As Chinese people, the obsession with expanding territory is ingrained in our DNA.
It would be fine if Li Er had never been to the modern era.
Now, not only has he been to the modern era, he also has various weapons that transcend this time and space.
If he doesn't bring all those foreign countries under the auspices of China, then his title of Governor of Asia will be in vain.
As for why Li Er still wanted to hold a banquet for those foreign envoys, it was naturally because he wanted to appease them temporarily.
Although the Tang Dynasty is now strong in both military and military power, it cannot withstand the unrest caused by all the foreign nations.
It was precisely because of this that Li Er had to feign compromising relations with those envoys.
According to the plots in the online novels Zhou Yu had read, in such a plot involving foreign envoys, the protagonist would definitely try to show off.
For example, speaking foreign languages fluently with the envoys.
For example, he easily unlocked the Lu Ban lock that left a group of court officials helpless.
If you have a bigger imagination, you can even compete with those foreign envoys in piano playing.
The envoy played Two Tigers, and the protagonist directly played Beethoven's piano music.
The main point is to show off and slap someone in the face to shock everyone.
However, such a scene would never have happened in front of Li Er and Empress Zhangsun, who had been to the modern era.
The facts were exactly as he expected.
When he arrived with the little princesses, Li Er was holding a glass and toasting with a group of envoys.
What made Zhou Yu speechless the most was that Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Gong were singing the same tune to sell bicycles to the envoys.
When Zhou Yu came in, the two loudmouths were shaking their heads like rattles. "One thousand taels of silver? Do you look down on the Tang Dynasty?"
"That's right, you definitely look down on us, the Tang Dynasty."
Yuchi Gong's charcoal-haired man also echoed this, and he continued with a smug look on his face, "Why don't you go to the East Market and ask around to see where there are bicycles for sale right now? Don't be put off by the fact that they're not new. If there are new ones, even this prince might not be able to snatch one up."
"That's right, a bicycle costs five thousand taels. You won't be cheated or taken advantage of."
Cheng Yaojin interrupted, first patting his chest with a promise, and then gently coaxing: "Think about it, how much benefit can you get by presenting this thing to your vassal king?"
Although Cheng Yaojin spoke the latter part in a low voice, his voice was loud to begin with, and even with his voice down, everyone in the hall could still hear it.
Regarding the two fools' behavior of almost forcing the sale, Li Er just held the wine glass and tasted the wine, without any intention of blaming or stopping them.
According to his thinking, five thousand taels was nothing.
After all, as the saying goes, scarcity makes things valuable.
Although Zhou Yu brought a lot of bicycles to the Tang Dynasty, there were still many wealthy families and officials in Chang'an.
Since bicycles became popular in the Tang Dynasty, officials no longer rode horses or sedan chairs to court, but rode bicycles regardless of rain or shine.
So much so that every time a court meeting was held, there would be a long row of bicycles parked outside the palace.
At first, the officials handed the bicycles to the guards of the palace for care. Later, after several cases of people riding the wrong bicycles, the officials began to bring servants to look after the bicycles.
So much so that it has become standard for officials to have a servant on the back seat when they go to court.
As for why bicycle locks are useless, it all started with Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Gong.
They were among the first group to ride bicycles, and since they fell a lot while learning, they thought about exchanging their old bikes for other people's new ones.
One day when they went to court, the two of them were late on purpose and broke all the locks.
By the time the other officials came out, the best bicycles had already been taken away by these two guys.
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