Li Jingzhong is very useful for Zhen Qian's courtesy, and those who know a little history know that before Li Jingzhong, even a great eunuch like Gao Lishi did not control the government and cover the sky with one hand. At this time, the eunuchs were very low-key, and the harmless smiles of people and animals made people not wary of them, and the courtiers at this time did not oppose the eunuch group.

Zhen Qian's guess was right, Li Jingzhong was unknown before the Anshi Rebellion, and no one noticed that such a eunuch would suddenly grasp the authority of the world after the Anshi Rebellion, leaving a strong mark in history.

Li Jingzhong looked Zhen Qian up and down, handed the wooden plate in his hand to Zhen Qian, and said: "This is thousands of miles away from the Wa Kingdom, needless to say, there are many difficulties and dangers, after arriving in the Wa Kingdom, please also ask Director Zhen not to fall into the national prestige of the Tang Dynasty, Li is here to wish Director Zhen a smooth journey!" ”

Zhen Qian took the wooden plate, with his official seal and a set of official uniforms on it, and the national letter was in the hands of Abe Zhongmalu, so that he was still a widow and couldn't worry about it.

Li Jingzhong looked very enthusiastic, and when Zhen Qian was about to take over the wooden plate, he whispered in Zhen Qian's ear without revealing a trace: "The glass treasure mirror you sent to the concubine is very satisfied, June 22 is the birthday of the concubine, what do you have for the old slave to take back?" ”

"It's telling yourself to give a gift!"

Zhen Qian didn't expect that his glass treasure mirror fell into Yang Yuhuan's hands, and immediately thought of how he came to be a county man in Luquan County, I'm afraid that many people regard themselves as the back party and are wronged!

Thinking of Yang Yuhuan, one of the four beauties in history, Zhen Qian thought that he should have given the glass mirror to Yang Yuhuan in the first place, everyone has a love for beauty, not to mention Yang Yuhuan, who is known for his beauty. Fortunately, in the end, the glass treasure mirror fell into Yang Yuhuan's hands, which is not a pearl secret investment, and can win a smile from peerless beauties, Zhen Qian feels that he has a great sense of accomplishment.

After a short period of distraction, Zhen Qian immediately stuffed a piece of mutton fat jade into Li Jingzhong's sleeve cage without a trace and said: "Father-in-law Li has been in the dust all the way, can you invite Father-in-law Li to the drunken immortal building to enjoy the light, or to wash away the fatigue of Father-in-law Li all the way!" ”

Li Jingzhong smiled and couldn't see his eyes, turned around and invited Lu Qiao to go with Gu Jingzhong, Lu Qiao had already hosted a banquet to entertain Li Jingzhong, and now he wanted to discuss something with Zhen Qian, so he excused himself and said: "This official still has something to discuss with Director Zhen, and it is related to the summer harvest of the people of Yangzhou this year......."

Li Jingzhong's extremely ugly face trembled, but it was not good to be unhappy in his heart, and said with a smile: "Since Lu Changshi and Director Zhen still have something to discuss, a certain family will retire!" ”

The family is the most despised eunuch with a broken will, the body is skinned, and the parents who receive it dare not be damaged, and filial piety is the beginning. Since these people were castrated and sent to the palace, they were alien to the scholars under Confucian education, and it was better not to get close to them or to have less contact.

Lu Qiao and the three of them sat down again, and then said: "What Director Zhen said yesterday is true, Chuzhou, Chuzhou and other prefectures and counties had little rain last year, and it has basically not rained so far this year, and the news from Sizhou, Yizhou and other places farther away has not yet come back, I'm afraid things are not optimistic, this time thanks to Director Zhen's reminder, Lu Changshi will not be caught off guard!" ”

Zhen Qian told Lu Qiao these things, and he didn't expect any thanks at all, and pretended to say: "The emperor is kind to the Quartet, and it is us officials who are counting on it, if we find something wrong, we will naturally report to Lu Changshi, it is nothing." I don't know what else Lu Changshi wants Zhen to do today? ”

