Lu Yun didn't say anything because he had no idea. He actually didn't know much about Wu Meiniang, but he just felt that this woman was not simple.

Li Hao frowned for a long time, feeling that he could only offer Wu Meiniang as his ancestor.

This kind of woman has the ability to confuse the public, and she must not let the people in her family talk to her. So he said to Lu Yun: "Send someone to clean up the East Courtyard and repair the garden. The speed should be fast. Let Wu Meiniang move in tomorrow and let Yun'er go to serve her daily life. Remember, I would like to remind everyone in the family, including Turando and the others, to be respectful to her and not neglected. However, it is best not to speak more with her, otherwise the whip will serve her! As for the title, let Turando and the others call him Miss Wu, and the servants call him Miss." When talking about the word "Miss", he specially aggravated his voice and felt a bit of a ferocious taste in his heart.

"Yes." After hearing this, Lu Yun bowed his order and opened the door and prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute!" Li Hao suddenly shouted again.

Lu Yun turned around and asked, "What are the instructions for the young master?"

Li Hao smiled awkwardly: "Send me a pair of shorts first."

Lu Yun looked at a tide spot on his shorts and smiled knowingly: "Okay." After that, he walked out of the private room.

Not long after, Lu Yun brought Li Hao shorts. Li Hao quickly changed into it, put on his clothes and left the private room. When he came to the front yard, he happened to see Du Hong.

Du Hong was about to salute, but Li Hao stopped him and said, "Come to the study with me." After that, he walked straight to the study.

Li Hao brought Du Hong to the study room, closed the door, and asked, "Du Hong, the time was rushed last night, so I didn't have time to ask more. Now I have free time. Tell me, what major things happened at home during the time when I was away?"

"No." Du Hong nodded, "The family has always been quiet and nothing big happened."

Li Hao nodded: "What about business, what about the current economic situation of the family?"

Du Hong was immediately overjoyed and said, "Young Master, everything is fine at home. Even the tea business has started to make money. Every year, we have to earn 40,000 to 50,000 yuan in our warehouse. Now there is too much money in our home warehouse, so the old slave exchanges it for gold and silver. There are 60,000 taels of gold and 300,000 taels of silver in the warehouse. If the working capital in each store is added, there will be about 1.5 million tons."

"So many!" Li Hao exclaimed when he heard this and said happily, "Okay, keep going, Du Hong, I have a new business idea, you are busy again."

Du Hong bowed excitedly and said, "I am willing to die for the young master, please give me instructions."

Li Hao said: "I plan to start two new businesses, one is a newspaper and the other is a bank. It requires a lot of people. You find fifty down-and-out scholars, fifty accountants who are very good at accounting, thirty craftsmen who make bookstore carvings, and thirty workers who do bookstore printing. At the same time, you also want to help me purchase thirteen shops in Chang'an City, and two shops in each county around."

Du Hong bowed and took the order: "Yes, young master, do you have any other instructions?"

Li Hao said: "Let Lu come to see me."

"Yes, the old slave took his leave." Du Hong said and left the study.

After more than ten minutes, Lu Zhi's voice sounded outside the study door: "Lu Zhi pays homage to the young master."

"Come in." Li Hao said, "The door is not locked."

Lu Zhi pushed the door and closed the door, and greeted Li Hao. Li Hao stopped the picture he was drawing, looked up at him, and saw that Lu Zhi was pale and looked very bad. It was obviously caused by his long-term lack of oxygen and sunlight in the underground secret room.

Li Hao couldn't help but care and said, "Lu Zhi, if you are free in the future, you will take the craftsmen out for a walk every day. As long as you don't leave the gate of my Li Mansion, you will be fine. Don't stay in the secret room all day long, like a mouse, which is very bad for your health."

Lu Zhi was moved when he heard this. Unexpectedly, Li Hao had not returned home for two years. The first sentence after returning home was so concerned, and his eyes turned red: "I thank you for your care, and the marquis must take care of you."

"Okay, let's not exchange greetings anymore, let's just talk about the main topic." Li Hao stood up and walked up to him and asked in a low voice, "How many crossbow weapons have you made in the past two years?"

