Section 717, 718 The hometown of the ancestral home is like a cloud of smoke.(1/2)
The list clearly states:
Gold and silver font size
More than 15,320 kilograms of gold coins of various colors in the Western Regions;
More than 77,350 kilograms of silver coins of various colors in the Western Regions;
More than 3,430 kilograms of Jinsha;
More than 9,220 kilograms of gold ingots from Xixia and Jin Kingdom;
More than 114,870 kilograms of silver ingots from Xixia and Jin Kingdom;
The golden Buddha statue, the thirty-nine golden Bodhisattvas, and more than one thousand four hundred and thirty pounds;
Two silver Buddha statues, more than 240 kilograms;
A five-foot golden tree, more than 1,360 kilograms;
A three-foot golden horse, more than 5,240 kilograms;
A three-foot silver horse, more than 2,720 kilograms;
One foot of golden wolf, one horse, more than 840 kilograms;
One gin wine pot, thirty-two pounds;
One golden geese and one golden sea east green, fifty-eight kilograms;
Two pairs of golden saddles, more than 180 pounds;
One golden knife, thirty-seven pounds;
Two pairs of golden back bows, thirty-four pounds;
Nine golden arrows, thirty-eight pounds;
Gold foil Buddhist scriptures, Gold foil Koran, Gold foil books, 137 volumes, weighing 945 kilograms;
One golden ingot head, eighty-seven pounds;
A pair of golden horse whips, eight golden horses and irons, a pair of golden horse bells, weighing 78 pounds...
Li Luo felt goosebumps all over his body, and gold and silver were calculated based on pounds. Moreover, most of them were gold and silver, and a few were gems, fur and silk.
As for jade, calligraphy, painting, porcelain, antiques, etc., there is not a single one.
It can be seen that Lao Tie, the owner of the treasure, is a vulgar and extremely real person.
Li Luo calculated that all the gold was more than 50,000 kilograms, equivalent to 900,000 taels!
Nine hundred thousand taels...gold!
Too scary.
The total number of silver is nearly 600,000 kilograms, equivalent to more than 10,000 taels! The ability to cast more than 10 million Tang silver coins can greatly alleviate the current silver shortage in the Tang Dynasty.
All gold and silver are added to 20 million taels of silver!
With the money, food, materials and horse income from the Longyou Strategy and Gansu Strategy, Li Luo made a fortune of 30 to 40 million!
Li Luo put away the list excitedly, and felt a little uneasy when sleeping at night.
Even if he is the emperor, he will find it difficult to calm down in the face of this unrest.
The next day, Li Luo secretly summoned Liu Weitai and asked him to lead his brigade to secretly transport all the gold and silver to Guanzhong. For this reason, Li Luo also allocated a thousand horse-drawn carriages under Liu Weitai.
Of course, Li Luo did not forget to write a letter to Cui Xiuning to tell her this great news.
Wife, we are making a fortune, are you happy?
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The first day of the first lunar month is the New Year's Day. More than 100,000 cavalrymen came to Lanzhou in a fierce manner and confronted the Tang army on the south bank through the Yellow River.
"Boom!" The Tang army cannons on Gaolan Mountain roared, shattering the ice surface of the Yellow River, and the Yellow River, which was several miles wide, suddenly turbid waves were surging.
Because of revenge, the Yuan army, who was in full swing, was immediately robbed by it.
How can I cross the river? Tang munitions are so sharp that how many people will die when crossing the river?
The commander of the Yuan army looked at the Tang army on the other side with hatred and could only order to stand by and dare not cross the river rashly.
With tens of thousands of river defense forces, the Tang army forced more than 100,000 elite Yuan army to dare not step over the line. They could only sigh at the river, not to mention how depressed they were.
Pingzhang, Gansu repeatedly urged the Yuan army to cross the river. The commander of the Yuan army was furious and beaten the envoy from Pingzhang, Gansu, and asked the envoy to go back and tell Pingzhang that if you want to cross the river, you should fight by yourself.
The warriors of the Yuan Dynasty are not reckless men. They obviously have to pay a lot of casualties and cannot get a good battle. Why do they fight? If the rebels firearms were fired together when crossing the river, wouldn’t they give the rebels a head? If they were not killed by the firearms, they would sank into the Yellow River and drowned.
Once upon a time, the Yuan army, which was arrogant and arrogant, began to fear the Tang army.
This is not a good thing.
Since the rise of the Tang Kingdom, the military power accumulated by one victory after another has made the Tang army more and more arrogant in the face of the enemy.
In particular, the middle and lower-class warriors represented by veterans of the Tang army's Haidong era became extremely warlike and firmly believed in the myth of the invincible Tang army.
At this time, the Tang lord Li Luo had already gone to Huaili, Lintao, to visit the hometown of the Li family in Longxi.
Didaoli is the former residence of the Li family in Longxi. However, the former residence of the Li family, which was prominent hundreds of years ago, has long been buried in the smoke and dust of history. There are only villages nearby, and there are no Li family's ancestral residences.
When Li Luo saw the ancestral residence of Li's family, he said to his left and right with a sad expression: "The white clouds and the vast world have changed for hundreds of years, and I don't want to fall into this place."
