Having said this, he secretly glanced at Wang Ence next to him and said with a smile: "Mr. Li, this is the compatriot of Governor Wang. His name is Wang Ence. He is coming with me this time. From now on, he will stay in Chengdu to handle various matters." , please take more care of me. Young Master, I haven’t seen Mr. Li yet!”
Wang Ence stayed there feeling depressed, his thoughts had already gone to the sky. Suddenly he heard Yijilianbode introducing himself. He quickly stood up and saluted, but he knocked down a pottery vase on the armrest next to him. He subconsciously stretched out his hand and He grabbed the pottery bottle, but he knocked it down and fell to the ground with a clatter. He suddenly turned red and stood there in embarrassment, not knowing what to do.
"It turns out he is the brother of Governor Wang! No wonder he is so majestic and impressive, making people feel unspeakably close to him!" Li Jin didn't seem to notice the fallen Fuji at all. He stood up, grabbed the helpless Wang Ence's arm, and guided him He sat down next to his desk and asked Igillenbod, "Since he is the brother of the King's Governor, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"The governor has always been like this. He always talks about business matters first!" Igilian Bod replied.
"Hey, this Wang Wenzuo!" Li Jin sighed: "I know that he is used to being in charge of the army. He follows the rules in everything, but there are exceptions to everything. You can't treat your brothers like outsiders, right? Forget it, his I understand the meaning, come here!" He waved to the outside.
"I'm here, sir, what are your orders?" the servant waiting at the foot of the stairs responded.
"Get a Yameni badge!" Li Jin said with a smile. He looked at Wang Ence and said with a smile: "Since he is the brother of Governor Wang, he has a bright future, but after all, his rule is in Songzhou, and you are in Chengdu. Some things are inconvenient, so I will take a waist card from the yamen and treat it as a temporary errand under my command, how about it?"
"Thank you, Mr. Li!" Wang Ence was overjoyed when he heard this and hurriedly bowed to Li Jin. It turned out that in ancient times, "yamen" was connected with "ya", and "yamen" means within the "yamen", that is, the general's personal bodyguards. For example, Wang Wenzuo's Yaqiandu refers to the pro-military guards in front of the Yamen. The relationship between the guards and the generals is close, and the appointment is very personal, without the need for cumbersome procedures.
"It's just a little effort, no need to be polite!" At this time, the slave had already brought the waist card. Li Jin took the waist card and handed it to Wang Ence and said with a smile: "Put it away. With this card, as long as it is not too big, the whole city of Chengdu can All the trouble is gone!"
After leaving the Military Affairs Office, Wang Ence was still happily playing with the waist badge. Sometimes he tied it around his waist and sometimes put it into his sleeve, just like a child who had just gotten a new toy. Yiji Lianbode saw Wang Ence was like this, and he couldn't help but secretly regret in his heart. Would he have harmed him by asking for this card on Wang Ence's behalf? But Wang Wenzuo ordered him to take him to Chengdu for business, so he just returned the favor. He had an official position in the Tang Dynasty. I don’t know whether Wang Wenzuo meant it or forgot about it. Wang Ence had been working in the Yamen for half a year, but Even the whole body was naked and there was nothing. It was quite inconvenient to be in Chengdu like this, so I took it upon myself to speak to Li Jin.
"Young Master!" Yijirenbod said.
"Hey, what's the matter?" Wang Ence raised his head indifferently.
"This badge!"
"What happened to the badge?" Wang Ence said with a smile: "By the way, I have to thank you for this today? If it weren't for you, I wouldn't even have a serious official status. Thanks to you, I am now a yamen master. I heard about it when I was in Qingzhou, this yamen is the most arrogant!"
"Ahem!" Yiji Lianbode coughed twice: "Little Langjun, you don't need to thank me for what happened today. You are the younger brother of the King's Governor. These things are just a matter of words. But with this badge, You'd better not rely on Meng Lang in your actions, after all, you are still from the Songzhou Governor's Mansion, so this badge cannot be taken seriously!"
"Don't try to deceive me. Even if Mr. Li admits it, this government official's reputation will still be fake!" Wang Ence said with a smile: "As for Wang Wenzuo! He doesn't regard me as his younger brother, and I don't have his elder brother!"
"Young Master, be careful!" Yiji Lianbode's face changed greatly: "The King's Governor is a little harsh on you, but this also has high expectations for you. You only need to understand the Governor's painstaking efforts and do your job easily, and one day sooner or later - "
"Okay, okay!" Wang Ence waved his hands repeatedly, interrupting Yijilianbode's lecture: "Hey, you are a Japanese, how can you be as annoying as a Taoist gentleman? Forget it, let's not talk about this, okay? .Didn’t you say you had to run an errand? Where should we go now?”
