Great Tang Southern Emperor

"Okay, can we talk now?"

Wang Tingchu put down his teacup and leaned his head over: "Your Majesty asked His Highness to prepare early..."

Li Zhen has already eaten: "Prepare early? Why do you have to prepare early... Isn't it said that the father is still healthy? What preparations should be made early?"

A look of worry flashed across Wang Tingchu's old face, and he sighed: "Your Majesty is in good health, that's for outsiders to hear, even when you go hunting, it's for outsiders to see, others only know that he went out to hunt, But I don't know that His Majesty vomited blood after returning to the palace..."

"What? Is Father's body really failing?" Li Zhen's heart suddenly rose again. If there is really nothing to do, you and he really need to prepare early, at least return to Chang'an as soon as possible. go.As for the finishing work of Lingnan - I have also trained a lot of talents over the years. With their abilities, even without myself, they can completely run Lingnan.

"No, Your Highness, don't worry, His Majesty's body is really fine, just a little problem." Wang Tingchu said: "Your Majesty did vomit blood, but the doctor's diagnosis said that what he vomited was just blood accumulated from old injuries. This time the blood was vomited out, not only did it not harm the body, but it was actually beneficial to the body."

"I said, Eunuch Wang, what exactly are you trying to express? If you don't make it clear, don't blame me for getting mad." Li Zhen was confused, and Wang Tingchu's words were simply contradictory. He said that Li Shimin was in good health for a while, and then said again He vomited blood, and then said that vomiting blood is good for the body... What the hell was he trying to say?Even someone as clever as Li Zhen couldn't figure out what he meant for a while.

"Your Highness, don't worry, just listen to the slave and maidservant to speak slowly. There is indeed a reason for the slaveservant to say so." Wang Tingchu stopped the impetuous Li Zhen and explained: "Your Majesty's health is indeed wrong, otherwise, Your Highness, you can think about it." ——If the old blood was so easy to spit out, I'm afraid he would have spit it out long ago, but His Majesty has not spit out the blood for decades, but he spit it out at this time? Your Highness, do you understand the meaning of the servant? "

"You mean... someone poisoned you? Who did it?" Li Zhen stood up abruptly. What Wang Tingchu said made sense. If the congestion could be cleared, it would have been cleared up long ago, but it just happened to be spit out at this time—— It should be noted that Li Shimin is already fifty this year, he has entered his old age, and his body is already aging.You must know that blood congestion should be easier to clear when you are healthy, but it happens to be excreted in your later years... To achieve this situation, unless your body undergoes a major change.

What is easier for the body to mutate?

Apart from the poison... and the slow poison, Li Zhen really couldn't think of any other reason for the sudden change in the body.

"Hey! The slaves have also checked, but they really don't know." Wang Tingchu sighed, but he didn't deny it, but continued: "Your Highness, you don't know that there are a lot of monsters and ghosts in the court recently. There were a lot of them even in the palace, and the servants didn't even have time to clear them.

His Majesty's body is fine for the time being, but how long it will last, even the imperial doctor is hard to say, so what His Majesty means is that His Majesty should make preparations early, especially the military power must be in your hands, and at the same time, your last To be able to resolve everything in Lingnan within half a year and return to Chang'an to inherit the throne—His Majesty has already decided that after half a year, regardless of his health, even if he has not died, he intends to abdicate the throne. "

"Go back and tell your father that I can clean up everything in Lingnan in at most three months, and then I can start my journey." Li Zhen said seriously: "Also, this time you go back and take Chen Tianlu back, he He is a biochemical expert, and with him watching over him, there should be a possibility of recovering Father's body."

"That's good too. With Dr. Chen here, servants should be more at ease." Wang Tingchu suddenly smiled: "Just in time, Your Majesty may not have seen Princess Jinyang for a long time. I think His Majesty will be in a better mood with Princess Jinyang by your side." .”

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Chapter 1060: Bull Ghosts and Snake Gods?

