Chapter 713

Chase for opportunities

The next morning, I had breakfast.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan came to discuss with Li Longji.[]

If you want to use the soldiers from Youzhou, this is not under Wang Juan's control. In theory, she can only manage her own servants and the soldiers from the Bohai Governor's Office. She and Zhang Xiaobao are now the governors.

As for the troops from other places, although she really wanted to transfer them, they didn't dare to ignore them, but the procedures were wrong.

"Transfer the soldiers from Youzhou to help pick hazelnuts and pine seeds through your place? Then transport them to Luzhou as gifts for the people in Luzhou? I'll confirm it again, is this what it means?"

Li Longji was confused when he listened to Zhang Xiaobao's words of borrowing soldiers. He looked at Zhang Xiaobao in surprise, trying to see from his face whether he was sick.

Zhang Xiaobao smiled honestly and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, that's right, Your Majesty agrees?"

Li Longji looked at Zhang Xiaobao carefully again and continued to wonder: "Xiaobao, I won't say anything when you use your troops. If it is really useful, you can use the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty as you like, even if it is my Jinwu Guard, you can mobilize them at critical moments.

But don’t you think your reason is too far-fetched? You are the governor there, and you don’t need your own soldiers. You have to transfer the soldiers from Youzhou and pick pine nuts. Do you think you are telling a joke to Xiaobei?”

"No, the military training in my place is that some are training in mountain wars, some are training in water wars, and some are practicing fortifications locally, so I can't get out of my hands, so I don't need too many to ask my brothers to help, and there is enough 20,000 people.

Just think that it is also providing training for the brothers. They don’t need to carry too much, just prepare the food and grass. Put weapons and other weapons in the local area, so I can be said to be light-loaded. Then I will reimburse them for food and grass costs."

Zhang Xiaobao said and painted, looking like he was carrying a marching bag on the back, which meant that if he didn't carry weapons, he would only bring food, and march from Youzhou to him quickly, the speed would be very fast, and it would take less than a month to pass.

Li Longji did not immediately tell Zhang Xiaobao that he agreed or not, but looked at Wang Juan next to Zhang Xiaobao and saw Wang Juan sitting upright, looking like a soldier.

But why did he have a look of holding back a smile on his face? He gently rubbed his temples. Li Longji thought he had no auditory hallucinations or vision, so he looked at Wang Ju, who had also eaten and came to chat and rest, and said to him:

"Ju, do you know about pine nuts and hazelnuts?"

"I know that the pine nuts in the Bohai Governor's Office in the north of Hebei Road are good. After last autumn, Xiaobao and his family gave me a lot of them. I remember that there seemed to be a pair of horse-drawn carriages. Even the maids were tired of eating, and they had a headache if they had eaten too much."

Wang Ju recalled, and when talking about the situation last year, he showed a satisfied expression on his face. Although the relationship was not as close as it is now, the Zhang family is not missing in terms of etiquette.

Moreover, not everyone can eat pine nuts in the northern part of Hebei Road. Before his grandson passed by, he only had a little bit of it as a tribute every year.

It is not because the production is low there, but because the place was once under the control of the imperial court, it was all tribes, and the road was difficult to move, and there were many wild animals, so I couldn't get more pine nuts.

Nowadays, there are not many mountain products and pine nuts coming out from there every year, and they are almost at a sky-high price.

As he thought about it, Wang Ju's face added a satisfied smile.

Li Longji shook his head gently again, looked at Wang Ju and asked again: "Do you know why there are fewer pine nuts and hazelnuts in spring?"

"Ah? It's less? Oh, of course it's only autumn can harvest. Your Majesty doesn't know?" Wang Ju had already thought of something, but he didn't say it out.

"I am smarter than you, only in autumn. What are you sending troops here now? Twenty thousand soldiers will cut down pine trees, transport them to Luzhou, plant them on the beach, and wait for the autumn time to let the children in Luzhou know how pine nuts grow?"

