Chang'an, the Four Barbarians Hall.

Fuyulong is in a great mood.

Li Yuanai's life experience was secretly spread by him.

Because he met Lawyer Pei in Chu Suiliang's mansion, he became interested in making friends.

The two of them had their own ulterior motives and hit it off.

Lawyer Pei's future is dim because he exposed Princess Gaoyang's affair with Monk Bianji, and his future is dim and he wants to join another country.

His own strategy was not outstanding in the Tang Dynasty, which was full of talents, but when he arrived in Baekje, he would definitely be an incomparable first-class person.

A tree moves to die, and a person moves to live.

Chang'an has no place to gain its own foothold, so go to Baekje.

The world is so big, why worry about not having a foothold?

If Baekje wants to grow stronger, he can only obtain the scriptures from the Tang Dynasty, and the demand for talents in the Tang Dynasty is extremely urgent.

The two hit it off again. They knew that Baekje was eyeing Silla in their conversation and did not want Silla to marry Datang. Their tone could not hide their greed for Jin Shengman and their disgust and hostility towards Li Yuan Ai.

Lawyer Pei has long forgotten all his father's instructions. In order to make a comeback, he told Chu Suiliang about the matter and now he can tell Fuyulong.

After the spring hunt of the Imperial College, Fuyulong, who was furious, couldn't help but spread the secret that he had originally planned to act as a killer weapon, and became a topic of conversation in Chang'an.

He kept trampling on his feet, and this counterattack made him feel happy both physically and mentally.

"Young master, Zeng Ling, the Ministry of Works, returned a reply and said that he was waiting for the young master's steward in the mansion today."

"good!"

Fuyulong screamed excitedly. Zeng Ling, a member of the Ministry of Works, was the apprentice of Confucius, and a descendant of Zong Sheng Zengzi, an important representative of the Confucian school, one of the seventy-two sages of Confucius, and was very prestigious in the scholars. Fuyulong accidentally met him at the conference at the beginning of this year, and he became interested in making friends for this. He submitted several posts and visited him, but refused for various excuses. He didn't expect that he would actually have a reply today.

Sure enough, this luck came and everything went well.

"Hurry up, prepare for the big gift and follow me to Zeng's house to visit."

When he arrived at Zeng Mansion, Fuyulong was warmly invited by Zeng Ling.

The two talked about drinking.

The wine Zeng Ling entertained Fuyulong was fruit wine, which was sweet and had almost no alcohol.

Zeng Ling said: "How about this wine? It's the taste of the prince? The prince is young, and I'm afraid that the prince can't drink strong wine, so I especially treat it with this wine."

Fuyulong said: "Zeng Daxian is underestimating people. He was born in a bitter and cold place and drank strong wine like water. However, this fruit wine tastes really fragrant and is indeed a rare good wine."

Zeng Ling said in shock: "Can the prince know about Zhongshan winter brew? How dare you drink it?"

Fuyulong glared and said, "Why don't you dare?"

Zhongshan Winter Brew is the oldest spirit in China. Liu Xuan Qianri Drunk refers to Zhongshan Winter Brew, so it is also known as Qianri Drunk.

Zeng Ling sent someone to Zhongshan winter wine, and you can eat and drink happily with you and I.

Fu Yulong drank so hard that he thought: This Zhongshan winter brew is indeed great.

Zeng Ling was already drunk and began to talk nonsense: "Who am I? After Zong Sheng, why should the children of the Yan family be above me? They can only draw a few paintings and build a few houses. What's the point? Humph, Your Majesty is interested in military merits. When my chariot and crossbow are presented, the position of the Minister of Works will be mine."

Fuyu Long's mind was also a little confused and asked, "Car Crossbow, what is a car crossbow?"

Zeng Ling said drunkenly: "It is a large crossbow that can be moved, which can be pulled with a ox cart. It can be wound when moving, and the giant crossbow with a tension of 800 kilograms has seven launch grooves, and one arrow is enough to shoot through the city wall."

He pointed fingers to show the power of the car crossbow.

Fuyulong didn't think so much, and his eyes couldn't help but look horrified.

But I was not surprised in my heart. Isn’t it because the giant city of Pyongyang, which is known as the unstoppable city, dropped by the Tang Dynasty’s cannon cart.

It is not surprising that there is a powerful crossbow that can shoot through the city walls.

Just thinking how great it would be if they were Baekje who could master this technology?

But if you think so, just think about it.

The Tang Dynasty was grand and promoted culture to all directions. But what was promoted and spread was only culture, and the real core technology was not known to them.

These include smelting technology, making bows and crossbows, etc. These are used in military technology and are hidden very strictly.

"The prince doesn't believe it?"

Fuyulong has not spoken yet.

Zeng Ling directly took his hand and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to see the car crossbow that was invented."

He said that he ignored Fuyulong and pulled him to the study.

Fuyulong also drank too much wine, and his mind was a little too busy, and he just muttered in his heart: "Is there such a good thing?"

He asked Zeng Ling to take him to the study room halfway.

When Fuyulong came out of Zeng's mansion, there were already detailed design drawings of crossbows in his arms.

"Let's go back to Siyiguan...No, go to Haidong Guild Hall."

Fuyulong's eyes were burning.

The Haidong Guild Hall is a business opened by Baekje merchants in the Tang Dynasty. It is semi-official and is responsible for contacting the country and transmitting some information about Chang'an to each other.

