The game that Li Jie plays is very new in this era. [Eye-fast reading book new domain name., initials, previously registered accounts can still be used]

Billiards!

This thing is definitely coming through, the real billiards will take more than a thousand years to really appear, but there is no lack of its prototype in this era, the ancient Greek era has used a stick to hit the mud ball in the mud game, this tradition was brought to Punjab in India by Alexander the Great's Eastern Expeditionary Army, the prince of Punjab was conquered and assimilated by the Min State and then took this game as a tribute to the Min royal court, the cue and table used to play, and the ball was then given to Concubine Yang as a pastime by Li Jie, which was transferred to Chang'an.

Li Jie himself didn't know about this thing, and only found out when he was cleaning up Concubine Yang's warehouse by chance, he happened to have nothing to do in the Taiji Palace, and processed the general appearance of billiards in later generations on the table, and replaced the mud balls with new balls ground from ivory, wrapped the cue in cowhide, made the surface of the flat slate and added six falling ball bags, and the best Jingchu paint painted the color.

However, at this time, the Arabic numerals have not yet become popular, and the numbers on the ball are still one, two, three, four, five in Tang capitals, which seems quite weird, but fortunately, these weirdness cannot be seen by others except Li Jie.

Just waved a shot in the air, Li Jie waved the club angrily, and then changed his hand to signal, playing with him is still an old acquaintance plus an old enemy, Qianqi Zhonglang will Wang Ling, at this time, this kid has no time to command Qianqi on the city tower to make a decision, holding a ball and trembling for a long time I dare not fight.

There is no way, there are several elders of the Taiyuan Wang family behind him, Wang Renyou, the father of Queen Wang, Wang Yu, the patriarch of the new Taiyuan royal family, and several uncles and uncles of the Taiyuan King, don't look at Wang Ling's high spirits, in front of them is a real small character, especially what makes Wang Ling entangled is that a group of elders patronize and watch the game, and there is no hint of winning or losing?

In the entanglement, Wang Ling has only scored one in total, plus Li Jie himself is also a stinky ball basket, only scored two, half an hour, there are still a lot of balls on the table, under the impatient gaze of a group of Wang family relatives, Wang Ling's head is more sweaty.

And taking this opportunity, Li Jie wiped his hands, and waved his hand to describe the political affairs to Chu Suiliang.

"Bashu, let's do the affairs of Wu County like this, now the top priority is to repair the "Emperor Fan" and publish it, this matter must be done well."

"Whoa." Carefully recorded a few more strokes, seeing that Li Jie had finished narrating all the instructions, Chu Suiliang respectfully owed his body, but dragged Li Yifu, who was still watching the excitement, and turned out, passing by the eldest grandson Wuji, who was still bending down and waiting for Li Jie's reply, Chu Suiliang obviously outlined a smug smile on the corner of his mouth.

Yu Guang caught a glimpse of this smile, and the resentment in the heart of the eldest grandson Wuji increased a little again, fortunately, at this time, Li Jie finally paid attention to it, smiled apologetically at the eldest grandson Wuji and waved his hand and said, "Father-in-law, please get up." ”

can be regarded as regaining some face, the eldest grandson Wuji happily straightened his waist, and after a while, his face was gloomy again.

"Father-in-law is here for the affairs of Wu Jun and Bashu, this matter is indeed a little inconsiderate, I want to add some protection to the two brothers and mother, but I didn't take into account the situation of the court, now Chu Xianggong and this king have discussed, no longer build a prison house, but Fujian will garrison 10,000 troops in each place, and the military expenses will be borne by the local government, so it's good."

On the one hand, all the tax revenues of the two rich regions are withheld, and only a symbolic tribute is paid every year, and the other is only a little military spending, and the conditions are already better.

The problem is that leaving this matter to Chu Suiliang is equivalent to handing over his merits and prestige and credibility among the ministers to Chu Suiliang, and bypassing himself! It seems that Li Jie still doesn't trust his father-in-law.

After explaining, Li Jie didn't continue to greet him, but picked up a billiard cue again, and the eldest grandson Wuji didn't leave immediately, but hid to the side with a gloomy face and secretly observed.

