"I'm worried that I will disappoint you." Bai Qiaoqiao said worriedly.
"Why are you disappointed? It's just a business. The most important thing is to lose some money. Your husband and I have made so much money, and I am worried that I have no place to put it. If you can pay some for me, I won't be happy enough." Li Mu said with a smile.
: "As for the name, we can change it. Qiaoqiao is only called at home. When you are outside, you can... um..."
Li Mu thought for a while, then suddenly his eyes lit up and he said, "Weren't you named the Lady of Fifth-Rank Lu County? From now on, we will change our name to Bailu. I don't think anyone would dare to gossip about His Majesty's decree."
"Deer?" Bai Qiaoqiao recited it once, with a smile on her face, and said: "This name is good, nice to hear, and easy to remember. And it's a coincidence. My mother told me when I was young that I was born when Bai Lu was born."
"Isn't that good?" Li Mu held Bai Qiaoqiao in his hands and kissed her, and said, "I didn't know it before, but I will remember it in the future. I will celebrate your birthday every year during Bailu."
"Nonsense, I am an ordinary woman. Why should I celebrate my birthday? I am not afraid of shortening my life. I wish you could remember."
"Well, I will definitely not forget it." After chatting for a while, Li Mu also 'recovered' a lot. Just when he was about to try again, suddenly Li Zhien's voice sounded outside the door: "Master, madam, lunch is ready.
Are you going to eat outside or in the house?"
"Get up." Bai Qiaoqiao pushed Li Mu and begged. Although Li Mu was reluctant, he agreed and said, "Go out to eat, wait a minute!"
How could Li Zhien outside the door not guess what Li Mu was doing? His pretty face turned red, and he stomped away. As soon as he left the door across the courtyard, he saw Cheng Yaojin rushing in, and he quickly ran back and shouted
: "Master, get up quickly, the bearded man is here again."
"Beard?"
"It's Uncle Cheng." Bai Qiaoqiao reminded quickly, picked up the clothes and handed them to Li Mu. He fled to the bed and urged: "Hurry up and greet him. If he catches you, you won't survive."
"Oh, it's really..." Li Mu quickly put on his clothes, but thought in his heart that he must set a rule for Cheng Yaojin. It's okay to just barge into the back house.
Complaining in his heart, Li Mu put on his clothes and came out of the house, and happened to bump into Cheng Yaojin. As soon as Cheng Yaojin saw Li Mu, he immediately came over and grabbed him, and pulled him out without saying anything: "My dear nephew, I have found you, you let me
The racecourse I built was completed this morning, come on, come with me and have a look!"
Li Mu was dragged to the point where he could no longer stand, and kept saying: "Uncle Cheng, let go first, let go, let go!"
Li Mu tried his best to break away from Cheng Yaojin's iron arm, stood firm and said: "Uncle Cheng, I have to say something. My nephew calls you uncle. If you come, you can give my nephew face, but I am a Marquis.
, it’s not a place where you can come and go at will. Especially the back house, after all, there are female relatives. Uncle Cheng always goes straight into the back house like this every time he comes, maybe he doesn’t take his nephew seriously."
Cheng Yaojin was stunned, looked at Li Mu, frowned slightly, then relaxed quickly, and said: "Okay, okay, I will listen to whatever you say. Next time, I will wait at the door.
Let the concierge inform you before entering, okay?"
Li Mu said: "No need. Uncle Cheng can just wait in the lobby. As long as my nephew is at home, he will definitely come to see you right away."
"Oh, you're the only one with more rules, so let's go!"
"My nephew hasn't eaten yet..."
"After reading this, I have something delicious for you!"
Jogging all the way to the door, Li Mu called Li Chongyi and followed Cheng Yaojin and his party to the horse farm that Cheng Yaojin built in ten days.
When they arrived at the place, Li Mu knew why Cheng Yaojin completed the racecourse in ten days. It was because he mobilized the imperial army to work for him. This is why he dared to do this. If it had been another general... it would not have happened.
This kind of thing.
It can be seen that Cheng Yaojin put a lot of thought into it. The entire racecourse is generally the same as the picture drawn by Li Mu, except for the stands, which are slightly different. There are four stands, three of which are open-air, and only the north stand.
, an awning was built to provide shade from the sun and rain, and an exquisite wooden fence was used to separate the area, which was obviously a 'private room'. Unexpectedly, Cheng Yaojin had such thoughts, and Li Mu had to be impressed.
"This is next to Furong Garden. During the Wude period, a square was originally going to be built. Later, because of His Majesty's meritorious service, the Supreme Emperor planned to build the Prince of Qin's Mansion here as a gift to His Majesty. However, His Majesty ascended the throne not long after, and there was no construction here.
Old Cheng, I risked my skin and begged Your Majesty to give me this piece of land to build this horse farm, what do you think?"
"It's very good. It's really beyond my expectation that it can be built to such an extent in just ten days."
Seeing that Li Mu agreed, Cheng Yaojin said: "Then let's open the business tomorrow!"
"So fast?" Li Mu asked: "Have you done the publicity you mentioned before?"
"Propaganda is easy!" Cheng Yaojin said nonchalantly: "I will send generals to each government later to deliver notices and just tell them no."
Li Mu said: "This is not possible. What's the use of just racing horses? The important thing is to make the people like it. If the people don't like it, the prosperity will only last for a while and there will be no business."
"Then what do you want to do? What kind of propaganda? If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have never heard of this word!"
"Okay, leave the publicity to me. It will open in three days. You should also prepare in the past few days and select a few good knights. This first game cannot be too embarrassing."
"Okay! Just wait for three more days!" Cheng Yaojin is good at this. He is never good at making opinions on things he doesn't understand. Recently, he has also seen Li Mu's ability and no longer treats him as a child like before.
. And he is not afraid of any wealthy family. He is one of the few people in the dynasty who can have both sides. He is a new noble from Conglong, and he is also related to the wealthy family. His first wife is the daughter of the Cui family of Qinghe. He is related to both sides, and both sides are also related.
No one dared to offend him.
It was because of this that Li Mu allowed Cheng Yaojin to take advantage of him several times. In the final analysis, they were all taking advantage of each other, and Cheng Yaojin also took a fancy to Li Mu's ability to make money. The net profit of Ba Shang Distillery was 100,000 yuan a year.
But it made him jealous.
After walking around the racecourse, Cheng Yaojin treated Li Mu to a military meal. Cheng Yaojin was not stingy in this regard. Today's military meal was served with food. I don't know where he got it from.
I bought ten sheep and found Turkic prisoners to roast them, which tasted like the grassland.
When Li Mu asked about it, he found out that it was a gift from Jie Li. After learning that Jie Li was captured, his scattered tribes also gathered together and submitted to the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin gave pasture to his tribe.
The sheep were sent to Chang'an by his clansmen, and Jieli was also a good man. The princes' mansions all sent more than ten or twenty sheep. Cheng Yaojin got these twenty sheep in total. He took all the sheep he didn't keep.