The first thing Lu Zheng did after taking office was to invite Li Chao to the banquet.

The gold-plated posts, with the words "Flying Dragons and Phoenixes", are actually flying white.

"The prime minister must be appreciated." Lu Zheng smiled and stood in front of Li Chao. Although he was a little pleased, he was a little arrogant.

This is the pride of a wealthy family for thousands of years.

Li Chao just smiled. He had five surnames and seven families, and a thousand-year-old family, and his reputation was indeed very famous. But to be honest, when he reached Li Chao's current status and reputation, he actually saw through the essence of these families.

Although the aristocratic families are mixed and lush, they are actually the same. What's more, the branches of the Fanyang Lu family, such as the Lu family in western Liaoning, look glamorous on the surface, and at most they are local tyrants. In the face of a new powerful imperial power like the Tang Dynasty, they are actually very fragile.

However, Li Chao didn't care about Lu Zheng's attitude, after all, he still had to be used.

In Li Chao's eyes, Lu Zheng was actually the one he chose to maintain the president. Before the court had just recovered western Liaoning and began to truly control western Liaoning, it was necessary to use this local snake.

The banquet held by Lu Zheng was very grand.

Although he is usually full of the conceit of a wealthy family of five surnames, he dare not underestimate Li Chao. No one in the world knows Li Chao's name. Not only is he a high status in the court, but he is also a high reputation among the people. The great master of Wenzong, let alone the Li family of Bashang is a abnormal. In terms of background, the Li family of Bashang naturally does not support the five surnames and seven sects. But in terms of wealth, who can compare with the Li family today?

In addition to the status of the Li family in the Bashang Dynasty, this is also a new wealthy family.

For example, there are the sayings of the five surnames and seven sects today, and there is also the sayings of the Long family. There is also the Bagui that has been released and spread everywhere in the past two years.

The first of these eight nobles is Bashang Li.

The other seven families are all new nobles of their dynasty, such as Changsun Wuji, Qin Shubao, Li Ji, Cheng Yaojin, etc., who are all top nobles today.

The five surnames and seven families have a great reputation, but compared with these eight nobles, they are still inferior to the power in the court. Cui Gan, the parent of the Boling Cui family, who is the leader of the five surnames, is now just a minister.

Lu Zheng also gave a big book to hold this banquet.

It is necessary to show the luxurious appearance of the Lu family, but also to let Li Chao feel the courtesy.

A row of carriages were parked outside Li Chao's mansion.

All four-wheeled carriages are inlaid with gold and silver, and they are all four-wheeled carriages.

Generally speaking, using four horses to pull a cart is a bit transcendent, but now it is also the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and this aspect is not strict.

"Hey, it's actually a sweat-blooded BMW." Gao Kan said to Li Chao in anger.

The Gao family is also a local wealthy family, but compared to the Lu family, it is more than one level lower. The Gao family's daily living expenses are also very luxurious, but today he saw the carriage where Lu family came to treat.

I don't know what words to describe it anymore.

A sweat-blooded BMW produced in the Western Regions was used by the Lu family to pull a cart.

Moreover, there were more than one carriages, four horses, and the Lu family directly brought eight such carriages, including thirty-two horses that pulled the carriages.

And these thirty-two horses were all sweat-blooded and golden, and the colors were all the same, without any miscellaneous hair.

Even the good man Yuchi Gong had to sigh, "These are pure-bred sweat-blooded BMWs, each worth a thousand gold. Damn, this Lu family is really luxurious."

The sweat-blooded horse was an extremely precious horse. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the Western Regions were presented, and later they went on a long expedition to the Western Regions for this horse. Although they obtained a lot of horse breeds, the Central Plains could not cultivate themselves.

The Lu family’s sweat-blooded BMW is very pure, and they are all bought from the Western Regions.

Although it is said that a horse is worth a fortune, a horse, a thousand stale money will never be worth a fortune, or even more.

The thirty-two horses used by the Lu family to pull a cart are worth tens of thousands of chunks or even more.

Of course, these eight carriages are not cheap either. Li Chao saw at a glance that these eight four-wheeled carriages were produced by Li Ji Chefang.

It is fully handmade and is a limited edition customized version. It is not only limited to the product, customized, but also luxurious. It has top-notch materials and top-notch craftsmanship, as well as gold, silver, pearls and gems. This extremely slim carriage is not affordable for non-top wealthy families.

A carriage like this can also cost thousands of stakes.

These carriages are more than ten thousand yuan. The Lu family's eight carriages are worth almost ten thousand yuan.

It's a moving gold mountain.

"Prime Minister, please."

Li Chao nodded with a smile and took the opportunity to praise the luxury of the Lu family in western Liaoning. Lu Zheng was quite content.

Eight carriages.

One Li Chao, one Pingyang, one Yuchi Gong, one Dad, and one Zheng Rentai and one each.

The four students Wang Xuance, Shangguan Yi, Gao Kan and Liu Rengui also got into Li Chao's car. They followed Li Chao carefully and protected him closely.

"This luxury is so silly that I can blind my eyes." Wang Xuance sighed. He is no better than Gao Kan's family and is of ordinary origin. He is really amazed by the carriage like the Lu family, which is so great that he can show off his wealth.

"It's not like this that money is not so slutty. When you look at these carriages, you know that the Lu family in Liaoxi is no longer useful."

Li Chao said disdainfully.

