Chapter 672: With the Yellow Flag as the Signal
Wu Youren asked Du Dachin to lead the heroes to the horse market, the horse market in Chang'an City is very big, and the heroes are equipped with mounts, not to mention one person and one ride, it is not difficult for one person to ride ten horses, the key is to be able to afford it.
Du Da's chin saw that Wu Youren had no intention of going, so he said: "Brother Wu, what about the money to buy horses, if you want to buy a hundred horses, it will cost a lot of money!" β
Wu Youren said: "Brother Wei knows that he needs a lot of money, but Brother Wei didn't bring money to buy hundreds of horses, and the money he needs must not be pulled by a car." β
He took out a small seal from his bosom and said, "This is my brother's private seal, you can take it, take it on credit in the horse market, write down the IOU, and when my brother has money in the future, I will redeem the IOU." β
Du Da's jaw was taken aback, and he said, "Brother Wu, you mean that you want to pay on credit, you don't have money, but you still want to buy us horses?" β
The expressions of those heroes immediately became abnormal, and they all looked at Wu Youren, and even some of them had already taken more than ten steps, but when they heard the voice of Du Da's chin, they couldn't help but stop and looked back.
Du Da chin thought to himself: "What calves do you pretend to be if you don't have money, hundreds of horses, which horse dealer will give us credit, are you a fool when you are a person, write an IOU, stamp a small seal, you can take the horse away, really be a fool when a businessman!" β
And the heroes thought to themselves: "No money? This person, Lord Wu, who has five people and six people, has no money, but he has no money but asks us to buy horses, and he is only responsible for making ideas, but we have to do things? β
But the expression of Du's big chin was seen as moved in Wu Youren's eyes, and the expressions of the heroes became a compliment to his righteous behavior in his eyes, and it seemed that he had won over the hearts of these future members of the prince's guard.
If Wu Youren was facing someone else, maybe his behavior of buying horses for others without money would be greatly praised. But he is facing a group of heroes, all of whom are from the market, and for them, credit is very sensitive.
For example, almost all the heroes have done it, when they enter the restaurant, they drink this meal I invited, and then when they are almost finished, they use the excuse to go to the hut, and then they run away with urine, and let others pay for the wine, almost all of them have done this kind of thing. So don't pretend to be generous if you don't have money, others will believe that this is called righteousness, but they don't believe it.
Seeing that Wu Youren nodded, Du Da chin had no choice but to say: "Brother Wu is a good official, I believe that those merchants who sell horses will recognize this seal, then the little brother will take someone to go first, Brother Wu, you take a rest here first, and we will go back when we go." β
Wu Youren nodded, he was not interested in going to the horse market. That kind of dirty and smelly place, he is dignified...... Forget it, even if you are a layman, you can't be regarded as a sesame official. So don't go to that dirty and smelly place.
He sat in the sedan chair, waiting for Du Da Chin and them to come back, as for his little seal, can he bring hundreds of horses on credit. He didn't even think about it, and deep down in his heart, he thought that debts only needed to be IOUs. He admits the debt he owes, and he can repay it when he has the money in the future, and he has never thought about not paying the debt, and of course he has never thought about it, what if the horse merchant does not recognize his IOU?
Du Da chin and all the heroes went to the street, and a hero came over and said: "Brother Du, so many of us go to buy horses, it's a bit of a joke, the merchants who buy horses don't recognize the IOU, they only recognize the cash, not to mention hundreds of horses, even if we can't get a horse, isn't that Lord Wu funny!" β
Most of the merchants who sell horses in the horse market are Hu merchants, merchants from the grassland, they want to sell their horses when they arrive in the Dafang Empire, and then exchange them for other goods, and then return to the grassland to sell, if they are not locals, of course, they will not live in Chang'an for a long time, so they do not collect IOUs, unless the person who makes the IOUs has great power, such as officials.
But Hu businessmen also have a way to deal with officials, they meet people who can't afford to offend, they often give a pony, or an ordinary horse, which is not worth much, but it can make the officials no longer ask for more, otherwise they will make an IOU and directly go to ten or eight good horses, which Hu businessman can't stand it!
But no matter how powerful that official is, it is impossible to get hundreds of horses on credit, and no businessman in the horse market will agree, not to mention that Wu Youren is now just a Tuntian clerk in Taiyuan, even if he is still a secretary of the ministry, it is not to think that he can use an IOU to get hundreds of horses on credit.
