"See Father!"

"Meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!"

Li Ke took Long Yuzhu to see Li Shimin, and Long Yuzhu paid a big salute.

"Excuse me! Flat, sit! Li Shimin glanced at Long Yuzhu, who had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and did not have much of the characteristics of people from the Western Regions, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Long Yuzhu thanked nervously, clenched his fists hard, and sweat dripped from his forehead.

"Don't be nervous, your father has already read the book, and agrees to your marriage in principle, but you still have to agree to your mother's consent, wait for Ke'er to take her to see your mother, if she agrees, she will temporarily live with your mother, wait for Qintian to live a life, and finish the marriage for you." Li Shimin said with a pleasant face.

Although Concubine Yang had already said that she would agree to their marriage, Li Shimin respected her and decided to let her see her and tell Li Ke in person.

Li Ke heard the meaning from Li Shimin's words, and hurriedly pulled Long Yuzhu, who was still at a loss, to get up and thank him.

"Thank you, father!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Long Yuzhu also hurriedly saluted.

Li Shimin looked at the polite dragon jade beads, and was quite satisfied, and rewarded many pearls, jade walls, silk silk, jade, and ivory.

Let Long Yuzhu open his eyes, he didn't expect Datang to be so rich, as soon as they met, they were rewarded with so much wealth.

The two have seen Concubine Yang, and Concubine Yang is also very satisfied, although she doesn't want Li Ke to be involved in the royal conflict, she hopes that he will be simple and safe, and agree to their marriage, but she is still worried about bringing back a blonde daughter-in-law.

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Just after Qin Tianjian selected a date for them and Long Yuzhu also reported to her father, Li Ji also returned to Chang'an.

Three thousand camels pulled thousands of carriages, and they traveled several miles to transport Kunlun jade back.

Guang'an was directly sent by the eldest grandson to take him into the palace, which also made many people secretly sigh, although Guang'an is a princess, but after all, he is not a descendant, so this greeting is also courteous, this is completely a wife and a husband, and it can be seen that Feng Daiwen not only does not have a high merit, but the saint is heavier.

Li Ji was personally greeted by Li Yuan's father and son, who had already received the news, which made Li Ji secretly regret that this pretending to be too big was actually dispatching the two of them, although he knew in his heart that most of them were coming for jade, but others would not think so, which would inevitably cause jealousy.

Li Shimin looked at the continuous convoy, all pulling Kunlun white jade, and couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, when will the jade also be about the car, or pile up the jade rough stones that can fill several halls.

"Aiqing has worked hard all the way!" After waiting for Li Ji, who was leading the horse, to give a salute, Li Shimin stepped forward to personally help Li Ji.

"It is the duty of a minister to contribute to the country, and I dare not say that I am hard." Li Ji replied respectfully.

"It's all white jade?" Li Yuan stepped forward and asked.

"Back to the emperor, half of it contains white jade, and the other half is a rough stone that may contain jade, and the Western Regions has limited manpower, so he made a rough selection, and Wei Guoyan is the same as opening jadeite, with a little gambling luck, it is more interesting." Li Ji hurriedly bowed down and replied.

"Yes, yes, you can see how the road is, how many rough stones are there?" Li Yuanxi smiled, touched his long beard and smiled.

"There are a total of 1,000 carriages here, each cart is about fifteen stones, a total of more than 15,000 stones, and the minister has specially prepared a few carts of unexplored rough stones for you, so that you can gamble on your luck." Li Ji discussed with Feng Daiwen, thinking that Li Yuan would never let go of the opportunity to gamble on stones, and deliberately asked experienced Khotanese people and jade craftsmen to select a few cars to grasp the relatively large stones.

"Good, good! I want to be the original stone, I don't want any of it to be opened, come here, move me into the palace, and I will personally select the original stone. Li Yuan nodded happily, and then asked the guards to take away the original stone prepared for him.

At this talking stall, Li Shimin had already walked to the front of the car, looked at the jade, and found that the exposed jade was all delicate, white and good, and he couldn't help but be very happy, and he was worried that he didn't know how to reward the ministers in the New Year, and the ready-made gifts came.

Speaking of this reward, Li Shimin had a headache, in the past, food, cloth, can make the ministers smile, happy to accept the reward, I don't know when it started, even he thinks that he can't do it like that, now there is no official who still lacks that bit of food, cloth.

Wealthy families have long been looking for better food and clothing, and leather jackets, cashmere jackets, and down jackets in winter are good goods.

In summer, of course, cotton clothes are the best, and they are sweat-absorbent, lightweight, and comfortable to wear, which is the first choice.

This has formed a strange phenomenon, when the ethnic minorities take off their leather clothes and put on cotton clothes, they are happy, and the high-level and rich families of the Tang Dynasty begin to pursue leather clothes again.

When the common people, small landlords, and ethnic minorities began to pursue silk and could afford to buy it, the officials were already wearing cotton clothes. Of course, the top silk satin is still the choice of the royal family and the big family.

A top-level gold silk embroidery brocade requires ten skilled show girls, which took three years to make, and this kind of clothing is only worn by the queen at the time of the great ceremony, basically only worn once, because it is stained with sweat, it can only be dried, and can not be washed, and many times the queen will use it to reward other concubines and harem beauties.

In recent years, the use of water-powered spinning wheels has increased the speed a lot, and also saved manpower.

Today's spinning wheels are more than ten times higher than before, and the wool and cotton yarn blended clothes exported every year are sold to the Western Regions, Guishan and other places after being colored and patterned.

Now that the Tang Dynasty occupies the Western Regions, it can be escorted by the army and sold directly to Dashi and Tianzhu, and those who are willing to run far can also go to Rome, France and other places with the merchants of the original Western Regions.

Especially by sea, Zhenguan has transported hundreds of ships of porcelain, silk, frosted sugar, and other materials in the past to sell, especially Tianzhu, the weather is hot, and the thin cotton cloth is very popular, although they also grow cotton, but they do not have the ability to make cotton cloth, their white cloth is thick, and hard only for civilians to use.

Every time a merchant ship went to sea, it exchanged a lot of grain, gold, silver, jewelry, and slaves, and Kunlun slaves were honest and obedient, and strong, and they were always loved by the nobles of the family.

In the past, Kunlun slaves sold well because there were few, but now there are more, and they need to be picky, and those with poor quality are sold to the Nanyang Islands for farming, and those with good quality will be brought back to Guanzhong for sale.

There are only spices, now the Tang Dynasty is the most lacking is spices, the Nanyang Islands are the most lacking is these, every year there will be countless spices picked by the Nanyang Tu people, after the initial processing in the transport back to the Central Plains, now ordinary people will have some spices at home, for cooking.

(End of chapter)