I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 18 The Big Blue

When Gongsun Zan regained his spirits, he insisted on forcing Liu Jian to interrogate the barbarians at night, but Liu Jian refused to go.

It wasn't because he was pretending, but it was really late, and he really needed to get a good night's sleep.

Also, he also wanted Gongsun Zan to be comfortable and comfortable.

As expected, Gongsun Zan might not be able to sleep tonight.

……

Early the next morning, Liu Jian cleaned up and got up for morning exercises. He was not in a hurry to go to the county office, but just waited at home.

He had to wait for Gongsun Zan to be in a hurry and have someone take him from his home to the county office. It wasn't because he deliberately made things difficult for him, but today's matter was of great importance, and he had to be in a psychologically superior position at all times in order to act.

Living alone in the world, what makes him most anxious?It is the unknown, especially an unknown that is closely related to oneself.

Gongsun Zan is like this now.

Liu Jian ate a big meal, then took the scriptures, sat bored in the courtyard, lying on a wooden recliner made by himself, took a nap facing the sun, and put the scriptures on his face.

Of course, it's not that he really doesn't like reading scriptures, it's just that he doesn't like studying Zhujia's commentaries, but Liu Zhou can't force him.

Every time Liu Jian was on the recliner, Liu Zhou would sneer at him and scold him for being "ingenious tools" and "very disrespectful" and so on.

But what's interesting is that once when Liu Jian was sitting on a recliner, he took a volume of scriptures casually. Liu Zhou obviously wanted to lose his temper when he saw it, but for some reason, he swallowed the words back abruptly In the middle of the day, he just gave Liu Jian a heavy 'hum' with his nostrils, then turned his head and left.

Perhaps in Liu Zhou's opinion, even posing is better than lying down.

From then on, every time Liu Jian rested on the reclining chair he made, he would randomly take a scroll of scriptures and use it to gag Liu Zhou.

Today, when Liu Jian was resting on a recliner, Liu Bei walked towards him from another direction.

He sat cross-legged beside Liu Jian's reclining chair, and said with a smile:
"Let me lie down for a while."

Although Liu Jian was very generous to Liu Bei, he never gave Liu Bei the reclining chair he made himself.

At least when Liu Jian himself was around, Liu Bei never sat down.

I also borrowed you to lie down, how about you borrow Jingzhou?

"Didn't I tell you how to make it? Make one yourself!"

Liu Bei grinned and said, "This one is comfortable for you to lie on."

"How do you know it's comfortable?"

"hey-hey!"

"Go as you go, don't borrow."

Liu Bei was not angry, and started talking nonsense with Liu Jian again.

"Uncle is hungover, and he still feels uncomfortable when he wakes up this morning, and he hasn't eaten any big food."

Liu Jian sighed helplessly: "Oh, I have to make him drink less in the future, how can there be such a way to drink it, by the way, there is a medicine called kudzu root, which is best used to make hangover soup, look back and see if you can prepare it. "

"What did you do with Gongsun Bogui last night? Why did it take so long?"

"He has abdominal pain and diarrhea, and he has a pickle. There is no other way but to wait for him."

"The toilet is waiting?"

"Wait outside the toilet."

"Auntie made delicious sunflowers this morning, and I want to eat some more."

"Then I'll tell my mother tonight that I want to eat."

"Brother, let me lie down for a while."

"Go and go."

"..."

For many years, the two brothers have nothing to do, just gossip one after another in the yard, often even for an hour, and sometimes it ends, even the two brothers don't know what they just said, or the same One thing or one sentence, they will say it over and over again in a trance.

Perhaps, this is a habit.

"Why haven't you come yet?"

Liu Jian stretched his waist and looked up at the sky.

"Who are you waiting for?"

"Gongsun Bogui."

"Ah? Didn't he come here yesterday?"

"Yes, but I'm sure he will come today... No, it should be said that he sent someone to look for me."

"Bragging!"

God seems to want to give Liu Jian a chance to show off on purpose. At this moment, a servant came to Liu Jian, saying that Gongsun Zan's assistant had arrived at Liu She, and asked Liu Jian to go to the county office with him, saying that he had something important to do. .

Liu Bei couldn't close his mouth in surprise: "It's really here?"

