[Journey to the West] Wukong purchasing

Although he knew that Changsun Wuji spoke for him because of His Majesty Li Er's arrangement, Tang Xuanzang walked up to Changsun Wuji honestly and thanked him solemnly after he came down to court.

"I haven't thanked Elder Tang for finding a miracle doctor for the empress." Changsun Wuji refused to accept his thanks, but instead explained to Tang Xuanzang the reason why he wanted to support him in the court.

Changsun Wuji and Changsun Empress brother and sister have a very good relationship. Back then, Changsun Empress was seriously ill. If Tang Xuanzang hadn’t found the genius doctor Huangfu Lian from the border in time, he had persuaded Huangfu Lian to travel thousands of miles from the border to Chang’an City to see Changsun Empress. Changsun Wuji has always remembered this incident. When Tang Xuanzang returned to secular life as an official, Changsun Wuji ordered someone to go to the Tang residence to give a congratulatory gift.It's just that Tang Xuanzang's position is more sensitive now, and Zhongshu Sheren is equivalent to His Majesty's personal secretary. The eldest grandson Wuji dare not get too close to him, and it is for the good of Tang Xuanzang.

However, what happened this time was not that he arbitrarily befriended Zhongshu Sheren and stood up for Tang Xuanzang, but His Majesty hinted that he did so. Changsun Wuji just repaid this favor, so that those people would know that Tang Xuanzang was in court. Among them, it is not without support.

As one of the best old foxes in the Tang Dynasty, Changsun Wuji's investment vision has always been very reliable. In fact, this time His Majesty bypassed them and directly appointed Tang Xuanzang as a Chinese scholar. None of the old officials like Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and even Wei Zheng stood up to support the opposition. It is even more impossible for other militant factions such as Li Jing, Yuchi Jingde, Li Ji, and Cheng Yaojin Oppose Tang Xuanzang to be this Zhongshu Sheren.

In fact, they wished that the saint would have another pro-war faction like Tang Xuanzang around him. Military generals started their careers with military exploits. If they don’t fight, how can their descendants, their staff, and soldiers get promoted and get rich?

Elder Tang originally thought that he would be impeached and laid off by civil and military officials this time when he was engaged to Wu Kong, but he didn't expect that none of the important ministers and elders of the court came out to speak for the impeachment of his censor. They danced around for a while and then stopped, and this matter ended with such a thunderstorm and a little rain.

Mrs. Yin heard that her eldest grandson Wuji was trying to protect Tang Xuanzang, but she couldn't help but rejoice that her grandson could become a member of Zhongshushe. This is a good thing she could never have imagined in her dreams. This is how the old man thinks. , As for dismissing from office to do business?From a court official to a merchant?She would rather use herself to subsidize Tang Xuanzang than to let him be a merchant in order to make a living. After all, in the Tang Dynasty, merchants were considered lowly, and their social status was not as high as that of the landlords of the common clan.

However, Mrs. Yin can only say a few words in her heart, because although the Wu family is a merchant, they are really good to Tang Xuanzang. The couple lived alone, which was simply unthinkable for the people of Tang who advocated "parents stay together, no family separation".But the parents of the Wu family also said that Tang Xuanzang is not an ordinary daughter-in-law after all, and it is inconvenient for two big men to hang out with them all day long. The Wu family also has a young and beautiful mother-in-law, Jiang Su, but they live separately. comfortable.

Mrs. Yin is not unreasonable, since the Wu family has already given enough sincerity, she can't be too demanding. After all, it's all due to Chen Guangrui, the plague pig who killed thousands of knives!If he hadn't been arrogant and refused to let the Yin family send soldiers to escort her daughter, how could her daughter be killed by a mere water thief?Her poor grandson is even living in the temple, and now she doesn't like the little lady, so she can only marry the young man of the Wu family... All this is Chen Guangrui's fault!Mrs. Yin did not hesitate to put the black pot on Chen Guangrui's head, and decided to send two people to the temple to "serve" this uncle well!

The marriage was settled, but Wu Kong and Elder Tang didn't have time to get busy with the marriage.

His Majesty Li Er has already issued a letter of credence to the Lord of Kucha, and made it clear that he will fight against Kucha. Tang Xuanzang, as His Majesty Li Er's personal secretary, has been to Kucha in person, and he is very interested in the local area. The situation was very familiar, so he was arrested by His Majesty Li Er, and even stayed in the palace several times.

Wu Kong was even busier.