Li Longji glared at Zhang Xiaobao and said to Wang Ju.

Wang Ju quickly agreed: "Your Majesty said it is not bad. Now the season for cutting trees is wrong. Even if it is really cut, transport it to the seaside, it will probably be inconsistent with the local customs and people. Your Majesty, think about it, the trees there are coconuts, and the jujubes planted in the past are called coffee, and kapoks are usually complemented by each other.

Suddenly, a bunch of pine trees were created. When others looked at it, they would be confused and puzzled. Moreover, it was hot there and there was a lot of oil on the pine trees, and they would always flow downwards, right?"

"You have become stupid too?" Li Longji said to Wang Ju, then he was amused, probably because he was angry: "I said, "Pine Tree, you also said, can the pine tree survive in the past? What I asked is, the season is wrong, what pine nuts should be picked? I also have to transfer the soldiers from Youzhou, and they want to rebel?"

"Say, are you and Juanjuan going to rebel?" Li Longji asked Zhang Xiaobao again.

Zhang Xiaobao shook his head seriously: "No, we won't rebel. Your Majesty, you don't know. Although the season is wrong now, there are also pine nuts on the ground that were not eaten by squirrels last year. I can still eat them when I pick them up."

"Oh~" Li Longji stared at Zhang Xiaobao, made a sudden appearance, and laughed twice again, saying, "Okay, it's good not to rebel, let's adjust, I agree, you are responsible for the money for food and grass, let them pick up more pine nuts, and I will also taste what the pine nuts fell on the ground."

"Thank you, Your Majesty. I guess it's not much different from the ones that haven't fallen from the tree. Even if I get the ground, I might be able to collect thousands of years of ginseng and I'll send it to Your Majesty at that time."

Zhang Xiaobao replied with a smile.

"Okay, I'm waiting for 20,000 people, just think they're training. Let's start. Today, we have to drive out a little longer. According to the distribution of household registration in the Tang Dynasty, we will only encounter people in two days. When I saw people earlier, I also asked about the local situation earlier."

Li Longji said with a squinted eyes, looking like he really supported picking up pine nuts.

Wang Ju was confused. Why did the king and his minister speak like this? One made a very bad excuse, and the other supported him even though things were wrong. Both of them were sick? Or they were sick.

If you are so sick that you need an injection, you will just hang a drip bottle to get some drip. Otherwise, you might be able to see the gods and other gods smashed down from the sky in a short while. It is all possible.

Li Longji said to leave, and the whole team began to move slowly, and then the speed rose faster. Li Longji sat on the slide rod, looking leisurely and contented, as if he no longer considered whether the soldiers in Youzhou would complain.

In addition to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, the others were also carried away. Without the people, they would not be able to walk.

After walking for half an hour, Queen Wang didn't know who heard about this. She called Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, asked them to accompany her, and turned her face to ask:

"Xiaobao, what are you playing with Juanjuan? He actually dispatched troops for no reason. Although it is not the era of princes, you cannot make the officers and soldiers of Youzhou think that you are playing beacons and playing princes. Morale is important. You have to tell them your plans."

Before Zhang Xiaobao answered, Li Longji, a nearby person, spoke: "No need to ask, if they are willing to play with the princes, let them tease them. Not to mention that they are transferring 20,000 soldiers, even if they order the beacon towers of the entire Tang Dynasty, I agree, what is the point of picking pine nuts? Even if they transfer the soldiers from Gyeonggi Province to Lingnan Province and ask others to help build snowmen, I will not refuse. Just play, what are you afraid of?"

As Li Longji spoke, he raised his chin to Zhang Xiaobao. The meaning was clearly that I didn’t ask you. You think I would be curious. I just thought what you said was true.

Zhang Xiaobao stretched out his thumb and drew it, indicating that you are amazing, and Li Longji raised his chin higher.

