Chang'an, inside the Imperial Study.

The atmosphere at the moment is a little depressing, but during this period of time, this depressing atmosphere has become more and more common.

And now, whenever a monarch or minister steps here, he will always subconsciously ask a question.

"Still no news?" Li Shimin asked with a sad face, this has become a habit, and he has to ask almost every day.

Although he knew very well that he would not be able to get an answer from this.

"Your Majesty, there is no news, and there is no news from the people who have been placed in Beihai Prefecture and Dongzhou, Tamna Prefecture and Nanhai Prefecture!" The thin Fang Xuanling said with a hint of sickly exhaustion on his face.

In the past few years, as the old heroes have gone and died, Li Shimin has become more and more affectionate towards these old heroes.

He once persuaded Fang Xuanling to go home to rest for a while, for fear that he would follow in Du Ruhui's footsteps.

But Fang Xuanling, who was thoughtful, directly rejected Li Shimin's proposal, and kept dealing with a large number of official duties every day, and he would be unable to sleep when he went home at night.

"Your Majesty, the news that came back from Haizhou yesterday is that the ship used by the imperial court for experiments is no longer good, and it is a hole if you knock it hard with a hammer!" The eldest grandson Wuji also said with a solemn face.

The imperial court is not unconcerned, there is not only one King Zhao in the fleet, but also the descendants of these heroes.

So, two years ago, Li Shimin approved an application for a trial.

Build a ship of the same size and sail the seas non-stop.

During this period, no planned overhauls were carried out, only in-sea overhauls were carried out to test how long the hull would last.

Although the ship has not sunk yet, the situation is about the same.

And the answer given is, a year and a half!

Considering that although Li Yuanjing and the others carried shipwrights, the materials were definitely not as good as the local ones, so the results may already be obvious now.

Either you can't come back somewhere, or you die in the sea.

It is not impossible to do so, in the past few years, with the development of the South China Sea shipping lanes by the imperial court, it is inevitable that some ships have also sunk.

Some of them were caused by yaw, and some of them were caused by high winds, etc., and the situation on the sea was so complicated that these people couldn't believe it when they heard it at first.

But the facts are in front of them, and they can't help but believe them.

"Is that really going to be the case?" Li Shimin looked up at the ceiling and said with a solemn face.

He had thought about many possibilities, and he had thought that they would not come back.

But now it seems that the situation is really not optimistic.

Zhenguan left in the summer of the thirteenth year, and now it is the winter of the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, almost three and a half years.

And the time Li Yuanjing gave at the beginning was about two to three years, maybe it would be faster, but he would almost be able to come back within three years.

Now that the three-year period has passed for half a year, it is not impossible to continue to wait.

But all this in front of them all means that their chances of survival are really small.

Even the experimental ships with abundant supplies only lasted a year and a half, and how could a fleet with insufficient supplies hold out on the sea for three and a half years? Or even longer?

This is simply impossible, even those ships that enter the dock on time for maintenance, the performance of all aspects is constantly shrinking, and the frequency of later maintenance is obviously increasing.

Therefore, three and a half years ago, five years ago to be exact, the fleet built by Li Yuanjing with the earliest and most immature technology had a chance of surviving less than one percent!

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Zhao Wangfu!

Several women seem to have become the most helpless people, Pei Yingying, who has already turned twenty, has fantasized countless times that she can also have a child and be able to be by her husband's side at all times.

can see that the daughters of Li Yuanjing and Yang Wan are getting bigger and bigger, and now they are already able to be naughty.

The helpless Pei Yingying can only wash her face with tears all day long!

Wang Xiaoyi's grandfather Wang Henian also passed away last year, and under the protection of Li Yuanjing, the Wang family did not have the courage to go to Wang Henian for trouble, let alone go to find it again.

Now the book of medical skills fabricated by Wang Henian has become a treasure in the hands of the folk barefoot doctors of the Tang Dynasty, and even the textbooks of the medical profession in the school have included it.

Another book on the battlefield was also promoted in the army three years ago, without any delicate means, it was completely simple and rude.

And Wang Henian's death made Wang Xiaoyi's whole person feel a lot haggard in an instant, and with the atmosphere in the house now, Wang Xiaoyi didn't dare to cry in front of the two ladies.

Although she is the one who has followed Li Yuanjing the longest, her background is also the lowest.

Not to mention Yang Wan's identity, people can crush her seniority advantage with one descendant.

And now Yang Wan is not much better, she can only hold her ignorant daughter and cry all day long, what else can she do?

The husband and the husband have not been heard from, and the family ......

The Yang family has now given up most of Beihai Prefecture, and is only concentrated in a port by the sea waiting for Li Yuanjing's news, but now there is no news at all, and the Yang family has also lost the habitat of Beihai Prefecture, and its current position is slightly embarrassing.

"Princess...... Madam...... Oh no......" The maid in the house suddenly ran in a panic.

"What kind of fuss, what kind of system? Pull it out and ...... "Although Pei Yingying is still uncomfortable and aggrieved in her heart, in front of her subordinates, she is still the hostess of this palace, and she still needs to maintain the status and rules of this palace, which no one can touch."

She couldn't let her husband find out when he got home that the house was in chaos.

"Madame, outside...... Outside are spreading the word about His Highness...... They ......"

"Nonsense! Pull out the family law to serve! Pei Yingying suddenly said angrily, she didn't want to accept any unfortunate news, and she didn't want to hear this, "Come on, prepare the car, this concubine wants to enter the palace!" ”

Pei Yingying has already made plans at the moment, if this news from outside is not verified, if Li Shimin does not give herself a satisfactory explanation today, she will not come back easily.

If this news is true, then she has no plans to come back, her husband who loves her deeply is gone, what face does she have to live?

"Princess!" There was a sudden chaos in the house, but suddenly there was a sound outside the door.

Pei Yingying looked up and found that Fang Xuanling, the eldest grandson Wuji, and even Cheng Zhijie's bastard were all here, in addition, she also saw that the crown prince Li Chengqian was also hiding behind.

And when she saw this scene, Pei Yingying instantly felt her heart sink.

"Princess, although Your Majesty and the ministers don't want to believe it, but at present, the court has done everything it can, and there is no result to prove that Your Highness is still alive." Fang Xuanling said with a sigh of relief.

"Impossible! No, it won't! You lied to people, you bullied this concubine is a woman who doesn't understand anything, right? ……”