"Hehe, look, you're not bragging, are you?"

Liu Jian tidied up and came to the main hall, where he saw Yu Ze who came to Liu She with Gongsun Zan yesterday.

Yu didn't go into too much detail, and simply said: "Mr. Shaolang, I have come here to deliver a message by order of the Ming court. The agreement between Shaojun and the Ming court yesterday must be fulfilled at the county office."

Liu Jian knew that this was Gongsun Zan telling him to quickly cash in and blow it out.

"The official will be later, let me prepare for a while, and then I will go."

"No hurry, I'll wait for you outside the house." Yu Ze's face was cold, with an attitude of rejecting people thousands of miles away.

"There is tea brewed in the hall, and the officials can drink slowly here and wait."

"No need, I'll just wait outside, please hurry up, Young Master."

After all, Yu Ze didn't give Liu Jian a chance to continue talking, and turned around and left the hall.

"Gongsun Bogui's subordinates are all on the same level as him." Liu Bei shook his head beside him: "Deran, what exactly did you agree with Bogui yesterday?"

"Say on the road later, brother, greet people for me, pack up the gifts that Gongsun Bogui brought yesterday, load them into the car, and take them to the county office in a while."

Liu Bei's face showed a bit of reluctance, but this matter was discussed by their brothers earlier, this thing really can't be taken, it must be returned, so they can only do so.

After assembling the things and putting them in the car, Liu Jian and Liu Bei went to the county office together.

Yu saw that they packed all the gifts that Gongsun Zan brought yesterday into the car, and he was not surprised at all. He thought that everything was under the control of his county lord, and he didn't say a word that was superfluous.

The county office is in the bustling center of the county, and Liu Jian's home is in the west of Zhuo County. Very lively.

You are not allowed to ride a horse in the busy city. This is the most basic rule of the counties and counties in the Han Dynasty. Yuan Gonglu's background, otherwise ordinary people would never show off his ability.

Just as he was about to pass through the busy city to reach the county office, he suddenly heard a long hiss from the right side of the busy city, which attracted the attention of Liu Jian, Liu Bei and even Yu Ze.

Hearing the reputation and looking around, he saw a tall, broad and long chested horse tied to a big mulberry tree beside the road, with a blue and gray body, but it was a tall and good horse with a white face.

The horse attracted the attention of many people around.

Dozens of passing spectators gathered under the big mulberry tree, pointing at the good horse, whispering and commenting, but most of them were full of admiration, and it was obvious that most of them praised and envied.

There are four things that Liu Bei likes most on weekdays - gorgeous clothes, hounds, geisha, and the last one is a good horse!
As soon as this Liangji appeared, Xuande naturally couldn't hold back.

"Deran, take a look!"

The few things Liu Bei likes, in fact, Liu Jian also likes them, especially the best horses, which always attract his attention.

This is the same as in later generations, when most men see a top-level luxury car, they will wait and see for a while, comment on it, and long to have it in their hearts. It is just that the era has changed, and the car has also changed its load.

Surrounded by so many people, the green horse was obviously a little restless. It stepped back and forth, held its head high, looked at the crowd, panted heavily, and planed holes on the ground with its strong legs and hooves from time to time. It seems to be rushing out...

"咴咴—!"

Suddenly, I saw the green horse raised its two front hooves and neighed loudly towards the sky. The horse slave next to it hurried forward, grabbed the rein on its mouth with all its strength, carefully controlled it, and pulled it with all its strength. The head that seemed to be flying to the sky was torn off abruptly.

The surrounding audience couldn't help but gasp in admiration.

What a wild Xiongnu horse!

There is a saying: When the Xiongnu rides, there are only white horses in the west, green horses in the east, black horses in the north, and gelding horses in the south.

"What a good horse!" Liu Bei couldn't help admiring.

Yu didn't urge Liu Jian and Liu Bei to look at the horses. Instead, he watched with them. He had been in Liaodong for a long time, and he was good at grooming horses.

The three of Liu Jian squeezed in front of the crowd, while Yu was unceremonious, and walked to the side of the big qing 駹, carefully watching the pace of the big qing 駹 moving back and forth, counting the beat with his mouth.

