A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 1102 Wu Group
Xuanyangfang,
The Duke's Mansion of Qi State,

Today is the birthday of Qin Qiong, Duke of Qi, and Wu Huaiyu came here early.

"Why are you bringing so many gifts? Are we still so familiar?" Qin Qiong stood at the door, watching Wu Huaiyu bring a caravan of gifts, and couldn't help laughing.

"They are all my own things," Wu Huaiyu said with a smile.

Qin Qiong watched the servants of the Wu family unload boxes of various things from the car. It was really rich.

A burly and majestic man stepped forward, handed the steward of the Qin family a list, and then bowed to Qin Qiong, "My grandson An Lushan pays homage to my grandpa."

Qin Qiong looked at such a big grandson,

He smiled helplessly, "I haven't seen you for a few years, and you've grown so strong and tall. Your waist must be ten feet tall, right?"

An Lushan smiled quickly and said, "I am Hu'er. I was born stronger. I have been stationed outside the Great Wall for many years and I have eaten a lot of meat.
Whenever I miss Aye and my grandpas in the Central Plains, I can't help but drink to drown my nostalgia and eat meat to soothe my thoughts. Over the years, I have become so fat, which makes my grandpa laugh. "

For more than ten years, the miscellaneous sheep-herding boy Wu Huaiyu collected in Shuofang has now become a fourth-grade frontier fortress general, and the military envoy of Wuchuan, one of the six towns outside the fortress in northern Xinjiang.

The Liu family had no capital and was afraid of repaying the borrowed money for the shop in Baichengbian Market, Yanzhou. Huaiyu even invested money in a partnership with the Liu family, and he paid for it and Liu's wife helped.
Of course Wu Huaiyu wouldn't take a fancy to that little money, it was just a way to help her, but after the shop opened, Ms. Liu has been very attentive, and Wu Huaiyu has always shared a share of the money she earned.
More than a decade later, not only was the shop still doing well, but also, thanks to the influence of its partner Wu Huaiyu, the buckwheat noodle shop spread all over Shuofang and even opened in Chang'an.

It says thirty big deer, fifty deer, fifty roe deer, twenty domestic pigs, twenty dragon pigs, a specialty of Longnan in Qianzhou, twenty soup pigs that have been slaughtered and scalded, and Luzon black. Twenty pigs, twenty Qinling wild boars, twenty domestic pigs,
Twenty wild sheep, twenty green sheep, twenty domestic Tang sheep, and twenty domestic sheep.

Every year on the 4th and 3rd festivals, my son will bring many gifts, as well as a share of the annual profits.

The family now settled in Yanzhou belongs to a wealthy family, with many fields and many industries.
Liu's body is still very strong,

Mrs. Liu asked her son Zhuer to follow Huaiyu and do his bidding. Huaiyu accepted the offer and gave him the name Lushan. He also paid for Mr. Liu to open a chopped buckwheat noodle shop.

The misfortune suddenly crushed this family.
Fortunately, Mrs. Liu still remembered the nobleman Wu Gong who had taken care of her. When she heard that Wu Huaiyu was the governor of Yanzhou, she left her hometown with her whole family and went to Yanzhou to seek refuge. and a strong woman,
So they allotted fields to their family and borrowed money to settle down.

Later, Wu Huaiyu ate noodles at her stall and saw how pitiful she was, so he helped take care of her. However, her family was unlucky. During the busy farming season, the landlord's cattle were lost. Her father-in-law broke his leg looking for cattle all night, and An Lushan and his brother were herding sheep. , the sheep let the wolves take away both ends, and they have to pay for it.

Now he still has a big head and a big belly, but his whole body is like a little meat mountain.

"Is your mother okay?" Qin Qiong asked An Lushan.

Wu Huaiyu looked at him and said,
It is true that he has grown too fat, weighing more than 300 kilograms. I think about ten years ago, when Wu Huaiyu adopted him as his adopted son and named him Lushan, he was only a few dozen kilograms. He was so thin that he was covered with ribs and had a big head. pregnant.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed,
Zhu'er, a young boy who once herded sheep, has now become General An Lushan, a famous warrior in the northern border fortress.
"My mother was reluctant to leave Yanzhou and still kept the chopped buckwheat noodle shop that my adoptive father gave to my mother."

