The Twenty-Sixth Rank: County Viscount

  Li Yuanxing fled and escaped to a manor named Qinwangzhuang which he had named himself, where even the walls were not fully built.

  Outside the gate of Qin Wangfu in Chang'an City, there were more than 100 carriages lined up, and the number of visiting cards piled up was as high as a person. Li Yuanxing thought of Li Xiaogong's advice to himself, since he wanted to hide, he would hide from everyone. First, he went to Cheng Yaojin's house, sent two bottles of white wine, took away a few good-looking barrier knives, and then returned to his own villa.

  Li Yuanxing didn't return to his own village until afternoon, and on the way back, many Ba riders brought important news one after another.

  What was most important to Li Yuanxing was that Tang Jian and Tang Shi had already issued an order for all the merchants in Chang'an to gather, and three days later, they would be treated to a banquet at the Qinwang Temple, where one of the merchants would be awarded the title of Viscount.

  Another piece of news is that Qin Wang's marriage has been officially decreed by the Emperor and the wedding will take place this October.

  Li Er chose this time also with consideration, at that time the war with Tuyuhun had also come to an end. This timing for the big aristocratic families was not enough to collude with each other, let these aristocratic families first fight a battle in Li Yuanxing's house.

  Li Yuanxing rushed back to the village, one reason was to avoid people, and most importantly, he was preparing to travel back to modern times.

  Everything needed for the return to modern times has been prepared, so it's just a matter of resting and waiting for nightfall. This time Li Yuanxing is anxious to return to modern times, mainly for the sake of those villagers.

  In Journey to the West, Li Yuanxing drinks tea from modern times and eats pastries from the Tang Dynasty.

  Two maidservants were still unnamed, one was pressing his shoulders and the other was massaging his legs. Li Yuanxing felt a sense of regret in his heart, he was just a small hoodlum in modern times, how did he end up in the Tang Dynasty without even a few days passing, and yet he had already degenerated to this point. These two young girls were equivalent to junior high school students in their first and third years in modern times.

  Great Tang, too happy already.

  Li Yuanxing was very comfortable and enjoyable. But Chang'an City was like a boiling pot, with a red-hot boulder thrown into it, bubbling over.

  Officials, aristocrats. For this Qin king who fell from the sky and went crazy, countless people were inquiring about the preferences of this Qin king, and countless people were asking the Li royal family for all the details about Li Yuanxing.

  The aristocratic families can bully Li Yuanxing, but merchants dare not, even if they have an aristocratic family backing them.

  All the big merchants in Chang'an City gathered at the largest tavern, Yan Gui Lou. As for saying that the King of Qin would host them, they also had the qualifications to go and eat. The King of Qin could lower his status to host the merchants, but the merchants did not dare to raise their status to attend the banquet.

  The entire Swallow Tower was reserved, and the price of each dish on every table was enough for an ordinary family to live on for a year.

  But at this time, no one moved a finger.

  "Li Hui is the first!" A fat man stood up: "It's said that Prince Qin Wang is a star from heaven, and you are the leader of the Brocade Guild in Chang'an City. This time, the number of invitations issued by each guild added together is not even half as many as those issued by the Brocade Guild. I think this time, the Brocade Guild is the main guest of Prince Qin Wang!"

  Li Hui was a middle-aged man in his forties, a collateral branch of the Li family of Longxi. Relying on the influence of the Li family, he became the head of the association. His business ranked fifth among all the silk guilds!

  Since every merchant association gave themselves face, they let Li come out and say a few words. Li stood up, clasped his fists together in a circle: "Everyone! The Qin King's grand wedding is approaching, and we need some high-quality goods. This banquet is to give us face, I think each household should prepare their best products. If the Qin King is satisfied at that time, the emperor will also be delighted!"

  "It should be like this!" The president of Jinbao Chamber of Commerce also said a sentence.

  The other merchant associations also recognized this statement, and the fat man was a grain merchant with the influence of Qinghe Cui's family behind him. During the war against Wang Shichong, nearly 20% of the food was supplied by him. Although he was not the head of the Grain Merchant Association, he also had some face in front of the other merchants.

  The invitation card for Qin Wang's banquet had only three grain merchants in total, and he was one of them.

  Chui Baozi said at this time: "Why don't we invite King Qin instead, right here in the Swallow Returning Building."

  The master of the Swallow Tower smiled when he heard this: "If Young Qin Wang is willing to come, it would be an honor for our tower. Don't charge any of you a single copper coin!"

  "Then, who's going to invite?"

  Everyone's eyes were focused on Li Hui, the head of the Jin Su Merchant Guild.

  "Alright, I'll go!" Li Hui said at this time, not daring to back down. This concerned the issue of his own status among the respectable merchants in Chang'an. He would take the initiative to visit first; if the Qin King disagreed, then so be it. If he refused to see him, he would ask someone with a higher status from the Li family to come forward and host a banquet for the Qin King.

