"The scenery of West Lake is picturesque."

Li Xuan stood on top of the boat, letting the evening breeze blow, with the sparkling lake in the distance, and the bright moon and a few remnant stars overhead.

For a while, the sense of poetry and painting came to my face.

"It is really a blessing for the Kui family to come to the West Lake tonight." Steward Xi stood aside, bowing his hand to Li Xuan, with a smirk on his face.

Li Xuan glanced at him in great surprise, his eyes flashed subconsciously, and then nothing happened.

There are no entries on Steward Xi's head.

In this case, either Steward Xi is the kind of hidden peerless master who can't be detected by the entry prompter, or he is simply an ordinary person, just like Li Xuan can see it with his eyes.

It's just that he's very good at sycophancy.

"Respect for the elderly is where filial piety lies, Kui Weng has an invitation, how can this king refuse." Li Xuan replied lightly, and then his eyes fell on the luxurious and magnificent three-masted ship in the center of Taihu Lake, and asked in a low voice, "That ship is owned by the Kui family?"

In the distance in the center of Taihu Lake, under the bright lights, a huge and gorgeous three-masted ship appeared on the lake.

There seemed to be countless figures moving on it, singing and dancing lightly, a peaceful and prosperous world.

"Yes, my lord." Steward Xi hurriedly explained, saying: "This ship was originally owned by the Hangzhou Sailor, but due to disrepair, it could no longer fight, so the Sailor planned to abandon it, and the Kui family spent a lot of money to buy it from the Sailor, and then spent a lot of money to repair it......

The Kui family's industry is mainly river transportation, and their scale can already be seen from the first boat in front of them.

"You did put a lot of thought into it, but it's easy to make others feel good." Li Xuan seemed to be smiling.

"Don't hide it from the prince, it's true." Steward Xi smiled bitterly and said, "Just a few years ago, the Hangzhou sailor sent someone to discuss buying it back, although the family was unwilling, but under the argument, it was still in vain, and in the end, the sailor's people could only get on the boat.

However, after boarding the ship, the sailors found that the ship was now sailing on the West Lake without hindrance, but it could not sail in the Qiantang River at all, let alone fight against bandits at sea, and the maintenance cost of this ship was also terrifying."

"That's true." Li Xuan nodded, there was nothing wrong with this.

The water temperature, speed and quality of the water in the West Lake and the Qiantang River are poor, and the ships that can sail safely on the West Lake will be directly eroded and abandoned after a long time when they reach the Qiantang River.

At that time, the Hangzhou sailor would become a joke instead, so he had to give up

"Thank you for your understanding." After Steward Xi finished speaking, he sighed and looked sad.

Li Xuan's gaze swept over Steward Xi's face, and he didn't pay much attention to it at all, he didn't care about this kind of small trick at all.

Li Xuan's gaze swept over the luxurious and magnificent building ship, which looked like this, but it was not necessarily so useless. Z.br>

Looking at how to use it, these people in Hangzhou obviously don't have this vision now.

Keeping the matter of the boat in mind, Li Xuan's gaze turned to the edge of the West Lake in the distance.

Although the surface of the lake is clear, there are some small boats hidden in the reeds further away.

A smile appeared in Li Xuan's eyes.

If it was just so simple, then the people in the Heavenly Yin Sect would be too disappointing for him.

The building boat in the distance was rapidly approaching, and Li Xuan's small boat soon arrived under the big ship.

With a slight footstep, Li Xuan, Qiu Zhenmu, and Su Baotong jumped onto the big boat at the same time.

The two red-clothed gold-armored Qianniu guards immediately stood on both sides, majestic, looking at everyone with cold eyes.

The crowd of people who were waiting on the bow of the big ship were immediately startled and retreated.

Li Xuan looked at a sixty-year-old man wearing a black-gray robe, and arched his hand, "Li Xuan has seen Kui Weng!"

"Don't dare to be a gift from the king." Kui Gong immediately bowed deeply to Li Xuan.

Kui Gong in this life

Even with the support of the Hangzhou Kui family, he has only been a county magistrate for one term at most.

Any more, and there will be none.

Li Xuan expressed politeness to the elders at most, but if he really took it seriously, he would not know how to die.

Li Xuan's gaze swept over everyone present, and at a glance he saw Qi Gongzi hiding in the corner behind the crowd.

Qi Gongzi did not directly step forward to talk to Li Xuan, but carefully hid in the corner, and there was a group of characters wearing bells and whistles around him, watching from a distance, but did not come up.

Although Hangzhou Prefecture is a place where humanities gather, there are also many miscellaneous categories.

There are quite a few people who just spend their free time in state school, not really studying.

These people fight cocks and walk their dogs every day, and the atmosphere of studying well in the whole state is messed up.

Especially later, the addition of a Qi Gongzi made everything even more chaotic.

Li Xuan's frivolity in state studies that day, although he said it casually, is indeed the truth.

"Lord Wang, please!" Kui Gong stretched out his hand and invited Li Xuan into the boat.

Bright lantern gauze tent, silk and satin, delicate maids, and sumptuous food, it can be seen that Kui Gong really spent a lot of thought in order to feast Li Xuan.

Walking to the top, Kui Gong arched his hand at Li Xuan, then pointed to the person on the left, and said, "Lord Wang, this is Su Yu, who joined the army of the Hangzhou Assassin Mansion, from the Su clan in Youzhou."

Li Xuan's eyes lifted, swept past Su Baotong on the side, and then arched his hand to Su Yu and said, "I've seen Su join the army!"

"I've seen the prince!" Su Yu didn't dare to take it at all, his official position was not as good as Li Xuan, and his identity background was not as good as Li Xuan, although he was not so frightened now, he also looked nervous.

