Chapter 250 The Big Shot arrives

A few days later, several official ships with carved beams and painted buildings arrived at the port of Xiangzhou. From this moment on, Xiangzhou became very lively, which became the focus of attention in the Tang Dynasty.

The official ship is not carrying ordinary people. When the prime minister of the dynasty, he is a real big shot - Xiao Yu!

At the beginning, Qin Mubai got the news and learned that the emperor had sent Xiao Yu to Xiangzhou, so he roughly guessed why he came.

Xiao Yu has a close relationship with Yang Guang, who is lying in the mausoleum. The queen of Yang Guang, that is, Empress Xiao, is Xiao Yu's own sister. In the former Sui era, Xiao Yu was already Dr. Yin Qingguanglu at a young age and became the youngest member of Yang Guang's think tank.

Xiao Yu's grandfather is Xiao Qian, Emperor Xuan of Later Liang, and his great-grandfather is Xiao Tong, the prince of Zhaoming. Xiao has always been a famous family of the Jiangzuowang clan. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Xiao Xian, who was divided by Jiangdong, was still Xiao Yu's son and nephew.

And Xiao Yu has always been quite controversial.

Since he was a child, he has been famous for his filial piety and is good at learning, upright, and profound in Buddhism. He is not greedy for money, does not be lustful, and dares to go straight against the dragon scales. Whether he served Yang Guang in the former Sui Dynasty or was later trusted by Tang Gaozu Li Yuanqi as his confidant, and then he admired or followed Li Shimingui as the prime minister, he did not change a single point.

In addition, it may be because he comes from a famous family. He also has some common problems of old officials - arrogant people who look down on people who are lower than him. Wu De was fine at that time. Gaozu Li Yuan relied on him as his confidant and entrusted him with the power to entrust him with heavy responsibilities. After Li Shimin ascended the throne, he had his own team, such as Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng and others. On the one hand, Xiao Yu was jealous that they were favored and heavily used, and on the other hand, he looked down on their birth. Moreover, he is also a "perfectionist" who can't tolerate sand in his eyes, but if he is not used to it at all, he must scold him mercilessly on the spot, no matter when and where he is or who the other party is.

For this reason, Li Shimin once praised him, "This person can't be lured by him, can't be tortured and afraid of him." He also gave the poem "The wind knows the strong grass, and the board knows the sincere minister." But because of his arrogant temperament and stubborn temper, Xiao Yu has been demoted several times in his life, but has been used several times, just like a "tumbler".

At present, although Xiao Yu worships the prime minister of "Prince Taibao" and "Tongzhong Shumen Xia Sanpin", it is difficult to really enter the court prime minister team with Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others as the core to participate in major decisions. But no matter what, the influence of Jiangzuo Xiao, a famous family, is still there, and Xiao Yu's value has not fallen much. From this point of view, Li Shimin sent him to Xiangzhou for Yang Guang's mausoleum, and he seemed to pay more attention to it.

Qin Mubai led the officials and generals from Xiangzhou to the dock to greet him. Several huge warships were full of goods, covered with curtains, and I don't know what it was. Along with it, there are more than a thousand Jinwuwei imperial forest troops, which is not a small momentum.

The middle ship came to the harbor, and the board of the ship also came up. The guards on both sides lined up and made a position. Xiao Yu raised his hand on the bow deck to straighten his clothes and strode down the ship.

"Qin Mubai, the lieutenant of Xiangzhou Military Mansion, led the upper and lower officials of the whole state to welcome Xiao Gelao." Qin Mubai stood at the head of a group of officials and arched his hand.

The officials will promise together: "Welcome Mr. Xiao Ge!"

Xiao Yu raised his chin and looked around at the crowd. He nodded "Well" to Qin Mubai with no expression on his face and said, "Why does General Qin work so hard? I came here by decree to do erre, not to play. If a vulgar gift can be avoided, it will be avoided!"

"I heard that the pavilion is honest and honest, and it's true." Qin Mubai didn't care. It's normal for Xiao Yu's "old revolution" to be a little arrogant and high. What's more, he has always had such a temperament, and he is half-hearted to talk to the emperor, but don't expect him to be polite to anyone.

Xiao Yu was neither nonsense nor polite. He pointed his hand forward and said, "I'm sorry to lead the way under General Qin's command. Let's go to the Assassin's House to talk!"

"It's good." Qin Mubai nodded and answered, and asked Xue Rengui to lead the personal soldiers of the royal palace to open the way in front of him. Pang Fei led the elite Vietnamese cavalry team of the military palace to escort the central army, and more than a thousand people went to the assassin's mansion.

