Things were as Li Tai expected, the next morning in the court, the emperor once again mentioned the matter of the imperial conquest, in a voice of opposition, several people made different voices, out of the four years ago against the Gaochang Turks a great victory, recommended Li Tai to go on the expedition again.

"According to the opinion of the lower officials, with the small country of Goguryeo, it is too much to leave Beijing from the Holy Lord, it is better to lead the troops by His Royal Highness the Prince, and in the fourteenth year of the prince's expedition to Gaochang, that battle can be described as a ......"

On the surface, they were very optimistic about Li Tai's expedition on behalf of his father, but in fact, before that, the ministers of the court and China were not optimistic about the prospect of raising troops to attack Goguryeo.

Goguryeo Kingdom, located in the Han River Basin, is a nation that arose from the Three Kingdoms period, with a history of 600 years, and in its heyday, it also claimed to be the king and hegemon in the Han River Basin, but after being attacked by neighboring Silla and Baekje nearly a hundred years ago, it gradually ridiculed, it is such a dynasty that is declining step by step, but under the attack of the former Sui power, it stands tall, 30 years ago, the Sui Dynasty army had a million attacks, and finally nearly 300,000 were destroyed in the Liao River, and finally failed to become a force.

Someone once said that at the end of the Sui Dynasty, many popular uprisings that led to the demise of the former Sui Dynasty were due to the Sui Dynasty's improper mobilization of troops against Goguryeo, which led to a sharp decline in national strength and finally went to extinction.

Even Li Tai himself did not approve of the Goguryeo army that was not far away for thousands of miles at this time, and it was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

However, the emperor insisted on going his own way, not listening to the dissuasion of the ministers, but to personally conquer Goguryeo, in recent years, he occasionally fell ill, several times exempted from the court, how could the ministers agree to him to lead the army to the battle.

In the past few years, Li Tai's power in the court has become more and more stable and strong, and no one dared to put him in this matter, but today it is unusual, some people have started to make a head, and some ministers in the court who do not express their opinions much on weekdays have all effected, and for a while, the wind in the court has tilted, and the topic has changed from whether the emperor wants to conquer Goguryeo in person, to whether His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should lead troops.

With the suspicion of yesterday's relics, Li Tai naturally knew whose credit it should be, and in the midst of the discussion, he glanced sideways at the head of the important ministers on the right, the figure who listened attentively and did not speak.

Li Shimin sat high on the dragon chair, and he had an unobstructed view of the demeanor of everyone under the hall, he took a look, brushed his sleeves and said:

"Okay, you have a headache for your quarrel, it's not early, this matter will be discussed tomorrow, Li Tai, you follow me to the imperial study."

"Yes." Li Tai bowed out of the ranks.

"Retreat!" The chief chamberlain waved his dust.

"Congratulations to the Holy One." Heavy ministers make a move.

It was almost noon, the sun was shining, outside the water pavilion next to the Sogo Palace, there was a column of maids holding honor guards, and in the water pavilion, there were two figures, one large and one small, sitting.

Wearing an emerald yellow shirt and skirt, with two small buns on his head, wrapped around a gold ribbon with a string of silver bells, Xiaoyudian was lying on the silver foot case with his upper body, supporting his cheeks with both hands, staring intently at the porcelain jar decorated with aquatic plants, the two little goldfish chasing each other, were about to put the tip of their noses into the water, looked at it for a while, and suddenly looked up and asked the absent-minded jade opposite:

"Mother, mother, Xiaojin and Xiaohong drink a lot of water, why don't they go to the thatched house?"

Because they ate and drank Lazar in one place, it was not good for Yu Yu to tell her daughter such an unhygienic fact, so she could only coax:

"Who said they didn't use it, but you didn't see it."

"Oh, so do they need toilet paper too?"

"Uh," Yu Yu was asked by her daughter, hesitating whether to answer yes or no, if you want to say yes or no, the little guy will definitely want to see how big the toilet paper used by these two palm-sized goldfish is, if you want to say no, then how to explain the problem that goldfish don't use toilet paper after going to the thatched house.

Such an older child is the most innocent, what you teach her, she will learn, really let her think that she can do without toilet paper after going to the toilet, then maybe tomorrow she will learn like these two fish.

Fortunately, the child's attention turned, and before Yi Yu could come up with an answer, he turned his face and was attracted by Ping Hui who came in with a snack plate, forgetting what he asked Yu just now.

A large plate of peeled and washed fruit was placed on the table, Xiaoyudian looked at a bunch of crystal clear longan fruits in the flowers, obediently reached out to Pinghui, and asked her to take a handkerchief dipped in water to scrub her clean, and then went to pick the largest and roundest one, and was about to stuff it into her mouth, when she heard Yiyu suddenly cough.

"Ahem, yes."

Xiao Yudian looked up at Yi Yu, and then looked at this longan that looked sweet and juicy, hesitated back and forth for a while, and finally gave up the delicious food to his mouth, stretched out his little hand, sent it to Yi Yu, and stammered:

"The mother concubine eats sweet."

