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Ask for all support!~――Xuanzheng Palace, the court will say.

The ministers have arrived, the hall is full of civil and military ministers standing, and there are many important things to discuss in today's court, the most important of which is about this expedition, and how to reply to the Tubo people's marriage proposal.

Li Zhi, who was sick, personally presided over the court meeting, and Wu Zetian was still sitting behind the curtain.

Liu Yi was also in the palace, doing his duty as the general of the Qianniu Guard.

Liu Yi, who was about to go on the expedition, did not need to participate in the task of welcoming and guarding the palace when he was about to participate in the court meeting, he could ask for orders to make preparations before the expedition, but Liu Yi knew that he was going to discuss how to reply to the request of the Tubo delegation and his relatives, and he might even discuss the strategy of the Tubo, Liu Yi wanted to hear it, so he asked the general Zhang Renyuan to ask for orders to welcome and participate in the palace guard, which was counted as the last duty task before the expedition, and Zhang Renyuan also agreed to Liu Yizhi's request and asked him to be responsible for the welcome of today's court meeting.

Before the start of the court meeting, the most important matters of the expedition were discussed, it may be that Li Zhi, Wu Zetian and Pei Xingjian have not yet finally discussed the matters of the expedition, this big matter has not been discussed too much, the details of the expedition, and how to arrange the other leading generals have not been discussed, only the reports of the various departments on the preparations for the expedition.

Li Zhi also ordered the chief officials of the other ministries to report on the preparations for various affairs, and the secretary of the household department and the secretary of the military department came up to the palace to report the preparations for the deployment of grain and grass materials, ordnance, carriages and horses, soldiers, and generals.

The efficiency of the officials is still quite high, this period is not too long to prepare, all aspects are almost in place, and the rest is also in order, just wait for the imperial edict to be issued, the army can go to the battle, and all kinds of materials can also be transported with the army and sent over later.

Emperor Li Zhi also ordered Pei Xingjian to make all the preparations before the expedition, and in a few days, the imperial court will have an edict to go to the expedition.

After the various matters of the expedition were reported by the officials, the next step was to discuss the matter of the Tibetan delegation coming to ask for marriage.

"Ladies and gentlemen, a few days ago, the Tibetan envoy came to the court and reported the funeral of Qi Zampu," Li Zhi said and stood up and walked down from the throne, before continuing, "On the order of Wencheng, the daughter of the clan who married the emperor in the past, came to ask me for marriage, and designated Princess Taiping to marry, and I have already told Zhongqing about this. These days, the Tibetan mission is envoy to the Confucian, and many times to ask for orders to prepare to return to Luo, now I also want to ask you again, Aiqing, how do we choose the mission's request for marriage? ”

Speaking of this matter today, when the sympathetic Tibetan mission first came to the court, Li Zhi asked the ministers to discuss the court, and the situation was completely different.

When the Tibetan delegation first came, it was arrogant, arrogant, and threatened with force, and asked the emperor in front of the Tang Emperor and his ministers to agree to marry the Taiping princess to the new Tubo Zanpu, the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers were very angry, but in the way of the etiquette and face of the big country, they still endured, and some people were really afraid of the Tibetan army, and some were afraid. After the Tibetan delegation left the palace, Li Zhi asked the ministers, and there were not many ministers who opposed peace, and many people suggested that the emperor should allow marriage.

Last year, our army was defeated in Tibet, and the land of Qinghai was occupied by Tibet, and the minister of Tubo also stationed more than 100,000 troops in Qinghai, and could attack my Shanzhou, Shanzhou, Liangzhou, and Yaozhou at any time.

A woman is worth 100,000 male soldiers, which is a very cost-effective thing, especially the civil servants in the court, several people who advocate marriage are civil ministers, and most of the opponents are military generals, but the number of military generals in the court is not large, and the position is not as high as that of civil ministers, so they cannot play a role in determining the surname.

Many ministers did not stand up for Heqin because they were annoyed by the arrogance of the Tibetan people, and they were not against Heqin.

And now, the sharp spirit of the Tubo people has been broken, and Liu Yi defeated two Tubo warriors with the strength of one person, one is still the first warrior of Tubo, as far as is known, the two defeated Tubo warriors were killed by Liu Yi on the spot, Liu Yi's skills are surprising, but Liu Yi's vicious methods are not many people feel strange. Liu Yi's father, Liu Xianli, died at the hands of the Tubo people, and this time he competed with the Tubo warriors, and it was stipulated in advance that he could live and die, and Liu Yi used his very drastic means to kill the Tubo warriors, so no one had anything to say.