Xiao Yu did not take a sedan chair. He rode a horse and was silent all the way.

Pang Fei came to Qin Mubai's side and cursed in a low voice, "This old man is so arrogant! He is just an outdated prime minister, and he has been demoted several times without breaking his arrogance. I don't know what he is here for.

Qin Mubai smiled and said, "People have their own sex. What can he do with this kind of personality? It's not like this with us. He did this when he faced Sangong Zaifu in the court. His pride is in his bones. Jiang Zuo Xiao is a hundred-year-old family. Maybe he still looks down on the Li royal family who got up in Guanlong Bazhu Kingdom from the bottom of his heart!"

"Haha, this old guy is also interesting." Pang Fei smiled and said, "Dare to love him all his life, he only bites the word 'door'."

"Not at all." Qin Mubai raised his eyebrows and smiled and said, "But then again, he is actually a good person, strong, upright, filial, incorruptible, and highly learned. Although his mouth and temper are a little smelly, he is better than those honey-bellied swords and scheming villains.

"That's true!"

The brigade crossed Xiangyang County and stopped in the Assassin's Mansion. Xiao Yu was not polite. He sat down in the upper seat and drank tea. After resting for a long time, he seemed to remember that there were a large number of officials and generals such as Qin Mubai, waiting for him to speak.

"Oh, I can't stand the fatigue of the boat, and I'm a little dizzy and uncomfortable. Common gifts such as receiving wind and washing dust can be avoided. All your colleagues, just disperse and go back to rest by yourself!" Xiao Yu waved his hand and said.

"Yes..." Naturally, it was inconvenient for everyone to say more, so they had to disperse.

Qin Mubai naturally stayed. Xiao Yu's move was nothing more than trying to repel everyone and talk to him alone.

Waiting for everyone to disperse, Xiao Yu slowly tasted a cup of tea and didn't look at Qin Mubai. He hummed slowly, "General Qin, you have made a great contribution this time!"

"I don't know Xiao Ge Lao, what does this mean?" Qin Mubai asked.

Xiao Yu gently put the tea cup on the table, stroked his long gray beard a few times, raised his chin slightly with a smile, and said proudly, "Return to the emperor, such a credit is naturally not small."

Qin Mubai smiled slightly and said casually, "In this case, is the jade seal real?"

"It has been personally identified by this cabinet, and it can't be faked." Xiao Yu smiled and said, "Before that, the jade seal in your majesty's hand was extremely similar. When it came back from Mobei, I suspected that it was fake. I also told the emperor, but he didn't believe it. It was also like the treasure who took the fake jade seal as real and put it on the imperial case for several years. Fortunately, the real jade seal has finally appeared, and His Majesty finally believed in the eyesight of the old minister.

Qin Mubai suppressed his laughter and said seriously, "Xiao Ge has served the three emperors in two dynasties, and his eyesight and insight must be very comparable."

"That's natural." Xiao Yu smiled quite complaedly and then said, "In the early years, Yang Guang took care of me many times. No one was more familiar with that thing than me. A few days ago, His Majesty asked Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Yu Shinan and other people to identify whether it was true or false. In the end, I thought of giving me a look. I don't know who the fake jade seal came from. It's really vivid and similar. If I hadn't been familiar with the jade seal, I'm afraid I couldn't tell the true from the false.

"In this way, Mr. Xiao Ge is really a blessing general of His Majesty the Emperor!" Qin Mubai said with a smile.

"When it comes to blessing generals, the King of Wu and General Qin are the real blessing generals." Xiao Yu looked sideways at Qin Mubai, with a little jealousy in his eyes. He said sourly, "In a mistake, you actually found the real tomb of Emperor Yang, and also found the jade seal that had been missing for decades!

"Yes, luck is really not good." Qin Mubai was about to be amused by the "sour old man". He reluctantly resisted and said, "Xiao Ge, I want to ask, what's going on with you?"

"Oh?" Xiao Yu was stunned, "Didn't your majesty send someone to preach the decree before to explain the reason for my trip?"

Qin Mubai shook his head blankly.

"Cough!--" Xiao Yu coughed awkwardly, "Then why did you go to the dock to greet him?"

"The humble position only knows that Xiao Ge is ordered to come next day, so he went to greet him. I don't know what's going on. Qin Mubai simply told the truth.

Xiao Yu's face suddenly turned a little red, and he coughed dryly and said, "Then you... go and call back those officials just now. I will announce the intention of this trip in public."

