Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

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He let out a long breath, looked at Guo Ye calmly, nodded and said: "If the Buddhist sect that has been secretly collaborating with the Guanlong family can be moved out of the Central Plains without causing too many murders, I will naturally be happy to see it. Guo Qing , You have done this beautifully. As you said, if the Fusang island country is full of temples and treasures, and everyone recites Buddhist scriptures and speaks compassion and compassion, what deterrent will such a country pose to our Tang Dynasty? Not bad, your method is the best of both worlds, I am very satisfied."

His majesty Li Er's generous words seemed to approve of Guo Ye's approach and held affirmative opinions.

Guo Ye retreated a little humbly, but did not speak, because he knew that His Majesty Li Er had something to say.

Sure enough, His Majesty Li Er said again: "Just now you said that there are only two conditions for them, one is that I can meet them in the palace, and the other is that I can visit various places in Chang'an City. That's all, right? "

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Guo Ye smiled and replied: "In fact, these Fusang people are also ghosts. They hope to enter the palace to face the saints, they just want to get some rewards. As the saying goes, thieves don't go empty-handed. These Fusang people have been traveling eastward since the former Sui Dynasty. The Central Plains has been down dozens of times, isn’t it all here to take advantage of it?”

"Haha, it's such a bad word, Guo Qing, your mouth is bad enough."

His Majesty Li Er clapped his hands and said with a smile: "But if they can solve such a big trouble for me, what's the point of rewarding them with some gold, silver and jewelry? At that time, I will ask the Ministry of Households to prepare some special products of my Tang Dynasty for them." , silk, porcelain, and tea, these are not things. In this way, we can also promote the rich products of our Tang Dynasty to foreign countries, and let them know that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty is rich in the world."

Well, Guo Ye was secretly depressed. His Majesty Li Er wanted to save face, and he committed the problem of swollen face and pretending to be fat again.

"As for visiting the Fangshi in my Chang'an City, hehe, I understand their intentions."

His Majesty Li Er still smiled, but his eyes were squinted, and then he said in a reminding tone: "Guo Qing, you also take the post of General Wei, the leader in charge of the security of Chang'an City. It is no problem for these people to visit Fangshi. , How to visit, Guo Qing, you should know how to do it, right?"

Guo Ye understood, and secretly said, it seems that His Majesty Li Er has not been overjoyed to the point of being stunned.

Immediately, he nodded and said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I know what to do. These Fusang bird people want to steal their lessons and try to transfer my Tang Dynasty's weapon forging technology and Central Plains culture to the Fusang bird country. That is wishful thinking. !"

"Haha, whoever knows me is indeed Guo Qing!"

His Majesty Li Er clapped his hands and praised with a smile: "Guo Qing, since you will take over this matter, I will leave it to you to handle the rest of the matter. As for the relocation of Buddhist monks from various places, the state governments in various places must cooperate with you. At that time, I will inform the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites and other ministries to discuss this matter with you. This is a very large project, involving nearly hundreds of thousands of monks in dozens of states and capitals. Guo Aiqing. But don't worry, when these Fusang people return to Fusang by boat, it will be the day when you, Guo Aiqing, will move into your new house and move into Zhuquefang. At that time, I will definitely let the civil and military capitals of the Manchu Dynasty come to celebrate your housewarming, so that Guo Aiqing will be cruel. It's time to show off the limelight, hahaha..."

Guo Ye's face was naturally flushed when he heard the words, and His Majesty Li Er's words really hit the spot, hey, the emperor granted the Zhuquefang mansion, this honor, apart from Li Jing, the great hero who founded the country, Guo Ye is a scorpion Shit - only one.

As far as the matter of the Fusang visiting group is concerned, Guo Ye's mission to visit the palace is almost over. In normal times, he must have turned around and left the palace three times.It is said that being with a king is like being with a tiger, nothing big. Guo Ye, to be honest, doesn't want to stay in the palace for a moment. What kind of moths have come out to spread on Guo Ye.

