The Spring Snow Building of the Guangling Wang Fu had changed owners. In reality, half of Li Yang had changed owners that night.
Nalan Youci, who had planned all of this, sat at the mouth of the rouge well at the peak of the mountain by the river. There were a dozen rainflower stones produced by the Guangling Path in one hand. He picked them up one by one and then threw them into the well.
Beside Nalan Youci stood Sword Immortal Tang Xi Lu Baijie who had been reduced to a prisoner. Unlike the Administrator Wang Xionggui who had been locked in prison, as the Guangling Path Jiedushi, Lu Baijie was not restrained as long as she did not leave the wang fu.
Lu Baijie asked, "Mister Nalan, what business do you have with me?"
Nalan Youci lowered his head and bent down to look at the black well. He said with a gentle smile, "While the Yan Chi Wang Fu has some spies and death warriors who have been rooted in Great Peace City for many years, and some of them have high positions, they cannot compare to Mister Tang Xi who has been in the center for a long time. I want to know how many of the important officials of Li Yang in Great Peace City who are qualified to attend the 'small court meeting' of the Divine Cultivation Hall are loyal officials, how many of them will waver in times of danger, and how many of them are not loyal to the young emperor. If Mister Tang Xi is willing to speak frankly, we will be able to act accordingly. In the future, there will be fewer ghosts in Great Peace City."
Even if he was speaking extremely vicious words, this strategist's voice was soothing and his smile was shallow. He was truly a romantic figure that was hard to dislike.
Lu Baijie shook her head and said, "Mister Nalan is thinking too much."
Nalan Youci had an expression that said he knew it. He waved his sleeve and stood up. He said with a smile, "Let's go, I'll take you to a room. I spent three thousand dan of rice to gather a study for Mister Tang Xi."
Lu Baijie was confused. A study as a gift? And what was with the three thousand dan of rice? Not to mention Great Peace City where every inch of land was worth its weight in gold, even in her hometown, Gangnam-do, three thousand dan of rice could be converted to silver to buy some good study supplies?
Nalan Youci said confidently, "Mister Tang Xi, please wait and see. You will not be disappointed!"
Lu Baijie followed Nalan Youci to a secluded courtyard in the Wangfu. After passing through the corridors and buildings, Nalan Youci pushed open the door and extended his hand, indicating Lu Baijie to enter the room first.
The first thing that came into view was a table made of yellow rosewood with black lines. Because it was a short table, it was naturally not a desk that was used to place expensive and elegant items. However, the waist of the table was made of banana leaves, undulating like water ripples, flowing elegantly. On the side, there were branches of flowers and birds, giving it a sense of fancy. The lower part of the table was carved with dragon horns and teeth. When one looked back, it was full of vigor. The study table further away was a long table with dragon patterns. The four treasures of the study on the table were all treasures that any scholarly family in Gangnam-do would want to worship.
Nalan Youci walked to the side of the table, two fingers holding the lid of an ancient and cute purple clay teapot. He raised it up high, but the body of the teapot did not fall. He said with a smile, "This is the Heaven and Earth Tea Teapot that has been lost in the old Dong Yue. When this teapot was popular in the North and South of the Yangtze River, the matter of drinking tea had already taken a back seat. It became a peerless item for people to enjoy. Now, it is even more difficult to buy with money. There is no way around it. Most of the people of Dong Yue like to bury a Heaven and Earth Tea Teapot with them when they die. Mister Tang Xi is a divine hand in the way of tea and should know better than me.
This teapot is not ordinary. "
Lu Baijie just glanced at the teapot and looked around. She asked with a heavy face, "All the items in this room only cost three thousand dans of rice?!"
Nalan Youci laughed and said, "Don't worry, it is definitely not because of the war in Guangling Path that caused the noble families to sell their treasures cheaply. To put it bluntly, since the fall of Da Chu twenty years ago, the officialdom of Guangling Path was full of villains who suddenly became rich and powerful. There were not many valuable family names. Otherwise, they are just fence-sitters. This time, the owner of the Spring Snow Building changed. Most of them changed their rudder very quickly. There is no need to take out these good things to exchange for gold, silver, and rice. "
Nalan Youci suddenly squatted down and went under the dragon pattern table. Then, he stuck his head out and waved at Lu Baijie.
Lu Baijie was confused by this strategist. After hesitating for a moment, she followed his example and went under the table. Nalan Youci rubbed the bottom of the table with his fingers and said with a smile, "It is not easy to light a candle in broad daylight. However, with the eyesight of Tang Xi Sword Fairy, she should be able to see the origin of this item from the handwriting. It is here! "
Lu Baijie followed Nalan Youci's finger and looked up. She saw that there seemed to be six words carved with a dagger. It was crooked. Except for some childishness, it did not have the demeanor of a master. However, Lu Baijie was shocked on the spot. The six words meant that there were three people with no surname. Fengnian, Zhihu, and Longxiang!
