A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 326 Duan Wan
Xiazhou, Ningshuo.

Mr. Duan went straight to the backyard and quickly walked to his sister on the swing in the garden.He held a few scrolls in his hand, "Guess what, what is this?"

Duan Wan saw at a glance that the scroll was unusual.

"Could it be the Qingyang poetry anthology that I asked my brother to help find last time?"

"This is no ordinary Qingyang poetry anthology. I met Wu Qingyang in Yamaga this time, and I specifically asked him for a calligraphy and painting," he told his sister with a smile, "Wu Qingyang is indeed talented and a very nice person. Do it directly in front of me. this calligraphy and painting,

He unfolded the scroll, a long scroll, Western Regions, Desert, Iron Armor, Jin Ge...

The scene in Wu Qingyang's poem on the frontier fortress immediately rushed to his face, and the poem accompanying the painting, especially the vigorous and powerful calligraphy, made this work even better.

"what."

Duan Wan joyfully jumped off the swing, snatched the scroll, held it in her hand and couldn't put it down, her eyes were full of excitement.

As Mr. Duan told Wu Huaiyu, his younger sister is also a poet, but after reading Wu Huaiyu's poems, she also became a fan of his poems.

"Did Wu Qingyang really do it himself?"

"That's still fake. You see, the inscription and seal on it are not only Wu Qingyang's, but also clearly stated that this calligraphy and painting is for you, Duan Qiniang."

Duan Qiniang has a happy face, the authenticity of an idol.

Mr. Duan laughed beside him, "Wu Qingyang is very handsome, very suave," he took out another scroll, and handed it to his sister, "I even specially made a portrait of him, just look."

Mr. Duan is good at business, but in fact he has read a lot of books, and he is even talented in calligraphy and painting. When the scroll unfolds, Wu Huaiyu's elegant demeanor is vividly displayed on the paper, and Duan Wan is a little dazed looking at it.

"How about it, is it handsome?"

Duan Wan chuckled, "It's a little different from the Wu Qingyang I imagined. I thought he should be as tall and powerful as the thirteenth uncle, and even a little bit mature, but unexpectedly he is so young."

"I'm only nineteen, so of course I'm young."

Duan Shen secretly observed the expression on his sister's face.

"Little sister, when I was drinking tea with Wu Qingyang, I showed him some of your poems. He spoke highly of you and praised you as a rare talented woman."

"Oh, why are you telling him this?" Duan Wan was a little embarrassed.

"Little sister, Wu Qingyang, he admires you very much."

"how come."

Duan Shen strikes while the iron is hot, "I think you are a good match, both of you are talented, and you are both talented and attractive. The most rare thing is that you can still appreciate each other and understand each other's poems."

Duan Wan turned to look at her brother with doubts in her eyes.

She likes Wu Qingyang's poems very much, but she also knows that Wu Qingyang married a wife early on, and she married the daughter of Fan Xing, a nobleman of the Wu De Zhen Guan Dynasty, and the Fan family is still a famous Anlu family.Before that, Li Sanniang, the daughter of the Yongkang government, even chased after thousands of miles to Shuofang, and had a scandal with Wu Qingyang, but it is said that in the end Wu Qingyang still rejected this third lady who didn't even care about her name.

"Little sister, my uncle and elder brother also introduced you to many famous disciples before, but none of them caught your eye. You see, you have all of them now, and you can't stay like this forever."

Duan Shen smiled and said, "Wu Qingyang is really nice. After getting in touch with him, I found out that he is even better than the rumors. I think you are quite suitable."

"Brother, what do you mean?"

"Brother means you can marry Wu Huaiyu as your concubine,"

"To be a concubine?" Duan Wan was surprised.

"It's my wife."

"I'm a noble concubine, but she's still a concubine." Duan Wan was surprised that her elder brother intended to marry her as a concubine. Although the Duan family was in decline, it hadn't reached that point yet.

Duan Shen smiled and took out a lot of gifts for his sister, including a copy of the latest Beijing News.

