Datang: Huchi served as a bodyguard, but refused to enter the court as an official

So he held the evidence in his hands all the time, and he was sure that after Li Er saw the Cui family's crimes he listed, he would definitely seize this opportunity.

Pull out the Cui family completely!

However, if one wanted to convict the Cui family, one had to find evidence, and if one wanted evidence, one would naturally come to Liu Bai.

Holding the evidence in his hand, Liu Bai was just waiting for someone to come, no matter who came, he would be able to hit hard.

Anyway, it's useless for him to hold the evidence in his hands. Sooner or later, he will hand it over. How can he be worthy of himself if he doesn't pay for it?

However, he did not expect that Dai Zhou would be the one who came to investigate the crimes of Cui's family, let alone that Dai Zhou would be so stubborn that he would offend him at the beginning, which happened to take advantage of his intentions and facilitated his extortion.

Of course, what he didn't expect the last thing was that this money would be so big.

In fact, he could have asked Dai Zhou to help him take back all the farmland that originally belonged to the Liu family, and even buy more farmland through his hands.

Given his official position as Minister of Dali Temple, these things are not troublesome.

However, he just thought about it for a while, and then gave up these thoughts directly, because there was no need for this at all.

Even the Cui family, the head of the northern wealthy family, was brought down by Liu Bai. Now his reputation is outside, not to mention fearing him, but there are still some thin faces. Those farmlands, isn't it just a matter of Liu Bai's words?

Besides, Liu Bai has long wanted to get some treasures, town houses.

If you have tens of thousands of wealth, but no treasures handed down from generation to generation, then you are just a nouveau riche, and you can't call it a real background.

From this perspective, "Welcome to Spring", known as the originator of landscape painting, couldn't be more appropriate.

Liu Bai scratched his chin, thinking, should he get some treasures from other people's homes?

Dai Zhou was really in a hurry, before noon, he ordered his son to send "You Chun Tu" to Liu's house, and also took away the Cui's evidence.

Outside the hall, Cheng Chumo and Chai Lingwu were lying on the window, stretching their necks to look inside.

"Brother Liu, how much can this painting be exchanged for?" Chai Lingwu asked curiously.

Liu Bai didn't want to talk to him, so he used a small brush to clean up the dust on "Picture of Outing in Spring" bit by bit.

Cheng Chumo looked at Chai Lingwu with contempt, "You only have money left in your mind!"

Liu Bai was about to praise Cheng Chumo, but Cheng Chumo said again: "It should be replaced with farmland. In my opinion, it can be replaced with tens of thousands of mu, right?"

Chai Lingwu stretched out his thumb silently, and then they both looked at Liu Bai with questioning eyes.

Liu Bai's face was full of black lines, and he said: "If you two dare to touch this painting, I will chop off both of your paws!"

While speaking, the porter ran over, "Master, there is someone outside the mansion asking to see him, and he claims to be the master craftsman Yan Lide!"

Liu Bai responded, and said to Cheng Chumo and Chai Lingwu: "You look after this painting, anyone who dares to move it will be beaten to death by me!"

When he walked outside the mansion, a middle-aged man with a long beard cupped his hands and said, "My Majesty Yan Lide, by His Majesty's order, come to discuss with Mr. Liu about the construction of the 'barrel cart'!"

Liu Bai returned the courtesy and said, "I've seen the great craftsman!"

He had heard of Yan Lide's name, not only because Yan Lide was a master craftsman in charge of civil engineering and construction in the world, but also because he had a younger brother who was famous throughout the ages.

Yan Liben, known as the 'Prime Minister of Danqing'!

It's just that Yan Liben is only in his 20s now, and he doesn't have much fame.

After inviting Yan Lide to the mansion, just as he walked to the entrance of the hall, Yan Lide suddenly screamed!

"My God!"

With a 'whoosh', he rushed into the hall.

"Zhan Ziqian's "Outing in Spring"? How did it appear here?"

He lay down on the table with his whole body, staring straight at "Picture of Outing in Spring".

Liu Bai still didn't understand what was going on.

At this moment, Cheng Chumo and Chai Lingwu suddenly rushed out from behind the door.

One was holding Yan Lide's arms, and the other was grabbing his beard.

"Dare to steal things in broad daylight, and you don't even ask, what are the identities of the grandpas!"

Chapter 44: Doing business with the court, bargaining

After a moment.

Yan Lide was sitting on a chair, his clothes were torn into rags.

With disheveled hair, holding a handful of beards that have been pulled out, he looked out the door blankly, with an expression after being ruined by someone.

He couldn't understand why he was beaten up when he first came to Liu's house

Cheng Chumo and Chai Lingwu, each with a brick on their head, were standing in the corner of the wall.

Liu Bai kicked the two of them hard, walked in front of Yan Lide, and coughed a few times in embarrassment, "Master laughed at me, if you are not relieved, I will teach them a lesson with my own hands."

Cheng Chumo and Chai Lingwu attacked too quickly!

Let these two guys take good care of "The Picture of Outing in Spring". Unexpectedly, after they caught Yan Lide, they really beat him to death

Yan Lide wanted to cry but had no tears.

Would he dare to teach Cheng Chumo and Chai Lingwu a lesson?

Cheng Yaojin has a bad reputation, if he taught Cheng Chumo a lesson today, Cheng Yaojin would dare to set fire to his house tomorrow.

Chai Lingwu is the current emperor's nephew, more favored than most princes!

He stood up tremblingly, pointed at Cheng Chumo and Chai Lingwu, his lips trembled for a long time, but he didn't speak.

After a while, he managed to squeeze out a few words between his teeth.

"Forget it"

"The master is magnanimous, hehe"

Liu Bai stepped forward and put away the "Picture of Outing in Spring".

It's all the fault of this painting!

