The story of selling official positions in the capital has long been spread to local areas, and wealthy people like Li Wanqian are naturally clear. But those officials are just false positions, and they may not necessarily look up to them when they buy them. They are extremely expensive. Only high-ranking officials and nobles in Chang'an City are suitable for buying. The wealthy people in a place deal with are local administrative officials, and they are not suitable for traveling far away to Chang'an City to be a free official.

When Liu Yu asked this, Li Wanqian was stunned and then returned to nature. His official title was not high but useful. Compared to being an official, he would rather have a relationship with Liu Yu.

"A villain is not a material for being an official." Li Wanqian said with a smile.

Liu Yu saw Li Wanqian's reaction and guessed it. Liu Yu nodded and said, "I won't mention this matter for now, I'll talk about it after drinking water and wine."

Liu Yu ordered the palace maids to serve wine and food, and the emperor brought the food and drinks prepared from Chang'an City. There was a kitchen in charge of cooking. During the waiting period, Liu Yu poured a glass of wine for Li Wanqian. Li Wanqian was sitting there and he didn't dare to look around. Liu Yu poured the wine himself, and he even stood up to thank him.

"Why be polite?" Liu Yu picked up the wine glass and toasted Li Wanqian. After Li Wanqian drank a glass of wine, his face immediately became flushed.

This is a sign of incredible alcoholism.

"Come on Brother Li, drink again."

Liu Yu poured him three glasses of wine on his face, and Li Wanqian was at the bottom of the wine. Finally, he was no longer too restrained and dared to look around. He originally thought he could see the emperor or something, but from the beginning to the end, there were only palace maids coming and going, and he didn't even see a eunuch.

Originally, based on his understanding, the palace should be a "Wine Pool and Meat Forest". The palace maids should be like fairies, but now they can't help but feel a little disappointed. Some palace maids are even worse than the maids in his family.

"Prince, can we talk about the transaction of that... treasure letter?" Li Wanqian asked tentatively when he saw Liu Yu repeatedly urged him to drink.

At this time, the dishes also started to serve. Liu Yu smiled and said, "Brother Li, how old are you older? I will treat you as a brother. If we have something to say, I will tell you. Don't call him a prince or villain, that's too disgusting."

Li Wanqian smiled cautiously and said, "No...I dare not..."

"There is nothing to dare or not. Have another drink." Liu Yu poured Li Wanqian another glass of wine, "Since we hit it off at first sight, I will say something straight, alas! Now the court has been turbulent several times, and a war in the southeast and another battle in the north, which is because the treasury is empty. The court is tight at the hands of the government. Now I want to help His Majesty manage this country well, but there is no money on hand, so I have to use some things to exchange for some money to solve the urgent problem."

Li Wanqian blinked, and seemed not very clear about Liu Yu's meaning.

Liu Yu continued to smile and said, "Look at this, Brother Li, do you have anything you want? If I can afford it, let's make a clear transaction. How about each person get what they need?"

Li Wanqian is a businessman. He was originally afraid of Liu Yu's power, but now he heard Liu Yu talk about business with sincerity. He has restored his true nature as a businessman.

"You are so kind, Prince..."

"Oh, I won't call you a prince or a brother, it will be comfortable to hear this way."

The smile on Li Wanqian's face froze at first, and then he mustered up the courage to say, "Brother, you're so kind, villain... I don't have anything else, I just have money, but I don't have anything else to do except buy some land. My wives and concubines have married one house after another, and my sons are getting more and more, but I still suffer. Those officials come to blackmail us all day long... Of course, I'm not talking about you, brother, but those officials outside, we can't afford to offend them. But if they ask for money, we can't help but give it to them, right?"

When Liu Yu heard his bitterness, he nodded and expressed his understanding. He asked, "Brother Li, I have a question to ask you, have you spent a lot of money to do this transaction?"

Li Wanqian nodded with a wry smile and said, "There are thousands of taels of silver that have been spent..."

Liu Yu sighed secretly that the merchants were rich.

"Brother, since you think of it, I will tell the truth. I want a big and small official, but I must be the kind of officials in those places who dare not bully them. In the future, they will not be knocked by this and then knocked by that person after they are knocked. You see... Is there any chance?"

