"Bang bang bang...... Whew......huhu"

Thirty-six burly sergeants, dressed in red and gold armor, stood in the middle of the atrium, holding shields in their left hands and swords in their right hands, constantly moving and jumping back and forth.

In the firelight, the blade shimmered with a cold light.

The long knife kept smashing against the round shield, making a dull, but rhythmic sound.

Between the dances and jumps, the sergeants shouted loudly, which was shocking.

The long knife is rushing back and forth, and the stabbing elephant is dense and orderly, and it is even more dangerous.

The military formation is constantly changing, the left circle is on the right, the first is partial and then the army, the fish is beautiful, the goose is the stork, the Ji Zhang Yishu, the staggered flexion and extension, the head and tail are back to each other, and the skill is abnormal.

The sound of dozens of musicians around has gradually fallen into a low place, and everyone's hearts are on the dance.

King Qin broke the array dance.

In the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, all the officials in Yangzhou couldn't help but clap their hands gently along with the music, and the passionate feelings in their hearts were overflowing.

Li Xuan's gaze fell on the Silla envoy who was slightly further back.

Who would have thought that Silla would send an envoy to ask for guilt for the second time, and the person who sent it would still be him.

It's just that at this moment, although his face is calm, he still can't hide a trace of worry and uneasiness in the depths of his eyes.

In the three battles of Dongdao, Silla lost, and after the defeat, he was sent to Datang as a guilty envoy, and the embarrassment and apprehension did not exist for people like him, but more worry and worry.

The withdrawal of troops from the Tang Dynasty is indeed a good thing for Silla, so what about the next, can peace talks really ensure that there will be no more war between the Tang Dynasty and Silla?

……

Shi Dou Xuande, the governor of Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor, sat at the top, and on the left side below was Li Xuan, the king of Nanchang Wangjun, Sima Changyu, Sima Lu Yuanfang, and a number of other officials, and Yang Shan, the new Guoyi Governor of Xinlin Mansion, sat on the right.

Yang Shan was born in the Hongnong Yang clan and was responsible for the commander training Yangzhou to recruit 6,000 new soldiers.

After Yang Shan, Deng Liang, the son of Deng Jiuguang, the governor of Dengzhou, and Tan Lun, the captain of the Yangzhou Navy Division, were the sons of the army.

Further back are the envoys of the Wa State, Daojin, and the Silla envoys, who ask for guilt, and the envoy Chin Blunt.

These two are not strangers to each other, and they had a relationship when Li Xuan first arrived in Yangzhou earlier.

It was only later that one person went west to Chang'an, and the other person went south to Hangzhou, so they were separated from each other.

Now the two are reunited, but they don't know each other.

The eyes of the two people fell on Li Xuan from time to time, with a hint of anxiety in their expressions, and they wanted to step forward, but in the end, they were helpless.

The two of them sat at the back of the whole banquet, both of them were exquisite, and they naturally knew that such an arrangement was that Datang didn't want to take care of the two of them too much.

Li Xuan couldn't care about these two now, because at this time, someone was pestering him.

"Lord Wang, you have to give an explanation to the lower officials about this Eastern Crusade, otherwise the lower officials will really have no face to go back." The person who said this was Yangzhou Hucao Shen Zhuang who joined the army, he grabbed Li Xuan's sleeve with one hand, with a trace of dissatisfaction on his face, but he was helpless.

This time, the army came to the aid of Anton, and the Shen family sent a caravan to the east.

Originally, it was expected that the army could enter the hinterland of Silla, and the Shen family took the opportunity to reap the benefits, but they never thought that the army would just stick to the city of Maixiao, although they fought three battles and won three victories, but in the end they withdrew the army from Anton, and the Shen family caravan had to hurry west after a little looting.

"Shen joined the army, it was the king you came to find that day, and this king also said that the matter of military warfare has never been victorious, and you yourself had to forcibly send a caravan to follow the army eastward." Li Xuan glanced at Shen Zhuang coldly, he didn't say anything positive that day.

"But, but ......" Shen Zhuang didn't know what to say for a while, the Shen family paid such a big price and finally gained little, how could it be satisfied.

Li Xuan glanced at Shen Zhuang with slanted eyes, and then said softly: "Besides, who said that the Shen family lost money on this eastward trip?" ”

"Huh?" Shen Zhuang raised his head and looked at Li Xuan with a surprised face.

"Brother Shen doesn't think that after Silla pleads guilty, the two countries can reconcile each other and not attack each other, right?" Li Xuan's words stunned Shen Zhuang.

