"Hey, archmage, don't kill me here!"

Lao Zhang thought of everything, but he didn't expect that Aluoben, a foreign monk, would stand up straight as soon as his eyes were closed, not to mention scolding such a monk, even if he was pressed on the ground and beaten, he would not have the slightest trouble. But if you die here, then there is a saying.

The matter involved monks, and they were especially carrying the holy decree, they were received by Fang Xuanling back then, and they were specially licensed by the emperor Laozi to build a temple. People can be blind, but they can't die blindly.

In a hurry, Lao Zhang was about to pee, so he slapped Aroben and the others when he went up, snapped and twitched a few times, and then pinched people. Feeling the pulse, well, and the pulse, and continuing to pinch the person, Aroben finally woke up.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Your Majesty—"

What the hell?

shouted "Your Majesty" three times in a row, Lao Zhang almost spit out a sentence "The concubine can't do it", he breathed a sigh of relief, stood up again with a high spirit, Lao Zhang looked at this old thing, and said helplessly: "Archmage, you better go and rest first." ”

The devil knows how many thoughts have passed through this old thing's heart, and he suddenly holds his breath, which is really terrifying.

Aroben's mind was still confused, and after a long while, he came back to his senses and raised his hand: "Help me up." ”

The disciples helped him up, and Aroben looked at Zhang De for a while, and then said weakly: "We used to be in Chang'an, and we joked that you were the king of the 'Demon Capital on Earth', and now you ...... Indeed, you are the king of the land. ”

"Whoa! Archmage, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense. ”

Lao Zhang doesn't care how the old monk arranges him, he doesn't believe in any lord, even if he worships a god, it is also a domestic God, has Haotian God heard of it? As for the matter of illegal crossing, maybe one day the big bull of physics will give the universe a big pie, and it will become it?

If the old monk comes as an "adventurer" or "scholar", then he didn't say it, good wine and good food will leave you. There can be controversy in academics, but in life, we can still play together. But the old master's idea is very bad now, and he wants to come to Wuhan to fool the believers to work, but Lao Zhang didn't invite him to eat the cutting-edge dish "fried tofu with peanuts", which is already extraordinary.

A while ago, I heard that the Turks broke Damascus twice and played a "robbery competition" with their opponents in Damascus, which made many Nestorianan people worry about the old Master Aralogen, and Lao Zhang thought to himself why the bastard Turkic dog could go to Damascus to rob? The source has a little to do with himself, so it's not so rude.

But now it seems that it doesn't matter if it's rough or not, the old mage is not a physical injury at all, obviously for some reason, it stimulates the fragile "glass heart", and the spirit suffers a devastating blow.

"What is the difference between making the king disrespectful and 'conspiring against the great rebellion'?"

A Luo jumped to his feet angrily, and suddenly became emotional again, and the green tendons on his neck burst out, looking like he was going to come over and bite someone.

Thanks to Lao Zhang's left and right guards, he is a perennial iron, not to mention an old mage, the nest of Jingjiao sect members in front of him is not enough for him to punch three or five punches.

Raising his hand to stop the guards from stepping forward, Lao Zhang smiled and said, "The archmage said that I resisted the decree, which is right. Saying that I am 'plotting great rebellion' is that I am disrespectful, but it is bad. ”

Knowing what kind of character Aroben is, it's easy to say.

Lao Zhang told him the truth: "His Majesty the Emperor is eloquent and strategic, and everyone in the world knows it. However, no matter how eloquent and strategic the British lord is, it is difficult to keep the time when 'it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice'. Archmage, did your money as emperor fall from the sky? Tuo Da said, before I entered Beijing, there were few houses in Chang'an City that could fight with me to get rich. ”

“……”

Looking at Lao Zhang showing off his wealth, Aluoben is a mouthful of old blood, and he feels that the Jiang Han observer in front of him is really a bastard. thought he was going to be reasonable, but he showed off his wealth, and he was still showing off his wealth twenty years ago.

Of course, twenty years ago, the Jiangshui Zhang family ...... There is still money.

"The reason why I talked to the old master about a certain family asset is not to show off. It's just that you have a saying, this Chang'an's wealth is just a 'expensive'. ”

After that, Zhang De signaled the Jingjiao disciples again and asked them to help Aroben back to the chair, so he turned around and picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and continued: "Does the archmage know that the emperor is just preparing a mausoleum for the empress, how much food does it cost?" ”

Aroben looked confused, but vaguely felt that there were many "secrets" that seemed to be about to be revealed.

"A year's tax."

"What...... What the?! ”

As a Damascus monk, he certainly knew that the magnificence of the nobility was built on countless "untouchables", and that even to feed a warrior with horses, it would take a village to do its best to worship. And a "king" needs more nature.

But in the Tang Dynasty, Ah Luo was too late, in the ninth year of Zhenguan, Prince Sugar once became a "hard currency" in Mobei, and it was almost traded as a gem in winter, until the queen completely took over, which changed this phenomenon of "drying up and fishing".

The Tang Dynasty, which was nine years old, was already able to fly in waves, and the improvement of the central government's finances was obvious to all.