Liu Yu thought for a while and said, "The situation that Brother Li said is indeed true. These officials in the local area are not things. In this way, I will give you a Censor, a fifth-rank official, who is on the same level as Gong Shancai, who looks like a man outside. How about it?"

"The Censor? What do you do?"

"It is to supervise officials. As long as you find that the officials in the surrounding counties have committed illegal acts, you can submit secret books to the court, stating their corruption and abuse of power, so that they will not dare to ask you for money."

Li Wanqian's face was a little happy at first, but soon became dimmed, and he said with suspicion: "Those officials may not listen to me, either."

"Do you care whether they listen or not, I'll just finish it? If you write a memorial to the court, who bullies you? I will deal with him after reading it. Moreover, you are a fifth-rank official in the court. Who dares to be inconsistent with you?"

Liu Yu said it very well, but Li Wanqian was still skeptical. Li Wanqian asked tentatively: "I don't know how much silver this censor... needs?"

"Hundreds of thousands of taels, what do you think?"

Li Wanqian immediately widened his eyes again, and seemed to be in a dilemma.

Liu Yu thought this guy was not short of money and was willing to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy a broken post. He still cared about spending more money to buy an official?

"Brother, can you... allow me to go back and consider it?"

When Liu Yuxin said that he was so unhappy when he was doing business with these businessmen, Liu Yu nodded with a smile: "Of course, but we agreed that there will be no store after passing this village. Brother Li, I will stay here for one day and I will leave tomorrow morning."

"I'll go back, I'll go back."

Li Wanqian didn't care about the banquet, so he stood up and said goodbye. When he left, he looked back. Liu Yu probably guessed that he wanted to see who he wanted to see. Here, the emperor was naturally the emperor.

When Li Wanqian was sent away, Liu Yu arrived upstairs. His own women were gathering together for dinner. Li Wanqian hadn't seen the emperor just now, but the emperor had seen him. Qier was hiding behind the crack in the door and watched for a long time.

"My husband, who is he?" Qier asked.

"He is a rich man. He has money. I plan to exchange him for some money with an official."

"Oh, he looks like a meat ball, so ugly." Qier said while eating.

Liu Yu also smiled faintly. Although Qi'er is the emperor and outsiders seem to be arrogant and unstoppable, in Liu Yu's seriousness, she is just a flesh-and-blood girl. She is still a child with innocence and flawless nature.

At night, Liu Yu was reading a storytelling book. Lu Chu'er hurriedly returned, saying that the "meat ball" was back. Liu Yu glanced at Lu Chu'er, then looked at Qi'er and Xu Xuanzhu, thinking that the "meat ball" was not his own opinion of Li Wanqian, and it was simply a consensus.

"Let him come in." Liu Yu put down his commentary book and sorted out his clothes.

"Son-in-law, he refused to come in and said he would let you go out to see him."

"Hey, what a big rack." Liu Yu got up and put his short gun on his belt, then put on his coat, "I'll go out and have a look first. Maybe I'll come back later. If you're sleepy, go to bed first."

Liu Yu explained a few more words and then went out with Lu Chu'er. Outside the inn, Li Wanqian was waiting outside the inn.

"Brother Li, are you back so soon? But have you made a decision?"

Li Wanqian smiled and said, "I bought this official."

"I bought it? It's a good thing. You see, everyone gets what they need. How good is it? Can the money be brought?"

Li Wanqian shook his head and said, "Can the prince go to the city with me? I have a few business friends and I want to buy an official position. I don't have to be as big as me, I can spend tens of thousands of taels of silver as a real thing. By the way, it's also possible for them to know that I've made friends with you, right?"

Liu Yuxin said that Li Wanqian is worthy of being a businessman and refuses to be a sucker. He is preparing to collect some positions before spending money. Liu Yu was worried that this guy would be stolen, but when he entered the city, he would not buy it, but then he thought about it, and now he agreed to go back and regret it. He didn't want to live anymore!

It is also a good thing that you can attract more "customers" when you go to the city.

"It's a good thing to go to my brother's mansion, so be familiar with it." Liu Yu smiled and called the guards, and brought hundreds of people into the city. This momentum alone was enough to be intimidating.

