The people of the empire were open, and it was a private conversation in the military tent late at night, but when he heard the words of Her Royal Highness the Idiot Princess, Ma Shixiang's face couldn't help but become nervous and difficult to look at.

After that noble woman entered Weicheng, he was so cautious and nervous, how could he have thought that Ning Que would make such a mean evaluation like this, and he thought that Ning Que's evaluation was not fair, so his face was even more ugly.

Everyone knows that the four princesses of the Tang Dynasty are not idiots, but extremely virtuous highnesses.

With the strength of the Tang Dynasty and the prosperity of the army, whether it is facing the grassland barbarians or the rest of the Central Plains, they will never consider the humiliating political means of harmony, except for the early years when Emperor Taizu's most loyal barbarian generals married a few clan girls, there has never been a similar situation.

However, when the grassland was unstable three years ago, and the largest Golden Horde tribe of the barbarians was secretly instigated and supported by the hostile state of the Tang Dynasty, the fourth princess, who was in the prime of thirteen or fourteen years old and was deeply favored by His Majesty, actually knelt in front of the Daming Palace and wept blood, regardless of the opposition of the whole country, and would rather abandon the prosperity of Chang'an, insist on marrying the grassland, and give the golden account Yu a continuation.

As soon as this matter came out, the world was shocked, there was a lot of discussion in the market, the white-haired Wenchen was heartbroken, and the emperor was angry and smashed countless jade cups, and the queen's feelings were complicated and did not say a word, but this qiē could not stop the determination of the young princess, and the grassland gold bill was greatly honored after knowing this, and he liked the princess's temperament even more, and sent a messenger to drive five thousand cattle, sheep and horses into the court, humbly and pleaded, and finally the Tang Emperor had no choice but to let his daughter marry the grassland in the eleventh year of the Apocalypse.

The princess married into the grassland for less than half a year, and the husband and wife respected and harmonious, and the once ambitious heroic leader of the barbarian tribe became a calm grassland lion, quietly guarding the country, overlooking a foreign land, but no longer lightly provoked.

It's a pity that no one thought that a few months ago, Shan Yu, who was in the prime of life, suddenly died, and Shan Yu's brother forcibly succeeded to the throne, and the situation on the border became complicated and tense again.

But since the thin girl knelt in front of the Daming Palace and decided on her own marriage contract, for four or five years, the northwest border of the Tang Empire has been in precious peace, and it must be said that most of it is the credit of Her Royal Highness the princess.

It is rumored that a large part of the reason why the princess insisted on marrying far away from the grassland was to avoid the queen's mother, but even if this is true, in the eyes of the military ministers and officials in the court, the behavior of the four princesses not to be favored by Her Majesty, to take the initiative to retreat in the face of the queen, and to avoid the intensification of contradictions in the upper echelons of the empire is also a kind of general knowledge and extremely virtuous behavior.

For a battle-hardened Tang frontier general like Ma Shixiang, they were not afraid of war, let alone those barbarians, and the princess even made them feel extremely humiliated by marrying an enemy - but no one would refuse peace, a gift from God.

Therefore, their feelings about Her Royal Highness the princess were very complicated, both a little anger for no reason, but also inevitably a little gratitude, and in the end, all kinds of feelings gradually turned into a trace of respect that was inconvenient to speak with people in their hearts.

Ning Que is an ordinary soldier, I don't know if I can understand the complicated feelings of the general, and even if I do, I won't care, because what he is fighting for now involves his personal safety, and he has always thought that there are not many things that are more important than his own life. So he pretended not to see the general's gloomy face, and continued: "I have roughly calculated the arrows on the carriage, and the new Shan Yu is very dark and extremely dark, and I estimate that the princess's escort has lost at least half of its lives on the grassland. ”

"It is said that he met a horse thief. Ma Shixiang's expression was a little unnatural, probably even he didn't believe it.

"Even if it's a golden bill, I don't dare to blatantly attack my Tang princess, so of course it's ...... It can only be horse thieves, but everyone knows who those horse thieves are pretending to be. Ning Que continued: "But if you think about it carefully, it's not right, everyone knows that the horse thief is a new single cavalry, where did that barbarian come from to be so bold?

The Tang Dynasty established the country by force, the people are simple and brave and ruthless, it can be called the strongest country in the world, and it cares most about dignity, but if you want to completely wipe out the golden tent of the grassland barbarians, I am afraid that most of the national strength will be lost.

It may seem impossible to plunge the empire into turmoil and hardship for the sake of an attack on a married princess, but in fact, in the history of the Tang Dynasty, there are often stories that can be said to be willful and arrogant.

One of the most famous examples occurred in Taizu's later years.

At that time, a certain part of the grassland slaughtered a certain village and town in Baiyang Road, and one hundred and forty villagers were beheaded and killed. Taizu was furious, and immediately decided to personally conquer the grassland, and the whole empire mobilized to support a vast iron cavalry composed of 80,000 cavalry to conquer the north.

After fighting for several months, slaughtering the enemy's horses, the seemingly simple description, the seemingly chic and beautiful ending, but it hides the terrible price paid by the Tang Empire.

In order to support this costly war, the imperial court sent millions of people to levy livestock in the three counties of Hebei Province, the fields around Minshan were deserted, ten rooms and nine were empty, taxes in the south quadrupled, and the people's resentment was boiling, and the officials of the DPRK and China were simply unable to take care of political affairs, and the world fell into the danger of turmoil and even collapse.

The most wonderful temperament of the Tang Empire was presented in this most dangerous moment and in the countless years that followed.

When the Imperial Iron Cavalry went on an expedition to the wasteland, the anti-thief rebels in the south did not take this opportunity to increase their offensive, and even sneaked back into the mountains, forests and lakes one after another, as if they didn't want to drag the empire back at this time. The rebellious reckless, perhaps not everyone thought about the so-called national righteousness, and perhaps some of them wanted to seize this God-given opportunity, but they had to face the reality that the poor people, who had always supported them silently, many of the low-level leaders and soldiers of the rebel army, expressed their most fierce opposition with their steps and silence when they decided to seize this opportunity.

Tang Taizu, who won this battle, did not have a high historical status, even within the empire. Whether it is in the history books or in the story of the storyteller in the restaurant, the evaluation of this male lord is often inseparable from the great joy, the use of villains, the cool law, the pursuit of immortality and no way, and so on.

But whether it was the most pedantic literati, the most disregarding the monarchy, or the most hated peasant and merchant, they would find all kinds of reasons to scold the founding emperor, but no one ever thought that the war that exhausted the country's strength and made the people suffer because of the king's anger should not be fought.

Because from the founding of the country to the present, the people living in this land have always adhered to and guarded a simple truth: I don't bully you, but you don't want to bully me, even if I bully you, but you ...... Still don't try to bully me!

Whoever bullies me, I will hit him.

This is the foundation of the Tang Empire.

This is the road to the power of the Tang Empire.

This is why the most powerful country in the world is called Tang.

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