In the Taiji Hall of Taiji Palace, Taizong Li Shimin was discussing the government with his ministers, and he happened to be talking about Tubo and his relatives.

"Your Majesty, now that Tubo is getting stronger and stronger, it has defeated several surrounding countries and tribes, and now Tubo Zanpu is in the Heavenly Empire, and has sent people to ask for marriage many times, this is a great opportunity to win over Tibet, so Weichen thinks that Tubo should be allowed to ask for relatives!" Kong Yingda, who was thin and thin, stepped forward and said.

"This must not happen!" Before Kong Yingda could retreat, Shangshu's left servant shot Fang Xuanling and stood up against it.

"Fang Xiang, the matter of harmony has long existed, there is a good story of Qin and Jin in ancient times, and I also have a precedent of a princess marrying a Turkic and Tuyuhun in the Tang Dynasty, why can't I marry in Tubo?" Don't look at Kong Yingda's age, but he still has a fiery temper in Chapter 31 when the wicked first sue him, and he does not flinch in the face of Fang Xuanling, who is known as the head of Wenchen.

"Master Kong doesn't know, it is precisely because of the growing national strength of Tubo that he often shows disrespect to my Tang Dynasty, if he agrees to marry the princess to Tubo now, it will only fuel the arrogance of Tubo, which is not good for the country and the people." Fang Xuanling recuperated very well, and was not moved at all by Kong Yingda's questioning, and explained his opinions very calmly.

Although what Fang Xuanling said was very reasonable, Kong Yingda was not so persuasive, and quoted scriptures to debate with Fang Xuanling. The ministers of the court were also divided into two factions, one faction led by Yu Zhining, an orthodox Confucian scholar, who sang praises for the peace of the relatives in support of Kong Yingda, believing that the marriage would help deepen the diplomatic relations between the two countries. The other faction is dominated by Fang Xuanling and eldest grandson Wuji, who helped Li Shimin fight the world, and their ideas are the same as Fang Xuanling's, and they are all opposed to making peace with Tubo.

The two groups of people are all important ministers of the imperial court, Kong Yingda and Yu Zhining are powerful by relying on the number of people, Fang Xuanling and the eldest grandson Wuji have fewer people, and the two are usually not in harmony, but they are all high-ranking and powerful people, and everyone has a very heavy weight in speaking, so the two groups of people quarreled evenly and no one could convince anyone.

There is no Chapter 31 The wicked people in the court first sued and participated in the quarrel, there were only some centrists and those generals left, the centrists stood there and pretended to be stupid, and they agreed with the words on both sides, but they did not express their positions clearly, all of them were slippery old foxes, and the generals were holding their shoulders to watch the excitement, and they couldn't intervene at all about the affairs of the court, unless they were going to use knives to fight, and that was the time for them to play.

Li Shimin was also in a dilemma by the opinions of the two gangs, in fact, he also had his own plans, after destroying the **, the enemy in Li Shimin's heart, there was only one Goguryeo left, Yang Guang sent hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Goguryeo in the former Sui Dynasty, but he still ended up defeated. If he can defeat Goguryeo and complete the cause that the former Sui failed to complete, then it will also prove that the Tang Dynasty is stronger and more prosperous than the former Sui, and it will be more logical to take the Tang Dynasty Sui.

But if you want to conquer Goguryeo, you will definitely need to raise the whole country's troops. In this way, it is necessary to appease the countries around the Tang Dynasty first, so as not to be disrupted by these small countries during the conquest of Goguryeo. He thought that after destroying the Turks in the north and conquering Tuyuhun in the southwest, there would be no rivals around the Tang Dynasty, but he didn't expect that there would be another Tubo army, and if he was at odds with Tubo now, it would inevitably involve a lot of troops in the Tang Dynasty, so that his desire to conquer Goguryeo did not know how long to postpone it.

But if you are friendly, what Fang Xuanling said is also very reasonable, Tubo thinks that after defeating several small countries around it, it can already compete with Datang head-on, and there are provocations from time to time, if you agree to make peace now, in the eyes of others, it is indeed a show of weakness, which will not only boost Tubo's arrogance, but also damage Datang's face. As a proud emperor, Li Shimin never wanted to exchange his daughter for peace, although there were princesses who married Tuyuhun and Turkic nobles before, but it was a move to win the hearts of the people after conquering them, which was completely different from the current nature.

