Tang Dynasty good father-in-law

Chapter 241 New Industry, Cooperation

"Cheng Fan is being polite, even the old man can't take it seriously."

"It's just that no one mentioned it for a while, and now it's just a contribution as a member of Datang."

Shu An's voice sounded slowly, sitting in front of him was Li Daozong who was about to leave Chang'an, and he also brought many valuable gifts.

You should know that Shu An usually doesn't accept these gifts, but Li Daozong insists on letting him accept them.

"Duke Anxuan is righteous!"

Facing Shu An's words, Li Daozong showed a trace of respect on his face and said, you must know that Duke Anxuan never thought of any benefits.

In Li Daozong's heart, Anxuangong is already a sage old man with high character and integrity.

However, Li Daozong also thought to himself, he would leave directly later, so that he would not have to take the gift back.

Li Daozong is not very old now, so he naturally wants to save face, and naturally he has no intention of taking back the things he took out.

It's just that Shu An sees all of this, and Shu An naturally has some guesses about Li Daozong's inner thoughts.

However, at this moment, a light flashed in Shu An's mind, maybe he could do this.

"I don't know if Chengfan intends to buy a property?"

Shu An suddenly spoke, and the content of the words made Li Daozong stunned.

But Li Daozong is a smart man, and soon he thought of some information in his mind. Since Duke Anxuan entered Chang'an, he has bought two properties.

A penny is hard for a hero, even if Li Daozong came from the clan, and these people also received a lot of rewards for their military exploits.

It will run out one day, not to mention that there are many people in the clan, and not everyone in the clan is rich.

Many people are just eating and waiting to die, but waiting for the imperial salary, you must know that they are used to being extravagant, and these people's money is naturally not enough.

Sometimes Li Daozong also supported a lot of people from the clan. It was for this reason that it was impossible to say that there was no shortage of money, or who would dislike having too much money.

"I don't know what Duke Anxuan means?"

Although Li Daozong had some guesses about An Xuangong's meaning, he still held back his voice on the surface.

"If you don't know Daozong, do you know Cuju?"

Shu An's eyes flickered and said, in fact, money is enough for him, even if it is enough to help the poor people in the past from time to time.

Therefore, he does not have high requirements for the industry, but wants to use it to share common interests with more people.

Among them is Cuju. You must know that football has formed many industries in later generations, and what Shu An has to do is tickets and gambling.

You must know that gambling in this era is nothing, but if you gamble on football, the profits in it are huge, and there is also a lot of room for maneuvering.

And if you want to promote Cuju, in addition to the upper and lower effects, naturally you need the promotion of many aristocratic families and so on.

If there is no interest, then who will do these things, and attract more people, then the interest group will be bigger, so naturally they will not pay attention to him.

Naturally, risks are shared by all. If Cuju betting is promoted to the entire lobby, then even if Cuju is not promoted, it will not work.

However, there are still many problems, that is, the Cuju team, but this requires Li Shimin to unite, and the clan is only the first step.

"I've heard of Cuju, but I don't know exactly how."

Li Daozong replied directly without concealment, because of the court rumors, he knew this word before, but he didn't know the specifics.

In addition, he was about to leave Chang'an soon, so he didn't pay much attention to this matter, so naturally he didn't care.

"Cheng Fan and the old man will come to see and find out."

A gleam of light flashed in Shu An's eyes and he said, if Li Daozong wants to take a stake, let him see what Cuju is.

Now is the time for students to play cuju. After all, there are not many entertainments, so these students will come to cuju as soon as they have time.

Cuju is not difficult to understand, and Li Daozong's interest is getting stronger and stronger. Of course, he still has some doubts, and he doesn't know what this Duke Anxuan is paying attention to.

But Shu An didn't want to hide anything, instead, he slowly made his plan known, and there was nothing to hide.

As for being afraid of Li Daozong making up his mind, it is even more impossible. The current name of Shu An has extraordinary influence in the whole world.

And as Shu An explained his plan, Li Daozong's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he seemed to have seen how much profit there was.

However, he also knows that just relying on the words of the two of them is not enough to eat and share the benefits.

Presumably, An Xuangong should have a plan. Faced with this property and An Xuangong's plan, even Li Daozong's heart was moved, and he couldn't refuse this benefit at all.

"Not only looking for you, but the old man will also invite some ministers and aristocratic families to participate."

Shu An's eyes flickered and he finally spoke. This time, he just took advantage of the competition between Li Shimin and Li Yuan to promote Cuju.

Li Daozong naturally agreed, but because he was leaving Chang'an, he would send someone to communicate with Shu'an.

When Li Daozong walked out of the academy, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and then showed a wry smile, because he seemed to be here to give a gift to thank him, but he didn't expect to owe more favors.

But thinking of Duke Anxuan's situation, Li Daozong couldn't help but smile a lot less wryly on his face.

Li Daozong would hesitate if he owed favors to others, for fear that these people would give him some embarrassing things, but Mr. Anxuan would not.

And this time, even if he owed more favors, Li Daozong couldn't give up this benefit, because he was also short of money.

On the other side, Shu An looked at Li Daozong's leaving figure and smiled slightly, although Li Daozong's reputation in later generations was not very good.

Because of the influence of a novel, Li Daozong is actually a capable person, and even ranks among the top three in the ranks of generals.

You must know that there are many military generals in this era, Li Daozong can be ranked in the top three, in addition to his own merits, he has ability.

After getting rid of Li Daozong, Shu An basically didn't care about other people, because the most beneficial thing was to take care of his disciples.

Of course, it's definitely not just these families. If Cuju is promoted to the whole world, I don't know how many families will join.

However, Shu An came from later generations, so he naturally knew how to operate, that is to find several local families to unite as an agent, and then share the profits and so on.

