Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 150 Overture
The head of the Dong family, Dong Zhong, had a long white beard and was wearing leather armor for hunting. He and several other noble heads in Gaochang City rode horses and lined up in the willow forest.

The servants are holding bamboo poles and are looking for traces of their prey.

After the prey is found, these servants will use bamboo poles to drive the prey together and call the master to come and shoot arrows.

Dong Zhong is about forty years old, and he has been pampered for a long time, which makes him look a little weak, but when people in Gaochang City see this Dong Hou, ordinary people will tremble three times.

The present Gaochang Kingdom was a country of Han people. The Ju family, the leader of the country, moved to Longyou from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, gradually grasped the power of Gaochang, and finally established the country and became the king.

And the Dong family, like the Ju family, is a Han family who moved from inside and outside the pass.

The Dong family has been in Gaochang City for 200 years, and the family has become more and more prosperous. Although the Dong family had been with their tails between their tails for a few years after the Gaochang Kingdom was destroyed, the Dong family soon integrated into the Datang system, and became even more powerful.

The hunting conference this time is not only a routine event held by the Dong family every year, Dong Zhong also has the idea of ​​connecting the heads of various families through the hunting conference.

Now Li Xiuzhang, the prefect of Xizhou, voted for King Jianning, and the affairs of the entire Xizhou were controlled by King Jianning's overlord. Cui Tao, the overlord's Sima, is now the real ruler of Gaochang.

The Dong family also inquired about the style of this King Jianning from Guazhou, Shazhou. Dong Zhong already knew about King Jianning suppressing the powerful and suppressing the powerful in Guazhou, Shazhou.

The visitor is not good.

Dong Zhong knew in his heart that if King Jianning wanted to continue to suppress the powerful in Xizhou, then the old Gaochang nobles headed by him must be the primary target.

Walking side by side with Dong Zhong was the patriarch of another big clan in Gaochang City, Jiang Yue, the patriarch of the Jiang clan.

Dong Zhong and Jiang Yue are relatives of sons and daughters, and the two families are also big families with the same spirit, and they are both leaders of the old nobles in Gaochang.

Jiang Yue drew the bowstring, and before he could shoot the arrow, the deer in the jungle was disturbed by a clumsy servant, so Jiang Yue could only put down the bowstring and continue talking to Dong Zhong.

The butler of Jiang's mansion immediately dragged the rough-handed servant down, spoiling the master's mood, he must be whipped.

However, a big family like the Jiang family has strict rules. Even if they were dragged down to whip the whip, the servant did not cry and beg for mercy.

Dong Zhong said: "Brother Jiang, a few days ago Cui Sima asked the government to buy slaves, what do you think?"

Jiang Yue said with a smile: "Of course there is no problem in buying slaves, but these are kept and trained by our family for many years, they are not the same as those rough envoy slaves on the market. The governor's office will buy them if they want this money, which is too despising of us The Jiang family."

A few days ago, Cui Tao proposed that the governor's office should pay to buy a batch of slaves from various families.

The price of the governor's mansion is the normal price of slaves at Renyazidian in Gaochang City. Obviously, these big families still want to sell their slaves to the governor's mansion at a higher price.

Dong Zhong said with a smile: "Yes, these house slaves are important assets of our family. Originally, it is not impossible for the Governor's Mansion to buy them, but if they are sold at a low price, I have no way to explain them to the family."

Now, the two have negotiated an offensive and defensive alliance, and they must pay a higher price than the market price before agreeing to the Governor's Mansion to take back the slaves.

Then Dong Zhong said another thing: "Brother Jiang has also received the decree from the Governor's Mansion, right? All human tooth shops in Gaochang City are to be closed. I remember Jiang's family has two big shops, right?"

Renyazi is a human trafficker. In Gaochang City, shops that buy and sell people are called Renyazidian.

It is legal to buy and sell human beings in Gaochang City. Some of the slaves in these human tooth shops are poor people who cannot survive, pawned wives and children, and the other part are foreign slaves sold from the west of Longyou.

It's just that the price of slaves in the Western Regions is higher, and they are high-quality goods. Most tooth shops sell local slaves.

In recent years, the situation has been bad, and more and more people are pawning their wives and selling their children. The Jiang family's front tooth shop has made a lot of money.

Jiang Yue said angrily: "Our Jiang family has been doing this human teeth business for several generations, and there is no eunuch who said that it is not allowed to do it. The governor's government is too strict! This human tooth business is not run by my family. Wait until he locks up the other families first, then come talk to our Jiang family!"

But Dong Zhong said: "Brother Jiang, you also know the situation in Shazhou and Guazhou. If we can't be twisted into a rope, we will be taken away by King Jianning sooner or later. Our big clan in Gaochang must keep watch and connect!"

Jiang Yue nodded and said, "Naturally, but my Xizhou is no better than Shazhou and Guazhou, and our Gaochang old clan is not an ordinary family that allows King Jianning to fish and meat! Many of our clan members have become officials!"

Dong nodded emphatically. An uncle of Jiang Yue's clan served as a judge in the Hexi Jiedushi Mansion, and Dong Zhong even had a younger brother who served in the Fengxiang Mansion. A few days ago, he wrote a letter saying that he had been seen by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Among them, he has been promoted to be an official of the East Palace.

Gaochang's old clan was originally an academic family. After Gaochang was conquered, Gaochang's old clan also integrated into the Tang Dynasty, and most of the descendants of the clan became officials.

Dong Zhong also believed that the reason why King Jianning didn't do it directly like Shazhou and Guazhou was because he was afraid of the strength of the old nobles in Gaochang City.

At this moment, one of Dong Zhong's personal butlers came up and said, "Patriarch, the live prey was taken away! Steward Dong was knocked out and stuffed into a cage!"

Dong Zhong said angrily: "What? Who has the guts to rob the slaves of our Dong family? Drag Member Dong to me!"

Director Dong was dragged in front of Dong Zhong, and as soon as cold water was poured from head to toe, Director Dong sneezed and finally woke up.

Seeing the Patriarch, Member Dong immediately crawled over and said, "Patriarch! Our Dong family's live prey has been snatched away!"

Dong Chonghan said with a straight face: "Who is so bold? Dare to break ground on the head of Tai Sui? Snatch the slaves of our Dong family?"

Director Dong immediately said: "It must be those untouchables in the willow forest! Earlier, a batch of live prey ran into the willow forest and was rescued by the chief."

"Why didn't you report it!" Dong Zhong's face became even uglier.

Member Dong hurriedly knelt down and said, "Patriarch, please calm down! Patriarch, please calm down! The little one thinks that such a trivial matter can be handled by calling a few servants, but he didn't expect that the head of the willow forest would dare to act first, grab Take the rest of the live prey!"

Dong Zhong glanced at Director Dong, and said to the servants behind him: "Take the guys, let's go to the willow forest and see what kind of bear heart and leopard guts have grown in this place, and dare to break ground on the head of our Dong family! "

(End of this chapter)