I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

Zhang Nuo didn't bother to talk to him, and didn't even get up. Instead, he leaned back, squinted at the so-called manager of the Wang's firm, and said angrily,

"If you fart, let it go, I don't beg you to say it!"

Obviously, Wang Gui did not expect that Mr. Zhang, who is a master of both poetry and literature, would be able to resist their Wang family in the legend, and his face turned red immediately with such vulgar words.

He regretted it just after he finished speaking. After all, he came here to ask for help, but his tone of voice seemed a little disrespectful when he spoke before, but he didn't expect that Mr. Zhang would come so directly, and would just be rude when he was angry?

However, people had to bow their heads under the eaves. He came to beg for help today. It could even be said that the life and death of the entire Wang family was in his hands.

So after Wang Gui laughed stiffly for a couple of times, he didn't mention letting Xingben leave, and said directly,

"My lord Zhang, I know that you have a close relationship with Your Majesty. My royal family is willing to spend millions of dollars to seek peace, as long as my lord Zhang goes to the palace for a while!"

Zhang Nuo was stunned, what do you mean?The Taiyuan Wang family asked themselves to beg Lao Li to let them go?

What kind of logic ghost came up with this idea? You must know that although Lao Li is the emperor, he only has a conflict of interest with the Wang family. He is the one who really has a life-and-death enmity with the Wang family!

He is the one who will never die with the Wang family, but now the Wang family in Taiyuan wants him, the most hated one, to persuade the little hated one to let him go. Isn't this a logic ghost?

This Wang Gui obviously knew some inside information.In other words, to be able to rely on important responsibilities after the Wang family was ransacked, I think it is a bit of a foundation.

So, even though his nostrils were upturned out of habit just now, when he sensed that Zhang Nuo's attitude was wrong, he immediately pulled out a particularly ugly smile and continued,

"My lord Zhang, there was indeed a little misunderstanding between you and my two families before, but you won after all, didn't you? It's a foregone conclusion. Now my Wang family is in trouble. As long as you are willing to help, the conditions just now are not enough. Satisfied, you can continue to mention it!"

"Money, I can prepare millions of coins for you here. Beauty, whether you want a daughter of the royal family who is proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, or a stunning top card in Chang'an City, I can satisfy you. As for power , as long as you can lend a helping hand, all officials of the royal family in the court will look up to you in the future!"

Zhang Nuo looked at Wang Gui's conditions one by one in front of him, as if he was extremely proud of his own conditions, but Zhang Nuo directly shook his head amidst his expectant eyes.

"Wang Gui, what about you, you came here. It would be a little unfair for me to arrest you and give it to Lao Li directly, so I will let you go tonight!"

"As for those conditions, you don't need to tell me. The matter between you and my family may seem to be a misunderstanding in your opinion, but in my opinion, since you organized private soldiers to attack my village and kill my subordinates At that time, you and my two families are already endless enemies!"

"I can earn money by myself. Millions may be very tempting to other people, but that's it for me. Especially since the money belongs to the Wang family, it proves that Lao Li will definitely be able to steal the house!"

"Then if I'm really short of money or I'm in a hurry to use it, I can just ask him to borrow it. I'm sure of that!"

"There are beauties and so on. I don't have any ambitions at all. I used to live next door to a princess, and she was a beautiful princess. Her status was more noble than that of your royal family's first daughter. I wasn't tempted either!"

"Power is even more ridiculous. If I really want to be interested in this, I can just talk to Lao Li directly. His support is more useful than that of any official. Moreover, after you have gone through this experience, there are at most a few implicated people left in the court. The big and small cats who are not deep may have to separate from you, I don’t even want this kind of homeless dog!"

Zhang Nuo refuted all of Wang Gui's conditions one by one, and Wang Gui's face turned pale!

He is a hidden child of the Wang family lurking in Chang'an. In the past, he was only in charge of the business, and he was a few companies that had nothing to do with the Wang family on the surface, but in fact his status in the Wang family was quite high.

Otherwise, when he first came in, he wouldn't be looking at people with his nostrils upturned.

Coming to Zhang Nuo this time was his own idea after meeting Wang Jishan through his relationship, and it was only after Wang Jishan's approval that he came to discuss it.

Although Wang Jishan thought that this trip was for nothing, and even thought that if he had the time to see Zhang Nuo, it would be better to secretly take some of the Wang family's blood, and use the money he hid to recuperate and pass on the blood.

But Wang Gui believes that the friendship and hatred between nobles are fake, and only the interests are real, not to mention that it was actually the Wang family who suffered a big loss in their previous conflicts, so as long as the benefits are enough, he Wang Gui Gui will definitely be able to convince Zhang Nuo.