"Let's visit those old acquaintances first!" Igilian Bod said.
Although Shanyaoju, located in Qingyangsi, is not the largest business or most famous among its counterparts in Chengdu, it has the longest history, which can even be traced back to the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. The store has a spacious facade and a rich variety of products. The five-room wide and three-room deep room is filled with black-painted medicine shelves layer by layer. All kinds of medicines are placed in them. It can be said that they are all available. You can smell the strong smell even dozens of steps away on the street Medicinal aroma. Like most pharmacies, there are several doctors in the main room who take pulses and check the pulses of patients who come to seek medical treatment, prescribe prescriptions, prepare medicines and brew them all in one go.
The owner, Cai Dingshan, is a good man with a forthright temperament. He is quite famous not only in the pharmaceutical industry in Chengdu, but also among merchants in other industries. On weekdays, friends often come to the store to get together. Over time, his good medicine residence has become Chengdu A meeting place for the business community. It was the same day as usual. He set up a tea table in the side room behind the store, put tea and snacks on it, and sat down with a few close friends to have tea and chat. Sunlight shines on everyone's heads through the translucent clamshell windows. Through the low-hanging bamboo curtain on the door, you can see the slightly skewed black tile roof of the east wing, as well as the bonsai and green bamboos in the patio. .
Zhuge Wen is a tall young man. His white round-necked toga is bulging out from his broad shoulders and thick chest. His family has been in the tea-horse business for two or three generations. He just returned to Chengdu, so At the beginning, he was surrounded by friends as usual. Everyone listened to him talk about his experiences on the business trip and various rumors, and they exclaimed from time to time.
"So, Brother Zhuge, you have not encountered a single Qiang thief during this hundreds of miles?" A middle-aged man with his head wrapped in white cloth asked while stroking his beard, with a look of disbelief on his face.
"If they are Qiang thieves, I have never encountered them before, but if they are Qiang people, I have encountered many of them!" Zhuge Wen said with a smile.
"Bah, all Qiang people are thieves!" A thin man said bitterly: "If you are strong, you will rob, if you are weak, you will steal. Only when there is really no other way will I trade with you honestly. The year before last, I I went to Langzhong to sell wine, and on the way I encountered a group of Qiang thieves, and I almost lost my life!" At this point, he pulled open his collar, revealing a long scar on his neck.
The words of the skinny little man immediately resonated. Almost all of Cai Dingshan's friends were businessmen. They had traveled all over Shaanxi, Tibet, Qinghai, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, and had experienced countless hardships. After hearing the experiences of the skinny little man, they all spoke out. go along.
"Yes, the Qiang people are all thieves. If they are small, they will block roads in the mountains and rob. If they are powerful, they will join forces and go down the mountains to rob!"
"Yes, the imperial court is serious about it. Why don't they send out troops to kill all these Qiang thieves and avoid future troubles forever!"
"Don't you want to be a court? But there are only a few troops in Chengdu, and it will be difficult to resist the Qiang invasion. Where can we go to the mountains to suppress bandits? We have all traveled far, who knows how many mountains there are?"
"That's true! And I heard that the imperial court also wants to appease the Qiang people and use their strength to resist the Tubo people!"
"Use the power of the Qiang people to resist the Tubo people, but be careful about tigers coming in through the front door and wolves coming in through the back door?"
"No, I heard that the Tubo people are much more vicious than the Qiang people!"
"That's true, I would rather deal with the Qiang people than the Tubo people!" The man with his head wrapped in white cloth said: "The Qiang people can only grab some things and leave, but they won't leave when the Tubo people come. Everyone will He will be used as a domestic slave of the Tubo people!"
Hearing everyone's discussion, Zhuge Wen showed a proud smile on his face. He coughed twice and raised his voice: "When you talk about the Tubo people, I have some news about the Tubo people. I don't know if you have any." not interested!"
"News? Is there not enough news of all kinds in Chengdu? Who knows whether it is true or false?" The thin man with the scar on his neck sneered disdainfully: "Which wine shop did you hear it from?"
"You must have heard it from the mouth of Hu Ji, who sells wine on the street next to the west gate, right?" Someone laughed, which immediately aroused a round of good-natured ridicule. Everyone here knew that Zhuge Wen liked the wine shop next to the west gate of Chengdu very much. Hu Ji, who sells wine, would go there to have a drink or two on weekdays when there was nothing to do.
