Traveling through the Gaowu Tang Dynasty, Li Kuan and Li Shimin became the second sons of the Prince

Regarding the statement about the "beacon tower", Emperor Li II naturally needed Li Kuan to give him an explanation.

But by the time the reply from His Royal Highness the King of Chu reached Chang'an, autumn had already arrived in Guanzhong.

"Wuji, this guy said that he wanted to conduct maritime trade, so he needed a large number of merchant ships to go out to sea. Ports and that... lighthouse were built for this purpose. The beacon tower that Cheng Zhijie mentioned earlier was the lighthouse that guy mentioned. It was used to guide the returning merchant ships." In the imperial study, His Majesty Li II finished reading the letter from Li Kuan, then raised his head and cast his gaze at Changsun Wuji who was standing in front of the desk: "You say... should I believe him?"

"Lingnan has been a poor and barren land since ancient times. If His Majesty the Prince of Chu is willing to make trouble, then let him do it..." Changsun Wuji knew that His Majesty Li II asked him questions in the hope that he could say something he wanted to say through his mouth, but... In Chang'an now, His Majesty's loyalists can be counted on one hand, and His Majesty the Prince of Chu's followers...

That's really everywhere, everywhere...

"Wuji, are you telling the truth?" His Majesty Li II frowned upon hearing this: "Did that bastard secretly promise you benefits?"

"Your Majesty... You know the King of Chu..." Zhangsun Wuji smiled bitterly when he heard this: "He would rather give money to Duke Lu to collude with Duke E to trap me, but he would never give the benefits directly to me..."

"Then Duke Lu and Duke E have put you in a sack?" His Majesty Li II raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

After hearing this, Changsun Wuji was silent for a while, and finally said with difficulty: "No."

"Then aren't you making a false accusation?" Emperor Li II raised his eyebrows.

Changsun Wuji: "..."

He knew that things would turn out like this in the end.

Your Majesty can't do anything to the King of Chu, but if it's me... I have plenty of ways...

"Okay, don't be so embarrassed." His Majesty Li Er was just venting his anger on Changsun Wuji, and he didn't really plan to do anything. At this moment, he carefully put away the letter in his hand, and then continued to say to Changsun Wuji: "The emperor wrote a letter to Duke Ying, asking him to send his daughter to Qiongzhou. Wuji... do you think... can Kuan'er resist the temptation of beauty?"

“Your Majesty, you used to be—” Changsun Wuji felt that the art of speaking was to stop at the right moment.

"Okay, I understand what you mean." His Majesty Li II waved his hand, but then said with some embarrassment: "But why didn't that boy ask me to grant the marriage in the letter?"

"This..." Zhangsun Wuji felt that his Majesty was being a little too sentimental: "Maybe His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu didn't even think about it in this way..."

"He doesn't want to get married?" Emperor Li II was unwilling to accept the reality.

"He may feel that he does not need Your Majesty to grant him a marriage." Changsun Wuji likes to be the bad guy.

"You look very happy then?" Emperor Li II's face darkened.

"Your Majesty, I am not happy, I am also very sad!" Zhang Sun Wuji said, and put on a sad face: "I used to like my nephew Kuan Er the most..."

“……” Even as an emperor, His Majesty Li II had to admit one thing - when it comes to shamelessness, he lost to Zhangsun Wuji.

Of course, this is his own idea.

"Father!" - Just when His Majesty Li Er was about to discuss the issue of commercial tax collection with Zhangsun Wuji, Princess Sizi suddenly ran in with an angry look on her face: "Some bad guys are bullying Sizi! Father, please come and help me!"

"Is this true?!" Upon hearing this, His Majesty Li Er immediately stood up from his seat, then quickly walked to his daughter, bent down and picked her up: "Sizi, tell your father, who bullied you?"

"Aunt Changguang's son bullied me!" As soon as Princess Sizi opened her mouth, she almost announced the death sentence of a certain playboy.

"Which one? Yang Yuzhi or Zhao Jie?" After hearing his daughter's words, Emperor Li II flew into a rage and said, "What a bastard!"

"Father, Sizi doesn't know his name." Princess Sizi blinked her eyes when she heard that, and then whispered in her father's ear: "But fourth brother has already knocked him down! He's outside!"

"Wow..." Zhang Sun Wuji, who was standing by, suddenly found that the plot seemed familiar, so he couldn't help but joked with Little Sizi: "Princess Sizi, are you sure that someone bullied you?"

"Hmph! I don't want to talk to you!" Nowadays, the princes and princesses in the palace have a lot of strange things to say about who they don't like - but who they dislike the most...

Apart from Duke Zhao, Zhangsun Wuji, no one else could be considered.

"..." At that moment, Duke Zhao, who had brought trouble upon himself, could only swallow the bitter fruit silently - and what was even more bitter was that scenes and conversations like today's would probably be repeated many times in the future.

But Emperor Li II was obviously too lazy to care about Changsun Wuji's feelings. He just held his daughter Sizi in his arms, walked out of the imperial study, and then followed his daughter's instructions, crossed the square outside the Taiji Hall, stepped onto the imperial road, and walked a short distance north. At the corner of a palace alley, he ran into Li Tai, who was pinning Zhao Jie to the ground and beating him.

The reason why Li Tai could be so arrogant was that standing next to him were Li Yin, the Prince of Liang, and Li You, the Prince of Yan.

These three brothers are now so close that they can even wear the same pants.

“That’s enough!” When Emperor Li II saw Zhao Jie being beaten by Li Tai so hard that he could only hold his head and scream, he knew that this unfortunate kid had at most said something wrong, and he definitely hadn’t done anything too excessive: “Qingque, why don’t you stop?!”

"Father..." Li Tai turned around and saw that the person coming was his father, so he quickly stood up from Zhao Jie.

Li You and Li Yin beside him also had good sense at this moment, and stood beside Li Tai. Good brothers, of course, should advance and retreat together - the second brother taught me! Of course, under normal circumstances, the second brother was only responsible for retreating.

Especially Li Yin, before Li Tai could speak again, he took the lead in explaining to His Majesty Li Er the reason why Zhao Jie was beaten: "Father, you can't blame Fourth Brother for what happened today - it was Zhao Jie who started the trouble first! I don't know what got into him. When Princess Changguang entered the palace to pay homage to the Queen Mother today, he also came along, and Sizi and Zhinu didn't look for him, but he went over and told the two little kids weird things about Second Brother: saying that Second Brother went to Qiongzhou and was exiled to the frontier, and that Second Brother lived a carefree life in Qiongzhou and didn't miss his brothers and sisters in Chang'an.

When Zhinu heard what Zhao Jie said, she burst into tears and was almost heartbroken.

But Sizi was smart and went to find Fourth Brother, and we were dividing the spoils with Fourth Brother at that time... Pah, Pah, Pah, we divided the bag of beads and several sets of high-quality fishing gear that Second Brother brought us, so we had this situation..."