Tai Chi Palace.
Li Zhi and Empress Wu attach great importance to tonight's palace banquet.
The glory of congratulations from all directions is also something that must be treated solemnly for the suzerain to go to the country. This is related to the image of the Tang Dynasty. The more the suzerain goes to the country, the more he cares about face.
After Li Zhi issued the imperial edict to hold a palace banquet, Empress Wu was extremely busy.
As the queen in charge of the palace, she must do everything herself and take care of every detail of such an important palace banquet.
It was not until the afternoon that Empress Wu finally finished her work and returned to Anren Hall with a tired look on her face.
Li Zhi was also in Anren Hall, listening to the eunuch's report with a calm face.
"Because you have to go fishing with your son, you don't have time to attend the palace banquet?" Li Zhi twitched the corner of his mouth and murmured: "It's really Jing Chu's style. If you think about it carefully, he really is such a person."
Empress Wu, who had just returned to Anren Hall, also heard the eunuch's words. She quickly took a look at Li Zhi's expression and saw that he did not show any anger. Empress Wu immediately knew something, so she smiled and said: "Jing Chu's indifferent heart, but He’s not pretending, Your Majesty, don’t blame him.”
Li Zhi smiled and said, "I'm not that small-minded, so why should I blame him for this?"
Then Li Zhi sighed leisurely and said, "It's just that the envoys of the Tubo and Japanese Kingdom will be disappointed tonight."
Empress Wu's eyes flashed: "Why are they disappointed?"
Li Zhi said with a smile: "The minister of Honglu Temple reported to me that envoys from various countries came to Beijing. After the envoys from Tibet and Japan paid tribute, the first thing they did was to request an audience with Li Qinzai, the Duke of Weinan County."
Empress Wu was slightly surprised: "Why?"
"Let's not talk about the Japanese country. Li Qinzai has a grudge against them to destroy the country. Now the Tang Dynasty has nearly 10,000 troops stationed in the Japanese country. Even the palace guards of their king are taken over by our Tang Dynasty soldiers. These are all given by Jingchu .”
Li Zhi said with a puzzled look in his eyes: "But what makes me wonder is that Jingchu clearly has a hatred for the Japanese country to destroy the country..."
"But the officials of Honglu Temple told me that when the Japanese envoys mentioned Jingchu, their expressions were extremely respectful, even a little respectful, and there was no trace of hatred at all. It stands to reason that they and Jingchu should be incompatible with each other. In fact, It makes me puzzled."
Empress Wu blinked, but she didn't understand why the Japanese envoy behaved like this.
After hesitating for a while, Empress Wu whispered: "Could it be that they are pretending? Because the Tang Dynasty has completely controlled the Japanese country, they dare not speak out when they are angry, they can only pretend to be submissive..."
"Your majesty, don't you hear that Gou Jian, the king of Yue in the Spring and Autumn Period, after his family and country were in ruins, was extremely respectful to King Wu Fu Chai, and he even did not hesitate to demean himself and was even capable of tasting excrement and asking for his illness, my lord? I feel that today’s Japanese envoys have a bit of a taste for them.”
Li Zhi laughed: "The Queen's metaphor is really..."
Then Li Zhi's smile gradually faded and he said: "However, the Japanese envoys should really be wary of their obedience. I'm worried that their obedience is just pretending. If after seeing Jing Chu, he loses his guard and takes the opportunity to attack He assassinated..."
Empress Wu nodded: "Your Majesty's concerns are not unreasonable. We should send someone from the palace to Ganjing Village to remind Jingchu."
"Your Majesty, the Tibetan envoy also wants to pay a visit to Jingchu. I don't know why?"
Li Zhi laughed again: "In the battle of Tuyuhun, Jingchu suffered a great loss to their Prime Minister Lu Dongzan, and almost became a prisoner of our Tang Dynasty. This time the Tubo envoy wanted to see Jingchu, so he probably accepted it. Lu Dongzan’s order, maybe he has something to say to Jingchu.”
Li Zhi said with a smile and sighed: "It's obviously a palace banquet hosted by me, but for some reason, the protagonist is Jing Chu. Envoys from all over the world are surrounding him. Jing Chu can't be present at the palace banquet tonight, I'm afraid it will be very serious." Disappointing."
Empress Wu suddenly became serious, bowed to Li Zhi Yingying, and said: "I am happy for your majesty. Before your majesty takes action, just a minister of the Tang Dynasty has deeply shocked all the countries in the four directions, and made the great power of the Tang Dynasty far away." The four seas are a blessing to the Tang Dynasty and a blessing to His Majesty."
Li Zhi's eyes narrowed and he said with a smile: "Queen, you have become more and more talkative recently..."
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Ganjingzhuang.
What the father and son learned from fishing today... a word
Hard to finish.
They were very ambitious when they went there. The father and son held their heads high, and they agreed to catch one and then grill one, and eat like an all-you-can-eat buffet.
When they arrived at the Weihe River, Li Qinzai dug a hole in the ice and set up the fishing rod. Qiao'er was busy moving stones, setting up a simple barbecue grill, and even burning dry firewood and charcoal, waiting for the fish to take the bait. Do.
However, the reality is more than skinny, it is simply a skeleton.
The father and son waited eagerly for more than an hour, but still did not wait for the fish to bite the hook.
This was embarrassing, especially in front of his son. Li Qinzai felt that his father's dignity had been challenged.
The father in the eyes of his son must be omnipotent, he should be a superman, he should be a god.
If you can't even catch a fish, how can you survive in the future?
Two hours later, the fish basket was still empty. Qiao'er's eyes began to look at him with a bit of doubt, and Li Qinzai couldn't calm down anymore.
"Go, go home and get the firecrackers you secretly hid. Don't tell me you didn't hide them. I'm just too lazy to expose you." Li Qinzai ordered.
Qiao'er looked stunned, got up and ran to the other courtyard.
Li Qinzai added a few words loudly from behind, asking him to bring some oil paper and leads.
Not long after, Qiao'er ran back in a hurry, panting, took out a lot of firecrackers in his arms, and Li Qinzai couldn't help being shocked. He knew that this guy must have hidden a lot of firecrackers, but he didn't. When you think about hiding so much, it's like a walking powder magazine.
"You..." Li Qinzai couldn't help but said: "Don't you want to be a Nobel Prize winner when you grow up?"
Qiao'er said in confusion: "Dad, what is Nobel?"
"A guy who likes to play with explosives..." Li Qinzai was a little worried, but he couldn't directly tell the child that you can't do this or that. It would easily arouse his rebellious psychology and insist on doing it if he is not allowed.
Collect the firecrackers hidden by Qiaoer, pick out five or six, tie them with fishing lines, lengthen their leads, and finally wrap the firecrackers with oil paper, leaving only the leads exposed.
Li Qinzai couldn't help but feel a little scared while holding this super big firecracker.
When he came to the ice hole on the river, he put the firecracker into the water, being careful not to let the lead wire touch the water, and extended the stretched lead wire all the way to the shore.
Finally, Li Qinzai lit the fuse. When the fuse made a chirping sound, Li Qinzai turned around and took Qiao'er and ran away.
Qiao'er didn't show any fear at all. Instead, she showed excitement and ran very happily, like a pastoral dog chasing rabbits in the field.
There was a sudden loud bang behind him, and the firecrackers exploded, causing a water column more than ten feet high.
The surrounding land seemed to shake a few times at that moment.
Qiao'er looked at Li Qinzai in disbelief and stammered: "Dad, so...so amazing!"
"It turns out you can still play with firecrackers like this, my kid knows how to do it!"
