Chapter Forty-Eight: People with Hearts, Winter Solstice

"Master, this son from Lingnan seems to have an impure purpose."

After sending Feng Zhidai away, Laifu said beside his master with a hint of vigilance in his eyes.

Because he has followed Shu An for decades, even if he comes to see people, he has a set, so he can't help but remind his master.

"It's okay, it's just that I want to use my influence so that my father can be stationed in Lingnan with peace of mind."

"People's words are terrifying, it can be said that this is the case, the admonitions of various states must have made Feng Ang break out in a cold sweat."

"Even the one in the palace feels that this is a fact, so presumably Feng Ang will leave some people to pay attention to the situation in the Chang'an court after this time."

"If it weren't for Wei Zheng this time, I'm afraid Feng Ang wouldn't be able to wash it if he jumped into the Yellow River."

Shu An's eyes flashed and he said softly, he didn't care about this matter before, but after seeing Lingnan's convoy that day, he remembered it.

Then I learned that after all, there was no communication in this era, and the news from Lingnan arrived in Chang'an, even if it was fast, it would take nearly a month.

Therefore, Li Shimin's suspicions are justified, and he naturally has to be fully prepared.

As for Feng Zhidai, he is a character, as for his words, Shu An has no trust, this young man is still a little immature.

If he came to visit Chang'an on the first day, then Shu An still believed in seven points, and now he will not be able to score three points at most.

Maybe Feng Ang did have respect for him, but how could it be simple to rise in chaos and dominate Lingnan for a few years.

Of course, believe it or not, this business still needs to be done, so Shu An doesn't mind pretending to believe it.

In addition, the most important point is that Feng Ang can be trusted, which has been proven in history.

That's why Shu An dared to endorse Feng An, but presumably Feng Ang should have spent a lot of money and given a lot of gifts this time.

There was no need to think about it, Shu An knew that Feng Zhidai should be running between the palaces of the princes and ministers in the court for the past two days.

Sometimes fame is also an obstacle to wealth, because his indifference to fame and fortune seems to cause him to miss out on a good fortune.

"It's a pity."

Shu An couldn't help but secretly say when he thought of this, no one would dislike having a lot of money, especially the next relief will cost a lot of money.

If it weren't for the fact that he had accumulated a lot of family funds in the past few decades, I am afraid that this round would not be enough, but how many people he can save this time means how much he can get in return.

Chang'an Restaurant

Because of Feng Zhidai's entry into Chang'an, and because of his visit to the ministers, even the sons and daughters of the nobles were talking about this matter.

Especially after Feng Zhidai asked for a pair of words from An Xuangong, it caused a sensation.

It is impossible to ask for money with money, after all, this is An Xuangong, and there are still people who saw Feng Zhidai enter the Shu Mansion without bringing anything.

After all, because of the relationship between Shumen and Ten Questions, many scholars were not far from the gate of Shufu, and naturally they saw Feng Zhidai.

With such evidence, the possibility of money was first ruled out, so how did Feng Zhidai use to obtain this pair.

This question is not only curious about the nobles and families of Chang'an, but also about Li Shimin, who is in the palace at this time.

"It's not like my father-in-law's personality."

Even Li Shimin couldn't help but murmur softly, how could he not pay attention to this Feng Zhidai from Lingnan.

The entire Chang'an is under the control of the hundred horses, and naturally he will not miss this one, and Feng Zhidai has been looked at by this emperor in the past two days.

"It seems that Lingnan has brought a lot of wealth."

Li Shimin looked at a document in his hand and couldn't help but say with some surprise, the ministers of the DPRK and China basically received a lot.

This naturally made Li Shimin dissatisfied, and the wind could not rise, and it seemed that only a few people refused to accept Lingnan's gifts.

As for the words of this father-in-law, he couldn't see through, and he didn't receive any gifts from Lingnan, but he even wrote a pair of words to someone.

However, although Li Shimin was curious, he didn't pay much attention to it, because he was thinking about the treatment of Lingnan.

"Since Feng Ang has no objection, then what's the harm in letting him be in Lingnan."

Li Shimin finally whispered softly, in fact, there were hundreds of horsemen among the envoys sent to Lingnan before.

The situation in Lingnan is naturally clear, Feng Ang is competing with the chieftains of the slang at this time, so he has not entered the court for a long time.

"Just by beating some people, even my interests dare to touch."

The emperor quickly remembered another thing, and that was the income from the teahouse.

Although Feng Zhidai brought a lot of tribute from Lingnan, it was only a short time for Li Shimin, and the teahouse was a long-term benefit.

"Have you found out these people behind these teahouses, presumably many of them are courtiers in the court, a group of corpses and vegetarian food."

Even if Li Shimin has not seen the situation of these teahouses, he also knows the trickiness behind these people.

"Your Majesty, the investigation has been clarified."

Li Junxian said respectfully on the side, and then handed over a list.

"Captain of the horse, Wailang, Dali Si Zhi ....."

Looking at this list, even Li Shimin's face changed for a while, and finally a few names were crossed out from the list, leaving two or three people.

This time, almost all the officials in Chang'an received a copy of the Lingnan gift, and they took these people under the knife, and he naturally wouldn't say the deeper reason.

......

Li Shimin's thoughts Shu An didn't know, at this time he first sent someone to Feng Zhidai to reach a cooperation, and bought 200,000 stones at a price of 20 wen per stone.

On average, a bucket of rice costs only 2 yuan, which is half of the current price of rice in Chang'an, but the price paid is the price of 400,000 guan, plus the freight on the road, at least nearly 500,000 guan.

This has almost wiped out Shu'an's savings for many years, even Shu'an has some flesh pain, if it weren't for the industry, plus there is no war and can provide tens of thousands of income every year, I'm afraid I will have to drink the northwest wind.

After struggling for a while, Shu An thought about it, after all, money is not brought in life or in death, it is good to use it.

Shu An immediately focused on another matter, if he counted the days, the winter solstice was coming.

If it is placed in the future life of the winter solstice is nothing, but in this era the winter solstice is not a small festival.

"If I'm not mistaken, the winter solstice seems to have a ritual to worship the heavens."

Shu An murmured softly, in later generations, in order to reproduce the top royal ritual system of the Tang Dynasty and continue the traditional Chinese culture, there was a winter solstice sacrifice ceremony every year.

Of course, when thinking of the winter solstice, Shu An naturally inevitably thinks of glutinous rice balls and dumplings, the northern winter solstice eats dumplings, and the southern part is glutinous rice balls.

Dumplings are available in this era, but the origin of dumplings is naturally not in the Song Dynasty, although there is no but it does not mean that it cannot be made.