Pei Wanying nodded silently, and her mood suddenly became troubled, the fourteen-year-old Li Ye, once he was officially established as the crown prince by His Majesty and the prince of the Tang Dynasty, then it was naturally impossible to spend the next few days in the East Palace.

Obviously, it is easy to become a prince, but if you want to become the prince of the Tang Dynasty, it is essential to go out and practice, and it is likely that you will not know how many years it will be.

"What? Reluctant? Bai Chun looked at the look on his face, and asked Pei Wanying, who was a little depressed.

"What can I do if I am reluctant, if His Majesty really makes him the crown prince, this is also what he should bear. It's just that...... It's just that when I talk about this, I feel as if I am missing a piece of flesh on my body, as if I have been dug up by others, I can't see it, I can't touch it, and I don't know if he can do it...... Don't talk about this, bother. Pei Wanying shook her head irritably, and a simple and generous golden step shook on her bun.

"Yes, His Majesty was fourteen years old when he went to Anxi, and he left for more than four years and nearly five years, and when he came back, he was beaten by the queen mother, I feel that the queen beat him because he had no heart and lungs, and he never came back to Chang'an once in four or five years, and there were very few letters. Even his father did not recall him with twelve or thirteen holy decrees, and in the end, the family slipped away and ran to Tibet. Bai Chun also shook his head helplessly, the hearts of the woman's family, except for the husband who is their own child, the rest, for them, there is nothing else to ask for.

"It was really embarrassing to be the queen mother back then, the eldest son was out in the wild for four or five years, and he deserved to be beaten when he came back, if Li Ye dared not come back for four or five years, see how I clean him up." Pei Wanying gritted her teeth, but when she thought that she hadn't seen her for four or five years, she couldn't help but feel reluctant distress in her heart, and when she saw Li Ye again, could she beat Li Ye.

"The queen mother is not something we can compare, it is estimated that Ye'er will be three years at most, and if it is longer, it should be impossible, there is no big war in Datang now, but it is obviously necessary to broaden your horizons." Bai Chun's eyes were empty, staring at the hot air like green smoke, and said subconsciously.

And the queen of the world on the other side has fallen into her imaginary situation of separation from mother and son, unable to extricate herself, and her eyes are involuntarily a little red.

In the side hall on the other side, Li Hong sat on the back of the chair, looking at the prince of Otsu who walked in behind the eunuch with a smile on his face.

"I haven't seen you for a few years, but now your temperament has changed dramatically." Li Hong looked at the prince of Dajin who saluted him, but he didn't know that the princess had slipped into his imperial study, and was laughing and playing with Bai Chun and Pei Wanying at the moment, saying that he had just met Xiao Li Mei and her tiger girl, each with a peony flower picked from the greenhouse room on the top of their heads, and a tiger was swaying in the palace.

After the salute, the prince of Otsu did not have a pleasant smile on his face, or a gentle smile like a spring breeze, and sat down next to Li Hong with a look of unhappiness, and then pushed the piece forward and said: "The matter of the king of the East China Sea, my country is against it. ”

"Are you against? When will it be your turn to oppose the state affairs of the Tang Dynasty? It's really unusual. Li Hong straightened up from the back of the chair, took the piece pushed by the prince of Otsu, and after a casual glance, he looked at his brother-in-law and said.

"You better take a closer look, that's all there is to the tribute that my Wa Kingdom can pay, and if you want anything else, I'm afraid you will have to dig three feet into the land of the Wa Kingdom." The shojo is a gift list, drawn up by the father of the Otsu Emperor himself, and it is full of the best jewels, gold, silver, and other treasures that they have in the kingdom of Wa.

"It's useless to look at it, what treasures can you have? I accepted the gift list, but ...... The matter of the King of the East China Sea cannot be changed, and once the state affairs of my Tang Dynasty are determined, it is naturally impossible to change them. Li Hong accepted the gift list as a matter of course, and the following words made the prince of Otsu almost vomit blood.

This gift list of his own, is to hope that he will take back his life, and now that the gift list has been accepted, but it is not changed to a life, then the treasures and treasures that he worked so hard to pull from the country of Wa will not be lost?

"Do you really want to risk the death of the fish and the net to make Li Nan the king of the East China Sea? Don't forget, he grew up in the Wa Kingdom since he was a child, so you are not afraid that one day he will create your Tang Dynasty for the benefit of the Wa Kingdom? Prince Otsu patted the table and stood up, looked at Li Hong and asked.

The eunuch behind him was like a ghost, and at the moment when Prince Otsu just stood up, he had already floated in front of Li Hong.

Li Hong waved his hand to signal him to step back, and then said slowly: "I'm afraid or not, it's hard to say, but I believe that Li Nan will eventually stand on his father's side, not your uncle's side." Did your imperial sister tell you something again? ”

When the prince of Dajin heard Li Hong say this, he shook his head speechlessly, of course his son is facing himself, and now even the imperial sister Dalai and the princess have begun to turn their elbows towards the Tang Dynasty, no longer the same as before they were not taken back by the Tang Dynasty sailors, everything is in the interests of the Wa Kingdom.