Then he spread his palms again, and with one eye closed at a distance, he calculated the proportions of the horse's neck, body, and limbs palm by palm.

"What is the official doing?" Liu Jian asked beside him.

"Horses of the same breed can also be divided into good ones. Although Qingyu is a good Xiongnu horse, there are also high and low points. There are three types of good horses. You can infer whether it is a long-term horse or a transfer horse based on the length of its legs and body. , or both..."

Speaking of this, Yu sighed lightly: "This fierce horse has not been tamed and cannot be ridden. It's a pity that I can't watch it strolling fast today, otherwise we can conclude that it is suitable for riding, but judging from its length and legs, it is already It is a rare good horse!"

"Oh! This is an expert!"

With a sigh of admiration, on the other side of the mulberry tree nearby, a man who had been listening to them came out with a smile. The neat and symmetrical eyebrows seem to tell his delicacy and ability from the side.

Seeing this, Liu Bei smiled: "Who am I...so it's this swindler!"

Liu Jian also smiled, and thought to himself: So it's Su Shuang, no wonder he can get such a good horse.

The so-called scorpion generally refers to the middleman of horses in the Han Dynasty, that is, the intermediary.

Including the real estate agents of later generations, the real estate agents in Mashi are the originator of all the real estate agents in the land of China.

Of course, a horse business intermediary like Su Shuang is not an ordinary intermediary, but a business-intermediary joint venture that develops through multiple channels.

He not only introduces buyers and sellers to trade horses, but also spends his own money to buy and sell horses, and then analyzes the market, or sells them easily from north to south, earning a huge price difference.

This risk is much higher than that of ordinary scammers, but at the same time the profit will be much higher.

"Hey, this isn't the big tiger and the second tiger among the four tigers. How can you have the time to come and see the horse?" Su Shuang teased the Liu family brothers, but there was no malice. They had met several times before.

Don't look at Su Shuang's business is getting bigger now. In recent years, he has started to hoard horses and control the city in large quantities in the remote land, but a few years ago, he was also a well-known wanderer in Zhuo County, which was better than the four tigers in Zhuo County. And nothing less.

Liu Jian rolled his eyes: "Don't bark, who are the two tigers?"

"Hey, Ah Jian, have you seen my big green 駹? It's a top-grade horse that you finally obtained! No matter if you search the entire Zhuo County within three years, you won't be able to find such a good breed!"

After finishing speaking, he looked at Yu Ze: "Sir, you have a very good eye, what you said just now is reasonable, I heard it all, do you like this horse?"

Yu said bluntly, "I can't afford it."

Su Shuang looked at Liu Jian and Liu Bei: "In fact, this horse is not for sale. I just brought it here to walk around today. Since I got it, I have never been exposed in the horse market in the past. I don't want to go out for the first time. Let the two brothers run into each other, seeing how we are on a daily basis, if you like it, you can offer it at a lower price, how about it?"

Liu Bei hurriedly asked, "How much is the price?"

Su Shuang stretched out four fingers, and said with a smile: "I received 35 yuan in Mayi, and I will give you the principal, 40 yuan, how about it?"

When Liu Bei heard this, his face turned black: "In the horse market in Zhuoxian County, the most expensive black lily ever sold was only 25 yuan. Are you a golden horse? You want 40 yuan? You have clearly deceived me. !"

Su Shuang was not angry, but just smiled and said: "A Bei, your vision is narrow, isn't it? How can the cheap horse you mentioned compare with my big green 駹? It's like comparing a bird to a swan, and a tiger to a loose dog."

Liu Bei was annoyed by Su Shuang and wanted to laugh: "That 40 is too expensive."

"It's not expensive, it's really not expensive, it's just capital, I don't count labor."

At this moment, Liu Jian who was on the side suddenly smiled and said, "It's really a good guy, it's really one in a million... 100 million yuan, brother?"

Su Shuang was taken aback when she heard the words, and then couldn't help being overjoyed. She subconsciously nodded vigorously: "Sell, sell! Naturally sell!"

"Hehe, don't buy it, let's go!"

　It’s time to test the waters. Although I’m a little embarrassed, please give me a follow-up reading when you have spare time. It’s helping me keep this book and continue to go on. My writing skills are limited. quit, thanks

　　
　
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