Chapter 565: Wedding
The night in the East Palace seems to be so quiet forever, and Li Chengqian has never paid attention to the women in the East Palace since he beat Hou Li'er, as if he was like a group of people who shared a house in the East Palace.
He had just put his precious son to sleep, stood up and stretched. Qin Guard was a little unsatisfied, when he wanted to know the end of the story, his son had already asked many times, but unfortunately the prince did not finish the story once.
The two walked out of the bedroom of the emperor's eldest grandson one after the other, and Li Chengqian turned his head sideways and asked, "Lu Dongzan has seen Yaoyao?" ”
"Back to His Royal Highness, Lu Dongzan saw the eldest lady, he said that no matter what the Cai family wanted, Tubo could do it, and the eldest lady refused without hesitation, and this guy also said that if the eldest lady agreed, he would introduce a good family affair to the eldest lady."
"He is very calculating, if Yaoyao can marry Songtsan Gampo, it will be more cost-effective for Tubo than marrying a hundred princesses, but unfortunately he doesn't know that Cai Cong will never let his sister marry a barbarian. Although Yaoyao is clever, her head doesn't turn so fast, is there someone around her who gives her advice? ”
Li Chengqian said with a smile, if someone else said that he wanted Chu Yao to introduce his relatives, he would have to jump three times, but a barbarian was not enough to make him take it to heart.
"Back to Your Highness, the second lady of the martial arts family is also present." The Qin guards immediately returned. Li Chengqian shook his head bitterly, Cai Cong had three personal disciples, two of whom unfortunately died, and the rest of this little girl lived as a demon, and I don't know if anyone will be able to stop her in the future.
"You go and tell Wu Kongming that this matter is Lonely, and tell her to let Tubo trade with the Tang Dynasty in exchange for the school, as for the other conditions, let her want to be alone and not interfere much, it can be regarded as her bothering and brain-settling!"
Li Chengqian opened his mouth and came, as if this matter had been circling in his mind for a long time. Qin guards are called an envy, just add a condition is enough in exchange for a hundred years of wealth, if he can add one, then his Qin family will not have a chance to become a family after several generations.
In the following days, Chu Yao hosted a banquet for Lu Dongzan in Taibai Mansion many times, and Qin guards realized that the prince was too generous, and he asked for the conditions of trade at the first meeting, and Lu Dongzan agreed without thinking about it.
For Tibet, trade has more advantages than disadvantages, because it can absorb the advanced culture of the Tang Dynasty, and second, the purchase of grain in large quantities can alleviate the current predicament of Tibet.
What made Lu Dongzan feel embarrassed was Chu Yao, or Kong Ming's request, every request was like cutting the meat of Tubo with a blunt knife, although it was not a big piece, it really hurt.
It hurt so much that he directly refused, but the person who put forward the conditions was too vicious, and these demands were on the critical line, which made him extremely entangled, so he met again and again, negotiated again and again, and then Lu Dongzan gave in again and again.
By the time Li Tai and Princess Shiyi's wedding arrived, he had already agreed to all the conditions, and the simplest conditions were met, 30,000 cows, 20,000 sheep, and 5,000 good horses were sent to Cai's family.
Because of this, the price of beef and mutton in Chang'an rose wildly for a while, and those Tibetan businessmen held a grudge against Lu Dongzan in their hearts, and used Tubo's cattle and sheep to levy their cattle and sheep in Chang'an one to one, how much money did they have to lose?
And sooner or later, their lords will settle accounts with Lu Dongzan, and behind the merchants is the Tibetan aristocracy supporting, and it is impossible for them not to retaliate against such a huge loss.
When he knew that the price of cattle and sheep had risen wildly, Lu Dongzan couldn't help but show a sad look, this is the Cai family hoarding and not letting it out, and the merchants in Tubo will not care so much, they only know that if they are not forcibly expropriated, they can get rich if they are sold at this price, and now all this is gone.
Lu Dongzan's sadness is not for these businessmen with shallow vision, but for the talents of the Tang Kingdom, and even a nameless person hiding in the dark can take care of him, and Tubo seems to be strong but is actually in the middle, and the new and old talents are not accepted, how can this not make him sad?
However, he couldn't hurt his mind for too long, and he had to follow up on the little princess's wedding everywhere, first, he was afraid that there would be something wrong with the little princess at the wedding, and secondly, he was afraid that he would lose the state of Tubo at the wedding.
The specifications of the wedding are extremely high, almost catching up with the specifications of the prince's wedding, and those imperial historians are grinding their fists to find a place that exceeds the specifications, but fortunately, the people in the Ministry of Rites are particularly chicken thieves, so that the imperial history can not find any problems.
Chang'an is full of lights, everyone is beaming, they don't care about the prince's marriage, what they care about is that Datang doesn't have to send women to kiss, but other countries send women to kiss, this is pride!
It was not the first time that Li Tai had been a groom, but he was wearing the groom's clothes at the moment, and there was not even a trace of a smile on his face, and he had just seen that the bride's clothes were not much bigger than his son's.
"What's going on! The ceremonial officer said that you haven't changed your clothes until now. Li Chengqian walked in energetically and asked, and when he saw Li Taizhen, he was in a daze wearing a shirt.
"Brother, I want to run away from marriage!"
Li Tai raised his head and looked at Li Chengqian with a sad face, Li Chengqian was so frightened that he could see that Li Tai was not joking.
"Don't come nonsense, the government and the opposition are watching! If you run away, a lot of people will die. Li Chengqian immediately grabbed his shoulders and said, Li Tai picked the eye droppings in the corners of his eyes, and sat on the ground in despair, Li Chengqian was right, no one could run away from this pair of newcomers, otherwise it would be war and death.
Li Chengqian helped him up and personally changed his clothes, personally sent him on the horse and arranged for his cronies to lead the horse to Li Tai, and placed many guards around, fearing that Li Tai would gallop on his horse.
The little princess still didn't understand anything, and she didn't understand what it meant to be bubbling up in a foreign service. The grandmothers put the lid on her head, and in a moment she lifted it and looked left and right with her big bright eyes.
Those grandmothers who hurt them didn't dare to leave her left and right for a single step, and they had to pay careful attention to this little master at all times.
Lu Dongzan was busy with a red body, and he would send the little princess out of the door as a relative, and then make a detour to rush into the palace in advance to accept the newcomer's gift on behalf of Songtsen Gampo.
Playing horses around Chang'an to accept the blessings of the people, Li Tai could only put on a royal bearing, constantly waving and smiling all the way, and the long history of the palace instructed his subordinates to throw a lot of copper coins specially made by the Ministry of Industry, so that the people screamed wildly.
Seeing that Li Tai's every move did not lose his royal demeanor, Li Chengqian was slightly relieved. When they arrived at Honglu Temple, Li Tai's guests came out to sing, and the bride would not come out if the singing was not good.
But this time something went wrong, and halfway through the singing, the bride appeared at the gate with a jump, leaving everyone dumbfounded.
(End of chapter)