Chapter 66: Just to Look Good?
"Li Xianggong suddenly came to the door, but Yuan Jia was caught off guard!"
After giving Li Jing, who was the first to salute, a standard return salute, Li Yuanjia first invited the big man in history to sit down, and then said with a smile.
When he first met Li Jing, he was really excited.
After all, he is the famous Tang Dynasty military god in history, and there are too many legends about Li Jing, so Li Yuanjia can't help but be excited. But I'm afraid of eating too much good food, and if I see a lot of historical celebrities, there will be no freshness, although he has seen Li Jing a few times, but there are a lot of Li Shimin, who is more famous.
So seeing the Tang Dynasty boss with the same name as King Tota again, Li Yuanjia's performance can be called calm.
Looking at the customs, the news has already spread to Luzhou.
The only thing that surprised Li Yuanjia was that Li Jing actually entered Luzhou City quietly, and then rashly boarded the gate of his Luzhou government office - this is completely out of line with rules and etiquette!
Fortunately, in my last life, I watched a lot of wild history TV series with Weifu private interviews, and Li Yuanjia treated it indifferently.
It's just called Xianggong, and there is just some diaphragm in my heart.
But it can't be helped, who made everyone call it that these days? And in addition to the prime minister, it would be a big problem to ask other people to be public at will, so even if you are unhappy, you can only endure it.
"Hehe, take the liberty of disturbing the king."
In the face of Li Yuanjia's faint questioning, Li Jing's expression was always calm, and he smiled slightly: "However, as an envoy of customs and customs, Li's responsibility is to act in a low-key manner many times, and I ask the king to forgive me." ”
Although his status is lower than that of Li Yuanjia, it does not mean that Li Jing is afraid of this King Xu.
In fact, if you talk about the status in the Tang Dynasty, the power of the right scholar is much greater than that of a Luzhou assassin, that is, everyone is reversed in the title. Therefore, it is a requirement of etiquette to show enough respect to Li Yuanjia, but if you really want to think about it......
In addition to the emperor and empress, who is Li Jing afraid of?
Li Yuanjia also understood this, and quickly shrugged his shoulders and smiled: "Okay, it's just that Li Xianggong came suddenly, and this king can't greet him according to the courtesy, so he is a little annoyed...... Hehe, Li Xianggong has worked hard all the way from Chang'an to Luzhou, and this king has ordered someone to prepare a banquet, how about picking up the wind and washing the dust for you after a while? ”
"In this case, thank you to the king."
Li Jing was not polite, and nodded with a smile.
One is an old fox who has experienced countless ups and downs in his life; One is a traverser who is a human being in two lives, and it is difficult to mess up because of someone or something, and the two had a quiet low-intensity confrontation between this short conversation.
Li Yuanjia was not surprised by this, but Li Jing was greatly surprised in his heart!
"This son...... Is that King Xu? ”
Raising the cup in his hand and taking a sip of warm goat's milk, Li Jing's eyes couldn't help but narrow slightly.
Although Li Yuanjia's attitude just now is very likely to properly show respect for an important minister of the Tang Dynasty and an old man, but Li Jing can still not hear his dissatisfaction and ridicule for his surprise attack? But just from the attitude and the bright text, you can't find fault at all!
"This feeling is a bit like those old foxes of the eldest grandson and Fang Xuanling!"
Looking at King Xu, who was calmly starting to drink tea, Li Jing's eyes widened, and he suddenly asked: "King, before Li came in just now, he found that there were many people coming in and out of the house, as if he was building something?" ”
Without the slightest hesitation, Li Yuanjia quickly put down the teacup in his hand, nodded with a smile and said: "Well, the sewer is being built for the entire Luzhou Government Office, and it is currently in the stage of just starting construction, so more manpower is used." ”
"Sewers? What's that? ”
Hearing this term that he had never heard of, Li Jing was stunned for a moment and asked puzzled.
Li Yuanjia was not surprised by this, after all, the word sewer was used to him, and it had not yet appeared in this era. In fact, he vaguely remembered that he had read an article saying that the word sewer was actually a foreign product - don't look at the long history of sewers in China, but the word sewer used later came from the same words in Japanese as many other modern words.
So with patience, Li Yuanjia gave a brief explanation to the right scholar.
"My lord, I'm afraid this is not appropriate, right?"
After roughly understanding the meaning of the sewer, Li Jing's brows suddenly furrowed: "It's just to make my yard look better, why can't you wait for a while to start work?" Now is the spring ploughing season, the most important time of the year, rashly recruiting so many people...... Ahem, even if there are only a few dozen people, it will affect their livelihood for a year! ”
As he spoke, Li Jing's displeasure dissipated a lot.
Well, although he felt that now was indeed not the time, but after thinking about it seriously, it seemed that what he saw was only thirty or forty people, which was really not a big move for a prince!
Li Jing, who has always been low-key, doesn't want to offend Li Yuanjia.
Although this King Xu is only sixteen or seventeen years old, and he is still a prince who is in a foreign country, and it will be difficult to return to Chang'an City in the future, and he may never have any intersection with him in the future, but after Fang Cai's anger gradually dissipated, Li Jing's temperament still made him subconsciously retract a lot of heavy words that he was going to say.
It's just that after listening to his words, Li Yuanjia also frowned, and asked unhappily: "Minfu? What people? Li Xianggong, who told you that this king has recruited people to build these sewers? ”
"Uh...... Aren't they? ”
Looking at King Xu's unhappy expression, Li Jing was stunned for a moment.
"Hehe, of course not!"
The corners of his mouth curved into an inexplicable arc, Li Yuanjia took a sip of tea and chuckled: "Those are all my people, and they don't sign a people's husband!" And...... Hehe, Li Xianggong, do you think the kind of sewer I'm talking about can be built by ordinary people? ”
Although he is not afraid, Li Yuanjia will definitely not be truthful in this kind of thing.
He doesn't know that Datang attaches great importance to spring ploughing, so why bother himself in this kind of thing? Moreover, Li Yuanjia also knew very well that with the productivity technology of this era, if the peasants were recruited to work in the spring ploughing season and the agricultural time was wrong, it would have a great impact on them, so he set his sights on those strong men in the Xu Wangfu from the beginning.
Except for those guards who were of noble birth and served under Li Yuanjia because of state decrees, most of the other men in the mansion were thrown in.
Therefore, when refuting Li Jing's words, he was very confident!
And......
After putting down the teacup in his hand again, Li Yuanjia smiled faintly and said, "Li Xianggong, who told you that I asked people to build sewers just to look good?" ”