Li Wanqian originally came in a sedan chair, but Liu Yu felt it was slow and asked him to make a carriage to lead the way. He rode a horse with the guards and entered the city in a mighty way. Originally, Gong Shancai thought that Liu Yu was going to the city for inspection, so he hurried out to greet him. Seeing Liu Yu and Li Wanqian, he guessed something. Liu Yu smiled and said, "Premier Gong should go back first. Today I am entering the city for private purposes, not for public service."

Although Liu Yu asked Gong Shancai to go back, Gong Shancai was still worried and sent an yamen to accompany him.

After entering the city, Liu Yu led the way to the Li Mansion's house. As a wealthy mansion, the Li family was rich, but the lintel of the house was not big. Some people had been waiting at the door of the outside house. The light of the lantern was not strong, and these people were waiting a little anxious.

"Please pay tribute to the prince." When they saw Liu Yu, they all knelt down.

Liu Yu smiled and said, "Today, Brother Li is welcomed, don't be too disgusting, just treat me as an ordinary person."

Liu Yu said this to give Li Wanqian face. When these merchants saw the fierce guards around Liu Yu, they didn't dare to look up, and they didn't dare to argue with Liu Yu's fellow generations.

After entering the outer house, passing through the hanging flower door, the group entered the inner hall. This time, Li Wanqian was very interested in the banquet and placed the banquet in the inner hall, so that he seemed intimate. It was also the first time that Liu Yu entered the inner house in a stranger's house. You should know that the inner house is a woman's field. In ancient times, there was "the door does not go out and the two doors do not step out", and the "two doors" refers to the hanging flower door that connects the inner house and the outer house.

The food and food are rich, with only one table, there are about six or seven people at the table, and dozens of them are standing and watching. Liu Yuxin said that this banquet is quite not simple.

“…Brother, please.”

In front of the business partners of all living beings, Li Wanqian finally plucked up the courage to call Liu Yu "Brother". This title was enough to make the merchants next to him feel shocked. Many people were watching Liu Yu's reaction.

"Brother Li is polite, please come with me."

At the inn, Liu Yu poured wine for Li Wanqian. When he arrived here, he changed to Li Wanqian to pour wine for Liu Yu. As the regent, Liu Yu must be careful outside. Originally, he did not plan to eat this wine and food, but after all, it was to make money, and sometimes he could only make some compromises. Liu Yu first asked someone to use a silver needle to test whether the cup was not poisonous. He then drank a glass. Li Wanqian's face was full of smiles. The regent went to his house to drink. This alone was worth 18,000 taels of silver.

Liu Yu looked at Li Wanqian's excitement and thought that he was "traveling" in his feelings.

"Transfer the silver. Hurry up."

Li Wanqian said hello, and there was some movement outside. Liu Yu came out to see that some servants from the Li family in the yard were moving boxes, each of which was very heavy. After all, 100,000 taels weighed several thousand kilograms, and it was very troublesome to just move the money back. Li Wanqian bowed to Liu Yu and said, "Brother, please order."

Liu Yu smiled embarrassedly and said, "Brother, don't you have any silver bills?"

"I'm not sure about that thing, so it's better to keep the money with you."

Liu Yu smiled bitterly. One pound is 16 taels. Although one pound is less than 500 grams now, the total amount of silver weighs two or three tons. It is obviously not a wise move to move it back.

"Let's do this, transport the silver to the money house in the city first, exchange it for silver notes and take it back."

Li Wanqian smiled and said, "It's good."

In Li Wanqian's opinion, as long as Liu Yu received the silver and the silver was taken over by the guards, it had nothing to do with him afterwards. He no longer cared about whether Liu Yu would carry the silver back or exchange it for a silver note.

Liu Yu ordered the guards twice, and several guards went out of the city to go to the inn first. Liu Yu found the officials who accompanied the emperor's carriage into the city. Since Liu Yu wanted to appoint Li Wanqian as the "Censor of Supervision". Everything must be followed by rules and regulations, and the court's appointment documents must be obtained, and Liu Yu did not have to work hard on his own.

"Brother wait for a moment, and this matter can be implemented after looking back."

Li Wanqian responded hurriedly: "It's so good."

He was also afraid that Liu Yu would not do anything if he accepted the money, but looking at Liu Yu's cautious attitude, he saw Liu Yu coming to the city to "grow his face" with him, and he knew that Liu Yu was very sincere.

