Although a lot of orders were cut off, Li Yunze was not angry. Instead, he warmly greeted Du Ruhui to have lunch with him.
However, when the two of them started to have dinner, Wu Meiniang hurriedly ran over holding the hem of her skirt.
"Someone is making trouble outside."
Du Ruhui immediately frowned. In such an important place like Lijiazhuang, who dares to cause trouble?
When I came to the door with a puzzled expression, I saw a huge crowd of people gathered outside.
The leader was a sturdy young man with a dark face and a strong body, as if he was made of fine steel.
Behind the young man was a large group of armored sergeants, each holding a weapon and looking murderous in his eyes.
"Yu Chi Baolin!" Du Ruhui immediately stretched out his hand and shouted angrily, "You are using weapons outside Chang'an City. Do you want to rebel?"
The person who came was none other than Yuchi Jingde's son, Yuchi Baolin. Seeing Du Ruhui face to face, he was shocked, but he still gritted his teeth and shouted, "I'm here to avenge my grandfather!"
Du Ruhui was startled. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Li Yunze behind him laughing and saying, "Is Yuchi Jingde dead?"
"I bother!"
Yuchi Baolin was furious: "You evil thief, curse my grandpa. Even if you die, my grandpa will not die!"
"Then why are you here to seek revenge?" Li Yunze waved his hand and asked the villagers who were surrounding him with weapons to move away. "If your father was killed by me, it is only natural that you come to avenge him. But your father competes in martial arts."
If you lose, can this be considered revenge?"
Yuchi Baolin was not good at words, and his face turned even darker when he said these words.
He simply gritted his teeth and straightened up the horse in his hand, leading the generals of the Yuchi family to charge forward to kill him.
"Let's see who dares to take action!"
The furious Du Ruhui stepped forward, eyebrows raised and eyes raised like Sanfeng descending the mountain: "Yuchi Baolin! Don't bring trouble to your Yuchi family!"
"And you!" He pointed at the generals of the Yuchi family who were wearing armor and shouted angrily, "You are the generals of the Yuchi family. Don't you know what His Majesty said? You are dragging the Yuchi family to be ransacked.
Behead it?"
The clanging sound of armor leaves was heard, and a large number of soldiers came outside to surround the Yuchi family from the outside.
The Wushui county official stationed at the palace hurriedly stepped forward and shouted, "No one is allowed to move rashly!"
As an important material export base, Lijiazhuang has a large number of manpower from various ministries stationed here, both covertly and covertly.
From Baiqisi hidden stakes to Lantian County government officials, from Jingzhaoyin's patrol agents to Zhechong Prefecture's soldiers.
It's just that they don't carry heavy equipment, so they can deal with thieves and the like without any problem. However, the generals of the Yuchi family are all armed with strong weapons. This is their attire for fighting.
Fortunately, when these generals left the city, the news was quickly conveyed to the palace.
After getting the tiger talisman and the imperial edict from Li Er, Chang He followed up with a large number of soldiers.
There is no other way, mobilizing soldiers without the emperor's order is treason.
Li Yunze walked up to Yuchi Baolin, who was shaking with anger, and looked straight at him, "Fight, you can't do it."
Enemies are extremely jealous when they meet.
The red-eyed Yuchi Baolin, when he thought of his grandfather lying on the cave with broken bones, roared angrily, raised his horse spear in his hand, and stabbed him.
Du Ruhui's eyes were splitting when he looked at them. They were all from the Tianbo Mansion. Oh, they were all old friends from the Admiral Tiance Mansion. Is this the end of Yuchi Gong's family?
He knew that Li Yunze was extremely powerful, but strength and invulnerability were two different things.
The weapon Yuchi Baolin used was the weapon on the battlefield, and it was his father's horse spear that had poked countless people!
Heavy armor can poke a hole, let alone civilian clothing.
In extreme nervousness, Li Yunze made a lightning-fast move, directly grasped Ma Shan's blade, and snatched it away with a tug.
With such a twist with both hands, a top-notch horse was twisted into a twist.
Yuchi Baolin stared blankly at the horse that was still on the ground. It was his grandfather's most beloved thing.
Li Yunze stretched out his big hand, grabbed his breastplate and threw him back, leaving him on the steps in front of the mansion, "lock him into the woodshed and let him calm down."
The generals of the Yuchi family who came to their senses immediately shouted in unison and rushed forward with their weapons drawn.
Du Ruhui shouted angrily, "Do you really want to have everyone in Yuchi's family raped and executed?"
"He's not dead." Du Ruhui pointed at Yuchi Baolin, who was thrown to pieces. "He was just taught a lesson. If you don't know how to advance or retreat, and don't know how to measure, I guarantee that there will be no Yuchi in Chang'an tomorrow."
Home!"
In the early Tang Dynasty, Hu Feng inherited the centuries-old tradition and almost every general raised a family of generals and soldiers.
These people did not have the formal establishment of the imperial court. They were all private soldiers of various families. They were their own people in the true sense, and their status was even higher than that of the sons of concubines.
As the saying goes, if one is prosperous, both will be prosperous; if one is deprived, both will suffer.
If they really go crazy here in Lijiazhuang today, they will be wiped out immediately by the soldiers led by Chang He.
Regardless of whether the generals take matters into their own hands or not, the Yuchi family will suffer misfortune.
Du Ruhui's words convinced the generals of the Yuchi family.
It's not that they are afraid of death, it's that both the family master and the young master died, but they just lost the battle.
