It is always easy to talk to smart people.

After a while, an important cooperation has been negotiated. The Li family in Bashang and the Zhang family in Vietnam need to form strategic partners to develop maritime trade together. The Li family has a strong official background, and the Li family has strong financial resources, especially mastering a large number of foreign trade hot-selling products, tea, sugar and wine, while the Zhang family has maritime routes and has many years of maritime management relationships.

They are quite familiar with the sea routes, the barbarians along the coast, etc. They also have sea boats, experienced captains and sailors.

The cooperation between the two companies is indeed the same as Li Chao said, and it is a strong alliance and complementary high-quality resources.

After the conversation, the two said goodbye to each other and went back to their house.

Li Chao bought the manor very large, with many yards and a large courtyard. The prince lived in the main courtyard, and the yard where Li Chao lived was right next to it.

The soldiers were scattered around to guard.

At the gate of the courtyard, Wang Xuance personally led a group of people to stand guard tonight. When he saw Li Chao coming, he quickly raised his hand to salute.

Li Chao stopped, gave them a greeting, and said a few more words to them before entering the yard. When he entered the yard, there were also people in the room, including eunuchs and palace servants sent by Li Shimin. When he saw Li Chao coming back, he hurried over.

"Cook some ginger tea and send it to the guards who are standing guard outside." Li Chao explained.

"Okay, Prime Minister." Eunuch Liu is the temporary housekeeper here for Li Chao. This eunuch with a white face and no need to be about thirty years old. He has a low position, but he is very quick and smart. Li Chao likes him very much.

While helping Li Chao take off his coat outside, Eunuch Liu whispered, "The eldest princess is already in the prime minister's house. I've been here for a while."

Li Chao said oh.

After Li Shimin returned, Li Xiuning became less and less afraid. Although she also had a yard next to her, she would come to Li Chao every night as soon as it dark and spend the night here at night. She went back again at dawn.

Li Chao asked Li Xiuning to stay here just now. Anyway, the relationship between the two was public, but Li Xiuning still came in midnight every day and then went back early in the morning.

"There is hot water, will the prime minister take a shower?"

"Well, help me make the water and I'll take a bath."

"Does the water still need to be hot?" Eunuch Liu always satisfies people's work.

"Well, it's a little hotter, and the weather gets colder. A hot bath can always make people feel comfortable and sleep more comfortable at night."

Eunuch Liu was very quick to do his job and the water was soon ready.

Li Chao reached out and tried the temperature of his hand. It was just right and a little hot. It was exactly the temperature he wanted. Remove the clothes and sat in the bathtub. It was so comfortable.

In later generations, wooden barrel bathing was still an important project for many clubs, and it was expensive.

Some Chinese herbal medicines were also added to the water, which smelled quite fragrant, and they were all health care items. Eunuch Liu copied them according to the prescription in the palace and asked Li Chao for instructions.

Lying in the bathtub and closing his eyes, Li Chao began to replay what had happened during the day in his mind.

He likes to play back the daytime things at night when he is about to end every day, and to pass everything in his mind to check gains and losses.

The prince's leg injury is getting better and better day by day, but it takes a long time to walk down the ground. Ordinary injuries take 100 days, let alone the prince's serious injuries.

It seems that the prince's legs are cured now, but the problem is that he has a relationship with the emperor now. After this incident, Li Chao found that he and Li Shimin were no longer as close to each other.

Li Chao is now staying in Wudang, and it seems that the emperor still trusts him very much and asks him to take care of the prince.

But Li Chao temporarily left the imperial center. He, the imperial envoy of the Shandong East Road, the Grand Governor, the Hanjing Construction Envoy, the prefect of Xiangzhou, the governor of Dengzhou, the Minister of Revenue, and other important officials of the court who also had a series of important positions, are now staying on a mountain.

The prince may have to take care of his injuries here for one or two years, so he, the prime minister of the court, may have to leave the center for one or two years. The emperor's arrangement may very likely mean that Li Shimin really hates him now.

Li Chao is also a little tired now.

Because of the achievements of Xuanwu Sect, he was extremely trusted by Li Shimin. He was able to enter the center at a young age and even became the prime minister. However, Li Chao felt that he was not suitable to be a prime minister.

Perhaps this time, I can temporarily retreat from the center and have a good rest.

With his eyes closed, Li Chao didn't want to think about anything anymore, just wanted to relax.

The sound of gentle footsteps came, and Li Chao's ears moved.

Then I can tell that this is Pingyang's footsteps.

He didn't open his eyes, "Why are you here?"

"I know you're taking a bath, so I'll come and rub your back."

"It's so stressful to let the eldest princess rub my back."

"I rub it a lot for you. No matter how often you don't enjoy it." Li Xiuning said, picking up the soap and wet it, then giving Li Chao the soap. The smooth soap slipped away on his body, and the nails were scraped from time to time.

"Sanniang, how about you saying I resigned from His Majesty, how about taking a boat to the South China Sea?"

Li Xiuning paused, "Why did you suddenly have this kind of thought?"

