"There are fusu in the mountains and lotus flowers in the sky. If you don't see Zidu, you will see madness."
Li Shimin, who had left in a rage, entered the back hall, and his livid face immediately relaxed. He changed from an angry look to a triumphant look, and even hummed a poem.
"Erlang, why are you so happy?" The eldest grandson walked out of the screen in the back hall with a baby in his arms. Seeing Li Shimin's appearance, he couldn't help but ask with a smile.
"Oh? Maid Guanyin is here? Come, let me see the pheasant slave!"
When Li Shimin saw that he was his eldest grandson, he laughed, walked a few steps, stretched out his hand to tease the infant Li Zhi a few times, but did not say why he was happy.
The eldest grandson is an extremely smart woman who knows how to measure herself!
So although she was curious in her heart, she couldn't bear to ask when her husband didn't say anything. Instead, she changed the subject and said, "By the way, today's Yuan Day Ceremony, Erlang is not presiding at the front, so why do you have time to come back to the back?"
At this time, Li Shimin was stretching out his fingers, leading the infant child's eyes to turn around. Hearing what his eldest grandson said, he couldn't help but shrugged and said, "The ceremony is over now, what am I still doing up front?"
"Huh? Why did they disperse so quickly? Your Majesty won't give the officials a banquet?" Changsun said in surprise when he heard this.
Li Shimin chuckled, but there seemed to be a hint of coldness in this smile:
"Haha, I think this year's ceremony is missing some people. Without them, it wouldn't be very interesting! Why don't we just let it go this year and wait until next year when there are more people and hold another lively ceremony!"
What Li Shimin meant by this was actually saying: There have been too few envoys from the surrounding small countries this year!
Envoys with a little strength, such as Goryeo and Baekje, did not send anyone.
Moreover, even the envoys sent by countries such as Tubo and Gaochang were just like the Turks, with ulterior motives and were prepared to watch their own troubles.
In this case, he might as well use this ceremony as a big show, show it to those people, and satisfy their arrogant hearts!
As for the future, there will always be a day when the capital will be returned with interest! At that time, wouldn’t it be better for him to watch the foreigners flattering and dancing in front of him at the Yuanri ceremony?
Li Shimin is not a generous person, never has been!
Those tolerance and understanding of others are like an actor working hard in his performance.
Or to be more precise, he is a hunter who hides in the dark, knows how to be patient, and knows how to measure!
In front of a powerful prey, he can remain silent, or he can take a few steps back and watch coldly as the prey jumps about in front of him.
Until the time is right, he will release the tight bowstring in his hand, kill the prey with one blow, and finally drag the prey back to enjoy it slowly.
But now, the Turks are his prey. He wants to make the Turks surrender, shock the barbarians, and make the whole world tremble under the majesty of the Tang Dynasty!
But these things are just Li Shimin's current ideas! He is unwilling to tell others about it before it is completed.
The eldest grandson knows her husband very well. If she were to see the scene of today's Yuan Day Ceremony, she might be able to guess something.
However, due to the drag of the pheasant slave, she did not attend the ceremony and did not know what happened at the ceremony. She only heard her husband mention that there was a shortage of people this year, so she naturally thought about it.
Gently shaking the baby in his arms, the eldest grandson frowned slightly and said: "Erlang is still thinking about Xiao Han? Isn't he fine now? Cheng Zhijie came back a few days ago and said he saw him jumping around in Yangzhou! I want to use it.
It won't be long before he returns to Chang'an."
"Xiao Han?" Li Shimin raised his head and glanced at his eldest grandson, knowing that she was wrong, but he did not correct him, but said along the way: "Hehe, he, I'm not worried about him, this guy likes to run around all day long.
, I dislike staying in Chang’an the most!
I remember that I wrote to him a few years ago, asking him to return to Chang'an for the New Year, and to bring Princess Lantian back to us for a look. However, this guy refused to leave in Yangzhou because he had an arrow in his butt and was unable to ride a horse or carriage.
Anyway, since he likes it there, let him stay a little longer, and leave the matter of raising food in Chang'an to him!"
"Raising food?" Changsun was shocked when he heard these four words, and said in a voiceless voice: "Chang'an is not short of food, why should we raise food from Yangzhou? Could it be that the world has been at peace for a few years, and now war is about to start again?
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"Yes, peace has been going on for a long time, and it's time to settle things!" Li Shimin nodded gently, his voice low.
After this new year, it will be time for revenge that Xiao Han set with him!
Three-year agreement!
The White Horse Alliance on the banks of the Weishui River was a humiliation that Li Shimin would never forget in his life!
The Turkic thieves want to kill my people, occupy my land, and steal my treasures! They want me to respectfully go out of the city to sign a treaty with them and send them a large amount of property before they are willing to retreat!
This humiliation can only be washed away with the blood and heads of Turks, there is no other way!
Thinking of this, Li Shimin's body slowly straightened up, like a peerless magic weapon unsheathed. The point of the sword was exactly to the northwest where the Turks were!
"Jie Li, I'm ready! Even the sky is helping me this time! How can you not be defeated?!"
"Wow wow wow..."
Perhaps sensing the strong murderous intent emanating from his father, the infant Li Zhi suddenly started crying without any warning. The eldest grandson was startled and hurriedly lowered his head to coax the younger son.
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Yangzhou, Xiao Mansion.
The eldest princess of the Xiao family was also crying at this time, but unlike Li Zhi, she started crying because she was angry and hungry because she didn't have enough breakfast today...
"Oh, baby, if you don't cry, I will make egg custard for you later, oh~"
Xue Pan rolled his eyes at Xiao Han beside him, hugged the child tightly, and told Xiao Ai outside the room to quickly ask the kitchen to prepare a bowl of egg custard for the baby to avoid starving the little one.
"Ahem, the child is about to grow teeth. He can't just drink milk. He should eat other supplements to supplement his nutrition..."
Xiao Han scratched his head and defended angrily, but his voice became quieter and quieter. In the end, under Xue Pan's shy and angry eyes, he put on his clothes and ran away.
Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, which is also the first day of the Lunar New Year.
In the past, when he lived in Chang'an, before dawn, he had to run to the palace to attend the Naoshizi Yuan Day Ceremony like a dog chasing him!
This year, he was in Yangzhou and could finally have some leisure time!
If my daughter hadn't gotten up early, I would have slept all night to make up for the loss of getting up early in the previous two years.
"Hey, I know who wakes up first from the big dream!"
"Crackling..."
Walking out of the backyard, Xiao Han had just stretched his waist when a burst of crackling firecrackers almost scared him away.
"Who! What bastard made firecrackers! You want to scare me to death!"
Holding his old waist, Xiao Han angrily rushed toward the side yard where the sound came from.