Chapter 7 Demons and ghosts?

That's right, Sizi finally married Chen Tianlu, and I don't know how this kid married Sizi?It seems that this dead nerd has a skill, and he attacked Sizi without making a sound. It shouldn't be logical, Li Zhen is the most important young hero, and there are not many promising youngsters around him. Sizi sees Which one is reasonable, why did he fall in love with Chen Tianlu, a dead home boy?This made Li Zhen puzzled and entangled with the problem for quite a long time.

Later, he couldn't bear it anymore and ran to Chen Tianlu to ask him about his experience with girls (seriously declare: Li Zhen's so-called advice here is just pure curiosity, there is no other meaning, let alone practice), but Chen Tianlu But he couldn't explain it clearly, he just said that he proposed to Princess Jinyang at that time, and the princess agreed after thinking about it, but he didn't understand why Sizi fell in love with him.

Didn't get any useful information from Chen Tianlu, so she couldn't hold back her curiosity, so Li Zhen approached Sizi again, and got an answer from Sizi that made Li Zhen want to cry: "Who told me to get rid of my father?" Are you familiar with him other than Huang and Huangxiong?"

That's right, this is the main reason why Sizi fell in love with Chen Tianlu - Sizi lives in the palace all the year round, even in Lingnan, she basically doesn't go out of the door, and she doesn't step out of the second door (maybe she has the property of a house herself), Therefore, besides Li Shimin, the men she comes into contact with every day are her older brothers and younger brothers, and the other one is Chen Tianlu who has lived in the palace for a long time.In addition, although some teenagers are also eligible to enter and leave the palace, how are they eligible to live in the palace?Naturally, there was no way to contact Sizi.

But this is Chen Tianlu's biggest advantage. Although he is a research madman and has a dead-end personality, he has to say that as a descendant of Empress Chen, his appearance is still very handsome. Because of the doctor in charge and his own desire to marry Sizi, although he didn’t take the initiative to chase Sizi, meeting him from time to time caused Sizi to gradually get acquainted with him. Now this level...

"What do you mean... my brothers are making a fuss again? In other words, there should be many of those ghosts and snakes in your mouth, right?" But what Li Zhen is thinking about now is not Chen Tianlu and Sizi's marriage, he paid attention to another thing - although Wang Tingchu only said one sentence, Li Zhen deduced many things based on just one sentence: First of all, Li Shimin has been in a bad mood recently, and it should be because Those bull ghosts and snake gods are making a fuss; secondly, Wang Tingchu also said that Li Shimin's mood will be much better with his son, which means that among all Li Shimin's sons and daughters in Chang'an, none of them can make him feel good. To further extend, There are more things that can be speculated...

"Hehe..." Knowing that he had made a slip of the tongue, Wang Tingchu was not embarrassed—or this in itself was the message he wanted to convey to Li Zhen.

"Forget it, let me talk about this kind of thing when I go back." Combined with the information that came back from Chang'an over the years, a stern look flashed in Li Zhen's eyes. It seemed that he was not in Chang'an, and his brothers did not behave at all Dishonest...

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In the 23rd year of Zhenguan, February [-]th, today is the day when Li Zhen ends her vacation and officially returns to Lingnan. After half a month of vacation, Li Zhen took a good rest and completely cleared away the fatigue caused by the long hours of work. , and can welcome a new life with full enthusiasm...

Well, although he doesn't like this so-called new life very much...

"I really don't want to part with it. I really want to live here for a long time." Boarding the big boat back, Li Zhen looked back at the Yalong Bay that was gradually going away, feeling quite reluctant in her heart.

"I see, Your Highness, are you reluctant to live such a leisurely life?" Fan Xueyi smiled coquettishly. After living together for these years, she no longer had the initial fear of Li Zhen, especially after having a child, she gradually released her. Nature, no longer cautious.