Wang Jishan's body collapsed, and his spirit also collapsed, and because Wang Gui sneaked in through the relationship of the jailer, he couldn't stay for too long.

Therefore, after obtaining Wang Jishan's consent, he left directly and came straight out of the city.

He was really confident before, but he didn't expect that it was completely different from what he thought at the beginning. Why is this promise not willing to negotiate the conditions?

You must know that the conditions he raised are really sincere, and even in his opinion, even if you use these conditions to talk to Li Shimin, you may be able to negotiate a good result, but you never want to be defeated by Zhang Nuo. .

Chapter 411 It's too late to surrender

Zhang Nuo looked coldly at the stunned remnants of the Wang family in front of him, and said coldly,

"I, Zhang Nuo, have a lot of problems, but the biggest problem is that I am short-sighted. In other words, I hold grudges very much. To you, those who die are nothing more than some dead men, and it doesn't matter if they die or not!"

"But it's different for Lao Tzu, they are my subordinates, and any dead or wounded Lao Tzu feels uncomfortable.

Therefore, between you and me is an endless enemy, why let it go, let alone let Lao Tzu intercede for you? "

"I told you clearly, I am still worried that Lao Li will let you go, I am ready for Lao Li to let you go, and I plan to kill you myself!"

Wang Gui was completely speechless, and also completely desperate. He no longer had the arrogance he had when he first came in, and he became fatigued as if his spine had been taken away.

He thought it was because of his bad attitude that he angered the other party, and he planned to make an apology, but now that he looked at it, what was the problem with his attitude? The other party never thought about reconciliation at all. coming.

Wang Gui left, lost his soul and walked away like a walking corpse. Before he came, he had sworn to Wang Jishan that as long as he went out to lobby and spend millions of windfalls, this little boy surnamed Zhang who was born in a businessman would happily run for the Wang family. .

But in the end, as soon as they came, they were naked and slapped in the face. How could this be a life-saving Bodhisattva? You have to chase them down and kill them.

Although he just heard that Zhang Nuo said he would not kill him, he knew that this was just nonsense. Of course he would not kill him, but would send him directly to Li Shimin.

Wang Gui suddenly felt that he was so stupid. As the dark son of the family, he was in charge of countless wealth of the family. He could have thought of other ways to save the family, but he chose a dead end.

It's over, it's over!

Zhang Nuo is not in the mood to talk to Wang Gui, and he doesn't need to do anything about the Wang family's affairs, as long as he keeps paying attention, he believes that Li Shimin, a fierce man who is so ruthless that he dares to kill his own brother, will never do anything He will only be more ruthless than himself if something happens to relatives and enemies.

What he is most concerned about now is his new city plan. Even if Li Shimin doesn't deal with the Wang family, he can deal with it. It's just a seemingly brave family. As long as he is really hard-hearted, there are ways to deal with it.

But the new city is different. No one except him knows what it should look like. If it is put into someone else's hands, it may turn out to be a four-dimensional image. If it is exhausted, it will be just a satellite city of Chang'an, which is a big deal. just the bazaar.

Therefore, Xingben arranged for Xingben to take Wang Gui directly to Lao Li, and he turned around and started to continue his previous work. The urban planning he had done before was not finished yet.

Many things that are very simple in later generations are very difficult here. A very simple sewer system may have to toss people to death.

But fortunately, the cement workshop is already under construction now, and it is still expanding the scale as much as possible. As long as the cement workshop is completed, he can produce a large number of prefabricated parts, and prefabricated parts can be described as sewer artifacts, combined with underground tunnels Digging should fix the entire sewer system.

There is also tap water, which needs to be pressurized, which is a bit troublesome. Forget it, it can be fine even when there is no tap water, so it should not be a big problem.

Then, Zhang Nuo adjusted the existing drawings on paper in terms of greening, functional areas, transportation, livelihood facilities, etc., and kept taking notes in the notebook on the side.

This is not a joke. Although it cannot be changed for a hundred years or a thousand years, the urban construction cannot be outdated in a short time. To avoid this situation, it is natural to think, think and adjust more, and integrate all the elements into the design as much as possible. The details are taken into consideration.

Zhang Nuo is really concentrating on his work at the moment, flipping through books and looking up information from time to time, and recalling some of the layouts of the big cities he has seen and been to, including ancient and modern metropolises, and from time to time Still have to jot down a few notes.