But today Guo Ye didn't take the initiative to ask for resignation to leave, but dawdled for a while, hesitated to speak, coyly, as if he didn't intend to leave the palace.

His Majesty Li Er noticed Guo Ye's hypocrisy, and couldn't help but smile on his face, as if he had guessed Guo Ye's caution, and asked: "Guo Qing hesitated to speak, as if he had something to say in his heart. Don’t you want to ask why there are lanterns, festoons and festoons in red and green everywhere in Ganlu Palace, and to find out what the empress’s happy event is?”

"Hiss... Your Majesty really sees thousands of miles away, I can't hide the slightest thought from you, Your Majesty!"

Guo Ye slapped his ass fiercely, and smiled shamelessly: "Your Majesty, it would be fine if I didn't enter the Ganlu Palace today, but after entering the palace, looking all the way down, I really feel itchy. Hey, my minister This curiosity, really, hey, hey~"

"I knew that if you didn't find out, you boy would definitely not let me go."

His Majesty Li Er glanced at Guo Ye angrily, and finally explained the reason: "To tell you the truth, it will be the queen's birthday in seven days. I originally wanted to give the queen a big fight, but She said that she didn't want to celebrate her birthday every tenth day, so she didn't want to make a fuss, and she didn't want to be extravagant and wasteful. So, no, she just wanted to spend her birthday simply in the Ganlu Palace, so I asked The servants and maids will make a simple arrangement. At that time, there is no plan to entertain all court officials. Just call the princesses and princes from the empress."

"Oh, so it's the empress's birthday."

Only then did Guo Ye understand why Empress Changsun didn't want to talk to him just now. It turned out that she was worried that her mouth would go out and cause all the officials to celebrate her birthday, and there would be a lot of noise.Moreover, with His Majesty Li Er's face-saving temperament, it is inevitable that he will have to make another extravagant and wasteful operation.

Guo Ye had to say something with sincere admiration, Empress Changsun, she is really a worthy queen, His Majesty Li Er is definitely blessed for this thrifty and low-key behavior.

"Hehe, now that Guo Qing knows about this, I'm not petty anymore." His Majesty Li Er said, "Guo Qing will also come to the birthday banquet in seven days' time. Among the princes and ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, Guo Qing Qing is the only one who came to the queen's birthday banquet. But you have to promise me that you are not allowed to spread the word, otherwise you will make the queen unhappy, and I will be guilty of a big crime."

As soon as Guo Ye heard His Majesty Li Er's invitation, it was a private party for the birthday of the emperor, the empress and their children, so he invited himself alone, which is really embarrassing!

However, he was still humble: "Your Majesty, since the empress intends to celebrate your birthday with you and the princesses and princes in Chang'an, it would be inappropriate for someone with a foreign surname to participate, right?"

His Majesty Li Er shook his head and said: "There is nothing inappropriate. Speaking of which, Xiuxiu is still my niece, and you are also the niece and son-in-law of me and the queen. You are also a family. It's okay, Xiuxiu is still in confinement." I won't invite you. You will come to the meeting when the time comes. But I told you, since your kid has participated, you can't be petty. I know you have a lot of tricks, and you will send a gift to Empress, this gift must be satisfactory to the Empress, just to make her happy."

"Uh……"

Guo Ye was dumbfounded for a moment, and thought, well, I knew how His Majesty Li Er would be so enthusiastic and dare to wait here for him.

But on the eldest grandson's birthday, it must be a gift.But want to give a gift that the eldest grandson queen is satisfied with?

Obviously, this gift should not be too tacky, and it must be high-end and high-end.But His Majesty Li Er also said that Empress Changsun really disliked extravagance and waste because of her birthday.That means that this gift must not be too expensive to be measured by money.

Fuck, this is a bit difficult.

What should I send?

Guo Ye does have a lot of ghost ideas usually, but now he really can't think of what gift is the most suitable.