In the subsequent polo match, the Tubo people did not have to gain face, and the Tang Royal Polo Team won with an absolute advantage.

It was also reported that a Tibetan player was injured by a ball shot by a member of our team during the game and died shortly after returning to the building.

The Tibetan delegation originally wanted to further subdue the Tang Dynasty through martial arts competitions and polo matches, so that the Tang Dynasty would lose face, and agreed to marry and give generous gifts to the Tubo people because of the intimidation of the Tubo people. How do you know that stealing chickens does not eat rice, the first warrior of Tubo Zabu is unexpectedly vulnerable, only a few moves to defeat the Tang Dynasty warriors, was twisted off his neck on the spot, and the polo game was also a fiasco, which made the Lunsai tone lose his confidence, and when he asked to see the emperor Li Zhi and Empress Wu Zetian again, and inquired about the marriage proposal, he had completely lost the arrogance when he had just come to Chang'an to enter the court, and was forced by Li Zhi's provocative and contemptuous eyes, and he felt inexplicable fear.

Exchanges between countries, strength is the first, there is strength, the tone of speech will be hard, the Tibetan envoy on the occasion of just arrived in Chang'an, is to carry the great victory of the battle of Qinghai. The Tang army was not capable of repelling the Tubo army in Qinghai, and the Tubo army could attack the border states of the Tang Dynasty at any time, with this, he had the confidence to be arrogant, but after suffering a defeat in the tournament and polo match, this confidence was basically gone.

The fierceness and bravery of the Tang warriors in the competitions and polo matches made the generals who had been fighting on the battlefield for many years and had the blood of countless people in their hands a little chilly, especially the young Tang warrior who defeated Zabu in a few moves and broke his neck. This is still the son of Liu Xianli, the secretary of the Tang Dynasty Ministry of Industry who was defeated and captured the previous year, and was unwilling to surrender, this is a person who has some bitter hatred for Tubo, and he has a feeling that in a few years, this young general will lead a large army to fight against the Tubo army.

The Tibetan delegation has been coming to Chang'an for many days, the imperial court has not given a clear answer, and around the Honglu Temple where they live, there are often some suspicious people wandering, and the members of the mission go out on the street, there are signs of follow-up, which makes the nonsai tun pong very frightened, he wants to return to Qinghai as soon as possible, and return the news they have found after arriving in Chang'an to the non Qinling, and reinstate, so he wants to get the answer as soon as possible whether the Tang Emperor is allowed to marry, and set off to return to China in the morning, but there was no clear answer.

The Tibetan mission was urged, and Li Zhi brought the matter to the court again at the court meeting.

The first person to stand up and reply to Li Zhi's question was Pei Xingjian, the newly promoted secretary of the Ministry of Rites and the general of the right guard of the inspection school, who was about to go on the expedition, Pei Xingjian said in a very firm tone: "Your Majesty, the minister still thinks as before, you must not allow marriage!"

Pei Xingjian stepped forward, walked to His Royal Highness, stood sideways, looked at the colleagues in the hall who were staring at him, and then turned to the direction of the throne, raised his voice and said: "Your Majesty, this time the Tubo mission has brought a large number of warriors, openly challenging my Tang warriors in the court, trying to frustrate the prestige of my Tang warriors, but now they are defeated by my Tang warriors, so this is a point that shows that there are far more brave warriors in my Tang Dynasty than in Tubo, and there are thousands of brave warriors in my Tang Dynasty, and the manufacturing level is far more advanced than that of Tubo. The ability to mobilize for war is no worse than theirs, so why should we be afraid of the threat of the Tibetans? Although harmony can be exchanged for temporary peace, there is a crisis hidden under this short-term peace, which is a façade peace, and in a few years or more than ten years, this façade peace may be torn apart..."

Pei Xingjian said in an angry tone and high-pitched words: "The first emperor married Princess Wencheng in Tubo Zanpu abandoned the sect and praised, since then, Tubo and my Tang Dynasty have been peaceful for more than ten years, but its national strength has increased greatly because of my introduction of advanced technology, in those years, the Tubo people were just dormant and ready to move, and it was also in these years that the Tubo people were already restless, they led a large army to attack the Tuyuhun who belonged to my Tang Dynasty in the Qinghai area, until the Tuyuhun perished, and the good horse grazing land in Qinghai lost the hands of the Tubo, and the Tubo people were ruthless. It's clear that they never wanted to live in peace with my Datang..."

