Since the auction house needs to be established above board, it cannot turn into something like a black market. Only when the place is decorated with splendor and grandeur can people recognize it. This place is of high quality, so people will send their treasures here for auction.
Because Zhang Youcai walked around various construction sites and was responsible for the general ledger, Li Xian entrusted the affairs of the auction house to the Shangguan family.
Shangguanshi has made no mistakes in running Sihai Tower during this period of time.
Facts have proved that people are forgetful. Even if she gradually appeared in front of others, no one would connect her with the wife of the Shangguan family in the past. Even people who were slightly familiar with her would find it difficult to compare her now with her past. of her connection.
It can be said that she has completely changed her life.
After reading His Highness the Prince's plan, Shangguan saluted and said: "Your Highness, don't worry, I will definitely build your auction house. However, when the time comes, you will still need to worry about how to attract customers in the East Market. ”
Li Xian nodded, attracting customers depends on a series of factors such as status.
After all, the Shangguan family was in Sihai Tower and only made friends with some businessmen. Although there were many wealthy businessmen among them, no matter how rich the businessmen were, such as Shen Wansan, they were nothing in the face of power.
The auction house in the West Market was enough to run it with her presence, but the auction house in the East Market required him, the prince, to take charge personally. Only in this way can the auction house in Dongshi attract all high-level guests, including the royal family.
"Gu Zi has his own sense of things about the East Market. When the time comes, you only need to build up the auction house in the West Market. However, it is different from the restaurant. When the time comes, Gu Zi will still have to build momentum for your auction house. of."
Shangguan thought for a moment and then nodded.
The auction house is different from the restaurant. Although the restaurant has the same items, but the environment is different, but for the sake of status, those nobles will not choose Sihai Tower.
However, what is being auctioned at the auction house are all treasures. It is no exaggeration to say that the collections of some wealthy merchants can even make the emperor jealous. Under such circumstances, it is strange that those superficial nobles do not send people to the West Market in disguise to auction things.
Once money cannot obtain treasures, I'm afraid, their identities will be revealed.
The nobles' faces are impeccable when they should be strong, but when they choose to be shameless, they can also be shameless and make people speechless.
After giving instructions about the auction house, Li Xian returned to the East Palace.
He spent the next few days immersed in archery practice.
Although it was just a matter of sharpening his skills before the battle, he still made a lot of progress due to his unremitting efforts.
On the afternoon of the ninth day, a letter came from Honglu Temple. The Turkic envoy team had arrived in Mei County. With the speed of their horses, they were expected to arrive in Chang'an tomorrow.
After getting the news, Li Xian calculated the distance and chose to live out of the city without hesitation.
The distance from Mei County to Chang'an is not that far anymore. If you live in Donggong, there are too many variables to get up early the next day to greet you.
Anyway, he was prepared to deal with the Turkic envoys just like he dealt with Baslujia. How could he waste the preparations he had made?
So, leading twenty eunuchs trained by Zhou Quan and two hundred guards, Li Xian left Chang'an in the darkness and went straight to Shiliting.
Shiliting is just a place name, not the name of a building. Around Chang'an, there are countless places with place names like Shiliting. However, because many wars took place in the west, when the expedition team returned in triumph, the ministers who went out of the city to greet them would usually go ten miles west to greet them. Therefore, the imperial court actually built a pavilion at this place.
Because of this, although it is just a small pavilion, it is extremely important in the hearts of all military generals. Because, since the Year of Wude, countless people have been promoted here.
After arriving at Shiliting, Li Xian ordered the team to camp and rest.
As a prince, you can get preferential treatment after all.
For example, monopolizing Shiliting.
For example, the accompanying eunuchs used felt and other materials to transform the entire pavilion into a yurt-like building.
for example....
There is also a little wife who helps rub my sore butt caused by horse riding!
In Shili Pavilion, Li Xian was lying on the simple bed, and it was Qi Lan who was rubbing his butt.
Because she had lived in the palace for too long, she was eager to ride a horse.
