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Dudes don't need to care about money, but as for official positions, as long as their fathers are still in the court, it's not their turn, at most they will be vain.
But fame is something that everyone loves.
It took a lot of effort to bring down those veterans in the court before, isn't it because these veterans are famous?
But when this kindness hall is in operation, they are a group of dandies, can't they be worshiped as living Bodhisattvas by the people of Chang'an City?
10,000+ copper coins are thrown out, what reputation is there?
When encountering this kind of thing again, you don't need to bother, the people in Chang'an City can drown those old officials with a mouthful of spit.
But Chai Lingwu poured cold water on everyone: "Ziyou, everyone, I'm afraid it's not right. It's a good thing to spend such a large sum of money to help orphans and widows. I'm afraid I will be impeached by someone who wants to buy people's hearts. That would be bad."
Li Wangyou cast a glance at him, with an expression of hating iron but not steel.
"Of course we can't just rely on me to wait for this matter. Since the land for building road toilets is provided by saints, then this charity hall must be dominated by the royal family. I will invite Her Royal Highness to be the head of this charity hall. We will follow Her Royal Highness , just hang a name in the shantang. In this way, who has anything to say? Is the impeachment of Her Royal Highness an invitation to buy people's hearts? Naturally, Her Royal Highness and the saints are enshrined for all people, and we can also have a good reputation. matter."
The dandies were stunned for a moment, then clapped their hands and laughed: "Miao, it's really wonderful! Ziyou, you are really smart, haha, this matter is settled! We must participate in it."
When everyone was talking happily, the old housekeeper Li Heng came in and said: "Your Majesty, the shopkeeper Ren Ji Saddle and Bridle Shop is asking to see you."
"Oh? Is he busy? Ask him to go to the main room."
"Mr. Ren, shopkeeper Ren brought a guest along to ask for an audience..."
551 Chang'an Fumin Luo Hui
What Li Heng said made Li Wangyou a little strange. It was understandable for Shopkeeper Ren to ask him to see him, but he brought a guest with him, which seemed a bit out of order.
Although Li Wangyou didn't pay much attention to identity, and he didn't have any prejudice or discrimination against merchants.But in the eyes of the people of Tang, it was considered a special kindness for a businessman like shopkeeper Ren to enter his house and pay a visit to him, the county uncle of Hu.
It is trespassing to invite a stranger to visit without saying hello.
Li Wangyou thought about it for a while, and felt that the shopkeeper should not be someone who doesn't know the importance, so he nodded: "Let's lead them to the main room, I'll be there in a while."
Cheng Chumo and the others laughed: "Ziyou, you are just too easy to talk to. This kind of merchant, to be able to enter the house of the founding county uncle of yours, has already burned incense in his previous life. It is not a good thing that you still indulge him like this."
"The shopkeeper Ren, last time I entered the prison, he also contributed a lot, and it can be regarded as a kindness. Brothers, sit down for a while, and I will go and see what's going on." Li Wangyou smiled and got up to the front yard Go to the hall.
"Wait for me, I'll go with you. Send them away early so that you can go to the palace to find Her Royal Highness the Queen and make this matter go away, hehe. Brothers, for the rest of their lives, they will be pointed at your kindness. "Cheng Chumo laughed and followed. Now, in his opinion, nothing is as important as this shantang.
"Let's go together." The dandies all booed, laughing and surrounded Li Wangyou and walked towards the lobby.
Li Wangyou is still staying in Chang'an City, and he didn't go back to Dingzhou Village, just wanting to finish the matter of this shantang.He naturally understood the dandy's anxious thoughts.This group of dudes eat, drink and have fun on weekdays, so there is no fun in running a good hall.
When everyone arrived at the lobby, the guests had been waiting for a long time.Seeing Li Wangyou and a group of dandies coming out, he quickly stood up respectfully to salute.
Strange guest: "I have met the county uncle Hu, and I am disturbing you by visiting."
"Hi Huxian Bo'an, this is my good friend. I have something to see Huxian Bo today, and I have made a special trip to introduce him. His surname is Luo Minghui, and he is also a wealthy businessman in Chang'an City." Shopkeeper Ren said so, but his body He bowed to the end, with a shameful expression on his face, which made Li Wangyou a little strange.
Li Wangyou felt that Luo Hui's name seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember where he heard it.
"You two don't need to be too polite, just sit down. Why do you want to see me today?"
Shopkeeper Ren knelt on the floor and opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to speak.On the contrary, Na Luohui cupped his hands at Li Wangyou: "Uncle Huxian, I am asking the shopkeeper for an introduction today, because I have a business I want to discuss with Uncle Huxian."
"Oh? What business? Let's hear it."
