The spring of Chang'an City is earlier than that of Liaodong, and the grass has grown in February, and the warbler flies, and now in March, it is even more peach blossoms.

Li Xiao looked up at the sky gloomily, but his mood was not as good as this bright sunshine. It could even be said that it sucks.

There were not many retinues by his side today, and they were all listless, and every time he used to travel on a spring day, the excitement around him was gone. This made him, who likes noise more than quiet, very annoyed, and couldn't help but curse secretly: "A bunch of goods who see the wind and make the rudder"

"Get out of the way" There was a shouting and scolding behind him, Li Xiao was furious, and he wanted to have a seizure when he turned around, but when he saw the honor guard of the team, he suddenly died down again.

It turned out to be someone from the Yang family

The Yang family is now in the limelight in Chang'an City, relying on Yang Yuhuan, since the two nobles of the princess's mansion almost got married, there is no one in Chang'an City who dares to compete with the Yang family. It is Li Linfu, who is now also taking care of the Yang family and promoting Yang Zhao.

Li Xiao avoided the people of the Yang family and was about to continue walking, but he heard the sound of cleaning the street, and then looked at it, it was the honor guard of Princess Ning's mansion. Li Xiao wanted to cover his face with his sleeves, but the carriage stopped beside him, and the people in the carriage lifted the curtain and beckoned to him.

"I've seen Gong Zhang." Li Xiao could only step forward to salute.

"Come with me." Zhang Pei in the car was a little dazed.

Li Xiao could only get in the car, put down the curtain, and Zhang Pei asked after a while, "How is Gong Li?" ”

The Li Gong asked by Zhang Pei was Li Xiao's father Li Shizhi, who was originally the prime minister, but because of Li Linfu's rise to prison last year, he felt pressure, and gradually couldn't bear it, so he resigned as the prime minister a few days ago. Li Longji still had some affection, gave him the honorary position of the crown prince and young protector, and dismissed him as his left minister

At that time, Li Xiao happened to be feasting, and he thought that it was full of guests and friends, but no one arrived. This kind of encounter made Li Xiao feel desolate, at this time the spring was good, he thought about going out of the city to dissipate his sorrows, but he didn't think that the magnates in Chang'an City seemed to rush to the east of the city.

Hearing Zhang Peixiang's question, Li Xiao sighed: "Jiajun is in a good mood, and he can also write poems, and he composed a poem that day, 'Avoiding the virtuous and the first phase, the music saint and the cup.'" In order to ask the guests, how many are coming today,......"

"It's good to think about it, if you can't think about it......" Zhang Pei didn't say anything at this point.

He also looked a little frightened, and even in the depths of his heart, he was more scared than Li Shizhi.

"It's all that Ye Chang'er" Li Xiao cursed in a low voice: "A rural man, he actually framed the minister, was ungrateful, treacherous, such a character can still be born between heaven and earth"

Li Linfu didn't dare to scold, Li Longji didn't dare to scold, so only Ye Chang could scold. In Li Xiao's mind, if it weren't for villains like Ye Chang and Lu Qi who betrayed them and eliminated Wei Jian, Huangfu Weiming, and Wang Zhonghei, then his father Li Shizhi would have these strong reinforcements and still be able to sit firmly in the position of the left minister.

scolded Ye Chang, Zhang Pei raised his hands in approval, he also hated this guy who repeatedly swept his face, especially this guy also betrayed Huangfu Weiming and others.

"Even so, you have to be careful yourself, don't want to cause any more trouble for Gong Li, Ye Changyuan is in Liaodong, a saint...... Hey? ”

Zhang Pei was halfway through his words, but he stopped, his eyes looked ahead, and his expression was a little strange. Li Xiao also looked over, also showing a look of surprise, and couldn't help but say: "Isn't this guy a fox, why did he appear as soon as he talked about him?" ”

They were surprised because they saw Ye Chang.

"He didn't get the will of the imperial court, so he came back from Liaodong?" Zhang Pei hesitated slightly: "I remember that among his official positions, there was a record of Jili Prefecture to join the army...... Without the will of the imperial court, he left his post without permission? ”

"His official position is a joke, where is the reason why Jili Prefecture records the army and also guards Xiangping?" Li Xiao pouted: "The saint uses him, but because he claims to be able to go overseas to visit Xianshan, Xu Fu Fangshi and others, and he is not ashamed of scholars."

"Otherwise, otherwise, how can the court system be arbitrary?" Zhang Pei said casually again.

He relied on his identity, and he couldn't scold Ye Chang like Li Xiao, so he just grabbed Ye Chang's mistakes on this kind of issue. The speaker was unintentional, but the listener over there was intentional, Li Xiao couldn't help but move in his heart: Maybe he could use this as an excuse to take Ye Chang out first?