Du Da chin snorted and said, "As far as his idea of not knowing the cost of firewood, rice, oil and salt, he deserves to be demoted, what do you say about this?" Alas, these people who have read books are not very normal in their brains, what they think, we can't guess, this thing is not easy to do. β
The hero laughed twice and said, "Brother Du, you are too honest and kind, what's so bad about this!" β
Du Da chin touched his big chin and said, "Why do people always say that I am honest and kind these days, how does this sound like they are scolding me!" β
The hero smiled: "You can't scold anyone who scolds you!" Didn't the guy surnamed Wu want to be the wronged leader, then let's fulfill him! β
"Fulfill him? Alright then, then fulfill him! Du Da chin nodded, and suddenly, he smiled and said: "No wonder there are always people who say I'm kind these days, it seems that I'm really kind, I like to fulfill others so much!" β
The heroes laughed together, talked and laughed, and went back to the place where the heroes lived, that is, the courtyard arranged by Fu Bingrong for them. They couldn't get hundreds of horses in the horse market anyway, but when they returned to the courtyard of the hero, they told the leader of the Zhenxi soldiers in charge of the matter, and the horses would soon be able to get together, and they rode back to see Wu Youren.
The leader of the Zhenxi soldiers listened to Du Da Chin's words, and immediately went out to look for a horse, while Du Da Chin entered the house with a group of heroes, found a hero who could write, and found the four treasures of the study, spread out the paper on the table, and began to prepare to write an IOU.
Although Wu Youren is thoughtful, the environment he is in, and the people he usually interacts with, even if they are not all righteous men and gentlemen, but there are no hooligans, so even if he thinks about it more, but the means of hooligans and scoundrels are zero after all, he has never thought that he is very righteous and wants to buy horses for Du Dachin and others, but people seize this opportunity to calculate him well!
Du Da chin put one hand on the paper. One hand kept knocking on the table, and said with a smile: "The surname Wu pretends to be generous, then let's let him be generous, a hundred horses can be counted as a thousand, and then this, how much is this?" β
"At least 10,000!" A hero said a number with confidence.
Hearing this number, the heroes all made a voice of admiration, 10,000 yuan, what a lot of money, and there are 10,000 yuan at home. That's to describe the big landlords, although a horse costs a thousand, it's really expensive, but anyway, it's not them who spend money, so there's no need to feel distressed.
Du Da chin nodded, and said: "Ten thousand guan, it's not a decimal number, you just write ten thousand guan, remember to write it clearly Wu Youren owes it!" β
The man who could write agreed. I wrote the IOU, looked at the handwriting, and said with satisfaction: "The word I wrote can be used to take the Jinshi examination." It's a pity that I didn't study for a few more years back then, otherwise I would have been an official by a long time! β
Du Da chin smiled and said: "With this ten thousand guan, I will find someone to take care of Wu Youren in the future." If it's enough for him to drink a pot, I'll pay him interest then. He took out the small seal that Wu Youren gave him and stamped it on the IOU.
At this time. A young hero frowned and said, "Brother Du, a hundred horses, each with a thousand guan, how do I think it's not ten thousand, but one hundred thousand!" β
Du Da's jaw was taken aback and exclaimed, "One hundred thousand? How can it be! β
He immediately began to calculate, and the heroes followed him to calculate, however, some heroes are good at doing other things, but the calculation is very difficult, and they can't figure out how much it is after a long time.
But Du's big chin was calculated, and he said: "Oh, I was careless just now, it turned out to be really 100,000 yuan!" He looked at the hero who wrote the IOU and said, "Then you can write another one!" β
The writing hero sighed in his mouth and said: "100,000 guan, it's enough for that Wu Youren to pay back, but if he really relies on the prince, then 100,000 guan is not a trivial matter, even if he can't pay this money, he can send a few officials to give us all ......."
Du Da chin snorted and said, "How about it?" His backstage is the crown prince, but don't forget who our backstage is, that's King Yan, behind King Yan is the princess of Long Live Princess, who dares to touch us?! β
"Yes, our backer is King Yan!" The heroes laughed together, with such a backer, they don't have to be afraid of the officials in their lives, on the contrary, they should be afraid of them.
When the new 100,000 IOUs were written, Du Da's chin was stamped with Wu Youren's private seal, and suddenly, he said: "Anyway, the 100,000 IOUs have been written, so why don't you write more, one for each of the brothers, and go to Wu Youren to ask for an account in the future, that's also very leisurely!" β
After that, he asked the writing hero to write a few more, 10,000, 20,000, or tens of thousands of yuan, the writing hero is naturally a big show of calligraphy, and Du Da Chin is in charge of stamping the seal.