When Queen Wang saw the two people's appearance, she shook her head helplessly, turned her head and said to Wang Juan: "Juanjuan, tell me about my mother, what's going on?"

She is Wang Juan's adopted mother, but she never speaks the word "Yi".

Wang Juan smiled and replied, "Actually it's nothing. I really let them go and have a walk. There are a few places where there are many wild animals on the mountain. After finally gathering a small number of people in the local area. Some time ago, we asked our local troops to clean up the wild animals. They lived a stable life.

After our army passed, the beasts drove away and cleaned up some of them, but for us, it had no big effect. It was better to train troops and waste time.

One of Youzhou is relatively close to our place, and the other is very important. The local soldiers are almost gone. Since people cannot be used to train troops, let them go further north.

One is to help the local area continue to fight wild beasts, the other is to exercise physical fitness, and at the same time, you can also discover problems during the march and summarize and correct them in time. After Xiaobao and I sent more troops to eat, maybe some blank areas will appear in our army, and the troops from all over the country will enter a state of combat readiness."

Wang Juan didn't say anything about picking pine nuts. Unless she was deceiving people who had no common sense, she also considered it when she helped Zhang Xiaobao supplement it last night.

Take this opportunity to mobilize all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty and try to be familiar with the environment of the surrounding military region. If the two of you go out in the future, whoever wants to make trouble and draw soldiers will be sent from the nearest place. The more familiar the soldiers nearby, the more beneficial it will be for the battle.

Queen Wang nodded, still confused, but stopped asking, but signaled Wang Juan to get on the slide rod where she was sitting. Wang Juan looked at the person holding the slide rod, shook her head, and walked nearby while saying something else.

Zhang Xiaobao still has something to do, but it’s not easy to listen to his wife talking about clothes with Queen Wang about such a topic, so he came to Li Longji and followed him.

He also has a slider to sit, but he has never sat down. He is tired of carrying someone else, and he doesn't need another one, and he doesn't walk fast, so he thinks it's just exercise.

When he followed Li Longji, Zhang Xiaobao was not idle either. Occasionally, he saw some plants on the roadside, so he ran over to dig them out or pick them down. He returned to Li Longji and introduced the habits and uses of this kind to Li Longji.

He even caught a hedgehog and told Li Longji about the difference between the hedgehog here and the capital. He then gave it to his younger brothers and sisters who had eaten and slept on a slide rod to play.

After talking for an hour, there was no repetition. It seemed that Zhang Xiaobao could continue to talk about it for a few days and nights.

Li Longji was thinking about the purpose of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's transfer of troops, but he refused to say it. He heard Zhang Xiaobao keep introducing it there and cooperated with him with curiosity.

He really doesn't know much about the things passing by now. Only a few things, but not many, can he know something that can be regarded as tributes.

"Are you thirsty? Do you need to send someone to Tubo to get you some snow water from the snow mountain, and you can use it to make tea? I can transfer 50,000 people to help you deliver it. What do you want?"

Li Longji listened to Zhang Xiaobao's words, raised his hand to point to the northwest and said jokingly.

Zhang Xiaobao spit out a sour and sour blade of grass that he had eaten in his mouth and replied, "Tubo cannot do it. Tubo's soldiers still need to be used to scare people. When they are transferred here, the journey is long and others think we are afraid.

When Your Majesty talks about the transfer of troops, I really have an idea. There are oranges on the east road of Shandong. They were picked last fall and saved in special methods. They will not break until now. It is better to transport more points and send them to Huainan Road and send troops to do it. There is about 10,000 troops. Then, I will send them to Luzhou together and give more fruit to the people in Luzhou."

"There is no orange in Luzhou? Is it impossible to transport it directly from Huainan Road? Can Luzhou lack fruit? Ten thousand soldiers? Carry out oranges, okay, I agree."

Li Longji asked a few questions in a row, but still stopped talking and nodded in agreement. He was just asking Zhang Xiaobao tossing, anyway, Zhang Xiaobao would not rebel.