Seeing that Zhen Qianju was not arrogant, Lu Qiao nodded and said: "There is one more thing to invite Director Zhen today, the Japanese country is a barbarian state, and it is crude and unbearable. ”

The royal family and princes of many countries have been to the Tang Dynasty, but the royal family and the princes of the Japanese Kingdom have never been to the Tang Dynasty to see the emperor, although this matter was sent to the Tang Dynasty to say that the road is difficult and difficult to travel, but it is always a pity, this time the Tang envoy is willing to return to China to persuade the emperor to send a junior in the imperial family to the Tang Dynasty to study, Li Longji attaches great importance to this matter, and specially asked Lu Qiao to tell Zhen Qian to handle this matter.

Lu Qiao didn't ask Zhen Qian about the disaster relief, and Zhen Qian naturally wouldn't say much, but when he took the prince of the Japanese Kingdom to the Tang Dynasty, Zhen Qian was not sure about this matter and could only do his best.

"Lu Changshi! I heard that a 500-stone sea ship has been prepared for the envoy in Runzhou, but I don't know if there is a bigger sea ship? ”

Zhen Qian asked Fujiwara Shuxiong, knowing that this time Abe Nakamaro returned to China, and the government prepared a sea boat for the envoy, when he heard that there were only five hundred stones, his jaw was about to fall, such a sea ship was not much different from a small sampan in Zhen Qian's eyes, Zhen Qian knew that there were sea ships with a thousand stones in the navy, and such a sea ship was barely enough.

Seeing Zhen Qian asking about the size of the sea ship, he hurriedly said: "Master Zhen doesn't know something, the bigger the ship, the more difficult it is to drive on the sea, and it is even more difficult to operate when encountering strong winds and waves, so I will choose a sea ship of 500 stones to go to the Wa Kingdom!" ”

It is also true that small boats have the advantages of small boats, especially in the Tang Dynasty, when navigation technology was not developed enough, large ships are not necessarily safer than small boats.

However, Zhen Qian stubbornly believes that since he is preparing to cross the sea, the bigger the boat, the more stable it is, the boat on the sea is different from the rivers and lakes, there is no wind and three feet of waves, that is, the sea, on the boat and tosses on the waves, no matter how strong the man on land may not be able to hold on, in later generations, he once took the Si Islands to play, he got on a fisherman's boat and went to sea, but after arriving at sea, he vomited in the dark, God knows if such a thing will happen again when he goes to sea again this time.

"I don't know if Lu Changshi can find a thousand-stone sea ship for Zhen, Zhen is grateful!"

Lu Qiao was a little embarrassed: "There is no problem with the Thousand Stone Sea Boat, but it is not easy to find a sailor who goes to sea, if Director Zhen really wants to use the Thousand Stone Sea Ship, the sailor must find it himself?" ”

Seeing that Lu Qiao promised to allocate a thousand stone sea ships for himself, Zhen Qian was grateful in his heart: "Please rest assured Lu Changshi, there are many maritime merchants in Yangzhou, if not, I can send people to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to hire them with money, there will be brave men under the heavy reward, and there should be no shortage of sailors!" ”

The shipbuilding industry in the Tang Dynasty has been very developed, but these are horizontal comparisons, if compared with the shipbuilding industry of the Song Dynasty, they can only be regarded as middle school students, as for the sea ships of the Japanese Kingdom, Zhen Qian will not sit if he is killed, as far as Zhen Qian knows, the number of iron nails on the sea ships sent to the Tang Dynasty is pitiful, that is to say, as long as there is a bigger wind and waves, there will be no second possibility except for the broken frame, if it is not for the fear that his secret will be leaked, Zhen Qian is even thinking about whether to let Zhen Jiu sail his latest built skeleton over to pick him up to the Japanese Kingdom.

(End of chapter)