A role like a loyal minister, which is extremely difficult to play, is naturally not suitable for Xiao Han.
After all, those who can be called loyal ministers must be selfless, face difficulties, and even die generously.
With Xiao Han's temperament of not forgetting food but not beating, the first rule of selflessness is a bit difficult to handle.
Rule 2: Face difficulties and retreat? He can still do it.
As for the third and most important thing, die generously?
Xiao Han could only watch others die generously!
Let him die on his own? Come on, how stupid would that be?!
There were only him and Xiao Lizi in the room now.
So even if he was exposed on the spot, Xiao Han only blushed slightly and returned to normal with a smile.
Seeing this extremely thick-skinned face, Li Shimin also burst into laughter.
"Gugu..."
There was a strange and weak movement in the quiet room, as if something was shouting.
"Huh? What's the sound?" Li Shimin's ears were sharp and he asked following the sound.
Xiao Han on the side was embarrassed. Just when he was about to speak, his stomach growled twice more.
"Gugu...Gugu..."
This time, Li Shimin heard it clearly! He looked at Xiao Han with a strange expression: "Are you hungry?"
Xiao Han nodded with a grimace and explained: "A bit, I got up too early in the morning and didn't have time to eat."
Li Shimin couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "How about we eat something together?"
Xiao Han twisted a few times and said as if he was embarrassed: "This... is not good, is it?"
"Haha, what's wrong with this!" Li Shimin laughed, and without waiting for Xiao Han to be polite again, he shouted directly to the outside: "Wei San, Wei San! Go and ask the imperial kitchen to cook some dishes!"
"Here!"
Outside the door, Wei San agreed and left in a hurry.
Xiao Han chuckled, touched his belly, then suddenly remembered something, looked at Li Shimin and asked: "Qin... Your Majesty... Your Majesty, why did you come to me?"
Xiao Han called the title in this sentence twice, but it still felt a little weird.
There was nothing he could do, he was used to calling him King Qin, and he would also call him "Little Plum" from time to time in private! Now he suddenly changed his name to "Your Majesty", it would be weird if it wasn't awkward.
In fact, it's not just Xiao Han.
Li Shimin felt uncomfortable hearing this title. He subconsciously touched the goosebumps on his arms, frowned and said, "There are just the two of us here. Just call us casually."
However, Xiao Han shook his head with a grimace: "Forget it! I just need to get used to it! If I get used to it casually in the future, if I shout it outside and let the literati hear it, they may not know how to scold me!"
"them……"
When Li Shimin heard what Xiao Han said, he seemed to remember the power of those pens. Instead of continuing, he sighed deeply: "Hey..."
I can’t afford to offend you! I really can’t afford to offend you!
In this era, let alone Xiao Han, even Li Shimin, who has already sat on the throne of the emperor, cannot afford to offend those people!
Today's literati are by no means comparable to the "literati" of the braided dynasty in later generations!
Character and pride are vividly reflected in these literati. Not to mention anything else, just a few days ago, Yan Shigu ruthlessly wrote down everything Li Shimin did under the Xuanwu Sect into the daily life he was in charge of.
Record!
You must know that at that time, Li Shimin was the most sensitive to this matter!
After hearing this, Li Shimin immediately called Yan Shigu and asked him to take out the daily records for him to read.
This was originally a small matter.
Besides, Li Shimin just wanted to take a look and didn’t say he wanted to change it!
But Yan Shigu twisted his neck in confusion and hid it from him on the grounds that "the emperor was not allowed to observe daily life records in person"!
This time, it completely hit Li Shimin’s sore spot!
Feeling ashamed and hateful, he roared angrily and ordered Yan Shigu to be dragged down and killed. But before Yan Shigu could be dragged out of the door, Yan Shigu's younger brother Yan Xiangshi hurried over.
At that time, when Li Shimin saw him coming, he thought he was here to plead for mercy, and was even ready to borrow a ladder to get off the donkey.
But I never expected that she didn't come to plead for mercy at all. Wherever Yan Xiangshi came, she just stopped there, took out a pen and paper, and prepared to record the scene truthfully.
Seeing this, Li Shimin finally compromised.
Not only did he wave the guards to leave, he also walked down personally, helped Yan Shigu back, and straightened his messy bun.
"Although Your Majesty is benevolent and righteous and has not killed minor ministers, I will still record what happened today!"
This was the first sentence Yan Shigu said after escaping from death. It almost made Li Shimin angry on the spot!
Even thinking about it now, he still felt a tightness and pain in his chest that he couldn't control.
"Tell me, why are the bones of this scholar so hard?" Li Shimin asked with melancholy, thinking of Old Yan's stubborn appearance.
Xiao Han curled his lips and sighed in a low voice: "Hey, who knows!"
The room fell into silence again. The two brothers had nothing to say and could only look at each other and smile bitterly.
"Your Majesty, why did you call me here? You just want to keep me for a meal, right?"
After a while, Xiao Han broke the silence and brought up the topic just now.
"What? Isn't it possible?"
This is what Li Shimin wanted to answer Xiao Han, but in the end, this sentence was just on his lips and never said out.
He also knew that his current status was no longer suitable for talking to Xiao Han like this.
The emperor is destined to be lonely, otherwise how can he be called a widower?
"I called you over. I just wanted to ask you how those things are doing?" Li Shimin sighed and asked directly what his purpose was.
"Not yet!" Xiao Han naturally knew what Li Shimin was talking about, and without even thinking about it, he just shook his head in denial.
"The workshop in Qinling has just been established, and the power and confidentiality of those things have not met expectations at all. It is too early to take them out now."
After hearing Xiao Han's words, Li Shimin said with a little disappointment: "Then when do you think they can be used?"
"Three years, three years should be enough." Xiao Han thought about it seriously before giving such a number.
"It will take another three years..."
Li Shimin's brows furrowed tightly: "It's been too long! Isn't it still good to use it now? Besides, you used it under Luoyang City, isn't it very good?"
"It's different!" Xiao Han smiled bitterly and replied: "The power of Luoyang City is simply based on quantity! If it is used elsewhere, I am afraid that the results of that day will not appear again!
Moreover, its confidentiality is too poor now! The formula is too simple and can easily be seen through. You don’t want others to take this thing and fight us in turn, right?"
Li Shimin gritted his teeth and nodded: "That's natural! This thing must be in our own hands! If others dare to touch it, whoever touches it will die!"