An Lushan's mother, Mrs. Liu, set up a roadside stall selling chopped buckwheat noodles outside Lingzhou City. The family lived a very difficult life and had many children.

Qin Qiong glanced at a very long list.

"Very good, thank you Grandpa for remembering me."

Qin Qiong nodded to An Lushan, "You happen to be in Beijing. Just come and sit with your adoptive father. Why do you buy so many gifts?"

Ms. Liu gave birth to a bunch of children, all of whom were malnourished, but they were all very sensible and helped set up stalls.

"It's nothing, just some worthless stuff,"

After An Zhuer became rich, he also bought land and a house in Chang'an. He also mentioned to his mother that he would take them to Chang'an to enjoy the blessings. However, Liu was used to being busy and was still used to the drought and sandstorms in Shuofang and liked the buckwheat there.

The housekeeper handed the gift note from An Lushan to Qin Qiong.

It has become a famous noodle shop in the northwest, and after a year, it can actually make a lot of money.

I can’t bear to part with her noodle shop either.

Two hundred catties of various miscellaneous fish,
Two hundred live chickens, ducks, and geese, two hundred live chickens, ducks, and geese, and two hundred pairs each of pheasants and hares.

Twenty pairs of bear paws, twenty deer sinews, fifty kilograms of ginseng each, fifty deer tongues, fifty ox tongues...

Two bags each of hazelnuts, pine nuts, walnuts, and apricot nuts, two hundred kilograms of dried shrimps, one thousand kilograms of silver frost charcoal for the best grade, two thousand kilograms for the medium grade, and thirty thousand kilograms of firewood.

Two stones of black rice, fifty stones of green glutinous rice, fifty stones of white glutinous rice, fifty stones each of variegated beams and grains, one thousand stones of ordinary rice, and ten carts of dried vegetables of various colors...

There are also some naughty things for the young men and ladies of the Duke of Qi, including two pairs of ponies, two pairs of young camels, two pairs of live deer, four pairs of live white rabbits, four pairs of black rabbits, four pairs of golden pheasants, and four pairs of wild ducks... ···

Qin Qiong looked at the long list and didn't know what to say.

He looked at this young man who was stronger and stronger than him. Although he looked very honest and honest in front of him and Huaiyu,

But Qin Qiong has been in Chang'an for the past few years, and you can often hear about his reputation in Saibei. This guy guarded Saibei and beat down some dishonest Xi, Lin, Khitan, Turk, and Tiele tribes until they cried for their fathers and mothers. They even directly massacred many tribes.

In recent years, border markets have emerged in northern Xinjiang, and border trade has become very exciting. Along with it, there has been smuggling trade, as well as horse thieves and mountain bandits.

An Lushan was ordered to crack down on smuggling and bandits.

show no mercy,

In fact, many of the smuggling on the border are related to people with backgrounds, and even people from the military on both sides are involved, and even wealthy families on the border are involved.

Most of the so-called bandits and horse thieves are not real bandits, but tribes or powerful people, and some are directly armies. For the sake of money, many people take desperate risks.

But An Lushan doesn't care what your background is, he will attack you all.
He showed ruthlessness and extremely powerful abilities. No matter whether he was evil or bright, hard or soft, it was difficult to deal with him.

This guy is in Northern Xinjiang, and his hands are stained with the blood of countless people.

Many Hu tribes on the border changed their colors when they heard An Lushan's name. Some people directly called him Grandpa An or Lord An. According to the Tang people, they called him dad.

It can also stop children from crying.

But every time such a guy comes to Chang'an, he will not only go to Wu Huaiyu's house and show all the courtesy, but also go to Qin Qiong, Li Jing, Cheng Yaojin and other houses, and every house will have gifts.

For example, right now, Qin Qiong was just celebrating an ordinary birthday, inviting some relatives and friends to have a meal. An Lushan happened to catch up in Beijing, and he prepared such a big gift.
These things cannot be gathered together in a short time, and preparations must have been started long ago.