"The latest issue of Biography of the Bearded Man is very exciting. This issue of Beijing News also started to serialize a new story called Liaozhai. They are all stories about ghosts, gods and monsters, but they are also exciting."

Duan Wan was not in a hurry to read the Beijing News, which she likes very much now, but asked her elder brother what he meant.

The two siblings have been dependent on each other since childhood, especially since their mother died of illness.

Duan Shen smiled and stretched out his hand to caress his younger sister's head. He loved this younger sister and never let her be wronged. He remembered that when he returned to Chang'an, he was bullied by his half-brother. When he was young, he could go crazy regardless of everything. It seemed like he was tearing at his older brothers, just to protect his younger sister.

After coming to Uncle Duan Decao's place, in fact, he was bullied by the clansmen here when he was young, and sometimes even the servants dared to bully him.

As long as someone dared to bully his sister, he would step forward with red eyes and fight hard.

Every time he was beaten, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, but afterwards he would reach out and touch his sister's head, rub her hair, and shave her nose to reassure her not to worry.

"I think Wu Qingyang is really nice,"

"Brother, do you like the prominent family status of the Wu family now, or do you like Wu Huaiyu's young and prominent position?"

"Little sister, brother loves you the most,"

Duan Shen told Wu Huaiyu that his sister worshiped him, liked him, and even volunteered to be his concubine, but it was actually Duan Shen's one-sided remarks.

Now that he came back, he told his younger sister that Wu Huaiyu admired Duan Wan, revealing that Wu Huaiyu intended to accept her as his concubine.

Lying on both sides.

They all just fancy Wu Huaiyu.

Duan Shen is a businessman with a unique vision and thinks that Wu Huaiyu is a rare commodity.

He wanted to be bound with Wu Huaiyu, of course he couldn't just send some slaves and some beauties, it was better to get married, if his younger sister became Wu Huaiyu's concubine, then the relationship would naturally go to a higher level.

"Little sister, we have been kicked out of the house for more than ten years. Auntie has not been buried in our Duan's ancestral grave. Brother can only be a businessman. We live under the fence. Although my uncle takes good care of us, he is also old. , it is impossible to take care of us all the time, in this family, many people look down on us, no matter how much I do for them, no matter how much money I make, in their eyes I am just a servant of their family."

"I want to stand on my own and revive the lintel, and I want to achieve some success, and I also want you to be happy."

"Wu Huaiyu is really good, talented and capable, and his family background is good, I am very optimistic about him, and I think he will be able to make a fortune in the future..."

"Of course, brother will never force little sister,

If you don't want to, never force it. "

After Duan Shen left.

Duan Wan held the painting and calligraphy and sat on the garden swing for a long time.

She put away her calligraphy and paintings, unfolded the portrait her elder brother painted for Wu Huaiyu, and Duanxiang painted that person for a long time.

She didn't fall asleep that night.

She remembered that more than ten years ago, her father died suddenly in Jiangnan, and her mother took her young siblings back to Chang'an to help her spirits, but she was kicked out of the house when she got home, and she was not even qualified to mourn for her father.

Over the years, her elder brother has taken good care of her, and the two brothers and sisters depend on each other for life.

She knows what her brother has been running around all these years. He is running private property for his uncle. The uncles and brothers in the clan are enjoying the profits, but they still look down on them. They don't regard them as family members at all. Some even treat them as housekeepers, like servants Treat it as usual.

Brother has ambition and ability, and wants to do something, she knows it very well.

Now, he takes a fancy to Wu Huaiyu, and even wants to make himself his concubine.

Can't sleep, get up.

Light up the lamp, and turn over the calligraphy, paintings and portraits.

The poems, the characters, the paintings, the images, if it is just a simple evaluation of these, it is really good, although she prefers not to mix other things, but if she really wants to support brother, this may not be a bad thing.

But, does he really want to take himself as a concubine?

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Xiazhou, Shuofang.

Tongwan City is called Baichengzi by local people.