His face was full of puzzlement, and he said: "Isn't that so, my center of gravity has turned to the Western Regions, and I am unable to crusade eastward, Silla sincerely pleads guilty this time, and after that, the normal business and trade exchanges between the two countries ......"

"Brother Shen is afraid that he has mistaken Silla." Li Xuan raised the wine glass on the table, took a sip lightly, and then continued: "Now that it is winter, there will be no more caravans in the Tang Dynasty to Silla, and in the next year, when our dynasty will start a war with Tibet, Silla will be restless, and at that time, its people will definitely go north to attack Pyongyang, and at that time, the trade route between the Tang Dynasty and Silla will be completely cut off." ”

Shen Zhuang suddenly came to his senses.

Li Xuan nodded slightly and said: "I'm afraid that in the next year, the trade route between Silla and Datang will not be opened again, and before that, the Shen family, who went to Silla for the last time, only needs to increase the selling price of the goods, then all the previous efforts can be recovered."

What's more, the Shen family still has its own secret channels in Silla, which only needs to be ......"

"Understood." Shen Zhuang directly interrupted Li Xuan's words, and there were some things that didn't need to be said too clearly.

"Brother Shen, please!" Li Xuan raised the wine glass on the table and gently touched it with Shen Zhuang.

After drinking the wine, Shen Zhuang looked at Li Xuan and asked in a low voice: "Lord Wang, the lower officials have heard that there is a caravan in Peng Wangfu that runs to the Western Regions all year round?" ”

"Hmm!" Li Xuan did not deny it, and nodded directly.

As he appeared more and more in the eyes of the Southeast family, the bottom of the Nanchang Royal Mansion was quickly touched.

Of course, this is only the superficial thing, and what is hidden deep in the invisible place of people is not known to outsiders.

"I wonder if the Shen family can cooperate with the prince?" Shen Zhuang whispered the true purpose of this trip.

Li Xuan looked at Shen Zhuang with some puzzlement: "Brother Shen, the Shen family should also have their own caravan in the Western Regions, why did they come to find this king?" ”

"The prince laughed, the Shen family is still a leader in Yangzhou City, but what is it in the whole world." Shen Zhuang's face was full of bitterness

Not to mention the Yangzhou Shen family, it is the entire Wuzhong Shen family, and it is just one of the sixteenth families of the entire Wu Yue.

Even the Wang Xie family, as well as the rising Wu Lu, Zhu and Zhang families, are not conspicuous at all in the entire Chang'an.

At this point, from the queens of previous dynasties, as well as the princes and princes, few married the women of the Wu Yue family as concubines.

Li Zhi's original partner was the Taiyuan Wang family, and although the Empress Wu was a talented person on the throne, his father was also an old minister of Taiyuan who started from Gaozu.

Later, even Li Hong and Li Xian married women from the Central Plains family, where was the turn to get the Jiangnan family.

Among the Jiangnan family, even if there are occasional Yu Shinan Chu Suiliang, who have reached the peak of the court, but after falling from the court, the prestige of the family fell rapidly.

Li Xuan had already figured out these in a blink of an eye, and then he said softly: "Brother Shen, the caravan of King Peng's Mansion is not the Wang family, and there are many other families involved in it, it is far from being something that Xuan alone can say, the complexity is far beyond your imagination, and even so, there are ......."

When Li Xuan said this, his words came to a complete pause, and his cautious posture made Shen Zhuang feel stunned.

This caravan of theirs has fallen into the eyes of the palace, if it weren't for the fact that although the benefits of the entire caravan are higher, they are still within the scope of joint efforts, otherwise, they would have been swallowed by people in every possible way.

As far as Li Xuan knew, there were already many people in the Imperial Palace who had asked Wei Chi Xunyu about the caravan.

Wei Chi Xunyu, that big fool, in the womb, everything he knows and everything he can say has been said.

Now that the Imperial Palace, I don't know how many family talents have invested in it, and as soon as Wei Chi Xunyu's words came out, it was almost equivalent to the entire Imperial Palace knowing the news.

After a little bit of thoughts, Li Xuan continued: "Next year, the Tang Dynasty and Tubo will go to war, after all, it will affect the trade routes of the Western Regions, and this king has ordered the caravan to shrink in size, and tomorrow's income will definitely be much lower than expected, and it is even better to take an extra trip to Silla." ”

Li Xuan suddenly looked at Shen Zhuang with blazing eyes, and said softly: "Brother Shen, if you and I cooperate, how about taking the trade route between Silla and the Japanese Kingdom?" ”

Shen Zhuang was stunned, he was originally coveting Li Xuan's Western Regions Trade Route, but how could he be targeted by others on his family's Silla Trade Road.