It should be known that Xu Zhihu, who was married to Jiangnan, was Lu Baijie's niece-in-law. Lu Baijie was also the family elder who loved that woman the most in the Lu family. Therefore, Lu Baijie confirmed that this was undoubtedly Xu Zhihu's handwriting! Moreover, Lu Baijie knew that in Mount Qingliang, Xu Zhihu and Xu Weixiong had an ordinary relationship since they were young. Therefore, among the four children of the Xu family, only Xu Weixiong's name was missing. This was strong circumstantial evidence that the world could not fake! Lu Baijie could even imagine that many years ago, the girl in red sat on the ground and carved words with a knife.
Lu Baijie was silent for a long time. Even after leaving the table with Nalan Youci, she was still unwilling to speak.
Nalan Youci's face was full of joy. "I guess even the owner of the table didn't know that his sister had carved words under the table. Otherwise, he would not be willing to sell it."
Lu Baijie thought of the young man who asked her in the early years if she could sell him some benevolence, righteousness, and morality. Her mood was complicated. She smiled bitterly and said, "Why did the Xu family have to do this? Didn't Mr. Nalan say before that after Zhao Xun left Qingzhou, he lost control of Jingan Road? How could he stop the grain from going cold? Moreover, you have no intention to touch Jingan Road for the time being. At first, I thought you were worried that the troops would be too scattered and the front line would be stretched too long to prevent Wu Zhongxuan's army from going south in one go. Now it seems that it was your idea? You deliberately let Beiliang and the imperial court be dirty because of this. Were you afraid that once the Beiliang Frontier Army unexpectedly won the second battle of Liang Mang, the Xu family's cavalry would still have the strength to go to the Central Plains to quell the rebellion?! "
Nalan Youci leaned against the window and said playfully, "Otherwise, do you think an old assistant minister of the Ministry of Appointments, Wen Taiyi, could return to Qingzhou so smoothly to be the Administrator? It is one of the laws of Liyang that officials of the imperial court are not allowed to be officials of their hometown! "
Nalan Youci's smile deepened. He clicked his tongue and said, "No matter how old Wen Taiyi is in the capital, no matter how strong his official connections are in Great An City, he should be promoted to a civil official leader somewhere else. In order to let this guy be the Administrator of Jingan Road, I used a lot of favors in Great An City. However, I never thought that the Liyang imperial court would give me a big surprise and let Ma Fulu's son go to Jingan Road to take charge of the military. This way, on the issue of grain going cold, the civil and military officials of the border would work together to secretly support those pests of the country. Only then could they resist the pressure of Qi Yanglong and Huan Wen. Otherwise, if it was someone else, it would be hard to say. After all, when the two provincial officials are angry, they are not to be trifled with. The remaining two million dan of grain might really have to be sent to Beiliang's Lingzhou. "
Lu Baijie pressed one of her palms on the table. The table creaked. It could be seen that she was enduring the majestic pressure of Tangxi Sword Immortal.
Nalan Youci, who was in a very good mood, said with a smile, "In this world, as long as there is a war, there will be a need for grain. The Beiliang Frontier Army is not a divine army. Of course, it is no exception. Even if the young provincial governor, Xu Beizhi, had the foresight to become the provincial governor of Baimi, but with the power of Lingzhou, which is known as the south of the Great Wall, it is obviously not enough to let the Beiliang Frontier Army that is about to welcome the second Great War of Liang Mang have no worries. Then what about Xu Beizhi, the transport commissioner of Beiliang?"
Nalan Youci asked and answered his own question, "Even the cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice. Even the common people who have never read books understand this principle, let alone the number one civil official of Beiliang that the Zhao clan of Liyang wanted to rope in the most! Therefore, Xu Beizhi ran to Mount Qingliang and told the Vassal King surnamed Xu that although your family has a lot of money, it is still not enough. You should sell your family's belongings. I will help you deal with this matter. You, Hsu Fengnian, don't see, don't worry about it. Out of sight, out of mind, you can be a hands-off shopkeeper. It just so happens that outside the Liangzhou Pass, there is a need to build that laborious and costly Beijue City. Excluding the families who serve in the military, the wages of the common people with household registration will be paid from there. As for the grain for the border army, it will be earned from the people who come to our Lingzhou to buy your Xu family's belongings. As long as they have the ability to dig out the grain from the hands of the big and small transport officials along the Guangling River through their personal relations or various channels, no matter what method they use to deliver the grain to Beiliang, the transaction will be valid! "
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