Wei Zheng replied without fear: "Your Majesty, my Tang Dynasty was bullied by Tubo, and the minister saw that my Tang generals were vying to fight for the country and severely punish Tubo. I have so many generals in Datang who can fight well and have the courage to defend the interests of the country, that is the blessing of my Datang and the blessing of the people of Datang. But the ministers had to stand up to dissuade His Majesty and the generals.

War is the weapon of the state, once the war starts, it means that countless soldiers will die on the battlefield, and many people's families will lose their pillars of the family, elderly fathers and young sons.

I, Datang, am not afraid of war, but I, Datang, will never start a war easily.

This time, the war between my Tang Dynasty and Tubo started because Tuyuhun was attacked by Tubo, Tuyuhun respected my Tang Dynasty as the suzerain, and my Tang Dynasty came out for Tuyuhun, so he launched a war with Tubo. Tuyuhun was originally a big country in the western part of the Tang Dynasty, but now it seems to be vulnerable, and the mud can't support the wall. There is no need for me to bear the thunder for other countries and bear disasters for other countries.

Tubo was able to defeat Tuyuhun in one fell swoop, which already shows that Tubo can replace Tuyuhun's status as a great power and become a great power in the western Tang Dynasty. As far as the minister knows, this Tubo is also very willing to respect our Tang Dynasty as the suzerain, respect my Tang Emperor His Majesty as the Heavenly Khan, and is also very willing to establish peaceful relations with my Tang Dynasty. In this case, why don't I, Datang, unite with the powerful Tubo, but instead of uniting with the now weak Tuyuhun and confront the powerful Tubo?

Since ancient times, the struggle between countries has been a collision and competition of strength, and weak countries have no diplomacy, while strong countries have absolute right to speak. Tugu was defeated. has been basically defeated by Tubo, and Tuyuhun's status as a great power has also been taken away by Tubo, so after Tuyuhun, he can only become a vassal of my Tang Dynasty and Tubo, and lose the right to have a direct dialogue with my Tang Dynasty and Tubo. And the growth of Tubo and the strength that he Tubo is showing now have also won the respect and sufficient attention of my Datang, and also let them have the right to have a direct dialogue and bargaining with my Datang.

The minister heard that this Tubo and this Tubo Zanpu Songtsen Gampo originally wanted to establish friendly relations with our Tang Dynasty. It was only because Tubo Zanpu Songzan Gampo wanted to marry my Tang princess that he was looked down upon by Cui Liang, the secretary of Honglu Temple, who thought that Tubo was just a small country with a weak country and poor people, and he also wanted to marry my noble princess of the Tang Dynasty, and let Tubo and Songtsan Gampo feel humiliated, so he decided to start a war with my Datang, in order to win the respect of my Datang and arouse the attention of my Datang.

This Tubo does not want to start a full-scale war with my Tang Dynasty. I didn't really want to go against my Tang Dynasty, so after they fought the first battle in Songzhou, they took the initiative to withdraw to Tibet. Avoid the expansion of the war between the Tang Dynasty and Tibet. Tubo Dalun Lu Dongzan has also set out from Tubo and rushed to Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, in order to seek peace between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, and to establish good diplomatic relations between the two countries. Avoid the outbreak of war, and then let the soldiers and people of the two countries be damaged.

Therefore, the minister thinks that as long as I, the Tang Dynasty, have enough respect for Tubo, Tubo Zanpu Songtsan Gampo. If we pay enough attention, we can establish peaceful and good diplomatic relations with Tibet, instead of starting a war, and exchange countless deaths and injuries of soldiers and civilians of the two countries for tension in the relations between the two countries, the endless war between the two countries, and the endless hatred between the two countries. ”

Wei Zheng's words made the Tang Emperor Li Shimin ponder. 、

Li Shimin looked at Wei Zheng suspiciously, and then looked at Cui Liang of Honglu Temple.

Cui Liang was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt on the ground and said: "The minister is guilty, the minister has no eyes, the minister didn't expect that the little-known Tubo at that time would really have such a strong strength, such a strong combat power, the minister is guilty, and the minister implores His Majesty to punish him." ”

After thinking about it, Li Shimin said to Cui Liang: "You are not guilty, but you are also guilty. The innocent person is because not only you, even me, but my entire Tang Dynasty court, did not expect that Tibet, a country in the southwest of the Tang Dynasty, would have such a strong combat power and such a strong national strength; The guilty one is that you, as the Honglu Siqing who is in charge of diplomatic relations between various countries in the Tang Dynasty, don't even know the real situation of the countries with which you deal with you, and you don't know clearly, so I have to severely punish you and punish you for a crime of dereliction of duty and dereliction of duty. ”

Saying that, Li Shimin ordered: "Remove Cui Liang Honglu Siqing from his position, and this position will be temporarily held by Shi Tangjian, the governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Office." ”

A eunuch took off Cui Liang's black yarn, and Cui Liang knelt down to Li Shimin and thanked him: "Your Majesty Shengming, thank Your Majesty for not killing him." ”

Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty looked at the ministers and said: "Everyone, what Wei Zheng said is reasonable, but now all the countries in the Quartet respect me as the suzerainty of the Tang Dynasty and respect me as the Khan of the Heavens. It is a matter of the dignity of Datang and the status of Datang as a great power, and I think that I, Datang, have to consider it carefully. Disperse the dynasty today, and discuss the matter again tomorrow. ”

The ministers bowed one after another, and after shouting three long live, they got up and left.

In Taiji Palace, Tang Emperor Li Shimin and Li Xuan sat opposite each other.

Li Shimin asked Li Xuan: "King Yong'an, do you think my Tang Dynasty should go to war with Tubo for the sake of Tuyuhun?" ”

Li Xuan fell into deep thought, and he remembered a neighboring country of China in later generations, a country that loved to cause trouble, North Korea. At that time, not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China had established good diplomatic relations with this country called Korea. However, it was this small country that took advantage of its relationship with the Soviet Union and China, the big countries behind it, did not obey the arrangements of the Soviet Union and China, and attacked South Korea without authorization, intending to unify the Korean Peninsula. In the end, the United Nations forces led by the United States were forced to sign the armistice agreement, so that the whole world had to look at New China with admiration, had to give China enough respect, and stabilized the people's power of New China. In this war, the entire Chinese military sacrificed 183,108 people, and the United Nations forces led by the United States also suffered heavy casualties, while the DPRK, which took the initiative to provoke the war, started the drama of provoking a big country to fight among the big countries, expanding its political influence in the world, and also making all countries in the world have to pay attention to this small country. (To be continued.) )

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