"The Wa Kingdom is very small, and it is also very barren, there is nothing you want, it is surrounded by the sea, why do you have to keep an eye on the territory of my Wa Kingdom? Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje are like your own sons, and you are reluctant to beat and scold, but why are you so cruel to our Wa Kingdom? Once we recognize the status of Li Nan's royal family, then next, I, the prince of the Wa Kingdom who is my uncle, I am afraid that I will not be able to become the emperor of the Wa Kingdom one day, right? "Prince Dajin is very angry, the territory of the Tang Dynasty is vast, and there are exotic states around him that he doesn't like, but why does he have to go to the country and fight to the end.

"Huh? I'm just idle and have nothing to do, but I just don't like your country. Li Hong raised his head and said with a smile.

"You...... The silver mines, ports, etc. of the Japanese Kingdom are controlled by your Tang Dynasty, and even the fishermen go out to sea to fish, they have to charge a certain protection fee, do you still think that the people of the Japanese Kingdom are not living hard enough? "Prince Otsu, who was about to put his face in front of Li Hong, was furious but powerless.

"It is precisely because of the hard life of your Japanese people that I have more obligation to help you, right? The culture of the Wa Kingdom came from our Tang Dynasty, and even at the beginning of our Han Dynasty, it stole and learned our culture, so why can't we become rich together? Look at the people of my Datang, rich and healthy, ....... ”

"That's only a small part, other places are still very poor, the territory of the Tang Dynasty is so big, do you think they can be as rich and healthy as Chang'an, Luoyang and so on? Heh, if you, the emperor, are really arrogant, one day you will be carried away by the current prosperity, which is not a good thing for the Tang Dynasty. "Prince Otsu is out of the way, and he is not afraid to say anything rebellious.

After all, when I saw my imperial sister yesterday, although the imperial sister did not agree to help herself persuade Li Hong, she promised herself that after she entered the palace today, if Li Hong's bandit suddenly attacked her, then the imperial sister would run out to excuse him, at least she couldn't let herself be beaten by the bandits in Chang'an again.

"You kid is so powerful now, you dare to blow your beard and stare at me." Li Hong's fist clenched the joints crackled.

So Prince Otsu, who had just finished his addiction, immediately took a few steps back as if he had seen a ghost, and saw that Li Hong, who was still sitting on the chair, did not move, and then stopped his steps.

The rest of the things are naturally done by the Ministry of Rites, and now the five eunuchs of the nine temples have some functions that overlap with the six ministries of Shangshu Province, and they are all under the control of Li Hongyi, and the five eunuchs of the nine temples are basically completely serving the royal family and the clan in addition to Dali Temple.

After understanding their respective functions, as Datang entered the process of high-speed development, some of the obstacles and difficulties in government affairs brought about by it were easily solved.

In addition to the six departments, Menxia and Zhongshu are more like two central documents and regulatory agencies, coupled with the existence of the Imperial Historical Observatory, the government office of the court has undergone great changes.

After meticulous reforms, Shangshu Province has formed a scale of commanding six ministries, even seven ministries, and nine ministries, and its embryonic form has also begun, becoming more and more like the functional departments of the State Council in later generations.

Leaving the prince of Otsu to dine together, but the prince of Otsu obviously did not want to eat in the palace, and there was a danger that he might be replaced by his nephew at any time, what he had to do now was to divide the duties and obligations of the Wa Kingdom with the Tang Rite Department and the Tang Dynasty after the establishment of the East Sea King in the Tang Dynasty, and strive to get the greatest benefits in this process.

In this way, after he returns to the Wa Kingdom, he can clearly carry out a series of preparations and plans, hoping that before Li Nan really becomes the king of the East China Sea, he can integrate the scattered chaos of the Wa Kingdom, and then try to resist the barbaric cultural invasion of the Tang Dynasty.

What makes Prince Otsu feel ironic is that the coexistence of barbarism and culture is extremely ridiculous in the Tang Dynasty's body of the Wa Kingdom, the barbarism of civilization is still a barbaric culture, the moment the Prince of Otsu walked out of the palace, he suddenly felt that the Tang Dynasty seemed to be more cute than he imagined.

But let him willingly and convincingly give up the rights of the Japanese kingdom to others in vain, obviously he can't do it.

He has his ambition in his heart, and has the immortal deeds that have been repeated in his mind many times after he succeeded to the throne of the Wa Kingdom, turning the Wa Kingdom into a country that can resist in the face of foreign invaders although it is not comparable to the Tang Dynasty in a short period of time, and even after sitting on the throne, he covets the land of Baekje and Silla, so that they can survive in the cracks, so that they can take it for themselves and become a territory of the Wa State overseas when the Tang Dynasty disdains to look at it.

He knew that these were difficult to achieve, but before the real showdown in Datang, before he ascended to the throne, everything was still unpredictable, wasn't it?