When he came to the living room of the house, after sitting down with a big grin, without waiting for Li Hong to speak, Shangguan Yi hurriedly signaled to his son to quickly take his granddaughter out and let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince take a look.

Li Hong's purpose for coming here is naturally Shangguan Yi's granddaughter, the talented girl Shangguan Wan'er, who is famous in the history books!

Shangguan Wan'er, who was just two years old, was born with a pair of bright and cute big eyes, and walked towards Li Hong leisurely.

Li Hong reached out and hugged her in his arms, teasing and saying, "She is one year older than Taiping, and both of them look so cute." ”

On the other side of the summer solstice, when he saw Li Hong hugging the little girl, he took out a piece of toffee from his pocket and handed it to the little girl with a smile.

Shangguan Yi and Shangguan Tingzhi, including their wives, watched the approachable prince hugging his granddaughter, and they all couldn't close their mouths happily, what a blessing this is, they were favored by the royal family at such a young age.

Li Hong came here on a whim, and after teasing Shangguan Wan'er for a while, he handed it over to Shangguan Tingzhi's wife, and there were not many things that he could take out of his body, so when he touched his body, there was nothing.

Immediately, he hit the idea on Xia Zhi and Xiaoxue, looked at the hairpins above the heads of the two, one on each side, he pulled it off, and then handed it to Shangguan Yi, who hurriedly got up and took it.

After thinking about it, he felt that he was still a little unhappy, so he untied a piece of jade pendant from his waist and handed it over without waiting for him to reach out.

Shangguan Yi had already come to him with Shangguan Wan'er in his arms, this royal reward, there is nothing to refuse, Shangguan Yi and the others can only accept it, no matter what the reward is, they have to continue.

As soon as I saw His Royal Highness the Prince's jade pendant, Shangguan Yi immediately understood, the two hairpins just now were excusable, although they were rewarded by the prince, but after all, they were the things of the summer solstice and Xiaoxue, no matter how high the status of the summer solstice and Xiaoxue was in the East Palace, but they were not royal people.

But at this moment, if he doesn't let the main master come over to accept it, it means that he is not strict with his official education and does not know how to count etiquette.

Li Hong looked at Shangguan Wan'er, so he smiled and hung the jade pendant on Shangguan Wan'er's waist: "Hehe, take it and play with it." ”

"Wait for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's gift." Shangguan Yi followed Shangguan Tingzhi and hurriedly saluted and said.

"Okay, it's nothing, Mr. Shangguan send me out." Li Hong stood up, rubbed Shangguan Wan'er's head, and said with a smile.

Shangguan Tingzhi naturally didn't dare to disobey, so he had to stand at the door and watch his father and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince walk out.

"You'll take her to Chongwen Pavilion in two years, right? What do you think? Li Hong said as he walked.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Shangguan Yi said.

"You are also serving under the sect now, have you received a letter of help from the envoy of Goryeo?" Li Hong and Shangguan Yixing arrived at the gate of the mansion and asked.

"I just received it today, but today's subordinates, Zhongshu or Shangshu Province are all focusing on Your Royal Highness the Prince's disaster relief cloud, not to mention that when it was delivered, it was already very late." Shangguan Yi thought for a moment and said.

"Well, what do you think about this?" Li Hong asked solemnly.

This matter needs to be discussed with these prime ministers in the court, and he can't make the decision alone, and with Dai Zhide, who is here, he must have strongly agreed to send troops to Goryeo to help the dad spring boys of Quan Xiancheng recapture the royal city.

Moreover, this is the case in history, the father sent Qi Bi He Li successively, and later sent the British Duke Li Tao over there to serve as the chief of the Liaodong Provincial March, and Qi He Li was appointed as the deputy chief of the Liaodong Provincial Marching Army and the ambassador of Liaodong Province to pacify.

Shangguan Yi has followed Li Hong for many years, and he can basically know a little bit about Li Hong's thoughts, so he thought for a while and asked, "Your Highness, you mean, you don't plan to send troops to help them?" ”

Li Hong looked up at the stars in the night sky, sighed and said: "We have been fighting there since the previous dynasty, and when we were in the period of the emperor's grandfather, we also fought over there, what have we gained over there for so many years?" I know, you want me to say that I am a realist, and Liaodong is a place where I must get the Tang Dynasty, but what if I get it? Over the years, over the years, whether it is Goryeo, Baekje's Buyeofeng, or Silla, what is their purpose? It's very simple, it is to defeat the other two opponents and unify Liaodong. But this place is a poor and remote place, and for my Datang, whether it is political, economic, or military, it is of little significance. ”

Shangguan Yi stared at Li Hong's face, he knew that the prince had always been practical, and he also loved the people like a son, and he made a discussion in the court back then, so that the hundred officials were silent, although later His Majesty still decided to send troops for Goryeo, Liu Renliang and others used the blood of the soldiers over there to keep a temporary peace and ...... for Goryeo.

