When Hu Guan arrived at the living room in the front yard, Li Fangying was sitting on the imperial chair, looking at the tea cup in her hand in trance.
"Master Li San!" Hu Guan entered the room and bowed his hands first.
"I don't dare!" Li Fangying put down the tea cup in her hand and said with a smile, "I have seen the prince-in-law before!"
"You are too modest!" Hu Guan didn't show too much confidence and said with a smile, "I don't have any errands now, you don't have to be demoted one by one!"
"Then, the so-called four great irons in life are: sharing the same window, sharing the spoils, sharing the same prison, and sharing the same prison. My husband-in-law and I can be considered friends in times of need. Can I call you Brother Hu?"
Hu Guan's face froze slightly, and he thought to himself, "This kid's drive to catch up with others is exactly the same as his elder brother's!"
"Okay, in that case you and I are brothers!" Hu Guan pointed to the Arhat bed in the hall, "Please take a seat!"
Inviting someone to sit on the Arhat bed is the highest courtesy for receiving someone.
The two sat on the left and right sides of Luohan's bed respectively. A maid came up and brought new tea to them, which was placed on the small table on Luohan's bed.
"Your tea set?" Li Fangying looked at the porcelain again, "Pre-Yuan blue and white?"
The way he spoke made Hu Guan very uncomfortable. He was waving a hammer here and there, and you couldn't tell what he was going to say next.
But in the scene, he could only agree and said with a smile, "I don't know, this is the object sent by the palace when the princess was getting married!"
"That's it!" Li Fangying sighed, "Starting from the time of Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty opened a tea factory in Wuyi Mountain to pick tea leaves for the royal family. At the same time, it also began to burn official kiln porcelain and send it to the inner court. If I read it correctly, this
This tea set is an old item from the Zhongtong period of the Yuan Dynasty!"
As he spoke, he picked up a tea cup and continued, "Although the blue and white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty is somewhat uneven in quality, these pieces are treasures at first glance. In the past dynasties before the Yuan Dynasty, porcelain was simple for beauty. First of all, it was liked by scholar-bureaucrats.
It’s very simple, and secondly, there’s not much dye!”
"But before the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols swept the world, and the so-called land where the sun rose was the pasture of the Yuan Dynasty. Therefore, blue and white porcelain and colored paintings came into being. In terms of beauty alone, they are different from Ru Kiln and others. But it is more pleasing to the eye and poetic.
continuous!"
"What the hell..." Hu Guan was stunned and thought to himself, "The hell are you here to tease me? Come to my house to talk about porcelain?"
Li Fangying couldn't put it down because of the tea cups, "This set will be priceless on the market!"
"My wise brother knows everything about the past and present, and my foolish brother admires me!" Hu Guan said with a smile.
"I don't dare to take it as your compliment, but I just saw it a lot when I was a kid!" Li Fangying said with a proud smile, "Shangdu City was conquered by our old man back then. When I was a kid, there were so many Yuanqinghua flowers like this in my house, and I couldn't pick them up.
Pee play!”
"What the hell..." For the first time in his life, Hu Guan had the urge to hit someone.
But he still held back and asked, "Brother Xian, aren't you going to be grounded at home?"
"I haven't gone home yet!" Li Fangying said mysteriously.
"Then you..." Hu Guan was puzzled.
"It's because of the emperor's grace that I can come out!" Li Fangying raised her hands to the sky and said, "I have to go to the palace to express my gratitude!"
"Didn't the Emperor say that you are not allowed to..."
"The emperor said so!" Li Fangying said sternly, "But as ministers, if we don't thank you, wouldn't we be ignorant? No matter whether the emperor sees you or not, just kowtow a few times outside the palace gate is considered sincerity. If the emperor is appointed
If you don't care about kindness, isn't that a white-eyed wolf?"
"you....."
Hu Guan's eyelids fluttered, and he cursed in his heart, "You and your elder brother really came from the same father, and they look like a gangster!"
At this time, Li Fangying smiled and said, "Brother Hu, don't worry, I came to your house, and I also asked for the approval of Lord Long Live." After saying that, he smiled again, "If I disobey the order in private, it won't hurt me, then
Won't I get you involved? Although I'm not very shrewd, I don't have bad intentions, right?"
"Hehe, haha!" Hu Guan smiled, "Drink tea! Drink tea!"
"Tea will be served later!" Li Fangying looked around, "Let's get down to business first!"
Hu Guan immediately became energetic, "What do you have to say, dear brother? But you can't say it to outsiders?"
Li Fangying did not speak, but took out a thick roll of silver notes with some rough edges from her sleeve and placed it on the table.
"There are those from our Daming Royal Bank, Suzhou Hengtong Bank, Shanxi Guangshengheng Bank, and Yangzhou Sihai Bank. They are all anonymous banknotes that can be redeemed on sight and in full!" Li Fangying said, "Seven
Wan, please order?"
