Chapter 36: Good Brother
The banquet lasted until dinner, and the juggling joy in Penglai City continued all night. Of course, Li Jing understands that all this is not really to celebrate the victory of the bandits, everything is just a show.
Because of the swarms of bandits in Xu Yanqingqi and other areas during this period, the number of displaced people surged, not only the Huaisi area was unstable, but even Dengzhou, which was far away on the coast of the East China Sea, was also greatly impacted. The people in various places were panicked, and many mountain bandits and horse thieves also took the opportunity to carry out large-scale activities. As a result, the largest port in the north of the Tang Dynasty was greatly affected, and the commercial trade of Dengzhou Port began to shrink due to the fact that there was much less business travel in Dengzhou Port.
Dengzhou is close to the sea, so it has always relied on the port and sea routes, so it is very rich. Once the bandits are too bad, then no one dares to come to Dengzhou Port, and Dengzhou will no longer be prosperous. This is a scene that all the officials in Dengzhou, the local clans, and the wealthy businessmen do not want to see, so when Li Jing and the others only killed ten bandits, they would make such a big battle and make it so lively. To put it bluntly, everything is just those people in the upper echelons who took advantage of Li Jing's small victory to calm down the rumors circulating at the moment, stabilize the people's hearts, and save the trade route.
Others may not be able to see this, but Li Jing understands it very well. This kind of method of engaging in activities to attract and divert the attention of the people has been seen a lot in his later life.
On that day, Li Jing and Xiaoshi were drunk in Wangxian Tower, and they were not woken up by the guys in the store until dawn. When he opened his eyes, Li Jing found that he was actually sleeping in the backyard on the first floor of the restaurant, which was probably the room of the guys, with a row of large bunks in the house, and in addition to him, there were eight people lying drunk on the small stones.
"Li Sanlang woke up, the little one will go to wash his face." A short brown guy saw Li Jing open the door and hurriedly greeted him.
"Where is this, how am I sleeping here?"
"Oh, this is the backyard of Wangxian Tower. Yesterday you were drunk, and Feng Changshi's nephew Feng Wulang asked the little one to temporarily place you here. I also specially ordered, if you wake up, let me tell you that you don't have to rush back to the barracks, saying that there are still three days before the unity camp is officially established, and you can visit Penglai City at will in these two days. By the way, Feng Wulang also left you 10,000 yuan on the counter, saying that it was for you to go shopping for pocket money. In addition, he said that he had to go to work on that matter in the past two days, and if you have something to look for him, go directly to the Fengfu in the north of the city to find him. ”
Li Jing nodded, if it weren't for the discordant relationship between Feng and Cui, Li Jing really felt that although this Feng Liang was a little shy, it was still a bit squishy and stylish. It's just that he also knows that since he is Cui's protégé, if possible, he still needs to keep a certain distance from the Feng family.
After asking the guy about the bathroom, Li Jing brought a few buckets of cold water, asked for some soap towel, and happily took a stimulating cold shower. After taking a shower, I changed into the green shirt and robe that I had just asked the guy to buy at the ready-to-wear store, and the whole person immediately felt much more comfortable.
Looking at the green shirt on his body, a smile appeared on the corner of Li Jing's mouth. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the green shirt was originally the special color of the eighth and ninth grade officials, but in the back, the eighth and ninth grade officials also wore the green official robes of the sixth and seventh grade officials, and the green shirt also became the uniform color of the literati. Li Jing had previously obtained the qualification of tribute, and he was originally qualified to wear it. But in fact, Li Jing has never worn a green shirt until now.
This guy who buys clothes is really very clever, and he knows that Li Jing is now a protégé of the history of assassination, and he also picked a green shirt when he bought clothes. After paying the money, Li Jing, who was in a good mood, also rewarded the guy with ten cents. How can it be said that Li Jing is also a rich man now, not only does he still have 10,000 yuan on the counter, but he also has 500 yuan of flying money in his arms.
Back in the house, several people were still asleep, and Li Jing went up and kicked them awake one by one.
"Brother Xiucai, let's sleep again, we're sleepy." Xiaoshi said in confusion with his eyes closed.
Li Jing smiled: "Hurry up, tell you a good thing, divide the money." ”
"Divide the money, divide the money?" The little carpenter was the first to open his eyes.
Li Jing was relaxed, but in fact, he was still a little worried about selling their first-level military merits. Then, Li Jing stood there nervously waiting for the reaction of several people.
Silence, long silence.
Li Jing couldn't help but feel a little unsure of how to explain it, although he thought it was good for Xiaoshi and them, but after all, he didn't ask their opinions, and he had already collected all the money. What if they can't figure it out and don't agree?
"Brother Xiucai, you said that the three military merit heads were sold?"
"Sold."
"Sold for two hundred and eighty pieces?"
"Yes, in addition, Feng Liang gave me a total of five hundred yuan, saying that the rest is considered to be thanks to me, I don't plan to ask for this money, these are also yours." Li Jing said.
Wang Xiaoshi and the others sat there one by one, and for a long time, Xiaoshi suddenly shouted: "Little carpenter, help me calculate, I have always had a thousand yuan, how much is this five hundred yuan, and how much is two hundred and eighty yuan?" ”
"It's too much, I can't figure it out." The little carpenter was small but smart, but at this time he was suddenly dumbfounded, and this number had long exceeded the scope of his plan.
