Chapter 226: This flying kick tore the thread of my robe! (asking for monthly votes)
The consequences of saying the wrong thing are very serious, especially for someone like Xiaoxiang who is going against the will of Heaven.

Damn it, you little bastard!
In this world, is there such a thing as an old man with a grandson? !

On the contrary, Tian Gang! He is simply not a human being!
Old Li rolled up his sleeves with a grim smile, grabbed Li Xiang and gave him a beating.

Li Mingda watched the excitement from the side and had no intention of pleading for Li Xiang.

Well, after all, it is a loving interaction between grandparents and grandchildren.

After cracking the chestnuts, I still felt unsatisfied.

Old Li kicked Li Xiang, but after thinking that he was his eldest grandson after all, he changed direction and kicked Li Xiang in a fleshy spot on his butt.

It turned out that the quality of Li Xiang's robe might not be very good. I don't know how Li Xiang kicked it, but with a "crackling" sound, the thread of Li Xiang's robe was torn.

"Old man, you are so despicable!" Li Xiang held up his robe. Fortunately, it was winter and he had to wear more clothes, otherwise he would have been exposed.

"How am I mean?" Li Shimin was also happy. In fact, he was not angry at all. He just wanted to joke with Li Xiang to relax.

"That big kick has torn the threads of my robe!" said the little elephant angrily.

"Hahahahahahahaha..." Li Shimin stroked his beard and laughed. He felt very refreshed looking at his masterpiece.

"It's just a robe. I'll have someone make you a few more tonight."

When Li Xiang was in the palace, leaders of all ethnic groups had gathered in Chang'an City.

The Uighur leader Tumidu has been in a good mood recently. He fled to the direction of the Andong Protectorate and is cooperating with the Andong Protectorate to deal with the Shiwei people.

This time when he entered Chang'an, he brought a lot of good things, one to show his loyalty to His Majesty the Khan, and the other to congratulate His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Coming to Chang'an with him was the Mohe leader Agulang.

Since there is no "Biography of Mohe" in the "New Book of Tang", its content was written in the "Biography of Heishui Mohe". As a result, after the Yuan Dynasty, many historians mistakenly used Heishui Mohe to refer to Mohe.

In fact, Mohe is a general term for sixteen tribes including Heishui, Simu, Junli, Kushuo, Moyejie and Funie.

The Mohe made their living by hunting. In the area of ​​the Sixty-Four Villages in Jiangdong, they developed and formed with the Mohe Heishui tribe as the core, which was divided into sixteen tribes.

The name Heishui Mohe may be unfamiliar to people, but his other name is definitely familiar to people.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan people rose to power. Around the time when Yelu Abaoji destroyed the Bohai Kingdom, the Heishui Mohe tribe defected to the Khitan, and the Khitans called them Jurchens. Therefore, the name Jurchen became the new name of the Heishui Mohe people.

In the fifth year of Wude, the Mohe leader Agulang paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty. From then on, the Mohe has always been a vassal of the Tang Dynasty. Before that, the Mohe also made a lot of efforts in intimidating the Xueyantuo.

It was also during this time that Tumidu and Agulang became good friends.

As Xueyantuo Zhenzhubijia Khan Yinan was seriously ill, he did not come in person, but asked his eldest son Yemang, also known as Datushe, to come to Chang'an to attend the event on his behalf.

Datushe certainly knew Tumidu and Agulang, especially Tumidu, who had robbed the people of Xueyantuo.

But...they can't be considered enemies.

Because Tumidu plundered the tribe of his brother Bazhuo.

As we all know, the brothers Bazhuo and Dadushe love each other so much that they would like to kill each other.

Tumidu robbed Bazhuo, which was equivalent to helping him vent his anger. How could Datushe possibly hold a grudge against Tumidu?
"Tumidu, my dear brother." Dadushe opened his arms and greeted him with a smile.

"Oh, it's Brother Dadushe." Tumidu walked forward and gave Dadushe a warm hug.

After the two exchanged a few pleasantries, Dadushe got down to business.

"My father's birthday is coming soon. You know, I have always been a filial child." Dadu set up his own character first, and then said: "It happened that the weather was good last year, with less wind and snow, and there were still many cattle and sheep in the tribe, so I wanted to find my brothers to exchange some local specialties."

"There are so many rare treasures in the Tang Dynasty. Why do you want to go far away?" Tumidu asked in confusion.

"You know, some things are not native to the Tang Dynasty." Dadushe said with a smile, "First, I want to trade with you for a batch of deer."

When he heard that it was a deer, Tumidu naturally had no objection.

