early morning.

Li Chao and his father practiced guns together in the martial arts field. Lao Tieqiong seriously passed on his gun skills to Li Chao. Li Chao also learned very seriously. The father and son had not practiced guns like this for a long time. When he was in Taozhou, although Lao Tieqiong was there, Li Chao was often busy with official business and had no time to practice guns together.

"Your gun technique is already a bit like that." Lao Tieqian closed the gun.

"I know I will never get your true teachings in my life, and my understanding is too poor." Zhang Chao put away his gun and wiped the sweat from his face. He specializes in his profession. He practices with a gun. He has to practice hard, and talent is still very important. This thing cannot be fake. Even if you are a time traveler, you will not get any bonus when practicing guns.

Zhang Chao has average athletic talent and has been practicing guns for more than a year. Now he is at most an ordinary mansion soldier, and he can't even reach the level of a combat soldier.

But he didn't force it. He practiced guns only for fitness, and he didn't want to take the lead in charge one day by jumping at the same time.

"Uncle Qing, I have never seen you take action. What weapon are you using?"

Ke Qing followed Zhang Chao and agreed to follow Zhang Chao for a month. But later he got along with Zhang Chaoyue more and more happily. Now he has been half a year and is still following Zhang Chao. Zhang Chao also gave him an errand, the coach of Taozhou Yabing.

The prince sent the Shouba killer to assassinate Zhang Chao one after another, but he was captured by Ke Qing every time. Even Zhang Chao had never had the chance to see Ke Qing take action, and he didn't even know what weapons he used.

But it seems that Ke Qing is proficient in all kinds of weapons.

"I'm using a judge's pen!"

Unexpectedly, Ke Qing had no intention of hiding it. He even touched his body and actually found a pair of Qimen weapons.

The judges and soldiers looked like a large brush with a sharp tip and a thick and round pen handle. However, Ke Qing's pair of pens had both ends of the pen tip, and there was a circle in the middle of the pen body, which was somewhat like an Emei thorn, and the pen could rotate when it was wrapped around his fingers.

It looks about one foot, much larger than an ordinary pen.

A pair of judges' pens seem simple, but people who have always been able to use Qimen weapons are masters. The stranger the weapon, the stronger the lethality.

Li Chao smiled and thought it would be a knife and a sword, but he didn't expect it to be a judge's pen. The shape and size of this pen are quite in line with his assassin's identity, and it is easy to carry and hide.

"Miss Qing'er also practices the judge's pen?"

"No, she practices crescent thorns."

Crescent thorns are also Qimen weapons, and they are both double-devices just like the judge's pen.

The whole shape is the head of a halberd, with thorns at both ends of the handle, and one side of the handle is connected by a cross branch to a bladed crescent blade. When using it, hold a thorn on each hand to keep the crescent tip facing outward.

The characteristic is that it is smart and smart, and is good at using the shortcomings to determine the strengths.

The judge and the crescent sting are both short-handed soldiers, which is a bit weird compared to the very hard-core weapon of the iron spear, which is very strange. But it is very consistent with the identity and style of the assassin!

"Do you have darts, hidden arrows, and money darts?" Li Chao asked with a smile.

"Is there any sweating pill?"

"Everyone who walks around the world has a few unique skills and some small utensils. They are different, and it depends entirely on personal habits. As for medicine, poison, etc., these are also essential things for walking around the world."

"I understand, Uncle Qing, I plan to recruit some young boys and girls, and finally some orphans, and then give them to your father and daughter for training. It is not about training to become personal guards like Taozhou Yat Soldiers, but training to become assassins like you, and specializing in assassination, are you willing to help?"

Ke Qing put away the judge's pen.

"How many such people are Saburo going to let us train?"

"If you don't have too much energy, just train a dozen first. Otherwise, how about thirteen first, train a few men and six women?"

"No problem, but choosing a young orphan, starting from scratch. If you want to become a talent, it will definitely take a long time, and it will take at least two or three years to achieve success."

It's a bit long.

Li Chaodao, "Practice first, remember to choose the right candidates, both talented and reliable."

The father asked Li Chao with some concern, "What are you trying to train these people?"

"In case of emergency!"

After morning exercises, take a hot bath and change your clothes.

Li Chao went directly to the fan hall.

Yesterday, the Honglu Temple welcomed Qingluan and others from the Eighteenth Fen Kingdom into Chang'an City, and then placed it in the affair hall that had been prepared early. It was said that it was a affair hall, but it was actually a large building, and it was not far from the Imperial City.

Originally, there were more open spaces in the south of the city, and even people were growing vegetables and grains there. However, after all, the envoys from the foreign countries came to pay for their respects, and the Tang Dynasty was quite frugal. Although it was not as good as Yang Guang, foreign merchants did not have to pay for their meals, and they did not have to pay for their stay in the hotel. In winter, they were so luxurious that they used silk to wrap trees, but they could arrange for them to live in the more prosperous Shangcheng area, which was still necessary.

The missions of each country were given a yard and their guards were taken with them.

The Eighteenth Federation Kingdoms, plus a large number of missions such as Turks, Tuyuhun, Goguryeo, Khitan, and Gaochang, were still very lively.

The messengers even put out some of the goods they brought directly in front of their respective yards and began to trade with other messengers.

At the same time, they also got to know each other.

As the initiator of the tribute from the Eighteenth National Congress, Zhang Chao specially arranged for Zhang Chao to be the one who received officials.

