Chapter 53: Hunting Out of the City

"What are you doing here? Don't send someone to the East Palace to ask clearly! Li Er looked up at the fireworks that bloomed in the air while scolding Wang Yuan.

"No!" Wang Yuan received the order and hurriedly ran to the East Palace, he wanted to find out what this thing was in person.

Soon, Wang Yuan returned from the East Palace and told Li Er about the situation he had asked Li Chengqian.

On the side of the East Palace, all the fireworks were finally released, and the sky returned to a quiet night, and the crown princess and others were still unsatisfied.

Li Chengqian was very satisfied with this fireworks experiment, and he would be able to see the beautiful fireworks bloom in the air during the Chinese New Year in the future.

In the future, fireworks will be manufactured in large quantities, and they will be able to be sold in the world and make a lot of money back.

The most important point is that the gunpowder in fireworks can also create explosives with great lethality.

However, Li Chengqian does not plan to make such weapons of mass destruction now, and besides, he will not either, and making explosives is not the same as making fireworks, it is so easy.

If the explosive explodes, it will be powerful enough to destroy half of the Cheng'en Temple.

Therefore, Li Chengqian did not plan to study such a weapon of mass destruction as explosives before his technology was mature.

Early the next morning, Li Chengqian got up to change clothes and wash under the service of the maids, and after breakfast, he took a group of guards out of the palace to hunt.

"Drive!" Li Chengqian, Xue Rengui, Cheng Wuting, Qiu Shenji, Wang Fangyi, Pei Xingjian and a group of guards galloped through the forest.

Di Renjie, Li Jingxuan, Xu Jingzong, Li Yifu and Du He and others stopped not far away to watch and watch the prince and them ride horses and play.

"Your Highness! There's a rabbit over there! One of the guards shouted as he pointed into the distance.

Li Chengqian looked in the direction pointed by the guard, and saw a fat gray rabbit eating, Li Chengqian was overjoyed! He took the bow and arrow from the guard, and immediately drew his bow and aimed it at the rabbit.

The bowstring vibrated and a feathered arrow shot at a rabbit in the distance.

As if sensing the crisis, the rabbit looked up, and a sharp arrow swooped into the dirt beside it, and the frightened rabbit didn't care about the food in front of him, and jumped back and jumped towards the forest, and disappeared from everyone's sight in a few jumps.

Seeing that an arrow missed, Li Chengqian smiled at Xue Rengui and the others beside him: "The widow hasn't shot an arrow for a long time, but he is a little rusty, and he won't hunt in person today, so you can show your housekeeping skills." ”

After saying that, he pointed to the jade belt on his body and said: "If anyone can come out on top, the widow will give this jade belt to whom!" ”

"We don't have any problems, it's just that Brother Xue is good at archery, if he participates, I'm afraid we won't have a chance to perform." Cheng Wuting said with a smile.

Xue Rengui can shoot through five layers of heavy armor with one arrow, and his archery skills are even more superb, piercing Yang in a hundred steps, they are also good at archery, but compared with Xue Rengui, it is much worse.

"I heard that Brother Wang is also good at archery, but I don't know who is more powerful between him and Brother Xue, why not let him compare the two of them!" Pei Xingjian said.

"There is a point in frugality! Just the two of you will have a competition, and whoever wins, the widow will reward him with a jade belt. Li Chengqian said.

"No!" Xue Rengui and Wang Fangyi responded.

"In an hour, you two will return here to meet, and whoever catches the most prey will win, now on!" Li Chengqian said.

"Drive!" As soon as Li Chengqian's words fell, Wang Fangyi and Xue Rengui rode their horses and galloped into the forest.

Li Chengqian and the others found a place and got off the horse to rest.

Just as they got off the horse, they heard the sound of a fight, and judging from the sound, it should be a group of people fighting, Li Chengqian frowned, who is it? Dare to fight near Chang'an.

"Go see what's going on?" Li Chengqian ordered the guards who came with him to check on the situation.

Several guards looked in the direction of the sound and rode away.

When the guards came to the place where the fight was fighting, they saw two waves of people fighting, and dozens of people besieging three people, who were already scarred by this time.

Both sides saw the guards who appeared, and when the side with more people saw the guards appear, they showed a hint of panic! The leaders did not know what they had said, and their attack became even more violent.

"Friends over there, we are the messengers of Baekje!" The three of them leaned over to the guards while fighting, not forgetting to shout out the identities of themselves and the others.

"What?" The guards were shocked when they heard this! These people actually had the audacity to go to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and commit murder against the Baekje envoys who came to Chang'an to pay tribute, and this was repaid.

The guards immediately took their bows and arrows and shot arrows at the crowd to prevent the absolute side from approaching, and sent one of them back to report to the prince.

"What do you say? How dare anyone assassinate the messenger of Baekje at the feet of the Son of Heaven? After Li Chengqian heard the report of the returning guard, he was furious!

Someone dared to attack the foreign ministers who came to pay tribute at the feet of the Son of Heaven, it was simply bold! This is not to flout the majesty of the Tang Dynasty.

Someone dared to kill the envoy of Fanbang unscrupulously near Chang'an, regardless of the majesty of the Tang Dynasty! If this spreads, where is the dignity of the empire!

"Why are you still stunned! Don't let the widow capture these daring people back! Li Chengqian said.

Everyone knew that the prince was angry, Cheng Wuting turned over and yelled: "The people led by Zuo Nei will come with me!" Lead the way! He turned back to the guard who had come back to report.

The guards turned over and returned the same way, Cheng Wuting followed him, and in an instant, dozens of people turned over and followed Cheng Wuting.

After a short time, Cheng Wuting and others went and returned, and brought back an envoy from Baekje, and Li Chengqian asked the accompanying imperial physician to treat the Baekje envoy.

"Your Highness!" Cheng Wuting turned over and dismounted and came to Li Chengqian's side.

Li Chengqian looked at the scarred Baekje envoy in front of him and said, "Didn't you say that there were three envoys?" Why did you only bring back one person? ”

"When the minister arrived, he and a few of our brothers were the only ones left, and the other two had already been killed by the gangsters." Cheng Wu said.

"Humph!" Li Chengqian snorted coldly, until now he didn't understand what kind of person had the courage to commit murder near the Jingshi of the Tang Dynasty.

"What about the villains?"

"They have all been killed by their ministers, and they originally wanted to leave a living mouth, but who knew that he actually committed suicide."

"So the clue is broken, and I don't know who the mastermind behind it is?" Li Chengqian said.

"When the minister checked the corpses of those gangsters just now, he found that they were not from our Central Plains, and judging from their clothing, they should be from the same place as the Baekje envoys." Cheng Wu said.

"In this case, the assassin of this Baekje envoy should be someone from Goguryeo or Silla!" Li Chengqian said.

"It's also possible that someone inside Baekje did it." Cheng Wu said.