Chapter Eighty-Six: The Quintessence of the Nation

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Li Jing glanced at it, withdrew his gaze, said so much on Chinese New Year's Eve, immediately waved his hand, and said, "Go, go for the New Year!" There was a smile on his face.

Yang Lian responded, walked out behind him, outside the door, several young princes were also setting off firecrackers, seeing Li Jing come out, several princes rushed over, gave gifts, and gave Li Jing a New Year's greeting.

Li Jing smiled slightly, waved his hand, Gao Ze walked over from the side, holding a plate in his hand, uncovered the red cloth, and inside was a stack of red envelopes, Li Jing picked up the red envelopes and handed them to the prince one by one.

"Thank you, Father!" The princes bowed, took the red envelopes and left laughing.

Li Jing picked up a red envelope, stuffed it into Yang Lian's hand, and said, "Yang Lian, this is yours." ”

Yang Lian took a step back, waved his hand and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen doesn't dare." ”

"Ambiguous! Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and you are not an outsider, so you will take it if you give it, but you can't see it. Li Jing was still smiling.

Yang Lian reached out to take it, put the red envelope into his arms, and then looked at the lights not far away, as if he had returned to a few years ago, and he was a little obsessed for a while.

The fireworks went off for a long time, and after more than half an hour, they gradually quieted down, but from time to time there were fireworks flying in the air, lighting up the sky. Li Jing looked at it for a while, and then went back to the house. In the house, Li Jingsui, Li Jingda, Li Jingyu and Li Hongji and others are all roasting in the house, in such weather, several people are older, no more than children, naturally they have no intention of playing, as for Li Hongji, he has something in his heart, he is depressed, and he just wants to rest.

When everyone saw the Son of Heaven coming in, they all saluted: "Brother Huang (Father)!" ”

Li Jing waved his hand, sat down in the middle with a smile, and motioned for Yang Lian to sit down as well, and then said: "This year's New Year, I am more happy, come here, serve some wine and food." ”

Gao Ze heard it and hurriedly went down to make arrangements.

Li Jingsui naturally knew why Li Jing was happy, so he smiled and said, "Brother Huang, speaking of this year, no, it should be last year, most of the things in Datang have been smooth sailing, which is indeed worth celebrating." ”

Li Jingda glanced at Yang Lian, he had been ordered to test Yang Lian back then, and he naturally knew Yang Lian, but Li Jingyu was not familiar with Yang Lian, but he had heard Yang Lian's name and saw a stranger, and couldn't help but look at him again and again.

Yang Lian was not afraid, and his eyes were blazing and he looked at him. Yang Lian naturally knew him. It's just that there is still confusion in his eyes.

Li Jing laughed at this time and said, "Yang Lian was able to win Fuzhou last year, and Yang Lian made great contributions, so I will have to drink a few more glasses later." ”

"Yes." Yang Lian spoke.

Li Jingqi only spoke at this time, and said, "Your Majesty, this is Yang Lian?" ”

Li Jingsui smiled and said, "Exactly." ”

Li Jingyu smiled, looked at Yang Lian for a while, and then said: "I heard that Yang Jiedu can take Fuzhou with only a few hundred people, this courage is no worse than that of the fourth brother." ”

Li Jingda hurriedly shook his head and said, "Fifth brother said that I laughed, how can I have this ability." ”

Li Jingyu said casually: "Fourth brother, when my father was there, I often took you to the battlefield, our brothers, and the fourth brother, you led the troops well, and when your father was there, he often praised you for inheriting his inheritance." ”

Li Jingda's face changed, when Liezu was there, he once had the idea of making him the prince, and the reason was that among the brothers, he could lead the army, and in the troubled times, no matter how strong a monarch is, he can't save the country, what is needed is a strong monarch. However, later the courtiers made a statement, saying that the elder should not be young, otherwise it would be unfavorable to the country and the society, and Li Yu dispelled the idea that Li Jing would be the prince.

Although Li Jing has been on the throne for several years, and Li Jingda has no idea of taking the heir, the things of that year have always been pierced in Li Jing's heart like a thorn, so Li Jing did not reuse Li Jingda, although the title is high, but he does not have much real power.

Li Jingda hurriedly shouted: "Fifth brother, Hugh has to talk nonsense!" ”

Li Jingyu pursed his lips, the reason why he said this is for a reason, when the imperial brother ascended the throne in March of the first year of Baoda, Li Jingsui was promoted from King Shou to King Yan, Li Jingda was promoted from King Xuancheng to King E, but he had nothing. In July of that year, Li Jingsui and Li Jingda were promoted again, and until August, he was the king of Baoning, and there has been no change so far.

Li Jing looked at all this coldly, the reason why he didn't like Li Jingyu was because he often played right and wrong. Unexpectedly, after so many years, King Boryeong is still like this, Li Jing's cold gaze swept over Li Jingyi, and Li Jingxiao also felt it, and immediately lowered his head and stopped talking.

Yang Lian smiled at this time and said, "Your Majesty, the night is long, and I have no intention of sleeping." It's freezing on this day, and it's not easy to keep vigil, but Weichen has an idea. ”

"Oh, you say?" Li Jing was interested.

Yang Lian stood up and asked Gao Ze, who quickly came over with the box. Yang Lian took the box, glanced left and right, saw that there was a desk, walked over quickly, opened the box, and poured a bunch of things on it.

