A moment later, after Wang De's reminder that it was cold outside, Li Shimin returned to the Lizheng Hall with his two sons.

Li Shimin was happy, since the concubines were all there, Li Shimin asked people to hold a banquet in the Lizheng Palace, and everyone present came.

Li Shen and Li Chengqian accompanied Li Shimin to drink fruit wine, and some concubines at the banquet danced to the music of the court musicians in order to show themselves, with Li Shimin's permission.

But to be honest, Li Chengqian and Li Shen didn't dare to look at it at a glance, these are all concubines with titles,

Do you know which one has been favored by Li Shimin, the brothers can only bow their heads and drink, or chat with Li Shimin.

And the queen was at the table of the fourth concubine, pulling Wei Guifei to talk, like a sister.

Empress Eldest Sun knows Li Shimin too well, so happy must be that Li Shen is worried about Li Shimin, or has some idea.

And she also saw Li Chengqian's happy face when he knelt on one knee, this matter must be related to Li Chengqian.

Taken together, it is not difficult to guess that Li Shen came up with an idea, which helped Li Chengqian and made Li Shimin happy.

The other three concubines also flattered Wei Guifei, especially Concubine Yin, her son was saved by Li Shen, and she was not implicated, although her younger brother died, but this already made her very grateful to Li Shen.

Because tomorrow was Yuanzheng, the banquet did not last long, and Li Shen followed Wei Guifei to the Daji Hall to sit for a while.

Wei Guifei is very satisfied with the current situation, and also understands why Li Shen does not fight for the crown.

Li Shen reported the matter of receiving Wu Mei, and after reassuring his mother, he said that he also got up and went back to the house to prepare for Yuanzheng.

---- points and points-----

Tomorrow is going to pass Yuanzheng, Cui Renzhi's house should have a jubilant atmosphere, but it is very depressing in the study,

The representatives of the five surnames, seven wangguan, and eight families have arrived except for the two Li families.

"Bang" Lu Chengqing slapped the table heavily as a representative,

"It must have been done by King Ji Li Shen, otherwise no one would intercept us."

It turned out that their three consecutive batches of smuggled goods had disappeared inexplicably, and only some corpses were found, because they could not find a single clue because the wind and snow buried them quickly.

The first time it was only 5,000 stones, but then 30,000 stones were sent in a row, and 300,000 buckets of grain were gone.

If it weren't for the fact that the first team that was supposed to come back didn't come back, they would have continued to send it.

Then they sent someone to investigate, only to find the body buried under the snow, and then they learned that their people had been attacked.

"Have the injured people been saved?" The Xiao family asked.

"Only four were saved, and the others were not saved because they were in such a cold place for a long time, plus they were injured." Choi replied

This time they found about 20 seriously injured and faked death and were brought back for treatment.

"Oh? And alive? "A few people who didn't know were a little surprised.

"There are a few who are alive, not all of them were attacked during the day, and one group was at night, so it may be that the other party didn't see it clearly, so they didn't find it, but it wasn't much better, only four were barely rescued, and the others were all dead." Cui Renzhi was a little regretful.

"And who do they say did it?" Someone then asked, "Isn't there a message if there is a living mouth?"

"Only one person woke up, because it was night, he only saw that the other party was wearing leather clothes, and he was wearing a hat, which was very tightly wrapped, and it looked a little like a hufu in appearance, but it was definitely not our Central Plains clothing." Cui Renzhi said it simply.

"Hufu? Isn't it Ji Wangfu, I heard that there are also many sand bandits in the desert area, and they will also go to the grassland to loot things as their supplies. "Zheng Jingsi, as the secretary of the Chinese book, knows more news than them.

The crowd was silent as they wondered who it was.

"I felt that this matter was related to Ji Wangfu, and the spies reported that there were no clues, and they even pulled out the arrow feathers and did not leave them, just for fear of revealing their identities." Cui Renzhi hated Li Shen to the core, and he always felt that Li Shen did everything.

"Since this is the case, then send someone to the military camp in Dongshan to see the number of people, and then we will know if it is time." Zheng Jingsi suggested.

"Consent"

"Consent"

"In that case, then we will each send spies to investigate, but as you all know, we have also sent spies before, but they have either returned in vain or have not been heard from again." Cui Renzhi said that he didn't want to send them to death from the Cui family.

"Then give it a try, too"

"Okay, then prepare as soon as possible."

"Good"

"Good"

"Good"

After agreeing, the families left the Cui Mansion one after another, and Cui Renzhi couldn't help but sneer when he saw that everyone had left,

"Hmph, he also sent people to die, which was done by him Ji Wangfu." He decided that it must have been done by Ji Wangfu, so he wouldn't send someone to die.

The next day, the whole Chang'an was very lively, according to the custom, Li Shimin feasted the ministers at noon, and then took a holiday to rest in the afternoon.

Li Shen didn't go to the palace in King Ji's mansion, this kind of banquet with strong formalism, Li Shen was unwilling to participate,

The food and drink in the house are all going to mix with their old hooligans.

At this moment, Li Shen is taking his little daughter-in-law Lu Dingniang to send money to the people in the house, this time he didn't say it with his mouth,

Instead, he actually paid the money by himself, and that feeling made Lu Dingniang's heart drip blood. But Li Shen was very relieved.

The yard is full of money, and the people come to receive it one by one, according to what Li Shen said to Lu Dingniang, the old man has five times each, and the new person has three times.

The newcomers are the maidservants and eunuchs recruited from the palace after Lu Dingniang passed the door, there are seventy or eighty people, which Li Shen prepared for the expansion of the palace in the future.

As for the stewards, they are all twenty and the stewards are hundred. In fact, it is equivalent to a year's salary.

It's just not the usual reward. And it's not just money, it's rice, flour, meat, and so on.

"Lord Wang, Fuzhou has come back from transporting rice seeds." Wang Xuance came over to report.

"It's good to come back, let them transport it to the big warehouse behind the Imperial Village. Then let them go home and live in Yuanzheng,

Tell them that after Yuan Zheng, the king will personally summon them, and this king will be rewarded for his words. ”

Li Shen is very happy, and it is a joy to hear good news on the occasion of the Spring Festival.

A stone has finally landed, and it will be promoted next year, which will play a key role in Li Shen's next deal with the family.

If the growth of grain production is not affected by the Maison, then Li Shen's next step is to block the important industries of the Maison.

That is, salt and iron.

(In the past few days, the author has searched for information and flipped through Tongjian and old and new Tang books, and found a thing, from the end of the Sui Dynasty to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty,

Just like the plot in the novel, everyone was attracted by Li Tang's overlord spirit and surrendered one after another, even if they raised troops at the beginning.

There is also the fact that these civil and military generals have no integrity at all, and if they fail, or are captured, they surrender immediately and are greatly used.

For example, the Thirteen Taibao are all like this, and many of them have defected several times. In the end, it fell on Li Tang's side.

I don't know if history omitted some persuasion or stratagem in order to show the destiny of heaven, or if it was really open, with the halo of the protagonist. ）