In fact, in essence, Li Shimin is also a person who must be repaid, how strong the ** was back then, because Jieli Khan took advantage of the change of power in the Tang Dynasty, raised troops and pointed directly at Chang'an, forcing him to set the Weishui Alliance, forcing the Tang Dynasty to pay tribute to the Turks, which made Li Shimin ashamed, and then after three years of lying on the salary and tasting courage, finally in Zhenguan three years to send troops to destroy the powerful **, in order to catch Jieli Khan, the army has been chased until Mobei to retreat, a snow of shame of the year. Li Shimin kept in mind the previous provocations of Tubo, as long as he had the opportunity and strength, he would never mind destroying another country.

Just when Li Shimin was undecided, suddenly the yellow door outside the hall came in to report, saying that Li Ke and Li Su had asked to see someone with help. Li Shimin was strange in his heart, Li Ke didn't say it first, Li Keke is a son who knows how to advance and retreat, and he is discussing matters in the palace, so it is said that he should not come in and disturb for no reason, right?

"Knock them in!" Holding back the doubts in his heart, Li Shimin spoke.

As soon as Li Ke and the others entered the hall, they immediately startled Li Shimin, and the ministers who were arguing around them also stopped, looking at these miserable sons and daughters with shocked expressions. I saw Li Ke limping the first to enter the hall, but Li Ke in the back was carried in, and he was holding his stomach and moaning in pain, Cheng Huailiang had two panda eyes, and Qin Huaiyu and others were all beggar clothes, and the exposed skin still had blood marks on it, which looked very scary. Also carried in were Li Xiaojie, Li Jingheng, Yan Bei and others, because these guys were the worst, they were beaten the most just now, and they looked the most miserable, and it was the most suitable to pretend to be seriously wounded.

"Father, please be the master of your sons and brothers!" Li Ke is also very professional in acting, as soon as he came up, he fell to the ground and cried, and the people behind him were also very cooperative, and asked Li Shimin to avenge them. Li Su secretly snickered on the stretcher, originally he was worried that these people were acting too fake, but he didn't expect that all of them were actor-level characters, even Li Ke, who is usually the king of Shu, who is usually sanctimonious, actually had tears flowing out when he cried, and he didn't need to be assisted by eye drops or anything like that, this is definitely a good actor with great potential, it seems that he will have to dig more in the future.

"Bastard, look at what you all have become, hurry up and talk back to me!" Li Shimin was also taken aback by the miserable appearance of his two sons, his heart was painful and angry, and he saw that Li Ke, who was usually radiant and most like himself, only knew how to crawl on the ground and cry, and he didn't look like a prince at all, and he was even more angry in his heart, and he couldn't help but shout angrily.

"Qiqi father, it is not that the sons and others ignore the manners, it is really those Tubo people who deceive people too much, not only insulting my sister with rude words, but also taking the lead in beating the sons and others, although the sons tried their best to resist, but they were still outnumbered, and they were beaten like this, so they had to ask their father to call the shots and seek justice for the sons and others." Li Ke cried with tears, but he spoke very clearly, and immediately recited all the words that Li Ke had thought of in advance, and put all the responsibility on the Tubo people.

Cheng Huailiang and others also shouted loudly, and even pulled up their clothes to let the surrounding ministers see the injuries on their bodies, in order to win the sympathy of others, causing chaos in the hall. Their fathers or grandfathers were all standing on both sides, and when they saw the miserable appearance of their sons and grandsons, their faces were full of anger, but it was just because of their face, it was inconvenient to attack in the court.

"Shut up! What the hell is going on, Ke'er, you will report the details! Li Shimin looked at the chaotic crowd below and shouted, only then did they quiet down, and then turned to Li Ke and asked.

