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Chapter 453 Chapter 464: Rewards for meritorious deeds

Li Hao was quite surprised when he heard the words. Li Shimin has always valued the face of the Tian family very much. Even if the emperor did something wrong, he should not admit his mistakes easily, otherwise he would lose the face of the Tian family and damage the majesty of the royal family. But now Li Shimin actually wants to sin against himself It is indeed very rare for the imperial edict to admit one's fault to the people of the world. It can also be seen from this that the invasion of Tubo has greatly touched Li Shimin. In addition, Li Shimin is also old and his vigor is not so strong.

Li Hao originally wanted to stop it, but after thinking about it, this is also good, Li Shimin's edict of sinning himself can be regarded as an explanation to the sacrificed soldiers, and an explanation to the people of the world, so Li Hao nodded and saluted: "Your Majesty is wise."

Next, Li Shimin asked Li Hao about the current situation in Qiongnan. Li Hao told about his construction of the seaport and the construction of the fleet. Li Shimin seemed to be quite interested. Li Hao was secretly happy. After a while, when he discovers the huge benefits of maritime trade, he will probably come to him to learn from him.

Finally, after dinner, Li Hao resigned. As soon as Li Hao left the Ganlu Hall, Li Zhi stood up with a smile and said, "Father, how do you look at Li Hao now?"

Li Shimin also nodded with a smile on his face and said: "Zhier has vision. Li Hao is indeed a loyal minister. The pillar of the country can be used as a humerus. The future of the Tang Dynasty depends on you."

Li Zhi was very happy when he heard the words. Hearing that Li Shimin praised Li Hao so much, he felt happier than he was appreciated.

At this time, Li Mingda suddenly asked: "Father, when can Mingda go to the master to learn boxing techniques for strengthening the body?"

Li Shimin turned his head to look at Li Mingda who was full of joy. When he saw Li Mingda, Li Shimin felt his heart almost melted. This cute and sensible baby girl is what he loves the most, but he saw Li Mingda's expectant face. He looked flustered for no reason. As the saying goes, if you have a daughter at home, you will feel that men of the same age in the world are bad people.

Li Shimin was really afraid that Li Mingda would fall in love with Li Hao. If Li Hao didn't marry a wife, it would be fine. Now that Li Hao has many wives and concubines, he didn't want Li Mingda to join in the fun, so Li Shimin said: "Mingda, don't worry, father The emperor will send Zhi'er to learn boxing from Shi Kuang first, and after Zhi'er learns boxing, he will teach it to you."

"Ah?" Li Mingda's face was full of disappointment when she heard the words, and she refused in her heart, but she was not a savage princess, but a good princess, so she could only agree unhappily, and she seemed unhappy.

Li Shimin observed her expression carefully, seeing her like this, he was even more worried, but it was not easy for him to say clearly about this kind of thing, he was secretly depressed for a moment, then thought about it, that's all, young people's affairs, let them handle it Well, if the two of them can really get together, it's not necessarily a bad thing. He actually regrets it now, why did he let that guy Li Daozong take the lead and snatch Li Hao as his son-in-law? Why didn't he think of it before, alas, miscalculation up.

When Li Hao walked out of Chengtianmen, Li Ji and Xue Rengui were leading people to clean up the battlefield in the imperial city. Seeing them, Li Hao said, "Rengui, the corpses of the more than 200 brothers must be kept properly. You go to ask His Majesty and choose a good place to bury them, His Majesty has said that a monument will be erected for them, and condolences will be personally offered.”

Xue Rengui said excitedly after hearing the words: "Is it true? That's great, it's worth the brothers' death."

"What's it worth?" Li Hao sighed sadly, "If the brothers can live a good life, I would rather they have a mediocre life."

Xue Rengui scratched his head when he heard the words, his thinking was different from Li Hao's. The ancients valued their names and despised their lives. According to his thinking, if he can wrap his body in horse leather and win the supreme glory, then he will die well.