"I just feel very tired and want to relax."

"You are not relaxing, you are irresponsible. Do you still feel guilty about the prince's affairs?"

"No."

"Nothing, that's how you think. You are free and easy. You want to go to the South China Sea. Not to mention how dangerous the sea is, how severe the epidemic in the south is, don't you think about your wives, concubines, children? Don't think about them, don't you think about me? Do you want to leave me?"

“We can go together.”

"This is impossible. I can't bear to leave you, but I can't bear to leave Zhewei and Lingwu. Besides, don't you think about the prince?"

"Prince?"

"Yes, Prince. This child is so seriously injured now and has not healed yet. At this time, you need your teacher to support him, but you are going to Nanhai. Besides, you also know that after the prince broke his leg, some people in the court were already saying strange things, and some people even proposed to change the crown prince. The prince now needs your teacher to support him in the court. You are going to Nanhai now. Are you sorry for the crown prince?"

Li Chao washed his face with a handful of water, "The prince's legs are not broken, and they will be intact in more than a year at most. Your Majesty will not change the prince."

"Who is right about this? Can you, the teacher, rest assured? You are the prime minister in the court. If you speak for the prince, you must always give more guarantees."

"The Duke of Wei is also the prince's uncle, he is also the prime minister, and he will protect the prince."

"Changsun Wuji is not only the prince's uncle, but also the prince of Wei Li Tai, but also his nephew. Moreover, King of Wei Li Tai is very favored by the emperor and the queen. I think the relationship between uncle and nephew is better if one is Duke of Wei and King of Wei."

"Don't talk nonsense, I think Duke Wei is also very good to the prince." Li Chao said with his chin pinched.

Li Chao was actually not worried about the status of the prince. His broken leg might have an impact, but his leg was not broken. Secondly, the queen's biological mother is still there, can she allow the deposed prince? Moreover, Li Chao did not believe that Pingyang said that Changsun Wuji would support King Wei Li Tai.

It doesn't make sense. Li Chengqian and Li Tai are both legitimate sons of his own sister. Why did he abandon the elder and establish a young child? There was a reason why Changsun Wuji supported Li Zhi in history.

Chengqian and Li Tai fought for many years, but finally made a mistake in rebellion and were deposed.

At this time, Changsun Wuji did not support Li Tai, but supported Li Zhi. That was because although Li Tai was favored, Li Shimin had actually abandoned Li Tai when he deposed the crown prince. Changsun Wuji did not support Li Zhi, but only saw that Li Shimin deposed Chengqian and hated Li Tai at the same time, so he supported Li Zhi.

After all, Li Zhi is the last legitimate son after Chengqian and Li Tai. Who does he support?

In the current situation, Changsun Wuji has no reason not to support Chengqian.

Li Shimin had no reason to depose Chengqian. Chengqian's performance was quite good. Even if he broke his leg this time, his grandeur, mature and strong performance made Li Shimin and Empress Changsun admire him. It can be said that after this incident, Chengqian's position as the prince would only become more and more stable.

With the recognition of the emperor and the empress, coupled with the strong support of the prince and father-in-law Li Chao, who can make a fortune?

"You are just thinking about messy things all day long. You used to be tired, but now you have time to rest, and you think about it again. You can't rest here for a while. How good the air in Wudang Mountain is, there are no things that make people feel upset. It's so good that we two are together every day and stay with the prince."

"Wen Yuan, why don't we have a baby!"

Li Chao was shocked by Ping Yang's words and almost stood up from the bucket.

"What's your reaction?"

Li Chao's reaction made Pingyang very dissatisfied.

I sleep together every day and say that you are feeling like having a baby, and you dislike me?

Li Chao had no intention of disgust, but he really didn't think about having a baby with Pingyang. The relationship between the two is now a lover. If they have a baby, then this child is unfair.

"No wonder you always have to be out of your body. It turns out that you really don't want to have a baby with me!" The woman became paranoid and was quite difficult to deal with.

Now Pingyang wants Li Chao to give an explanation.

"I was thinking that if we gave birth to a child, the child's status would be embarrassing and would have no identity."

"What does it mean to have no identity? He was born, and he is the son of my Li Xiuning, the eldest princess's son and the emperor's nephew. Why does it mean to have no identity?"

"And everyone in the world knows that his father is Prime Minister Li Chao."

Li Chao was speechless, saying that, but he was born out of wedlock after all.

"What are you worried about? Even if the child is born, everyone knows that he is your Li Chao's son, but he will not share your Li family's property and fight for your Li family's title. What are you worried about?"

Li Chao was silent, yes, why did he hesitate?

Li Xiuning followed him without fame and parting. Now he proposed that he wanted to have a child, which is not an exaggeration.

But Li Chao didn't know how to explain to Cui Yingying. He had promised Thirteen Niang before that she would not raise an outdoor room or give birth to an illegitimate child.

I was in a dilemma, and whether I agreed or not, it seemed that I would be dissatisfied with another person.
Chapter completed!