"Two hundred and eighty guan is 280,000 yuan, and five hundred guan is 500,000 yuan. These three first-level gongs are the four of you, Xiao Shi, Xiao Carpenter, Xiao Shan, and Xiao Dog, and if you divide them equally, 500,000 yuan, each of you can share 125,000 yuan. Li Jing blurted out and helped them calculate.
The fine dog was frightened by this number and muttered: "A bucket of sorghum is 100 yuan, how much sorghum do you have to buy for this 125,000 yuan?" ”
"1,250 buckets, or 57 stones, nearly seven thousand catties."
"Brother Xiucai, is it seven thousand catties per person?"
"Yes, seven thousand pounds per person."
"Sorghum with wild vegetables and bran, only one pound of sorghum a day is enough for my family to eat, seven thousand catties, then you can eat more than 7,000 days, no, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, then you can eat for twenty years?" The little carpenter learned to be a carpenter with his father since he was a child, and he knew how much to count, and he counted with his fingers for a long time, and if this money was enough to buy sorghum for his family for 20 years, he was shocked.
Li Jing looked at a few young people there with their hands and feet, busy and couldn't help but say, "You give me a word, do you agree to this?" ”
Xiao Shi looked at Li Jing with a strange expression: "Brother Xiucai, is there really such a good thing?" You're not lying to us? Is that seal or something drunk too much and talking nonsense, the three thieves and bandits have military exploits, and he actually took more than 20,000 catties of sorghum to exchange it with us? ”
Several other people also had the same expressions as Xiao Shi, as if they thought that Li Jing had just made a big joke with them early in the morning.
Li Jing was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but think about it in his mind, wouldn't that Feng Liang be drunk nonsense, he was really joking with him. But after thinking about it like this for a while, Li Jing immediately remembered that he still had a 500 yuan flying money in his arms, which would not be wrong. What's more, there is still 10,000 pocket money left by Feng Liang on the cabinet of Wangxian Tower.
He stretched out his hand and took out the flying money from his arms and raised it: "Zhilu Dao, what is this? This is the flying money, with this flying money, you can go to any Xuanhe Rui cabinet shop and get 500 yuan or the same price of silk or rice grain. ”
"Brother Xiucai, that's a piece of paper?" The thin dog said with a puzzled expression.
Li Jing hated him so much that he slapped him on the head before gritting his teeth and saying: "This is not paper, this is flying money, this is not ordinary paper, this paper is worth five hundred yuan." ”
Looking at Li Jing's serious expression, they were a little convinced of the little stone.
"What that brother just said is true?"
"Really, it's more true than Kaiyuan Tongbao."
The few people in Little Stone were half crazy at the moment, jumping around the house in calf-nosed shorts, babbling and screaming.
"You haven't said you agree or not?"
"Agree, why don't you agree, the surname Feng's brain is broken, we are not bad." Several people shouted in unison.
It took a long time for Li Jing to calm down a few people. The last few people discussed how to divide the money, and Li Jing originally planned to divide the money among the three of them, but the three of them refused. After discussing for a long time, the four of them proposed that Li Jing take 300,000 yuan for the 500,000 yuan, and then each of the four people in Xiaoshi will take 30,000 yuan, and the rest will be given to Wang Dong and Wang Liugen 20,000 yuan each.
This result surprised Li Jing a little, and Wang Dong and others were even more surprised. Originally, when they heard about such a large amount of money just now, they felt a little unbalanced in their hearts, and they felt that they came out together and dealt with the bandits together, but they didn't kill half of them, and they didn't have any money or merit.
Now when they heard that Xiaoshi was going to give them 20,000 yuan each, they were all speechless in surprise.
Li Jing smiled: "Since you are willing to take out the money to distribute it to everyone, I don't think it's as good as this, the four of you will share the 280,000 money equally, and one person will share 70,000." Then there is 220,000 yuan left, Wang Dong and the four of them will take 50,000 yuan each, and I will take 20,000 yuan. When you have divided the money, don't spend it indiscriminately, take the money back to the village, buy land and houses, buy grain, buy livestock, and save the rest for you to marry a daughter-in-law later. ”
Wang Dong was the first to object: "Brother, this money is exchanged for their military exploits by Xiaoshi, and we can't take it." If you want to give, we will be cheeky and take 10,000 yuan for each person, and Brother Ying should take the rest. In fact, we knew in our hearts that if it weren't for my brother's fighting command, we wouldn't have been able to kill the bandits. If it weren't for the fact that my brother had become a protégé of Thorn Shi now, they wouldn't have given us so much money. In the future, we will all follow my brother, and there will definitely be many opportunities to be rewarded for meritorious service in this way. This time, a few of us were cheeky enough to take 10,000 yuan to buy some food for our family. ”
Liu Gen and the others also nodded in agreement with Wang Dong's words, although there was some small friction between everyone in the past, but after all, they all came from the same village, and these days, following Li Jing, they are also admiring Li Jing more and more.
"Since you say so, then I think so, this credit belongs to Xiaoshi theirs, one of the four of you is 100,000, and the five of Xiaodong and I are 20,000 each. Don't fight anymore, we are all brothers from the same village, and we will rely on each other in the future. We all got up quickly and washed off the wine, and then we went to get the money, and then sent it home. ”
"Good! Now the family has no worries about food. A group of young people were excited to get dressed and get up.
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