When the people nearby learned that the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty came in person, they all went out excitedly to bow and kowtow, not daring to look up.
"All up. You are my neighbors and old friends, so there is no need for great gifts." Li Luo dismounted his horse and helped the surrounding villagers on the snow. "I sent a command to each family to reward a sheep for each family. This is my ritual to return home. In addition, the healthy and healthy elders of over seventy years will follow me and accompany me to walk around the village."
"Abide by the order!" The guards immediately went to do it.
A moment later, several old men with white hair and white hair were led by the guards to Li Luo in a trembling manner and prepared to bow together.
In fact, their actions of bowing were fake, but just a false ceremony. Because according to the ancient Chinese rituals, old people over 70 don’t have to kneel down to worship when they see the emperor.
Unless, the emperor is also an old man.
"All the elders are old, so they are exempt from rituals!" Li Luo immediately stopped them from rituals. If Li Luo was to accept them kneeling down, he would be "rude". To put it bluntly, he would be absent-minded.
Several old men stopped bowing and bowed with crutches, saying, "Young old man, I've seen the official family."
The so-called Chinese etiquette country is not false. Unlike later generations, etiquette was highly valued in ancient times. Even rural people knew about ancient etiquette and passed it on through the ages.
Especially one of the sources of Chinese civilization like Longyou, etiquette is more important than that of the southern countries.
For example, their self-proclaimed "little old man" is very particular.
The old man is the husband, and the meaning of the elder, that is, the original meaning of the "people", is the representative of the people. Older people must be respected. The elderly call themselves the old man, not self-proclaimed, nor do they rely on their seniority, but rather teach them through words and deeds to young people, which is itself maintaining ethics.
Therefore, it is not something you can do if you want to be a commoner. At least you must be able to live to the age of seventy. This is rare in ancient times when the average life expectancy is short.
Even when facing the emperor and the queen, old people over the age of seventy can not bow or bow. This kind of etiquette existed as early as the Zhou Dynasty and even earlier.
Since the Han Dynasty, the tradition of giving old men over 70 years old to be given dove-headed sticks has been given to all dynasties. The Han Dynasty stipulated that those who dared to bully the old men were equivalent to deceiving the king. From ancient times to the Ming and Qing dynasties, the elderly always had privileges.
Therefore, Empress Lu invited the Four Elders of Shangshan to support Xiaohui. Taizu knew that Xiaohui's position as crown prince could not be shaken, so she had to extinguish the idea of replacing the King of Zhao.
"The elder is old and has difficulty in legs and feet. I am very uneasy when I was summoned by me." Li Luo bowed and bowed.
Don’t think that the emperor does not have to polite to his subjects. When necessary, the emperor also wants his subjects to bow and salute. This is the tradition of courtesy for the "Three Olds and Five Updates".
"You are welcome." Liu Laogong, who is already 80 years old, nodded and smiled, "We are very happy that the official family can return to its ancestral home, and we are really happy."
The other three old men also nodded and thanked.
Even the uninformed rural people in ancient times, once they lived to the age of seventy or eighty, if their minds were not confused, they would become knowledgeable. Even if they met the emperor, they would no longer be frightened and could even have an equal conversation.
This is the advantage brought by a long time.
Take Liu Laoguan as an example. He has experienced the rise of Mongolia, the destruction of Xia and Jin, and has seen many historical events. What are you afraid of when the loess is buried in your neck?
Li Luo ordered people to reward some old men with fur coats and asked, "My ancestral home is Longxi. In the past, this place was my ancestral home. I wonder if there are still people from the Li clan?"
Old Man Liu sighed and said, "The good instructors know that the former residence of Li was originally lived by some people. But it was destroyed by the Mongolian battle to destroy Jin more than 60 years ago. At that time, the old man saw with his own eyes that the Mongolian khan Temujin crossed the Tao River. Wanyan Gangji, the governor of Jinlongyou, died in Houguanzhuang not far away."
Li Luo nodded. Wanyan Gangji, the governor of Longyou, was Du Lie's grandfather.
Old Man Liu continued: "Mongolian soldiers are extremely fierce, killing, setting fire and robbing, just like robbers. This ancestral home of the Li family in Longxi, which was burned by a fire, was destroyed by the clan members and their tribes died and scattered, which became the current situation."
Li Luo's face looked dim, "But what else can I leave behind?"
Another old man said: "There is only one stone tablet, and a cemetery that has long been turned into a flat ground, at Longmengang, seven miles away."
"Please take the lead, please." Li Luo said.
Everyone went there together and soon arrived at Longmengang, but they saw that there was already a snow field, with only a few old trees and a few crows on the snow branches.
Seeing a large group of people coming, the jackdaws screamed, spreading their wings and flying, and the snow on the trees fell one after another.
When Li Luo saw that there was still a tomb seal there? It turned out to be a plain.
A stone tablet stands alone in the snow.
Li Luo personally stepped forward, brushed away the snow on the stone tablet, and revealed the ten big words "The title of King Wuzhao Li Gong, the tomb of the clothes and clothes of King Wuzhao."
It is the tomb of Li Yang, Taizu of Xiliang.
To be continued...