This kung fu, Wang Ling also finished this shot with trepidation, and the white ball loaded with flower balls on the table and banged several times, and then Gollum reluctantly rolled into the pit, instead of the joy of scoring, Wang Ling's face became pale.

Now that the whole family is in Chang'an, Li Jie, the demon king, may be ruined.

Who would have thought that after reading it, Li Jie shook his head dissatisfiedly, and raised his voice to scold: "After a dignified family, how can a person in the army do things like a girl?" How can Lone still trust Qianqi to you? ”

The ancients were the most taboo to say that they were like women, otherwise there would be no special mention in the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" that Zhuge Liang gave women clothes to Sima Yi, and Sima Yi smiled and put them on to show outstanding measurements, Wang Ling didn't have the belly of a woman, and immediately suffocated his face red, and the cue hit it with a straight hook, and the white ball hit, and suddenly the ivory ball on the table rolled around.

Seeing this scene, Li Jie laughed with satisfaction, patted Wang Ling's shoulder and praised: "This is a bit of Huo Huqi's meaning, okay, look at the lonely one!" ”

Leaning down, Li Jie also lowered his head and continued to fight, watching a group of Wang family members following the admiration of hip-hop, Li Jie and the two of them played ball, like a group of close friends, but the eldest grandson Wuji was surprised again.

You must know that Taiyuan Wang from Zhenguan 17 years is Li Jie's political enemy, in order to compete for the interests of the Turkic steppe, Taiyuan Wang supported Li Chengqian and Li Jie in the court to fight, later, Li Zhi secretly plotted to seize the cotton textile guild, Taiyuan Wang was the first to defect, far so, close to Taiyuan Wang's daughter is also the queen of the current emperor Li Zhi, a few days ago Wang also helped Li Zhi and Li Jie to fight to the death.

But now, no matter how you look at it, you can't see these estrangements, what does Li Jie want to do to win over the king of Taiyuan?

In doubt, the eldest grandson Wuji's heart suddenly jumped, an idea came to his heart, and he bowed respectfully, and the eldest grandson Wuji asked carefully: "King Min, now that the New Year is approaching, how should it be arranged, who will be the main sacrifice?" Who is the farmer and sacrifices to the sky? ”

didn't look back, Li Jie waved his hand very casually, "How you lived in previous years, just how you did this year." ”

With a sigh in his heart, the eldest grandson Wuji bowed down heavily, and said no more.

In the blink of an eye, a few days have passed, and as the eldest grandson Wuji said, the New Year is approaching. Even if the chaotic government is now, Chang'an still can't stop being lively, business travelers from all over the country enter Chang'an, bringing all kinds of hot-selling items for the New Year, the people pull a few pieces of cloth to make two new cotton clothes, and the children of the official gentry family are around some fresh gadgets and are happy.

Datang has a vast territory, and every year there are some new objects that make their eyes shine, and this year, billiards is popular.

This thing has a simple structure, the rules are easy, and it is very elegant to play, it came out of the palace, and immediately became popular in the upper echelons of Chang'an, and the noble officials at all levels are all proud of having billiards, but the price of this thing is very expensive, one ivory can produce five balls, and the ivory that has traveled thousands of miles from Zhongnan to Chang'an is even more expensive.

As a result, some officials have billiards, and a large number of colleagues will immediately come to "visit".

With the solidity of the eldest grandson's family, this thing has been placed in five or six seats, the eldest grandson Chong especially likes to be lively and playful, every day in the eldest grandson's mansion, a large number of hectares of nobles have gathered, and a large group of Tang-style robes and doctors are playing billiards under the classical eaves, which has a different flavor.

If it was in the past, it is estimated that the eldest grandson Wuji would have rushed out with a big stick, but these days, it is rare that the eldest grandson Wuji let the eldest grandson Chong's nonsense, and even the last few days of the last few days of the eldest grandson Wuji did not go, and kept saying that he was sick at home, and he didn't go out of the door.

After the temptation, the eldest grandson Wuji has been sitting at home thinking, what does Li Jie want?