"Now Princess Wencheng actually sent her envoy to the court to threaten and force the emperor to marry, such a woman married out of my Han family, actually made a tiger to help Tubo deal with my Tang Dynasty, as far as the minister knows, Princess Wencheng went to Tubo for twenty or thirty years, and made a lot of contributions to the prosperity of Tubo, it is her contribution that has greatly increased the national strength of Tubo, and then turned to confront my Tang Dynasty, but Princess Wencheng did not use her huge influence in Tubo to prevent the war, but made suggestions for the conquest of the Tubo army, The minister felt that all his colleagues in the court did not want to have another princess who was the enemy of my Datang and married out of my Datang..."

Pei Xingjian paused, and then raised his voice and said: "In the battle of Songzhou that year, the army of more than 200,000 people was defeated by the 5,000 men and horses led by General Niu Jinda. When the princess marries, there must be many dowry things, and if Tubo obtains more manufacturing technology from my Datang through these dowry things, its national strength will increase greatly... Therefore, the minister is against harmony, the peace of my Tang border pass is not by harmony, not by the woman's body in exchange, but to our Tang Dynasty warriors to defend, the minister is a military general, if you see that Your Majesty and Niangniang want to marry their daughter to the wild land of Tibet, with the humiliation of my Han woman's life in exchange for temporary peace, then the minister will be ashamed to death..."

As soon as Pei Xingjian's words came out, the court was stunned, Pei Xingjian dared to accuse the former emperor of marrying Princess Wencheng like this? But this matter is really true, this time the discussion was assigned by Princess Wencheng, and over the years, Tubo and my Tang Dynasty soldiers have met many times, and they have not seen it stopped, many people were surprised, and they also began to ponder, pondering what Pei Xingjian said.

Liu Yi, who was standing in the face of the ministers, shouted in his heart, many of them were the original words he and Pei Xingjian said, Pei Xingjian said it in the court as it was, such words came out of Pei Xingjian's mouth, and the weight was unusual, when he said that he said these words to Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, he immediately went to Pei Xingjian's place and said the similar words again, but the tone was completely different, and the angle was also different.

"Your Majesty, the minister seconded the proposal," Li Yiyan, who had originally reserved his opinion, stood up to support it immediately after Pei Xingjian finished speaking, "Pei Shangshu said that it is very reasonable, the peace of my Datang border pass is not enough for women to exchange, although the minister is not a military general, but the minister is also a man, and the peace of my Datang border pass is defended by tens of thousands of our brave men of the Tang Dynasty!"

Then Liu Renliang, Xue Yuanchao and other heavyweight ministers also stood up to support Pei Xingjian's recital, and those who originally supported Heqin, including Cui Zhiyi, the head of the household department, and Pei Yan, the waiter of the Yellow Gate, did not stand up to express their opinions, and there was a rare one-sided situation in the court.

"Good!" Li Zhi, who had already heard similar views from Liu Yi's mouth, was not surprised by Pei Xingjian's somewhat sharp views just now, and was greatly relieved to see that all the ministers were against harmony, and after discussing with Wu Zetian, he had already decided not to agree to harmony, and the same was true for the ministers, so he took it, that is, he immediately said: "Since all the ministers are against peace, then I have also decided to refuse the request of Princess Wencheng of Tubo to ask for marriage, and admonish future children and grandchildren not to marry women in exchange for peace!"

Li Zhi immediately announced that when the weather warmed up after the year, he would take Zuo Weilang and Song Lingwen as an envoy to Tubo to attend the funeral of Zampu, and pass an edict to Princess Wencheng.

Li Zhi's edict was passed down to the Tang Dynasty after Princess Wencheng married Tubo, and asked her to reflect on it, there have been thousands of people of the Tang Dynasty who have been taken by the powerful Tubo people, and there is a share of her sins.

Li Zhi also immediately announced the main members of the Tibetan mission into the palace and announced to them the resolution of refusing to propose marriage.

He had expected the emperor to reply like this, and there was no surprise, although he was very angry in his heart, he didn't dare to send it out in the palace, this time he found out that the brave Tang warrior was also on duty in the palace, maybe he was rude in the court, and the warrior would be ordered to expel him from the court under the pretext of maintaining order in the court.

He now wanted to leave Chang'an as soon as possible, return to Qinghai, and report the situation to the Lunqin Mausoleum stationed in Qinghai with his army.

But the reply of the Tang Emperor made the discussion very surprised, and he also felt deep fear.

Li Zhi said in a flat tone: "It is already the cold winter season, and the Qinghai area, the Tubo Plateau is icy and snowy, which is extremely unsuitable for traveling, for the safety of the Tubo Mission, I ask you to return to Luo after the spring of the next year, when the weather becomes warmer, so as to avoid accidents..."

(To be continued)