"What is this?" Li Jingsui stood up first, walked to the side of the case, picked up one, looked at the words on it, and said suspiciously: "Seventy thousand?" What does that mean? ”

Li Jing also came to the side, grabbed one, and read: "Fifty thousand? What is this? ”

Yang Lian laughed, the quintessence of later generations naturally has his charm, Yang Lian explained briefly, and said the rules, Li Jing was interested, and said, "Give it a try?" ”

"Okay, just give it a try!" Li Jingsui said with a smile.

At the moment, Li Jing, Li Jingsui, Li Jingda and Yang Lian were sitting on a table, rubbing mahjong made of bamboo, the sound of the noise attracted the attention of many people, Princess Huairou and Queen Zhong came from a distance, heard the sound, and saw a few people gathered together, unconsciously curiously walked up, watched Yang Lian skillfully touch the mahjong tiles, and asked curiously: "What are you doing here?" ”

"Rub mahjong!" Yang Lian replied, saying and throwing out a card.

As soon as the words fell, Li Jing looked at the cards with some hesitation, suddenly pushed the cards, laughed, and said, "Hu!" ”

Li Jingda hung his head and took out a silver ingot, and said, "Brother Huang's luck is too good." ”

Li Jing said that he was quite lucky, he made three handfuls in a row, and he was very interested at the moment, Yang Lian smiled on the side, but did not explain much.

Queen Zhong and Princess Huairou watched from the sidelines, they were all interested, Queen Zhong was a queen after all, but she was still reserved, but Princess Huairou couldn't help it, stepped forward to be coquettish, and said, "Uncle, I want to play too." ”

On the side, Li Hongji's eyelids jumped a few times, Li Jingji snorted, walked to the side, and chatted with Li Hongji while drinking.

Yang Lian stood up and said, "Princess, you come here to play." ”

Princess Huairou was also not polite, ran over and sat down, and under the guidance of Yang Lian, she played well. Princess Huairou was originally smart, clever, and had a good memory, and several elders who fought in a moment paid money one after another. Princess Huairou's mouth can't close when she smiles, can this thing still make money?

The night passed like this, Yang Lian didn't expect the spread of mahjong to be so fast, just arrived in the third year of junior high school, when Yang Lian was playing on the street, he heard someone shouting from a nearby house: "Three, Hu, haha, self-touch!" ”

A few black lines appeared on Yang Lian's forehead, and he quickly walked away, and just after walking a short distance, he heard someone shouting: "All the same, give money and give money!" ”

Later, Yang Lian knew that the popularity of mahjong was too fast, which made the wooden generals who made mahjong very profitable.

The year passed quickly, Yang Lian returned to Chuzhou, during his stay in Jinling, he met Emperor Zhou E once or twice, Emperor Zhou E seemed to have lost a lot of weight, and people did not have much spirit, but she was quite happy to see Yang Lian, she also knew mahjong, I heard that Yang Lian made it, she was quite surprised, and pestered Yang Lian to teach carefully.

When Yang Lian was in Chuzhou, he asked the merchant to bring a piano, although it was not as good as the Jiaowei qin, but the timbre was also quite good, and Emperor Zhou E accepted it unceremoniously.

As for the marriage with Princess Huairou, Yang Lian once again resigned, things in Chuzhou have gradually been on the right track, and they must not be taken lightly, Yang Lian needs to gather strength during this time, Li Jing did not force him, Yang Lian gave him refined salt, the amount is not expensive, he is naturally happy for Yang Lian to continue to make salt.

Although Princess Huairou was not very happy, she was fascinated by mahjong recently, and called Emperor Zhou E from time to time, immersed in it, and put aside the marriage for the time being.

Yang Lian returned to the north, and did not rush to Chuzhou, he told the Son of Heaven in advance, along the Jinghai Institute all the way north, survey the terrain, at this time Guangling and other places and the seaside distance is very different from later generations, and the land by the sea is mostly saline-alkali land, grain production is very low, although there is the government's salt in the salt, but the effect is not great, Yang Lian walked slowly all the way, learned a lot of information, ten days later, this left the seaside, turned the canal, all the way to Chuzhou.

As soon as he returned to Chuzhou, Yang Lian received several news, one of which was sent by Lin Renzhao, when the New Year was closed, someone tried to get close to Yuzhou, and was found by the patrolling soldiers, after Lin Renzhao tortured him, this person was very tough, only said that he broke in unintentionally, and no one instructed him.

Lin Renzhao naturally didn't believe it, and after the torture, this person chose to commit suicide one day. A sharp stone chip cut his throat, and Lin Renzhao judged that this person committed suicide, but where his stone chip came from has never been found.

Yang Lian received this news and knew that someone was interested in Yuzhou Island, but who sent this person? Is it the Khitans, the Han people, or the people inside the Tang Dynasty? Yang Lian replied to Lin Renzhao to strengthen his precautions, and the affairs on Yuzhou Island could not be known to outsiders.

Another thing came from the Han Kingdom, that Liu Chengyou really made a mistake and went crazy, listened to the words of his relative Li Ye, and killed Yang Wei, speaking of which Yang Wei had a bad relationship with Liu Chengyou back then, Yang Lian made a great effort, although Yang Wei was a literati, but he had great power, and he was a minister who took care of his life, Liu Chengyou had a bad relationship with him, and it was reasonable to kill him.

However, Liu Chengyou also killed Shi Hongzhao, Shi Hongzhao held the military power, but more importantly, this person has a close relationship with Guo Wei, and his death may have a huge impact on Guo Wei. (To be continued.) )