First of all, the throne was vetoed by the eldest grandson Wuji, if he wanted the throne, the first thing Li Jie had to do was to strengthen his power, instead of delegating power everywhere now, completely leaving the government to the hundred officials to solve by themselves, and plundering Guanzhong.

Now the state officials like snowflakes continue to report that the Fujian * team rampant in Guanzhong has coerced hundreds of thousands of displaced people by burning houses, or through Central Asia, or through the Grand Canal, at least 100,000 people have been transported to the south, everything shows that Li Jie still wants to return to the south and will not be attached to Guanzhong.

Then, the next problem comes, Li Jie can't leave the ownerless Guanzhong and turn around, a war-torn Tang Dynasty is not conducive to the Fujian State that started by relying on the Silk Road trade, the best heir to the throne has run away, and who to set up as the emperor has become a big problem, after all, it is impossible for the Fujian State to end an emperor who harms the interests of the Fujian State, and turn around and set up an unreliable emperor.

From the mouth of the eldest grandson, I learned that Li Jie was not invincible, Fujian did not have no enemies, and the strong enemies he faced were still unprecedented in the history of China.

The only thing that the eldest grandson Wuji can't figure out is that the power of the bureaucratic family has been strengthened, that is, the power of the emperor has been weakened, the power of the eunuchs has been strengthened, and part of the power of the emperor has been divided. invisibly tied a shackle to the emperor again.

If you want a stable emperor, why do you want to make so much trouble?

Especially the temptation of that day, so that the eldest grandson Wuji is even more worried, the feudal dynasty in the agricultural era, the biggest thing in the country is farming, sometimes even more important than war, and from Zhou Tianzi, on behalf of the greatest authority of the royal family and nobles, nothing is the spring sacrifice, worship heaven and earth and beg God to give a good harvest.

It can be said that whoever presides over the sacrifice can determine who is the next emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Jie replied that it was business as usual for the temptation of the eldest grandson Wuji!

Everything is as usual, the supreme priest who presides over the sacrifice is the emperor, Li Zhi! It's business as usual, is it business as usual for Li Zhi, the emperor?

The desk was full of documents and information collected from all over the place, and the political step was full of mistakes, and his eyes were bloodshot after analyzing for so many days, but the eldest grandson Wuji still didn't dare to draw conclusions, this afternoon, after reading the newspapers of several states, just when the eldest grandson Wuji was bored and turned in a straight circle, there was a violent knock at the door of Leng Buding.

"Master, it's not good! There is news from the palace that His Majesty has been transferred out of the East Palace and re-occupied in the Taiji Palace, and the Ministry of Rites has begun to prepare for the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony for His Majesty......"

Sweating profusely, Changsun Fu was a little stumbling when he spoke, and Changsun Wuji also chuckled in his heart, after a thousand calculations, he really couldn't imagine that Li Jie had the determination to re-establish Li Zhi, so all the actions of the Min State could be explained, all the shackles were pressed on Li Zhi, even if he was reset, he would be pressed by the new form of the new court and unable to move.

In an instant, the eldest grandson Wuji fell into a violent entanglement again, he is Li Jie's father-in-law, as an important minister of the imperial court, Li Jie will definitely try his best to support him to oppress Li Zhi and be a powerful minister, but Li Zhi is supported by him, if he does this, will the history books evaluate his own two ends of the first rat, and the traitor has no integrity?

Just when the eldest grandson Wuji was full of entanglement, he stumbled for a long time, and the eldest grandson Fu finally stumbled out the second half of the words.

"The Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Rites also drafted an order, Ming ordered the lord to expel the lord from the court due to illness, what should I do?"

Boom, the wat board that the eldest grandson Wuji had been holding fell to the ground, and then the white marble wat board actually fell apart and flew away, and then the eldest grandson Wuji also sat on the ground without a godless ass, so panicked that the eldest grandson Fu hurriedly helped him over, and shouted in panic: "Master!" Sir, are you alright, sir! ”

"Come on!"

The calm Changsun Mansion immediately became a mess! .