Li Zhi saw that he was so moved, but he didn't know how to say it for a while. Seeing this, Mei Niang got up and said with a smile:

"Wei Qing, although the Lord is the Son of Heaven and has every opportunity, he really sees what Zhu Qing does every day. He wanted three cups to thank Xie Qing for his loyalty and sincerity to the Tang Dynasty over the years, and he did his best, but the monarchs and ministers were different, and he couldn't answer a piece of thanks......

Therefore, if Wei Qing doesn't mind these three glasses of wine, the palace will replace the wine with tea and salute it, how about it? ”

The most rare thing about people's hearts is a word of sincerity. What's more, this sincerity comes from people who don't have to be so sincere to him, and they don't dare to have expectations, expecting him to treat themselves so sincerely. Naturally, Wei was doubly grateful, hurriedly got up, and after thanking him, he knelt down on the spot and received the three cups.

Then, after the three of them laughed again, Li Zhi suddenly changed the topic and cut to the point:

"I heard that in recent days, Dongying Dazhu has been extremely popular in my Datang territory. A bead the size of a finger belly can be exchanged for a stone of grain, or a horse of brocade. Is there such a thing? ”

Wei Zhiqi nodded and said:

"Dongying big pearl is in excellent condition, and there are huge pearls and beautiful pearls in the world, so the rich in the countries are especially loved recently, not to mention that my Tang Dynasty is now rich and strong. Honestly, the so-called food and clothing are enough to think about education, know the beauty and ugliness, and now the people have a surplus of people, five or six out of ten, so the world loves this thing, but it is also the norm. ”

"Then why is it not easy to make money, but it is easy to use food and silk?"

"Back to the Lord, although Dongying is rich in real Haihai products, it suffers from the small country and thin land, and the law of people's cultivation is still dominated by hands. Therefore, the grain and fruit and other products are very sorry. In addition, my Datang weaving industry is the only one in the country, but there is no two. Dongying is very not long in this way, and it will be exchanged for grain and silk with pearls, and it is also often the same. ”

Li Zhi narrowed slightly when he heard this:

"In that way...... Dongying's current true pearl, nine times out of ten, has entered the territory of my Tang Dynasty? ”

Wei Zhiqi nodded and said with a smile:

But that's exactly what happened. In fact, the pearl of Dongying is as far away as the pearl from the southeast coast of the Tang Dynasty. It's just that because it is large and heavy, and there are few flaws in its fineness, it has become a thing sought after by everyone. ”

Li Zhi was silent for a while before he said lightly:

"So, if I want to cut off Dongying's grain and silk, what should I do?"

Wei Zhiwei was stunned when he heard this, and immediately understood the meaning of Li Zhi's summoning of him today, and hung his head for a long time, before he said lightly:

"Dare to ask the Lord, but what does Dongying want to do against my Tang Dynasty, so that the Lord wants to cut off his grain and fruit offerings?"

Li Zhi nodded, and then told Wei Zhihui about the affairs of Silla, Baekje, and Goguryeo, as well as the assassination of Yuming, and listened to Wei Zhihui, and said that Wei Zhihui's face changed several times, and he said fiercely for a while:

"I can't imagine that a small country would dare to plan my Datang like this! But...... Lord, although Dongying is not rich in food and fruit, it is not impossible for him to be self-sufficient. These exchanged grains, now it seems, are only for armaments. If the Lord wants to break it, he may not be able to break it. It's just a matter of seeing if it's light or dark. ”

"Qi Ming and others don't have to go through a lot of trouble to do anything secret. If it's broken, it's broken. Tell her openly, so that she can know that my Datang is not something she can mess with. ”

Li Zhi said proudly.