When he arrived at the fan hall, Zhang Chao found that the official in charge today was not the Minister of the Honglu Temple, but the dignified Qin King Li Shimin.

Li Shimin also received the decree suddenly. He was neglected for a long time and was sent by the emperor to represent the court and receive missions from all parties to the court.

In the emperor's words, letting the King of Qin come forward to receive it in person is a high standard and represents the court's attention to the various robbers. But for Li Shimin, this was a real blow. I saw the prince being sucked yesterday, and today he was sent to entertain the robbers.

"Your Highness!"

"Wu'an Gong!"

The two met unexpectedly at the animated hall and greeted each other politely.

The reception was actually very simple, it was to introduce each other to each other, and Li Shimin welcomed them on behalf of the Tang Dynasty and His Majesty the Emperor. Each delegation took turns to contribute tribute, and this tribute was actually an official trade.

Each family tributed their prescriptions and specialties, while the Tang Dynasty rewarded them with more valuable silk, porcelain, tea and other Tang specialties.

However, the official is not called trade, but tribute and reward.

For the Tang Dynasty, this was a very good thing. They came from all directions to pay tribute. The court gained face, so they rewarded generously. For the foreigners, coming to New Year's greetings to pay tribute was to strengthen the connection, and avoid being beaten inexplicably and worshiping the wharf.

At the same time, taking advantage of the opportunity of tribute, we also carried out a large-scale official trade. In the name of tribute, we can get more products from the Tang Dynasty, which is also very affordable.

In short, this is an activity in which the Tang Dynasty gained face and the monks gained their inner ranks.

However, this year is more lively than in previous years, especially the addition of the Eighteenth Fen Kingdom in the southwest, which made the Tang Dynasty look even more powerful.

This kind of thing cannot be said that the Tang Dynasty just spent money to buy face and suffered losses. After all, the court will not lose money, because many of the tributes tributes from foreign envoys will be sold in a blink of an eye. The price is very high. After all, they are foreign specialties, and general tributes are relatively rare.

For example, there are diamonds, jade, various gems, etc. from the Eighteenth Francisco of the Southwest China. Diamonds are not valuable now, but gold is still quite valuable. Among the items tributed by the Women's Kingdom, there is a huge piece of gold weighing dozens of kilograms, which has a very high gold content.

In other foreign countries, most of the tributes are the best thousand-mile horses, silver foxes, ferrets, white bears and deer, sea east green, thousand-year-old ginseng, etc.

They are all good things, and even have many spices like pepper, some interracial beauties, etc.

Some of these tributes are kept by the emperor, some are sold, and some are used to reward the ministers.

Li Shimin cheered up and showed friendship with these people very seriously, and even gave each other some gifts. The gifts Li Shimin took out were perfumes, soaps, soaps, Buddhist scriptures, Confucian classics, Taoist scriptures, white sugar, rock sugar, brown sugar and other rare Tang Dynasty specialties produced by Li Sanjia.

Each person gives some, but it doesn’t cost much, and it’s quite affordable.

"Your Highness, this is the East Girl King's Girl Qingluan, this is the East Girl Prince Black Panther."

Li Shimin also knew that although the Eastern Nv Kingdom was a Western Qiang race, it was mainly women, and the princes were ranked in front of the prince.

"The Eastern Women's Kingdom is willing to enthrone the Tang Dynasty in China and become the southwest Pingxian of the Tang Dynasty!"

"very good!"

Li Shimin was very happy to hear this news.

It is a different matter of supporting the tribute in the country, and it is even more amazing to attach the country. This is not a defeat and fleeing, but a person who brings people and land. The Women's Kingdom has a population of only 200,000 and has won more than 20,000 soldiers, but its location is quite special, and it is behind Dangxiang Qiang.

Qingluan made an internal request and requested to purchase some Tang Dynasty weapons to increase its strength to cope with the surrounding tribes.

Li Shimin also agreed and said that he would report to the emperor if he turned around.

On that day, Li Chao, Li Shimin, Honglu Temple and officials from the Ministry of Rites reported to the emperor about the reception of the monks.

"The Kingdom of Women owns two thousand miles of land, occupying the Jinchuan area in the southwest, and is known as a country of thousands of towers. It has more than 200,000 troops and a population of more than 200,000. There are also the Eight Kingdoms of Western Mountains as their vassals. Now the Kingdom of Women is willing to lead the eight countries to join them. This is a blessing for my Tang Dynasty!"

Li Yuan was very happy.

Immediately issued an edict, and ordered Tang Pang, the Queen of the East Nu, to be the Prince of Kangyan. The kings of the eight kings of the West Mountain were also named Marquis, and Qingluan was also specially appointed as the Prince of Jinchuan.

He was also given the rank of General Huaihua, and was awarded the title of Governor of Kangyanzhou and Governor of the Governor.

The eight countries in the West Mountain established one state for their locations, and granted the king the position of marquis, and were appointed as the governor.

Li Yuan waved his hand generously, so the Tang Dynasty added nine new prefectures in the southwest, one county lord, eight county marquis, and one county magistrate.

As for the King Tang Yan, who had just been enthroned, who wanted to buy some weapons from the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan also agreed generously.

After the matter was over, Li Chao and Li Shimin and others stepped down together.

After leaving the hall gate, Li Shimin took the opportunity to say to Zhang Chao, "Tonight, you can find a way to come to my mansion!"
Chapter completed!