Now that His Majesty Li Er has sent invitations, he can't refuse to come, can he?

Moreover, the emperor and the empress also had private parties for the prince and princess. He was the only courtier with a foreign surname. Naturally, such a grand banquet should not be missed. This is also the emperor's recognition of himself, isn't it?

Since he couldn't think of it for a while, he could only go back and think about it.

Immediately, he clasped his hands and cupped his fists and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, after seven days, the minister will definitely come to the palace to attend the banquet as scheduled, and will definitely give the empress a gift that will satisfy her. The minister still has the matter of Fusang's visit. If you want to deal with it, you have to leave the palace first."

"Well, let's go, let's get down to business first, I'm in the palace to hear your good news~"

His Majesty Li Er waved his hand, signaling Guo Ye to step down and leave the palace.

Chapter 1133 Unique gift

His Majesty Li Er is also a vigorous man of action. As soon as Guo Ye left the palace, he immediately summoned Dong Shun and asked him to draft an order and pass it to the six ministers without stopping, so that they could fully cooperate with Guo Ye's cooperation with the Fusang people. cooperate.

Relocating hundreds of thousands of Buddhist monks in the Central Plains is not a small project. On the contrary, it is a huge project with a long cycle and cross regions.

Even with the assistance of the six ministers, and the cooperation of the governor's mansion and Zhechong Duwei's mansion of tens of hundreds of state capitals in the Tang Dynasty, it is not so easy to get it done.

Fortunately, there are so many manpower, material and financial resources to take the lead. Once the outline is done, the migration can be started step by step.

What Guo Ye needs to do now, apart from communicating with Fusang in a timely manner, is to make a detailed relocation plan, and send it to the various state capitals through the six government offices, so that they can resolutely implement it.

At the same time, there are some things that have to be cheap for the little devils like Fusang.For example, ships purchased and built along the coast were used to carry monks from the Central Plains across the sea to Fusang.Once these ships leave the coast of Datang for Fusang and enter the waters of Fusang, they will never return.Guo Ye never expected that these fusang devils would return these sea-going ships to Datang one after another after they ran out of ships.

However, compared to the great merit of saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of monks in the Central Plains, these ships seem to be nothing.

It is just that what is good at the top will be worse at the bottom.

With the imperial decree of His Majesty Li Er, the Liubu Shangshu is where Guo Ye's connections are, and a detailed migration plan will soon be released.Within two days, this detailed relocation plan was dispatched to various state capitals in the Tang Dynasty. The high efficiency of the work can be called a miracle since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

During this period, Guo Ye also fulfilled his promise to Yagyu Kyoliang and others, and led him and Bei Chenichiro into the palace to pay homage to His Majesty Li Er.His Majesty Li Er naturally did what he said, he was not petty, and indeed rewarded the visiting group led by the two of them with many things, silk tea and porcelain.In addition, he also gave a thousand taels of gold and tens of thousands of taels of silver to subsidize the expenses of a thousand Fusang visiting group back to Japan.

In addition, His Majesty Li Er also invited the two nouveau riche nobles from the Fusang Kingdom to finish the imperial banquet together in the palace.

Yagyu Koryo and the two saw that the Emperor Tang was so generous and treated them with such courtesy. I am afraid that the Crown Prince Cao Bi came here in person, and it may not be possible for them to receive such treatment.For a while, vanity rose infinitely, and he was so happy that he even walked with a smile. At this time, the admiration for the Tang Empire in his heart was already surging like the water of the Yellow River.

Everyone took what they needed and competed to cheer each other up.

After the face-off, Guo Ye led Yagyu Kyoliang out of the palace, and then handed them over to the Ministry of Rites under the fourth division of the Ministry of Rites, Treasurer Langzhong.

The Ministry of Rites and Officials Cleaning Department is responsible for receiving foreign guests, and it is most appropriate for them to take over.