Li Xuan raised his wine glass and said softly: "Brother Shen might as well think about it, this king led the Tang Dynasty and Silla to negotiate the covenant......

Li Xuan's sentence stopped at the point, with Shen Zhuang's cleverness, how could he not see through Li Xuan's true meaning.

This kind of dominating allies and dominating standards, as long as the slightest hint is revealed between the fingers, it is immediately a sea of gold and silver.

Before I knew it, the dinner party was coming to an end, and by the time Silla invited the envoys and the envoys of the Japanese Kingdom finally stood up, Li Xuan was nowhere to be seen.

At this time, a Qianniu guard came over and handed a short note to the envoy of the Wa State, Monk Daozhen.

Monk Daozhen looked down, and his face was suddenly full of joy.

Raising his head, Daozhen glanced at Qin Yujiaogan, who was looking here, snorted coldly, and turned around to return to his other courtyard.

Qin Dull Jiaogan looked behind Dao Zhen, his eyes full of murderous intent.

……

Under the night, Li Xuan walked calmly on the stone path, but he was thinking about the Shen family in his heart.

The Shen family wanted to intervene in the caravan of Peng Wangfu, but Li Xuan didn't mind, after all, the foundation of that caravan had already been taken away, and it didn't matter if the Shen family joined in.

However, after knowing that there were not many benefits in it, Shen Zhuang was no longer very interested, but he was interested in the matter of the Silla Kingdom proposed by Li Xuan.

However, compared to intervening in the Shen family's southeast trade route, Li Xuan hopes to attract more Yangzhou families to join in order to plan for the future.

Yangzhou four, Shen family, Lu family, Meng family and Xu family.

The Xu family is the same clan as Xu Jingzong and has a close relationship with Empress Wu.

The descendant of Meng Jiayasheng, a family of poetry and books, although he does not agree with the statement that Empress Wu is called the emperor, but if he wants to make him rebel, it may not be big, and even if the Meng family does it, how much power can it have.

The key is still in the Lu family and the Shen family.

One of the top families in the south of the Lu family, the Empress Wu is in the dynasty, and it will not hinder the Lu family too much.

Even if the rebellion is successful, it is difficult for them to gain much, so there are only two companies that will really help Li Jingye in the future.

Yangzhou Li and Yangzhou Shen.

Yangzhou Shen's, Wuzhong Shen's, Wuzhou Shen's.

Li Xuan has not forgotten that the queen of Nanchen is surnamed Shen, and there are many operational places in this.

Li Xuan shook his head, he was a little wrong, the Shen family is also a Jiangnan family, the way of the family, how can it be easy to raise troops, so it is very likely to be the Shen family in Yangzhou.

Shen's Yangzhou is rich, and in the future, he will either take refuge in Li Jingye, or he will be raided by Li Jingye and seize all the family property.

Thinking of this, Li Xuan thought about it a little clearly, no matter what, he couldn't let go of the Shen family's thread.

……

In the evening, outside the city of Yangzhou, an official ship came slowly.

Gao Ping stood at the bow of the ship and watched the big ship sail into the Yangzhou wharf, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

Along the way, there were always strange sounds on both sides of the canal from time to time, which made the two of them uneasy for a while.

In the end, the two of them could only be one person inside, one person outside, and they took turns guarding each other, and now they have arrived in Yangzhou safely.

The curtain was raised, Gao Ping entered the cabin, holding the knife coldly, leaning on the chair, and more than a dozen criminal officers behind him were fast, staring at each other with blazing eyes.

In the two deepest cabins, there was a faint sound of rustling.

In both cabins, there are people.

Gao Ping walked to the deepest part and glanced through the crack in the curtain, and in one of the rooms, the one who was locked in the shackles was Wei Wenxu of Xiaoshan County; In the other room, lying on the bed at random, it was Xue Zhongzhang, who was in the army of Hangzhou Facao.

Xue Zhongzhang had originally been left in Hangzhou, but just after Gao Ping and the others set off, an order suddenly came from the Criminal Department, ordering the two of them to take Xue Zhongzhang back to the east.

The two had no choice but to receive the order, but what made them relax a little was that the king of Nanchang had already left Hangzhou first, and there was no need to worry about being known by the king of Nanchang after that.

In the corner of the dock outside the ship, a gaze stared at the cabin.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the distance, and it seemed that the sound of the wind could be faintly heard.

"The Divine Decree has arrived!"

(End of chapter)