Wu Huaiyu smiled and said to Qin Qiong, "Did this guy give away pigs, sheep, deer, deer, and rice charcoal? As long as the adoptive father accepts these things, these things are nothing to him now."

Qin Qiong is Wu Huaiyu's adoptive father, and Wu Huaiyu is An Lushan's adoptive father. This relationship is certainly not unfamiliar.

People do not blame,
Even if he is a fat man of 300 pounds, who wouldn't like such a generous gift?

Wu Huaiyu also received what An Lushan gave to Qin Qiong, and even more, as well as cows, horses, camel skins, herbs, etc.

Wu Huaiyu is not polite.

There is no need to be polite in their relationship.
During these years when An Lushan was in Saibei, his military fortunes were prosperous, his official career was smooth, and his finances were also good. However, Wu Huaiyu supported him in all these years.

An Lushan never forgot,
In this western expedition, Wu Huaiyu will also take An Lushan with him to give him another chance to make meritorious deeds.

Wu Huaiyu patted An Lushan's big belly.
Although this body shape was the favorite of ancient military commanders because it could fight and resist, being overweight is actually a disease. "Don't get fatter, otherwise it will be bad for your health."

Qin Qiong also smiled and said, "If you get fatter, you won't even be able to ride a horse."

An Lushan smiled and said, "I am a little too fat. I will definitely practice martial arts more in the future."

Huaiyu said, "Go back to my horse farm and pick out two Dawan horses from Kang State in the Western Regions. Those horses are tall, powerful, fast and have strong endurance."

"Thank you, foster father." Fatty An quickly thanked him with a smile.

The three of them chatted there for a while, and the Qin family was busy for a while before they moved away the various gifts sent by Huaiyu and Lushan.

"Are you all standing here waiting for me, Lao Cheng?"

Another pot-bellied general arrived on horseback, followed by several cartloads of gifts.

Duke Lu and General Cheng Yaojin of Zuo Yulin came.

Followed by several young masters from his family, the eldest son, Cheng Chumo, was wearing a purple robe that showed off his waist.

"Erlang."

Cheng Chumo jumped off his horse, came up and hugged Wu Huaiyu first.
The other brothers of the Cheng family also came up to say hello, but they were not as close to Huaiyu as their elder brother. They all remained polite. Some called him Prime Minister Wu, some called Duke Song, and some called Duke Wu.

An Lushan enthusiastically stepped forward to salute Cheng Yaojin and said hello.

"I really wanted to go on the Western Expedition with Erlang, but it's a pity that I didn't have the chance."

Cheng Chumo is now the governor of Huanzhou. He has done quite well there and has expanded a lot of land for the Tang Dynasty.

"Everyone makes great achievements no matter where they are. We brothers are going to have a good drink in a while."

"Well, we haven't had a drink together in three years." Cheng Chumo said with a smile.

While talking, Niu Jinda, Liu Lancheng and other good friends of Qin Qiong also arrived one after another.
The good brothers who were on the battlefield are now considered successful, but it is rare for them to get together in such a lively manner. This is a rare opportunity. Taking advantage of the fact that everyone is still in Beijing after the new year, it is Qin Qiong's birthday, and Wu Huaiyu's Zhang Luo is here, so they all coming.

Lao Cheng smiled and said to everyone, "We have all benefited from Erlang this time, and we can feel proud and proud to participate in the Western Expedition together. But everyone, please don't hold Erlang back.

Erlang issued a military order in front of His Majesty in the Golden Palace. "

Niu Jinda, Liu Lancheng, who had qualified for the Western Expedition, and Su Dingfang, who had just arrived, all clapped their chests.
"We will never hold Erlang back, otherwise our heads will be cut off and used as a ball for Erlang to kick."

Su Dingfang even let go of his bold words, saying that as a pioneer officer, he must capture Yugushe alive and hand him over to Wu Huaiyu.

"Then I, Old Cheng, can only attack Gaochang City and capture the King of Gaochang and his family to Huaiyu."

"Hahaha!"

The generals are so proud!

Qin Qiong was a little envious.

(End of this chapter)