Seeing Li Wanqian "successful". The other merchants could not sit still, and they whispered to Li Wanqian, asking Li Wanqian to ask Liu Yu about the price of other official positions. Liu Yu answered one by one. Since they didn't want to pay 100,000 taels, they would pay 20,000 to 30,000 taels, and each person gave the "Deputy Censor of Huaixi County" and the seventh rank. In this way, Liu Yu could make more than 100,000 taels of silver.

Some merchants thought it was expensive, so they didn't buy it, and some people who thought it was suitable had already gone back to collect the money. Liu Yu could finally sit down and rest, and Li Wanqian was smiling and pouring wine for Liu Yu.

"My brother came to the humble house and there was nothing to entertain, so why should I ask my inner person to come out and accompany him?"

"Hmm?" Liu Yu didn't quite understand. Is he going to pull his family out to meet him?

Liu Yu obviously "misinterpreted" Li Wanqian's meaning. Li Wanqian called "insiders come out to accompany him", which was really accompaniment. After all, Li Wanqian had many wives and concubines in his family. When Liu Yu nodded, Li Wanqian went in and called out twenty or thirty people, and stood two rows in the yard. They each carried lanterns as if they were palace maids waiting for the emperor to come. They were all gorgeous and similar to those of the women in brothels.

"The inner people are all like a puff and willow. Brother, you like it. Just call them to accompany you. Brother, you will also have a night at the mansion tonight, so that they can treat you well."

Liu Yu had long heard that wealthy families did not pay attention to concubines, and they were often used to entertain friends with concubines. This was the first time he saw them today, and he was immediately a little embarrassed.

If he really received Li Wanqian's "good intention", wouldn't he share a woman with this "meat ball"? He really can't stand such a bad thing. After all, so many delicate women in his family are waiting for his kindness.

"My brother, I'm sorry. Although I'm a lustful person, I'm still picky about women."

Li Wanqian was stunned for a moment. After thinking about it, it was probably because Liu Yu looked down on these women. Li Wanqian immediately smiled and said, "I have a high vision, that's why. I just took a concubine in a room and didn't want him to come out to see her. Today I will let her come out and let you taste it, brother."

Liu Yu originally wanted to say, "You should keep your own, just keep it for yourself." But before he could speak, Li Wanqian had already asked the maid to call. Liu Yu wanted to see what the woman, who was said to be unwilling to be with her, looked like she looked weak. When this woman came out under the maid's help, she appeared in front of everyone with a look of weak appearance. Li Wanqian's merchants "fare friends" immediately drooled, but Liu Yu was quite shocked, because this person was no one else, but one of the women in Su Yan's harem, Cao Yi, who disappeared from Chang'an City since the fifth day of the first lunar month.

Cao Yi lowered her head when she came out and did not see Liu Yu. She may have known Li Wanqian's nature and knew that she would come out to serve other men sooner or later. Therefore, she felt a little embarrassed and embarrassed to be unwilling to see others, but at the same time she had to come out due to helplessness. The complex emotions were so complicated that she evolved the image of a delicate woman who I still felt pity.

"Brother, how did you get your woman?" Liu Yu asked directly.

Cao Yi heard Liu Yu's voice and his body was shocked. When he saw clearly that Liu Yu was standing at the door, he immediately wanted to escape in panic. But when he saw that there were guards around him, he felt that he was already in a turtle in a jar and was completely sank on the ground and couldn't get up. The maid helped each other, and she just sat on the ground and looked at Liu Yu.

"This woman is crying, but she looks so beautiful. I spent a lot of money to buy it from a man's teeth. If I don't take action, she will be sold to a brothel. I've only been married for a few days. If my brother hadn't come, I wouldn't have been able to bear it."

Liu Yu looked at Cao Yi who was overly frightened on the ground and couldn't help but sigh.

This is really a change of time. The former lady of the family also became a dancer in the Song and Dance Hall, but by chance, she could still be remembered by the emperor. Entering the palace to be a beauty is also considered a good fortune. Who knew that beauty would be so miserable? If it weren't for Cao Yi, Su Yan wouldn't have to be driven off the stage so quickly by Liu Yu. Now Su Yan is in danger of life and death, and she has also fallen into the hands of this "meat ball" and is a merchant concubine who will whirl away when she calls her.

"This woman is really beautiful." Liu Yu finally smiled, "I just don't know if you are willing to give up your love, Brother Li."
Chapter completed!