At noon, Liu Quan came to the Beijing Baijiu Restaurant. The bartender took him to an elegant room in the backyard. Zhong Kui had been waiting for him for a long time.

Liu Quan bowed and apologized: "Mr. Zhong has been waiting for a long time!"

"It's okay, Mr. Liu, please sit down!"

Liu Quan sat down, Zhong Kui asked with a smile: "Are all the family gone?"

Liu Quan nodded, "I left on a boat early this morning. Please tell Your Highness to thank him for the money he gave."

"I will tell Your Highness to Mr. Liu for his gratitude, but I want to know, how do you explain it to Li Mao?"

"No need to explain to him!"

Liu Quan said coldly: "If he asks, I will say that since my son cannot enter the Imperial Academy, I will send him back to his hometown to find a famous Confucian scholar to study."

Zhong Kui nodded, "What are the follow-ups after Li Mao and Li Cui meet?"

"It seems that Li Mao is serious. Yesterday he went to the palace to meet Wu Huifei and got back 20,000 yuan. Today he asked for additional samurai and recruited high-level samurai."

"How did he recruit?"

"It's all about asking subordinates to recommend each other, basically not to the public."

Zhong Kui pondered for a moment and said, "Your Highness hopes that you can promote the deep alliance between Li Mao and Li Cui, especially to promote the close relationship between the two."

"Then what?"

"First keep the two close, and then I'll tell you what to do?"

"I know, please tell Your Highness to serve him, and I feel honored!"

Liu Quan picked up the wine glass on the table, drank the wine in the glass, and then bowed and left.

...........

Zhong Kui pondered for a moment and hurried back to the royal palace.

In the back hall of the royal palace, Zhong Kui reported to Li Xiu about his meeting with Liu Quan today.

Of course, it was impossible to believe it all and have to be reserved for the first time, so he did not tell him the subsequent arrangements.

Li Xiu nodded and smiled, "This Liu Quan is very smart. He can feel that we don't trust him very much."

"Your Highness is right, and this is the same feeling as to humbleness. He is more willing to be your subordinate, and finally he said that it is his honor to serve you."

"This person is too utilitarian, so he expects me to arrange for him to enter the officialdom. If he can be calmer, maybe I will stay by his side and he will have higher developments. Well, this is also a personal fate."

"Your Highness, what do you say about recruiting warriors?"

Li Xiu pondered for a moment and said, "Go and find Yang Qiu!"

Zhong Kui hurried away, and soon he brought a warrior.

The warrior was named Yang Qiu. He was in his early thirties and was one of the Yuan family warriors. He followed Miao Changchun in Gaochang to defect to Li Xiu. He is now also a palace guard. He made contributions in Beiting and was named the deputy lieutenant of the eighth-rank Xuanjie.

Yang Qiu was from Chuzhou. He was also a famous gentleman in Liangshang in Chuzhou. Later, he was recruited by the Yuan family.

Yang Qiu knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See Your Highness with a humble duty!"

"Yang Qiu, I remember you told me that you knew the ghost mother warrior of the Maitreya Cult?"

"Report to your highness, the ghost mother warriors of the Maitreya Sect are also masters of bandits in the Jianghuai area. Their blunt ranks were named Luo Qiushan at that time, and they were also hang out in the Jianghuai area and got the nickname of the Qiushan thief."

"After the demise of the Maitreya Cult, many ghost mother warriors defected to Li Mao. As far as I know, more than half of the samurai under Li Mao were ghost mother warriors of the Maitreya Cult. Do you know them?"

"Report to your highness, I know one of them. His name is Wang Le, and he was my partner."

"Does he know you?"

"He knew I was working in Yuan Mansion."

Li Xiu nodded, "I have an important task now to you. After the matter is completed, I will promote you to the captain of Yizhi."

"I wish to serve Your Highness!"

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"I will never treat you badly for me. I will reward you with this thousand stale money. Everyone will share it. You should eat, drink, and find women to enjoy it. You can do whatever you want."

There were more than thirty warriors standing in the yard, and everyone's eyes were on the ten sacks of money in front of the steps, and they were in a complicated mood, but after all, this was the first time Li Mao gave money, and everyone was still looking forward to it.

Li Mao stood in front of the steps and spoke generously, "The problem now is that our staff is too small. I hope you can recommend friends with high-skilled martial arts skills. What he did in the past is not important. As long as he is skilled in martial arts and is willing to work hard for me, I will not only not treat him badly, but also whitewash him. The recommended people are also rewarded. Please contact us as soon as possible! The opportunity is rare."

