The clerk smiled and said: "My guest has misunderstood. This Mr. Pei Xiu Pei is our VIP customer and enjoys a 20% discount, so he only needs 400,000 yuan to purchase this sword."

Ah Fu was speechless. Yes, he was a VIP customer, so he had privileges. It was the first time in his life for his son to come to Yipinju, and he hadn't bought anything yet, so naturally he couldn't get any discounts.

Cao Liang doesn't care if the discount is good or not. Even if he gets a half discount, Cao Liang may not buy this sword. If he sells it for 50,000 yuan and spends several times more to buy it back, wouldn't his brain be damaged?

Already?

However, this young master in brocade clothes turned out to be Pei Xiu, which made Cao Liang take a few more glances. Pei Xiu was also one of the founding heroes of the Western Jin Dynasty. He was worshiped by Sikong and granted the title of Duke of Julu County, and his reputation was very prominent.

However, Pei Xiu Shang was still young at this time, about sixteen or seventeen years old. He had just been recruited as a general by Cao Shuang. It was the time when the spring breeze was triumphant, his light fur was flowing, and he was full of energy.

Pei Xiu chuckled and said calmly: "Wrap the sword, I want it."

Cao Liang couldn't help but be secretly surprised. This Pei Xiu was born in the Pei family, a prominent family in Hedong. His father was Pei Qian, a Guanglu doctor. He had 400,000 yuan without batting an eyelid. He was indeed from a wealthy family and spent a lot of money.

It stands to reason that Cao Liang's family is quite prosperous, otherwise he would not be allowed to squander millions of money at will. But for Cao Liang himself, no matter how much money he has, he would not be willing to invest in a catapult or a serial crossbow.

Throw it in, but if you ask him to buy some expensive and luxurious things with little practicality, even if they are only worth three or two thousand yuan, Cao Liang will not be willing to part with them.

Seeing Pei Xiu squandering a lot of money in an understatement, Cao Liang couldn't help but secretly cursed that no matter how much his family fortune was, it would eventually be ruined.

However, Cao Liang cannot change the world's social customs. If you don't see Yipinju, there are many wealthy children spending money like water. Compared with them, Pei Xiu is nothing but a witch.

Seeing Pei Xiu paying the bill and preparing to leave, Cao Liang lost no time in taking a step forward, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Brother, please stay."

In any case, Pei Xiu was also a famous official of his generation, occupying a place among the founding ministers of the Western Jin Dynasty. Naturally, Cao Liang did not want to miss such an important figure.

Pei Xiu's greatest achievement was that he was a cartographer. The "Six Cartography Systems" he proposed had a profound influence and were used for thousands of years. It was not until the Western projection cartography method was introduced to China that Chinese cartography was revived.

An innovation.

Some people may think that there is something great about being able to draw a map, but Cao Liang doesn't think so. To march and fight, the right time, place and people are indispensable. If you don't even understand the terrain and geography, how can you fight?

An excellent general can not only charge into battle, attack cities and fortresses, but can also strategize and win a decisive victory thousands of miles away.

The prerequisite for strategizing and winning a thousand-mile victory is to have a detailed and correct military map. Where are the mountains, where are the rivers, where are the conducive areas for ambush, and where are the conducive areas for confrontation? As a general, you must know well. If this is the case,

If there is even a one-point error on the map, the whole game will be lost and the entire army will be destroyed.

A slight difference can lead to a mistake of thousands of miles, which fully shows the importance of maps.

With such a master at drawing maps, how could Cao Liang make friends without trying?

Pei Xiu was slightly shocked. She turned around, raised her eyebrows and said in surprise: "Aren't you Cao Liang, Cao Ziming, the young marquis of Gaoling Mansion?"

Cao Liang was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Pei Xiu actually knew him. He cupped his hands and said, "Exactly."

Pei Xiu quickly bowed his hands and said, "It turns out it's Brother Cao. I'm disrespectful and disrespectful."

"Brother Pei, why do you know me?"

Pei Xiu laughed and said, "Brother Cao is famous all over the world now. Everyone in Luoyang City knows about it."

With that said, Pei Xiu approached Cao Liang again and whispered in a low voice: "Brother Cao dares to sleep with Sima Master's woman. Brother, I admire you so much. If you don't obey anyone, I will obey you."

Cao Liang was immediately speechless. The story of Daqing Beiman Mountain had spread so widely. It was probably known to everyone in the Luoyang scholar circle. Cao Liang didn't think it was anything. Anyway, he was mourning for Sima Shi. I guess Sima

The teacher's backbone was almost broken by someone.

Master Sima has to bear so many strange looks every day when he goes out, which is a bit overwhelming.

But the key point is that nothing really happened between him and Yang Huiyu. Master Sima's hat was a bit unfair.

"Brother Pei, actually things are not what you think..."

Pei Xiu waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't explain. Explanation is just a cover-up. It doesn't matter what the facts are. The result is the most important thing. To be honest, brother, this is the first time I heard this news. I laughed so much that my stomach hurt."

Three days. Let's go. It's rare that I meet Brother Cao here today. It's fate that we meet each other. I'll be my host today, how about we get drunk and then rest?"

Cao Liang naturally wanted to make friends with Pei Xiu. After hearing what he said, he readily agreed. The two of them left Yipinju and went to the Cyclamen Restaurant adjacent to Yipinju.

Cyclamen Restaurant can be regarded as one of the best restaurants in Luoyang City. Being able to open a store on Tongtuo Street, where every inch of land is precious, is extremely powerful.

The Cyclamen Restaurant is elegantly decorated and splendid, and the diners who come and go are all either rich or noble. Ordinary people may not even be qualified to enter the restaurant.

At first glance, Pei Xiu was a regular visitor to Cyclamen, and he knew everything about the situation here. When the waiters in the restaurant saw Pei Xiu, they were very humble and smiled.

Pei Xiu raised his hand and threw out a piece of gold as a tip, and ordered the waiter to prepare a first-class private room.

The waiter in the restaurant naturally agreed and took Pei Xiu and others up to the second floor.

During the Three Kingdoms period, there were no tables and chairs. Whether at home or in a restaurant, everyone sat on the floor, and the food and drinks were placed on the tables.

The mats in Cyclamen Restaurant are not ordinary straw mats, but blankets made of fine wool. Even the tables are made of rosewood, which is high-end and classy.

Pei Xiu did not order the food, but asked the waiter to serve the food as usual.

Judging from Pei Xiu's familiar appearance, Cao Liang believed that Pei Xiu treated this place as a canteen. Judging from the quality of the environment in Cyclamen, this table of food and wine must have cost a lot of money. The world was extravagant and extravagant, which made Cao Liang

Liang couldn't help feeling that the wine and meat in the wealthy family stinked, and the bones were frozen to death on the road.

The so-called style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties is just the arrogance and extravagance of the scholars. This seems to be a sunset elegy, the last madness before the darkness comes. People will truly understand it decades later, when that dark era envelopes the Central Plains.
Chapter completed!