Chapter 13: First Arrival in Jinguan City
In the past month since Li Ye came to Datang, he has never slept so comfortably as last night. Don't worry about the thief army chasing you, and don't worry about the next day, unless the Huangchao thief army conquers the Xiegu and Jianmen Pass one after another, it is impossible for the Huangchao army to hit Chengdu.
After getting up and washing, Xiaoyue and Xiaoying waited for Li Ye to dress. In fact, when Li Ye arrived in Chengdu, his current Shouwang Mansion was already equipped with dozens of male servants and maids, and there was no shortage of some beautiful women, but Xiaoying didn't want other women to approach Li Ye, so he insisted that he and Xiaoyue would serve Li Ye and dress.
Since he was going to meet the emperor today, Li Ye was dressed very formally, wearing a purple waist jade, wearing a purple robe, and wearing a jade belt around his waist. According to the rules of the Tang Dynasty, 'the prince and the third rank and above, if the second queen, the color of the clothes is purple and decorated with jade. This was a new rule in the sixth year of Taihe (832 A.D.).
All in all, the color of the clothes is purple --- crimson (i.e., red), --- green--- blue --- yellow. However, unlike other ordinary officials above the third rank, Li Ye, as a prince, has different embroideries on his purple robe. Of course, Li Ye doesn't need to wear a crown, because he doesn't have a weak crown, just use a double jade hairpin.
"What's going on with Brother Huang?"
Looking at himself in the bronze mirror, Li Ye had an urge to smash the bronze mirror. How is glass made? Looking at this bronze mirror, he really felt awkward, but he couldn't remember how to make glass for a while, if he could make it, it would be a money-making tool.
"Chen Jiedu's envoy has gone to His Majesty's side, and most of the officials in Shu are waiting in the place where His Majesty lives." It was naturally Zhang Wei who said these words, and he was generally in charge of inquiring about these news, "In addition, His Majesty rewarded 5,000 pieces of money, 1,000 Shu brocades, 20 mules and horses, and there will be 1,000 pieces every month in the future." Among the princes, His Royal Highness has the most. ”
"The royal brother is also generous, and he will reward so much at once." Li Ye, who was dressing, was also quite surprised when he heard this.
In fact, Li Ye still doesn't understand the value of money in this era. If you look at it from a food point of view, it is not easy to estimate, because the price of food is not the same in different places. For example, in Chang'an now, due to the war, 500 yuan for rice is 500 yuan, which is 40 yuan for a pound of rice; But in Shudi, because of the high grain production, there has been no war in the past ten years, and the rice is only 60 yuan, that is, less than 5 yuan per catty of rice.
Not to mention the 5,000 guan of the reward, just 1,000 guan per month can buy 200,000 catties of rice. And even if all the servants are added to the Shouwang Mansion now, there are less than 100 people, even if each person has 2 catties of rice a day, they can't consume 1,000 catties of rice in a month. However, the transportation in Shu is inconvenient, even if the grain is produced here, it is not so easy to sell it, so the price of grain has not been high.
If Li Ye had an idea, he could buy grain from Shu and sell it to Guanzhong, Central Plains, Hedong and other places, it would definitely make money, but whether it could be transported smoothly was another matter.
"Your Majesty, in addition to rewarding His Royal Highness and other princes, the accompanying soldiers of the Shence Army and the Shu Army are rewarded, each of them three times."
"What about you? How much reward will you receive? Li Ye looked at Zhang Wei playfully.
Zhang Wei did not hesitate at all, and replied with a shy face, "Touching the light of His Highness, the slave has also been rewarded with 30 times." ”
"You've got a lot." Li Ye smiled, and then instructed him, "Later, I will take the money rewarded by the imperial brother, you, Xiaoying, Xiaoyue, as well as Pei Changshi and Li Hong, you will each take 20 yuan, and the other palace entourages will each take 10 yuan." ”
"Thank you, Your Highness, for the reward!"
Hearing that there was another 20 yuan of reward, Zhang Wei smiled on his face. He is not Tian Lingzi, Yang Fugong and other powerful eunuchs, Li Ye is young, his income is actually not high, 50 yuan is a small amount of money for him.
"As long as you are faithful to the king, these rewards will come from time to time. Zhang Wei, you go and get the carriage ready, and you will go to the imperial brother with this king later. Li Ye doesn't have much idea about the money in this era, and it was given by others, so he doesn't feel distressed when he spends it.