"Between countries, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. Now that Goryeo is under the joint attack of Silla and Baekje, I hope that my husband can support me, I will not send troops to Goryeo, but I can provide enough food, grass and weapons for Goryeo, and even ....... Li Hong looked at Shangguan Yi's face and said, "Even I can allow the Wa State to send Tang envoys to study in my Tang Dynasty, but the condition is that they must send troops to attack and contain Silla and Baekje." ”

Shangguan Yi was silent for a long time, unable to figure out the full meaning of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for a while, and hesitated: "Your Highness, what do you mean?" Can you tell the minister everything? ”

Li Hong waved his hand and motioned for Shangguan Yi to walk around the street with him, followed by the carriage and Xia Zhi and others.

Li Hong said lightly: "It's very simple, let the Liaodong Province area fall into a continuous war of attrition, and let Goryeo, Silla, and Baekje contain each other. And we will shift the center of gravity of our forces to the west, and Tubo has repeatedly begged my father to raise livestock in the source of the river in Tuyuhun, but last year my father rejected it. In the final analysis, they just want us to admit that Tuyuhun has been ruled by them, and that Tubo has always been a thief, and now the country is methodically carrying out conscription and food requisition, which is not a phenomenon of being content with the status quo. ”

"That'...... Could it be that His Highness intends to withdraw Liu Renyuan and the others who are now in Liaodong? ”

"If we don't withdraw, we should leave some troops in Goryeo, just make an appearance, mentally support them in their fight against Silla and Baekje, and send more men to infiltrate Silla and Baekje to destroy the alliance between them." Li Hong stopped, and under the dim light, Shangguan Yi looked even older.

"The minister has one last thing to request, and I ask His Highness to tell me the truth." Shangguan Yi thought about it and said solemnly.

"Sir, just ask."

"Your Highness, how did you tell that Tubo would make a big move? In the first two years, they showed full sincerity, and His Majesty did not pursue them again. What's more, now that His Majesty has just canonized the original Tuyuhun King Murong Nuo as the king before leaving, will Tubo really risk meeting the Tang Dynasty soldiers and ignore His Majesty's warning? Shangguan Yi was surprised and puzzled by Li Hong's prediction of Tubo's behavior.

In his thinking, it should be: because His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty named Murong Nuo as the king, it means that the Tang Dynasty is ready to help Murong Nuo restore the country, and Tubo should be afraid of the Tang Dynasty's force at this moment, and then send an envoy to explain their sincerity to His Majesty.

Instead of what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said, he was ready to confront the Tang Dynasty by force.

Li Hong lowered his head and smiled helplessly, and said again: "Tuyuhun is now under the actual control of Tubo, which shows that we are now two countries with close territory to Tubo!" The four towns of Anxi have always been unstable in our hands, this is nothing new, Qiuzi, Broken Leaves, Khotan, Shule, have always been shrouded in wind and rain, we are standing, standing, see-sawing, never really hold them in our hands. Now in Liaodong Province, we still have a buffer zone of Goryeo to prevent Silla and Baekje from bordering our Datang, but what about Anxi, Tuyuhun exists in name only, and we are now face to face with Tubo, if we don't suppress it again, we will lose more than the four towns of Anxi in the future! ”

In the end, Li Hong's tone became more and more anxious, and at the same time full of helpless heartache, but in Shangguan Yi's opinion, these were still a little inexplicable.

History has always been unable to see the future, Shangguan Yi will not understand Li Hong's prophet no matter what, Tubo has always been a wolf's ambition, relying on the plateau terrain, the Tang soldiers are not suitable for fighting, and they have regarded it as a paradise for taking and seizing.

Although nominally under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo is more like the master there, Pei Xingjian, Li Jingxuan, Wang Fangyi and Heizhi Changzhi, these people do not have a certain deterrent power in the hearts of the Tubo people, far less than the deterrent power of veterans Su Dingfang, Liu Renliang and others to Tubo.

Now, history has given Li Hong such a good opportunity, his father Li Zhi is not in the court, and he is in charge of the country, so he has the right and obligation to correct the detours taken in the original history, instead of following the historical trajectory and going again.

Shangguan Yi looked at Li Hong's suddenly somewhat sad and angry face, and he suddenly felt that he didn't know the prince as well as he imagined, at least the prince's side, in his memory, was only the time when he was in the court.

After pondering for a long time, Shangguan Yi sighed deeply and said, "Okay, the minister supports His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

"Good! Then Li Hong will thank you, sir. After Li Hong saluted the official ceremony, he hurriedly got into the carriage.

After waving his hand, Li Hong said lightly after the carriage turned: "Go to Yang Sijian's house." ”

Li Hong has made up his mind, no matter what today, he will also take down the two Tongzhongshu disciples who are part-time in the East Palace, so that he can occupy a powerful position in the court.

The three provinces of Menxia, Zhongshu, and Shangshu, plus the six, he believes that if he uses it properly, he will definitely be able to get the results he wants!

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