Raid

Chapter 74 Coral
Li Shengxi smiled slightly, she held her chin, thought of something, and continued: "Bring me the set of red coral hair masks that Zhao Changtong just sent over."

Liu Jin nodded, and quickly presented the red coral hair mask. Li Shengxi looked at the hair mask, and picked up a hairpin to play with it carefully.

Liu Jin was puzzled, Li Sheng was noble since he was a child, it is not an exaggeration to say that he was born with a gold spoon in his mouth, he is used to seeing gold, silver and jewelry, and never paid much attention to jewelry, why now he is playing with these jewelry in every possible way?
Although this batch of jewelry is exquisite, it cannot be said to be expensive. After all, things like coral are not uncommon in the Southern Jin Dynasty.

"This thing looks familiar, come take a look." After Li Shengxi finished speaking, he handed over the hairpin.

Liu Jin became more and more puzzled, and after taking a look, he couldn't help but said: "Sanniang's words are indeed familiar, and this looks a bit like the style in the palace."

The palace she was talking about was naturally not the Northern Qi Palace.

"This red coral can't be said to be expensive in the Southern Jin Dynasty, but the workmanship of this object is very exquisite, and the style is also cumbersome and beautiful. Maybe it really came out of the palace." Li Shengxi frowned, and she counted the jewelry. Number of pieces, picked up a pair of earrings out.

Before Li Shengxi could speak, Liu Jin said in surprise: "Why are these earrings not made of red coral, but rubies? This... this pair of earrings is not the set."

Li Shengxi nodded, as if thinking of something, he whispered, "If I remember correctly, Princess Chu's favorite is coral jewelry, right?"

The "Princess Chu" she was talking about was her elder brother's main concubine.

Li Shenyuan, King of Chu, was the eldest brother of Emperor Hongxing and Li Shengxi, because King Hongxing was nine years older than Emperor Hongxing, and he was the eldest of the princes. He was quite prestigious among the common people and the clan. One of the ministers of several major ministers.

It's a pity that the King of Chu's ambition was exposed early. He joined forces with the three princes who supported him to make a rebellion, intending to steal the throne, but was soon discovered by Emperor Hongxing, and was executed by Emperor Hongxing in the fourth year of Hongxing .People call this the "Rebellion of the Four Kings".

At that time, Li Shengxi was only seven years old, and Emperor Hongxing was only 21 years old.

After the King of Chu was put to death, Emperor Hongxing didn't think of exterminating them all, but put Qu and his son Li Rui under house arrest.Unexpectedly, Princess Chu was very...er... "affectionate", she burned herself and her husband's only child to death, and died for the king of Chu.

It is well known that the King of Chu and his concubine are deeply in love with each other.Because Princess Chu likes red corals the most, when King Chu was most proud, he almost searched for corals in the Southern Jin Dynasty and found them at home, only to smile for Bo Jia.

In the former Chu Palace, there was a man-made coral forest. If it was snowy in winter, it looked like red plums from a distance, very beautiful.Later, the Prince of Chu's mansion ransacked the house, and those beautiful coral trees went into Li Sheng's warehouse.

"The third lady thinks..."

"I remember Princess Chu was having fun with me once, and she gave me a pair of coral earrings, which seems to be the pair I'm missing here." It's a pity that she didn't bring that pair of earrings to Beiqi.

"During the Southern Jin Dynasty, Nian Xi was responsible for cleaning up your jewelry, she should know her." Liu Jin suggested.

Li Shengxi put down the jewelry, "I'll let Liu Jin take a look at it later, and if so, I'll ask someone to investigate how Zhao Changtong got such a reputation."

"Third Lady is suspicious..."

"The rebellion of the Four Kings came to an end in the past, and the residences of my four princes were ransacked by my elder brother, and all the items were registered and stored in the warehouse, but the coral jewelry in the Chu Palace was so numerous that there was no way to completely clean it up. Registered in the register, if this can still flow out, it will be very thought-provoking." Li Sheng raised his eyebrows.

If this jewelry is outside the country, it will be very intriguing to have various meanings.

After all, jewelry can be left outside, but can people?
In the beginning, Emperor Hongxing didn't think about exterminating them all, so why did they choose to feign death?Could it be, just to live outside?Li Shengxi couldn't believe this reason.

News soon came from Nianxi that this set of coral jewelry was indeed Princess Chu's old possession.

"Not only that, but my subordinate felt strange when he touched this set of jewelry, so he asked several people to look at it. It seems to be someone else's funeral." The jewelry has taken on a new look. Although the style has not changed much, it looks quite new. "This is after my subordinates asked someone to deal with it. This set of coral jewelry has probably been buried in the ground for many years. There was also a vague smell of rotting corpses, but they covered it up with incense, and my subordinates thought it was strange when they smelled it, so they asked a few people to take a look."

Liu Jin's face changed, "What a Zhao Changtong, he dares to send such dirty things to you."

Li Shengxi didn't care too much, "Funeral goods? This is interesting. Zhao Changtong naturally wouldn't cross the border to the Southern Jin Dynasty to dig other people's graves. It is probably because the hands and feet of the sellers are not clean, and they even take things from dead people."

"This set of jewelry is estimated to have been unearthed not long ago, so it should have happened during this time." Nian Xi continued, if she hadn't been able to get away right now, she really wanted to go back to Nanjin and find out the grave robber .

Doing such immoral things is not afraid of being struck by lightning.

"It seems that the coast of the Lijiang River has been very unsettled recently." Li Shengxi said in a low voice.

"That's true, especially in May and June every year, when the number of people crossing the river suddenly increases. When the two sides meet, there will naturally be a mixture of fish and dragons."

Because there will be floods in July and August, the disaster relief procedures in the Southern Jin Dynasty are extremely perfect, and there is even a surplus of relief money and supplies every year.A few years ago, Emperor Yuanjia issued an order that as long as the name is registered, no matter which country the disaster victims are from, they can receive material assistance from the Southern Jin Dynasty.

So in recent years, more and more Northern Qi people moved to the Southern Jin Dynasty, especially during floods.Not for anything else, at least in the Southern Jin Dynasty, to be able to survive.

Don't say that the Southern Jin Dynasty is an enemy country. You must know that the two countries originated from the same source. They were one country a few years ago, and the people on both sides of the Lijiang River even went up two generations.
The Southern Jin Dynasty treated them kindly, while the Northern Qi Dynasty kept saying that they were the people of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but where did the court's relief money and disaster relief food go in every disaster year? It is understandable that they traveled to the Southern Jin Dynasty.

Li Shengxi put down the jewelry, "Find the merchant and find out where the jewelry came from. Also, Lijiang is not peaceful recently, so I asked Huanzhi and Jinyu to keep an eye on it. If anyone dares to do evil and act recklessly, You don't have to be polite, let alone who he is, you can do whatever you want!"

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