In the bag on the third floor of Lingxian Restaurant, Xue Jun raised his glass with a smile, "Abdula, I never thought I would meet you here!"

During the years in Tubo, Xue Jun spoke extremely fluently in Tubo.

Abdula looked at Xue Jun, but his eyes were a little sharp: "I didn't expect to see you here either."

"I'm not your enemy, never." Xue Jun said: "On the contrary, we are all friends now, aren't we? Like-minded friends."

"We are not friends!" Abdula said coldly: "I know you live in Lhasa, you are the largest merchant in the Tang Dynasty to Tubo. You sell weapons to Chinan, Delhi, and the weapons you sell him killed many of my brothers and sisters."

"I'm just a businessman." Xue Jun sighed: "As long as I have money, I'm willing to do anything I have. As for what I sell, I can't control it. And Abdula, you have bought the weapons I transported and food, right? If it weren't for the weapons and food I sold to you, you wouldn't be able to hold on now, right? Where is Chinan, Delhi? Even if I don't sell him weapons, he has enough things to deal with you. If you can't get weapons from me, then it's different, right? Moreover, the price I sell to you is much lower than the price I sell to him."

Abdula stared at him fiercely and said for a while: "The profitable businessman!"

Xue Jun took a sip of wine with some sadness: "In the Tang Dynasty, I am a sinner. I offended Li Xiang, so I was sent to Tubo. In order to return to my hometown, I had to do something. Abdula, we can cooperate sincerely in the future. You want to overthrow the great nobles who oppressed and exploited you, but I just want to return to my hometown and return to my roots."

"Will you still sell weapons to Chinan Delhi?"

"Maybe, after all, my family is in Lhasa. I don't want them to die, but the ones sold to you must be the best!" Xue Jun looked at him and smiled. "You have found a big backer now. With Li Xiang's support, you will become stronger day by day. I'm staying in Lhasa. Maybe one day, when you attack Lhasa, you can still help you."

Abdula took a deep breath, raised his glass and said, "I don't like you."

"Then do you like Li Xiang?" Xue Jun asked with a smile.

"I don't like Li Xiang either!" Abdula said in a deep voice.

"Then are you willing to cooperate with Li Xiang and be willing to help him?" Xue Jun was a little puzzled, "You are different from me."

"It's the same to some extent!" Abdula hugged his big head and said, "All the nobles are the same. Whether they are from Tubo or from your Tang Dynasty, we are just tools for them to drive them. But your Li Xiang can give me what I have always dreamed of."

"Do you believe him so much?" Xue Jun was a little surprised.

"Although I don't like some people, I know they are trustworthy." Abdula raised his head: "These people are real villains. Even if they want to use me, they will make it clear that your Li Xiang is such a person. And along the way, I saw that the people were living a prosperous and fulfilling life under his rule. There are no slaves here. I also heard from people that the maids and servants here also signed contracts with their masters. Once the contract arrives, they come and go freely. They can't even call them masters, they can only call them employers. This is the life I want, and this is the life my friends want. Do you understand now?"

Xue Jun nodded, "There is one thing you said right. Li Xiang is unwilling to make promises easily, but once they make promises, they will definitely do it. And I don't think you can get the life you want in many years. Do you know, after I return to Lhasa this time, I may die in a bad life and will never come back, but I still went back happily because Li Xiang agreed to arrange for the most talented children and grandchildren of my family to come back first. As long as these children and grandchildren come back, my Xue family will have hope of making a comeback. For this reason, I, Xue, are willing to return to Tubo to get death."

"I heard that you have a great life in Lhasa and are a guest of honor for all the nobles!" said Abdula.

"When the Tang Dynasty and Tubo turn against each other, it will be my death." Xue Jun said lightly: "Come on, let's have one. For me, I will die under the knife of Chinan, Delhi in the future."

Abdula looked at him for a moment, and finally raised his glass: "If there really is such a day, where can you escape to me!"

"Sometimes, it's not that you can't escape, but that you don't want to escape!" Xue Jun smiled.

"Why?"

"You don't understand, you don't understand!" Xue Jun shook his head and said. "Come on, eat food, eat food. This fresh restaurant is from Li Xiangkai. It tastes absolutely the best in the Tang Dynasty. I wonder how many people lined up to come here to eat? This time I asked you for your blessing to book a seat here in advance. Do you know? Many wealthy officials and nobles have luggage here, just to entertain the most honorable guests. We don't know whose luggage we have occupied today!"

