When the food is in your mouth and the wine is in your throat, your thoughts are wandering around with the beauties in the room. It doesn't matter whether it tastes good or not.
It was a rare occasion for Li Luo to entertain his brothers, and he was not stingy. The wine was good wine, and he drank as much as he could. The most important thing was that Li Luo didn't say anything, but just chatted about interesting things in the past few years, and listened to a few people talking to each other.
The ministers were pointing and pointing, a bit like the gossip of their own families. They laughed from time to time, but who said something ridiculous and interesting about a certain prince or minister. The person who said it was unintentional, and the person who heard it was shocked. Mo Shangjiao
Her face was as usual, but her vest was soaked with sweat. It would be terrible if these words spread out. She wanted to avoid them, but Li Luo and the others were chatting in a lively manner, and no one had any intention of asking her out, which made Mo Shang feel like sitting on pins and needles.
, so uncomfortable.
The drinks came and went, and everyone was still reserved at first. After drinking for three rounds, a few people slowly let go and laughed loudly. Without the dragon chair in Zhuocheng, no one could see more than a few people.
The unrestrained laughter between siblings.
"Fifth brother, you left the palace early and came back late. Before you came back to Zhuocheng, the eldest brother was still there at that time. Every year he would bring us together to drink and talk. It was lively at that time, there were many people, big
Big and small, the yard is full of people. Xuanlou was still a kid at that time. If he went to the Spring River under the Moon, he wouldn't be able to go. Unlike now, he can walk away and disperse, and there are still some sisters.
They are all married, so we can no longer gather those people."
Li Xuanze nodded, hummed, and sighed: "I actually heard about it when I was in Fuzhou. At that time, my eldest brother even wrote me a letter, asking me to come back to Zhuocheng when I had time. He planned to sit down with me, but we didn't expect to wait.
When I came back, my eldest brother was no longer here."
"Who says it's not the case? The second brother left long ago without saying anything. First, the eldest brother, the third brother, the eighth brother, and the sixth brother is a boring gourd. Tell me, how can we get together here? Everyone else is looking at the majesty of His Highness the Prince.
Linlin, actually how much do they know about the loneliness here."
Li Luo didn't even raise his head and continued: "Lonely? I heard that seventh brother just married a concubine, and tenth brother and I have multiple sisters-in-law. Are we still lonely?"
"Hey, Ninth Brother, you're making fun of Seventh Brother too! But that's it, it's time for you to make up for the gift money."
"Of course you need to make up for it, but Brother Qi, when will you drink your wedding wine?"
"That's not easy. We'll do it tomorrow. Fifth brother will come with us if he has time. I'll prepare some good dishes and two jars of good wine. Let's have a good drink." Li Xuanci laughed.
"You can't drink wine every day." Li Xuanze smiled, "My ability to drink is not as good as yours."
"Haha, fifth brother is humbled. Come on, come on, I will toast fifth brother again." The King of England raised his glass, and Li Xuanze drank a glass of wine with him with a smile. He took the rather frightened King Ji with him and drank the wine in one gulp.
We drank a lot, tasted the dishes, watched the dance of the moon boat, and listened to the piano played on the street. Everyone seemed to be tipsy, but in fact no one was drunk, and their hearts were as clear as a mirror.
Li Luo would not ask them to come out to drink for no reason. At this age, the wine is still the same, but the taste in his mouth is no longer the same as before.
"Ninth brother, you have just returned to Zhuocheng and haven't entered the palace yet. Why do you want to invite us to drink?" Li Xuanze asked harmoniously.
"Brother Ninth missed us?" Li Xuanmin asked with a smile.
Li Luo smiled and said with a chuckle: "Of course I do, but I also want to tell you what I saw and heard in Caohai, Mobei."
"Oh, Brother Ninth, tell me."
Li Luo drank a glass of wine, thought about how to start, and laughed at himself: "Caohai negotiated peace, and Xiang Liu'er withdrew his troops from Beifu. Many people speculated that I secretly conspired with Xiang Liu'er to divide the world in two, with Kunjiang River as the boundary.
, draw rivers and rule them.”
"Nonsense." Li Xuanci slammed the table with such force that all the dishes on the table shook. Li Xuanci looked cold and cursed, "I don't know if it was spread by those shameless and ignorant people.
There are indeed such rumors, so I have arrested many people, and five or six of them have been executed. I am really afraid that the world will not be in chaos, damn it!"
Li Xuanze didn't speak, just nodded. They knew each other well. Li Xuanze certainly knew about this rumor. As for whether he contributed to it or not, it was just a tacit understanding.
"Let's not talk about this for now. People say that I am not a one-day thing." Li Luo smiled and said, "I was so worried about guessing Meng Jue that I led the envoy to the north, broke into Caohai, and went all the way to Caohai.
In the north, as far as the Guya clan in the northernmost part of Caohai, and further north is the wilderness deep in the extreme north, which is inaccessible and the territory is so large that if calculated based on the land of Dagan, it may be more than ten times larger."
Several people took a breath of cold air and said in shock: "So big!?"
Li Luo nodded, and replied to Yan: "I've been there, it's surprisingly big."
"That Caohai..." Li Xuanmin was keenly aware of something unusual. Li Luo nodded and replied: "Yes, the land in Caohai is so vast that the horses in Mobei cannot run across the Caohai. Unless there is a reason,
Caohai cavalry will not go south. The tribes in Caohai are different from the countries in the Western Regions. Some of the countries in the Western Regions are barren, some are rich, many are barren, and few are self-sufficient. Therefore, the countries in the Western Regions will continue to invade the Dagan border.
Firstly, they can plunder food and other goods, and secondly, they can kidnap the people of Dagan and use them as slaves. But Caohai is not like that. In the Caohai I have seen, their cattle and sheep are more than the clouds in the sky, and there are countless war horses.
, Mengjue alone is not much smaller than Dagan. It has a vast territory and rich resources, and may be slightly less prosperous, but its richness may not be as good as that of the Dagan states."
"In this case, why does Caohai want to invade our Dagan territory from the south? Moreover, there have been constant disputes with Dagan over the past hundreds of years, and wars have broken out repeatedly in Beifu. Could it be that Caohai is just doing military training in his spare time?" Li Xuanze said rather disapprovingly.
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"If we say that training troops is not impossible, whenever there is civil strife in Caohai, the tribes in Mobei will raise troops and go south. However, in recent years, the tribes in Caohai have been relatively peaceful and have not had any disputes with each other."
"Brother Ninth means that there is something hidden behind Cao Hai going south this time?" Li Xuanmin asked with a frown.
"Well, deep in the sea of grass, there is another force that has also moved south."
Everyone was startled, and Li Xuanmin said happily: "So Caohai is attacked from both sides? Then..."
"It's true that we are being attacked from the back and front." Li Luo smiled bitterly, "But it's not just as simple as being attacked from the back and front."
"How to say?"
"Caohai may not be able to resist the forces heading south. Once they go south, not only Caohai, but the entire Dagan will be overturned."