Li Baiyao stood up, "Zhang Shangshu doesn't have to feel indebted to the lower official, the lower official likes the current day very much, even if it becomes a pawn in the game between Shangshu and Xu Guogong, even if Zhang Shangshu said it at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, life will be interesting like this." ”

"You've heard?"

"A royal history, Ma Zhou."

"Do you know him?"

Li Baiyao nodded slightly, "It's just an acquaintance, the Imperial Historical Observatory recently inquired about the accounts of the Diplomatic Academy, and came to the Ministry of Rites to talk." ”

"Check our accounts."

Li Baiyao nodded.

Zhang Yang was speechless for a while, "Why didn't you say this earlier?" ”

He sorted out the books here, "Zhang Shangshu prides himself on being above board, and he naturally has no need to be afraid when he lives a frank life." ”

The open-mindedness of the ancients was sometimes incomprehensible.

Especially Li Baiyao, a very benchmark literati, this kind of literati does not hold important positions in the court, but can live the way he wants.

Zhang Yang also stood up, "Really don't care for the elderly?" ”

Li Baiyao shook his head, "Life is so interesting, talking to Shangshu today, Xia Guan thought that this kind of thing should be experienced more." ”

He refuses to tell the old man, if a person like him leaves the court, maybe his life will be over.

It's a heavy heart, and it's not a good feeling.

Zhang Yang walked out of the Ministry of Rites and now wants to rush out to find Gao Shilian, go to him and ask him why he can manipulate others for three years, and why he.

A eunuch hurriedly came, "Zhang Shangshu, Your Majesty has summoned you." ”

Zhang Yang waved his sleeves and said, "No! ”

"What?" The eunuch blinked vigorously, and then confirmed whether he had heard it wrong, and stepped forward again, "Zhang Shangshu, Your Majesty summoned you." ”

Zhang Yang said impatiently: "I said no." ”

The old eunuch looked at Zhang Yang's willful appearance with a dark face, and really wanted to kneel down on the spot, "Zhang Shangshu, don't embarrass the old slave." ”

Zhang Yang stopped at this time, "It's not easy for everyone, I'll still go and meet." ”

This old eunuch is often by His Majesty's side, and he is the one who often comes to deliver the decree, and he is the one who brings the words.

"I don't know what this father-in-law is called."

The old eunuch accompanied the smiling face, "It's the first time the old slave has seen someone ask for his name in the palace." ”

Zhang Yang was surprised: "Don't you have a name?" ”

"The old slave is just an insignificant person, and no one will ask." His words paused, and he still spoke: "The old slave's surname is Wang, and he used to be the head of the Qin Palace. ”

Zhang Yang continued walking, "Did you finish eating the salted duck eggs you gave last time?" ”

The old eunuch said, "It's really finished." ”

"I'll ask my family to send you some more next time."

"How dare the old slave take it."

"It's all home-cooked food, don't shirk it."

"Zhang Shangshu, please." He led the way with a smile.

Unable to remember when the Lingyan Pavilion was completed, Zhang Yang followed into the attic.

The attic is not big, just on the edge of the Taiji Palace.

Li Shimin stood in it and held a portrait in his hand, "Do you know whose portrait this is?" ”

Zhang Yang stepped forward and glanced at it, "Isn't this me?" ”

Li Shimin nodded, "Yan Liben has a younger brother, his name is Yan Lide's first-class painting skills, whether it is people or scenery, you can paint it without forgetting it." ”

"If this person goes to Dali Temple to take up a post, the security of Chang'an City will be able to go to a higher level."

Li Shimin looked at Zhang Yang strangely, "Wouldn't it be a waste for such a painter to go to Dali Temple, I still want him to paint more masterpieces." ”

"Your Majesty, it is not often that there are great works, but if they can really work in Dali Temple." Zhang Yang touched his nose stupidly, "I'm more practical, don't be surprised, Your Majesty." ”

Li Shimin put away the scroll, "I am still hesitant to hang your portrait in Lingyan Pavilion. ”

Zhang Yang sighed and said: "When one day the minister is beheaded by a decree of His Majesty, and the head falls to the ground and lives and dies, Your Majesty can still come here from time to time to pay tribute to me, well!" Very good. ”

During the Lantern Festival banquet, the monarch and the ministers were still arguing, and His Majesty stayed awake all night afterwards.

The eunuch standing outside the door, listening to the calm voice in it, couldn't understand in his heart that the relationship between the monarch and the minister was really delicate.

A few days ago, he was like an enemy, but now he can talk calmly.

Fantastic......

Li Shimin walked to the second floor of Lingyan Pavilion, "Back then, the eighteen bachelors of the Qin Wangfu were all brilliant people, and there were also talented bachelors, but the years were not forgiving, how many of these eighteen bachelors are left?" How many people will be left in a few years? In the past, a pot of turbid wine sang to the moon, and the pride and ambition were gone. ”

Coming to the second floor, it is much more spacious, and the wooden floor is not strong, and it is creaking to walk on it.