"Yes, Your Highness."
With the reward, Zhang Wei's enthusiasm was obviously high, and after speaking, he went out to prepare the carriage.
"Your Highness, will you come back for dinner at noon?"
After Li Ye got dressed, Xiaoying still checked it carefully, and looked at Li Ye's eyes full of expectation.
"Little goblin, don't look at this king like this, if you really don't dare to do anything to this king, right?" Li Ye stretched out his hand to hook the other party's chin and said with a playful smile.
Xiaoying didn't answer Li Ye, but she didn't flinch in the slightest in her actual actions, but puffed up her chest and looked at him with provocative eyes, as if she didn't dare to say anything else.
"Your Highness, the car is ready... The car is ready. ”
Zhang Wei came to Li Ye's room after getting the car ready, and found that Li Ye was holding Xiaoying, and was stunned there. In fact, Li Ye didn't hold Xiaoying, but the two were very close, but judging from where Zhang Wei was standing, it was a bit like Li Ye holding each other.
"Okay, you step back first." After Li Ye gave the order, he didn't go to see if Zhang Wei really retreated, but stretched his head to Xiaoying's side, put his mouth to his ear, and gently bit the other party's sensitive earlobe, obviously feeling the other party's body tight, he smiled and whispered in his ear, "Little goblin, you are not allowed to wear such a transparent gauze in front of others in the future." ”
After speaking, Li Ye ignored Xiaoying's reaction, laughed and walked out of the room, leaving Xiaoying with a flushed face.
"Sister Xiaoying, what did His Highness say in your ear just now?" After Li Ye left, Xiao Yue asked curiously.
"It's nothing, Your Highness just said that he won't come back at noon." Xiao Ying, who was flushed with a blushing face, said incoherently, looked at the sari on her body, and then looked at the sari on Xiao Yue's body, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
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Li Ye had just won back a city on Xiaoying, and he was in a very happy mood, while Zhang Wei next to him said flatteringly, "If Your Highness likes that palace maid, you can directly put her in the backyard." His Royal Highness is now almost at the age of a concubine, although the palace maid is not suitable for the princess, but it is no problem to be a concubine. ”
"You also take care of this matter of this king?" Li Ye glanced at the other party and said lightly.
Just when Li Ye thought that the other party would echo his words, but he soon knew that he had guessed wrong, only to see Zhang Wei's words convincing, "Your Highness, as a prince, must consider the issue of royal reproduction." Just like Your Majesty, Gonggong Tian and they are also worried about His Majesty's heirs, and the servants are also doing this for the sake of His Highness. ”
"Really? Then the king is still wrong to blame you? Li Ye didn't have a good airway.
"It's not that His Highness blames the minions, but at this age, His Highness should think about this matter in advance." Zhang Wei also knew the measure, and he didn't dare not know what to do.
"Alright, let's go, we'll talk about that later." Li Ye didn't want to argue with a eunuch about this, he always felt weird in his heart.
"Yes, Your Highness."
As Li Ye got into the carriage, Zhang Wei instructed the coachman to start leaving. Before the carriage left, Li Ye took a closer look at the place where he lived last night.
The place where Li Ye lives has now hung the sign of 'Shou Wangfu', although this palace is not as big as the palace in Chang'an, but Li Ye is also satisfied, after all, he does not have much impression of the palace in Chang'an. His current Shouwang Mansion is actually the previous Shu Wangfu, Xichuan Jiedu made Chen Jingxuan send someone to repair it, and Li Yi gave it to Li Ye as Shouwang Mansion.
There were many Shu kings in the Tang Dynasty, including Li Shimin's third son Li Ke, his sixth son Li Su, and Li Su's son Li Fan. Li Su, the thirteenth son of Daizong, and the most recent is Li Ji, the third son of Yizong, the third brother of Li Yi and Li Ye, --- Li Ji.
Originally, the palace where Li Ye lives now is Li Ji's palace, but after the palace was repaired, Li Ji died before he could move in. The palace of the king of Shu was also abandoned, after Chen Jingxuan served as the envoy of the Xichuan Festival, he began to repair the palace of the king of Shu, and he wanted to give the palace to the emperor, but he did not expect the other party to reward Li Ye as the king of longevity.
As for Li Yi, he lived in the palace built by Tang Xuanzong who took refuge in Shu.