Li Xuan's gaze swept over Su Yu, fell on the side of the big monk wearing yellow monk robes, and bowed: "Amitayus longevity, I don't know where this master is practicing?"

"The poor monk Fang Qin, who practiced in Niutou Mountain, is now hanging in Lingyin Temple." Monk Fang Qin clasped his hands together and bowed slightly to Li Xuan.

Kui Gong on the side hurriedly spoke, "Master Fang Qin is the heir of the Four Ancestors and the descendant of the Fa Rong Sect, and his Buddhism is exquisite."

The fourth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, Master Daoxin, the fifth ancestor of Zen Buddhism is Master Hongren, and the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism is Master Huineng.

The heir of the law, the monk who inherited the mantle of the patriarch and presided over a jungle.

The relationship between Fa Rong and Hongren's nominal master brother is the same as that between Shenxiu and Huineng.

As for their true relationship, it is not for outsiders to know.

If it's like Shenxiu and Huineng, then it's lively.

Li Xuan looked at the head, and then said: "When Xiao Wang was in Luoyang, he had a relationship with Master Shenxiu, and then he had exchanges with Master Pu Lin and Master Yifu under Master Shenxiu, and it is really Xiao Wang's luck to be able to meet Master Fang Qin today."

"Several senior brothers are superb in Buddhism, and the poor monks also had discussions in their early years, and finally gained something, and it is also a blessing for the poor monks to meet the king of Nanchang today." Monk Fang Qin had a faint smile on his face.

Li Xuan's face was full of surprise, Monk Fang Qin's words were polite, but the meaning in his heart was not polite at all.

He had a dispute with Pu Lin on the Fa, and finally retreated, this ability is extraordinary, and the contradictions in it are not hidden.

Shenxiu was originally a disciple of Hongren, but the name of the six ancestors was obtained by Huineng from the side, so that Huineng became the sixth ancestor of the lineage, and Shenxiu became a sideline.

Li Xuan is not clear about Fa Rong, but it seems that the relationship between Monk Fang Qin and the disciples and grandchildren of Hongren's disciples is not so harmonious.

"When he has free time, he will come to the door and ask the master for advice." Li Xuan respectfully returned the salute to Monk Fang Qin.

Everyone else was a little surprised, Li Xuan was from the Li Tang clan, and at the same time had a Taoist inheritance, how could he be so polite to a monk.

The reason is actually simple, because Niutou Mountain is located in Wuyi County, Wuyi County, Wuzhou.

This monk Fang Qin is precisely the people under Li Xuan's rule, and this is another kind of relationship.

And no one can deny the transcendent status of Buddhism in the entire Wuyue land today, and exterminate the Tianyin Sect

The power of Buddhism cannot be ignored.

"Lord Wang, this is the dog Kui Heng, and now he is in prison under the command of the Assassin Mansion!" Kui Gong pointed to a middle-aged man in a blue robe with a solemn face.

"I've seen my brother!" Li Xuan looked at Kui Heng with some curiosity.

Although the prison is an official position of the eighth grade, it does not need to serve in another place.

On the contrary, in many cases, it is the locals who are in charge of the prison, and many of them are family officials who have been in office for several generations.

This kind of position is not low for the Kui family, but with their family status, this position is not conducive to future promotion.

Unless you have completely broken off the idea of promotion.

"Don't dare, the prince is polite." Kui Heng immediately bowed, he swept Li Xuan's gaze, Li Xuan's eyes were curious, not contemptuous, which made him slightly relieved.

"Brother Kui has great ambitions and keen eyes, if this position of prison can establish special merits, he can leap forward, Xiao Wang admires." Li Xuan's voice was very low, and only Kui Gong, Monk Fang Qin, and Kui Heng who were standing on the side could hear it clearly.

Kui Gong raised his eyebrows and couldn't help but look at his son.

Kui Heng's whole person was startled, and when he saw that only a few people heard what Li Xuan said, he smiled bitterly and sighed: "The prince's eyes are like torches, and he feels ashamed."

Li Xuan smiled faintly, as if his eyes could clearly see through Kui Heng's heart.

Li Xuan once read in a book that there was once a big man who once served as a prisoner, and then jumped up when he encountered troubled times.

A soldier is the most useful force in troubled times.

"Kui Weng, didn't Ling's son-in-law come?" Li Xuan glanced around, but did not find the figure of the state professor Hong An, Li Xuan wondered, the Kui family invited him here today, wasn't it just for Hong An?

"Hong An has been thinking about it behind closed doors at home now, and he has indeed done something wrong this time, and he has been asked to meditate on the wall at home." Kui Gong looked at Li Xuan sincerely, and asked in a low voice, "Lord Wang, I don't know if this matter can be turned around, if there is, my family is willing to ...... it."

Li Xuan waved his hand directly, interrupting what Kui Gong wanted to say next, and he said lightly: "Don't dare to hide from Kui Weng, this matter has already been written in the history of the palace, and I am afraid that there will be no change in front of me, but ......

"But how?" Kui Gong couldn't help but ask.

Li Xuan's gaze swept over Kui Heng's calm and normal face, then his voice turned deep, he looked at Kui Gong and said, "Kui Weng is keen, the Kui family is now involved in many states, what is the situation in the land of Wu Yue today, Kui Weng naturally knows it, so why do you need the kid to say more. Now that the matter is a foregone conclusion, it is no longer possible for the central center to change, but it is not necessarily impossible to make meritorious contributions."

Kui Gong's face couldn't help but change slightly, what Li Xuan meant in and out of his words, he heard it very clearly, but where can these things be easily decided.

For a moment, Kui Gong couldn't help but hesitate.