Seeing her staring at the dragon's eye, her face was full of reluctance and generosity, she smiled, and she was not polite, she opened her mouth to eat it, and bit her daughter's white and tender little finger by the way, so frightened that the little guy "swished" and retracted his hand, covered it in his arms, looked at Yi Yu aggrievedly, and said with accusations:

"Xiaoyu is good, give the mother a big one, and bite me."

This is obviously not Xiaoyu nodded and was bitten by Yiyu once, the last time she was greedy, Yiyu deliberately bit her finger to punish in order to teach her humility, Xiaoyudian remembered that lesson, this time she let go, I didn't want to be bitten again.

Yi Yu laughed, reached out and twisted her little nose, and took a dragon's eye and stuffed it into her mouth, not explaining to her that it was not punishment just now, but love.

The mother and daughter sat in the water pavilion for a while, and when they saw that it was time to eat, the palace maid came to report that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had returned to the palace.

Yi Yu waited anxiously for news for a morning, and when he heard Li Tai return, he got up and ordered:

"Pinghui, send the little county lord to Aunt Qin, eat, and then take her to take a nap."

touched his daughter's head again, and coaxed gently: "Eat well, the mother concubine will teach you to draw little butterflies in the afternoon." ”

Xiaoyudian nodded obediently, followed Pinghui out of the water pavilion, walked a long way and looked back at the jade frequently, obviously reluctant, wanting to be accompanied by the jade, but she also heard Li Tai come back just now, and the little head always remembered that she couldn't compete with her father, who was much taller than her, so she didn't pester the jade to accompany her to take a nap, and simply left.

"I'm going to go out with my troops."

Yi Yu's fingers holding Li Tai's coat trembled, and he was stunned, before he lifted it again, hung his changed clothes on the hanger, took a breath, stabilized his mind, and turned his head to look at him.

"If you want to fight Goguryeo, you have to take the waterway, you have the experience of fighting in the sand, but how much do you know about the water army, the Tang army does not occupy the water conservancy, although I don't understand the war, but I also know that the small country near the sea is an easy to defend and difficult to attack the place, the previous dynasty sent a million troops to attack the city, and finally lost in the Liao River, what can you rely on to destroy it, if you can't destroy its country, even if you win a few battles, it is still a failure, and then you will return with a feather, what should you do."

Li Tai took off the jade bead and gold top on his head, walked to the window, sat down on the couch of the beauty where Yu Yu often slew, looked at her unconsciously tensed brows, exhaled, and said:

"If I don't go, my father will lead the army to battle."

Yi Yu wanted to say, then let the emperor go up, even if he loses, this kind of fault of working hard and hurting money will not be Li Tai's turn, what is it now, knowing that the odds of winning are not high, do you want to find someone to top the cylinder.

But she can't say that, she can doubt Li Tai's ability, but she can't instigate this man's cartilage:

"The emperor's temperament has often changed over the years, and he is now saying that he wants to drive the expedition in person, maybe he will fade his thoughts in a few days, you wait for a while, and wait for him to calm down."

Now in the palace, there are few people who don't know that the emperor likes to take pills, after the serious illness four years ago, the emperor has become more dependent on the elixir, and the Liangyi Hall supports a group of Danfang warlocks, which is to make the doctors of the Taiyi Bureau useless, and there is a lot of money to spend on this every year.

Although the pill can make people feel a hundred times more energetic and improve their body in a short period of time, but taking it for a long time is a sequelae and easy to become dependent.

Li Tai listened to Yi Yu's persuasion, and silently looked at her smoky eyes, but because of the shadowy eyes of this deep palace, he was silent for a long time before he said in a deep voice:

"If this battle can be won, I won't have to wait, I don't want to wait."

Yi Yu could hear his depression, saw the momentum between his eyebrows, and felt irritable in her heart, wanting to obey his idea, but also unwilling for him to take risks, because she still vaguely remembered that Taizong in history seemed to be after the imperial conquest of Goguryeo, and finally returned with a defeat, and he was old, and he could not end.

Even the immortal Tang Taizong was downcast because of this, and she didn't want Li Tai's life to suffer from such a failure.

"I don't want you to go," Yi Yu lowered his head, clenched his cold fingers, and said the words in his heart, "A few years ago, you went to Gaochang to fight, and I couldn't be at peace day and night, and now you are going to Liaohe again, do you want me to be afraid of you for another year, can't you wait any longer, don't worry, wait a little longer." ”

She didn't dare to look up, for fear of seeing Li Tai shake his head, her request was almost willful, but for an eagle who was bold and longed to fly high, she asked him to stay.

"Tomorrow I will ask my father for his life in the court, this time to fight against Goguryeo, I will do my best, you... Wait for me to do it. ”

Yi Yu clenched his fists, and after listening to Li Tai's insistence on his own voice, the anxiety in his heart burst out like a tide, afraid that he would not be able to help but quarrel with him, turned around, and ran out without looking back.

(It's finally over the New Year, so you don't have to go out to visit relatives*

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