Time Travel: I am the idle king Li Shen and Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty

Li Shen's little tricks were seen by Li Shimin. Seeing Li Shen's expression of being accustomed to it, and even occasionally showing a look of disgust,

Li Shimin, who was originally happy to see so many gifts, suddenly became not in such a good mood.

Based on his understanding of Li Shen, these gifts might be available in Prince Ji's Mansion, and some of them are not as good as those in Prince Ji's Mansion.

The presentation of gifts was quickly completed, and the next step began, which Li Shen called the division of the spoils.

Tang Jian, the Minister of Civil Affairs, was the first to step forward. He bowed to Li Shimin and said:

"May your majesty be well. I request that tributes from all regions be deposited into the national treasury, so that we can take money from the people and use it for the people."

That is, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has to take away the tribute from various places.

Then the Minister of Rites Xu Jingzong also stood up and saluted Li Shimin and spoke, saying something similar to the Minister of Civil Affairs.

What it means is that the Ministry of Rites must also take away the tributes from foreign countries.

If Your Majesty likes something, I will communicate with the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Civil Affairs privately at that time, but it is definitely not possible to ask for everything.

After Wang De received the signal, he shouted to the ministers: "The decree says it is allowed!"

Then a group of servants came in and moved out the things that had been moved in, and this step was completed.

But at this moment someone suddenly shouted:

"Wait!"

Everyone was stunned. It was the first time someone spoke in all these years.

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw a man standing up in front of them. It was Prince Ji Li Shen.

Li Xiaogong, who was standing by, didn't even bother to hold him back; his adopted nephew stood up.

"Prince Ji, is there anything wrong?" Li Shimin looked over.

"Your Highness, I have taken a fancy to two things among the tributes. I wonder if you can give them to me as a reward."

"Humph, this is tribute. Do you think it is a commodity sold by merchants outside? Envoys from various countries present tribute to show their respect to Your Majesty.

How can I give it to you?"

Before Li Shimin could speak, Li Zhi snorted and said.

"You are ignorant. Apart from anything else, isn't the tribute that Aye has given you, the King of Jin, enough?" Li Shen immediately responded with disdain after hearing this.

This sentence immediately left Li Zhi speechless.

"Okay, Prince Ji, tell me, what did you like?" Li Shimin was also very curious. His son was very wealthy and had countless treasures at home.

There are actually things that catch his eye. Could it be that there is some treasure in there that others don’t know about?

Li Shen saluted calmly and said:

"My dear father, I have taken a fancy to the longke (parrot) sent by Java and the linu (cat) sent by Persia."

"Huh?" Li Shimin was stunned when he heard that. He thought Li Shen had taken a fancy to some treasure, but he didn't expect it to be a toy.

But he soon felt relieved. It was not strange that Li Shen, a playboy, liked these things.

Every wealthy young man in Chang'an would have some living creatures at home, some even had wild beasts.

"Someone, bring these two things here." Li Shimin ordered immediately.

After a while, a servant brought the parrot and the cat over. Li Shimin didn't take a closer look at them just now.

Now that he had it in his hands, he looked at it carefully. Both the parrot and the cat were in cages, with two of each.

A parrot is green all over, with blue wing edges and primary flight feathers, red flanks and inner sides of wings; the upper beak is orange-yellow and the lower beak is black.

One is dark red all over, with bluish-purple flanks, abdomen and wing edges; the beak is completely black; the tail coverts and tail feathers are red.

Look at the raccoons again. One is pure white, the other is white and blue. They have long, lush hair. They have round, wide heads, plump cheeks, small, round, pointed ears, short noses, and large, round eyes.

The white one has a blue eye, while the other has one blue and one yellow eye.

Looks extremely cute.

In the Tang Dynasty, keeping cats had long been a symbol of nobility, and Li Shimin also had cats in his harem.

But this Persian cat is really different from other cats.

The two kittens seemed a little scared because they were in a strange place, so they snuggled together.

Li Shimin stood up and walked forward and ordered someone to open the cage, as if he was going to reach out and catch one.

"Your Majesty, let me do it." Wang De on the side hurried forward and stretched out his hand to grab Bai.

"Miao~~~~" The kitten cried out because of fear.

Li Shimin reached out and took it, held it in front of him and looked at it carefully. He really liked it.

When the other princes and ministers saw this, they were also very surprised. Most of them had cats at home, some to catch mice,

Some are raised for fun.

In the upper class, no matter whether you like it or not, you have to have it, otherwise you are not a noble.

The things that nobles play with are all elegant things.

"Father, I like it very much. Please give it to me as a reward."

Li Shen had wanted to have a cat for a long time, and he had sent people to look for one, but he always felt that something was missing.

The cats of the Tang Dynasty were majestic and powerful. It was rumored that they were domesticated from raccoons. They had strong bodies and were good at catching mice.

Of course there are also well-behaved and docile ones, but Li Shen always feels that something is missing.

When Li Shen saw the Persian cats that were tributed from Persia today, he felt that they suited his temperament very well. Persian cats are docile, lazy and not very active.

This is exactly the same as his own character, so Li Shen wanted to ask for a reward, otherwise once it arrived at the Ministry of Rites, he might not know where to go.

"Your Majesty, I like it too." At this moment, Li Zhi stood up for some reason.

"Yes, father, I also like this Persian cat slave." When Li Tai saw Li Zhi stand up, he also stood up.

"Huh?" Li Shen turned his head to look at the two brothers who came out to disrupt the situation, and was very angry.

These two bastards, aren't they deliberately trying to make things difficult for me? Are you two crazy? Li Shen thought to himself.

Li Shimin frowned and looked at Li Tai and Li Zhi. Anyone could see that he was competing with Li Shen.

Li Shimin didn't say anything, just looked at Li Shen and the other two.

Everyone was watching how Li Shimin would solve the problem.

The scene was a bit awkward, and Li Shimin felt a little ashamed of himself, wondering which of his sons was fighting among themselves.

"Your Majesty, I want it too. You know I like these things."

At this moment, among the generals, Cheng Yaojin stood up.

"You are a coward, you don't know shit. Your Majesty, please give it to me as a reward. I love cats very much and I have several at home."

Yuchi Jingde then stood up, first retorted to Cheng Yaojin, and then made a request.

"Your Majesty, my daughter likes Li Nu very much. I hope Your Majesty can reward her." Li Ji also stood up.

Then the generals began to stand up one by one. They were all old ministers, and their words were more shameless than each other.

He even said that he would use this as a betrothal gift when he married a concubine.

Then the generals began to fight among themselves, their voices became louder and louder, they belittled each other, squeezed each other, and exposed each other's secrets.

The Taiji Hall suddenly turned into a vegetable market, very noisy.

Li Shimin's complexion also improved a lot, and he slowly smiled.

(The purpose of writing about the banquet process is to popularize it to everyone. Many folk customs around the world originated from my country.

Especially in Asia, it seems different, but in fact it was learned thousands of years ago, but it was not learned well.

It was also very popular among the nobles in the Tang Dynasty, and literati also kept cats.)