Li Tong stood in front of the seat and saw the two of them walking into the room, he signaled them to take their seats.

Seeing Yang Xianzong dressed in a beautiful and playboy, Li Ge looked like a short brown coolie. Li Tong couldn't help but be happy and pointed at the two of them and said with a smile: "You two have a clear division of labor, and the noble and low."

After taking the seat, Yang Xianzong laughed dryly and sighed: "The only thing is the robe. I still have to do my best to eat and eat for these hardships."

This is true, the two of them have their own division of labor. Yang Xianzong led the soldiers of the Dangong Army to enter the Shendu City with the silence of the Jia caravan. The goods transported were mainly grain, which was used to supply the soldiers of the old clothes club led by Li Ge.

This group of soldiers has a large number of people and has not been fully integrated into the canal transportation system in the capital, so Yang Xianzong and others need to provide it to the point of food and clothing.

After chatting for a few words, Li Tong signaled Li Ge to report first.

"There are now a thousand soldiers entering the city, and they will be transferred in one after another. However, the shops in each house have not been completely exhausted yet, and the fortifications are still negotiating with the Dushui Supervisor. There are only more than 500 real workers..."

Although the court relaxed the rent and sale of residences around Xintan, it did not allow merchants to recruit a large number of servants in private. Any application workers needed to report to the court, and the court came forward to organize them uniformly.

One of the purposes of the imperial court's reform of the canal transportation was to use labor instead of relief, and to organize the landless migrants around Heluo as soon as possible through administrative means, and put them in their posts, preventing these Ding Li from being idle in the wild, and providing them with livelihood guarantees.

This task is currently under the responsibility of the Dushui Supervisor, which investigates the stations required for the transportation of the surrounding areas of the Gyeonggi, and then recruits Dingli for distribution. There are tens of thousands of stations inside and outside the Gyeonggi, most of which are transport channels outside the city. As for the city, one is the court itself, and the other is also wary of a large number of Dings and Zhuangs entering the city, so the scale of relaxation is relatively small.

Although the Dushui envoy appointed by his father-in-law Tang Xiuzhong was a real direct leader, Li Tong did not dare to unscrupulously occupy all the workstations in the city, and basically recruited the old clothes club soldiers in a three-to-one ratio.

Li Gexian explained the situation briefly and also took out a picture of the yard and explained in detail: "At present, there are seven Dingying camps in Lidefang and Chengfufang. My old clothes club members are mainly arranged in the north and south of the west gate of Lidefang. As for those who enter the city later, the subordinates recommend not to gather in one yard, and they can be scattered in several yards around the North City."

Li Tong took the picture and took a look. The west gate of Lidefang was directly opposite Hui'anmen Street. After leaving the shop, you can reach Xuanren Gate, the east city of Danei. Further north is the most important warehouse in the capital. The old clothes community was arranged here, which can be said to be close to Danei Palace City.

Li Tong also agreed with Li Ge's suggestion. Although he had plans to move the old clothes clubs into the Shendu City just in case, he mainly arranged a livelihood for these old clothes clubs. If he really wanted to do something clearly, it would not be very reliable to rely on these old style followers alone.

These former disciples have neither strict organization nor clear goals for struggle. If they really make trouble, their combat effectiveness may not be as good as those of the street disciples of the Jinwu Guard of Nanya. If they rely on them to fight directly with the imperial guards, it would be like seeking death.

In fact, there was also a lot of discussion within the court about whether to recruit a group of soldiers outside the city to place them in the city.

However, since the land surrounding Xintan is very popular, the voices of attracting investment are still the mainstream, so the placement of these pawns should be appropriate for the time being. Once this sensation passes, the placement of these pawns will definitely need to be adjusted.

But as long as people have entered the city and then adjust it later, there will be greater room for operation. Even if you do not rely on the palace to defend, you can ensure that you are placed in the city.

Li Tong did not give any more instructions to these old-fashioned members who entered the city. He just ordered Li Geqin to visit him, and provided some help depending on the situation, so that they could have more protection, and even did not emphasize strengthening organization.

After all, once a person gathers power, he will inevitably be brave and may have nothing to do. Shendu City is far different from Fangye. Once something obviously crosses the ban and colludes with the people, it will be an absolute harsh suppression and there is no need to hesitate at all.

The icing club itself is just a community that helps people and helps people. It provides a person to seek help when people suffer, rather than controlling the people's personal life. Such a community is not prohibited in itself, and it is even advocated by the government.

There are many businesses in the two cities in Shendu City. Merchants join these businesses according to their industries, agree on prices and borrow goods. These are all within the rules and can even be regarded as subordinate management agencies of the two cities and municipal supervision. The difference is that this is a private organization spontaneously composed of merchants.

Even if we don’t talk about the clubs of these merchants, there are also many aristocratic families who settled in the city and the Hu chiefs.

For example, the Goguryeo people who had a good relationship with Li Tong lived in large numbers between several yards near Jianchunmen in the east of Luoyang City. Therefore, most of the yards in Zunxianfang, where the Prime Minister Yang Zhirou live, were from the Hongnong Yang clan. There was a temple in the Huijiefang. Once a religious ceremony was held, there were tens of thousands of Hu people gathered in the yard.

