Datang: My father is the head bodyguard

Li Shimin sat in front of the imperial case and listened silently to the information found by the shadow guard, his brows slightly furrowed and a little angry.

"Are you saying that the Ministry of War, which allocates iron materials, smuggled 300 million kilograms of iron materials to the minister alone? He gave it to the minister alone, who gave him the rights and courage? Can't you find out?" Li Shimin was very angry at the shadow guard's report. .

"Reporting to your majesty, this person was brought here by Duke Qi. It stands to reason that he should have earned a lot of money from iron materials, but we have not found any evidence that he has money. According to the neighbors around him, he I've been talking a lot lately, and my family isn't rich either." The shadow guard, all huddled in a black robe, spoke leisurely.

Li Shimin thought for a moment and then threw a secret letter at the feet of the shadow guard. "Go check it out, maybe you can get something."

The shadow guard picked up the secret letter and left the Ganlu Hall. This secret letter was given to Li Shimin when Xue Rengui entered the palace today to answer questions about the telegraph machine. On it was a picture of the Tubo spy's stronghold in Chang'an drawn by Rencuo to Yuchi Baoqi. Yuchi Baoqi also wrote in the letter that the spies must be very alert and may have moved away the people and left the building empty.

Li Shimin sat alone on the soft couch, hunched over and muttering to himself, as if Changsun Wuji was right in front of him.

"Auxiliary machine, auxiliary machine. You said that this person was promoted by you. He stole iron materials from the enemy and then died inexplicably. His family members are also missing. How can you make me believe this? You don't Get involved.”

"Your Majesty, the man from Lantian County is asking for an audience at Chengtianmen. Do you want the old slave to pick him up?" Wang De knocked on the door of Ganlu Hall and asked Li Shimin what he thought.

"Go ahead. During Baoqi's absence, he was in charge of road construction in Chang'an. He should have come to me about road construction. If he comes to me in the future, he can just have someone bring him to him." Li Shimin took back his thoughts and made up his mind. Ding Xin Shen said toward the door.

After a while, Wang De brought Su Quan to the outside of Ganlu Hall. Wang De cleared his throat: "Your Majesty, the man from Lantian County has arrived." Hearing Li Shimin's promise from inside, Wang De opened the door and left with Su Quan. Go in.

Su Quan bowed. "Your Majesty, the first phase of the Datang National Highway project has been a complete success. The section from Chang'an to Luoyang is expected to be opened to traffic tomorrow. I wonder if Your Majesty will be free to preside over the opening ceremony tomorrow?"

Li Shimin was stunned, how could it be so fast? The boy had only been away for more than a month, how could the national road be repaired so quickly. "It's only been more than a month, how could it be built so fast? But those aristocratic families cut corners, or did they force the common people to work beyond their quota?"

Su Quan was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "To report back to Your Majesty, there is no such thing. There are many civilians hired to build the road this time, so we chose a segmented operation. One construction team is responsible for one section of the road, and it can be connected at the end. The main thing is It takes a lot of time to make the roadbed, but it is faster to build the road with cement.”

Although Li Shimin didn't understand everything, he got a general idea. To put it bluntly, cement is easy to use. With more people and more strength, things can be done faster.

"That's good. I will go to court tomorrow with all the civil and military officials to watch the ceremony. You must be ready to receive it." Li Shimin looked at Su Quan with satisfaction.

Su Quan responded after hearing this and then resigned and returned to Zhuangzi. He had already telegraphed to his cousin that the national road from Chang'an to Luoyang had been repaired. Yuchi Baoqi asked him to temporarily stop building main roads and build small roads extending from the main roads to various village-level areas to facilitate the travel of people in those villages and increase population mobility.

In the Tubo king's tent, father and son Zan Xiruo and Lu Dongzan were feeling very sad. This letter has also been sent to the city. Why is there no movement in Yuchi Baoqi? According to the spies' report, as usual, the spies cannot enter the city and can only observe from the outside through the city gate.

"Father, do you think this Yuchi Baoqi has found Songtsen Gampo?" Zan Xiruo was a little confused and hoped that his father could give him some guidance.

"Who knows, this letter has been sent out, and he has probably received it. Normally, the city gates should be closed tightly at this time to search for Songtsen Gampo's whereabouts. He left with five hundred personal guards. , Those are people who have been fighting for a long time, and the mighty Tianwei army in the tiger's mouth can tell at a glance that those people are wrong."

, Lu Dongzan also looked like Louis XVI at this time, and he was really confused.

"Father, do you think it is possible that Songtsen Gampo and Yuchi Baoqi have reached some kind of agreement?" Zan Xiruo suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"He asked me to ask Songtsen Gampo before about peaceful evolution or conquest by force. Did Songtsen Gampo really reach a deal with him?" Lu Dongzan stroked his beard and thought carefully about the possibilities.

A messenger came in from outside the door: "Oh no, Prime Minister! Many tribesmen are going to Songzhou City. The sergeants went to stop them, but now they have started fighting, and many people have died."

After hearing this, Lu Dongzan followed the soldier out of the camp, and Zan Xiruo also followed his father out closely.

When Lu Dongzan arrived at the place, he saw corpses all over the place, including soldiers and civilians, with more civilians. The soldiers and the civilians were facing each other, as if they were about to charge each other in the next second.

"I am the Prime Minister of Tibet, Lu Dongzan. If you have any requests, you can ask me and put your weapons away." Lu Dongzan shouted to the people.

"We only have one request! We also want to go to Songzhou City to work, and our children also want to go to Songzhou City to study!" A man at the head roared like a wild beast.

Seeing him like this, Lu Dongzan had no choice but to say: "They are lying to you. After you go to Songzhou City, the men will do hard labor, the women will be sold to brothels, the old ones will be killed, and the young ones will continue to work when they grow up." coolie."

"I saw with my own eyes that Nima came back from Songzhou City to take his old mother and sister to Songzhou City, and also gave out sweets to the children of our tribe! Prime Minister, you are lying!" A child behind said to Lu. Dongzan shouted.

Just as Lu Dongzan was about to speak, an old man walked up to the man and began to persuade him. The man seemed to be discouraged and stood back among the crowd.

"Prime Minister, we have also been deceived. We just want to go to work to earn some living expenses. We will go back now, we will go back now." The old man looked at Lu Dongzan with a smile on his face and said.

Seeing that the crisis was over, Lu Dongzan also asked the sergeants to put away their weapons and "protect" the common people back to their tribe's territory.

"Pass my order and have the messengers go to various tribes to inform the people. Songzhou City is a conspiracy of the Tang Army. If you go there, you will die. Those who come back are just to paralyze the people."

Zan Xi said that if he received the order, he would gently press the horse's belly and prepare to arrange for the messengers to deliver the order. Lu Dongzan was sitting on his horse thinking about something.

"What kind of medicine is Yuchi Baoqi selling in the gourd? Although his army only had 500 people that day, but the new weapons were so powerful and extraordinary, he never took the initiative to attack once."