Back then, Helian mobilized 10 people and took six years to build Baicheng, dreaming of unifying all nations and ruling the world. As a result, it was captured by the Northern Wei Dynasty in less than ten years in the hands of Helian and his son.

Tongwan Town in the Northern Wei Dynasty, later the Xiazhou Government, then Shuofang County in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and then at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Ying Yanglang, a local tyrant, killed the prefect of Liang Shidu, ruled the roost separately, and made it the capital of Daliang.

But now, the Daliang capital was once again surrounded by the Tang army.

Baicheng is very majestic.

Wu Huaiyu came to the city on horseback and looked at this famous city on the Silk Road.

Tongwan City can be counted as the first city outside the Great Wall in northern Shaanxi.

The three cities stand side by side and stand on the north bank of the Wuding River.

From Datong in Shanxi to Wuwei in Hexi, Tongwan is an important Silk Road traffic line connecting Hexi Goku. From Pingcheng (Datong) at the easternmost point, through Hequ, Fugu, Shenmu, Hengshan, westward from Tongwan City, and Lingzhou , to Wuwei, Liangzhou.

Nine domains offer gold and silver, and eight parties offer their treasures.

Even now, Tongwan City has always been an important town from Guanzhong North to Heshuo.

Along the line of the Great Wall, it connects the east and the west of the river together, and it is even the gateway to the Turks in northern Serbia.

There are three cities of Waiguo City, Dongcheng City and Xicheng City.

Although the city has gone through Great Xia, Northern Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, Sui and Liang, it is still so majestic.

The Liang division that Duan Decao once fought back then had only one of the three cities left, but in the end they still failed to capture it.

"Listen, people in the city, I am the chief of the Lingwu Dao Marching Army of the Tang Dynasty, the governor of Lingzhou and the governor of Yanzhou, the prince Xima of the East Palace Economic Bureau, the owner and bachelor of the Chongxian Hall, and the founding father of Shouyang County. Huaiyu is the same, let Liang Shidu open the city and surrender immediately, otherwise, when the city is broken, no one in the Liang family will be spared."

Soldiers approach the city.

Wu Huaiyu personally came to persuade him to surrender.

However, he didn't expect to be able to persuade Liang Shidu to surrender with a few words, but now that the soldiers are approaching the city, he can take advantage of the situation to scare Liang Shidu, just like when Jieli drank the Ma Weishui and then sent envoys to threaten and blackmail Datang.

Wu Huaiyu and the others didn't intend to attack the city at all.

But beating children on rainy days is also idle, taking advantage of other soldiers and horses sent out to forcefully relocate the immigrants, it is good for him to cheat Liang Shidu, if he has dates or not, he will hit three poles first.

If Master Liang is really afraid and really pays tribute of gold, silver and silk to seek peace, isn't that a net profit?

Anyway, it's just a pull.

Sure enough, Wu Huaiyu went out in person and followed the city several times, and Liang Shidu really sent envoys to negotiate outside the city.

The envoy of Liang Shidu said that the Turkic army was going south and was about to arrive, and asked the Tang army to withdraw quickly.Wu Huaiyu said that they had surrounded Tongwan, and there were still many soldiers and horses sweeping the outer fortresses of Shuofang, and follow-up troops from Yanqing and other places were also coming.

Anyway, it is mutual bluff and intimidation.

After wasting a long time of saliva, I finally got to the point.

Wu Huaiyu directly asked for the tribute, and the lion opened his mouth.

The envoy Liang returned the money on the ground and bargained for the price.

After chatting for a day, envoy Liang went back to return to his command. Master Liang did not agree to pay the tribute, but he also sent envoys to reward Tang Jun with one hundred shi of grain and one hundred sheep.

Wu Huaiyu accepted all of them with a smile, and said that Liang Shidu had three days to think about it, and he would not attack the city in these three days.

Wu Huaiyu felt it was a good deal for a meal of vernacular in exchange for a hundred shi of grain and a hundred sheep.

And Master Liang felt that one hundred shi of grain and one hundred sheep could be exchanged for three days, which was quite a deal.

(End of this chapter)