The First Happy King of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 258 The Uncrowned King (Next)

Imperial grain and national tax, it seems that I really have to pay this, but Li Muyun is a bit reluctant to pay the money, what should I do?

Li Muyun looked at Gongsun Lan who was sitting silently on the side, blinking his eyes, suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he said suspiciously to Fang Yi: "I said old Fang, you are fooling me, what the hell? Now I'm a 'fartman', and I still pay a ball tax?!"

"Really? That means that the things you promised to those fugitives don't count? If that's the case, let Sun Liang collect taxes now. I think you can collect a lot of them, but your prestige as the young village master... ..." Fang Yi followed Li Muyun's example and shrugged.

"This..." Li Muyun, who was still elated at being a 'fart', was dumbfounded for a moment, why didn't he figure this out after all the calculations, Sun Liang has no money, you let him pay the money Isn't that tantamount to killing him?

"So you should hurry up and find a way. As for asking the assassin to come over for dinner, you can try this, but I don't guarantee that you will succeed." Fang Yizhi also learned badly in Shanyin County during this period, no She was as innocent as before, not only did she not worry about seeing Li Muyun's decadent appearance, she even took pleasure in others' misfortune.

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After a sleepless night, Li Muyun reappeared in front of everyone in good spirits, called Fatty and Fang Yizhi, took Gongsun Lan with him, and the four leaped down the mountain with whips on their horses and headed straight for Shuozhou.

Fang Yizhi wondered what Li Muyun wanted to do, so he asked him with some doubts, but Li Muyun just laughed and didn't answer, he only knew about Shuozhou.

Without talking all the way, the four of them spent a whole day rushing from Shanyin County to Shuozhou, and found a hotel to stay in. Early the next morning, Li Muyun took the other three people straight to Shuozhou City.

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During this period of time, Qian Botao always felt that his eyelids were constantly twitching. After the left eye twitched, the right eye twitched, and after the left eye twitched, both eyes twitched together, which was very annoying.

But today, for some reason, his eyelids stopped twitching when he woke up, and then he saw a yamen servant hurried in from outside: "Lord Chang Shi, Li Muyun is here, and he said he wanted to see you."

Li Muyun?Qian Botao gave a 'thud' in his heart, thinking that it's no wonder his eyelids have been twitching recently, but today they suddenly stopped. How dare the god of plague come to his door.

"My lord, look..." Seeing that Qian Botao was speechless for a while, the yamen servant asked cautiously.

Qian Botao came back to his senses after being reminded by the yamen servant. Thinking of that guy's identity and background, he finally waved his hand to the yamen servant helplessly: "Please come in!"

"No!" The yamen servant replied and stepped back, and not long after, Qian Botao saw Li Muyun walking in with three people, even holding a sword in his hand pretendingly.

But thinking about it, the moment he saw Li Muyun, Qian Botao still stood up, and greeted him very lowly: "When did Brother Li come back? Why don't you let me know next time, so I can arrange someone to greet you. "

For a man who was clearly ten years older than himself but still called him brother, Li Muyun had a big smile on his face: "Qian Changshi is too polite, how dare Li Mou and He De bother you. "

"Brother Li, it's your fault for saying that. After all, you are a great contributor to our Shuozhou. Without your series of measures, it is impossible for our Shuozhou to be promoted to Zhongzhou in such a short period of time, right? " Qian Botao welcomed Li Muyun into his official office, sat down as the guest and host, and did not intend to reveal a piece of news that someone did not know.

"Zhongzhou? Upgraded?" Li Muyun also never thought that he would receive such news during his trip to Shuozhou, and asked in surprise.

"Isn't that right, but it's just gossip now, and the official documents may not come down until the next year." Qian Botao didn't want to hide this matter from Li Muyun, anyway, he would know about it sooner or later, so there's no point in hiding it .

However, Li Muyun really didn't expect such a thing to happen, Shuozhou Mansion was actually promoted by half a rank, so wouldn't Shanyin County also have a long way to go, and they will be promoted along with it?
Just as he was thinking, he heard Qian Botao ask from the side: "Brother Li, I'm here to look for you this time, but what's the matter?"

"To tell the truth about Qian Changshi, I think you also know that Li caused some troubles in Chang'an some time ago, and the title of Xiaoyaohou was also cut off by His Majesty the Emperor." Li Muyun sighed after recovering, and then felt a little sad Said.

This matter was a big one, and the Ministry of Officials would inform the whole country. As an official, it was impossible for Qian Botao not to know about it, but he didn't bring it up because of face.

But now that Li Muyun took the initiative to bring it up, Qian Botao could only laugh along with him and said, "I'm not talking about you, brother Li really did something wrong. No matter how you think about it, Han Ai is the court's official." Third Grade, you were killed with this knife..."

"Forget it, let's not mention this matter." Li Muyun waved his hand to interrupt Qian Botao, the main purpose of his coming to Fucheng this time was not to discuss whether to kill Han Ai, why would he continue to grind his teeth here.