And just when Zhang Nuo was addicted to the design again and couldn't extricate himself, Li Shimin was drinking and chatting with two special guests in the Tang Palace!

Zheng Shanguo had already drank several glasses of wine, but he was not a little bit drunk. Instead, he looked at the head of the Lu family chatting with Li Shimin with great interest.

At the very beginning, the three of them still had exchanges, and they were all talking about the affairs of the Wang family, but when the two of them figured out Li Shimin's attitude this time, they were also relieved.

They didn't worry about anything else, they were worried that Li Shimin would use this opportunity to attack all the families.

But judging from Li Shimin's statement before, it made them feel at ease. It seems that Li Shimin is not so brain-dead enough to fight against everyone, and it is also the reason why their family is not as domineering as the Wang family.

Speaking of the Wang family, on the way here, the two patriarchs actually had a debate on whether to intercede for the Wang family. As a representative of the court, Zheng Shanguo hoped to save the life of the Wang family, at least to leave blood.

But the Patriarch of the Lu family resolutely opposed it, and the reason was very simple. In fact, if the Taiyuan Wang family was only accused of the crimes in the newspaper and a little something found out later, the whole family would not be imprisoned at all.

What really annoyed Li Shimin was the audacity of the Wang family!

A family that dared to mobilize troops to hide outside Chang'an City, and then directly attacked Zhuangzi where the Supreme Emperor lived, would be a strange thing if it did not get wiped out.

Perhaps in the view of the Wang family, various reasons and conditions can be used to make up for it afterwards, but that is just their own understanding.

In the eyes of Li Shimin and others, this is extremely arrogant!

Even if the Wang family only mobilized their own private soldiers at the beginning, they were able to mobilize the private soldiers outside Chang'an city without anyone noticing and launched them brazenly, which proves that these people did not take imperial power seriously at all.

Otherwise, even the commanding generals would know about avoiding military power. Before leading the army, they generally would not contact the soldiers below, just to avoid the taboo.

After all, after staying in an army for a long time, as a general in charge of the army, it is inevitable that he will establish prestige in the army and completely control the army, which is a bit bad for the imperial power.

But now, an aristocratic family can mobilize more than a thousand private soldiers with good combat power to secretly come to Chang'an to raise swordsmen. If this is not a crime, then how can Li Shimin be an emperor in the future?

Chapter 412 The New Thoughts of the Lu and Zheng Family

Li Shimin knew the purpose of the two Patriarchs entering the palace today, but he didn't care.

It can be seen from the previous arrangements of these two families that they planned to follow his path, and they were very smart to start with Zhang Nuo.

In this regard, Li Shimin is happy to see it succeed!

The aristocratic family is not a scourge, it is still his people in the final analysis!

Perhaps a family as domineering as the Wang family and expanding its influence in the court will make Li Shimin feel uncomfortable, but in fact, as far as ordinary families are concerned, Li Shimin has no intention of killing them together now.

One is the bad reputation. After all, these aristocratic families were actually funded and sponsored by his father when he raised troops in Taiyuan. This family has just wiped out them less than ten years after the founding of the country. The reputation is somewhat bad.

If it is the Wang family who seek death on their own, it goes without saying that they committed a taboo, but other aristocratic families are honest now, especially the Zheng family and the Lu family who are still actively following the trend, so they should be encouraged is.

At the same time, another aspect is that these aristocratic families are indeed quite influential, and there are countless elite children in the family. It would be a bit too wasteful to kill them all in such a muddle.

Didn't you see that no matter whether it's Zhang Nuo's side or his court, there is a severe shortage of people now?

Although Zhang Nuo has produced the cheapest books and paper, how is it so easy to cultivate scholars?

Perhaps in the next few years, many available talents will emerge from the poor family, but for now, the aristocratic family is the biggest provider of talents.

This time the Lu family and the Zheng family came here together, and they thought it was nothing more than to express their attitude and reassure each other by the way. Li Shimin did not intend to pursue the other families to kill them all, nor did they have the wishful thinking to help the Wang family.

Therefore, the final meeting ended in such a pleasant atmosphere of eating and drinking.

However, as soon as they walked out of the palace gate and got into the carriage, the faces of the two who were still smiling suddenly turned cold. Zheng Shanguo walked to the middle first and sat down and said inexplicably,

"It seems that we have to make a good plan in the new city. Now the conflict between the imperial power and the family is getting more and more intense, but His Majesty has not given us any real comfort. It seems that His Majesty has already put Our aristocratic family treats it as tasteless, it’s a pity to discard it if it’s tasteless to eat, there’s no need to spend a lot of money to be safe!”

