The elegant room is on the edge of Jiulongtan Mountain, close to the Dragon Tooth Wall of Jiulongtan Mountain. Half of the elegant room is embedded in the stone wall, and the other half is built of wood, with paintings covering the corners.
breath.
In fact, it is indeed outstanding outside the Tanshan Library. Few people stay here and few people linger here. It is very quiet and can be entered and exited from the door on the other side of the stone wall without passing through the library.
's door.
In the elegant room, Li Gaoqian arrived early and was quietly lighting incense and cooking tea, quite like an elegant scholar.
Li Yuanji walked into the elegant room, and Li Gaoqian quickly stood up and saluted.
"Your Majesty Li Gaoqian..."
"Okay, no need to be polite, sit down and talk."
Li Yuanji interrupted Li Gaoqian before he could finish what he said, then he found a cushion in the private room and sat down on his own, gesturing to Li Gaoqian to pour tea.
Li Gaoqian crawled to the tea table and started cooking tea soup in a fancy way. Li Yuanji was dumbfounded.
It's not that I haven't seen Tea Baiyi before, but I am surprised by Li Gaoqian's series of operations.
Nowadays, anyone with a certain reputation inside and outside Chang'an City doesn't know that he doesn't like tea soup?!
Li Gaoqian used to be in Lingzhou, so it would be understandable if he didn't know his preferences, but now he has moved to Chang'an and has settled there for a long time. If he doesn't know his preferences, it would be unreasonable!
Seeing Li Gaoqian put a cup of foaming tea soup with various spices and goat's milk in front of him, Li Yuanji looked at Li Gaoqian in astonishment.
Li Gaoqian finally noticed Li Yuanji's gaze at this time. He was slightly stunned and asked tentatively: "But my tea art is not worthy of His Highness's eyes?"
Li Yuanji couldn't help but said: "Didn't anyone tell you that I don't like tea soup?"
"ah?!"
Li Gaoqian had a look of astonishment on his face, it didn't look like he was faking it, and then he said awkwardly: "This...I really don't know..."
When he came to Chang'an this time, he brought a son with him, and stayed in Zhang's village pretending to be Zhang Liang. There were many people watching around him, and he did not dare to go out at will, let alone inquire about Li Yuanji's preferences.
So he really didn't know that Li Yuanji didn't like tea soup.
"Okay, forget it if you don't know. Just grab a handful of tea leaves and make me a cup of tea."
Since Li Gaoqian really didn't know, it's not easy for Li Yuanji to care about it. After all, those who don't know are not to blame.
As for asking for tea instead of tea soup, it also tells Li Gaoqian what he likes to drink.
When Li Gaoqian heard this, he quickly made a cup of tea and brought it to Li Yuanji.
Li Yuanji took a bite and found it tasted terrible.
The tea leaves used in Pao Cha Soup and Pao Cha Water are completely two types of tea, one is roasted and the other is fermented, with completely different flavors.
In addition, the tea leaves used in the tea soup are all tea foam, so the tea leaves used in the tea soup also have a lot of foam. Not only does it taste strange, but it also leaves your mouth full of foam.
Li Yuanji spat twice and talked about business with Li Gaoqian, "I asked you to pretend to be Zhang Liang to deal with the Zheng family in Xingyang, but because other wealthy families supported the Zheng family, the success failed.
Now that this gust of wind has passed, I need you to take action again to deal with the Zheng family."
Li Gaoqian had already guessed this.
After all, if the imperial court let Zheng go despite being targeted by a wealthy family, it would be impossible for Li Yuanji to let him stay in Zhang's village and continue to pretend to be Zhang Liang.
So this must happen again and again.
It's just that he didn't expect this recurrence to happen so quickly.
It's only been a few months and it's about to start again.
He hesitated and said, "Are you a little impatient?"
When fighting against wealthy families, especially when people from wealthy families make up the majority of the court, fighting against wealthy families must be done step by step and not in a hurry.
Once you get anxious, reveal your flaws, or get caught, it will easily attract the attention of all wealthy families.
In that case, even the Li family, who has become a royal family, will not have an easy time.
So he prefers to wait before taking action.
"It's a bit urgent, but now is a good time. As long as we operate it properly, we will definitely make the Zheng family in Xingyang look good."
Li Yuanji did not deny Li Gaoqian's statement.
Now that the limelight has passed, they are continuing to target the Zheng family in Xingyang. It is easy for the Zheng family in Xingyang to guess something and counterattack.
But now is indeed a good time.
Now everyone's attention has been attracted by the war between Jieli and Sunishi. Datang made a lot of money through it. Datang's two border markets in Daizhou and Lingzhou now have no small transactions.
They are all large-scale transactions.
While Jieli cursed the Tang Dynasty for going back on its word, he secretly sent people to exchange cattle, sheep, horses and other Turkic specialties for anything useful to him in the border market.
While Sunisu was receiving military aid from the Tang Dynasty, he was also purchasing various useful goods from the border markets.
Nowadays, the royal family who have members in the border market and the wealthy families who have business in the border market are almost making money. The other royal families and wealthy families who have no members or business in the border market have red eyes. Everyone
They all rushed to Li Xiaogong's house and begged Li Xiaogong to find a way to open an opening for them.