Before the Fuyulong people arrived at the Haidong Guild Hall, they suddenly found that many Tang army soldiers were pouring out of the two streets. They didn't say nonsense at all, but rushed forward and took Fuyulong down.

The next day, explosive news came out in Chang'an.

Fuyulong had ulterior motives in stealing the Tang Dynasty's crossbow technique.

Li Shimin personally issued an edict: "I have treated the country's soldiers honestly, but have not received any sincere rewards. Such behavior is like a wolf in Zhongshan, which is really hateful. Now that Baekje's residence is sealed, no one can enter or leave. Fuyulong's crime is to die, but he is young and ignorant, so he spares his life, but to ensure that our military information is not allowed to be spread, and life imprisoned, and he cannot be visited."

At the same time, Li Shimin also sent an envoy to Baekje to ask what the intention of the King of Baekje was, and frankly said: "Do you think that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty cannot break through the dangers of Baekje's mountains and rivers?"

Today, the Tang Dynasty is unique and has no country to compare with.

No one dares to look up to the country when they come to pay homage.

But with Li Shimin retreating behind the scenes in recent years, he is inevitably a little restless.

Fuyulong crossed the border and was hit by a thunderous counterattack. He even had the intention of sending troops to Baekje. Instantly, all the envoys from other countries in the Siyiguan were furious and put away their little thoughts.

The calmest person in the rumor storm was Li Yuanai. He read this inexplicable rumor very quickly.

No matter whether the rumors are true or false, Li Yuanai doesn't care much about them.

From the beginning, his soul was an alien Xibei product. At the beginning, he just wanted to hold his legs and live carefree. But after seven or eight years of getting along, the mutually derived friendship between people made them closely connected. Because of this, Li Zhi intended him to stand by and save Liu Yan, so he stood up without hesitation, even if he offended Changsun Wuji for this.

The biggest difference between humans and beasts is that they have more sensibility than reason.

Wild beasts will only move because of instinct, but people will ignore themselves and act the opposite way.

Therefore, I don’t care about right or wrong.

Soon the rumor dissipated, as if it had never appeared.

On the contrary, the Baekje mission caused quite a stir.

The Tang Dynasty was full of centrifugal force, and everyone was full of righteous indignation for countries like Baekje, which were stingy and robbed.

After Fuyulong was like Chang'an, all his actions were gone, which made Baekje messy.

Li Yuanai didn't find it strange that Fuyulong would have such an end, but took it for granted.

Fuyulong acts as a person and is too radical and high-profile.

As an envoy from other countries, I drank with this minister today and would interact with that minister tomorrow.

Such things are not beautiful again and again.

The court did not care about it. After all, an ant showed off his power in front of him, and it was not worth trampling on it. If you really want to care about it, Fuyulong would have been expelled from Chang'an and returned to Baekje.

On this day, Li Yuanai suddenly received news of Li Shimin's summoning.

Li Yuanai did not hesitate and went directly to the palace to meet him.

It was still in the inner court, and Li Shimin's complexion improved unexpectedly, his face was a little rosy, and he was in good spirits.

"I have seen the emperor's brother, and look at his expression, his health will improve greatly!"

Li Shimin said disdainfully: "Just as you said, a tiger does not show its power, it is really a sick cat. This shook its power and felt relieved all over the body."

Li Yuanai didn't know what he was saying, and agreed: "That's natural, the tiger bones still have three points of power, not to mention that the emperor's brother is in his prime and is the true dragon emperor. A few days ago, I went to Weibei to hunt in spring, which was quite interesting. Unfortunately, I didn't have the archery skills of my brother, and I only hunted two pheasants with the big tiger. When the emperor recovered, I went to hunt together in autumn, so that my brother would gradually become the only one who was alone and defeated."

Li Shimin pointed and smiled and said, "You really think that the emperor's brother knows nothing in this palace? The romantic affairs between you and Princess Silla have reached my ears. Even Xu Chongrong is worried about her sister, saying that your wedding date is approaching and you have such a thing..."

Li Yuanai could only smile foolishly and dared not speak.

"Sit down!" Li Shimin pointed casually and said, "I remember, when you were chatting, did you say that Jiangnan has great development prospects?"

"Not bad!" Li Yuanai nodded and said, "When I was managing the canal, I found that Jiangnan is now in a pathological development mode. To put it bluntly, this development mode is to squeeze the blood and sweat of the people in Jiangnan, which is not conducive to the long-term."

Li Shimin narrowed his eyes and said, "Would you like to talk about it in detail?"

Li Yuanai said: "Jiangnan is the largest granary of our dynasty. The court has always regarded Jiangnan as the first important place to collect grain. It is true that Jiangnan lives up to expectations and provides batches of grain to the court again and again. But this is not a long-term solution. The court put too much pressure on Jiangnan's grain tax. It has led to local officials not being able to develop agriculture without sanitation, only developing agriculture. The situation in Jiangnan has fallen into a deformed development state."

"My China has always been an agricultural nation, and it is not wrong to develop agriculture. But blindly developing agriculture will lead to local poverty. Poverty is equivalent to being backward and the population and economy cannot develop. The biggest problem in Jiangnan is the serious shortage of the population. If this continues, there will be troubles."
To be continued...