Lu Zhi said: "Young Master, there are currently nearly a thousand crossbows, and one hundred crossbows have been built, three hundred crossbows have been built, and three hundred crossbows have been launched, and fifty thousand crossbows have been launched."

"Thank you for your hard work." Li Hao nodded and said thoughtfully, "You can stop for a while and help me build a Fangtian Painting Salute to give to Xue Rengui. He is very strong and he is not good at using ordinary weapons."

He said that, he returned to the desk, picked up two pieces of paper and handed it to Lu Zhi, and said, "The first one is the drawing, which is a model of Fang Tian Huaji. It is enough to build it according to this size and model. It must be no problem at all. The second one is the magic method of forging steel, which allows you to forge good steel. Remember, the material of this Fang Tian Huaji must be good."

Lu Zhi also understood a little about the blacksmith's skills. After looking at two pieces of paper, he nodded quickly: "Don't worry, Marquis, we will do our best to do our best."

Li Hao said with satisfaction: "Well, you must be the best. After creating this Fangtian Painting Salute, you will make a big box and put it on it for me. I will send it to Xue Rengui personally. Then you will have a good rest for a while, and you will not make crossbows and arrows for the time being."

"yes."

After sending Lu Zhi away, Li Hao walked out of the study room and was about to find Hu Dashan and Hu Xiaohai. Unexpectedly, these two happened to come to find him. Coincidentally, Li Hao took them to the study room and explained to them the role of newspapers and banks. He was not going to open a bank, but called the bank directly. Hu Dashan had been studying for so many years and still had some information in his stomach. Li Hao decided to let him be the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. As for Hu Xiaohai, he was smart and lively and had a good memory. Li Hao was going to teach him some simple arithmetics so that he could be the bank president and manage accounts specifically.

The position of editor-in-chief of the newspaper is not under much pressure for Hu Dashan. After all, he is familiar with poetry and books. Even if he can't write a very good article, it's still okay to review the articles. Li Hao slightly taught him some of the key points of reviewing the manuscripts, so that he could think about it carefully.

As for Hu Xiaohai, he used to help with work in the chicken fork bone shop and also helped to calculate the accounts. His accounting management skills were pretty good, and his abacus was also a mess. However, Li Hao had to let him learn arithmetic in the future world. The ancient arithmetic was too troublesome and complicated. When calculating accounts, he really had half the result with twice the effort. And if there were any mistakes, it was difficult to check.

Li Hao immediately began to teach Hu Xiaohai arithmetic. When he taught Hu Xiaohai the most basic Arabic numerals, Hu Xiaohai was shocked. At first, he thought these symbols were so strange and awkward, because they were too different from Chinese characters. However, when Li Hao taught him the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of Arabic numerals, and then combined with the abacus, he found that accounting and accounting could become so simple.

When Li Hao first started his business, he invented abacus to facilitate the shopkeepers to settle accounts. Now abacus has long been popular among major merchants in Chang'an, and is no longer a novelty. As long as anyone who knows how to settle accounts, he can make abacus well. On the contrary, Li Hao, the inventor, only understands the reason but does not know his skills. The abacus technology is one-level worse.

Li Hao taught Hu Xiaohai the method of accounting on the form. Hu Xiaohai was so excited that he was almost crazy. He seemed to have found the true meaning of life, and was crazy about simulating accounts, keeping accounts, and then checking them. He was having a lot of fun.

Li Hao has to admit that Hu Xiaohai is a math genius. He can learn about mathematics by teaching it. Of course, he has the foundation of Chinese mathematics after all, and now he is just a simpler way.

At the same time, Li Hao had to sigh that Arab merchants were very smart and could invent the epoch-making things like Arabic numerals. But I’m sorry, these numbers have become Li Hao’s invention, and those Arabs could only cry and faint in the toilet.

It was almost noon, and Hu Dashan was imitating the manuscript in his study. Hu Xiaohai was dialing the abacus to simulate the calculation and accounting. Both of them were very busy, while Li Hao was lying on a rattan chair and closed his eyes to rest, and was lazy in his busyness.

"Tu tuk tuk" knocked on the door suddenly.

Li Hao closed his eyes and asked, "Who?"

"I, Li Ping."

