As soon as the rooster crowed, Li Xiao got up.

Since he arrived in Wuzhenzhou, Li Xiaodi's sleep time was very short. Perhaps he was alert. After all, there were only a few hundred Tang people in Wuzhenzhou, while there were nearly ten thousand people in Baekje. He lived in this city surrounded by Baekje every day. It was really hard to tell whether he was here to rule these Baekje people or he was besieged by Baekje people.

Being energetic, just being very hungry.

When several mercenaries guarding Li Xiao's gate saw him get up, they rubbed their faces and cheered up.

"Thank you guys, brothers."

"It's not hard. Anyway, we'll go to take a break after breakfast." A mercenary from the gate said, "He used to be a golfer, but later he went to Henan for a lawsuit for life and became a famous horse. Now he has changed his face and has followed Zhao Chiman to Baekje, and he feels quite comfortable.

Li Xiao ordered breakfast.

"Eat together, I'll order you a portion."

The breakfast was pretty good. The golden millet produced in Chang'an Pass was cooked for a long time and it turned into a very thick and delicious millet porridge, accompanied by meat floss from Heshuo, plus the shrimp skin produced in Baekje, and some tender green vegetable leaves. It was very good.

The two mercenaries didn’t like eating millet porridge. They prefer white flour steamed buns with fried fish pieces chopped into large pieces.

"This Wu Zhen is also known as Baekje City, but there is not even a decent food restaurant outside, which is really embarrassing." A mercenary said while chewing steamed buns.

"It's not just a good food, there's not even a decent girl. Although there are several brothels and Chu Pavilions, you can see what kind of goods are inside, with crooked mouths and squinted eyes, and all of them are very ugly in makeup. I said that day I went to try it out, but after visiting several shops in the city, I couldn't pick a single one in the end."

Another said, "Anyway, when the lights are blown, they are all the same."

"How could it be the same? Those Baekje prostitutes are not as good as those village girls in the most remote places in the Tang Dynasty. I really can't do it."

"Hahaha."

Li Xiao slowly drank the porridge, listening to the two guys chatting there, but he didn't express his opinion. In fact, he was not interested in any Baekje prostitute. When he first entered Wuzhenzhou City, the Baekje nobles and the giant merchants in this city had already come to see him together.

I gave me all kinds of gold and silver treasures, and many beauties.

Of course, this beauty is the beauty in their eyes. Among them are famous popular characters in the city and young women in some families. However, as the two mercenaries said, these women are indeed very simple.

It’s not that the appearance is too bad, but that it is not elegant enough. After all, Wuzhenzhou is a small place far away from the Middle Earth Tang Dynasty, with little knowledge, and not even a few people have read books, which makes her look ignorant. Even her makeup and clothes are very old-fashioned, so Li Xiao would not have the appetite.

Wuzhenzhou is said to be a large state with a population of tens of thousands, with nearly 10,000 people in the city. But it cannot be called prosperous at all. There are very few commodities on the market, and most people are hungry.

There are quite a few powerful merchants, but compared to the upper class in the Central Plains, they inevitably feel like a countryside bun.

After enjoying breakfast with the taste of his hometown, Li Xiao went to the racecourse to practice swordsmanship.

This was once the mansion of the senior official in Wuzhenzhou, a hereditary noble family. When Xue Rengui attacked this place, he led his army to die outside the city. After Xue entered the city, he searched the mansion.

Now Xue Rengui is far away at the foot of Julie Mountain, and this mansion has been empty. After Li Xiao entered the city, he chose this place as the governor of Andongdao, pacifying the yamen and the governor of Wuzhenzhou.

The front yard is the yamen and the back yard is his residence.

After half an hour of running horses and practicing swords, Li Xiao finished his exercise and took a shower and changed his clothes to the front hall.

There are two signs of one yamen, but there are still too few people.

In the entire yamen, except for Li Xiao, an official appointed by the court, there was no other official, and Li Xiao was equal to a commander who was barely appointed.

So Li Xiao had to recruit and appoint a staff member himself and use them to temporarily serve in various positions in the yamen. These people came with him from Chang'an.

As a staff member, they are doing the difference between various subordinates and officials.

Fortunately, he still had twenty personal guards, two hundred mercenary groups, and the two hundred soldiers whom Liu Jun gave him after the injury to Danluo Island were still strong.

With these more than 400 people, no one in Wuzhenzhou dared to be presumptuous with him.

But the five hundred people left by Xue Rengui rushed to Danluo Island after he entered the city. They wanted to escort Liu Jun's food, herbs, medicines, etc. to the Juliejun.

"Have the recruitment list been posted?"

In the official hall, Li Xiao asked Zhao Chiman.

"I posted them all yesterday, with 100 pictures posted, and I still had someone to promote them. But so far, no one has applied."

"No one applied for the recruitment?" Li Xiao had a calm face. There was a problem.

No matter what, no one should have applied. After all, the conditions he offered were still OK. If he was selected, he would have a reward of 100 yuan, and he would also have a set of clothes, socks, shoes, not to mention food and accommodation. Especially when he was a slave, he would immediately become a good citizen of the Tang Dynasty after being selected. In the past, he would be unable to repay the debts, but after being selected, he could write them off without having to pay them back.

But no one applied for such conditions?

"Who is stopping it from behind?" Li Xiao asked.

Zhao Chiman nodded, "Sanlang, you are well-known. As soon as the list article was released, a few guys said that if anyone dared to apply, he would not die well, and even let his whole family die."

"Who dares to breathe such a big sigh?"

"These are the three largest families in Wuzhenzhou City. These people have been the nobles here for generations, and the most land manors are occupied. Even many shops and caravans in the city are theirs. They can be counted as local snakes here."

"Do they think they can wrestle our wrists?"

"The mantis arm is in a chariot, overestimating one's own ability, and seeking death!" Li Xiao shook his head and sneered.

Zhao Chiman said, "They may have seen you enter the city for so many days, but they have not made any moves and are smiling at them. They think you are really easy to bully."

"Yes, if the tiger doesn't show its power, they really think it's a sick cat. Second brother, it seems we have to show off our muscles, otherwise others will really think we're easy to bully."

"I will take the mercenary group to take a trip and destroy these three tribes."

Li Xiao shook his head.

"If they want to play, then we will play with them. If you ask someone to give all the well-known families in the city, you will say that I will hold a banquet in the government office and invite these local celebrities."

"Sanlang wants to hold a Hongmen Banquet?"

"What is Hongmen Banquet? It's a pig-killing wine. I want to chop off the guy who dares to provoke my Tang Dynasty and polite me Li Xiao in front of all the so-called powerful people in Wuzhenzhou City."
Chapter completed!