This year, there was a severe drought in many places in the Tang Dynasty, and the crops were reduced. The common people could not live on. There were many people who sold their children and daughters, and even their wives, in order to survive. Wu Yun and Jiang Su almost every few days A group of people will be bought back from the West Market.At first Wu Hong was not used to it, but gradually became numb.

There is no way, if Wu Yun and Jiang Su don’t buy them, they are bought by other places, maybe it’s better to live in their home, if unfortunately they get sick and can’t sell them, I heard that many traffickers are worried about infecting each other, often He would throw seriously ill people out. Now that the weather is getting colder, Wu Cong went out for a walk a few times in the morning, and even met people who froze to death on the side of the road... Only then did he understand why his father told him , the Tang Dynasty at this time is not the peaceful and prosperous age in the history books of later generations.

These people who sell themselves as slaves are very hardworking, they only need to feed them enough to work hard for you, as if they are afraid of being lazy and being resold by the Wu family.In today's world, even if they sell themselves as slaves, few people are willing to feed their slaves.

The Wu family is really very rich, and what they eat is steamed buns made of coarse wheat. For a meal, adults can get three big steamed buns, and children who are half-old can get two, which is better than what they used to eat at their own home. good.

What they didn't know was that these rough wheat were purchased in large quantities from the star network by Wu Hong with the star coins in his account.

Wu Hao has always been worried that if one day the personal terminal suddenly breaks down, the deposits in his account will be in vain, and now he can't wait to buy all the toilet paper for home from Xingwang.Speaking of which, he was a little embarrassed. The rough wheat he bought for the slaves was actually marked as "feed" on the star network.

The Chinese people of the Star Alliance all need to eat staple food, but in the living area set up in the universe, sometimes for some unknown reason, the crops grown are a little bit mutated. This kind of wheat is several times larger than ordinary wheat , but the taste is very rough, and the taste is not very good. Every time this kind of wheat is planted, the farmer can only consider himself unlucky and smash the mutated wheat to make livestock feed.

Wu Hao couldn't buy seeds from Xingwang, but there is no limit to the purchase of this kind of broken couscous. Boss Wu saw that this was a loophole that could be exploited, so he immediately contacted more than a dozen farmers and distributed them in batches. Purchased 20 jin of coarse wheat grains.

The smashed mutated wheat, the grains are similar to ordinary wheat, without an instrument, you can’t tell the difference at all. Wu Hong didn’t plan to give it to the slaves at first, after all, slaves are also human beings in his opinion, he didn’t expect Because of the severe drought, the price of food in Chang'an City has risen a lot this year. Their family bought so many people at one go, and the daily food expenses are a huge expense. Wu Yun can only ask people to grind the coarse wheat Broken, made into steamed buns and sent down.

Who knew that the slaves liked their new rations very much!

The steamed buns made of this kind of coarse wheat are very filling. Adults eat two big steamed buns and drink a bowl of water, and their stomachs will be full. The remaining one can be eaten as a snack in the afternoon. It is so beautiful. , these people haven’t had a full stomach since the famine in spring, and now it’s hard to meet such a master who is full of food in the Wu family. The slaves can’t wait to light torches to work for the master’s family at night. How wonderful is the Wu family At night, fearing that they would be hungry, he cooked porridge for them with broken couscous. After drinking a bowl of hot porridge, the slaves wanted to go home and sell their families to the Wu family.

The biggest thing the Wu family has done recently is to build houses, all kinds of things!I bought two adjacent houses in Chang'an City, opened up the courtyard wall, and planned to build a house for Wu Kong and Elder Tang after they got married.I also bought a lot of unwanted wasteland outside Chang'an City, and used nearby materials to build a continuous warehouse with adobe. I said to the outside world that I would go to the Western Regions to do business with Datang's army next year.

Inadvertently, His Majesty Li Er was delighted: Look!Even the merchants in Chang’an City believe that our army’s westward expedition to Kucha will definitely win. They haven’t captured Kucha yet, and the merchants have even built warehouses to store Kucha’s special products.

His Majesty Li Er was happy, so he didn't follow the rules again: with a big wave of his hand, the old man rewarded Wu Cong's father as a loose official of Chengfeng Lang, and directly promoted him from a merchant to a eighth rank.

Although it is really not a high-ranking official position from the eighth rank, but the talents who have been selected through layers of inspections and selections have to be promoted from the ninth rank sesame official. You are a mere merchant, why did you jump to the first rank all of a sudden? Bapin?

