Chapter 382: Exposed
The Imperial Palace, the Hall of the Two Rites.
Li Shimin was discussing with a group of courtiers about the tribute of Tubo and Tianzhu.
"Your Majesty, according to me, you should directly insert the soldiers into Tubo and completely wipe out their Tubo tribe! Look at Songtsan Gampo, that little turtle calf, do you dare to be arrogant with us again? β
Cheng Yanjin is a typical nationalist, the 'Weishui Alliance' of the year, but he felt extremely humiliated, if it wasn't for the fact that he had other responsibilities in the Battle of Shuozhou, I am afraid that he would go deep into the hinterland of Tibet with Niu Jinda, and kill happily!
"What Zhijie said is very true!"
For Cheng Yanjin's words, Yu Chi Jingde agreed very much, originally there was nothing to do with Yu Chi Jingde on this expedition to Xue Yantuo, he was already holding a breath in his heart, and now that the opportunity has finally come, he is not willing to miss this opportunity, so he continued:
"Your Majesty, although Tibet has not harassed my Tang Frontier, but when my Tang army set out to fight against Xue Yantuo, Songtsen Gampo shamelessly dispatched 130,000 troops to help Xue Yantuo. Such actions are enough to show that Songtsen Gampo is a wolf, accumulating strength and waiting for an opportunity, which shows the magnitude of his intentions! β
"Then in your opinion, what should I do with Datang?" Li Shimin asked.
"Hit! It's better to destroy them all! Before Wei Chi Jingde could speak, Niu Jinda stepped forward first.
Li Shimin's brows furrowed slightly, and he groaned and did not reply.
"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks this move is very inappropriate! The people of that state are also raised by their mother's biological parents, and they are also creatures in heaven and earth, if they are all killed, it will be killing innocents! β
The black-faced Wei Zheng disagreed with Niu Jinda's words, after all, the people of this state are also fresh lives, if they are all killed, how will the people in the world view the current Son of Heaven?
In fact, Li Shimin also has concerns in this regard, otherwise. Before Niu Jinda and Li Ji returned to Chang'an City, Li Shimin would order them to lead a large army to the hinterland of Fanbang and destroy this group of hateful thieves.
"Ge Laozi!" Cheng Yanjin muttered in a low voice, and with the black hair on his face, he waited for Wei Zheng and said, "I said Wei Heizi, what do you mean by this?" Could it be that we go to fight Fanbang, what is wrong with it? β
Wei Zheng's words were like stabbing a hornet's nest in an instant, and all the generals present became excited.
"Lord Wei, what do you mean by that?"
"We beat us to death in the front, and there are people like you in the temple in the back, which really makes us feel cold!"
None of the generals could accept Wei Zheng's words. A word to deny their exploits? What's the use of asking them to be soldiers?
Wei Zheng didn't expect that his words would cause such a big conflict, it seems that he was guilty of public anger.
But Wei Heizi doesn't care about this, anyway, he is the imperial history, what he does on weekdays is to participate in people and admonish, and he is no longer treated by his colleagues every day, anyway, there are more lice and no itching, and there are more debts. If you don't wait to see it, you won't see it.
"This kind of brutal killing of barbarians is completely different from killing enemies on the battlefield!"
Facing the doubts and anger of his colleagues, Wei Zheng didn't care, and said indifferently: "Killing the enemy on the battlefield is because of the different camps you belong to. Each for his own master, not for what to do. And breaking into the hinterland of Fanbang to massacre the Tibetan people is different, that is an invasion ......"
"Hmph, then why don't you say that the thieves harassed the people of the Tang Border Pass. What about a brazen war? β
Li Xiaogong finally couldn't help it, he had a gloomy face, and he was no longer silent in the face of Wei Zheng.
"This ......"
Wei Zheng still wanted to say something. An old eunuch who was about the age of the sixtieth year hurriedly walked into the Liangyi Hall.
This old eunuch's name is Liu Tong, and he is the person who is responsible for communicating with the emperor in the Tianji Guard, and he has the privilege of seeing the emperor anytime and anywhere as long as there is any urgent news in the Tianji Guard.
"Slave Liu Tong has seen His Majesty!" The old eunuch saluted respectfully.
Li Shimin frowned slightly, and said, "What's the matter?" β
The old eunuch did not speak, but looked at the courtiers in the hall, his face full of hesitation.
"Come here!" Li Shimin tilted his head slightly and said.
Liu Tong exhaled, stepped on small steps to Li Shimin's side, and whispered softly in his ear.
Hearing Liu Tong's words, Li Shimin's face was still a little gloomy at first, but after Liu Tong finished saying all the words, his face became strange.
"Go down!" Li Shimin waved his hand.
"No!" After the report was finished, Liu Tong responded respectfully, and floated out of the hall without touching the ground.
"Today's matter will be discussed here, all of you Aiqing should go back, Xuan Ling will stay for a while!"
