Xingqing Palace, Xingqing Palace.

After the weather turned cold suddenly, Emperor Li San was reluctant to stay outside the hall, and occasionally when the light was warm, he was happy to bask in the sun outside the hall for a while.

As people get older, the more they don't want to move, and when they get old, they are still very sleepy and afraid of the cold.

But today, Li Longji was surprisingly not taking a nap, and he was very energetic, so he called Yang Guozhong to the palace at this time.

Yang Guozhong knew that the old emperor would not call him for no reason, in fact, most of the time it really didn't matter if he entered the palace, but when he just entered the palace, he met Gao Lishi.

Gao Lishi was holding a bowl of ginseng soup and was about to walk to the hall, when he saw Yang Guozhong coming over, he stopped.

Yang Guozhong hurriedly came up and asked with a smile: "Gonggong Gao, but is he going to the palace?" ”

Gao Lishi said in his heart, don't you talk nonsense, where can I go if I don't go to the palace, but when I saw that Prime Minister Yang was holding a handful of ears of wheat in his hand, and then looked at the tip of his nose on the old face, he couldn't help but be a little curious, so he asked: "Prime Minister, what is this ......?"

"I'm also about to go to the palace, oh, Gonggong Gao is so old, I'll do this kind of thing." Yang Guozhong said, and he was going to pick up the ginseng soup in Gao Lishi's hand.

Just holding a handful of ears of rice in his hand, he almost dropped the broken dust in the bowl, Gao Lishi hurriedly waved his hand and said: "I can't do it, my lord is the prime minister of the court, how can I serve soup for the old slave, Your Majesty is waiting for you in the palace!" ”

Gao Lishi is an old slippery head, he is loyal to Li Longji, even if he hates these ministers who play with the court, but the benefits are still correct, An Lushan's, Yang Guozhong's, Li Linfu's, receiving people's money has to do things for others, and it is naturally easy to say some good things in front of the emperor.

The two of them were about to go to the main hall, Gao Lishi was indeed a caring little old man, Li San's good friend, even if he made a ginseng soup, he was afraid that Li San would not be satisfied, so he personally supervised the boiling and personally served it to Li San to drink.

As soon as he ascended the steps of the palace, Yang Guozhong was busy holding Gao Lishi's arm, and Gao Lishi did not back down, this is not the first time that Yang Da Prime Minister has been encountered, and Gao Lishi has long been surprised.

As soon as I entered the main hall, I saw the old emperor sitting on the futon and closing his eyes to recuperate, and there was an incense burner in the hall, so it was not warm.

"Your Majesty." Yang Guozhong saluted and whispered.

Old man Li San narrowed his eyes, glanced at it, and said, "Guozhong is here." Sit down. ”

Gao Lishi brought the ginseng soup over, put it on the table, and motioned for Li San to drink it.

Li Longji nodded, but he saw that Yang Guozhong had earned a handful of weeds in his hands, and said curiously: "You came to see me, what are you doing with this?" ”

Yang Guozhong raised the tip of his nose, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty asked about the locust plague in Shandong, but it was a rumor, you look at this ear of wheat, but it is very full!" ”

Last time, Li Longji heard that there was a locust plague, so he asked Yang Guozhong about it, saying that he wanted to reduce taxes for Shandong, Yang Guozhong knew the surname of the old emperor, so he panicked and said that this was a rumor, Shandong had a good harvest this year, but in fact, it was a bad locust plague during the autumn harvest, how could there be a harvest.

Yang Guozhong lied, and this time he found a handful of ears of wheat and presented them to the emperor.

Li Longji was very happy when he heard this, and he couldn't bear the ears of wheat, he knew that this year's tax payment was satisfactory, and there was more pocket money, but there was something else to call Yang Guozhong over today.

"Now that the weather is getting colder, it's colder than in previous years, and I called you here to arrange for you to go to Nahuaqing Pool at the end of the month."

The old emperor goes to Huaqingchi every winter, but it is also the end of November, but this time it is so early, it seems that Prime Minister Yang is going to prepare.

Just the annual consumption in Huaqingchi is difficult to count, and the state can collect taxes to make the old emperor happy, and the position of Du Zhilang is intended to be done by the little horse, of course, I also heard that the business in Li Shuang'er's mansion is booming, and he is going to become the richest man in Chang'an.

There is a special palace on the side of Huaqing Pond, Emperor Li San is going to stay until the spring of next year, there is a palace and there is naturally an official office, and the officials will also follow the emperor to move to work, so it is considered to be a vacation.

Yang Guozhong answered yes, but he didn't quit, sat on the futon, and chatted with the old emperor.

"How's the border town?"

The old emperor was most keen on such questions, never asked about the court, and once he chatted with Yang Guozhong, he would ask the border.

"The Turks often invade the border when they come in, and the envoy of Hexi Jiedu Ge Shuhan wrote a few days ago to ask for it, and the minister is about to discuss this matter with His Majesty."

Yang Guozhong glanced at it, and then said: "It's just a tribe of the Western Turks that is disturbing the border, but it is arrogant and abnormal, despise my Tang Dynasty, if it is a crusade to stabilize the border, and second, it can raise my Tang Dynasty prestige." ”

"But it's a small tribe?" Li San asked.

"Exactly!" Yang Guozhong said busily.

"Rong Zhen thinks about it."

Li Longji lost his eyes and said: "That is, to raise the prestige of our country, order Xu Chen to be the marshal of the march, and conquer the Turks, so it is decided!" ”……

The opening of the hotel greatly satisfies the businessmen who come and go in Chang'an, and the largest hotel in Chang'an is completely in accordance with Xu Chen's design ideas, divided into luxury suites, ordinary private rooms and so on.

During the Tang Dynasty, foreign officials came to Beijing to report on their work, and often lived in the idle courtyard of the princes and nobles in the capital, and often needed to make an appointment in advance.

As soon as the hotel was launched, it was immediately sought after, and since it opened for more than a month, the response was great, Xu Chen soon established a one-stop service, and built a restaurant and a bathhouse on the edge of the hotel, which are mainly for resident members, and only serve them.

In the hotel business here, the bank invested a lot in the early stage, but the business was booming, and it took a month to return to the capital, so Xu Chen handed it over to Li Ye to take care of, and Xu Chen of the Zhang Family Brothers Bookstore also invested a lot of money, planning to monopolize the bookstore industry in Beijing and establish a special direct store.

The hot sales of "Journey to the West" are still ongoing, and Xu Chen has no intention of treating this book as a patent to crack down on piracy, after all, he didn't write it himself.

On this day, Xu Chen went to work in the military department as usual, but Boss Tian called Xu Chen over with a pretentious matter, but he ordered an errand: a military parade.

The Ministry of War has the responsibility of emphasizing military training, but the emperor Lao'er has not held any military parades in the past few years, but now Boss Tian has given Xu Chen such an errand, I don't know why. (To be continued.) )