When I woke up, I was fine

Li Yuan was full of ghostly thoughts now, and when he heard his wife say that, his mind turned around a few times, but Li Jiancheng didn't think about it complicatedly.

"Don't worry, Ma'am, my son has already promised you that he will treat the eldest lady well in the future, and the two of us will live in peace and beauty."

Madam Dou was very pleased, she reached out and touched her son's face, "You have grown up too."

Li Jiancheng was a little embarrassed, but he still expressed his thoughts, "Can you discuss with Cao's family that we welcome the eldest lady into the door earlier?"

Li Yuan and Mrs. Dou smiled at each other after listening. Both husband and wife believed that Li Jiancheng wanted to get married early, "Our family married a daughter-in-law early. Since you think so, then let's discuss it with the Cao family."

Ever since the two families showed a little bit of interest, Li Jiancheng often came to see Cao Qiang. The two of them were more like playing house, sharing some delicious food together, or sharing some good books together.

Guan Lengyan once couldn't help but let people secretly listen to what the two of them said, thinking that if Cao Qian quarreled with her again, she would be able to embarrass her with this matter.

Unexpectedly, I heard that two people discussed a book, because the contents of the book are competing for red ears, and the person who went to eavesdrop was very worried that the two of them would quarrel.

But recently, Li Yuan, who had been quiet for several years, started walking around Chang'an City again.

The children of their family also started to come out to communicate with people, so when Li Jiancheng ran this way, he didn't avoid other people.

Guan Lengyan often asked Li Jiancheng to eat here. During the meal, she couldn't help asking: "How did your father plan to be so high-profile now, I'm afraid it may not match your family's wishes."

Because of his relationship with Guan Lengyan in the past few days, Li Jiancheng felt that Mrs. Guan was not an ordinary person, and she didn't hide things that people could guess that she wanted to rebel.

"My father wants to come out to be an official." It is best to be a military officer, who can control the army and recruit people.

Guan Lengyan nodded, then turned her head and said to Cao Qian, who bowed her head and planed rice, "Go to Wannian County with Dalang tomorrow, and let those in charge of the family meet."

He also said to Li Jiancheng: "His father left a lot of things. Although these things are priceless treasures, they are insignificant compared to people. Now the eldest lady is not young, and she should be allowed to be the little master—— I went to meet these people as the master, just watch from the side, you two should go out to play, and come back to Chang'an in a few days."

Li Jiancheng naturally understood what this meant, and readily agreed. After Guan Lengyan left, he asked Cao Li, "Why doesn't the imperial court know anything about your family's raising of private soldiers?"

This should not be the case. Those who can raise thugs are called Haoqiang. When Haoqiang does things, they are always domineering. Their thugs always like to cause trouble and are always difficult to control.But these people in the Cao family are different. It can be seen that the orders are prohibited, and they are all very low-key and unknown. Once the orders are prohibited, they cannot be described as thugs.

Cao Qian didn't want to say more, but just told Li Jiancheng that these were raised by his ancestors.

In fact, since the Jin Dynasty unified the world, the world has been in turmoil because of the power struggle within the Sima family.

Guan Lengyan used to see those veterans who had fought in the war returned to their hometowns, unable to farm because of injuries to their hands and feet, and ended up begging around, and even starved to death, so they couldn't stand it anymore.

What can be done to get money to relieve these people the fastest?

That is to rob the rich and help the poor. Guan Lengyan's kung fu is very good, and sometimes she is surreptitious, so she made a lot of money and food. After being told by the wounded soldiers, Guan Lengyan became a good person. Paoze, a young friend, had a bad life some days, and he had to join Guan Lengyan, so the number of people increased, and it was far from enough to rely on robbing the rich and helping the poor.Guan Lengyan planned to get some fields out.Let them work in the fields, no need to support these people, they also have a place to settle down.

Moreover, Guan Lengyan is not comfortable doing this alone. When Cao Qiang was sober, the two of them joined forces. Cao Qiang had a lot of ghost ideas. Thinking about making fields, there might be a few more vicious battles to be fought, but I didn't expect that because the Sima family has been fighting for the throne all year round, the people have long been miserable, and many fields have become wasteland, and there is no need to rob the rich and help the poor , These wounded soldiers used to be good citizens. Between looting and farming, they strongly demanded farming. At this time, they only need to organize people to keep these wastelands.

The next 200 years will be troubled times, and the descendants of these veterans will be generation after generation. Because of the events of the year, and because of the need for a strong leader in the troubled times, everyone gathers together to worship Guan Lengyan.

This made Guan Lengyan keep changing identities for herself and Cao Qiang.

And in this process, what these people want most is still food. After getting the food, they will at most want to get some gold and silver. Handed down calligraphy and painting, it is better to store more food. At critical moments, food can save people, but calligraphy and painting can only ignite a fire.

