Chapter 137 Surprise
"Thank you, my son will definitely not let my father down!" Li Yan said with a bow.
Li Shimin nodded slightly, "It has been nearly a month since my father left Chang'an, so it will no longer take more time in Yizhou. I will set off for Chang'an tomorrow. You can go back!"
"Yes, Father!" Li Yan responded and slowly retreated.
After Li Yan left, Li Shimin said to Changsun Wuji and the other two: "You all retreat too!"
"yes!"
After everyone in the main hall left, a man dressed in a common man walked in through the side door. When Li Shimin saw him, he asked, "Is there any news?"
"When you go back to your Majesty, I have visited many people in Yizhou, but they have never seen the merchants of Luo Anguo. It is a fact that the Sixth Prince has obtained a lot of novel goods. Many people in Yizhou City have seen it."
"I didn't expect that Luo Anguo really had such ability to avoid the sight of so many people. I understand. Let the inner guards come back and go back to Chang'an tomorrow." Li Shimin said with his hands behind his back.
"Don't your Majesty continue to send someone to stare?"
"No need, compared to Li Yan, I am more worried about forming cliques and making friends with a few unworthy sons of powerful ministers. At least Li Yan has no support behind him." Li Shimin naturally pointed out that Li Yan did not have too much involvement with the figures in the army, which was the most taboo thing for emperors in ancient times.
Li Shimin's inner guards had not yet found anything useful, and Changsun Wuji's men found no useful information. They only found out that Li Yan had several magical equipment in his hand, as magical as the legendary wooden ox and flowing horse, but this made them believe in Li Yan's words.
Li Shimin was going back to Chang'an, and Li Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief. This was the same as the teacher finally passed the homework check. The mood was like a life after a disaster.
After returning to the palace, Li Yan went to the cellar again. Li Yan traveled thousands of miles to come here, so he had to bring him something back, otherwise wouldn't that mean he was too stingy?
When chatting with Li Shimin these days, Li Shimin praised the mirror. Li Yan must have given him a few, because there was also a piece in the Liang Palace in Chang'an before. If Li Ke has it, can the emperor not give it?
In addition to this, Li Yan took out a part of Cui Yingying's snacks, which really hurt Cui Yingying's flesh, but this was for the emperor after all, and she didn't dare to say anything.
These are all small items, and Li Yan asked the papermaking workshop to transport 5,000 hard yellow sheets. This thing is very expensive on the market today. Ordinary scholars cannot afford it, and even the palace is not very affordable.
After finding these things, Li Yan took some soap. Now that he has opened everything, there is no need for him to hide it. If he gives modern items, he will give them, it doesn’t matter.
After finding all these things, they were packed in wooden boxes. Li Yan led his servants to transport them to Li Shimin's palace. At this time, Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji were playing chess, while Li Tai was standing aside, but he didn't see any Lu Jin.
Li Yan came with such a lot of things, and the meaning was very obvious. Li Shimin put down the chess pieces in his hand and thought to himself that Li Yan was still filial.
Li Yan waved his hand and asked the servants to put everything in the yard, saying to Li Shimin: "The father traveled thousands of miles to Yizhou, and the sons prepared some filial piety to his father."
Li Shimin came over and said, "What are they?" The things Li Yan took must be not ordinary gold, silver and jewelry, and this is what he was interested in.
"One of this is what my father uses for bathing every night." Li Yan lifted a box and then opened another box, "This is the hard yellow paper produced in Erchen's papermaking workshop. Please check it out."
Li Shimin took it and looked it carefully, touched it with his hands, and praised: "This hard yellow is more advanced than the hard yellow paper used in the father's palace. He looked at the box again, and it was full of hard yellow paper, and he was happy in his heart, "I like Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and painting the most, and I often use this hard yellow paper to copy it. Now that I have given so much, my father has no worries about using no paper."
Li Tai and Changsun Wuji were both envious. Li Yan could not buy the things in his hands with just money, which was what made them depressed.
"It was because of this that my son-in-law prepared these hard yellow papers." Li Yan reached out and opened another box. There were four mirrors in this box. "Father, these are four full-body mirrors. While giving them to their father and mother, they asked their father to pass them to their mother's concubines. As for the last side, let them to the sisters."
Li Shimin was about to ask for it, but he didn't expect that Li Shi had already delivered it, and his smile became stronger. Changsun Wuji stretched his head for a moment of curiosity and looked at him. He was suddenly scared and took a step back, which made Li Shimin and Li Shimin laugh.
Li Shimin is learning and selling it now, "Auxiliary machine, this is called a mirror. If you look carefully, isn't you here?"
Changsun Wuji looked carefully again, and then he realized that he turned red, "The auxiliary machine just lost his etiquette, so please atone for the emperor!"
"This is nothing, I was shocked for the first time!" As he said that, he opened the fourth box and asked, "What are the things here."
Li Yan picked up a bag of raisins and said, "The father has to return to Chang'an for another ten years. These are all foods for the father to enjoy the road."
"I'm worried." Li Shimin looked at it and found that there were more than a dozen things inside, but most of them were not known to him. Li Shimin took them out and introduced them, and asked Li Shimin to try it. Li Shimin immediately praised it.
"There are some gifts for Mr. Changsun, Doctor Lu and Fourth Brother. I wonder why Doctor Lu is not here?" Li Yan opened another box. This article still needs to be made on the surface. Of course, the things in it are not worth much, just some authentic Yizhou specialties, silk cloth, tea making, etc.
Changsun Wuji said: "Doctor Lu occasionally felt a cold and was resting in the bedroom."