"Hey!" Zhuge Wen was not worried: "Don't you know? I saw this news with my own eyes, not what I heard!"
"Have you seen the Tubo people?" Cai Dingshan, who had been smiling and watching the fun, was startled and asked quickly: "Then how did you escape? Did the livestock guy suffer any losses?"
"Thank you, Mr. Cai, you are worried!" Zhuge Wen bowed his hand: "I saw that the Tubo people were true, but there was no need to run away, because those Tubo people were already prisoners and were building roads!"
"Prisoners? Road construction?" Cai Dingshan was surprised: "Please elaborate!"
Zhuge Wen coughed and said with a smile: "That day I picked up a batch of horses at Yazhou and walked back along Songpan Road. Halfway along the road, I saw a lot of workers building the road. I thought at first that Once again, the government was recruiting laborers. When I got closer, I found that the people building the road were not the common people who had been recruited, but were all Tibetans. I couldn't help but be shocked. I asked the supervisors and found out that not long ago, two governors from the governor's office were stationed in Songzhou. We won two battles, defeated the Tibetan soldiers, and captured more than 2,000 people. These road builders are the Tibetan prisoners!"
"Songzhou Governor's Mansion defeated the Tibetan soldiers?" A man in black clothes at the table asked: "By the way, Brother Zhuge, is the Governor's surname Wang?"
"I can't remember this clearly!" Zhuge Wen scratched his forehead: "I only remember that this governor was recently transferred from Liaodong. He is not very old, only in his thirties! He should have nothing to do with you, right?"
"He was just transferred from Liaodong. He is not very old! That must be right!" The man in black clothes slapped his thigh fiercely. He immediately found that everyone's eyes were focused on him, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed: " Hehe, my clerk is not very discerning, and he almost offended Governor Wang before!" He laughed dryly twice, and then told the story of how his clerk wanted to take advantage of Wang Pu and others, but was knocked on the door. Finally, He said: "It's just that he has a lot of people, so he let me go. I didn't expect him to be so powerful in using troops!"
"Mr. Yu! This matter is really your fault!" Cai Dingshan said: "What we do business with is honesty. Your guy thinks he is a foreigner, so he uses tricks to bully others. Don't say He is the King’s Governor, even an ordinary person should not do it!”
"Brother Cai, please stop talking!" The man in black clothes was already blushing: "Those two bastards started to do the same thing as soon as I got back, and I also recorded this incident in the store's motto, so that future generations will remember it. Remember it well!”
"Well, that's right!" Cai Dingshan said with a smile: "Brother Zhuge, you said that you met Qiang people on the road and there were no Qiang thieves. It must be because of the King Commander's defeat of the Tubo soldiers, right?"
"That's right!" Zhuge Wen said with a smile: "I heard from those soldiers that after the King Commander defeated the Tubo people, he sent envoys to patrol various Qiang tribes and agreed with them that looting and killing were prohibited, and a document would be issued to each Qiang tribe every fifty miles. The Qiang people agreed that if there was robbery and killing, the Qiang people of that group would investigate and deal with the culprits. If they were unable to deal with it, they would report it to the Dudu Mansion and the Dudu Mansion would deal with it. However, the businessmen who were traveling along this road also wanted the money and silk from the tribe. The Qiang people think they are rewarded!”
"If this method works, the road will be much safer, which is a good thing!" The man with his head wrapped in white cloth laughed.
"This is a good idea, but I still have to give money and silk to the Qiang people, which makes me feel a little unhappy!" someone said.
"Actually, it's nothing!" Cai Dingshan said: "In the final analysis, the Qiang people also want to buy our goods when they get the money, but they just go around in a circle and still fall into our bags. At most, they can allocate these expenses on the goods. Just increase the price, what's the big deal? As long as business travel is smooth and there are no accidents on the road, that's our biggest benefit!"
"Yes, Dongzhu Cai said it!"
"Yes, we don't have the final say on the price of the goods, so what does it mean to give the Qiang people a little discount? As long as they are fine!"
"It would be great if it could really be like this!"
Cai Dingshan turned his attention to the man in black clothes: "Dr. Yu, you said you once had some relationship with the king's governor. Can you introduce him to me?"
"Dongzhu Cai, aren't you kidding me?" The man in black clothes smiled bitterly and said, "I offended Governor Wang because my subordinates were not discerning, but he spared me in a magnanimous manner. How can I say it has anything to do with it? Let alone recommend you. !”
(End of chapter)