Li Mao asked the leader to send money to everyone. He walked back to the inner hall. Liu Quan stepped forward and said, "Your Highness recruited talents, but you should still be careful to check and not let the enemy's undercover infiltrate."

Li Mao had a deep and painful lesson in this regard in Luoyang. He nodded, "Sir, you are right. This time I will pay special attention. I will hand over all the information about the newly recruited warriors to Mr. Please check it carefully for me and find the suspicious points."

"The humble position will definitely be done properly. In addition, the humble position has another suggestion!"

"What suggestions do you say!"

"Consider the humble position, we cannot defeat Li Xiu by our strength. In fact, only the Regent in the entire court can defeat him. We must rely on the power of the Regent."

Li Mao sighed, "Although you make sense, how could the Regent be influenced by us?"

"Your Highness, we cannot influence the Regent, but it does not mean that others cannot influence, especially his son."

"You mean... Li Cui?"

Liu Quan nodded, "It's him!"

"But it seems that Li Cui can't influence his father's will!"

"Your Highness, we can't see many things, and Li Cui won't say them. For example, if Li Cui is doing evil in Chang'an, someone must be supporting him, otherwise the government would have arrested him long ago. The meaning of humble position is that you must have a deep friendship with Li Cui in order to get deeper information. Maybe Your Highness can discover the secret of the Regent from this. This is the information the emperor dreams of!"

Li Mao only focused on dealing with Li Xiu, without considering anything else. Liu Quan's reminder made him suddenly realize that he could get the secret of the Regent by making friends with Li Cui!

My mother said all day long that she didn't seek to be motivated and that she had obtained the secret of the Regent, so she made great contributions?

"Okay! Thanks to the gentleman's reminder, I know what to do."

Li Mao found the butler and said to him: "Send another post to Li Cui. I will treat him to a meal at Tianranju tomorrow night."

............

Li Mao's warriors did not live in the royal palace, but rented houses outside. One was freedom, and the second was the opportunity to take on some private work.

The warrior Wang Le lived in a small courtyard not far from the royal mansion. He rented a small courtyard by himself. At night, Wang Le came back with a full meal and food. He opened the gate and found that a straw inserted into the door bolt had fallen.

Wang Le immediately became alert and drew his knife and shouted, "Who is it? Who is inside."

"Old Wang, it's me!"

Someone flashed out from the house and said with a smile: "Do you still know me?"

Wang Le stared at him for a while, "You are... Luo Qiushan?"

"Old man still knows me?"

The two laughed and walked up to hug him tightly. Wang Le punched him on the shoulder, "I heard you are in Yuan Mansion?"

"In the past, now... it's hard to describe!"

"I know, go inside and talk!"

The two entered the room, Wang Le lit the oil lamp and cooked another pot of tea.

"After Yuan Biao fell, I also inquired about you, but no one knew about it. It really made me worry for a while that you were missing."

Luo Qiushan followed Miao Changchun to Gaochang and was a top secret mission deployed by Yuanbiao, and no one knew his whereabouts.

"I went out to hide for a while. I just came back not long ago. I felt comfortable for too long and didn't want to go to the old business again. Brothers, too!"

Both of them are bandits of the Jianghuai River. They have worked together for several years and have a deep relationship.

Wang Le nodded, "I was caught by the Chuzhou government for accident. The Maitreya Cult found me in prison. If I was willing to join them, I would let me out of prison. I agreed and followed the Maitreya Cult for three years. A few months ago, the Maitreya Cult was destroyed. I didn't want to do my own business anymore, so I followed the leader to Beijing and was recruited by King Shou to the mansion. My life was pretty good, I had food and drink, and I had a good time in brothels."

Wang Le poured two cups of hot tea, he picked up the tea cup and took a sip, and asked again: "Why did you think of coming to see me today?"

"Brother, I can guess!"

"You mean...Shouwang recruitment?"

Luo Qiushan nodded, and Wang Le suddenly widened his eyes, "It was announced at noon, did you get the news so soon?"

"This kind of thing spreads from ten to ten, and ten to hundreds of them. Everyone is in this circle. How can the news not be spread quickly?"

"That's true, but with your skills and the name of Akiyama Feitao, there is no problem at all. I can recommend you!"

"I'm afraid... King Shou doesn't like me as a flying thief."

"Don't worry, I'm the same as you! King Shou doesn't care at all. As long as you have real skills and are willing to work hard for him, everything else will be easy to say."

"Then I'm relieved, hey! It's not easy to find a place to have a stable meal!"
Chapter completed!