Rule the Roost in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 87: Chess

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According to the records of the Tang Dynasty: In the third year of Longshuo (AD 663), the palace in Chang'an City was sunny and sunny, and the sky was clear. Under the breeze: the sound is pitiful, like weeping and complaining, the wails and howls resound throughout the harem, the sound is sad and painful to the world, the "cuckoo" weeps blood, and everything is harmonious.

Tai Zihong: tears streaming down his face, begging for mercy in pain. Queen: Her jade hands are red and her body is moist with fragrance. Emperor: leisurely and indulged.

In Wu Mei's palace, Wu Mei had just finished bathing and changing clothes. After all, she was panting and sweating from exhaustion just now, and her palms were red and painful, but! I haven't played so happily in a long time.

Wu Mei was very satisfied with the smooth feeling that the soap brought to her skin when she bathed. The light fragrance still remained on her skin after bathing. After spraying the perfume, her whole body seemed to be like a delicate flower, full of fragrance. Overflowing, intoxicating.

The person who was beaten was lying on her bed at the moment, and Xia Zhi was applying medicine to someone's swollen buttocks. Occasionally, with a little heavier hand, Li Hong would touch the severely swollen place, and Li Hong would immediately send out a slight chill in time. An angry reminder, it really hurts.

Beside the bed, Li Zhi sat face to face with Li Hong with a serious and thoughtful look on his face. A table was placed between the two of them. On it was a chess set that was said to not have existed in that era!

At this time, the chess game was extremely unfavorable to Li Zhi. Under Li Hong's offensive, which was carried out step by step and held high, Li Zhi's situation had turned from offense to defense, and even the defense seemed extremely passive.

The father and son who were playing chess, at this time, no one could care about Wu Mei, who was showing off her faint fragrance everywhere. Wu Mei looked at the chess situation and sighed. Looking at Li Hong's expression, she knew that His Majesty was going to lose this game again.

So he sat down on the edge of the bed, took the last papers that Li Hong took out from his backpack, and after reading them carefully, he took a picture of Li Hong, who had a relaxed face and urged his father to move quickly.

"Why are you urging me? Why don't you let your father think about it? Let me ask you, this is what you want your father and the Ministry of Industry to set aside for you in the Daming Palace. What do you want to build? ?ā€

"Yeah." He hummed casually to Wu Mei. Li Hong watched Li Zhi secretly place a captured chess piece on the chessboard, and stretched out his arms to push the piece away.

Wu Mei was not annoyed by Li Hong's carelessness. She bit her red lips and thought carefully, then asked again: "What is the name of your building? How can it be possible to transport water to a height of dozens of feet?"

"It's simple. Yu Wenrong, Liang Xiaoren and the man named Lou Yu have already done the research. As long as the water level in Taiye Pond is not lower than the average, it will basically not be a problem to get water. In winter, flowers will bloom anyway. Some cold-resistant trees are also withered. Occasionally watering them will be enough." Li Hong put the horse in his hand next to Commander Li Zhi. In two steps, he will be killed.

"Li Hong, please be careful. What's your name?" Wu Mei looked at Li Hong who was careless. She raised her hand and wanted to slap her on the red and swollen buttocks. She couldn't bear it and slapped her on the back. road.

"It's called: Hanging Garden. Once it's built, it should be the tallest building in the palace. There will also be trees, flowers, and pavilions on top. You can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Chang'an or relax with your father. It has more artistic conception. "Li Hong's last sentence was to Li Zhi. After the gun sank to the bottom of the general, Li Zhi's commander was completely unable to move, so Li Zhi had to surrender.

"When are you going to Taiyi City?" Wu Mei put down the drawings in her hands. She still couldn't form a specific building shape in her mind, so she simply gave up thinking. She believed that after the little thing was completed, she would definitely not be disappointed. of.

"You have to ask my father about this. My father wants me to wait for Liu Renyuan and Sun Renshuai to come back before going to Taiyi City." Li Hong took his chess pieces and began to prepare for the next game with Li Zhi.

"In the last game, this game is for both father and emperor. Liu Renyuan and they escorted back a strange man this time, a Baekje general. He is more than seven feet tall, brave and resourceful. According to Liu Rengui, this man's martial arts skills are no less than Xue Rengui's. , and he is even more skilled in using troops than Xue Rengui." Li Zhi didn't even raise his head as he explained the situation quickly.

"No, one car, one horse, no more. That's not necessarily the case. If Zheng Rentai hadn't misjudged the situation when Nine Surnamed Tie Le was about to surrender, this battle could have wiped out Nine Surname Tie Le in one fell swoop. But this Xue Rengui, too, knows that Zheng Rentai is wrong, and he deserves to take a girl with the ninth surname as his concubine." Li Hong said calmly after setting up the chess game.

Li Zhi rolled his eyes at him, obviously dissatisfied with Li Hong's excuse for Xue Rengui, not to mention that he himself did not hold Xue Rengui accountable.

"Hong'er, although the Baekje general wanted to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, I was afraid that he would be conceited about his martial arts, so..."

"Thank you, my father, for your love." Li Hong lay on the bed with his hands clasped in his hands and thanked him: "I already have a suitable candidate for General Zuowei of Sixth Rate, I don't need him."