Just as Li Yan was about to speak, Jin Daqian hurriedly walked in and looked anxious. When Li Yan saw it, he immediately said, "Father, my son still has something to do, so I will take it back first."
Li Shimin was still immersed in novelty, and said nothing, nodding.
Lee Ye and Kim Daqian left the palace, and Kim Daqian immediately said, "Your Highness, something happened!"
Jin Daqian was sweating profusely, and Li Yan's heart suddenly sank, "I escaped from Taoyuan today. After the guard guard found out, he chased him all the way. Unexpectedly, the servant fled to a small woods and tried to associate with a group of people. The guard guard felt something was wrong, so he shot and killed the slave and captured the group of people in the woods. Who would have thought that one of them claimed to be Lu Jin, the Guanglu doctor."
"What!" Li Yan was shocked. The old boy was pretending to be sick, but ran to do such a thing. "Did that slave tell me if the location of Taoyuan?"
Jin Daqian shook his head and said, "No, Your Highness, they were shot and killed by the guards when they were still more than ten meters apart!"
Li Yan's face was gloomy. He really didn't expect that this move was buried so deeply that he had actually been put into a detailed work among his servants. Lu Jin really had good intentions.
"Your Highness, what should I do?"
The location of Taoyuan was not leaked, but Lu Jin was an official in the Southern Tour and could not move. He said, "It's impossible to kill, you are like this..."
After hearing this, Jin Daqian laughed and said, "Your Highness, don't worry."
At this time, in a small woods about ten miles south of Yizhou, more than a dozen knives guarding the courtyard surrounded five people in the middle. On the side, a middle-aged man dressed in slaves lay on the ground, and an arrow pierced his heart and died, and blood soaked the land red.
The smell of blood filled the forest. The small forest was big or small. The group was in the middle of the woods. The light was as dim as a ghost realm. Apart from the chirping of some insects, there was only a heavy breathing sound.
The fifteen guards were all from the palace of Li Yan. They were the veterans who followed Li Yan to Yizhou. They all experienced many battles and were also a killer on the battlefield. After arriving in Yizhou, Li Yan also took their family to Yizhou and distributed land to their families. When they worked in the palace, Li Yan also gave them a high monthly salary of one month, which was incomparable to them when they were in the palace. Therefore, they were loyal to Li Yan.
These days, they were ordered to supervise Taoyuan. Unexpectedly, a slave took the opportunity to escape, so they followed them quietly. Who would have thought that after the grove, the slave began to learn to sing birds. They all came down from the battlefield and were naturally familiar with things like codes. Sure enough, after a while, five people walked in from the other end of the grove, and immediately the guard captain Wu Wei ordered the slave to be shot and killed.
"I am the imperial court official. If you kill me, even your King of Shu will not be able to protect you!" Lu Jin stood in the middle, and a certain position below his waist was wet. After fifteen vicious guards surrounded them, Lu Jin was immediately scared to pee his pants, because after killing the slaves, the fifteen guards then meant to kill five people.
Although the four people following Lu Jin were not as unbearable as Lu Jin, they all had pale faces. They were all private soldiers recruited by Lu family. They followed Lu Jin to Yizhou. Although they were brave and fierce on weekdays, they immediately realized their true colors when facing real swords and guns. The scene of the slave being penetrated by a arrow, completely destroying their will.
"I am Chaoming's destiny..." Lu Jin now repeats this sentence every few minutes.
Wu Wei was quite impatient, and no one except Li Yan said, "Shut up!"
Lu Jin shivered immediately and swallowed the remaining half of the sentence back.
After a while, a man dressed in a wardrobe came over and said a few words in Wuwei's ear, "The bold untouchables dare to pretend to be the Guanglu doctor of the Dynasty. Doctor Lu Jin was obviously resting in the yard with a cold wind. People come and call me, see if he tells the truth."
"Yes!" The guards obeyed the orders and began to get ready to play, and finally there was a traitor.
Lu Jin's face suddenly turned like a mortal face. Even Changsun Wuji didn't know about this. They all thought he was really resting in the room. "Dear heroes, I am really Lu Jin. I don't believe that all heroes can take me to the King of Shu."
"Bah, can you meet the King of Shu just by meeting him? Start fighting!" A guard said a turtle punch and hit Lu Jin in the face.
"Ah!" With a scream, Lu Jin immediately fell down and ate shit, and the guards immediately rushed over, punched and kicked...
Li Yan told Jin Daqian and went back to the palace. Li Tai asked, "What happened to Liulang?"
"It's nothing. When the royal family caught the escaped slaves, they found several people who wanted to hide them, so they caught them together. But the man said he was Doctor Lu Jin, so the housekeeper informed me!" Li Yan looked indifferent.
"Haha, so that's it. He dares to pretend to be an official in the court. Liulang should be severely punished." Li Tai said, and continue to watch Changsun Wuji and Li Shimin play chess.
Li Yan also stood by and watched. Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji played chess. This kind of entertainment activity was already very common during the Tang Dynasty.
Changsun Wuji and Li Shimin lost three sets in a row. Li Shimin said: "I can't go, you're deliberately losing to me when you assist me!"
"Your Majesty, you are wrongly believing in the old minister. Your Majesty is so skillful!"
As he was talking, he suddenly remembered the crying outside. Li Shimin frowned. Who is so rude and making noise outside the palace?
Li Yan said: "Father, the emperor, son, go out and have a look!"
As soon as he turned around, four servants dressed in, carrying one of them in...
Chapter completed!