Just as they were writing the IOU, the leader of the Zhenxi soldiers came back and told him that a hundred war horses had been brought, and even the saddles were all set, and now they could leave.
Du Da chin immediately got up, and in order to express his gratitude, he grabbed a handful of written IOUs and stuffed them into the hands of the leader of the Zhenxi soldiers, telling him that if he was short of money in the future, just take the IOU and go to Wu Youren to ask for money.
The heroes rode on their war horses, they didn't dare to ride too fast, and they returned to the small courtyard, where Wu Youren was still waiting!
Such a large group of people swaggering through the street will definitely attract the attention of others, Du Da chin saw Wu Youren, and shouted: "Brother Wu, this time our brothers have shown their faces on the street, presumably Yang Taiwei's people must have paid attention to our brothers, if Brother Wu, you can't get us into the East Palace today, then after tonight, if you come back tomorrow, what you see is a hundred and ten corpses, none of us can escape." β
The heroes nodded one after another, agreeing very much with what Du Da Chin said, they really wanted to enter the East Palace, to see where the prince lived, and how beautiful the palace maid was, it was a moment to be able to enter the palace early!
Wu Youren laughed and said, "In front of His Royal Highness the Prince, I still have a little face, and I will definitely let you enter the new army of the East Palace." However, whether you can enter today depends on the meaning of His Royal Highness the Prince! β
He asked his family to carry the sedan chair and rushed to the East Palace, while walking, he also opened the sedan chair curtain, talked to Du Dachin, and told SΓΉ Du Dachin what to do after a while, it was not a difficult thing to do, Du Dachin agreed one by one.
When he was about to walk to the door of the East Palace, Du Da chin took out the small square seal, returned it to Wu Youren, and said: "Brother Wu, this is your small seal, if you want to say that you are an official, this seal is a good envoy, as soon as those Hu merchants who sell horses saw this seal, they immediately gave us the horse credit, and it is still a good horse, and the price is not high. β
Wu Youren was very proud, he had never gone to the bazaar on credit, and he didn't know how difficult it was to get credit, he didn't expect anything to be bored here, and when he heard Du Da's chin say that this matter could be handed over to them, Wu Youren nodded trustingly, and said, "Then give it all to Brother Du!" However, we are about to leave Chang'an, and I am afraid that those Hu businessmen will be very inconvenient if they want to start the account! β
Du Da chin laughed dryly, and thought: "It turned out to be the idea of fighting, no wonder it was so generous, very good, now I know one of the weaknesses of this Wu Yuanwailang, that is, he likes empty gloves and white wolves, has the temperament of a gambler, and is still a gambler who is not very good at gambling, this point must be reported to Yang Taiwei to know, maybe you can use it." β
After a short time, they arrived near the East Palace, Wu Youren said: "Okay, Brother Du, you take your brothers to find a place, about a quarter of an hour and two quarters of an hour, I will climb the palace wall with His Royal Highness the Prince, at that time, with the yellow flag as the signal, you will start to act after seeing the flag!" β
Du Da chin said: "Okay, then it's all up to Brother Wu, Brother Wu will definitely say a few more kind words for our brothers, it is best to let us enter the palace tonight to be on duty, otherwise it will be a little too dangerous to stay outside the palace, and we will be killed by Taiwei Yang's people at any time!" β
"Do your best for the brotherhood!" Wu Youren nodded at him, got off the sedan chair, and arrived at the gate of the East Palace, although the guards at the gate of the East Palace thought he was so annoying, always in and out, but they still let him in.
Wu Youren entered the East Palace and saw the crown prince Li Chongjiu again, he said: "Your Royal Highness the prince, the minister has already preliminarily integrated the new army, and has gone bankrupt to get some equipment for them, so that they look neater, does His Royal Highness the crown prince want to see what they look like?" β
Li Chongjiu was also a musician and said, "Can you see it?" What is the opinion, should they be allowed to enter the palace, or to leave the palace alone? It's a bit dangerous to be alone in the palace, but it's not proper to let them in. β
Wu Youren said with a smile: "You don't need them to enter the palace, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't need to go out of the palace, Your Highness, you only need to go up to the palace wall once to see them." (To be continued......)