Li Hao got up and went to open the door. He saw Li Ping standing outside the door, looking at him with resentment. Li Hao walked out of the door and asked, "What's wrong, why do you have this expression?"

"When will you take me to see my dad?" Li Ping asked pouted.

"Uh..." Li Hao scratched his head. To be honest, he was a little afraid of seeing Li Daozong, not to mention that he was suspected of abducting his daughter. He originally thought that when he was in Chang'an yesterday, Li Daozong would come to take Li Ping away, but he didn't expect that Li Daozong never showed up.

He was about to reply, but suddenly remembered something. In history, Li Daozong seemed to be imprisoned for corruption and abuse of power in the eleventh year of Zhenguan. Later, he was released from prison in the thirteenth year of Zhenguan and was transferred to the position of governor of Jinzhou. If there was no deviation in history, then Li Daozong should be in Jinzhou now.

Li Hao hurriedly called Du Hong and asked him if he knew about this. Du Hong said he didn't know, and Li Hao was surprised. Has history deviated? Li Daozong's fate changed due to his contact with him many times? But if that's the case, it's illogical. If Li Daozong was in Chang'an, why didn't he come out to take Li Ping away yesterday, for the sake of Li Ping's reputation? Or he was not transferred to Tingzhou, but transferred to other places? Or... he is still in prison? Not yet released from prison?

Unfortunately, Li Hao had just returned to Chang'an and was a little confused about the current situation in Chang'an, so he planned to go to Chang'an alone to inquire about the news, and to visit several uncles. After all, when he came back from outside, he always had to say hello to show his respect for the elders.

Just as Li Hao was about to prepare the gift, the doorman Wang San suddenly ran in in a hurry. As soon as he entered the door, he said anxiously: "Young Master, there were suddenly many soldiers and horses outside the door, hundreds of people! The leader seems to be the general who sent you back last night!"

"Chen Bin?" Li Hao raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and he said to himself in confusion, "Why is he bringing troops?"

With doubts in mind, Li Hao came outside the mansion and saw Chen Bin lined up neatly at the door with two hundred left-handed guards, with amazing momentum.

As soon as Li Hao came out, Chen Bin immediately turned over and dismounted and saluted: "Chen Bin, the general of the Left Wu Guard, was ordered to lead two hundred Left Wu Guards to protect Lord Li, the Marquis of Lantian County."

Li Hao heard this and danced wildly: "Is Li Shimin doing something again? Is it monitoring me?"

Lu Yun didn't say anything because he had no idea. He actually didn't know much about Wu Meiniang, but he just felt that this woman was not simple.

Li Hao frowned for a long time, feeling that he could only offer Wu Meiniang as his ancestor.

This kind of woman has the ability to confuse the public, and she must not let the people in her family talk to her. So he said to Lu Yun: "Send someone to clean up the East Courtyard and repair the garden. The speed should be fast. Let Wu Meiniang move in tomorrow and let Yun'er go to serve her daily life. Remember, I would like to remind everyone in the family, including Turando and the others, to be respectful to her and not neglected. However, it is best not to speak more with her, otherwise the whip will serve her! As for the title, let Turando and the others call him Miss Wu, and the servants call him Miss." When talking about the word "Miss", he specially aggravated his voice and felt a bit of a ferocious taste in his heart.

"Yes." After hearing this, Lu Yun bowed his order and opened the door and prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute!" Li Hao suddenly shouted again.

Lu Yun turned around and asked, "What are the instructions for the young master?"

Li Hao smiled awkwardly: "Send me a pair of shorts first."

Lu Yun looked at a tide spot on his shorts and smiled knowingly: "Okay." After that, he walked out of the private room.

Not long after, Lu Yun brought Li Hao shorts. Li Hao quickly changed into it, put on his clothes and left the private room. When he came to the front yard, he happened to see Du Hong.

Du Hong was about to salute, but Li Hao stopped him and said, "Come to the study with me." After that, he walked straight to the study.

Li Hao brought Du Hong to the study room, closed the door, and asked, "Du Hong, the time was rushed last night, so I didn't have time to ask more. Now I have free time. Tell me, what major things happened at home during the time when I was away?"

