"Duke Zhou, my father said that as long as His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is willing to send troops to help us, when we take back our royal city, he will definitely help you deal with Silla and Baekje. Moreover, we will always respect His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty as our The king will naturally present our treasures to His Majesty every year, and of course, your share, Duke Zhou. "
"It's easy to talk about. It's just..." He Lan Minzhi sat at the top, his expression filled with a touch of worry.
"Just what? Duke Zhou might as well say it straight." Quan Xiancheng asked hurriedly.
"It's just that the time of your arrival is not coincidental. Your Majesty and the Queen are not in Chang'an these days, but have gone to Luoyang. Therefore, I am afraid that I will not be able to help you for a while. Prince Quan might as well stay in Chang'an City for a few days now. "When your Majesty comes back, I will report it to him." He Lan Minzhi looked at him and said simply.
"But... I have already handed the folds to the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple today. His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is not here. Isn't there still the Crown Prince who can make the decision? By the way, Duke Zhou, you should be familiar with His Highness the Crown Prince, right? This matter Can we go directly to His Highness the Crown Prince? After all, my father is in a very critical situation right now. If it’s too late, I’m afraid…” Quan Xiancheng thought for a while and said.
At this time, another person sitting aside, Li Sizhen, said: "Prince Quan, although your zhezi has been handed over to Honglu Temple and the Ministry of Rites, without Zhou Guogong's mediation, I'm afraid it would be difficult for you to borrow it from the Tang Dynasty for your father. Soldiers and horses. You are also tired of traveling and traveling, so you might as well rest for a few days. When His Majesty comes back, I will help you persuade Him to agree to send troops to Goryeo, okay?"
Helan Minzhi looked at Li Sizhen and smiled. This guy is now the Prime Minister of Honglu Temple. He is in his thirties and almost forty years old. He has always hoped to be promoted to the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, so in the past few years, he and Li Zhongchang have , very close to oneself.
Both of them have very high attainments in calligraphy, which is much better than mine. Many of the calligraphy and paintings that I dedicated to His Majesty were actually made by these two people.
"Can't Duke Zhou ask the prince to mediate?" Quan Xiancheng seemed to want to go against the people here. The more people didn't want to mention someone, he insisted on mentioning it one by one.
He Lan Minzhi smiled silently and looked at Wu Jing on the other side, so Wu Jing immediately smiled mysteriously at Quan Xiancheng and said in a low voice: "This is a secret of the Tang Dynasty. I am here today." Tell you, you must remember to forget what I just said after you leave the house."
Quan Xiancheng opened his confused eyes and thought for a moment. As if he realized something, he immediately leaned forward and followed: "Oh, Brother Wu might as well just say it."
Wu Jing smiled mysteriously again and said: "The prince has always been at odds with Duke Zhou. The two of them are on the same page. If you ask Duke Zhou to request His Highness, wouldn't that be embarrassing Duke Zhou? Doesn't Duke Zhou want to put down his dignity..."
"But His Highness the Crown Prince is already older than Duke Zhou, isn't he?" Quan Xiancheng asked stupidly again.
"You don't know something about this, right? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has always been ignorant and ignorant. He is very jealous that Duke Zhou is so favored by His Majesty, so he will never agree to anything involving Duke Zhou. "Wu Jing was mysterious and almost made Li Sizhen and Li Zhongchang believe what he said.
"So His Highness the Crown Prince is a fool? Then why doesn't His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty change to another prince? Wouldn't this delay the national destiny of the Tang Dynasty?" Quan Xiancheng thought very carefully and said for the sake of these few who can be the worms of the Tang Dynasty. .
"Well, in the Tang Dynasty, the eldest son was always the crown prince. Even if the crown prince was deposed, the other three sons would be more stupid than the last. The King of Pei, Li Xian, knew how to play cockfights with the King of England every day, and that Li Dan, He is only four years old now, so in His Majesty's eyes, the two of them combined are stupider than the other, so... "
In another room, Li Hong was the only one with a dark face. Li Xian and Li Zhe were almost laughing. They hit Li Hong in a low voice and said, "Fifth brother, do you hear this? You have no knowledge, no skills, and no ideas. A complete idiot, haha, learn some knowledge quickly, otherwise my father will... haha..."
Li Xian and Li Zhe laughed unbridled, Li Sujie and Li Shangjin also shrugged their shoulders, and their stomachs were about to cramp from laughter.
At this time, after hearing Wu Jing's next words, Li Xian and Li Zhe immediately turned into bitter faces, especially the sentence "No matter how you look at it, the two together are stupider than the other one." , asked Li Xian and Li Zhe to immediately go over and find someone to argue with.
"Why are you in a hurry? Listen again." Li Hong had a dark face, and he turned out to be uneducated and incompetent. Okay, I will remember you!
