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"Is Zheng Zhixun here?"

"As for Master Yan, the young master has not come to Chang'an yet."

"What about your master?"

"Master went out early this morning."

"Okay, let's go down."

Yan Kai asked the Zheng family's servants to step back.

I've been eating and drinking well these days, but I always feel like I'm playing a stand-alone game in Chang'an.

The people around me are all NPCs like the servants of the Zheng family.

After thinking for a while, he came to the door of the yard.

"Master Yan, are you going out?"

"Well, go out for a walk."

"The little one will ask someone to prepare the car right away."

"No, I'll just go to the door and walk around."

"Master Yan, please don't embarrass me. Master Yan said that if you come here and are unfamiliar with the place, you must follow you."

Still the same rhetoric.

"let it go."

Yan Kai walked back to his room again.

Something was wrong, very wrong. Rather than being invited, Yan Kai felt more like he was under house arrest in the Zheng family.

During lunch, a burst of hearty laughter came: "Brother Xian, I have been neglecting you a lot these days, please forgive me."

The visitor was none other than Zheng Buqi, who had not been seen for several days.

Yan Kai smiled and shook his head: "Brother, what did you say? I eat well and sleep well here, not to mention how comfortable I am."

"Hahaha, that's good." Zheng Buqi took out a scroll and asked, "This is the guest list for tomorrow. Brother, would you like to see it?"

He was just polite. Many of the guests on the guest list were nobles from Chang'an. How many of them could an ordinary citizen like Yan Kai, who had lived in Luoyang for a long time, recognize?

Unexpectedly, Yan Kai agreed immediately.

"Okay!"

Taking the list, Yan Kai pretended to be unintentional and asked: "Zhixun's illness is not cured yet? What disease does he have?"

"Yes! This child was seriously ill last time, and maybe the root of the disease was left behind, and he has been bedridden."

After hearing what he said, Yan Kai was even more suspicious. If Zheng Zhixun, the three famous doctors in the family, had left any root cause of the disease, how could they not see it?

When I opened the scroll, I really didn't know many of the people on it.

Yan Kai just said it casually and didn't really intend to see anyone.

But at this time, his heart suddenly jumped, and he read the list from beginning to end, and then gave it back to Zheng Buqi.

"Brother, if you are busy, don't pay attention to me."

"Okay..." Zheng Buqi hesitated and said, "It's true that things have been complicated these days. When things are done here, I will definitely take you around Chang'an."

When Zheng Buqi went out, Yan Kai's hands began to tremble violently, and he couldn't stop even holding his hands tightly.

He really didn't know anyone on the guest list, and he didn't see the people he knew.

The people he knows here are the generals of Tiance Mansion.

It makes sense to say that Zheng Buqi and Li Shimin are secretly united and their relationship cannot be put on the table.

But there was not a single person from Tiance Mansion in the guest list!

This shows what?

Although Prince Li Jiancheng and King Qin Li Shimin are fighting openly and secretly, they are still brothers on the surface.

It's unscientific to hold a big banquet in Chang'an but not invite anyone from Tiance Mansion.

This list must have been drawn up by Zheng Buqi himself. Except for him and himself who happened to see it, no one knows who is on the list.

If the people from Tiance Mansion don't come, what will they do?

Yan Kai's head was pounding. The only thing he could think of now was that the Xuanwu Gate incident had been brought forward.

And he became one of the pawns.

There were probably many princes among the people Zheng Buqi hosted at the banquet. After all, he and Zheng Guanyin were related by clan.

To have a project that could invite so many people, Zheng Buqi couldn't rely on the elders of the Zheng family, because he was the only one secretly supporting Li Shimin.

So this name can only be found from himself.

At his age, he had already married a wife and became a disciple. His eldest son, Zheng Buqi, was already that old, and his birth date was well known to everyone.

Then the only way for him to hold a grand banquet is to become sworn friends.

Coupled with the fact that his identity is mysterious, and there must be many legends in Luoyang, and because of his age, there will definitely be many people who come to see the excitement with the mentality of having just celebrated the New Year and having nothing to do.

Although he didn't know exactly how it was done, Zheng Buqi must have discussed it with Li Shimin. He was holding back some of the forces in the Prince's Mansion to increase Li Shimin's chances of winning.

But why did the Xuanwumen Incident happen in advance? Is it because my butterfly wings are weak?

Yan Kai was actually right about this, because he donated the waterwheel, and Li Shimin waited until the New Year before handing it over to Li Yuan as a New Year's gift, which caused quite a stir.

China has been based on agriculture since ancient times, so an artifact that can greatly increase production is naturally a great achievement.

But Li Yuan has no reward at this time.

Li Shimin's official positions are: General Tiance, King of Qin, Shangzhu Kingdom, Taiwei, Situ, Shangshu Ling, Yongzhou Mu, General Wuhou of Youyou, Daxingtai of Shaanxi Province, Shangshu Ling of Yizhou Daoxingtai, Liangzhou Steward.

If translated into modern positions, they would probably be: Winner of the Twelve Legends of the Tang Dynasty, Super Battle Hero of the Tang Dynasty, National Military Commander, Minister of Education of the Tang Dynasty, Minister of Finance of the Tang Dynasty, Supreme Commander of the Chang'an Guard Force, and Responsible Person of the Luoyang Military Region He is the commander-in-chief of the Chengdu Military Region and the chief executive of the Gansu Military Region.

So as soon as the waterwheel came out, Li Yuan had no choice but to let him also serve as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

This Minbu Shangshu was later called Hubu Shangshu. It was changed to Hubu by Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, in order to avoid tabooing his father's Min character.

In modern times, it is the Ministry of Finance plus the Ministry of Civil Affairs plus the Ministry of Land and Resources plus the Ministry of Water Resources plus the Ministry of Agriculture.

At this time, Li Yuan was actually panicked, Li Jiancheng was panicked, and even Li Shimin was panicked.

Li Jiancheng wrote continuously, requesting that generals from Li Shimin's Tiance Mansion be sent to the north to resist the Turks.

And Li Yuan agreed to them all.

Li Shimin knew that if he didn't do something, he would be the only one left in Chang'an soon.

Winning that position has become imminent.

Yan Kai didn't have much status in Li Shimin's heart at this time, but he just thought that he was a young man with extraordinary talents and some strange skills.

Therefore, Yan Kai or Zheng Buqi became a pawn in Li Shimin's chess game.

These things are not difficult to guess. Yan Kai judged them by following the clues he saw in the past few days.

Of course, one of the reasons for this is that he knows better than anyone else in this era that Li Shimin will rebel.

What's even more helpless is that he knows that he has become a pawn in this chess game, but he cannot jump out of the chessboard.