Lu Dongzan and the others arrived at the Imperial Garden, but they saw that there was still a group of people from foreign missions standing there, and they couldn't help but be secretly alert.

In the days when he lived in the guest house of Honglu Temple, Lu Dongzan knew that there were some foreign envoys living in other courtyards.

"What are they here for? Are you here for sightseeing? Wouldn't you be here to marry a princess? Lu Dongzan's heart was full of questions.

The big guys are always the last to show up.

Just when Lu Dongzan was muttering in his heart, Li Shimin came over with the eldest grandson queen and a group of concubines.

After Li Shimin sat down, Lu Dongzan and others came to Li Shimin and saluted him. At the same time, Tianzhu, Da Shi, Zhong Gesar, and the envoys of King Hall came over to salute Li Shimin at the same time.

Li Shimin said: "Lu Dongzan, there is something I want to tell you, originally you asked for peace for your country's Zampu, and I promised you that as long as you can pass the test, I will marry my daughter to your family Zampu."

When they hear about it, they will also ask for their lord's marriage. However, I only have one daughter of the same age, who has not yet been married to someone else, and this is what makes me embarrassed.

You countries are very friendly with Datang, I can't favor one over the other, so I can only let them participate in the test together.

Compared with other countries, it is normal for you to have a short period of civilization in Tibet, so don't be nervous, even if you can't answer, I won't blame you for it. ”

Li Shimin's attitude is very good, and it can even be said that he is very kind, but in the ears of the Tibetan people, it is full of irony.

This is clearly looking down on people.

The rest of the Tibetan mission were all full of gloom, but Lu Dongzan's face was as usual, and he looked unfazed.

Because Li Shimin had an agreement with Li You, he deliberately belittled the Tubo people. Seeing Lu Dongzan's appearance, he couldn't help but nod secretly and said, "If you are willing to test, you can start." ”

Lu Dongzan said: "Your Majesty, we are willing to test. ”

People from other national missions have also said they are willing to take part in the test.

Li Shimin said: "Okay, then let's start." ”

Li Tai tried every possible way to win over Xiao Qian, and specially asked him to preside over this test.

Xiao Qian saw Li Shimin's speech and announced: "The test of envoys from various countries has officially begun. ”

"Knock knock", after a burst of drums, Xiao Qian said: "In this test, there are a total of four questions, one of which is personally written by His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

The one who answers the most correct answers to the first four questions will be eligible to ask my Tang princess for marriage.

Those who are qualified to marry will be tested by Her Royal Highness the Princess herself. Do you understand? ”

Lu Dongzan and others all said they understood.

Xiao Qian motioned to start.

Several eunuchs brought a table with a plate lined with red brocade and an egg-sized jade bead with holes in the middle.

Xiao Qian announced: "The first question is: Silk satin wears nine pearls. ”

He then talked about the rules of testing:

The silk satin wears the nine-curved pearl, that is, a soft silk satin is passed through the nine-curved eyelet of the pearl. The tester can do whatever it takes.

"That's too hard, isn't it?" There was a lot of talking.

Someone knew that it was Li Tai's question, and patted his ass and said: "I don't know who came up with this question, it's really whimsical, amazing." ”

Li Tai's face was full of pride, and he puffed up his chest and looked around, for fear that others would not know that it was his question.

Although Li You said the answer to this question, Li Shimin still didn't believe that anyone else could answer it.

Tests began.

The envoys of various countries rushed up and pondered vigorously around the Nine Songs Pearl.

The rest of the Tibetan mission stared at each other, and no one could do anything.

Li Shimin paid special attention to Lu Dongzan to see if he could answer this question.

I saw Lu Dongzan standing there pondering, shaking his head from time to time, continuing to ponder, he paced under a tree, looked down and saw something, then bent down, seemed to hold something in his hand, and then walked towards the Nine Songs Pearl.

At this time, the envoys of other countries worked hard for a long time, and the soft silk satin was not forced, let alone nine songs, and they couldn't wear a single song.

Everyone was disgraced.

Lu Dongzan asked, "Didn't you all answer?" ”

The people of the mission gave up one after another, but they held that their country had a long history, and they all looked at Lu Dongzan with contempt, not believing that the Tibetan barbarians could answer this question.

Lu Dongzan asked the eunuchs who were serving on the side for a bottle of honey, tore a silk thread from his clothes, spread his hand, revealing a black ant, and then carefully tied one end of the silk thread to the ant's waist and the other end to the silk satin.

He smeared honey on the end of the hole and placed the ant on the other side, and the ant smelled the honey and drilled into the hole. The ants don't have much strength, and it's a little hard to drag the silk satin, so Lu Dongzan blows lightly to help the ants.

With the help of the power of Lu Dongzan's blowing, the ant took the silk thread and slowly crawled out from the other side along the curved hole, and the silk satin also passed through the Jiuqu Pearl with the silk thread.

"Wow, that's amazing." Lu Dongzan's ingenuity surprised everyone.

Li Shimin was also a little dumbfounded.

Li Tai was directly dumbfounded. At first, when his scribes asked this question, he couldn't answer it.

"Yes, yes." The scene was full of admiration.

Next, Xiao Qian announced the second question of the test.

A group of guards carried a hundred logs, which were of the same thickness at both ends, neatly arranged on the grass.

This question asks the participants to identify the roots and margins of a log.

There was a lot of discussion among the people, and they were also stumped by this question. The envoys of other countries still could not answer this question.

It was Lu Dongzan again, he was still not in a hurry, and when he saw that there was no test, he asked, "Can I start?" ”

Xiao Qian said he could start testing.

Lu Dongzan asked the guards to throw all the logs into the water, and the ends of the logs were different in weight and weight, and they floated in the water at an angle.

"The roots of the log take a long time, have fine grains and weigh a lot, so the sinking end is the root, and the floating end is the treetop," he says. ”

"I see." Everyone was amazed.

Li Shimin was really a little convinced, and said in his heart: "This Lu Dongzan is really smart. ”

He said, "I will give you the following question. ”