At this moment, a guard suddenly ran over in a hurry, saluted upon meeting, and said: "General Li, there is a man outside the Suzaku Gate who claims to be King Qiongnan's guard, and he has something urgent to see King Qiongnan."

"Oh?" Li Hao asked hurriedly, "Did he give his name?"

The guard said: "Go back to King Qiongnan, he said his name is Li Guocheng."

Li Hao nodded: "Okay, I'll go there now." After he finished speaking, he turned and walked towards Suzaku Gate.

As soon as he left the Suzaku Gate, Li Guocheng hurried up to meet him, and said anxiously: "My lord, something is wrong!"

Li Hao looked around, confirmed that no one was paying attention, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

Li Guocheng whispered: "The cannon is gone."

"What!" Li Hao almost jumped out of shock when he heard the words.

Li Guocheng handed a note to Li Hao, saying: "The person who stole the cannon left this note."

Li Hao took a look at the note, and saw it said: "Thank you for your cannon."

Looking at this note, Li Hao immediately thought of a person, that's right, that other traveler, Li Hao squeezed the note into a ball, and felt his lungs were about to explode. Hanging up, then this bastard is Nima hacking, first stole two pieces of waste paper that recorded important content in his wastebasket, and now he stole his own cannon, and left Nima a note, shameless !
"What are you doing!" Li Hao was so angry that he couldn't help yelling at Li Guocheng.

Li Guocheng was so frightened that he hurriedly bowed and said, "This subordinate deserves to die! Please punish me, my lord!"

Li Hao took a long breath, trying to calm his anger, waved his hands and said, "Forget it, I can't blame you, I think you have been watched by him a long time ago."

Li Guocheng dared to ask: "My lord knows who stole the cannon?"

"Yeah." Li Hao said, "I said before that there is a person who has been trying to seize the Great Tang Dynasty, and he stole my cannon."

Li Guocheng had countless questions in his mind. He really wanted to ask Li Hao why he didn't go directly to that person to settle accounts, and who he was, but he didn't dare to ask. After all, Li Hao can handle these things by himself. It was not his turn to point fingers at such a powerful person, so he wisely chose to shut up.

The matter has come to this point, it is useless to be upset, Li Hao turned his head and asked: "Where are the hundreds of Xuanjia soldiers who were injured now?"

Li Guocheng said: "They are all placed in your palace. Shi Najie has already sent the doctor in the palace to treat them."

"Well, well done." Li Hao raised his head slightly, and sighed sadly: "There are only more than 600 people left in the five thousand Xuanjia army, alas...the five thousand Xuanjia army you lead, don't show up for now. The weapons and armor were hidden first, turned into knights in the rivers and lakes, and scattered around Chang'an."

"Yes." Li Guocheng nodded and accepted the order.

"Has the palace been arranged?" Li Hao asked.

Li Guocheng said: "Shi Najie has arranged everything and is waiting for the prince to go."

"En." Li Hao nodded, "The Lantian Hou's Mansion was destroyed, and the underground secret room is easily exposed, so it must be rebuilt as soon as possible. This task is entrusted to you. This time, I will give you the detailed architectural drawings for the completion of the Summer Resort."

"Yes."

"Go, let's go back." After Li Hao finished speaking, he took Li Guocheng back to the palace.

Now Li Hao's palace is on Zhuque Street, which is a prime location. This palace was gifted to Li Hao by Li Shimin many years ago. Although Li Hao has been here a few times, he has never lived here. Reason, don't let it go to waste, now that the Lantian Hou's Mansion is destroyed, this mansion will naturally become Li Hao's palace.

As soon as Li Hao arrived at the gate of the palace, he saw the middle door open. Shi Najie led everyone in the family to stand neatly in the courtyard. As soon as Li Hao stepped into the gate of the palace, Shi Najie led everyone to salute and shouted: "Welcome the prince back to the mansion!" !"