Qian Taobo was feeling a little embarrassed when Li Muyun interrupted him, but before he could say anything, someone slapped the sword on the table with a bang: "Qian Changshi, but although Li was I lost my title, but got a treasure by accident, I specially brought it for this trip, please appreciate it.”

Weird, too weird, seeing the sword on the table photographed by Li Muyun, Qian Botao was full of doubts, and asked with some uncertainty: "Brother Li is referring to this sword?"

"Exactly!" Li Muyun nodded and made a gesture of invitation, indicating that Qian Botao could take it over and have a closer look.

Qian Botao is one of the few people who knows Li Muyun's background, otherwise he would not be able to meet such a 'fart' with such a low profile, but even so, he is somewhat dissatisfied in his heart, thinking that Li Muyun is a bit too arrogant some.

But thinking about it, the movements in his hands were not slow. Under Li Muyun's signal, Lao Qian stretched out his hand and grabbed the sword on the table. something special.

Suspiciously, he pressed the collapse spring on the scabbard, only to hear a 'cang clang', and a small part of the shining sword immediately popped out.

"Good sword!" Although only a small part of the blade was seen, Qian Botao gave a sincere admiration.

Because the craftsmanship of the Tang Dynasty is not so advanced, the quality of the swords cast is actually not that good, and there is nothing special about them after being polished.

So even if Qian Botao didn't know much about swords, after seeing the craftsmanship of the sword body, he could immediately realize that this sword is not ordinary.

"Why don't Qian Changshi take it out to have a look, maybe there will be unexpected surprises." Li Muyun said with a smirk.

Qian Botao didn't know the origin of his sword, so naturally he didn't doubt it, followed his words, pressed the hilt, and pulled out the long sword in his hand.

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When people appreciate something, they actually have a habit of wanting to find out the origin of the thing.

The simplest example is to understand ancient times. If you take out a jade watermelon, you will immediately think of Cixi; if you get "Lanting Collection Preface", you will immediately think of Wang Xizhi.

So when Qian Botao saw the three gaps on the sword, he immediately thought of a person, a person who ruled the entire Tang Empire.

In an instant, Lao Qian was startled and shivered, and slid directly from the chair to the ground, his lips turned white and he cried out: "Heaven, Tianzijian!"

Your uncle, what plague god has I offended!Qian Botao's heart was ten thousand, not one hundred thousand, and a million grass-mud horses were galloping and roaring crazily.

I am provoking someone, Li Muyun, that bastard, even brought this kind of thing to show himself, isn't that pretending,, forcing?Is there something that can't be said directly, do you have to use this thing to scare yourself?Doesn't he know that no matter who holds this thing, it's like I'm here in person?

"Qian Changshi! Qian Changshi!" Just as Qian Botao was scared out of his wits and was secretly greeting Li Muyun's eighteenth generation ancestors in his stomach, the guy who was being greeted by him squatted beside him and took the The sword was taken back.

"Uh..., Li, Li..." Qian Botao didn't know what to say, and looked at Li Muyun and didn't know what to call him.

"Qian Changshi, did you recognize him?" Li Muyun put the sword back into its sheath and asked with a smile.

"Recognized, recognized." Qian Botao struggled to sit back on the chair, only feeling his legs go weak.

"To be honest, Qian Changshi, in fact, there is nothing I can do about it. You know, I promised those fugitives at the beginning of spring that I would only collect half of the tax. I see that this year's tax payment will not be completed, so I came here specially to find you to find a solution." Seeing that Qian Botao had been scared to death, Li Muyun revealed the real purpose of his trip.

But Lao Qian has lost two souls from the three souls scared by the sword, and his mind is full of the words "like me in person", so he doesn't have the heart to help him find a way.

After hearing what he said, he said without thinking: "You can do whatever you want, everything is up to you, everything is up to you!"

"Really? You listen to me?" Li Muyun glanced at his room with a look of contempt on his face, shrugged and said, "Why don't you owe this year's tax first? Don't worry, it's all accounted for." , I will pay you back sooner or later."

"No problem!" Qian Botao just wanted to send this plague god away, no matter what he said, even if he asked him for money, he would not refuse, let alone just owed money.

Li Muyun was very satisfied with Lao Qian's attitude, looked at the 'Emperor Sword' in his hand and said: "Well, let's settle this matter, let's go first."

"Okay! Okay!" Qian Botao quickly agreed, not wanting to look at Li Muyun any more.

This is too bad. If Li Muyun directly took the 'Sword of Heaven' and explained the origin clearly, it probably wouldn't be so scary. The key is that this guy deliberately made a bad show, holding the sword for others to see. Money is unacceptable.

However, Lao Qian's nightmare didn't seem to be over yet. Just when Li Muyun and the others walked to the door, he seemed to think of something again, turned his head and said to Qian Botao: "By the way, there is one more thing. On New Year's Eve, my That stockade is going to hold a gambling king contest, don't forget to go to Qian Changshi then!"

(End of this chapter)