"My God... it's His Highness the eldest son of the Tang Dynasty...!" Xue Wanjun's lips trembled slightly and said, "But why did Your Majesty ask the eldest son of the Emperor to attack Gaochang?"

Looking at Xue Wanjun, Hou Junji smiled mysteriously and said, "I'm just guessing, but I'll tell you today, but after I've spoken out of my mouth and entered your ears, I won't be responsible later. Even if you go out to say it, I won't admit it."

"Old Hou..." Xue Wanjun said speechlessly: "We two are old brothers, are you still worried about me?" Then Xue Wanjun said anxiously: "Speak quickly..."

"Okay...!" Hou Junji nodded, then looked around, then lowered his voice and said to Xue Wanjun: "Old Xue, let me tell you this, this eldest son of the emperor should be the person that His Majesty trusts the most.

In fact, His Highness Li Zhan came with the Sword of the Emperor. According to what His Majesty told me, he was here to get a plant in Gaochang. I don’t know what it is, but I don’t believe in what kind of plant will make my lost eldest son take the risk?

So, I analyze that Your Majesty asked His Majesty to come here to get military merits this time."

"Why are you taking military merits?" Xue Wanjun said with some difficulty, "What does Your Highness Chang want military merits?"

"Hey... why are you just not smart? Because Your Majesty needs a prince to suppress the Tang army for himself. Some people have too high military merits, and they have some great achievements that are overwhelming."

As soon as Hou Junji finished speaking, Xue Wanjun on the side immediately exclaimed: "Duke of England..."

After Xue Wanjun finished speaking, Hou Junji nodded and said, "You are still smart. You are most likely to save the Duke of England. Your Majesty must trust his son. Your eldest son is His Majesty's eldest son, and the second is His Majesty's legitimate son. Only when the military power is in his hands can Your Majesty feel at ease."

"But the prince..." Xue Wanjun looked at Hou Junji on the side, and then swallowed the words behind him.

Hou Junji smiled and said, "It's okay... Lao Xue, just say it out. You are worried that the position of the prince will be taken away by Your Highness Chang. Haha... Don't worry, Your Highness Chang doesn't want the position of the prince.

Maybe you think I'm lying, let me tell you this, and I'll tell you openly, horseshoes, Zhenguan plows, and cured the plague... The recent sweet potatoes are all from the hands of His Highness. If he wanted the position of prince, the current prince would have given up.

But our eldest prince just doesn’t like the position of prince, but instead plans for his younger brother everywhere. He is really a good brother.

More importantly, Your Highness Chang likes my family Guangliang and Ruixin very well, especially Ruixin. Your Highness Chang said that he will raise the children born by Ruixin himself, haha...!"

Hou Junji didn't say anything else after that, and he already understood the meaning.

At this time, Xue Wanjun bowed repeatedly and said, "Old Hou, then congratulations. If you have a good grandson in the future, I, Lao Xue, can also benefit from it."

"Haha... it's easy to say, it's easy to say... But what we have to do now is not to let Your Highness Chang have something to do. Before coming, Your Majesty said that if Your Highness Chang has something to do, I will make myself slaughter and there is no need to go back."

"Hiss..." Xue Wanjun said in horror: "Your Majesty is so fond of Your Highness?"

"Old Xue... let me tell you this... It was this eldest prince who drew his sword and said he would rebel... His Majesty would tolerate it!"

Hou Junji's words shocked Xue Wanjun, and then listened to Hou Junji's continued: "So Lao Xue... Remember, you can provoke anyone in this Tang Dynasty, including His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but don't provoke him, because if you provoke him, you won't end up well."

Xue Wanjun nodded repeatedly.

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"Is it delicious..." Li Zhan sat under the shade of the tree and watched Feng Ming eating watermelon.

Haha... Li Zhan never dreamed that he found a watermelon vine here, with three large watermelons growing on it. However, some tiger soldiers also saw it, but they didn't know what the watermelon was, so they only dared to look at it.

However, Li Zhan recognized the watermelon at a glance.

In ancient times, the word "watermelon" was first seen in the book "The Record of the Enemies" written by Hu Qiao in the Five Dynasties. Hu Qiao was originally the secretary of Xiao Han, the governor of Xuanwu Army. He followed Xiao Han into the Khitan. Later, Xiao Han was killed and Hu Qiao was unable to return to the country and became a prisoner. He stayed in the Khitan for seven years before returning to the Central Plains. After returning, he wrote the book "The Record of the Enemies" based on his experiences in the Khitan. The book records as follows: He entered the plains, had many plants and trees, and started to eat watermelons. It was said that the Khitan had obtained this kind of species by destroying the Uighurs and planted it with cow dung covering the shed, which was as big as Chinese winter melon and sweet as it tasted sweet.

However, Hu Qiao tasted fresh in the Khitan and ate watermelon, which does not mean that watermelon was introduced to China in the Five Dynasties. From the Five Dynasties to the Northern Song Dynasty, there were no records of watermelons in various historical records. The economy of the Song Dynasty was developed. If watermelons had been introduced and started to be planted at this time, it should be found in books.