Li Zhi held a chess piece in his hand, settled it in the air, and then smiled deeply, looking at the little thing's nonchalant face, he continued: "All capable people are quite conceited. I'm afraid that after he comes to Chang'an, the Ministry of War will be able to completely surrender him. "

"Do you want to give Er Chen a try? No problem, let's see how Er Chen handles him. Even though he is good at martial arts, he can't withstand the sharp blade in Er Chen's hand. It's just that Xue Rengui is idle at home, otherwise, Xue Rengui will definitely be able to handle him." Li Hong said.

Li Hong couldn't say why he gave up Heijia Changzhi. Perhaps it was because of his extreme dislike of sticks in his previous life, or perhaps he was afraid that his father would think his hand was stretched too long.

In the end, Li Hong was taken back to the harem again, and he also got a special permission. He didn't have to go to court in the past few days. After raising his butt, when Liu Renyuan returned to the court and saw the Baekje general, he You can go to Taiyi City.

Because the chief of the household department has been ill in the past few days, most of the daily government affairs have been moved from the household department in front of the Taiji Hall to the East Palace.

Li Yiyan, the left minister, and Jinghui, the right minister, basically rushed to the East Palace after going to court. After listening to the prince's instructions, they could then return to the household department to handle government affairs.

With the help of Li Hong, the entire Japanese country began to prepare to charge students sent to the Tang Dynasty on a per-capita basis. Li Hong also instructed Jinghui to discuss this matter with the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Academy. In short, the Japanese country would not let the Tang Dynasty take advantage of it in vain. .

Yan Liben's mood these days was like a roller coaster. The excitement of regaining something made him look so happy in the court, as if he had just married a little wife.

Li Zhi actually returned the "Huang Ting Jing" to Yan Liben, which made Yan Liben immediately grateful and excited to Li Zhi. I can't wait to ask Li Zhi to send him to the Western Regions or Baekje quickly, and prepare to die to repay His Majesty's grace for him.

The martial arts arena of Tai Chi Palace was surrounded by hundreds of civil and military officials. A long man in black with disheveled hair knelt in the middle of the arena. Li Zhi stood on the high steps of Linde Palace and looked at the man from top to bottom.

"I have met His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Hei Te Changzhi." The blunt Chinese sounded a bit awkward.

But for Datang, there is nothing strange about this. Datang was so confident and calm that the word tolerance was always flowing in his blood.

What's more, he was not the first foreign official to defect to the Tang Dynasty, so no one would find his blunt Chinese strange.

Holding a horizontal sword in his hand, Black Teeth Changzhi immediately started practicing in the martial arts field after getting Li Zhi's approval. His wide-open and wide-open culling moves and his mighty and domineering aura were indeed eye-catching. , a horizontal knife danced like a tiger, and the whole person seemed to be wrapped up airtight.

Liu Renyuan seemed to be a salesman. He threw the piece of wood that was about a foot long and about the thickness of a child's arm into the field. He saw the shadow of the knife flashing past, and every piece of wood was cut with black teeth, very accurately. The spicy ones are split into two pieces.

Seeing this, the crowd couldn't help but burst into cheers. Li Hong, who was also following Li Zhi on the high platform of Linde Hall, couldn't help curling his lips and whispered: "Liu Renyuan made a martial arts show look like a showman." of."

"What do Hong'er think of this person?" Li Zhi asked with a smile, looking at Hei Te Changzhi's thunderous skills.

"That's great, Yang Wu. Haven't you been wanting to spar with Cheetah and Jingzhe recently? They are too lazy to talk to you. How about you take a look at the stick below? Let's spar with him... Oops." Before Li Hong could finish his words, he was Li Zhi slapped him on the back of the head.

"Yangwu is a fighting skill, not a battle art. The martial arts honed on the battlefield of life and death are incomparable with Yangwu and the others. In one-on-one, even two black-toothed Changzhi, Yangwu can't do it. But if you put the two on the battlefield, it doesn't necessarily mean who is more of a threat to the enemy," Li Zhi explained to Li Hong.

"Thank you, Father, for your teachings." Li Hong naturally understood the truth, but he still had to give his own father some face from time to time. He was the emperor after all.

After Hei Te Changzhi finished chopping the wood, he took out a bow and started shooting. A wooden stake was nailed there a hundred steps away, and it looked as thick as a small stick.

Li Hong looked at it leisurely, and began to tremble again: "Tsk, tsk, this guy seems to have a lot of trouble." Then he turned back to Yang Wu and said, "Have you finished the inspection? After the inspection, please return it to me. Iā€™m going to compete with Bangzi later.ā€

"Bangzi?" This was the second time Li Zhi heard Li Hong call Hei Chi Changzhi "bangzi". He didn't pay attention the first time, but when he heard it the second time, he immediately asked, "What does it mean?"

"Oh, how about the nickname I gave Hei Te Changzhi? It sounds nice... Ouch." Li Hong received another slap.

Although Li Zhi didn't know why he called Hei Te Changzhi Bangzi, but from the literal meaning, he knew that the little brat had bad intentions. No wonder he was not interested in Hei Te Changzhi, who was highly skilled in martial arts.

Xue Rengui of "Three Arrows Ding Tianshan" was not there, so naturally, everyone started talking about who was more powerful in archery, Hei Te Changzhi or Xue Rengui, and who drew the bow with greater force.

(End of chapter)