The censors rolled up their sleeves and vowed secretly that if they did not participate in His Majesty Li Er's withdrawal of the imperial decree this time, they would really hit the pillar!

Some people even formed a group to find Wei Zheng, the most powerful member of His Majesty Li Er in the entire Tang Dynasty, and wanted to ask him to come forward to support His Majesty Li Er, the big boss... After all, it was not the first time His Majesty Li Er protected Tang Xuanzang. It was because Wei Zheng, who was the most capable among them, didn't speak up, that they were wiped out by that old bastard Changsun Wuji.

"The old man is old, and he really has more energy than energy." Wei Zheng rejected them mercilessly.

His life has been saved several times by the Empress Changsun. The Empress Changsun was seriously ill the year before last. It was Elder Tang who found the genius doctor of Qiuci to save him. Rounding up, Elder Tang was his savior and asked him to participate in his own rescue. benefactor?What are you kidding?

Besides, isn't he just a loose official from the eighth rank?No matter what Wu Yun said, he has supported thousands of victims who fled from other places to Chang'an City. If you have the ability, your family will try to raise thousands of them with money?

Wu Yun never imagined that he would still be able to be an official in Datang.Although he is Cheng Fenglang from the eighth rank, he can be regarded as taking off the disgraceful hat of a merchant.

Both Wu Yun and Jiang Su thought it was His Majesty Li Er's favor to Tang Xuanzang. After all, Tang Xuanzang was born in an official family, and his grandfather was Yin Kaishan, one of the 24 heroes of Lingyan Pavilion. It was really ugly to marry the son of a merchant. This future father-in-law's honorary position as a casual official will always look better in face.

Unexpectedly, in the evening, Tang Xuanzang made a special trip after he was on duty, and they found out that his Majesty Li Er rewarded him with the Cong Bapin, and what he rewarded was actually the charitable deeds of the more than 2000 disaster victims he took in.

"Ah? Charity? No, those people were bought by our family, and they will work for us in the future, so it's not disaster relief, right?" Wu Yun felt a little confused.

"There are so many wealthy and wealthy families in Chang'an City. Why don't you see them take out money to buy these homeless victims? Don't worry, uncle. Since His Majesty rewarded you, there is a reason for it. You just keep it. It's gone." Tang Xuanzang made a special trip, not only to appease Wu's father, but in fact, he came to find Wu Kong.

Fortunately, the Wu family didn't have any rule of "fiancée avoid suspicion and cannot meet each other". The two big men, who had come back to Chang'an all the way from the Western Regions, didn't know how familiar they were, so what was there to avoid suspicion?

Tang Xuanzang came to deliver things to Wu Kong.

"What is this?" Wu Kong looked at Tang Xuanzang and took out a roll of paper written like ghost symbols from the box, confused.

Elder Tang was speechless for a while. Seeing that Wu Hao didn't seem to understand, he could only sigh secretly, and explained with some helplessness: "Didn't you say that you wanted His Majesty's handwriting? Today, Your Majesty is in a good mood and wrote two more words. He gave me one, His Majesty's Feibai is extremely rare, so don't throw it around when you take it, it's easy to put it away."

What Elder Tang didn't say was that this picture of Fei Bai written by Emperor Taizong himself, in China 1000 years later, such a thin piece of paper can be exchanged for a big house in the capital.

"I won't lose it, I can't lose it even if I lose it myself!" Wu Hong held His Majesty Li Er's handwriting happily and admired it as if he had found a treasure.

I don’t know if it’s because of the idol filter, but it just looked like a ghost painting. Now, the more I look at it, the more I feel that it’s really strong and free, majestic. At first glance, it was written by His Majesty Li Er, a generation of Mingjun. It must be hidden as a family heirloom!

"Wait!" As if thinking of something, Wu Kong looked around and asked him cautiously, "My parents don't know about this, do they?"

"I never told my uncle or aunt." It's better not to tell your future father-in-law and mother-in-law about flattering your daughter-in-law or something. Elder Tang is worried that he will be kicked out.

"That's good!" Wu Hao patted his chest and whispered happily, "Take this handwriting back first, and hide it for me. When we two get married, you can secretly return it to me, so that my father can't give it to me." Even if Mother knew about it, she was too embarrassed to snatch it away."

Elder Tang: "..." It seems that the parent-child relationship of the Wu family is really in jeopardy.