Zhang Xiaobao was still looking for reasons for himself and said, "The oranges produced in different places taste different. For example, the oranges on Henan Road are sweet, while the oranges on Jiangnan East Road are sour. The reason is very clear."

"I have seen it a lot. It turns out that the ancients said that the Huainan is orange and the Huainan is citrus. The oranges in the north are sweeter than the ones in the south? Let people write them in the school book so that the children can understand it. Is there any? Continue saying, I will definitely agree."

Li Longji smiled and cooperated with Zhang Xiaobao to fool around him.

Zhang Xiaobao also smiled and said, "Really, Your Majesty, I do have something to do. Actually, the reason why I am preparing to travel to Luzhou is mainly because I received a message from my mother last night that my mother wanted to go to Luzhou.

I thought it was not good to go empty-handed, so I had to bring more things to Luzhou, not just the noble and the low, but the intention. At the same time, in order to ensure my mother's safety, the fleet that Luzhou has been stationed there to be guarded and is prepared to be prepared as well as the fleet in Jilizhou.

My family’s logistics will be temporarily redirected to transport things from all over the country to the beach. There is no way, the time is too tight, and my mother’s place will be there when we arrive in Luzhou, otherwise I will not worry. Your Majesty, do you understand?"

"Oh?" Li Longji became interested and looked at Zhang Xiaobao and asked, "You mean, you and Juanjuan need to mobilize a lot of people to prepare for Luzhou? All of them move quickly towards the coastal line? Even including troops from all aspects?"

"Yes, some of the people are busy with farming and some are busy with work, so that the people can work, and my family can spend more money and delay people's work. The army is idle and idle, walking back and forth, as if it is exercised, just like the current one."

Zhang Xiaobao pointed at the walking leg, which means, you are sitting and I am walking, it’s almost two hours. Should I slow down? I have to cook for you at noon.

Li Longji obviously didn't pay attention to whether Zhang Xiaobao was tired. He turned around, closed his eyes and thought for a while, opened his eyes again, and said to Zhang Xiaobao: "Okay, good people, no wonder Luzhou only knows you, Zhang and Wang families but not me, it turns out..."

"Stop, you can't say that. The people of Luzhou know His Majesty, and they always say that the emperor is good. You can't trap me for being unfaithful. If it were the crime of raiding the house and destroying the family."

Zhang Xiaobao interrupted Li Longji and complained.

"Now it is also the crime of raiding a house and destroying a family. You and Juanjuan put out the situation and told Japan that you are going to hit someone, go and search the Japanese house and destroy the Japanese family."

Li Longji said with a smile.

Zhang Xiaobao shook his head and denied: "No, there is absolutely nothing. I really gave Luzhou something and ran around the army in my dynasty. If I attack Japan, I must withdraw our people in Japan first. Otherwise, we will hit us and they will start fighting and kill our people. Who will I ask for?

Oh yes, yesterday I discussed with Juanjuan that the ship rented to Japan, and that we can contact us, stop and stop for the time being. We are willing to pay compensation for breach of contract. For the sake of our mother, money is a trivial matter.”

"Okay, I understand. Keep going. In order not to let Japan misunderstand, you'd better contact Japan first and tell them that you sent someone to the Bohai Governor's Office to pick up pine nuts, and the fleet is really to protect the mother. The movements in other places are also reasonable.

Say to the Japanese, I am not going to beat you, I am busy with my own, you will continue to be busy with yours, such as making trouble behind the scenes and making trouble, I believe that the Japanese will believe it."

Li Longji smiled wickedly. He had long lost his usual seriousness as an emperor. He cooperated with Zhang Xiaobao and became happier the more he said.

Zhang Xiaobao also had a wicked smile on his face, and he laughed at the same time as Li Longji, which surprised Queen Wang next to him.
To be continued...