Chapter 242 First Heard, Shocked

Royal Palace

Although the refusal of the marriage proposal may cause great consequences to Datang, but that is already a matter of the future.

Li Shimin is obviously in a good mood now, because his father has fulfilled his promise and will move out after he is ready for the palace.

This also proves that Li Shimin can breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, as for the rumors coming out of the court.

Li Shimin naturally knew why, after all, his father was also a person who wanted face, and he didn't want to make more troubles.

Moreover, such rumors further confirmed that Emperor Father really has no nostalgia for Tai Chi Palace.

On this day, Li Shimin ate a meal in the queen's bedroom, although the food standard in the palace has indeed improved a lot.

But Empress Changsun often borrows cooks from the Shu Mansion, and it can be said that the taste is not inferior to that of heaven and earth, and it even increases by one point.

After all, the materials used in the palace are all carefully selected, and the taste of the made is naturally better.

It was for this reason that even this emperor came to Changsun Wugou's place a lot more than before.

Of course, this naturally made many concubines envious and jealous, but they didn't have such a relationship, and with the power of the previous queen, they could only secretly hate it in their hearts.

But this time it was different from usual, Empress Changsun talked about one thing.

"Your Majesty, Yafu sent someone to tell my concubine something earlier."

For a moment, Li Shimin's face was a little stunned, but then he reacted immediately.

"What is this old man going to do again?"

Li Shimin's eyes flickered and he couldn't help muttering in his heart, apparently he still had some dissatisfaction with being calculated, but he still acted like he was listening, waiting for the Guanyin servant girl to speak next.

"Yafu sent someone to say a very strange word, Cuju!"

"Also, Yafu has united with many people, and seems to want to set up a Cuju place."

"Ask the concubine if I want to mix it in. I can't make up my mind for a while, so I ask your majesty."

......

Empress Changsun couldn't help but continued to speak, and said the whole thing, but she couldn't help but wonder what this Cuju was.

But he had to know that his Asian father would not harm him, so Empress Changsun was actually moved, and he heard that his brother had invested a lot of money in it.

You have to know that your elder brother can be said to have always been shrewd, so how could he be confused about this kind of thing.

Although the national treasury has increased by hundreds of thousands or even millions of guan due to the city tax, only the emperor knows the specifics, not the empress changsun.

But this is money from the national treasury, and has little to do with internal money, plus His Majesty's cuts in expenditure some time ago.

Even Empress Changsun couldn't be exempt from money, so she was naturally moved, but she still wanted to hear His Majesty's thoughts.

With Empress Changsun's explanation, Li Shimin's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he had to know that his sub-father had the ability to make money.

Coupled with the union of so many people, it is simply impossible to say that there is no big move.

"Guanyin maidservant, don't worry about this matter, wait until I send someone to understand it."

However, Li Shimin still had a little doubt in his heart and said slowly, he naturally knew Cuju, but he didn't know how his sub-father would make money.

"Ok!"

Empress Changsun nodded and agreed with His Majesty's opinion, because even she had some worries.

After all, this is not entirely her money, and if she loses it, it is a little unreasonable. Although she is a queen, she must have some measure.

......

In fact, after returning to the imperial study from Empress Changsun, Li Shimin's heart began to feel uneasy, and he kept thinking about Cuju in his mind.

Although he had asked Li Junxian to understand the situation at the first time, but he still couldn't forget it in his mind.

As for the reason, it is of course very simple. Of course, it is because of the trouble of money. You must know that according to past experience, everything proposed by this sub-father has not been missed.

And every property purchased has benefited a lot, which naturally made Li Shimin jealous.

The money in the national treasury does not mean that it is the money in Li Shimin's hands, because even if Li Shimin wants to use the money in the national treasury, he has to go through discussions with these ministers before making a decision.

So it seems that the treasury has a lot of money, but in fact Li Shimin feels that he is very poor, so he naturally wants to get a foot in the door.

In the imperial study room, Wang De had some doubts on his face, because of what he said at this point in the past.

My master should be reviewing the memorial, but today is uncharacteristically, but as a slave, there are many doubts in the crowd, and he still dare not speak.

In fact, Li Shimin has been waiting for Li Junxian's return. After all, money is probably not a small amount. After all, his Asian father has summoned so many people and influence.

It is absolutely impossible to be that simple, and he is also among the people who know this Yafu best.

After all, Li Shimin and this Asian father were also at odds in the past, and it was for this reason that he had a good understanding of it.

If he didn't have enough interests, his sub-father would certainly not have summoned so many people.

"Tread, step"

Just at this time, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door of the imperial study, which instantly revived Li Shimin.

"Jun Xian, come in!"

Even Li Shimin couldn't help but speak out first, he couldn't wait to know what his Asian father thought.

"I have seen Your Majesty!"

Li Junxian walked into the imperial study and saluted respectfully, with a wry smile on his face. Although His Majesty valued it very much, he couldn't be proud of it.

Li Junxian still has a clear understanding of this point, but at this time Li Shimin didn't care about Li Junxian's thoughts.

"What has Yafu been doing recently?"

Li Junxian had already taken the lead in asking, and he had many doubts in his heart, so he just waited for Li Junxian to answer.

"Your Majesty, this matter has to start with King Ren Cheng!"

After thinking for a while, Li Junxian began to speak out, telling all the things he investigated during this trip.

He does have some understanding of Cuju, mainly because His Majesty has been selecting candidates for Cuju these days.

"What? At least one million per year?"

Li Shimin said in shock, his first reaction was how is this possible, you must know that a million guan is not a small amount.

Even the city tax he collected before was only this amount, and the city tax was due to a one-time payment.

But now this industry has such a profit, even Li Shimin does not believe it, because it is too exaggerated.