Even in the Forbidden Palace, there are some small groups. For example, the old eunuch Yang Chong of Sigongtai, who wildly recognized his godson, and the palace maids also made friendship and help each other, and even raised money to dig a cave in Longmen to serve Buddha, or gathered funds to collect some old and dead palace maids.

Among all kinds of organizations, the Old Yi Club is not conspicuous. Unless Li Tong stands out and says that he is the head of the Old Yi Club, which attracts the attention of the upper-class political forces, or the Old Yi Club gathers to hold meetings every day to shout slogans, wanting to fight against Wu and support Li, and seeking death by himself.

After Li Ge finished reporting, Li Tong looked at Yang Xianzong again.

Yang Xianzong stood up and said, "The grain and goods purchased by Tian Weng, who were equal to Bianzhou, have been transported into Luozhou in batches, and are stockpiled into the rural areas outside the city to provide assistance to the community. The soldiers are also obtaining their names, name or temples in succession. Now there are 500 disciples entering the city, and the rest are scattered in the countryside to take care of the warehouses and residences. Some car shops and foot shops in the city are gradually taking over."

The Dare Warrior is undoubtedly Li Tong's most reliable private armed force in the city. At the real critical moment, he needs to organize a head-on battle, so he naturally cannot be stocked like ordinary old-fashioned community.

The base camp of Dao Warriors is located in Taipei City, but if you need it, you can mobilize your strength to most of the towns in the city through boats and chariots.

Of course, don’t think about Jishanfang, which is similar to Li Tong’s residence. In these real Guifangs, there is absolutely no possibility of a large number of outsiders suddenly coming in. Even if guests visit, Wuhou and street disciples in the yard will closely investigate.

When Yang Xianzong finished his report, Li Tong handed him a famous post and said, "Hold my famous post and go to Zheng Ke later. He is the supervisor of the Youshang Bureau and is directly in charge of the warehousing of Shangfang Bureau. I have already informed him and he will receive you at that time."

Although he had a close relationship with the Zheng family, Li Tong did not directly negotiate with the purchase of storage goods. He was a prince, but he personally asked about the matters of the warehouse residence under Shangfangjian, and no one could guess that there must be something strange. There was no tacit understanding between them to raise their heads and make Yang Xianzong come forward to contact him.

He didn't need to arrange a special identity for Yang Xianzong. It is no secret that Yang Li was appreciated by His Majesty the Holy Emperor after entering the palace to meet the saint. As his cousin, Yang Xianzong used this relationship to engage in some palace affairs with the Shangfangjian of Shaofu. This is normal.

The court itself controlled a large number of craftsmen, and these craftsmen always had their own property. In addition to the consumption of the government, some of them also had overcapacity. Some of them flowed into the people through the palace and market transactions. This has always been the case, but a fixed group of royal merchants has not yet formed.

If we get in touch with each other, we will first develop some tacit understanding, and then extend it to the sale of forbidden objects in sequence. There is no need to clearly state that we want to steal and sell arms as soon as we come up.

After Yang Xianzong took the famous letter, he took out a brocade box from his side and presented it to Li Tong's case, and said, "The things in the box were purchased by the market by his subordinates. I feel that it is a bit strange. Please appreciate it."

Li Tong opened the brocade box and saw a two-foot-long sheathed sword placed inside. He raised his hand and took out the sword. When he pulled it open, he saw that the short dew on the sword body was shining with cold light, the sword spine had fine cloud patterns, and the unique halo left by dipping fire.

But after the sword body was pulled out, Li Tong noticed the strange thing that Yang Xianzong said. The sword weapon itself was made with extraordinary craftsmanship, but the blade was hard-grabbed with sand and gravel, making the blade uneven and densely covered with notches, as if it was jagged. There were already military standards for the sword ridge, but its sharp blade was only the grade of a hatchet.

He frowned and untied the knife around his waist, peeled off the tendons wrapped around the hilt of the sword, and found obvious patchwork and welding marks between the sword body and the hilt. Seeing this, even if he didn't use the weapons, he could tell that this was a roughly modified imperial guard knife.

“Where did you buy this item?”

Li Tong took the sword back into the box and prepared to return to the residence later and ask Huan Yanfan and others to carefully examine it.

Yang Xianzong mentioned the name of a shop in Taipei City and said: "Many of the items sold in the shop are destroyed by fine art, not just this sword."

"Check it out and be careful not to expose yourself."

Li Tong also instructed that there was no strict military ban among the people of the Tang Dynasty. After all, the military soldiers had to bring their own many military weapons in combat. When the military soldiers were originally intact, these military weapons could still have a unified supervision.

However, as the system of government troops gradually collapsed, a large number of military weapons flowed into the people, so it was not uncommon for the people to sell weapons such as swords.

But if the instruments sold by the shop are sophisticated but craftsmanship, it would be a bit strange. It is even more difficult to rule out that someone has taken Li Tong one step ahead of him and secretly stole the imperial guards' equipment.
Chapter completed!