Under such circumstances, how many people would care about Zheng's life or death?
Compared with the indirect benefits and hidden benefits that the Zheng family can bring them, the direct benefits that the border market can bring them are more attractive.
They might care whether Zheng dies or not, but they definitely don't care as much as before.
In addition, the profits of various wealthy families in water and sea transportation have also been settled. Although each of them did not make much, they still had a small surplus, and all of this was based on the large sums of money they invested in food in the early stage.
What they gain from now on will basically be profits.
The huge amount has already made some people jealous.
The aristocratic families involved in this process fiercely guarded their role in it and were on guard against outsiders coming in. Outsiders tried their best to squeeze in and get a piece of the action.
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Many wealthy families who had previously supported the Zheng family openly or covertly had a role in it, but the Zheng family had no role in it.
Under the stimulation of money, some of them will believe that the Zheng family is no longer worthy of being ranked among the top wealthy families with them.
Therefore, even if they are related to the Zheng family by marriage, even if they do not want to see the Zheng family destroyed, they will not spare no effort to support the Zheng family as before.
So now can be said to be a good opportunity for the court to deal with the Zheng family.
Once the Zheng family is allowed to pry a hole in border markets or water and sea transportation, then the Zheng family will become an ally of other top aristocratic families, and it will be difficult for the court to deal with him.
"this……"
Li Gaoqian had been hanging around Zhang's village and didn't know there were so many ways in it, so he looked hesitant.
He was afraid that this time it would be like the last time, which caused a collective backlash among wealthy families and ended in an anticlimax.
This kind of thing can be done one thing or two, not three.
If Zheng cannot be tortured to death twice, then Zheng will definitely use all the power he can to investigate this matter to the bottom. When the time comes, he will definitely be found out and bear all the anger of Zheng.
After all, even after Mrs. Zheng found out that she was being targeted, no matter how angry she was, she couldn't bare her teeth at Mr. Li, so she could only vent all her anger on him.
With his small stature and the clan behind him, he could not withstand the Zheng family's impact.
If the Zheng family invites other wealthy families to take action, then the clan behind him will probably be removed from the Tang Dynasty.
This is not what he wants.
"Just do whatever I ask you to do. Don't do this or that. Since I asked you to do it, I have a certain degree of confidence."
Li Yuanji stared at Li Gaoqian and said with a firm tone.
Li Gaoqian had no room to refuse. To be precise, he had no qualifications to refuse.
Li Gaoqian also knew this, so he struggled and said, "Can I know what your Highness is going to do?"
Li Yuanji said without hesitation: "I have bribed a son of the Zheng family who was removed from the Zheng family because he was fighting for his mother's name. He will lead fifty soldiers in the name of the Zheng family to raid Zhuangzi where you are.
At that time, my uncle's second son, Qu Tutong's nephew, and Qin Shubao's nephew will be invited by Zhang Liang's son to visit Zhuangzi.
Whether you can survive then depends on God's will."
Li Gaoqian's eyes widened in horror.
Is this because you don’t want to leave a way for Zheng to survive?!
The number of secretly hidden armor stomachs has reached fifty, which has exceeded the standard of rebellion. To assassinate Li Shentong, Qu Tutong, and Qin Shubao's nephews is to provoke everyone in the military.
Once this is done, Li Yuanji doesn't need to open his mouth, and the military officials represented by Li Shentong will take the initiative to ask Ying to pacify the Zheng family.
The most important thing is that Li Shentong, Qu Tutong and Qin Shubao's nephews did not care about life or death.
Oh, and he and his son.
If they really die, the military and the Zheng family will fight to the death.
And the military is the largest force in the Tang Dynasty. If the military decides who to fight to the death, everyone will have to give in.
This includes those in power.
Even if the Zheng family paid a huge price and enlisted a large number of people from wealthy families to support themselves, they still had to kneel down and negotiate with the military.
The military is not just a military, some people in the military also have wealthy families behind them.
Perhaps the foundation is not as deep as that of some top aristocratic families.
But people have been officials for generations and have accumulated quite a lot of foundation.
Some representative military figures are in-laws with other wealthy families, and sometimes they temporarily act as spokespersons for wealthy families.
For example, Cheng Yaojin's first wife was the daughter of Sun Lu'er, a small county magistrate in the former Sui Dynasty. According to history, after the death of his first wife, he married a woman from the Cui family of Qinghe and became the spokesperson of the Cui family of Qinghe in the court.
It laid a solid political foundation for the Qinghe Cui family, allowing many of the Qinghe Cui family to gain a firm foothold in middle-level officials.
After everything that could be shown, what should be shown, and what should not be shown in the Tang Dynasty was finished, the Cui family of Qinghe relied on this foundation to become a trend-setter in the Tang court.
From the middle Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties, there were a total of thirteen prime ministers.
It can be seen from this that the people in the military are not without background, nor are they opponents of the wealthy families. On the contrary, some of them are also among the wealthy families.
When they have a conflict with a certain wealthy family, the wealthy family related to them has only two choices, either to help them or not to help them.
As for helping other wealthy families, that's impossible.
Unless they have been kicked in the head by a donkey, it is absolutely impossible for them to do such things as bullying their own people and trying to please outsiders.