He only remembered that Yan Li was originally a great painter, but he didn't know that Yan Lide's enthusiasm for calligraphy and painting was no worse than that of his younger brother!

Anyone who loves calligraphy and painting will go crazy when he sees a treasure handed down from generation to generation like "The Picture of Outing in Spring"!

Yan Liben watched Liu Bai put the "Picture of Outing in Spring" into the wooden box, feeling empty in his heart, but because of this picture, he had just been beaten up, so he had the nerve to speak again.

"I heard that "The Picture of Outing in Spring" is Dai Zhoudai's favorite, how did it get into the hands of the young master?"

Liu Bai put the wooden box on the altar and said, "This is given to me by Master Dai!"

The corners of Yan Lide's mouth twitched a few times, and he said with a dry smile: "Young Master Liu, good luck!".

He didn't believe that Dai Zhou would give Liu Bai such a treasure as "A Picture of Outing in Spring".

Thinking of the purpose of his visit, Yan Lide looked serious, and said: "Your Majesty has heard Mr. Fang said about the barrel cart, and thinks that the barrel cart is an important weapon in the country. I have ordered you to come here to discuss the purchase with Mr. Liu!"

Liu Bai sat next to Yan Lide, waved someone to serve tea, and said, "I don't know what His Majesty's plan is?"

Yan Lide cupped his hands in the direction of the imperial palace, and said, "Your Majesty means that you will come forward to represent Si Nong Temple and order bobbins from Mr. Liu. They will be installed around Chang'an first, and then slowly pushed to the whole country!"

After finishing speaking, he cupped his hands to Liu Bai again, and said, "I wonder how much money it will take to cover all Chang'an's farmland?"

Liu Bai understood that Yan Lide was not only here to buy the drums, but the more important task was to bargain for Li Er!

He made up his mind.

There is almost no cost for the bobbin cart, and iron, wood and bamboo are available everywhere. As long as there are blueprints, any carpenter can make them. It's a huge profit.

If you don't kill him hard, you will be sorry for your hard work these days.

The corner of Liu Bai's mouth twitched, "The Liu family calls on all craftsmen to make enough bobbins within three months."

Seeing Liu Bai's smile, which seemed to have malicious intentions, Yan Lide suddenly became nervous.

"For Your Majesty's sake, one hundred thousand coins is enough!"

"One hundred thousand?"

Yan Lide suddenly jumped up.

One hundred thousand guan is not a small number for the imperial court, not to mention that the money has to be paid by the general supervisor!

As a master craftsman, he knows the basics of being a prisoner too well.

"Young Master Liu, this is just to cover the surrounding area of ​​Chang'an first. How can we spend so much money?"

"Master, this is wrong. There are millions of acres of farmland around Chang'an, and one hundred thousand guan is already the cost price!"

"I heard from the housekeeper that the cost of a bobbin cart is nothing more than the usual money, why?"

Liu Bai shook his head and said: "That's not how the accounts are calculated. In addition to the raw materials for making the bobbins, there are also labor costs and transportation costs. In addition, the process of manufacturing the bobbins is very complicated, and there will inevitably be losses. In some places The river is too narrow, and people have to be hired to widen it.”

Yan Lide was dizzy from hearing this, his eyes were full of little stars.

He is also from a wealthy family. How can he know the way of a businessman from the Four Books and Five Classics in elementary school?

"Liu, Mr. Liu, speak slowly"

Liu Bai waved his hand and said, "Anyway, the 20 guan is still for His Majesty's sake. If it were someone else, it would be impossible without [-] guan!"

Yan Lide thought hard for a long time, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that what Liu Bai said made sense.

Calculated according to Liu Bai's method, one hundred thousand guan seems to be far from enough

"Young Master Liu also makes sense."

Liu Bai was speechless for a while, if the shopkeepers in his shop were bargaining like Yan Lide, he would have kicked them out long ago.

"But as a prisoner, I can't afford so much money for a while."

After finishing speaking, Yan Lide blushed.

Liu Bai picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, then said slowly: "Then Liu has nothing to do."

Yan Lide rubbed his hands in embarrassment, and said, "Young Master Liu, how about [-] guan? This is already the limit for a general to be a prisoner."

"see a visitor out!"

"Okay, one hundred thousand guan is one hundred thousand guan, I will go back to Chang'an to raise money!"

Yan Lide suddenly became anxious.

This errand was ordered by Li Er himself, if he went back empty-handed, at least he would be guilty of not doing the job well.

"That's great, then Liu will be waiting for the master's money. As soon as the money arrives, the Liu family's workshop will start working immediately!"

Yan Lide gritted his teeth.

"Okay! Don't worry, Young Master Liu, I won't wait long."

After seeing off Yan Lide, Liu Bai felt more comfortable.

Today's harvest is very big, not only got a rare treasure, but also made a hundred thousand guan silver for no reason.

And, this is just the beginning.

Just one light around Chang'an is [-] guan, and the bobbin car will inevitably be promoted to the whole country in the future.

How much should that be?

"Brother Liu, can we get up?"

Chai Lingwu in the corner said with a mournful face.

Liu Bai slapped his forehead, he was only focused on talking to Yan Lide just now, and completely forgot about Cheng Chumo and Chai Lingwu.

Looking back, Cheng Chumo and Chai Lingwu were still walking with their heads turned.

Half an hour passed, and the legs of the two were trembling back and forth like lute strings.

Without Liu Bai, they would not have dared to stand up, otherwise they would be severely tortured by Xu Chu.

Just as Liu Bai wanted the two of them to relax, a familiar voice suddenly sounded in his mind.

"Ding! The system releases a new task"

Liu Bai was taken aback.

"Finally a new mission!"

Liu Bai was even more pleasantly surprised, he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.