Watermelons were truly introduced to the Central Plains and were planted on a large scale during the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, Hu Qiao, the first melon-eating crowd, had been around for nearly two hundred years.

However, from a national perspective, the Khitan people are now assimilated by the Han people and disappeared into history. The Liao Kingdom they established is now part of China. If we look at it this way, it is reasonable to say that watermelon was introduced to plant during the Five Dynasties period.

If we want to expand the scope a little further, for example, the Tang Dynasty once controlled the Western Regions for a long time and established the administrative and military unit Protectorate, then during the Tang Dynasty, watermelons could be said to have been introduced to China. However, at that time, only watermelons could be eaten in the border areas, and the Central Plains and Han areas were still unlucky to be saved.

Li Zhan was really surprised when he saw the watermelon. Although he didn't know why these watermelons appeared here, Li Zhan could tell that these watermelons were already ripe and could be eaten.

Although it is only May, the high temperature here has ripened these watermelons.

Li Zhan directly picked the three watermelons and cut them one by one. Everyone looked at the watermelon and showed a surprised expression because they had never seen a watermelon. The first time they saw such a watermelon, they all showed a surprised expression.

After Li Zhan cut the watermelon open, he first ate a piece and asked everyone to spit out the watermelon seeds when eating, so that everyone started to eat it.

"So sweet..." Feng Ming took a bite and looked at Li Zhan with a smile.

Li Zhan laughed and said, "It's not only sweet, but watermelon can also quench your thirst and salivate, relieve your heat and irritability. If you eat watermelon in summer, you don't need to catch medicine."

"Really...!" Li Sheng walked over from the side and said, "Then I want to eat one more piece. I won't get sick after eating this thing."

"I want to eat one more piece too..." Lin Dong also squeezed over.

Seeing the two of them scrambled, Li Zhan laughed.

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"What is watermelon?"

Only two watermelons were opened on Li Zhan’s side, and one watermelon was sent to Hou Junji’s big tent.

Xue Wanjun stared at the watermelon for a while, but still didn't know what this watermelon was.

At this time, Hou Junji also came to the watermelon and said, "Your Highness said that this watermelon is the king of fruits in summer...it's delicious..."

"Hiss...! You said how old this eldest prince is, why do he know things we don't know too?"

Regarding Xue Wanjun's surprise, Hou Junji smiled and said, "I have told you so many times. Our highness is not an ordinary person. He invented Dingxi and his knowledge. To be honest, I feel that even that old guy Kong Yingda is less than half of his highness."

"It's quite amazing. This may be the reason why Your Majesty likes him. That...how, cut it... let's have one piece of it together." Xue Wanjun laughed.

Hou Junji nodded, followed the two of them to cut the watermelon open, and then ate it one by one. Of course, when the two of them ate, they also spit out the watermelon seeds because this was Li Zhan’s explanation.

After taking a bite, the sweetness of the watermelon. To be honest, neither of them likes to eat fruits. After all, they are all military generals who eat meat and drink wine in big mouthfuls. The fruits are too vegetarian. However, the watermelon makes the two of them praise it.

While eating, he admired and was surprised by Li Zhan's knowledge.

After resting for a day in Crescent Spring, the next day it continued to march into the desert. The next stop was Yizhou. When you arrived in Yizhou, the war would begin.

Because Yizhou is ahead of the territory of Gaochang State, what no one expected was that after the Tang army arrived in Yizhou, the scene they saw made all the Tang army slightly angry.

The entire Yizhou City was burned out of recognition.

Gao Hu looked at this scene and said to Li Zhan beside him: "Young Master... These Gaochang people are really cruel. I have been here before. Yizhou City dare not say it is very prosperous, but there are tens of thousands of people living there. A fire burned tens of thousands of people out of their homes.

Why is it so bad?"

Li Zhan looked at the ruins of Yizhou City and sighed, "It's our fault... we have been waiting for it again... I don't know what we are waiting for now. Now we're waiting until our compatriots are slaughtered and suppressed!

But...this is not the end. Our fellow Tang Dynasty was killed, so the other party must pay it back with blood."

Before he finished speaking, he heard the excited shouts from the Central Army. Following Li Zhan, he heard Hou Junji's vaguely encouraging morale. To be honest, Li Zhan also admired Hou Junji very much at this time.

This Hou Junji is not just a false reputation. He knows to seize the best opportunity to inspire his army... You should know that encouragement at this time will be twice the result with half the effort.

Soon, Li Zhan heard the excited shouting of the central army again. This voice made Li Zhan smile slightly and his morale was already in the city.

Sure enough, just that night, Hou Junji ordered Xin Liaoer to be the vanguard and attack Jikou... You must know that Jikou is a major military town. If you want to capture Jikou, it means that Gaochang State was completely exposed to the swords and guns of the Tang army.

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Chapter completed!