Li Xiu lived in Yangzhou for two days before leaving for Chang'an again. When Li Ke learned that the bank had decided to choose Yangzhou, he almost jumped up happily, especially when he learned that the reason why the bank chose Yangzhou was that Li Xiu wanted to combine the trading company with the bank, which made him even happier. He pulled Li Xiu to talk about this, which made Li Xiu stay in Yangzhou for two more days.

After saying goodbye to Li Ke, Li Xiu also rushed to Chang'an. Along the way, he also sent someone to inquire about the situation in the court. Although he didn't find out much, he could also feel the tense atmosphere in the court. It is said that as soon as he goes to court, there will be a quarrel in the court, and even normal government affairs cannot be discussed.

Because of the clan story, Li Shimin was put on the imperial examination by those aristocratic families, which made him feel like he was losing face. Therefore, he also retaliated against the aristocratic families during this period. Officials from aristocratic families were constantly demoted from the capital. Especially the previous chief examiners of the imperial examination were even demoted to Leizhou or Yazhou. In fact, it was the Hainan area in later generations. There was a barbaric land in the Song Dynasty hundreds of years later, not to mention in the early Tang Dynasty. After those officials were exiled here, they would never think of going back for the rest of their lives.

However, Li Shimin's approach also aroused strong resistance from the aristocratic families. For a time, several major families united and mobilized all the ministers who could influence them to put pressure on Li Shimin. As a result, Li Shimin also became a donkey this time, and refused to bow to the aristocratic family. Instead, he demoted several ministers who were more powerful, which led to a complete outbreak of conflicts between the aristocratic families and the royal family.

The aristocratic family controls public opinion. Most of the ministers in the court came from aristocratic families, and the rest were more or less related to the aristocratic families. Li Shimin held the military and political power of the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time he could also decide the promotion and use of the ministers. Now conflicts between the two sides broke out and the struggles in the court were endless. It is said that the company chief Sun Wuji was dragged into it. Perhaps the aristocratic family felt that they could not move Li Shimin, so they turned their target to Li Shimin's most important arm. As a result, Changsun Wuji was impeached by countless people. If Li Shimin had not forced himself to protect him, Changsun Wuji would have been dismissed from office.

"Ke'er advised me not to go back to Chang'an now, it's indeed for my own good!" After knowing the above situation, Li Xiu couldn't help but sigh inwardly, but he was not afraid at all, but accelerated to Chang'an.

At the same time, on Liuqiu Island in the southeast corner of the Tang Dynasty, Li Chengdao was urging people on the dock to transfer the goods from one boat to another. It is summer now, and it is the sea again. The weather is amazing. Even though Li Chengdao did not work himself, he was sweating profusely. As for the people who work, they poured cold water on their bodies from time to time, otherwise they would not be able to withstand such a poisonous sun.

Seeing that the guy who was carrying things was so hard, some people even started to slacke in work, he signaled to a subordinate next to him, and the other party immediately understood and immediately stepped forward and shouted loudly. "Brothers, work harder, today's wages are double, and you can eat meat tonight!"

When the master heard that he had increased the money and could eat meat at night, the people who worked were immediately excited, shouted and expressed their gratitude to Li Chengdao, and then accelerated to start moving.

Seeing this, Li Chengdao was relieved and was about to turn around to drink some water. However, as soon as he turned around, he saw Qi Niang walking with grease paper and carrying a food box in his hand. Afterwards, there were several strong women behind him pushing a car with a large wooden barrel on the car. I don’t know what it was inside?

"Qianniang, why are you here?" Seeing his wife coming, Li Chengdao also showed a warm smile on his face and said, after getting married, their relationship became deeper, and perhaps because of his wife, Qi Niang became more feminine, not as careless as she usually was.

"Seeing that you are working so hard, I personally made sour plum soup to relieve you from the heat. In addition, the big bucket behind has been added with ice. Let the people who work to drink it. Don't get hot!" Qi Niang raised the food box in her hand, and then pointed to the big bucket behind her.

"You are still as thoughtful as Qi Niang. I was so hot just now. These people working are very hard. It's great to drink sour plum soup!" Li Chengdao also smiled brightly when he heard his wife's words. Then he took the food box from Qi Niang's hand, and then someone pushed the big bucket with sour plum soup behind it to the dock, so that the people working were able to pick it up by themselves.

Li Chengdao took Qi Niang to a big tree next to the dock, then took out the sour plum soup from the food box, and it was cold and sour, making people feel that the heat was gone, which made him unable to help but praise: "Qi Niang, your cooking skills are getting better and better. This bowl of sour plum soup is made moderately sweet and sour, and it feels no different from what the husband made himself."

"Hehe~, I know to say good things. In my brother's words, everything you eat when you are hungry is delicious, just like you are thirsty and hot now, so naturally I feel that the iced sour plum soup is delicious. In fact, my cooking skills are far worse than my elder brother." Qi Niang couldn't help but tease when she heard Li Chengdao's praise. She was not the kind of woman who was easily destroyed by sweet words.

After Qi Niang exposed the lie, Li Chengdao just smiled with a thick face and said, "Hehe, the things you make are delicious, but what you do is not bad. Moreover, I have often cooked for myself in recent years. Although my cooking skills are not as good as Mr., they are also quite good. I will let you try my cooking skills tonight?"

"Okay, then I want to try your skills!" Qi Niang nodded immediately. Maybe for other women, they would never let their husbands cook themselves, but Qi Niang is different. She grew up eating the food made by Li Xiu since she was a child, so she naturally has no prejudice against men cooking.

However, when he said this, Qi Niang suddenly looked at Li Chengdao with some doubts and said, "But do you have time? Don't we have a lot of goods to move to the ship?"

"Haha, don't worry about this. Today is the last batch. This batch of goods should have arrived a long time ago. We can set off as long as we load it on the ship. However, there was something wrong with this batch of goods at Quanzhou Port and even been detained by the government. Fortunately, the Eleventh Brother has a lot of connections in Quanzhou. For his sake, the Quanzhou government released the batch of goods a few days ago. Otherwise, I might have to give up this batch of goods!" Li Chengdao said again at this time. If it weren't for waiting for this batch of goods, they would have gone to Japan now.
Chapter completed!