It was originally a famous family, but became a local tyrant. Well, a local bun. He had a thousand years of heritage, but he became short-sighted and had no vision at all. He had a lot of money and spent money like this.

Li Chao's current wealth is almost the richest man in the Tang Dynasty, but has Li Chao ever been so sexy?

The carriage was slowly driving on the street, and Lu Zheng seemed to deliberately let everyone in Tiancheng see this scene.

It took a long time to arrive at Lu Mansion.

The Lu family in western Liaoning was separated from the Lu family in Zhuojun. In fact, they first lived further east and closer to the Liaohe River. However, they slowly moved to the current Liucheng, which has taken root here for many years.

Lu Mansion is very big.

It is not in Liucheng. Like many wealthy families, they have their own manor outside the city.

It is said to be a manor, but it is actually more like a fortress.

It covers a huge area, with many houses, walls, gatehouses, and even suspension bridges. You can also see servants guarding with knives and bows.

Most of the members of the Lu family live here, and there are even shops, restaurants, warehouses, schools and other places.

According to Lu Zhengdeyi's introduction, there are more than a thousand families living in Lujiazhuang. In addition, the Lu family also has many villages in other places, and there are also housing industries in Liucheng. Anyway, the Lu family in western Liaoning is indeed blooming everywhere in western Liaoning and is everywhere.

A Lu family in western Liaoning has a population of at least 10,000 or 20,000 people, and is truly flourishing.

Looking at the armed servants of Luzhuang, Li Chao sneered in his heart.

When the Goguryeo people were here, they could tolerate their own private armed forces, but they certainly couldn't do it with him. Today he came to have dinner, but he was so kind that he came with a thousand soldiers.

It’s not that I am afraid that the Lu family will dare to be crazy and stupid, and will be ill-treated towards him, but that I just want the people of the Lu family to look at the elite of the Tang army, which makes them feel a little awe.

At the entrance of the village.

The old man from the Lu family brought all the male members of the family's direct descendants out to greet him, and the well-known locals in western Liaoning were invited.

"Prince, I have set up a seat in the village, please."

A seat that can make ten thousand people eat.

Lu Zheng didn't brag. As soon as he entered the village, he found that there were indeed tens of thousands of seats inside. He placed the tables on the streets of the village and placed them along the street, and two rows of seats were like dragons.

The dishes were served on the table, including meat, vegetables, hot and cold, and eight dishes were served on a table.

Just the tables of thousands of tables is a huge expense. How many pigs and sheep will be killed?

How much rice should I steam, not to mention that there is wine on the table.

Lu used this show to declare their luxury to Li Chao and others.

Li Chao sat on the main table. The dishes were not just eight simple dishes, but real delicacies and seafood.

What are bear paws, hump and ape lips, shark fin bird's nests, and even fresh seafood.

Although western Liaoning is close to the sea, Liucheng is not close to the sea. It can be seen how amazing they can get fresh seafood.

Wine is also good wine.

There are both the wine from Li Chao’s Bashang winery and some wines that Lu’s family has treasured for many years.

Lu Zheng came up to toast Li Chao.

"The military ration and yamen have begun. My Lu family and other major families in western Liaoning have selected a large number of outstanding children to work in the yamen. With these children, the yamen has already sorted out. The yamen has also started raising military rations smoothly. Tens of thousands of shi of military rations have been raised."

Li Chao is actually very clear about these things.

Li Chao asked Lu Zheng to be the acting governor and asked several large families to be county magistrates, which actually meant to borrow their local power, especially their human resources.

These big families are not only rich, but also have people. There are many children in the clan and many disciples recruited. In a word, Lu Zheng said that some big families have people who have money and money, and soon established the yamen of one state and three counties.

All clerks and other officials in each room were in place.

As for raising military rations, they also worked very hard.

Tens of thousands of stones of military rations, but these big families actually took the lead and took the initiative to take out a lot of food.

This is also the sincerity of the big players during the current honeymoon period.

After a meal.

Li Chao also met the children selected by these major families to the yamen. There are only three counties, and the positions of officials in the yamen are limited, but there are many positions of officials.

Except for a few official positions, the rest of those who act as clerks are actually not considered direct children of each family. After all, in the eyes of these aristocratic families, even though the Tang Dynasty court had already carried out reforms in the official system, allowing scholars to be officials and promoted, they still don’t look down on clerks in their eyes.

The ones who were elected as clerks this time were actually some branches, even their relatives, students and guests.

I have to say that these big clans are really amazing in this regard.

Not only do they have the monopoly of academics, but they also try their best to win over those who are a little famous in poor families, or take them as disciples, or support them, or marry the concubines in the family, or simply take them as son-in-laws to win people's hearts. This is quite awesome.

Those clerks, some young and middle-aged, after seeing this, Li Chao knew that many of these clerks were actually clerks who were originally in the Goguryeo era, and some were even older, and were once old officials in the yamen when the Sui Dynasty ruled western Liaoning.

These people are actually the ones who maintain the local order in Yingzhou. However, they are just in front of the stage, and those who really control Yingzhou behind the scenes are also major tyrants such as the Lu family.

Li Chao didn't like these officials.

These people are not so much like yamen clerks, but rather as dogs raised by the Lu family and other families. If Li Chao is here, they must have listened to the Lu family and other families than to themselves.

When he turned around, Li Chao would definitely change these people.
Chapter completed!