He held a pink baby in his arms, his two little arms curled in front of his chest, and his hoarse voice when he cried, which made people look very distressed.

Mrs. Twelve, half-lying on the bed, with a headscarf wrapped around her head and a fur coat wrapped around her body, looked at her husband and children for the first time with a smile on her face. She didn't have any unpleasant mood, not even a word of complaint, and all the virtues that a feudal woman should have were reflected in her.

Li Siye originally wanted to come back and bring his family and henchmen to Beiting to take office, but now he has changed his mind and wants to hold a full moon banquet for his children first, and then take his family and set off.

There will be a lot of hardship in the long journey, so it is better to delay it for a few more days and wait for the lady to get better before going on the road.

"I specially went to the temple to ask for the child's name, and the old Zen master Huijue in the temple gave a word, husband, you add another word, which is the child's name."

"Li Zuo what?" He smacked his lips, originally wanting to name his son with a Chong character, so that he would look more like brothers with his adopted sons. But the name thing, don't be too serious, just listen to the lady's good.

"Since the Zen master gave a Zuo word, naturally it can't be called anything else, it can only be called Zuojun or Zuoguo, otherwise it is easy to be bitten. Well, let's call it Sakoku. ”

The name of his son Li Zuoguo was thus decided, and the family began to actively prepare for the full moon banquet, which the ancients called the celebration of Langzhang, relatives and friends would send gifts to express their congratulations, and naturally they would also set up a banquet in the courtyard to entertain them.

The matter of the full moon banquet was commanded and dispatched by the two housekeepers of Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Chen, and the current envoy of Shule Town, Zhao Chongxuan, personally transferred the chefs in the army, mutton, and grain to give support, which made Li Siye quite embarrassed, he came back to dig people under Zhao's command, and now he has accepted the favor of the other party, and he feels that he is not a person inside and outside now.

So before the full moon banquet was held, Li Siye specially invited Zhao Chongyu to his home and toasted face-to-face to express his gratitude.

"Chongyu, this time I came back to ask you to go to Beiting and let you serve as the military envoy of the Han Navy, but the high school refused to let go, and you were promoted to the envoy of Shule Town, and you will have a place in Anxi in the future."

Zhao Chongxuan couldn't tell if he was telling the truth or not, so he took it as the truth, he picked up the wine cup and said with gratitude: "Thank you Li Zhongcheng for your love, although Chongyu can't go with you, but your words are enough." ”

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Li Siye proposed to Zhao Chongyu that he would transfer Duan Xiushi, the deputy military envoy, and Tian Zhen, the cavalry battalion officer, to Beiting from his command. Although Zhao Chongxuan's eyes were drunk and hazy, his thoughts were clear, so his expression seemed very hesitant.

Zhao Chongxuan raised his head and drank a glass of wine, and a playful smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth, which made Li Siye feel a little ominous premonition in his heart, and sure enough, the other party solemnly picked up the wine cup and said: "The contemptible person has newly married a woman from the Han family, who is the daughter of the Wei side branch of the famous family of Jingzhao Mansion, and she is now three months pregnant. Now that your son is happy, why not take advantage of this joy and marriage, if my lady gives birth to a daughter, I will marry my son, if I give birth to a son, ask him to marry your adopted daughter Li Chongle, how about it? ”

Zhao Chongyu originally made this calculation, no matter what, he had to climb with his children and relatives. It's hard to refuse this matter, and it will hurt the other party's face as soon as you say it. What's more, during his tenure as the envoy of Shule Town, Zhao Chongjun once worked hard and complained, no matter how he tossed and reformed, the other party fully supported him, and the relationship between the two was also settled.

Sometimes it's this kind of good guy who is the most difficult to deal with, making it difficult for him to harden his heart.

"Okay."

Li Siye nodded and agreed.

Zhao Chongxuan smiled with a smile on his face, held the wine cup in both hands and said: "Since you and I are already sons and daughters, your business is my business, Duan Xiushi and Tian Zhen, you can transfer them away." Now the situation in Shule Town is stable, and this is all thanks to you. And when you first arrived in Beiting, you need a few henchmen to be able to do so, so I naturally fully support you. ”

Since the two booked their in-laws, Zhao Chongyu has become more and more diligent, personally went to the town envoy's mansion to direct the banquet arrangement, and sent a team of relatives to the Shule wine shop to carry the wine.