However, if Liangdi wants to ride a horse, the difficulty is not that low.
So, taking this opportunity, Li Xian asked her to dress up as a man and come out with the team.
Fortunately, they were surrounded by loyal eunuchs, so the secret was not exposed.
After enjoying his wife's butt touching service, Li Xian breathed a sigh of relief and said helplessly: "In the end, I still missed the equestrian skills. The prince can't ride a horse. What's the matter?"
Hearing her husband's complaints, Qi Lan smiled slightly and comforted: "You are just too strong. I have never met anyone before. Like you, I have no foundation. I only started practicing martial arts when I was in my twenties. How can I still do it?" To achieve such results. You only have one morning, but you have to learn so many things. To be honest, you are not discouraged, but you have achieved something in every item, which is very, very rare."
"Equestrian skills, like archery, cannot be accomplished overnight. If you want to get a shortcut, perhaps you have to raise a horse that suits your needs. Didn't the saint give you a horse? Why don't you ride it except for feeding it? Riding? As far as I’m concerned, Lightning can already be ridden.”
After listening to Qi Lan's words, Li Xian suddenly had an even more headache.
If his prediction was correct, this horse would be killed by him himself in the future.
Li Zhi's purpose is obvious, which is to make him rely on this horse, develop a relationship with Lightning, and then let him kill it with his own hands, so as to realize the ruthlessness of the emperor's methods.
But how to fight, he really didn't have much idea.
Touching his sore butt and burning crotch, Li Xian sighed and took out the potion that Kong Xinyu had prepared early in the morning.
It is good to have a wife who is good at medicine and also attentive. No matter what kind of physical condition occurs, she can quickly solve it.
After all, it was not time for Yunying to get married. Qi Lan took the potion and began to apply it to her husband generously.
However, because the location of the medicine was wrong, she felt something hard touching her wrist while she was applying it.
At this moment, no matter how thick-skinned she was, she couldn't help but blush.
Outside the pavilion, he heard a clear groan coming from inside. Li Yun scratched his head and began to order the eunuchs to retreat some distance. As for the guards, I still don't understand why their tents spread so far...
Early the next morning, when it was just dawn, Li Xian woke up.
He woke up the beauty in his arms. Unlike in the East Palace, he didn't have the conditions to be meticulous at this time, so he could only dress quickly.
If the prediction is good, if you ride a horse in the direction of Mei County at this time, you can still catch the big show.
The eunuchs and escort team outside were already ready to go, leaving two eunuchs to deal with the pavilion. Li Xian ignored the pain in his crotch and led the team to continue the attack.
At the beginning, they still took the main road, but after passing a village, the team changed direction and turned to a small road.
After passing through a ravine on the path, I saw a large crowd gathering on a river beach.
Half of this group of people were Turkic envoys, and the other half were fully armed soldiers.
Seeing that the two sides were about to start a fight, Li Yun whipped the horse hard with his riding crop, accelerated his speed, and rushed towards the crowd and shouted: "His Royal Highness is here, stop everything!"
Hearing this voice, the soldiers who were about to take action immediately stopped, spread out, and made way for a clearing.
Li Xian led his team and quickly occupied the open space.
Opposite, in the Turkic team, there was a gorgeous guy riding a black horse. He looked like the leader.
Come to think of it, this man is the little Khan sent by the Turks, but...
Looking at the other person's thin body and his age of more than 20, it was difficult for Li Xian to connect him with the identity of "Little Khan".
No longer looking at the little Khan, Li Xian said in a deep voice: "What happened here? Why did the soldiers gather here?"
Hearing this, an old soldier with a gray beard walked out of the crowd, knelt down on one knee and saluted: "Reporting to His Majesty the Crown Prince, these Turks were passing by here, and they even galloped on their horses and did not avoid passers-by. If this was the case, the old man would also I just tolerated it. After all, they were flying under the banner of envoys and were guests from afar. However, there was clearly a way for them to drive their horses into the fields and trample the weeds in order to surpass their predecessors. This was unbearable! Your Highness You also know that the poor people only use these vegetables to dry them and eat them in the winter. If they are allowed to trample on them like this, what will we eat in the winter?"
