One Piece of Song Dynasty

The old man waved his hand and continued to say to Liang Xing, "It doesn't matter. My surname is Li Chuwen. .1kanshu"

Liang Xing thought for a moment, clasped his fists and said, "It turns out it's Prime Minister Li of this dynasty. It's the younger generation who has been rude. I hope the Prime Minister will atone for his sins."

Li Chuwen waved his hand, "No problem, don't blame those who don't know."

Liang Xing presented a copper plate with both hands: "Mr. Prime Minister, this is a specially made copper plate for this restaurant. Anyone who brings this copper plate to eat in this restaurant can get % of the meal for free. I hope the Prime Minister will accept it and take care of me in the future." This restaurant.”

Li Chuwen took the copper piece and said, "Okay, I will keep this thing. If you have anything in the future, you can come to me."

Liang Xing cupped his fists and said, "Junior, I would like to thank the Prime Minister in advance. I hope that the Prime Minister will come to our restaurant for dinner in the future."

Liang Xing asked the chef to pack another meal for Li Chuwen. Li Chuwen left with satisfaction after finishing the meal.

Liang Xing was in an excited mood. He had never expected to have a relationship with Li Chuwen, one of the prime ministers of the Liao Dynasty. According to the adults, Li Chuwen was from Jijin. Uncle Li Yan Yelu Yan was appointed as a young eunuch in the early days of Dakang in Liao Dynasty. He was an official and participated in political affairs. He was granted the title of Prince of Qishui County and had a good relationship with Xiao Fengxian, the envoy to the Northern Privy Council. After Yeluyan passed away, Xiao Fengxian recommended Li Chuwen as prime minister. Because Xiao Fengxian had the ability to promote himself, Li Chuwen was devoted to flattery and obedience to consolidate his power and position. However, he was even more greedy for profit and unjust than his uncle. Most of the people he recommended were villains.

Establishing a relationship with Li Chuwen was very beneficial to Liang Xing's future actions, and Liang Xing decided to manage this relationship well.

Liang Xing immediately wrote a secret letter to Li Xin when he returned to the house, telling Li Xin the situation and his plan.

Liang Xing said to Niu San, "Niu San, this is a secret letter written by a certain person to your lord. Send the letter immediately, and tell the restaurant owner that the gold and silver card system of Tianxiang Tower can be implemented, but the Liao Kingdom is not as good as this one." To be rich, the threshold for gold cards is lowered to guan, and the threshold for silver cards is lowered to guan. If you come to a restaurant with a gold card, you can get % of the meal cost, and if you have a silver card, if you come to the restaurant with a silver card, you can get % of the meal cost."

Niu San replied, "Yes, Langjun, my subordinates know."

Five days later, Li Xin's reply arrived. Li Xin did not expect that Liang Xing would get involved with Li Chuwen so quickly. Li Xin agreed to Liang Xing's plan and told Liang Xing that he could place several personnel into Daliao through Li Chuwen in due course. As an official in the officialdom, of course Li Xin would send some more people to Liang Xing. Liang Xing began to prepare immediately after receiving Li Xin's letter.

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Liang Xing was getting ready, but Li Xin was starting to have difficulties. Ever since he received Liang Xing's letter, Li Xin had been thinking about placing people in Daliao officialdom, but Li Xin was having trouble with the candidates. Now Li Xin's subordinates There are almost no literati available, which really worries Li Xin.

Li Xin thought for a while and finally decided to talk to Fan Wen and Wang Xiu. They were both teachers in Li Xin's house. One taught orphans and the other taught the nursing team. Since these two people had been working in Li Xin's house for a long time, They worked in the Li Mansion, so they brought their family members to live in the Li Mansion. Li Xin treated the two of them generously, with a monthly salary of fifty guan, which was higher than that of other later teachers.

Li Xin feels that these two people can give it a try at the moment. It is unlikely that these two will become officials in the Song Dynasty. I don’t know if they will agree to become officials in the Liao Dynasty. I don’t know if they will agree to be officials in the enemy territory. Being a spy is a job with a near chance of death. I don't know if these two people have the courage and wisdom to dare to take on this job. Let's talk about it first.

However, Li Xin has not returned to the government for three months. During these three months, Li Xin has stayed at the county government office and the Xiang Barracks. Li Xin personally watched the training at the Xiang Barracks and asked Zhang Hu to transfer dozens of people from the Xiang Barracks. A "Xuanwu Camp" was formed. Considering that he would land on the island in the spring next year, there were many savages in the jungle on the island, so Li Xin formed this Xuanwu Camp specifically to explore the jungle and deal with the savages. As a jungle special force, Li Xin also asked the newly formed Xuanwu Battalion to undergo jungle survival training. After all, there are still quite a lot of mountainous jungles in Fujian. Every soldier in the Xuanwu Battalion is equipped with weapons they are good at, so Li Xin returned to The government needs to first understand the development of the government in the past three months.

Li Xin returned to the mansion from the county government and found the housekeeper, "Uncle An, I have been at the county government for the past three months and have not paid much attention to the mansion. How is the situation in the mansion?"

The housekeeper replied, "Excluding those from other places, our nursing team in Hui'an alone already has 180 people, including 60 cooks, 160 orphans, 60 women and 100 men, 65 shipwrights, 20 carpenters, and 20 blacksmiths. , 4 stablemen, 410 sailors, 4 men, and about 50 men to be assigned."

Li Xin nodded and said, "There are indeed many people in our house now, but when I go to sea next spring, I will take away the carpenters, blacksmiths, shipwrights, doctors, and orphans. The cooks, the nursing team, and the male servants will also take away some of them." , then the family will feel relaxed."

The butler asked, "Well, where will Lang Jun take them?"

Li Xin thought thoughtfully and said, "I have built a large area elsewhere. I am going to move them there. And Uncle An, winter is coming soon. You have to recruit more refugees. In the name of Hui'an County, there will be more refugees." To recruit more people, we need to recruit slowly at first, and by the beginning of next spring we can reach about households."

The housekeeper's eyes widened and he said, "How many? There are about homeless households, why do you need so many?"

Li Xin nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, there are about households. That land needs a lot of people. How else can I ask you to prepare food, farm tools and other materials in advance? This number of people is only for the early stage. There will be more people in the future." We have to continue recruiting people. When the land is ready, I will show you the area and you will know."

The housekeeper wiped his head and said, "Okay, a certain family knows, and a certain family can just recruit Mr. Lang."

Li Xin thought for a while and continued, "Well, of the 50 men, 20 will go to raise pigeons, 20 will go to the restaurant, 5 will go to the doctor, and 5 will go to the blacksmith."

The housekeeper nodded and said, "Yes, a certain family knows."

Li Xin continued, "Next I plan to open restaurants in six places: Guangzhou, Chengdu, Dengzhou, Zhangzhou, Fuzhou, and Xiangyang."

The butler replied, "Okay, a certain family knows about it. Speaking of restaurants, our six restaurants have made a net profit of guan in the past three months. There are new gold card members, and we have earned million guan." , new silver card members were added, earning guan, and the seven shops made a net profit of guan in three months."

Li Xin nodded and said, "Well, regarding Dengzhou Restaurant, you can explain it to the shopkeeper of Dengzhou Palace Restaurant and ask him to have a good relationship with the officials of Dengzhou Palace and Dengzhou Navy. In the future, our ships will often Stationed at Dengzhou Port, when these six restaurant owners leave, please prepare two thousand taels of gold for each of them."

The housekeeper nodded and said, "Okay, a certain family knows."