There isn't much else in the Northeast, except for deer everywhere in the mountains.

"No problem." Tumidu agreed readily.

"I heard there's a kind of chicken called 'Flying Dragon' that's delicious, and I want to get some too." Dadushe said again.

Tumidu agreed without hesitation: "No problem, there are still many flying dragon chickens left in the tribe. If you want them, I'll give them all to you."

"Finally, my son wants a little camel. Look, brother..." Tumidu said a little embarrassedly.

Who would have thought that Tumidu would frown immediately.

"That won't work. Shiwei doesn't produce camels."

Now it was Datushe's turn to be confused. How did my desire for a whole camel have anything to do with Shiwei?
He didn't feel comfortable asking, and Tumidu didn't answer.

In fact, Tumidu was too embarrassed to say it. After all, things like deer and flying dragons were all snatched from the Shiwei tribe... no, they were picked up by chance.

The Tang army insisted that they were the army of the Celestial Empire and would never do such sneaky things, but the Uighurs did not have this idol burden.

As the saying goes, I have no morals, so you can't use morality to blackmail me. Wherever the Huihe people passed, no grass grew.

The Tang army also turned a blind eye. Who made Shiwei follow Goguryeo before?
Su Dingfang said, "I am an old horse who doesn't know the way home, but I must eradicate you villains!"

But Tumidu also understood the ways of the world, and would naturally share part of his earnings with the Andong Protectorate.

Just then, when they heard that the Protector General of Andong was about to get married, Liu Rengui and Su Dingfang discussed it and decided to send some local specialties as a gift.

What are the local specialties? Deer penis and deer antlers, these are all good things.

There are also ginseng and sable fur, which are known as the three treasures of Northeast China together with deer antlers.

Of course, there is another saying that it is ginseng and sable fur.

The people in Andong Protectorate had only just learned about the herb, which they heard from the Uighurs.

When visiting the Shiwei tribe, Tumidu's people discovered that the Shiwei people liked to use a kind of grass to mat their beds and also used it as shoe pads. After asking the captives, they learned that this thing was called "靰鞡草". It was not only not easy to get damp, but also very warm. So they recommended it to the Andong Protectorate.

After trying it, the people of Andong Protectorate felt it was really good, so they offered a reward, using Dengzhou's specialty to exchange for the qinhe grass.

Liaodong is freezing cold, and this thing is most suitable for use in the military.

With the previous transactions between Xueyantuo and Huihe, a trade boom swept through Sifangguan for a while.

Abebirov sat at a distance, looking eagerly at the crowd that was clamoring about trade.

He also wanted to take part in the deal, but Prince Naka no Oe was planning to kill the powerful minister Soga no Iruka, so sending him out to congratulate His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty was already the limit.

Because of the butterfly effect of Li Xiang, Prince Naka no Oe was unable to take action against Soga no Iruka.

In the battle on Caoxian Peninsula, not only did Soga no Iruka suffer heavy casualties, but Prince Naka no Oe also suffered heavy casualties.

Besides, Japan is relatively poor and doesn’t have any special local products to show off.

This is what Li Xiang didn't know. If he knew, he would definitely slap his thigh and ask why your country doesn't have any special products? Later generations only knew about Iwami Silver Mine, but what they didn't know was that Japan also had many copper mines.

In the 23rd year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, a large amount of copper ore poured in from Japan. At that time, the Qing Dynasty imported an average of one million kilograms of copper ore from Japan each year, and in the middle of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, it reached an astonishing four million kilograms.

For example, in 1989, the Besshi Copper Mine, the largest copper mine in modern Japan, had an average copper production of 1.58 million kilograms.

In the 49th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, the output of "Yunnan Copper", which represented the national copper production of the Qing Dynasty, was only 1.2 million jin. However, the output of a single mine in Japan exceeded the annual copper production of the Qing Dynasty.

Later, Japan also realized the risk of metal outflow, so it began to restrict the export of copper ore, which cooled down the copper ore trade.

However, copper has many uses beyond your imagination.

Not only can it be used as currency, but most of the cannons during the Renaissance were also made of copper.

Although copper is much more expensive than iron, when metallurgical technology was underdeveloped, using copper to cast cannons was far superior to iron - it was just too damn expensive.

But once the technology tree is developed, bronze cannons will gradually fade out of history.

Li Xiang did not think that far ahead. After all, he had just conquered Goguryeo and Baekje, and it was not appropriate to cross the sea directly to attack Japan.

He had heard about the transactions within Sifang Pavilion, but he did not care about it.

He has no control over who others do business with.

Days passed, and soon it was the day before the wedding.