"The old man wanted to stop them from arguing, but who would have thought, they actually wanted to use the knife. This is a joke. How dare a little prairie barbarian to act recklessly in our Central Plains? So the old man asked Zhuangzi's descendants to beat the rally drum, Everyone is armed and ready to tie them up!”
Seeing the old man's indignant look, Li Xian immediately looked coldly at the Turkic team.
Meeting the gaze of the Tang Crown Prince, the Turkic guards were a little worried, because that was the fact.
However, the guy who looked like a little Khan did not feel any shame at all. He drove his horse forward for a while, imitated the etiquette of the Central Plains people and said, "Prince of the Tang Dynasty, this Khan is Ashina Tag. The Khan ordered us to come to the Tang Dynasty for a pilgrimage. Now, I have stepped on these people's food, just because I am anxious to see them. I hope that His Highness the Prince will let these soldiers disperse and not delay the journey. "
Li Xian smiled slightly and casually returned the greeting: "Ashnatag? I have never heard of you, but there is something wrong with your claim. Don't bully an orphan to become a prince. You have few days to study. You are in college Although Tang is called Little Khan, in your Turks, Little Khan is called Ye Hu. Therefore, you should call yourself Ye Hu. Even according to my title of Tang Dynasty, you have to be Xiao Ke. Khan, so where did he come from calling himself Khan?"
After hearing what the prince said, Ashinatag couldn't help but frown.
This is indeed the truth, but why does he feel that the Prince of the Tang Dynasty is coming with bad intentions?
Sure enough, under his gaze, the prince whipped the old man aside, pointed the whip at him and said: "According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, unless the imperial court recruits soldiers, they are not allowed to beat the general drum, rally drum, blow the horn, or violate the order." If you have to kill him, you will be punished first. Since you have violated military laws, you must be punished first. Come on, take him down and kill him at three quarters of noon!"
Following Li Xian's order, two guards immediately appeared and took the old man down.
What surprised Ashinatag was that although the old man who had been sentenced to death had split eyes and was full of anger, this anger was directed at himself and did not fall on the prince at all. The local soldiers had no intention of interceding, they still stood there, and no one raised any objection.
When did the military discipline of the Tang Dynasty become so majestic?
After dealing with the old man who violated military discipline, Li Xian turned his head, looked at Ashina Tag and said: "You are in a hurry to go to Hajj. This is not a problem, but you trampled on the food of the people of the Tang Dynasty, and you must compensate! Otherwise! .... I’m really not sure what happened.”
After saying that, Li Xian turned his eyes elsewhere.
Ashenatage clearly noticed that as the prince turned his head, the soldiers who had been silent just now let out an eerie laugh.
If it were just these government soldiers in front of him, he would naturally not notice them. They were just the vanguard, followed by a team escorting horses, cattle and sheep, totaling a thousand people.
What really frightened him were the soldiers who appeared from time to time at a fork in the path.
It has been a while since the rally drums have been beating, but from those nooks and crannies, there are always one or two soldiers who are either riding donkeys or simply running and appear to gather towards this side.
This is just a small village. There are at most a few houses in the fork in the road. That's it, so many soldiers can still appear!
In particular, although the equipment of these soldiers is somewhat worn out, at least they are fully equipped.
Even such a small place is like this. Looking at all the state capitals west of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, how many fully armed soldiers can be gathered?
What's more, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were still so disciplined!
At this moment, Ashina Tag found that he was a little scared.
If this time, the Turks really heard the news about the drought and attacked the Tang Dynasty without investigating...
I am afraid that the last paradise of the Turks will be lost!
From this point of view, it was right for him to send an envoy to the Tang Dynasty this time.
Some tribes on the Turkic border have made some changes some time ago. There is no doubt that Datang is already aware of these movements. Although the Tang Dynasty already had enough land to cultivate for hundreds of years, who knows whether their desires will be satisfied?
