Datang: My apprentice is Princess Changle

Chapter 613 Watermelon Arrives in Beijing
Chapter 631 Watermelon Arrives in Beijing
"Your Majesty and Yang'er are planning to emigrate to the north?" Empress Changsun was ice-snow and clever, and immediately discerned the clue from her husband's words.

Li Shimin hummed, and said: "Since Tubo has offended Qin Yang, with Qin Yang's character, I'm afraid he will kill the grass. He and the king of Tubo have personal grievances. After this time, it is impossible to coexist peacefully. Although Tubo did not Youzhou borders on the border, and there is a huge distance between them. If Tubo wants to take Youzhou, they still need to find a way... But, those alien races are already in collusion with each other, and it may be difficult to stop them."

Before Qin Yang was not the king of Youzhou in Chang'an, he made a bet with the Tubo king that the Tubo king and his brother were severely injured by lightning and had to return to Tubo half dead.

And that incident also led to a rift within Tubo.

This time Tubo sent troops, not only because of the attraction of the salt lake, but also because of the previous grievances.

As for the matter of grievances, since they cannot be resolved, it is natural to take advantage of the enemy's illness to kill the enemy, and it is absolutely impossible to pity the enemy and give him time to breathe.

"With the weapons in Qin Yang's hands, if he wants to repel the Tubo army, it's not difficult. It won't be too late. Since it has been delayed until now, it is natural to have a plan."

"The Turkic state was destroyed a few years ago, not only has the Turkic lessons learned from the past, but the Tubo imitated the Turkic, and there is no other way to get it done once and for all except to make it follow the old ways of the Turks."

"Your Majesty is right." Empress Changsun nodded, feeling that this was indeed the case.

"Don't worry about Guanyin's servant, that boy Qin Yang has always had ideas, let's wait for their news." After finishing speaking, Li Shimin stopped talking.

The emperor and empress were exhausted during the day, and soon fell asleep one after another.

A few days later, just after breakfast, Wang De came in with a smile and saluted the emperor and empress.

"Your Majesty, empress, the gift from Youzhou has arrived!"

"Gift? Qin Yang came here again?" Li Shimin was slightly surprised.

Now is the period of war between Youzhou and the Tubo army, right?
Although it took at least a month for the convoy to travel from Youzhou to Chang'an, it meant that the convoy had already set off more than a month ago.But at that time, shouldn't it be time to prepare for war?

This kid Qin Yang actually wants to send gifts to Beijing?

"What gift?" he asked afterward.

Wang De smiled and replied: "The things in the boxes in the ten carts, I don't know what they are, but the things in the baskets on the cart are watermelons!"

"Watermelon?" Li Shimin was immediately amused, "Watermelon is so early this year?"

This watermelon, Qin Yang sent a lot of watermelon last year.

Although Li Shimin gave him another name, for some reason, the name "Watermelon", which is so nondescript that Li Shimin didn't even know its origin, spread from Datang Shangchao, and many ordinary people followed suit.

It is said that the first person to be called by this name was Youzhou King Qinyang, because Qin Yang has a lot of prestige among the people in Chang'an, and he has always been a little magical, so since he called him that, even if it was just a rumor, it also attracted many people to follow him. so called.

In the end, even Li Shimin called for watermelon, and the others naturally followed suit.

Watermelon is a fruit that tastes really sweet and delicious!

The habit of eating a few pieces of well water in summer can really cool you down!
But because only Youzhou and a few nearby places produce watermelons, if those who live in Chang'an want to eat watermelons, they can only wait for the caravan from Youzhou to come to Chang'an.

Because Youzhou is now fighting against foreign enemies, Li Shimin also thought that there would be no watermelon to eat this time, but he did not expect that the watermelon would be delivered earlier than last year.

Empress Changsun was also very happy, she smiled and said to Wang De: "Except for watermelon, is it still the usual practice?"

"My servant asked, some are for you and Your Majesty, some are for Your Highness the Princess, and some are for His Highness King Wu."

The princess that Wang De was talking about, of course, was Princess Changle.

After all, apart from Princess Changle, it is impossible for Qin Yang to give gifts to other princesses.

King Wu Li Ke had a gift, which did not surprise Empress Changsun. This child is a student of King Youzhou, which is known to almost everyone in Chang'an City.

However, the relationship between the two people is that of teacher and student, but they are equals. They have a good relationship. It is normal for the King of Youzhou to send some specialties to the King of Wu.

Don't say that Empress Changsun is not a concubine who has deep plans and must let her son be on the throne, but it is true that King Youzhou gave gifts frankly, and Empress Changsun would not say anything about it.

Besides, Qin Yang is her prospective son-in-law, this kind of relationship naturally makes Qin Yang very pleasing to Empress Changsun.

After hearing this, Empress Changsun said: "If that's the case, then go and invite King Wu and the princess to come over and tell them that the gift from King Youzhou has arrived."

She and His Majesty's private treasury doesn't have much room to store too many things now, so it's natural for the two of them to take their own people, and take them away after counting the things.

Wang De responded immediately and went out.

Princess Changle is sitting in front of the window at this moment. In the afternoon, she is a bit sleepy. The scroll she is holding in her hand has not opened the second page for a long time.

"Princess! Princess!" At this moment, a court lady came in and said to Princess Changle: "Princess, the convoy from Youzhou has arrived!"

"Youzhou's convoy? Youzhou?" Princess Changle immediately put down the scroll in her hand and hurriedly stood up.

"Follow me to my mother's place!"

As soon as she walked out of the side hall, she saw Wang De who was looking for her.

Wang De hurriedly smiled at Princess Changle and said, "Princess, Your Majesty the Empress invites you to go and share the presents!"

"Sure enough, it's a gift from Youzhou!" Princess Changle said happily.

"Your Highness, this servant has to personally invite King Wu to come over..." Wang De said at the entrance of the hall as he walked out together.

Princess Changle didn't need him to lead the way, so she politely let him go to work, and she hurried to her mother's back with a few court ladies and eunuchs.

King Wu and Li Ke were not in the mansion, so it would take a lot of time for Wang De to find King Wu.

Half an hour later, King Wu Li Ke entered the palace and went to Empress Changsun.

He saluted the queen mother first, and then he glanced at the hall.

In this hall, there are dozens of boxes of things. Looking at this scene, it is really familiar.

That's right, the last time the teacher sent a gift to Beijing, it seems that this is the style?

This thing is also sent too much!

He alone got two boxes of things, which were full of manuscripts of the collection. Looking at these two boxes of books, Wu Wang Li Ke's eyes lit up immediately.

He is no longer the former King of Wu, for him now, gold, silver and jewels are indeed not as valuable as these books!
(End of this chapter)