"The Yang family's ...... Yang Zhao's house. Zhang Pei didn't pay attention to him, but looked at the person who was walking with Ye Chang, and found that it was Yang Zhao, and couldn't help frowning again.

Ye Chang's dedication of "Xiangxuehai" to Yang Yuhuan has now spread all over Chang'an City, and even Ye Chang's official position in Liaodong is also related to that matter. However, now that Yang Zhao, who is now hot, went to see Ye Chang outside the city in person, whether it was intentional or unintentional, it is worth thinking about by Zhang Pei.

Ye Chang didn't know that he had fallen into the attention of someone with a heart again, but said to Yang Zhao with a smile: "I didn't expect it to be Brother Yang, you came in person."

"Where, our brothers haven't seen each other for almost a year, how can I not come to greet you when you go back to Chang'an?" Yang Zhao said with a smile.

His temperament is not hidden, not so much to greet Ye Chang, but to be promoted to let Ye Chang, the old man, see his current majesty. Ye Chang knew his intentions, so he had to make a few jokes about the color of his official uniform, and then complimented him on his promotion, and finally whispered: "I have prepared some congratulatory gifts, and I will send them to the house at that time."

"Eleven Lang, what other congratulatory gifts are you and I talking about?" Yang Zhao suddenly changed color.

"Brother Yang, what you said is not right, I entered Beijing this time, but I came with great merit, and I want to come to Your Majesty to promote my official position, and then you want to save a congratulatory gift? Then I'll go straight to your mansion, and I'll go to find my sister-in-law."

Hearing Ye Chang say this, Yang Zhao couldn't help but laugh again: "Stop, I can't talk about you." ”

He knew in his heart that Ye Chang had the same means as the god of wealth, and he was the best at making money, and he said some congratulatory gifts, but he was afraid that it would be thousands or even tens of thousands of things. Although Yang Zhao is no longer the down-and-out he was at the beginning, who would have too much money for such a thing?

"Eleven Lang, you said that you have made a great contribution, what merit?" Yang Zhao asked.

"Since it is a frontier land, it is a military merit." Ye Chang smiled: "Jili Prefecture has been fully recovered, and some Goguryeo people with bad intentions have been brought back by me and are preparing to sacrifice their captives." ”

When Yang Zhao heard this, he suddenly shuddered, and looked at Ye Chang with wide eyes.

He knows best, Ye Chang is almost an empty general who went to Liaodong, and there is not a single soldier in his hands, how can he make military achievements?

"Eleven Lang, you have never lied, it's not that the foolish brother can't believe you, but this fact is a big deal...... You really made a side contribution, weren't you deceived by the people below? ”

"Brother, what I said, am I easily deceived, real military exploits, the seventeen cities of Jili Prefecture, and now I have returned to my Tang Dynasty."

"Why?"

"Since I want to sacrifice the captives, the captives have been brought, one is Quan Gaihong, who claims to be the assassin of Jili Prefecture, who is a fellow of Quan Gai Suwen, and the other is Gorsong, who is also a descendant of the former Goguryeo royal family. From the two of them down, there were more than 40 Goguryeo nobles, and as for the ordinary captives, they were sent to work and lose money, and the prefectures and counties along the way were uneasy, so I stayed in the capital of Jili Prefecture. I want to build a big ship to visit the immortal road, but I am short of labor, so I enslaved these Goguryeo people, not only did not disturb my Tang people, but also punished the unruly and unruly. Ye Chang said.

"Where are the captives?"

"Stay in Guangyuntan and just wait for the Son of Heaven to summon you."

Hearing Ye Chang's explanation, Yang Zhao was completely convinced, he stopped and stared at Ye Chang again

Ye Chang was inexplicably looked at by him: "Brother Yang looks at it like this, but he still doesn't believe it, or I will take you back to meet those captives again?" ”

"It's not this, Eleven Lang, you don't have soldiers in your hands, how can you ...... What is this? ”

"Oh, I have no soldiers, but I have money." Ye Chang laughed.

He had already pondered this question, his identity as a record of joining the army and guarding the capture was originally a joke, it was okay to bluff outsiders, he understood that he didn't have a single soldier on hand. In the absence of soldiers, he even occupied the land of a state

"Rich?"

"Do you remember the last time the twenty-nine lords and others were waiting, these girls in Chang'an City pooled money and gave me a large sum of money, I used this money to recruit warriors and buy the local natives of Liaodong, and then naturally someone would fight for me." Ye Chang smiled and said: "Liaodong is a plate of scattered sand, and there are many of us Han people, as long as we are willing to pay, I am afraid that there will be no one."

When Yang Zhao heard this, he suddenly realized.