"Coupled with the new repair of the palace room and the renovation of the Luoyang Palace of the Jiucheng Palace, do you think that you can repair it with the little belongings of Zhenguan for four or five or six years?"

Lao Zhang stood with his hands in his hands and looked at Aroben, "The emperor can't make money yet." ”

"What do you mean? Do you want to say, this money, or you can't make it? ”

With a sneer, looking at Zhang De, Aroben's face was full of ridicule.

"Not bad."

“……”

The green tendons burst out, and he almost held his breath again, and suddenly, Aroben's eyes closed, but he took a deep breath, and he didn't go crazy, he waited for the following.

"Don't think that the archmage is boasting, whether it is Dingxiang military rations, white sugar rock sugar, refined sea salt, Hedong hemp material, Hetao wool, Cangzhou cotton, Dongguan porcelain, Chang'an water machine, Qizhou glass, Wuhan silkworm seeds, ......" Lao Zhang did not show off, but said insignificant things, "Without me, they may also appear, either this year or next year, if it doesn't work in ten years, it will come to a hundred years, and they will always appear." But now the Zhenguan Dynasty needs them to appear, so I let them appear. ”

“……”

Aroben felt like he was listening to the legend of Chang'an Nanli, and Zhang De was a storyteller in Wuhan.

"Is it the same thing with me and without me? Can the Archmage understand? ”

didn't mean to mock Aroben, and Lao Zhang didn't boast, but really explained, "It seems that non-Chinese people like the archmage are used to going straight to the point, and there may be 'deception', but after all, they are not Chinese people, let alone Chinese heroes." A certain teenager was in Chang'an, and at the same moment in Wuhan, the archmage would not think that the emperor had always regarded him as one, right? ”

"But you didn't do what you wanted!"

"Not bad! But who believes? Could it be that the Archmage would go out and make a big deal about a certain failure to obey the order? Believe it or not, you are a 'leaking internal affair'? Even if you go back to Liaodong and go to the emperor to complain, do you believe that the emperor will at most ask you to recruit a few more disciples in Chang'an, and then act as if this incident has not happened? What kind of person has not been seen by the emperor today? Back then, Pei Lin often looked down on him, but he endured it until Zhenguan Dynasty and asked him to go to be with the Qiang people? ”

"It's a different time!"

Aloben suddenly spit out such a sentence, and Zhang De was also a little surprised.

nodded, and Lao Zhang also admitted: "Yes, this time is different from the past." But the emperor still won't treat me for the sake of just Nestorian preaching. 'Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh', I think the archmage has heard of it. It's all Xiaoxian, just because a certain fish has too many bones, so the pot of stewed fish was smashed, have you ever seen such a cook? ”

Although Aroben thought in his heart that "a rat poop spoiled a pot of soup", he also calmed down a little at the moment, although Zhang De was "arrogant", he was indeed reasoning with him.

In an instant, Aroben realized that he was just a pawn thrown by the emperor to explore Wuhan.

Nestorian preaching in Wuhan, whether it succeeded or failed, was a matter of the emperor's "turning his hands into clouds and covering his hands for rain". And if it is really like Zhang De's "boasting", then the current Zhang De, in the national dynasty system, is not a high grade, and the title is not a prince, but he is definitely not a person who can be easily "extinguished".

Starting from the imperial court, Zhang De is an object that is "too big to fall" and needs to be protected rather than destroyed. From the emperor's personal point of view, a place where "only talents are used" obviously gives priority to dealing with the "cultivation and reading heirlooms" of the family, and this place also "pays taxes according to law".

What's more, the wealthy family itself, why is there less speculation in Zhang De? Not to mention the purchase of property, such as a sister-in-law, if you say that you will stuff it into the quilt, you will stuff it into the quilt, and you will not frown.

Zhang De's current human being is only biological, especially in the nineteenth year of Zhenguan.

Zhang De is not only alive himself, but also not just him dead.

Many people know, and there are also many people who don't know, but it just so happens that Aroben belongs to the unclear part.

As the "wise man" of Damascus, although Aroben did not understand everything, the basic internal relationship has been slightly understood.

For a moment, he lost his "sharpness" and "pride" just now, and was silent there, not saying a word.

"We're all pawns?"

Aroben asked.

"I don't really care if I'm being used as a pawn or not, after all, unlike the archmage, I don't pursue peace of mind, or soul salvation or anything like that."

In the face of Zhang De's answer, Aroben did not ask "why don't you preach", for others, maybe you can explore "human weaknesses" and the like, and then "threat" and "temptation", and finally achieve the goal.

But it is obvious that Zhang De's "arrogance" is special, he is not a matter of disrespect for the will, and it has nothing to do with whether he has been loyal to the emperor.

Old Master Aroben couldn't understand it, but Lao Zhang wouldn't tell him.

"Seek to breed like a dog before masturbation, and think others are ugly after masturbation", this bit of is still subtle, for the sake of the little overlord learning machine, who has the kung fu to play a big drama with the "emperor will be a talented and beautiful woman"?

It's almost done, and it's not to be polished into an "old drama bone".