Li Ke felt that the effect was almost there, and Li Su also secretly gestured to him, meaning that it was up to him to play now. So he stood up and wiped away his tears, and told the story in detail, of course, some small changes were made, such as deliberately aggravating the description of the arrogant posture of the Tubo people, and the first to do it also became the Tubo people, especially the insulting words that caused this group fight, and the words insulting the princess of the Tang Dynasty also became the Tubo people in his mouth to directly provoke in Chinese, without taking the majesty of the Tang Dynasty in his eyes at all.

"Huh~" Li Shimin angrily smashed his fist on the dragon case in front of him, and roared like thunder: "Tubo child, dare to despise my Datang so much, do you really think that my Datang is weak and can be bullied?" ”

"Your Majesty, I am willing to lead the tiger and wolf division of the Tang Dynasty to level Tubo in one fell swoop, and capture that Zampu child alive and present it to Your Majesty." Cheng Biting Jin, a group of generals who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, have shouted, one by one, since the year before last since the Tuyuhun was pacified, they have not moved for a long time, their bones are about to rust, I wish there was a big battle to fight now.

"Your Majesty is angry, although Tubo is disrespectful to my Tang Dynasty, now is really not a good time to go to war!" Seeing that the generals were going crazy, Fang Xuanling was afraid that Li Shimin's brain would also go crazy as soon as his brain was hot, so he hurriedly jumped out and persuaded him.

"What Lord Fang said is very true, the battle with Tuyuhun the year before last has consumed most of my Datang treasury, and now my Datang has an empty army, but there is no money and food to help, it is not easy to start the war lightly!" Wei Zheng also stood up and said. The other ministers also admonished one after another, and almost no one except for the generals was in favor of going to war.

After Li Shimin roared a few times, he also knew that now was not the time to start a war with Tubo, but the evil breath in his heart couldn't come out, and he couldn't help but say indignantly: "Tubo children are too deceitful, and the matter of harmony should not be mentioned again, and the border city with Tubo will be revoked, and the Tubo people will be forbidden to enter the territory of my Tang Dynasty!" ”

Fang Xuanling saw that Li Shimin had dispelled the idea of starting a war, so he no longer insisted, although the cancellation of the mutual market also had a loss to Datang, but for Tubo, who could not even support himself with iron, the loss was even greater, and it could be regarded as a way to get angry. Kong Yingda, a stubborn old man, wanted to say something, but was stopped by his friend Yu Zhining, and the eldest grandson Wuji hadn't spoken since Li Su and them came in, squinting his eyes and not knowing what he was thinking.

Originally, it was a good early dynasty, but it was a mess by Li Su and them, and Li Shimin had no intention of discussing things, and he was about to retreat from the dynasty with a wave of his hand. But at this moment, Chi Baolin, the captain of the Jinwuwei school, came to report, saying that the Tubo ambassador was making trouble in the city, and now they have arrested him, so he came to ask for advice on how to deal with it? But there was no mention of the tragic situation of the Tubo people who were all beaten and fainted to death.

Li Shimin was angry, and roared loudly to ask people to take all these Tubo people into the prison. Yu Chi Baolin replied loudly, and then went out backwards, but when he went out, he didn't forget to peek at Li Su and the others, and Cheng Huailiang secretly gave him a thumbs up. Yu Chi Baolin is also often mixed with Cheng Huailiang's gang, and he also saw Li Su at the Five Kings Banquet last time, but as the captain of Jinwuwei, he happened to be on duty today, so he couldn't go to the banquet. I didn't expect such a thing to happen today, just enough for him to help. Anyway, he doesn't have to do anything, after all, he only cares about arresting people, and no one asks him if the arrested person is injured, even if he is investigated in the future, he will not be held accountable.

After dealing with the Tubo people, this early dynasty was dispersed, and Li Shimin ordered the names of Fang Xuanling, eldest grandson Wuji, Li Jing and other important civil and military ministers to stay. Cheng Huailiang and their 'wounded' were also taken care of, Li Ke and Li Su wanted to withdraw with the large army, but they didn't expect to be named by Li Shimin, regardless of such a 'serious injury' of the two, they actually left their two brothers behind. Li Su secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good, and he estimated that he would be bad this time?!!!