Hearing this, Li Xuandu finally understood what Xiao Yan said. She used the story of a talented man and a beautiful woman to imply Li Xuandu's identity.

The stories of so many talented men and beautiful women are all empty. Why is it empty? Xiao Yan gave several reasons. One of them is that there is only a personal maid next to Miss Qianjin, which is unreasonable. When it comes to Li Xuandu, the dignified Central Plains messenger actually came to the royal court alone. Although Li Xuan both gave a seemingly reasonable reason, this reason cannot be completely trusted by Xiao Yan. As a woman who has been standing in the royal court for many years, it is not easy to trust others so easily. If she were such a person, she would have long become a pile of dead bones in the royal court.

Another point is that Xiao Yan has many maid servants with great powers. It is not difficult to find out where Li Xuandu came to the royal court. I think Xiao Yan has sent someone to investigate, and there have been results.

After understanding the implication of Xiao Yan's words, Li Xuandu had a decisive idea and said, "As a child of the Qin family, he does have some cultivation, but he is more for self-protection. Otherwise, I would not dare to come to the royal court alone. For the people of the Central Plains, this place is no less than a dragon's and tiger's den. As for why I have to be alone, I have to say one more to the Yan family. We Central Plains people have a saying: "If the king is not secret, he will lose his ministers, and if the minister is not secret, he will lose his body." The alliance is related to the reputation of the ministry, and the reputation of the ministry is also related to the general trend of the people. We must be careful. Naturally, we know that the fewer people will participate, the better. We hope that the Yan family will understand it."

Xiao Yan nodded, as if he agreed with Li Xuandu’s statement, and said with a smile: “Zhao Butang is still so cautious.”

Li Xuandu pretended to be hesitant for a moment and said, "It's really not to be hiding from the fact that the master was coming in person, but the master was about to be promoted to immortality. The eldest lady and Mr. Li were going to get married again. At that time, all kinds of heroes gathered in Liaodong. As a landlord, the master was in a lot of trouble, and he really couldn't escape his body. He was urgently in power. This was the nameless man who changed me, not that the ministry did not pay attention to this matter."

Xiao Yan frowned slightly, but then he returned to his smile, "The Qin Sect Master is here, this is a great decent."

Li Xuan said casually: "By the way, the tribe asked me to bring a gift to the sage."

Xiao Yan raised his eyebrows and said curiously: "What gift? Is it an antique calligraphy and painting? Or something strange? Recently, a kind of glass mirror has been circulated from the Central Plains, which can be clearly visible to human shadows, far better than a bronze mirror, and even more so on the water."

Li Xuandu shook his head: "I want to disappoint the Yan family. After all, I am here alone and can't carry too many things, so I can only send some yellow and white things. I hope the Yan family will not dislike it for the sake of the Ministry of the Cong."

Xiao Yan smiled: "I heard that the messenger once visited Naita Khan and paid two thousand taels of gold for it."

Li Xuandu was surprised at Xiao Yan's omniscience, which in a sense showed that the maid of Wang Ting under Xiao Yan's subordinates was omnipresent, but he was not at all visible and said, "Although Naita Khan has a noble status, he is a son after all, and cannot be compared with the mother of Yan. The ministry prepared five thousand taels of gold for the Yan family, and it was a little rouge money. It was not respectful, so I hope that the rouge would accept it with a smile."

Xiao Yan smiled faintly and said, "The golden tent is bitter and cold. Even the most prosperous royal court among the golden tents is not as good as the imperial capital. The five thousand taels of gold are placed in the royal court, which is not a small amount. I heard that Governor Zhao is an honest official and all rely on the support of the Qin family. It is not easy to be able to take out five thousand taels of gold. After asking the envoy to return to Liaodong, he would thank Governor Zhao on my behalf."

Li Xuandu naturally heard the dissatisfaction in Xiao Yan's words, which was disgusting that there was less gold. For ordinary officials, Yan and other powerful people, five thousand taels of gold is of course a considerable amount, but who is Xiao Yan? Even if he looks at the whole world, he is one of the powerful people. How could he take only five thousand taels of gold seriously? Even if one tael of gold is exchanged for ten taels of silver, it is only fifty thousand taels of silver.

An ordinary little girl, two taels of silver per one. The top stunning beauty can sell for 200,000 taels of silver. She was then given to the Sili Supervisor, Eunuch Yang, and the 200,000 taels of silver opera troupe given to the cabinet chief, can be said to be a moment of brilliance.

