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Chapter 11 Betting on Imperial Power(1/2)

"I said, you must listen!"

Gongsun Xiaomei used a small wooden stick to hit the tiles on the table, saying word by word: "A topaz plate is contained in the water of the river well. It sleeps during the day and comes out to play at night!"

Li Xiu sat ten feet away, looking up and down, left and right, trying to see a clue from the gap in the clay pot, but unfortunately his desk was worn out, but it was very flat and could not be seen.

Li Xiu learned a poem in kindergarten, "I don't know the moon when I was young, so I called it a white jade plate." I have long forgotten all the things in college, but I still remember the poems I learned in kindergarten.

"You won't pin the moon down, right! I guess it's a piece of paper, cut into a yellow moon."

"wrong!"

Gongsun Xiaomei proudly lifted the clay pot, and there was a bronze mirror underneath it.

"Look, isn't it just a topaz plate? River water and well water can also be used as a mirror."

"Not right!"

Li Xiu jumped up, "You should look in the mirror during the day! Don't you look in the morning?"

"I... it was still dark when I got up! It was almost evening."

"But it was already dawn when I looked in the mirror. What do you say?"

"This is my mirror, of course I did it according to my request!"

Li Xiu was speechless.....

Zhao Hu's laughter came from next door, and the laughter was still so obscene.

"There are radishes under me. You guess where you go. Get it for five cents!"

………….

Shopping is the ancestor of riddles, and it was found in the Han Dynasty.

Use a basin to buckle the answer to the riddle, and use a sentence or an action to hint.

The answer to the riddle may be an object, a poem, a person's name, and a word.

Shooting was very popular in the Tang Dynasty and there were many masters.

Everyone in the palace was full of expectations for this shooting match.

The palace maids and eunuchs are looking forward to generous rewards.

The royal prince is looking forward to being favored and commended by the emperor.

Especially this year, using a title quota as a reward has made all the children of the royal family feel excited.

Li Xiu was also a master of guessing in his previous life, and he was also full of expectations for this shooting game.

As soon as dawn was dawn, Gongsun Xiaomei's voice came from the yard, "Brother Xiu, someone is looking for him outside the door!"

"Who?" Li Xiu asked with his head protruding.

"Thirty-Balang, it's me!"

Li Xiu finished drinking the porridge in two mouthfuls, put on his muddy hat, and quickly walked out of the room.

The person at the door was named Li Yuchun, who was also a clan of the royal family and was classmates with Li Xiu in Chongwenguan.

After Li Xiu was demoted, there were very few people who did not take any harm to others, and Li Yuchun was one of them.

When Li Xiu first met him, he thought that Brother Chun had traveled through time, with similar names and similar appearances.

“There is great news!”

Li Yuchun pulled Li Xiu aside and said mysteriously: "I just got the news that General Manager Gao is going to fight with General Manager Niu!"

"What are the two eunuchs to bet on?"

Li Xiu asked casually, but his ears were erected in an antenna shape.

"You don't understand yet?"

Li Xiu's indifferent attitude made Li Yuchun scratch his head in a hurry.

"You can't even understand such an obvious thing? This shooting game is a game!"

"You mean...the shooting game is just an excuse?"

"That's right, we're just a small bet, the real big bet is the emperor and the regent."

"Is your father said it?"

Li Yuchun's father was Li Huang, the Shaoqing of Zongzheng Temple, and was named Prince Shouchun.

Li Yuchun nodded, "Last night, my father told me that the cause of this shooting and betting battle was that the Imperial Physician Bureau changed hands. The emperor wanted to continue his efforts. The regent wanted to win a game back, so the two sides agreed on the shooting and betting battle."

"What are the emperor betting on the regent?"

Speaking of which, the emperor is Li Xiu's father, but Li Xiu doesn't have much affection for this father.

This father was very unreasonable in history. He killed three sons and stole his daughter-in-law.

In his ex, he could not feel the father-son family affection.

Even if he is dissatisfied, Li Xiu has to stand on his father's side. If his father collapses, it will be a luxury to go to the South Courtyard.

Li Yuchun smiled bitterly and said, "My father didn't tell me, he only knew that they were not betting on the gamble, but represented by Gao Lishi and Niu Xianke."

‘Gong Quan Dou!’ A word flashed through Li Xiu’s mind.

He vaguely guessed the bets of the two people in power.

It must be related to the Eight Sessions of the Imperial Palace.

Li Xiu suddenly remembered what Li Cui said and asked again: "I heard that the title has been settled, is it true?"

Li Yuchun shook her head, "My father hasn't told me, and my father hopes that I can win this title."

A glimmer of hope ignited in Li Xiu's heart.

………….

Li Chengqi is very fat and weighs 200 kilograms.

With a pair of thin little eyes, you can't tell whether he is asleep or open his eyes.

A pair of fat and wide hands always hold a chicken leg or a wine glass.

Food is his favorite.

He always smiles all year round, and his servants have never seen him lose his temper.

Just such a person who seems harmless, controls most of the Tang Dynasty.

He has too much flesh on his face, and his appearance looks very happy, but it does not mean that he is kind and ruthless.

He is wide and fat, and seems honest, but it does not mean that he is not scheming.

He helped his father launch the door-striking change.

Both sides wanted to have the power alone, but they could not defeat each other, so the father and son reached an agreement.

His father was the regent, and he succeeded as the regent and then returned the power of the court to his third brother Li Longji.

After being the Regent for five years and having tasted the deliciousness of power, Li Chengqi no longer wants to abide by the original agreement.

He has a son and a grandson. Shouldn’t he inherit the throne of regent from generation to generation?

"Can Gao Lishi get rid of it?" Li Chengqi didn't eat, which meant that he was very angry.

Niu Xiantong said tremblingly: "I thought there were weapons hidden in his mansion, so the slave arranged for Long Yang to search, but the result was disappointing."

"Lin Yang, Long Yang, disappointed me even more!"

"Master, I'm afraid I won't be able to get rid of Gao Lishi for a while."

"Then change the target, I want money, I have to master the inner warehouse!"

Li Chengqi's demands have always been simple and straightforward, but they have grasped the key points.

"Your Majesty, if you want the other party to take out the Inner Treasury Bureau, we must also bet on enough chips, either the Inner Treasury Bureau or the Inner Treasury Bureau, otherwise the other party will not agree."

"Get the yeting bureau!"

Niu Xiantong was stunned. How could the other party in the Yeting Bureau agree?

He looked at Li Chengqi's little eyes that were shining with bright light and did not dare to ask any further.

"Use the Inner Security Bureau to bet the second game!" Li Chengqi said calmly.

………………

Just as Li Chengqi and Niu Xiantong determined the strategy, Gao Lishi was also discussing countermeasures with Emperor Li Longji in the Linde Hall of the Ming Palace.

"Your Majesty, as expected by me, the other party asked us to take out the Inner Treasury Bureau." Gao Lishi said carefully.

Li Longji is just fifty years old and is middle-aged, but he is well maintained, with fine skin and tender flesh, and there is not a single white hair on his head.

The fall of power in the court could not stop his love for life.

Li Longji had many concubines, and his son alone gave birth to nearly forty people, and a large number of daughters.
To be continued...
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