Chapter 123 People from Chang’an

After Liang Luoren left, Li Kuan dealt with some affairs of the Mutual Market and Grassland Bank, and then took the initiative to go out and headed for the small market in the Ranch Mutual Market.

Behind him were Fang Ping and a knight named Luoyang.

Both of them came out of the commando camp.

In the small market, the flow of people is not large. Many of the businesses are bought by one's own people, and only a small number of people are Turkic.

Turks are now more interested in what kind of goods they like in the warehouse, and the entire tribe buys one warehouse.

To put it bluntly, it means buying in bulk and then doing internal distribution.

The reason for this is that Li Kuan reduced the price of their bulk goods.

Li Kuan came to the market and felt a little unhappy when he saw the men filling the market.

"Sure enough, in this grassland mutual market in the feudal era, women rarely appeared."

"I just don't know if someone will take the risk and open a brothel here. It should be quite profitable. After all, the men stationed here stay for a month or two, which is quite stressful."

While walking, Li Kuan was thinking about other things.

After seeing Li Kuan, many storekeepers in the market gave instructions to the shopkeepers and left alone from the trail.

Li Kuan walked all the way to the end of the market, where there was a house with the name of the market neighborhood committee written on it. He pushed the door and walked in. Dozens of shopkeepers had already gathered inside.

Li Kuan was not polite and went straight to the innermost position and directly gave instructions: "Two things. The first thing is to summon all your raiding teams on the grassland. I have sent a message to Chang'an.

They will send a general to Huashi here on a private business trip to take charge of security, and I want to form a security brigade."

"The second thing I will tell the grassland people is that you now only accept bills from the Grassland Bank, and if they want to get the votes, they can only go to the Grassland Bank to make deposits. Don't let me know."

"If you spill the beans, I will kick you out of the market."

These shopkeepers looked at each other, clearly understood their own situation, and responded accordingly.

They themselves are the powerful people in their respective aristocratic families. They still understand how to operate on the grassland.

However, the shopkeeper of the Cui family couldn't help but ask: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, the general sent by Chang'an, will not use our privateering team as cannon fodder, or directly integrate them."

The worried look on his face made Li Kuan couldn't help but curse in his heart, Damn, Lao Li, you and your subordinates have such a bad reputation.

Li Kuan felt that since the other party had such worries, he must have been deceived by a wicked person.

Li Kuan hesitated for a moment, and when he was about to explain in embarrassment, a shopkeeper from a small family named Bai next to him said with a sad face: "Also, you won't say that you will train the privateering team well and then give it to us."

Let’s replace a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people.”

The distrust on his face and what he said made Li Kuan extremely embarrassed.

With the leader in charge, the others also spoke up one after another and brought up various situations. Basically, they were distrustful of Li Shimin and were afraid that the court would do something immoral and trick them into a trap.

In response to their worries, Li Kuan had no choice but to sign a pledge, saying that what they said would never happen.

Li Kuan even clapped his chest and said, "Everyone, if you don't trust them, don't you trust me? When have I ever tricked you?

I, Li Kuan, always choose a win-win situation and never put my reputation on the line.

The shopkeeper of the Cui family reluctantly bowed and apologized to Li Kuan.

"His Royal Highness King Chu, we don't believe you. We have been tricked many times."

"You just heard what we said."

"They borrow people without repaying them, use disabled people to replace high-quality people, use our people as dead soldiers, and some cause damage to the population and then transfer the population secretly."

"We know that our family is very hateful, but we have also been tricked many times, so we have to be careful."

Li Kuan nodded and expressed his understanding. It didn't matter if he signed or stamped his name. Anyway, he used the name of King Chu of the royal family, not Li Kuan. If something happened, he wouldn't care. The royal family would be the one to take the blame. Who would let him?

What he signed was the royal king of Chu.

Who is called the Royal King of Chu? Who would call such a strange name?

By that time, nothing happened, nothing happened, and the raiding team was returned to this group of aristocratic families honestly. Then, as the king of Chu and a member of the royal family, it would not be too much to say that Li Kuan would gain a lot of reputation for being honest and trustworthy.
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Li Kuan’s little abacus was making a clanging sound.

The security general sent by Chang'an City arrived very quickly, and it was Zhang Gongjin.

This man was very fierce in history. He was Li Jing's deputy when he fought against the Turks.

One of his greatest achievements in life was guarding the Prince Qin's Mansion for Li Shimin when he was at the Xuanwu Sect. He killed Xue Wanche by himself and guarded Li Shimin's relatives in the Prince Qin's Mansion.

He who can fight and resist is still a commander; he who can be a marshal who can lead troops and lead troops to charge is still loyal.

Zhang Gongjin doesn't have any arrogance yet, and his character is the same as Li Kuan's, with the hardness that has been evaluated by everyone.

When the shopkeepers of the aristocratic family saw that the person coming was Zhang Gongjin, they all breathed a sigh of relief. He was a good guy, he could fight and resist, and he was handsome. Most importantly, he was the only one of Li Shimin's cavalry with good character.

Zhang Gongjin always smiles at everyone and is reasonable.

The only bad thing about Li Kuan was that as soon as he arrived, he took away the assault battalion and used it as his personal bodyguard. He arranged for people to rotate to protect Li Kuan every few days.

To explain in Zhang Gongjin's words, in order not to affect the senses of the Turks, he brought a few guards with him when he came. If he did not get some loyal and capable personal guards, he would not be able to command the family's privateering team. You know,

Any army that has a relationship with a noble family is difficult to manage.

Facing Lao Zhang's well-founded words, Li Kuan chose to accept it. He believed Zhang Gongjin for once.

The privateering teams of the aristocratic families were summoned from various places to the mutual market, and Zhang Gongjin personally took over, reorganized and conducted special training.

That's right, Lao Zhang started training directly.

Regardless of whether he is a private soldier of a noble family, he needs to practice anyway and be able to protect the safety of the mutual market.

When Zhi lost his thoughts and saw the scene of Lao Zhang training his troops, he was shocked. Then he couldn't sit still and rushed over to question.

"The Tang Dynasty wants to start a war, but you lead troops to the grassland, and there are 10,000 people in the area. It's too much."

Zhi lost Si Li did not know Zhang Gongjin. He knew very few generals in the Tang Dynasty, basically three, Chai Shao, Xue Wanche, and Yuchi Gong.

The first two had been confronting him on the grassland all year round, and it was difficult not to recognize him. The latter had shaved his head and captured him.

Faced with Zhi Losi's questioning, Li Kuan sneered: "Which of your eyes saw the word "Datang Official" written on those people?
Chapter completed!