"That's right, that's what I originally thought." Contrary to everyone's expectations, Li Zhen admitted without hesitation: "This is my biggest dream in the first place—in fact, I have already planned it. If you are old enough, I will pass on the position to him, and then I will take you to travel around the world together. At that time, I will definitely take you to see the beautiful scenery of the world, travel to every territory of the Tang Dynasty, and see all parts of the world The local customs, after tasting all the delicacies..."

All the women were intoxicated by the scene Li Zhen said, as if they had seen such a day coming, they couldn't help but fell into imagination...

Until Wu Meiniang suddenly smiled: "Hehe, Your Highness, you are thinking too far, right? You are still a prince now."

"That's right, then I will strive to become the emperor this year." Li Zhen smiled. Anyway, according to what Wang Tingchu said, Li Shimin already has the intention of abdicating, so he doesn't have to have any taboos.

"However..." Wu Meiniang smiled sweetly: "Your Highness is really kind. If there is such a day in the future, I think this will probably be the greatest happiness, right?"

"Hehe, you will definitely see this day..."

One day later, Li Zhen's ship docked at the Yuezhou port dock smoothly, but he did not disembark, because his trip was mainly to send Wu Meiniang and the others back, as for himself...

When Li Zhen's ship docked, his mission had already begun—all the fleets were already ready, waiting for him, the protagonist, to arrive.

As for his task, it is actually very simple, that is to patrol all the sites in Nanyang, which is the finishing work that he has always mentioned-because although the development of each site is very good, but because the early stage of each area is mainly for development, so all areas Generally, they develop their own, and the communication between the major territories is usually only through merchants.

The political and military coordination of various places is also completed through the coordination of the Prince's Mansion. This seems to be no problem at present, but it will definitely go wrong after a long time-after all, Li Zhen can't stay in the palace forever. Lingnan, so everything in the future still depends on themselves.

And Li Zhen's purpose is to take advantage of this time to inspect various places, using herself as a bridge to build a connection channel for various places, so that even if Li Zhen is no longer in Lingnan, all places can cooperate with each other, so that there will be no prince's mansion. Coordination, the communication between them will not be chaotic.

Chapter 1061 No more questions

Chapter 8 no more questions

Here, Li Zhen had just sent his wife and children off the boat, and before he returned to his seat, Cheng Chuliang couldn't wait to run up: "Oh my lord, you are back, do you know that?" In order to wait for you, my subordinates pushed several big orders, but they were all snatched by the Yuezhou Fleet, and they took advantage of it——I reckon that if we wait any longer, we will almost die Go down, if you don't come back, the brothers will starve to death."

"Why do you put everything on Ben Gong's head? Are you sure you pushed a few deals instead of being robbed of them? I don't think you can win the Yuezhou Fleet at all, right?" Cheng Chuliang said to himself When splashing dirty water, Li Zhen said that I will not take the blame, and said unceremoniously: "Besides, my palace has only transferred less than one-third of the warships from the Quanzhou Fleet this time to inspect various parts of Nanyang. There are a hundred warships, I don't believe that the big order you mentioned requires an entire fleet to escort... Hmph, the blackmail is all on my head, you are so daring..."

"...Your Highness, you are too straightforward. You can easily lose me as a friend by saying that." Cheng Chuliang said shamelessly.In the past few years, other progress has not been obvious, but I have learned a hundred percent of his shamelessness, the secret of deep shamelessness-you reason with me, I talk about feelings with you, you talk about feelings with me, and I talk to you Talk about the law, you talk about the law with me, I play hooligans with you... In short, he can always hold the initiative of the words in his hands, and let people follow his rhythm, which is extremely shameless.

But these days, it is always shameless to be able to eat enough. It is precisely because of this shameless energy that Cheng Chuliang snatched a lot of business from Liu Rengui's Yuezhou Fleet at the very beginning, making a lot of money With a sum of money, it can be said that he is very rich.