"Xiao Ge Lao, everyone has dispersed... Isn't it okay to call back again?" Qin Mubai whispered, "Why don't you always tell me directly that I will convey it to my subordinates, which is also more convenient and labor-saving?"

"No way! This cabinet is ordered to go out for a job, and can you hide your head and show your tail?" Xiao Yu said righteously, "Go quickly and call those people!"

"Okay..." Qin Mubai smiled bitterly and said to himself, this sour old man, thinking that the emperor had announced the order to greet him in advance, but he didn't expect that he was self-invited. The people in Manxiangzhou only know that he is coming, but they don't know what he is doing!

Qin Mubai had to send someone to call back the scattered officials. Everyone didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but it was not easy to brush Xiao Yu's face, so they had to rush back and stood in two rows in the main hall of the Assassin's Mansion, arching hands together and listening.

Only then did Xiao Yu feel that he had regained a little face and announced his intention.

As Qin Mubai expected, Xiao Yu was ordered by the emperor to bring a number of skilled craftsmen and civil materials, and made a special trip to Xiangzhou in advance to prepare for the future "Yang Emperor Mausoleum Festival". Xiao Yu also read a hand order from Li Shimin in public, saying that his majesty had an order and ordered all the officials in Xiangzhou to obey Xiao Yu's punishment and assist him in the ceremony.

The time of the festival is selected at the Double Ninth Festival three months later. Time is still a little tight.

"It's roughly like this. What are the specific arrangements? The cabinet will inform General Qin, and then he will assign it. At that time, you will have to bother the public. You must be careful and do your job carefully, so that there will be no mistakes. Xiao Yu said solemnly.

"Be humble and obey!" Everyone had to answer loudly.

"Okay, let's break up first!"

Xiao Yu waved his hand again, and everyone dispersed again.

After everyone left, Qin Mubai asked carefully, "Mr. Xiao Ge, have you finished everything? But what other confidential affairs do you have to tell people to be inferior?

Xiao Yu thought carefully with his eyes. He really thought about it for a long time and shook his head: "It seems that it's gone. Before leaving, His Majesty once said that when he arrived in Xiangzhou, if there was anything inexplinable, he would ask Qin Mubai. If there is anything indecisive, hand it over to Qin Mubai. It can be seen that Your Majesty has considerable value and trust in you. So in the future, if I have anything to ask for, I will hand it over to you.

"Well, okay." Qin Mubai nodded, laughed in his heart, and said secretly: Who doesn't know that you are always just a "representative". Who really expects you to do something?

"Yes, there is one more thing." Xiao Yu said, "You must build two Xingyuan Mansions before the sacrifice."

"The first place in Xingyuan Mansion? Two more?" Qin Mubai couldn't help frowning, "Does His Majesty want to kiss?"

"How can your majesty come to sacrifice to the last emperor of the previous dynasty? You are really unscrupulous!" Xiao Yu was reprimanded in court.

"Okay, I'm wrong. Xiao Ge, don't be angry." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "Well, that's to build a prince leaving the palace, right?"

"You are smart." Xiao Yu snorted coldly and said, "Your Majesty valued the sacrifice of Emperor Yang's Mausoleum, so he sent three members of the royal family to preside over it. The first is the prince; the second is, of course, Li Ke, the assassin of Xiangzhou, the king of Wu; the third is Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia. The king of Wu has a royal palace to live in here. I have never paid attention to the big house, but is it possible that you want the prince and the king of Jiangxia to squeeze under the same eaves with me? Therefore, you should start building a trip to the palace as soon as possible!"

"Okay, I know." Qin Mubai scratched his head, smiled helplessly and said, "I just don't know when the King of Wu will come back?" After all, it's his business to assassinate state affairs.

"The pavilion is unknown. If you want to know, Pegasus Kuaishu went to Chang'an to ask His Majesty and King Wu. After saying that, Xiao Yu got up and cut his sleeves behind his back and said, "I'm tired, let's go to the pavilion to have a rest. If you don't bother General Qin to see you off, go and deal with these things quickly!"

Qin Mubai looked at Xiao Yu's back, shook his head without crying or laughing, and said secretly: It's really a proud old stone. No wonder the three emperors Yang Guang, Li Yuan and Li Shimin are happy, hateful, use and degrading him.

Anyway, the emperor is so active to sacrifice Yang Guang in Xiangzhou. On the one hand, of course, it is to show his heart of the emperor and win over the hearts of the people. On the other hand, the main purpose is to inform the world, so that everyone in the world knows that "the real jade seal has returned". Li Shimin is real. The true dragon emperor who is under the command of heaven.

In this calculation, Li Ke and I have really made contributions!