Therefore, Guan Lengyan accumulated more calligraphy, paintings, antique bamboo slips and books, and sometimes she really didn't care about these things.

And the people raised at home are usually farmers and soldiers, and it has been several generations.After all, Cao Mengde implemented the system of hoarding land in the north back then, and the grain harvested and soldiers trained were unmatched by any prince. Cao Qiang really learned the essence.

There is no need to tell Li Jiancheng about the process in the middle, Cao Li just said he didn't know.

On the edge of Chang'an is Wannian County. Accompanied by many maidservants, Cao Li and Li Jiancheng came to a village on the back of the mountain. Because this village is next to the mountain and because of the poor soil quality, the rich and powerful were not let go. Occupy land.

Looking at the whole Zhuangzi from the outside, Li Jiancheng noticed that everyone rode into the Zhuangzi. When they passed a forest, there were scattered old people sitting in the forest, either enjoying the shade in the forest, or weaving baskets in the forest.

These people don't care at all when they see these tall horses. It's different from the people in other places. When the people in other places see the dignitaries coming, they either hide from a distance, or hide and observe secretly.It's really rare to sit there and do work so generously.

The person who led the way did not stop, and continued to walk forward, passing through this forest and came to Zhuangzi.Here are half-block houses unique to the Kanto region, with low courtyard walls and little dolls running around with bare buttocks all over the street.

The team didn't stop, and went all the way through Zhuangzi to the mountain.

After turning a few turns, a group of people got off their horses and walked for a while, and it suddenly became clear to them that it looked like a cottage from the outside, but it was a fortress inside.

The men inside were all wearing leather armor or rattan armor, holding weapons in their hands, some were forging iron, and some were carrying grain into the mountain.

A group of people stood up here, and Cao Li came out and took out an iron token from under his small cloak.

A white-haired old man came over and bent over to take it, stared at the token for a while, and then looked at Cao Li's face.

"It turns out that the master is here. We heard about the old master. Madam sent word a few days ago that the master will come. Please, all the old brothers nearby are here, and they are waiting to see you." .”

Cao Li gathered his cloak and strode forward without hesitation. Li Jiancheng hurriedly followed. When he entered the room, he found torches lit everywhere and four rows of chairs. There were gray-haired old people sitting on the chairs.

Cao Li sat down, and someone brought a chair to Li Jiancheng and put it beside him. At this moment, many young men poured in from outside.

Just now, the old man behind Cao Qian pointed at this group of young men, "We are all old, and the future depends on these young people."

Cao Li nodded. At this moment, the door was suddenly closed and the door panel was sealed. All the light in the room was only the torches burning around.

Someone brought in a urn of wine, opened the mud seal, took a knife, put it on the tray, and brought it up.

After Cao Li saw it, he took the knife and made a slash on his wrist.

The blood flowed into the wine, Cao Li put down the knife, and a dozen people came out of those young men, each of them cut their own skin with the blade, and dripped blood into the wine.

The people who brought the wine poured the wine into the wine bowls, and everyone who had cut their skin just now got the wine.

Cao Qiang was holding the wine bowl, and the old man who had just spoken stood up, and led the dozen or so young people to swear to Cao Qiang that he would serve Cao Qiang's descendants from generation to generation.

Cao Qiang also said a few words on the scene, and finally raised the wine bowl in his hand, "You are all the retainers of my Cao family, and you are all my family. "

"Drink wins".

Cao Li picked up the wine bowl and drank the wine in one gulp. After drinking, he turned the bottom of the bowl up and the mouth down, so that everyone could look at it, and then smashed the wine bowl.

Amidst the crackling sound of smashing bowls, the surrounding door panels were taken down, and the sunlight came in again.

As the sun shone in, the atmosphere just now disappeared.Those murderous and fierce spirits disappeared immediately, and it seemed that a group of farmers were in front of them, bending over unconsciously in the sun and putting up their sleeves.

Cao Qian turned around and took Li Jiancheng's hand, and introduced to everyone, "I think some people have heard of it, whether they have heard of it or not, I will say it again today, in the future I will marry into the Li family of Duke Tang's mansion, This is my husband, when you see him in the future, it will be like seeing me."

After these people listened, they secretly looked at Li Jiancheng with their eyes, and greeted each other, and their voices lazily echoed in the hall, "Hi, sir," "Hello, son," "Master, please treat our master well."

……

The sound was like when folks from ten miles and eight villages ran into each other while going to the market.

If Li Jiancheng hadn't seen the murderous appearance of this group of people just now, he really thought that this group of people in front of him was a group of farming men.

However, knowing that this group of people are crouching tigers, hidden dragons, he naturally would not neglect them. He raised his hands and hugged these people in the hall. The husband and wife are one body. Since these people are willing to serve Mrs. Cao For the Lord, I can use them myself, and I am finally relieved to see these people.

If things go wrong in the future and the rebellion fails, relying on these people, the family members may really survive.