The eldest grandson Wuyi also sat silently beside Li Chengfeng.

Li Xiaogong poured a full glass of wine, raised his glass, and said happily: "It is really an honor for the eighth prince to come to Suzhou to visit the old minister!" This cup is the old minister's respect for the eighth prince, the old minister is dry, the eighth prince is free! ”

"Haha, the general did it, how can this prince not give face? Okay, I'll do it too! ”

After that, Li Chengfeng also raised his wine glass and drank it all.

After all, Li Chengfeng has the talent of 'a thousand cups without getting drunk', and drinking wine is as simple as drinking water.

It's just that I drank too much and had to go to the toilet a few more times, but those are small things.

Then, Li Chengfeng told his true purpose for coming here.

Li Chengfeng said: "General Li, this year is a year of great drought, and the people are living in difficulty, presumably the same is true of the military camp!" So I came to Suzhou on the orders of my father to check if there were any officials stealing grain! ”

"Oh, I see! However, it is still an honor for the eighth prince to come here to visit the minister! ”

"That's right, General Lee! It is said that Suzhou is bordered by Tibet in the south and Turks in the north, and these two enemy countries are eyeing the land of our Tang Dynasty! ”

"Humph!" After Li Chengfeng finished speaking, Li Xiaogong immediately snorted coldly and said, "It's just two barbarian dog thieves!" With me guarding the Datang Frontier, they don't want to step into our Frontier for half a step! ”

"Well, I want to ask, how is the strength of the Tibetans and the Turks?" Li Chengfeng asked again.

Li Xiaogong replied, "There are about 30,000 soldiers stationed outside Suzhou in Tubo, and about 50,000 Turkic dog thieves are in the north of Suzhou!" And our Tang soldiers in Suzhou are only 50,000! If they attack at the same time, maybe I will have to go to Liangzhou City to borrow troops to defend it! But the Eighth Prince doesn't have to worry about this, why don't you connect the four states of the Tang Dynasty and defend the frontier, those two barbarian dog thieves will definitely not be able to attack it! And the relationship between the two countries is also hostile, but there is a gap between our Datang, so they want to invade our Datang territory first! ”

Li Xiaogong looked serious and frowned tightly.

Li Chengfeng could see how much pressure and mission this general was shouldering.

Once Suzhou breaks the defense, then Datang will lose a piece of frontier territory.

However, Suzhou is under the enemy, there is Tubo in the south, and there are Turks in the north, and these two countries are eyeing the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, Li Xiaogong must pay attention to border defense at all times and prevent foreign enemies from invading the territory of Datang.

Li Chengfeng saluted Li Xiaogong with a glass of wine again, and said: "General Li, this prince is with you, and you also brought this prince's 3,000 Xuanjia army, or, tomorrow you will take them to the battlefield to declare war and promote my Tang national prestige?" ”

"Hahaha, the Eighth Prince, you're polite! To tell the truth, if it weren't for the imminent war, we wouldn't have sent all our troops to meet it, what we have to do now is just to protect Suzhou from being invaded! If the Eighth Prince wants his army to go to the battlefield to train his troops, I'm afraid it's not the time yet! ”

"Oh, I see!" Li Chengfeng nodded thoughtfully and said, "Then let's stay here for a while, no problem, right?" ”

"No, of course there is no problem! You can stay as long as you want, the Eighth Prince! Li Xiaogong said very generously.

Li Chengfeng nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, then the prince is welcome!" ”

……

In the early morning of the next day, Li Chengfeng and Li Xiaogong went to the border city of Suzhou, and after watching for a while, they retreated from the city wall.

From a distance, there was a large area of black and oppressive military camp tents in the south, and those were all soldiers from Tubo who were hostile to Suzhou City in the Tang Dynasty.

They eat breakfast and smoke rises.

After Li Chengfeng ate, he also said goodbye to Li Xiaogong and went to Suzhou City with his eldest grandson Wuyi to check the people's feelings.

The city lord of Suzhou City is named Liu Changwei.

Chang Wei? This name Li Chengfeng sounds very familiar.

As soon as Liu Changwei heard that the Eighth Prince of the Tang Dynasty had come to Suzhou City to inspect, he did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly entertained Li Chengfeng with good wine and food.

After all, this is the eighth prince of Datang, and it is very likely that he will be the future god king of Datang.

As a governor, how could Liu Changwei not entertain Li Chengfeng well?

And the 3,000 Xuanjia Army that Li Chengfeng followed was also left by Li Chengfeng in Li Xiaogong's border city to standby.

Because Li Chengfeng is going to do a very important thing now.

But dispatching 3,000 Xuanjia troops is inevitably a bit overkill.

And Li Chengfeng brought his troops to Suzhou, one is to let them exercise on the battlefield, and the other is to prevent accidents.

In case they really took away all the grain, grass and money of the Turks and Tibet, they were annoyed and planned to die with Suzhou.

Then at this time, Li Chengfeng's 3,000 Xuanjia Army can come in handy.

……

Coming to the home of Liu Changwei, the city lord of Suzhou, Liu Changwei entertained Li Chengfeng very warmly.

After a burst of cold greetings, it was a reception of good wine and meat.

Although Li Chengfeng was only six years old, Liu Changwei did not dare to despise the young man in front of him.

"The Eighth Prince came to Suzhou to inspect, Chang Wei lost his welcome, he lost his welcome!"

"Come, the Eighth Prince, please!"

"Okay!"

Li Chengfeng was not polite, and together with the eldest grandson Wuyi, he came to Liu Changwei's house.

Li Chengfeng said: "City Lord Liu, I can't hide it, this prince came to Suzhou City this time to inspect the people's situation!" ”

"Oh good! I've heard about this, and the old minister has also heard about the one-year gambling contract between the eighth prince and the emperor! I didn't expect the Eighth Prince to start patrolling in Suzhou first! ”

Liu Changwei smiled heartily.

Li Chengfeng frowned and said, "City Lord Liu, this prince seems to have given Suzhou millions of catties of grain last month, right?" Have you taken all this food for yourself, or have you given it all to the people to eat? ”

Speaking of this, Liu Changwei was suddenly frightened, and then he raised three fingers and said: "The sky can be seen, Lao Chen definitely did not steal food and distribute the food of the people, those grains are still stored in Lao Chen's granary, and tens of thousands of catties of grain will be distributed to the people of Suzhou every day!" ”

"Well, that's good! When the people are strong, the country is strong, and you can't suffer the people because of your own selfish desires, you know? ”

"Yes, what the Eighth Prince said is that the old minister has been taught!"

Liu Changwei clenched his fists with both hands, slammed at Li Chengfeng, and said, "The old minister admires the Eighth Prince's approach very much!" In the year of the natural disaster in the Tang Dynasty, the Eight Emperors dared to open the treasury and put the granary to relieve the people of the Tang Dynasty. For this alone, the old minister admires the Eighth Prince very much! ”

"Haha, that's it! We won't mention anything else, I'll ask you, why do you want to do a big vote now, do you have any way? ”

"Uh...... Do you have a big vote? Dare to ask, the eighth prince, what do you mean? ”

Liu Changwei opened his little eyes wide and looked at Li Chengfeng suspiciously.

He only knew that Li Chengfeng and Li Shimin had a one-year gambling contract, and Li Chengfeng came to Suzhou to inspect, but he didn't know, what kind of thing was it to do a big vote?