"Isn't Li Xiang the most powerful person in the Tang Dynasty? I heard that even your emperors have to listen to Li Xiang's words. Such people still need to open restaurants to make money? He said something, wouldn't he have anything to do?" Abdula was very surprised and puzzled.

"You don't know this!" Xue Jun shook his head and said, "Li Xiang is also paid. Our Tang Dynasty has a most fundamental national policy, that is, each household owns no more than one thousand acres of land, and Li Xiang is no exception. Li Xiang's expenses are also very large. Of course, many great merchants hope that Li Xiang can invest in their industries and do not have the capital of Li Xiang, so they are willing to give Li Xiang half of their shareholding, but Li Xiang will never interfere."

Abdula looked at Xue Jun out of sight.

"Although Li Xiang's salary is high, and his two wives are also high-ranking officials of my Tang Dynasty, their income is difficult to support their expenses. So Li Xiang opened this restaurant to subsidize the household income. Li Xiang has another industry, which is to make dry ice, the type of ice that can be produced in hot weather."

Abdula nodded and said, "No wonder the business of this restaurant is so good. It turns out that those people want to flatter Li Xiang."

"You can say that!" Xue Jun laughed: "But eating here is indeed worth the money, and you usually can't enter this restaurant. Those who can enter this restaurant are either rich or noble. This restaurant has a membership system. Do you know what a membership system is?"

"have no idea!"

"If you want to have a meal here, you must have an identity and be recognized by this restaurant. Such members are introduced to each other. Without an introducer, no matter how rich or entitled you are, you cannot have a drink here."

"But we?"

"You are a distinguished guest!" Xue Jun said: "So I said I had thanked you for your blessing. Otherwise, as I am now, I would never have the chance to come here to have this meal."

"It must be very expensive here, right?"

"Of course, the dishes here are exquisite and delicacies. As long as you want, there are some rare things here. As long as you book in advance, they can prepare them for you." Xue Jun said: "Our banquet costs about fifty silver dollars."

Abdu held his hands and shivered, almost landing the chopsticks in his hand on the table, staring at the delicious food on the table, and it was hard to swallow.

"When I was a slave, I couldn't save a single silver dollar in a year. Even now, my brothers can't save ten silver dollars a year." Abdula said sadly.

"In the northern part, the average annual income of ordinary people is about 100 silver dollars!" Xue Jun said: "They can't afford to eat here either."

"One hundred silver dollars?" Abdula opened his eyes widened: "Can we earn one hundred silver dollars in the future?"

"If you Tubo becomes the territory of the Tang Dynasty, then there will be some." Xue Jun said: "Each of you will own a large piece of pasture and a lot of cattle and sheep. The things you produce will be sold to all parts of the Tang Dynasty. Do you know, where you are, there are many things that we don't have in the Tang Dynasty. Those things can be transported out several times or even ten times the profit. Scarcity is expensive. Where can you sell barley wine for a pound?"

"It's only a few cents!" said Abdula.

Xue Jun smiled and said, "I will transport the barley wine from you from to the Tang Dynasty. The first pound can be sold for one silver dollar."

"One silver dollar?" Abdullah shouted. He had to drink one or two pounds of barley wine every day. Now he knew that this was equivalent to drinking one or two silver dollars every day, and he was suddenly filled with bitterness.

"You don't know what good things are there in your own right? Do you know how much a snow lotus is sold here?"

"Snow Lotus? That's just an ordinary medicinal herb!"

"Haha!" Xue Jun laughed: "A well-preserved fresh snow lotus can sell hundreds of silver dollars here. Even if it is dry, it can sell dozens of silver dollars. Sometimes some things are worth it or not, it depends on how you operate it!"

Abdu's hand kept trembling. Looking at that look, I was afraid that a lot of snow lotus flowers would be wasted in normal times.

"I heard that Li Xiang asked Wang Mingyi, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, to help you develop business. Soon, you will have money." Xue Jun said.

Abdula nodded heavily.

"We won't sell these things at a low price in the future!"

Xue Junyi smiled.

The sound of footsteps sounded outside. He heard the sound, and it seemed like he was coming towards their private room. Xue Jun didn't care, because those who could enter the leading restaurant were either rich or noble, and there would be no unexpected people.

Immediately, there was a knock on the door outside.

"Is General Abdula inside?" A question sounded outside.

Xue Jun glanced at Abdula and thought to himself that the ministry was about to find Abdula again. This time, the one involved with Abdula involved the entire imperial court.

"Please come in and speak!" Xue Junlang said.
Chapter completed!