I am Li Shen and Li Shimin, the free kings of the Tang Dynasty

"Your Majesty is right. I admire you very much."

"Your Majesty is a man of great talent, and is well-known in the literary world because you have read a lot of books and have mastered them.

I admire you very much.”

Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance immediately began to flatter Prince Ji in order to ease his embarrassment.

They have followed Li Shen for so many years, how could they not know what kind of person Li Shen is.

Prince Ji still cannot write many words.

Sometimes there are traces of corrections on the memorials submitted to Your Majesty, with circles or crosses drawn on them. If it were someone else, he would have been dismissed from office long ago.

"It's a small matter, a small matter. Since Xuan Ce knows that you want to ask me, then you can arrange this matter. Find out where there is a place where we can grow bamboo sugarcane on a large scale.

By the way, Kunlun sugarcane also needs to be planted.

Humph, if you don't give it to me, can't I just grow it myself? I won't give it to you even if I transport it to Chang'an."

Li Shen finally muttered a little angrily.

"Yes, Your Majesty. I will send someone to investigate later." Wang Xuance accepted the order.

“Oh, by the way, write a letter to Brother Five and ask him to lead the people in his jurisdiction to plant crops together. We don’t need fertile fields, wasteland will do.

Tell him not to worry, when the time comes the Prince Ji's Mansion will be completely reclaimed and the people will not be forced to do useless work.

Well...tell Wang Hongfu and ask him to prepare dozens of truckloads of gifts and send them to Fifth Brother.

Lingnan is a smoke-filled and humid place, and life is hard. Although his title has been stripped, he is still a prince after all, and cannot live too shabby.

Shitou will make a note of it and tell the princess later.

There are still a lot of outdated silks, gauze and brocades in Prince Ji’s mansion. Why not transport more of them over?

Also send along the gold, silver, and jade jewelry that they don’t bring with them, and we can make new ones for them later.

There were still many blankets from the Western Regions, so some were sent over. The rest were tea, wine, soap, food, clothing and other daily necessities, which were left to Wang Hongfu to take care of.

The journey is long, don’t go in vain.”

Li Shen made careful arrangements. Considering that Li You was living in hardship there, Li Shen decided to help him out.

Although sometimes the caravan from Prince Ji’s Mansion would bring some things to Li You when they went to Lingnan.

But it will eventually run out, and you won’t be able to carry a lot with you at one time.

Speaking of which, the place where Li You is located is quite far away from the prosperous Guangzhou.

It is not so easy to go there. The Lingnan region is full of mountains and forests, and the roads are rugged. The place where Li You stays is a bit remote, which is really inconvenient.

This time Li Shen brought some more things over. They were not needed in Prince Ji’s mansion and took up space anyway.

Li Shen thinks that many things are outdated, but they are not outdated at all outside, especially in the Lingnan region, where they are even harder to find.

Shitou and Wang Xuance bowed and accepted the order.

"That's all right. If there's nothing else, go back and do what I've asked you to do."

After the discussion, Li Shen felt a little tired.

"I'll take my leave." Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance stood up, bowed, and left.

Li Shen was stroking the cat in a daze. He was still upset about the sugarcane incident.

He is considering whether to break away from his original family.

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The study room of Prince Jin's Mansion.

At this time, the study was littered with broken pieces of teacups, and Li Zhi was standing in the middle, gasping for breath.

It was obvious that he had just let off some steam.

Standing by the door was Li Yifu, the chief official of the Prince of Jin's mansion.

"Your Majesty, calm down. Why don't you sit down and have a cup of tea and tell me what's going on?"

Li Yifu had just arrived when he found the floor in a mess. He hadn't figured out what had happened.

What on earth happened to the King of Jin that made him so furious?

When Li Zhi saw Li Yifu coming in, he calmed down, went to sit down at the desk, and found that there was no cup.

Li Yifu immediately opened the door and waved to the servants in the distance.

"Bring a set of tea set to the prince, and clean up this place quickly." Li Yifu ordered.

After the servants came in, they quickly started to clean up, and someone brought new tea sets and placed them on the tea table.

After everything was packed up, Li Yifu ordered his servants to leave.

"Your Highness, please have a cup of tea first. What has made Your Highness so angry?" Li Yifu said as he poured a cup of tea for Li Zhi.

Li Zhi picked up the tea and drank it all before he spoke:

"I just came out of the palace. Your Majesty is going to hand over power and abdicate."

"What? Your Majesty is going to abdicate? How can it be so soon? We estimated that it would take at least two years.

The problems of Tubo and Western Turkestan have not been resolved, and there are still three small countries on the Liaodong Road.

Why would Your Majesty suddenly want to abdicate?"

Hearing this, Li Yifu was also extremely surprised.

They all inferred that His Majesty would not abdicate until at least the problems in the west, Liaodong, and even the southwestern Shu area were solved.

One has the merit of expanding the territory, and the other does not leave the problems to the prince.

They estimated that it would take at least two years to resolve these issues.

"How would I know? I just went to the palace with the King of Wei to pay my respects to my mother, and then..."

Li Zhi began to talk about Li Shimin's orders.

"You said it yourself, isn't this a sign of abdication?"

"There is such a thing?" Li Yifu frowned after hearing this.

"Your Majesty, if this is true, I'm afraid His Majesty really wants to abdicate."

"It's not that simple, can't you hear that His Majesty said this on purpose in front of me?

Your Majesty is telling me not to have any unreasonable expectations.

It seems that the matter of Xizhou has made His Majesty very angry, and he has a grudge against me."

Li Zhi had a gloomy face, but he was not as stupid as he pretended to be, he still had this sense of smell.

"Alas~~~It's a pity that we made a mistake in the last move and failed.

I just can't understand why we were caught after planning for several years and doing it perfectly.

The key figure, Duke Zhao, actually changed sides at the last minute. Otherwise, we would still have a great chance."

Li Yifu sighed, feeling a little regretful.

They had been planning for so long, but they didn't expect that King Ji would crack it so easily.

If it was against someone else, it would have succeeded long ago.

What he couldn't figure out was what method Prince Ji used to threaten Changsun Wuji.

“I have also been thinking about the matter of Xizhou. Why did Li Shen know about it? Is it really because of the evidence left by Wang Wencheng?

Those pieces of evidence are actually of no use. The key point is why that old thief, Changsun Wuji, turned against his allies at the critical moment.

If you don't understand this, how can you cooperate with him in the future?"

I feel a little suffocated when I mention Li Zhi. If Changsun Wuji insists, this matter will be accomplished.

"Your Majesty, only Your Majesty can ask this personally. You will definitely not be able to find out even if you want to.

This matter will definitely be kept secret by the Changsun Mansion, and the only person who might know about it is Duke Zhao."

Li Yifu guessed.