The Patriarch of the Lu family also rubbed his cheeks at this time. He laughed all the way just now, his cheeks hurt, and he muttered,

"That's the way it is. Although His Majesty is not a tyrant who kills the good and the virtuous, he is a lord of the generation after all. Just like the royal family, he thought that His Majesty would be scruples about this and that, and he would not dare to do anything. You have seen it!"

"Although we are bowing our heads, we are giants with profound foundations after all. Do you think His Majesty really has no fear of us? It's a fluke not to weaken us with cruel hands. Any consolation and appeasement are just passing by. !"

"It's funny to say the old man, but now that His Majesty didn't make an order to appease us, the old man was relieved. If he really got a bunch of rewards today, the old man would be terrified. You know, the more glamorous flowers are when they are blooming and the oil is cooked over a fire." The deeper the shadow, the deeper it is!"

"It's so flat now, everyone is comfortable! Shan Guo, what do you think?"

Zheng Shanguo nodded dejectedly,

"It seems that you are right, old brother. After all, he is a great Confucian in the world, and his disposition is much more transparent than that of me who hang around in the officialdom!"

"However, hehe, the old man has figured it out now, since His Majesty wants me to retreat from the court, then my Zheng family will retreat!"

Speaking of this, Zheng Shanguo laughed like an old fox,

"However, even though we withdrew from the imperial court, it's fine if the titles that grandma doesn't like and uncle don't love don't matter. Anyway, the left and right are junior positions!"

"However, this old man decided to keep an eye on those juniors working in Lantian New Town. Since I, Zheng Jiaerlang, are lucky enough to be an official of this new city this time, then this old man has to supervise them well so that these kids can really grow up!"

"Haha, when your majesty transfers people from the new city to the court, the six departments, and other places, I, Zheng Jiaerlang, will be the ones who rank high. I can't blame the old man. Hahaha, the old man knows where Mr. Zhang is. What is pursued is that the capable go up and the mediocre go down!"

The head of the Lu family also nodded with a smile.That's right, this is a conspiracy. It's a contest on the bright side. Whether you are Li Shimin or Li Chengqian, the officials you provide and the scholars you recruit are not as good as the sons of other people's families, so there is nothing to say.

In this regard, the head of the Lu family is as confident as the head of the Zheng family. The Zheng family is confident that Zheng Jiaerlang can stand out among the ruling officials, and the Lu family's confidence is that Lu Jiaerlang is definitely the best teacher and scholar.

This point does not even need to compete or pursue something to stand out, but his children will definitely be able to do it!

After all, his Lu family is really superior in this respect, and he definitely has such confidence!

The two patriarchs now understand how the family will go after the road.In other words, the complete destruction of the Taiyuan royal family made them more aware of how to keep the family alive.

That is to never underestimate the power of the royal family. When an emperor really decides to destroy a family, he only needs to move his mouth.

They don't need to think about anything else at this time, they just need to figure out how to train their children well in Lantian New Town.

However, since they want to follow the path of Mr. Zhang, the two old foxes feel that it is not enough to just invest in some young men?

After all, it could be said to be investment and betting in the past, but now it seems that it has found a way out for the family, and it is also a way to reach the sky.

And Master Xiao Zhang is not completely without manpower, if Master Xiao Zhang speaks to His Majesty, as long as His Majesty squeezes, he will definitely be able to spare some of the manpower for Master Xiao Zhang.

Then it only takes one or two years to train a group of outstanding talents from the old and the new. Then the talent dilemma will be solved by then, won't it?

Therefore, this transaction between them and Mr. Zhang is far from being at the level of giving charcoal in a timely manner!

These two patriarchs are elites who have been rolling in the world for many years, and they know the world best.

Therefore, in their view, since the needs of both parties have changed, the status has also changed.

They used to be equal, even a little higher, but after His Majesty took action against the Wang family, their status has dropped, so they have to make up for it quickly. Marriage is a good way!

Chapter 413 The Arrival of the Children of the Aristocratic Family

It doesn't matter how the aristocratic family messes with Zhang Nuo. At this time, he is completely obsessed with urban design. Central Park, fountains, street lights, and various ideas are popping up in his mind.

Of course he knows that it is impossible to electrify the entire city now, but this does not hinder his design.After all, you have to leave something for yourself.

In his opinion, it is already very good that Datang can enter the steam era under his leadership.

With the steam engine, the entire Tang Dynasty will completely enter the industrial age from the agricultural age, and human resources will be liberated from the land.At the same time, a large number of high-quality and low-priced products will also be produced.