If I let you stay in Lingnan, how could you become the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty?

Chapter 16 This kid took all the bamboo shoots on the mountain!

"Thinking about it, although Lingnan is now stable and prosperous and the people are well-off, the prince still works tirelessly all day and night to handle government affairs in order to make our lives better. Just thinking about it makes me..."

Having said this, the big man sighed, looked towards the direction of the palace with a sad expression on his face.

He paused for a moment, then sighed and said:
"Unfortunately, I was injured on the battlefield and injured the tendons in one of my arms. I can no longer fight and can no longer follow the prince!"

Yuchi Gong looked at the deep scars on his arms revealed when he rolled up his sleeves, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Since you are no longer in the army, how do you make a living now?

The big man waved his hand, smiled proudly and said:

"You two don't have to worry about my family. The prince has settled every wounded soldier very well. I was given thirty acres of good land. Every year, there are people who help the wounded soldiers to farm and harvest. They also built a house for me so that I have a place to live."

"Moreover, I also receive ten taels of allowance for injured soldiers every year, which is enough for my expenses. Your Majesty has considered it so thoughtfully for me, and it allows injured soldiers like me to have no worries at all!"

"but……"

He changed the subject and said loudly with pride:
"Although I am injured, if there is any trouble in Lingnan, I will definitely stand up! My right arm is injured and I can't draw the bow and shoot arrows, but I can still hold a knife or a spear with my left hand. As the saying goes, when the country is in trouble, I will return when called!"

After saying this, he clasped his fists towards Li Shimin and Yuchi Gong, then strode away with his head held high and his chest puffed out.

Looking at his back, Li Shimin couldn't help but sigh.

He was able to solve all the problems in Lingnan within three years, eliminate all the surrounding enemies, and still make the people love him so much.

Li An did a really good job!

Although he does have a bit of a bad temper,

After tricking Li Shimin into giving him a fool, the bastard showed no mercy.

But this also seems to be to reduce the taxes on the people in Lingnan.

Thinking about it this way, this kid did a good thing!
I had heard about all the things in Lingnan before, and I was so angry that I almost killed this guy.

Now it seems that I completely misunderstood him!

At this time, Yuchi Gong looked at Li Shimin's complicated expression and asked cautiously:

"Your Majesty, shall we go?"

Li Shimin was silent for a while, then suddenly waved his hand:

"Let's not leave. Let's go meet that brat!"

……

As soon as they arrived at the gate of the palace, they saw that there were not many soldiers guarding or patrolling the huge palace. There were only two burly soldiers standing solemnly on both sides of the gate, holding eight-foot-long spears and standing tall.

It looks like it does not have the heavily guarded and arrogant feeling of other royal palaces.

Li Shimin nodded.

It seems that because this guy is so popular among the people in Lingnan, he basically doesn't have to worry about anyone dealing with him.

For this reason, his palace did not need numerous soldiers to guard it.

As soon as I reached the door, I heard a very sad sound of music coming from inside.

Hearing this music, Li Shimin couldn't help but feel some sympathy.

I, the sixth prince, was sent to Lingnan when I was only a dozen years old. I was alone in the face of the poor and rugged Lingnan, surrounded by powerful enemies such as the Baiyue barbarians...

It’s indeed too bitter!

When he first arrived in Lingnan, he just listened to what people on the street said and was so angry that he almost sent troops to arrest him and bring him back to Chang'an to be punished.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh:
"An'er has indeed suffered here..."

……

"It's so hard!" On the stage, a chieftain dressed in rags and pretending to be a poor commoner sang with a sad face in a long voice:

"It was a cold winter with heavy snow. I worked so hard to buy a few kilograms of flour, but the Yellow Tusi demanded payment and insisted on using my daughter Xier to pay off the debt..."

When he sang to this point, he couldn't help but sigh to the sky with an expression of great pain on his face. However, his eyes couldn't help but look at Li An not far away, and he couldn't help cursing in his heart.

This damn Sixth Prince Li An captured all these Lingnan chieftains and brought them to the palace, forcing them to rehearse this stupid "opera", and then asked them to perform it everywhere for the locals to see after they had rehearsed.

Let them play the roles of chieftains who oppress the people, and make up their daily acts of bullying men and women into plays, so that the natives will hate them even more after watching these plays.

This is too damaging!
This kid took all the bamboo shoots on the mountain!

But there's nothing we can do, their fists are hard and their knives are fast!
If you don't accept it, you can only endure it!

At this moment, the expression of agony on his face was real, and it was completely his natural performance, without the need for the director to explain the play.

But just as the line was finished, Li An in the audience took out a piece of cardboard rolled into a long tube, put it to his mouth and shouted:
"Crack!"

Everyone at the scene was stunned, completely not understanding what Li An meant by "Ka".

Li An stood up:

"Bai Tusi, your performance did show the pain, but the helplessness, sadness and despair were not good enough. Your performance lacked some layers, which was not good enough!"

Bai Tusi was stunned for a moment, but looked confused.

Following the Sixth Prince's "play", I heard some new words that I had never heard of before.
What? The layering and three-dimensionality of the performance, etc.

This often left this illiterate chieftain, who only knew how to bully others in the village, completely confused.

Seeing that he didn't understand, Li An thought for a moment and said:
"Think about it, is there anything in your life that is painful, desperate, and helpless, and you have no choice but to do it?"

When Bai Tusi heard this, he couldn't help but think to himself,

You still need to say,

It’s just that I was taken to your palace and forced to rehearse this damn “White-haired Witch” play!

It’s so painful, desperate and helpless when I’m rehearsing a play!
But, you, the Sixth Prince, have put a knife to my neck, so I have no choice but to do it!

Thinking of this, he looked hopeless.

"correct!"

Li An slapped his thigh:
"That's the expression. It's spot on. Keep going!"

"Xi'er is on stage!"

At this time, a man dressed in women's clothes, with rouge on his cheeks, painted to look like a monkey's butt, walked up from a corner of the stage.
Although he felt the same pain, despair and helplessness as Li An said, he still had to put on a happy expression on his face and said in a pinched voice:
"Daddy, you're back!"

"Crack!"

Li An shouted angrily again.

This time, everyone understood.

This "click" means that the Sixth Prince asked them to stop.

"Meng Tusi, the expression on your face is too stiff. Can't you smile? Smile, do you understand the expression of happiness and joy?"

Meng Tusi also had a look of despair on his face.

How could he laugh?

His face was painted like a monkey's butt, and he had to wear women's clothes.
What a shame!

But he still had to endure it.

Otherwise, the Sixth Prince might really stew him in anger!
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