Luo Hui was respectful, and saluted Li Wangyou before saying, "Mr. Hu County spent a huge sum of money to build [-] road toilets in Chang'an City. I admire them very much. But this road toilet also needs someone to take care of it. Otherwise, after a long time, those filthy things will overflow, but they will not be beautiful, which will disappoint the hard work of Hu Xianbo. There are many people under a certain command who are proficient in this way and can endure hardships. Therefore, I take the liberty to plead with Hu Xianbo , hand over the three hundred road toilets to someone to take care of them."
Give him to take care of the road toilet?Li Wangyou froze for a moment, then suddenly remembered who Luo Hui was.
In the city of Chang'an, the one who made a living by picking dung and made a fortune from it was this man named Luo Hui.
There is a record of this person in the history books: "Chang'an Fumin Luo Hui made a living by picking dung, and it was called a "chicken shop" in the middle. "
Relying on such things as picking dung, not only a huge fortune, but also a fortune in the history book, this Luo Hui can be regarded as a talent.
After Li Wangyou's [-] road toilets were put into use, the wealth contained in them was invisible to others, but Luo Hui, who was born as a excrement picker, knew it well.
In fact, Luo Hui also had the idea to build a road toilet in Chang'an City, but he couldn't do it at all.Road toilets are easy to repair, but the land is not easy.Every inch of land in Chang'an City is expensive, and Li Wangyou was able to repair it because Li Er waved his hand and the government provided the land for free without taking any money.
And where would he have such a skill?
Although his family has a lot of wealth, his status is not even comparable to that of a merchant, so naturally he can only think about it.
After the [-] road toilets in Chang'an City were built, Luo Hui was envious of it, and the benefits contained in it were too great.
Luo Hui, who can accumulate tens of thousands of wealth by picking manure, naturally has his own uniqueness.
The large city of Chang'an has a population of one million, among which there are hundreds of people who work in the field of excrement picking.Originally, in order to grab the territory, there were many fights and fights.
This Luo Hui is very capable, and his methods are also very clever.
By wooing and suppressing, bribing the yamen servants and Marquis Wu, etc., he actually got all the people who picked up manure in Chang'an under his command, forming a considerable force.
Now in Chang'an City, all the excrement pickers have to pay different amounts of copper coins to Luohui every day according to the area they are assigned to.
In this way, now he only needs to sit in the mansion, and he can earn a huge amount of copper coins every day.Moreover, because he gathered a team of hundreds of people, these dung pickers were strong and listened to his words, which made Luo Hui's ambitions swell a lot.
However, Chang'an City is the heart of Datang, and nobles are everywhere.
Whether it is a princess, a hundred officials, a powerful family, eunuchs, forbidden soldiers, or playboys, people like Luo Hui who are born as a dung picker cannot be provoked.
But those ordinary merchants in Chang'an City became the targets of their bullying.And use the excrement as an excuse to charge high fees to those merchants.
Merchants were naturally unwilling to pay such wronged money, and as a result, Luo Hui forbade anyone to go to those merchants' houses and shops to pick up excrement.
No one picks up the excrement, and people like Luo Hui don't allow the excrement pickers outside Chang'an City to enter the city.In the end, due to helplessness, those merchants could only bow their heads and admit defeat.Obediently send a large sum of copper coins, begging Luo Hui and others to pick up the dung.
Therefore, in Chang'an City, ordinary merchants are polite to him and dare not offend this person easily.
Luo Hui is jealous of Li Wangyou's [-] road toilets, but suffers from the lack of connections to Li Wangyou, the founding county uncle.
Later, he didn't know where he heard it, saying that Ren Ji, the shopkeeper of the saddle and bridle shop, had a friendship with Hu County Bo.So Luo Hui brought a gift to visit shopkeeper Ren, and wanted to ask shopkeeper Ren to introduce him on his behalf. He had a business and wanted to talk to Huxian Bo.
Shopkeeper Ren naturally refused, but was threatened by Luo Hui and had to give in.
If shopkeeper Ren thought about it, no matter how bad this Luo Hui was, in front of Li Wangyou, it would be nothing more than a plate of dishes and would not cause any trouble.
He didn't believe that Luo Hui, a lowly and lowly person, could mess around in front of Li Wangyou, the founding county uncle.
However, shopkeeper Ren is still very guilty of leading Luo Hui into the Hu County Bo's Mansion privately.
Hearing what Luo Hui said, he couldn't help standing up and bowing to Li Wangyou: "Uncle Huxian, it's my fault for going down. In fact, I am not familiar with this Luo Hui..."
Before he finished speaking, Li Wangyou smiled and waved at him: "It's okay, shopkeeper Ren, I know your character very well, so there's no need to say more."