Chapter 593
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"Selling newspapers! Selling newspapers! Six Li Village in the west of the city is renting two giant pandas from Li Family Zhuangzi in Ba Shui. They will enter the garden in three days."
"Selling newspapers! People who live in the west of the city don't have to go to the east to see giant pandas. Six Li Village in the west of the city is bringing in two giant pandas."
Newspaper boys ran around the streets and alleys in the morning, shouting non-stop.
Recently, giant pandas had become the mainstream topic in the city.
Anyone who had seen a giant panda would tell others how fun it was.
Li Chengqi arranged for people to clean up the giant panda garden. He did spend a lot of money. One giant panda cost a thousand taels, and it was only a one-year rental fee.
Recently, he had been learning from Zhang Family's village and opening up vegetable greenhouses to people to pick vegetables.
The effect was not very good. Everyone knew that Six Li Village was not open in the past, and there was no Li Family Zhuangzi around.
After bringing in two giant pandas, others came.
"I am now proficient in both the pen and the sword." Li Yi threw another book on the table.
Early this morning, a seventh-rank officer came and gave him the book at the bridgehead of Ba Qiao and left with a basket of vegetables.
Deputy Rong, a ninth-rank officer, rewarded Li Yi for his action of personally capturing Khitan captives for the Tang dynasty.
For a soldier from the House of Subjugation, it was a good treatment to be rewarded with a deputy rong.
Under normal circumstances, capturing two captives was enough. At the same time, they were rewarded.
Li Yi knew from the attitude of the person who delivered the book that he did not care about anyone.
"Dongzhu, the Khitan envoys from yesterday are here again."
Song De ran over and looked at the book on the table with a serious expression.
"Let's go to the reception room." Li Yi began to tidy up his clothes.
When he arrived at the reception room, the four Khitan envoys from yesterday and the three officials from Honglu Temple were all there.
The three officials had normal expressions, but the four Khitan envoys looked like giant pandas. Their eyes were black and had dark circles.
Their eyes were also bloodshot. Obviously, they did not sleep last night.
"Everyone, please." Li Yi sat down, and the palace maids served tea again.
No one touched the teacups. The four Khitan envoys looked at each other. Brother Bo looked at Li Yi and spoke.
"Li Dongzhu wants to establish a trade alliance with the Khitans?" He changed the way he addressed Qin Wanru.
"It's economic and cultural exchanges. We'll further deepen our exchanges and cooperation, learn from each other's strengths to make up for our weaknesses, promote our mutual development, and stabilize our mutual interests."
Li Yi gave another way of expressing it.
"It has nothing to do with the Imperial Court of the Tang dynasty?" Na Duo asked.
"How can you say that it's unrelated? I'm from the Tang dynasty. Without official permission, I am not allowed to contact people from other tribes who are not in a state of peace. "
Li Yi waved his hand, denying that it was a private action without the authorization of the imperial court of the Tang dynasty.
The four of them picked up their teacups to drink. Their hearts were tired. Why did Li Yi's words sound so awkward?
Putting down the teacup, Na Duo glanced at the three people from Honglu Temple. "How can the imperial court of the Tang dynasty allow this?"
"Submit a letter. Your Khitan envoys have submitted a letter requesting the Tang dynasty to open up economic and cultural exchanges among the people.
Both parties shall ensure the personal and property safety of the members of the civil exchange teams.
They promised not to arrest or put on trial the other party's personnel before the other party committed any illegal acts.
Recognize the political rights of the other party's team during the exchange activities. "
Li Yi stated his request casually.
The four of them continued to think about the meaning of Li Yi's words and analyze whether there was a trap.
They looked at each other and found that there was no problem.
"What's next?" Chicagahan thought it was okay. Submit the letter.
"After submitting the letter, both parties will agree on the list of the members of the exchange team. We can transfer the members back to the areas under our control at any time."
Li Yi also picked up his teacup. He looked at the tea but didn't drink it.
"You mean transfer them back to their respective countries?" Brother Bo thought of the spies. Should he make them official?