Suddenly, Hu Guan leaned back a little.
With a straight face, "What do you mean?"
The amount of money is the same as the fine he is about to pay.
Moreover, the look in Li Fangying's eyes meant that he wanted Hu Guan to pay the fine.
"I know your family is not well off, so where is this money..." Li Fangying pushed the banknote forward, "Don't refuse. I'll tell you the truth, this was not my idea, it was my elder brother's decision before he left.
I told you again and again."
"He prepared 100,000 yuan at the beginning, but it seems he won't be able to use it now!" Li Fangying said with a smile, "My eldest brother said that you also suffered a disaster because of me. If I didn't know how high the sky is, Fu Zhong wouldn't go looking for it.
You, bring you into this muddy water!"
"Both the money and the money should be paid by my family. Moreover, just paying the money is not enough to express my apology!" Li Fangying continued, "Brother Hu, please order!"
"You...are fooling around!" Hu Guan said angrily, "Who do you think Mr. Hu is?"
He said this, but his heart was full of vigilance.
It's not a good thing to be courteous for nothing. The relationship between Cao Guogong's family and his family is so good that seventy thousand silver is not a small amount. Besides, Hu Guan has a special status, so he must be extra vigilant about these things.
At the same time, he also had deep doubts in his heart.
"Why did Li Jinglong think about the emperor's fine? And why did he think that I would be safe and sound?"
Then, without waiting for Li Fangying to speak, he asked, "Brother Xian, are you saying that your eldest brother has expected this?"
"No!" Li Fangying said with a smile, "Actually, I have already done this..." As he said that, he pointed to the sky, "I am guilty of death and can't escape life, hehe! My eldest brother
He also said that no one else can tell the whole story, but Brother Hu, you will definitely turn the bad luck into good luck!"
Hu Guan frowned, "Why?"
"Because you are Lord Long Live's favorite!" Li Fangying blinked, "My eldest brother said that Lord Long Live is very tolerant of his favorites. Even if he made mistakes at the beginning, as long as we have loyalty and filial piety, there will be some ups and downs.
It’s temporary, but as long as the holy love continues unabated, things will definitely get better in the future!”
"My eldest brother also said, if you don't want the money, why don't you just treat it as loaned to you? If you have it, pay it back, if you don't, forget it. My eldest brother also said, 70,000 taels of silver is a sky-high price, but 70,000 taels of silver are paid
Down....."
As he spoke, he shut up suddenly because he realized that he seemed to have said too much.
If Li Jinglong were present, he would be furious to death.
Because many of the things Li Fangying said were things Li Jinglong privately told him not to say to outsiders.
"I can't accept the money!" Hu Guan shook his head and said, "It's not justified!" He said, returning the banknote, "Besides, brother Xian, you have a fine of nearly two hundred thousand!"
"Hey, that little money...even though it takes a lot of money to take it out, it won't make you poor!" Li Fangying smiled proudly, "Brother Hu, don't be angry, our family still has some foundation!"
Suddenly, Hu Guan became curious again.
Narrowing his eyes, he said in a rhetorical tone, "What Brother Xian said has aroused many doubts in my mind, Brother Yu! You said that you and Duke Cao Guo have separated, and I haven't seen you in these years...right? How come you are like this?
Rich?"
"Hey, how can I show you how to make money..." Li Fangying said, and quickly changed her words, "Actually, when the family was separated, I got a lot more!"
After speaking, he took a sip of tea and continued, "What official position did our old man hold in the first place? Does Brother Hu still remember it?"
Hu Guan thought about it, the Chief Governor of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, and the Imperial College Supervisor, the affairs of Zhejiang Province...
There are too many to think about.
At the beginning, Li Fangying not only had an unshakable position among the military officials, but also the scholars in the Imperial College were under his control. Later, when the old man transferred Xu Da away, he also served as Xu Da's right-hand prime minister.
"Back then, my old man!" Li Fangying continued to laugh, "He was still in charge of the tax supervisor of the capital!"
In this way, Hu Guan suddenly realized.
At the beginning, the capital was taxed by Tianfu, but it belonged directly to the royal family.
People entering and exiting each city gate, goods and goods, and taxes at the canal and Yangtze River checkpoints were all under Li Wenzhong's control.
That was a cornucopia of money making money every day, and since Li Wenzhong was the old man’s nephew, it was not considered corruption to save money on his own.
My grandson is my grandma’s dog. He eats and leaves! Just eat and that’s it!
"So, my family has never been short of wealth!" Li Fangying returned the banknote again and said in a low voice, "Besides, this is what Long live the Lord meant!"
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Over the past two years, the Thief has become accustomed to having you by his side. Thank you for accompanying the Thief through the ups and downs of this whole year.
Maupassant once said, "It's good to be full and warm..." No, good friends are those who love and kill each other.
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I love you all too.
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