Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

Li Yi'an felt that the Lu family did this for no reason, it was definitely not as simple as a momentary fever or burning out the brain.

There must be a reason behind it, but he doesn't know it yet.

He can be sure that if this matter spreads, the other six families will definitely besiege Lu Yulin, so before leaving Ganlu Hall, he specially asked Li Shimin for a copy of calligraphy, and stamped the seal of the emperor's jade seal on it. In front of the gate of Lu's house, the grand occasion was just as he had imagined.

Li Yi'an walked in from outside the door and said: "Patriarch Lu is loyal and courageous, he thinks about his family and the world, and is willing to take the initiative to fill the treasury of the Tang Dynasty. He is a rare important minister. Are you here to admire and learn from Patriarch Lu? "

The person who came was Li Yi'an, except for Wang Yuanhua, the disgust in the eyes of the other five people was undisguised.

"Li Yi'an, what are you doing here?"

Cui Mao said displeased.

"I'm here to give Patriarch Lu a gift, or a gift from His Majesty."

Li Yi'an spread out Li Shimin's calligraphy, only to see four large characters written on it - The House of Loyalty!

It is impossible for Lu Yulin's family to be a family of loyalty. It was Li Yi'an who asked His Majesty to write this. In addition to using this to stabilize Lu Yulin, he can also disgust him, killing two birds with one stone.

"These four words were written by His Majesty himself, saying that Patriarch Lu is righteous and worthy of being a family of loyalty. There is also the seal of the jade seal, and he specially ordered me to give it to Patriarch Lu!"

Li Yi'an didn't care if they were willing to accept it or not, so he directly stuffed it into Lu Xiuran's hand, looked back at the unfriendly eyes of everyone, and asked: "I think your reaction doesn't look like admiration, but more like looking for trouble, right?" ?”

"What are we here for, what does it matter to you?"

Cui Jingsheng said.

Li Yi'an said solemnly: "Of course it's none of my business. If you intend to embarrass Patriarch Lu, then you are embarrassing His Majesty. I think it is necessary to go to the palace again and tell His Majesty these things."

After all, he really walked out, towards the palace, as if he was about to enter the palace.

Everyone couldn't decide what Li Yi'an was up to, and hesitated in their hearts, but found that there were so many of them, and they were frightened by Li Yi'an's few words, and they didn't know where to put their faces.

"Lu Yulin, you are very good, and you are doing well, just wait for me!"

Cui Mao pointed at him, turned and left.

"You took the initiative to expand the opening of the tax law, and I will see how well you will end up in the future."

Zheng Quan left after saying that.

The other four didn't say anything, but their warning eyes were undisguised.

When they were all gone, Lu Xiuran looked at the four large characters in his hand, and asked helplessly, "Aye, do we still want to go back to Fan Yang?"

Lu Yulin was silent for a long time before responding: "No need, find someone to put these four characters on the plaque. I want to hang it on the door of Lu's house. I want to see what the six of them can do to me."

"The House of Loyalty is just sent by Li Erlang to stabilize our Lu family, but it is also extremely ironic to us!"

Lu Xiuran was not in favor of doing this.

"Sarcasm is irony. It is enough to stabilize the family. Hang it up for me immediately."

Lu Yulin said, "The House of Loyalty? The next one will probably be the Wang Family."

"How could the Wang family do this?"

Lu Xiuran said.

"Just wait and see! Wang Rujing will definitely do this, and Wang Yuanhua will agree."

Lu Yulin is very firm in his thoughts.

At this moment, Wang Yuanhua had already returned home, but he was full of unhappiness and even more resentful towards Li Yi'an.

"Aye, it's a little too much for the Lu family to do this."

Wang Rujing was making tea, and when she saw him come back, she said, "But Lu Yulin is not an idiot, there must be some reason behind it, and the reason is probably because he is not in the public eye, so he dare not say it."

Wang Chengzhi also sat on the side, and said after hearing the words: "Aye, what should our Wang family do? Before, we moved closer to the court, but now the Lu family has responded. If we don't do it, it will be very embarrassing."

Wang Yuanhua said impatiently: "What else can we do? Is it possible to send money to the court?"

"Then send it!"

Wang Rujing didn't care and said: "If I guessed correctly, there will be a group of people close to His Majesty in the court tomorrow to follow Lu Yulin's example. After all, the Lu family is doing this. If they don't do it, what will happen to Your Majesty?" think?"

For example, Du Ruhui and others, as Li Shimin's close ministers, are also members of the aristocratic family. If they don't respond, they are afraid that Li Shimin will think wildly.

"If so much money is sent to the imperial court, it is tantamount to bloodletting our royal family!"

Wang Yuanhua was unwilling to say.

"I can't shed much blood. I have released a group of servants in our family before and returned them to freedom. There are not many left. During this time, I will cooperate with Fang Yucheng to make these tea and pottery, and earn a lot of money. There are many."

Wang Rujing analyzed and said: "In contrast, the money sent out now is not so important, just like the salt and iron tax before, we are the ones who benefited in the end, Aye, remember?"

Of course Wang Yuanhua remembered, and after thinking about it secretly for a while, he felt that it made sense.

"Aye, you have to trust brother-in-law!"

Wang Chengzhi said.

"Don't mention him to me again!"

Wang Chengzhi roared inexplicably: "He is not worthy to be the son-in-law of our Wang family."

After speaking, he slapped the Tianmu lamp on the table, got up and went back to the study, he had to go back to Wang Gui to discuss whether he should follow what Wang Rujing said.

"Sister, what do you think you should do?"

Wang Chengzhi was really taken aback.

"What else can I do? I'll see him tomorrow!"

Wang Rujing said disapprovingly.

No one can stop who she wants to marry.

A sneeze!

Li Yi'an sneezed and rubbed his nose, thinking that with my constitution, it is impossible to catch a cold, and there must be someone scolding me behind my back.

"Sir, are you all right?"

Chen Shuozhen on the side asked nervously.

"It's okay, just sneeze!"

Li Yi'an looked at the snail meat in the water dish, and continued: "Soak the snail meat first, and I'll deal with it later."

The subbranchial gland of the snail secretes the precursor of purple pigment and the enzyme that catalyzes the precursor. Under the catalysis of light and oxygen, the colorless mucus will magically turn purple.

The reason why Li Yi'an wanted these murexes was to extract the purple inside.

But purple is not unique to the murex. It existed in ancient China. Qi Henggong's purple clothes are an example. However, purple is hard to come by and difficult to dye.

Because it is difficult to dye, purple has always been regarded as a noble color, such as purple air coming from the east.

Extracting colors from these murexes may cause a different sensation.

But whether it can be extracted, Li Yi'an doesn't know, it's dried snail meat after all, those pigments are probably gone long ago.