As the owner of the tavern under the banyan tree, after operating the tavern for three days, Li Chenan gave up and became the shopkeeper.

Although there are not many people in this tavern, everyone performs their duties and cooperates closely.

Li Xiaohua's mother urged Sanniang to get used to the huge daily income of the tavern. As soon as the tavern opened, she sat in front of the counter and started selling brands——

Just ten pounds of wine and one hundred brands a day.

If guests entering the tavern want to drink, they must first spend 200 coins to buy a brand, and they can only buy one brand.

Until one hundred brands are sold out, it means that today's wine is sold out.

The tavern will no longer accept new guests and will close after all the drinkers inside have finished.

Cuihua has mastered the wine-making technology. Every morning when the tavern is closed, it is time to make wine. She urges Sanniang to light the fire and Li Xiaohua prepares the ingredients. Cuihua is responsible for the command and judgment of every step.

When the tavern opens for business in the afternoon, Cuihua will be responsible for serving and serving drinks in the shop, while Li Xiaohua will sit at the back door of the tavern to prevent anyone from causing trouble.

This is now the official employee of the tavern.

Although there were few people, it was orderly.

Li Chenan, the shopkeeper, was so free.

He still maintains daily morning jogging, and the effect is quite obvious. He feels that his strength has increased a little now, his muscles are tighter, and his ligaments are gradually stretched. At least the height of his feet can be reached when he performs the whip kick again.

Reached.

He came back from jogging early this morning and had just finished washing up when a man came to the tavern.

Liu Zhuo!

It has been five days since the tavern opened. This is the first time Liu Zuo has visited, and it was in the morning.

So he didn't come here to drink, but Li Chenan still made a bowl of wine and placed it in front of him.

"My mentor left the day before yesterday." Liu Zuo picked up the bowl of wine and took a deep sip. Although he was surprised that the wine was indeed as mellow as the rumors, his face did not show it at all. "My mentor left before he left."

I went to see my brother off and said goodbye at the Huajian Pavilion three miles outside the east city."

He couldn't help but take a sip of wine and tasted it for ten breaths.

"My mentor told me that the most important thing about Guangling is that it is the western gate of Kyoto."

"The Yujing City of Kyoto and Guangling City are connected by the Yuguangdao Canal, and Guangling Prefecture is connected to the Yangtze River south of the Yangtze River and north of the Yangtze River. Therefore, Guangling Prefecture has had an extremely important position both economically and militarily from ancient times to the present."

He took another sip of wine, but Li Chenan felt a little confused.

His memory of these things is very shallow, but he doesn't care about them now because his tavern is too small now. He originally just wanted to stay in this tavern and live a comfortable life, but he happened to become the embroidery envoy of Lijing Division.

For his own safety, he wanted to make all the 800 people in the Guangling Prefecture Lijing Division branch available, and that's when he came up with the idea of ​​expanding Huapingchun's production.

Now it's just an idea.

His plan is to save his first sum of money this year and then buy land on the outskirts of the city to open a brewery.

So when he originally wanted to come and walk around this world, it would be at least two years later. There was nothing else mixed in. He just wanted to leave some traces of his own in this world.

So he didn't know what Liu Zuo said had anything to do with him, so he just listened to it.

"During the Jinghua period of Ningguo...that is, before Dade, Ningguo suffered a war that almost destroyed the country."

"It's not the desert people from the Northern Desert who went south, but the Qiang people from the Western Regions. There used to be thirty-six kingdoms in the Western Regions, but now they have been unified into one country, and it is called the Xiye Kingdom."

"Xiye is warlike, and he makes as much concessions as the Great Wilderness Country in the Northern Desert."

"During the Jinghua period, the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions mobilized an army of 300,000 to attack Ning. They marched all the way to Linshui Pass in Guangling Prefecture. There were few rivers in the Western Regions, and most of their soldiers were infantry, not good at water warfare."

"The Ning State mobilized all its troops and fought a decisive battle with the Western Regions Allied Forces at Linshui Pass on the Yangtze River... In the end, they won miserably. The remaining 80,000 Western Regions Allied Forces withdrew from the Ning State, and then the West Night Kingdom was established."

"Ningguo's national strength was greatly damaged by this war. Fortunately, Shang Buqi Shangcheng was born accordingly, and he worked hard with Emperor Dade to manage it. It took a full thirty years to smooth out the wounds, and Ningguo gradually became stronger again.

"

"Although the Tibetan invasion war broke out in the southwest in the thirteenth year of Jingtai, the battle between General Zhongli and Mrs. Fan sealed the deal, and the country of Ning was not affected by the war."

"In total, Ningguo has been at peace for a hundred years, but now..."

Liu Zhu drank all the wine in the bowl in one gulp, lifted up his sleeves and wiped his mouth with a smile, "I'm telling you this, the teacher asked Brother Wei to tell you this."

"I think the teacher is more important than you, or maybe the teacher smells something different and hopes that you can seek advantages and avoid disadvantages."

Liu Zuo didn't finish these words, but the lingering sound of the three words 'but now' was still lingering in Li Chenan's ears.

Of course, the meaning of these words is already very clear. Now Ning Guo may be facing some dangers that he is not aware of yet.

However, these are still not a big deal to Li Chenan. So what if Ning Guo is destroyed?

Although he opened a tavern in Erjinggou Alley, deep down in his heart, he was still an outsider.

At least now he doesn't have a sense of belonging to Ning Guo.

Besides, he doesn't have the ambition to turn the tide like the Prime Minister of Shang.

"Brother Hua means it, I understand."

"In this case, I think Brother Liu will strengthen the military defense of Guangling Prefecture. At least there is no harm in it."

Liu Zuo laughed at himself, "I also want to do something as a brother, but... as a brother, I have more than enough ambition but not enough energy!"

Li Chenan was a little puzzled, thinking that as the highest official of a state, the prefect was already a high-ranking official in his previous life, so how could he still be restrained?

Noticing Li Chenan's expression of confusion, Liu Zuo stood up, took two steps, and stood in the yard.

"Guangling Prefecture is mainly a naval force stationed in Jiangcheng. However, in recent years, the Ministry of War has not allocated much money to maintain those warships, let alone build new warships."

"Even the most basic rations for the soldiers are unsustainable."

"Tell me, what can I do as a brother?"

Li Chenan was startled, "Is the national treasury so poor?"

"I was not originally poor, but since the emperor ordered the construction of the Changle Palace in the east of Yujing City ten years ago... not to mention the treasury, even the internal funds have been unable to make ends meet."

Li Chenan was stunned.

How big is the Changle Palace?

No wonder the Lijing Division has not paid salaries for three years.

No wonder Huamanting is worried.

If another war breaks out at this time, Ning Guo will be vulnerable!

"So ridiculous?"

"My dear brother, be careful what you say! These words must not be heard by the people of the Fish and Dragon Society, otherwise they will definitely bring disaster to your dear brother!"

"What is the Ichthyosaurus?"

"When the Prime Minister Ji Tai created a department similar to the Lijing Division, he was a fish and the emperor was a dragon, and what he did was to exclude dissidents!"

"...Doesn't this Ji Tai cover the sky with one hand in the court?"

"Of course, otherwise why would the second prince dare to be so unscrupulous!"
Chapter completed!