The so-called money can make ghosts grind, under Ye Chang's copper money offensive, how can there be a city that is not overcome? However, only Ye Chang is so arrogant that he dares to pay such a big price.

He was envious in his heart, this was a real military feat, with this merit, why couldn't he be promoted?

At this moment, Ye Chang said in a low voice: "Speaking of which, if there is someone in Brother Yang's hands who is willing to go to the bitter cold land of Liaodong as an official, it is ready now, and I will take it with me then." ”

"Uh......"

Yang Zhao's heart moved when he heard this, although there are many official positions in the Tang Dynasty, but a radish and a pit, it is not easy to come to an official position with real power, Ye Chang's words are to give him a big favor. He can take apart this big favor and divide it into many small favors and send them out.

For the Yang family, they are the new upstarts, so there are not many opportunities not to touch the interests of the old magnates.

"If it's really as Eleven Lang said, then there will be work" He was not polite, and then patted his chest and packed the ticket: "Eleven Lang, the history of the Jili State Thorn, is wrapped up in me, if Eleven Lang can't be a thorn history, others don't want to be"

Yang Zhao is a smart person, and a smart person understands what Ye Chang's true intention is to give him a big favor. Since Ye Chang really took over Jili Prefecture, if the imperial court didn't know how to change someone to be the assassin of Jili Prefecture, wouldn't Ye Chang not have the slightest benefit, so Yang Zhao wanted to ensure that Ye Chang was the supreme governor of Jili Prefecture to avoid someone going to restrain and divide power.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and all the transactions were in plain sight.

"A year from now, Chang'an will be the same." Walking along the street to Chang'an City, Ye Chang said with emotion.

"Are you praising or disparaging?" Yang Zhao replied.

"It's neither praise nor disparagement, but I think time is really fast, last year, when these trees were planted, but now they are full of flowers."

There are various flowers and trees planted on both sides of the road, and it is in full bloom at this time, so it is beautiful. Yang Zhao looked around, he was in Chang'an every day, but he didn't feel it anymore.

"What is the customs and customs of Jili Prefecture, you can tell me carefully." He laughed.

chatting all the way, it didn't take long to enter Chang'an, Ye Chang bought a house next to Sun Simiao's old house, and it had already been rumored that the house was cleaned inside and out, so this place has now become his foothold. Yang Zhao saw that he had settled down and was about to say goodbye, but was caught by Ye Chang: "Brother Yang, you are just right here, I said that there is a little bit of courtesy, and you will bring it back yourself." ”

"I'll bring it back myself?"

"Well, there is also a gift for Niangniang, the only one in the world, and the only one I can send to you in the palace." Ye Chang said with a smile: "Our own people, there are some things that the younger brother said in private, this thing should not be seen by the rest of the women, and I saw it...... I'm afraid that the mother won't be able to keep this thing."

"Is that so?" Yang Zhao Daqi.

Ye Chang first carried a box over, the box was painted with vermilion lacquer, and it looked very exquisite. Yang Zhao smiled: "This box is so exquisite, I just need the box, and you can take the contents of the box back."

"It's not your style to buy and return pearls." Ye Chang personally opened the box, and then revealed the brocade inside, and then untied the brocade, and it was a bed of cotton wool, and under the cotton wool, the true face of the items he gave to Yang Zhao was revealed.

But it is an incense burner, but this incense burner is crystal clear, and you can see that end from this end.

It was made of glass, of course, and it took a lot of effort to make a glass incense burner, and a single model alone made the craftsmen toss and turn for months.

Seeing this incense burner, Yang Zhao's eyes widened and he couldn't close them.

"It's ...... Made of crystal? After a long time, he swallowed and asked.

"No, glassware." Ye Chang smiled: "It's rarer than crystal, have you ever seen such a large piece of crystal?" ”

This is a simple luxury, Yang Zhao can imagine how coveted it would be for outsiders to put it in his incense hall to worship the gods. He stroked it with his hand, only to feel that the glass furnace was smooth and round, with a chill, as if it were jade.

"This thing...... It's too precious, it's too precious."

"Indeed, if it is not valuable, I dare not give it to you." Ye Chang pointed to the east: "This treasure is fragile, it took me a lot of effort to transport it back from the sea."

Yang Zhao patted Ye Chang's shoulder, but after all, he didn't say no, he thought in his heart, what was given to him was such a treasure, what about the one given to Yang Yuhuan?

As soon as he thought of this, he suddenly had greed in his heart, but thinking of his friendship with Ye Chang, especially Ye Chang's ability to bypass him and contact the palace directly, he restrained his greed.

"It's also such a treasure for the mother?" He asked.

"Exactly, but it's harder to get lucky than this incense burner."

"That is ...... so"