Li Shimin turned around, "Where do you think it is more appropriate for me to hang your portrait?" ”

Zhang Yang looked at the wall, if there was a portrait of himself hanging on this wall......

"Your Majesty, I always feel unlucky."

"Really? I think it's very good, I had this idea back in the Qin Palace, and now I want to hang portraits of heroes here, so that I can remember it and future generations. ”

There are not many people who can enter the Lingyan Pavilion, and after Li Shimin built the Lingyan Pavilion, there are twenty-four heroes who will be famous for future generations.

However, several emperors after the Tang Dynasty added a lot of people to the Lingyan Pavilion, and also changed a lot of people.

No matter how you change it, how you change it.

Only in the Heavenly Khan Lingyan Pavilion, the twenty-four heroes who first entered this pavilion were passed down to future generations, and they were also the people with the most significant contributions.

Li Shimin has already put away the portrait, "Your portrait will not be hung up first, you are young and have little qualifications, and you have no military merits, so you can't compare to the people who fought with me in the world back then." ”

"Your Majesty is wise." Zhang Yang nodded.

"If you have enough merits, you should also enter the Lingyan Pavilion, you see that this wall can be used to hang portraits, I want to expand this place......"

Listening to the emperor's words, he talked about the arrangement of the Lingyan Pavilion in the future.

The twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion must be listed after all.

Li Shimin did it anyway.

Zhang Yang leaned on the railing of the balcony and continued to listen to the emperor's story.

After a while, Li Shimin looked at the Taiji Hall again, "I understand your intentions, the Lishan Iron Casting Technique cannot be easily handed over to others. ”

"Lishan Iron Casting Technique?" Zhang Yang nodded and said: "Thank you Your Majesty for the name, and in the future, I will ask Your Majesty to name my Lishan Iron Casting Technique." ”

Accustomed to Zhang Yang's strange words, Li Shimin put his hands on the railing, "I have seen the national book of the envoys of the Japanese Kingdom, they want books, and they also want to send people to Datang to study, and learn from my Datang style, what do you think?" ”

"Your Majesty thinks twice."

"Isn't it good?"

"Your Majesty, it's a problem to raise tigers."

Li Shimin nodded again, "I know that you are the tiger, and you are the one who raises tigers, Xu Guogong handed me a chapter overnight, saying that he wanted me to beware of you." ”

"I don't like this kind of behavior that is not right for people."

"Gao Shilian does have a prejudice against you, and he has such a prejudice from the first time I saw you, I remember it was when I was in Tiantai Mountain."

"No matter what I do, Your Majesty just said the letter of state of the Japanese country, whether this matter is open to discussion, before they wanted to ask for a country name, but it was returned by our Foreign Affairs Yuan, and now they are not giving up, their hearts can be punished."

Li Shimin snorted coldly: "Have you to blame? ”

"Your Majesty still wants the silver cake of the Wa Kingdom?"

"It's tiring to talk to you about state affairs."

"Your Majesty thinks I want to come? If it weren't for the minister, he would have retired now and gone home to coax the child. ”

"You stop." Li Shimin said in an urn voice: "I will think about the affairs of the Japanese kingdom again, and I will also go to your house and have a meal!" ”

When the eunuchs outside the door learned that His Majesty and Zhang Yang went to eat together, they began to doubt their lives.

The relationship between the monarch and the minister got better after the quarrel......

It was a very distressing thing to accompany the emperor home, and I had to worry about whether he would trip over the pebbles on the side of the road.

"You usually take this trail home?"

"That's right." Zhang Yang nodded.

"I've always walked Suzaku Street."

"Your Majesty is the Khan of the Heavens, of course you have to take the avenue and do great things."

Back at home, the two little girls were playing rattan ball with the bear, and Xiao Wu and Xu Hui threw a ball at the bear together.

The Cubs are one-on-two and can push the ball back every time.

Seeing his father, Li Yue hurriedly saluted, "Father." ”

The rattan ball landed, and Xiao Wu and Xu Hui also saluted.

As an emperor, he opened a bamboo tube familiarly, poured out the tea leaves inside to make a bowl of tea, and drank it leisurely.

"If I am over fifty years old, you are also in the prime of your thirties, and it should not be me who let you enter the Lingyan Pavilion."

"Your Majesty next?"

"The people of your life are different from the people of my generation, I shouldn't have the final say, you still have a good life."

Zhang Yang personally cooked a meal for the emperor.

There was no wine at home, and the beef in sauce had already been eaten, and Li Shimin had no appetite, so he left with little interest.

Standing at the door of the house and waiting until he couldn't see His Majesty's back, he walked back to the courtyard.

Li Yue cleaned up the bowl quickly, "Your Majesty let your husband enter the Lingyan Pavilion?" ”

"I talked about it."

"I heard that my father had the idea of erecting portraits of the eighteen scholars of the Qin Palace."