Xiao Yan was not ignorant of the Central Plains court, and had heard of it. Compared with 50,000 taels of silver, it was really too little.

Xiao Yan is a woman who doesn't care much about fighting on the battlefield, and she is more concerned about things like silver and money. She deeply understands one truth: in war, the fight is actually silver and money. Why do the army of gold tents go south every year? It's not that they are short of money or food. Why can the governor of the Great Wei become king? To be honest, it is because the court of the Great Wei has no money and wants to quell the rebellion. They can only let the governors raise money and recruit soldiers by themselves. The recruited soldiers eat the governor's food and receive the governor's salary, so they are naturally the governor's soldiers rather than the soldiers of the court. Where does the governor's money come from? They are obtained from the hands of local tyrants, so the governors will be controlled by local tyrants.

Because of this, Xiao Yan was extremely concerned about the various prices in the Central Plains, such as silver, gold, and the most important food prices, as well as the prices of salt, iron, tea, horses, fur, cattle and sheep. In addition, she also paid attention to the prices of people.

People are cheap in troubled times, and ordinary slaves and maids are not expensive. However, there are people in the Jiangnan area who specialize in the business of "slim horses". Because wealthy merchants and wealthy merchants gather, it is a place where fireworks are flourishing, and this "slim horse" was born in time. The top-grade "slim horse" learns piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs and essays. It is more talented than the ordinary ladies. It is no problem to sing poems and sing. Although the middle-grade "slim horse" is not very talented, he can be proficient in accounting and can help the housekeeper. Although the lower-grade "slim horse" is illiterate, he specializes in female red cooking and can also be gentle and gentle.

No matter what kind of appearance it is, it must be raised from a young age, and it takes more than ten years to train it by a dedicated person, and then sold at a high price. When it reaches age, it can never be sold, and then it flows into the upper courtyard, just by the Qinhuai River. Many girls on the ground on the ground of the pleasure boats are also from this "slim horse" business.

Xiao Yan remembers clearly that the celestial and human posture of 200,000 taels of silver is hard to come by. A top opera troupe in the world is unique, but a pair of twin sisters who are not inferior to the moon's parting is only 10,000 taels of silver.

Could it be that her dignified hostess of the Wangting, in Zhao Zheng's eyes, was only the price of ten ordinary prostitutes? Even a castrator in the Great Wei court was not as good as?

Li Xuan heard the dissatisfaction of the little qian family, so he had to respond temporarily and said, "Of course not. The five thousand taels of gold are just the powder money given to the qian family by the Ministry of War. After all, the Ministry of War is honest and has no permanent property, so he can't bring too much. In addition, the great master also prepared a gift for the qian family."

Xiao Yan's face was slightly calmer when he heard this, and he said, "I want to have a good experience of Mr. Qin's gift."

It was said to be Qin Qing's gift, but in fact it was Li Xuandu's private property. At this time, he was forced to lose money. Li Xuandu first took out five thousand taels of gold from the "Eighteenth Floor". The gold was cast into gold nuggets, which was not much different from ordinary green bricks, so it was not much, only ten yuan.

Then Li Xuandu took out the brocade box that Xu Zaiyuan gave him.

Xiao Yan took the brocade box and opened it. He saw a pair of finely carved purple mandarin ducks placed in it, about the size of an eyeball, lifelike.

Li Xuandu said: "This pair of mandarin ducks is made of jadeite. The Great Wei Dynasty does not produce jadeite, and only produces overseas. Jadeites are divided into different grades according to their texture. The most top-quality jadeite is almost as transparent as it is very rare. According to their color, it is also called "Emperor Green", "Blood Jade Red", "Purple Eyes", etc. It is rare to see in decades. This pair of jadeite mandarin ducks are carved with "Purple Eyes", which is very difficult to obtain."

Although Xiao Yan's status is noble, she is not the queen mother of the Great Wei Dynasty. When she suddenly saw such a valuable treasure, her eyelids slightly jumped and said, "I don't know how much this valuable treasure costs?"

Li Xuandu said: "Youdao is that gold is priceless and jade is priceless. This pair of purple mandarin ducks, just raw materials, is worth 6,000 Taiping. After asking a top carving master to carve this pair of mandarin ducks, it will be sold for 10,000 Taiping. However, with the Qin family's signature, it has been forced to suppress a lot of prices, and it only costs 8,000 Taiping."
Chapter completed!