Before Yao Chong and the others could return to the palace to eat their meal, someone ran out of the palace to look for them.
He told them that there was a battle in the southeast and that they should hurry over.
Upon hearing this, Yao Chong recalled how King Song had run off without saying a word, and he felt sad again.
"The current report needs to be delivered to a civil official first. We will only know after we receive it."
Yao Chong was filled with sadness. He had been blocked in Earthly Paradise, and now he was in this situation.
"We should be eating in the palace." Lu Huaishen brought up the crucial matter.
We all have meals provided by the palace, and there are so many small plates. You don't want to eat and insist on going to Earthly Paradise.
If you were in the palace, wouldn't you have received the news first?
"This old man is just saying. A civil official shouldn't be handing over a battle report." Yao Chong knew that he was in the wrong.
He also knew that it was wrong for him to compete with Li Yi all day, but he couldn't help it.
By the time they arrived at the palace, Li Longji had already ordered the tables and food to be set up.
Today, everyone would eat hotpot. Each person would have a small pot and cook by themselves.
Li Longji finally found a good way to eat hot food.
"Hotpot, you can try it. Try every dish first.
When you're done, We'll light the fire and cook the food inside. We'll even let you taste the dipping sauce first. "
"As expected, we can eat hot food now."
"If you try the rice first, We'll just put noodles in the hotpot."
The hotpot used alcohol instead of charcoal for fear of poisoning.
The alcohol was placed in porcelain boxes. Once it burned out, palace maids would come over and cover the boxes before taking them away and replacing them with new ones.
Li Yi emphasized time and time again that it was easy to cause problems by not adding alcohol to the hotpot.
This was especially so for the person sitting across from him. When adding alcohol, the fire didn't go out, and with a boom, it exploded.
Seeing that there was hotpot to eat, Yao Chong and the others breathed a sigh of relief. This meant that the problem wasn't serious. No, it was beneficial to the Tang dynasty.
"Everyone, please sit. We'll talk about the good news while we eat." Li Longji walked out from his seat and sat down with everyone else.
"Your Majesty, did you win the war in the southwest region?" Zhang Shuo washed his hands in the basin that a palace maid had brought over and sat down.
"The first time we came into contact with them, the southwestern barbarians didn't know the power of hot air balloons and were always discovered by us in advance."
Li Longji had a nonchalant look on his face as if he didn't care at all.
Everyone understood that His Majesty was very happy.
Gao Lishi was in charge of reading the battle reports from the frontlines. Everyone ate and listened. It was indeed good.
There were many mountains in the southwest, and they were afraid of being ambushed. As soon as the hot air balloon rose, no birds flew in the places where there were people, and no animals came near.
Using binoculars to observe from above, people would hide, or at least move to observe a certain area carefully.
For example, lying in the grass, when the wind blew, the other grass would sway, but that area would not move.
"Your Majesty, the hot air balloon is indeed a treasure. It's a weapon of war. It can be used as a lookout tower at any time, and it can even rise hundreds to thousands of feet high. With the help of things like binoculars, it can be used for both long and short distances."
Yao Chong picked up a few pieces of meat and threw them into the hot pot to cook. He didn't like to cook because his arms were tired.
Lu Huaishen cooked while saying, "Jinzi Guang Lu, Doctor Li Yi, should be rewarded for his contributions."
He was more afraid. Li Yi was too good to him, and he always felt that he was going to fall sick, and it was the kind of illness that could kill him.
He was a prime minister and worked very hard. He also wanted to contribute to the Tang dynasty, and he didn't live enough.
He didn't say anything good about Li Yi. If Li Yi knew that he was sick and sent over, Li Yi would say that he couldn't save him and that he had tried his best. What should he do?
He asked the imperial physician, and the imperial physician also said that there was nothing he could do.
Just like the palace maid Xi 'er's intestinal abscess, the imperial physician said that it was too late.
In the end, after being sent to the Li Family Zhuangzi, after a few days, he came back alive and kicking.
There was also Zhuya Jinshan. Seeing that he was about to die, the imperial physician told his son to prepare for his funeral.