Li Hao glanced at it. There were hundreds of people present, occupying most of the huge front yard, and Feiying was among them.

Li Hao waved his hands and said, "No courtesy, Shi Najie, how is everything in the house?"

Shi Najie cupped his hands and said, "Go back to your lord, everything is fine."

Li Hao nodded, and said: "Everyone else should leave, Feiying, come with me to the study." After speaking, he walked straight through the front yard and went to the study in the middle courtyard.

Li Hao has been to this house several times, although it has been renovated by Shi Najie, the general layout of the house has not changed. Li Hao brought Feiying to the study, and after closing the door, he asked: "Feiying, why are you back?"

Feiying said: "My lord, not only I am back, Jin Li is also rushing back with our army, we are playing the flag of the righteous army to serve the king, and we plan to come back to serve the king."

Hearing this, Li Hao hurriedly asked: "It's been a year since I last communicated with you, how many people are there in your army now?"

Feiying heard the words and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, this Tubo attack has displaced many civilians in prefectures and counties. When we came, there were 7 soldiers and horses, but now we have gathered many young and strong people, and now there are [-] people."

Li Hao frowned and said: "You don't want to rush forward, so many people appear in the Central Plains, it is easy to be exposed, are those people reliable?"

"Don't worry, my lord." Feiying said, "Our Smash Bandits Army is playing the banner of Smash Bandits to protect the country. Those people were destroyed by the Tubo barbarians and hated the barbarians very much, so they all enthusiastically joined our Smash Bandits Army."

"Yeah." Li Hao nodded and pondered, "7 people is already a lot. If you stay in the Western Regions, you will be discovered sooner or later. You go to inform Jin Li and immediately disperse the army and go to Luoyang in batches. I will send a boat to pick them up." Go to Liuqiu, from now on, the bandit army will move to Liuqiu, with Liuqiu as the base camp, and you must train hard, you know that my requirements for soldiers are extremely high, they must be elite."

"Yes!" Feiying clasped his fists vigorously to accept the order.

After explaining the mission to Feiying, Li Hao sent him away, thinking of the surviving more than 600 Xuanjia soldiers, he felt sad and lost all sleepiness, so he went out of the study to find Shi Najie, and asked him to take him to visit those soldiers. Wounded Xuanjia Army.

Shi Najie took Li Hao to the side courtyard, and saw the group of injured Xuanjia soldiers. All the surviving Xuanjia soldiers were seriously injured, and many of them had burns on their bodies. If it was just a sword wound, that would be easy. However, burns generally have a large area, and even if they can be cured, they will leave a large area of ​​hideous scars.

Fortunately, this group of Xuanjia soldiers are rough guys, and it's not like the people in the future world are all appearance associations. As long as they can live, it's fine, and who cares about the scars on their bodies.

Li Hao's personal visit moved them deeply. Li Hao saluted them solemnly, thanked them for their sacrifices for the Tang Dynasty, and said a lot of touching words. Finally, he told Li Shimin that Li Shimin was about to bury the group of Xuanjia soldiers. After seeing them, the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army were moved to tears.

Early the next morning, Li Shimin issued an edict, ordering the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Rites to work together to build a cemetery for the group of Qiongnan Xuanjia soldiers who were burned to death by the fire, and personally inscribed and erected a hero monument. The tower of Zhuquemen confessed his mistakes to the people all over the world. People all over the city rushed to the streets and gathered in front of Zhuquemen. Seeing that Li Shimin was so conscious of his mistakes, they were all moved to tears, and they all worshiped and shouted long live .

After another two days of repairs, the city of Chang'an, which had been baptized by the fire, somewhat restored some of its former prosperity. On the first day of February, there was a routine court meeting, and all the officials gathered in the Tai Chi Hall.

In this court meeting, Li Hao stood at the first position in the list of generals. No one can shake his position now, and what greets him will be another huge reward.

(End of this chapter)