On that day, the sun was shining in Shule City, the sky was clear, and the officers at all levels of the Shule army, the local officials and nobles of Shule, and the big businessmen all gathered in the town guard envoy's mansion to participate in the full moon banquet of Li Siye's son, the envoy of the Beiting Festival. The entire front and back yards of the town guard's mansion were filled with straw mats, and some people could only squat outside the gate.

On the feast is a large basin of mutton, salty green onion mutton fat cake and sweet sesame hu cake are served on the table with a dustpan, and the soup is a fragrant noodle soup, and the guests are staggered and drunk. Li Siye walked around with a wine cup in both hands, and watched the guests eat and drink with satisfaction.

After the banquet, the gifts received by the town guard envoy's mansion were piled up, these things were too heavy, and it was not easy to carry them to the north court, so he asked his prospective in-law Zhao Chongyu to temporarily put them away and store them in the treasury, and then send them back when someone in Shule City held a wedding banquet, which is also called taking it from the people and using it for the people.

Taking the opportunity of the full moon banquet, he specially called Duan Xiushi and Tian Zhen to the inner hall, told the two of them about their intentions, and promised to appoint Tian Zhen as the military envoy of the Tianshan Mountains, Duan Xiushi as the envoy of the Han Navy, and Bai Xiaode as the envoy of the Jiedu Dynasty.

One of the guests did not come, it was Dai Wang, who opened the paper mill. Li Siye didn't think he was rude, Dai Wang's situation was indeed special, and he couldn't be treated as an ordinary person. During the two years he lived in Shule, he lived in a simple house, not showing his true face, and if he wanted to buy anything, Qiu'e would come forward. A lively place like today's categorically refuses to come.

He specially ordered Mrs. Wu to prepare some wine and meat, and the day after the full moon banquet, he ordered the maidservant Dao Rou to personally visit Mr. Dai in the paper mill.

Early the next morning.

Qiu'e sat outside the house and washed her clothes, and when she saw Li Siye and the maidservant standing outside the fence gate, she immediately got up and went forward to open the fence door and invite them in.

"Is he in there?"

"Well," Qiu'e lowered her head weakly: "In addition to going to the paper mill recently, he has hidden himself in the room to write something." ”

"Write something?"

Dai Wang's best thing is to make up household registration, calculate tax laws, and then there is papermaking, poets will never hide in the house to write poems, and he has nothing to make up when he writes books.

He took the wine and meat from Daorou's hand and said to her, "You just stay outside and wait." ”

With that, he pushed open the door and walked in, closed the door again, and turned around to see Dai Wang sitting at the window, with sixteen carats of paper on the desk, folded in half to the size of a book. There was already a stack the thickness of a thumb on the desk, pressed with a paperweight.

Dai Wang pinched the fine ink tube and wrote carefully in the typed vertical strips, but did not look up to look at the uninvited guest.

On the wall of the room are three horizontal maps, one is a map of the trade route from Yangguan to Khotan, one is a map from Khotan and Shule to the Lingling area to Xiao Bolu, and the other is a map covering Xiao Bolu and the Hindu Kulun Mountains, including South Asia and India.

The second of the three pictures is the most detailed, because there is a Shule defense map drawn by Feng Changqing using the drum car in Jili, and Dai Wang directly extended it. The first one is slightly more detailed, with maps and first-hand information of the stations and caravans along the way. The third picture is much more abstract, and although it is marked with the name of the place, it is estimated that the location of the mountains and rivers is drawn. Combined, these three maps are the entire map of the southern route of the Silk Road from Anxi to India.

This coincided with some thoughts in Li Siye's heart, since Xiao Bolu was controlled by the Tang army, Li Siye thought about whether he could build the southern route of the Silk Road into a large-scale logistics channel. The investment in this must be not small, plus he is now the envoy of the Beiting Festival, and his current identity makes it inconvenient for him to operate, so as not to be cut off by Gao Xianzhi, so this plan can only be shelved temporarily.

It's just that I didn't expect Dai Wang to be thinking about this, which is a bit interesting.