Wei Zhiwei thought about it for a while, then nodded and said:

"That's good, I'm just afraid that I have to ask the lord general Silla to suffer from the attack of Baekje Goguryeo for a long time, and ask me for help from the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, because my Tang border people suffered from the same difficulties, so I wanted to be the enemy, but I was secretly calculated by Dongying, and issued an edict in the world, strictly ordering my Tang people to exchange grain and fruits for pearls. Then naturally the world will have the same hatred. I'm afraid that in this way, it is not only my Datang country that wants to cut off his road to the east. After all, the neighboring countries have far more friends with my Tang Dynasty than him. ”

Li Zhi was stunned:

"Do you want me to announce my desire to destroy Dongying?"

"Is the Lord worried that the people will be suspicious of the Emperor's Eastern Crusade?"

Wei Zhiqi smiled confidently, but said:

"If the lord is still worried about this, then it is Uncle Yuan and other important ministers. Have they never told the Lord that in the hearts of the people of the Tang Dynasty today, the Lord and his mother's love for the people and cherish the people have long surpassed those of the first emperor? At least, if the Lord wants to cut off the way of thieves like Dongying, the people of Datang will definitely support it. You can rest assured of this.

And the other lords of the kingdom......

Lord, you should believe in yourself, and you should believe that although I am a big country, the Tang Dynasty does not bully or hegemon, and among all countries, it has a reputation of both faith and righteousness.

The name of Datang is far better than a Dongying. ”

Li Zhi's eyes lit up.

……

A month later, looking at the Dongying National Book that he had read and casually threw to the side, Li Zhi smiled with satisfaction:

Wei was right.

When he used the way of edicting the world to make the ambitions of the wolf son of Dongying public, it immediately set off a wind of rejection of the east in the Tang Dynasty.

In just half a month, the trend of exchanging grain with pearls that had just arisen in the territory of the Tang Dynasty was suppressed and rejected from the country.

What's even more unexpected is that not only the real pearl, but also other things that entered the Tang Dynasty were all rejected by the people. Moreover, after Jin Chunqiu, the lord of Silla, learned of this, he also angrily exposed the conspiracy of Goguryeo and Baekje of the Dongying Alliance, and even called on the countries of the Western Regions to reject the same thing, and even the lords of the Great Qin, Dashi, and Persia countries as far away as the horizon, also because the Tang Emperor and the lord of Silla issued an edict at the same time to condemn Dongying, and ordered the country to reject Dongying's things.

For a time, Dongying almost became the object of everyone's drinking and beating in the entire sea - naturally, the Empress Qi Ming, who had not been in Chongzuo for a long time, couldn't stand it for the first time, and sent envoys to hand over the letter of state, asking the Tang Emperor, Gaozong Li Zhi, to have an explanation with her.

"A word with her? Hum! This woman is really crazy! I don't want to think about what kind of character I am, and I dare to ask our lord to say something to her! ”

After Qinghe listened to Li Zhi finish reading the national letter, his mouth almost turned to the sky.

On one side, De'an and the attendants couldn't help but shake their heads and sigh.

On the contrary, Li Zhi said lightly:

"What's wrong? No matter how small she is, she is also a country. No matter how big the Tang Dynasty is, it is also a country. Now that I have rejected her trade with all the strength of the country, it is not surprising that she would say this. ”

"Lord! This...... Isn't that just trading? She has goods to sell to us, but we know that she is acting in secret without morality, is a profiteer, and refuses to buy her things, is there anything wrong? Is...... You're too talkative, too. If the mother is here, she will definitely say that she has done a good job......"

Qinghe is young in the end, and he is not as complicated as De'an, if he has anything to say, Li Zhi also likes it, so he laughed and said:

"Okay, you can go and ask her now, see what she thinks of this letter of state, what should I do?"

Qinghe's head shook like a drum:

"I don't do it! I don't do it! But whenever we go to ask such things on behalf of the Lord, the mother will count the people. Qinghe would rather receive thirty strokes of the court staff than be counted by his mother. ”

Li Zhi couldn't cry or laugh, and only pointed at him with his fingertips for a while before sighing:

"You...... You...... This little treacherous one. Do you think I'm going to really ask you to ask her? What do you do? ”

After speaking, there was another sigh.

