Chapter 94: Treasures of the Sea

Today's Chang'an City is destined to not be able to calm down, the whole city has not recovered from the shock of the emperor's list, there is a huge team outside Yanping Gate, first there is a team of Tang cavalry, followed by all carriages, pulling a cart, another cart of things into Chang'an City, all you can see is a big bag full of sacks, there are many boxes, the back of the team is the caravan of the Western Regions that will be seen every year, for the people of Chang'an is not surprised.

"Isn't that the shopkeeper Liu of the East Market? Why do you bring so many things, a few hundred taels of cars," said a passer-by in surprise.

"Yes, that isn't Boss Chen from Chen Ji Buzhuang over there, oh, this is a caravan coming back from the Western Regions, seeing how happy they are, they must have made a lot of money." Another said.

"Can it be less, I used to use a horse, but this time it was loaded in a carriage," said a merchant who did not go enviously.

The whole horse team, it took more than half an hour to enter the city, scattered, each back to their own homes, although the merchants who came back from the Western Regions were tired, but they were all smiling, and they always returned with a full load after half a year away from home, and there were acquaintances along the way to greet each other.

Su Dingfang completely relaxed, all the way 3,000 elite soldiers except for a few injured only more than 100 people died of illness in other places, and now back to Chang'an is also relieved, so he took people to the palace to return the order, although yesterday reported that there was an itinerary, but still have to go to hand in person to hand in the order, to complete the task.

Not long after the Western Regions merchant group entered Chang'an City, a larger team came outside the Anhua people, this team was very strange, it was actually carrying wood, the largest piece of wood was actually more than 20 zhang long, wider than the carriage, a full fifteen flat carriages, more than 30 horses were pulling, and the smallest one was as thick as one person hugging.

"Is this to build a palace? So many big trees," said a roadside onlooker.

"Yes, there are more than a thousand, and I haven't seen the head for an hour," said one of the people next to him in surprise.

"No, look at the back, there are all other goods, this is also more than him, they are almost the same as the caravan that traded in the Western Regions just now." This is a man who has just passed by Yanping.

In the Wude Palace, Li Shimin, who had just returned to the palace, was playing chess with Li Yuan.

"Erlang, Fei Lin and the others have no merit and hard work, so don't embarrass them too much." Li Yuan also knew that Li Shimin was very dissatisfied with a few ministers, his ability was limited, and he was still in a high position.

"It's all according to their father's wishes, and their father told them how to resign, and they can always accompany their father," Li Shimin said happily when he saw Li Yuan supporting him.

"Haha, okay, I'll tell them," Li Yuan smiled happily when he saw that Li Shimin still listened to him.

At this time, the eldest grandson walked in with a strange face, and said to Li Yuan: "I have seen my father, the emperor,"

"What's the matter with the Queen?" Li Yuan saw that his daughter-in-law had a strange face, so he asked.

"Back to my father, just now the guards came to report that the Lingnan Feng family sent a large amount of wood to build the princess's mansion for Guang'an, and asked Guang'an to choose wood," the eldest grandson said.

"It's not surprising, it's not surprising that there is special wood in Lingnan, and there is no shortage of wood in other Guanzhong, what kind of wood does the Feng family make." Li Shimin also asked strangely.

"The concubine just asked the master of the construction, it is known as the thousand-year-old golden silk nanmu, red sandalwood, and a special fragrance, sandalwood, a blood-red mahogany, all of which are high-quality wood." The eldest grandson said.

"Haha, yes, it's okay for the Feng family to have a heart, my good granddaughter is beautiful and fragrant, and his family should have a little more," Li Yuan said with a happy smile.

"The point is that it's a bit much, and it's so good that it stunned the master craftsmen of the household." The eldest grandson said.

"Many, how many, it's not strange that Lingnan uses more ships to transport more, and it is not surprising that Guang'an will go to Yuan by himself." Li Shimin looked at the eldest grandson curiously and said.

"It is said that there are more than 1,800 of them, the largest of which is larger than the main beam of the Taiji Hall and is longer, and the smallest one has to be hugged by people." The eldest grandson still can't believe it, you must know that Nanmu is transported from Shuzhong, and there is no big one in Guanzhong, and it can only be found in the mountains, and there are many red sandalwoods but the big ones are not common. Lingnan transported so much in one go, you can imagine how much manpower it spent.

"What's going on with this Feng family, it's consuming such a huge amount of manpower, call Shang Guang'an and me to take a look," Li Shimin said with a frown.

"I'll go with Erlang," Li Yuan said with great interest.

At this time, Feng Daiwen was looking at these huge trees in a daze, this tree that is not easy to become a talent is actually so big, I am afraid that it will not be able to run away for at least thousands of years, this will be making the number of annual rings, if there is no problem at all in the future generations to change a villa, although he knows that Hainan Huanghuali is precious, but only when he really sees such a big and beautiful can he understand that it is indeed expensive.

Feng Daiwen asked the craftsman to break open a huanghuali, only to see that the texture is irregular, but it is never messy, the ink line color is pure and clear, the contrast is small, and the feeling of flowing patterns gives people a flowing beauty, which attracts people's eyes.

"It's beautiful, it's beautiful," a group of artisans exclaimed.

"It's really beautiful, it's really strange that the old man Hou followed the fifth prince in front of the island in a few days to choose so much, only the sandalwood on this island is so exquisite," Tai Mu said.

"Where did the other trees come from?" Feng Daiwen asked suspiciously.

"The others are all selected by the Lingnan tribes who heard that the second young master is going to marry the princess and need good wood to make furniture, and they are spontaneously selected in their own clans.

"Fifth brother, can all ethnic groups give me gifts in return?" Feng Daiwen asked Feng Daihuo.

"Second brother, Aya asked me to send a lot of salt, tea, and porcelain to the people of the tribe." Feng Daihuo replied.

"That's good, let the Western Regions merchant group come to the mansion to trade tomorrow, and let's take a look at the seafood you brought first." Feng Daiwen said.

Feng Daihuo took Feng Daiwen to a pile of huge wooden barrels and said, "Aya said that he didn't know what was delicious, and he sent some of the same things he could catch." ”

Feng Daiwen even looked at a few buckets, all of which were all kinds of sea fish, opened another bucket casually, took out a mussel shell and looked at it carefully before recognizing it, "This is abalone?" It's so big," Feng Daiwen smiled as he held the palm-sized abalone.

"Second brother, isn't this the one who raises pearls?" Feng Daihuo asked suspiciously.

"No, no, this is a rare treasure, a great supplement, called abalone, to say that the mountain is a bear's paw, this sea abalone is an even more rare thing, not only delicious, and has a lot of medicinal effects, look at what else is behind." Feng Daiwen became interested, and hurriedly opened other wooden barrels, and indeed gave a great surprise, a bucket of lobsters, unpredictable one or two catties, a bucket of crabs, and even a bucket of sea cucumbers, and a few buckets of other unknown sea creatures.

"Okay, good, it's all good things, transport it back, call the big brother, I'll get you something delicious today, hehe." Feng Daiwen said with a smile.