At this time, I heard the other side continue to say: "So, those princes are completely different from Zhou Guogong. Zhou Guogong is a dragon and a phoenix among people. What if one day His Majesty figures it out... Do you understand? ? So, only Zhou Guogong can speak in front of His Majesty about your matter. I think it will take you a month or two to go to His Majesty. You may not even be able to go back, let alone borrow troops. ”
While Wu Jing was speaking, He Lan Minzhi kept a faint smile on his handsome face. From time to time, he raised his eyes to look at Li Zhongchang and Li Sizhen, so the two people hurriedly nodded in agreement after Wu Jing's words. .
"Lao Wu, you won't just sit like this, will you? That's how you are arranged over there." Li Sujie asked, looking at Li Hong who was not surprised at all.
Li Hong picked up the cup, gargled his mouth under Xia Zhi's service, and then slowly said: "Cuiwei Palace didn't kill him for anything, so what if we catch him with just these few words? What's more, it's not from his mouth."
"Then we can't just forget about it, right? No matter how you look at it, you think the other two combined are more stupid than that one? Are the three of us that stupid?" Li Zhe snorted dissatisfied.
"He just said, you don't really think you are a fool, do you?" Li Xian was also full of complaints.
Li Hong thought for a while and suddenly said to Xia Zhi: "Go and ask He Lan Minzhi who is hosting today?"
Xia Zhi nodded, then slowly left the room, ran downstairs and asked the shopkeeper if he knew.
The other four people in the room looked at Li Hong in confusion, and Li Xian said, "What do you mean? Who paid the bill?"
"Since we can't do anything to him now, it's not a bad idea to scare him. Let's let Helan Minzhi handle our meal today. It will also help Yiyang and Gao An make more money." Li Hong sat upright and said calmly. .
"How to make money? I can't even eat now. It would be a waste to serve food again. And look, our table is not as expensive as the food eaten by different wealthy businessmen." Li Zhe pouted, feeling that he had lost money. If he had known it was more, Some good dishes too.
"It's not too late for you now." Li Hong said nonchalantly.
"But we can't eat any more. You want to stuff us to death." Li Shangjin took a sip of water and said with a frown.
"I said you are stupid, but you just don't admit it. You are all full. Are all the people in your house full? Even if they are all full... Then look for the people in Chang'an City who have not eaten, the beggars on the roadside, etc. , I’ll give you a copy tomorrow in your respective names!”
"The food will spoil if left overnight. You are the prince, so naturally you won't know this..."
"You talk so much nonsense. Who told you to distribute it now? Why don't you let the guys in Yang'an Building distribute it tomorrow, or let the common people and beggars come to collect it?" Li Hong slapped Li Zhe on the back of the head, and even the old man slapped his head. On to the ground.
Hua Meng behind him hurriedly picked it up and handed it to Li Zhe. Li Zhe was not angry. He took the futou and put it on his head. He thought about it and said, "Then what should we order?"
"Whatever is more expensive." Li Xian thought about it and said with excited eyes.
Li Sujie also gradually came back to his senses, and said equally excitedly: "Let's do this, come on, let's divide the areas. I will send people to the streets early tomorrow morning. How about I own the south of Dongshi?"
"Okay, I'll come to the north of Dongshi." Li Shangjin patted the table and said.
"Then I'll come to the south of West Market, and you'll come to the north of West Market." Li Zhe took off the futou and put it on again.
"Okay, you four just divided up the city of Chang'an, and you won't leave any for me. Let's do this, just issue the decree in the name of the prince..."
"Don't do it!"
"That's right, you can't just let us have it just once!"
"..." The four people were extremely determined and unanimously opposed.
"This is my idea. Should you leave some for me?" Li Hong looked at the four of them with wide eyes and asked.
"The outskirts of Chang'an City are yours. Look at which county is poor and send it to them... Haha." Li Xian couldn't stop laughing halfway through his words.
At this time, Xia Zhi pushed the door and entered slowly, came behind Li Hong, and said crisply: "Sir, this time I am Quanxian City as a host, and I am inviting He Lan Minzhi, not He Lan Minzhi..."
"What should I do now?"
"You still thought of a good idea, are you stupid now?"
"You're still cheating him like this now? It's not him who pays the bill."
"It's over, it's over. I've already thought about who to send to the north of the West Market tomorrow to inform the people and beggars. I even plan to inform the monks in the temple." Li Zhe's little face wrinkled up, looking amused. The son's matter just fell through.
Li Hong remained silent and sneered as he looked at the desperate virtues of several people, as if the sky was falling.
"Just now, you had the chivalrous spirit of robbing the rich and giving to the poor like a knight-errant. Why don't you know what to do when you encounter a little setback? What's wrong with him not treating you? Isn't this difficult? Just let him treat you. ? He said so many bad things about me just now, so I asked him to treat me." Li Hong finally said after seeing these people lying on the table in pain.
When several people slowly raised their heads from the table, Li Hong said to Xia Zhi: "Xia Zhi, go and tell the shopkeeper that He Lan Minzhi must treat you today. The total meal cost is five thousand taels of silver."
After hearing Li Hong's words, Li Xian and the others were so frightened that their jaws almost dropped to the ground. They were so cruel. They deserved to be crown princes. They dared to charge five thousand taels of silver for one meal. What success would the people of Chang'an have tomorrow? That's it.
(End of chapter)