Zhuangzi was sent over, and in the end, there was no problem. He even had his teeth inserted.
With this medical skill, no one could offend him.
"He should be Doctor Guang Lu." Wei Zhigu knew how to repay kindness. He almost died last year.
"This subject agrees." Bi Goo used his tongue to lick his three new teeth.
"We should add food." Zhang Shuo's reaction was not slow.
Then everyone looked at Yao Chong, meaning that it was his turn.
"Yes, plus food." Yao Chong glanced at Gao Lishi from the corner of his eye.
He was worried that if everyone agreed, he would cause trouble and Gao Lishi would reveal it to Li Yi.
Who wanted to be remembered by Li Yi? Li Yi was very busy. He was thinking about the people and the war, so he didn't have the chance to think about other things.
"There's no need to add food. He doesn't count on that bit of grain to live." Li Longji was stingy. He didn't want to give Li Yi grain.
If he gave it, the imperial court would lack it. To Li Yi, that grain was only enough for two meals.
Every month, when the imperial court sent him a salary, Song De would come out with Li Yi's seal to receive it. After the seal was stamped, he would give a bunch of things to the person who sent it.
"Yao Chong, I'll leave this matter to you." Li Longji threw the matter of promoting Li Yi to Yao Chong.
Turning his head, he thought of something.
"I really bought a place in the northeast corner of Xuanyang Lane. I want to build a bathing pool. In the future, all of you can bathe there."
Li Longji first mentioned to let others know that although it was not allowed to do business there, I bought it. None of your subordinates should investigate.
"Your Majesty, can the bathing pool be compared to Earthly Paradise?" Yao Chong thought that Li Longji bought a piece of land because he didn't have enough money.
Who arranged it? Needless to say, the person who arranged it was eating at Earthly Paradise. He even persuaded this old man to leave.
"You still don't know. I can't bear to see so many people lose the chance to bathe in winter, so I built it."
Li Longji definitely wouldn't admit that it was for money. Li Chengqi had already explained to him how it worked.
It was a profitable business. Business was indeed good next to Pyong Kang Square.
Thus, everyone understood that there was a place that could bring in a lot of money for His Majesty. They would understand in a few days how to get the money.
Everyone was wondering what methods Li Yi could use to swindle people, so they didn't pay much attention to the war in the southwest.
In a mountain in the southwest, the General of the Right Valiant Guard, Li Xuandao, was talking to Fan Fan.
"Battalion Commander Fan, your attire is even more impressive than the southwest barbarians." Li Xuandao saw the Winged Knights' appearance when they dismounted.
The Winged Knights encountered a battle as soon as they arrived. A rain of arrows suppressed the southwest barbarians' offensive.
They urged their horses to charge again, and the southwest barbarians ran away.
After that, they raised a hot air balloon to find where the southwest barbarians were hiding.
In the first battle, they killed more than 400 of the southwest barbarians and captured more than 300.
When the southwest barbarians saw that they couldn't win, they hid in the depths of the forest.
The Winged Knights had changed their attire today. There were yellow, green, and blue patches on their clothes.
Their faces were also smeared in a mess. It was impossible to tell what they originally looked like.
Furthermore, they used tree branches to weave a headband. The crossbow and bow were also wrapped in grass, and the arrowheads were dyed green with grass juice.
If one didn't see them with their own eyes, they wouldn't be able to find them if they looked elsewhere.
The southwest barbarians also knew how to disguise themselves, but they were far inferior to the Winged Knights.
"The last time the prefectural soldiers went to kill them, 46 people died. The losses were too great. This time, we'll do it."
As Fan Fan spoke, he took out a mouthpiece and placed a small arrow with a ribbed tail into it.
"You're familiar with this?" Li Xuandao was shocked. Some of the southwest barbarians knew how to use it, but the Winged Knights each had one.
"The thousand of us are veterans. If we practice this, we'll be tortured to death."
As Fan Fan spoke, he shook his head and closed his eyes. It was as if he couldn't bear to recall the past.
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