"What you mean is that he won't let me enter the Lingyan Pavilion, I can only talk about seniority, I am an elder when I enter the Lingyan Pavilion, and I am not suitable for a junior now."

"The merits of the husband are also qualified enough."

After spending two days with An Yanyan, Xu Jingzong had a general understanding.

The next day, as usual, Xu Jingzong said all the way, "This person can speak Tibetan, Western Regions, Turkic and even some Persian, and they are wandering in the Western Regions, selling goods between countries to obtain profits. ”

"He is not a counselor at the side of Yehu Khan, he often buys and sells weapons and food with Yehu Khan."

"So the Western Turks are his big customers?"

"What Zhang Shangshu said is good, the two Turkic khans went to war, and he also earned a lot of benefits from it, and this time he took the initiative to invite Ying when he came to Datang."

Zhang Yang stopped, "If the war stops, his interests will be gone, and he hopes that the war can continue more than us." ”

"The lower officials think the same."

"What he is worried about is that the Tang Dynasty is rushing to the aid of the Western Turks."

Originally, the arrangement of the Foreign Affairs Yuan did not say that it would rush to aid the Western Turks, and as for how to settle it afterwards, at most it was just to let the Gaochang people collect their corpses.

The Tang Dynasty needed to recover the Western Turks, and even more so to include it in the territory, establish the capital protectorate, and form a western barrier.

As long as the west is stable, the Foreign Affairs House will have more energy to deal with the east.

The nine surnames of Zhaowu were famous merchants on the Silk Road, and they could even get a lot of news.

Such a person can be used by the Foreign Affairs Yuan, and it is a very mature intelligence system.

If this can be cooperated with the Foreign Affairs Yuan, it can take the intelligence source to a higher level.

Seeing that Zhang Yang didn't say a word, Xu Jingzong whispered: "Does this person want to kill him quickly?" ”

"Lao Xu, you know me, I don't like to kill, I'm a good person."

"Then arrest his family and blackmail him, don't be afraid that he won't comply."

"It's a good idea, so where to catch it?"

Xu Jingzong fell silent, the Western Regions are vast, where to find these descendants of Zhaowu Jiu.

"What has Tang Xuanzang been doing lately?" Zhang Yang asked suddenly.

"I sent a message before that I was chatting with Songtsen Gampo about the Dharma, and we had a good conversation, and he set off for Tianzhu in the middle of winter last year, and according to the footsteps, he should enter the Tianzhu realm."

Zhang Yang pondered, "How about you say let him go to the Wa Kingdom?" ”

Xu Jingzong smiled bitterly, "Zhang Shangshu's idea is really ......"

"I'll just kid, don't you want books to take back? We give them Buddhist scriptures, they study the Buddhist scriptures well and can't be distracted from reading other books, and when Tang Xuanzang comes back, let him take the school exam, and if he doesn't answer correctly, he will be beheaded, and not studying Buddhism is disrespectful to our Datang. ”

“……”

"Lao Xu, why don't you speak?"

"How did Zhang Shangshu think that this Tang Xuanzang would come back?"

"I guess."

Xu Jingzong shook his head and sighed, "Zhang Shangshu is in his twenties, and he can't guess like a child when he encounters something." ”

The Foreign Affairs Institute was very busy inside and out, and Zhang Yang said to Xu Jingzong: "You call Dasu and Brother Elephant, let's go to the wine shop over there to eat and talk." ”

"Whoa."

It's been a long time since I've been here, but it's still the same as before.

The shopkeeper stepped forward with a smile, "The benefactor hasn't been here for a long time." ”

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "There have been too many worries recently. ”

"What does the villain need of to do?"

Seeing Xu Jingzong coming with elephants and Da Su, Zhang Yang waved his hand and said, "I can handle it myself." ”

The shopkeeper put on a smiling face, "What does the benefactor need to eat?" ”

"Tea, mutton, four bowls of mutton soup, four cakes."

Xu Jingzong took the two of them to sit down, and the store served mutton soup and cakes, as well as a plate of mutton, and specially brought a basin of water to wash his hands.

Zhang Dasu washed his hands, "I'm really hungry." ”

There is a rule when eating with Zhang Yang, that is, you must wash your hands before eating.

The Foreign Affairs Council is becoming more and more staffed, and the meetings are kept secret.

"Lao Xu, you tell them about the descendant of Zhaowu Jiu."

"Zhaowu Jiu surname?" Zhang Dasu was surprised: "This is a very ancient lineage, and now there are still their descendants?" ”

Xu Jingzong nodded, "Not only that, but he is also a very cunning character, and it is a pity to kill him quickly." ”

As soon as he heard that he was going to kill someone, Zhang Daxiang persuaded: "Think twice before acting, Your Majesty will hesitate again and again when the prisoners are beheaded after the autumn, and you should think more about this kind of thing." ”

Zhang Dasu chewed the cake in his mouth, "You can't kill it, and you have so much trouble, just let him mess around like this?" ”