If Li Yunze really killed Yuchi Jingde and Yuchi Baolin, it would be useless for anyone to come. Even if Li Er scolded them in front of them, they would fight to the death.
"We are coming with the young master." The leading general said to Du Ruhui, "We will not leave until the young master leaves."
Du Ruhui turned around and looked at Li Yunze, hoping that he could release Yuchi Baolin on the slope, just in time to resolve the cause and effect.
But Li Yunze ignored him at all, picked up Yuchi Baolin, held him under his arm and went straight back to the hospital.
Du Ruhui stamped his feet repeatedly, but there was nothing he could do.
In an era when family power is strong, many things are helpless.
When he returned to the courtyard, he saw that Yuchi Baolin had been tied up and carried to the woodshed by the farmers.
Li Yunze said nothing more about the matter and invited Du Ruhui to have dinner with him.
Lijiazhuang's dishes are famous throughout Chang'an City.
Not only because it’s delicious, but also because this is the only place where you can eat beef openly.
Although there is no shortage of beef in the honorable family, they still have to hide a few things. They can only hide at home and eat secretly to worry about public opinion.
Only Lijiazhuang is truly open and honest, and there are even many beef shops on Zhuangzi.
Many people from Chang'an City will come here to enjoy a delicious meal of beef.
Du Ruhui, who was worried about everything, was happy with his grudges while eating, and did not pause at all when he took down his chopsticks.
Chinese people have always had the habit of talking about things at the dinner table, and today is no exception.
After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.
After satisfying his appetite a little, Du Ruhui asked the question he was most concerned about, 'Where does the money come from?'
Datang's fiscal revenue was so large, but its expenditures in all aspects were getting bigger and bigger.
If the emperor wants to fight, he should fight two wars at once.
The emperor noticed that the palace was old and unsightly, so he had to carry out extensive construction work to build the palace.
The emperor thought the railway was good and wanted to build it on a large scale.
Etc., etc.
Du Ruhui also felt that there was nothing wrong with fighting. Gao Chang and Tuguhun were seeking death and had to fight.
The emperor has worked hard for so long, and building a palace to cultivate his happiness is not a big deal.
Railways are a good thing. As each section of the project is completed and opened to traffic, anyone with a discerning eye can see the huge benefits it brings.
Du Ruhui supported these things.
But the question is, where does the money come from to do these things?
As the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Du Ruhui, who specialized in managing the Tang Dynasty's money bag, knew very well that relying on the Ministry of Revenue was a dream.
After searching the entire Tang Dynasty, perhaps only the strange person in front of me can show me a clear path.
"No money?" Li Yunze smiled while holding a piece of beef, "Then go borrow it."
What to do if you don’t have money? Borrow money of course.
It's just that borrowing money is okay if it's less. But when it comes to borrowing money at the national level, especially a loan of the size of Datang, who can afford it?
The way Li Yunze pointed out the lost way for Du Ruhui was not the national debt.
National debt was feasible in the Song and Ming Dynasties, but not in the Tang Dynasty.
During the Song Dynasty, the economy was developed, and wealthy private families accumulated a large amount of wealth, but they also lacked efficient investment channels.
It was similar in the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming court had no money, the private sector was extremely wealthy. Years of overseas trade had resulted in a massive inflow of silver and precious metals, giving them sufficient confidence to borrow money.
But Datang did not have these conditions.
The overall wealth of the Tang Dynasty was not that high, and most of the wealth was accumulated in the hands of aristocratic families from various places, headed by Wu Xing Qiwang.
The interest rate on national debt is low, and the wealthy people are not borrowing it.
The interest rates were high, and the court and the emperor were unwilling.
In this case, even if the national debt is really produced, it will not be able to sell much.
Li Yunze’s advice was to ‘build a bank.’
Du Ruhui asked curiously, "What is this bank?"
"A place used to borrow money." Li Yunze, who looked relaxed, explained, "The bank is open to the people of the Tang Dynasty all over the world. The trick is to ask them to store their money in the bank, which is equivalent to gathering the world's wealth.
Of course I have money."
Du Ruhui's eyes lit up and he was elated, but at the right moment he showed a smile that didn't show any impatience and said, "Why do people want to keep their money in banks?"
"Two aspects, one is credibility guarantee. In this aspect, the emperor and the court will naturally come forward together, using the emperor's face and the court's financial revenue as the bank's guarantee."
"The other one is to give interest. If you keep the money at home, you will still have the same money after a year. But if you keep it in a bank, you will get an additional thirty or fifty yuan in interest after one year. If it were you.
, do you want to save it?”
Counting the hidden people, the people of the Tang Dynasty numbered almost 30 million.
The past few years have been going smoothly, with no external troubles and no internal rebellion, and every household is living a life that is barely tolerable.
Counting wealthy households, on average, one person has the potential to save more than a grand.
Even if it is halved, it can raise 15 million yuan, which is enough to support several recent major events.
Full of joy, Du Ruhui nodded repeatedly, picked up his wine glass, and prepared to express his gratitude before asking for more details.
But Wu Meiniang's anxious call came from outside, "Master, Yuchi Jingde is here."
'Snapped!'
The wine glass was thrown to the ground.
It wasn't Li Yunze who threw it, it was Du Ruhui who threw it.
Du Ruhui, with a dark face, slapped the table and stood up, "It's too much to bully someone! What on earth are the Yuchi family trying to do!"