"No." Du Hong nodded, "The family has always been quiet and nothing big happened."

Li Hao nodded: "What about business, what about the current economic situation of the family?"

Du Hong was immediately overjoyed and said, "Young Master, everything is fine at home. Even the tea business has started to make money. Every year, we have to earn 40,000 to 50,000 yuan in our warehouse. Now there is too much money in our home warehouse, so the old slave exchanges it for gold and silver. There are 60,000 taels of gold and 300,000 taels of silver in the warehouse. If the working capital in each store is added, there will be about 1.5 million tons."

"So many!" Li Hao exclaimed when he heard this and said happily, "Okay, keep going, Du Hong, I have a new business idea, you are busy again."

Du Hong bowed excitedly and said, "I am willing to die for the young master, please give me instructions."

Li Hao said: "I plan to start two new businesses, one is a newspaper and the other is a bank. It requires a lot of people. You find fifty down-and-out scholars, fifty accountants who are very good at accounting, thirty craftsmen who make bookstore carvings, and thirty workers who do bookstore printing. At the same time, you also want to help me purchase thirteen shops in Chang'an City, and two shops in each county around."

Du Hong bowed and took the order: "Yes, young master, do you have any other instructions?"

Li Hao said: "Let Lu come to see me."

"Yes, the old slave took his leave." Du Hong said and left the study.

After more than ten minutes, Lu Zhi's voice sounded outside the study door: "Lu Zhi pays homage to the young master."

"Come in." Li Hao said, "The door is not locked."

Lu Zhi pushed the door and closed the door, and greeted Li Hao. Li Hao stopped the picture he was drawing, looked up at him, and saw that Lu Zhi was pale and looked very bad. It was obviously caused by his long-term lack of oxygen and sunlight in the underground secret room.

Li Hao couldn't help but care and said, "Lu Zhi, if you are free in the future, you will take the craftsmen out for a walk every day. As long as you don't leave the gate of my Li Mansion, you will be fine. Don't stay in the secret room all day long, like a mouse, which is very bad for your health."

Lu Zhi was moved when he heard this. Unexpectedly, Li Hao had not returned home for two years. The first sentence after returning home was so concerned, and his eyes turned red: "I thank you for your care, and the marquis must take care of you."

"Okay, let's not exchange greetings anymore, let's just talk about the main topic." Li Hao stood up and walked up to him and asked in a low voice, "How many crossbow weapons have you made in the past two years?"

Lu Zhi said: "Young Master, there are currently nearly a thousand crossbows, and one hundred crossbows have been built, three hundred crossbows have been built, and three hundred crossbows have been launched, and fifty thousand crossbows have been launched."

"Thank you for your hard work." Li Hao nodded and said thoughtfully, "You can stop for a while and help me build a Fangtian Painting Salute to give to Xue Rengui. He is very strong and he is not good at using ordinary weapons."

He said that, he returned to the desk, picked up two pieces of paper and handed it to Lu Zhi, and said, "The first one is the drawing, which is a model of Fang Tian Huaji. It is enough to build it according to this size and model. It must be no problem at all. The second one is the magic method of forging steel, which allows you to forge good steel. Remember, the material of this Fang Tian Huaji must be good."

Lu Zhi also understood a little about the blacksmith's skills. After looking at two pieces of paper, he nodded quickly: "Don't worry, Marquis, we will do our best to do our best."

Li Hao said with satisfaction: "Well, you must be the best. After creating this Fangtian Painting Salute, you will make a big box and put it on it for me. I will send it to Xue Rengui personally. Then you will have a good rest for a while, and you will not make crossbows and arrows for the time being."

"yes."

After sending Lu Zhi away, Li Hao walked out of the study room and was about to find Hu Dashan and Hu Xiaohai. Unexpectedly, these two happened to come to find him. Coincidentally, Li Hao took them to the study room and explained to them the role of newspapers and banks. He was not going to open a bank, but called the bank directly. Hu Dashan had been studying for so many years and still had some information in his stomach. Li Hao decided to let him be the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. As for Hu Xiaohai, he was smart and lively and had a good memory. Li Hao was going to teach him some simple arithmetics so that he could be the bank president and manage accounts specifically.
To be continued...