But Liu Rengui is obviously not a vegetarian. He is known as the No.1 existence in naval warfare in later generations. He is far more sensitive to the development of the navy than Cheng Chuliang. After being robbed of several orders, he immediately realized his own shortcomings. Then, an innovation was carried out on the navy's escort technology—even Li Zhen didn't know how to reform, but the effect was very obvious. After this reform, the fleet escort efficiency far exceeded before. With this efficiency, he He got quite a few big clients, which made Cheng Chuliang salivate with envy and itch with hatred at the same time.

However, this kind of innovation belongs to the internal rectification of the fleet, and Liu Rengui used military secrets as an excuse to ensure that the innovative technology would not leak out, not to mention the conflicts between the two sides, so he would not provide technical support to Cheng Chuliang, which caused Cheng Chuliang to learn even if he wanted to. less than...

Cheng Chuliang, who knew that there was no way to solve the problem if he was going the right way, began to think of tricks again—he approached Li Zhen, snarling and rolling, and used all kinds of shameless methods, hoping that Li Zhen would help him Liu Rengui exerted pressure.It's a pity that he made a wrong calculation this time. Li Zhen knew his temperament long ago, and because there are many things to do on weekdays, she wouldn't care about such trivial matters...

So under such circumstances, the gap between the Yuezhou Fleet and the Quanzhou Fleet has gradually widened. Recently, the life of the Quanzhou Fleet has been very difficult. After all, it has been robbed of so many big businesses-of course, this kind of hardship is also relative. , In fact, they still make money, but it's just not as fast as the Yuezhou Fleet's money-making speed.

Recently, the Yuezhou Fleet has made a lot of money. Every time they go to sea, the money they earn has never been less than 1 taels (although it is clearly stated that soldiers are not allowed to do business, but if they do a little private work, no one will hold them accountable). It can be said that it is full of money-don't think that you only earn 1 taels a trip, you must know that not all escorts are for a fleet.

Under normal circumstances, it is only necessary to send a few small warships for escort. After all, this is an escort, not a war. It can be provoked. If you are lucky and the small warships are sent out, and the navy sends a main warship to help escort, then the owner of the ship can simply run amok on the sea, even if it is really like a crab walking sideways, there will be no one. Dare to provoke you, even if you really ran into the pirate's lair, the pirates would never dare to attack you.

And a fleet has more than a hundred warships alone. How many merchants can they escort at one time?The specific Li Zhen is not clear, but what Li Zhen knows is that the most one-time escort of merchant ships in the Lingnan Navy District was created by the Yuezhou Fleet. Their fleet escorted sixteen merchant ships in different directions and different destinations at the same time. They only sent one-third of the warships under their command. The shortest escort formation took only seven days, and the longest escort took only one month to go back and forth. The stupid income of a trip exceeded 30 taels of silver...

Think about it, how much money should you make in a year?

No wonder even the Minister of the Ministry of Household and the Minister of the Ministry of War claim that the navy is the most worry-free army, unlike the army, who knows how to go to the yamen of the Ministry of household and the Ministry of war to cry poorly and sell miserably...

In short, the Yuezhou Fleet has really made a lot of money in this period of time, because the innovation of the new escort technology has made them rich locals. Not only did they eat their own brains, but Liu Rengui even bought a lot of new weapons from the arsenal like a local tyrant. , With the assistance of new equipment, the combat effectiveness of the Yuezhou Fleet is getting stronger day by day.

Even Liu Rengui, who had made a lot of money and was stimulated to be a little drifting, applied to Li Zhen, planning to place an order with Yuezhou Shipyard to order a super battleship as the flagship of the Yuezhou Fleet. The basic specifications are as follows: four decks, loaded with 120 doors The above naval guns must have a displacement of more than 1000 tons, and the crew must be more than [-] people...

If it is really built according to his order, then this battleship will be the most powerful battleship in Datang, let alone a salvo of firepower, even a normal battleship can be smashed into pieces by a collision.And with this battleship, the entire Yuezhou Fleet will completely distance itself from the rest of the fleet, becoming Datang's veritable First Fleet of Datang.