"It's the forces under our control, not the countries. The Tang dynasty doesn't recognize the Khitans as countries."
Li Yi shook his head. He didn't want to talk about countries.
"Then we can't form an alliance with the Tang dynasty." Ciel was not happy.
"You're not forming an alliance with the Tang dynasty. You're doing business with me. You said it before."
Li Yi changed the topic to the beginning.
The four of them: "…"
We said business, but you said something about economic and cultural exchange. Then you said we need to submit the letter.
Now we're talking about business. You said business?
"You Khitans haven't established a country yet. The tribes are restricting each other. You represent a group of tribes."
Li Yi mentioned the identities of the four people. Each of them represented several small tribes. They were working together as envoys to the Tang dynasty.
"Then what?" Na Duo didn't want to continue the topic.
"Submit the letter first. We'll talk about it later. You have to take one bite at a time." Li Yi picked up his teacup … and put it down again.
"You can go back and have a rest. Then think about how to write the letter." He failed to send the guests away again.
The seven people left again. The three officials of the Honglu Temple each had a small basket of vegetables.
The four Khitans muttered on the way back. They felt something was wrong, but they couldn't figure out what the problem was.
It seemed normal. Li Yi was rich. He was willing to buy things from the Khitans and make money for his own people.
It was good for the 390 disobedient Non-commissioned Officer to learn the skills of the Tang dynasty. When they returned, they could use what they had learned.
When they returned to the Honglu Temple, the four people hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls of food and lay down to sleep.
The three officials entered the palace as quickly as possible to find Yao Chong.
Yao Chong and the other two Prime Ministers took them to see Li Longji.
"What do you think?" Li Longji finished listening to the Vice-Minister of the Chamberlain of Dependencies, Tian Qingyuan, and looked at Yao Chong and the others.
Yao Chong's eyelids drooped slightly. "I think that as long as the Khitan envoys submit the letter, it's for the sake of state affairs. Doctor Li's actions are for others to see."
Li Longji nodded and looked at Zhang Shuo.
"I think so too. I want to know what Doctor Li's follow-up plan is so that the imperial court can cooperate." Zhang Shuo pondered for a moment before answering.
"We'll discuss this later." Li Longji did not want to ask Li Yi right away. He looked at the last Prime Minister.
Lu Huaishen nodded, indicating that he understood. "It's my turn."
"Even if the Khitan envoys submit the letter, the Khitan side can overturn it at any time. The envoys' actions are used for propaganda to drive a wedge between the Turks and the Khitans."
Lu Huaishen thought about it. What the four Khitans said, the Khitans on the other side did not allow them to say.
It was a unilateral action of the Tang dynasty. Unless the Khitans sent someone back and the other side agreed, it would be a normal Prime Minister's letter.
The Prime Minister's letter was also useless. Tubo even submitted a letter to form an alliance, but in the end, they turned around and attacked. The alliance letter was useless.
"It's very difficult to breed pandas privately. You guys think of a way to issue a letter stating that they are not allowed to breed, kill, or capture pandas privately. This matter cannot be issued."
Li Longji did not ask about the national policy. Speaking of national treasures.
For the time being, pandas were not the national treasures of the Tang dynasty. The Tang dynasty did not have any restrictions or requirements on hunting animals.
Wherever there was a big tiger, the county would have to organize people to kill it.
Li Longji left the matter of how to implement the additional restrictions of the imperial court to the three Prime Ministers and see how they would handle it.
On the other side, the Li Family Zhuangzi and Li Yi were waiting for the Khitans to submit the letter.
Song De ran over with the hunters again. "Dongzhu, we found traces of pandas. One big one and three small ones. From the footprints, we can see that they are different. They are looking for pandas."
"It's almost Chinese New Year." Li Yi said as he changed his clothes and prepared to leave.
The Winged Knights and the Khitan captives gathered again. Li Yi found Guo Ziyi and entered the car to talk.
"I'll leave these three to you. I'll leave some medicine for you." Li Yi instructed.
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