On this day, Li Xiang was driven back to the East Palace to sleep, and the person sleeping in his bed became Li Jue.

The bed was made by Li Shimin himself.

This is one of the wedding customs since ancient times, also known as bed pressing.

On the night before the wedding, the groom's family will ask an elderly person with both sons and daughters to make the bed, and then the groom will ask one or two younger brothers to sleep with him on the new bed.

There are also restrictions on the conditions for people to press the bed, not just anyone can do it.

First of all, the person who holds down the bed must be a male teenager who is younger than the groom, usually his own brother, or his uncle or cousin.

The second condition for the bed presser is that he must be an unmarried teenager.

Li Jue was also very happy, but soon he couldn't laugh anymore.

He originally thought that his elder brother Li Xiang would sleep with him, and they could even listen to a few stories at night.

But he was told that he had to sleep alone in the Wude Hall tonight.

This made Li Jue very angry. He should not have agreed to it earlier!

Fortunately, before pressing on the bed last night, Li Shimin carefully warned him that if he dared to wet the bed this time, he would have to suffer the consequences tomorrow.

Li Jue thought about it and decided to go to the toilet before going to bed.

In fact, he had stopped wetting the bed a long time ago, but since Grandad said so, he felt a little insecure.

While Li Jue was struggling, Li Xiang was also lying on the bed struggling.

For the first time ever, Li Chengqian did not go to accompany his wife, but knocked on Li Xiang's door, intending to have a heart-to-heart talk with his eldest son.

In fact, Li Chengqian was a little uncomfortable with his eldest son's marriage.

I originally thought that I was still a child, but I never expected that my children would already be married and have children.

For a moment, Li Chengqian felt that he had grown old too.

"Elephant?"

Li Xiang heard the call and looked up and asked, "Aye?"

Li Chengqian pushed the door open and sat down at the table.

"Why are you here?" Li Xiang stood up and asked.

"Why can't I come?" Li Chengqian smiled, "Your mother is worried about you and afraid that you can't sleep, so she asked me to come and take a look."

"What do you want to talk about?" Li Xiang walked to the table and sat down in his slippers.

Meng Shu came in from outside the room, carrying a pot of tea, a plate of shredded squid, and a plate of pistachios.

This shredded squid is a specialty of Dengzhou.

Generally speaking, people in Chang'an like to eat shredded squid with wine, or drink tea with some dried fruits, and sit together and chat.

For example, pistachios were the Tang people’s favorite little thing to go with tea.

At first, Li Xiang was wondering what this thing was, but after seeing it, he realized - isn’t this just a pistachio?
Li Chengqian grabbed a handful of squid shreds and put them in his mouth one by one, chewing them slowly.

As an inland person, Li Chengqian always subconsciously pursues these seafood.

Now that his gout has almost recovered, there is no problem for him to eat some shredded squid.

"What else can we talk about?" Li Chengqian showed a very manly smile: "Look at you, you haven't had a maid to serve you all these years, what will you do if you can't find the way to the wedding chamber tomorrow?"

Li Xiang: …

Thank you, Dad. It was you who took the wrong road, right?

"Actually, the child understands this aspect of the problem." Li Xiang said speechlessly.

"Do you really understand?" Li Chengqian asked meaningfully.

"Of course!" Li Xiang couldn't help but laugh. Have you ever seen a pig run, even if you haven't eaten pork?
In my previous life, I was baptized by many teachers, right? What about so-and-so and so-and-so, and the dark Lin Chiling...

Alas, after wandering in the Tang Dynasty for many years, I sometimes miss the classic teachers in my hard drive...

"In that case, then Yeye will be relieved." Li Chengqian just thought that Li Jingren and his group of bad boys had taught Li Xiang a lesson, so he didn't say much.

Li Xiang was just about to turn the tables and ask who taught Li Chengqian and the Crown Princess before they got married, but he suddenly thought of this grandson... His father had tasted the forbidden fruit and had him six years before they got married.

As soon as this thought came to an end, another voice was heard outside.

"Xiang'er, are you asleep?"

As soon as I heard the voice, it was undoubtedly Li Shimin.

"No, old man." Li Xiang replied.

Then, Li Shimin pushed the door open and saw Li Chengqian at first sight.

"My uncle just got here too." Li Xiang pointed at the snacks on the table and said, "How about... Uncle, would you like to try some together?"

"Well, that's fine." Li Shimin didn't hesitate to walk over to Li Chengqian and sit down, then he stared at Li Xiang with a scrutinizing look.

This made Li Xiang a little confused. What was going on?
(End of this chapter)