a bowl each, and then left with tactfulness.
Wu Haogu smiled and picked up the chopsticks and said to Xiao Baoxian: "Let's stay and try my Feifei's skills?"
"Okay," Xiao Baoxian was really hungry. He glanced at the steaming flat food that was placed in front of him, "It looks good!"
"Pork stuffing..." Wu Haogu picked up a flat piece of food with chopsticks, and did not stick to the sauce. He stuffed it directly into his mouth and started chewing it with big mouth.
Xiao Baoxian also picked up a flat food and put it in his mouth. It was a little hot. The filling inside was very tender, not worse than the flat food made of mutton.
"The Korean and Naomi are all ready to do it," Wu Haogu swallowed the chewed flat food. "Recently, they have been selling medicinal materials, fur and other mountain products... In addition, they are all looking for ways to buy iron tools."
The Goryeo Kingdom was able to smelify iron, but like other handicraft products in the Goryeo Kingdom, the output of iron tools was not large, and it needed to be imported from the Song and Liao Kingdoms. There were even records in history that the Goryeo Kingdom used oxen and grain to exchange iron tools for the Holaidian Jurchens.
Of course, the Jurchens themselves could not smelite iron. Their iron tools were all obtained from the Bohai people.
When the relationship between the Jurchens and Goryeo was becoming increasingly tense, the channels for iron tools to flow into Goryeo were naturally blocked, and the Goryeo people needed to obtain supplements from the Song Dynasty.
"Didn't your Song Dynasty strictly prohibit iron tools from leaving the country?" Xiao Baoxian asked.
"It's not strictly forbidden," Wu Haogu smiled, "It's just some control."
The iron ban was not strict in the Song Dynasty because the two main enemies of the Song Dynasty, Xixia and Liao, could smelite iron, and the iron materials they produced were better than those of the Song Dynasty...
"Do you want to help the country of Goryeo?" Xiao Baoxian's tone had already sunk.
"What is called aid?" Wu Haogu shook his head repeatedly, "Aid is forbidden! Stay behind, don't you think our country will give the Goryeo people in vain, do you?"
If this matter is really brought to the court for discussion, it may really lead to the conclusion that it is "no money" - the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty have always had fantasies about the Goryeo Kingdom.
However, Wu Haogu was more willing to join Liao... Today he met Xiao Bao first to discuss how to kill the Koreans.
Xiao Baoxian picked up another flat food, "So you think that Goryeo and Nuzhi are two evil dogs?"
"Goryeo is a vicious dog," Wu Haogu smiled, "The girl is a tiger!"
"Tiger?" Xiao Bao smiled first, "To you Han people, the girl is also a tiger, but to me, the Khitan, she is just a vicious dog."
A typical example of a swollen face and fat man! Wu Haogu complained a little in his heart and said, "Even if it is a vicious dog, it's good to die a few more.
Stay behind, our two countries are now brotherly countries, so why not join forces and let the female Naoto and the Goryeo fight for a few more years. How about both sides suffer?”
Xiao Bao first stuffed the flat food he had just picked up into his mouth and chewed it slowly, but couldn't taste it, because he was all focused on savoring what Wu Haogu said.
No matter Goryeo, women are either tigers or dogs, it is always good for Khitan to die more!
What is needed now is just whether the Song people will use this war to support the Goryeo Kingdom to expand?
When two dogs fight, it does not necessarily mean that both sides suffer losses. Sometimes there will be situations where the winners and the losers will become bigger and bigger!
"Leave it behind," Wu Haogu said again, "You should consider this matter, and you can always think about the interests clearly.
In addition, today, the official asked you to come here and have another small thing to ask you for help."
"What's the matter?"
Wu Haogu smiled and said, "Duting Post is very old, it has been around for more than a hundred years. Do you feel dilapidated and uncomfortable when you stay behind? And the officials also heard that the ghosts are haunted near Duting Post. I don't know if you have ever seen ghosts at the back behind?"
"Ah? Haunted? Is there such a thing?" Xiao Baoxian was stunned for a moment, "Wudongmen, what do you want me to do? Isn't it for you to catch ghosts?"
"One will catch ghosts," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "but someone has to report the dilapidated and haunted post. Left behind... Can you help this little?"
"But I didn't hear of haunting." Xiao Baoxian still didn't understand what was going on, but when he spoke, he thought: Maybe the Diamond Sutra I brought by His Majesty (referring to the Liao Daozong) had magical powers. The ghosts of the Song Dynasty were afraid of the emperor of the Liao Kingdom and dared not attack them, right?
Chapter completed!