Qinghe was puzzled by the second monk when he heard it, and when he asked again, he was sighed by De'an and said:

"The Lord told you to go and tell the mother, that you should use it with her for lunch today, and then, by the way, tell the mother about the letter that the Lord has received...... Got it? ”

Qinghe blinked, and only after a while did he say in a daze: "I don't understand." ”

De'an sighed when he heard this, and Li Zhi didn't say anything when he heard it, he just got up by himself, walked up to him with his hands in his hands, and smiled softly at this stupid boy-

He was born with a pearl and jade, coupled with such a background and upbringing, he is not an emperor, he does not wear a dragon robe, he has a luxurious and graceful bearing, not to mention smiling like this?

Qinghe naturally followed with a smirk.

But soon, he felt that he had been kicked in the leg lightly and severely—

It was none other than Li Zhi who kicked him, it was Li Zhi who was smiling like a spring breeze on his face:

"I told you to do something, and you have to do it if you don't understand! If you don't understand, you have to do it! Stay again, stay again? Stay any longer, I will throw you into the Huanyi Courtyard to follow Granny Wei, do you believe it or not? One more for me to see?! ”

As he spoke, he began to kick his feet one after another.

Qinghe knew that Li Zhi intended to tease himself, but in order to make Li Zhi happy, he naturally screamed, jumping and twisting comically and ridiculously, avoiding Li Zhi's several dragon feet, but he complained non-stop:

"Lord, you are eccentric! It's eccentricity!

You don't dare to mess with the mother yourself, so you tell us people to provoke, and you have to find a good past like the master! But you were reluctant to let the master go over and be blinded by the mother, so you pushed Qinghe to scold! Lord, you are eccentric! ”

When Li Zhi heard this, he couldn't stop laughing and scolding, and even De'an couldn't help but jump straight, and the white jade whisk in his hand was about to move and wanted to give this no big or small two blows.

Qinghe was not stupid, seeing that his master's face was so cloudy that it could drip water, he hurriedly accepted his smile, and honestly took Li Zhi's kick - anyway, Li Zhi didn't make any effort, and it didn't hurt to kick - and then went to the door of the palace by himself and ran to the door of the hall to run errands.

Seeing him like this, Li Zhi couldn't help but laugh and scolded:

"Good boy, I'm running pretty fast, I haven't kicked enough!"

Dean said calmly:

"The Lord doesn't need to be angry, it just so happened that Granny Wei really came to report a few days ago, and there was a lack of a master in the Dao Huanyi Courtyard. It's time for him to grind it, too. ”

Li Zhi glanced at him and couldn't help but smile:

"You...... is the most ruthless one. Granny Wei's ...... Isn't that to remove the two layers of skin from this kid? I can't bear it. ”

"Granny Wei is just a little stricter, but strict is also strict. After coming out, he can always restrain his out-of-the-box temperament and know some etiquette. ”

"If you are like this, do I have to suffocate to death? What's more, it's good for this kid to be like this right now. Don't beat him. He didn't go. If you want him to go, just ask Mei Niang to see if she agrees. ”

Li Zhi blocked De'an's mouth with a word, then sat down, watched him make tea with himself, but said lightly:

"Speaking of Qinghe...... I heard that the one in my uncle's house came to look for you again this morning? ”

"Yes."

Dean said calmly:

"Uncle Yuan seems to have found something interesting."

"What's that?"

Li Zhi picked up the tea, and as soon as he took a sip, he was slowly pulled out by De'an, and the piece of paper that was unfolded in front of him froze his smile and even froze his movements.

After a while, he put down the cup with a heavy face, took the paper and read it again, and read it again......

After looking at it three times, he said lightly:

"Uncle has already found out about this...... Is there also empirical evidence from the master? ”

De'an Zhengse said: "In the evening, tonight, there will be news coming in. ”

Li Zhi was silent, only pressed the paper ball tightly into a bead in the palm of his hand, and said after a while:

"As soon as there is news, it will come in immediately, and there must be no mistakes!"

There was a hint of cold murder in his eyes.

De'an was still silent, but just bowed, and said yes.