Li Shimin waved his hand to the courtiers and signaled everyone to disperse.
"Wait for the resignation!"
The ministers didn't know what was going on, but they still respectfully saluted Li Shimin and went out of the Liangyi Hall.
"Your Majesty, but what's the matter?" Fang Xuanling asked.
Li Shimin said to Fang Xuanling with a regretful face: "Xuanling, I'm afraid that I won't be able to get married to you this time!" β
Fang Xuanling was stunned and said, "Your Majesty xiΓ ......"
"Fang Cai Liu Tong sued sΓΉ me, saying that his nephew went to the gambling house, and gambled with others, and exported 20,000 taels of gold!"
Li Shimin shook his head, and secretly sighed in his heart that Li Yuanba, a brother, really did everything to prevent Fang Yiai from marrying Princess Gaoyang! In order to put the love of the house into the set, he actually pulled the unlucky Duhe into the water.
The reason why Li Shimin didn't leave Du Ruhui behind just now was that he was afraid that he would impulsively go straight to the Hengyun Gambling House and destroy their two boys, and then the fun would be great.
After hearing Li Shimin's words, Fang Xuanling was stunned for a while, and then said incredibly: "Impossible, the bereaved love is being locked up in the mansion by Weichen, and is guarded by servants, and is not allowed to leave the house for half a step, how can it appear in the gambling house?" β
Fang Xuanling's words were regretted as soon as he said them, as the so-called Jun has no jokes, how could Li Shimin say unfounded things?
Li Shimin shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "I don't know the specific things, but you better go home and take a look!" β
Fang Xuanling didn't dare to slack off, and directly arched his hand to Li Shimin, and walked towards the palace gate angrily.
"Your Majesty, do you want to go and see?" Liu Sanshui saw that Li Shimin had been staring at Fang Xuanling's back, so he stepped forward and said in a low voice.
Li Shimin shook his head and said, "No need, since the second son of the Fang family was sent to the door by himself, presumably Yuanba has already thought of all the countermeasures, and even if I go, it will be in vain." β
Liu Sanshui said with a smile: "Is this considered cheating?" β
Li Shimin laughed and said: "Cheating is not counted, it's just a joke!" β
Yes, this marriage has become a joke after making a bet with Li Yuanba, and it is impossible to succeed at all!
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Here, Li Yuanba's goal has finally been achieved, but for the two guys Fang Yiai and Du He, Li Yuanba doesn't want to let it go like this.
Maybe it's because in the previous life, the two guys with this kind of virtue married their own nieces respectively; Maybe it's because these two guys really don't have much to offer.
"You, what else do you want to do?" Fang Yiai looked at Li Yuanba, who seemed to be smiling, and only felt chills all over his body.
It's all now, this guy doesn't even know that he was designed by someone, and he still has extravagant hopes for this, and he really doesn't know how his head grows.
Du He over there wanted to see something, because by now, he was very familiar with those terrible young men with strange faces and white skin.
Thinking of Fang Cai's bet with Fang Yiai, the attitude towards Li Su, the Liang Wang Fangcai, and the means of shaking the dice into pieces a few times, the more I thought about it, the more terrible I felt.
But it's not the time to say these things now, after all, he doesn't want this to be true, if that's the case, today he still has the 120,000 taels of gold that he has exported, which is really stained with the love of his good brother Fang, and it is completely lost.
"Let's go, two, I'll order someone to send them home...... I'm sure your father will be happy to give me the money back! β
This time the incident itself was designed by Li Yuanba, and it was naturally impossible for him to really ask Fang and Du to pay the 120,000 taels of gold, but he just took this opportunity to beat the two unlucky children.
"No, I don't want you to send it back, don't worry, I will definitely pay you back the money I owe you, I just need you to forgive me for an hour!"
Fang Yiai was still a little unwilling, and only now did he remember Li Shimin's holy decree, and he remembered whether his father would kill him because of this.
"Do you still want to move the rescuers?" Li Su took over the conversation and said, "What's the matter?" Expecting my cousin to pay your debts? Believe it or not, as long as he shows up in the gambling house, this king will go to tell my aunt, do you think my aunt will break my cousin's leg? β
The cousin in Li Su's mouth is Chai Lingwu, this Chai Lingwu is Li Shimin's half-sister, that is, the son of Princess Pingyang.
And Li Su's uncle-in-law is one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, Chai Shao, Chai Sichang.
"This ......"
For Li Su's words, Fang Yiai also obviously thought of it, and it could be seen that he didn't want to harm his brother, but now that it has reached this point, there is no other way.
"Okay, don't talk about anything else, King Liang and King Han, you can deal with the matter here first, and we will send the two of them back to their respective mansions first."
Li Yuanba didn't care what these two people thought, he still had a lot of things to do, and he wasn't idle every day.
"Okay, you're good to go!" Li Su nodded to Li Yuanba and agreed. (To be continued......)