The First Family of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1292 So, the minister wants to ask for orders to go to Jiannan Dao... (seeking a subscription for a ticket)

Cheng Saburo still complained on that postcard that the painter's movements were too slow. He stood at the riverside dock for almost an hour.

The painter has finished painting now, and even so, he can't paint half of his heroic appearance.

He also made him stand on the pier by the river and was almost caught cold by the early spring wind.

Seeing Cheng Saburo's proud boast above, Wu Meiniang couldn't help Qiong's nose wrinkle slightly.

Angrily and funny, he lightly nodded the fingernail-sized face of Cheng Saburo on the portrait, and uttered a sentence in a low voice.

"Third Brother, you are really thick-skinned, you really don't know how to be ashamed..."

Mai Tai was talking in his mouth, but his bright eyes looked at Cheng Saburo's face ignorantly.

In my heart, he silently followed Cheng Saburo's boasting, indeed... although the painter's methods were superb.

But it is really difficult to draw Cheng Saburo's charm that always has a mystical self-confidence.

Wu Meiniang, who is already fifteen years old, has become more and more attractive.

The increasingly curvaceous figure of a woman, kneeling forward and sitting in front of the case, that proudly rounded arc.

If Cheng Saburo is here, I am afraid that he will be moved to tears because his silent efforts have been rewarded with rich returns.

Looking at these letters carefully, Wu Meiniang's gaze shifted aside. Inside that small box, there was a gift specially sent by Cheng Saburo to herself.

It is a very luxurious color with very different colors: royal blue cashmere scarf (Twenty-four colors can be dyed in the Tang Dynasty, royal blue is one of them, serious research).

This is a scarf that is three feet long and about one foot five wide, but in the hand, it weighs very light and soft.

That feeling is not inferior to the top silk.

The most important thing is the beautiful blue. Wu Meiniang once mentioned that she likes elegant blue.

Unexpectedly, he actually remembered it, and he took pains to send himself such a beautiful cashmere scarf that was so reluctant to use.

Although Cheng Saburo still adheres to his naive style, it is going to be summer, but he still sent himself such a cashmere scarf to keep warm...

But when I thought of it, Cheng Saburo had to supervise this thing, and he would send someone to Chang'an to give it to him regardless.

Wu Meiniang felt that her heart was about to melt, and she copied this cashmere scarf and gently pressed it to Qiao's face.

It felt like it was stuck on the warm and even scorching broad chest of the third brother...

There seemed to be a slight noise outside the house, Wu Meiniang hid the cashmere scarf back into the wooden box as quickly as possible, and then quietly hid the wooden box behind the case.

Qing fanfatang’s pretty face was calm, she just got up and walked towards the door, it must be those gossip little sisters who came again...

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Li Shimin was standing outside the Ganlu Hall, looking at the very smooth, but very strong cement board.

The Shangshu Zhang Liang of the Ministry of Industry and Li Ji, the Shangshu of the Ministry of War, also looked at this thing in surprise.

"I just put a heavy object on it, and the cement board doesn't move at all. If it is thicker, it will be difficult to destroy if it is cut by a knife."

"It's as strong as bluestone..."

Li Ji picked up a concrete brick from Luzhou and smashed it several times on the boulder beside it.

It was only with great effort that the concrete brick broke, and he couldn't help taking a breath.

"The firmness of this piece, I am afraid it is still above the blue brick, it feels like a stubborn stone."

"Your Majesty, that Luzhou official road is an official road surface made of such concrete?"

Li Shimin was stroking his long beard, and he couldn't help but be a little suspicious, not sure about the authenticity.

"The news from Luzhou is that they are using this thing, and the width of the official road they built is about one foot and five feet wide."

Shangshu Zhang Liang of the Ministry of Engineering shook his head slowly with a stern face. "Your Majesty, is this impossible?"

"The official road from Chang'an to Luoyang was also burned with mellow soil for laying, which was very costly, and it took several years to complete it."

"The width of the road is no more than two feet. With the financial resources of that place in Luzhou, it is actually possible to build hundreds of miles of this kind of concrete official road..."

"The minister really can't imagine it."

Hearing this, Li Ji glanced at Zhang Liang and thought for a while to bow to Li Shimin.

"Your Majesty, as the saying goes, seeing is believing, hearing is fictitious. Since the Luzhou Metropolitan Government dare to speak so clearly in the memorial, it shows that they have this confidence."

"It's just that the minister also feels a bit too exaggerated."

"Oh?" Li Shimin looked at Li Ji somewhat unexpectedly. This guy and Cheng Yaojin are all the same.

Although I love to tease the younger generation on weekdays, but in official business, there is a saying, and then there will be such a sentence, hehe...

"Just yesterday, the Ministry of Defense received news that the west side of Jiannan Road was a little uneasy."

"But Tubo?" Li Shimin suddenly reacted, and his sword eyebrows suddenly picked up.

"Exactly, it is reported that the master of the Tubo kingdom heard that I had moved from the Tang Dynasty to defeat Gaochang, and had already prepared the army, intending to annex Tuyuhun."

"And also sent envoys to the south of the Liuzhao, bribed gold and silver, and military horses, in order to make the Liuzhao chaos and contain the masters of the Great Tang Jiannan Dao."

Li Shimin's face gradually became gloomy, stroking his long beard, and continued to wait for Li Ji to speak.

"Therefore, the minister wants to ask orders to go to Jiannan Dao and his party, first, to preside over the military affairs of Jiannan Dao, and for the second time, just to take a look at Luzhou."

Li Shimin pondered his face thoughtfully for a long time, and couldn't help but hesitate.

"This matter, wait for me to think about it, and then make a final conclusion, but the matter of the Southern Six Emperors must be prevented."

"Let the staff and the staff send more people to it to find out clearly."

"The minister understands."

After Li Ji and Zhang Liang both left, Li Shimin slowly returned to the Temple of Ganlu.

Tubo's national strength is not weak, and it is strong on the plateau. It can attack and retreat and defend.

Moreover, according to the information from the staff department ~www.readwn.com~, if people from the Guanzhong Plain go to the Tubo plateau, they are prone to get sick, and their lives will be at risk if they do not move.

Even if Datang wanted to conquer Tubo, it would need to travel southwest through Qinghai and travel thousands of miles, which was very inconvenient.

When Tubo made a tribute before, it also displayed a very humble attitude.

Now that they have annexed the plateau countries, they have become more arrogant and domineering, actually intending to fight the vassal country Tuyuhun that has surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.

The next step may be to direct the idea to the Hexi Corridor, an important commercial road that leads directly to the Western Regions.

However, he is currently using troops against Gaochang, if the southern Liuzhao is really bought by Tubo to cause chaos in the Erhai Lake.

That Tang Junrui, who was in control of Jiannan Dao, couldn't get out of it.

The more he thought about it, the more annoyed Li Shimin stood up. If he couldn't think of a countermeasure, he walked around first to relax.

(End of this chapter)