  Someone said: "The King of Qin has left Chang'an and returned to Qinwang Village."

  "Someone set off at once!" Li Hui stood up immediately.

  Everyone also stood up and expressed their intention to go back and prepare well, just waiting for Li Hui's good news.

  Li Hui ordered someone to carefully prepare some gifts and immediately left the city for South Mountain.

  When Li Hui arrived at Qin Wang Zhuang ten miles away, a team of soldiers blocked him: "Within ten miles around Qin Wang Zhuang, no one is allowed to approach."

  "General..." Li Huai first explained the reason for his arrival.

  Those soldiers conferred with each other for a moment, and then one of them said: "Wait here, don't leave!"

  Li Yuanxing was having dinner when he heard the report from Old Wolf. He took a glance at the gift list and recognized the words, but not the things they referred to. He threw it back to Old Wolf: "The other side has also made an effort, just agree with him then. This gift can be forgotten, we don't lack such things!"

  "Your Highness, this won't do. Since you've agreed to his plea, it's an honor for a humble merchant like him. But if you don't accept these gifts, he'll be too afraid to sleep at night." The old wolf helped the merchant by saying a few good words.

  "What's to be done?"

  "Give him something, then accept the gift and agree to his proposal!" The old wolf was speaking of the rules of the Tang Dynasty nobility, accepting gifts is giving face, rewarding means we don't take your things for nothing. This is Qin Qiong's style, if it were Demon Head Cheng Yaojin, he probably wouldn't even give half a copper coin to the merchants.

  Li Yuanxing put down his chopsticks: "How about two strands of necklace?"

  "It's too expensive, one string is enough!" The old wolf replied seriously and saw Li Yuanxing nodding his head, personally going out to arrange.

  Li Hui, however, was not at all relaxed and took out ten taels of silver to give to the soldiers, asking for nothing else but just to help speak a good word. He asked to see King Qin, but who would have thought that the soldiers simply ignored him.

  The taste of waiting in the simmering is unbearable.

  A string of pearls almost made Li Huiyuan, the president of Jinzun Commercial Association, faint, this is too expensive!

  However, he felt at ease in his heart. It seems that the King of Qin is not a difficult person to get along with.

  Li Yuanxing had already forgotten that there was such a thing as Li Hui's head, he was waiting for the crossing. After another daze, he opened his eyes to find himself not in his own home, but in endless darkness. In the darkness, there was a straight white line, and on the white line, there were two shining bright spots.

  One of the highlights is a very fine and short white line branching out from it.

  "This is called a timeline!" A figure slowly became real, but his face was blurry.

  "You have successfully completed the first step, branching off from history. I am a scientist, my team has already perished in reality. In Earth year 2102, the Earth was destroyed. Because of an alien large asteroid that made the entire Earth explode."

  Li Yuanxing believed what the other party said was true, and being able to travel through the Tang Dynasty was already amazing enough.

  That figure continued: "We did our best and made a time machine. After the time machine succeeded, it was less than ten hours before the earth was destroyed, so the base point of the time machine was set in your era. Then, you were chosen because you look exactly like Li Yuanba of the Tang Dynasty."

  "So, what is your goal?"

  "Saving the earth, we have analyzed. There is only one possibility, that is to let the earth enter the cosmic era a thousand years ahead of time, so that when the small planet is destroyed or the earth has the ability to migrate. The entire history of the earth, the only opportunity was in the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty could complete the industrial foundation in just three hundred years, as long as it could launch rockets by the year 1100, then the next thousand years would be enough to complete the technological capability to protect the earth!"

  Li Yuanxing had experienced traversing through the Tang Dynasty and hearing about the destruction of Earth, but he was also nonchalant.

  "Why didn't you tell me from the beginning?"

  "That figure had no expression: 'It's only when history branches out that a time machine can truly be said to have started.'"

  "So you're not here to tell me about time machines, are you?" Li Yuanxing asked with a smile.

  Shadow replied, "No mistake. First, I must warn you that the repair capability of history is so powerful that it's beyond your imagination. Everything you see in front of you now is just a computer image. Let me give you a guess: if we don't go back to the Tang Dynasty, what will happen?"

  The black in front of me disappeared, and then the Wei River Alliance did not appear, and the Great Tang won.

  However, subsequent history slowly returned to its normal track.

  "It looks very complicated!"

  With a wave of his hand, everything in front of him disappeared and returned to the scene with only light points and lines: "By the way, don't expect this speculation, and even more so, don't trust it. In my experience, the reliability of such speculation is less than thirty percent!"

  "So what does it take to truly change history?"

  After Li Yuanxing's interrogation ended, that light point and line seemed to have moved far away, with a bright dotted line appearing in the distance.

  "That's as far as I can pull history," Shadow replied.

  "So, what else do you want to tell me?" Li Yuanxing asked again.

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